play tricks around the bed

After Laifu came back, he originally thought about telling his young master about what happened at the bookstore today, but his young master seemed to be busy with other things, so he took the money and asked him to push him to other places. place.

Lai Fu thought about it, it wasn't a big deal anyway, so he swallowed it.

Following Li Youqing's footsteps, Shen Zhu saw Zhou Duan in a box in the tavern.

Shen Zhu was just about to ask Zhou Duan what's the matter, but unexpectedly when Zhou Duan saw Shen Zhu, he immediately knelt down, raised his hand and raised his forehead in a bowing ceremony, and said solemnly: "I pay my respects to Princess Huai!"

"..." Shen Zhu, "Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey?"

Zhou Duan rolled his eyes when he heard the words, brushed off the ashes on his body and reluctantly got up and said, "Ask your man."

What's going on with Li Jue?

Zhou Duan found a place to sit down, poured himself a glass of water slowly, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said to Shen Zhu calmly, "The day before yesterday, I slept well at home.

As a result, your dear His Royal Highness King Huai suddenly asked someone to tie me to the Ministry of Punishment. Do you know why? "

"Uh..." Shen Zhu felt uncomfortable, slowly shook his head and said, "Why?"

"Because of you!" Zhou Duan exploded on the spot, "Because you belong to King Huai! I can no longer meet with you alone! I can no longer call you Little Zhuzi!"

Filled with indignation, Zhou Duan complained to Shen Zhu about Li Jue's brutal operation: "I must have a third person present when I see you in the future, and I will call you Princess Huai when I meet you.

Otherwise, he will take me to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for the crime of disrespect. "

Shen Zhu: "..."

Oh, it turned out that Li Shiyu's brain was kicked by a donkey.

That's okay, after all, Li Shiyu's brain is not good for a day.

But Zhou Duan risked the crime of disrespect to see that Shen Zhu didn't just come to complain about Li Jue to Shen Zhu, enough bitterness, Zhou Duan also recovered his seriousness and said: "The emperor ordered me to go to the northwest."

With a sound of "pa", the cup that Shen Zhu had just filled with tea in his hand fell to the ground, and his white hands were instantly covered with red marks from being scalded by hot water.

"Young master."

Laifu was taken aback by Shen Zhu, and immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe Shen Zhu's hands.

Shen Zhu himself frowned as if he didn't know it was hot, and asked, "When did you say that?"

Zhou Duan: "This morning."

Shen Zhu took a long breath, then let it out slowly, finally closed his eyes slowly, and clenched his teeth secretly.

Seeing that Shen Zhu's condition was not right, Zhou Duan asked Lai Fu, "What's wrong with little Zhuzi?"

Laifu lowered his head to wipe Shen Zhu's hands, secretly raised his head to take a look at Shen Zhu's expression, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty asked my young master to go to the Privy Council."

Zhou Duan was also shocked when he heard this, and blurted out: "The emperor is so terrific?"

Shen Zhu was speechless and tried his best to stabilize his mood.

In this matter, the emperor did really well.

The tragic war in the Northwest back then was due to a problem with the deployment of the capital, which was a knot Shen Zhugeng couldn't get rid of in his heart.

Now that Zhou Duan is going to the northwest, even to prevent Zhou Duan from repeating his mistakes, Shen Zhu has to go to the Privy Council.

So the emperor was forcing him in disguise.

Forced him to go.

But what made Shen Zhu's heart chill the most was that the bargaining chip the emperor used to force him was his loyalty.

Being able to make this decision showed that the emperor knew Shen Zhu very well.

If Shen Zhu was unfaithful, he could watch the war in the northwest unwaveringly; if Shen Zhu was unjust, Zhou Duan's order to go to the northwest would not affect Shen Zhu in the slightest.

For this decision to take effect, the bet is Shen Zhu's loyalty.

Fortunately, Shen Zhu was loyal enough.

Therefore, the emperor could also threaten Shen Zhu's loyalty as he wished.

Really...

Shen Zhu laughed at himself, he felt that his tossing and turning last night was like a joke.

After Chen Zhu came back from the palace yesterday, he tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't fall asleep.

In his head, he couldn't help thinking about how the battle in the northwest was going, and thinking about how he should deploy it.

Some things are engraved in the bones and cannot be erased or forgotten.

For example, Shen Zhu, he was born to belong to the Northwest, and belonged to the battlefield.

Even though he had been dormant for ten years, even though he knew that he should reject the emperor's request, he still couldn't help thinking about it.

At night, Shen Zhu had a dream, dreaming that his legs were healthy and galloping on the battlefield, dreaming that he returned after being appointed as a prince, and dreaming that Li Jue was waiting for him to return and everything was as good as before. Everything was good enough to be a good story.

Then, just for a moment, with swords and swords flashing, he dreamed of the faces of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in the Northwest War, dreamed of the imperial decree from the late emperor asking him to return to the pilgrimage, and dreamed of Li Jue standing beside the emperor with an indifferent face.

Shen Zhu opened his eyes suddenly, stood up abruptly and panted heavily.

After calming down, Shen Zhu realized that this was a dream, a nightmare that had lingered in his heart for ten years.

Every time he wakes up from this kind of dream, his whole body will be drenched in cold sweat, and even his healed leg will feel a slight pain.

Chen Zhu looked at the hazy moon by the window, he knew that he had pretended not to make progress for ten years, but he couldn't pretend after all.

He must go to the Privy Council.

For the tens of thousands of dead soldiers in the Northwest, to quell the decades of turmoil in the Northwest, and to wash away his unwillingness to break his leg as a teenager, he is his last chance.

