Chapter 209 As Long As I Am Cheeky
It was a pity that in his last life, he died too early. In the end, he did not find the real culprit who set up General Su.
He sighed silently in his heart. In this life, he will definitely not let the Su family fall into the same old trap again.
"Where is Eunuch Wei?"
"He has already left. Do you want to see him, Your Highness?" Huaiyuan asked.
"No, I don't want to see him either. A servant thinks highly of himself all day long. Leave him alone. He will not be arrogant for long." Shaoling held a piece of pear wood in one hand and turned it back and forth between his fingertips. He held a small carving knife in another hand and seemed to be thinking about how to start.
"Yes," Huaiyuan answered and asked again, "Your Majesty, when do you plan to return to the mansion?"
Shaoling looked up at him in surprise, as if he couldn't understand why he had that thought.
"Return to the mansion? Why should I go back? There's food and shelter here, and there's also Little Princess. Isn't it good to live here?"
Huaiyuan was speechless for a while, "But if we stay here, will General Su have a problem with us?"
Shaoling laughed lightly, "As long as I am cheeky, he wouldn't dare to kick me out. Besides, the poison in my body has not been detoxified yet!"
Huaiyuan was silent for a moment and then gave him a thumbs up, "Brilliant, you are really brilliant!
Shaoling smiled, hiding his talent deeply.
Huaiyuan carried the kettle again and added a cup of hot water to his tea bowl.
Prince Yan watched his action and sighed, "Look at my father-in-law, he can't even spare a cup of hot water for me."
Huaiyuan was a bit helpless. The Prince's temper was becoming more and more inscrutable lately. He was really childish sometimes.
After all, Prince Yan was his master. What else could he do but coax him?
"Your Majesty, it's not like that. Miss Su specially ordered this. She said that you have to drink medicine in the next few days. The tea dissolves the effects of the medicine, so you must abstain from tea for two days."
As expected, men were fickle. Shaoling, who was still a bit dissatisfied just now, immediately smiled as soon as he heard that it was his wife who personally ordered that.
"My little princess is the sensitive one. Look at you, you've been with me for so long for nothing. Why didn't you even think of that?"
Huaiyuan was puzzled.
Didn't he think of it? No, how could he steal the limelight from the princess?
Therefore, he had to swallow the bitter pill.
"It's my fault. I'll bear it all in mind in the future. I would never dare to do it again."
Only then did Shaoling smile in satisfaction, "All right, leave now. Don't keep me from doing something important."
Hearing these words, Huaiyuan looked up and took a look at the various stuff on his desk. He directly answered "yes" and left.
His so-called important thing was to carve a wooden sculpture. "Next month I will give it to Su Yi on her birthday. She must be very happy." He thought.
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Zhuang sent away Maogong and did not stay idle. Prince Mu asked him to send eight hundred taels of silver to the scholar named Wu Xiyuan.
He asked his entourage Kuo to go to the accountant's office and get 800 taels out. He wanted to personally send the silver, so as to see whether that man was Jiuyue's partner or not.
Although the emperor rewarded the Su family with a lot of gold and silver over the years, eight hundred taels was still a lot for them.
Kuo returned with a stack of silver notes. He was still a bit reluctant, "General, why are you taking out so much silver?"
"It's for Prince Mu. Don't ask more questions. Anyway, it's Prince Mu's money. We don't need to worry about it."
Only then did Kuo breathe a sigh of relief and hand him the silver note.
Zhuang already changed his clothes for going out. Kuo wanted to follow along but was stopped by him.
"You don't need to follow. The two princes are still in the mansion. You stay and take care of them."
If there was no one at home to take care of things, he would be really worried.
It was not that he was afraid that others would hurt the two princes. He was really worried about Prince Yan.
That guy dared to be intimate with his daughter in front of him. If he wasn't home, who knew what shameless things he would do!
He patted Kuo's shoulder, "Look after the house for me. Keep Prince Yan from harassing Yi, got it?"
Kuo was confused.
Looking at the great general who was leaving, he was speechless for a while.
That person was a prince! Who dared to stop the Prince when he wanted to do something?
The general would be fine because he was the Prince's father-in-law in the future. He was just an entourage. How could he stop the Prince when he was not justified?
Zhuang didn't care about that. When he left the door, his subordinate brought him a horse.
He flew on his horse and went straight to Hao Yuan Academy.
Coincidentally, he arrived just in time when the students were leaving school. Everyone was leaving one after another with books in their hands.
Zhuang, a bearded old man, was obviously a round peg in a square hole among this group of children.
He casually stopped one and asked, "Excuse me, is Wu Xiyuan here?"
The student noticed that he was not dressed like a layfolk. When he heard that Zhuang was looking for Xiyuan, he immediately said, "Are you looking for Xiyuan? He was here. When I came out just now, he was still inside. If you are looking for him, just go in and find him."
After thanking him by making an obeisance by cupping one hand in the other before his chest, Zhuang handed the horse over to the porter boy and walked into the academy.
He asked around as he walked. He finally found Xiyuan in a corner book hall.
However, Xiyuan was not alone here.
A woman was standing beside him, and the two were saying something.
The man who brought Zhuang here was a fellow student of Xiyuan, named Meng Yuchun.
He stood outside the door and pointed inside. "There is Xiyuan. I will get him for you." He said.
Before Zhuang could stop him, Yuchun already shouted, "Xiyuan! Someone is looking for you."
When Xiyuan looked back after hearing the sound, he saw Yuchun standing outside the door, as well as Zhuang beside him.
This was the first time in his life that he met General Su, but General Su had already helped him several times.
He said something to the woman and turned around to walk toward the two.
Stopping at a distance of two steps from them, he pretended that he did not know him and asked, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
Zhuang wanted to ask him who that woman was. He opened his mouth but felt that it seemed a bit inappropriate to ask in front of his fellow students.
"Excuse me, are you Wu Xiyuan from Xia Yang Village in Niu Tou Town?"
Xiyuan nodded slightly, "That's me."
"I am the Grand General Su Zhuang. I have an important matter to discuss with you. Can we talk in private?"
Xiyuan glanced at Yuchun beside him and said, "Yuchun, you go back first. You don't have to wait for me to have dinner with you."
Yuchun was not insensitive. He answered "yes" and walked around him to look at the figure behind him.
"Miss Guo, do you want to leave with me?"
[Author noted: Grown-up Zongyuan thought, "What? Why did I owe such a big debt? It's just that I was too young and didn't know the price of daily necessities"].