From Shadowguard to Queen [Transmigration Book]

seventeen chapters

The weather is getting colder and colder, and winter is coming.

It snowed on the first day of the twelfth lunar month.This is the first snowfall since the beginning of winter. It fell profusely all day and night, and the whole capital city was instantly covered by snow. Looking around, it was all silvery white. It looks very beautiful with the blue tiles and red walls, and it is indescribably poetic.

You Shu heard from the old man in the mansion that the snow before the beginning of spring is good, which means that the crops will be good in the coming year. He is a little relieved to think that the severe drought in the north can finally be resolved, at least so many people will not starve to death.

Sure enough, the peaceful and prosperous age is more worth cherishing.

There is still a month to celebrate the new year, but Beijing is already full of atmosphere. The ancient people attached the most importance to the Spring Festival, so it is more flavorful than the modern year. As long as they can go home, they will go over mountains and mountains to go back for a reunion.

It’s just that some families are happy and some are sad. Xia Huaizhang has been depressed at home for more than a month because of the scandal. Recently, the scar may have been healed and he forgot the pain. This has started to harm the world again. You Shu heard that he robbed another good house two days ago The young girl forced people to drown in the river to death, but arbitrarily kicked the elder brother who came to ask for an explanation out of Xiafu, and threw away ten taels of silver.

In ancient times, human life was worthless. In the eyes of the rich and powerful, the life of a young girl in her prime was worth only ten taels.

"Who will allow you to be distracted in the fight with the king?" Xiao Weixin was very dissatisfied, he could feel that the person opposite him who was fighting with him was wandering, and he was getting more courageous, dare to underestimate him?

You Shu came back to his senses, and hurriedly lowered his head to plead guilty: "This subordinate knows his mistake."

"I found...you always admit your mistakes very quickly." Xiao Weixin looked at him coldly, and said meanly: "Actually, you don't take it seriously at all, do you?"

These words really wronged You Shu, he just reacted better with his mouth than his brain, it's better to confess before being scolded than to confess after being scolded, at least he has a good attitude.

Xiao Weixin is in a bad mood as the Chinese New Year gets closer, just like now, although You Shu is a little distracted, it doesn't affect the training work, but he just wants to use this to play, throwing the sword and walking into the room, it looks like I don't want to talk to him anymore.

Alas... this temper.

You Shu sighed deeply, resigned to his fate and went forward to pick up the sword he had left on the ground.Without the master's summons, these shadow guards were not allowed to enter the house privately, so he could only stand quietly in the courtyard with his sword in hand.

The pear tree in the courtyard was covered with snow, and at first glance it seemed to be blooming again.You Shu likes this tree very much. It is white and beautiful when it blooms in spring, and the most important thing is that the pears it bears are very sweet.He secretly tasted it once on night shift, and it was sweet, delicious and juicy, and he kept thinking about it since then, but unfortunately he never had the chance again, because the yield of the fruit was too low, and the only ones left were reserved for Xiao Weixin.

He stood under the pear tree for a while, and before he finished feeling, he heard an impatient voice from inside.

"Still get out!?"

You Shu withdrew his mind, shook his head and walked in helplessly.

Ying Liu, who was squatting on the roof, thought about everything, and said to Ying Wu beside him, "Don't you think that our prince treats the third child very differently?"

"Where is it different?" Ying Wu's mind is full of things about the casino, his nerves are as thick as a hemp rope, unlike Ying Liu who can write scripts, he has a delicate mind, so he doesn't see any difference, "Who is the prince to?" Isn't it all like this? The third child has also been scolded less."

"What do you know?" Ying Liu rolled his eyes in disdain, "You just don't read enough stories, the prince obviously treats the third child differently, let me see... the third child is destined to be able to make a fortune!"

Ying Wu didn't understand where Ying Liu's confidence came from, so he rolled his eyes, "Forget it."

The two people's personalities don't quite get along, and they turned their heads to ignore each other because they looked down on each other.

