Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 76 Shui'er's Jealousy

After Ye Chen left the palace yesterday, Zhao Kuangyin's doubts about Ye Chen were relieved, and he was in a good mood, so he called Empress Song and came to the Imperial Garden for a walk.

Many of the flowers in the imperial garden have already bloomed and withered in this season, but all kinds of exotic flowers and trees are still the most beautiful places in the palace.

The two walked casually along the path, followed by a dozen guards and court ladies.Suddenly, behind the rockery not far away, there was a faint sound of a woman begging for mercy and crying, and everyone felt very strange.Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand, signaling his followers to stop, and walked around quickly, wanting to see what happened.

Unexpectedly, when he saw this, he was so shocked that he almost lost his breath. His eldest son Zhao Dezhao was hugging a beautiful court lady, trying to rape him.

Zhao Dezhao was also influenced by the story Ye Chen told in the morning about how the Queen of Pipa fell in love with him at first sight.He thought that Ye Chen could do this, and that his imposing prince, who was more handsome than Ye Chen, would definitely be able to do this, so he still wanted to find a woman to try.

As a result, he happened to come to the imperial garden and saw the beautiful lady with a graceful figure, so he pretended to be chic and came to talk to him, reciting poems and pretending to be cool. Severe punishment, apart from panic and fear, did not give him the slightest hint of love at first sight.This action deeply stimulated Zhao Dezhao's psychology, and he became angry from embarrassment and wanted to use force on the court lady.But coincidentally, at the very beginning, he was met by his father.

Zhao Kuangyin's eyes widened, and he shouted, "Bastard! Don't stop!"

Zhao Dezhao turned his head and saw that his father was standing behind him. He was so frightened that he almost lost his wits. He hurriedly fastened his pants, turned around and ran.

Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin became even angrier, and shouted again: "You rebellious son! Come back to me."

Zhao Dezhao didn't dare to run anymore, walked back slowly and dejectedly, and knelt in front of Zhao Kuangyin.The palace lady's clothes were disheveled, she knelt beside her and trembled, shedding tears.Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand to signal her to leave, and the court lady got up as if she had been pardoned, and hurriedly covered her face and left.

Zhao Dezhao is the son and eldest son of the former queen Wang Qiyun. Zhao Kuangyin placed high hopes on him, and specially invited three great Confucian scholars to teach him poetry and scriptures, and also taught him martial arts. .

Unexpectedly, Zhao Dezhao was used to being playful and self-willed. He brought the same naughty younger brother and sister to make trouble in the study, and he didn't want to practice martial arts seriously.Because they are princes, they can't beat them, they can't talk about them, the three great Confucian scholars had a lot of headaches, just now they had an audience with the emperor, saying that the prince and the princess are too naughty, they teased the teacher with bird pets, and they didn't respect the teacher.He asked Ye Chen, a master disciple, to serve as a student, in fact, he wanted Ye Chen's spirituality to influence the prince to be more sensible and eager to learn.

However, Zhao Kuangyin never expected that Zhao Dezhao would be so adrift.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at his son who looked exactly like his own, felt pain in his heart, disappointed and angry at the same time, pointed at Zhao Dezhao who was kneeling on the ground and reprimanded him: "As a prince, you don't study literature and martial arts seriously, but you do such absurd things. What kind of demeaning thing is this?"

Zhao Dezhao raised his head and glanced at his father, and replied in a low voice: "I stayed in the palace all day, learning literature and martial arts, but there is nowhere to use it. What can I do with it!"

"Nonsense! As long as you are successful in civil and military affairs, why worry about having no place to display them? You were born in the family of an emperor, and you will be relied on to support the country in the future. How can I rest assured? When I was your age, I already had both literary and military skills. Shocked one side!"

"Although the son is a prince, he has no status and no freedom of movement. How can he do anything like his father in such a tiny place within the palace walls?" Zhao Dezhao remembered that he was almost 20 years old, but he couldn't help it. It's okay to be a prince, not even a king, not to be sent, not to let oneself do things.I felt so wronged that I was going to die.

"You...you rebellious son, how dare you contradict me!" Zhao Kuangyin was startled at first, then trembling with anger, he swung his palm and was about to slap him. The Queen Song who was following her saw this and hurried forward to stop Zhao Kuangyin: "Mr. At home, Dezhao is still young and ignorant, and he will be on the right track after being trained slowly in the future." Then, she turned around and said, "Dezhao, get up quickly and admit your mistake to your father. Go back and study hard!" After speaking, he winked at Zhao Dezhao, motioning him to leave quickly.

Who knew that Zhao Dezhao didn't accept her affection at all. Since the death of Queen Wang, Zhao Dezhao hated this Queen Song to death. In his opinion, if Queen Song hadn't fascinated his father and made his mother angry, she would have died. He wouldn't be so sad and hopeless that he would be seriously ill and leave him so early.He even wished to kill Queen Song sometimes.

At this moment, seeing Empress Song excuse himself, he cursed in his heart: You hypocritical vixen!He raised his head and glared at Empress Song again, got up and said to Zhao Kuangyin: "My son is confused, I have failed my father's high expectations, and I will never do such absurd things again."

