Yesterday, Shi Yu went out of the city with the emperor's dictation and went to the Shen family's military camp to deliver the decree.

Xu Ban, who came out to breathe, has always had good eyesight, and after recognizing that the other party was the emperor's close attendant by his clothes, he coughed at the door, gave a military salute and said with a smile on his face:

"The chief is here, but what is Your Majesty's will?"

The surname is not added to the name, because I can't guess which attendant it is, but the number of courtesies is already thoughtful. At the same time, he also reminded Shen Mo, who was still studying the map in the tent.

However, the emperor has always had a bad opinion of him, and he is a little hesitant to go out to greet him.

However, the chief did not seem to care, and the shadow cast on the account of the military tent was obviously saluting inside.

Then Shen Mo heard the unique feminine voice of the waiter:

"Our family is here by holy order, and we ask the general to take the command."

Respectfully and respectfully, the two people in military armor inside and outside the tent added a bit of goodwill to their hearts.

However, Shen Mo did not relax a little, after all, there are many people who are on both sides and three swords.

Xu Ban heard Shen Mo's voice, so he led Shi Yu in to deliver the message.

The will is not unexpected, the emperor is willing to see Shen Mo, but he is only willing to see him alone.

Xu Ban saw that Shen Mo was silent and accepted the order, so he turned his head to look at Shi Yu - it was really Shen Jiajun who was so poor that he could play armor and drums, and he couldn't get any gold and silver to make a relationship.

The strange thing is that this waiter didn't change his face, but just looked at Shen Mo with a hesitant and embarrassed face, as if he weighed it again and again, and only spoke after a long time.

"The general fights on the battlefield, often has pain, and travels thousands of miles, it must be very hard, but there is a recurrence of old diseases?"

Shen Mo didn't expect him to ask such a question, so he pondered for a moment before saying:

"A certain person is loyal to the country, although there is a small injury, there is no need to complain."

"The general is injured, and he always has to worry about Zhaoyi's mother." Shi Yu seemed to have taken paranoid medicine, and insisted on going his own way: "If the general is injured, he must have a good rest, and the miscellaneous family will retire." ”

After Shi Yu left, Xu Ban asked a little impatient and a little shocked:

"Could it be that Your Majesty has changed sex? Agree with the general to stay in the capital? ”

Shen Mo habitually narrowed his eyes:

"I want to ...... Not Your Majesty. He paused for a moment, "It's not my sister either, perhaps...... He's giving me a point. ”

It's a bit ridiculous, but it's not necessarily impossible.

"Is it an old disease...... Shen Mo smiled a little helplessly, maybe it could help a little.

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On the second day, the city gate was slowly pushed open, and Shen Mo, Xu Ban and others dismounted according to the etiquette and handed over to the imperial city Ling Yin.

Ling Yin finished saluting Shen Mo, poked his head and glanced behind him, and sighed heavily when he saw that no one was coming.

Shen Mo still had a frosty face.

Ling Yin saw that he didn't speak, so he spoke:

"Why did General Shen bring these insignificant things back, the gains outweighed the losses from hard work."

Then he waved his hand, and an attendant surrounded by guards walked over, and the emperor went back and thought about it, and still wrote a holy decree to Shen Mo with some face, but it was not Shi Yu who came to deliver the decree.

The chamberlain unfolded the holy decree of the gold wire in his hand:

"Yin Zhouqin ordered by the imperial city, led the general Shen Mo into the palace to be rewarded, and the rest of the army was stationed outside the city, not to act rashly, waiting for the military order."

Shen Mo silently accepted the order and stood up, and was about to enter the door, but saw that the chamberlain stopped Xu Ban beside him, and emphasized: "It is enough for the general to enter the palace alone." ”

Xu Ban stopped and looked at Shen Mo's eyes with hidden worry.

He saw Shen Mo shake his head in the direction of the station, and signaled him to appease the soldiers and not act rashly.

In fact, there were also many remnants of soldiers who followed quietly, watching their general standing at the gate of the imperial city from afar.

Most of the soldiers who returned home did not know what was going on, and when they saw that there were people from the city visiting for two days in a row, they thought that they could finally return home after waiting outside the city for these days, but they did not expect that things seemed to have changed.

Their puzzled and tired eyes fell on the chamberlain and the Imperial City Ling Yin, but the latter two turned a blind eye, with a condescending attitude and an indifferent expression.

