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39, Prince's and Dad's Life

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji didn’t know if they had any grudges, so they both jumped up as soon as they met. Please visit the latest free chapters of this book.

Zhao Pu looked at the two of them curiously, while the Eighth Prince looked at the little Zhao Zhen on his legs.

Zhao Zhen is a child who is usually like a warm water. I don’t know if he is too precocious or a little stupid, but he doesn’t feel very happy or sad. Usually, it’s common for a child to cry like this, but Zhao Zhen never cries or makes trouble. When he is happy, he will reach out and wave it. When he can’t speak, he will sit on the bed and stare at the surroundings every day, with big eyes curiously looking around.

At first, the Eighth Prince was afraid that he would be so stupid, so he thought it would be over. The royal family is already short of people. Could it be that a child is healthy or a fool?

But Zhao Zhen was not stupid at all. He spoke earlier than not the child, walked more stable than not the child, and had a good memory. He didn't know how to read the characters at the age of three, but he could recite the poems and lyrics for him and he could recite them. He would not forget them after memorizing them. He would start with him in a few days and he could continue to recite them.

But the child still felt dazed and couldn't tell what he was thinking... But at this moment, Xiao Zhaozhen suddenly laughed when he saw Bao Zheng and Pang Ji looking at each other, and seemed very happy to clap his hands. So the Eighth Prince touched his chin. Does the little guy like these two people?

It was rare to find my baby nephew and like it. The Eighth Prince said, "Sit down and eat together. I was about to ask about the attack on the tribute."

Pang Ji was looking at Bao Zheng, but when he heard the Eighth King's words, he was stunned and felt incredible. The Eighth King was sitting with him in front of him?

However, the Eighth Prince has always been known for his easy-goingness, and Pang Ji did not feel pretentious. He sat down with him and signaled the seats in the distance to the guards behind him. Several guards nodded, sat down at a table that was quite far away, and had their own meals.

Although Pang Ji sat down, he did not forget to stare at Bao Zheng.

The Eight King found it funny. Bao Zheng has always been steady. Why did he choke with a guard and ask, "Xiren, do you know each other?"

Bao Zheng glanced at Pang Ji, "I know, why don't I know you?"

Pang Ji was helpless when he held the cup. This black charcoal was a big deal!

Speaking of which, what are the old grudges between these two? It happened half a year ago.

In the early autumn of last year, one of the two went to Kaifeng to attend the Imperial Academy and the other went to Kaifeng to be a guard.

On this day, Pang Ji put on his official uniform and went out happily. He was just a city patrol officer and was of a low level of imperial guards. To put it bluntly, he was just a little older than the city gate official.

Pang Ji is a man. He is not good at literature, but he is not good at martial arts, so he can't make it. The family's conditions are not as rich as a great man, but he can still live up to it. So he took some money to make him do a small business, but Pang Ji insisted on being an official, so he could only be a small guard. But Pang Ji didn't care. He was very happy to be a guard and told his parents, "Don't worry, I will definitely be a high-ranking official in the future."

At that time, the neighbors laughed at him, thinking that he was overestimating his abilities, and Pang Ji didn't care.

However, Pang Ji was late on the first day of duty with great ambitions. The reason was not that he went out late, but because someone delayed him. And this person who was considered a star of the devastation was that he was sitting next to him, and Bao Zheng was not ashamed of the darkness.

That day, Pang Ji was walking on the road, and suddenly, a scholar appeared somewhere. He grabbed his sleeve and said that he had found a thief and asked him to catch people.

Pang Ji was shocked when he looked at it. This scholar was wearing a robe in the Taixue School, but he was as dark as a charcoal, a small coal ball?

The coal ball grabbed him and ran away. Pang Ji was pulled to the entrance of an inn by him in a confused manner. The scholar pointed to a tall warrior and said, "This is the thief who robbed the silver tribute!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the big man standing up and a dozen big men came. When he saw this, Pang Ji was so scared that he trembled, grabbed the "coal ball" and ran away.

While running, the scholar jumped around and said that those were really thieves.

Pang Ji pulled him to a crowded place. When he saw no one chasing him, he sighed relieved, "It's useless to be a thief! I just took the shift today."

The scholar looked him up and down and said with a righteous attitude, "Since you are an official, you should catch thieves. I just saw those thieves bought several long-distance horses with tribute silver, which shows that they were going to run away! They all acted in the Northwest accent and were not very skilled. They might be renting out, so they couldn't catch them if they ran away! The northwest was already in chaos. These people could recruit soldiers and horses after robbing so much money. At that time, the people of the Northwest would suffer."

"Oh!" Pang Ji stomped his feet, "You said you nerd, have you seen those strong men? We can't beat them together!"

