Shen Yu's eyes turned around, there was no minister in the imperial study, only Shang Junlin was alone.

"What is Ayu looking at?" Noticing his movements, Shang Junlin asked.

"Why is your majesty busy here alone, and it's useless to have dinner?" Shen Yu walked over and asked the palace servant to put the food on the small table.

"How does Ayu know that I didn't have dinner, did Meng Chang talk too much?" Shang Jun got up and led Shen Yu to sit next to him.

"Don't blame Eunuch Meng, Your Majesty, he is also worried about your health. No matter how busy Your Majesty is, the meal time will still be used."

Eunuch Meng stepped forward, opened the food box, and brought out the dishes inside: "Even if Your Majesty punishes the slave, the slave will still tell your noble lord."

"With Ayu supporting you, you naturally dare to say anything." Shang Junlin wouldn't really be angry.

The aroma of the food spread, and Shen Yu put away the book in front of Shang Junlin: "Your Majesty, let's eat first, I'm hungry."

"No one can be hungry, Ayu." Shang Junlin held a gloomy hand and stood up.

Eunuch Meng hurriedly ordered the palace servants to clean up the place to eat.

The earth dragon in the imperial study was not as hot as Yuzhang Palace, so he stayed depressed for a while, trying to warm himself up.

The dishes were arranged one by one, with meat and vegetables, the aroma wafted, and the smell made people move their index fingers.

"The soup that I specially made in the small kitchen, your majesty drink a little." Shen Yu filled a bowl of soup that had been boiled into milky white and put it in front of Shang Junlin.

Of course, Shang Junlin wouldn't brush off his good intentions. He took a bowl of hot soup and warmed his body from the inside out.

Shang Junlin eats very fast. Even if he takes care of Shen Yu while eating, he puts the bowl in one step first. Shen Yu always likes to eat slowly, and he is not in a hurry when he sees a man finish eating.

Without going to criticize the book, Shang Junlin waited until Shen Yu finished eating, and then led the people to sit in front of the imperial case.

"Your Majesty is still busy with the King of Yue recently?" Shen Yu glanced at the contents of the book, which was written by Xun Chao, and was about the situation in Yuezhou.

The King of Yue raised an army, and Yuezhou was in chaos for a period of time. Fortunately, Xun Chao brought people there in time, and suppressed the riot in the shortest time without causing any losses.

The King of Yue has been entrenched in Yuezhou for many years, and he is deeply involved with various forces in Yuezhou. Many of them have already followed the King of Yue in secret. In order to take Yuezhou back smoothly, these forces must be eliminated first.

This is the main task of Xun Dynasty.

Things were going smoothly. The only thing that made people more concerned was that some of the forces of King Yue had disappeared from Yuezhou.

"These people should have been taken out of Yuezhou and joined with the King of Yue." Shen Yu put his fingers on the edge of the fold, and his voice was steady.

Shang Junlin: "Yes, I asked Gu Huai to check it. One of the teams they solved on the way came from Yuezhou. In addition, there are several forces whose whereabouts are unknown."

Gu Huai had taken on a new mission, and it was too late for several years. He directly led the troops out of the capital. He needed to clean up the remaining forces according to the results of the interrogation of the arrested person.

Shen Yu: "Your Majesty has caught someone now. Who is behind the King of Yue all these years? That Mr. Tan also listened to people's orders, right?"

After King Yue was caught, Shen Yu learned from Shang Junlin what happened to King Yue these days. No matter how you look at it, that Mr. Tan didn't seem to be the real master.

Shang Junlin: "Yes, the Ministry of Punishment has been interrogating these days. Mr. Tan knows a lot of information. According to the results of the trial, a lot of their people have been arrested, but they have never asked the messenger behind the scenes."

Shen Yu: "I can't ask, or..."

Shang Junlin rubbed his brows: "It's because they couldn't find the true identity of the other party. That person has never really appeared in front of them, and he gave them orders through the 'messenger'. Those 'messengers' were dressed in black. With a mask on his face, he can't see his face clearly."

Shen Yu: "This man hides so deeply, and his vigilance is so strong. Haven't any of them seen him before?"

Shang Junlin: "Yes."

Shen Yu: "Don't show his true face but let people do things for him. I'm really curious about this person's identity. What do they usually call him?"

Shang Junlin: "Call him 'Sir'."

Shen Yu: "To gain the late emperor's trust and to entrust such a great power to him, at least someone who was very active in the court during the late emperor's time, doesn't know enough about the current court. Your Majesty has checked that the late emperor was more heavily used when he was on the throne. Minister?"

Shang Junlin: "I checked and there is one that fits, but he died ten years ago."

The trail is interrupted.

They still have too little information.

Shen Yu didn't know the existence of this force in his previous life, let alone who was behind it.

Gu Huai's ability to act is very strong. He took his soldiers and walked around Dahuan like a ghost, uprooting the forces lurking in the dark.

The evidence of King Yue's treason was conclusive, and he should have been sentenced to be executed. Considering that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, Shang Junlin moved the execution time a little later.

The prison of the Ministry of Punishment is different from the dark prison. There are all kinds of prisoners in it. The King of Yue is locked in a separate place, and he will be interrogated once a day.

His title was taken away, his surname was taken away, and he was removed from the royal family. Now, he is no longer a noble prince, but a lowly sinner.

