Chapter 6: Absurdity

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" At first glance, when he heard his son say this astonishing words, Yang Xuanzhi was excited, and when he was about to be overjoyed, he thought about it, what kind of person is the prince, that is the son of the heavenly family, the next emperor, His Majesty, how can he be so easily bumped into by his own child, and become friends like that? Therefore, he immediately changed his face again, and scolded: "What are you talking about? How many dares did you have to use His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as a cover? In order to escape the family law, you dare to say anything. ”

When Yang Ting saw that his father didn't believe him, he was a little anxious, knelt on the ground, and said: "No matter how bastard my son is, he doesn't dare to talk about such things, and he really dares to assert it like this." ”

"Oh?" Yang Xuanzhi raised his eyebrows, picked up the cup in his hand casually, choked on a sip of water, and said, "Tell me about it." ”

"Yes." Yang Ting saw his father like this, and knew that his father had believed in him, so he said firmly: "First, that son's dress looks ordinary, but his bearing is extraordinary, he is by no means the son of an ordinary family, and that clothes alone are worth a thousand gold......

Yang Xuanzhi waved his hand impatiently: "How can you judge based on your appearance?" Is there still a small brother with extraordinary bearing in this Luoyang City? What about clothes that are worth a thousand dollars? Look at the rich families in the east of the city, how many people have a lot of wealth? Why are you so narrow-minded? ”

"Father listened to me." Yang Ting hurriedly continued: "Today we had a meal, and the little guy next to him took out a silver needle to test the poison, and he was used to it. Oh, speaking of that little guy, although she is only a teenager, she is feminine in her daughter, and her voice is shrill and thin, which is really a bit like the yellow door in the palace. ”

Yang Xuanzhi's body leaned forward slightly, and he also hesitated a little: "Although this is like that, but the silver needle test for poison is not unique to the palace, who is not afraid of someone assassinating him?" As for the Yellow Gate, it is also possible that the child is not well developed. What you say can be refuted, but what else? ”

"Also, my son seems to have heard someone say that the current prince's mother is lowly and is just a butcher's daughter, so although he has a son, he is still looked down upon by the concubines in the palace and often ridiculed him secretly." Yang Ting carefully observed Yang Xuanzhi's expression, and saw that he had already twisted his eyebrows into a pimple at this time, so he continued: "Today in the West Market, that young man is very interested in selling meat, and he also personally said that his grandfather was a butcher. ”

Yang Xuanzhi took a sharp step towards Yang Ting and asked, "Really?" ”

"The son is true in everything he says, and he doesn't dare to deceive his father."

"Anything else?"

"The last one, the son said that his name is Ma Yu, in this capital, his father is the most familiar, and there is a surname Ma among the powerful people above the third grade? If so, who has a son who is twelve or thirteen years old? Check it out and you'll find out. However, according to what his son saw, most of this Ma Yu is a pseudonym, and the noble sons go out, for fear that others will not know their identity, who will use a pseudonym? And the name Ma Yu is not the homonym of the last two words of His Royal Highness the Prince's name? ”

Yang Xuanzhi couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, his chest rose and fell violently, he pulled up Yang Ting, and said: "The Taoist priest you brought that day said that Xianrong is a statue of great wealth and nobility, could it be that it should be on this?" If my sheep family can climb to the royal family, it is really the manifestation of the ancestors. He rubbed his hands fiercely, and then explained to Yang Ting: "You still have to find out the identity of the prince secretly, but according to what you said, even if he is not the prince, he must be from a high-ranking official family, so you can't miss it." He thought for a while, and then said: "The wealthy family pays more attention to the reputation of women, and you, as an elder brother, will put more effort into it." After thinking about it again, he leaned on Yang Ting's ear in a very low voice and said, "If Rong'er is not enough to be the main room, the concubine room is fine." ”

Yang Ting nodded, retreated, and turned to leave.

Sima Shu naturally didn't know that the people in Yangfu had hit him with the idea, and he was also very excited at the moment, he was from a noble background, although his mother's status was low, but he was inevitably contaminated with the atmosphere of the market, so he rarely mentioned things outside the palace to him, and he had never been to places such as the West Market.

