Before Fang Zheng exited the imperial study, he looked at the emperor's face and stopped talking.

He wanted to ask, I don't know if the prince was involved in this rebellion, after all, Pan Shangshu is the prince's teacher, and according to convention, both master and apprentice wear the same pair of pants. Pan Shangshu is playing with fire, is the prince innocent?

After thinking about it, he still didn't ask. In addition to not wanting to get too involved in the disputes of the royal family, he also felt that the emperor had been a little haggard by the betrayal of his courtiers, and Fang Zheng didn't want him to think that he was a failed father anymore.

Walking out of the palace gate, Fang Zheng stretched his waist, the autumn was high and cool, and the weather was very good. But he felt as if he had pressed a big stone in his heart, rebellion, mutiny, usurpation, these bloody plots that can only be seen in his previous life and on TV, he actually let himself really encounter it, and he was also trapped in it, which is really a trick.

From this point of view, the feudal dictatorship still has many drawbacks, and everyone covets the throne that responds to every call and commands the world. If there is a constitutional monarchy like that of Western countries, no matter who is the emperor, he has no power in his hands anyway, he can only eat, drink and have fun, and by the way, do charity, and wave his hand to the cheering crowd, even if such an emperor gives it to Pan Shangshu to do, it is estimated that he will not do it, right? Not only did he refuse to do it, but he might also swear to resist, holding a brick to his head, "Whoever wants me to be the emperor, I'll let you see what stuffing is inside!" ”

In the final analysis, it is power that harms people.

There may be turmoil in the capital recently, Fang Zheng pondered, should he send his father and mother out of the capital to avoid it? He can't be blamed for being selfish, the country belongs to everyone, the family belongs to himself, and it is his responsibility to protect the safety of his family.

Later, I thought about it, I don't know which army outside the capital will not be able to protect one day, and it may be even more chaotic outside the capital at that time, if you are the richest man in the Hua Dynasty, in the face of the disaster of swords, there is no difference from ordinary ordinary people. Besides, the emperor decreed that they would get married next month, and the Fang Mansion was preparing with great fanfare, how could my father and mother leave?

In the next half month, Fang Zheng fell into a busy situation, in addition to analyzing the information that was constantly sent from all over the country, he also took care of the training of newcomers in the shadow camp.

Brother Killer is very competent as his instructor, and of all the training courses, the one he teaches is the hardest, and the only one where attrition occurs. There are a few students who think they are brave and brave, after the killer brother taught a little bit of the flying knife trick, they didn't know the height of the sky, they thought they had inherited the mantle of the killer brother, and wanted to challenge the difficult action, so they shot the knife blindfolded.

As a result, it was obvious that after accidentally injuring the thighs of several students who were watching the excitement, these high-minded and courageous students were beaten by the killer's brother and confined.

The old members of the shadow were sent out on a mission, and information kept coming that several armies outside the capital did not move, still training, eating, and sleeping as usual, without the slightest tension of a big war approaching. Fang Zheng couldn't help but wonder, when was Pan Shangshu's old thing going to start an incident? He can't live for a few days at this age, and if he doesn't hurry up, when he enters the coffin, who will he make?

A month and a half passed, and soon it was the ninth day of the new year, and the flower viewing party held by the prince began under the expectation of many officials and celebrities.

The reason why the flower viewing party is so valued by everyone is not only that the organizer is the future prince of the country, but also because it is a place for literati and scholars to gather. If you write your poems well, you are likely to gain the respect of the prince, and the prince will recommend it to the emperor in the name of promoting talents, bypassing the cruel competition of the imperial examination and becoming an official easily. Therefore, many talented people who are quite famous among the people, but the imperial examination is always the first talent, can be said to be eager to enjoy the flowers, and they want to enter but cannot get it.

The cherry blossom viewing party was held in Yihong Garden, a suburb of the capital. Yihongyuan was the courtyard of an official in the former dynasty, and was later bought by the prince with a lot of money. The garden is planted with rare flowers from all over the country, from the ordinary orchid lotus chrysanthemum plum, to the precious phalaenopsis, Wenxin orchid, wild goose red and so on, the autumn high festival, the garden is fragrant with cinnamon and orchid, the scenery is charming.

Outside the gate of the garden, there are guards from the Prince's Mansion guarding them layer by layer, and those who do not have invitations are not allowed to enter.

Early in the morning, the invited people came in groups, and the luxurious and noble carriages slowly entered the garden with the fragrance of flowers on the ground. Everyone laughed and talked, courteous and graceful. There are also ladies and ladies from large official eunuchs, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to go out, they gathered in an unnoticeable corner, whispering, and laughing coquettishly.

