130. Teacher
"Shh, keep it down, keep it down!"
Prince Jing stared with his eyes wide open and raised his index finger to his mouth, warning Chen Ji and Bai Li.
He turned around and looked behind him to make sure no one was paying attention to them. Then he looked at Chen Ji and Bai Li: "I had a lot of trouble sneaking out in disguise, why are you yelling?"
Bai Li asked in confusion, "Dad, you always tell my brother and me not to climb over the wall, but you yourself climbed over it?"
Prince Jing smiled and said, "Look at what you are saying. Your father walked out from the main gate."
Bai Li also smiled and said, "General Wang is on duty at the main gate. I'll go ask him."
Prince Jing quickly grabbed Bai Li's arm and said, "I found it. I found it from the clinic."
Chen Ji asked doubtfully, "Your Highness, if you go on a secret tour like this, what if something happens to you? We can't afford it."
Prince Jing laughed and said, "I'm just a coachman now. As long as you don't tell anyone, who would bother a coachman?"
Chen Ji thought for a moment and continued to dissuade him, "You should bring some guards with you. Or perhaps let Feng Da accompany you and take care of your daily life?"
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Prince Jing raised his voice, "If I let them follow me around and tell me every day what I can't eat, what I can't drink, what I can't do, what I can't do, what's the point of going on an incognito tour? Besides, this literary gathering is so lively, if I go as Prince Jing, everyone will inevitably be restrained."
Chen Ji sighed, "I was wondering why the prince had such a personality before, but it seems that it's just up to you."
Prince Jing raised an eyebrow and said, "Why do I feel like you're cursing? He's nothing like me. When I was his age, I had already fooled around with those civil servants."
Chen Ji said seriously: "Your Majesty, everyone recognizes you. Within this morning, everyone will find out your identity."
Prince Jing waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. By then I'll have left Luo City. The sky is high and the sea is vast."
Chen Ji interrupted, "Your Highness, let's not talk about your incognito tour. You can see that I'm not suited to studying the classics, nor do I have any intention of entering the officialdom. Why don't you let me drop out of school? As for the border army's expenditure, how can it be affected by me alone? How can we treat the affairs of our country as a joke?"
Prince Jing was silent for a moment, then said meaningfully, "I don't need to use the interests of my country to hold you hostage. How about this? You just need to study until the beginning of next spring, and I'll owe you a favor. If you need anything in the future, as long as it doesn't endanger the Ning Dynasty, I can help you once. How do you do it?"
Chen Ji did not answer.
He is just an apprentice in a clinic, but now the prefect of Luocheng and the powerful vassal king owe him a favor. It sounds good when he says it, but how can he redeem this favor?
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After thinking for a while, Chen Ji said, "Then I have a favor to ask of you. Your Majesty, it is too dangerous for you to go on a secret tour. Why don't you just go back..."
Before he could finish his words, Prince Jing's expression changed and he interrupted, "Stop, young man. You are still young and don't even know what you want most. How can you use this favor so easily?"
At this time, Chen Wenxiao on the cart shouted, "Driver, driver, let's go."
Prince Jing hurriedly said in a muffled voice: "Here it comes."
He lowered the brim of his straw hat, walked to the front of the cart and sat down with his back to everyone. He just whipped the whip and the old ox began to pull the cart slowly.
Bai Li smiled and stuffed the cloth-wrapped talisman into Chen Ji's arms. "Everyone knows my father's words are as good as gold. You'd better think about how to make good use of this favor. Don't forget to eat snacks."
After saying that, she caught up with him a few steps, jumped lightly and sat down at the end of the cart, with her legs hanging outside the cart, swaying with the bumps and ups and downs of the cart.
Bai Li patted the prince beside him and said, "Brother, when we go out this time, you must remember what Dad told you. You are not allowed to drink alcohol within a month."
The prince sneered: "Hey... I've already left Luo City, how can he still control me?"
Bai Li's eyes lit up: "Brother, this is not good, what if Dad finds out?"
The prince waved his hand nonchalantly: "So what if he knows? I am already over the age of coming of age, I am just drinking wine.
Do you still need to look at someone else's face?"
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Baili let out a long "Oh!" and said, "That's amazing!"
Seeing Prince Jing sitting in the front row, he paused in swinging the whip, then brought it down hard, causing the old cow to moo and quicken its pace.
The streets were bustling with people, an ox cart, a fine horse, and a young man walking.
It was a rare day in winter when the weather was clear and the air was fresh. Chen Ji suddenly thought it would be nice to go out for a study tour, so that he could escape from the world and troubles for a short time.
He followed the ox cart slowly and untied the cloth-wrapped talisman in his arms.
The bundle contained Zhengxinzhai's snacks: Honey Three Knife, Golden Ma Su, Peach Su, Kaikouxiao, ...
As he was eating, he heard the clatter of horse hooves. Zhang Xia rode beside him, looking down at the snacks in his hands. He asked casually, "You have a good relationship with the prince and the princess. The princess even prepared snacks specially for you."
Chen Ji turned his head and looked at her: "I am friends with the prince and the princess!"
Zhang Xia was puzzled: "Friend?"
Chen Ji said calmly: "Don't you have any friends?"
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Zhang Xia said bluntly, "No. After coming to Luocheng, those who want to be my friends are either asking for money or asking my father to do something for them. It's better not to make friends with them."
Chen Ji said casually: "With the Xu family's status, it's not easy to be friends with Miss Zhang Er."
Zhang Xia suddenly said, "My name is Zhang Xia. You don't have to call me 'Second Miss Zhang' all the time."
Chen Ji responded casually: "Okay, Zhang Xia!"
At this moment, Bai Li saw Chen Ji walking behind him, turned to Wang Daosheng and said, "Sir, Chen Ji has walked several miles. Why don't we let him get in the car?"
