Chapter 92 A Good Show A Good Show
Everyone knows that the current emperor is partial, but since he is the emperor, no one can do anything about it.
This time, the emperor waited patiently for three days before calling Eunuch Li over again and asking, "Has Ah Le not rested yet? This child has grown up and is no longer close to me. He has been back for three days and has not come in to see his brother."
If you follow the emperor's words and complain about Prince Rong at this time, you will probably die a miserable death.
Eunuch Li had been the Emperor's confidant for over a decade, so naturally he was a shrewd man. He quickly said, "Your Majesty, you can't say that. Everyone knows that Prince Rong is the closest to Your Majesty. Even the Princess cannot compare to him."
The emperor was satisfied and asked, "Then tell me, why hasn't he entered the palace yet?"
Eunuch Li explained, "I don't know. Yonglefang has been closed to visitors these past few days, and I don't know what the prince is doing. Your Majesty, how about I send someone to find out?"
The emperor's eyes moved, and he said suddenly: "No need, I will go and see it myself."
Eunuch Li quickly stopped him, "Your Majesty, you are the ruler of a country. How can you go to a place like Yonglefang? It would be better for me to go and summon the prince."
The emperor said with an unhappy look, "All under heaven belongs to the king. Is there anything in the capital that I cannot visit?"
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Li secretly thought it was not good and quickly said, "Your Majesty, that is not what I meant. It is just that you are the ruler of a country, and your safety is linked to the entire world. It would be too dangerous to leave the palace rashly."
The emperor said, "The guards around me are not just for show. What danger can there be in having them with me?"
"If there are dangers in the capital, then the world is full of crises, and I, the emperor, cannot sit still."
At this point, Eunuch Li did not dare to persuade him any further and could only say, "Your Majesty, I will arrange it right away."
The emperor nodded, and Eunuch Li went out to find the commander of the imperial guards, Chang Zai, and told him about this. Chang Zai was so upset that he wanted to leave the palace and bring Prince Rong in immediately.
It doesn’t matter if the emperor is unreliable in the palace. After all, it’s others who are being troubled and he himself will not be in danger.
But now he is about to leave the palace. If the emperor makes any mistake, he, as the commander of the imperial guards, will be the first to take the blame.
Chang Zai couldn't help but persuade him, "Eunuch Li, His Majesty is so reckless. Why don't you try to persuade him? It's not easy to see Prince Rong. I will go out and bring him in now."
Eunuch Li also had a bitter look on his face and said, "Master Chang, His Majesty has made up his mind. Why don't you go in and try to persuade him?"
Chang Zaineng was unaware of the emperor's character. He waved his hand and accepted his fate: "I will make arrangements now and ensure that nothing goes wrong."
When the emperor opened his mouth, his subordinates would run around. By the time the emperor left the palace in his "low-key" carriage with a white robe decorated with fish dragons, the pedestrians on the street had disappeared, replaced by familiar faces.
The emperor was originally still 70% interested, but when he opened the window and looked out, he saw Chang's bitter face, and his interest was immediately reduced to 30%.
He lowered the curtain dejectedly and said, "Your Excellency Chang is making a big deal out of nothing."
Eunuch Li could only say, "Your Majesty is the supreme ruler. You should be extremely cautious. Lord Chang is simply doing his duty."
The emperor sighed leisurely, looked at him with some resentment, and said: "Although I am the emperor, I am like a bird in a cage. Sometimes I envy Ah Le for being able to run around."
Eunuch Li looked at his nose and his heart, pretending not to hear what he said.
The imperial palace and Yonglefang were located in the east and west respectively. It took a full hour to get there. The emperor's initial interest had only decreased by a little. If he had not really wanted to see his brother, he would have turned back halfway.
After being helped out of the carriage, the emperor looked up at the facade of Yonglefang and said only one sentence: "The scenery is just average."
Eunuch Li didn't know what he meant by this, so he just said, "The secular world is naturally not comparable to the palace."
"Brother!" A voice came from afar, and it was Prince Rong who came out with a smile.
He had obviously known that the emperor was coming a long time ago, but at this time he was just calling him by the name of the common people.
The emperor was obviously very pleased with his address and shouted, "Fifth brother!"
Prince Rong laughed heartily, holding the emperor's arm and coquettishly saying, "Brother, why are you here? I was preparing a great gift for you. I was planning to bring people to the palace tomorrow, but who would have thought you'd come today?"
The Emperor and Prince Rong were very close. As they walked hand in hand into Yonglefang, the Emperor said with a smile, "You've been back for several days and haven't come to see me... Since you came to see me, I have no choice but to come to see you."
Then he asked curiously, "What kind of gift have you prepared? Why do you want to bring it into the palace?"
Eunuch Li next to him was also curious, thinking to himself that maybe Prince Rong had also prepared beauties for the emperor. Although everyone knew that the emperor liked beauties and there were countless officials who offered beauties, in fact, only a few could actually enter the palace and be favored after entering.
Prince Rong is the emperor's younger brother and they share the same mother. He has always disdained to do such things. Could it be that his temperament has changed after going out?
The next moment, Prince Rong smiled and said, "Since you're here, why not come in and take a look? It just so happens that the queue is almost full."
The emperor was even more curious and said politely, "Since it is a kind gesture from my fifth brother, I will take a look."
When he walked in, Eunuch Li knew that Prince Rong had already dealt with it. The maids serving here were well-behaved and it was obvious at a glance that they were not the kind found in a brothel. They were most likely people directly transferred from Prince Rong's mansion.
The table was already filled with delicious food. The emperor glanced at it and didn't see anything special. He just asked his brother, "What is it?"
