"The prince is precocious and falls in love with the maids around him." Li Qing said with a smile.
Yu Qian: (⊙o⊙)…
"This, this..." Yu Qian didn't know what to say for a while. After a while, he said: "Sir, are you mistaken?"
"You have been teaching in the East Palace for so long and you haven't found any clues?" Li Qing asked.
"I..." Yu Qian was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise, "Is it the palace maid named Zhen'er?"
There are some things that don't matter if you don't talk about them, but once they are pointed out, all the clues of unreasonability will be echoed.
Yu Qian immediately thought of Zhen'er, and he also felt that the prince seemed to be very unusual towards her.
But he still found it difficult to accept it, and hesitated: "Is this...possible?"
"You saw the prince's reaction just now, what do you think?" Li Qing said with a smile.
Yu Qian was silent, then sullen: "The palace maid is so impudent that she dares to seduce the prince, she must..."
"Huh? Don't draw any conclusions until things are clear." Li Qing waved his hand, "Maybe it's just that the prince is precocious and has nothing to do with him."
"No matter what, we must take this matter seriously." Yu Qian looked solemn, "The prince is a native of the country, and he is only eleven years old. How can he be close to women? This is... really... how unbecoming!"
Li Qing laughed and said: "Don't be nervous. I see that the prince's energy is restrained and he has not done anything out of the ordinary. It is just at the psychological level. It is not as serious as you think."
After hearing what he said, Yu Qian's mood gradually stabilized.
"Then we can't sit back and ignore it!" Yu Qian said, "It's not too late to make amends. That Zhen'er can no longer stay in the East Palace."
Li Qing said: "Don't worry about this matter, I will handle it."
"Sir, I have already offended the prince today, why not..." Yu Qian frowned and said, "I'll do it." gòйЪ.ōΓg
"Just because I have offended him, I don't have to worry about anything," Li Qing waved his hand, "You are different. You are his only teacher. You should not do such things to offend him."
Seeing that Yu Qian still wanted to push forward, Li Qing said again: "You have a quarrel with him, will he still listen to you when you teach?
Apart from you, the emperor will not send anyone else to teach the prince, and I am too busy to leave important things behind to teach him.
So, this can only be done by me. "
Li Qing patted him on the shoulder and said nonchalantly: "I have offended enough people, and I am as good as a prince."
"Oh... okay then." Yu Qian stopped being pretentious.
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A quarter of an hour later, a dozen little eunuchs came over carrying trays.
It's not gold, it's all silver, but it's silver of the same value, and Li Qing didn't suffer any loss.
It was difficult for Li Qing to carry so much money, so he said, "I'd like to thank my father-in-law for the hard work."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Lord Marquis. The prince told him to take it back by himself." The leading eunuch smiled apologetically, "The prince wouldn't let us send it away."
In fact, these eunuchs also wanted to send Li Qing home, because according to custom, they could get some money for running errands.
But the prince said he couldn't give it away, and they didn't dare to go against it.
"...Find me two sacks." Li Qing knew that the naughty child must have done it on purpose, and he couldn't help but become more determined to beat the mandarin ducks.
If you embarrass me, don’t even think about feeling better. Come on, let’s hurt each other!
The young eunuchs looked at each other. The prince was not sure, but they were afraid that doing so would displease the prince.
"One ingot of silver per person." Li Qinghao said angrily.
"Thank you, Lord Marquis, for the reward."
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The donkey carried two sacks of silver, and it also had to carry Li Qing. It was so stressful that Yu Qian felt distressed when he saw it.
So, he asked Li Qingyun to come over with a sack and let his horse carry it.
Fortunately, Yu Qian's horse can't talk.
~
Li Qing was going on a long trip, so he left his money with Yu Qian's house.
Returning to his small courtyard, he boiled a pot of water, took a comfortable bath, then put on new clothes and began to plan for Liaodong.
As soon as I picked up the pen, there was a knock on the door.
Opening the door and seeing Zhen'er coming over, Li Qing nodded slightly: "Come in."
Before the first lunar month, the weather was extremely cold, so Li Qing took her to Dongchu.
After closing the door and lighting the firewood, Zhen'er's face, which was pale from the cold, started to gain some color.
