One hundred and sixty-nine, prologue
The night became darker, and Yan Bian stared at the desk account. He was older and his eyes were dizzy and he looked difficult. He moved the lamp next to him again, and the dim light was brighter.
This is the general account of the palace last month. I remember clearly the size and difference. What made him happy was that the palace had recorded more than 1,000 taels last month. In the past, this was something I didn’t dare to think about. Even when King Xiao was alive, there was not much credit on weekdays except for offerings. Only gifts for New Year holidays were the big ones. Now, he usually recorded more than 1,000 taels every month, which made him a little overwhelmed. Sometimes he would dream of it when he was sleeping at night.
With Qiu'er's help, he just needs to see if there are any gaps, which is much easier.
Qiu'er is indeed smart. No wonder the prince is so pampered. But Yan Bian is a veteran. He has experienced the rise and fall of the family and the turmoil of the country. He also understands the hidden worries. The prince acted spontaneously and let the two girls move to the yard. It was his own reason.
But if Qiu'er and Yue'er gave birth to children before the emperor's wife Wang Lianshan's marriage, and were still a man, then it would be a hidden worry. He wanted to persuade the prince, but he knew that he could not speak and could only pretend that he had not seen it.
Fortunately, the prince has been smart and promising recently, and the royal palace has regained its vitality after many years.
But there are still concerns. The prince was too arrogant and even the emperor dared to contradict him. He had a bad temper and did not know how to tolerate him. The setbacks and sufferings experienced by young people were rarely like this. This made him very worried, for fear that one day the prince would act arrogantly and cause major troubles.
What happened this afternoon was the same. Several students from the Imperial College came to the gate of the royal palace to yell and scolded them, and threw stones at the children guarding the door. They were students of the Imperial College and the emperor's disciples, and most of them would enter the court to become officials in the future.
The servant came to report it to him, but he thought about it over and over again, so he asked everyone to retreat, closed the gate of the palace, and let them go.
After all, the prince had already made too many enemies before. Now he has finally gained power. The emperor has been appointed as the prince and given vegetables on New Year's Eve, so he does not want the prince to cause trouble again.
But the students of the Imperial College were getting more and more arrogant. After scolding, they saw that the door was closed, so they spent money to hire someone to throw stones into the yard. Several unprepared servants in the mansion suffered disaster.
Yan Bi was naturally angry and wanted the mansion guard to go out to clean up him, but after thinking about it, he finally endured it.
Now the entire capital says that the prince beat Lu Ming, a student of the Imperial College, to say that the prince copied poems. The prince clearly didn't beat him at that time, but just scolded him for a few words.
If you beat me again now, I don’t know what kind of rumors will be. Then it will be heard by the emperor, which will be bad for the prince and the prince’s mansion. So he shook his head and sighed, holding back his anger and gritted his teeth and let the people in the mansion avoid the outer wall.
Everyone was very angry, but they all knew that they could not cause trouble for the prince, so no one disobeyed his orders.
The students of the Imperial College cursed for more than an hour before leaving with satisfactory leave. There were piles of rocks in the corner of the outer wall. Yan Bian hurriedly asked someone to clean up. Fortunately, the prince was not there at that time. If the prince was there, he would definitely take action. Once the action was heard by others, he would not know what he would say...
Yan Bi shook his head, put down his pen, hoping that the prince would not know about this matter. He had told everyone in the mansion that if the prince came back, he was not allowed to mention this matter, otherwise if the prince was angry, he might go to the Imperial College to beat people again. Such a long time of hard work would be wasted.
But I was always uneasy. The prince was so smart and sensible. I was afraid that he would see the clues by accident. After thinking about it, I was unintentional to make a reconciliation and was about to go to the front yard to take a look.
Close the account book and put it in a cold coat. When he was old, he was afraid of the cold. The spring breeze had risen these two days and the weather warmed up, but he still felt cold.
As soon as he got up, he saw Gufeng's grandson Guqi hurried over and reported to him that the prince asked him to go to the front hall.
