Chapter 400 King Yan wants him to die at midnight
Jiang Yingcheng was eating melons at a critical moment. After hearing the noise, he looked up with concern. After confirming that it was nothing serious, he happily lowered his head and devoted himself to eating melons again.
Jiang Yanchuan's meaningful gaze paused for a long while on Eunuch Changshun's face, then he glanced at General Kan's memorial thoughtfully, and finally turned his wrist lightly -
“Bang!”
The memorial that had just been lying neatly on the desk suddenly fell to the ground. Eunuch Changshun was startled, and his eyes slowly raised from the memorial to meet Emperor Mingze's gaze, which was obviously urging.
In just a moment, he understood the meaning of that look——
Pick it up, read it aloud, and change the topic to the main business.
Eunuch Changshun: "..."
Eunuch Changshun felt bitter.
Under normal circumstances, if the official accidentally dropped a memorial to the ground, even if he needed to pick it up, he must not peek at its contents.
There is no absolute in this matter.
If the emperor needed him to help read out the contents of memorials, or to classify them according to their importance, he could just act as an emotionless reading machine.
Can……
No matter which situation it is, it has nothing to do with the current situation.
Without the prior consent of Emperor Mingze, he peeked at the contents and even "accidentally" read them out loud...
If word of this gets to the ears of those ministers, the memorials impeaching him will be as thick as the "small mountain" on the desk today!
What kind of human suffering is this!
Swallowing bitter tears, Eunuch Changshun took a deep breath and rushed forward with the determination to die bravely.
He picked up the memorial, looking through it in a panic. He accidentally glanced at it and exclaimed in surprise: "Your Majesty! The content of this memorial is about the Beiming War!!"
The whole set of movements was smooth and flowing, and the expression on his face was extremely natural, as if he really did not do it at the instruction of Emperor Mingze.
Jiang Yingcheng finally raised her head from the gossip that filled the screen and looked blankly at her Uncle Changshun.
There was only complete suspicion in his eyes.
[Uncle Changshun, do you want to die?! ]
Eunuch Changshun: "..."
King Yan wanted him to die at the third watch, so how could he dare to delay until the fifth watch?
Jiang Yanchuan nodded with satisfaction and scolded, "How outrageous!"
Eunuch Changshun bent his knees and knelt down on the spot: "Your Majesty, please spare my life. I was careless for a moment and made such a big mistake. I hope Your Majesty will punish me!"
Jiang Yanchuan deliberately paused for a moment and tilted his head slightly. Not long after, he heard the young man's hurried pleading voice.
“Father, please don’t blame Uncle Changshun—” The whimpering voice even had a hint of tears in it, “Uncle Changshun must have been too tired from accompanying Chengcheng out to play, and he was distracted for a moment, so he accidentally read Father’s memorial!”
In a corner that the young man couldn't see, Jiang Yanchuan's lips curled up slightly, and then he sighed slightly: "Since Yingcheng has begged for mercy, I will spare your death penalty."
"Go get twenty for yourself—"
The hand that was holding the boy's forearm suddenly tightened. Noticing the boy's nervousness, Jiang Yanchuan immediately changed his words and said, "Go get ten beatings yourself."
Eunuch Changshun kowtowed repeatedly in gratitude and was soon dragged to the backyard. Not long after, very realistic cries of pain were heard.
“Ah! Ouch!! It hurts, it hurts—”
Every time Eunuch Changshun's cry rang out, Jiang Yingcheng would tremble unconsciously.
Before the young man and "Brother Tong" could inquire about the situation of Eunuch Changshun, Jiang Yanchuan spoke up and interrupted her attention.
"Speaking of Beiming," Jiang Yanchuan reached out and stroked the little guy's furry head twice, "Father also has something to say to Chengcheng."
——There were no outsiders in Yu's study. If he mentioned the contents of the memorial himself, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. But since the matter was accidentally mentioned by Eunuch Changshun, he could just go with the flow.
Jiang Yingcheng hadn't recovered from the sudden situation yet. When she raised her head, the expression of heartache that made her gasp hadn't yet disappeared from her face, and there was still a daze in her eyes as she looked at her handsome father.
"hold head high?"
Jiang Yingcheng said obediently: "What is it~"
Jiang Yanchuan's eyes were deep, and he finally said what had been stuck in his heart for a long time: "Father will go with the army to the Battle of Beiming in a few days."
The moment he finished speaking, an indescribable emotion suddenly surged in his heart.
He was also very worried about the little guy's days in the palace, whether he would be wronged or not and would have no one to complain.
Fang Siwan was still under house arrest in the Xingshuang Palace. When the young man went to visit her yesterday, she lied and said that it was not appropriate to stop chanting the Buddha's name halfway. She only said a few words to the young man through the door and hurriedly ended the gathering.
He knew that the young man missed his "mother" very much, but he put Fang Siwan under house arrest. On the one hand, it was a punishment for her act of changing her child. On the other hand, it was also a way to temporarily appease Fang Yiwan who was outside the palace.
Before the Battle of Beiming was over, he could not touch anyone in the Lin Mansion.
When he goes to war in person, the palace will be without her two closest people, and she doesn't know how sad the little girl will be.
Jiang Yingcheng didn't know why her beautiful father suddenly wanted to tell her about this, but -
[Hehehe, you never thought that Chengcheng would also go there to eat! ]
[When Cheng Cheng hid in the carriage and followed him to Beiming, he suddenly jumped out and gave his father a surprise! ]
Thinking of this, she looked innocent and well-behaved: "Then father, you must be careful~"
"Chengcheng will be in the palace, waiting for father to come back obediently!"
Jiang Yanchuan: “…”
If he hadn't been able to hear the boy's inner voice, he might have really been fooled by such superb acting skills.
Jiang Yanchuan felt that he sighed much more times today than in the past year.
He tried to find something for the young man to do: "Father knows that you don't like school, but the teacher who is in charge of teaching you in the palace this time is the great scholar who taught Father at that time. You should study hard in the palace. When Father comes back, he will check your homework."
Jiang Yingcheng nodded perfunctorily, not saying anything: "Yeah, yeah, okay!"
[Anyway, when Cheng Cheng runs away, Master won’t be able to do anything about it! ]
Jiang Yanchuan stared at the little girl for a long while, and there was no trace of guilt in her eyes. He wondered if this was the result of how much time she had practiced privately.
He was almost amused by this stubborn little girl.
However, he is not completely helpless.
"After a while, father will be busy preparing for the Beiming War and will have no time to take care of your daily life," Jiang Yanchuan stared into the boy's eyes and said cruelly, "When the time comes, the Empress Dowager will take you to Changning Palace and personally take care of your daily life."