Chapter 1585: Be Frank
Prince Gong was not full at all, and Aunt Shang kept watching him, so he had no chance to eat any snacks.
After finishing dinner in the evening, Prince Gong was persuaded by Aunt Shang to walk around the palace for a while, and then he returned to the palace with trembling legs.
At night, Prince Gong fell asleep on an empty stomach.
Because he was hungry, he had no energy or brainpower to think about why his father didn't let him return to Luozhou, nor could he think about Zhou Man's behavior.
He fell asleep with his hands covering his stomach, and woke up hungry the next day. Then he found that he was even hungrier that day.
Prince Gong, who had not taken Zhou Man's suggestion of treating the disease seriously before, was suddenly stumped by this matter and was completely exhausted.
After seeing the Crown Princess every day, Zhou Man would go to see Prince Gong, take his pulse, and encourage him, saying that he was in better health than the day before. He would then instruct Aunt Shang to keep an eye on him, asking him to eat less and exercise more, and that he would be healthier in time.
Because he had walked a lot and was fat, Prince Gong was sore all over that day and had no idea how he was better than the day before.
But Aunt Shang clearly trusted Zhou Man, including Mingda and Changyu who came with her. Even when he clutched his chest and expressed discomfort, Zhou Man said to him seriously, "Your Highness Prince Gong, you are delusional."
As soon as these words were spoken, anyone who was normal around Prince Gong knew that he was pretending to be sick.
So Aunt Shang persuaded and hinted, and finally got Prince Gong to walk to the foot of the mountain again.
Manbao, Mingda and Changyu walked happily in front of him, and then went into the mountains to dig flowers and plants. Mingda even reached out and caught a bug, which scared Changyu a lot.
When Prince Gong dragged his body back to the palace like a dead dog, he didn't even have the strength to speak.
Today was his second time walking, and it was clearly the same distance, but he felt it was even harder than yesterday. Every time he lifted his foot, it felt like a thousand-pound stone was pressing on his thigh, preventing him from lifting it.
Prince Gong had no strength to wash up, and was finally stripped naked by the eunuchs and carried into the pool to take a bath, and then carried out again.
Even in this situation, Aunt Shang did not relax and refused to let him eat more. Moreover, she would not let him sleep after eating and insisted that he walk around the house for fifteen minutes.
Prince Gong wanted to return to Luozhou even more urgently.
But at this time, the emperor was repairing the father-son relationship with the prince, and had decided not to let Prince Gong return to Luozhou in the short term.
Because the queen's words touched his heart.
He would not give Prince Gong the chance to become the King of Yizhou. He was afraid that if his most beloved son became the King of Yizhou, would he kill him or not?
In order to prevent such an accident from happening, he would rather temporarily confine the person in the palace and let him reflect on his mistakes.
The prince's heart was very complicated and his thoughts were confused yesterday and today, so he was mostly silent when talking to his father.
Although he was mostly silent, he learned to pour water and serve tea to his father, which made the emperor look at him several times, and even Wei Zhi and others looked at the prince several times.
Yesterday, Mr. Zhuang continued to teach them the "Book of Filial Piety". After thinking for two months, he still taught the princes and the filial piety of the princes and the emperor.
In the open class, Mr. Zhuang taught according to the book. The prince also noticed that he was restrained when teaching this lesson. He had always given many examples when teaching the "Book of Filial Piety" in the past, but today he just followed the textbook.
The prince knew the reason very well. It was because his father was unfilial, and so he was also unfilial.
I thought the class would be over after that, but unexpectedly, Mr. Zhuang ended the course early and asked the prince to go to the small classroom next door to teach him the lesson again.
Mr. Zhuang, who has taught many students and accepted two disciples with special circumstances, knows that you have to be more frugal when teaching some children.
That is, you can't talk openly. You can only teach him what you want him to accept, such as Bai Er. If you talk openly, it will become a burden to the child.
So we should teach him sparingly, so that even if he complains about the hardship, he will still happily continue to learn and will always gain something;
But you have to be more open with some children. These children are not only smart, but also sensitive and prone to overthinking. If you hold back, they will feel that you are concealing, deceiving, and being hypocritical.
It is better to speak freely and explain the good and bad things to him in detail. Things in this world are not black and white. Young children may not understand, but people with a certain amount of experience can accept it.
Because they have learned to think independently early on, and they don't believe everything their teachers say.
Instead of letting them have wild thoughts, it is better to break it down so that they can see it more clearly.
Bai Shan and Zhou Man are both such people, and so is the prince.
For such people, seemingly plausible explanations will only make them doubt, doubt the gentleman, doubt everything and everyone around them, and even doubt themselves.
So after watching Bai Shan and Zhou Man for two months and thinking about it for another two months, Mr. Zhuang decided to teach the prince in a different way.
But there were thirty students in the class. Apart from the prince, the other nine were also at the learning stage and were not suitable for this teaching method.
He couldn't allow other children to learn bad things just to teach the prince well.
Children like Liu Huan, Feng Zongping and Yi Ziyang are different from Bai Erlang. Erlang has followed Bai Shan and Zhou Man since he was a child and has become accustomed to this way of education. Both he and Bai Shan and Zhou Man can make things right for him.
Moreover, Bai Shan and Zhou Man are still young and mostly innocent at heart, unlike these powerful young men who are not young anymore and have seen many sinister things.
Mr. Zhuang didn't dare to explain the world to them and show them the good and evil. If he taught them bad things, he wouldn't know whether their parents would come to visit him. He was afraid that the emperor would be the first one to object.
He can teach them the good things about how to behave in society, but let their parents teach them the bad side.
In this world, the only ones who are worthy of his teaching regardless of their likes and dislikes are Bai Shan Zhou Man and Bai Cheng. Now there is another prince, because he is the crown prince, the foundation of the country, and the backer that his three disciples have long relied on.
Mr. Zhuang saw clearly that although the three Bai Shan children did not consider themselves to be members of the Eastern Palace and never sought personal gain for the Eastern Palace, in the eyes of the world, court officials, the emperor, and even the prince himself, those three children were members of the Eastern Palace.
Even he was serving as a lecturer in the Eastern Palace at that time.
They knew clearly their own ambitions, and no one would separate them from the Eastern Palace.
If the Eastern Palace is doing well, they will have convenience; if the Eastern Palace is not doing well, these little people like them will probably be the first to be targeted.
Therefore, Mr. Zhuang also hopes to teach the prince more.
He invited the prince to the tea room next door, asked the prince to sit down, then sat down opposite the prince and poured him tea.
Two months after he became the lecturer of the Eastern Palace, Mr. Zhuang had his first candid talk with the Crown Prince.
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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