Chapter 220

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"Do you know much about the lazy man before you traveled through time?" Cheng Yeran asked him.

Shen Yuntang shook his head, "He doesn't go out on weekdays. I only heard about him from people in the same village. He was a child prodigy when he was young. After his parents died, he stayed at home and was too lazy to go out. But you can't believe everything the villagers say, so I don't know much about him. Why do you ask this?"

Cheng Yeran told Shen Yuntang his thoughts again, "I can travel through time and space and become a lazy man, so there is a certain chance that a lazy man will travel through time and space and become the emperor."

Shen Yuntang frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "But the lazy man was too lazy to even go out the door before. Compared with the lazy man, the current emperor is too diligent, so he is not necessarily a lazy man."

Cheng Yeran didn't dare to insist that the emperor was a lazy man, but with this suspicion, he would definitely find more clues in the future.

"Let's find some time to burn some paper for the lazy man's parents when we come back this time." Shen Yuntang felt that since Cheng Yeran had taken over the lazy man's body, he should burn paper for the lazy man's dead parents and sweep the graves for them. Otherwise, they would have no one to burn paper for.

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It's so pitiful that I have no money to spend.

"Okay, let's go there tonight." Cheng Yeran said.

"Let's choose a daytime date. The road is hard to travel on at night." Shen Yuntang was a little afraid of ghosts. Many villagers were buried in the mountains after their death, and it was even more scary at night.

"I plan to buy some things with my mobile phone. I can go there by myself in the evening. Doesn't our village have the custom of burning paper at night?" Cheng Yeran felt that if the emperor was a lazy man, he would definitely go to worship his parents when he came back this time. But he couldn't go there in a high-profile manner during the day. He might run into the emperor at night, which would further prove his guess.

"I'll go with you." Shen Yuntang recalled the time when he went up the mountain with his parents to burn paper at night when he was a child. He only went there once, and when he came back he was so scared that he had a fever. After that he never went there with his parents again.

But Cheng Yeran always acted like a spoiled child in front of him, sometimes even pretending to cry and act weak. He subconsciously thought that Cheng Yeran was also very timid, and he had to go with him to protect him.

At night, the two of them went up the mountain together with paper and offerings.

The two men took a large flashlight. The forest was dense and the people at the foot of the mountain could not see the light from their side, but the light allowed them to see the road ahead clearly and they were not so scared.

When the two were about to reach the cemetery, Cheng Yeran turned off the flashlight, pulled Shen Yuntang into the bushes nearby and hid. He said in a low voice: "I smell the smell of burning paper money. Let's not move and wait here for a while."

He didn't expect to see it on the first day. He was so lucky.

Shen Yuntang's heart was beating like a drum. He was worried that there might be a ghost, so he held his breath on purpose. But after a while, he couldn't hold it anymore, so he changed to breathing in small sips.

Time passed minute by minute, and when his legs were numb from squatting, he heard a series of footsteps getting closer. He held his breath again and saw two people in black robes outside through a gap in the woods. They were one in front and one behind, moving in a strange way and covering their faces. It was unclear whether they were human or ghost.

After they walked away, Cheng Yeran took his hand and led him out.

"Are you going today?" Shen Yuntang asked worriedly.

"Let's go and take a look." Cheng Yeran took him and walked for a while until they arrived at the grave of the lazy man's parents, where they saw signs of worship.

Although they have the custom of worshipping at night, no one would dress up like that.

"I just saw what they were wearing. Although they were wearing black fabric, it was good material. The lanterns in their hands were also very valuable." Shen Yuntang thought of Cheng Yeran's guess and connected it to the tributes and paper money in front of him. "Was it the emperor who came just now?"

"Even if he is not the emperor, he must be someone the emperor trusts." Cheng Yeran felt that the two black shadows just now were one in front and one behind. The figure in front looked very much like the emperor, and the person behind looked very much like the eunuch beside the emperor.

The two of them looked solemn, and everything that had happened in the past made sense now.

"Before, he drove the second prince out of the capital and abolished the queen and the prime minister. It was not for any other reason, but because the second prince was not his child, and the fourth prince was the child he had after traveling through time?" Cheng Yeran was speechless. However, it was understandable that everyone had selfish motives. But since the lazy guy had traveled through time, why did he still treat Cheng Zhao as his child? You won’t snatch Shen Yuntang away in the future, right? This is what he can't tolerate the most.

After the two men went down the mountain with complicated expressions, they found that the lights were on in the house. They had clearly closed the door before leaving, so why were the lights still on? Could it be that the emperor had discovered them and came to question them?

"Dad, Dad, where have you been?" Cheng Zhao heard some noise at the door and opened it. He was holding a child in his arms. It was Ah Zhu.

Cheng Yeran heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the two children. "Aren't you going to stay at your grandparents' house today?"

"Azhu doesn't want to live there." Cheng Zhao looked at Azhu who had fallen asleep in his arms after crying herself tired. "She was fine just now, saying she was going to sleep, but she wanted to go home and kept crying if she didn't come back, so I brought her back."

