Master Wei asked: "Didn't your son skip school today?"
"What are you thinking about? Is Ting'er that kind of person?"
"Then don't think about it. You can't figure it out even if you think about it. I'll ask Ting'er tomorrow."
Before Wei Ting could go to class the next day, he was asked to sneak out to see his father.
Wei Ting's skin tightened as usual when he saw his father. By the way, he just came back after a ten-day break and had one day of classes, right?
What did he do yesterday?
Wei Ting walked toward his father expressionlessly while thinking hard. In the end, he couldn't remember what bad things he had done yesterday, so he could only walk over with a straight face.
When he was about to arrive, he grabbed Bai Shan who was passing by and asked in a low voice: "Have I done anything bad recently?"
Bai Shan was in pain from being caught. He frowned slightly and followed his gaze to see Mr. Wei.
He then thought about it seriously and asked, "Does it count if you copied my homework yesterday?"
"No, Mr. Zhai won't find out about such a trivial matter, and he won't go out of his way to find my father if he finds out." Seeing that his father was impatient, Wei Ting quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Did I contradict Mr. yesterday?"
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Bai Shan shook his head, "No."
"Did you skip class?"
Bai Shan: "No."
"Did you fight with anyone?"
Bai Shan: "No."
Wei Ting breathed a sigh of relief, straightened his clothes, walked over to his father with a smile on his face, and whispered in a low voice: "I'm just telling you, I won't remember it wrong, then I didn't make a mistake."
As soon as he walked up to Mr. Wei, Mr. Wei gave him a slap on the head and asked angrily, "I'm looking for you, why are you lingering there?"
Wei Ting winced and said, "I don't know what my father wants from me, so I asked my classmates to help me and my husband take the following leave."
"What leave are you asking for? I just want to ask you a few questions," Mr. Wei asked: "Who was the classmate who sold your mother flowers last time? How did he do it?"
What's going on? Why did you hear from your mother that he let your mother and all the ladies offend the Princess of Yizhou? "
Wei Ting opened his mouth, but did not dare to say that the flower seller was Man Bao, not Bai Shan.
However, when this matter was investigated seriously, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were indeed in the same group as Zhou Man.
Wei Ting was a little confused. Under his father's gaze, he could only say: "Dad, it's a long story."
"Then keep your story short."
"Do you remember Bai Shan?"
Master Wei shook his head without thinking, "I don't remember."
Wei Ting: "..."
Wei Ting paused and said, "The one who saved Ji Hao."
When he said this, Master Wei remembered. He remembered that he had met the child at that time. He coughed lightly and asked, "His family is not bad, right? Why do he want to sell flowers?"
Wei Ting said angrily: "They are not just trying to make money. If they were just trying to make money, how could they sell such good-looking white peonies for only sixteen taels?"
Mr. Wei thought about it, and after pondering for a moment, he asked: "So they are trying to please the Princess of Yizhou? But that's not right. If they are trying to please the Princess of Yizhou, why did they make her such a big embarrassment?"
Wei Ting then told the story that they planned to sell a pot of peonies for 600 taels, but the steward of the palace forcibly bought it away with 16 taels of silver.
Mr. Wei obviously didn't expect that there was such a reason for this. He couldn't help but be stunned. After a while, he said: "So they are angry and let the princess make such a big embarrassment in front of all the ladies?"
Wei Ting coughed lightly and said, "It's not very big, right..."
Master Wei looked at him quietly, rubbed his forehead for a while and asked, "Have you known about this from the beginning?"
"No," Wei Ting immediately denied, "Father, am I such a heartless person? If I had known earlier, I would definitely not have let my mother buy that peony, and I would have stopped her from attending a flower-viewing party.
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Master Wei nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can go to class."
Wei Ting ran away quickly and ran back to the classroom to find Bai Shan, "You are famous again now."
Bai Shan raised his head and looked at him, and Wei Ting told him the question his father came to ask him, saying: "Isn't this just a matter of becoming famous? Be careful that the Yizhou Prince's Palace gives you little shoes to wear."
Ji Hao on the side snorted coldly and said, "Whatever he does, Bai Shan, my Ji family will protect you."
Wei Ting asked him angrily, "Can you represent the Ji family?"
Ji Hao blushed and said, "I can do it if I say so."
Mrs. Ji Er was not happy to have another grudge against the Yizhou Palace because of an outsider, so she looked at her mother-in-law with a troubled face.
Mrs. Ji frowned and asked, "Why do they want to sell White Peony to Princess Yizhou?"
Mrs. Ji Er immediately said: "You want to make friends with the prince, right?"
Ji Hao immediately said: "No, it's just to make money."
"Are they short of money?" Mrs. Ji Er said with a look of disbelief, "Besides, it's not good to whom to sell to, but Princess Yizhou? It's not that our family can't afford peonies. Regardless of the reason, they should go to our family first.
Come and sell it, but they don’t. Mother, I don’t think they want to have anything to do with our family.”
Apparently she still remembered that Wei Zi was not photographed.
Madam Ji glanced at her and looked at Ji Hao, "Who said they were just here to make money?"
"What Zhou Man said," Ji Hao said, "she needed money to buy raw medicinal materials, so she thought of selling peonies."
"She's not going to be a medicine merchant. How much money can she make to buy medicines?" Mrs. Ji Er looked unbelieving.
Ji Hao was speechless and speechless.
Obviously, except for people who think the same as Mrs. Ji Er, no one thinks that Bai Shanzhouman and the others thought of selling the first pot of peonies to Princess Yizhou just to make money. They only thought that they wanted to make friends with the prince, but in the end they were betrayed by the prince.
The princess was embarrassed by her troublesome slaves, and in a fit of anger, the princess and the palace were embarrassed in Yizhou City.
Originally, it was only known to a few caring people. After Mr. Wei went home and told Mrs. Wei to reassure her, within two days, the news spread throughout Yizhou City.
Not only did Lord Huang, the Jiedushi envoy, down to the county officials, but even the gangsters walking around the streets heard some rumors, they spread throughout Yizhou City.
For Zhou Man, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, this is not a bad reputation, and it has even become a good name.
In the Jin Dynasty, it was not a shame for scholars to vote for the favor of the powerful and seek a future for themselves, because at this time, to gain fame before the imperial examination, scholars would have contributed articles and poems to the powerful ministers in the court.
If you vote, you will have a good reputation. If you don't vote, you will have no reputation. If you vote, but you are embarrassed by the slaves, and then you turn around to embarrass the powerful and let the slaves be punished, that is fame.
And it’s still famous far and wide.
When Bai Shan went to the academy again, not only did his classmates look at him with kind smiles, but even the teachers in the academy praised him several times for not being afraid of the powerful.
Bai Shan:……
Man Bao, who climbed the wall and sneaked in to read, was pulled by Wei Ting to tell him how famous Bai Shan was now:...
She obviously did this, so why should Bai Shan be blamed?
Well, he was the one who took the blame, so naturally the reputation will be given to others. Man Bao remained silent and did not speak.