Later, I became the prince of the group

When Chu Yan returned to the palace, Chou Sheng said, "Mr. Liu has been waiting for you?"

"Where is he?"

"In the pavilion by the pool."

There is a shallow lotus pond in the middle of the palace, and a covered bridge is built on it. There are two pavilions on both sides of the pond, and there is also a pavilion on the covered bridge. If it is a banquet, this is also a good place.

Liu Qixiu had nothing to do on the holidays, so he made some changes to the palace according to his own preferences. He is worthy of being a dude for more than ten years, and his aesthetics is much better than Chu Yan. He moved around like this, and it turned into a beautiful scene.

Today, I changed the furnishings in the pavilion by the pond, and personally put the koi bought by others into the pond. The whole pond became lively. Liu Qi suffered from no one to show off, and waited dryly for Chu Yan to come back. fell asleep in the pavilion.

Chu Yan pushed him lightly, and he felt it. He exposed his face from his wide sleeves and turned slightly to Chu Yan's side.

The beauty squinted his eyes, because of sleepiness, his eyes were foggy, he sat up reluctantly, rubbed one eye, the eye feathers on the other side also trembled slightly, and the water droplets would not fall.

In the end, he was squeezed by himself, and he looked at Chu Yan blankly as if he was still awake.

Liu Qi was wearing a plain white round neck gown today, he used to wear it like this in school, it was quite elegant, but today, because he was leaning on the chair sloppily, the gown seemed to be out of order.

After a while, Liu Qi regained consciousness belatedly, and asked, "What's wrong with your forehead."

He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch it, and stopped in mid-air.

Chu Yan grabbed that hand, kissed it on the back, and held it tightly to prevent him from pulling it back. Seeing the flushed and flustered look of the princess, she couldn't help but smiled: "It's okay, a little injury."

Liu Qi complained: "How could you do this suddenly, it's too Meng Lang!"

Chu Yan pretended to be curious: "What's wrong with me kissing my princess?"

The two have been sharing the same bed for a long time, so there will inevitably be more physical contact. Chu Yan often kisses his forehead after waking up before going to bed, but he always feels that the kiss on the forehead has something to do with coaxing children, and kisses on the back of the hand It's a different feeling.

He felt like his whole hand was going to be useless.

But Chu Yan was extraordinarily active today, holding that hand for a long time, kneading and pinching, obviously not out of line, but Liu Qi felt inexplicably embarrassed.

He looked at Chu Yan for a long time, and said a little strangely: "You don't seem very happy?"

Chu Yan finally paused and let go of his hand: "Is there? Do I look unhappy?"

"At first glance, you are very happy. You laughed a lot just now, but you always feel..." Liu Qi tilted his head, "It's not really from the heart, it's like a cover-up."

Chu Yan was indeed a little infected by the emotions in the memory of the original body. When he recalled the past and tried to empathize, he couldn't help but feel a little sadness for the dissipated soul.

But it wasn't too sad, it was just that he was a little uninterested, and even wanted to amuse his little princess to relieve his boredom.

Realizing this, he let go instead, looked at Liu Qi earnestly, examined his own heart, and finally decided: it wasn't all to relieve boredom, Liu Qi was really special to him, and looking at him could make him feel better.

"I've been grounded." Chu Yan said, "I don't have to go to court for a month, and Xiu Mu won't go out either."

He was going to tell Liu Qi, but as soon as the words fell, Liu Qi opened his eyes wide and looked happy: "Really? Then you can accompany me?"

After a pause, Chu Yan swallowed back the words about canceling her own Xiu Mu, and nodded.

Liu Qi was quite happy: "When the peach blossoms in Houshan just bloomed, I wanted you to accompany me to enjoy the flowers and brew wine, but you are usually busy, and there is no way to go to the palace to accompany your majesty on holidays. Fortunately, It’s not a good time yet, let’s pick a day to see it, it’s boring for me to go alone.”

While agreeing, Chu Yan realized that Liu Qi hadn't left the house for a long time.

When he first came here, he didn’t leave the mansion because of his full course work, but now it’s because of the shadows, the attitude of his friends in the past made him feel alone, the familiar capital suddenly became strange, and only in the palace can he feel at ease.

Chu Yan felt a little regretful that he didn't realize this before, and Liu Qi would only become more greedy for the freedom of the palace and dare not go out in the long run.But he restrained himself again, and it is not easy to take Liu Qi out for a while, but if Liu Qi is allowed to go out by himself, he is probably not willing, otherwise, with the original character of the young master, he would have gone out for a while.

