He was very imposing when he was shouting at Jiangdu Palace before, but when he actually stood in front of Emperor Dongnuange of Qianqing Palace, the fourth prince was as quiet and honest as a quail. After all, his father's eyes were like knives, which hurt his face, and The look in the eyes of his elder brother, the Third Prince, was full of reproach.

As for the emperor's tone, even Zhang Shou could hear some complex emotions besides anger: "I asked you to come back, but you turned a deaf ear, but when your teacher brought you back, you obeyed me!"

"Your Majesty, the fourth prince seems to have acted impulsively this time. Not only did he contradict Chief Hong Shan in the street, but he also took away those guards, which led to the farce that spread throughout the capital. But..." Zhang Shou heard that the emperor The meaning behind these words was that of a gun and a stick, so I had to step forward and explain it to the fourth prince.

After a pause, he continued: "Actually, I don't want to plead for him, because he made a lot of ridiculous lies in front of me on the carriage before."

In front of the emperor and the prince, he repeated the lies that the fourth prince told in the carriage. When he saw that the fourth prince was bowing his head deeply, and he didn't know if his eyes were rolling around, he laughed and said: "But this time These lies are most likely meant for the ears of the coachman and the guards of the sharp cavalry camp outside. To be honest, I don’t know how much of it is true and how much of it is false.”

The fourth prince hurriedly raised his head, but when he came into contact with Zhang Shou's cold gaze, he immediately flinched again. And when he heard what Zhang Shou said next, he became even more panicked.

"When I was in the Jiangdu Palace, I claimed that he was not allowed to speak, otherwise he would be punished with a ruler if he said a word. As a result, he must have said hundreds of words on the road, and most of them were nonsense. Fourth Prince, you yourself Say, should I fight?"

"me……"

After stammering out two words, seeing his father and brother looking at him with very clear anger, the fourth prince finally felt extremely aggrieved, and finally said angrily: "I saw you at Ciqing Palace this morning. Madam Hong gave a letter to the third brother of the prince, and she said that Chief Hong might write a letter to speak for the second brother, so I felt unhappy. After seeing this stubborn old man, of course I wanted to embarrass him!"

"But I really saw the attendants around the eldest brother and the second brother before... Third brother, you have seen them too! Those are not the ordinary attendants who do chores in other courtyards, one is the one who waits on the pen and ink next to the second brother, called Mo Hai, there is also a guard who used to be eldest brother, his surname seems to be Shi! I will definitely not get it wrong, if my father doesn’t believe it, you can send people all over the city to investigate, and we will definitely find these two people!"

Faced with such an answer, Zhang Shou was finally speechless.

The next moment, he saw that the third prince was ashamed and embarrassed, as if he deeply regretted that his exchange with Hong was overheard by the fourth prince. He who was standing next to the emperor actually retreated to the emperor and directly Lifting up the hem of his clothes, he knelt down and bowed his head to apologize. Although he wanted to say something to His Highness, it was not prudent enough, but looking at the emperor's eyes, he decided not to speak.

Sure enough, the angry emperor stood up with a bang and shouted at the fourth prince word for word: "Since you said you have the ability to remember people after seeing them, I will randomly pick two people for you to take a look at. Then mix them among hundreds of people and let you recognize them. So what if you can't recognize them?"

"I can do whatever my father wants to do with you!" The fourth prince raised his head, his expression looking extremely happy, "Even if I beat my palm to pieces as the teacher just said, I will admit it! But before that, my father will do it."

Shouldn't we first check the two people around the eldest brother and the second brother? I remember that after they were dismissed, they were not allowed to stay in the capital!"

Seeing that the emperor was choked by the fourth prince's breath and turned pale, at this moment, Zhang Shou suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, I have a few words that I want to say to the fourth prince alone. I wonder if I can allow you to take him out?

"

At this moment, the emperor just felt that he was panicking. He raised his hand and said without even thinking: "Take this kid away and ask whatever you want! I will immediately order someone to bring hundreds of people over. I want to take a look."

How far can this kid go with his talk!"

