Tsai Hsien: That little brat Tsai Bing actually tried to go to a brothel and got his leg broken! He's really disgraced me.
"Is it like my second brother's case, where the treatment was completely interrupted and incurable?"
Yes, the situation is the same as Yu Boming's. Cai Xian's son was instigated to go to a brothel, and he tried to play the hero, falling into a trap that resulted in his broken leg.
"Could he be following the same script as my second brother, ending up raising someone else's child?"
Yu Shuchun, who had just arrived at the court assembly, closed his eyes. Now, a third of his colleagues knew that his son had not only had his leg broken but had also been cuckolded and was raising someone else's child!
Yu Zhongchun: Second brother, calm down, calm down. My colleagues already know about Qingyu's situation, don't they? In a few days, when there's a lot of gossip, who will remember this?
Cai Xianfeng narrowed his eyes and glanced almost imperceptibly at his colleagues. Who wanted to harm his son?
That kid shouldn't have offended anyone; they're most likely after him!
【You mean Cai Bing? He didn't raise anyone's child because he died within two years, which is why the Cai family and the Huo family became mortal enemies.】
"Vegetable pancakes? They don't smell as good as meat pancakes!"
That kid's nickname is indeed Caibing (菜饼), and Cai Xian's family does indeed have a meat pie, a pancake, and a spring pancake.
"Does Minister Cai really like eating all kinds of cakes? You said you've become mortal enemies with the Huo family, which Huo family are you referring to?"
Huo Ying's Huo family?
Tsai Hsien: What's wrong with liking to eat pancakes? Doesn't anyone think pancakes taste better than steamed buns or rice?
[The master is really clever; it must be Huo Ying's family. Isn't it almost Chinese New Year, and all the Imperial Academy and other schools are closed for the holidays?]
So these spoiled brats, like birds released from their cages, organized a gathering at the Drunken Red Mansion tonight. With so many spoiled brats, how could things not get out of hand?
First, they competed against each other. If they couldn't compete against themselves, they competed against each other's fathers. With the instigation of some people, Minister Cai faced off against Minister Huo, and the match ended in a draw!
The two were both unwilling to admit defeat to each other. Just then, a man from a small brothel came and started auctioning off the girl's virginity. Cai Bing and Huo Shui, oh, that's Huo Ying's son, Huo Sui. Both of them took a fancy to the girl.
Everyone wanted to take a picture of her and give her a "home," priding themselves on being heroes saving a damsel in distress from being taken advantage of!
Huo Ying: Huo Sui, that idiot! He's been reading military strategy books with me for so long, and he still can't see that this is a series of interconnected schemes?
Tsai Hsien: Cai Bing is indeed quite incompetent. Not only did he fall for their elaborate scheme, but he also ended up being tricked by a beauty. Cai should practice more. If you want to learn how to be a hero and save a beauty, you have to be a hero first!
The two ministers exchanged a glance, both feeling that the person behind this was targeting them.
"Who will ultimately win the heart of the beauty?"
[No one managed to get a hug. This brothel owner is a notorious "Drunken Rakshasa" in the martial arts world. People like them are just for fun. Their fathers might actually succeed!]
Tsai Hsien and Huo Ying: A drunken demon? A polite refusal!
"A love triangle drama even involved martial arts figures? The person behind this must be quite powerful!"
They were quite capable. Before the bidding between the two was even over, they somehow started fighting. Someone in the middle of it hit Cai Bing's leg, causing a comminuted fracture. With current medical conditions, he can only wait to become disabled.
The young man died of depression within two years. The Cai family and the Huo family became mortal enemies.
They often tried to trip each other up in the court. Later, Huo Sui's horse got spooked during an outing, and he fell off and died within two days.
Huo Ying believed it must have been the Cai family who did it, because someone saw Cai's meat pie, the eldest brother of Cai Bing, had contact with the troublemaker's groom.
After the incident, the groom, drunk that very night, fell into the lotus pond and drowned! The mutual antagonism between the Cai and Huo families also weakened them, allowing someone with ulterior motives to take advantage of their vulnerability.
"The person behind this seems to really enjoy using schemes and underhanded tactics; they're a treacherous villain!"
[Indeed, there are many speculations about this person's identity in historical records, but no one has ever known his true identity!]
"Even Little Bead doesn't know?"
[I have some guesses, but none of that matters. Who he is is none of our concern. Master, our most important task now is to find out from Cai Xian why the four major families were discovered ahead of time.]
Emperor Mingxi and his court officials: It has nothing to do with your two ancestors, but it does have something to do with us!
Who knows if this person only targeted Cai and Huo, or if they also targeted them? They won't feel at ease until they find the person!
Gu Yutong: Of the four people who were named, why was I the only one left out? Am I that invisible?
He desperately wanted to know why his later years had been so miserable before he was trampled to death by horses after the fall of the Dayan Kingdom.
His three sons either abandoned their old father or died young like the sons of the Wu family and the sons of the Cai and Huo families.
Gu Yutong was almost red with anxiety, but those two bastards just wouldn't mention his name!
"I'll go ask after the morning court session."
Upon hearing this, Cai Xian became nervous again. He barely listened to the rest of the morning court session, repeatedly rehearsing in his mind how to respond to the Junior Tutor's 'interrogation'.
Sure enough, as soon as Eunuch Qian announced the end of court, without Cai Xian deliberately delaying and waiting for Yue Fuguang, she took the initiative to come over.
With a smiling, 'kind and approachable' expression, Tsai Hsien's eyelids twitched.
They respected, loved, and feared this man, mainly because his temperament was so unpredictable, even more so than their emperor!
I've always treated them quite well, and my colleagues and I get along well. They've eaten Master Shao's food and given him many gifts. This give-and-take relationship is quite harmonious, isn't it?
Even so, judging from the current situation, these two ancestors still haven't fully considered saving Dayan!
Minister Cai
Cai Xian turned around and bowed, saying, "Does the Junior Tutor have something to discuss with me?"
As Yue Fuguang walked alongside him out of the hall, she said, "It's nothing serious, I'm just curious about the affairs of the four great families."
My second uncle used to serve in Yizhou. I heard from my grandfather that the Zhao family in Yizhou was very powerful, so I imagine the other families were not much less powerful.
"Those who would do something as brainless as luring foreign tribes into the country to plunder should act very discreetly. How did you manage to discover four families at once?"
She looked at Tsai Hsien with eyes full of curiosity.
Tsai Hsien, true to his old fox nature, remained calm and composed, maintaining his friendly smile as he said, "This is a long story."
To put it simply, the people investigating Chonghua's disappearance were involved with Bai Yu, and they tracked him all the way to the Bai family in Jiaozhou.
Upon arriving at the Bai family home, they found no clues about Chonghua, so they did not alert the Bai family for the time being, but instead secretly investigated Bai Yu.
This investigation revealed that Bai Yu had close ties with the Zhao family of Jiaozhou, the Fan family of Liangzhou, and the Zhou family of Bingzhou.
"These families are all prominent clans, and it's said they have complicated kinship ties. Isn't it normal for them to have interactions?"
Cai Xian nodded and said, "Indeed, my people in the Ministry of Justice thought so too, but later they discovered that these people always concealed their identities and chose secluded places to meet."
Bai Yu even met with people from the Nanzhao Kingdom several times in private.
Later, the group split up and followed these people back to their clans, discovering that the members of these clans, either clan leaders or their sons, were secretly in contact with people from the Northern Li and Western Qiang tribes…
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