This palace comes from the general's mansion

Chapter 6 Doubt

After the morning court, Dong Lizi sat in the imperial study.

There are also Yuan Hongyan, Leng Liche, and Qiu Jixian in the room.

The three of them, like Shen Yunfeng, were people whom Dong Li Zili had been friends with since he was the prince.

"Your Majesty, your mental state is not good recently, should you let the imperial doctor take a look at it?" Leng Liche said.

"It's okay, it's just that Prime Minister Wen's proposal this morning reminded me of one thing."

Dong Lizili deliberated and spoke.

"Some time ago, Shen Yunyan went out of the palace to offer incense, and met Shen Yunshuo together. Their target is Shen Yunshuo."

Dong Li Zili said nothing, but he knew how angry he was.

"Is it necessary to kill a seven-year-old child?" Qiu Jixian patted the table bitterly.

Leaving aside their personal relationship with Shen Yunfeng, the Shen family's dedication to Dong Li is worth protecting the only blood of the Shen family.

"who are they?"

After all, it is the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the questions he asked hit the nail on the head.

"People from Xili."

Xili?

Hehe, what are you afraid of in such a rush to kill?

"Afraid that there will be successors to the Shen family?" Yuan Hongyan raised his eyebrows.

"It should be so."

Dong Lizili didn't hide it either.

Xili is a subsidiary country separated from Dongli. In recent years, it has become stronger and stronger, and it has faint ambitions to annex Dongli.

If it wasn't for the Shen family sitting at the border, Dongli would have been beaten to pieces by Xili long ago.

"Chaozhong doesn't have many powerful generals available at the moment." Leng Liche also said in a deep voice.

"It's not that there are not many, it's that there are none." Dong Lizili's heart was heavy.

If Xili dared to come to Dongli to assassinate Shen Yunshuo blatantly, it meant that they had nothing to fear.

The battle with Xili two years ago ended with the Shen family's father and son "collaborating with the enemy and treason". It seemed that Xili had won a complete victory, but only they knew how heavy Xili's loss was.

Almost to the point where the entire army was wiped out, if there was no "collaboration with the enemy and treason", it is estimated that after the war, Xili would not dare to offend Dongli again without ten years of recuperation.

However, the incident of "collaborating with the enemy and treason" appeared.

"Your Majesty, perhaps, we can start from..." Qiu Jixian swallowed half of his words.

Dong Lizili knew that what he wanted to say was to start the investigation with Wen Xiang.

But Wen Xiang is the queen's father and the queen mother's elder brother.

If there is a problem with Wen Xiang, then the queen and queen mother can't get away with it.

The queen is easy to talk about, but the queen mother has the kindness to nurture Dong Lizili.

Dongli pays attention to filial piety, if Dongli Zili disrespects the queen mother, it will attract criticism from all over the world.

"It's been a year, and we haven't found anything. Maybe we're looking in the wrong direction."

Yuan Hongyan said: "Let's change the direction first and divide the troops into several groups. Some people continue to search for news about General Shen and his son, some people monitor Wen Xiang, and another group of people traces all those who went to the battlefield that time but came back alive. people."

Yuan Hongyan almost gritted his teeth to say the last sentence.

Because, the only person who came back from that war was Yang Qiming, the distant cousin of the Empress who escorted the food and grass.

On the second day after he returned to Dongli, news came that the Shen family had "cooperated with the enemy and treasoned the country", and then the hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out.

As for Yang Qiming, it took only three to five days for the light car to return from the battlefield of the two armies.

If it really had something to do with Prime Minister Wen, and if everything had been arranged in advance, and General Shen and his son came to invite him into the urn, he, Yang Qiming, could have had that time to arrange everything, and then come back directly, creating the illusion of not being there.

"As for the upbringing of the Empress Dowager—"

"Your Majesty, forgive me for speaking bluntly. If it harms our Dongli country, the Emperor thinks that it is more important to repay the Queen Mother's kindness in nurturing, or to protect my Dongli's century-old foundation."

What Yuan Hongyan said was bold, but he was sure that Dong Lizili would not vent his anger.

In the heart of the emperor, the country is more important than everything, and the foundation of the ancestors is more important than anything else.

"Perhaps, the Liu family can use it."

Liu Family, Liu Shilang.

His daughter, Liu Ruoyan, had a marriage contract with Shen Yunfeng. It was said that something happened to the Shen family at the time, and she had asked the Liu family to dissolve the engagement, but the Miss Liu family refused in every possible way, and she is still waiting for Shen Yunfeng.

It was passed down as a beautiful story in Kyoto.

Liu Ruobing, the eldest son of the Liu family, was preparing for the scientific examination before the accident in the Shen family and wanted to make a difference, but after the accident in the Shen family, he left a letter saying that he took everything in the officialdom lightly, and resolutely ran away from home.

Perhaps, Liu Ruobing's running away from home was just a cover.

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After Dong Lizi left, Shen Yunyan fell asleep for a while, and was only woken up by Shen Yunshuo when the sky was bright.

"Sister, Brother Ming Qi said that we will be leaving in a few days. He wants to take me to a place where I can learn powerful martial arts, and asked me if I want to go."

Shen Yunshuo was lying in front of Shen Yunyan's couch, and Dong Lizi couldn't leave at this moment, so he didn't say that men and women had different seats at seven years old.

When the Shen family had an accident, he was only five years old. After his mother and grandmother passed away one after another, he followed his sister until she entered the palace.

He still remembered that when his sister first entered the palace, he couldn't sleep all night long. He either missed his sister or his mother, and sometimes in his dreams he would come to his father and brother covered in blood.

He didn't dare to sleep at night until the emperor's brother-in-law came to him and sent someone to take care of him.

But after his sister entered the palace, he encountered accidents frequently, and this time he almost killed his sister.

He can't drag his sister like this anymore. Brother Ming Qi is right, he is a man, and if he finds a way to make himself stronger, he can not only protect himself, but also protect his sister.

"Does Shuoer want to go?" Shen Yunyan asked.

"I think." Shen Yunshuo replied without thinking, "Brother Ming Qi said that my sister's life in the palace was not very smooth, and it was not as easy as others imagined. Shuoer didn't want to cause trouble for my sister."

Moreover, when my sister entered the palace, she couldn't just leave the palace to see him.

If he leaves with Brother Ming Qi, at least, Brother Ming Qi can take care of him.

Upon hearing these words, Shen Yunyan knew that it was the emperor Dong Lizi who asked Ming Qi to say them.

That's right, Shuo'er is a boy, so he should shoulder the burden of revitalizing the Shen family.

The smile on Shen Yunyan's face faded: "It's a good thing that Shuo'er has ideas, and my sister supports you."

She was struggling in the palace, but she could tell that the emperor took good care of her.

Thinking that he hadn't received any news about Shen's investigation of his father and brother for a long time, he felt a little impatient.

She has been here for a few days, and if she doesn't go back, if there is any news there, she will be anxious if she can't be found.

"Sister, don't worry, Shuo'er will not embarrass the Shen family."

Shen Yunshuo made a vow, and Shen Yunyan wanted to cry when he heard it.

(End of this chapter)