Ruyi Jue

"Xuan, Shen Yufeng and Yun Lian stepped forward to listen to the seal." In the palace of the imperial city, a long-drawn announcement echoed.

Seven or eight days have passed since the day when the Sixth Prince and Shen Xingzhou were buried together in the cave.The sudden death of the sixth prince shocked the entire imperial court, and the imperial city was turned upside down overnight. The little emperor, according to the account books left by Shen Yufeng and the evidence of many people, advertised the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason against the sixth prince, and ordered him to be deprived of his position as prince. , Blocked his mansion and confiscated his property.

The little emperor regained the imperial power by thunder, and tried his best to eradicate the old forces of the sixth prince.The so-called trees fell and the monkeys scattered. In just a few days, the huge and intertwined forces of the Six Princes were uprooted. In the imperial city, from the humerus ministers to the traffickers and pawns, all those belonging to the Six Princes' lineage were ransacked and beheaded. Beheading, for a while, people panic, and everyone is in danger.

Even Shen Yu Fengyunlian, who lived in the other courtyard of the Liu family, heard a lot of rumors about these things. The two lived in seclusion and had nothing to do. They were discussing whether they should return to Ruyi Villa or Duanzhou, when they suddenly received a summons from the emperor. the will of the palace.

Shen Yufeng and Yun Lian looked at each other, and they looked at each other, because the imperial decree ordered them to enter the palace immediately, they had no time to think, changed their clothes and followed the officials who came to announce the decree into the palace.

"Shen Aiqing, Yun Aiqing, you have done a great service for me!" The two entered the main hall, knelt down to salute, and heard the emperor's extremely happy voice on the high altar in front of them.

The emperor said again: "If Shen Aiqing hadn't sent the account book of the criminal minister's conspiracy with the Turkic people in time, I would not have been able to grasp all the evidence of the crime so quickly and wiped out the power of the criminal minister. In terms of merit, Shen Aiqing and Yun Aiqing should be the first achievement!"

After Shen Yufeng listened to the imperial decree quietly, he lowered his head and said calmly, "Please take it back, Your Majesty."

Yun Lian who was beside him also raised his head, and said, "You will not be rewarded for your merits, and the two Caomin have not made any contribution, so please take it back."

The little emperor was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, sitting on a dragon chair, his eyebrows were stretched, and he smiled peacefully: "I know that the two lovers are indifferent to fame and fortune, and disdain this fame and wealth. Unfortunately, I have made up my mind to do this for the two lovers." Reward."

Regardless of the two people's wishes, the emperor gave them both an official position with strong words, and gave Yun Lian an insignificant official position, but gave Shen Yufeng a light official position.

As people in the world, the two had never planned to devote themselves to the court and serve the royal family, but the emperor insisted on granting them official titles and salary, no matter how they refused, they refused to give up half a point.

In the end, because of the emperor's order, the two reluctantly took over the official position, but they returned angrily as if they had eaten fly droppings in their hearts.

They returned to the other courtyard of the Liu family and waited for several days. Although the emperor's order was issued, it will take some time for the transfer of personnel and the handover of duties. They don't need to take up their posts for the time being. Waiting for news of his succession.

This morning, when Yun Lian woke up, he lost his temper in the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard of the Liu Family, there was a bustle of people, those who gave gifts and asked for work, congratulated those who took office, and those who inquired about their backgrounds. Since the day the emperor issued the order, there has never been a moment of rest, disturbing their rare moments of peace.

In the past, he didn't dislike this kind of atmosphere in the officialdom, on the contrary, he always got along in it like a fish in water, but compared to the previous ease, now it's all because of an order from the little emperor, forcing them to accept these things in the officialdom .

Shen Yufeng was not around that day, so he could no longer hide the anger in his heart. He didn't even get dressed early in the morning, and stood in the courtyard and yelled at the officials outside the door.

The officials at the gate of the other courtyard, who were originally full of wooing thoughts, saw that he had been swearing at each other, and after waiting for half an hour, they gave up their clinging thoughts, and even left here with gifts.

Yun Lianwu vented the anger in his heart before returning to the house, sat down heavily on the chair, took a sip of herbal tea, and panted heavily.

