Chunguang Brocade

Chapter 114 Why (Part [-])

Shen Chuxia turned around and was about to leave the Prince Regent's Mansion, but saw someone standing behind her with his hands behind his back, "His... Your Highness..." He really wasn't in the study.

This guy stood behind her and watched for a long time, Shen Chuxia touched his nose guilty, "Your Highness...you are busy."

He quickly saluted and was about to slip away, but his arm was grabbed.

"Where do you want to go?" Ji Chong turned his face.

He was standing in the corridor with his hands behind his back, the sun was shining from the eaves of the corridor, refracting a little light, falling on his handsome and impeccable side face, the curve was clean, and the corners of his lips were slightly curved.

There were people all around, Shen Chuxia didn't want to let him lead her, and tried her best to break free, "Your Highness, you are busy!"

"Are you sure you don't want to go in?" He said nothing to the study door.

There was something unpredictable in his gaze, Shen Chuxia followed his gaze and looked towards the study, what do you mean?
Ji Chong raised his eyebrows, are you sure you don't want to go in?

Shen Chuxia didn't understand what it meant, so she stood still.

Ji Chong Shi Ran let go of his hand, pulled the corner of his mouth slightly, turned and went into the study.

She looked at the guards and chief historian behind Ji Chong, and they all gave her a hasty salute, avoided her eyes and followed Ji Chong into the study.

Uh... there is something, there must be something.

Although Shen Chuxia couldn't figure out what it was, it must have something to do with her. She raised her heel, and this time the guard at the door didn't stop her, and she entered the study smoothly.

When the people in front were standing on both sides, she found a middle-aged man standing in front of Ji Chong's big desk. He wore a blue-gray lapel gown, a belt with piping of the same color, and there was no decoration between the belts. A wooden hairpin is used.

Such a plainly dressed man with outstanding literati temperament is generally really uncommon. He has a rare romantic temperament of a middle-aged man, without the worldly fireworks, and a poetic and picturesque feeling flowing around his body, which is pleasing to the eye.

Ji Chong sat behind the big desk, with a slight smile, watching the little lady staring at the middle-aged man dumbfounded.

The middle-aged man also looked at the little lady in disbelief. After looking at her for a long time, he tried to step forward and call out, "Xia...Xia'er..."

The voice was a bit familiar, and Shen Chuxia's mind suddenly turned. This middle-aged man is her cheap father, Shen Jinlin?
From the time travel to the present, Shen Chuxia has only seen him twice, and every time they met, it was in the dark and dark night, and they were covered with ragged clothes and disheveled hair.

Under the daylight, she was still dressed in such a clean and scholarly manner that not only did she not recognize him, she didn't even dare to think that this middle-aged man was Shen Jinlin.

In a flash of lightning, she didn't respond to Shen Jinlin, but ran directly to Ji Chong's big desk, with a look of disbelief, "Your Highness, did you let my father go?"

Ji Chong answered her question with a smile.

Really let go?She still can't believe it?
Ji Chong nodded.

Why?Shen Chuxia almost blurted out and asked, but her rationality made her stop talking, and even her mind turned so fast that she almost turned to a certain question.

In action, she hastily thanked, "Thank you, Your Highness." She bowed down like the ancients.

Seeing her daughter kneeling in thanks, Shen Jinlin immediately knelt down in front of Ji Chong, "Thank you, Your Highness, for pardoning Shen's innocence."

Ji Chong raised his eyes.

Su Juesong hurriedly stepped forward and took out an official document, "Lord Shen, Your Highness appointed you as the fifth-rank censor inspector, and immediately went to Hengnan with Lord Chu to solve the flood disaster, official dereliction of duty and restoration of people's livelihood. thing."

"..." Shen Jinlin couldn't believe it. When he just left Dali Temple, he was not only reinstated, but also promoted to a higher rank, from the fifth rank to the fifth rank. It's just that he used to work in the Ministry of Rites, but now he jumped out of the sixth rank and entered the Yushi tower.

The five ranks of Yushitai are superior to the three gongs, nine qings and six departments. There is almost nothing they can't control. Diligence, thieves and thieves of the three teachings and nine streams do not do production; they also observe virtues and filial piety, crafty officials and nobles who steal and punish rape, poor and weak who cannot claim their grievances, etc.

Shen Chuxia has known about Yushitai before, and she has only one sentence to sum up this organization, which is to do all she can to offend officials, and Ji Chong asked her frail scholar's father to do this?
She just wanted to glance over with dissatisfied eyes, but she held back, not only did she not kill her father, but she also fished him out of the prison.

A county magistrate is no more than a seventh rank, which is equivalent to the rank of a high-ranking local official. She dares to be dissatisfied, really... quietly suppressing all emotions.

Not only that, but she also quietly left Ji Chong's study room. She came from a peaceful age, and she didn't have the idea of ​​"men do things but women have nothing to do", but the boss is dealing with things that have nothing to do with her, so she must leave wisely.

Shen Chuxia stood at the door outside the study, waiting until the officials inside got off work.

Shen Jinlin thought where her daughter had gone, and when she left Ji Chong's study, she was about to find out where she was, but she didn't expect her daughter to stand at the door, "Xia'er..."

"Father..." Shen Chuxia signaled him to be calm, "I'll go in and thank His Highness."

Shen Jinlin nodded, "OK."

She entered Ji Chong's study: "Your Highness—" She saluted first.

Ji Chong seemed to know that she was coming, leaning back against the master chair, looking lazy, with a smile on his face, waiting for her to say something.

He doesn't speak.

Shen Chuxia had no choice but to say, "Minister thank you Your Highness."

Ji Chong's gratitude to her seems to be a smile.

Well, this kind of verbal thanks really doesn't have any sincerity, so it doesn't matter if you don't say it, Shen Chuxia took a breath, "Your Highness, does today mean that we are going to leave today?"

"You got it right."

Shen Chuxia asked, "His Royal Highness, can my father meet his family? Even just once."

Ji Chong raised his eyes, "Master Chu's carriage has already set off."

"..." Shen Chuxia looked at him but couldn't say anything.

The disappointed look of the little lady fell into Ji Chong's eyes, and he remained calm and sat motionless.

Shen Chuxia nodded, "Minnv understands, she should put state affairs first, and it is the minnv who is being rude."

As soon as she opened her mouth, it was "I", and she instantly became a "folk girl". Regarding the matter of changing addresses according to mood, no one knows the little lady in front of him better than Ji Chong. When we met for the first time, she changed her address three times in front of him. .

His memory is still fresh.

"Probably scolded me ten or twenty times in my heart." Ji Chong chuckled.

"No, no... how could His Highness think so, no, the daughter of the people would definitely not think so." She refused to admit it even if she was beaten to death.

"Then 'Minister', come here." Ji Chong called lightly.

"..." The old man won't be angry, will he?Shen Chuxia secretly slandered, she wouldn't ask her to coax her again.

Outside the door, the officials and aides dispersed separately, only Shen Jinlin stood in the corridor well-behaved, like a young boy who had just entered the officialdom, very polite.

Mu Tong's eyes seemed to be sizing him up, but in fact his thoughts had already flown to other places, why did His Highness let little lady Shen out?
Standing in the corridor, Shen Jinlin's eyes fell on the branches and leaves outside the corridor. When the north wind blew, the leaves had already fallen off, and only the bare branches swayed in the wind.

He is also thinking, why?
(End of this chapter)