Thinking about it again, in fact, he is also an unqualified husband. He thought that it was enough for him to accompany Liu Qi for an hour a day, but he never considered what Liu Qi was thinking.

He tried to ask: "If you directly hold a peach blossom banquet, how about asking a few ministers with good character to come to the banquet together? You can take this opportunity to invite your parents and elder brothers to come together."

Liu Qi's expression froze, and after a long while he said slowly: "It's okay too...more people are lively..."

Chu Yan understood, and said with a smile: "Forget it, it suddenly occurred to me that walking in the peach blossom forest with my concubine is a very enjoyable thing, and the presence of others will spoil the elegance."

Liu Qi coughed with a blushing face, and muttered in a low voice: "What's going on, can't it be that the skull was smashed."

It's also strange, he doesn't feel very comfortable when other people call him the princess, but if he wants to let the servants call him "Liu Gongzi", he won't hate it when he says it from Chu Yan's mouth, on the contrary... he thinks it sounds weird.

King An was put in confinement, and someone with a heart immediately linked this matter with Zhu Shengyou's excommunication.They only knew that Zhu Shengyou was expelled from the clan, but they didn't know the specific reason. They rarely heard some inside information from the Zhu family, and they dared not continue to spread it.

After all, what Zhu Sheng said was really too ugly. He was not only insulting the prince, but also slapping the emperor in the face!

However, I was a little uncertain about the meaning of the emperor. Since the emperor wanted to make decisions for King An, why did he ground him again?

Chu Yan is very satisfied with this confinement. He is a very self-disciplined person who recognizes his goals, and can find a little fun in martial arts and homework. The confinement does not prevent him from continuing to work hard, and he can accompany Liu Qi, so in The palace was heartlessly happy.

Until one day a theater troupe flooded into the palace with letters.

After reading the letter, Chu Yan closed it silently. The letter did have the emperor's private seal, so his father hired a bunch of theater troupes for him, and asked the theater troupes to come to him by themselves.

Chu Yan couldn't refuse his father's "good intentions", let people in, and let them set up a stage symbolically, listening to the noisy voices and worrying - so noisy.

Even he thought he could read books in the busy city, but he couldn't concentrate.

The theatrical troupe came for three consecutive days, and another group of actors and dancers was changed. Finally, Chu Yan couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered the actors and dancers to perform in the empty yard, and took Liu Qi back to study by himself.

After that, storytellers, cooks from all over the country, and fresh small things came in and out of the palace like flowing water. Finally, after the sixth day, they were played and said: "During King An's confinement, the palace played songs day and night, disturbed the neighbors, and was greedy for pleasure. , don’t think about it.”

The emperor appeased the minister in the court hall, and said lightly: "My son has a childish temper, try to be lively and fresh, Aiqing is more tolerant."

Minister: "..."

The emperor looked sad: "But it's not a solution to go on like this. Speaking of which, I almost forgot that King An was still restrained, so that's all, I released his restraint, and asked him to go to the theater to listen to the opera in the future. Don't disturb the neighbors." .”

Ministers: "..."

Liang Ye: If you want to avoid His Highness's confinement, you can actually say it, it's unnecessary, it's really unnecessary.

On the second day after Chu Yan was released from the confinement, the palace sent a carriage over, and Liang Ye came to pick Chu Yan into the palace in person.

Chu Yan: "..."

The emperor was in the imperial study, holding a few pieces of paper in his hand and reading them carefully. Chu Yan saluted, and found that his book case had not been withdrawn, so he sat down naturally. As soon as he passed, he heard the emperor say: "You Although the handwriting is ugly, the content is clear."

Chu Yan immediately knew that what Emperor Chengxing was holding was the records he had made when he went to court.

In fact, the emperor never regarded it as important to record the matters discussed in the court, nor did he read the contents recorded in those few days. He actually dug up these papers because he wanted to coax Chu Yan back to the court.

Unexpectedly, when he saw it carefully, he would feel the benefits.

Chu Yan didn't write down every sentence, but wrote down the arguments of each matter, listed the pros and cons, summarized the views, and made a note of which minister's point of view it was.

His format looks messy at first glance, and even draws symbols such as "triangle" and "circle". very.But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is easy to check in this way, and the key points can be seen at a glance.

