Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 69 Why not die?
  "Ah."

Shen Shixing didn't hide anything. He poured himself a glass of wine, drank it down, and then said, "But he didn't tell me that you also went to Jiangling."

"Huh?" Wang Xijue raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you know that I went to Jiangling?"

"Because the writing style of the memorial is very similar to yours." Shen Shixing had just finished answering, and hurriedly added: "I also found out after reading it several times."

"Tsk, you are really perverted." Wang Xijue looked disgusted and asked, "You couldn't have memorized the paper I took the exam, right?"

Shen Shixing denied it flatly: "How is it possible? I just have a vague impression! Besides, isn't it normal to know more about the papers of the same year? Don't think I don't know that you often read my examination papers !”

"Yes...but I'm not saying that. I read it over and over many times, and no matter how I looked at it, I felt that the article you wrote during the imperial examination was not as good as mine." Wang Xijue said with certainty.

"If I don't have you, I won't have you." Shen Shixing stopped defending. After all, he felt the same way, but he said deliberately:

"It seems that being handsome has great benefits. No, not only is I the number one pick, but even passers-by mistakenly think I am the number one pick."

Wang Xijue put down his chopsticks and pretended to be angry: "Hey! You old boy! You are so old and you still say such things, you are so shameless!"

"Hahaha!" Shen Shixing stroked his beard and laughed: "Look at you, I just said two sentences and you are so anxious. After so many years, you still haven't changed!"

The two of them teased each other like this for a long time, just like when they went to Beijing together to take the exam, they drank and talked happily.

After three drinks, the atmosphere gradually calmed down.

"How many years?" Wang Xijue asked.

"Twenty-two years." Shen Shixing replied.

"It's been twenty-two years..." Wang Xijue said with emotion: "Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly..."

"Yes, we are all old." Shen Shixing picked up the wine glass, and while saluting the other party, he solemnly said: "Yuan Yu, thanks to you this time, I'll toast you a glass on behalf of Zhang Taiyue."

After that, drink it all in one gulp.

Wang Xijue seemed a little drunk, waving his hands and smiling: "I'm not helping him, I just want to see what backup plans he has left."

"Backup..." Shen Shixing said with a bitter smile: "Zhang Taiyue died so suddenly, what kind of backup can there be..."

Wang Xijue shook his head and said: "But he is Zhang Taiyue, how could he not expect it?"

"Zhang Taiyue is also a human being. He...forget it, let's not talk about him." Shen Shixing stopped the topic and asked instead:
  "Tell me about you. Li Zhi is your student. With their help, you will be able to join the cabinet by the end of the year at the latest. I am also planning to let Yu Youding and Wang Jiaping join the cabinet. What about you? What else do you have planned?"

"What else can we plan?" Wang Xijue took a sip of wine, his eyes filled with ruthlessness and indifference:
  "Although Li Zhi is my student, he has no real skills except for swearing.

Zhang Taiyue was an evil man when he was alive, but the things he did were all for the court and the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zhi can't even tell the difference between right and wrong. It's okay not to want such a student when the time comes. "

Shen Shixing picked up the wine glass again, smiled and toasted to the other party: "Yuan Yu, I really did not misjudge you. You are a person who can stand the test of time. After so many years, you still insist on not forgetting your original intention. With this glass, I To respect you, do it first!”

Wang Xijue also picked up the wine glass and reciprocated, but after drinking it all, he sighed: "Shen Rumo, you have changed, and you have changed so much that I almost don't recognize you anymore."

Shen Shixing smiled helplessly: "I can't help it..." Wang Xijue teased: "You are like a daughter-in-law now. You have to be careful to serve your parents-in-law, and you have to be careful to take care of your husband and children. You are caught between the emperor and the officials. I was exhausted in the middle, but in the end I was unhappy at both ends.”

"What if?" Shen Shixing smiled helplessly: "Besides this, do I have any other choice? Zhang Taiyue has learned from the past, and Yin's lesson is not far away..."

"That's what you say, but your temper is too soft! You are the chief assistant. Li Zhi, Jiang Dongzhi, and Yang Keli all pointed at your nose and scolded you, but you didn't resist. You should give them some advice. Look at the color!" Wang Xijue hated that iron could not make steel.

Shen Shixing smiled nonchalantly and said: "They are just a bunch of clowns who are jumping up and down and can only talk quickly. Why bother to get angry with them? Just wait and see, if they act like this, sooner or later they will kill themselves."

"It's up to you, you just have your own plan." Wang Xijue was too lazy to persuade the other party, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, have you noticed that something is not right with Yu Keyuan?"

Shen Shixing didn't think about it carefully and replied: "No."

"No! He does!" Wang Xijue suddenly became excited and asked, "Do you know about Zhang Taiyue's grandson? He's just that six-year-old kid who talks nonsense."

Shen Shixing nodded: "I know, but Ke Yuan told me that this kid was blackmailing me."

"This isn't the end yet!" Wang Xijue said excitedly again: "That little kid deceived Ke Yuan and said that he was actually Zhang Taiyue! Ke Yuan actually believed such nonsense! Not only did he lend money to the Zhang family, he also prepared to Help the Zhang family get three thousand acres of fertile farmland!"

"Ah?" Shen Shixing finally understood why Yu Shenxing asked such incomprehensible questions twice in a row, but he still didn't quite understand:
  "I remember that I didn't believe in ghosts and gods. How could he be deceived by a six-year-old baby?"

"Don't tell me, that doll is really evil. He actually..." Wang Xijue stopped talking. In the end, he still did not describe the scene that made him feel physically uncomfortable. He only said: "In short, That kid is weird, not like a normal kid."

"Hahaha, don't you believe the so-called incident of Zhang Taiyue seizing the body?" Shen Shixing made fun of the other party loudly. At the same time, he was already a little drunk.

After a few more glasses of wine, Shen Shixing stopped laughing when he was drunk. He even became a little sad.

"Today is his memorial day."

Shen Shixing's eyes were sad. As he spoke, he picked up the wine jar and poured all the remaining wine in the jar onto the ground. He was accompanied by his somewhat inarticulate whisper:

"It would be great if he is really still here...I still want to show him the prosperous age...I still want to tell him...I am the one who is right..."

"Oh!"

"Clap!"

Shen Shixing suddenly fell to the ground, and the wine jar in his hand was smashed to the ground. The sharp debris that burst out cut his cheek mercilessly!
  Wang Xijue on the side was engrossed in eating. He only knew that Shen Shixing was muttering something drunk, so he didn't pay much attention. When he saw this scene, he was stunned!
  "Rumo! What are you doing! Ouch! I actually forgot that you can drink at the same table as a child!"

……

At the same time, in the Forbidden City and the Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun had just fallen asleep in a brightly lit environment.

Suddenly, he sat up suddenly like a corpse and shouted:

"Why aren't you dead yet!?"

　I asked the editor to read it today, but it was not ideal. I originally wanted to put it on the shelves today, but after thinking about it, I decided to write more free chapters for everyone to see. I think it will be available on the shelves around next Saturday or so. If I can continue writing, I can only look at the first order, so...please follow up and read...please order first then...

　　
  　
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