Don't go back to hometown

Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou expected Shen Zhui to come to the door, but they had no intention of seeing Shen Zhui from the beginning to the end, and immediately asked the servants to come forward to refuse.

It's just that this uninvited "guest" is used to being a superior person, so he forced his way in without any politeness, insisting on seeing Jiang Xianyu and his brothers.

When Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou arrived, a group of bodyguards stopped Shen Zhui in the martial arts training ground in the front yard of the bodyguard bureau.

Shen Zhui came alone, and he didn't seem to put Jiang's brothers and Ping'an Escort in his eyes.

Jiang Xianyu immediately drew out the long sword on the weapon rack and chased after Shen.Shen Zhui turned sideways to avoid the blade that brushed against the tip of his hair, and grabbed Jiang Xianyu's wrist.However, Jiang Xianyu threw the long sword to his left hand, flexibly withdrew his right arm, turned around and slashed at Shen Zhui with the sword in his left hand.

The sword was not weaker than usual, Shen Zhui quickly retreated, and the golden thread on his abdomen was cut off by the sword.

"You—you know how to use a left-handed sword?!"

Jiang Xianyu ignored him, saw Jiang Baizhou waved away the other bodyguards, and then turned to Shen Zhui: "What is Master Shen's intention of trespassing on private houses?"

Shen Zhui swung his sleeves and snorted coldly: "Rebellious officials and thieves dare to call themselves citizens?"

Jiang Xianyu's complexion sank, and just as he was about to raise his left hand holding the sword, Jiang Baizhou stepped forward to hold his wrist, and looked at Shen Zhui coldly: "If you want to commit a crime, why is there no excuse? Who is the traitor? Isn't Mr. Shen the last one?" Is it clear?"

"Sharp teeth and sharp mouths!"

Shen Zhui said angrily: "The old man was soft-hearted and left a bloodline of the Jiang family, but raised you two ignorant children! You are young and arrogant! You have a high self-esteem! You can live a stable life, but first you get close to Princess Rui, and then take advantage of the snow disaster in the south of the Yangtze River and Fang Zhi Zhou is doing business, and now he is taking the opportunity to get close to King Yi, do you really think that with your little means, you can rehabilitate the Jiang family?"

Shen Zhui was surprised when he received the news that the Jiang family was in contact with Princess Rui. Why did the descendants of the Jiang family, who had kept their names incognito and kept a low profile for 20 years, suddenly appear in the public eye and get involved with the forces in the court again?

After much deliberation, I am afraid that the only purpose is to rehabilitate the Jiang family.

Jiang Xianyu was not surprised that the other party would have such a guess, but he would not foolishly admit it and leave the other party with a clue.

He looked at Shen Zhui with cold eyes, and said in a sarcastic tone, "I didn't expect Mr. Shen to be no different from the villain who murdered His Royal Highness Yi Wang. His eyes are only on fighting for power, and he has no regard for the life and death of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. Mr. Shen himself I am used to using unscrupulous means, so I also judge others by myself, thinking that any actions of others have ulterior motives. Now I can’t wait to jump out and accuse me, I am afraid I have to ask myself first, how much blood was on my hands and how many lives were killed!"

"presumptuous!!!"

Shen Zhui became furious, and scolded furiously: "I am as famous as your grandfather, when will it be your turn, a brat like you, to blame me?"

"You are worthy?!" Jiang Xianyu pointed his sword at the tip of his nose, his eyes blazing with anger, "My grandfather was a martial sage alive, a loyal minister. But you are just a royal lackey who is greedy for power and self-interest! How can you have the same face as me? Grandfather?"

"Presumptuous! You—" Shen Zhui had bruised veins on his forehead, his complexion turned blue and red, but he couldn't say anything more than his usual scolding.

Being called a "running dog" by a 17-year-old boy pointed at his nose, not only extremely humiliating and ironic, but also exposed the truth that Shen Zhui tried his best to cover up - it was he who accepted the hints from Emperor Mingren and Jinshang and betrayed Jiang Weifeng , and then took the position of commander of Tianxin Mansion.

The so-called treason by the important ministers of Tianxin Mansion is just a bureaucracy of the royal family to get rid of the straight and unyielding Jiang Weifeng and replace it with a more obedient dog.

Shen Zhui doesn't think he is a smart person, but he is good at judging the situation and calculating people's hearts, so he knows that he is not as good as Jiang Weifeng in everything, and cannot beat him by ability, and win the position of commander, but he is very unwilling to do it for the rest of his life. His deputy always obeys him.

So when the opportunity presented itself, he did not hesitate to betray the alliance of Jiang Chenyan's three families, and sent the brothers who had been friends for generations to the imperial power's guillotine.

As a result, the Yan family also declined, leaving him, the Shen family, in sole control of Tianxin Mansion.

