Reborn girl from poor family

Su Ya looked at Shen Huai expectantly, waiting for his answer.

But Shen Huai stretched out an index finger and tapped her forehead, "Stop it!"

"Huh?" Su Ya stared at his fingers, raised her cross-eyed eyes, and asked, "What are you taking?"

"Get rid of those unreliable conjectures," Shen Huai teased her: "Why don't you build a bookstore and find a few down-and-out literati to come in. You can make up stories, they will write them, and you can make a lot of money by editing and printing them yourself. "

Su Ya took off the finger, her bright eyes suddenly flashed, and she said with a smile: "What a great idea! Now that I have both money and people, it's not a problem to build a bookstore. Once the script is written, Shen Hanlin will inscribe it. Preface, in this way, not only the lady and the lady will be at hand, but also the literati and poets will definitely flock to her - I was originally worried about what I would do to make a living in the future, isn't this the case?"

Shen Huai sighed, how could he meet such a naughty girl and make fun of her, but she would drag him down?

"Don't take it seriously, I'm just joking." He said helplessly: "If you run a small bookstore, you won't make much money, but if you run a big bookstore, the risk of violating the ban will be high. It's the most thankless job, especially if people know it's you, Mrs. Shen. assets, then more people will be watching. If you really like it, write a book under a different name or find someone to publish it. If you want to do business now, you can always let Jiyuan teach you about those industries. Practice as you wish."

Mrs. Shen?——Su Ya held her face in her hands and thought to herself: It sounds good.

She was constantly daydreaming in her mind, and she did not let go of serious matters. Shen Huai's words revealed a lot of information. Seeing that Mrs. Shen was not easy to do, she had to ask clearly: "I can understand all of this. Officialdom has its own particularities. .It’s just that the emperor is just an employee, and I have never seen other officials treated like this. Fortunately, they are still your relatives. Why are you so cold-hearted?”

Shen Huai: "It's just the right time."

Shen Huai's fingers were ready to move again, wanting to rub the smart and cute head in front of him again. Since his adulthood, he had rarely experienced the feeling of meeting a close friend, being understood, understood, but not feared.

"I just made a wild guess, so don't be surprised if I guess wrong," Su Ya cleared her throat, assumed a posture of guessing everything, and started to show off the future Mrs. Shen's intelligence -

"Of course I know the importance." Su Ya pouted, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind: "I know!"

At this moment, Shen Huai nodded happily, "They are all domestic slaves, so that's not what matters to the emperor. Besides, Liu Ji got a little bolder, and the emperor just took the opportunity to beat him. It was indeed smooth sailing. "

She pointed at Shen Huai's chest: "People like you who dare to attack the chief minister of the cabinet in private are extremely lawless - but with the relationship you have with the Queen Mother, the emperor cannot treat one favorably. He previously protected I'm mixing Liu Ji with the mud, and now I think I'm mixing the mud with my newly minted nephew, so I'm balancing a bowl of water."

Shen Huai was noncommittal, "Zhuge of the Su family, continue talking."

Su Ya waved her hands and said: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, I'm naturally facing you! This is not just what you said about 'just the right time', I suddenly got enlightened and seemed to understand a little bit of its meaning."

I also think that he was full of passion and blood in one place, but found that he had been reduced to a tool for power and gain, with no way to serve the country. He must have been very depressed, and I couldn't help but feel sorry for him in every way.

Su Ya looked at his expression and knew that he must have a lot of things that he had not said, otherwise he would not have used the word "pickled".

Shen Huai raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? Then tell me."

"In the whole world, could it be the king's ministers? Is it the king's land? Whoever the emperor wants to use? Originally, fame and fortune would be enough." Shen Huai spread his hands, "But look at me -"

"I didn't run away." He moved at will, carefully pulling back a strand of hair that had been blown away by the wind in front of Su Ya's forehead, and said: "Although I was hurt by family affairs at the beginning, after all, I have been reading for many years. , young and full of energy, and full of ideals, I wanted to serve the country in this life, but the first thing after I was selected, I witnessed a lot of dirty things in the harem of the previous dynasty. I couldn't help being disappointed, and I didn't even bother to look at a group of people. Those who don’t get it will bow down to him and try to make an excuse to travel, grease their soles of their feet and leave the capital, so that they can find a way out in the future and never return.”