"You are an official officer to shock them. They dare not speak out even if there are so many people in Kaifeng. I have seen the terrain of the inn. Every once in a while, there are soldiers patrolling the city passing by. The momentum here will attract people immediately, otherwise I will not drag you over!"

"Then you didn't say it just now, I missed my chance to make meritorious contributions in vain!" Pang Ji curled his lips, then touched his chin, "No, I should be low-key just now on duty."

The scholar was angry and pointed at his nose, "Are you all the money you want to be an official to make contributions to your career?"

Pang Ji was happy and looked at the black coal balls, "Hey, I said you are also interesting, are you studying in the Taixue school to be an official in the future?"

"I am an official to ask for the people." The scholar shrunk and asked Pang Ji, "What's your name?!"

Pang Ji hugged his arms, "My name is Pang Ji, I am just an official for three things."

The scholar was slightly stunned, "What three things?"

Pang Ji stretched out three fingers, "Power, money, power!"

The scholar squinted his eyes and stared at him for a while, then suddenly came over and poked Pang Ji's chest with his fingers, "Fatty, my name is Bao Zheng, remember for me, if you have one day, you won't be safe in your life as an official in the future!"

After saying that, the scholar turned around and left.

Pang Ji looked at the sky, but remembered an important thing...

"Oh!" Pang Ji ran, "I'm late!"

That day, Pang Ji was late for duty on the first day because of Bao Zheng's delay, which left a very bad impression on the foreman. He was assigned to work and patrolled the city gate in the middle of the night. However... Pang Ji has now taken the position of the foreman foreman, and now he serves him tea and water, nods and bows. This middle-aged man is the foreman foreman back then.

In half a year, this fat boy had average martial arts, average appearance, and inconspicuous family. His relationships were already spread across the Three Divisions and Six Ministry and Kaifeng Prefecture. He had friends everywhere, and he could speak everywhere. Do you think he was flattering the powerful? He didn't need to work hard for anyone, do you think he was cunning, right? He looked at him with a foolish look. However, he just climbed up step by step with ease. This other person seemed dangerous and intriguing officialdom, but he seemed to be an interesting place.

That day, when Bao Zheng returned to the inn to investigate, the thieves had already left. He asked the inn in detail the specific situation of the inn staff, such as the accent, what he said before leaving, etc.... From various details, Bao Zheng inferred that these people had only left some of them. They seemed to be going back to recruit soldiers and preparing to do it again in a while. That's right... A large number of tributes should be transported to Kaifeng in half a year. After returning to the Imperial Academy, Bao Zheng took the first examination of the Imperial Academy. A poem made Master Lin Xiao call him "a great talent."

In half a year, this scholar and talented man had spread throughout Kaifeng. He asked for his calligraphy and painting every day to come, but this young man never won over the relationship and never joined any subordinate. But he should be said to be noble? No, he has made many friends, whether he is a powerful eighth prince or an old man who swept the floor at the gate of the city, he is very familiar with him. All literary masters from Kaifeng all brought him as a friend. Prime Minister Wang mentioned many times that he wanted to recommend him, but Bao Zheng was not in a hurry. He said that he would become the top scholar and then enter the official position, openly and upright.

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji formed a bond at that time. Now when they meet, they are naturally very jealous of enemies when they meet.

Zhao Pu gnawed a duck leg and looked at the two of them, thinking that the scene was quite interesting.

The Eighth Prince waved his hands to the two, "Don't hurt the harmony."

The two of them sat down with anger, and the Eight King asked Pang Ji, "Is there any clues in the tribute case? I heard that it was handed over to Kaifeng Prefecture?"

Pang Ji nodded, looked at Bao Zheng again, and said, "There are some clues in the lower officials. Those bandits should have come from the northwest, and it is not the first time that the crime was committed. The previous small-scale tribute silver robbery was also related to them."

Bao Zheng glanced at him and curled his lips, "If I caught it at that time, I wouldn't have been like this today!"

Pang Ji squinted his eyes and looked at him, "If you made it clear at that time, you wouldn't have been like this."

The two continued to stare at each other.

The Eighth Prince was so amused that he could not look at the two of them. At this time, he heard the movement of the group of people below.

Zhao Pu ran to the window with his duck legs and saw a large group of soldiers with helmets and armor below, with their horses very clean and heading towards the north city gate.

"This is General Ouyang's troops." The Eight King frowned, "Is the Emperor sending out the imperial guards to catch thieves?"

Mr. Bao gently touched his chin, "Can you catch it like this?"

Zhao Pu stood by the corridor, staring at the soldiers and horses, dazed with chicken legs in his hands.

"Zhao Pu!"