Zhang Shou quickly bowed and agreed. The next moment, he stepped forward and grabbed the fourth prince, whose face turned blue and white, and then winked at the third prince. The third prince was a little confused at first, but when he saw Zhang Shou holding on to him,

As they walked out, he hurriedly stepped forward to comfort his father, who was obviously angry. However, he felt extremely uneasy in his heart. He was thinking about the fourth prince and wondering what Zhang Shou wanted to do.

Zhang Shou directly carried the fourth prince out of Qianqing Palace, wrapped him tightly in a cloak, wrapped himself in one, and led the naughty child with one hand and walked out along the corridor surrounded by white jade railings.

.

Until he almost reached the midpoint between Qianqing Gate and Qianqing Palace, he turned around and saw Ah Liu standing not far away, and dozens of steps away, there were guards standing in front of Qianqing Gate. He stopped

, then let go of his hand, looked at the naughty kid in front of him and said, "Are you willing to destroy your own reputation and put the eldest prince and the second prince to death to eliminate future troubles forever?"

"I didn't!" The fourth prince was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. His fur suddenly exploded. "Teacher, how could you say that?"

"Then what do you want me to say? I agree with you that you have a photographic memory and recognize faces first? Do you think you can hide this little cleverness from your father? How old do you think your father is? He is already sitting on that throne.

It’s been twenty-seven years, and you’ve been playing this petty game with him?”

Several rhetorical questions suddenly came to him, and the fourth prince's eyes finally turned red.

He had cried before in Jiangdu Palace, and he looked tearful when he defended in front of his father, but they were all disguises and acting, and the real grievances were only a few points, but at this moment he was really panicked.

Urgent, really scared.

He subconsciously grabbed the corner of Zhang Shou's clothes, not caring that his face was already filled with tears, and asked hurriedly: "Father, you won't guess, right? I just... I just don't want to give in, why have they spent so many years?

They have been dominating and doing all kinds of evil, and now it is just a rumor of a shipwreck, and I don’t know if it is true or not, but why do they suddenly seem to be aggrieved again!"

"I heard someone say today...I heard someone say that my father wants to bring the boss back!"

The fourth prince finally stopped pretending and directly used the most common title in private, "Otherwise, how could he and the people around him and the second child be in the capital! Yes, I did not recognize them on the spot. Someone

Give me a tip, I left the palace today just to go to the place they mentioned, but I didn’t expect to see them!"

"They thought I couldn't recognize them if they were hiding in the crowd... Bah, I remember everyone around the boss and the second child in my heart, and I am always on guard against their mischief! Teacher, don't talk about repaying evil with kindness.

I don’t want to hear it, I only know that the third brother’s nearly fatal typhoid fever a few years ago was because the second brother forced a snowball into his collar when he went to see the abandoned empress!”

"He did it on purpose! He knew that the third brother was weak, and when he was dying of illness afterwards, he didn't allow me to tell my father that I wouldn't listen to him. I went directly to complain. But the second brother still

If he doesn’t admit it, everyone around him doesn’t admit it. If my father hadn’t believed in me, I might have been accused of falsely accusing my brother after he was deposed!”

"It's because of this that I've become a complainer from then on. But just because I'm eyeing it and complaining when nothing happens, the boss and the second child can only glare at me fiercely, but they don't dare to do anything! Because my father said so clearly.

, if there is really any problem between my third brother and I, then don’t blame him for going crazy!”

"So, don't say that the second brother's life and death are unknown at the moment. If the news of his death is known, I can't wait to set off firecrackers to celebrate! I don't want to call this kind of person the second brother! He doesn't deserve to be the elder brother!"

The naughty kid burst out this series of words like a barrage of words, with tears flying down his face. However, his eyes showed a fierce look. Zhang Shou didn't know whether he should be angry or amused.

After a moment of silence, he dug into his sleeves, wiped the big painted face with the only handkerchief he had, and then threw the dirty thing on the ground.

"There is a sentence in the Xianwen Chapter of the Analects: 'How about repaying evil with kindness?' Confucius said: 'How to repay kindness? Repay evil with straightness, repay kindness with kindness. Confucius, a sage in humanity, said this, but you actually think that I can

Do you agree with repaying kindness with kindness? Do you think your teacher has ever repaid kindness with kindness? Anyone who offends me should fight back on the spot if he can. If not..."

"Of course it is a gentleman's revenge, from morning to night!"

