Chapter 70

Chen Tingjian was still talking with Emperor Jingshun, while Chen Bozong and Chen Jingzong withdrew from the imperial study first.

The palace is not a place for heart-to-heart talks, even if Chen Bozong has a lot to ask his younger brother, he can only bear it for the time being.

After walking a certain distance, Chen Jingzong first said to him: "I have just received an errand from Daxing Zuowei, and I will live in the guard directly when I go there, please tell her for me on my mother's side."

Chen Bozong: "It's so hot, just this night? Go home first tonight, my father must have something to ask you."

Chen Jingzong: "I have nothing to say to him, forget it, Fu Gui will go back to pack my things for me later, I will ask him to inform his mother."

After speaking, he quickened his pace and left.

The military officer's speed is not something that Chen Bozong can catch up with, unless he is like his younger brother. However, as a civil servant, he should walk in a leisurely manner except when encountering urgent matters.

Chen Bozong could only watch his younger brother go further and further.

Chen Tingjian returned to the Inner Pavilion and was really busy all morning, but no matter how busy he was, he still held the official position of Prince and Taishi.

In the afternoon, Chen Tingjian took half an hour to come to the East Palace to teach the prince.

This is also the first time that Chen Tingjian met the prince alone after returning to Beijing.

The prince sat in the East Palace Academy in a regular manner. When he saw Chen Tingjian, he stood up in a polite manner and saluted: "The disciple has met the master."

Chen Tingjian looked relieved, he just felt that the prince in the palace was much more sensible than his fourth son when he was a child.

Chen Tingjian has four sons, the first three were all in Ling Zhou's ancestral home when they were enlightened, and he was not able to personally supervise them.When he finally settled down in Capital City and was able to afford a mansion that could accommodate all his family members, when he took over his mother, wife, children and brothers, the third child was eight years old, and only the fourth child was just three years old.The young prince was the same age as the prince, so Chen Tingjian always used to compare the performance of the fourth child with the prince.

Chen Tingjian always felt that his four sons belonged to the oldest four, who could follow him at a young age and receive his father's personal teaching since they were young. Unfortunately, the three older brothers missed him for a few years.

It is also because of this that Chen Tingjian has always believed that the fourth child who has received the most teaching and guidance from him will definitely become the best among his sons!

Chen Tingjian poured all the paternal love he failed to pour on the first three sons to the fourth son!

How could he have expected that the three sons who had never personally taught enlightenment were all intelligent, courteous and capable of advancing and retreating, and that fame and fame such as being a scholar could be easily obtained without any difficulty, but the fourth son was rebellious.Jiewa, it's useless to ask the servants to watch him, or over the wall or through the dog hole, the fourth child can always slip out of the door, and won't go home until dark!

Chen Tingjian had to worry about political affairs during the day, and was exhausted by his son when he returned home at night. His wife also doted on his fourth son and refused to discipline him severely. There was no way Chen Tingjian could let him go and let his fourth son practice martial arts.

The fourth child ran back to the ancestral house with Master Wu. Within a few years, Chen Tingjian began to be the prince's master.

Seeing the three-year-old little prince for the first time, Chen Tingjian seemed to see the three-year-old fourth who had just entered Beijing.

At that moment, Chen Tingjian swore secretly that he must teach the prince well, and he must not let the prince become the second fourth child.

At this time, the prince's polite behavior also proved that it wasn't that there was a problem with his teaching method, but that the fourth child was rebellious and stubborn!

After returning the gift, Chen Tingjian sat down, stroked his beard, and first asked the prince about the progress of his homework.

After all, it was a reunion after a long absence, and the crown prince felt fresh when he saw Chen Tingjian, so he answered each one seriously.

This class is mainly about reviewing the old and learning the new, and the relationship between teachers and students is harmonious. When the class is over, Chen Tingjian takes out two carefully bound books from the book box he brought, and smiles gently to the prince: "This is a book that I compiled when I was in Ling Zhou.The set of books, titled "Di Jian Tu Shuo", is now given to His Highness, I hope His Highness likes it."

The prince came over, took the book, and handed one to Cao Li, the eunuch who was beside him, and he opened the top one.

Looking at it, the prince's eyes lit up!

Chen Tingjian said: "Starting tomorrow, I will explain a case of the emperor to His Highness every day."

The prince was very happy, and he didn't hold back when he was happy. He asked with concern: "I heard from my sister that the husband was ill when he was in Ling Zhou. Fortunately, he was cured by the doctor Li and he turned the crisis into peace. I wonder if the husband has fully recovered now?"

The smile on the corners of Chen Tingjian's lips was slightly stiff, but luckily it was blocked by his beard: "Your Majesty is concerned, and I am fine now."

