Chapter 273 After Tomorrow
If such a person becomes the emperor of Zhaoling Kingdom in the future, how absurd will this country become?
Hou Hongtu believes that he does not have the righteousness to worry about the country and the people, but he also does not want his own father to raise a tyrant ruler and bear the eternal infamy!
The answer that Taifu Hou gave him was, of course, that it was not true. He confidently said that Princess Wu Ling was spreading rumors and that Prince Duan was crazy about wanting to take the throne.
As a result, when he turned around, the nineteenth prince was silenced, and later, Huipin also died.
Hou Hongtu had the same idea as Lin Xiafeng. He also felt that the prince was simply trying to silence the witness without being asked.
He was very disappointed with the prince, and even more disappointed with his father.
Hou Hongtu didn't expect that this matter would also implicate Concubine Shu and Prince Ning, and it was even almost enough to involve the entire Qin family.
He felt ashamed to see Qin Qingyao and was hesitating whether to leave Fenghuaxueyue when the queen summoned his father. His father found him again and handed him a stack of Fenghuaxueyue invitations.
He flipped through it and found that the writing inside was a mess, full of irrelevant and boring stuff.
"Dad, what are you doing with these things?"
The Grand Tutor said impatiently, "I just wanted to see what you guys do all day. I've already seen these, take them back!"
"You called me back just for these posts?"
You're not allowed to take away romantic posts, so how could his father take so many at once? Are the guards and shop assistants in the store blind?
Hou Taifu, "Why do you care so much? Just take it back when I told you to. Get lost!"
Hou Hongtu counted them and found there were seven in total. He sat in the carriage and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
He opened the mess of writings and took a quick look, and found that he had never seen any of the pen names in them.
Moreover, no matter how poorly written the posts in their store are, or how ridiculous the content and opinions are, everyone has a topic to discuss together.
However, the posters of these posts are just talking to themselves, and their comments are completely irrelevant.
It's like finding a bunch of people, having each person say a sentence, and then putting them together to form a book.
But after looking through them more carefully, he found that these books were written by the same few people, and there were four pen names that appeared most frequently.
He looked around but couldn't understand what they were talking about. One said the girl from the east family had a nice butt, and the other said the sow from the west family had given birth to eighty piglets...
After he returned, he hung the seven books together. In the following days, although some people touched them, they were just like him, taking a look at them and throwing them back in confusion.
On the second day of October, the Grand Tutor sent someone to call Hou Hongtu home, saying that he was idle all day and neglected his wife and children at home, which was really outrageous.
This is really strange. He was not at home before. Why didn’t I see you looking for him? His wife and children are taken care of by the servants. What can I do if I go back?
Hou Hongtu ignored it. On the third day of the New Year, someone came from the Taifu Mansion again and said that his mother was sick and asked him to go back to take care of her.
As the eldest son, with his two younger brothers in the military, he definitely had to go back. Before leaving, he also told the shop assistants to keep a close eye on the shop, especially not to let anyone take the post out!
Xiao Tiantian patted her chest and assured, "Young Master, you can go back first. The brothers here will definitely take care of it. Don't worry, just stay at home and spend more time with the old lady!"
When Hou Hongtu returned home, he found that his mother's face was full of rosy red, and she didn't look sick at all.
"Didn't my father say you were sick? What are you doing?"
Madam Hou, "What are you talking about? If I wasn't sick, couldn't you come back to see me? You're already thirty years old, and you're sitting there in this mess all day doing nothing. How disgraceful!"
Hou Hongtu frowned. Why did he stop doing his job? When he was summoned by the emperor for a commendation, that's not what you said.
"So what do you want me to do? Continue visiting brothels and drinking? Or do you think I can help you take the imperial examination?"
The Marquis's wife was speechless and could only say with a serious face, "Anyway, from now on, you are not allowed to go to that romantic place again!"
Hou Hongtu, "I don't bother with you!"
Although he was not a very serious person, he was also a filial person. After a lot of worry, he found out that his mother was pretending to be sick to deceive him, and he was already angry.
As a result, after working hard and concentrating on building a career and becoming a leader in a circle, you are accused of not doing your job properly?
His family doesn't understand or support him, and looks down on his ideals, and he doesn't need their understanding!
He turned and left, and was then surrounded by the palace guards...
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Hou Hongtu was under house arrest. In the past few days, he saw his biological father more times than in the previous thirty years combined.
The Grand Tutor wished he could have a long talk with his son every day to make him understand that their Hou family belonged to the Crown Prince and that he could no longer get involved with the Wuling Palace.
Hou Hongtu sneered, "How can a nobody like me, who doesn't do his job properly, get involved in such a major national event as the dispute between the Crown Prince and Prince Duan? You really think highly of me!"
The royal brothers can fight however they want, but he just writes some romance novels in his own shop to fight against people. What has he done to offend anyone?
