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Chapter 66 Inquiry
He swayed awkwardly, and quickly grabbed the door frame of the carriage with both hands before stopping.

In such a loss of composure, he raised his eyes and glanced at Shi Yu Fuli's reaction, then immediately bowed his head and bowed again, saying:
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude to the grassroots."

Shi Yu Fuli was holding a memorial note in his hand, he snorted coldly or sneered, glanced at him and said:

"I heard that you are Shen Qingzhi's son... so weak?"

Shen Liuzhen put his head on the ground and said in a childish voice:

"Caomin is indeed Shen Qingzhi's son. I don't know why, but since he was a child, he didn't get along very well. Caomin likes to read books..."

When Shen Liuzhen said this, he tentatively changed his tone: "My father insisted on me practicing martial arts. I really don't have that talent, so I suffered many beatings, and my father has always looked down on me."

Shi Yu's eyes flickered for a moment, because Shen Liuzhen's words reminded him of his own crown prince who was far from him and had almost the opposite personality.

A few years ago when he was young, he had been fighting abroad all year round, and he was in charge of the court, and under the guidance of King Mu, he was the prime minister of the government.It's just right for the civil and military to complement each other, but in the past few years, I have less time to fight outside. When I return to the court, the father and son are out of tune no matter whether they get along or discuss matters.

This made him somewhat uncomfortable.

Shi Yu Fuli took his thoughts back, looked at the 11 years old child with his head bowed, and seemed to see Shi Yu's naivety when he was just prime minister, his eldest son, he was a little dissatisfied for a while, and said earnestly:

"Which father doesn't want his son to be both civil and martial arts, no matter what, the body can't be too weak. As a son, how can there be no reason not to practice martial arts?"

After hearing this, Shen Liuzhen was a little surprised for a while, and didn't know how to continue the conversation. After turning his mind around, he said:

"Your Majesty said that it was the grassroots who failed to live up to expectations and let my father down."

Shi Yu Fuli was satisfied, and added: "...When you become Ulei's servant in the future, you will not only urge him to study literature and those collections of classics and history, but also urge him to practice more martial arts, understand?"

"Cao Min understands." Shen Liuzhen replied obediently.

Shi Yu Fuli glanced at him again, feeling that he seemed to be calmer than children of the same age, and suddenly asked:
"I forced you to come to Beijing to be Wu Lei's companion, do you have any complaints?"

Shen Liuzhen didn't know how many times he had thought about this question, and pondered over the answer in his heart many times, saying:

"Caomin has no complaints. Studying is for serving as an official. Although the current situation is somewhat beyond expectations, it is still not far from my original intention. It is the blessing of Caomin to be able to accompany the eldest son of the crown prince."

His answer was smooth and steady, as if some slippery official had taught him.Shi Yu Fuli frowned and asked again:
"Could it be that you have no complaints against your father, Shen Qingzhi?"

Shi Yu Fuli has a violent temper. Although it is possible to chop off your head in a fit of anger, this kind of person has another advantage, that is, he will show it immediately when he is displeased, unlike some emperors. He has a deep mind and good words, and if he wants to guess his mind, he can only be accurate by getting along with him and getting to know him over time.

Shi Yufoli is obviously not such a person, so he gave Shen Liuzhen, who is always speculative and flattering, a chance to correct himself.

So he thought for a while, turned around and said:

"...The grassroots heard that there are many imperial courts in troubled times, and there are frequent battles with each other. It is common to recruit enemy generals and change camps. I also heard that there are many brothers who are loyal to the two rival imperial courts. At the beginning, Cao Min was also very panicked, and he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart. Later, the teacher told me many old rules, and it was just thinking about these old rules that I turned my head around."

He glanced at Shi Yu Foli with a pair of cautious and somewhat fearful eyes, lowered his head, and asked, "Your Majesty... are the grass people thinking wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Yufoli also felt that it was a bit boring for him to persecute a child like this. After all, he just projected the conflict between himself and the crown prince onto Shen Liuzhen and his son. He blamed Shen Liuzhen with the heart of a father blaming his son.

He grabbed two more memorials in his hand, and said out of boredom, "Okay, that's all for today's gossip, do you have anything else to say?"

Shen Liuzhen breathed a sigh of relief, just now he wanted to escape directly from here, but he froze, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked:
"Your Majesty...my father...how is he now?"

Shi Yu Foli raised his gaze, and saw the 11-year-old child opposite him, who had been deeply buried in his head since he got in the car until just now, not daring to look at him, but now he was looking very eagerly into his eyes, The clear light flickered in a pair of big eyes, both looking forward to and worrying, with some faint tears.

Shi Yu Foli was suddenly touched by his admiration for his father, subconsciously lowered his eyes and said:

"Don't worry, he won't die yet."

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Madam Xie's face was full of tears, and she was supported by her mother-in-law to guard the door, her eyes were shining with unusual light, as if she was overdrawing her life and looking forward to something.

Suddenly, seeing a group of searchers coming back from a distance, the perennial rules and upbringing did not stop her anxiety, so she asked from a distance:
"What's the matter? Is there a whereabouts?" She seemed to be disappointed when she didn't see Xie Yuan coming, and she asked this question as if she had to cheer up to rekindle her hope.

Father Xie got off the horse, because he was on the road, and because of his emotions, his body trembling did not calm down. His hand holding the whip kept shaking, and then he threw it out angrily, and the Confucian scholar's wide sleeves rolled up. He fell down, sat down on the ground, sighed heavily, and said:

"She went to the north! I guess she went to find her master! I have sent people to look for her all the way!" At the end, her voice was already choked with sobs.

Mrs. Xie shook her whole body, as if she had been frightened, she cried bitterly after a while, and shouted heart-piercingly into the distance:
"A Yuan...my silly daughter! Why are you so courageous!...Ah?!"

Xie Yuan went all the way to the north, and the more north he went, the more barren the scenery was. This barrenness was not only the barrenness of the cultivated fields overgrown with weeds, but also the abandoned and dilapidated houses, the tombs lined with bulges and wooden signboards.

Occasionally, I ran into a few living people on the road, and when they saw her, they all looked eager to move and hated.

Xie Yuan didn't dare to stop for a moment on his horse, and escaped from these strangers.

She was a little panicked, because there were no places she was familiar with in the scenery she saw, and she couldn't find a place where she could rest in peace.

(End of this chapter)