Power ministers always make things difficult for me

The night was silent and cloudy, and the full moon hanging in the sky poked its head out, trying desperately to avoid the cover of the clouds.

The third watch has passed, but the lights in Yanlong Hall are still on.

In the cold early winter, Jiang Mingcang was sitting in front of the desk wearing only a thin undershirt. His slender fingers turned over the numerous memorials over and over again, and there was an indescribable calmness in his warm eyes.

"Your Majesty, you are almost ugly."

On the side, Eunuch Wanshun filled up the lamp oil and stood aside in a dignified manner.

It's already this point, but the emperor still doesn't rest.

Jiang Mingcang gave a faint hum, then ignored him and continued what he was doing.

About half a stick of incense had passed when the little eunuch waiting outside the door suddenly knocked on the door.

"Your Majesty, Sir Xu Du Shen is here."

Jiang Mingcang's eyes paused slightly, he straightened up and leaned back, his thin lips slightly hooked.

"allow."

It didn't come quickly enough.

After Shen Yu received the permission, he entered the palace with a cool air, and respectfully knelt down in front of Jiang Mingcang and kowtowed: "I, the humble minister, kowtow to the emperor."

Jiang Mingcang glanced down at him, took a slow sip of hot tea, and then spoke.

"Shen Qing, there is no need to be polite. Sit down."

When Shen Yu sat down, Jiang Mingcang's light voice came over again: "I wonder why Shen Qing came into the palace late at night?"

If his guess is correct, he should be trying to instruct him to do something.

Shen Yu opened his mouth, but saw Eunuch Wanshun at the table, and swallowed back what he wanted to say unconsciously.

Wanshun is a discerning man who can accompany you at your side. He will retreat in the next second: "I will avoid you."

"No need." Jiang Mingcang raised his hand to stop him.

"Eunuch Wanshun will be the person next to me in the future. He will always do things for me. He will know some things sooner or later. Shen Qing does not need to be careful."

Shen Yu understood and relaxed a little.

Wanshun felt that Shen Yu's respectful expression just now was just an act, but he didn't dare to say more.

The emperor didn't even speak, how could he call out...

But what made him even more stunned was that Shen Yu, a demoted minister, opened his mouth to call the emperor "Cang'er".

"Cang'er really lived up to his father's wishes and became the master of Dasheng." At this point, who else can rival his Shen family?

Compared to Shen Yu's overflowing joy, Jiang Mingcang's eyes were tinged with an unnoticeable coldness.

Jiang Mingcang pretended to smile: "It all depends on my father's planning."

Shen Yu laughed loudly, his face full of pride, and said hello repeatedly: "God bless Shen!"

Ever since he was demoted to Xudu, he has been waiting for this day all the time.

Since the late emperor refused to give him the position of queen, then he would take over the world from Jiang!

Unexpectedly, Jiang Mingcang's heart was as cold as a ten thousand-year cold pool.

"The Shen family has indeed come to an end." Jiang Mingcang's tone was intriguing: "It's just that my son has a question in his mind, and he hopes his father can clear it up."

"Cang'er just said it bluntly."

Shen Yu was so carried away that he was completely unaware of the danger coming.

The door of Yanlong Hall was suddenly locked. Shen Yu looked back and saw Cheng Ying standing by the door, holding his shoulders, looking at him with a smile but not a smile.

"Ever since my son took over Sanqian Yu, he has had doubts about many things that happened back then. After investigation over the years, some clues have been discovered in the Shen family."

"My biological mother is Shen Nian, and I am not your son, but the product of Shen Nian's one-night affair with the late emperor twenty years ago, right?"

The joy on Shen Yu's face suddenly stopped, and he was horrified.

How did he know!

"Nonsense! Cang'er, don't talk nonsense." Shen Yu put on a straight face, pretending to be calm. It's a pity that just by looking at his reaction, Jiang Mingcang already knew the answer.

It seems that he did a good job.