Mr. Wang put down the book in his hand and looked at Chen Ji silently.
Seeing that something was going to happen, Bai Li quickly added, "Look, he's been punished, so he definitely won't be late again next time. It's still over 40 miles to Yichuan County. If you walk all the way there, your shoes will wear out."
Mr. Wang said to Prince Jing, "Please stop for a moment."
Prince Jing pulled the reins without even looking back.
The ox cart slowly stopped.
Just as Bai Li was about to wave to Chen Ji to get in the car, he saw Mr. Wang jump out of the car.
Said to Prince Jing: "Let's continue on our journey."
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Everyone was shocked: "Sir, what are you doing?"
Mr. Wang dusted himself off and smoothed out his wrinkles. "Thank goodness the princess reminded me. Since I've accepted the tuition, I'm Chen Ji's teacher. If he makes a mistake, I'm also responsible and should share the punishment. You two stay in the carriage, and I'll accompany him to Yichuan County."
Chen Ji said, "Sir, you don't have to do this."
Mr. Wang shook his head and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you. I am just following my heart."
Chen Ji felt a little ashamed: "Sorry, I won't be late again."
Mr. Wang brushed the dust off his shoulders with a scroll and said, "No, if there is anything more important than studying the scriptures, you should do it now!"
"Um?"
Mr. Wang said calmly, "What Zhixing Academy can teach you is the principles of being a human being, and this principle is to act according to your heart. The compassion you feel when you see a beggar fall to the ground and want to help is the heart, and the righteous heart you feel when you see injustice is also the heart. If you feel the heart, just do it, there is nothing wrong with it!"
Chen Ji was a little confused.
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Mr. Wang, who was always serious, smiled rarely. “If you just missed one of my classes, I can teach you again, but some things are missed, and they are missed forever.”
Chen Ji took a deep breath and said, "The students understand."
He suddenly felt that this Mr. Wang seemed different from all the literati he had met.
"I'll walk too!"
Bai Li pushed the cart with both hands and jumped off neatly, walking side by side with Chen Ji. The ruby carp pendant on his collar button was like a plum blossom in winter.
The prince hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly jumped off the cart, complaining, "You guys are crazy, why don't you take the ox cart and insist on walking?..."
Chen Wenzong was about to stand up, but Chen Wenxiao held him back: "Brother, what are you going to do? He made a mistake and he should take the consequences. Why should we be punished together? We've walked all the way to Yichuan County, and my feet are almost blistered."
Chen Wenzong sighed and finally sat back down.
Zhang Xia looked at the people walking, suddenly jumped off the horse, and walked with Bai Li holding the reins.
Bai Li glared at her: "What are you doing here?"
Zhang Xia said carelessly, "We are all classmates, so we share the good and the bad together."
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The prince gave a thumbs up: "Children of Jianghu."
The oxcart slowly pulled out of the south city gate, only to see many refugees gathered outside the city, living in shacks and relying on government-distributed porridge to survive.
The prince asked, "Did you hear that the night before yesterday, there was almost a rebellion outside the West City Gate. In the end, Lord Zhang Zhuo delivered the food in time and arrested the criminals who planned to incite the rebellion from among the victims. Only then was the matter quelled."
Chen Wenzong sat at the end of the oxcart, looked at the prince, and replied, "I heard my father mention it. He said that the crisis was imminent that day, and the victims were about to rush into Luocheng, burning, killing, and looting."
The prince said, "It is said that a masked man wearing a bamboo hat took hostages outside the city that night, promising that food would arrive by the hour of dawn. This was how they managed to hold the victims hostage for over two hours. For the past two days, storytellers from various teahouses have been outside the city, asking victims about what happened that night, hoping to spin a story about this masked man."
Zhang Xia held the reins and said admiringly, "My father said he was a young hero, calm and composed in the face of danger. He could be a general. Not only did he suppress the victims and delay the time, he also found the assassins that the Liu family had planted among the victims. He was quite impressive."
Bai Li subconsciously glanced at Chen Ji.
The day before yesterday, wasn’t that the day Chen Ji was late?
She didn't know why she thought of Chen Ji, and she had no evidence to prove that the man was Chen Ji.
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But in her deepest impression, Chen Ji was also masked, and he was calm and fearless in the face of danger.
Chen Wenxiao suddenly said disdainfully, "What young hero? He's a eunuch."
Zhang Xia glared: "What's wrong with the eunuch party? The eunuch party also saved people."
Chen Wenxiao retorted, "How can we call the eunuchs heroes just because they occasionally do good things? Do they deserve it? My father said that if anyone in the Chen family associates with the eunuchs, their legs will be broken."
Bai Li suddenly felt that the man outside the city should not be Chen Ji, because on the night Chen Ji saved her, he killed six spies from the Imperial Household Department?
How could the person who killed the eunuch party be a eunuch party member?
Mr. Wang, standing by, ignored their arguments. He simply walked over to the porridge stall and said to the official from the Luocheng government office, "We're going to register today. Those victims with children can get an extra half portion of porridge. From now on, if a child is missing, no one in that household will be allowed to receive porridge!"
The officer said impatiently, "Who are you? Get out of here. Is it your turn to give orders? I'll do whatever I want."
Mr. Wang was not angry, but politely said, "Just tell Zhang Zhuo that this is what Wang Daosheng said. He will understand."
Zhang Xia asked curiously, "Why is it that if a child is missing, no one in the family is allowed to receive porridge?"
Chen Ji casually explained, "Perhaps it's to prevent people from cannibalizing their own children!"
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Zhang Xia was horrified: "Eating their own children? How could parents do such a thing?"
Chen Ji said calmly: "In the year of great disaster, there are only strong and weak!"
End of this chapter.
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