When he dreamed back at midnight, he also felt guilty.But following the self-excusation of "people don't kill themselves for themselves", he gradually regarded his actions as justifiable and natural, until he met the Jiang family again——

Last time it was Jiang Baozhen, this time it was Jiang Xianyu, who mercilessly tore off his fig leaf and exposed his crimes to the sun.

He became angry from embarrassment and was furious. He deeply regretted that he had softened his heart for a moment and left a way out for the Jiang family. Now, looking at the contemptuous eyes of Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou, he wished to kill each other immediately and tear them into pieces.

But he can't.

The Jiang family brothers have shown their faces in front of Fang Zhizhou, Cheng Wang, and Yi Wang, and it is not appropriate to bring out the old case of Jiang Weifeng's conspiracy, he cannot act rashly.

Jiang Xianyu took his sternness into his eyes, smiled sarcastically, and said lightly: "Brother, let's go back to Yangzhou earlier and continue to live incognito, lest Mr. Shen always think we have a conspiracy."

Jiang Baizhou answered in a serious manner: "Alright, when we get back, we'll write to the governor, telling him that it's not that the Ping An Escort Bureau is unwilling to help the people in the south of the Yangtze River, but that we, Lord Shen, don't need the Ping An Escort Bureau's contribution, and we don't need His Royal Highness Yi Wang to be safe." Come back to preside over disaster relief. It’s just a snowstorm, but 10,000+ civilians died, so how can it be so important for Mr. Shen to cover up his guilt?”

Shen Zhui was furious, and was about to speak, when suddenly a series of footsteps came from behind.

"What Jiang Biaotou said is wrong."

Putting on the prince's python robe and fox fur, Li Yi took the lead, and Shi Shiran stepped into the bodyguard, followed by a team of guards.

"Master Shen wins the king's heart and listens to the opinions of the people. How can he not care about the life and death of the people in the south of the Yangtze River?" Li Yi glanced at Shen Zhui, then looked at Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Xianyu with a smile, "Do you have some misunderstandings with Master Shen?"

Jiang Xianyu turned his wrist and put away the long sword, "Master Shen came here uninvited and broke into the door without permission, I'm afraid it's not a misunderstanding."

Shen Zhui had restrained his anger at this moment, and resumed his serious and solemn appearance, as if he was not the one who was speechless and frantic after being exposed just now.

"I just want to ask Escort Jiang to assist Tianxin Mansion to find out the identity of the assassin who hunted down and killed His Highness King Yi."

"Really?" Jiang Baizhou raised the corners of his lips into a smile, but his tone was somewhat sarcastic, "Master Shen didn't mention this just now."

"However, we are afraid that we will disappoint Lord Shen." Jiang Baizhou said, "I followed His Highness King Cheng into the mountain, but we did not meet any assassins along the way. Occasionally, we found traces of fighting, and only found the corpses of His Highness King Yi's entourage, and I have never seen the assassin's body. In the last fight, I wanted to catch someone alive, but suddenly there was an avalanche, and the remaining assassins were buried in the snowy sea—"

"If Mr. Shen has the heart, why not go into the mountains and look for the assassin's body."

This rhetoric is exactly the same as what Shen Zhui heard from King Cheng, and Shen Zhui has no doubts.But in this way, the assassin's clue was broken.

Li Yidao: "The starling just told me about this matter. The assassins cleaned up all the corpses of their comrades. It can be seen that they acted cautiously and were not ordinary bandits. It's a pity that no one was left alive... However, the king here There is a clue."

He turned to Shen Zhui and said with a smile: "Before I only listened to Wang Zhifu's report on the disaster situation, but I forgot to tell Mr. Shen."

He motioned to Qian You, the guard beside him.Qian You stepped forward and handed a blood-stained jade plaque to Shen Zhui.

"This is the jade token I got from the assassin when I was fighting with the assassin." Li Yi said, "Your Majesty Shen, please check the source of this jade token."

Shen Zhui took the jade tablet in his hand and examined it carefully. The jade was ploppy, but there was a character "loyalty" engraved on one side and a character "Y" on the other side.

Judging from this point alone, King Zhong is undoubtedly the most suspected.

Shen Zhui looked up at Li Yi: "Does Your Highness have any guesses?"

Li Yi said with a smile: "I don't have evidence, so I don't dare to speculate. I still have to trouble Mr. Shen to find out the truth."

Shen Zhui immediately understood Li Yi's meaning: Li Yi knew the people who attacked him, but did the word "loyalty" refer to the king of loyalty, or the subordinates of "loyalty", or what did it mean? He didn't bite him to death, but hoped that Shen Zhui would give him an explanation.But in any case, this group of people must be assassins with ulterior motives, not bandits.

