school days in ancient times

Zhuang Jue said to Ye Mian the words that had been held in his heart for many years and could not be explained to outsiders, and the depression entangled in his chest dissipated a little. Ye Mian just listened carefully, neither persuading nor refuting, just Seeing that he was fed half a bowl of clear porridge and rice water on time.

Ye Mian is not the heir of the emperor, so he can't stay in the palace overnight. He originally wanted to give the key to the palace to greet the eldest princess, but Zhuang Jue refused to let go. Ye Mian coaxed him for a long time, and then promised him Tomorrow, after school, I will go to the palace to see him, and then I will leave the Huaxi Palace in front of the gate of the palace.

But I didn't expect that when I left the gate of Huaxi Palace, Zhuang Heng was standing there with a few young eunuchs.

"I'll take you out of the palace."

Ye Mian walked with him outside the palace, and said apologetically, "I was supposed to go with you to visit the eldest princess, but I forgot the time inside."

Zhuang Heng shook his head and said, "No problem."

The two walked quietly for a while, but Zhuang Heng secretly glanced at Ye Mian several times, and finally asked: "Then can you come tomorrow?"

Although Zhuang Heng is one year younger than Ye Mian, he has always looked old-fashioned when meeting him, and his sudden childish behavior made Ye Mian stunned, and then he reacted and nodded quickly. "Come here after school. Your eldest brother just had some porridge. I asked the maid to help him fall asleep. The third young master can just go to comfort the princess tonight."

Zhuang Heng shook his head, "I won't go to my mother's place anymore, I will just take you into the palace tomorrow."

Ye Mian was taken aback, puzzled, "Why?"

Zhuang Heng didn't seem to treat him as an outsider, and said bluntly: "Zhuang Heng is stupid, he doesn't know how to please his parents."

Ye Mian was dumbfounded, the child had only spoken a dozen words to him, and he had already said twice that he was stupid...

Ye Mian couldn't help but keep thinking in the carriage going back. When he walked to the gate of Ye Mansion, although he didn't guess the details, he could figure out the general idea. There are three sons in the Princess Mansion, Zhuang Jue has his own halo, Zhuang Jue Yu made a fuss and wanted to poke a hole in the sky, then the third child would be an invisible person for ten thousand years.

Stupidity is false, but it is true that I am afraid that I have lost self-confidence. This feeling...Ye Mian has not tasted it before.

Ye Mian went back to Ye Mansion, changed into some homely and semi-new clothes in his own yard, and took a basket of sour pears he just bought on the way to the Bihua Pavilion next door to grab a meal.

Ye Mian didn't ask his servants to report before he came, so his brother and his sister-in-law were halfway through their meal.

Seeing Ye Mian coming with a basket of rough pears, Ye Jing glared at him, but Ye Mian pretended not to see him, rubbed his nose, and handed the delicate little basket to Jiang Nanchu who looked delighted.

His sister-in-law is now showing her pregnancy, and her body is getting heavier. Although she doesn't eat and vomit like she did at the beginning of her pregnancy, her taste has become very strange, but his mother and his elder brother dare not touch her. Ye Mian's first two days Every day I heard the girls in the yard gossiping, saying that his sister-in-law wanted to eat pears but refused to take the sweet and tender ones. She only said that they were not sour. How could his elder brother dare to give her the wild sour pears outside? Brother made a fuss.

Ye Mian had dinner with them, and followed his brother to the study after the meal.

Ye Mian was lying on the couch in front of the window where he used to stay before, flicking through a few books he had taken off his brother's bookshelf. After Ye Jing finished approving a stack of case files, she rubbed her brows with one hand and asked him, "Aren't you here?" Yaohuixuan Wenshu, what are you doing here to mess around with me again?"

Ye Mian didn't lift his head, curled his lips and said, "I miss you!"

Ye Jing snorted, "Quickly tell me, I am full of official documents, so I don't have the time to play charades with you."

Ye Mian turned over and sat up, cleared his throat and said, "Brother, I have entered the palace today."

"Huh?" Ye Jing stopped rubbing her forehead with her hand, and said in surprise.

Ye Mian licked his lips, "I'm going to see King Rongnan..."

Ye Jing frowned, "Why are you going to see him at this time?"

"You know about him?"

"I probably know something, why?" Ye Jing raised an eyebrow and asked him, "You lingered here all night just to find out about him?"

"I asked what he was doing," Ye Mian said in a relaxed manner, "I have a good friendship with the Xiaojun Wang, otherwise I wouldn't go to the palace to see him today, but..." Ye Mian coughed He said, "It's not easy to ask him some questions directly, I just thought that you are in Dali Temple, and you happen to know a little about the secrets of each prefecture..."

Ye Jing squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Mian meaningfully for several times. Ye Mian's face remained unchanged, and when he was about to urinate, his brother finally asked, "What do you want to know?"

Ye Mian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand and grabbed a green orange from the fruit plate on the side table, lowered his head to peel it, and said in his mouth: "This time the little county king was punished by the queen mother because the two brothers had a quarrel. , his younger brother Zhuang Yu is now in the same academy as me, and he is a very unreasonable person, and Zhuang Jue is not one to give in to others. How can it be good for these two people to be together in the capital? The trouble went to the imperial court, but why did the eldest princess cry and cry all day long, but didn't take Zhuang Yu back to Jinling immediately?"