"Huh, are you really going to test me?" Su Ya wrinkled the tip of her nose at him cutely, without forcing it, and then guessed: "The emperor is the lord of the world, and whoever he wants to use is the opportunity, but there are many people in the world. Those who are noble and unruly are those who leave with their titles hanging, those who resign, and those who live in seclusion. Aren’t they all like this?"

"It's just that this is not enough to explain their behavior of forcing people to stay after they heard that you were critically ill!" Su Ya sighed and said, "Unless this is the emperor's intention at all, and they just didn't help for some reason. Please ask for Chu Jing’s grace.”

She looked up for support: "right?"

Su Ya looked him up and down and said, "I've seen him. He's the best-looking guy in the world, but he's just not very obedient. I'm afraid it's not enough to win him over just with fame and fortune."

Shen Huai glanced at her and said nothing.

"They all have their own plans. The Queen Mother and the Prince want you to be a reliable wing, the Emperor wants you to be completely loyal to him, and there are probably people who are on the opposite side of the Prince who are wary of you and want to find some obstacles for you. Exerting suppression, but you are not someone who can be manipulated at will. Due to various reasons, I guess——"

Shen Huai touched his nose and said, "Just talk about it in private. Don't be so impassioned in front of others."

"Huh," Su Ya muttered dissatisfiedly: "It's so casual. I don't know where Wang Fa is."

"Guess what?"

Shen Huai was amused by her, "It makes sense, who are you looking for?"

"What do you know again?"

"What happened next?"

"I assume you've tried running away?"

"Um."

She recalled the time when she was a young boy who was unruly and talented, and she couldn't help yearning for him.

Su Ya said angrily: "What do you think I'm doing? Did I say something wrong? It's all about laws on the surface, and everything you do depends on your preference. It's so-called what goes up and what follows. It's no wonder there are always so many corrupt officials. In the end, we people suffered a lot!"

"I heard many officials talking behind their backs: The prince is the prince, but the prince's position in the current dynasty seems to be unstable and lacks a foundation." Su Ya considered it and said: "The prince has no power, and the queen mother cannot interfere in politics. They must need With your wings growing, you, who are versatile in both civil and military affairs, appear, so of course you can’t miss it. But you are a talented person from Jinban High School and have already reached the pinnacle of scholars. You have a bright future, so there is no need to be tied to them. Being together, just relying on their empty promises and their mutual affection will definitely not be able to bind you - to put it bluntly, if the emperor really changes the crown prince one day, it probably won't affect you - so, The best card they have in front of them is the relationship between the Queen Mother and her grandmother. This is the reason why the Queen Mother and the Prince keep their grandparents."

Su Ya asked curiously: "How do you say this?"

Shen Huai smiled and motioned for her to continue.

"You just said that you were appointed as the prince's minister after you saved the prince. This errand will definitely require frequent contact with the prince, so it is easy to cultivate friendship. Furthermore, the prince was raised by the queen mother, and the queen mother is Grandma's sister is your great-aunt, so now you are definitely a princeling, right?"

"Later, the emperor did not stop me. He just called me into the palace and asked me to secretly go to Liaodong to handle something for him." Shen Huai said: "Liaodong is bitterly cold, so naturally I can't bring my grandparents with me, so I I only took Gao Jun Xu Yuan with me. At that time, the battle between the imperial court and the Jurchens was over. I only thought that what I saw must be the mighty scene of the Celestial Dynasty, but I didn't expect-"

His face darkened, "The officials who defended the city were lying on their merit books, making noises. The soldiers guarding the border were still wearing bloody single clothes. They moved around each other to keep out the cold. When patrolling, they put on layer after layer, holding up The majestic dignity of heaven is just to prevent the blood of those dead brothers from being shed in vain."

The border was like this. Su Ya remembered that her father had once served in the Liaodong border army. At that time, the court was still locked in a stalemate with the Jurchens, which was even more difficult, so she also fell silent.

"I recorded everything I saw and heard and reported it to the emperor. Soon after, a new patrol came to the border. Then the garrison was changed, and the supplies for the soldiers also followed. I quietly returned to the capital. The emperor Ask me if I am willing to hide for three years in the name of traveling, to be his eyes to see things that are not written in the memorials and reports, and to be his feet to measure those things that he is trapped in the palace and cannot experience personally."

Su Ya turned her head and looked at him silently. She knew that Shen Huai would not refuse and he must be willing to do it.