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Shen Ming'an dreamed about some old things.

The summer is hot, and the sun is so hot that it is so bright that people can't keep their eyes open.

Shen Mingan's palms were dripping with sweat, he dragged Lu Wenhuai along the lotus pond without saying a word.

Lu Ciheng's words were still echoing in his mind, and the scene on the boat also made him terrified. If he didn't happen to pass by and stop him, he wouldn't dare to imagine what Lu Ciheng would do to Lu Wenhuai.

Lu Ciheng and Lu Wenhuai are half-brothers, not to mention that Lu Wenhuai is only 14 years old, the age who knows little about these things.

Lu Wenhuai was led by him very obediently, Shen Mingan was thinking about how to speak, when he felt his hand in his palm twist.

Lu Wenhuai stopped in his tracks and stood where he was, refusing to leave.

"Sir, it's not the third brother's fault, he didn't do anything to me." Lu Wenhuai grabbed his loose neckline with one hand, his face was flushed by the sun, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and he lowered his eyes and said softly Said: "It's because I have thoughts about third brother that I shouldn't have. I want him to kiss me. I...I like him."

"Do you know what you're talking about?!" Lu Wenhuai's words made Shen Mingan dizzy with anger, and he said in a trembling voice, "You and him are blood relatives, so you are..."

"It's incest." Lu Wenhuai said these two words for him, "I know, Mr. said it when he was talking about "Book of Rites" before."

Lu Wenhuai paused, his voice was low but firm, "But sir, the third brother said, if you like it, you don't have to care about your status, so why be afraid of worldly etiquette?"

"You are not afraid of common etiquette, but what will the people of the world think and say?!" Shen Mingan frowned and said angrily, "It is shocking for such a thing to happen in an ordinary family, let alone a royal family with strict etiquette."

"This is my own business and the third brother's business, it's none of other people's business." Lu Wenhuai lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, biting his lip and standing stiffly aside.

He was stubborn, and couldn't make any sense, Shen Mingan couldn't help it, so he slowed down his voice and said: "Then have you thought about what will happen to you and the third prince if the emperor finds out about this matter?"

"How could the father know!" Lu Wenhuai suddenly raised his head and looked at him, as if trying to cover up his fear with his voice, but he couldn't stop his lips from trembling.

"Paper can't hold fire, he will know one day that the emperor and empress dote on you, and in order to preserve your reputation, only the third prince will be punished." Seeing his stubbornness, Shen Mingan couldn't bear to speak too seriously, and only said: "The emperor doesn't like the third prince at all. When I first became an official, I didn't even know that there was another third prince in the palace. I overheard the old man in the palace talking about it. That's when I found out, so I begged the emperor to let him come to the Imperial College to work with him. You study together, now that he is excellent in his studies and often comes first in archery, the emperor has changed his opinion of him, you think he will be punished because of this, the emperor will hate him, and send him to that dark palace again ?"

Lu Wenhuai's face turned pale for a moment, and tears filled his eyes, "Father wouldn't treat third brother like this..."

"Then why did the emperor leave the third prince in the cold palace since he was a child? When the emperor came to the Imperial College in the past few years, he only asked about your and the prince's schoolwork. No matter how good the third prince is, he never received a word of praise from the emperor."

Lu Wenhuai remained silent, unable to think of words to refute Shen Mingan. He lowered his head, his eyelashes trembled, and tears fell on the lapel of his clothes.

It's useless to talk too much, Shen Mingan handed the handkerchief to Lu Wenhuai, "Fifth Prince think carefully, am I right?"

Lu Wenhuai's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and he said in a choked voice, "Sir, can you not tell Father about this?"

"it is good."

Shen Mingan accepted Lu Wenhuai, but Lu Wenhuai obviously didn't believe him. Since that day, he was like a frightened bird. Every time the emperor came to the Imperial College to look for Shen Mingan, Lu Wenhuai would try to stay by their side, for fear that Shen Mingan would say something to Lu Chengjing.

Therefore, when Lu Chengjing threw a pile of papers on Shen Mingan that day, Shen Mingan did not expect that Lu Wenhuai was outside the door, and listened to everything Lu Chengjing said to him.

The rice paper was flying, and Shen Ming'an was thrown back a step by the force. Just as he stood up and wanted to pick up the paper from the ground, he heard Lu Chengjing's angry scolding from above his head, "Shen Ming'an, look at the good students you have taught!"