Prince: "That's good, sir, you must take good care of your body, and everything in the Inner Pavilion is counting on you to share your father's worries."

Chen Tingjian nodded, saluted and left.

The prince rested for a while, and went to the martial arts class for half an hour, and then took the two volumes of "Di Jian Tu Shuo" to Qifeng Palace to find his sister.

In midsummer, Hua Yang saw his younger brother was sweating profusely along the way, and his little face was flushed from practicing martial arts, so he first asked Chaoyun and Chaoyue to serve his younger brother with water to clean his face.

While the prince was washing his face, Hua Yang flipped through the book brought by his younger brother.

She had seen this set of "Di Jian Tu Shuo" in her previous life, and it was also brought by her brother, but before her brother showed off, she didn't know that her father-in-law compiled the book when he was in mourning.

The upper part of "Di Jian Tu Shuo" collects 81 wise deeds of 23 emperors in history, and the lower part lists 36 bad deeds of 20 foolish emperors.

The father used short and easy-to-understand words, and cleverly matched a simple picture for each deed, with vivid and interesting characters.

The younger brother and father liked this set of books very much, and ordered the Lijian to print them widely, and Hua Yang also collected a set.

"Sister, did Pavilion Elder Chen show you this book?"

After tidying up, the prince sat next to Hua Yang and said excitedly, he likes those sketches, which are much more interesting than books full of words.

Hua Yang said with a smile: "This is specially given to my younger brother by Ge Lao, I have never seen it before."

The prince couldn't put it down to the new gift.

Hua Yang accompanied his younger brother to watch it together. Seeing the vivid portraits of emperors and courtiers, Hua Yang recalled: "The congratulatory gifts from Chen Bozong and Chen Xiaozong were all calligraphy and paintings on the son-in-law's birthday.Where did you get your talent?"

The crown prince often reads Chen Tingjian's words, and asks following his sister's words: "It's the son-in-law's birthday, did the old man give him a gift?"

In the past, on his birthday, Chen Tingjian would give him presents.

Hua Yang: "It's been a long time ago. Pavilion Elder Chen is a strict father. Since the son-in-law and his brothers were ten years old, the family will not specially celebrate their birthdays."

The prince understood, looked at the book in his hand again, and said to himself, "I don't know how long it took him to compile this book."

Hua Yang: "I don't know about this elder sister. I guess I always need it every year. It's because the old man has a heart. The winter in Ling Zhou is cold and damp, and the Chen family's house doesn't have earth dragons. When my sister writes letters to youHurry up and write while the sun is shining at noon. Have you noticed that my sister’s family letters in winter are always very short, it’s not that I’m lazy on purpose, it’s because my hands are getting numb from the cold.”

The prince first sympathized with his sister, and then the picture of Chen Tingjian breathing into his palms while bowing his head and continuing to compile a book appeared in his mind.

Although Chen Tingjian was strict, he was still very kind to him.

Hua Yang suddenly helped his younger brother close the book, and said with a smile: "Save the book and read it later, let's go to the mother's place for dinner first."

The prince carried the gift to Fengyi Palace again.

Emperor Jingshun was also there, but he had read this set of books from Chen Tingjian in advance, and he was also very happy to see that the crown prince liked it.

Those who are emperors are urged by their courtiers to be Mingjun. In fact, I have heard those words too much, and any emperor would be tired of them. For example, Emperor Jingshun knew that being a Mingjun would be praised by his courtiers and people, but he had to review every morning and every memorial by himself., You can't linger in the harem, that kind of life is not comfortable at all.Then again, although Emperor Jingshun didn't want to work hard to be a Mingjun, he hoped that his son would grow up to be a Mingjun. Anyway, it was his son who worked hard, not him.

After talking about the book, Emperor Jingshun said to his daughter: "I met the son-in-law in the morning, and instead of doing his idle errands in Jinyiwei, he actually asked me for the errand of Daxing Zuowei Commander, saying that he would train soldiers for me."

Fearing that Empress Qi, his daughter, and his son would not understand, Emperor Jingshun also explained the situation of Daxing Zuowei who came last in the competition every year.

Hua Yang showed a surprised look.

In fact, after they returned to Beijing from Ling Zhou in their previous life, Chen Jingzong also went to Daxing Zuowei.

At that time, the relationship between their husband and wife was at odds, and Chen Jingzong lived in the garrison of Daxing Zuowei most of the time. He would only go back to Chen's house for a monthly rest or during festivals.Time passed in a hurry. In May of the second year, his father died. In June, King Yu rebelled. Chen Jingzong followed the army to suppress it, but he never returned.

