Chapter 73: Accident
Shen Shilang pulled Wei Zhaoxian down, which was equivalent to giving Emperor Jiacheng a token of his allegiance, and completely surrendered to Emperor Jiacheng.
Emperor Jiacheng would not allow Shen Shilang to have his own followers.
Anyone who gets close to him is in danger.
Shen Shilang simply didn't explain and let others despise him and stay away from him.
Su Jinshi never told Shen Shilang her guess, but she knew that was what Shen Shilang thought.
Seeing Shen Shilang working with his head down and writing seriously, Su Jinshi's heart felt heavy and painful.
Shen Shilang didn't care about these things because he had experienced deeper and more severe pain.
Those people may never know.
The day before Shen Shilang set out with the army, he was summoned to the imperial study by Emperor Jiacheng.
"How have you been these days?" asked Emperor Jiacheng.
Shen Shilang showed a look of surprise, as if he didn't understand why Emperor Jiacheng asked this, and said: "Your Majesty, I am doing very well."
"But I heard that you are not popular among your colleagues in recent days. Everyone thinks you are snobbish and turn your back on people." Emperor Jiacheng looked at Shen Shilang's lowered head with a smile, "But you think you are promoted too quickly, so you don't take your colleagues seriously?"
Eunuch Shen stood aside, looking at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose.
Even though she had followed Emperor Jiacheng for decades, she couldn't help but sigh every time that Emperor Jiacheng really cared about these trivial matters.
"I dare not!" Shen Shilang said calmly, "I am only loyal to Your Majesty. I don't care what others think. If Your Majesty asks me to save General Wei, I will go. I am not talented, but I am willing to be a sword."
This means that I will just be a lone minister.
He would get rid of anyone that Emperor Jiacheng wanted him to get rid of.
Therefore, he does not need to have a good relationship with anyone.
Emperor Jiacheng showed some satisfaction in his eyes. He looked at Shen Shilang quietly for a while before saying, "If you want to be my sword, it depends on whether you are qualified enough."
"I will definitely try my best." Shen Shilang said in a deep voice.
"Go ahead." Emperor Jiacheng said calmly.
Before dawn the next day, Shen Shilang was about to set off. He took Youmi with him, and the invisible Su Jinshi was beside him.
Shen Shilang couldn't leave Youmi at home either.
There were no servants in the house, and when he was away, no one fed Youmi.
The army was gathering outside the city and waiting. General Zhongwu Quan Guanran's deputy general Sheng Jinchao asked impatiently, "When will Shen Shilang arrive?"
"It's not time to move camp yet, let's wait." Quan Guanran said coldly.
Sheng Jinchao looked around and whispered to Quan Guanran, "General, I don't know what His Majesty is thinking. He actually sent a man who has just entered the court and knows nothing to supervise the army. What can a weak scholar like him know? Don't give us blind orders and hold us back!"
"It is not his turn to make decisions about military affairs." Quan Guanran said coldly, "Don't pay attention to him. If he knows how to respect you, he will just be a decoration. If he wants to show off his presence, we will just pretend he doesn't exist! He is just a fifth-rank general, I am not afraid of him."
"I heard that Shen Shilang is a mean person." Sheng Jinchao whispered, "I don't know what tricks he used, but he was promoted from a small sixth-rank official to a fifth-rank imperial censor right after he passed the imperial examination, and was also sent to be a military supervisor. I heard that right after he was promoted, he turned his back on his former classmates. When people came to congratulate him, he closed the door and refused to see anyone. What he did was really embarrassing."
"Such a villain actually wants to supervise the army." Sheng Jinchao said, "I heard that he was favored by General Wei. His parents died early, and he was taken into the mansion by General Wei. He was able to study under the care of the Wei Mansion and is now what he is today. Who would have thought that after he won the first place in the imperial examination, he broke up with the Wei Mansion just after the New Year and ran to the capital to take the imperial examination. What an ungrateful person."
Shen Shilang's reputation in Beijing is now extremely bad.
As a result, people didn't even bother to find out why Shen Shilang left the Wei Mansion in the first place. They just heard that he broke up with the Wei Mansion and simply assumed it was Shen Shilang's fault.
"I just hope that when we go to support General Wei this time, he won't cause trouble from the side." Sheng Jinzhao muttered.
"General, Shen Shilang is here." The soldier came to report.
Quan Guanran and Sheng Jinzhao looked over and saw Shen Shilang wearing a black suit and a black cloak, and had just passed through the city gate.
What is surprising is that there is a majestic big dog following him.
The dog was nearly half a man's height, and its brown fur shone brightly in the sun.
"Is that a wolf or a dog?" Sheng Jinzhao asked in surprise.
"Like a wolfhound." Quan Guanran faced the sun and squinted his eyes because of the brightness.
Shen Shilang is just a scholar, but he actually keeps such a majestic wolfhound? I don't know if it's because of the wolfhound that Shen Shilang looks a bit stern.
When Shen Shilang, wearing black clothes and black boots, walked towards them step by step, people couldn't help but feel nervous.
Shen Shilang walked up to Quan Guanran and said, "General Quan."
"Lord Shen." Quan Guanran nodded coldly.
Shen Shilang didn't care.
Please...collect 6...9...books...!
After a while, it was time to set off.
At Quan Guanran's command, the entire army set out in unison.
Shen Shilang also rode along. Quan Guanran looked at him with some surprise, but still did not speak to Shen Shilang.
Then he thought that Shen Shilang had lived in Wei's mansion after all, and he probably learned how to ride a horse.
The team hurried along, and Quan Guanran became more and more surprised.
Along the way, Shen Shilang never complained, but just followed along without slowing down at all.
Quan Guanran's opinion of Shen Shilang changed a little.
Shen Shilang is not that kind of weak scholar.
The journey was smooth and they arrived at the border as Quan Guanran had estimated, and joined up with Wei Zhaoxian's army.
Wei Jianlang came over in person, and Quan Guanran looked back and asked, "Is General Wei in the camp?"
Wei Jianlang looked gloomy, shook his head, and said, "The general led the army to meet the enemy."
Seeing that his expression was not right, Shen Shilang suppressed his doubts and waited until all Guan Ran and others entered the tent. Then Shen Shilang said to Wei Jianlang who had not yet entered the tent: "General Wei, I have just arrived and I am not familiar with everything in the army. Can you take me to familiarize myself with it?"
Wei Zhaoxian had already told Wei Jianlang about Shen Shilang's plan, so Wei Jianlang did not show any enthusiasm towards Shen Shilang this time. Instead, he was a little cold.
At this time, Wei Jianlang nodded reluctantly, "Yes."
"Please come this way, Lord Shen." Wei Jianlang said lightly.
In the tent, Sheng Jinchao whispered to Quan Guanran, "It seems that Shen Shilang's relationship with the Wei family is really not that good. Wei Jianlang is indifferent to him."
"Be careful with your words." Quan Guanran warned.
Sheng Jinzhao closed his mouth and stopped talking.
Shen Shilang and Wei Jianlang walked a little further away from Quan Guanran's tent before asking, "What's going on? How is the general?"
"How do you know..." Wei Jianlang was surprised. He didn't expect Shen Shilang to see through it.
(End of this chapter)