great mandate

The first time Shen Wuji met Luo Jinyu was when he was ordered by Cao Guozhong to lead his men to hunt down a fugitive criminal.

The fugitive was the son of the minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was studying in Taixue, because the minister of the Ministry of Rites had a few quarrels with Cao Guozhong on the arrangement of the royal sacrifice to heaven, and Cao Guozhong took revenge on him, and crowned him an unwarranted crime of disrespect. Kill him all over the house.The youngest son of the assistant minister who was in Taixue got the news early, and he had disappeared when he went to arrest him.

Dongchang found out the whereabouts of the fugitive, and Cao Guozhong asked Shen Wuji to lead someone to arrest him.

Shen Wuji led the people and chased them all the way to a wild mountain in the suburbs of Beijing. They didn't see the fugitive, but they saw a group of Tai students who said they came to the mountain for an outing. Unexpectedly, they lost their way and encountered heavy rain, making the mountain road difficult. They were trapped here, and now they finally saw the people from Dongchang and begged them for help.

Shen Wuji looked at them and waited for others to save their lives, it was fake, but it was real to help classmates escape and delay.

But Shen Wuji remained calm.

He only clings to Cao Guozhong on the surface, but he also hates Cao Guozhong in his heart, and it is because this unlucky servant thinks of his own experience that he has the heart to let the fugitive go.

But due to the fact that Dongchang is mostly Cao Guozhong's eyeliner, Shen Wuji had no choice but to put on a show, sneering and domineering, and ordered the students to be expelled together, asking them if they had seen the fugitive.

The students naturally denied it.

At this moment, Shen Wuji suddenly heard a sound coming from the depths of the cave, and was startled, thinking that it was the servant's youngest son hiding there.

But everyone heard the voice, everyone from Dongchang looked over, Shen Wuji couldn't say it was an auditory hallucination, so he immediately made a gesture to make people keep an eye on the group of students, and he went inside to find out.

Holding the torch, he walked slowly towards the depths of the cave, and within a short distance, he bumped into Luo Jinyu head-on.

That was the first time Shen Wuji saw Luo Jinyu.

He didn't even know that the young man in front of him was Luo Jinyu, a famous talent in Beijing in recent years.

Suddenly, he thought that he had seen a fairy.

At that time, Luo Jinyu was only sixteen, her cheeks were still a little round, and her facial features were a little immature, but her eyebrows and eyes were already clear and distinct, and she had an air of exile in her body, even though he was wearing the same clothes as those imperial students, his His clothes were still stained with mud and water, and his face was also a little dirty, but he still descended like a fairy.

Shen Wuji forgot his words for a moment, stood there in a daze, holding the torch, staring straight at the fairy.

Luo Jinyu had just sent away the classmate who was wanted by the traitor Cao Guozhong. He was worried about the other students who stayed here and delayed the pursuit, so he turned back to see, but unexpectedly collided with Dongchang head-on, and was extremely disturbed.

But he tried his best to suppress his panic, and put on an indifferent expression, ready to confront this Dongchang lackey.

But seeing that the other party didn't know why, he looked at him in a daze, without moving or speaking for a long time.

Luo Jinyu ignored him and wanted to leave.

The cave was narrow, Luo Jinyu brushed Shen Wuji's shoulder and passed by, Shen Wuji came back to his senses, turned around and said: "Stop!"

Luo Jinyu paused and looked back at him.

The two were so close that even though the cave was dim, they could see each other clearly with the torch in Shen Wuji's hand.

With Shen Wuji's appearance and clothes, one could tell he was an eunuch.

Because of Cao Guozhong's genocide, Luo Jinyu had always hated eunuchs, and he was even more displeased with this Cao thief who led his people to hunt down his classmates.

He didn't bother to talk to him, just looked at him distantly.

Seeing Shen Wuji's cold and clean eyes like a bright moon, his heart beat faster, and it took him a while to find his voice, and said softly, "I'm sinking Wuji."

Luo Jinyu was startled.

He had heard of Shen Wuji's name before.

It is said that Shen Wuji is Cao thief's closest godson, seeing him now, he really has a strange appearance, which makes people uncomfortable to look at.

Luo Jinyu's perception of the person in front of him became even worse, and he looked away, staring at the water flowing on the stone wall without saying a word.

Shen Wuji looked at his side face, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said softly: "Are you a student too?"

Luo Jinyu said coldly: "Yes."

"You... What are you doing here?" Shen Wuji was afraid that his speaking loudly would scare him, even the sword in his hand was quietly hidden behind him.

"Traveling." Luo Jinyu said coldly, "When the road was blocked by heavy rain, I had to hide in the cave. I just went to see if there was any other way ahead."