After reading these few pages, Emperor Chengxing had already reviewed all the process of the court dispute, presenting many details that had been confused in his mind one by one.

What is rare is that these are all objective records, without any tendency.

Emperor Chengxing immediately came up with a coup: Let Chu Yan go to Xiaochao in the future, and then record the contents of the court meeting. The minister twittered in his ear for a long time and couldn't speak clearly.And even if it is a small dynasty that has a lot of discussions, he doesn't have to listen to politics, and he still won't miss important things.Even if there is something that needs him to make up his mind, he can ask Chu Yan to record it first, and then come to him, instead of waiting behind him personally...

Emperor Chengxing thought about it for a long time, and finally realized a problem: no, the ministers will definitely not agree.

It's hard to sleep in.

So he only said the first half, and asked Chu Yan to make a record of the Xiaochao no matter whether the emperor went to the Xiaochao or not.

Chu Yan was silent for a moment, and said solemnly: "Father, my son made a mistake, and he should be banned to set an example. I personally think that my son should go back to the palace to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors."

Emperor Chengxing: "Reject."

Chu Yan didn't change his face: "Since the father believes in the son-in-law, the son-in-law is willing to share the worries of the father, but the son-in-law feels that if all this matter is handed over to the son-in-law, some people will be dissatisfied. Instead, it is more appropriate for the third brother to do it. It can be recorded Discuss the matter, and the servants will sort out the supplementary inspection to make sure it is correct."

Emperor Chengxing thought that this method was good, so he announced the matter the next day, and gave Chu Rui the right to preside over the small court meeting. However, although Chu Rui presided over it, the second minister assisted him, and he still had to listen to the prime minister for specific decisions. .

He also asked the left and right prime ministers to assist in the verification. In this way, the prime ministers no longer need to report verbally, but only need to check the transcripts, saving a lot of time.

In addition, Chu Rui was asked to record the things that the ministers thought needed to be reported in person and the things that needed to be decided by Emperor Chengxing himself. After discussing with the prime minister, he marked the priority, so that Emperor Chengxing could wait until the next court and then take his time. deal with these things.

Sure enough, the ministers did not object, and were even a little happy to see the results. They discussed privately whether His Majesty had finally figured out how to establish a crown prince, so he asked the third prince to familiarize himself with how to handle political affairs in advance.

The ministers were very pleased.

Although the third prince is immature, not very knowledgeable, not very good at debating, has no experience in doing practical things, and lacks dignity, but he is the most suitable first prince after all, we have to give him time to grow up!Besides, there is right minister Li Pingrui assisting the government, so nothing can go wrong...

Chu Rui was left alone by his father to give a few words of advice, and then he came out late after hearing his father asked him to go to the eldest brother to learn the skills of recording the content of the court meeting.

At this time, many courtiers who came out first could no longer hold back, and they discussed in twos and threes about the establishment of the reserve in a low voice. Chu Rui's heart moved, both happy and nervous.

What they said made sense. The emperor handed over the Xiaochaohui to him, so it must have that meaning...

He glanced at Chu Yan who was standing quietly beside him, and his joy immediately faded.

Just now his father asked him to learn how to take notes from the eldest brother...

In fact, it's just a record, it's not a difficult task, compared to presiding over the court meeting, this matter is too inconspicuous, but the emperor still asked him to learn skills, because he thought he couldn't even do such a simple thing well?

Although Chu Rui didn't want to admit it, he knew that Chu Yan was very powerful.

He has a photographic memory, he can memorize it backwards, and he has a very high level of comprehension... This terrifying talent can be called a celestial being. He has heard several times from the senior court ladies and eunuchs beside the emperor and the empress that the eldest prince had the appearance of a child prodigy when he was young, but it is a pity that he was born. Otherwise, the Northern Qi Dynasty will produce a sage and so on.

Others don't know, but he knows that as long as Chu Yan is given some more time, it is possible to surpass him by far.

Chu Rui suppressed the strange thoughts in his heart, walked towards Chu Yan, and made a look of disapproval as usual: "Hey, Father asked me to come to you, just show me your previous records .”

Chu Yan looked at him quietly, as if seeing through his bluff.He was already prepared, took out a stack of folded papers from his sleeve, and said: "This is for today, and the rest will be placed in Fengyi Palace. After visiting your mother, let's take it along the way."

As if looking at him meaningfully, he took a step forward.

Chu Rui: "..." Hey, what's the matter with those eyes that look like they've been taken advantage of?