Everything looks so relaxed and pleasant, like a painting.

Not far from the garden gate, there is a discordant scene.

A young man in fancy clothes with a thief head and a bad smile on his face was shuttling back and forth among the crowd of people going to the meeting.

"Oops! Isn't this the shopkeeper's? Are you really here? Alas, in fact, this flower viewing will be quite boring, or you can go back and transfer the invitation to me? ”

"Why? Didn't you sell it to me for five thousand taels of silver? "Shopkeeper Zhang is not happy.

"It's full of some gentlemen, we are all businessmen, do you think it's interesting to get together in that bunch of people?"

"I don't care if it's interesting or not, I'm here to talk about business, maybe some rich boy thinks that my shop in the south of the city has a future, and is willing to give money to do business in partnership."

"Gotta get in......

"Oops! Isn't this Boss Zhou? Why are you here in person? Little brother advises you to say a word, hurry back and get it, this flower viewing will be boring, little brother invites you to go up to Yicui Lou to drink flower wine tonight,—— can you send me an invitation? ”

"Why? Isn't that what you sold me? It cost me 5,000 taels. ”

"Can you buy it back again?"

"Okay, you pay 10,000 taels, and I'll sell it to you again."

The young man was taken aback: "Why don't you go and grab it?" It's only been a few days and it's doubled, and you're crazy about money, right? ”

"This time, that time. Do you want it? I don't want to go in. After speaking, Boss Zhou shook his sleeves and left without looking back.

"Profiteers! Shameless! The young man scolded fiercely behind his back.

There is no doubt that this young man is none other than Young Master Fang Zhengfang.

As for why he jumped up and down the world outside the garden gate to buy invitations, the reason was very simple, the sequelae left by selling invitations with the little princess that day ,—— sold, and he sold the invitation that belonged to him. He himself is just a five-grade idle official, and he has not been arrogant enough to dare to release the pigeons of His Royal Highness the Prince, so there is this dilemma of looking at his door but not entering.

When he was lamenting why there were more profiteers than good people in this world, a familiar figure came into his eyes.

Xiao Huaiyuan!

Why is this kid here too? Later, when I thought about it, I was relieved, this kid himself worked in the Prince's Mansion, and it was very reasonable and logical to appear here.

"Hey! Brother Xiao! Long time no see, how are you? Ignoring the side glances of the literati beside him, Fang Zheng waved his hand happily and shouted.

Xiao Huaiyuan stood at the door to greet the guests, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the shouting. The voice was so familiar, so familiar that he couldn't forget it.

But he still pretended not to hear, and did not even look back.

However, he still underestimated Fang Zheng's determination to make friends with acquaintances.

Fang Zheng still shouted regardless of it: "Brother Xiao! Xiao Huaiyuan! It's me, your closest friend, your good brother, Fang Zheng! Why don't you ignore me? ”

Xiao Huaiyuan heard that his teeth were sour, and he was about to walk into the garden as if nothing had happened, avoiding the harassment of this plague god. The guard standing at the gate of the garden couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help but persuade: "Mr. Xiao, that friend of yours has been calling for a long time, why don't you go up and recognize him, this is ...... The people who come and go are all literati and scholars, and the shouting and shouting are too unorthodox, and the little ones are afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will blame them......"

Xiao Huaiyuan tilted his head, sighed heavily, walked slowly in front of Fang Zheng with a straight face, and said coldly: "Okay, don't scream." ”

Fang Zheng saw that he was finally willing to come out to recognize him, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why is it so young that you have your ears behind it?" Don't you hear me calling you so much? ”

“…… What the hell do you want to do? "Xiao Huaiyuan really can't do anything about him.

"Nonsense, I'm going in."

"Don't you have an invitation? It's hard to go in directly, why are you yelling outside? ”

"Hehe, there was originally an invitation, but I'm too generous, send one in the east and one in the west, it's gone."

"That's nice, it's sold, right?" Xiao Huaiyuan snorted dissatisfiedly, thinking that Fang Zheng snatched his invitation, he was angry in his heart, originally he wanted to sell a few by himself, but he was robbed by Fang Zheng.

"Hehe, it's all the same, I just saw you, good brother! There is this life, there is no afterlife, quick, take me in. ”

"No! Find your own way to go. Xiao Huaiyuan turned his head and left.

"If you don't take me in, I'll go home, and when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks, I'll tell him that no one has ever invited me at all, and I don't even know there's such a thing as a flower viewing party......

Xiao Huaiyuan stopped, looked up to the sky and sighed, "...... How could I know you! ”

In this way, Fang Zheng was smoothly brought into the garden gate by Xiao Huaiyuan.