What is the little emperor's plan and what is going on outside? Now that he has left the Yun family, all the former hidden guards have also left him, so he can no longer ask for information like before.Staying in the other courtyard of the Liu family, he was restless, especially when Shen Yufeng was summoned into the palace early in the morning, and he hasn't returned until noon.

I always feel more and more weird in my heart, the power of the imperial court is changing, the undercurrent is surging, everyone is busy in line and wooing, the two of them, who were originally at ease, were forced to be involved in this temple storm One can imagine the resentment in his heart.

After noon, Shen Yufeng came late, and dragged Yun Lian into the room mysteriously.

After Yun Lian entered the room, he finally found a chance to speak: "I always feel that this is not right."

Shen Yufeng said: "I called you here because I wanted to tell you about this."

"The emperor just summoned me, praised me for my meritorious service as a traitor, and said that I am outstanding in martial arts. He wants to hand over part of the military power in Chang'an to me. I heard what he meant. Take me to the Guards Barracks for a walk."

Yun Lian was startled when he heard that, and said, "What is this little emperor planning?"

Shen Yufeng shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Yun Lian was lost in thought when he heard the words, but Shen Yufeng said: "Let's run away."

Yun Lian looked at him in surprise, and after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "That's exactly what I mean."

They hit it off right away, without even Liu Hanyan telling them, they disappeared into the vast night that night.

Because of the sudden departure, it was already the next day when the emperor in the palace received the news from the spies that the two had escaped from Chang'an.

Seven days later, a dusty carriage appeared on the way south.

It was Shen Yufeng and Yun Lian who were going back to Ruyi Villa.

They left Chang'an in a hurry overnight, bought a carriage, and changed boats until they reached the Huaihe River, where they changed to another carriage. Yun Lian took the carriage, Shen Yufeng drove towards Ruyi Villa.

Unexpectedly, not long after walking out, another carriage blocked the way.

Shen Yufeng, who was driving the car, stopped the car subconsciously with a "wow", and met Yun Lian who was poking his head out of the car.

Could it be that the emperor sent people to catch up?

While they were thinking, a voice came from the carriage ahead:

"You left without saying anything, but it took me a lot of effort."

The voice of this woman with a teasing tone was very familiar. The two looked at each other and looked together, only to see that the opposite carriage opened the curtain and saw that it was Teng Yao.

Seeing the surprised look in the eyes of the two of them, she didn't give any explanation. Instead, she said "You two don't mind getting in the car and talking to me" and then took the initiative to put down the curtain.

Shen Yufeng looked at Yun Lian, saw him nodding, got out of the car first, and jumped into Teng Yao's carriage, Yun Lian smiled and followed closely behind.

In the carriage, there were several wine glasses on the small mahogany table in front of Teng Yao. Seeing the two getting into the car one after another, she reached out and poured a glass of wine for each of them, and handed them to them.

"There is no old friend in Yangguan in the west, I offer you a glass of farewell wine."

Shen Yufeng looked down, his hands didn't move at all, but Yun Lian took the drink with a smile.

Teng Yao knew that Shen Yufeng was acting cautiously, but he didn't care much. He plucked the hair on the side of his ear, and said with a smile: "Do you know how angry the emperor is when you just leave like this? I heard that he received you the next day. The news of the overnight evacuation made Longyan furious in the morning, if you hadn't escaped so fast, you probably would have chased them all the way down."

The two did not respond.

Teng Yao said again: "But after the emperor's anger subsided, he gave the official position originally promoted to Master Shen to an unknown person named Su Ying."

Yun Lian raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? It's a name I've never heard of before."

Teng Yao smiled and said: "You should know this person, he is your old acquaintance."

Shen Yufeng frowned: "Is it Liuhong?"

Teng Yao was noncommittal, just looked at them with a smile.Yun Lian placed the wine glass heavily on the table, and said with a sneer, "In other words, Liu Hong is serving the emperor, not the sixth prince! We were all hidden by him!"

His subordinates not only betrayed him, but also betrayed the sixth prince. On the surface, he took refuge in the sixth prince, but in fact he was bought by the emperor.And after recognizing this point, Liu Hong's motives for behavior also made sense.Why did Liuhong deliberately report the wrong meeting time to Gongyeming that day?Why did you show up outside Yunjiazhuang with the princess in your arms?

