After recognizing the four younger brothers, Zhao Yao, as the eldest, naturally wanted to treat them to a meal to bring them closer to each other.
Zhao Yao invited Chu Huan and the four of them to have hot pot at the Zhenxi Restaurant. Since hot pot was introduced by Zhao Yao, it has become popular among the people. In order to attract customers, major restaurants in the capital launch new hot pot dishes every once in a while.
Chu Huan and the four of them like to eat hot pot very much. Zhenxilou’s hot pot is famous throughout the capital, and the four of them also like to come to Zhenxilou to eat hotpot. However, they don’t have that much money, so they can’t come to Zhenxilou to eat hotpot every day.
Hot pot was invented by Zhao Yao, and he is an expert in eating hot pot. The sauces he prepares are excellent. He personally prepared the sauce for Chu Huan and the four of them, instantly capturing their hearts.
Zhang He and the others like to drink, so Zhao Yao generously ordered them the best wine from Zhenxilou.
While eating hot pot, everyone talked and laughed, and soon became familiar with each other.
Zhao Yao may not be good at other things, but he is very good at eating. He told Zhang He and the others a lot about delicious food.
Chu Huan and the four of them also like to eat delicious food. After hearing the delicious food Zhao Yao said, they became even more greedy, so they ate more hot pot.
The four of them also told Zhao Yao many interesting things. Of course, most of them are bragging about their "prestige" in the West Market. Zhao Yao was very considerate and did not expose them, and was very cooperative with them, praising them from time to time.
"Boss, we don't know your identity yet." Shen Sen and the four of them now shouted "boss" very smoothly without any reluctance.
"Yes, boss, what does your family do?" Zhang He also asked curiously.
"My family is just an ordinary businessman without any power." Zhao Yao deliberately teased Zhang He and the four of them, "You won't look down on me just because my family background is not as good as yours, right?"
"Of course not, we are not such people." Zhang He's expression suddenly became very serious, "We never look at people based on their family background."
Shen Sen nodded repeatedly: "We hate people who use their family background to bully others. We will not be such people."
Listening to Shen Sen's words, Zhao Yao smiled in his heart: I don't know who threatened him last night by telling him that their father was a general.
Of course, as a good boss, he will not settle old scores and undermine the four younger brothers.
Song Jicai said while eating chicken wings: "We have never relied on our family to survive in the West Market."
Zhao Yao: "..." Fatty, don't you feel guilty when you say this?
Chu Huan put down the tea cup in his hand and said to Zhao Yao solemnly: "You are already our boss. We will not look down on you just because you are the son of a businessman."
Zhang He nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, if we look down on you, the boss, we are looking down on ourselves."
Shen Sen asked curiously: "Boss, what is your family's business?"
"Do a little bit of any business." Zhao Yao doesn't plan to reveal his identity to Chu Huan and the other four for the time being, for fear of scaring them away. Although he, the tenth prince, was not very favored, the father of the four of them never supported any prince. If they knew that their youngest son was getting close to the tenth prince, they would definitely stop it. “It’s not a big business, so there’s no problem in feeding a family.”
Chu Huan felt that Zhao Yao was not telling the truth, but he had no evidence, so he did not pursue the question any further.
"Your family doesn't object to your dealings with businessmen, right?" Zhao Yao asked.
"No objection, as long as we don't do anything random, our family will leave us alone." When Shen Sen said this, there was a sense of loss in his tone that he was not aware of.
"Our family never cares about us." Zhang He didn't think there was anything wrong with this. If the family disciplines him like an elder brother and asks him to learn this and that, he will definitely go crazy.
"As long as we don't get into trouble, our family won't care about them." Song Jicai said with a proud smile on his face, "You see, we can go wherever we want, do whatever we want, and we won't study if we don't want to."
After hearing what Song Jicai and the others said, Zhao Yao felt extremely envious. He doesn't want to study either.
Chu Huan said: "Our family rarely cares about us."
"That's great. I also want to be left alone like you, but it's a pity that I can't." Zhao Yao said with a bitter face, "I have to study every morning, learn other things in the afternoon, and only have one day off a month. This time It was because of something that my father allowed me to take a few more days off."
After hearing what Zhao Yao said, Zhang He and the others looked at Zhao Yao with sympathetic eyes.
"Boss, you are really miserable."
"Reading every day will kill us."
