Chapter 231: Withered bones in the tomb, endless love words
Although Zhang Shou did point out a way, the second prince could not trust him at all. In addition, he was unwilling to bet on his father's trust in him. Therefore, he decided to risk everything and bet that he would be with the eldest prince for many years.
After all, they have a common mother, so their talents have something in common.
Of course the second prince knew that it would be easier to get things from Zhang Shou and others, but after already alerting Yin Wangjie of Shuntian Prefecture, it would be too easy to alert his father by going to Zhang Shou, so he could only choose to use
Use your life to fill the gap and open a breakthrough from the eldest prince.
However, in more than ten days, seven or eight of the dead soldiers around him died, but nothing was found. Not only that, the second prince also received five fingers from the eldest prince, and a bloody card was also included in the box.
The note from - The things that come into my hands cannot be stolen by ghosts and gods!
This arrogant note made the second prince smash the study room in anger. Why didn't he understand that the eldest prince was not talking about the mere textile machinery at all, but was alluding to the Eastern Palace that the two of them had been fighting over, and even the future.
The throne!
The clearer he became, the angrier and more unwilling he became. After much deliberation, he even thought about asking the queen for help, but in the end he gave up the idea. After all, he had seen it clearly. Compared to him,
, the mother is always more partial to his eldest brother. Because he is the legitimate eldest son and the most popular one in the East Palace.
But the anger in his heart became more and more difficult to eliminate. Wang Jie tried again and again to interrogate the guards in his palace, so that everyone was in danger. Some people even talked behind their backs about when the Yin of Shuntian Palace would be selfless and honest.
The second prince was also brought to the Shuntian Mansion Office. Although the second prince was furious and beat him to death after hearing this, the result was that things got out of hand.
Under the panic, some people thought to themselves that instead of fighting day and night, they might as well fight hard and report the second prince's killing of slaves with a stick to the Shuntian Mansion Office! Now, the second prince, who was already involved in lawsuits, became a
Everyone shouted for beating the rat crossing the street, especially the eldest prince who stood up and openly accused the second prince of being arrogant and violent and tarnishing the virtues of the royal family.
Under Taizu's old system, any slave who betrays his master, bullies his superiors, abuses his subordinates, disturbs the people, commits adultery, commits heinous crimes, and can be killed by his master. In addition, if a slave is killed for trivial matters, his crime will be reduced to one level of murder, and he will be given a forty cane.
No redemption of fines is allowed.
Seeing that the second prince had lost his mind and committed two major crimes, the officials in the court who had already disliked the second prince naturally rallied to attack him. Many of them were Qingliu who abided by etiquette and believed that he should be established as chief minister.
Seeing the storm, even though the emperor did not summon the second prince, nor did he feel depressed, the once glorious villa was deserted.
If it weren't for the slave who went to Shuntian Mansion to be punished and escaped the punishment of Wang Jie, the Iron-faced Mansion Yin, who was beaten to death with forty sticks for informing his master, and almost died, the others would have dispersed like birds and beasts, who would have the patience to wait for someone who is not only
There is no hope of entering the East Palace, but he may be severely punished at any time, and he cannot even be a rich and idle second prince?
But at this time of betrayal and separation, the second prince took the risk. Not only did he not stay in the palace to think about his mistakes, but he went out with his entourage in bright clothes and angry horses every day. Although he did not abandon himself to the point of molesting and bullying civilian girls in the street.
But wherever he went, people still avoided him for fear of not being able to reach him, just like tigers and wolves crossing the border. As he came and went, the resentment in his heart became more and more difficult to eliminate.
However, on this day, as usual, he bumped into a evil star on the street - more precisely, a evil star plus a nemesis. It turned out to be Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou!
Because it was already the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month in the blink of an eye, it was the New Year's holiday in the Imperial College, and most of the supervisors had gone home. In addition, it was said that the Northern Expedition army was about to return to the court. Zhu Ying was extremely happy and took Zhang Shou to go shopping for new year goods.
By the way, I bought a New Year's gift for my father and brother who were about to return. The two of them and the entourage who followed them also did not expect to meet the second prince by such a coincidence.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet each other. This was originally an absolute truth to the second prince, but now when he saw Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou, the second prince's first reaction was not to provoke, but to rush away to avoid this.
Two guys who can't be messed with.
He is now in trouble, but as long as he doesn't offend Zhu Ying, whom his father always loved, and as long as he doesn't offend Zhang Shou, who his father recently valued, he thinks he can enjoy his unscrupulous years for a while longer.