——In the final analysis, they all obeyed the little emperor's wishes.The purpose of lying to Gong Yeming about the time was to completely cause disputes between the Shen family and the Sixth Prince; to lure the Sixth Prince and Shen Xingzhou with the concubine in his arms was to kill the Sixth Prince in the simplest and unrealistic way.

In this way, everyone will think that the sixth prince died in the jealousy with his love rival, and no one will think of the struggle with the emperor for imperial power. Once the sixth prince dies, the little emperor will be able to relax when everyone is caught off guard. Loosely eradicate the remnants of the sixth prince.

Everything is under the control of the young emperor.

After Teng Yao told the ins and outs, she couldn't help sighing: "At such a young age, he can master such an emperor's mind skillfully. Who dares to say that he is not suitable to be an emperor?"

"Fortunately, you left in time, otherwise it will be difficult to get away when you become the court's pawns in the future. The little emperor thinks that the two of you are still valuable, and then puts all the credit for bringing down the sixth prince to you. In other words, the rebellion of the Sixth Prince is true, but if there are other disturbances caused by this incident in the future, you will be scapegoats."

Shen Yufeng frowned deeply.

He had doubts about why the emperor valued him and Yun Lian so much, but at this moment, he was still shocked by what Teng Yao said. He only felt that the atmosphere was a bit dull when he stayed in the car, and he said, "What are you talking about?" Let’s go.” After that, he got out of the carriage by himself.

Yun Lian also finished talking about the old relationship with Teng Yao, and wanted to get out of the car with him, but Teng Yao stopped him: "Xiao Shishi, I still have a few words to say to you."

Yun Lian had no choice but to stop, watching Shen Yufeng disappear in front of the car door, withdrew his gaze from afar, turned back to Teng Yao and said, "Finally, you left me alone, it can't be because you want to catch up with old friends, right?"

Teng Yao raised his eyes and glanced at him, with a look in his eyes that made him unpredictable: "The little emperor wants to coordinate the establishment of a dark guard camp under the emperor, and he sent someone to find me a few days ago."

Yun Lian nodded slightly, the little emperor had been closely monitoring the palace and Shen Xingzhou, so it was not surprising that he knew Teng Yao.

It's just—what does forming the Dark Guard have to do with her?

Yun Lian raised his eyebrows: "You promised to help him manage the dark guard camp?"

Teng Yao nodded and said: "Little Shishi is smart, just guess it."

In the power struggle, it is inevitable that there will be some shady operations. Ordinary officials and officials will avoid it if they can in order to keep themselves clean. However, people in the world have always had mixed identities and backgrounds, so they are more suitable to participate in these things.The little emperor intends to train his confidant guards, so naturally he has to consider adding some quacks to the dark guards.

Yun Lian understood what she meant, and slowly raised the corners of his mouth: "A companion is like a tiger. Just now we celebrated that we were out of the tiger's mouth, but when I turned around, I went up to him and became the tiger's claws."

Teng Yao just stared at the wine glass in her hand, and said in a low voice after a while: "I'm not like you, I don't have a reliable partner like Shen Yufeng, I can only plan for my own future livelihood."

Yun Lian was speechless for a while, and could only say: "Well, as an old friend, I have nothing to say, I can only wish you a life to get the money, and a life to spend the money."

Before getting out of the car, Yun Lian paused to get out of the car, turned his back to Teng Yao and said, "If you are desperate in the future, come to Ruyi Villa to find me, maybe I can give you a few steamed buns or a few cups of tea."

Teng Yao spat a few times: "Come on, you, now that you don't have the big tree of the Yun family, how much property do you still have? When you return to Ruyi Villa, you still have to rely on your man to support you?"

After hearing this, Yun Lian laughed, jumped out of the carriage without looking back, and returned to his own car.

While Shen Yufeng was waiting for their conversation, he had already returned to his car, picked up the dry food he had just prepared before leaving the city, and sat in the front of the car to eat.

For some reason, seeing Shen Yufeng squatting on the front of the car, gnawing on some biscuits with his head down, Yun Lian suddenly thought of the words "suffering and rewarding".

