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Chapter 143 I'm softhearted
"Oh oh oh..." Shen Liuzhen quickly took one out of the food box, and bit into it in small bites.

Zong Ai ate in a hurry and was very angry.The pastry choked a little, so he yelled at the servant who was huddled in the corner:
"Bring the wine! I don't have any eyesight, a bunch of trash!"

Then Zong Ai looked at Shen Liuzhen and asked, "Can you drink? Have a drink with our family."

Shen Liuzhen smiled obediently and cupped his hands and said, "...Cao Min just pours it after dipping it in a drop. I really don't know how to drink it."

It's a joke, he hides a full stomach of thoughts, if he pours out all of them when he is drunk, wouldn't he just reveal his secrets on the spot and die immediately?
Zong Ai gave him a disgusted look, and said, "You are [-] or [-] now, right? Can't you even drink alcohol? This amount of alcohol is a result of a little bit of exercise. If you don't drink, you will never drink."

Shen Liuzhen pursed his lips, revealing a pair of innocent and harmless dimples, and said in response: "Yes... the grand master is right."

After a while, the servants came over with the wine and put it on the table.Zong Ai immediately filled a glass and stuffed it directly into Shen Liuzhen's hand.

Under Zong Ai's gaze, Shen Liuzhen pursed his lips with a bitter face, and said embarrassingly: "I'd better accompany the Grand Master to sip bit by bit, otherwise, if you drink this cup directly, you will be in trouble immediately." How can you drink with the grand master if you are so cheap?"

Zong Ai heard the same thing, he was depressed and wanted to find someone to talk to, it happened that Shen Liuzhen was a child, and he had no official position in Pingcheng, and he would not offend anyone if he was obedient, so it was appropriate to tell him what he said But that's all.

So Zong Ai directly drank three glasses of wine in a row, beat his chest and sighed and said:
"I really...I really regret it."

Holding the small wine glass in both hands, Shen Liuzhen asked cooperatively with a look of ignorance: "...Why did the grand master regret it?"

"I'm a Han and an eunuch. Those Xianbei nobles never put our family in their eyes. Our family is not a fool. How can we not know? But in the past, His Majesty trusted me so much. Even if they looked down on me, they would You have to smile at our family and do what I like. Now?...Now they really treat our family as a fool, as a decoration, and they don't put our family in their eyes!
As for the little emperor, he took all the money from the treasury and rewarded the Xianbei people, and our family got a house, such a little money! "

He waved his hand angrily and said, "As for those people from outside, I thought I could help them find a job and get some benefits! Pooh, who knows that I'm messing around now, and my own benefits are all gone. I don't know where to get it!"

Shen Liuzhen said puzzledly: "How could this be? The Grand Master is a hero who assisted the new emperor to ascend the throne. They treated you like this?... Isn't this ungrateful?"

"It's just those barbarians who crawled out of the barren land and just learned how to speak! Do you expect them to know what kindness is? Damn!" Zong Ai picked up the jug and took several sips of wine.

Shen Liuzhen shook his eyes nervously, and whispered to him while holding a small wine glass:
"Grand Master... Be careful, this is the court of the Xianbei people. It will be bad for you if you say these words and then spread them to their ears..."

Zong Ai was already drunk because of his anger and half a jug of wine, and said: "I am... they don't look up to me, and they expect me to look up to them. They know their own virtues very well... Shameless! I just don’t want to admit it!”

"Master Grand Master..." Shen Liuzhen looked worried and timid, fidgeting restlessly holding a small wine glass in both hands.

Zong Ai looked at him and sneered, and said: "...Look at the way you are scared, you are not afraid of me!"

The whites of his eyes popped out, and he said madly, "I even killed their emperor... am I afraid of them?!"

Surprised, Shen Liuzhen froze there holding the wine glass, thought for a while, then took another sip of the wine, without saying a word.

After a while, Zong Ai burst into tears suddenly, with a distorted expression and tears streaming down his face:

"I regret it, what a wrong step, wrong step... At the beginning, I shouldn't have ruined the letter from the prince..."

Shen Liuzhen looked at the wine in the glass and froze there, not daring to make any reaction.I just couldn't help biting my cheek.

His shadow was reflected in the wine glass, his eyes were calm and filled with hatred, he didn't dare to look up.

I only heard Zong Ai suddenly stop crying, and suddenly said:

"No! I can only destroy him! He won't deal with me. If he becomes the emperor, how about mine?! Who told him to fight against me?!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and shook Shen Liuzhen, who had been lowering his head, and said:

"You don't know, I, an outsider, looked soft-hearted at the letter from His Royal Highness at that time, and thought... This is really a good son, almost, almost... When my soft-heartedness came up, I followed him Your Majesty has spoken well.

But I thought about it again, no way... If he recovers, can he still have me?So I told His Majesty that in that letter, he was the one complaining about his hard work! "

Zong Ai hiccupped, spewing alcohol, and said: "...As expected, His Majesty became angry when he heard it, and he just reprimanded the prince...Our family took His Majesty's oral order and said it intact. Listen to the prince, who would have thought that the prince would die all of a sudden?!"

When he said this, he patted Shen Liuzhen on the shoulder with a mournful face, and said: "My child... you know me, I am soft-hearted, I am not a bad person! I just thought to myself, as long as he can't be the emperor, who knows him The child died?! Can this be my fault?!"

Shen Liuzhen's heart was cold, and he fell down on the table in front of him, closed his eyes, dropped the wine glass in his hand, and spilled the wine on his clothes.

Zong Ai was stunned for a moment, the person who was already drunk could only vomit the bitterness in his heart.So after a brief daze, he picked up the jug and drank a lot, crying bitterly and saying:

"Our family is sorry for Your Majesty... Our family has been with His Majesty for half of our life, fighting south and north, and our bond is deep. Your Majesty once said that our family will be rich and prosperous for a lifetime..."

He cried and patted his leg, and said: "But I know him too well... His son died, and I feel sorry for him. If he comes back to his senses, he will realize that I distorted the meaning of the letter, and he will be angry." It will definitely kill me!"

He wept heartbroken and said, "I don't want to die yet...I really don't want to die...Your Majesty...I'm sorry for you...I'm sorry for you."

Shen Liuzhen lay on the table, his closed eyelids trembled slightly, and opened a gap slightly, looking at Zong Ai who was crying bitterly on the opposite side, the eyes in the gap were dark and dull like a deep pool of black water, and slowly closed...

(End of this chapter)