Shen Yuntang went over and picked up Ah Zhu. "She's still not used to it. Let's go inside."

There is only one room in the house, and the kang is quite small, so four people have to sleep sideways. But the family is quite happy to live like this occasionally.

When Ah Zhu woke up and saw her two fathers, she was finally happy. She snuggled into Shen Yuntang's arms and told Shen Yuntang what she had played today.

"My cousins ​​gave me lots of delicious food, took me to the river to catch small fish, and took me to pick flowers." When Ah Zhu was in the capital, the maids in her family were much older than her, and she was very scared. Now her cousins ​​are only three or four years older than her, so she is not so scared anymore.

As she spoke, she raised her hand and gestured in front of Shen Yuntang twice, "My cousins ​​said that my fingers are like crabs, they make a crackling sound."

She only has two fingers, so people usually avoid talking about this topic for fear of hurting her. However, children are relatively innocent and can talk about something that adults think is painful and pitiful in such a childlike way.

Cheng Yeran stretched out his finger and used it to imitate the swimming of an octopus' legs. "You are a little crab, and I am a little octopus."

The two little childish ghosts played for a long time. Shen Yuntang blew out the lights and said, "Okay, go to bed. You have to get up early tomorrow."

They finally got back together, and he wanted to spend more time playing at home with his two children.

Ah Zhu once again put her arms around Shen Yuntang's neck and whispered in his ear, "Dad, will I be unable to get married when I grow up?"

Shen Yuntang was about to go to bed, and thought she was going to say good night to him as usual, but he heard these words instead. How could a three-year-old child ask such a question? He had never mentioned the word "marriage" to Ah Zhu.

"Who told you what?" Shen Yuntang asked her.

"Today, my aunts looked at my hands with pity and said, 'You're so pitiful! What if you can't get married in the future? Even if you get married, you will be despised by your in-laws. What are your in-laws? What is getting married?" Ah Zhu tilted her little head and asked Shen Yuntang curiously.

"Why are they so annoying?" Cheng Yeran sat up from the kang in anger, regretting very much that he did not take Ah Zhu with him when he left just now.

After he said that, he remembered that Ah Zhu's aunts were Shen Yuntang's sisters-in-law, and they had a good relationship. Would Shen Yuntang be unhappy if he said that about them?

He glanced at Shen Yuntang and found that Shen Yuntang was also very angry. Although they spoke to Ah Zhu like this out of genuine concern for her, if they said it too much, Ah Zhu would become concerned and feel inferior.

Cheng Yeran continued to complain: "They are telling a three-year-old child about whether to get married or not. Even if she doesn't get married in the future, what will happen? Or she can marry a son-in-law to Ah Zhu."

Shen Yuntang rubbed Ah Zhu's head and said, "Don't listen to what they say. You will always be our most lovely little daughter."

"It's a small crab." Ah Zhu pointed with his fingers.

Shen Yuntang pulled her

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They kissed each other's hands and decided not to let Zhu have any contact with them alone in the future.

Since he was a child, Shen Yuntang's parents have never treated him badly in terms of food and clothing. When he was sick, they would spend money on his medical treatment, but they gave him very little emotionally and did not care about what they said or did and how it would affect his character.

Not only his parents are like this, most of the parents in their village are like this, and many of the parents they saw in Beijing are like this. After watching too many futuristic TV dramas, Shen Yuntang realized that children can also be psychologically hurt and suffer from mental illnesses.

He didn't want to make Ah Zhu feel sad, he wanted her to grow up happily and healthily.

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That night, after the emperor burned paper for his biological parents, before going to bed, his mind was full of the villagers who had laughed at him during the day. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't sleep anymore and ordered people to capture those villagers and whipped them to death.

The next day, the emperor charged them with disrespect, dragged their bodies out and dumped them on the mountain. He also did not allow their families to collect the bodies, and let wild beasts eat their bodies.

Originally, when they arrived in the village on the first day, the village was full of joy, but now someone has died, and the death is so tragic that everyone is in panic. No one dares to go out easily and prays that the emperor will not summon them. Some are also thankful that when the emperor called the villagers to talk that day, they did not run over to join in the fun and thus saved their lives.

However, they did not stay in the village for long. They were originally scheduled to stay for a month, but after only three days, news came from the palace that the empress dowager had passed away and asked the emperor to return to the palace as soon as possible.

The emperor just didn't want to stay here any longer, so he had a reason to go back and naturally took everyone back to the palace immediately.

Before leaving, Shen Yuntang and his friends went to their parents' home, and Cheng Zhao gave the gifts he brought to his brothers and sisters.

He gave them some books, toys that were popular in the capital, and some jewelry.

The children were all very happy. The cousin also said that he would study hard and go to the capital city, and then reunite with them.

The two brothers and their sister-in-law looked unhappy and were not as enthusiastic as at the beginning. The reason was that they found out in the past two days that Shen Yuntang no longer let Ah Zhu play with their daughter, and he always had to hold her or lead her around.