When he returned to the East Palace, his excitement had not yet passed, so he ordered the palace maids and eunuchs to move out dozens of objects in the palace, regardless of size, and put them neatly one by one like the stalls on the street, and he himself learned to sell them in the appearance of the stall owner, and ordered those subordinates to pretend to be buyers, bargain carefully, and then sell all the items in the stall.

When the game was over, it was already dark, Sima Shu returned to the room with unfinished thinking, and played with the small objects that he picked up in the market today, which were actually ordinary things, but Sima Shu felt that these things were much more interesting than those in the palace, so he said to Xie An: "Next time I go to the market, I will buy more things and come back." Also, the East Palace is so big, you find a place and change it into a market, let's put these things we bought in the palace to sell, how interesting is this? Isn't it much more interesting than facing those old pedants all day long? ”

Xie An was stunned for a moment, and said with a smiling face: "I'm afraid this is not in accordance with the rules, if Your Majesty knows......"

"So what? I am experiencing the people's feelings, and my father only has a share of praise. Sima Shu didn't raise his head: "If you want to talk about trouble, only Jiang Tong and Du Xi, two old scholars, are a little troublesome, you see them, stop me a little." ”

Xie An frowned: "This ......"

Seeing that Xie An still didn't do what he said, Sima Shu was a little displeased: "In the East Palace, I am the master, and you can do what I say." ”

Xie An was still a little hesitant, and was just about to persuade again, but another voice sounded behind him: "Your Highness is right, the East Palace is Your Highness's East Palace, if you want to play some games in your own palace, do you still have to look at the faces of your subordinates?" ”

Xie An looked back, the person who spoke was Zhong Sui, this Zhong Sui was originally a person from the queen's side, and he had just been sent to the East Palace to serve two months ago. But Sima Shu is the master of the East Palace, although he is guarded against him, but he can not see him when he doesn't want to see him, Xie An is different, almost opposite to this person, he knows very well in his heart that this person is quite deep in the city, and he also understands that his purpose in the East Palace is not only to monitor the prince, but also to be ordered by the queen to ruin the prince's good reputation outside, fortunately, Sima Shu is ambitious and has not been bewitched by this person.

"Zhong Sui is right, why does my dignified prince want to look at the face of a subordinate?" Sima Shu laughed with satisfaction, glanced at Xie An fiercely, and said to Zhong Sui with a smile: "Then the establishment of the bazaar will be handed over to Gonggong Zhong?" ”

"Your Highness, where are these words, it is the honor of a slave to serve Your Highness."

When Sima Shu heard this, he was very useful, and continued to Zhong Sui with a smile: "There must be a meat stall among them, I met a butcher today, and his hand is comparable to a scale, and he is as much as he says, which is very powerful. ”

Zhong Sui smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a slit and asked, "Your Highness also wants to practice this skill?" ”

"Is that okay?"

"Of course you can, Your Highness is very intelligent, when he was five years old, he was in a critical situation and not chaotic, and he was deeply appreciated by the first emperor, this is a thing that is known to the world, with such courage and strategy, what else can he not practice?"

When Sima Shu heard this flattering words, he was simply overjoyed, and nodded again and again: "It's still Zhong Sui that you will serve, I haven't heard such comforting words for a long time." You go and do this quickly, if you do it, I will be rewarded in this palace. ”

"Yes." Zhong then bowed deeply and withdrew with a smile.

Xie An looked at everything that happened in front of him, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while, and when Zhong Sui walked away, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't you be blinded by Zhong Sui's heart?" ”

"Bastard." Sima Shu stiffened his face: "How much do you learn from Zhong Sui, as a slave, it is your duty to let the master go to my heart, every day in my ear, let me not allow this and that person to have a master, and that group of princes and subordinate officials are enough, can't you let me be clean for a while?" Have a good day? ”

Xie An was choked by this reproach, his face was red and white for a while, and he was uneasy but he didn't dare to make Sima Shu unhappy again, so he had to admit that he was low and soft, and said "yes".

Only then did Sima Shu let him go, and ordered, "Go and get me a piece of meat." ”

"Meat?" Xie An was stunned and asked cautiously, "Is Your Highness hungry?" ”

"Hungry what are you hungry for?" Sima Shu said impatiently: "Can't you be smarter? I want raw meat, and then I take a knife, and I also have to practice the ability to divide two without a knife. ”

Xie An's eyes widened in disbelief, but he finally swallowed the words that came to his lips and gave a shallow salute.