She fell out after crying at the wrong grave

The rain poured down heavily for a long time.

Shen Yu was still wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat. While the momentum was weakening, he quickly dug a small channel to divert water to the flower bed in the palace garden to prevent the roots of the flowers and plants from being damaged by the water.

He no longer lives in the temporary palace, as the journey to and from the palace is too long.
Since then, I haven't been to the palace again, and it has become deserted.

After tidying up the flower garden, Shen Yu hurried out of the palace with mud all over his body, preparing to take the carriage back home.

Tomorrow the immortal master of the Alchemy Palace will open the furnace to get the medicine, and Shen Zhuo has chosen him to accompany him so that he cannot be late.

A carriage was quietly waiting in front of the palace gate, and the servant driving the carriage had gone somewhere to take shelter from the rain. Shen Yu was still too lazy to care, so he took off his raincoat and got on the carriage.

As soon as the car door opened, he froze in place.

"What a coincidence, uncle."

The woman was wearing a green dress, with a smile on her red lips. She was leaning against the side of the car with her arm against the window, looking very leisurely.

"You..." As if he found it unbelievable and a little scared, Shen Yu stared at her for a long time without saying a word.

He had always known that among the younger generation in the palace, there had only been one princess in recent years, the daughter of his late emperor's elder brother, called Princess Xuancheng. But because she was a girl, she had never been favored by Shen Cong and was raised in the home of a minister.

This was already a ridiculous thing, and now that his second brother had become emperor, he even wanted to send his elder brother's daughter to marry. This was truly an act of generosity.

But Shen Yu had never seen her before, and the two had never met before. So when Ah-yi suddenly appeared in his carriage and spoke to him in such a friendly tone, Shen Yu immediately realized that something was wrong.

Shen Yu still looked around, and when everything was calm, he got into the car, "Your Highness, why are you here? If I remember correctly, you just ran away from your marriage with great fanfare."

The two sat opposite each other, each with their own thoughts.

"You don't have to be so alert, uncle." He was holding the edges of the seats on both sides, probably a little cautious. "My niece has no ill intentions. I just want to ask you for a favor."

Shen Yu still chuckled after listening. There was no sound of people talking in the carriage. Amid the sound of rain, the laughter sounded cold.

"I'm just an ordinary person, how can I help you?" There was obvious self-mockery in his words, and I wonder if he was thinking the same thing in his heart.

But A'an didn't care.

"My uncle was treated badly by the Shen family." Ah's face showed regret. "The people of the Shen family have always been heartless and ungrateful. My uncle was treated badly by Emperor Wu'an, and I was also treated badly by the late emperor. In this respect, we are the same."

Shen Yu still lowered his eyes. It was dark in the carriage and he could not see his expression clearly.

Ah-yi continued, "But my uncle is not a useless person. On the contrary, I have high expectations for him."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Several ministers came to me, saying that the country is in chaos now, and they hope to do their part, even if it means changing fate, to ensure that the people live and work in peace." Ah-yi deliberately concealed their higher ambitions, and said something more peaceful, and removed herself from the discussion. "But I am a woman after all, and I can't help them much, so I recommended you, my uncle."

Although Shen Yu was still not recognized by Emperor Wu An, after all, he seemed more reliable than the two sons he acknowledged.

At least he won't go crazy.

Shen Yu was still amused, "You recommended me, so I must do what you say?" He adjusted his posture again and said, "I am content to stay in a corner, but it may not be less comfortable than being able to make changes in the court."

The attitude of negotiation is shown, which naturally means that there is something to discuss.

"Yes." Ah'ao sighed, "If it wasn't difficult to stay in a corner, who would want to come to this court that is about to end and change the situation. Grandfather criticized you as worthless, are you really willing to be silent for the rest of your life? Even if not for yourself, your mother would hope that you can make a name for yourself, right?"

These words opened the door to Shen Yuren's heart.

His mother was of humble origins, and because Emperor Wu'an disowned her after giving birth to him, she was often ridiculed and looked down upon by others. However, she always held on to her pride and tried every means to let him study and learn calligraphy.

Years of depression led to her early death. Her last words before she breathed her last were to instruct him to be useful to the country in the future, to be a good person, and not to be unkind and disloyal.

Just like his father.

"Although my uncle likes to tend to flowers and plants, I know that you are well-read. If you can find a way out, it may not be worse than your two brothers. Why not give it a try?" Ah'ao took out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to Shen Yuren with a smile in her eyes.

When she said this just now, Ah-yi subconsciously removed herself from the ranks of the Shen family. Shen Yu still thought in her heart that the Shen family treated her ruthlessly, and she was not a saint. But since she had already cut off her relationship with the Shen family, why should she get involved in this mess?

Shen Yu still unfolded the letter, which only had two lines of words written on it. However, his mind was in turmoil following these two short lines of words.

"You can actually do this?" he exclaimed. She was obviously just a little girl.

Ah-yi had guessed that he would have such a reaction and was not surprised at all. "Not really. The general trend cannot be violated. If I went against the will of heaven, I would naturally not have such support. Uncle should not think that I have tricks, but should think about who people are on their side."

"This is treason!" Shen Yu still shouted angrily.

"So what if it's treason?" Ah'ao immediately suppressed his words and turned cold. "Isn't your surname Shen? Isn't everyone in this world surnamed Shen? When Shen Zhuo forced my parents to death, wasn't he also treasoning?" It turned out to be because of this. Shen Yu calmed down.