At this time, a child climbed up like a monkey from the corridor column on the side. He jumped three times and two times to grab the railing. Zhao Pu reached out and pulled him, and the child flipped into the second floor.

This child is about the same age as Zhao Pu, only four or five years old, with a baby face and a red head and a very eye-catching hair.

The Eighth Prince knew him. This child was Ouyang Shaozheng, the son of General Ouyang. He was the same age as Zhao Pu and was a young man. Both of them were as wild as monkeys. They always played together and were very compatible.

"Do you go and see?" Ouyang asked Zhao Pu, "My father led his troops to catch the thief."

Zhao Pu glanced at it and said, "Your father is going to block the thieves' retreat, not to catch them."

Everyone was slightly stunned, and the Eight King raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhao Pu.

Ouyang nodded with his arms in his arms, "How do you know? The imperial edict asked my father to catch the thief, but before leaving, my father also said that he probably was going to block the back road."

Zhao Pu narrowed his eyes, "These soldiers all carry shields."

"What's wrong with wearing a shield?" Ouyang was curious.

"It's not that you have to bring shields when fighting on the battlefield, and no one shoots arrows, so you are going to block the road..." Before Zhao Pu finished speaking, Eunuch Huang hurried over, "Oh, Prince Ninth, the food is cold."

Zhao Pu glanced at him.

"Come on, have dinner. After dinner, go to the Concubine's Mansion to play in the afternoon." Eunuch Huang quickly opened the topic and told Zhao Pula to feed him.

Zhao Pu curled his lips and looked at the coaxing child with disgust, like Eunuch Huang, although he was indeed a child.

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji looked at each other silently, then looked at the eighth prince opposite and were eating obediently on his legs. Xiao Zhao Zhen swallowed and sweated for Zhao Pu. Sure enough, the eighth prince was also slightly worried...

Zhao Pu has a special identity. Logically speaking, although the emperor has many descendants, most of them are sick and weak, so Zhao Pu can inherit the throne. Moreover, when he saw that he was old at the age of three, Zhao Pu was not as weak as the Zhao royal family. He had a domineering aura at the time, which was much more suitable for Zhao Zhen than the one in front of him! The shadow guards are densely covered around him, part of whom was protecting the Eighth Prince, part of whom was protecting the prince Zhao Zhen, of course... and part of whom was the emperor's eyeliner. Zhao Pu could not escape the eyes of the current emperor... This child was extremely great when he grew up. The emperor should not allow him to grow up and compete for the throne with his descendants, right? Zhao Heng took him from the northwest to raise him. In fact, he also had this eye. Raising a tiger is a disaster. It is better to keep him and monitor him than to let him go deep into the mountains.

The two of them were thinking about their thoughts, but they felt someone squeezed in from them. When they looked down, they saw a red head. It turned out that Ouyang Shaozheng saw that there was a space here, so he got in and sat down, and pointed at the meatballs.

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji picked up one for him and put it in a bowl. Ouyang didn't take the chopsticks well, and poked a meatball with a chopstick to eat. While saying to Bao Zheng, "Hei Scholar, Daddy said you are very smart."

Bao Zheng smiled and bowed to him slightly, expressing his thanks to General Ouyang for his appreciation.

"What do we think of a way to catch those thieves!" Ouyang said while chewing meatballs, "I heard from my father that they had more than twenty people in total, and they were very good at martial arts. They killed all the officers and soldiers, and they might be from Liao."

"Liao people?!"

As soon as Ouyang Shaozheng spoke, Bao Zheng and Pang Ji were both shocked, and the Eighth Prince also touched his chin, "Why are the Liao people robbing tributes?"

Zhao Pu was stuffed by Eunuch Huang and couldn't speak even if he could not eat it. Then he lay down Eunuch Huang and asked, "What's in the tribute?"

Pang Ji said, "Gold, silver, treasure, furnace and cauldron, this time, there are some prescriptions coming to the palace from all over the country, such as silk, dyed cloth, burning porcelain, etc...."

"Is there any iron smelting?" Zhao Pu asked suddenly.

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji looked at him together, and then they touched their chin, "Well..."

The Eighth Prince also asked Zhao Pu in confusion, "Iron Smelting?"

"Did our soldiers change their armor?" Zhao Pu probably saw it just now, "I see that the armor of those soldiers is bigger and thicker than before. The armor of the Liao people is not as good as us. Of course I will lose in war! Stealing money is just an excuse. I just need to ask for money and rob the treasury. What kind of tribute are you trying to smelify iron, iron stone and iron ore drawings... Um..."

Before he finished speaking, Eunuch Huang hurriedly stuffed him food again, muttering in a low voice, "Oh, little ancestor, please say less."

Zhao Pu jumped, "You're going to choke me to death!"
To be continued...