In the house—

You Shu walked into the inner room, Xiao Weixin sat at the table drinking tea, the room was lit with incense, there was a thick blanket under his feet, and there were stoves around for warmth, even You Shu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"I heard that Xia Huaizhang has come out to fool around again recently?" Xiao Weixin asked suddenly.

The intelligence network of the Shadow Guard Camp is very mature, basically there is nothing they can't find out, You Shu also knows about this, and replied in a low voice: "Yes."

"Heh." Xiao Weixin sneered, "I will never change my nature."

You Shu lowered his eyebrows and did not answer.

Wang Shunzhi, the Minister of the Household Department, was only a small local official back then, but by chance he bribed Prime Minister Xia to gain favor, and was promoted to an official in the middle of the capital, and was promoted to the position of Minister in a few years, all for enriching Prime Minister Xia's private pockets. There are many things that are corrupt and perverted.

Xiao Weishen has been in a high position for a long time and may not be ignorant of this, but he has nothing to do, because he does not have his own capable manpower, and can only be controlled by Prime Minister Xia, so Xiao Weixin focused on this loophole and picked Wang Shun first.

On the third day after the snow stopped, You Shu and Ying Er went out.

Although Wang Shunzhi didn't have much talent, he was tactful, sophisticated and cautious, and he didn't make any major mistakes during his tenure. Therefore, Xiao Weishen had no excuses to deal with him, and it was really difficult to get rid of him.

However, Wang Shunzhi has a shortcoming, that is, he is greedy for money, very, very greedy for money, as long as someone gives him something, he will accept it, and then put it into his small treasury. There are so many good things in that little treasury.

You Shu avoids the guards in Wang Shunzhi's mansion, and cooperates with Ying Er in a division of labor, with one guarding secretly outside and the other digging inside to check.There are so many things in the treasury that You Shu's eyes are dazzled. Fortunately, he is not the kind of person who loves money, otherwise it would be difficult to resist those temptations after he came in. Even if the emperor Xiao Weishen came, he might be astounded by the things here The gold is precious.

You Shu rummaged carefully for a while, and found a hidden compartment under the cabinet, took out a small wooden box from it, pried the lock open with a wire, and saw a bead.

This bead looks no different from ordinary luminous pearls, but if you look carefully at its surface, it is radiant and shining. Even if the room is dark and there is no sunlight, this bead can shine by itself. Although it is not dazzling, it is enough to attract the attention of others , and holding it in the hand still has some faint warmth.

You Shu knew that this bead came from the East China Sea, and it was said to be called Shark Tears. It was extremely rare. Wang Shunzhi didn't know where to get this good thing, but he didn't give it to Prime Minister Xia, but kept it privately. Xiao Weixin found out about it early in the morning. Things, waited until today to do it.

You Shu carefully put the empty box back, and exited the room without touching any mechanisms, and met Ying Er who was hiding in the dark, and the two ran to another place all the way.

Every year at the end of the year, when offering offerings to the imperial court, the officials would also send some things to the emperor as New Year's gifts. Wang Shunzhi's gifts to be sent to the palace would leave in the afternoon.You Shu sneaked into the room where the congratulatory gifts were kept, and swapped one of the boxes containing the jade pendant, and stuffed the bead worth tens of thousands of gold into it.Usually this kind of thing needs to be on the gift list, Xiao Weixin specially imitated Wang Shunzhi's handwriting and wrote a new copy, and You Shushun then dropped the two different gift lists together.

After finishing all this, they left Wang Shunzhi's house. Everything was done very carefully, and no one was disturbed. Even the watchdog found nothing unusual.

The two of them quickly returned to the palace and Xiao Weixin was very satisfied, "Then we just need to wait for the first step to be completed."

You Shu also waited for tomorrow with the mentality of watching a movie.

The next day, Xiao Weishen was very happy to praise Wang Shunzhi at court, saying that it is really rare for him to make an offering of tears from the Merman, which is worth tens of thousands of gold and is said to prolong life. .

