After their minds were read, the entire court trembled with fear.

Chapter 221 Zhang Sheren, Your Wife Has Someone in Her Heart

After pondering for a while, the old emperor understood the purpose of the governor of Xuzhou.

Ha, he just wants to find out who the voice in his head is.

He knocked on Shen Zhiyi's door first, probably because he thought the voice he heard was most likely from Shen Zhiyi.

But the person didn't reply, so he went to find Zhang Sheren again to confirm.

The governor of Xuzhou is indeed a cautious person.

After Zhang Sheren opened the door, the governor of Xuzhou squeezed in, and the two chatted amiably, as if they had known each other for a long time.

If Zhang Sheren were awake at this moment, he would definitely accuse Shen Zhiyi of spreading rumors.

He wasn't having a pleasant conversation with the other person at all; he was clearly being forced to drink excessively.

[The drunken Zhang Sheren even received three beautiful women sent by the governor of Xuzhou, tsk tsk tsk.]

[System, please blur the rest of the image!]

As it turns out, the system didn't need to censor the image, because the drunk Zhang Sheren couldn't get an erection at all and just fell asleep immediately.

[Zhang Sheren, your sleeping posture is really terrible. Now I finally understand why your wife wants to sleep in a separate room from you.]

Shen Zhiyi began to comment on Zhang Sheren's sleeping posture through the surveillance video.

[She was initially lying horizontally on the bed, but in less than half an hour, she was lying upright.]

[Less than half an hour later, he did a full 360-degree spin on the bed, kicking all the girls off the bed.]

This sleeping posture is truly unprecedented and will likely never be repeated. It's awful, absolutely awful.

The old emperor shook his head helplessly.

Order someone to throw the woman in Zhang Sheren's room to the governor of Xuzhou.

After seeing the three women with bitter faces, the governor of Xuzhou was terrified for a whole day, fearing that the old emperor would come looking for him.

On the other side, Zhang Sheren, who had woken up naturally, noticed something amiss with the sunlight and quickly got up.

He washed up and dressed at lightning speed, completely forgetting that something was missing from his room.

As soon as I stepped outside...

"Oh, it's Zhang Sheren."

"Wow, you look radiant."

"Oh, Zhang Sheren, did you sleep well last night?"

"Oh, it seems Zhang Sheren is quite the ladies' man."

"Yo……"

Zhang Sheren covered his ears, feeling overwhelmed.

This isn't right.

He was completely baffled, only feeling that these officials looked rather strange.

His first reaction was...

Could it be that Shen Zhiyi told him some gossip?

He stopped looking for the old emperor's feet and turned to look at the Minister of Works who was drinking tea.

"Minister of Works, Shen, Shen Lang, she..." What exactly did she say about him?

The Minister of Works smiled but remained silent.

Seeing that he couldn't dig anything out, he looked at the Minister of War next to him.

The Minister of War smiled rather lewdly, but still couldn't uncover anything.

Zhang Sheren became increasingly alarmed as he thought about it.

He didn't know what was so strange about him, but everyone's reaction clearly indicated something was wrong.

"My lords, please stop teasing me. What exactly did Shen Lang say?"

The Minister of War smacked his lips: "He didn't say anything. We all admire Zhang Sheren for being able to fall asleep in front of three beauties in one night."

Zhang Sheren was stunned as the memories of his drunken night were forcibly reopened.

His lips trembled as he hurriedly ran to find the old emperor.

The old emperor was having breakfast when he saw Zhang Sheren, who was clearly in a hurry but was trying to appear calm, and he couldn't help but laugh.

He forced a smile and feigned ignorance, asking, "What's wrong, Zhang Sheren?"

"Your Majesty, I wish to file a complaint against the Governor of Xuzhou."

The governor of Xuzhou would surely be heartbroken if he knew that his good intentions in preparing fine wine and beautiful women for Zhang Sheren had led to Zhang accusing him the very next day.

He's not sad at all; he's even more heartbroken now.

Zhang Sheren gritted his teeth and began to accuse the governor of Xuzhou of getting him drunk and putting people in his bed, which was an attempt to ruin his reputation.

"Pfft, cough cough cough."

The old emperor coughed a few times, then said rather speechlessly, "You're a grown man, and you still have a clean reputation?"

"Your Majesty! My heart belongs only to you, my lady."

[Ha, Zhang Sheren, don't think I don't know you. It's just that you don't have enough money. If you had enough money to keep a concubine, I don't believe you wouldn't.]

Zhang Sheren: That's alarmist!

[Zhang Sheren and his wife had an arranged marriage; they had never met before their wedding. Most importantly, Zhang Sheren's wife already had someone she loved.]

Zhang Sheren stiffly turned his head to look at Shen Zhiyi.

What did you say? His wife actually has someone she likes?!

How could her husband not know?!

Chen Decai lowered his voice and comforted him, "Zhang Sheren, you are the one who should never let anyone know about this. It's alright. Although your wife has someone she loves, she is yours, and the child is yours too."

Zhang Sheren looked at Chen Decai, but swallowed back what he wanted to say. In the end, he could only say one sentence.

"I never expected you to be such a talented person!"

[Alas, I truly feel sorry for Zhang Sheren.]

Zhang Sheren's eyebrows twitched. Looking at the old emperor opposite him, who seemed to be enjoying the spectacle, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Turning around, I saw many figures behind the door.

Sure enough, they all came!

[The man Zhang Sheren's beloved went to the army. Before leaving, he told her that he would return to marry her after accumulating military merits. But he never came back; he died on the battlefield, at the time when Zhang Sheren loved him the most.]

The unrequited love isn't scary; what's scary is a dead unrequited love.

The more Shen Zhiyi looked at her, the more she felt that her good colleague had no chance of winning.

Zhang Sheren, who was originally indifferent, became competitive after Shen Zhiyi stirred his competitive spirit.

How could his wife not love him!

He was going to write a plan to win over his wife before returning to Dajing. He refused to believe that he couldn't win over the white moonlight in his wife's heart that had long since met its demise.

snort!

After that, Zhang Sheren held two notebooks in his hands.

One was used to record the old emperor's deeds, and the other was used to prepare their own strategy plans.

I'm incredibly busy.

I was so busy that I didn't notice that my good colleague Shen Zhiyi also seemed to be very busy lately, and often found excuses to go out.

The old emperor looked at the report on the situation in Xuzhou over the years, but couldn't concentrate on reading a single word.

He simply put down what he was holding.

"What on earth did Shen Zhiyi do? Why didn't she come up with a reason to change things?"

Chen Decai also admired Shen Zhiyi for always using the excuse of needing to relieve herself to ask for leave, and that she always used a large stool.

Only she would dare to do something like this; any other person who was demoted would be considered lucky.

"Your Majesty, shall I go and take a look?"

"No, I'll go myself."

He had a suspicion in his mind and wanted to confirm it.

The old emperor took the two men directly to the governor of Xuzhou.

The governor of Xuzhou was sitting in the waterside pavilion in his residence, with a stone table in front of him piled high with pastries.

"Young man, look at this, lotus flower pastry, crispy and sweet, have a taste."

Seasonal pastries are bound to taste amazing.

"And this, the Hundred Flower Cake, one bite and the fragrance of flowers fills your mouth, making you want to linger."

Can you taste a hundred different floral scents in one bite?

"And there's more..."

Ah, they all look so delicious! It's such a shame my stomach is so small!

The old emperor and his entourage on the other side of the lake: ...