Chapter 71: General
The Ninth Prince’s ignorance, lack of common sense and reckless behavior made the Grand Tutor unable to tolerate it any longer.
No matter whether it is the royal family or one’s own students, they must never raise such a person!
The crown prince felt that since Xiaojiu could force the great tutor into this state, he must be a big shot.
The crown prince had no doubt about the tutor’s intentions at all. After all, he saw the whole thing from beginning to end with his own eyes.
Xiaojiu had only been here for one day, but he had already messed up the Taifu family’s house, and almost caused a divorce between a couple who had been in love for decades. Even the crown prince felt ashamed of such terrible destructive power.
The crown prince suddenly remembered that the princess seemed to have started to contradict the tutor only after she came into contact with her younger brother…
The crown prince shuddered suddenly.
“Teacher, there is no need to do this. It is your job to teach Xiaojiu well.” The prince also felt that it was imperative for his younger brother to study well. Although it was a bit offensive to say this, he did not want to have a younger brother like his uncle in the future.“Thank you, Your Highness.”
The Grand Tutor has already decided at this moment that he will teach each of “benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness” to the Ninth Prince!
After the crown prince consoled his teacher with a few more words, he knew that his teacher still had things to deal with later, so he did not stay any longer.
After sending the prince away and closing the door of the Taifu Mansion, the Taifu turned around and suddenly didn’t know how to face his wife and granddaughter.
The previous memories quickly came back to him. The thought of the young master of the Cao family who couldn’t control himself during the day and was so indulgent that he actually did such a thing outside made the Taifu feel angry and a little embarrassed.
He didn’t expect that just a hairpin could reflect so many things.
That’s the truth.
Think about it, even if the young master of the Cao family was confused and didn’t understand the intricacies of this, wasn’t there anyone among his cousin, his parents, and so many people in the Cao family who reminded him?
In the final analysis, it’s just that the upper beam is crooked, and the lower beams are crooked.
Cao Rui’s cousin was probably very angry, thinking that it didn’t matter if she was the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor, she still lost to a girl from a small family, so she borrowed this hairpin to show off in front of Madam Zhen.
The reason why the Cao family sat back and watched without saying a word was that they wanted to use this hairpin to test Liang Wenyin’s reaction.
They try to test how Liang Wenyin would react when encountering such a thing, starting from small to large, and gradually increasing the stakes. At first, it might be just a hairpin, but later on, it will gradually become a dowry, a woman, an heir… In the end, Liang Wenyin will be completely turned into a tool for them to climb up.
Facts have proved that the Cao family was actually successful.
If Ye Shuo hadn’t suddenly appeared, the hairpin incident would have ended up in vain, and many other things would have ended up in vain as well.
The Grand Tutor may think a hairpin is a trivial matter today, and may think a piece of clothing is a trivial matter tomorrow. After a few years, when the previous impressions have accumulated deeply enough, will the Grand Tutor think that his granddaughter is being too fussy?
There have been so many disappointments. She knows it’s useless to cry to her grandfather. If Liang Wenyin is wronged in the future, will she come back to tell him?
After all, the process of taming Liang Wenyin is actually the process of taming the tutor.
The Grand Tutor had been in officialdom for many years and had hardly ever used such a sinister trick, so he had no idea how terrible this sinister trick was.
Even until now, the Grand Tutor has not realized the seriousness of the matter.
Even though the Taifu was well-versed in ancient and modern knowledge, he still could not imagine things that he had not seen with his own eyes.
Now, in the eyes of the Grand Tutor, the fact that the young master of the Cao family committed adultery with his cousin and that the Cao family deliberately promoted their own good reputation to curry favor with the powerful only made him angry and upset. He had no idea to what extent the Cao family was rotten inside.
Therefore, at this moment, the Grand Tutor was filled with embarrassment as to how to face his wife and granddaughter.
After standing outside for a long while, the tutor finally raised his feet and walked towards the main room.
However, the fact that the Grand Tutor didn’t know didn’t mean that Madam Zhen didn’t know. Madam Zhen was a woman, so she naturally understood the consequences for a woman if she met such a family.
Mrs. Zhen originally thought that the only bad person was the young master of the Cao family, but she didn’t expect that the entire Cao family was of the same ilk.
Mrs. Zhen shuddered at the thought that her granddaughter almost married into such a family.
So even though her husband swallowed his pride for the first time in his life and begged for peace with her, and even wrote a letter of withdrawal in front of them, Mrs. Zhen still didn’t look kindly upon him.
The Taifu was turned down by his wife and all his sweet words were of no use. He was quite angry, but he was really wrong in this matter, and he was too embarrassed to argue with his wife.
Unable to hold it in any longer, the Taifu finally threw up his sleeves and went to the street angrily.
He really couldn’t stay in this house for even a quarter of an hour!
But the Taifu seldom went shopping on weekdays, and he had no interest in the outside world. He really had no goal. He drank tea to his heart’s content in the tea house, but he couldn’t drink anymore. So the Taifu went downstairs, walking aimlessly, and gradually, he heard a particularly noisy noise not far away.
It turned out that the Grand Tutor had unknowingly arrived at Cao’s residence.
It was already afternoon, almost evening. The news that the young master of the Cao family was caught cheating by the crown prince himself was making headlines. The Cao family’s affair was exposed. After a few hours of fermentation, the people who heard about it for the first time could not help but be shocked.