From friends to lovers, to once strangers to mutual love.

He and Shen Yufeng, isn't that the case?

It's no wonder that two of his subordinates betrayed him one after another. His temperament is indeed extreme and repetitive, and he never shows mercy to people or things. One person can make him go against his nature so much.

He jumped into the carriage and hooked his fingers at Shen Yufeng. Shen Yufeng didn't know why, so he leaned over directly, pulled Shen Yufeng's wrist, and with his hand, bit off a piece of cake where he had gnawed on the cake.

He lightly licked the cake crumbs off his lips, swallowed the cake slowly, and looked at Shen Yufeng with a smile the whole time.

Shen Yufeng looked down at the sesame seed cakes in his hands, and said helplessly, "There are a few more in the car."

Yun Lian deliberately said: "I just love to eat what you have eaten, can't I?" Seeing his shameful expression, he said more proudly, "You are mine now, what's wrong with eating something from you?"

Faced with his thick skin, Shen Yufeng has more or less managed to cope with it these days.Hearing this, he just lowered his head and grinned, and took a few mouthfuls of the cake in his hand and ate it in one bite.

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After that, everything went smoothly on the way back to the village, and the little emperor seemed too lazy to pursue the matter of them abandoning their official position and absconding, so he didn't send anyone over.After returning to Ruyi Villa, the whole villa was cleaned and cleaned to welcome the return of the owner and another new owner of the villa.

When Shen Yufeng returned to the villa, he saw that in the year since he left, everything in Ruyi Villa was the same as before, and nothing changed because of his departure. He secretly affirmed Uncle Li's ability in his heart, and promoted him to be the supervisor of the villa.

Uncle Li didn't refuse, and didn't ask any more questions. He followed the owner's wishes and became the butler of the villa. Respect this elder even more from the bottom of my heart.

As for whether Uncle Li knew about Shen Xingzhou's fake death, Shen Yufeng didn't want to pursue it to the end. As far as he was concerned, Shen Xingzhou had already died on the sickbed two years ago. Since the one he met in Chang'an also died, There is no need for others to know.

Because there was an extra owner in the villa, the courtyard where Shen Yufeng lived was a bit small. After a few people combined, they decided to demolish the study and bedroom that Shen Xingzhou had left behind, and combine the two courtyards into one for Shen Yufeng and Yun. Live together.

The demolition of the house was done by Uncle Li, who took a few servants in and out for four or five days before gradually evacuating Shen Xingzhou's study and bedroom.Most of the things left from Shen Xingzhou's study were some insignificant porcelain and books, and they were all burned according to Shen Yufeng's share. However, there was a painting scroll of beauties hanging in the study that caught Uncle Li's attention.

He handed over the scroll to Shen Yufeng, and Shen Yufeng recognized at a glance that the beauty on the painting was the princess named Mu Niang.

In the painting, the beautiful woman's willow eyebrows are slightly frowned, and her eyes are full of smoke. She looks like a princess in real life. Even the cloud clothes on her body are lifelike. It is obvious that the person who wrote the painting has poured great love into the painting.

Yun Lian came over and took a closer look: "No wonder you can fascinate your father, he really is a peerless beauty."

Shen Yufeng didn't even look at it, and handed the scroll to Uncle Li.

"A beauty with a dry face, but it's just passing away. Uncle Li, burn this painting too."

"Yes, Master."

Yun Lian watched anxiously as Uncle Li left with the scroll in his hands, he clicked his tongue a few times in regret, but didn't say anything.

After the house was demolished, a new house was built, the courtyard wall was repaired, and the houses where the two lived were combined into one. Yun Lian went to sleep in Shen Yufeng's room from time to time, so she didn't have to sneak around like before.The servants of the villa were very surprised at first, but after a few days, seeing Shen Yufeng's calm expression, they gradually got used to it.After a few months of leisure, in the coldest winter, under Shen Yufeng's care, Yun Lian's cold symptoms remained well, and there was no sign of an attack throughout the winter.However, relying on his weakness, he either lay on the couch reading a book or sunbathed in the yard all day long.

Only Shen Yufeng was still practicing martial arts diligently, continuing to study bipolar skills.