However, Zhu Ying was dissatisfied when she found that the second prince was avoiding her like a snake and a scorpion. She took a deep breath and shouted: "Stop! Are you doing something harmful again? Otherwise,
Why are you hiding from us!"
The second prince had already galloped out for more than ten steps. Hearing this, he almost lost his temper and burst out of his lungs. He immediately turned his horse around and came back without even thinking. Faced with this unexpected scene, his already listless entourage
Everyone was stunned.
"Zhu Ying, don't think that because I have always given in to you, you can act arrogantly in front of me!" The second prince pointed at Zhu Ying with his riding crop. The expression on his face seemed to be resentment and anger, but only he knew that he
At this time, it was clear that he was a bit fierce and angry. However, if Zhu Ying still refused to give in, even though he was now surrounded by enemies from all sides, he would not be willing to give in.
Seeing Zhu Ying's eyebrows raised, her beautiful eyes full of anger, and just when she was about to retort, Zhang Shou suddenly coughed and immediately pulled Zhu Ying back: "Yingying, why bother with him? When the interruptions continue, they only get worse.
The sinking gets deeper and deeper, and if things go on like this, even if they survive, they will be nothing more than dry bones in a grave."
Zhu Ying suddenly turned from anger to joy, nodded repeatedly and said: "Ah Shou, you are right, if we visit our store, does he have anything to do with us? Wang Dayin has said before that if he catches the second prince again and disturbs the people,
He’s going to come in person!”
After hearing Zhu Ying's words, the second prince's heart suddenly skipped a beat. The shock and anger of being scolded by Zhang Shou as a dead bone in the grave disappeared for a moment. Instead, he was thinking about Zhang Shou's behavior over and over again in his heart.
"Deeper and deeper". When he figured out the profound meaning of Zhang Shou's words, he looked up again. Where were the two people and the Zhu family's followers?
Zhu Ying, who had gone far away, took Zhang Shou to visit two antique stores. She saw that Zhang Shou was just talking about it from beginning to end. He couldn't make any constructive suggestions for the gift she wanted to buy for her father and brother. She had already left the second prince behind.
She suddenly felt unhappy in the back of her head.
When she walked out of the antique shop, she said gloomily: "My father and brother haven't met you yet. I brought you here to pick out gifts to tell you what they like! They are not my grandmother and me.
Mom, what if they don’t like you?”
Of course Zhang Shou understood the meaning of the eldest lady, and immediately said with a smile: "It has always been the mother-in-law who looks at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at her, the happier she gets, and the father-in-law looks at her son-in-law, and the more he looks at him, the more disgusted he becomes. As for the elder brother-in-law and the brother-in-law, they are ten out of ten.
None of them can stand my brother-in-law or brother-in-law. So, Yingying, instead of helping me please them in this way, you might as well find another way."
Zhu Ying was delighted when she heard that Zhang Shou was talking openly about the terms son-in-law, brother-in-law and brother-in-law, and even called her mother-in-law, father-in-law, uncle Weng, etc. so naturally.
worry.
The good thing is that although she was more proactive at first, judging from Zhang Shou's attitude towards her now, it is obvious that he also has affection for her. The sad thing is that her father had already arranged this marriage for her long ago, but he had no intention of doing so before.
She mentioned to her that even though she hired Ge Yong as a teacher for Zhang Shou, after Ge Yong came back, her father seemed to be indifferent to others, and the eldest brother had a meticulous character...
Thinking of this and worrying that her father and brother would really dislike Zhang Shou, Zhu Ying immediately asked: "How can we find another way?"
Zhang Shou looked at the eager girl with a smile and said slowly: "As long as you are determined not to marry anyone but me."
"Ah?" Zhu Ying couldn't help but widen her eyes. As generous as she was, her face was so charming at this time. Until she noticed that there was no trace of joking in Zhang Shou's eyes, she felt the shame in her heart.
The annoyance immediately disappeared, replaced by deep joy, and he immediately said with a smile, "Well, Ah Shou, please marry me and go home!"
"Cough... cough cough cough cough cough..."
Zhang Shou couldn't help but choked at Miss Zhu's straightforward words of love. This girl actually said his confession first! Shouldn't it be a man who says to marry me first in such a major life event? He looked at it
Taking a look at the guards of Duke Zhao's Mansion who were also stunned at the entrance of the store, he deeply realized what kind of existence the girl beside him was.
Seeing Zhu Ying's expression of "I won't leave until she agrees," Zhang Shou couldn't help but take a breath, and then whispered: "Silly girl, who else can I marry if you don't marry me? However, after the New Year,
We are only seventeen, please wait for me for a few more months."
