Chapter 854: Fame
Lord Wei asked, "Didn't your son skip school today?"
"What are you thinking, is Ting'er that kind of person?"
"Then don't think about it. You won't be able to figure it out even if you try. I'll ask Ting'er tomorrow."
The next day, Wei Ting was dragged out to see his father before he even went to the classroom.
Seeing his father, Wei Ting's skin tightened as usual. After all, he just came back after the ten-day holiday and attended classes for one day, right?
What did he do yesterday?
Wei Ting walked towards his father with an expressionless face, thinking hard. In the end, he really couldn't remember what bad things he had done yesterday, so he could only walk over with a tense face.
When he was about to reach the place, he grabbed Bai Shan who was passing by and asked in a low voice: "Have I done anything bad recently?"
Bai Shan was in great pain from being caught. He frowned slightly and followed his gaze to see Lord Wei.
He then thought about it seriously and asked, "Does it count if you copied my homework yesterday?"
"No, Mr. Zhai wouldn't find out about such a small matter, and even if he did, he wouldn't go out of his way to look for my father." Seeing his father getting impatient, Wei Ting quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Did I contradict Mr. Zhai yesterday?"
Bai Shan shook his head, "No."
"Did you skip class?"
Bai Shan: “No.”
"Did you fight with anyone?"
Bai Shan: “Neither.”
Wei Ting heaved a sigh of relief, straightened his clothes, and walked towards his father with a smile, muttering softly, "I told you, I won't remember it wrong, so I didn't make any mistakes."
As soon as he got to Lord Wei, Lord Wei slapped him on the head and asked angrily, "I'm looking for you, what are you dawdling about?"
Wei Ting shrank his neck and said, "I don't know what my father wants to talk to me about, so I asked my classmates to ask for leave from the teacher for me."
"Why ask for leave? I just want to ask you two questions," Lord Wei asked: "Which classmate was it that sold flowers to your mother last time? How did he
What happened? Why did your mother say that he made your mother and the other ladies offend the Princess of Yizhou?
Wei Ting opened his mouth but didn't dare say that the one selling flowers was Manbao, not Bai Shan.
However, if you look into this matter carefully, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang are indeed in cahoots with Zhou Man.
Wei Ting was a little conflicted. Under his father's gaze, he could only say, "Dad, this is a long story."
"Then keep your story short."
"Do you still remember Bai Shan?"
Without even thinking, Lord Wei shook his head, "I don't remember."
Wei Ting: "..."
Wei Ting paused and said, "The one who saved Ji Hao."
When he said that, Lord Wei remembered that he had seen the child before. He coughed lightly and asked, "He comes from a well-off family, right? Why did he want to sell flowers?"
Wei Ting said angrily, "They're not doing this for money. If they were, would they sell such a good-looking white peony for only sixteen taels?"
Lord Wei thought so too, and after a moment's silence, he asked, "So they were trying to please the Princess of Yizhou? But that doesn't make sense. If they were trying to please the Princess of Yizhou, why would they let her make such a fool of herself?"
Wei Ting then told them how they had planned to sell a pot of peony for six hundred taels of silver, but the steward of the palace had forced them to buy it for sixteen taels and three cents of silver.
Lord Wei obviously hadn't expected such a reason to be behind this. He was stunned and said after a while, "So they were angry and made the princess embarrass herself in front of all the ladies?"
Wei Ting coughed lightly and said, "It's not that big..."
Lord Wei looked at him quietly, rubbing his forehead for a long time before asking, "Have you known about this from the beginning?"
"No," Wei Ting immediately denied. "Father, am I such a fool? If I had known earlier, I would definitely not have let Mother buy those peonies, and I would have stopped her from attending any flower viewing banquet."
Only then did Master Wei nod in satisfaction and waved his hand, saying, "Alright, go to class."
Wei Ting ran away and went back to the classroom to find Bai Shan, "You are famous again now."
Bai Shan looked up at him, and Wei Ting told him the question his father had come to ask him, saying, "Isn't this what fame is all about? Be careful, the Yizhou Palace might make things difficult for you."
Ji Hao on the side snorted coldly and said, "Why are you afraid of him doing anything, Bai Shan? My Ji family will protect you."
Wei Ting asked him unhappily, "Can you represent the Ji family?"
Ji Hao blushed and said, "If I say yes, then yes."
Mrs. Ji was not willing to make enemies with the Yizhou Palace again because of an outsider, so she looked at her mother-in-law with embarrassment.
Madam Ji frowned and asked, "Why do they want to sell the White Peony to the Princess of Yizhou?"
Madam Ji Er immediately said, "You want to make friends with the royal family, right?"
Ji Hao immediately said: "No, it's just to make money."
"Are they short of money?" Madam Ji II looked incredulous. "Besides, why did they have to choose the Princess of Yizhou when there are so many other options? It's not like our family can't afford the peonies. Logically, they should have come to us first, but they didn't. Mother, I don't think they want anything to do with our family."
Apparently she still remembered that she hadn't taken a picture of Wei Zi.
Madam Ji glanced at her and looked at Ji Hao, "Who said they were just doing it to make money?"
"Zhou Man said," Ji Hao said, "She needed money to buy raw medicinal herbs, so she thought of selling peonies."
"She's not going to be a medicinal herb dealer, how much money can she spend on buying medicinal herbs?" Mrs. Ji Er looked unconvinced.
Ji Hao was at a loss for words.
Obviously, apart from those who had the same idea as Madam Ji Er, no one thought that Bai Shanzhou and the others wanted to sell the first pot of peonies to the Princess of Yizhou just to make money. They just thought that they wanted to make friends with the palace, but ended up being troubled by the palace's servants. In anger, they made the princess and the palace lose face in Yizhou city.
Originally, it was only known to a few concerned families. Lord Wei went home and told Madam Wei about it to reassure her. But within two days, the news spread throughout the entire Yizhou city.
Not only the Jiedushi Huang, but also the bailiffs in the county government, even the hangers-on in the streets heard some rumors, and then spread throughout the entire Yizhou city.
For Zhou Man, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, this was not a bad reputation, and they even became known as good people.
In the Jin Dynasty, it was not shameful for scholars to curry favor with the powerful and seek a future for themselves, because at that time, in order to gain fame before the imperial examination, scholars would submit their essays and poems to the powerful ministers in the court.
If you are successful, you will have a good reputation; if you fail, you will have no reputation. If you try to vote but are troubled by the slaves, and then you turn around and embarrass the powerful and punish the slaves, that is fame.
And it is well-known.
When Bai Shan went to the academy again, not only did his classmates look at him with kind smiles, but even the teachers in the school praised him several times for not fearing the powerful.
Bai Shan: ...
I climbed over the wall and sneaked in to read a book, but was pulled by Wei Ting to popularize how famous Bai Shan is now. Manbao: ...
It was clearly her who did it, so why should it be blamed on Bai Shan?
Well, since he was the one who took the blame, the credit should naturally go to him. Manbao remained silent.
See you tomorrow, I'll work overtime tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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