Wang Shunzhi looked dazed, he didn't know when he gave away the bead that he had kept for a long time.

And the person who was more outraged than him was Prime Minister Xia.

Prime Minister Xia is a deep-minded and scheming person, but he also has a fatal flaw, that is, he is greedy for life and afraid of death.As he grew older, his body and spirit were not as vigorous as when he was young, so he asked people everywhere to find prescriptions for prolonging life and immortality, and almost tried all the methods to no avail.Hearing that there are shark tears in the East China Sea, he specially asked Wang Shunzhi to investigate, but in the end he also returned empty-handed.

Unexpectedly, Wang Shunzhi had found it a long time ago but lied that he didn't have it. It turned out that he had hidden it privately to pay tribute to the emperor to flatter him.This is extremely angry to Prime Minister Xia, Wang Shunzhi climbed to his current position through his relationship, but now he dares to bypass himself to please the emperor!

Prime Minister Xia had to wonder whether he wanted to betray him. He and Xiao Weishen were called monarchs and ministers, and they had a close relationship. The alliance seemed unbreakable, but it was not completely without struggle in private. He wanted to take back the imperial power, but he had always known about it but never let go, he closed his eyes and pretended to be blind, and the two maintained this delicate relationship of mutual trust and mutual protection.

Xia Huaizhang has no brains, and he also hates Wang Shunzhi's kind. He said bluntly: "Father, I think that dog is because you are old and useless, so I want to take this opportunity to seek refuge with the emperor to find another way out. You have not agreed to his promotion for a long time. In the end, he turned his head and showed his favor to the emperor, isn't this going to be promoted next year?"

"You spent a lot of money to inquire about that bead from someone else, but in the end he took it to borrow flowers to present to Buddha. This dog is not familiar with it!"

"Back then we were really blind to see him!"

Prime Minister Xia's face was gloomy, and he didn't know if he had listened to what he said.Although Wang Shunxia rushed to kneel on the ground to explain that the beads were indeed not given by him, Prime Minister Xia got the gift slip from the eunuch and threw it on his face. It was clearly written in black and white on red paper, Can there be a fake?

Wang Shunzhi couldn't tell whether it was the one he wrote, because the handwriting was exactly the same as his own, and even the pen-writing habit was exactly the same.Prime Minister Xia saw that he couldn't justify why Zi appeared in his house, and gradually decided that he wanted to be a fool.

Back then he was able to bring Wang Shunzhi out of that impoverished place in Li County, and he was also able to drag him down again.The disobedient dog will be killed and replaced with an obedient one, but the disobedient one... can't be kept.

Xia Huaizhang also advocated murder. Wang Shunzhi's hands have been dirty these years, and there is a lot of evidence of their father and son's collusion and corruption. It's hard to handle if you're distracted.

So Wang Shunzhi suddenly relapsed and "died" within a few days.

Xiao Weixin quietly listened to Xie Feiyuan's report on the matter, and said in a deep voice while practicing calligraphy: "Who is he optimistic about as his successor?"

"It's Zhang Bing." Xie Feiyuan replied.

"Another idiot." Xiao Weixin said sarcastically, "It's impossible to find a way to let him go."

Xie Feiyuan took the order and backed out, just happened to meet You Shu who was squatting outside the study looking at the snow, he walked over and kicked his ass and scolded: "Why don't you work here?"

You Shu turned to see him, stood up from the ground and whispered, "My lord, am I not guarding the door?"

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking." Xie Feiyuan rolled his eyes, "Don't even think about the pear, it's useless to look at it."

You Shu smiled: "Master Yingshou really thinks I'm a child with a gluttonous appetite? I just think that the snow scene is really beautiful."

Hearing the slight voice at the door, Xiao Weixin walked out frowning, intending to curse a few words, but when he opened the door, he was stunned when he saw You Shu turning his head and showing a slight smile to Xie Feiyuan.

This is the first time he saw You Shuxiao.

So...he can laugh too?