While Yang Xianrong was worried about his Ma Yu brother, her Ma Yu brother was indeed using a knife and cutting a piece of meat seriously. He was wearing a coarse cloth short coat, with his trouser legs rolled up high under his feet, and a turban tied to his forehead, and when he looked closely, his cheeks were covered with dense beads of sweat, and from time to time, some of the sweat beads ran down his cheeks and fell from his chin to the ground. Sima Shu didn't care about this, he felt itchy, so he stretched his sleeves and wiped it on his face.

In contrast, there was a half circle of people standing behind him, this half circle of people were dressed in good silk kung fu, the two palace maids held a big fan on the left and right to fan the wind effortlessly for His Royal Highness the Prince, who was busy with work, and the rest of the people were holding tea, holding handkerchiefs, and some people were responsible for clapping their hands and applauding, and complimented with a sharp voice with a flattering face: "The master's knife will be divided into two and be extremely accurate." ”

When Sima Shu heard this, he threw the knife on the meat board: "I'm tired." ”

Then a handkerchief was handed to wipe his face, and a tea server served tea at just the right temperature to quench his thirst. Sima Shu was satisfied, waved his hand and let everyone disperse, but instructed Xie An: "This meat is chopped, open the market, I'll sleep for a while, and then go shopping in the afternoon." ”

"Gotcha." Xie An's eyes rolled, and he turned around to do what his master ordered.

Sima Shu returned to the room, first washed his hands full of lard, took off his dirty clothes, put on a thin shirt at will, threw two grapes into his mouth, and then lazily nestled on the bed. Sima Shu had been chopping meat for a long time, and he was already tired, but he lay down and was not sleepy, and he could vaguely hear the noise coming from the courtyard not far away, which was that the people were preparing a market for him.

Turning over, Sima Shu took out a book from the side of the bed, which was "Warring States Policy and Chu Ce", he flipped through it casually, and the book said: Governing it is not chaotic, and it is not for it. If you are troubled and then worried, you will not be able to do it. Sima Shu smiled, closed the book and put it back in its place.

Since the upheaval of the court, Sima Shu only knew what the worry was, but it was too late, he was placed under house arrest in the East Palace, and he could only resign himself to fate. After a few days of panic, Jia Nanfeng actually came to the door in person, first withdrew the ban of the East Palace, and then sent thousands of soldiers to the East Palace, and behind Jia Nanfeng, dozens of palace maids Huangmen entered in turn with all kinds of strange things and stood in front of Sima Shu.

Sima Shu was puzzled and looked at Jia Nanfeng. Jia Nanfeng rarely smiled on the ground, and even said to Sima Shu with a little kindness: "The chaotic party has been cleared, and then your father must rectify the dynasty, you are the crown prince, and the only son of your father, you should also take responsibility and help your father." ”

Sima Shu didn't know what Jia Nanfeng meant, so he quickly leaned down and clasped his fists and said yes. Jia Nanfeng smiled again, gently helped Sima Shu up, helped him by the arm, and led him into the house. She sent away the bystanders in the house, ordered someone to close the door of the house, and when the light in the room dimmed, she let go of Sima Shu's hand and said directly: "The overall situation of the DPRK and China has been decided, I only ask you, do you still want to be this prince?" ”

Sima Shu understood this, if he didn't want to be the prince, he would be able to go to talk to his grandfather about chess immediately, and if he still wanted to be the prince, he would be obedient and obedient in the future and become her Jia Nanfeng's filial son. Sima Shu didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately knelt down in front of Jia Nanfeng: "The queen mother is above, and my son has read sages since he was a child, so he naturally understands the truth of serving his mother and filial piety." ”

Jia Nanfeng was very satisfied with Sima Shu's attitude, she sat down on the side, and said slowly: "Since Gu is your mother-in-law, she will naturally not treat you badly, your East Palace is really shabby, and the few people I sent to you before are not very useful, so the people I brought over this time will be handed over to you to call." In addition, King Zhao is highly respected, and he is also an elder in the Sima family, I pointed out that he will be a master for you, and you will learn from him. As for the subordinate officials of the East Palace, just keep those old people, I added a Jia Mi to you, he is a lonely nephew, he is the same age as you, it is also good for you to play together. ”

"Thank you for your mother's worries." Sima Shu still knelt to the side and kowtowed again: "The son will live up to the kindness of the queen mother." ”

"Son," Jia Nanfeng suddenly changed her tone, her tone became serious, she pulled up Sima Shu, let him sit next to him, and said: "You know the body of your father, and you should also know the thoughts of your brothers and uncles outside, none of them are easy to mess with, and now there are only our orphans and widows in this court, if you don't follow me again, your father is afraid that it will also be dangerous." ”

Jia Nanfeng didn't say anything more, but Sima Shu was like a mirror in his heart. Since that day, he has hidden his ambitions, promises to his grandfather, and vows to his grandmother, and has lived his fairy life seriously, devoting himself to his butcher's craft, and the entire East Palace has also been bustled by him, because of the large number of people, he specially opened up a deserted courtyard, making it look like a market, in which meat, eggs, vegetables, porcelain antiques, four treasures of the study, rouge gouache and everything is a lot, as long as he is interested in saying that he wants to open the market, The subordinates took out all the things in the East Palace and put them on the stalls in different categories to play with His Royal Highness the Prince.