Shang Junlin wanted to get some news from him. The interrogators knew that he would never recover again, and he had no scruples when he started. In just a few days, the King of Yue was tortured to a lesser degree.

The blood-stained man curled up against the wall. As soon as there was a sound, he couldn't help shrinking inward.

Everywhere on the body is hurting, it is the wound left by torture, the executioner only needs to ensure that he will not die, and the wound that is not fatal is too lazy to care.

The wounds were inflamed and festering. If it weren't for winter now, I'm afraid it would be more serious.

Moonlight seeped in from the window above his head, King Yue raised his head and stared at the moonlight in a trance.

Cold and charming, he stretched out his hand tremblingly, trying to catch the moonlight, but only got nothing.

The moon hangs high for nine days, how can he catch it.

King Yue covered his face, hoarse laughter overflowing through his fingers.

I don't know how long it took, the embarrassed man leaning against the wall stopped moving.

"Your Majesty, it will be the enthronement ceremony soon. Please see if there are any changes in the process."

The unfamiliar voice awakened King Yue's mind. He opened his eyes and found himself standing in the magnificent palace. Countless people surrounded him, calling "Your Majesty", holding clothes and accessories that only emperors could use. .

He opened his arms, and the palace servant carefully put on the black robe that symbolized the status of the emperor for him.

The red candles were lit in the hall, and the outside was covered with gray, making it hard to breathe.

"Your Majesty, Young Master Shen is here."

Mr. Shen?

who is it?

Without him asking, a thin young man in a light blue gown walked in slowly.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, you got what you wanted."

! ! !

King Yue suddenly opened his eyes wide, and he could see clearly the appearance of the person who was coming.

Standing in front of him, Shen Yu was older than he had imagined, his facial features were fully opened, and there was an indescribable temperament between his eyebrows and eyes, which was even more moving.

His name is Your Majesty, is he calling himself?

"The auspicious time has come, and it is time for Your Majesty to ascend the throne."

Everything that follows is beautiful and unreal.

Surrounded by the crowd, he ascended the throne as the emperor and became the real master of Da Huan, and everyone crawls at his feet, including Shen Yu.

Shen Yu seemed to adore him, he saw the tenderness in his eyes, he had seen such emotions in Shen Yu's eyes before, but the object of attention was not him at that time.

He asked around and asked the whereabouts of Shang Junlin, the person around him. The answer he got was that the other party died in battle a year ago, and died with a stigma. It was the ending he thought of for Shang Junlin.

All his wishes came true.

On the dragon chair, he looked down at the minister who was crawling under his feet, and the depression standing beside him, the smile on his face getting bigger and bigger.

Then he woke up.

It was not yet dawn, the moon was hidden in the clouds, and he was trapped in the thick darkness, unable to break free.

For several days after that, he would have the same dream after falling asleep. The scene in the dream became more and more real, so real that he didn't want to wake up.

The life in the dream is in stark contrast to the current situation. King Yue's spirit is getting more and more trance. Later, the beauty in the dream seems to be a satire of his failure in reality. The drop was so heavy that he couldn't lift his head.

The abnormality of the King of Yue could not be concealed from the officials who had been paying attention to him.

Shang Junlin didn't take it seriously at first, just told them not to kill people before asking the result, and turned around and forgot about it.

In the imperial study, the leader of the hidden dragon guard kneeled respectfully on the ground and told the news one by one.

"So, before entering the palace, apart from having contact with the King of Yue who was close to him in disguise, your gentleman didn't have any contact with Gu Huai?"

"Yes."

Shang Junlin tapped the table with his fingers for a while. If so, it would not match Shen Yu's performance. Judging from Shen Yu's attitude, it didn't seem like he had no contact with Gu Huai.

There are many unexplainable anomalies in Shen Yu, and he did not hide it. As the relationship with Shang Junlin became closer and closer, Shang Junlin felt more and more that there were many secrets in Shen Yu.

Various thoughts flashed in his mind, and Shang Junlin closed his eyes: "This is the end of this matter."

He had a hunch that he would not find any useful information if he checked further.

After spending half an hour in the imperial study alone, when Shang Junlin returned to the Yuzhang Palace, there was nothing unusual on his face.

"Your Majesty, come quickly," Shen Yu greeted Shang Junlin with a smile, "I wrote some couplets and blessings, and Your Majesty took them to the imperial study to post."

"Okay," Shang Junlin walked over with a smile and picked up the pen next to him, "Ayu wrote it for me, and I wrote a picture for Ayu too."

Shen Yu wrote a lot, gave some to the palace servants, and let Mu Xi send the rest to the concubine. After all, he had helped Shang Junlin before, and Shen Yu had a good sense of her.

On the eve of the new year, the Minister of Punishment asked to see him.

"Your Majesty, the more the sinner is clamoring to see you."

These days, the Ministry of Punishment has tried their best to ask a lot of things, but what Shang Junlin wanted to know most, the King of Yue still refused to say.

Prison prison.

King Yue grabbed the door of the cell and stood up slowly.

"Shang Junlin, you stole everything from me!" King Yue frowned and his voice was hoarse, "Shen Yu should have been mine, but you stole him from me! You felt it too, didn't you?"

King Yue looked at the man with extraordinary bearing, and suddenly laughed:

"What is stolen will eventually return to its true owner—"