"If you ask me to read every day, reading anything like that, I will definitely go crazy."
"I would rather practice archery every day." Although Chu Huan is the smartest and most steady among the four of them, he doesn't like reading either.
"I am a young son just like you, but I am not as lucky as you. I also hope that my father will leave me alone." In the future, he will only be a lazy prince. He only needs to be able to read. He does not need to be knowledgeable. Why bother? Ask him to study every day.
Zhang He and the others were very happy when they saw Zhao Yao's envious eyes.
"Boss, you can learn from us. When we were studying, we used to make our teachers angry. Then all the teachers in the capital were unwilling to teach us, so our parents stopped forcing us to study."
"Boss, we can help you come up with ideas and make you angry at your husband."
"Boss, we are very experienced in this area."
"I want to make you angry, but I don't have the guts." Zhao Yao wrinkled his delicate little face and said, "My father is very cruel and bad. As long as we don't study honestly, we will be beaten." , or be fined to copy books.”
"Hitting the board?" When Zhang He and the others mentioned hitting the board, they felt a little pain in their buttocks. They used to get slapped.
"Yes, spread your butt wide open." Zhao Yao said, sighing heavily, "Not long ago, I was punished by my father to copy the Analects of Confucius a hundred times. I had to copy it by myself, no one else could help me. I copy, and not a single word is missing. My father will carefully check every word I copy. If he finds that I copy less, my father will punish me to copy a hundred times."
Although Shen Sen and others don't like reading, they have also read "The Analects of Confucius" and know that there are many words in the "Analects of Confucius". When Zhao Yao said that he was forced to copy the Analects of Confucius a hundred times, everyone looked horrified.
"Boss, your dad is... so scary!"
"Boss, you are so miserable."
"I'm punished by copying a hundred times... I can't bear the thought of copying just one piece of content."
Chu Huan looked at Zhao Yao with very pitiful eyes: "Boss, you are so pitiful."
"My father is the devil." Zhao Yao couldn't help but pour out his bitterness to his four younger brothers.
After Chu Huan and the four of them heard this, they sympathized with their boss and agreed with his words. Their boss's father was really a devil.
Compared with the boss's father, their father is really a kind Bodhisattva! They no longer blame their father for being harsh to them.
Chu Huan and the others talked to Zhao Yao about interesting places and interesting things in the capital. The four of them wandered the streets every day, and they knew a lot about what was happening in the capital.
Zhao Yao suddenly thought of Pei's house and asked casually, "Have you been to Pei's house?"
"Pei Mansion, which Pei Mansion?" Zhang He and the others didn't think of it for a while.
Chu Huan thought about it, and his expression changed instantly.
"That ghost house Pei Mansion?"
"Yes, have you been there?"
Zhang He and the others shook their heads in unison: "No."
"That's a haunted house. It's often haunted. Who dares to go there?"
"Boss, have you been there?"
Zhao Yao said calmly: "Been there."
"What?" Song Jicai and the others exclaimed in unison.
"Boss, have you really been there?"
"Boss, you're not lying to us, are you?"
"What am I lying to you about? I've really been there."
"Boss, have you seen a ghost?"
Zhang He and the others said with frightened faces: "I heard there are many ghosts there, and in the middle of the night there will be sounds of ghosts crying."
"That place is spooky during the day, and even more spooky at night."
"I heard that people who have been to the haunted house are either crazy when they come back, or they get sick and die inexplicably, or they suddenly bleed to death." Song Jicai looked Zhao Yao up and down and said in surprise, "Boss, you are not dead!"
"Boss, did you get sick after you came out?"
"No, nothing happened to me." Zhao Yao added, "I went there during the day."
"Boss, is it scary in there?"
"It's very dilapidated and gloomy inside. Those who are timid will be scared if they go in." Zhao Yao asked, "Do you know what happened in the Pei Mansion before?"
Chu Huan and the four of them shook their heads: "We only know that it used to be Concubine Pei's natal family. During the previous dynasty, everyone was raided and executed, so Pei's house became a ghost house."
"Haven't you heard anything else?"
"No."
Chu Huan asked: "Boss, why did you say that?"
"I think there should be other stories about Pei's house." The second uncle has been asking about Pei's house, but he has not found any useful information.
What secrets were hidden in Pei's mansion prompted Han Zhong of Shu to send people to the capital to search.
(End of chapter)
