Chapter 142 Emperor: When will my reputation improve?

In order to prepare for his brother and sister-in-law's birthday gifts, Shen Yuan has been busy these days.

"Hiss! Shen Su better be moved to tears! Otherwise I won't let him go."

After being stabbed in the hand for who knows how many times, Shen Yuan muttered angrily.

Qing Dai also felt sorry for her daughter, "Girl, you've barely held a needle and thread before, why do you want to do this?"

"I thought it was pretty simple... Never mind. Once the arrow is shot, it cannot be retrieved. Ask Fuling to prepare some more medicine for me. I've already been injected so many times. I can't let it go in vain."

Shen Yuan had hardly ever done needlework, let alone embroidery. She had the idea of ​​doing this on impulse. The idea was so beautiful that she was moved to tears. But when she started doing it, she almost cried.

It took more than ten days to make the gift for my brother. Fortunately, she is now more familiar with it, so it will be much faster to make the gift for my sister-in-law.

In a blink of an eye, it was February 20th. When the family was having dinner together, Mrs. Shen said she wanted to go to Yunjue Temple to burn incense.

"Kang Ge'er will take the exam soon, and as a grandmother, I can't do anything else, so I thought of asking the Buddha for him. The eldest daughter-in-law and Xixi will come with me, and Yingniang, you stay at home. You are in a heavy body, so don't bother yourself."

"Thank you, grandma, for worrying about your grandson."

"It's nothing for me to worry about going to the temple. You are studying hard. Grandma can't help you with anything else."

The family agreed that they would get ready tomorrow and go up the mountain to Yunjue Temple the day after tomorrow, where they would stay overnight before returning.

Shen Yuan listened for a long time and heard that they had already discussed it and didn't mention him. He put down his chopsticks and said, "Grandma, did you forget about me? I want to go too."

"No, you can't go. Have you forgotten what happened to you last time you went to Yunjue Temple? Maybe you just have a conflict with temples."

Old Madam Shen thought back to the time when she received the letter from her son, telling her that her granddaughter was seriously ill. She was so angry that she didn't tell her when she was sick, and only wrote to tell her after she recovered.

"That time, there was a reason. Can't I just not run around or move around this time?"

Shen Yuan knew clearly in her heart that there was no conflict at all. It might be a great gift from Buddha to her.

"Mother, let Manman go. I will go too and look after her myself."

Shen Yun was also thinking that maybe there really was some kind of connection with the Yunjue Temple, and he selfishly wanted his daughter to lose the so-called "mind-listening skill". The person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it, and maybe the answer was still in the temple.

"You're going? You're not going to the Dali Temple to be on duty? I'll just watch her."

"Yes, Dad, you are the Minister of the Dali Temple. Is it okay for you to take the lead in not going on duty?"

"It's okay for me to take two days off. The Dali Temple isn't busy these days."

It was all thanks to the imperial examination that after the New Year, candidates from all over the country began to go to the capital one after another. In order to ensure that the candidates could arrive in the capital safely, all prefectures had soldiers patrolling along the official roads.

In order to show the capital's style to the outside candidates, the people of Beijing have spontaneously begun to maintain the image of Beijing. Not to mention breaking the law and committing crimes, even the number of people spitting has decreased a lot.

So it was settled. Shen Yun will be on duty tomorrow as usual and will take leave on the 22nd and 23rd.

He himself was the Minister of Dali Temple, so he did not need to ask anyone for permission if he wanted to take two days off. He only had to write down the reason on the attendance book.

The next day, Shen Yun came home from work, and he came back with more than one person, he brought back three.

"Manman, I heard from my uncle that you were going to Yunjue Temple, so I thought I might as well let Dark Night Shadow come over to be your bodyguard and go to Yunjue Temple with you."

Shen Yuan didn't take Xie Hui's words seriously last time, but he didn't expect that Xie Hui would actually bring the person here so soon.

Shen Yuan glanced at the shadows in the night, pulled Xie Hui aside and asked him softly, "They are shadow guards! Don't you think it's a waste of talent to be my bodyguards? I stay at home every day, and at most I go out to the streets to expose some bad vendors. The last time I was kidnapped was a major event that hadn't happened in more than ten years."

Shen Yuan forgot again. To Shadow Guard, her whispers were no different from whispers into their ears.

"Reply to the girl! We don't think it's a waste of talent!"

The sudden sound startled Shen Yuan.

"Manman, don't worry. The emperor asked them at the time that they could continue to stay in the palace as ordinary guards even if they didn't want to be shadow guards. But they chose to leave the palace themselves. From now on, they will be your guards."

Shen Yuan walked around the two of them twice and asked, "How much do you get paid per month as shadow guards?"

"To answer the girl, one month two..."

Shadow interrupted Dark Night and said, "Twenty taels a month."

An Ye looked at Anying in surprise, then shut his mouth and said nothing more.

"What about rest days? How many hours are you on duty per day?"

"To answer the young lady, there is no day off and the duty is eight hours a day."

"Eight hours?! Isn't there only four hours of rest a day?"

"Two hours of rest, and the remaining two hours of training."

"It's not easy! If you stay, your salary will still be 20 taels a month. There are no requirements for my duties here. You can do whatever you want while I'm not leaving the house."

"Reply to the young lady! Sir Xie has already given us a salary for the next year."

"Okay then, let the butler arrange accommodation for you first." Shen Yuan asked the maid to call the butler and ask him to arrange accommodation for the two of them.

"Hey, wait a minute." Before leaving, Shen Yuan stopped him again, "Since you are not a Shadow Guard anymore, then you don't need to be called Dark Night Shadow, right? But you should think about how to call it a habit first, and we'll talk about it later."

After everyone left, Shen Yuan said to Xie Hui, "They work so hard, only earning 20 taels a month, and resting for two hours a day. The emperor is too stingy. No wonder he doesn't want to work anymore. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to work for a whole day."

"I heard that there are also red envelopes at the end of the year." Xie Hui knew that it was impossible for a shadow guard to make 20 taels a month...but the duty and rest time were indeed real, and the emperor was not wronged.

"Even if there is a red seal, you can't do this!"

Seeing Shen Yuan's angry face, Xie Hui quickly changed the subject, "Manman, you said last time that your brother's birthday was this month? Has it passed yet?"

"No, it's February 26th, which is still a few days away. Why, do you want to express your feelings?"

Xie Hui nodded, "Of course."

"You don't ask me what I have prepared?"

"We'll know on that day. What if I find out first and can't help but tell my brother? I've already told you that I'm not a tight-lipped person."

Xie Hui also thought of the first time she said this, "It's not serious, it's good."

——Small Theater

Dark Night: We are clearly paid two hundred taels a month.

Shadow: Do you have any brains? What if Miss Shen doesn't let us do it here? And is two hundred taels a lot?! We deserve it.