Zhu Ying suddenly raised her brows, feeling a little annoyed: "Why do we have to wait a few more months? Can't we just wait for dad and eldest brother to come back?"
"Because marrying you is a big deal." Zhang Shou smiled and tightened the big gorilla felt cloak for Zhu Ying, and then said in a deep voice, "You can't let people laugh at you and say that the eldest lady of Zhao Guogong's house usually has eyes higher than her head.
, in the end, after choosing from thousands of choices, she ended up marrying a pauper who came from a poor family and had nothing..."
"As long as I like it, my parents, grandmother, eldest brother and second brother can accept it. I don't care what other people say!"
Zhu Ying's answer was still crisp and direct. When Zhang Shou heard it, he was naturally happy and satisfied, but in the end, he still smiled and said: "You don't care, but I am small-minded, but I care about people's words.
Even if I can’t give you good things, at least I can’t make your life too far worse than before... Let’s go, I’ll take you to see something.”
Zhu Hong on the side saw Zhang Shou pulling Zhu Ying onto the horse. He quickly called for the guards to follow him, but he couldn't help but think about the shocking conversation between the unmarried couple just now.
Zhu Ying's words can frighten those Taoist gentlemen to death, but Zhang Shou's words can make those gentlemen who not only want a noble wife but also claim to be noble to death from shame... It's just that they want Zhu Ying to live no better than she did before marriage.
Oh no, this is really difficult. You know, Zhu Ying was not only rich and well-off since she was a child, but the Madam and the Grand Duke pampered her as if they were the best in their hearts!
When Zhang Shou took Zhu Ying to visit his "research and development base", the second prince had no interest in traveling anymore and hurried back to his villa. He ordered everyone to prepare to follow him into the palace, and he hurried back to his room, and waited until
When he came out, those servants who dared not speak out against him suddenly felt as if they had been struck by lightning.
The second prince who has always been arrogant, impulsive and unwilling to admit his mistakes is now wearing a commoner?
If he hadn't been naked and covered with thorns, that would have been too conspicuous, and it would have gone too far. The second prince was even willing to go out of his way to plead guilty. But now that he looked at the stupid look of the people below, he knew that he could do it.
This was enough. At that moment, he said with a gloomy face: "Why are you standing there? Drive me to the palace!"
Although he usually prefers riding horses rather than being self-conscious about his status like the eldest prince and staying in the car to isolate himself from the outside world, the second prince was afraid of being laughed at by dressing up like this today, even if he had other plans.
He walked through the city in such a swagger. But even if he was taking a car, when he got off at Donghuamen, he still attracted many eyes.
He just felt that these guys who were looking over were laughing at him and wanted to dig out their eyeballs. But at this time, he could only turn a blind eye to these people and hurried to the palace. When he finally arrived at Qianqing Gate,
When he claimed that he had something to ask his father to see, only a few guards looked at each other for a while. Finally, one of them went to report, and the rest just smiled and said nothing.
Although he knew that the people in Qianqing Palace were different from Kunning Palace, and there were not many people who fawned over him in the past, but now the second prince was at his most sensitive, so he naturally became more and more angry. But who would have thought that after the guard who went to report came out,
But he said a firm word respectfully: "Second Prince, please come back. The Emperor said that he has a lot to do and will see you later when he has time."
The second prince was so angry that he didn't go crazy. He couldn't even see his father as a son? He couldn't compare to those ministers!
He raised his voice and said word by word: "If you go to report again, just say that I have urgent matters to report to your father!"
The guard suddenly looked embarrassed: "Second Prince, the Emperor said that he has several reports of the Northern Expedition waiting to be considered, and I really don't have time to see you..."
In fact, the emperor's words were more straightforward: "He came to see me dressed in civilian clothes. Does he want to offset his previous reckless and reckless activities? He should stop dreaming. If he has the time to come to me to show off, he might as well think about the future!"
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How did the second prince know that the words spoken by others had already taken care of his fragile mood? He only knew that the anger he felt could burn down the entire palace! After enduring it again and again, he finally chose
In order to surrender, he actually bent his knees and knelt down straight like this.
"Today I ask to see my father. It is indeed an important matter for the country and the people. If my father does not see me, I will kneel here and die and never leave!"
When the emperor heard the news carefully reported by Liu Feng, the steward of Qianqing Palace, he couldn't help but threw down the memorial in his hand angrily and said impatiently: "If he really knew how to admit his mistake, why wait until today?
This is because he was forced to the end of his rope, so he broke the boat! Let him kneel, if he can really kneel for half an hour, I will listen to what he has to say!"