The Child Emperor

The weather was sweltering, and sweating was inevitable after a set of punches. Han Ruzi and Du's grandfather and grandson sat in the pavilion to cool off, while Zhang Youcai stood beside them. The four of them tasted the fresh melons and fruits just taken out of the well water, talking and laughing, Very uncomfortable.

The old eunuch He Yi came from a distance, entered the pavilion to greet Juanhou, and said with a smile, "Is the master free now?"

Han Ruzi hurriedly asked He Yi to sit down, and asked him to eat melons, "Look at my memory, several times, you said you wanted to talk to me, but I forgot."

"The master is busy, and sometimes he can't remember it for a while."

Juanhou is indeed very busy. He is busy going to the Imperial College every day and practicing kung fu at home. In the rest of the time, he wanders around and buys whatever he likes.

"I'm just idle now, so you can talk about it if you have something to do."

"Uh..." He Yi hesitated to speak.

Du Motian observed his words, stood up and said, "I'll go back to my room to sleep, Chuanyun, come with me."

Du Chuanyun was enjoying his meal, so he hummed and was reluctant to get up.

Han Ruzi pulled Du Motian to sit down, "Don't worry, I still want to hear some anecdotes from the old coach. They are all from my own family, so there is no need to avoid them. Old He, if you have something to say, just say it."

Du Motian didn't move anymore, Du Chuanyun continued to eat melons, the old eunuch He Yi smiled, no matter whether there were outsiders or not, he must talk to the master, this is the duty of the accountant.

"That...Master, we...the house is a bit..."

"Is there something missing? I'll go buy it."

He Yi shook his head with a smile, "There are only a lot of things in the mansion, but there is one thing missing."

"what?"

"money."

"Money?" Han Ruzi smiled, and turned to Du Motian, "The princely family sometimes lacks money."

Du Motian smiled without saying a word, Du Chuanyun wiped his mouth, "What's the matter, I heard that the emperor still has tight money."

In the Juanhou Mansion, "emperor" is an inappropriate word, only Du Chuanyun said it if he wanted to, not because he was more courageous, but because he had long forgotten that Juanhou was once an emperor.

He Yi smiled embarrassingly, "Well, the mansion is not just short of money, it's a little bit beyond its means."

"How is it possible?" Han Ruzi put away his smile, he was a little surprised, "I don't have a yearly income of thousands of households? Zongzheng Mansion also has a lot of regular rewards, and there are a total of [-] people in the mansion, so it is impossible to spend them so quickly. Bar?"

He Yi scratched his head, "Things are different from what the master thought."

"Tell me."

He Yi coughed a few times, "The Hou Mansion has a lot of income, but also a lot of expenses, basically [-]% to [-]% are used to worship the ancestors, several times a year..."

"so much?"

"The master's position is higher than that of the princes and kings, and the standards of the princes and kings are naturally required when worshiping the ancestors, but they have state-owned land and their income is much higher than ours..."

"Understood, then there are [-] to [-]% left, which is not a lot."

"There is still [-] to [-]% of the income to be used for the relationship between the clan."

"Hey, I have never had any contact with other princes."

"Yes, but people don't communicate, but gifts have to be exchanged. This is the custom. For example, last month when the prince of Jinan got married, we gave ten catties of gold, ten bolts of silk and satin, and ten pairs of jade..."

"Why haven't I heard of this?"

"I put the gift list on the host's table, and the host wrote 'read'."

"Oh, maybe I didn't read it carefully. Can I not give it? I don't even know who the King of Jinan is, let alone his son."

He Yi scratched his head again, "I'm afraid it won't work, the rules are set by the Zongzheng Mansion, and every case has its own precedent, so you can't go against it."

Han Ruzi also scratched his head, "Then I will buy less in the future."

"There are enough things in the house. Master really doesn't need to buy any more, but it won't save much. It would be better if we can have a few weddings and funerals... Wrong, wrong, look at my bad mouth, punish me." It... punishes it..."

"Punish it not to drink for a day." Han Ruzi patted the stone table twice with a smile, "I understand, I will take care of the money, and you just need to manage the accounts."

"That's good, master, you are busy, I won't bother you." He Yi said goodbye.

Zhang Youcai said while chewing melons: "There are also difficulties in daring to love a prince. There are many favors, and we can't refuse them. The key is that we have no exchanges. No wonder we can't make ends meet."

"Not all princes are so tight-lipped. Others either have state-owned land, or someone is an official, and there is always a way to get money." Han Ruzi is very clear that he is not as tired as an ordinary prince than a prince. County Marquis and Township Marquis are rich.

"What should I do? Also go buy land and lend money?" Zhang Youcai didn't forget to eat melons and fruits, and it was like a competition with Du Chuanyun.

"Hey, whatever it is, the boat will go straight when it reaches the bridge, so I won't be hungry anyway."

Du Chuanyun ate enough, hiccupped, and wiped his juice-stained hands on his clothes twice, "You are so poor, and you still always reward our father and son, it's really generous, we still have more than a dozen Two golds and dozens of taels of silver, Grandpa, let’s return it to Juanhou first.”

Du Motian laughed and reprimanded: "That bit of gold and silver is not enough for the Marquis Mansion to give you a favor once."

Zhang Youcai was still eating melons, "Master has rewarded you quite a lot, and I haven't seen you buy anything back. How come there are only so little left?"

"Humanity is more important in Jianghu, everyone in the world is brothers, and of course everyone wants to spend money together, so why not keep the baby?" Du Chuanyun is very disdainful, in his eyes, accumulating wealth is a shameful act.

Han Ruzi didn't like to talk about money either, so he waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about such disappointing things, old coach Du, I've been wanting to ask you, if I believed in Lin Kunshan and went to Xiaonanshan Anxiang Garden, what would have happened next?" ?”