The three girls who married into the Cao family were the family’s favorite daughters. When something like this happened, even though the result was not known yet, each family had already sent a carriage to pick up their daughter.
When the tutor arrived, he happened to meet Cao Rui’s second sister-in-law picked up by someone.
With disaster imminent, the Cao family naturally refused to release the people, but the other party didn’t care and simply called together the guards and servants to beat up the people in the Cao family.
A gust of wind blew, and the curtain of the carriage opened a crack. Looking through the gap, the next moment, the tutor felt as if he was struck by lightning.
Cao Rui’s second sister-in-law was the daughter of Jinzi Guanglu Doctor, the daughter of a third-rank official. Because of the future marriage relationship between the two families, the Taifu had met his daughter once on the wedding day five years ago.
The girl who was pretty, and charming five years ago has become haggard five years later.
This is what mind control is like. Even if the person involved says that nothing happened, the spirit she exudes cannot deceive others.
However, even though things had come to this point, the woman in the carriage continued to loudly defend her husband’s family, as if she was possessed by a demon, and tried her best to speak well of the Cao family.
Seeing this scene, the Taifu felt a chill.
The Master doesn’t understand why some people can be so bad…
As the sun set, the tutor returned home in a daze.
Mrs. Zhen was surprised to see her husband like this. Then she understood when she heard the servants tell her where her husband had gone today.
Madam Zhen did not say anything, and left it to the Grand Tutor to digest slowly.
When the court was in session the next day, just as Emperor Jingwen had guessed, several ministers listed the crimes of the Cao family in the court without caring about their lives. Lord Cao was sweating profusely and tried his best to refute them.
Looking at the noisy court that was like a vegetable market, Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but feel a headache.
While Emperor Jingwen was pondering, to everyone’s surprise, even the Grand Tutor stood up.
There was no suspense at all now. After the emperor intervened, he found out a lot of other things.
After reading the memorial with a frown, Emperor Jingwen did not hesitate any longer and directly put Lord Cao and his entire family in prison. As the Minister of Agriculture, he embezzled money and shook the foundation of the country. Killing all nine clans of the Cao family was considered a light punishment.
The ministers had not expected that this lawsuit, which was clearly about their children’s family, would involve so many things in the end.
The cause was simply because the Ninth Prince was having fun and went out of the palace…
He Xiang and others couldn’t help but smack their lips.
After the court session, the Grand Tutor went straight to the library.
Upon seeing this, the crown prince couldn’t help but shake his head, with a hint of sympathy flashing in his eyes. He was afraid that Xiaojiu would suffer.
The other side.
Because Ye Shuo helped Concubine Rong win several pieces of precious cloth, Concubine Rong not only did not scold him, but was very happy instead.
“As expected of my son, he is so smart!” Thinking that her son could even fool the Imperial Tutor and even the Imperial Tutor had to help him cover up his lies, the Imperial Concubine felt so proud.
Apart from his own son, which other child in the world has such ability?
Even Ye Shuo couldn’t help but remain silent after hearing this.
I repeat, if he were a serious child, it would be impossible for him not to grow up astray in such an environment.
Although in the eyes of others he could not be crooked anymore.
Xing Yucheng was once again shocked by the imperial concubine’s unconditional doting on her son.
The Sixth Prince on the side kept shaking his head, thinking that if this continued, the Ninth Prince might never grow up in his lifetime.
Ye Shuo was not soft-hearted either. He took the opportunity to extort two new sets of clothes from his mother. Then, early the next morning, he brought his study partner and attendant to the library.
Until this moment, Ye Shuo was still regretting the freedom he had finally gained but which slipped away so quickly.
“I regret so much, I regret not taking the opportunity to have a good look around…” God knows, he hasn’t even visited several famous scenic spots in Beijing!
“I still don’t know what my grandfather, my six uncles, and my eighteen cousins look like…”
The group of guards yesterday were really cruel. They showed no mercy and even pinched his shoulder until it was blue.
Sitting by the window on the third floor, Ye Shuo’s expression was filled with sadness: “I’ve only been out for less than 12 hours…”
Twelve hours!
Ye Shuo has never had such a short weekend life!!!
“With a ‘pop’ sound, happiness is gone.”
“What does this have to do with me? Why did you arrest me? Why won’t you let me go out?”
“Let me out, let this prince out quickly!!!”
At the beginning, Xing Yucheng and Xiao Luzi were so soft-hearted when they saw how sad and angry he was that they tried to persuade him, but later, after hearing it so many times, they became numb to it.
Anyway, the Ninth Prince was just shouting, and since the Emperor had issued a ban, he couldn’t get out no matter how hard he tried.
Xing Yucheng and Xiao Luzi gradually learned how to read attentively in a noisy environment.
Ye Shuo thought this was miserable enough, but he didn’t expect there would be something even worse to come.
When the Grand Tutor came, Ye Shuo didn’t think anything was wrong. It wasn’t the first time that the Grand Tutor attacked him suddenly, and the old man couldn’t stay for a while and had to leave.
It was not until the Grand Tutor lifted his official robe and knelt down opposite Ye Shuo that Ye Shuo frowned, feeling that something was not right.
In the next two hours, Ye Shuo gradually realized that this was true and not his illusion.
Oh my God!
He obviously did good things, why did the Master repay his kindness with hatred!!!