When Ruyi looked up, she caught a glimpse of her usual, sweet smile in her eyes.

Even when she said such words, she smiled gently and her tone was so soft as if she was expressing her true feelings.

"Let's just... forget it."

Ruyi came back to her senses and felt a little ashamed.

She went to the old lady of the Gu family's birthday party to break off the engagement in order to draw a clear line between herself and Gu Qinghua.

There is no need to look for him now.

Besides, "The Gu family is involved in a heinous crime, and Minister Gu can't get out. When he comes out, his death will be imminent."

Ruyi sat down to eat.

It's a wonderful feeling.

Although she didn't care about the life and death of the Gu family, the demise of the Gu family still made her feel relieved.

However, at this time, Gu Qinghua had been locked up with Gu Shangshu, and the two of them were quarreling with each other.

"Are you still my father?"

Gu Qinghua stared at Minister Gu, his eyes swollen like salted fish, his voice hoarse and trembling, "You actually framed me for the crime of assassinating the prince?"

"Do you think you can escape like this?"

He shouted, but tears still filled his eyes and rolled down, "It's true that people get redder when they are around red people, and they get blacker when they are around black people. I think you are the same kind of person as Shen Cangyun!"

“Bang!”

Minister Gu slapped him in the face, his face turning blue.

"If it weren't for you, who got entangled with that bitch Shen Jiaojiao and offended Shen Ruyi, would things have come to this point today!"

Minister Gu's pupils trembled, a sense of guilt and fear buried under the rage, and he instinctively shirked responsibility, "You have brought the Gu family to this state today, and you still have the nerve to question me!"

Gu Qinghua sneered, "Blame me?"

"You think I don't know!"

His smile turned sarcastic, and he said sarcastically, "You wrote letters to the people of Southern Yan and colluded with them to kill the former queen. People have put the evidence in your face, and you are still pretending in front of me!"

Minister Gu's face was torn. Gu Qinghua looked at him. There was no admiration in his eyes. There was only anger and resentment. "What else do you care about besides power?"

"You've committed a crime yourself, but you're blaming me for it!"

"You and Shen Cangyun are the same, no wonder he married my mother to you! How could I become the son of people like you!"

Gu Qinghua recalled the insults, contempt and beatings he had suffered on the streets in the past few days.

When something happened to the Shen family, he, as the son of Shen Yuewan, was considered to be a crooked person and his spine was almost broken!

What was even more unexpected was that after the prince died, his father actually made him a scapegoat!

Minister Gu was so angry that he raised his hand and slapped him in the face again.

But he was pushed away by Gu Qinghua and fell to the ground.

Then there was a round of punching and kicking.

While they were fighting, Gu Qinghua threw everything out, "You and the Second Prince were in collusion, and the things you planned can be exposed?"

"You are nobler than me!"

"You blame me for the prince's death, but what about the war horses in the west? Did I buy the war horses in the west as well?"

"If you do something extreme, then we will go to hell together!"

…

The eunuch outside watched the farce quietly, and then reported to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the father and son really started to quarrel."

"Gu Qinghua confessed that the Gu family had been hoarding a large number of war horses in the west. They probably had other secrets hidden."

The emperor sat on the dragon throne and looked up at him with a calm look in his eyes. "Tell the fifth prince to send people to check the horse farm and find the soldiers they have stationed along this line."

There is no use hoarding war horses.

War horses will only come in handy when we have soldiers.

Maintaining an army requires money and food, so it seems that the Ministry of Works is not very clean, otherwise where would the money come from?

Where does the food come from?

The emperor took a deep breath and packed up for the morning court session.

Eunuch Yuan went to find the fifth prince.

At the same time, someone else sent the news to the Ninth Prince's Palace.

Rong Yan received the news on his way to the palace. He subconsciously glanced in the direction of the Fifth Prince's Mansion and sighed, "Under the chain of schemes of my father, I wonder how long my brothers can hold out."

"Your Highness, what do you mean?"

Fengying didn't quite understand.

In his opinion, the second prince was guilty, the third prince went to chase Nan Chu's spies, and the fourth prince went to investigate Shen Cangyun's tax case.

Your war horses in the west can only be handed over to the Fifth Prince.

But Rong Yan didn't think so. "Behind the war horses, there are channels for buying and selling war horses. They must be connected with Western Qin, Western Qiang, and the Western Regions. Who wouldn't want such a channel?"

"Besides that, having war horses alone is meaningless, it means there must be soldiers, weapons, food, and money behind them."

“Who wouldn’t want these?”

"This is an opportunity given by my father, but it is also a test."

"If Fifth Brother cannot control himself, then what has killed the Minister of War and the Second Prince today will kill him tomorrow as well."

“…”

Fengying sweatdropped, "The martial arts world is still the best."

The fighting in the court is a bloody storm hidden in the dark. It is difficult to guard against hidden arrows and it tests human nature.

The world of Jianghu is much simpler.

Rong Yan said: "Shen Luo should be back today, let's ask him to go to the emperor and apologize."

"I will arrange it right away."

The wind shadow disappeared in an instant.

…

When Shen Luo came back, Ruyi was practicing sword.

Her movements were not particularly standard, but she was clearly improving rapidly, and she already had some momentum. If she had the added bonus of internal energy, it would only be a matter of time before she became a master.

Shen Luo was exhausted and stood under the eaves looking at her. He felt indescribable sadness in his heart. He wanted to go up and talk to her, but he lost the courage after opening his mouth several times.

Finally, I had to turn around and leave.

Maybe this was the last time he saw her.

Maybe she didn't want to see him again at all.

Shen Luo walked towards the Shen family in a daze.

Ruyi felt that he had been there, but she didn't want to look back or get entangled.

So she stopped after Shen Luo left and asked, "Gone?"

"I'm leaving."

Among the four guards, Lingling is the most talkative.

If you had never seen her take action, looking at her smiling and sweet appearance, you would have thought she was easy to bully.

But when she spoke, she was able to reveal her thoughts that were somewhat different from those of normal people. "I think you can keep him, let him teach you moves every day, and cut dozens of cuts on him every day."

"Let's see how long he can keep pretending to be so affectionate."

“…”

Ruyi's mouth twitched, "We don't need to do that."

Her hands were dirty for no reason.

"That's right," Lingdang smiled, "You are a disciple of Prajna Hall."

Ruyi glanced at her and felt somewhat familiar with her.

How should I put it, the bell was bought by her, but she doesn’t have a servile attitude, so when we chatted I felt like a friend, it was very comfortable.

And then, Mu Rushuang came.

"Grandpa is much better. Ruyi, you are really amazing. How can I thank you?"

She brought a lot of things with her, and asked the guards to carry two large boxes. "My mother specially asked me to prepare these for you. They are New Year gifts, including clothes, jewelry, and daily necessities for a daughter."

"She was extremely happy and said that if you weren't the lucky star of Ziwei, she would immediately send someone to propose marriage and make you my sister-in-law."