The Devil's Coming [Quick Transmigration]

"What to do? Of course, listen to stories." Faced with Zhang Zhi's curiosity, Su Ying said matter-of-factly, "You must know a lot about the storyteller business, right?"

He had just arrived and knew nothing about Shangjing, so he needed someone who knew everything about Shangjing to help him understand Shangjing faster.

He said this, but others didn't believe it.

The story told by the storyteller is just for entertaining. Could this prince, who came from a small place, be like those foolish men and women and really believe in that lie?

Zhang Zhi said disdainfully: "Brother Xu, you are joking. What can a storyteller know? How can these little people understand the real secrets? Such people just eat with one mouth, and there are many stories coming out of their mouths** It’s all just nonsense, but if you want to know anything, Brother Xu, you might as well ask us.”

"What Brother Zhang is saying is that even though we usually go around and have fun and are described as good-for-nothing by those sanctimonious guys, there are many things that we know very well."

Everyone spoke to each other.

"For example, my eldest brother, who is so serious on the surface, scolds me in front of my parents all day long for not doing my job properly, but I don't know that my best friend told me that this guy secretly went to a brothel. I didn't bother to say it before, but when he scolded me again the day before yesterday , I filed a complaint against him, and now he is still reflecting in the ancestral hall."

"——There is also the Lin family's seventh son who is praised by a bunch of slanderous scholars. They all think he is some kind of great talent, and there are many blind young ladies who admire him. Who in our powerful circle doesn't know that this is the second prince? Who knows how the raised rabbit got his name?"

"This man does not live up to his name. He has some talent, but he thinks he is so talented that he can win the first prize. Last time we met, people glanced at me without giving me a second glance, but they looked down upon me. He's a dandy. The second prince is new to him now. I want to see what happens to him when he gets tired of it.

After a group of dandies drank enough wine, the conversation started, and Su Ying ate one melon after another. Seeing that the topic involved the Second Prince, these people had no intention of restraining themselves, and there was not much awe for the Second Prince in their words. Even Su Ying, an outsider, could see that the second prince's reputation in Beijing was really not that good.

According to everyone's opinions, this person was a romantic by nature and had no taboos between men and women. Perhaps the only good thing about him was that he ate well and looked good, and he had never done anything like robbing men and dominating women. After all, with his status, there is really no need to be so mean. The second prince's concubine was the daughter of a princess, with a distinguished status and a arrogant temperament. It was only the second prince who took the initiative to propose marriage that succeeded. Those men and women who had been favored and neglected by the second prince fell into the hands of the second prince's concubine, and met a miserable end. The second prince ignored these "former concubines" and allowed his wife to ravage them, as if this could show his love for the second prince's concubine, but the latter did the same thing.

——This is the reason why these dandy boys look down on the second prince and his wife. One took it out on his concubine and used cruel and vicious methods. A mean, heartless, and irresponsible person.

However, dandies are not equal to idiots who don’t understand anything. Even if the second prince is looked down upon by others, he is still the son of the emperor. He is not a puppet emperor who is suppressed by powerful ministers or aristocratic families. Considering the majesty of the royal family, he should not be in public. Are you talking about the prince so casually? Aren't you afraid that these words will be reported to the emperor and endanger your family?

Under normal circumstances, there should be such concerns.

But this is not normal.

Because none of the three princes are the biological sons of the current emperor.

Emperor Huiming once had two sons, but both of them died in infancy. Now he has only one daughter, Princess Yuling, the daughter of Empress Yu.

Queen Yu comes from a well-known family. Her father was the crown prince's tutor at that time, and she is now her master. Her grandfather once served as a bachelor in Wenyuan Pavilion, and her maternal grandfather was the headmaster of Bailu Academy. She has many peaches and plums all over the world.

On the day Princess Yuling was born, Emperor Huiming officially ascended the throne as emperor. Thinking this was a good omen, he was overjoyed and gave Yuling a fiefdom and named her Princess Yuling.

This is also the first child of Emperor Huiming.

Emperor Huiming was the ninth among the brothers. When he was born, his elder brothers had already married and had children. However, he was frail and sick since he was a child. After three years of marriage, he still had no children. This made the late emperor suspicious. Because of this, even though his talents were higher than those of his brothers and he was still the legitimate eldest son, he was still unable to gain the approval of the late emperor.

When the brothers brought their children and grandchildren to entertain themselves in colorful clothes in front of the late emperor, there was no one under his knees. The contrast was too tragic.

It was precisely because of the late emperor's hesitation and hesitation that the ambitions of the kings gradually grew, thinking that they all had a chance to fight for the throne. Who would have known that the late emperor did not depose the prince even when he was seriously ill? How could the kings who had already forged a deadly feud with the prince sit back and wait for death?

Hence, the palace change happened sixteen years ago.

After the palace coup, the four kings died tragically on the spot and were imprisoned for life. Only the prince had the last laugh and ascended the throne.

But Emperor Huiming has been on the throne for a long time, and apart from Princess Yuling, he still has no sons and a half daughters. He had a son and a daughter, both of whom died shortly after birth. The position of the crown prince has been vacant for a long time, which is detrimental to the entire Qi Dynasty. Hundreds of officials in the court are urging him day by day to adopt the children of the clan first. If the emperor has a biological son in the future, it will not be too late to return to the clan. The emperor himself was unwilling to admit that he could not give birth to a son.

The two sides began a confrontation that lasted for several years.