Chu Rui didn't figure it out. In his opinion, being entrusted with an important task is a joyful thing, a proof of being favored, and he didn't understand Chu Yan's intention to save trouble just like Emperor Chengxing.

He followed, and the two walked side by side in silence.

You can't bring servants to the court, but Xin Qing and Yungui, the first-class servants around Chu Rui, know that their master will go to visit the queen when he goes to court, and they are all waiting in front of the door leading to the inner palace.

Seeing that the master did not speak, Yungui silently followed after thinking that King An was still there, but Xinqing next door took the initiative to ask: "Your Highness, why is it so long today, is there something important?"

Chu Yan glanced at him casually.

Xinqing said "hey" twice, pretending that she hadn't asked, and the topic changed smoothly: "Are you hungry? I still have pastries and a kettle."

Yungui secretly exclaimed: This person even claims to be "I" instead of "slave". This, this... really has no rules!

King An of the clinker didn't mind at all: "It's strange, where did Mr. Xinqing wait for me in the past, I'm afraid he ate up all the crumbs of the pastry before noon."

Xinqing smiled guiltyly: "It's not that you don't like to eat, Your Highness, I'm afraid of wasting it."

The two master and servant were chatting, and they inevitably lagged behind.

The queen greeted Chu Rui when he arrived, and said happily: "In the future, when you preside over the court meeting, you will be more dignified and stable than in the past. You must be cautious and serious in doing things, and don't take it seriously, so that your father will favor you. "

As she spoke, she paused and looked at Chu Yan who was coming from behind.

In fact, Chu Yan had deliberately lagged behind by a long distance, and did not expect that the mother and son hadn't finished sharing their joy.

"Mother's queen." He saluted lightly, then picked up the sixth princess who was waiting for him by the door frame, and took the opportunity to tease the child to stay away from the two.

In all fairness, besides the care of the old lady of Ciyi Palace, the empress was the one who cared about him the most.Although the original body couldn't see his mother, the queen still thought about this son from time to time, and would ask someone to bring over any extra food.

It stands to reason that Chu Yan should be closer to the queen.

But in fact, he prefers to get along with Emperor Chengxing. First, he will be safe if he is favored by the emperor first. of.

Although Emperor Chengxing did not treat the following sons equally, he managed to maintain a balance. For example, when all he cared about was Chu Yan, he could also give Chu Rui a chance to prepare for the establishment of the reserve.

But the queen is all about Chu Rui, and after 14 years, she can't get away. In her eyes, Chu Rui is the hope, and she is the one who must sit in that seat in the future.

She was not bad to Chu Yan, but every time Chu Yan stood in front of her, he had the illusion that he was a guest.

Fortunately, the queen still treated the two sons equally on the surface. After getting close to Chu Rui, she cared for Chu Yan again, and her words were no different from the last time they met.

Chu Yan answered without any difference.

Finally, the queen asked him to come in and sit down, took out the title deed from a box, and confessed: "This is the title deed and house deed you want. What kind of business do you want to run, but do you need the queen mother to find a manager for you?"

"No, more queen mothers will take care of the servants, and the servants can find them by themselves." Chu Yan said, "It's the toy business."

The queen asked strangely: "Toys?" Isn't this something sold by those small vendors?One must know that the land that Chu Yan asked her to find was as big as Liuyun Building, and it was in an excellent location. If she hadn't found someone to do it, she might not have been able to buy it.

Such a good place to sell toys?

Chu Yan saw her doubts and explained: "I just have some new ideas. The land deed is thanks to my mother. It was agreed earlier that [-]% of the profits from the shop will be recorded in my mother's name."

The queen laughed: "It's not necessary..." It's fine if you don't lose money.

... Sigh, it's too difficult not to lose money, that's all, as long as he is happy about tossing around.

For the queen, it was more reassuring that the eldest son only wanted to toss about the shop.

Only the sixth princess was extremely curious, and shook Chu Yan's sleeve: "What kind of toy does big brother want? Can I play with it?"

Chu Yan patted her little head: "Of course it's okay. It's because of Xiao Liu'er that the eldest brother wants to make this. When it is done, you can help the eldest brother to try it out."

The sixth princess clapped her little hands happily, and then looked at the queen eagerly.