He asked the little guy why the prince called him, and the little guy shook his head honestly.
He didn't say that Yan Bi knew that eight or nineteen princes knew what happened during the day.
Yan Bi shook his head and sighed. After all, he could not hide it from the prince. He took out the lantern in the corner of the wall, found the flint from the corner of the cabinet at hand, asked the little guy to light it, then turned off the candlelight, and asked Gu Qi to carry the lantern to take him over, not far from the front and halls where he lived.
As the head of the royal palace, he naturally doesn't have to worry about this candle, but he has always been used to being simple.
Gu Qi pulled him through the gate of the courtyard, turned the path, passed through the two gates of the courtyard, and then arrived at the main hall. The main hall was brightly lit and several people were crowded inside.
As soon as he entered the door, he heard the prince facing the guard guarding the outer door: "Subcutaneous congestion and swelling, which may hurt the bones. Put some medicinal boards on it to fix it. Don't move these days, be careful of being misaligned."
In the main hall, there were a few servants who were injured during the day. Even Yan Shen was there. In the afternoon, he was busy carrying wooden boards because the prince asked him to take people to the back mountain to build a workshop... What about A's workshop? At this time, the Imperial College students hired people to throw stones through the courtyard wall.
The prince soon saw him, and his face was not good-looking: "Uncle Yan, what happened in the afternoon? They were hesitant and couldn't explain it clearly. Tell me."
Yan Bi sighed in his heart, Sure enough, what he didn't want to happen the most happened.
He had to bow his hands and told the prince all the things that happened this afternoon, how the students in the fruit supervision department provoked and how they hired people to throw stones into the yard, and they also took all the blame on themselves, saying that they did not let them go out to cause trouble.
After saying that, after waiting for a while, he glanced at the prince in surprise. The prince was not furious, but just pondered for a while, and then said, "Don't worry, they can't jump around for a few days."
He didn't understand what the prince said, and felt that the prince wanted to find someone to seek revenge, so he hurriedly said: "You must not act irresponsible!
Although you are the prince, you are also a disciple of the emperor. Besides, last time I just scolded those students. Now the capital has said this. If you come to seek revenge again, I don’t know what it will be like! The prince will think twice.
There is an old saying, "I endure the wind is calm for a while, and take a step back and the sea is broadening the sky. The prince has a bright future and is not worthy of putting it in the hands of these villains!"
"Yes, the prince, it's just a skin injury. It's just a few days away, it's okay." Yan Shen also hurriedly said.
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Li Ye didn't expect that such a thing happened when he was away. I guess some students were so excited that they wanted to imitate Lu Ming. Indeed, the story of Lu Ming scolding Li Xingzhou was spread everywhere in Beijing. Lu Ming was praised by others, which was considered a gain of fame and fortune, so it was not surprising that some people had the idea of imitating him.
Li Ye was indeed very angry. Not only did Yan Shen and several other servants get beaten to death, but the most serious thing was a guard.
He followed Yan Shen to move the wooden board. When the stone fell, it hit his leg and suddenly couldn't stand steadily. Several wooden boards were stacked together and at least hundreds of pounds. A cork board slipped down, and his arm was knocked by the scattered wooden board at that time. Judging from the swelling, it was probably because of the cracks in the first half of the arm and serious muscle damage.
If he hadn't been injured for a hundred days, if he hadn't met Li Ye, his injuries would have been inappropriate, and he would have been abandoned for the rest of his life.
Who can stop being angry when this kind of thing falls?
Yan Shen and Yan Bian both advised him not to act irritably. Li Ye really didn't. He had made arrangements. He asked the storyteller Sun Wenyan to prepare for this day. On the seventh day of the lunar month, everyone started to be busy and the time was about the same.
Li Ye patted Yan Shen on the shoulder: "Don't worry, even if I want to take revenge, it will make him die even worse. What's the point of hiring someone if I can't throw away a few stones? I look down on such a person at all."
Yan Shen and Yan Bian looked at each other for some reason, and they didn't understand what Li Ye was saying.
Chapter completed!