Chapter 91: The House Was Stolen
Shen Shixu had already arrived at the palace, but Xiao Jinyi's punishment was not over yet. He felt that it would be too troublesome to do it in two times, so he simply had someone beat him with the 100 canes at once.
He thought that he was in good health, had internal strength to protect him, had good medicine on hand, and the executioners were lenient.
It looked serious, but actually it was only a flesh wound. With the best medicine, although he might not be able to fully recover in two days, it would not delay his movements.
Moreover, he wanted to run to Shen Shixu with all these injuries and play the victim.
So when Shen Shixu saw Xiao Jinyi, he was frightened by the injuries on his body. He walked up to him, held his arm and said, "Didn't they say you would only give him twenty strokes of the cane? How could it be so serious?"
Hearing Shen Shixu's words of concern for him, Xiao Jinyi smiled and leaned half of his body weight on him.
"Don't worry, it's nothing serious, it just looks serious. I thought it would be too much trouble to beat him twice, so I just took all 100 strokes, that's why it looks so serious."
Hearing Xiao Jinyi's explanation, Shen Shixu couldn't help but scold him, "Fool!"
Xiao Jinyi was not angry at all when he heard him scolding her, she just asked him, "What did the imperial decree granting marriage from our father say?"
Shen Shixu thought he knew the contents of the imperial edict, but it turned out that he didn't, so he told him, "It means to grant us two marriages, retain my current position, grant me the title of Gan'an Jun on the basis of Jing Wang Zheng Jun, and write in the imperial edict that no one can look down on me."
Xiao Jinyi was very happy when he heard the title given to Shen Shixu by Emperor Wu'an. With this title, no one in the entire Dagan dared to look down on Shen Shixu.
Then he remembered something and asked impatiently, "Does the imperial edict clearly state when we will get married?"
Seeing that he couldn't wait, Shen Shixu gave him a scolding look and said, "The imperial edict didn't say when we should get married, it only said to choose an auspicious day, but I guess it should be after the prince gets married."
When Xiao Jinyi heard this, he wished that Xiao Yuanqi would get married tomorrow, but thinking about it, it would be soon. Xiao Yuanqi's wedding date was set for more than half a month later, after the empress dowager's birthday. In another half month, mid-May would be the wedding day for Xiao Yuanqi and Meng Jiyao.
Shen Shixu helped Xiao Jinyi back to Canglan Palace. Bai He was waiting outside the door. When he saw the two people coming, he hurried over to help Shen Shixu help Xiao Jinyi onto the couch in the palace.
Then he took out a porcelain bottle and handed it to Shen Shixu, “Master, this is the best medicine for wounds. Please apply the medicine to the master.”
Shen Shixu glanced at him when he heard his address. Xiao Jinyi was very satisfied with Bai He's address. "How is the thing I asked you to do going?"
"It's already been done. Don't worry about my work. Now the whole capital knows that it was the prince who fell in love with the master first, and for this he used his military merits to force the emperor to grant him a marriage, and was beaten with a hundred blows.
Now they are talking about you, saying that you are acting recklessly and using your military achievements to seize the position of a close minister of Dagan.
No one said anything bad about the master, and even if there was, I had people to curse them back. ”
After listening to Bai He's report, Xiao Jinyi was very satisfied, "Well done, you will receive an extra half year's salary this month!"
Bai He heard this and smiled unabashedly, "Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master. By the way, when I came to deliver the medicine just now, I saw Eunuch Quan Xi bringing a lot of rewards to Master's house. I went up to ask and Eunuch Quan Xi said that the rewards were given to Master by the masters in the palace. Now Master's house should be full of those rewards!"
Shen Zexi looked at the boxes all over the yard, and the old eunuch in front of him who was dressed in the clothes of a palace eunuch, and thought of what he had just heard, Shen Zexi felt a little bad.
Isn’t Xiao Jinyi a good friend of his younger brother? How could you fall in love with his younger brother? He also used his military achievements to ask for an imperial decree, and was beaten with a hundred sticks.
He could understand every word of these words, but why did he not understand them when they were put together?
The two were still quarreling at noon, but how come he went out and not only did they reconcile, but the younger brother was also kidnapped.
Quan Xi looked at Shen Zexi's shocked expression and felt very sympathetic and understanding. If anyone else knew this news, they would probably be more shocked and dazed than Shen Zexi.
He was obviously his brother's good friend, but suddenly one day he became his future brother-in-law.
Shen Zexi thought of Shen Shixu who was not at home, and asked Quan Xi, "Sir, is my brother in the palace at this time?"
When Quan Xi heard Shen Zexi's address to him, the smile on his face became more genuine, and he sighed in his heart that he was worthy of being Lord Shen's brother, and he really knew how to talk.
"Before I came here, I heard from one of my eunuchs that Lord Shen heard that Prince Jing was punished, so he followed the Crown Prince into the palace. He should be in Canglan Palace now, and he should be coming back soon."
Shen Zexi found out about his brother's movements, took the jade pendant from his waist and gave it to Quan Xi, "So that's how it is, thank you for clearing up my confusion. And thank you for sending these rewards, I don't have anything to give you, so you can just play with this jade pendant, it's not a good thing, please don't despise it."
Quan Xi did not refuse the jade pendant. They have their own etiquette for accepting gifts. For a happy occasion like this, they can accept some things, both to share in the good fortune and to do someone a favor.
"Thank you very much. I have something else to do in the palace, so I will go back first."
Shen Zexi sent Quan Xi out, and when he came back he felt a headache seeing so many things in the yard, so he asked Jin Bao to clean up a yard specifically for these things.
At the same time, he put away the gift list. Shen Zexi looked at what was written on the gift list and sighed, “As expected of someone in the palace, you are very careful in doing things. This gift list is very clearly registered, and it will be convenient to return the gift in the future.”
Shen Zexi took the gift list and went to the study, where he waited for Shen Shixu to come back.
Shen Shixu listened to Bai He saying that many people had sent rewards and gave Xiao Jinyi good medicine, then left Canglan Palace.
When he got home, he went straight to the study room and saw Shen Zexi waiting there. Shen Shixu felt a little short of breath for some reason.
When Shen Zexi saw him coming back, he put down the teacup in his hand and asked him, "Ah Xu, do you have to explain to me? I just went out to check the accounts, and before I got home, I heard that you had become someone else's wife. Before I could react, someone sent a lot of things to me. If you didn't know, you would think you had been engaged!"
Shen Shixu hurriedly explained to Shen Zexi, telling him everything they had said at noon and what Xiao Jinyi had done.
After listening to it, Shen Zexi only asked one question, "So do you like Xiao Jinyi?"
Shen Shixu never hides anything in front of him, and doesn't feel embarrassed, so he nodded, "I like it. Although I don't like it as much as he likes me, I do have a good impression of him."
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