All rivers and mountains are safe

It was the time of autumn, and the test questions issued by the state governments in various places had to be brought up for Shen Mingan to review. His mind was in a mess, and he was so busy that day and night that he didn't sleep all night.

The test questions vary from place to place. Some people in remote and impoverished prefectures have problems with food and housing. Few people can read books, and they don’t pay attention to autumn. There are many wrong titles and typos in the test questions. Find out and correct it, make sure that the difficulty of the test questions in each state is similar, and then list the test points involved in each test question for Lu Chengjing to review.

Looking at nearly twenty test questions made Shen Ming'an's head dizzy, and he continued to read it until the end of the next day at noon.

The food on the table was untouched, it was probably brought by the servant of the Imperial College last night, and the rice in the bowl was blown dry and hard.

Sitting still for a long time, Shen Mingan didn't feel hungry, and couldn't eat anything, so he sorted and sealed the test questions, called a little book boy, and together with the little book boy, they planned to enter the palace* to Lu Chengjing with the test questions.

The sun was scorching outside, and even the wind was full of heat. There were no classes today, and there were no people on the road. Most of the students in the Imperial College went out to play or dodged in the house.

The sun shines on the gravel road through the gaps in the leaves, and there are endless noises of insects all around.

When Shen Mingan walked near the lotus pond, he felt the temperature of his whole body drop a bit. The little bookboy walked behind him step by step, not paying attention to his feet, and suddenly tripped over a stone by the roadside, bumped forward, and knocked his head on Shen Mingan's back back, knocking Shen Mingan into a stagger.

"I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean it." The test questions were scattered all over the floor, and the little book boy got up in a panic to pick them up.

Shen Mingan turned around helplessly and helped him pick it up together. Seeing the little book boy's face flushed red, he touched his forehead with the back of his hand, then touched his own, and asked, "Are you suffering from heat stroke?"

"No, I, I just lost my mind when I was walking just now." The little book boy was so ashamed, his hands moved faster, and he picked up all the test questions in a few strokes.

Shen Mingan's stomach was empty for a long time, and he squatted under the sun for a longer time, and felt dizzy when he stood up with the little book boy.

He stood still for a while, before the black mist in front of his eyes slowly dissipated, but he saw the little book boy holding the test paper in place, with his mouth slightly open, looking past Shen Mingan and falling behind him, his eyes widened and he said in horror : "Sir, someone fell into the water over there!"

Shen Mingan turned his head in the direction he was pointing, and from a distance, he saw people jumping up and down in the water near the lotus pond, and the water splashed in all directions and landed on the stones on the bank.

On the shore, Lu Qingshi seemed to be shocked by the scene in front of him, and stood aside blankly.

Shen Mingan hurriedly stuffed all the test questions into the little book boy's hands, and ran all the way towards that place.

"What's going on?!" Shen Ming'an pulled Lu Qingshi over and asked anxiously, "Why did someone fall into the water?"

"I don't know..." Lu Qingshi seemed to come back to his senses after seeing Shen Ming'an. He looked at Shen Ming'an with a bad complexion, and looked at Shen Ming'an at a loss, and said tremblingly, "Fifth Brother came to see me today, and he said he did it." He did something wrong, it was he who caused the third brother to be hated by the emperor, he was sorry for the third brother, and then I didn't notice for a while, he, he jumped down."

Shen Mingan's expression changed drastically, he didn't dare to delay any longer, he just took off his shoes and jumped into the lake.

The lake water was not too cold under the sun, but the water came densely from all around, squeezing the chest and lungs, making people breathless. Shen Mingan opened his eyes in the water with difficulty, and saw that Lu Wenhuai had choked several saliva, one foot deep. Deep in the mud.

The sight in the water was blurred, and the mud mixed in the water, making the lake water turbid. Lu Wenhuai's consciousness had gradually collapsed, and he hugged Shen Ming'an with his hands and feet out of instinct.

Shen Mingan wanted to pull him out of the mud, but Lu Wenhuai struggled recklessly, hugging Shen Mingan tightly, after a few breaths, even Shen Mingan felt buzzing in his ears, as if his throat was being strangled by water, and the suffocation was lingering.