Ye Mian carefully picked off the ginkgo shreds from the orange flesh, put the orange petals into a small jasper dish and handed it to his brother, sighing: "If you don't want to part with the Queen Mother and Zhuang Jue, then order the son-in-law to bring them first." It's better for him to go back than let their brothers fight each other in this capital."

Ye Jing picked up a piece of orange meat and put it in his mouth, said lightly: "The son-in-law can't leave Beijing yet."

Ye Mian was taken aback, "This...what is it?"

Ye Jing glanced at him, "I can't tell you yet."

Ye Mian nodded quickly, and asked cautiously, "But the son-in-law is in trouble?"

Ye Jing lowered her eyes, "It's okay, as long as he doesn't try to die again, the eldest princess can protect him well."

Ye Mian thought for a while, looked at his brother and said: "But I heard from the little county king that the son-in-law and the princess have had a lot of trouble recently, but it's because of their brothers. The son-in-law seems to favor Zhuang Yu, so he treats the princess and Zhuang Yu very well Everyone is a little dissatisfied."

Ye Jing snorted and laughed, "It's because of their brother's affairs, they just made use of it."

Ye Mian was puzzled.

Ye Jing took a sip of tea, and picked out something to say, "The princess's mansion is now in Nantou, but it's not just because of the little imperial power in her hands, the foundation of the dealer itself in the Jinling Salt Road is also very important. However, although the eldest princess admires the son-in-law obsessively, she never wants to give him the power in her hands, but slowly hands it over to her eldest son," Ye Jing said with a chuckle, "After Zhuang Jue came to Beijing, the eldest princess He even handed over all the contacts in the north to him. This is what the son-in-law and her have been begging for for many years, and that Zhuang Jue is also very powerful. Taking him under his command, and even cutting off his mother's control over these people with the help of the prince and the six princes, it will be too late if the princess's heart softens and she can't stand the son-in-law's begging."

Ye Mian was dumbfounded when he heard that, and then slowly stroked his palms and said, "Whoever says that a woman in love has lost her mind is simply talking nonsense..."

Ye Jing also shook her head and smiled noncommittally.

Ye Mian sighed and said: "In this way, this princess mansion belongs to Zhuang Jue, and the little county king is the grandson of the Zhuang family. In the future, the Zhuang family will only skip the consorts and princesses of the princess mansion, and directly marry Zhuang Jue, the son-in-law. .....it was completely emptied."

Ye Jing nodded, and then sighed: "The son-in-law had a few fights with the princess because of this matter, but this person doesn't understand like the eldest princess, a businessman can't compare with a princess after all." Ye Jing shook his head.

Ye Mian was puzzled and looked at his brother suspiciously.

Ye Jing looked at him and said, "It doesn't matter whether the princess mansion belongs to Zhuang Jue or not, but the dealer must belong to Zhuang Jue, and that's the only way to keep the monstrous wealth, if not..."

Ye Jing just chuckled and didn't finish, but Ye Mian understood that the banker borrowed the power of the emperor to rise rapidly in Nantou, and the wealth was incomparable to the country. It's easy to say, but if the prince ascends the throne in the future, it means that the sky will change when the sky changes, and the eldest princess pushed Zhuang Jue to the capital so early, and then used silver to smash down the title of county king, just to take advantage of it. These people have not yet become powerful, and they have become grasshoppers on the same rope with Zhuang Jue early.

Ye Mian couldn't help sighing in his heart, no wonder the son-in-law didn't seem to want to see his eldest son, he thought it was because of his weak nature, he favored the second son Zhuang Yu. No wonder.

Ye Mian didn't see Zhuang Yu at school the next day, and after school ended, he followed Zhuang Heng who was waiting for him at Jixian Gate into the palace.

On the way, Ye Mian asked him, "Why didn't your second brother come to school today?"

Zhuang Heng looked at Ye Mian and said honestly: "I tried to make him stay in the mansion and let him hide from you. Now my elder brother has just calmed down. If the second elder brother confronts you at this time, the elder brother will be afraid. I won't spare him."

Ye Mian glanced at Zhuang Heng, and asked tentatively, "You... do you know what is the relationship between me and your elder brother?"

Zhuang Heng looked at him and nodded calmly.

Ye Mian's heart skipped a beat, she looked at Zhuang Heng and licked her lips, not knowing what to say.

"Don't worry," Zhuang Heng looked at Ye Mian and said solemnly, "I also recognize you, and I listen to elder brother."

Ye Mian scratched her head, turned her face to look elsewhere and did not speak.

Zhuang Heng said again: "I am a year younger than you, so I will call you third brother."

"Huh?" Ye Mian was taken aback for a moment, then coughed and said, "...It doesn't have to be."

"How can I do that?" Zhuang Heng frowned and said, "Eldest brother recognizes third elder brother as his righteous brother, third elder brother is my righteous brother, etiquette must not be short."

Ye Mian rolled her eyes, she couldn't understand how the two brothers of the dealer were so shrewd, how could the youngest be so honest...

Ye Mian didn't want to entangle him with this issue any longer, so he asked him, "I want to propose to your mother in a while, send your second brother back to Jinling alone, do you think it's inappropriate?"

Zhuang Heng shook his head anxiously, frowned and said, "It's very inappropriate."

"how?"

"When I first came to Beijing, my mother wanted to keep my second brother in Jinling, but my second brother told my mother that if I left him alone in the south, he would cut off one of his fingers every day and send it to us in a letter."