In fact, the emperor also knew that there was no need to use Zhou Duan to force him, Shen Zhu would definitely go.

But the emperor wanted to beat him in this way, to let him know that he should stop being disrespectful like ten years ago, and must be obedient.

Shen Zhu shook his head and smiled.

As expected of their good emperor, he really played the emperor's art to the fullest.

Picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the bowl to scold your mother is exactly the same as the late emperor.

Zhou Duan also seemed to know that Shen Zhu must go, so he gave Shen Zhu a hint in advance.

Even though there was no one around, Zhou Duan still looked left and right, lowered his voice and said to Shen Zhu: "Little Zhuzi, Yushitai probably has something to do with it."

Yushitai's duty is to supervise all officials, and to put it bluntly, it is to report to the emperor.

Shen Zhu thought about the doctor at Yushitai, and felt that Zhou Duan should be more confident, so he made the estimate.

He used his little toes to figure it out, and Yu Shitai would definitely bother him.

Yu Shitai did not advocate letting Shen Zhu go to the Privy Council, let alone letting Zhou Duan, who was familiar with Shen Zhu, go to the northwest.

In the court, the officials who colluded with Li Jue thought that Shen Zhu and Li Jue were not in harmony, and they were always on guard against Shen Zhu.

And officials like Yu Shitai who were against Li Jue, and because of Shen Zhu's notoriety in recent years, thought that Li Jue and Shen Zhu were a nest of snakes and rats, so they would play in Shen Zhu's book when they had nothing to do.

Especially Peng Ze from Yushitai, he was the one who handed over the notebooks for Shen's family a few days ago.

That Peng Ze wasn't bad in nature, but he was notoriously dogmatic, and he looked down on Shen Zhu from the bottom of his heart.

Peng Ze is the youngest number one scholar in this dynasty, with literary talents.

But unlike Shen Zhu's flamboyant literary talent, Peng Ze focused on reasoning and criticism, and acted in a rigid manner.

He believes that generals should be loyal to the emperor and hand over power, and he was the one who proposed the proposal to cut the power of the military attache.

He also believes that the country should not launch wars, and waste people and money. He is a standard peacemaker.

Like Shen Zhu's rebellion and disrespect, insisting on attacking the northwest frontier, Peng Ze has always despised it.

From the point of view, he and Shen Zhu are not in the same way.

However, Shen Zhu understood Yu Shitai, and from a rational point of view, Yu Shitai's worries were not wrong.

Once Shen Zhu colluded with Li Jue, if Zhou Duan was stationed in the northwest, then Li Jue's power in the entire court could be said to be more than [-] people.

Thinking about it this way, Shen Zhu has lived for more than 20 years, but none of the party believes that he is a good person.

He couldn't help but feel that he had messed up a bit.

"correct."

Seeing that Shen Zhu was worried about taking office, Zhou Duan asked, "What does Li Shiyu say about this?"

How to say?Definitely won't let him go.

Just thinking about Li Jue and Shen Zhu gives me a headache.

The Privy Council was no longer under his control, and if it fell into the hands of his rival, would Li Jue be furious?

When he came back from the palace yesterday, Li Jue put thirty locks in the yard in one go, and locked Shen Zhu up for the whole night, for fear that Shen Zhu would run off to take office.

If it hadn't been for Shen Zhu's soft-spoken words to move Li Jue today, maybe Shen Zhu would start his long career in gate control again.

Li Youqing, who had been silent at the side, finally spoke at this time.

Li Youqing walked to Shen Zhu's side, with a rare expression of joking, and after thinking for a while as if he had made up his mind, he said: "Sister-in-law, actually my brother doesn't let you go, it's not because of the separation of power."

In terms of politics, Li Youqing has always been difficult to speak.

One reason is that she really doesn't understand it well, and the other reason is that he is the emperor's daughter.

She couldn't stand on any stand and speak confidently.

But she still knew something about Li Jue and Shen Zhu.

Li Youqing looked into Shen Zhu's eyes and meant something: "Sister-in-law, back then the Shen family was charged with disobedience and disrespect, even if the death penalty is spared, the living crime is inevitable."

After hearing this, Shen Zhu moved his index finger slightly.

"But the Shen family has been able to live in peace for so many years, and even retains the title of Lord Marquis, not only because the Shen family has kept a low profile these years."

Li Jue never let Li Youqing speak out about these things, but for the sake of it now, Li Youqing couldn't help but say a few more words, "Sister-in-law, I think, you know what kind of person my brother is better than me.

You can talk to my brother about this matter. "

Shen Zhu was silent and didn't speak.

The hand that was burned red twitched involuntarily, and it was only after he realized that it was a little painful.

It's not that he doesn't know Li Jue's character.

Over the years, he has suspected, probed, and inquired.

But Li Jue hid himself so well that he couldn't find anything.

Every time Li Jue would pour a basin of ice-cold water on him, dousing his rare spark of hope to pieces.

Including a few days ago, he was still doubting the reason why Li Jue married him.

But Li Jue only gave him the four words "because of the heir" indifferently, and once again brought his hope back to its original form.

Chen Zhu looked at his legs and felt a little uncomfortable.

His leg injury and his past were too many rifts between them to ignore.

Every time, he made a lot of determination to put aside the past hatred for the time being, and wanted to have a good talk with Li Jue, but Li Jue always rejected him over and over again, keeping the past in his heart and not letting him go. Anyone know.

Perhaps the good thing is that Shen Zhu is very resilient, and he has never given up on these two words in his dictionary since he was a child.

When Li Youqing said this today, Shen Zhu suddenly remembered the matter of Li Jue coming down to pick him up yesterday. The past piles of ashes and ashes were connected in series. Signs of resurgence.