After saying that, Zhao Dezhao walked away without waiting for his father to say anything.

Zhao Kuangyin looked up at the sky, his dark Chinese character face looked helpless and tired under the summer sun, and he sighed: "Is it really because the palace is too small, alas... Dezhao has grown up, maybe let him do something, instead conducive to its growth.”

No matter what thoughts Zhao Kuangyin had at this moment or what plans he had for the next step, his anger was still there, so he directly punished Zhao Dezhao in confinement for three days in the name of the three great Confucianists to sue, and punished him for copying [-] words of scriptures every day.Zhao Defang and Princess Yongqing were also affected and punished together.But Ye Chen was not notified of this matter, so Ye Chen got up early in the morning and made a trip for nothing.

At noon, in the backyard of Xiangfubo Mansion, in the dining room.

Shui'er, Ye Chen, and Yu Daoxiang were sitting beside the exquisite round table. There were six dishes, one soup, and three different snacks on the table.

Early in the morning, Shui'er left her mother and grandmother behind and ran over to have dinner with Ye Chen.In fact, the little girl felt unhappy after Ye Chen redeemed the Pipa Queen the day before yesterday and took her as a concubine.

No matter how Mrs. Liu scolded, Shui'er stubbornly called Ye Chen Brother Ye, not uncle.Although Ye Chen didn't advocate this, he was happy to see it succeed in his heart.Being called uncle by a cute little girl of twelve or thirteen years old made him feel uncomfortable.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a little strange.While eating, Yu Daoxiang watched Ye Chen's every move from the corner of her eye.In fact, from the first moment after Yu Daoxiang saw Ye Chen again this time, as long as Ye Chen was in front of her eyes, she would always be like this.

Yu Daoxiang made this move because her supernatural father once speculated that Ye Chen was a fairy descended from the fairy world, but now he has lost his magic power and has become a mortal.And Yu Daoxiang had seen the mystery of Ye Chen with her own eyes, especially the things in Ye Chen's strange backpack were all sent to her father by her.Therefore, Yu Daoxiang was full of infinite curiosity towards Ye Chen, and now he had a little inexplicable affection for Ye Chen in his heart, and he didn't want to let go of any opportunity to observe and explore Ye Chen.

Since Shui'er saw Yu Daoxiang for the first time, she pouted her small mouth and stared at Yu Daoxiang with her big eyes like black jewels.

In the eyes of the little girl, this elder sister is so beautiful, and this elder sister seems to like Brother Ye very, very much, otherwise, why would she keep looking at Brother Ye, even when eating.

The little girl glanced at Yu Daoxiang's black and smooth hair and jade-like skin, and then looked at her withered and yellow hair and slightly dark skin, and felt a little inferior, especially when she saw Yu Daoxiang's bulging With a high chest, he secretly touched his almost flat chest again, his small face was tightly wrinkled, and his face was full of worry.She heard from the maid in the mansion that men like women with big breasts, and Brother Ye must be the same.The little girl blushed and thought, the food that usually feels delicious, now tastes boring.

The unbearable heat in Kaifeng in July, after a meal, Ye Chen and Shui'er were sweating, but Yu Daoxiang was always refreshed, which made Ye Chen envious.

Ye Chen took Yu Daoxiang and Shui'er's little hand to the gazebo in the small pool in the back garden to enjoy the shade.As soon as he sat down, someone came to report that Li Junhao was visiting.

Li Junhao is the leader of Yongle Border Town South Gang. Although his martial arts skills are still a bit behind Yu Daoxiang, Si Luoyi and Guo Wuwei, he is still a first-class master in the world.The most important thing is that he has rich living experience in the rivers and lakes, he is extremely seasoned in dealing with people, and he also has the talent to lead gangs and do business.

It goes without saying that Li Junhao is extremely proficient in business.You must know that the gang in Yongle Border Town is not simply collecting protection fees. It is originally a gang and a merchant. One-fifth of the shops in Yongle Border Town belong to the South Gang.Doing all kinds of business in different places.

In fact, in today's world, ordinary folk gangs exist both as gangs and merchants, and there are very few gangs that specialize in martial arts for a living in the martial arts novels of later generations.Even if the Shaolin Temple and Wudang Mountain really exist, it is because there are a lot of land and incense offerings.

For example, the Cao Gang makes a living by transporting water, the Salt Gang makes a living by transporting salt, and the Snake Gang makes a living by running casinos and brothels.Escort bureaus that provide bodyguard services, etc., are all considered private gangs.

Ye Chen was very clear about Li Junhao's abilities. He asked Luo Yaoshun to help rescue his two brothers from the Xinxiang county prison. In fact, he also had the idea of ​​subduing Li Junhao for his own use.But although Li Junhao served as Ye Chen's guard for a few days ago, he never showed any intention of serving Ye Chen.Ye Chen is not in a hurry about this, it would be strange if someone like Li Junhao could join him so easily!

Half a month ago, when Ye Chen went to the West Camp of the Forbidden Army to seek asylum, Li Junhao said that he had to leave because he had something important to do.Ye Chen originally wanted to send someone to look for Li Junhao, and had some matters to discuss, but he didn't want the latter to come to him by himself.

(End of this chapter)