They were a little disappointed, but they didn't dare to ask for the affirmation - there was a kind of humility in their bones.

Shen Mo walked beside Ling Yin in the Imperial City, it was not the first time that he felt cold, and there was only indifference and calm in his heart.

Thinking of his sister's letter, he could only sigh.

He didn't expect the emperor to show mercy because of the successes that exempted these border guards from service, after all, he knew that the emperor still cared more about the untiring knot.

Shen Mo had already written the excerpt when he stated it in the letter—it was prepared for this situation.

If they are forced to do so, they can only use their military exploits and barter, which can finally be used as the price of shortening the military service of these remnants - using the rules drawn up by the emperor a long time ago, forcing Li Siyuan to forcibly accept.

But can offending Your Majesty have good results?

Even if an order is given, His Majesty can make this order go back and forth between the ministries a thousand times, and delay it again and again.

Even if an order is given, His Majesty can easily find a reason to recruit tens of thousands of troops.

At that time, not only these remnants, but also the young sons of other families may have to be compensated.

Shen Mo didn't dare to think about it, he could only speculate on the emperor's thinking in the worst way.

In fact, as early as three years ago, he had already understood that His Majesty was never the prince who stayed in the palace and couldn't come out because he wanted to, but a monarch who was dormant in the jungle and was very ruthless but grasped it properly.

The Shen family was brave and loyal, but they didn't expect that when they fought abroad, when they returned, they would have to fight wits and courage like this.

When the emperor saw him, he was not in the court, not in the study, but in Shen Qingjun's Donglin Palace, and he only saw him alone.

Shen Mo was dressed in an iron coat and a helmet, and walked straight to his sister's bedroom in the whispering of the palace maid and eunuch.

It was the most remote palace, people gradually thinned along the way, green tiles and red bricks, lush green leaves did not see a red flower, the door plaque carried three big characters, he recognized, it was Shen Qingjun's own handwriting, called Donglin Palace.

Taizu Dao: The armor of the military generals is heavy, and they only need to kneel down on one knee.

Shen Mo knelt five steps in front of the imperial case, lowered his head, and saw his shadow swaying slightly with the candle flame under his feet.

The fold was carried in his arms, and it was not yet time to hand it over to the emperor.

Li Siyuan didn't look at him either, but kept holding a crumpled book and looking at it repeatedly, as if he had made up his mind to give him a dismissal, but he never let him be flattened.

After another while, Li Siyuan seemed to feel that the time was almost up, so he withdrew from the surrounding attendants and walked slowly in front of Shen Mo.

General Shen, who was still kneeling on the ground, looked down at the approaching dragon shoes, and heard the emperor say the same thing as he did three years ago, every time he had to say to the Shen family:

"The general's flag is victorious, and she finally came back, just in time to persuade her to ......"

As a minister, Shen Mo should have listened patiently, but he remembered the touch of green clothes that he glimpsed from afar at the city tower that day, and he became irritable after listening to two or three sentences, so he suddenly interrupted the emperor's cliché:

"Your Majesty, the minister has already written a letter to state it, and now there are remnants of the veteran soldiers outside the city, Your Majesty can send someone to count them one by one, and the pro-embassy is also waiting outside the city, Your Majesty can hand over to the Ministry of Rites for reception, and the minister will fight for several years...... Now that there is a dark disease in the body, it is difficult to concentrate every time the pain is painful, and I hope that His Majesty will allow him to return to the camp for a while. ”

Shen Mo pinched the fold in his arms and waited for Li Siyuan's answer.

Li Siyuan's face sank.

Shen Mo calculated that he couldn't do anything to him - a loyal and good general, with great achievements, if he attacked him, wouldn't he become a faint king who self-destructed heroes?

Those who speak ...... Maybe he wants to jump up and pull his crown again, the old account from three years ago has not yet been settled, and the emperor doesn't want to bother so much.

Li Siyuan paused, as if he was thinking, it seemed that it took a while to figure it out, and finally called Shi Yu in.

"The general is really a pillar of the country," he said with a smile, "the march is hard, and it is also appropriate to rest early." ”

"Shi Yu, take the general to find a quiet place in the palace and rest."

Li Siyuan looked at Shen Mo: "You brothers and sisters haven't seen each other for three years, and Junjun also misses him a lot, so you might as well catch up in this hall and dissipate the hardships along the way."

When you are rested, we can talk a few more words between the monarchs and ministers. But after all, this is my harem, so General Shen doesn't have to move around. ”