In the Qianyang Palace, Emperor Jianwu came with monstrous anger, and the frightened palace attendants all trembled on the ground. Shen Daochang lowered his head and followed into the inner hall.

After serving the tea, Dehai waved his sleeves and left the outer hall silently with a group of idlers.

And when only the two monarchs and ministers remained, Emperor Jianwu brushed off the teacup on the imperial case, and the tea splashed all over the ground, and a few pieces of broken porcelain fell to Shen Daochang's feet. Shen Daochang didn't see it, knelt down on the ground in a proper manner, and hurriedly asked the saint to calm his anger.

"Rest your anger! Let me calm my anger! Look! Take a good look at me! This is my humerus! This is the mainstay of Zhongli! ”

After that, a fold smashed at the head, just slanted down the side of the face, leaving a mark at the end of the eye.

Shen Daochang calmly picked up the fold and swept it quickly. Then he kowtowed and pleaded guilty: "The minister is guilty!" Please quench the wrath of the Holy One! ”

"Guilty! Of course you are guilty! You are guilty of negligence! The sin is not reported in the knowing! The sin is to make Uncle Huang slap me in the face! The sin is to make the queen and the eldest prince lose face! ”

"Sinners, please be gracious!" After speaking, it was another heavy knock.

"Kai'en? How do you want me to be gracious? Fornicating with the lord of the enemy country, how do you want me to be gracious? ”

"Holy! The criminal minister is courageous, but the criminal minister guarantees his life, and the minister's father has no intention of collaborating with the enemy, all because of his young age, he is confused for a while. For many years, the two have no contact, and besides, the minister's father is weak, so how can he say treason. ”

"Can I believe this, can the people of the world believe it?"

"I also hope that the saint will look at the loyalty of the Shen family, for the sake of the queen mother and the eldest prince, and save a little face for the Shen family! Holy! ”

"Face! You have lost my face, and you dare to come to me to beg for face! ”

"Ask the Holy Grace to be merciful!"

"Humph!" Emperor Jianwu threw his sleeves back to the throne, thought for a while, and then said, "Please resign after calling yourself sick!" ”

"The sinner withholds the grace of God!"

"Northwest trip, how did you go?" Emperor Jianwu asked calmly, no longer just now.

"Fortunately, I am not dishonored!" Shen Daochang will go to the northwest, and everything he has obtained will come together no matter how big or small.

Half an hour later, Emperor Jianwu ordered him to retreat as usual. Shen Daochang was about to bow and retire, when Emperor Jianwu asked casually, "I heard that Yuan Aiqing is okay?" ”

"Back to the saint, when the minister came back the day before yesterday, I heard the family mention this matter, only to know that my father-in-law was in poor health before, and I thought that I missed it on the road and the family letter, but fortunately I suddenly got a good medicine, saying that it was no big deal, but I still need to rest for a few days, and I can be fine."

"I know, stand down!"

"Wechen retires!"

After leaving the palace, before Shen Daochang could change his court clothes, he went straight to Yuan's mansion. He had long wanted to ask clearly, but at this juncture, it was always difficult to hide his ears and eyes. Take advantage of today's clear road, you can come justifiably.

Stepping into Yuan's mansion, his eyes were full of depression. It's been a close year, but there is no trace of joy. After Shen Daochang's briefing, it was Yuan Chonghai who received him. The two have been friends for a long time, and they are not polite, saying that they are here to visit their father-in-law.

Yuan Chonghai also guessed that the matter of Licao was probably inseparable from him. I was very grateful to him in my heart, so I led people to Yuan Shiqian's courtyard. When I came in, I happened to meet Aunt Qiao feeding Yuan Shiqian medicine.

"Xiao Xu has seen his father-in-law, and I wish him good health. Aunt is well. ”

Yuan Shiqian sat at the head of the bed, his expression calm. After calmly accepting Shen Daochang's salute, he asked her to step back. Aunt Qiao took the bowl and gently pressed the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, then stood up and went out.

"Chonghai, you can go down too."

Although Yuan Chonghai wanted to ask Yuan Mingyue's whereabouts, he had to endure it, withdrew and waited at the gate of the courtyard.

"Father-in-law." Shen Daochang just shouted, Yuan Shiqian waved his hand and said, "Yue'er has no worries about her life for the time being, you don't have to worry." ”

"Since you also know, it's just for the time being, it's not that there will be nothing in the future, for the safety of Yue'er, I hope my father-in-law will tell me the truth."

Yuan Shiqian nodded with satisfaction, "Then what do you want to know?" “

"I just want to know, who must Yue'er go out of the capital? Who poisoned you? What does the man who came to me have to do with you? Most importantly, why did you entrust Yue'er to me in the first place? ”

Yuan Shiqian knew that these things could not be hidden from him. But he still asked: "The situation at that time was really helpless." Besides, the holy decree of marriage proposal, but you went to ask for it? ”

Shen Daochang was noncommittal, and only said: "At that time, I thought it was the holy decree I begged for, but now it seems that I am afraid that from the time Pingzhi saved me, it was your handwriting." No, maybe before that. Because, no one in the government and the opposition knew where I would be at that time, and why Heiyukikai happened to go back to Beijing and pass by there. That was a full month earlier than the holy decree of Ping's transfer to Beijing. ”

"Maybe it's because I knew the result in advance and informed Chonghai early to come back and prepare?" Yuan Shiqian did not admit it, but asked rhetorically.

"My father-in-law would rather put the peace outside for three years, but also save enough for this self-reliant name, how could he not bear this last moment and fall into the lead by the remnants of his ancestors in vain? Besides," Shen Daochang changed his words, "Besides, after Pingzhi came back, he went to visit Zhang Shi non-stop, I'm afraid that even the saint will think that you are sending Yue'er into the palace, so you let Pingzhi come back to mediate." ”

Yuan Shiqian was relieved and felt that he had really not chosen the wrong person.

"The next thing, I don't need to say much about it. From Huguo Temple to Anding Mountain, you have exhausted your calculations. “

"Xianxu, this is just your guess, in fact, the old man's original intention was to send Yue'er into the palace, where did you know that there were twists and turns in the middle, and it fell to the Shen family by mistake, thinking that the Shen family is also good, and you are also a good one, which is the achievement of a marriage between you and Yue'er. So far, you have come to blame me, but you regret it? “

"Regrets?" Shen Daochang smiled and said, "I will never regret it!" Actually, I was skeptical, but I did it anyway. Because I know what I want. Even what's behind it? So what? ”

Although he spoke in a calm tone, he could have this momentum of contempt, and Yuan Shiqian knew that this reliance was not the name of the young master of the second room of the Shen family, but himself.

Because Yuan Shiqian knew that Shen Daochang was not what the world thought he was, on the contrary, the link between the royal family and the Shen family was not the queen, but him.

In the final analysis, the queen just occupies a name, and if the relatives do not have the strength, even the eldest son may not live to be crowned the crown prince. The Shen family has married the eldest daughter of King Chun, and there has always been a gap between him and the saint. No matter what means the concubine used that day, after all, the wood was already in the boat, and there was no room for it. But the Shen family is always the Shen family, no matter who wins in the end of the two palaces, the Shen family can be preserved, even if it is no longer glorious today, it can live a life without food and clothing, this is Yuan Shiqian's plan. The heart of the son of the fist can learn from the sun and the moon.