King Ping Qi Ge is the thickest thorn in the emperor's heart, and he was the first to clean up, even the rumors of the Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman this talisman failed to keep Qi Ge, and after the Great Qi no longer has the "King Ping", the emperor thought of a way not to bear the notoriety of cooking rabbits and dead dogs to the old ministers and to take advantage of the fishermen to weaken the great family, and wanted to borrow a knife to kill people in the matter of dealing with the Shen family, and the borrowed "knife" was the Chu family.

The reason why he chose the Chu family, not the Lin family, which he feared the most, was because the Shen family, which the emperor hated, was an exception, and in addition, he did not dare to take a knife on a very old minister like Lin Qin as soon as he came up, and if he did this, he would definitely be criticized. And the Lin and Qin families have always been good at protecting themselves, and they once bluntly said in the battle for the throne of the two sons under the knee of Gaozu that the way to be a minister has always been not to form an alliance, but only to be loyal to this great Qi country, so when Qi Ge was the prince, he was loyal to Qi Ge but did not suppress Qi Duan, and Qi Duan was also loyal to Qi Duan after succeeding to the throne, and did not turn back to step on Qi Ge, which force was not too offended, and it was so sleek.

The Chu family is different, the Chu family is really noble, or rely on Qi Duan's personal support after ascending the throne, and it completely belongs to Qi Duan, so for many years there has been a lot of discord with the Shen family of King Ping's faction, and although Lin Qin is second, after all, the seniority is shallow, and it is Chu Ci's father who is in charge of the affairs after being prominent.

Moreover, the three great martial artists of Lin, Qin and Chu are too close, and sacrificing a Chu family can not only destroy the Shen family, but also deter the Lin and Qin families, especially the Lin family who is rumored to hold half of the Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman.

The Shen family suffered disaster sixteen years ago, that is, the fourth year after King Qi Ge of Ping "died" in the water, when Shen Ling was five years old.

The emperor deliberately provoked between the Shen and Chu families for many years, and deliberately arranged for the hussar general who misled the head of the Chu family to think that the Shen family had a disobedient heart, and even secretly stabbed some so-called "evidence" under the nose of the general Chu. As a benevolent state, he left behind the women and children in the close relatives and the distant relatives of the side branches who have moved back to their hometowns for several years.

Seven or eight years later, the emperor crossed the river and demolished the bridge, picked up the old things and said that General Chu did not know the rights and wrongs and listened to slander and mistakenly impeached the Marquis of Zhanghua Township, causing the emperor to kill the good ministers by mistake, and made the emperor repent and heartbroken, and wanted to punish General Chu to comfort the spirit of the Marquis of Zhanghua in heaven, so he wanted to remove him from his official position and exile him to the frontier to atone for his crimes.

General Chu finally saw what the emperor had at this time, but he was already a chopping block, and he had no choice but to bend himself to protect the Chu clansmen, but the general on the battlefield was iron-clad, and he would rather die than suffer the humiliation of exile, so he privately wore a sword into the Taiji Hall in the early dynasty, and said, "Apologize for the crime with death, comfort Shen Hou", pulled out the sword and splashed the blood on the neck of the Taiji Palace, and went, and the ministers were shocked.

General Chu's wife is also Chu Ci's mother, Qu Caixin, the third daughter of Qu Youxiang, couldn't stand such a blow and suddenly went crazy, and was taken back to her parents' house by the Qu family to take pictures, leaving a pair of unattended dragon and phoenix fetal daughters who were six years old and had just entered the Imperial Library to study, which was Chu Ci and his sister Chu Zixi.

The Chu family declined with the death of the hussar general, and the side branch either stayed in Chang'an to find a petty official to live cautiously, or learned from the original Shen family side branch to move back to his hometown or other places, and no one who stayed in Chang'an dared to care more about the children left by General Chu in the sensitive stalls, thinking that in the end, the crazy mother of the two brothers and sisters was the daughter of the Qu Xiang family, and Qu Xiang would not let him live on the streets.

Qu Xiang really couldn't ignore the two grandsons, and wanted to take the Chu Ci brothers and sisters back to the Qu family with their crazy mother to take care of them, Chu Zixi obediently let the arrangement go, but Chu Ci was unwilling.

Chu Ci grew up to the age of six and had little contact with his mother's family, and happened to see Qu Xiangwei and the Chu family's disaster to clear the relationship, and forced his mother crazy, frightened and rejected at a young age, although he did not dare to say it to the outside world, but he did not want to step into the door of the Qu family, only willing to stay with the only trusted enlightenment Mr. Xi Guangling, and told the truth, Xi Guangling took pity on his suffering, and told the emperor and the Qu family a love, and asked Chu Ci to be raised by his side, two years later, Xi Guangling resigned and returned to his hometown, and also brought Chu Ci back to Jiangnan Guangling.

Besides, Shen Ling, when he was five years old, after the family was ruined, he fell into the same situation as the later Chu Ci brothers and sisters, and even inferior to the later Chu Ci brothers and sisters, his father's family declined, his mother died early, and his mother's family had no one to protect him, and he did not have the protection of a teacher like Chu Ci, once the clouds fell, there was nowhere to go, and he spent a cold winter with a few loyal old servants in the dilapidated old Zhanghua Hou Mansion, and at the beginning of spring, a few kind-hearted relatives planned to take him back to his hometown to distant relatives, It happened that the Taixu real person of Jinling Zhongshan Temple came to Chang'an to preach and preach once a year, and the old Taoist heard that the Zhanghua Marquis Mansion had changed, and he felt pity for it, so he proposed to the emperor to take Shen Ling, the widow of the Marquis of Zhanghua Township, back to Jinling Zhongshan to practice.

