NFBE Chapter 371 I can only stay here for the rest of my life and cannot leave
Chapter 371 I can only stay here for the rest of my life and cannot leave
It has been two months since Shen Nanzhi secretly entered the Regent's Palace. She has been appearing as Nanzhi all this time, busy with the affairs of Duke Shen and the readjustment of the Imperial City Bureau. It feels like she is starting a new business.
The Imperial City Bureau is very important to Qi Yunxu. It is not only an intelligence agency, but also allows the maintenance of officials with an indefinite number. In Shen Nanzhi's view, doesn't this mean that he can support his own army?
Moreover, the Imperial City Division is Qi Yunxu's direct line, the only one loyal to him. Only the strength of the Imperial City Division can allow Qi Yunxu to escape unscathed from future changes in imperial power, so it is crucial.
The outside world actually has little interest in Nanzhi, the deputy director. Instead, they are all focused on Shen Nanzhi. As expected, people are curious. The less they know, the more they want to find out the truth. They are trying their best to dig out the true identity of the regent's woman.
Qi Yunxu knew this would happen, so he didn't dare let Shen Nanzhi enter through the main gate openly. That would be like using her as a target, which would really harm her.
For the purpose of protection and also wanting her to stay with him, Qi Yunxu brought forward his previous plan and allowed Shen Nanzhi to enter the palace.
Now the Queen Mother's patience was almost exhausted, and Qi Yunxu had no choice but to let Shen Nanzhi come forward to deal with it.
But she was quite happy and quietly lit candles for the Queen Mother.
Because of the new opponent, Shen Nanzhi had to work overtime at night and enter the space to deal with various complicated affairs of the Imperial City Bureau.
Two days of working in the office every night is equivalent to just over two hours outside. This space really makes Shen Nanzhi feel much more relaxed.
Her office efficiency is also very high, which means that she can complete the work of ten people by herself. If she had this space in her previous life, she would probably have become the richest person in the world.
There are now two more people in the space, Awen and Ayu.
Shen Nanzhi felt very sympathetic towards this brother and sister. They grew up in misery and no one would miss them even if they died. They had been missing for so long and no one even asked about their bodies. Shen Nanzhi felt indescribably complicated.
Human life is really worthless.
Awen was lucky and survived. He was also lucky. The kitchen knife did not really cut the artery, but only the superficial flesh and blood. Although the blood was gushing out, it was actually a superficial wound.
Shen Nanzhi had the wound sutured in time, so he only needed to rest for a few days to recover.
His sister Ayu's condition was more serious. She had a congenital heart disease. Even the imperial physician could not guarantee her survival.
In modern society, the only way to survive this disease is to have a heart transplant.
Her condition won't get worse in this space, but we can't give her a new heart.
A Yu can run and jump here, and doesn't feel suffocated or breathless at all. She gradually falls in love with this place.
Shen Nanzhi originally planned to cure them both and arrange new identities for them to live somewhere else, but with A Yu in such a condition, she would die if she went out.
The two of them stayed obediently in the small courtyard and did not dare to go out, for fear of angering the owner of the house. Deep down, they are kind and honest little people.
Shen Nanzhi could only let Awen make the decision, "Awen, you can leave here. I will arrange a new identity for you so that you can get married and have children, and live a peaceful and stable life."
"Where's Ayu? What about Ayu?"
Awen doesn't think about himself, he only worries about his sister. Without his sister, how can he live his life in peace?
"Ayu can't leave. I won't hide it from you. The environment here is suitable for Ayu to recuperate. If she leaves here, she will die.
I can let you come to see her once a year. Brothers and sisters also have to separate sometimes, and everyone has their own life to go on."
"No, I have to stay with Ayu. She has never left me. I am worried about her."
"Why are you so stubborn?"
Shen Nanzhi lost her patience. She left Ah Yu behind so that she could tell her the secret in the space. She could never afford it in her lifetime anyway.
The space also has an extra housekeeper to help her manage it, so Ayu won't be bored. But with the addition of Awen, there will be a lot more variables.
"Thank you for saving me, young lady. I know you are not an ordinary person, and this is not an ordinary place either. It is like a fairy's cave. Aren't you afraid that if you let me out, I will tell others?"
Shen Nanzhi narrowed his eyes, with murderous intent in his eyes: "Are you threatening me?"
"No, I just don't want to be separated from my sister. Please help me."
Awen knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply, his eyes full of pleading.
Shen Nanzhi: "..."
Damn, it's obviously a good thing, but she is made to look like a bad person.
"If you want to stay, you will never be able to leave for the rest of your life. Until the day you die, you will never see anyone again. You can only live in this small world. This is equivalent to trapping you for the rest of your life. You must think it through."
Ah Wen said calmly: "When we lived in Luzuo before, we couldn't afford to go out. We never stepped out of the door since we were young, and no one would let us go out.
Now we are here, with mountains and water, food and shelter, we are comfortable, and there are no officials or evil people who beat or oppress us, so it doesn't matter if we don't go out.
I like it here very much. I don’t want to go out and face those bad guys outside again.”
Shen Nanzhi sighed. This was because he had been confined since childhood and was afraid of contact with the outside world. His personality had been fixed. Trying to change it was like a rebirth. It was not happiness for him, but cruel instead.
"Well, since you have made up your mind, there will be no room for regret in the future. Come out with me and I will arrange work for you. I don't want to keep idle people here."
The brother and sister instead breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they had work to do, it meant that they were still valuable. They were not afraid of working, but were afraid of being idle.
The two of them walked out of the separate small courtyard, and just after turning a wall, they were in a different world and were stunned.
Herds of cattle, sheep and horses are grazing leisurely. The endless rice fields are ripe and the rice ears are heavy, but no one is harvesting them.
There are some unknown plants planted on the hillside in the distance, and everything is full of vitality.
"Ouch!"
A tiger roar was heard, and the little tiger came over lazily. The two were not afraid at all and asked, "What is this?"
Shen Nanzhi looked at them strangely: "Aren't you afraid of tigers? They will eat people."
"This is a tiger. I've only heard about it from old people in stories. This is the first time I've seen one. It's so big!"
A Yu was very curious and went forward to touch it. It was really ignorant and fearless.
The little tiger fell down and rolled over, feeling itchy, so A Yu touched its belly. The little tiger squinted its eyes in satisfaction, as if to say, "Keep scratching me, and serve me, Lord Tiger."
Ah Wen was a little more timid: "Ah Yu, don't move it, what if it hurts you?"
Xiaohu snorted at him and asked, "Master Tiger, is he the kind of person who would eat people casually?"
There are so many cows, sheep, chickens and ducks, and they are all different to eat. Why would they want to eat a two-legged sheep like you?
He is so skinny that he has barely any meat on him, just bones, and yet he still complains that he hurts his teeth.
Ah Wen understood for once, "Does it dislike me?"
"Well, he dislikes you because you are thin and don't have much to eat. He also suspects that it wants to eat people. He looks down on Lord Tiger."
Shen Nanzhi joked, and Awen smiled shyly, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that you were hurtful."
"Ouch!"
Xiaohu didn't bother with him and got along well with Ayu. Ayu had a simple mind and seldom went out since she was a child due to poor health. The simpler a person is, the more animals like him or her. They soon started playing together with Xiaohu, and her laughter could be heard everywhere.