How could the empress not know what she was thinking: "Xiao Tao'er quarrels about her elder brother every day, and wishes to move in with you, but it's not that she can't be allowed out of the palace, but there is no woman in your house, so many things are very inconvenient. "

Chu Yan glanced at the Sixth Princess, saw her pitiful expression, and said: "Although there is no mistress in the house, Madam Tang is free and free, so she happens to be able to take care of Sixth Sister, and Sixth Sister's nanny is also doing her duty. Yes. A Qi also always said that when he was a child, he always hoped that Mrs. Liu would give birth to a younger sister to hurt her."

The queen hesitated for a moment, then nodded hesitantly: "Well, I think she has a lot of cheerfulness recently, and it would be a good thing to live with you for a while. If she feels uncomfortable or not used to it, you can send her back. .”

So when returning to the palace, Chu Yan's carriage was followed by a large group of the princess' attendants.

He asked people to clean up the yard closest to Jianmingju in the west courtyard, and asked Nanny Tang to take care of the sixth princess, and went to look at the land that had just been collected.

This land is in a place that is neither noisy nor quiet. There are many people passing by, but not noisy. There are several big houses not far away.

This land was originally a small inn. The front house has two floors, and the backyard is divided into two floors, each with a circle of houses.

After turning around roughly, Chu Yan had an idea in his mind. He told Chen Su in detail what he wanted to change, and asked Chen Su to write it down. He would call craftsmen to tell them how to do it tomorrow.

"When the craftsman finalizes the drawing, show it to me. In addition, you can find some carpenters with good craftsmanship and bring them to the palace tomorrow."

Chen Su smiled and said: "Yes. Don't worry, my lord. You mentioned it before, and I have already found you for me."

Chu Yan smiled, and said again: "Buy some more wood and come to the palace. Good wood is hard to come by for a while, and bad wood is fine. The more the better."

Chen Su nodded: "Yes."

Steward Chen was extremely efficient, and the carpenters and woodworkers arrived together the next day, and the carpenters gathered in a side courtyard closest to the side entrance of the outer mansion as ordered.

When Chu Yan arrived, they knelt in the courtyard and shouted together: "Young master has seen the prince."

Chu Yan asked them to get up, sat on the only grand teacher's chair in the courtyard, and gave Xinqing a wink.

Xinqing walked out holding the lottery in her hand, and said with a smile: "Before you come here, Steward Chen has told you all. Today, the prince will test your skills first. If you pass the test, you can stay." I will work for the shop, but I will let you know that once you stay, each of you will be paid five taels of silver per month, and you will get an extra commission for each additional object. The commission is calculated according to the difficulty of the work, which is simpler. Maybe one or two hundred taels for each piece, and one or two taels of silver for more complicated ones, the specifics vary."

The carpenters were amazed.

Even in the capital city, it is enviable for most people to earn three taels of silver a month, and the value of a handful of good carpenters in the capital city is not much.

Prince An's Mansion paid five taels of silver, which is actually not uncommon. The big family can offer this price, but the key is that the five taels of silver are just a guarantee, and the commission is the big one!

For a moment, everyone was excited.

Xinqing glanced at the wooden products they each brought, and said: "Today's test does not look at what you have done before, but requires you to draw a topic from the lottery tube and spend seven days going back to complete it." Well, the wood is naturally from the palace, and after the objects are finished, no matter whether they pass the test or not, everyone can get a tael of silver as a reward. Who will come first?"

Someone stepped forward impatiently, bowed his head in Chu Yan's direction without daring to look around, and then carefully pulled out a wooden stick from the stick.

A strip of paper was tied to the bottom of the wooden stick, on which a rough drawing was drawn with small notes for the narration.

Although the picture is rough, you can basically understand what it is. This carpenter has worked for a rich family before and can understand some characters. However, he knows all the characters on this paper, but he is still very at a loss.

It's... like I've never seen anything like it before.

Chu Yan put one hand on the side of the chair and looked at them casually: "Don't worry, everyone will think about how to do it when you go back. If you feel that you can't do it, you can give up. Some things are complicated and time-consuming, so you don't have to finish them all. Just a prototype. If you can't read, you can ask Steward Fang in the yard what is written on it."

He said and stood up: "I hope someone can surprise me."

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1. This is two updates in one, the update made the day before yesterday is over~

2. After seventeen chapters, the hero finally opened the career dungeon, which is really not easy.

3. Look at the word count!

4. I would like to ask if you are more accustomed to the typesetting of large paragraphs or large paragraphs or the typesetting with a blank line for each paragraph...