Li Yuanzhao pulled Fang Zhengyi's sleeve and whispered, "Old Fang, you must be careful of Master Yan. He is very strict. When he teaches me to recite, he will spank me if I miss a sentence."
"I don't know how many times my hand has been swollen!"
Fang Zheng said, "Don't worry, Your Highness. I am your tutor. He can't beat me..."
Li Yuanzhao bared his teeth and said, "I don't have a brother like you!"
"Then Your Highness, return the silver to me!"
“No!”
The two of them played and joked until they reached the main hall of the Zhanshi Mansion.
Yan Guoan stood in the hall with a serious face. When he saw the prince and Fang Zhengyi appear with a grin on their faces, his expression suddenly darkened.
"Fang Zhengyi! His Majesty asked you to stay here to study with the Crown Prince. How can you laugh and play around like that?"
Fang Zheng was not afraid of him. This man had a stinky face and wanted to crush him to death the first time they met. Fang Zheng was a little impatient from the beginning.
So he said calmly, "Secretary Yan, hasn't it started yet? Is it possible that the prince is wrong to laugh?"
"Or was it that Yan Zhanshi was born unable to laugh, and feels uncomfortable when he sees others laugh?"
Yan Guoan snorted coldly: "Stop quibbling here! The Crown Prince is the heir to the throne, and he must always maintain the dignity of the royal family! How can I allow you to talk nonsense?"
"Oh? Yan Zhanshi is so capable? He should know all the behaviors of the emperor? It's a pity that Yan Zhanshi was born too late. If he was born a few hundred years earlier and followed Yan Zhanshi's method to train the crown prince, wouldn't there be no change of dynasty?"
Fang Zheng was sarcastic at first.
Li Yuanzhao couldn't help but feel a little excited when he saw the two people starting to confront each other as soon as they met.
He secretly gave Fang Zheng a thumbs up.
Yan Guoan immediately rebuked him coldly: "Fang Zhengyi! I am your superior! How can I allow you to be so presumptuous!?"
"Oh? Could it be that Yan Zhanshi couldn't win the argument and started to appeal to authority? Then what your majesty said should be a famous saying that can't be wrong. Your Highness is also my superior. I wonder who is more senior, your Highness or Yan Zhanshi?"
Fang Zhengyi's hand secretly poked Li Yuanzhao's thigh.
Li Yuanzhao suddenly became bolder, but he was still a little scared when he met Yan Guoan's stern eyes, and said weakly: "Yes! What Lao Fang said makes sense!"
Yan Guoan's eyes widened immediately: "Your Highness! He is a subject and you call him Lao Fang!?"
"A ruler is a ruler, a minister is a minister, a father is a father, and a son is a son. A ruler should act like a ruler! How can the title be so frivolous!?"
Seeing Fang Zheng's nonchalant and complacent look, Yan Guoan became even angrier.
Li Yuanzhao became intimidated after hearing this and immediately looked at Fang Zhengyi with a look for help.
Fang Zhengyi sighed in his heart, this is not good enough for my little brother! It seems that Yan Guoan often bullies him. The prince is so afraid of his subjects.
So he said to Yan Guoan in a cold voice: "Zhanshi Yan! Do you have the right attitude towards the crown prince? Just give a lecture, but be polite to the prince!"
What a treacherous villain! What a treacherous villain!
Yan Guoan was furious, and hated Fang Zhengyi in his heart. Fang Zhengyi was a complete flatterer who tried to please the prince blindly. The prince was so young that he was deceived! Damn it!
"I am teaching the prince by the order of the emperor! In the Zhanshi Mansion, my identity is the prince's teacher! How can it be compared with ordinary times!?"
Fang Zheng did not retreat at all, and looked directly at Yan Guoan: "Although I am nominally a companion, I am also teaching the prince under the order of the emperor, so Your Highness is also half of my student. Moreover, we are both teachers and friends. Please do not yell at my student, Secretary Yan!"
"Although I am a subordinate of Yan Zhanshi, His Majesty once told me that I don't need to teach Yan Zhanshi what he has taught me, so you and I should do our own things and not interfere with each other!"
"But I am here, please respect His Highness!"
Yan Guoan's face became more and more embarrassed: "Fang Zhengyi! Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you rely on Eunuch Guo! You are also a scholar, but you have no shame in associating with eunuchs!!"
The group of young eunuchs serving around and Liu Jin beside the prince all lowered their heads, feeling a little uncomfortable after hearing this.
Fang Zheng took in everyone's performance, and at the same time, he felt even more disdainful of Yan Guoan.
Since appealing to authority doesn’t work, are we starting to appeal to morality?
What a pity! I, Fang Zhengyi, was a three-good student in my previous life and a moral gentleman in this life? You want to defeat me morally? You have to find it first!
Then he turned around and whispered in the prince's ear: "Your Highness, this is the first lesson I will teach you today. Watch carefully."
Li Yuanzhao's eyes flashed with surprise and he nodded vigorously.
It was the first time that he saw Yan Zhanshi being humiliated like this, and standing behind Fang Zhengyi he actually felt a sense of security for the first time... a feeling of being protected.
Lao Fang, you are reliable!
Fang Zheng raised his sleeves and smacked his eyes twice.
Then he lowered his sleeves, his eyes red and tearful, and said angrily: "Mr. Yan, Eunuch Guo and I hit it off right away. I felt a sense of intimacy with him the moment I saw him..."
Li Yuanzhao was wondering....why did this sound familiar...
"Eunuch Guo is very kind to me and he is older than me, so it is only natural for me to call him brother!"
"Why did it become the association of eunuchs in the mouth of Yan Zhanshi? Fine! I will associate with eunuchs!"
"But what about eunuchs? There is nothing in the palace that can be done without the eunuchs!"
"I do the dirtiest and most tiring work, but I am looked down upon by everyone and I have to listen to the contempt of the high and mighty masters!"
"If this is what a scholar and a gentleman do, I, Fang Zhengyi, would rather be with you, my father-in-law!"
The eunuchs in the palace looked at Fang Zhengyi in surprise, and a strange feeling welled up in their hearts, as if no one had ever said such words for these lowest eunuchs since they entered the palace...
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