Great Qi Zun Taoism, the emperor respected the true person, naturally agreed, the old Taoist took back to Shen Ling not long after the son was not suitable for cultivation, so he entrusted him to his friend Qiao Wu's Pingzhou Jinghong Villa to study medicine.

Seven or eight years later, when the emperor bit the Chu family, he recalled Shen Ling, the only son of the Marquis of Zhanghua Township, to Chang'an, and in the name of guilt compensation, he gave the thirteen-year-old Shen Ling the title of inheriting his father's title, and then promoted to the Marquis of Zhanghua County, and merged the original Shen Ling's father's food Yi Zhanghua Township of Xuzhou into several townships around Xuzhou, and promoted it to Zhanghua County, as the food of Shen Ling, the Marquis of Zhanghua County.

It's really ridiculous that the family is ruined and people are exchanged for a vain knighthood.

The county marquis is the highest level among the princes, and the emperor's false name is beautiful enough, but on the grounds that he is worried that Shen Ling will leave Beijing since he was a child and live in Chang'an, he asked him to settle in Zhanghua County, Xuzhou, a fiefdom, and take over the official position of the prefect of Xuzhou after the weak crown.

Titles are just titles, and larger titles can have a fief and not die of hunger, and if they want an official position, they will receive another title. In fact, the princes mostly lived in Beijing, and those who received orders to live in fiefdoms seemed to be degrading, and the emperor asked Shen Ling to return to Jiangnan to take over the official position of the prefect of Xuzhou in the future, to put it bluntly, he didn't want him to stay in Chang'an.

Shen Ling didn't care, in comparison, he was more reluctant to stay in Chang'an, a land of tigers and wolves, but he didn't want to settle in Zhanghua County too early, so he asked to stay in Pingzhou Jinghong Villa to continue to study medicine with his teacher, and the emperor casually agreed, anyway, as long as he was not in Chang'an, the emperor didn't care where he lived.

When Shen Ling returned to Chang'an at the age of thirteen to receive the knighthood, it was the first time he saw several Chang'an people who had now spent one night in his Jinghong Pharmacy, namely the six-year-old Chu Ci, the eight-year-old Qin Xun, the nine-year-old Qi Jing, and the fifteen-year-old Qin Huai, who had just moved to Jinghua with a "Chang'an Fu" famous and was praised by the emperor as "amazingly talented" and worshiped as one of the rites.

At that time, Shen Ling didn't care much about the rest of the people, but for some reason he went to the Imperial Library to see the child who was not much different from what happened to his own family, Chu Ci, who had just had a family change, was humiliated by a few children of the same classmate and official family as a matter of age, Shen Ling looked at it for a while, and saw a calm and crazy two older children protecting Chu Ci and repelling a few classmates who were looking for trouble, so he stepped forward, didn't say hello or say who he was, only reached out and pressed on the top of Chu Ci's head and rubbed it a few times, There was a deep sadness in my heart.

In the early days of the decline of the Chu family, Chu Ci's life in the Imperial Library was very difficult, even if there was a young master Xi Guangling to take care of him, Xi Guangling could not always be by his side, and the children of a few years old were somewhat open-mouthed, whether it was chewing their tongues behind their backs or sneering in front of them, they all embarrassed Chu Ci's face, but fortunately, Qi Jing and Qin Xun, who were classmates, would block it for him, for which Qi Jing was also called by the emperor to ask a question in the Xuanshu Palace.

The emperor asked with great interest that his son dared to stand up to protect the son of a criminal minister in this kind of stall, and he was really not afraid of being questioned about his relationship with the Chu family, was he young and ignorant or knowingly?

Nine-year-old Xiao Qi Jing bowed in an orderly manner, and replied: "Fuze was in-law, and the disaster did not reach the descendants, this is the way that the son and the minister observed, and the father punished the criminal minister but left his son and heir in the family according to this benevolent way, the son is not sensitive, and the place of study gave birth to this bullying and bad behavior, and he did not think about it. ”

It means that I protect my classmates because of my son's worship of Daddy, your benevolence, so I clumsily learn to emulate you and coax his emperor Daddy to be happy.

In the spring and autumn years, the children and teenagers of that day have grown up, at that time the emperor said that Shen Ling and the crown ordered him to take over the official position of the prefect of Xuzhou, I don't know whether to forget or lazy to mention, Shen Ling is now twenty-one, but there is not even a trace of wind blowing from Chang'an, but this is a good thing for Shen Ling, if it is not for the inability to resist the decree, he did not want to take over the affairs of the prefect of Xuzhou, he just wants to be the marquis of Zhanghua County to live a stable life by the food of Zhanghua County.

When Qin Xun went to bed early in the morning and didn't wake up, Qi Jing washed up and went out of the room to see Shen Ling, who also got up early, which meant to privately inform him that the current prefect of Xuzhou is now old and sick, and he will retire in about two or three years.

Shen Ling thanked him, although he was cold and polite, in the end, because of the other party's kind inform, there was still a little bit of sincere gratitude in it.

Qi Jing went back to the backyard guest room, Chu Ci just came out of the room, saw him and said hello and left without knowing where to go, Qin Xun was holding half a piece of osmanthus cake in his mouth and was looking at him with a smile as he entered the door.