Holding his breath, he sank deeper than Lu Wenhuai. When Lu Wenhuai gradually let go, he pulled his feet out of the mud, held his arms, and led him to swim to the shore.

The resistance of the water was too great. Shen Mingan hadn't eaten for a whole day and couldn't use his hands. He realized that Lu Wenhuai had choked on the water and passed out. He became more and more anxious. He took Lu Wenhuai in his hands, and Shen Mingan breathed a sigh of relief, but he himself lost all strength to prop himself up on the rocks to go ashore. The clothes on his body were heavy after being soaked in water, and his body seemed to be dragged by the water. The place of residence fell.

The water covered his mouth and nose, Shen Mingan coughed continuously, his hands that were holding onto the rocks gradually slipped, and suddenly a pair of strong arms grabbed him.

Lu Ciheng carried him out of the water on the bank, and Shen Mingan leaned on his chest to relax for a moment, and then he wanted to check on Lu Wenhuai's situation, regardless of his own drenching.

Lu Ciheng hugged Shen Mingan in his arms and refused to let him go, and said fiercely: "You are so busy saving people that you don't want your own life?!"

"I'm fine, let me go." Shen Mingan broke free from his embrace, stood up staggeringly from his embrace, and walked to Lu Wenhuai.

Lu Qingshi and the little book boy surrounded Lu Wenhuai at a loss, Lu Qingshi held Lu Wenhuai's face and kept shaking his body, his eyes were flustered, "Fifth brother, you...you wake up."

Lu Qingshi seemed more afraid than worried.

"How I taught you in the past, if someone falls into the water, you have to let him spit out the choked water first, is it useful for you to just shout?!" Shen Mingan showed a sullen expression, since Lu Wenhuai came ashore to now, it took a while to say nothing , but there was no one to help.

Shen Ming'an pulled Lu Qingshi away, and knelt beside the pale-faced Lu Wenhuai, folded his hands, and pressed his chest, but Lu Wenhuai's eyes were always closed, and his whole body was cold.

Lu Qingzhi stretched out his finger tremblingly, put it on his nose, paused, suddenly slumped on the grass, and said tremblingly, "Sir, don't save me, fifth brother...he's out of breath."

Shen Mingan turned a deaf ear to his words, but his lips turned pale, and he kept repeating the pressing movements.

"Don't save him, he's dead." Lu Ciheng grabbed Shen Mingan's hand, forced him to stand up, and shouted at him: "He's dead!"

Shen Mingan's heart gradually cooled down, his mind went blank, and a sharp pain filled his chest and lungs. He heard Lu Ciheng ask Lu Qingshi angrily, "How could Lu Wenhuai seek death when he is fine?"

"He, he has been in a bad mood since he came back from meeting his husband yesterday. I asked him, but he refused to say anything. He just asked me repeatedly, if there was no him, would the father not blame you? I also heard I don't understand what he means." Lu Qingshi was so frightened that he was shaking like chaff, and stammered: "I think he is still not in a good mood today, so I wanted to take him to the lake to relax. I didn't expect him to..."

Lu Ciheng clasped Shen Mingan's shoulder, frowned and asked him: "What did you say to him yesterday?"

Shen Ming'an stared at Lu Ciheng's face in a daze, unable to utter a word.

Clothes and hair were sticking to his body wetly, Shen Mingan was chilled by the wind, Lu Ciheng's voice seemed to be far away and then near, "On the day of Xiaozhou, what did you say to him after you took him away? He has been in the world since that day. It was not right from the start.”

"I told him, you are blood relatives, he can't be with you." His voice was hoarse and not like a human voice.

Lu Ciheng frowned, "Is this what you said yesterday?"

"Yes……"

Shen Ming'an seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand, the pain was dull, guilt flooded him like a tidal wave.

Lu Wenhuai was only 14 years old when he died.

Lu Ciheng was right, Lu Wenhuai drowned himself and died because of him.

If he hadn't said those things to Lu Wenhuai, Lu Wenhuai wouldn't have made Lu Chengjing hate Lu Ciheng because he was afraid that it was his own fault, so he couldn't think about it for a while, so he jumped into the lake and committed suicide on impulse.

It was him who mishandled and guarded poorly, and it was he who killed Lu Wenhuai.