The two of them worked hard until the sky gradually turned dark and the light in the room became worse and worse before they came back to their senses.
Zhu Houzhao immediately ordered people to light candles.
Chen Ziyu threw away the playing cards in his hand and stretched out.
Then he held up the several IOUs in front of him and waved them up, and said happily: "Your Highness, it's getting late, why not come here today! My father is still at home waiting for me to go back for dinner!"
"No!" Zhu Houzhao's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He had been playing all afternoon and didn't win a single game! "You want to run away after winning? You will sleep in the East Palace tonight. I will make up for it!"
Chen Ziyu was really shocked by Zhu Houzhao's rogue words!
You still have to be shameless, you can’t afford to lose, right?
He looked at Zhu Houzhao resentfully and said, "Your Highness, you already owe me five thousand taels. Unless you pay off the money, I will stop playing, even to the death!"
As he spoke, Chen Ziyu straightened his neck, looking uncompromising!
What a joke, Zhu Houzhao, this kid is so talented and has no money, he only knows how to issue IOUs, but even if he holds these IOUs, he doesn’t have much courage to ask him for payment!
It would be terrible if those censors found out and complained to Emperor Hongzhi!
If someone is accused of encouraging the prince to gamble, he will probably not be able to eat and walk around in the future!
Originally, Chen Ziyu proposed the lottery, just to make Zhu Houzhao retreat when he saw the difficulties, but he didn't expect that this guy didn't follow the routine!
Sure enough, when he heard Chen Ziyu asking for money, Zhu Houzhao was immediately frightened!
Five thousand taels! How long will it take to save up?
"I think you are right. It is getting late now. You should go back quickly! I will ask Gu Da to use them to send you off!"
Zhu Houzhao never mentioned the money, but kept urging Chen Ziyu to leave quickly. However, after thinking about it, he seemed to think that this was not good, so he added another sentence.
"Oh, by the way, I won't owe you anything about the money. I will pay you back after I have saved enough money for the interrogation!"
As soon as these words came out, Chen Ziyu immediately understood that Zhu Houzhao was guilty, and an idea came to his mind.
So he smiled at Zhu Houzhao, cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, I have a way to make your Highness pay back the money quickly!"
"What can we do? Tell us?" Zhu Houzhao immediately became interested. After all, it would be detrimental to his face to talk about the debts of the prince and the heir apparent of the country.
I saw Chen Ziyu calmly smiling and saying: "Your Highness can use things as collateral to repay debts!"
"Mortgage?" Zhu Houzhao glanced at Chen Ziyu suspiciously, shook his head and said, "There is nothing valuable here in this palace worth five thousand taels!"
Chen Ziyu immediately retorted: "Your Highness, what you said is wrong!"
"What do you mean?"
"Has Your Highness heard of the allusion of 'a word of gold'?"
Zhu Houzhao nodded like a chicken eating rice, "I know, but what does this have to do with repaying debts?"
I saw Chen Ziyu squinting his eyes, a strange color flashed in his eyes, and said mysteriously:
"Your Highness can pay off debts with documents! I said bluntly that with His Highness's knowledge, it is natural that he cannot reach the level of a thousand pieces of gold, but in my opinion, a piece of gold is barely enough! Your Highness owes me five thousand taels, so why not just make... ....Extract five articles and give them to me!"
Chen Ziyu originally wanted to write five articles, but when he thought that Zhu Houzhao was not as good as a scholar, it was too difficult for him to write an article!
The reason why Chen Ziyu did this was to force Zhu Houzhao to learn something. Even if he only knew the text but not the meaning, it would be considered an improvement!
Because for normal people, if they carefully excerpt an article from beginning to end, they can basically recite it!
Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he looked at Chen Ziyu blankly!
At this moment, Chen Ziyu looked so tall and heroic in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, and the word "righteousness" seemed to be engraved on his face!
Girl, it’s a good mistake to get on this sedan chair, it’s a good thing to get on the wrong side!
This brother-in-law is really a loyal and kind person!
I obviously don’t want to use these five thousand taels to embarrass me, but I still have to find a reason to talk about "a word of gold"!
Don’t you know what level I am at? "A thousand words, a penny" probably seems expensive to others!
Pingjiang Bo Mansion is really full of loyal people!
Chen Ziyu saw Zhu Houzhao staring at him without speaking for a long time, tears flashing in his eyes, as if he was about to cry in the next second.
"Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
"It's nothing, the wind is strong, I'm blinded!" Zhu Houzhao turned his face and wiped his eyes quickly.
"..."
Chen Ziyu looked at the nervous Zhu Houzhao and felt a little baffled. He asked tentatively: "Your Highness, what do you think of your suggestion?"
"Yes!" Zhu Houzhao nodded heavily and patted Chen Ziyu on the shoulder. "Good brother-in-law, when I become the emperor in the future, I will definitely let you criticize me!"
Chen Ziyu looked at Zhu Houzhao in disbelief, and it took him a long time to utter a few words quietly: "Your Highness, do you want your sister to be a widow?"
Only then did Zhu Houzhao react, his old face turned red, and he quickly changed the topic and called Lai Gu Dayong to send Chen Ziyu out of the palace!
...
Not long after Chen Ziyu left the palace, Liu Jin hurried back to the East Palace in the dust.
Seeing that Chen Ziyu had left, Zhu Houzhao was lying on the desk, frowning and writing.
I couldn't help but feel a little incredible in my heart. He had taken care of Zhu Houzhao for so long, and he could count the number of times Zhu Houzhao picked up his pen on one hand!
Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong stood on both sides respectively, bowing and waiting on the side with flattering expressions.
A cold look flashed in Liu Jin's eyes, and it disappeared briefly. Then he tousled his hair a little, walked directly to the desk and knelt down, with a smooth movement.
"Your Highness, this slave is back!"
Zhu Houzhao then raised his head and saw that it was Liu Jin, so he put down the pen in his hand, stood up, left the desk and walked to Liu Jin.
A very strong smell of fish hit his nostrils. Zhu Houzhao quickly raised his sleeves and covered his nose, frowning and asked: "Is the matter done?"
"When I got back to Your Highness, I went to all the fish markets in the capital and bought all the fish on sale. A total of 20,000 catties of fish were sent to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the capital before I rushed back!"
Liu Jin replied respectfully while lying on the ground without raising his head.
"By the way, Your Highness, I have told the fishmongers that any fish will be delivered directly to Zhuangzi!"
"Hahaha, well done!" Zhu Houzhao laughed and praised Liu Jin, then waved his hand and continued: "Get up, this is a good job. Tomorrow you go to Pingjiang Uncle's Mansion and ask Lao Chen to go directly Watching fish in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing!"
Hearing Zhu Houzhao smiling so happily, Liu Jin, who felt Yin Zihua's flesh aching, felt a lot better. After all, making their master happy is the most important thing for them as slaves, especially such drifting and rootless eunuchs!
"Your Highness, this is what a slave should do!"
"Okay, okay, I know your slave is loyal, go and change your clothes, it's so fishy!"
Zhu Houzhao glanced at Liu Jin with disgust, then lay down on the desk again and continued to copy the book word by word!
