Hypocrites

Shen Jin's temptation that day seemed to be an omen, and not long after, the Prime Minister's Mansion Xi Cao Yu came to visit and informed Shen Jin of being transferred to be the governor of Ruyang County. The only thing missing was a formal appointment letter, and he was about to take up the post.

When Shen Yu learned of this, he really couldn't accept it.

"Why! How long have we been here? Your Majesty invited the Prince and the Young Master, is it just a joke?"

Shen Jin said helplessly, "Calm down."

"I can't accept it. I'm still talking about Emperor Fan these days, and I haven't finished talking yet!"

"Shen Yu," Shen Jin emphasized, "sit down."

Song Jun looked at his father and his son, one was a teacher and the other was a junior, he was at a loss when they argued.

Shen Jin said: "This is the decision of His Majesty and Duan Xiang, and they have their own considerations."

"What are you considering?" Shen Yu sneered, "You left, the emperor's son and the prime minister's son have no place to study. There are many officials who are teachers. How many people are there in the world as teachers?"

This was said with a level, and Song Jun clapped his hands in agreement.

Shen Yu said again: "Is Prime Minister Duan still able to talk now? I'm afraid it's someone else who thinks we don't like it, so let's find a way to get rid of it!"

Shen Jin coughed, and cut off the conversation: "I said, son, since this is the case, why don't you understand? People in power should not be in the way. Although your father and I are just a teacher, but the words can be used to convey the truth. They also blocked the way. Everyone moved out of your majesty, please let us make way, so let’s make way? The so-called courtesy first, soldiers, toasting and not eating, after that it will not be so easy to deal with."

Shen Jin thought it was someone who didn't want His Highness to read and understand, after all, there were more than three gentlemen who were expelled from the palace.However, Shen Yu vaguely noticed that it was Chu Gong who executed Niu Lu's pet dog and secretly reported Qiu Qianli, which finally aroused vigilance.

In the past, Prince Heng was not a person who cared about these things, he ate, drank and had fun without worrying about anything. Who taught His Highness badly?

The third doctor finally turned his attention to Shen Jin and his son.

"I thought dad would never think about these things." After Shen Yu said bluntly, he got up and left, Song Jun couldn't help but scream.

"Don't worry about it like him. Brother Yu has his own ideas now, and sometimes I don't understand what he is thinking."

Shen Jin sighed, how could he not understand his son.The kid saw that he was getting closer and closer to Prince Heng, and what he said on New Year's Eve, asking Liang Heng to be an official servant of the emperor in the future, didn't seem like a joke anymore.

"How about," Song Jun suggested, "Let's go back to Ruyang and ask Brother Yu to stay in Wangdu City?"

"Don't you understand?" Shen Jin said solemnly, "It's not me, Shen Jin, who should go, but all the dissidents around His Highness, let him stay in the royal city alone, weak in power, I'm afraid there will be no good fruit to eat. "

Beside the main room door, Shen Yu leaned his back against the railing, unable to tell what mood he was in.

The official official documents from the imperial court had not yet come down, Liang Heng didn't seem to know about it, and behaved as usual, Shen Yu hesitated a few times, but in the end he couldn't tell him personally.

Qiu Zhiyuan seemed to have become a dark cloud entrenched in Liang Heng's heart, he was becoming more and more reticent, he could only cheer up when Shen Yu was with him, and occasionally showed a smile.

Duan Yanling was worried about him, and asked Shen Yu secretly, but failed to get a reply.Cousin could tell that of course Xinzhou also sensed that something was wrong, but he served Liang Heng calmly, as if he didn't need to be told anything, he knew it already.

In the final analysis, if he leaves Wangdu City, what Shen Yu is most worried about is Xinzhou who doesn't know how deep he is.

There is no wall that does not leak in the world. On this day, Lian Zhen came to convey his father's spirit again: "Brother Yu, congratulations, when are you going to return to Ruyang? Let's hold a practical banquet before leaving!"