Ignoring Shen Yu's sophistry, Jiang Mingcang said coldly: "Twenty years ago, after you were demoted to Xudu, you received a secret letter and learned that the late emperor took Bai Jinzhen to Qiulan Villa secretly, so he guessed that Bai Jinzhen was pregnant at that time. Pregnant."

"This is the beginning of the conspiracy."

Seeing Shen Nian's growing belly, Shen Yu was afraid that the late emperor would not recognize his son, so he set his sights on Bai Jinzhen.

He originally wanted to send three thousand traitors to Qiulan Villa to assassinate him, but he was worried that the late emperor would follow the three thousand traitors to find out who was involved in the Shen family. Therefore, he spent a lot of money to gather a large number of people from all corners of the world in order to assassinate him. Seize the son in front of the late emperor. It's just that those people in the world never thought that Bai Jinzhen would take the risk of handing the child over to a midwife he didn't know.

Later, in order to find the midwife, Shen Nian sent out three thousand soldiers to blockade the imperial capital. Finally, he stopped the midwife who wanted to send the emperor's heir back to the palace in the Yujiang River, and... found Bai Jinzhen who was still alive. .

Not long later, Shen Nian gave birth prematurely. Shen Yu looked at the two children wrapped in the cradle, and a bold idea came to him.

He took Shen Nian's child, the young Jiang Mingcang, and raised him personally, learning the ways of strategizing, until he was six years old, and then forced the midwife of Qiulan Villa to take him to the imperial capital as the prince. was sent to the palace.

As for the child stolen from Qiulan Villa, the real prince, Shen Yu originally wanted to kill him to avoid future troubles, but Shen Nian tried to stop him in every possible way, so he kept him and threw him into the side courtyard with Shen Nian.

Anyway, in Shen Yu's eyes, Shen Nian and the kid who didn't understand anything couldn't make any waves at all.

But Shen Yu didn't expect that after Shen Nian's death, the child climbed over the wall and left the Shen family. When they met again, it was the third prince who had been renamed, Jiang Fengchuan.

However, Jiang Fengchuan simply didn't know these things at all, and even believed that he was the extra-uterine bloodline of the late emperor and Shen Nian who were born that night.

"The real prince has been looked down upon in a cold way since childhood. After finally returning to the palace, he still received countless strange looks."

"But I, the fake prince, took the place of Jiang Fengchuan's life and sat on this chair."

Seriously ironic.

Jiang Mingcang's hand slowly slid across the chair behind him, with an almost cruel smile on his lips: "Shen Qing has been my father for more than twenty years for no reason."

Shen Yu broke into cold sweat on his back, swallowed his saliva, and said harshly: "So what!?"

"Even if you are not my son, you still have half of the Shen family's blood in you!"

The blood of the Shen family...

Oh, it was precisely because of this half of the Shen family's blood that he felt so dirty.

Jiang Mingcang raised his eyes, with murderous intent on his body: "Yes, the blood of the Shen family."

"Before Shen Qing came, I thought about it carefully."

"If there were no Shen family in this world, no one would know about my half of the Shen family's blood."

The dead can keep secrets forever.

If one day, he and Shen Yuyu break the deadlock, Shen Yu might not use this matter to threaten him.

He is the emperor now, how can he be threatened?

Those irrelevant troubles might as well be eliminated as soon as possible.

"you you……"

Shen Yu's lips trembled, and he stretched out his index finger tremblingly, pointing at Jiang Mingcang in disbelief.

Cheng Ying appeared behind Shen Yu at some point, with a cold dagger sticking out from behind him and touching his neck.

Instantly, blood spurted out, staining the memorial on the table red.

After hearing what the two of them had just said, Eunuch Wanshun was already in a state of panic. At this moment, his legs were so frightened that he knelt on the ground in panic.

Only Jiang Mingcang picked up the memorial on the table with cold eyes and stroked away the dots of blood on it, soaking the large area.

Her thin lips parted slightly: "Xu Du, Mr. Shen..."

"Leave no one behind."