The fourth prince immediately raised his head, his eyes clearly showing surprise and joy, but then he received a heavy flick of his finger from Zhang Shou on his forehead.

"However, there are many types of revenge. If someone offends you with words, then retaliate. If someone offends you with deeds, then retaliate with deeds. However, if you want to retaliate with deeds, then you must at least hold back.

The title of righteousness. For example, I asked Lu Sanlang to sell the technology of the new spinning wheel to the eldest prince at a high price, and then later offered it to the emperor."

"Has he suffered a dumb loss? But what can he do? All he can do is hold his nose and ask himself to go to Cangzhou to promote it. What is the result? In the end, he only cares about making money, harming the people, provoking civil unrest, and completely destroying himself.

We got in! Of course, there was also a push from Zhang Chen. But no matter what, he jumped in on his own initiative, and I didn’t just frame him randomly!"

"You can tell your father plainly that you discovered that the people around your eldest brother and second brother have not left the capital, but are still hanging around in the capital. Wouldn't your father send people to investigate because of this? And you insist on killing these two people.

When it comes to the matter of Mr. Hong Shan being beaten, tell me yourself, is it unnecessary to go around in circles to frame him?"

"Even if you are scheming against others, your heart must be right. Only by using such a strategy can people be caught off guard, instead of just relying on slander and frame-up to make people unprepared. For example, if I question you repeatedly at this time, you will be defeated immediately.

, completely helpless!"

"Slander and spreading rumors can be classified as a public opinion offensive. From ancient times to the present, countless dignitaries have often resorted to this tactic to spread news and defeat political opponents with tricks that are based on nothing and nothing. However, those who are good at swimming

Drowning in water, how many people have been knocked down by this trick in turn? Of course, you are a bit clever in spreading rumors."

"You are making nine truths and one falsehood. Because as long as others check and find that those two people in the capital are real, they will naturally think that the rest are also true, and the false ones can even become true. As the saying goes, you can't argue with others.

It's more than that. But no matter what, others are instigating others to charge into the battle, and you are strategizing from behind. What about you? You actually spread the rumors yourself? Are you stupid?"

The fourth prince listened in a daze, feeling that he understood, but also felt that he did not understand.

If it were the gentlemen who taught him and his third brother, when they were angrily reprimanding him for these little tricks, they would definitely warn him to be gentle, courteous and thrifty, and never play such dirty tricks. But Zhang Shou told him,

You really shouldn't use dirty tricks. If you want to use them, you should use high-end ones.

But in his impression, every time he was attacked, the teacher seemed to fight back in person. He had never played such high-end tricks with anyone. But it was wrong to think about it. The teacher was quite cunning the time he tricked the eldest prince!

Seeing that the fourth prince was completely confused, Zhang Shou reached out and touched the little guy's cold forehead, and then said calmly: "There are many calculating and shrewd people in the world, and there are mountains higher than the mountains. I heard it from teachers.

A little bit, but I haven’t learned much yet, so I don’t like to hold back, I prefer to report immediately. I can’t learn those advanced things.”

"What about you? You are young and have a serious mind. I can understand the resentment that you want to trample your old enemies to death for your third brother. But why don't you think about it? The eldest and second eldest brother in your mouth is also your father.

Son?"

"When we drove them out of the capital out of disappointment, for a father, it was not only a painful decision, but also heartbreaking. So the more chaotic you are, the easier it is for your father to treat you as one of them.

You call him the eldest and second eldest brother, and you are such a traitor. Your eldest brother and second brother have already made him heartbroken once, are you going to do it again?"

"I remember my teacher once sang a song to me." Zhang Shou smiled slightly, intercepted an easily misinterpreted fragment of a once-popular golden song, and sang softly, "

When I was a child, I thought you were very impressive and your words were earth-shattering. When I grew up, I became you."

"When I grow up, I will become you. Zheng Jing, I only want to ask you one thing, do you want to become the person you hated most?"

The fourth prince's face finally turned pale. That's right, he had seen the eldest prince and the second prince saying their words, many people running in front and behind, and many ministers smiling and flattering each other. He once thought it was very impressive and majestic.

I once wanted to become a person like them. But, didn't the eldest and second brother like that fail in the end? Will he make the same mistake again?
Chapter completed!