After winter, it's spring again, and the apricot blossoms behind the villa are in full bloom. Yun Lian brings a pot of wine to the apricot blossom forest for a rest.

After taking a few sips of wine, he slept on the recliner with Xinghua drunk, and fell asleep for a little while. When his consciousness gradually became confused, the footsteps of Shen Yufeng beside him came slowly from far to near.

Opening his eyes, seeing the letter in Shen Yufeng's hand, Yun Lian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who is the letter from?"

Shen Yufeng nodded and said, "It's my mother. She wrote to say that she misses us a lot recently and wants us to go to Duanzhou to accompany her for a while."

Yun Lian scoffed.Missing his son is an excuse. It is simply because he encountered a bottleneck in practicing bipolar skills, and he was embarrassed to ask his son for advice, so he came up with such an obvious excuse.

Shen Yufeng naturally understood the reason, but since his mother summoned him, his son had to go, and he also wanted to find a chance to talk to his mother about his uncle that day.

Besides--

He fixedly faced Yun Lian's face, and said sternly: "Speaking of which, we haven't told our mother about our relationship yet, why don't we go to Duanzhou this time and explain everything to her old lady."

Unexpectedly, Yun Lian stretched slowly and said, "I won't go."

Shen Yufeng was startled: "Aren't you going?"

"Well," Yun Lian narrowed his eyes and said, "Why should I go? I'm not her son. If you want to go, you can go by yourself."

Shen Yufeng pointed to his nose and said, "I, I am alone—"

Yun Lian nodded naturally, her tone couldn't tell whether she was happy or angry, "If she knew that my son was taken away by me, she might be so angry that I wouldn't bother her."

Shen Yufeng sat down and put his arms around his shoulders, and said in a warm voice: "Why are you going to die of anger? She has a new son, so it's too late to be happy. I also want you to have more family members and more people to accompany you."

Yun Lian was extremely satisfied by his gentle voice, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he still said: "No."

After a few words of persuasion by Wen Yan, seeing that Yun Lian insisted on his own opinion, Shen Yufeng had no choice but to say: "Okay, then you can stay at Ruyi Villa."

He knew that his mother had prejudices against Yun Lian, and he also knew that Yun Lian didn't like his mother. Although he wanted to shake hands and make peace between the two, but the future is long, and there will be opportunities in the future to ease the relationship between the two, so he is not in a hurry.

All he was thinking about was this matter, and he didn't see the little complacent expression that flashed across Yun Lian's face.

With nothing to do, Shen Yufeng left as soon as he said he would. After finishing the affairs of the villa, he was ready to leave early the next morning.

Before leaving, he walked to the door of the room and took the luggage from Uncle Li. Seeing that Uncle Li still wanted to send him out, he waved his hand and said, "Don't bother Uncle Li, I can do it myself. After I leave, the owner of the villa will Everything depends on Uncle Li."

Uncle Li bowed slightly and said: "The owner is serious, this old slave is waiting for the owner's return at the villa."

Shen Yufeng glanced around, and asked with some disappointment: "Yun Lian is still sleeping?"

Uncle Li just shook his head: "This old slave really hasn't seen Mr. Yun this morning."

After listening to Uncle Li's words, Shen Yufeng sighed and said, "Oh, what a fickle lover, he didn't come to see me off when he saw that I was going on a long journey."

He sighed helplessly, and walked out of the room dejectedly with his luggage on his back, not noticing the smile flashing in Uncle Li's eyes behind him.

Walking to the gate of the villa, he was taken aback when he saw a figure in front of the gate.

There were actually two white horses of the same coat color parked in front of the door, and one of the white horses had the same luggage tied around his neck.

Immediately sit one person.

"Why are you still standing there, Master Shen," Yun Lian rode on the horse and smiled at him in the morning light, "Don't tell me I need to pull you on the horse myself?"

Shen Yufeng was startled for a moment, then smiled, and jumped onto the body of the other horse. The two of them looked at each other and smiled on the back of the horse. With a flick of the whip, they drove the two horses towards Chuyang.

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The author says:

I'm writing here for the time being, if there are extra episodes, I will post them later, thank you for your support!I know I'm really sorry for procrastinating for too long, and I must save the full text of the new article in the future!