It was not until five years ago that the second son he finally got died in infancy. Emperor Huiming seemed to have finally given up, and seemed to be angry with all the officials. He actually adopted three princes from the imprisoned princes' palaces, and the youngest at the time The third prince is already ten years old and can already remember things.

——Not to mention that the kings originally competed with the emperor for the throne and had deep hatred. The crime of rebellion has not been pardoned to this day. It would be inappropriate to just talk about the ages of the three princes. Rather than choosing a child with an innocent family background, or a child who is young and well-educated, we must choose someone with neither condition. This is obviously not the best choice for normal adoption.

After the adoption, it is regarded as an account to the officials. Emperor Huiming also ignored these three princes. He neither took them into the palace to educate them nor bothered to win over and get close to them. He just threw them into the newly opened prince mansion and allowed these three princes to grow wildly.

As for who should be appointed as the prince? That's even more out of the question.

The officials thought they understood the emperor's thoughts.

——You haven’t given up on having a son yet! So he didn't bother to educate the three princes carefully, and he didn't establish a prince. Once a biological son was born, he would let all three princes go away.

——Although after five years, it’s almost time to give up.

The three princes were not welcome, and the officials did not care.

Except for a few careerists, most people urged the emperor to adopt the emperor out of consideration for the sake of the country, lest the emperor die unexpectedly and there would be no successor, causing chaos in the court. Now that there are three heirs selected, although they hope that the crown prince will be selected in one step, the emperor has already taken a step back. In a short period of time, they cannot force the emperor too much. That would be a courtier's transgression.

At this point, calm returned to the court. It was as if the confrontation between the emperor and his ministers had never happened in the past many years.

And a new battle broke out between the three princes. New forces gradually formed around the three princes.

As five years passed, new parties were formed.

But these have nothing to do with the dudes here.

They neither got involved in the princes' disputes nor got involved in government affairs. They knew the emperor's attitude towards the three princes, and they were naturally not at all panicked when talking about the princes' gossip.

In this way, in addition to the romantic second prince, Su Ying also heard their evaluations of the eldest prince and the third prince. The simple summary is: the eldest prince is as hot-tempered as fire, and the third prince is as gentle as water. The eldest prince has more generals around him, and the third prince is more supported by civil servants.

As for the fathers and brothers of the princes who are still in captivity, they have become the talk of the dandies at the wine table. When talking about the prosperity of the kings in the past and their current miserable situation, these dandy boys became very excited.

"Tsk, I don't know whether to say that those rebel kings are lucky! After being imprisoned for so many years, my son has the opportunity to become the emperor. The three princes are enjoying the glory outside, but their biological father and brothers are trapped in the high wall and suffer. Strange things in the human world!"

After the meal, Su Ying listened to the royal gossip. After the meal was over, the storyteller came up, and he listened to another round of gossip and gossip.

These dandy boys have greatly underestimated the profession of storyteller.

It is said that snakes have their own ways, and rats have their own ways. In this feudal society where the circulation of information is far less than that of the information age, the storytellers' stories are not completely fabricated out of thin air. They often come from folk legends, and behind the legends, there are real prototypes. The storyteller who can collect so many real prototypes certainly has his own channels for collecting information.

If the dandies know the secrets of the upper class, the storytellers know the gossip of the middle and lower classes.

Especially the storyteller who can tell stories at Zuixianglou, the best restaurant in Beijing, means that among his colleagues, he is also the most well-informed, has the best vision, and is the best storyteller.

From the officials' families, which family's men are raising extramarital affairs outside, which family's concubine is suspected of being cheated by Hongxing, and which family's people are raking in profit money... Down to the ordinary people, what strange things happen to any family, let them What he said was clear and logical.

The storyteller usually does not dare to talk nonsense about certain news involving officials and people, so as not to offend people. But in front of Su Ying, I learned his identity and heard that the Duke of Wei wanted to hear his story, so of course I told him happily.

Even the dandy boys who had previously looked down upon this storyteller were fascinated by the story, especially when they heard him bring some gossip to life, and couldn't help laughing.

Before they knew it, a group of people drank too much.

Seeing that Su Ying was determined to continue listening, Xu Minggui felt that this third brother was actually much easier to get along with than Xu Mingjin. He couldn't justify not satisfying such a simple hobby as listening to stories.

He waved his hand and said: "Third brother, if you like to listen to stories, just take this storyteller back. There are other storytellers, opera singers, and music arrangers. Brother, I can find them for you. There are also other storytellers in our house." It’s not that I can’t afford it.”

Others laughed and echoed.

"This is a good idea. I have a theater troupe at home. I will invite Brother Xu to come to my house to listen to the theater together someday."

They were unaware that in just half a day, Su Ying had already sketched out the entire scene of Shangjing in his mind based on the gossip provided by everyone.

The emperor's character, the character of the officials, the grievances and resentments among the court officials, the overt and covert struggles among the princes, and the quality of life of the people... have been fully displayed in front of Su Ying.

From the situation in the court to the livelihood of the people.

But that's not important.

Now Su Ying is more interested in another thing——

"You should have marked down all the places they mentioned just now where special murders had occurred, especially the places where there are still rumors about them, 333?"

Su Ying communicated with the small light ball with his mind.

[All marked, ready to go at any time. ]

System 333 answered very tactfully.

"No hurry, wait until tonight." Su Ying curved his eyes, "None of the ghosts that should be picked up will escape."

As for now...

Looking at the drunkards who were staggering, Su Ying, who was clear-headed, stood up slowly and took out a jade pendant.

He tossed the jade pendant casually.

"It's still early, why not go to the bookstore in Wuling Lane to have a look."