"Don't keep your face stiff, how ugly it is, your image represents the prince's mansion, come, smile......" Fang Zheng enlightened him along the way.

When passing by the gate of the garden, Fang Zheng heard the conversation of the guards guarding the door.

“…… It's strange that there are so many new faces today. ”

"What face?"

"It seems that there are many shopkeepers of big businesses in the capital, strange, how could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invite them? This is where the literati meet. ”

"Have you checked their invitations carefully?"

"I've checked, the invitation is real."

"That's it, whatever, as long as the invitation is genuine, there is no responsibility for us."

Fang Zheng smiled secretly after hearing this, and when he looked up, he saw Xiao Huaiyuan glaring at him fiercely.

Slapping a silver ticket in Xiao Huaiyuan's hand, Fang Zheng smiled and said, "Okay, don't look at me with that kind of look, it's awkward." This is a dividend for you, let's clear this matter, you go and get busy, you don't need to call me......"

Fang Zheng waved his sleeves and walked away in a dashing manner.

Xiao Huaiyuan opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be angry: "One hundred taels? This bastard! What about sending Hanako? ”

The flowers of Yihong Garden are the most famous in the capital, because there are guards of the prince's mansion all the year round, ordinary people have no chance to see these various precious flowers, today the prince invites guests, but it makes those ladies and ladies surprised, so the garden is full of women's figures, smiling and playing, admiring and amazed, warblers and swallows, ring fat swallows and thin, adding a little refreshing fat powder fragrance to the already flowery garden.

As soon as Fang Zheng stepped into the garden, he saw an unusually bloated and obese figure, like an overnourished flower butterfly, struggling to shuttle among a bunch of young ladies.

"Ah, this young lady, this flower is called Lily, take a hundred years of good harmony, planted at home, auspicious omen, Miss may soon meet a suave Ruyi Langjun like me......"

"Yikes! Are you sure? Slave ...... The slave family hasn't come out of the cabinet yet...... "Miss is infinitely shy."

"Really? It's good to be out of the pavilion, hehe, I'm not talented, I'm willing to find a secluded place, and talk to the young lady about the trick of planting this lily......"

Fang Zheng snorted and laughed, this dead fat man, his skills in picking up girls are so inferior, and he is also a romantic character who lingers in the brothel of the Qinglou every day, why hasn't he grown up at all?

Quietly walked behind the fat man and patted him on the shoulder, Fang Zheng deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Boy, don't you want to die?" Dare to seduce my wife? ”

The fat man was startled, he didn't turn his head, subconsciously held his head with both hands, and said in a trembling voice: "...... This brother, misunderstanding, misunderstanding! ”

Ho! The action is quite skillful, it seems that this dead fat man has hooked up with married women, and he must have eaten a lot of deflated.

The young lady who was molested actually looked very ordinary, and her face was dotted with some freckles and pockmarks, hearing Fang Zheng say this, she couldn't help but blush with shame, stomped her feet fiercely, and said, "Phew! Who is your wife? Shameless! After saying that, he covered his face and ran away quickly.

The fat man hurriedly turned around, and when he saw that it was Fang Zheng, he couldn't help but be angry: "I said that there is something wrong with your kid?" I haven't seen you for so long, and I didn't say that I came to see me, and as soon as I met, I was scared away by the beauty I finally fell in love with......"

After speaking, the fat man looked at the young lady who flew away with a reluctant face, and smacked his mouth unsatisfied.

Fang Zheng pouted and said, "Come on, what kind of vision do you have, just like that, can you be called a beauty?" The face of the beauty mole, the body full of sand guarding the palace, potholes, bumps and bumps, a basin of water splashed on the face without dripping,—— I said fat, you are also a prince, why are you not picky? ”

The fat man was suffocated when he heard this, then straightened his chest and said with a hard mouth: "I just like pockmarks, I like women who look very layered, what's the matter?" Isn't it possible? ”

Fang Zheng persuaded bitterly: "Don't get along with yourself, there is something wrong with your heart, if you wake up in the middle of the night, and when you open your eyes, you find a numb face lying next to you that looks like being kissed by a pig, what if you can't bear the stimulation, you are scared of blood and qi and kick your legs?" Go back to the government and sue other girls for murder, aren't you hurting other girls? ”

The fat man smiled bitterly: "You...... Your mouth is too poisonous......"

Fang Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I have to cultivate your aesthetics well, if this continues, in the future, your son and grandson will only be more and more ugly from generation to generation, and it will be sad to think about it." ”

The fat man joked with him for a few words, then pulled Fang Zheng to a no-man's corner, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Hey, Brother Fang, I don't know if it's my delusion, I always feel that the atmosphere in the capital is a little wrong in the past few days......"

