Space Farming: Pampered

Chapter 220 The truth of the year

Prime Minister Pei has two legitimate sons, and several concubines.

More than ten years ago, Prime Minister Pei's eldest son was the right-hand man of His Royal Highness the former Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness valued him very much.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has inherited the bravery and combat skills of the current emperor, and is unparalleled in wisdom and bravery.

When the enemy country came to invade, the prince didn't care about his dignity at all, and led them to the battlefield.

Prime Minister Pei's eldest son is not only His Royal Highness's right-hand man, but also His Royal Highness's companion.

The two have a deep relationship.

He was also on the battlefield with His Royal Highness at that time.

Both of them are god-like characters, wise, brave and resourceful.

In just half a month, the enemy's army was defeated steadily, and several cities of the enemy's country were captured in one breath.

When the news spread to the court, the emperor was overjoyed and prepared to wait for the prince to come back and reward him well.

The crown prince and Prime Minister Pei's eldest son became more and more courageous as they fought more and more. They made a plan and decided to lead the army directly into the main city of the enemy country at night.

But for some reason, after nightfall, a large number of enemy troops were ambushed in the enemy's main city.

It was as if they had known the prince's plan in advance.

In this battle, the Great Chu army suffered heavy losses, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

The crown prince and Prime Minister Pei's eldest son lost their lives in this battle.

At first, Shen Jintang thought that Prime Minister Pei's eldest son was Shen Mu, but only after seeing this did he realize that it was not.

If she guessed correctly, Prime Minister Pei was her grandfather, then his eldest son would be Shen Mu's eldest brother, her uncle.

Even though he didn't see it with his own eyes, Shen Jintang still felt how tragic the war must have been between the lines.

So many living lives were buried there.

The bodies of the crown prince and Prime Minister Pei's eldest son also failed to be brought out from that war, and remained on that land forever.

When the eldest son of the crown prince and Prime Minister Pei died, and the news of the tragic death of the war spread to the court, everyone was dumbfounded.

The emperor and Prime Minister Pei aged several years at once.

Overnight, several silver threads crawled up their hair.

At this moment, they are not emperors, not prime ministers, but the fathers of two white-haired men sending black-haired men.

In this war, there are countless white-haired fathers like them sending black-haired people.

Not only did they not see the last side of their son, they didn't even see their dead bodies.

Prime Minister Pei's wife heard that her son was gone, and she couldn't even find the body. Even though she fell seriously ill, she spent the whole day hanging herself with soup and medicine.

However, Prime Minister Pei's second son, Pei Heng, couldn't accept that his eldest brother died and couldn't even bring his body back, so he gathered people to sneak into the enemy's city quietly, find the bodies of his eldest brother and the prince, and take them home for burial.

Seeing this, Shen Jintang was basically sure that Prime Minister Pei's second son, Pei Heng, should be her father, Shen Mu.

She continued to look down.

Pei Heng left a letter to Prime Minister Pei and his wife and left the prime minister's mansion.

Unexpectedly, this trip never made it back.

People seem to have evaporated from this world.

Shen Jintang knows that in this era of backward communication and information, trying to find a missing person is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

However, what she was more curious about was that Shen Mu was already in his teens at this time, how could he say that he was missing when he was missing.

The prime minister's wife is not in good health, and she depends on the decoction and ginseng slices to hang her life.

But at this time, the news of Pei Heng's disappearance reached her ears again, and she immediately spit out a mouthful of blood and passed out.

The person is also getting weaker and weaker, but in just two or three days, he passed away.

The data for this review is here.

Shen Jintang picked up another document and opened it, which was Aunt Sun of the Prime Minister's Mansion who was investigating.

Because the prime minister's wife was seriously ill, the housekeeper's right was in the hands of Aunt Sun.

Therefore, as soon as Pei Heng left the prime minister's mansion, she got the news.

Pei Heng's disappearance is naturally related to her failure.

Among those who left with Pei Heng, there were those who were inserted by Aunt Sun.

They quietly drugged Pei Heng's water and dry food, and after he was stunned, they poured the amnesiac medicine that Aunt Sun had given them into his mouth.

Only then did Pei Heng completely lose his memory.

As for how he became the adopted son of Shen Yukang and his wife, this is about the relationship between Shen Yukang and his wife and Aunt Sun.

Shen Yukang and his wife were servants of Sun Shangshu's mansion when they were young.

The rule in the noble mansion is that servants are not allowed to talk about love.

Even if it is possible, it must be the head of the family and the mistress in the mansion.

But when you were young, who could control your heart?

Just like that, Shen Yukang quietly made a pair of wild mandarin ducks with Mrs. Shen, who was still a maid in Sun Shangshu's house.

The good times didn't last long, and she was discovered by Aunt Sun who was not married at the time.

The two were worried that they would be punished or sold out, but Aunt Sun let them go lightly, and even let them go out of the house.

Of course, she is conditional.

Her condition was that the two of them owed her a favor and would do something for her in the future.

Naturally, Shen Yukang and Mrs. Shen agreed in haste.

They returned to Shen Yukang's hometown, got married, and gave birth to a child, Shen Song.

I thought that Auntie Sun had forgotten about this matter, and when they were about to forget about it, someone sent by Auntie Sun came here.

The two of them are required to fulfill their promises of the year.

He gave them another 50 taels of silver.

The requirement is that they adopt Pei Heng, they don't have to be too kind to him, they have to watch him, and never let him go out of Sanhe Village and Pingling Town.

At that time, Shen Song had reached the age where he wanted to say goodbye.

As for Shen Yukang and his wife, they didn't have any skills, and they didn't save much money by farming. In addition, Shen Song was lazy and lost their little savings.

The 50 taels of silver was equivalent to a huge sum of money dropped from the sky, plus they themselves owed Aunt Sun a favor, so naturally they agreed without much consideration.

Since he was an adopted son, they changed Pei Heng's name and surname.

From then on, the name Pei Heng disappeared from this world, and the one who came out was their adopted son Shen Mu.

Seeing this, Shen Jintang already understood the cause and effect.

Thinking of Prime Minister Pei's face somewhat similar to Shen Mu's, Shen Jintang thought to himself, probably his father is more like a grandmother.

If not, when she sneaked into the prime minister's mansion and rescued prime minister Pei by mistake, she should have felt the resemblance between him and Shen Muchang.

No wonder Aunt Sun kept making troubles for her father over and over again, and even tried to kill her father afterward.

Although the letter of investigation stated that the prime minister's wife died of illness in great grief, but Shen Jintang felt that it would not be that simple.

Judging from the series of things that Aunt Sun did to Shen Mu, the death of the prime minister's wife must have something to do with her.

(End of this chapter)