"Master Li, you want to ask this slave...me?" Zhen'er said hesitantly.
"Yes." Li Qing nodded, thought for a while, and said, "What do you think of the prince?"
"Ah?" Zhen'er didn't react for a while, and after a long while she laughed and said, "How dare a slave comment on the prince? Your Excellency is joking."
Li Qing said with a smile: "It's just the two of us. Whatever you say comes to my ears, you just have to say it."
"Well... the prince is very smart and treats others very kindly." Zhen'er said bravely. She really couldn't understand what Li Qing was doing.
"So do you like him?"
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"It's the love between men and women." Li Qing added.
Zhen'er: (⊙_⊙)?
Seeing her look like this, Li Qing secretly said: Sure enough, just as I thought, that naughty kid matured precociously and has nothing to do with Zhen'er.
"Sir, please don't make such a joke, I can't bear it." Zhen'er was anxious and scared, "My servant is already twenty-eight, and the prince is... Isn't this the most ridiculous thing in the world? Let others listen to it. , a hundred heads of slaves are not enough to cut off!"
She was really frightened. She finally lived the stable life she dreamed of. If she lost her life because of this, wouldn't it be too unfair?
"Sir, this is not a joke!" Zhen'er was so frightened that she cried. At the same time, she was also very puzzled and said aggrievedly, "Sir, why are you like this? It seems like... I have never offended you?"
Li Qing said seriously: "What if the prince likes you?"
"How is this possible?" Zhen'er couldn't laugh or cry, "I have only served him since he was a child. The prince is closer to me, but not as adults think. He...at most treats me as a big sister. "
Li Qing nodded slowly. He could see that Zhen'er was not lying.
At least in her consciousness, she didn't realize that the naughty child had any evil intentions, and she didn't have any evil intentions.
"By the way, what's your last name?" Li Qing suddenly remembered that there was still such an important question that he had not asked.
"My slave, please give me your surname Wan." Zhen'er said.
Damn, they really met... Li Qing was speechless.
He didn't think about this before, after all, the name Zhen'er was not rare at all, but now it seems that history is always surprisingly similar.
Li Qing frowned and said nothing, thinking about Wan Zhen'er's deeds in history.
After much deliberation, apart from being jealous, he did not do anything evil to bring trouble to Chao Gang. As for Wan Zhen'er's title of abortion madman, the mainstream view does not seem to agree with it.
Li Qing also felt that it was unrealistic. It would be fine just once or twice. If he really got pregnant with one child and had another child, he would not be able to hide it from anyone.
There are too many people in the palace, and it is impossible for Wan Zhen'er to control everyone, and no matter how much Zhu Jianshen dotes on her, he will not tolerate her doing such things.
But Li Sin still didn't want to take the risk, and the best way was... to kill her!
But Li Qing couldn't convince himself. He couldn't just kill someone based on something that was highly likely to be untrue, right?
"Do you still remember what I said to you before?" Li Qing asked.
Zhen'er recalled it and nodded: "Remember, the adults said that I had no choice before, but let me be a good person in the future."
She said aggrievedly: "I really haven't done anything bad. I have served the prince with all my heart these years, and I have not dared to slack off at all. I have also stayed away from the harem. I am only occasionally summoned by the queen mother, but most of the time the queen mother asks how the prince is doing... Sir, why are you Are you going to kill me?"
She was scared and angry.
"You will be fine once you leave the East Palace." Li Qing said.
"I...I don't want to go to the harem anymore." Zhen'er begged for mercy, "It's a place that eats people without spitting out their bones. The Queen Mother is old and now in decline. Staying in the East Palace is my best choice. Please let me go." Me."
Li Qing thought for a while and said: "How about... I talk to the emperor and let you go home?"
"No, don't." Zhen'er shook her head, "I entered the palace when I was four years old. How can I still have a family? Now that I am an old lady, it is difficult to get married. The most I can do is marry someone who cannot marry a wife. An old bachelor."
"Are you afraid of hardship?" Li Qing teased.
"Yes." Zhen'er is not afraid of embarrassment, "Now I have a good life and a good life, and I don't have to work. After twenty years of work, I have been able to make a difference. Are you willing to do it for you?"
Li Qing: "..."
Her reason was so good that Li Qing was unable to refute it for a while.
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