In the past few days, Jia Nanfeng is very satisfied, Sima Shu is still a child's heart in the end, no matter whether he really gives up or shows Jia Nanfeng such nonsense now, she knows in her heart that in the long run, even if he still has any ideas in his heart, he has no motivation to do anything, and it is impossible for such a person who is used to playing so chic to calm down and sit in front of the bookcase to learn those boring ways of governing the country.

In the afternoon, Sima Shu, who woke up, came to the courtyard, the market had already opened, and everyone inside had changed their clothes. The market was quite lively, with the stall owners shouting and selling at the back of the stalls, and the people wandering around the streets gathered around the stalls in groups of threes and twos, either playing with the objects in their hands or negotiating with the stall owners for the price in a decent manner.

Sima Shu strolled inside, and first arrived in front of the butcher stall.

"Come on two taels of meat," Sima Shu shouted, "it's right." ”

I saw the stall keeper grabbing a piece of meat, lifting the knife and cutting it around the meat, obviously this man was not skilled in this job, Rao was tired and sweaty, and did not cut a piece of meat smoothly. finally tore off a piece of meat with a drag, and once it was weighed, it was half a catty more.

"You can't do this," Sima Shu smiled and pushed back the meat handed to him by the stall owner: "These meat sellers are like you, and the meat stall has collapsed." ”

Leaving the meat stall, Sima Shu continued to walk forward, only to see a man and a woman standing in front of the rouge gouache stall, the man is an adult, but the woman is a little girl, he came to the interest, stepped forward and patted the two, the two turned back but not Yang Xianrong and Yang Ting, Sima Shu was disappointed again, waved his hand and continued to walk forward.

"Master, this is in the East Palace, and you can't invite them all." Xie An followed behind Sima Shu and comforted: "If you endure it for a few more days, maybe the queen will allow you to leave the palace." ”

"Got it." Sima Shu continued to walk forward expressionlessly, but the more he walked, the less interested he became, and the objects in the East Palace were just those things, and he was tired of them. "It's really boring to let people who can go out and find some new gadgets."

"Yes." Xie An responded.

Zhong Sui, who was on the other side, shook his head and said, "Your Highness, if you want the slave to say, it's not that these things are boring, it's just that you can't play, what's there to do in this ordinary market?" Women love to go to these places, you are a gentleman, and your interest is over. ”

When Sima Shu heard this, it seemed that Zhong Sui could come up with something to coax him, and he immediately became interested: "Then tell me, what should I do?" ”

Zhong Sui's eyes narrowed with laughter: "My Highness, don't worry, if you want to say that this is eating, drinking, and having fun, if the slave is called the second, no one dares to call it the first." So saying, he turned and left, and soon came back again, holding a tray covered with a red cloth, looking mysterious.

Zhong then asked Xie An to hold the tray, and then uncovered the red cloth, and there was a boxy box underneath, and when he opened the box, there were some chess pieces and other things inside. Zhong then introduced: "This is called Liubo chess, this thing is very fun, up and down the court, and those ordinary people, but they all like this thing." As he spoke, he took out two wooden square things, each of which had black paint dots, and he played with them twice so that Sima Shu could see clearly, and when he saw that Sima Shu was really curious, he said: "This is called dice, this thing is very useful, you have to like it, I will teach you all kinds of plays." ”

"Why haven't I seen any of this?" Sima Shu took the dice curiously and looked at it again and again.

"You used to just study, how do you know these human pleasures?" Zhong Sui said: "If you live for a lifetime, you want to be full, warm, and have a good time." You are a prince, you are born nobler than others, how can you live so aggrieved, in the future, the slave will let you see the world. ”

Sima Shu smiled happily when he said this, and immediately ordered someone to prepare tables and chairs, and couldn't wait to set up the chess sets, urging Zhong Sui to quickly teach him how to play these six games. When Sima Shu learned to play this chess, the sky had already darkened, and Sima Shu was not yet happy, so he reluctantly let Zhong Sui collect the chess set.

"Come back tomorrow, earlier, you can play longer." Sima said.

Zhong Sui smiled: "Your Highness, it's not interesting to play chess like this, you have to play some lottery." ”

Sima Shu couldn't understand it again: "What is Caitou?" ”

"Money," Zhong Sui took out two copper coins from his arms: "The loser has to give the winner a lottery, this is the fun to play." ”

"What's wrong with that?" Sima Shu said excitedly: "That's it." ”