As Eunuch Qian said this, he threw the relevant documents to Shen Qi.

However, asking Shen Qi to go to the Northern Frontier was not just out of Ye Hongzhuang's favor, because Ye Hongzhuang came up with this idea because she saw through the emperor's desire to stabilize the court.

Shen Qi is the last glimmer of hope left for the Shen family.

This glimmer of hope is not for the Shen family.

It is for those other forces that once attached themselves to the Shen family——

If the entire Shen family is executed and has no future, then these people will panic and try all kinds of methods to cure their illness.

And the forces that are hostile to them will beat them when they are down.

This creates turbulence and is difficult to control.

What we need right now is peace.

The game in the court is so subtle. Shen Qi's glimmer of life is also a tightrope walk in the overall situation. It has nothing to do with his own ability. It's just that the situation has been pushed to this point.

Shen Qi took the imperial edict, knelt down to thank God, and then staggered towards the Shen family.

My legs hurt like they were about to break.

He suddenly remembered that he had been kneeling outside the inn during the day and outside the palace at night, which was only three hours in total.

But Ruyi knelt for a whole day and a night during the last snowstorm.

It turns out that people do not share the same joys and sorrows, even the closest ones, and cannot empathize with each other.

At that time, neither the father nor the son felt sorry for Ruyi.

It’s just because the pain doesn’t fall on me.

When Shen Qi thought of this, tears surged in the cold wind and his chest trembled with pain.

In a sense, he felt that his life was ruined.

It's not ruined in reality.

Something broke deep in my soul.

The things he had done to hurt Ruyi would be like a thorn in his flesh, running through his entire life, making him feel like he was in hell every time he woke up from a dream. He would be unable to forgive himself and unable to face his own soul.

Suddenly, he also wanted to leave this home as soon as possible.

At dawn, he was in Shen Cangyun's room and saw his suddenly aged father again. He suddenly hated him a little.

If Shen Cangyun hadn't forced him, he wouldn't have done something like cutting off Shen Ruyi's legs.

After all, he was only seventeen.

Before this, his hands had never been stained with blood, let alone the blood of his relatives.

"Father."

Shen Qi knelt down and said, "My son is leaving. Please take care in the capital."

He lowered his head and didn't look at Shen Cangyun again.

He was thinking, if he was born into a real aristocratic family, with good family education and family traditions, then it should... be a different ending, right?

Shen Qi lowered his head even more.

He didn't want to look at this father.

Shen Cangyun felt a terrible sense of estrangement, as if his youngest son had drifted away from him overnight.

Why?

What did he do wrong again?

He was a little angry, his chest was shaking, his throat was full of blood, and he spoke wheezingly like a broken bellows, "The emperor agreed?"

He followed up with another question: "Are you leaving so soon?"

Yes, if the emperor did not agree, even if Shen Qi went to the Northern Frontier, he would have no place to stand in the Northern Frontier.

But, can’t you stay at home for two more days?

Shen Qi didn't look up. He felt that he couldn't face Shen Cangyun's eyes. "Yes, we'll leave in the morning."

The gratitude for raising his child and the hatred were intertwined, and he found it difficult to cope with it, so he became impatient.

Just want to escape.

“…”

Shen Cangyun's throat rolled and he looked out the gray window.

After a long while, he said dejectedly: "Let's go, let's go."

"Goodbye, son."

Shen Qi kowtowed three times.

Like it's goodbye forever.

In fact, both the father and the son knew very well that this separation would be their final farewell, because Shen Cangyun was suspected of a serious crime. Even if the emperor showed mercy and spared his entire clan, he himself would not be able to escape death.

But these are not easy to say anymore.

If he said it out loud, Shen Qi would not be able to leave.

Leaving is unfilial.

Shen Cangyun couldn't bear the fact that his youngest son abandoned him under such circumstances.

Therefore, stop at the right time.

After leaving Shen Cangyun's room, Shen Qi went to Shen Luo's yard——

Speaking of which, Shen Luo was the only one who did not do something irreversible this time...

If he had listened to Shen Luo at that time...

Everything is irreversible.

Shen Qi felt heavy in his heart as he walked into Shen Luo's yard, only to find it was empty.

When I walked into the room, I found the letter on the desk.

When I unfolded it, I saw words written in blood-curdling language.

Shen Luo said that Shen Jiaojiao came for revenge and she was a fake.

Shen Luo said that Shen Ruyi was her biological daughter and she had never bullied Shen Jiaojiao, but everyone in the Shen family favored Shen Jiaojiao and bullied Shen Ruyi, so Shen Ruyi didn't want this family anymore.

Shen Luo said that since he couldn't persuade the other members of the Shen family who had gone astray, then he would follow Shen Ruyi.

From then on, he changed his name.

From then on, his name was Su Luo.

Shen Luo said that if Shen Cangyun still recognized him as his son, he should not do anything to hurt Shen Ruyi again, and he hoped that they would not regret it.

There was a lot more. The letter was thirteen pages long, with all the details clearly stated. The only hope was that the Shen family would stop.

but……

No one saw the letter.

At this moment, it's too late.

Shen Qi knelt on the ground holding the letter, trembling all over. He felt a pain and panic in his heart, but he couldn't even cry.

Not long after, Shen Yu and Shen Ci caught up.

"Shen Qi, are you leaving?"

Shen Ci shouted before he even entered the door.

When he entered the room, he saw Shen Qi kneeling on the ground with a stack of letter papers in his hand. He was stunned, "What are you holding? Why are you kneeling?"

Although he didn't know what Shen Qi was holding, Shen Ci had a hunch as to why he was kneeling.

But this premonition disgusted him—

He didn't want to be mentioned all the time that he had done something evil, wronged Shen Ruyi, and was slapped in the face and had nowhere to go.

It's not that he doesn't know what was right and wrong about the past.

It was just because, deep down in his heart, there was something that made him feel unbalanced——

He was able to enter the Imperial Medical Bureau because of Shen Ruyi, not himself, which resulted in him feeling conflicted and ashamed every time someone praised him.

On the one hand, he enjoyed that feeling.

On the other hand, he felt guilty about stealing, as if if he were to be exposed, all his glory and brilliance would be shattered, causing him to fall heavily from the clouds.

In some secret moments, he would feel uneasy:

Why did the old beggar help Shen Ruyi and not him?

Why would the old beggar give the prescription to Shen Ruyi, who knew nothing, instead of to him who was determined to study medicine?

After a long time, a kind of jealousy will arise, but this cannot be expressed out loud.

So, the way out is to help Shen Jiaojiao suppress Shen Ruyi.

I thought that Shen Ruyi, a little girl living in the harem, would be exploited by him all her life and help him rise to the top.

But I didn't expect that what I feared would come true.

His mask was really torn off. Shen Ruyi personally ran to the Imperial Hospital and kicked him from the clouds into the dust.

This was also the reason why he hated Shen Ruyi and instigated Shen Xiao to take revenge on Shen Ruyi on the way to Pinghu.

Now, Shen Luo and Shen Qi both want to tell him that he was wrong?

How could Shen Ci feel comfortable?

His face was extremely stinky.

Shen Qi didn't know what he was thinking. He came back to his senses and handed the letter over. "It's from Third Brother. I wish we had seen this letter earlier."