"Master! Are you okay?"

The guard came back to his senses and stepped forward to support the man, but when he looked at the door plaque above his head, he felt that something was about to fall -

This place may no longer be a place to stay for long.

Shen Cangyun felt dizzy and as if the world was spinning.

He glanced at the door plaque above his head in a trance. The three large gold-plated characters "Prime Minister's Mansion" on it made him burst into tears and feel reluctant to leave.

He has been here as prime minister for ten years!

Having climbed to this position from a peasant in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, he is now in a high position of power and has great influence over everything.

It seems that once his sons enter officialdom, the Shen family will become a famous family and will firmly occupy the capital from now on.

But he didn't expect that a single mistake would lead to the collapse of his entire family because of a daughter.

Thinking of Shen Jiaojiao's heart-piercing words, Shen Cangyun was a little dazed, "Could it be that I am still the same person I was before?"

Shen Cangyun, the man with low self-esteem, sensitive, full of hatred towards women from wealthy families, the man who hated all the rich and noble people in the world, the good-for-nothing who was despised by all the girls in the surrounding area!

Even after becoming prime minister, he still felt the same way.

Never crawled out of that village!

Shen Cangyun felt bitter in his heart and trembled all over.

At this moment, there was a noise on the street. A group of soldiers stopped in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The leading imperial guard shouted, "Come here, take down the plaque on the door of the Shen family!"

Shen Cangyun came back to his senses in shock.

When he saw the commander of the imperial guards sitting on a tall horse, he trembled all over, "You, you, you guys..."

No one paid any attention to him.

Two imperial guards stepped forward, drew their bows and shot arrows.

The door plaque fell from the top of his head with a clang, hitting Shen Cangyun's feet and shattered.

There were sighs from all around, "Oh my god, the Prime Minister's Mansion collapsed just like that?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect that. I didn't hear any news a month ago. How long has it been?"

"Not long after, there were several snowfalls in a row. No one went out much. It was like waking up and the world had changed."

The people were amazed and began to criticize it, "It's normal for it to collapse. After all, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. What Shen Cangyun did was worse than that of pigs and dogs."

"Shen Ruyi is still lucky. Even if the Prime Minister's Mansion collapses, it will not affect her happiness."

"I heard that the emperor has issued an order for her to marry into the Xiao family. After the family recognition banquet, she will soon be the eldest daughter of the Xiao family."

"It's really ironic. Twenty days ago, Shen Cangyun held a family recognition banquet for Shen Jiaojiao and invited all the dignitaries in the city. It was so noisy. At that time, he even forced Shen Ruyi to admit her mistake."

"How can you admit it if you didn't do anything wrong? This is the best you can do to get a confession under torture. Those who know will think Shen Ruyi is the daughter of the Shen family, while those who don't will think the Shen family is the prison cell of the Dali Temple and Shen Ruyi is the prisoner."

"Things will happen. Now that someone slapped Shen Cangyun in the face, I wonder if it hurts."

Shen Cangyun was trembling all over.

His face was burning and his heart was really hurting.

It's strange to say.

In the past year since Shen Jiaojiao came into the mansion, he has devoted his whole heart to Shen Jiaojiao. He always feels that Shen Ruyi has enjoyed enough and does not need more. He should favor Shen Jiaojiao to compensate her.

After a long time, I got used to it.

Once I got used to it, I forgot all the days when Shen Ruyi stayed in my house.

Now that the person is gone and he has fallen from the position of prime minister, and when he is in extreme pain and is trampled upon by thousands of people, the sixteen years he spent with Shen Ruyi seem to come back to life again.

How cute was she when she was little?

The little girl, who was only four or five years old, would stand at the door with an umbrella on rainy days, eagerly waiting for him to come home from court. If the servants hadn't stopped her, she would have gone to pick him up.

When she was seven or eight years old, she ran to the kitchen alone and learned how to make chicken soup for him. She cut her hand so that he wouldn't see and just asked if the soup tasted good.