Neither the father nor the son could convince the other, and neither could make the other sacrifice his or her own ideals in life to fulfill the other's ambitions.
But after so many days of quarreling, Hou Hongtu finally understood why his father was so tough in locking him up at home and not letting him have any romantic activities.
Because the Crown Prince and the Queen knew that Prince Duan had investigated the relationship between the Nineteenth Prince and Concubine Hui and the Crown Prince, they were very angry, so they wanted to fight back.
And their means of counterattack is to start with romance.
There are all kinds of people there every day, and the princess advocates freedom of speech. If someone wants to cause trouble, they can find a lot of inappropriate remarks, big and small.
But those things can’t possibly involve Prince Duan!
Hou Hongtu thought about it carefully, and suddenly remembered the pile of strange posts that his father asked him to take back a few days ago. The content in them was simply nonsense, but there were a lot of numbers and places.
Thinking about his father's series of abnormal behaviors after giving him those posts, Hou Hongtu was really scared and broke out in a cold sweat.
If you want to take revenge on Prince Duan, he has no right to interfere. But every wrong has its perpetrator, so why are you stirring up trouble over such romantic matters?
If there really were hidden secrets in those posts, then it was uncertain whether Prince Duan would be alright by then, but Prince Wuling and the Princess would surely die before him!
On the ninth day of October, it was already very late when the Taifu returned home, but he still went to Hou Hongtu's yard to see if he was asleep.
Hou Hongtu lay on the bed, his back to him, and said nothing. The Grand Tutor then said to himself, "After tomorrow, Dad will find you a job in the Ministry of Revenue. I don't expect you to bring glory to our family, but at least you need to have a decent job!"
Ministry of Revenue? Haha, his father really put in the effort. A department like that that specifically manages money must have so much money that it's lucrative!
But why say after tomorrow?
After the tutor went back to his room to sleep, Hou Hongtu tossed and turned in bed, feeling more and more upset. Then he simply got up, climbed over the wall and slipped out of the house under the cover of night.
There was a night watchman in Fenghuaxueyue who was quite surprised to see him coming. "Master, curfew is about to start. Why are you here at this time?"
"I've been stuck at home these past few days, and I'm bored tonight so I wanted to come over. I'll be on guard tonight, so you guys can go back."
"Huh?" The gatekeeper was clearly tempted, but he scratched his head and said with an embarrassed look, "That's not a good idea. I dare not trouble you."
"Don't be so ungrateful, get out of here before I change my mind!"
"yes!"
After Hou Hongtu entered the room, he went straight to the posts his father had given him, but he found that they had been replaced with other things long ago and those books were nowhere to be found.
"Who took the things here? Those books that were all written in a mess with no theme."
The guy said, "Oh, those have been sitting there for a few days without anyone looking at them, so Xiao Tiantian put them in a corner, where they are taking up space. If you want to see them, I'll go get them for you."
After the clerk brought it, he went home. Hou Hongtu lit a candle and read it again, but still couldn't understand it.
Then he simply stopped looking and took a brazier, intending to burn it all out in one go to avoid leaving any trouble.
This burning made him discover a secret!
The things on it were all written horizontally, one paragraph per person, but when it was close to the fire, words appeared in the blank spaces and connected vertically with the written content to form a complete sentence.
Hou Hongtu finally understood why everything written here was irrelevant, because the main content was written vertically first, and the horizontal content was filled in by looking at words and sentences!
The vertical handwriting was actually an account book, which recorded all the assistance that His Royal Highness Prince Duan had secretly given to Wu Shifeng since the day he led his troops to Jiayi Pass.
Including silver, food, and weapons, that's why there are so many numbers on it!
These account books even contained important information left between the contacts, as well as the instructions from Prince Duan to General Wu, asking him to first establish good relations with the State of Qi, and then wait for the right opportunity to provoke war at the border.
By then, Prince Duan will find a way to persuade the prince to lead his troops to war, and in the end Wu Shifeng and Qi will work together to kill the prince on the battlefield!
Hou Hongtu hadn't even finished reading the first book when he broke out in a cold sweat. Conspiring with a neighboring country to murder his own prince was a crime of treason!
The whole thing seemed to be just an interaction between Prince Duan and Wu Shifeng, but it revealed everywhere that Prince Wu Ling was also involved.
Not to mention using Fenghuaxueyue as their meeting place, even Wu Shifeng himself and his 50,000 soldiers and horses, where did they come from? King Wuling gave them!
It was General Gu who started it in the beginning, and His Royal Highness Prince Duan strongly supported him to go to Chiayi Pass!
All of this seemed as if Prince Duan and Prince Wuling had been colluding with each other for a long time, and then joined forces with Wu Shifeng and the State of Qi to plot the prince's life!
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