Liang Heng was drawing the copybook that Shen Yu wrote to him, he was used to cheating, so he asked Shen Yu to correct his writing posture, and took the opportunity to lean into his arms.Hearing this, Liang Heng suddenly sat up straight.

"What did you say?"

"Hey, Shen Gongrong has been promoted to the governor of Ruyang County, doesn't Your Highness know?"

Liang Heng turned around in a daze, seeing Shen Yu's face was stiff, he dropped his pen and walked out.Shen Yu immediately chased him out.

In the winding corridor like sheep intestines, the midsummer wind passes through the curtain.

"Your Highness!"

Shen Yu's pace was faster than Liang Heng, crossing the garden and catching up in the shade.

"you listen to me!"

Liang Heng glared at him: "Are you going to Ruyang?"

"..."

"Just say it!"

"Your Highness..."

"you shut up!"

Liang Heng was about to leave again, Shen Yu blocked people in a corner, and was a little anxious: "Liang Heng! Listen to me..."

Liang Heng's eyes immediately turned red: "What did you call me?"

Shen Yu had nothing to do with him, and lowered his voice: "It's His Majesty's appointment to let my father fill the vacancy left by Lu Jia."

"Did you say you wouldn't leave me alone?!" Liang Heng said, tears fell down, turning into a huge boulder and laying on Shen Yu's heart.

He was so distressed that he had no choice but to wipe his tears with the back of his hand, and his sleeves were also wet.

"What's the matter? I didn't want to leave you, Heng'er. Now I have nothing but a flesh and blood body. When I return to Ruyang County, I will be recruited by the state government, and I will have an official position." Wouldn't it be more useful to come back to you again? Didn't you say that you want me to get the position of Zaifu?"

Liang Heng seemed to have been greatly shocked, and his body was trembling. In the past, he remembered what Shen Yu said in his heart, but now he couldn't listen to it, so he became ruthless and pushed him away.

"You lied to me! You just lied to me!"

He ran away again, Shen Yu chased after him, and Liang Heng got into Qingliang Hall in a blink of an eye.

"Your Highness!"

The door slammed shut, scattering Shen Yu's call.

After that day, Shen Jin also asked for leave to pack her bags at home, and the lectures in the Chu Palace stopped like this.

The imperial court issued an official document ordering Shen Jin to leave within three days, and Song Jun hired three carts to load the family's belongings onto the carts.Everything was ready, and there was a strong wind on the day of departure, so both Deng Yang and Lian Zhen came to see him off.

"Of course Yanling is too lazy to come." Lian Zhen was still a little embarrassed talking to Shen Yu now, "I thought His Highness was coming, why didn't I see anyone?"

Outside the gate of Bacheng, the strong wind blows sand, and the flying dust covers the face. It is inconvenient to speak. Pedestrians rush in and out, and even the city gate guards are reluctant to come out to stand guard.

It was the first time Deng Yang saw Shen Jin, but he didn't think it was because when he was seeing off his friend, he said a lot about looking forward to Shen's school. In the future, he will be an official in the same dynasty with him.

Standing against the wind and sand, Shen Yu looked around inside and outside the city wall. There were people everywhere, but he couldn't see the familiar person.

"Brother Yu, let's go!"

Song Jun set up the carriage and urged.

The wind blew Shen Jin's skirts flying wildly, covering his face, he hurriedly pulled it off, and Shen Yu helped his father into the carriage.

Wangdu City stands majestically behind him, flying sand and rocks are all blocked outside the wall, only the convoy on the official road staggers forward.

The sound of the wind poured into the ears, buzzing and vibrating.

Shen Yu closed his eyes for a long while, and then he returned to his mind before realizing that it was blood hitting his ears.He opened his eyes, and in front of him was a small inner room.

Cui was still talking next door: "I know what you mean. Reading is to clarify right from wrong and to distinguish truth. If you want to take Mr. Shen in, I have no objection. There must be a way to satisfy both sides."