When she grew up a little more, she became a graceful young lady. If he was busy in the study, she would massage his shoulders; if he was sleeping, she would quietly clean up the mess he left behind.

Her presence can be seen everywhere in this mansion.

Shen Cangyun was a little dazed as he thought about this.

Ignoring the insults from the imperial guards and the common people, he staggered into the courtyard, moving towards the Xifeng Courtyard with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

When passing by Jiaoyang Pavilion, tears welled up in her eyes. She regretted so much that she fell to her knees and cried loudly towards Xifeng Courtyard, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"As one wishes!"

"Dad knows he was wrong. I beg you, please come home, okay?"

Jiaoyang Pavilion is a three-story attic. The courtyard below is filled with precious flowers and plants, a pond, and koi fish. The upstairs is filled with the best things...

That place was once built by him for Shen Ruyi.

Later, it was Shen Jiaojiao who moved in.

And Shen Ruyi...

Shen Cangyun got up and staggered to the gate of Xifeng Courtyard.

There is no one here now, and it looks even more desolate when you look around. The weeds outside the yard are half a person tall, and the gate is rusty and clanging when the wind blows, as if it would fall apart if you are not careful.

There was only a bed, a table and two chairs in the room, all of which were in tatters. The walls were full of potholes, some of which had turned white, and dirt would fall off at the slightest movement.

Shen Cangyun suddenly remembered that this was the old house in the yard when he first came to Beijing and bought this yard.

It was cheap when I bought it. They said the house was already 70 or 80 years old and was about to collapse.

In order to save money, he bought it and lived here with Su Wanyi for a while.

Later, I moved out.

After Su Wanyi died, this place has been empty.

Until he drove Shen Ruyi in.

Shen Cangyun remembered the time when he drove Shen Ruyi in. At that time, he was busy arranging everything for Shen Jiaojiao because she was lost and found again. He seemed to have forgotten that Xifengyuan was an old house and a deserted yard that was about to collapse.

Did Shen Jiaojiao drug him?

When this thought came to mind, Shen Cangyun suddenly thought of Shen Jiaojiao's sharp words -

When he saw Shen Jiaojiao, he felt like he saw his humble and weak self, so he treated Shen Jiaojiao as a fellow human being, and they became like-minded... On the contrary, Shen Ruyi became his enemy.

Shen Ruyi was just standing there, and his noble appearance was enough to make Shen Jiaojiao unable to raise her head.

Shen Ruyi didn't even need to do anything. Just appearing in the same place as Shen Jiaojiao was enough to arouse his anger!

This is him.

He is the one who looks bright and beautiful on the surface, but has never crawled out of the gutter!

Shen Cangyun suddenly felt horrified.

He knelt in the yard blankly, as if he had lost his soul...

"master!"

"master!"

The guard called him several times, but he didn't answer.

The guards were frightened and quickly called Shen Yu and others.

At this time, it was completely dark.

Shen Yu caught a cold because he was naked while carrying a thorn stick to ask for forgiveness. He kept coughing as he walked along. In addition, he was severely beaten before, so his body was covered with wounds.

Although the wound had already solidified, it still hurt so much that he grimaced and walked with a limp.

He was a little stunned when he saw Shen Cangyun, and his voice was completely hoarse. "Father, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Ci who came out later was even more unbearable to watch.

After being beaten, his face was bruised and swollen, and two of his teeth were lost. He was simply unable to show his face to anyone.

Looking at Shen Cangyun again, he was also stunned, "Why did father suddenly become like this? What did the emperor say to him?"

The guards didn't know what the emperor said.

However, he had seen with his own eyes what the imperial guards had just done, so he replied dejectedly, "Just now the imperial guards came and took down the plaque on the door of our Prime Minister's Mansion."

"What did you say?"

Shen Ci's eyes widened in shock, and he almost broke his voice, "Why would the Imperial Guards do this!"