"Then, did you find it?" Shen Wuji asked.

Luo Jinyu looked sideways at him.

With just such a glance, Shen Wuji's heart skipped a beat.

Under the light of the torch, Luo Jinyu's thick and slender eyelashes cast a small fan-shaped shadow on his face, and the flickering yellow light further accentuated his white skin, red lips, picturesque eyebrows, and stars in his eyes.

"No." Luo Jinyu said, "The road ahead is getting narrower and darker. I don't know if there are any snakes. I didn't dare to go, so I turned back."

Shen Wuji said embarrassingly: "So that's how it is." Then he hurriedly said, "I will escort you down the mountain."

Luo Jinyu frowned slightly.

Seeing him frowning, Shen Wuji frowned, not knowing why he was so.

Luo Jinyu looked at Shen Wuji with some doubts, wondering why this Dongchang running dog was so easy to fool, he thought there would be a confrontation...

But in an instant he thought, no matter what, it was a good thing.

Therefore, Luo Jinyu said: "Thank you."

"No work, no work." Shen Wuji said with a shy smile.

Luo Jinyu: "..." Why is this eunuch so strange.

Shen Wuji graciously held up the torch to open the way for Luo Jinyu, and kept saying: "Be careful of your feet...there is stagnant water here, step over here, be careful!"

Luo Jinyu found this eunuch strange and creepy.

But he had another purpose, so he had to pretend not to know, and went back to the entrance of the cave with him silently, and reunited with his classmates.

The classmates exchanged glances with each other, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, secretly saying that the plan went well.

Shen Wuji regained his domineering appearance in front of the others, and raised his voice: "There is no way inside, I think the fugitive went to another way, now it's raining heavily, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, if the fugitive is on the mountain, I'm afraid it won't be good for him , Dongchang has already surrounded the mountain, and it is expected that he will be difficult to fly even with wings, so wait for the rain to stop and wait for the rabbit. Let’s send these Tai students down the mountain first.”

They escorted the students all the way down the mountain.

It's just that along the way, not only the students saw that the eunuch behaved strangely, but even the Dongchang brothers looked at Shen Wuji as if he had taken the wrong medicine today.

He is so arrogant and frightening in normal times, but today he showed great hospitality to a student, put the bamboo hat on the student without any explanation, and followed closely beside him, grabbing the student's hand while looking at nothing, saying "The road is slippery, be careful", and even said, "It's hard to walk ahead, I'll carry you on my back, don't fall down" "The shoes are wet and uncomfortable, you might as well take off your shoes, I'll carry you"...

Everyone: "..."

The student naturally refused one by one, looking at Shen Wuji with more guard and disgust.

When they got down the mountain, a group of Tai students hurriedly thanked them and left immediately. The student who was courted by Shen Wuji walked the fastest, as if there was a dog chasing after him.

Shen Wuji stared at that figure obsessively for a while, then suddenly caught up and stopped in front of the student: "I haven't asked you—"

The student looked at him more and more defensively.

Shen Wuji asked: "What's your name?"

The student said: "Luo Jinyu."

Shen Wuji was startled: "Luo Jinyu?"

"Ah."

"Luo Jinyu..." Shen Wuji had heard this name mentioned before, but unexpectedly it was the little fairy in front of him. He said it twice in a low voice, and said with a smile, "A good name, it's perfect for you."

Luo Jinyu felt that he was inexplicable and frivolous, so she just said: "What else is there for you, father-in-law?"

"No, it's okay, let's go." Shen Wuji hurriedly said.

Luo Jinyu walked out a few steps without looking back, stopped again, and took off the bamboo hat on her body.

Shen Wuji hurriedly said: "You can wear it back, there is still rain!"

Luo Jinyu didn't listen to him, and returned the bamboo hat to him, turned around and quickly disappeared into the rain with his classmates.

Shen Wuji hugged the bamboo hat, and still stood there watching, until his colleagues came over to tease him: "What's going on?"

"Someone seems to have moved Fanxin."

"Someone is not eunuch!"

Shen Wuji came back to his senses, and kicked alone: ​​"Get lost!"

He put the bamboo hat back on himself, and said, "Go back to Dongchang first, and make plans after the rain stops."

Several people walked back chatting and laughing, Shen Wuji suddenly said, "What's wrong with the eunuch, am I not better than some men with full beards and tails?"

In these years, he has followed Cao Guozhong, and he has seen too many prisons, many of them are men with strong bones, but he has also seen many cowards who want to protect themselves, or even just for the sake of profit, who randomly involve and frame others. On the ground, he licked the shoes of the eunuchs he usually looked down upon in order to survive.

Shen Wuji felt that he was no worse than these cowards.