Chapter 232: The Prince and His People (I)
"So, who is the eldest prince?" Han Feng didn't hold back after all, and still asked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mingxi didn't expect him to suddenly ask about his eldest brother, and he groaned slightly, and said, "Of course he is a good person!"
"Good person?" Han Feng paused, and then laughed "sneering". The reputation of the emperor in the people is not good, and several sons are rumored to be as good as they are, even if the rumors are different from the real situation, they will definitely not say that all the white ones are black.
Mingxi heard Han Feng's ridicule, and immediately became angry: "Don't you believe it, my eldest brother has never killed anyone, let alone deceived anyone, at least a hundred times better than you!"
"Better than me?" Han Feng couldn't help but sit up straight, "Yes, I've killed and deceived people, so what? He hasn't had blood on his hands, so how much cleaner can he be than me?"
Mingxi sneered: "I understand what you mean, are you saying that all the ones I killed should be counted on my brother? Haha, yes, yes, yes! But even if everyone in the world says that he is not good, you are also the most unqualified!"
Han Feng laughed angrily. He laughed for a while, but he never spoke again, but Mingxi heard more sarcasm from this laughter, and when he remembered the past, he only felt so angry that his mouth was sweet. She gritted her teeth, thinking that the two of them were destined to die in this place where there was no light of day, even if they said those things, it would have no impact on everyone after all, not to mention, she had seen her brother suffer too much, even if there was only one person in front of her now, but it would not be in vain for her to be a sister if she could move this person to eliminate the misunderstanding of her eldest brother.
Determined to make up his mind, Mingxi also sat up with his body propped up, and said gently: "Don't laugh, listen to me first." ”
Her attitude suddenly eased, and the two of them had been facing each other for a while, and at this time, Han Feng couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable. He stopped laughing and said, "What do you want to say?"
Mingxi said: "Say something I swore I wouldn't say in my life." She paused for a moment, as if to figure out where to start, and cleared her throat before continuing to speak: "My eldest brother is different from other elder brothers, when he was a child, the queen mother once said that he wanted him to know about the people's suffering, and specially asked his father to ask for his life, and asked someone to take him to live in a village outside the imperial capital for a year. ”
This is a royal secret, and Han Feng has heard of it for the first time. His first reaction was not to believe it, but he felt that the matter had come to this point, and there was really no need for Mingxi to lie for anything. He resisted the urge to question and listened patiently.
Mingxi said: "I know that no one will believe these words, but I can't watch my brother carry a black pot for the rest of his life." Although the queen mother is not my biological mother, I can say that the queen mother is definitely the queen who is most worthy of the words "mother in the world" since the founding of the country. She does not compete for favor, and the relationship with her father is also very light, when she stays in the palace, her father always thinks that she can only reason, and she is annoying, seeing that she took the initiative to leave the palace for a year, she naturally agreed very happily. ”
The virtuous queen faced the faint king, and it was inevitable that the place where the phoenix lived would become a cold palace. Han Feng is also a person who has read history, so why don't he understand this. He nodded silently, only to hear Mingxi say again: "Only a few people know about this matter, and even the ministers of the current dynasty don't know that the eldest prince has ever been out of the palace...... At that time, the person in charge of protecting my brother was my uncle, and my uncle told me these things. ”
Speaking of the word "Uncle Ancestor", her voice sank, Han Feng's heart softened, and he asked gently, "He left the palace, and then what?"
His words were intended to interrupt, but Mingxi listened to him, and his heart was wide, and he couldn't help but be happy. "It is said that the queen mother and my eldest brother pretended to be the mother and son of an ordinary family and lived in a village house. The queen mother spun and weaved cloth for money, and the eldest brother was seven years old at the time, so he went to school in a private school in the village. ”
When she said this, Han Feng suddenly realized that her title was wrong: Mingxi called the emperor and queen "father" and "mother", which are the normal names of the royal family, but she called "eldest prince", and she never used "imperial brother" from beginning to end, but always used "big brother", and this is exactly what the people call them.
This not only confirms the peace of the eldest prince, but also shows that the two brothers and sisters are indeed close, and they are not as different as the royal people mentioned in the book.
Mingxi didn't know what Han Feng was thinking at this time, so he just looked down and said: "It is said that when the eldest brother first arrived in the people, he was beaten by other children in the village. The eldest brother has been honest since he was a child, and before leaving the palace, his mother told him that he was not allowed to talk about his identity when he left the palace, so he gritted his teeth and didn't talk about it, and others beat him. He had been studying with a scholar since he was four years old in the palace, and the things taught by the private school in the village were all simple things to him. At that time, he often talked back to his husband in school, and sometimes he was speechless. When the other children saw it, they all followed suit, and they didn't go to school well, but went to play with him. ”
She grew happier and happier, and almost laughed when she said the last few words. Han Feng listened, and secretly laughed in his heart, secretly thinking that this eldest prince was so naughty when he was a child, and it was rare that Mingxi could still say the words "honest since childhood". However, a prince who loves to play and make trouble and does not oppress people with power is indeed not like the prince who bullies men and women and is arrogant and domineering as rumors are rumored to be today. What's more, if the eldest prince has always been by the queen's side, I am afraid that the queen herself will not allow him to do those things.
Mingxi said: "I heard my uncle say that the eldest brother was always punished by Mr. at that time, but he did not change his teachings, and sometimes he made more trouble. Later, Mr. was so angry that he had no choice but to drag the eldest brother to the back door of the mother, but the eldest brother was beaten by the queen mother with a rattan, and since then he has been much more honest. ”
A year later, the eldest brother and the queen mother returned to the palace, but the two of them couldn't let go of life in the village, and the queen mother also asked someone to set up a special place in the palace, and planted some melons, vegetables and fruits in their spare time. Although the eldest brother did not grow vegetables with her, he was only eight years old at the time, but he told his father that he wanted to change the tax law. ”
Han Feng was really curious at this time: "Change the tax law?"
Mingxi said: "Yes." Nowadays, there are all kinds of taxes, everything, I want to test you, how many do you know?"
Han Feng said: "There are seven kinds of big taxes, twenty-eight kinds of small taxes, and if you add other miscellaneous expenses, there are a total of sixty-five kinds." ”
Mingxi was secretly frightened. She wanted to ask this question, but she would inevitably make Han Feng speechless, but she didn't expect him to deal with it easily, and it was not bad. She thought about it for a while, and said unconsciously angrily: "It's that I have too much to test." You have a white child in you, where would you not know such a simple thing. ”
Han Feng didn't know which sentence he said wrong and offended this little aunt and grandmother, but these were indeed from his reading, and he didn't accept Bai Tong's affection. He wanted to explain, but thinking that she was so happy, he was angry again, and he was afraid that he would say too much, so he sighed lightly and said, "You can continue to speak." ”
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