The brothers and sisters-in-law gathered together privately to discuss this matter. They felt that Shen Yuntang looked down on their children, so he did not allow Ah Zhu to have contact with their children. They also said that Ah Zhu was a disabled child, but Shen Yuntang treated her like the apple of his eye. If they were Shen Yuntang, they would quickly give birth to a few healthy children to win Cheng Yeran's heart, lest Cheng Yeran despise the disabled children and change his mind in the future.

Shen Yuntang didn't know what they were thinking. They stayed at home for too short a time and didn't have time to resolve the misunderstanding.

The emperor's team came slowly, but returned very quickly, taking two months to return.

After the emperor returns, he will have to arrange the funeral for the empress dowager and observe mourning.

According to the regulations of this dynasty, when the empress dowager passed away, the emperor could not have sex with his concubines, drink alcohol, or engage in many entertainment activities during the mourning period. The emperor couldn't stand it after a few days.

He was in a very bad mood during the past few days, especially when he saw Cheng Yeran, he felt angry, thinking that everything Cheng Yeran had now was given by him, but the villagers in his hometown were all saying how bad he was in the past, and that Cheng Yeran now was hundreds of times better than before.

He wanted to kill Cheng Yeran immediately, but he couldn't bear to sacrifice his own body.

He thought of Shen Yuntang again. Shen Yuntang was obviously his husband, such a handsome man. He had searched all over the world for beauties, but had never seen one more beautiful than Shen Yuntang.

Not to mention that Shen Yuntang was originally supposed to be his husband, he was now the emperor, and all the beauties in the world were supposed to be his. Even if he was now someone else's husband, so what? He could snatch them away if he wanted.

He couldn't wait any longer. What could he do if the mourning period hadn't yet ended? The Queen Mother is not his biological mother, so there is no need for him to observe mourning for her.

He called the eunuch beside him, whispered something in his ear, and asked him to go down and do it. At the same time, he asked someone to notify Shen Yuntang and Cheng Yeran's family to come to the palace for a banquet in three days. He wanted to keep Shen Yuntang in the palace in three days.

At this moment, Cheng Yeran was with Shen Yuntang in their farm outside the capital. He showed Shen Yuntang what he had bought when he was in the mountains.

When Shen Yuntang saw that he bought a helicopter, he was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time.

"Don't worry, I have a driver's license." Cheng Yeran thought he was worried that he couldn't drive.

"This must be very expensive. We spent so much money before, and now we buy this. Have we spent all our money?" Shen Yuntang asked.

"This is not that expensive. What's more, what we spent before was the interest given by the bank, and we haven't had the chance to spend our actual savings." Cheng Yeran said.

Shen Yuntang continued to be shocked. "This needs to be hidden well so no one can find it. But why did you buy this?"

Cheng Yeran explained to him, "Before this trip, I thought it was too dangerous to be an official now. Many ministers were sentenced to exile by His Majesty because of saying the wrong thing. I thought that after we come back, we will find a chance to escape, and the whole family will find an uninhabited island and live a good life by shopping online."

"What about now? Have you changed your mind?" Shen Yuntang asked him, "Is it because you saw too many suffering people along the way that you can't bear to leave?"

Cheng Yeran nodded: "Yes, I can't bear to leave, I don't want to escape, I want to change everything."

"What are you going to do? What can I do to help you?" Shen Yuntang asked him.

"What I did constitutes the serious crime of treason. Do you still want to join me?" Cheng Yeran asked him.

"We've been together for how long, and you still ask this kind of question?" Shen Yuntang was a little angry, "Tell me what you're going to do."

"I definitely can't do it alone. I need help. Yuanbao Wild Dog and the others will definitely stand on my side, but Yang Shiming may not. And I need military power, which Shao Hui happens to have. I need to convince Shao Hui to give me military power and Yang Shiming to help me contact the ministers and convince those ministers to help me overthrow the current emperor. This is Plan A, and there is also Plan B." Cheng Yeran sat down and continued, "If Plan A fails, I will have to find a way to rescue the queen who is imprisoned in the cold palace and find the second prince. This way, it will be more legitimate."

"How do you plan to convince Shao Hui and Yang Shiming?" Shen Yuntang thought about the characters of these two people. They are both loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Even if the emperor is so incompetent, they will not overthrow him.

"People all say that I'm a god, so I use my identity as a god to get them to help me." Cheng Yeran said as he took out a tablet, opened a video and handed it to Shen Yuntang.

Shen Yuntang saw on the screen that Cheng Yeran was sitting on a lotus floating from the clouds, with a colorful halo above his head. Behind him was a fairy island, and there were cranes, dragons and phoenixes flying.

"You, are you really a god?" When Shen Yuntang saw this video, his hands went limp and he almost dropped the tablet in his hand.

"It's a photoshopped video. A lot of cheesy videos will be photoshopped this way in the future. It's not difficult. I also added voiceover to tell the story of a lazy man traveling through time." Cheng Yeran saw that he knew he was a time traveler and believed that he was a god, so Shao Hui and Yang Shiming would definitely believe it.