"Brother, just wait and see a good show." Prince Rong said with a smile and clapped his hands.
Suddenly, a man appeared on the stage in the middle of Yonglefang, beating the drum to appeal for justice, and the play began with the sound of the drum.
The emperor was delighted when he saw it. "Is it going to be a play about the injustice of Dou E? I don't like to watch those sobbing ones."
"Brother, you will know if you keep reading." Prince Rong did not give any spoilers.
As expected, the emperor followed along and watched, and he was fascinated by it. The case progressed layer by layer, and the verbal battles in the court were very exciting.
When folk adaptations of "Sui Hua Yin" are made, they are usually made to make it easier to understand. After all, common people have limited literary literacy, and if it is too profound, they are afraid that they will not understand it.
However, Prince Rong asked the people of Yonglefang to adapt it in a more elegant way. Not only did they use the poems and songs in "Sui Hua Yin", but they also added some new singing styles, making it seem even more refined.
Obviously, this kind of highbrow art was more to the emperor's liking. He was fascinated by it and started to jump along with the people on the stage.
At that time, there were few opera repertoires, and most of them were about talented men and beautiful women, or wrongful convictions. Even wrongful convictions revolved around justice, and there were few such exciting confrontations in court.
The actors of Yonglefang knew the identity of the visitor and performed even harder, and the charm of "Suihuayin" was fully displayed.
"Living in a small town, I rely on a sharp knife, and I am ashamed to touch fat and oil. The butcher kills a full pig in broad daylight. There is no need to distinguish between the rich and the poor."
"Year after year the flowers are the same, but year after year the people are different. Life goes on from generation to generation, but the moon over the river remains the same year after year."
The music ended during the funeral procession, but the emperor hummed the two poems he had just heard and could not help but applaud: "Excellent! The scholar who wrote this storybook must have been extremely talented, otherwise he could not have written such poems."
"Alas, such a talented person, it would be a waste if he just wrote storybooks. He has no future. Why not find him and let him come to the palace to study for me?"
When Eunuch Li heard this, he was so frightened that his throat almost jumped out. He thought to himself that the person behind the story was just a low-level scholar. Who knew what kind of down-and-out scholar was behind it? What should he do if the emperor summoned him into the palace to be his study companion with just one word?
Prince Rong, who was standing next to him, laughed heartily upon hearing this: "Brother, if everything goes well, you'll be able to see him at the Spring Examination next February."
The emperor was delighted when he heard this and asked, "Oh, could it be that this person has already passed the imperial examination and will take part in the imperial examination next year?"
Prince Rong said, "When I returned to Beijing, he was still a scholar, but I think he is indeed talented. He will definitely pass the provincial examination this year and will be able to enter Beijing to take part in the imperial examination next year."
The emperor was even more pleased to hear this and said, "That's right. Such a talent shouldn't be buried."
Eunuch Li lowered his head and dared not speak, thinking that it was not easy for a scholar to pass the imperial examination. Being good at writing storytelling did not mean that one was good at reading. How many people took exams all their lives but still remained a scholar.
But at the moment he was just joking and didn't dare to say it out loud to avoid disturbing the two of them.
The more the emperor thought about the two poems, the more he liked them, especially the one that reads, "Year after year the flowers remain the same, but year after year the people are different." He recited it as if possessed, and exclaimed, "Such a beautiful poem! No wonder that man wanted to kill someone to steal it."
Then he asked, "Scholars don't like to write storybooks. Is this person from a poor family, so he writes storybooks to earn a fee? Why don't I give him some reward so that he can concentrate on his studies?"
Prince Rong shook his head and said, "Although his family is not wealthy, they have enough food and clothing. He wrote this story not for money, but to clear his own grievances."
"What do you mean?" the emperor asked in surprise.
So Prince Rong started by talking about how he met Su Fengzhang in prison and told the whole story of the case.
Hearing that the case on the stage was actually true, the eunuch Li next to him could not hide his surprise and said, "There really are such sinister and vicious people in the world. This scholar Lin's death was too unjust."
The emperor, who had just been captivated by Lin Xiucai's poem, was even more heartbroken and cried out, "How could someone who wrote such a beautiful poem have died so young? This Mu Wei is truly despicable. My Great Zhou has lost a talented person."
As he spoke, the emperor felt overwhelmed with sadness. He had finally met a scholar who suited his taste, but he turned out to be dead.
Seeing him crying so hard, Eunuch Li quickly winked at Prince Rong.
Prince Rong then said, "Brother, although Lin Changqing is dead, the truth of this case has finally been revealed. Mu Wei was executed in the autumn, and Su Fengzhang is also safe and sound. This can be considered a good thing."
The emperor said bitterly, "It would be too easy for him to be executed in the autumn. Such a man should be cut into pieces. Eunuch Li, go to the Ministry of Justice and ask them whether they have made a judgment on this case."
It was obvious that he intended to severely punish the murderer. Finally, the emperor said, "The magistrate of Hushan County is not completely foolish, otherwise I would not have forgiven him. Alas, allowing such an immoral person to enter the county school is also a sign of the incompetence of the local teachers."
Seeing that he was about to be implicated, Prince Rong changed the subject and said, "This Mu family is really despicable. They refused to collect the body. Fortunately, Scholar Su was willing to take over and prevented Scholar Lin from dying without a burial place."
Upon hearing this, the emperor also said, "Su Fengzhang is indeed a man of great loyalty and righteousness, and he writes a good story. It's time for the world to know about Lin Changqing's talent and let the world remember his reputation."
"Oh, if all the scholars in the world were like Su Fengzhang, they wouldn't all be so cross-eyed, and the court would be peaceful." The emperor sighed, but he remembered the name firmly.
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