Zhao Shouzheng and others came forward and looked at the rag bag, which contained a dozen eggs of different sizes covered with grass leaves.

Hua Shuyang asked curiously, "Aren't they just a few broken eggs? Why is Master so frightened?"

"What do you know, kid?" Zhao Jin picked up the eggs one by one and looked at them carefully, as if he was examining some precious treasure.

"Hai Rui was a number one honest official. When he was the magistrate of Chun'an, his mother went out to the street to buy some meat for her 70th birthday, which alarmed the Governor-General of Zhejiang, Hu Zongxian, and became the talk of the Zhejiang officialdom. Later, when he became an official in Beijing, he refused to accept or give gifts. His family was so poor that they could not afford to eat meat all year round. They only relied on the eggs laid by the chickens raised by the old servant to improve their living standards."

Zhao Jin sighed and said, "In the winter, chickens lay few eggs. These are probably all the eggs he has."

Then he picked up a chicken egg and said, "Brother, can you give me one for my collection?"

So, whether this thing is valuable or not, its own value is secondary, and it depends more on whether there is anyone to help you praise it.

After Zhao Jin's boasting, the dozen or so eggs suddenly looked different in everyone's eyes.

That is the courage of a loyal minister and the heart of an honest official...

"Brother, take as much as you want." Zhao Hao didn't buy that. He first treated Hai Rui as a living person, not a freak or an idol. He smiled and said, "Then make them all into poached eggs tomorrow morning..."

"Ah, what a waste?" Everyone couldn't help but gasp.

"Aren't eggs meant for eating? Oh, yes, they can also be used to hatch chicks..." Zhao Hao smiled indifferently, turned inside and said, "Do whatever you want."

"You don't know how famous Hai Gangfeng is now. It has been spread in Beijing before that Hai Rui was debating with a teenager. Everyone is curious about what you two were debating about." Seeing his brother not taking it seriously, Zhao Jin shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"The news that he gave you eggs today will surely spread throughout the capital in a few days. I'm afraid the adults will be even more curious about how you became friends with Hai Gangfeng."

"Are we friends?" Zhao Hao said disapprovingly, "I think he's more of an enemy than a rival. Didn't he see me like this, and he still won't let me go?"

Eryang also nodded vigorously, agreeing with it deeply.

"Others want to make Hai Rui like this but they can't get it. Do you know how much benefit being friends with Hai Rui will bring to your career?" Zhao Jin said, waved his hand and smiled bitterly, "I forgot that my brother has no intention of pursuing a career in politics. Okay, you can take a rest. We won't talk nonsense anymore."

Everyone blew out the lights and tiptoed out.

~~

Hai Rui kept his word and did not come to visit for the next few days.

But Zhao Hao can't expect to live in peace...

Wu Shilai sent someone to urge him again.

Zhao Hao had no choice but to take advantage of the two days of recuperation at home to compose a few poems and asked Wu Kangyuan who came to visit him to give them to Wu Shilai.

Lord Xu will step down next year. Considering what happened to him after he stepped down, he thought about it and decided not to get too hung up on it.

Two days later, Zhao Hao's fever finally subsided and he finally regained his appetite, so he asked for some mutton offal soup.

The cooks at home could make this kind of thing, but it was not as good as the old soup in the shop, so the taste was not as good. Zhao Shizhen went to the Hu family mutton offal shop on the street, got a full pot of mutton offal soup, put it in a steamer and brought it back.

Seeing him placing mutton offal soup, sesame paste, tofu, and chives one by one on the kang table, Zhao Hao rubbed his hands happily and said, "If there is a sesame cake, it will be complete."

"How can you drink mutton soup without sesame cakes?" Zhao Shizhen took out an oil-paper bag from his sleeve like a magic trick, and inside it was indeed a bag of golden baked cakes covered with white sesame seeds.

"You know what you're talking about!" Zhao Hao's appetite grew. He added the three kinds of seasonings to the bowl, and then began to eat them. He ate three pancakes and drank half a bowl of soup. He felt less hungry and more energetic. He said to Gao Wudao, who came in to bring him some hot water:

"Brother Gao, I think I still need to practice."

This illness sounded a wake-up call for him. He was not indestructible, but rather weak. He would have headaches and fevers in the future. If he was unlucky enough to get sick... With the medical conditions of this era, he could only leave it to fate.

If you want to live longer, you have to be harder on yourself.

"Well, I have a great mission, and I cannot die halfway through my mission," Zhao Hao said to himself.

Well, this coward is actually afraid of death...

Gao Wu nodded heavily upon hearing this, and was so excited that he was speechless for a long time.

Then Zhao Hao continued, "But I can't stand the stuff you guys are doing. Think of a way to make it easier, something that can strengthen your body. I don't want to become a martial arts master..."

Gao Wu nodded heavily again, and finally organized his words, ready to tell his thoughts to the young master, but was interrupted by a burst of noise outside.

The corners of Brother Gao's mouth twitched, and he forgot everything he had just thought of...

"Is Zhao Shixi itching again?" Upon hearing this, the first thing Zhao Hao thought of was that he hadn't cared about his eldest nephew for a long time, and thought that this would be fun again.

"Wang Wuyang, you bastard, come out here!" But then an angry voice was heard outside, followed by the men in Caijia Lane chasing people away, "You can't go in, get out, get out!"

Zhao Hao was actually a little disappointed. He glanced at Wang Wuyang and said, "What trouble have you caused again?"

"I didn't." Wang Wuyang denied it flatly. He kept his master's teachings in mind and behaved like a kitten before the imperial examination.

"Let's go out and take a look." Zhao Hao had just gotten moldy from staying in the house for the past few days, so he stretched out his feet and got off the kang. Wang Wuyang hurriedly rushed to put on cotton boots for his master.

In the past, this was either Hua Shuyang's job or Zhao Shizhen's job. It seemed that the eldest senior brother still felt a little guilty.

So everyone surrounded Zhao Hao and came to the door of the main hall, where they saw the man from Caijia Lane pushing a tall, angry-looking middle-aged man out of the door.

"He is Uncle Wang Shishu from Liuhe..." Wang Wuyang said hurriedly to Zhao Hao in a low voice.

"Wang Xijue..." Zhao Hao immediately became interested when he heard that and asked someone to let him in.

He is a great scholar and the last prime minister of the Ming Dynasty with the demeanor of a prime minister. We must respect him.

Later on, Shen Yikuan, Ye Xianggao and others may have strong abilities, but as prime ministers, they always act in a despicable way. It is no wonder that the morals of the Ming Dynasty were completely corrupted...

Of course, it is too early to say this. Wang Xijue has only been in the official career for five years and is only a seventh-rank Hanlin editor.

However, Wang Xijue was a southerner with a northern appearance, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose and a wide mouth. He was very majestic when he got angry.

He saw Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang coming out, pointed at them and cursed: "You two bastards have done such a good thing, that evil book has made my brother a fool!"

"Ah?" Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang exclaimed in unison: "Can a geometry book make people stupid?"

Zhao Hao also had an incredible look on his face; his attempts to flirt with others, which were ready to be unleashed, were abruptly interrupted.

Wang Xijue also stared at him, glaring at Zhao Hao and said:

"You are the monster, right? No matter what I say today, I will rescue these two juniors from you!"

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