Chapter 143 I’m soft-hearted

"Oh oh oh..." Shen Liuzhen quickly took one out of the food box and took small bites.

Zong Ai ate in a hurry and was very angry. He choked on the cake, so he shouted to the slave who was huddled in the corner:

"Bring the wine! You have no eyesight, you are a bunch of losers!"

Then Zong Ai looked at Shen Liuzhen and asked, "Can you drink? Come have a drink with our family."

Shen Liuzhen smiled very obediently and said with his hands in hand: "... Common people only drink it when they get a drop of it. They really don't know how to drink it."

What a joke, he had a lot of hidden thoughts, and if he poured them all out when he was drunk, wouldn't it be revealed on the spot and he would be finished immediately?

Zong Ai rolled his eyes at him with disdain and said, "You are now in your 14th or 5th year, right? Don't you think you can't even drink wine? This level of drinking is just a little bit of training. If you don't drink, you will never be able to drink."

Shen Liuzhen pursed his lips, revealing a pair of innocent and harmless dimples, and responded: "Yes... what the Grand Master said makes sense."

After a while, the slave came over with wine and placed it on the table. Zong Ai immediately filled a glass and stuffed it directly into Shen Liuzhen's hand.

Under Zong Ai's gaze, Shen Liuzhen pressed his lips together with a grimace, and said sheepishly: "I'd better accompany the Grand Master to sip it bit by bit. Otherwise, I'll drink this cup immediately." How can you drink with the Grand Master when he is lying here unconscious?"

Zong Ai agreed upon hearing this. He was depressed and wanted to find someone to talk to. It happened that Shen Liuzhen was a child. He had no official position in Pingcheng. He was usually obedient and would not offend anyone. What he was saying to his heart was It couldn't be more appropriate.

So Zong Ai directly took the wine glass and drank three glasses in a row, beat his chest and sighed:

"I really...I really regret it."

Shen Liuzhen held the small wine glass in both hands, looking ignorant, and asked cooperatively: "...Why does the Grand Master regret anything?"

"I am a Han and an eunuch. Those Xianbei nobles never take our family seriously. We are not fools. How could we not know about this? But in the past, His Majesty trusted me so much. Even if they looked down on me, they would still They have to smile playfully at our family and do what I like. But now?...Now they really treat our family as fools and decorations, and they don't take our family seriously!

Just that little emperor took all the money from the treasury and used it to reward the Xianbei people, so our family got a house and a little money!"

He waved his hands angrily and said: "Those people from outside think that I can help them find an official position and get some benefits! Bah, who knew that I am messing around now, and all my own benefits are gone?" I don’t know where to get it!”

Shen Liuzhen said in confusion: "How could this happen? The Grand Master is the hero who assisted the new emperor in ascending the throne, and they treat you like this?...Isn't this ungrateful?"

"It's just those barbarians who crawled out of the barren land and barely learned how to speak! Do you expect them to know what kindness is? Bah!" Zong Ai said, picking up the wine pot and taking several sips of wine.

Shen Liuzhen shook his eyes nervously and whispered to him with a small glass in his hand:

"Grand Master... be careful, this is the court of the Xianbei people. It will be detrimental to you if these words are spread to their ears..."

Zong Ai was already drunk because of his anger and half a bottle of wine, and said: "Bah... they don't look down on me, and they expect me to look up to them. They know their own virtues very well... Shameless! I just don’t want to admit it!”

"Master Taishi..." Shen Liuzhen looked worried and timid, holding the small wine glass in both hands and fidgeting.

Zong Ai looked at him and sneered, and said: "...Look at how scared you are, you are not afraid of me!"

The whites of his eyes bulged out, showing madness, and he said: "I even killed their Emperor... Am I afraid of them?!"

Shen Liuzhen was startled and stood there holding the wine glass. He thought for a while and then took another sip of wine without saying a word.

After a while, Zong Ai suddenly started crying, his expression distorted and tears streaming down his face:

"I regret it. I made a mistake every step of the way...I shouldn't have destroyed the prince's letter in the first place..."

Shen Liuzhen looked at the wine in the glass and froze there, not daring to make any reaction. He just couldn't help but bite his cheek.

His shadow was reflected in the wine glass, and his eyes were calm and full of hatred. He didn't dare to look up.

I heard Zong Ai suddenly stop crying and said suddenly:

"That's not right! I can only destroy him! He can't deal with me. If he becomes the emperor, will he still have mine?! Who told him to go against me?!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand to shake Shen Liuzhen, who had his head lowered, and said:

"You don't know, when I saw the letter from His Highness the Crown Prince, I felt soft-hearted as an outsider. I thought... This is such a good son. He was almost, just a little bit... My soft-hearted spirit came up, so I followed Your Majesty said good things.

But then I thought about it, no...if he gets better, can he still have mine? So I told Your Majesty, in that letter, he was complaining about his hard work!"

Zong Ai burped, smelling of wine, and said: "... As expected, His Majesty became angry as soon as he heard it, and reprimanded the prince... We brought His Majesty's oral instructions to our family and told them intact. Listen to the prince, who would have thought that the prince would die all of a sudden?!"

When he said this, he patted Shen Liuzhen on the shoulder with a sad face and said: "Child... you know me, I am soft-hearted, I am not a bad person! I just thought to myself, as long as he can't be the emperor, who knows He died all of a sudden?! Can you blame me?!"

Shen Liuzhen felt cold in his heart, so he fell down on the table in front of him, closed his eyes, dropped the wine glass in his hand, and spilled the wine on his clothes.

Zong Ai was stunned for a moment. The person who was already confused by drinking could only spit out the bitter water in his heart. So after a short period of silence, he picked up the wine bottle and drank a lot, crying bitterly and saying:

"Our family feels sorry for Your Majesty... Our family has been with His Majesty for half of our lives, fighting in the north and south. We have a deep friendship. Your Majesty once said that he promised our family a lifetime of prosperity and wealth..."

He cried and patted his legs and said: "But I know him too well... His son died, and I feel very sorry. If when he comes to his senses and realizes that I distorted the meaning of the letter, he will be angry." They will definitely kill me!"

He cried heartbrokenly and said: "I don't want to die yet... I really don't want to die... Your Majesty... I'm sorry for you... I'm sorry for you."

Shen Liuzhen lay on the table, his closed eyelids shook slightly, and he opened a gap slightly, looking at Zong Ai who was crying and crying across from him. The eyes in the gap were dark and lightless, like a deep pool of black water, and Slowly closed...
Chapter completed!