Fang Zheng blinked: "What's wrong?" ”

"I can't say, but everything is the same as usual, and I don't see any changes. But I always felt like I was panicking, like the stuffy feeling before the rainstorm, and I was a little overwhelmed...... You are an official in the court, tell me, is there something big going to happen recently? The fat man's face was a little ugly.

Fang Zheng looked at the fat man with a smile, he was his friend in distress, he had been through the window together, he had carried a gun together, he had visited the Qinglou together, a few big irons for men, he and the fat man seemed to have all of them. Fortunately, the fat man was just an idle prince who couldn't meddle in political affairs, so he was excluded from the treacherous court. But if one day, the emperor dies of old age and the crown prince ascends the throne, can the fat man, an idle prince, still be so free? You know, he has always had a bad relationship with the prince, with the prince's personality, can he tolerate this half-brother?

It would be nice if the fat man became the crown prince.

Fang Zheng was taken aback, how could he think so? Is it a bit of a rebellion? But then again, as the emperor's biological son, did the fat man really never think of competing with the prince? Could it be that he is willing to be a free prince for the rest of his life? People have no foresight, there must be near-term worries, hasn't he thought about himself, in case the prince ascends the throne, what awaits him?

"Fatty, have you ever thought about it......" Fang Zheng changed his mind as soon as he opened his mouth, now is not a good time to talk about this topic, at least he has to wait for Pan Shangshu to fall.

The fat man looked at him with a question mark on his face: "What have you thought about?" ”

Fang Zheng changed the subject and said, "...... In fact, the emperor is not in a good mood these days, if you are fine, go into the palace to talk to him, don't be afraid, what is there to be afraid of your father, in addition to being the co-owner of the world, he is actually a lonely old man who needs his children to accompany him......"

The fat man looked at him with a solemn face, nodded vigorously, and a little understanding flashed in his eyes.

Smiled and patted the fat man's shoulder, Fang Zheng said: "Don't make it so heavy, let's play today, don't waste the good time of picking up girls......"

The fat man smiled: "Yes, yes, I still want to see Brother Fang perform the trick of picking up girls, I'll learn a few tricks ......"

So among the ladies and ladies with red and willow green, there are two more flower butterflies that are constantly shuttling and busy.

"Oh, this sister is so beautiful, how can she come out to enjoy the flowers, as soon as my sister appears, the flowers in the whole garden are eclipsed, this is my sister's sin......"

"Huh? This sister's slender jade hands are so delicate and slender, it is really the only time I have seen it in my life. The younger brother has a little study of the I Ching hexagram, and I don't know if my sister is willing to let the younger brother show you palmistry...... Wow! My sister's little hands are so soft! The younger brother can touch it, it is really a blessing for three lives, I don't know how old my sister is, where does she live? Let's leave a contact information......"

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The fat man watched Fang Zheng on the side dumbfounded, and admired in his heart, Brother Fang deserves to be the pioneer in the merry array, and it really deserves his reputation, if he can have his three successes, why can't he even soak a pockmarked girl?

When Fang Zheng was swimming comfortably in the fat powder pile, a middle-aged scribe separated the young ladies and smiled at Fang Zheng: "It's rude, I don't know if Your Excellency is loyal to Lord Fang?" ”

Fang Zheng nodded and said, "Exactly, may I ask you ......?"

The scribe smiled, and his gestures showed a bit of elegance: "My surname is Fan Mingrui, and he is a small deacon next to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Fang Zheng blinked, and reluctantly looked at the warblers and Yanyan who were around, and was embarrassed: "...... But I'm a little busy right now......"

The pickled girl is at a critical juncture, and a few young ladies have almost given their personal handkerchiefs to Fang Zheng as engagement tokens, and the prince ran out to make trouble at this time, isn't this embarrassing?

Fan Rui was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited him alone, what kind of face is this, why is this person so ignorant?

If it weren't for the fact that this person was too important to the prince, Fan Rui really wanted to leave on the spot.

Fang Zheng observed his words and immediately laughed: "Mr. Fan, don't be surprised, I was joking just now, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince summoned him, how dare I not go?" Haha, let's go. ”

Saying that, he turned around and waved his hand to the young ladies reluctantly, and shouted as he walked: "Sisters, just wait for me here, I'll be back soon, hey, that sister, your handkerchief is beautifully embroidered, keep it for me, don't give it to other stinky men, especially the fat man next to you, that guy's character is not as good as mine......"

The voice faded away until it disappeared, leaving only the fat man with black lines on his head and a group of giggling ladies.