Shen Yuqiang sat up and drank a few sips of rice soup.Cui Ji said: "I know it well."

He opened the curtain and walked in, seeing Shen Yu's tragic facial injuries, he was still horrified.

"My dear brother, come with me, and I will arrange a perfect residence for you."

Shen Yu wanted to laugh, but the wound on his face was painful, so he could only hold back and said: "Mr. Cui, thank you for your family's kindness."

Cui Xian was in Wangcheng, Cui Ji led Shen Yu to Cui Xian's room, the furniture was simple and plain, only a red sandalwood table, a sleeping couch, a sitting screen, and a bookcase behind the sitting screen.Cui Ji used great strength to open the bookcase, revealing a new area on the back wall. Mrs. Cui handed him an ax for chopping firewood. , After the dust settled, there was a small dark space inside the wall.

The stale tome air flowed out.

Cui Ji lit a candle lamp and shone in. The wall was cramped enough for only one person to live in. Both sides were densely packed with bookcases, and there were thousands of bamboo slips from unknown years. The smell of insect repellent was unpleasant.

"This is the secret room of my family's collection of books. It is rumored that it was built by the generation of great-great-grandfathers. At that time, Qi people were driven by Beichao to cross Zhuo River. The first emperor denounced the literati for harming the country. In order to revitalize the martial arts, he ordered the whole country to burn all the books. Later, it became my home. According to the tradition, every time the patriarch passes it down to one generation, some new books of the time have to be sealed in. It has not been exposed for a hundred years, and the wronged brother is temporarily hiding here, and no one will find out."

Shen Yu also knew a little about the history of burning books. At that time, the emperor respected literature and despised martial arts. He recruited teachers from all over the world, built book collection pavilions, and collected more than a thousand volumes of slips. , and even today!", ordered to burn all the books in the world.

A scholar of letters, a book collector, a reclusive recluse, although the situation is declining for a while, he has a proud heart.If people don't save themselves, why complain about books?

Now facing this room of letters that have been hidden for hundreds of years, Shen Yu deeply feels that his own fate is also gloomy.

People in the world often say that there are thousands of bells and millets in the book, and there are as many chariots and horses in the book. After reading all the scriptures, you will naturally know everything.Shen Yu just felt disheartened.

Cui Ji left him an oil lamp, and the walls were rebuilt, leaving only a small window for ventilation.

The candlelight was blown and swayed by the wind from the window, and every scroll of bamboo slips was clamoring and expressing in the dim light, but Shen Yu no longer had the same spirit as before, and read it with great vigor.

With medicine applied to his cheeks, his face was paralyzed and he couldn't move at all, and his thinking became rigid, and he woke up from time to time, sometimes in his dreams he thought he was still fleeing, and when he woke up, the darkness in front of him made him not know where he was. .

In the evening, Cui Ji brought him broth and chatted with him to relieve him.

Shen Yu couldn't move his mouth, most of the time it was Cui Ji who was talking.

The water is very hot nowadays, and if we talk behind closed doors, everyone has complaints.Cui Ji was originally dissatisfied with Zhang Yi Palace and Chu Palace, but when it comes to Liang Heng, he is even more merciless.

"Duke Shen was imprisoned, and those who could intercede would disregard life and death, and bluntly advised. I heard that even the Taiwei was fined and paid to stay at home to contemplate his mistakes because of this incident. Fifty boards. He is at this age, and he doesn't know if he can survive it."

"Only that Prince Heng. Hmph, Duke Shen is his teacher no matter what, and he still holds the position of the prince's junior teacher, but he does not see Mr. Weiwei. A teacher is like a father, and Duke Shen drives a crane. Prince Heng doesn't know if he can sleep peacefully at night. Xu We can't use our ordinary morals to attach him, this person has always been heartless."

"..."

A faint voice came from across the eye of the wall.

"Huh? Are you talking?" Cui Ji couldn't hear clearly.

Shen Yu stared blankly at the candle flame, the flame burned his eyes hot.