Ah Yi knew that her words were a little hasty, so she immediately used the incident of Shen Cong killing the previous emperor as an excuse. If she couldn't gain Shen Yu's complete trust, even if they joined forces, there would be cracks that could easily separate them.

Besides, she didn't care whether Shen Cong lived or died, but Shen Zhuo had used despicable means to force Chen Zhaoying to death, and this account had to be settled no matter what.

Shen Yu was still staring at the little girl in front of him who was only in her twenties.

From the moment she got on the carriage, every word she said pointed to the darkness in her heart that she could not show to others: his background, his misfortune, and the cold reception he received because of the former.

Although he is a prince, he does not live as comfortably as an ordinary child.

But even when he was thirty years old, he was still cowardly and retreated, afraid to take any risk.

"What if I still say no?" He wanted to see what other tricks Ah-yi had.

"My uncle doesn't agree because of two concerns." Shen Yu still said this, it's time to show his cards. "First, he is worried that if you cross the river and burn the bridge, you will lose more than you gain, or even get nothing. Second, he feels that he is not capable enough."

"You don't have to worry about the former, uncle. Even if you lose, you won't lose more than you gain. After all, this is related to the second point." Ah's face showed that we both knew it well, and she said slowly, "Under your superb skills, the Shen family will never give birth to a son again, but you still have a son. Your son is now in Jin Zhaoyi's belly and is staying in Changsheng Palace."

A bright knife light flashed, and Shen Yu took out the dagger that had been hidden in his sleeve for a long time, suddenly stepped forward, and pressed the blade against A's neck.

A'ao was hit hard against the wall of the carriage, and her uncle's panic-stricken expression was clearly displayed in front of her.

This move was considered a right bet.

"How do you know all this?" Shen Yu still didn't expect that all these things had already been known clearly by a little girl like Ah'ao.

He had been planning carefully for more than ten years, but when his plan was seen through, he became furious and ashamed.

Ah'ao claimed that she was not a good person and she came here to have a falling out today, so she carried a knife with her and held it tightly in her sleeve.

She had learned this skill of self-protection from Qin Xi, who in turn had learned it personally from Qin Shengguang. So who would suffer in a stalemate was another matter.

"I know more than just this." Ah-yi faced his blade. Even though there was a cut on her neck and blood stained a small area of ​​her collar, she didn't care. "You ordered the people of Beitang to kill You Tong only because he was the last person to know about Shen Cong's shocking night in Chong'an Hall. You thought that if he died, the red wall of Chong'an Hall would become an unsolved case."

Before Shen Yu even noticed, the blade of his knife loosened a little.

"You hate Emperor Wu'an and the Shen family for putting you and your son in such a situation where you are ridiculed by others. So you asked someone in Pingzhou to buy a large amount of Tripterygium wilfordii, Cnidium monnieri, Albizzia julibrissin and other medicinal herbs for purification, which can cause infertility. When the Chong'an Palace was renovated, you arranged for your people to mix these things with livestock blood, and then used a large amount of spices to cover up the fishy smell, and used them to paste the walls. Living in such a palace for a long time, in addition to infertility, who can be emotionally stable without being able to sleep every day?"

"Before Chu Hui left Beijing to take up his post, he was also your teacher. Isn't the Bo Yuan Gong that Chen Lan mentioned as someone who was in correspondence with Chen Lan your courtesy name?"

Every word Ah-yi said was like a nail, slowly nailing Shen Yu-yi to their boat.

Whether they are fellow travelers or not, it is now up to her to decide.

"Or did I make up the story that you and Xiao Jin secretly had a relationship, so that your second brother, who was originally infertile, suddenly had a son?"

"You are not allowed to touch her." Shen Yu still heard Xiao Jinshi, and then came back to his senses, his tone became a little colder, "Otherwise, I will not be able to leave the capital alive."

"Life and death are determined by fate. Who can decide?" Ah-yi slowly raised her hand, separated his blade, and touched the blood on her neck. "Guess why she told me the origin of this child so easily? Uncle, we have reached the mountain. You have no way to go."

Shen Yu fell back to where he was just now, and the letter paper in his hand gradually tightened. "What do you want me to do?"

"It's very simple." Ah'an laughed, "Just do as the letter says."

Things have to be done step by step to feel at ease.

On July 25th, the immortal master of the Alchemy Palace performed divination for the unwell Emperor Shen Zhuo as usual.

What was different from the past was that this time the divination suddenly showed an ominous hexagram. The hexagram said that Shen Zhuo's fate up to now was in conflict with the sheep and offended the fire, so he often couldn't sleep at night, or woke up from nightmares, wasting his energy and dissipating his qi, and it was not a state of longevity.

Shen Zhuo almost fainted after hearing this and immediately asked for a solution.

The immortal master also said that there was a kind person who came out of water, looked like a rabbit, and had a peaceful and kind nature. If you trust him, you can get rid of bad luck.

So Shen Zhuo immediately sent people to look for him according to what the immortal master said, and looked through the fates of all the people he was close to.

But in the end, this kind and peaceful person who was born in the Year of the Rabbit turned out to be his younger brother, Shen Yuren.

Shen Yu was still granted the title of Prince Yi. The moment he was crowned with the golden crown, he suddenly remembered the letter that A'ao had written to him in the carriage.

His fate and horoscope were clearly written on it.

(End of this chapter)