"It's hard to say. There are ever-changing deceptions. People who often travel in the rivers and lakes sometimes go astray..."

"What's wrong with it? No matter how many tricks there are, it boils down to three tricks." Du Chuanyun didn't know what modesty was, and when he talked about the deeds of the world, he was even more eloquent, "It's not money, it's sex, and it's power. Turning copper into gold, turning lead into silver, setting up a game of gambling, secret art in the house, being transferred to an official, etc., depends on what you are interested in."

"If I were me, I would definitely be interested in turning copper into gold." Zhang Youcai finally had enough, looking at the few pieces of melon left on the plate reluctantly.

"You are an eunuch, so you can be interested in gold and silver." Du Chuanyun said coldly, and then said to Juanhou: "I have inquired, Lin Kunshan is not simple, he has a lot of names, the most commonly used is Lin Beiyou, who understands yin and yang, can tell divination, and can tell qi, the people he targets will be ruined in all likelihood."

"I have no money and no rights. Why is he following me?"

"Then I don't know. If I guess, I think the person he will deceive in the end may not be you, but use your status and identity to deceive the real rich people. Anyway, the purpose of the liar is always one, that is, money."

"Go, you know a lot." Du Motian shouted, pushing his grandson away from the stone bench, "Don't worry about Juan Hou, the matter has been settled, as long as our father and son are still in the mansion, no liar will dare to follow him you."

Han Ruzi smiled and talked about other things, but he didn't forget this topic in his heart.

Studying in the Guozijian was not as hard as imagined. For nearly ten days after entering the school, Han Ruzi hadn’t met any other students, nor had he sat down to listen to a class. He went to show up every day, and the little official spread the word that the homework would be cancelled, for various reasons. , and then Han Ruzi can go home.

At first, he thought that the Guozijian was unwilling to accept the abolished emperor. Later, he learned from the Fucheng that the Guozijian has always been like this. Many honorable children send servants to check the mausoleum. He will only go there when the Ministry of Rites inspects. Up to ten times a year.

Han Ruzi felt it was unfair. When he was emperor, he attended lectures every day, rain or shine, but the nobles in the imperial court were at ease.

So he stopped going to Guozijian and let Zhang Youcai go to Dianmao alone.

On the second day after accountant He Yi reported the incident, Han Ruzi was thinking about how to change the topic to "deception", when Du Chuanyun came to the door first.

Zhang Youcai happened to go to the Imperial College, Han Ruzi was reading alone in the study, Du Chuanyun knocked on the door and came in, looking at the books in the room vigilantly, trying to avoid any bad luck, "I want to discuss something with you."

"Yes." Han Ruzi put down the book.

Du Chuanyun stared at Juanhou for a while, then asked directly: "Do you want to make a lot of money?"

"I'm not a businessman..."

"But you are short of money." Du Chuanyun's eyes widened. He always called himself an "old Jianghu", and he couldn't hold his breath when persuading others.

"Tell me what's going on first."

Du Chuanyun pulled a stool, sat across from the desk, and looked straight at Juanhou, "In Fresh Vegetable Lane, in order to pass the level of Monkey Fifth Master, I said that our father and father are also lying to you, Bilin Kunshan Be early."

"I was next door and heard it."

"Five Lord Monkey believed it. According to the rules, Lin Kunshan can no longer touch Juanhou. The gold and silver you rewarded, our father and I actually gave them to fellow Jianghu, and told them that they were cheated."

"Not enough money, right? Just ask how much you need."

Du Chuanyun kept shaking his head, "If we take money from you again, aren't we really liars? I have an idea, I don't need your money, but I can give an explanation to my comrades in the world."

"You said."

"Lin Kunshan can get money through you, why can't we get money ourselves?"

"How can I get money from myself?"

"Lin Kunshan must know. I'll go and catch him, and it will be clear after interrogation."

Han Ruzi shook his head, "No, I can't take any more risks, let me think about it."

"People like Lin Kunshan make their homes all over the world. Today they are still in the capital, but tomorrow they may go to the south of the Yangtze River. Once he leaves, the secret of defrauding money will be taken away."

Han Ruzi knew in his heart that Lin Kunshan's "secret" was to lure Juanhou to expose his ambition to become emperor, and after pondering for a long time, he said, "Do you want to design a real scam, so as to block the mouths of people in the Jianghu?"

"That's right, otherwise they would say that Mrs. Du and his father are liars." In Du Chuanyun's thinking, cheating princes and generals can make them famous, but cheating fellow Jianghu is a shameful act.

Han Ruzi murmured again, "What did Coach Du say?"

"I told him, he's not interested, anyway, I'm the one who lied to Fifth Master Monkey, not him."

"But he didn't stop you?"

"Grandpa never stopped me from doing things. He often said that he could protect me for a while, but not for a lifetime. He broke through the world by himself, not brought out by grandpa."

Han Ruzi felt the same way, and Yang Feng's approach to him was similar.

"I have an idea. I can get some money without Lin Kunshan."

"You?" Du Chuanyun didn't believe that Juanhou could also cheat.

Han Ruzi actually thought about it for several days. If Du Chuanyun came later, he would take the initiative to find Du's grandson, "You know how to gamble?"

"Of course, Grandpa said I can roll dice before I can walk."

"Then you should be very good."

"I'm not bragging. In terms of lightness kung fu and swordsmanship, I'm at best second-rate. Playing dice is first-rate. How many heroes in the world have lost their pants in front of me."

Han Ruzi raised his hand and patted the desk lightly, "That's easy, I know a few nobles who are rich and love to gamble, why don't you get some money from them?"

What Du Chuanyun wanted to catch was gold and silver, but Han Ruzi's goal was a big fish.

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