Most of them were documents played by the officials, and without exception, they all talked about Lu Ciheng.

Lu Chengjing watched Shen Mingan gather up the papers with cold eyes, took out a few of the land deeds and patted them on Shen Mingan, and said angrily: "Lu Ciheng privately traded the horse farms around Shangjing, driving up the price of the horses, and bought the best horses in the horse farms. Mana is going to show courteousness to the horse addicted General Yang Che, what does he want to do, does he want to rebel?"

The words in the civil official's pen were fierce, and it was said that Lu Ciheng's move had a heart of disobedience. Shen Mingan carefully looked at the document in his hand, and said: "Your Majesty, the third prince is good at archery, and naturally loves horses. It is normal for people who love horses to give horses to each other, why would they rebel, the words written in these memoirs are exaggerated, the emperor should not listen to them and believe them."

Lu Chengjing became even more angry, and asked: "Are you saying that I don't know right from wrong?"

"I don't mean that, it's just that there is no evidence..."

"Once the evidence is convincing, I will kill him immediately!" Lu Chengjing stared at Shen Ming'an sharply, and if there was any substance in his eyes, he suddenly said in a deep voice: "Does Lu Ciheng like men?"

When Shen Ming'an heard this, his heart was shaken, the hand holding the memorabilia trembled slightly, and he said in astonishment: "Why did your majesty say such a thing?"

"I've heard some rumors recently that someone saw him and a student from the Imperial College disheveled in a small boat in broad daylight."

Shen Mingan tried his best to calm down and then said: "Perhaps it was a misrepresentation. Since the two are classmates, it is probably just an ordinary noise during a cruise. The third prince..."

Lu Chengjing interrupted Shen Mingan, passed him and pushed open the door, and sternly said as he walked: "You don't have to excuse him, I will investigate by myself."

At the end, I added another sentence, "I heard that he is also very close to you."

Shen Mingan was stunned in the room, thinking over and over what Lu Chengjing said, the more he thought about it, the more startled he became, but he couldn't figure out what it meant.

The door opened from the inside, and Lu Wenhuai outside heard the sound, his face was flustered, and he called out after recovering: "Father."

When Lu Chengjing saw him, the stern look on his face instantly softened, and he asked him with a smile: "Why is Huai'er here?"

Lu Wenhuai's face was pale, and he stammered: "I, I thought I haven't seen Father for a long time, so I wanted to come to see you. It happened that you were discussing matters with your husband, so I waited outside the door for a while."

"It's true that I haven't seen Huai'er for a long time." Lu Chengjing raised his eyebrows and smiled, and patted him on the shoulder lightly, "Come on, let me see, Huai'er has grown a lot taller, almost as tall as me, recently How did your homework go?"

Lu Wenhuai hid from Lu Chengjing's sight, obviously out of his mind, "Everything that Mr. has arranged has been completed."

Lu Chengjing scratched his nose affectionately, "I think you've cut corners again, otherwise you wouldn't dare to look at me."

Lu Wenhuai ignored his words, changed the subject and said, "Father, I just heard you talking about the third brother..."

"What are you mentioning him for?" Lu Chengjing changed his expression and said, "You just need to take care of yourself."

When Shen Ming'an came out from the house, Lu Wenhuai sat under the shade of a tree in the yard, staring at the withered and yellow leaves all over the ground in a daze.

The circles of his eyes were red, he raised his eyes to see Shen Mingan gradually approaching, and said with difficulty concealing his disappointment: "Did I cause trouble for Third Brother?"

"It's not your fault." Shen Mingan sat down beside him, thinking to himself: It's him.

Perhaps Shen Ming'an was among the rumors about Lu Ciheng that the emperor heard.

"What if my father found out that it was me and my third brother who were in the boat that day." Lu Wenhuai buried his face in his knees, and said in a choked voice: "Mr. I still don't believe it, but now I feel that not only will he hate the third brother, but he will kill the third brother."

"Fifth prince, don't think too much. You and the third prince are both the emperor's own sons. It's only because he is the emperor's father that he will be stricter with you."

Shen Mingan felt anxious, he comforted Lu Wenhuai like this, but he knew that Lu Chengjing really had murderous intentions towards Lu Ciheng.