Hua Yang suddenly discovered that she couldn't recall these things at all. Every time she thought of Chen Jingzong's untimely death, she would feel sad, soft-hearted, and regret a little.

Why didn't she treat him better in her previous life?

Touching the scene and feeling sad, Hua Yang still leaked a little bit of emotion more or less.

The prince misunderstood, and asked: "Is my sister worried that the son-in-law will also be at the bottom this year, making you feel ashamed too?"

Hua Yang: ...

She was amused by her brother's simple guess, and seeing that her father and mother misunderstood that she was afraid of this, she took advantage of the situation with a wry smile and said, "It's a little bit."

Emperor Jingshun: "It's simple. Every year, I select soldiers from each guard to participate in the competition. I randomly select them from the list of troops submitted. When the time comes, you will ask your son-in-law to select the top ten soldiers in their guards.Write down the name, and I will secretly help him, even if he doesn't get the top three, he won't be at the bottom."

Hua Yang said with a smile: "Father is really kind to his daughter, but the daughter doesn't want to be invincible, and he will never agree to do this with his son-in-law's temper. Forget it, since he dares to ask you for this job, let himJust let it go and do it, if you turn around and still come last, the one who is ashamed is himself, and it has nothing to do with me."

Emperor Jingshun: "Based on his performance in Lingzhou Wei, I still have confidence in the son-in-law."

Empress Qi sighed: "I hope the son-in-law won't let you down, he's still too young to be calm at all."

Hua Yang silently picks up the food.

It's not that Chen Jingzong can't hold back, he really doesn't want to live in Jinyiwei, he would rather take the risk of being ridiculed by everyone, and also want to do something for the court.

He even refuses to flatter her as a princess, so how can he be willing to just be the fourth son of Pavilion Elder Chen and the consort of Princess Hua Yang as others say, wasting his time and accomplishing nothing?

His bones are harder than rocks!

Hua Yang lived in the palace for less than half a month. On the morning of June 29, Hua Yang sent Wu Run to Daxing Zuowei to inform Chen Jingzong that she was going out of the palace tomorrow, so that Chen Jingzong would remember to enter the palace for his father.Greetings to the queen mother, and take her back to Chen's house by the way.

She can also go back by herself, but she just wants Chen Jingzong to pick her up, which is in line with the majesty of her princess.

When Wu Run rushed to Daxing Zuowei, Chen Jingzong was practicing soldiers on the martial arts field with his arms bare.

As Chen Tingjian said, the soldiers of the twenty-six guards of Capital City are all strong and strong men carefully selected from all over the country.Moreover, at the feet of the emperor, no officials dared to enslave soldiers to do hard work, and there was enough food and drink, so some soldiers were only allowed to grow lazy.

Chen Jingzong didn't want to understand why the former commander acted slack, now that he's here, he wants to get rid of the laziness of these soldiers one by one.

After these ten days of training, those assassin soldiers who rely on some powerful relatives at home have been cleaned up by the son-in-law, and they are all very obedient.

In the hot summer, all the soldiers took off their outer robes like Chen Jingzong did, and only wore a pair of trousers, with their shoulders exposed and sweating profusely.

Wu Run, a jade-faced father-in-law, came to this kind of place, it was like a lamb in a wolf's den.

Fortunately, all the soldiers knew that he was from the palace, and no one dared to despise him.

Chen Jingzong walked out from the neatly lined up soldiers, whipped another soldier who was not strong enough to punch with a whip, then threw the whip to Fugui, and walked towards Wu Run.

Behind him are more than 5,000 strong soldiers, but in front of these 5,000 soldiers, Chen Jingzong still stands out from the crowd.

Beads of sweat slid down his handsome face, and his muscular chest and thin waist were also dripping with sweat.

Wu Run couldn't imagine how the princess should get along with such a son-in-law, but also admired such a tough man from the bottom of his heart.

When Chen Jingzong stopped and looked over with questioning eyes, Wu Run slightly bowed and said with a smile, "I report to my son-in-law, this servant is here on the order of the princess. The princess said that she is going back to the mansion tomorrow, so I asked you to go to the palace early in the morning."Greetings to the emperor and empress."

Chen Jingzong nodded expressionlessly: "Understood, tell the princess that I will go back to the city tonight."

Wu Run had nothing else to do, so he bowed his head and left.

Chen Jingzong continued to inspect the soldiers.

A soldier suddenly had an itching on the back of his neck, which was unbearable. He scratched it secretly, and when he looked up, he saw the son-in-law staring at him.

The soldier couldn't help but look at the whip in the hand of the son-in-law.

Just when he was worried that the son-in-law would come over, the son-in-law actually walked away as if nothing had happened!