Shen Zhui put the jade pendant into his sleeve: "I should try my best to find out the truth."

Li Yi nodded, then turned to look at Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Xianyu, "I heard from Wang Zhifu that during the days when I was trapped in the mountains, thanks to the charcoal, cotton clothes and medicinal materials sent by the Ping An Escort to Huai'an, the people of Huai'an survived the whole day. For a while, I will first thank the righteous men of the Escort Bureau on behalf of the people of Huai'an, and I will go to the imperial court another day to ask for credit for the righteous men."

He didn't claim to be the king, and even bowed to Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou with a very sincere attitude.

Jiang Xianyu quickly stepped forward to hold his arm, and said modestly: "I am just entrusted by Governor Fang to do my best."

Shen Zhui listened from the side, his face was as cold as frost.

Counting from the time when Wang Yi's footsteps appeared, the other party should not have heard the whole process of his dispute with the Jiang family brothers, and he did not care about his "bad heart" mentioned by Jiang Baizhou.

But at this moment, he solemnly thanked the Ping An Escort for their disaster relief, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face for him, insinuating that he really didn't take the victims of Jiangnan to heart.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yi, who used to be inconspicuous in Beijing, turned out to be so scheming and hidden.

In the past few days, Shen Zhui has had several contacts with the other party, and he has to admit that the other party's attitude and words are impeccable, but they often imply deep meanings, and they act calmly and with their own rules. They are definitely not incompetent in the eyes of courtiers.

And he himself lost his sight.

Thinking about it again, the other party came so coincidentally, I am afraid that he followed him only after knowing his whereabouts.

King Yi was raised under the empress dowager Jiang back then, and he was quite close to the late emperor, so he was disliked by the sage, and he was the least favored among all the princes and princesses.In the same way, in King Yi's heart, the Jiang family is probably closer.

This kid from the Jiang family is somewhat similar to the Empress Dowager Jiang. King Yi must have known the identity of the other party. No wonder he defends his brothers so much...

Li Yi didn't know what Shen Zhui was thinking. He learned that Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou planned to return to Jinling immediately, and said goodbye to them regretfully. He said that he would not continue to go south until the disaster situation in Huai'an improved, and hoped to see you in Jinling then.

Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou let out a long sigh of relief as they sent Li Yi and Shen Zhui out.

"Brother, the prince came by such a coincidence, did he come here specially to rescue us?"

Jiang Baizhou was silent for a moment, then said, "Maybe so."

"The elder brother thinks, is he worthy of trust?"

Jiang Baizhou was silent again, and said after a while: "Let's see again."

……

Li Yi and Shen Zhui returned to the magistrate's mansion together.

The former went to the study temporarily lent to him by Wang Zhifu, and Shen Zhui followed him in: "His Royal Highness King Yi."

Li Yi turned to look at him, seeing that he had something to say, he waved his hand to screen off his subordinates, and waited solemnly.

Shen Zhui put on his usual majesty as the commander of Tianxin Mansion, and looked at Li Yi: "Your Highness, do you still remember the late Emperor and Empress Dowager Jiang?"

Li Yi's face was gloomy, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said mockingly: "Master Shen, you are really old."

There was a sneer on his lips, he took a step closer to Shen Zhui, and whispered in his ear: "Same as my father, old."

Shen Zhui's pupils were startled, he never expected that King Yi, who has always been quiet, would dare to say such treasonous words!

But Li Yi didn't have the slightest sense of "rebelliousness". Looking at Shen Zhui's violently shaking pupils, his smile became brighter and brighter.

"When my father came to the throne, he didn't need Jiang and Yan, who were disobedient. In the future, no matter which of my elder brothers ascends the throne, he also doesn't need Mr. Shen who thinks highly of himself and sells his elders. You should know that, right?"

Shen Zhui was horrified, the majestic and cold mask he had worn for more than twenty years was cracked inch by inch, and faced the cruel fact that he was least willing to face - once the emperor and courtiers, he was the confidant of the Holy Majesty, and he could not rely on anyone Prince, this means that the date of the Holy Majesty's death is also the date of his death.

But he has been sitting under one person and above ten thousand people for too long, and has been enjoying the fawning and courting of the princes, but in his heart he picks on their merits like a saint, as if he has the right to decide who will inherit the throne.

And his arrogance must be seen by the princes.

Li Yi admired his ever-changing expression. Governor Xin Daofang was right. Commander of Tianxin Mansion Shen chased Lord Shen. Looking solemn and majestic and powerful, he was actually just a paper tiger who betrayed his brothers and daughters for glory. Strong on the outside but dry on the inside, stupid.

Li Yi patted Shen Zhui on the shoulder with satisfaction, and said with a light smile, "But don't worry, the Shen family may not fall down."

"Because Mr. Xiao Shen is smarter than you."