After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

So I asked tentatively: "Then Zhao, when will my father return to Beijing?"

Zheng Xian sat on the chair next to the tea table, and Wei Yi quickly brought him a bowl of tea.

After taking a sip of tea, Zheng Xian said, "About ten days."

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is in two days, so we can still make it.

I was secretly happy when Zheng Xian put down his tea bowl, looked at my sly look, and asked unhappily, "What are you up to now?"

I waved my hands quickly and said, "No, no, Yi Ping's family reunion party is in two days, and I don't want him to come back and ruin it."

"Sabotage?" Zheng Xian couldn't help but burst out laughing and said, "You little devil, you should be careful with your words. After all, he is your father. Filial piety comes first. If it gets out that you are unfilial, you will be charged with a serious crime."

I rolled my eyes and said, "I'm not unfilial, please don't accuse me of anything."

"Okay, okay, I won't accuse you of anything. It's getting late, and it's time for me to get up too. You should go to bed early. There is an imperial physician in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. If you feel unwell, someone can send someone to summon him immediately." After Zheng Xian finished speaking, he stood up.

Wei Yi was about to shout "Your Majesty, please get up." I quickly said, "Your Majesty, my injury this time has nothing to do with Zhang San and Li Si. Can Your Majesty not punish them?"

Zheng Xian's face looked a little unhappy. His temper has been very strange recently, and his mood is unpredictable. Even I am a little afraid of him.

Finally, Zheng Xian said quietly, "You pleaded for Wei Chang before, and now you plead for Zhang San and Li Si. You are almost losing all your face."

Zheng Xian's meaning was very clear. He didn't want anyone to influence his decision.

I thought about it and said, "They did nothing wrong. I asked them to stay here to keep up appearances. If anyone is to be punished, it should be me. If those who did nothing wrong are punished, it will make them lose their motivation to work. If I don't protect them, who will dare to work with me in the future?"

Although Zheng Xian had some difficulty listening, he quickly understood what I meant.

He thought for a while, tapping his fingers on the table. After a long while, he said, "I am increasingly curious about your world. What kind of person would educate a girl to be so deviant?"

After Zheng Xian finished speaking, he left without looking back.

Wei Yi looked at Zheng Xian's back and realized that His Majesty was really leaving. He shouted, "Your Majesty, please leave!"

There came a deafening shout from outside: "Farewell, Your Majesty!"

How many people were crammed into this yard to make such a shout?

Yi Ping saw Zheng Xian leave, so she dared to quietly walk in. Seeing that I looked unhappy, she sat down beside my bed and asked in a low voice: "Second sister, did you quarrel with His Majesty again?"

I rolled my eyes at her and said, "He's the emperor, who dares to argue with him?"

Yi Ping sneered and said, "No one in this world dares to quarrel with His Majesty except you."

I rolled my eyes again and said, "Your father will be back soon, so you can enjoy these few days."

"My father?" Yi Ping stared with his eyes wide open, thought for a moment, and said, "Master Du and I haven't officially acknowledged each other yet, so where does my father come from?"

I couldn't help but burst out laughing. If Zhao Zhenyuan heard this, he would probably vomit blood.

I said, "Your last name is Zhao, who do you think is your father?"

Yi Ping frowned and said, "You mean the one in the general's mansion? From the day he abandoned us in the countryside, I didn't plan to recognize him as my father. What does it have to do with me whether he returns to the court? You don't?"

Yi Ping looked at me in horror and said, "You don't want a thief to be your father, do you?"

"Stop talking nonsense." I pushed Yi Ping and said, "Don't talk so loudly. His Majesty just said that we can't be unfilial. Otherwise, we will be labeled as unfilial and people will spit on us when we go out."

Yiping rolled his eyes and said nothing.

I hugged Yiping and whispered, "We can't be unfilial, but if it was that scumbag father who didn't want us, we wouldn't be accused of being unfilial, don't you think?"

When Yiping heard this, he quickly turned around and looked at me with eyes wide open. The light in his eyes was so bright that it seemed like it was about to set the prairie on fire.

Yi Ping asked excitedly: "Have you come up with any good ideas?"

"Of course." I patted my chest and said, "Who am I? Such a small matter can't faze me."

Yi Ping gritted his teeth and said, "It was that woman who killed my grandmother. I will never forgive her."

I patted Yiping on the shoulder and said, "You are right. We will never forgive her. No, it's their family."

At this point, I remembered Zhao Jinping and couldn't help asking, "Where's my eldest brother? Let's talk to him about our scumbag dad."

Yi Ping rolled his eyes at me and said, "He's not our father, so stop yelling. My eldest brother is annoyed by our noise and can't do his homework properly, so he went back to the academy."

I knew Yiping had misunderstood, and I didn't argue. I just couldn't believe that Zhao Jinping, that naughty boy, was so ambitious.

I said puzzledly, "Didn't my eldest brother's teacher say that he was sick and that he was on holiday? There's no one to teach him when he returns to the academy now.

Yi Ping said: "The teacher was ill, but the academy still had a doorman and homeless teachers and students, so they got together to cook."

"Homeless?" I looked at Yiping with some confusion.

Yi Ping nodded and said, "Yes, I heard from my eldest brother that his teacher is a very good person and often takes in homeless people. If they are a little older and knowledgeable, he will let them be his teachers, and the younger ones will be his students, studying with everyone. Although the food is a little worse, they will always have something to eat."

I didn't expect that this old teacher is such a loving person. No wonder he could teach Zhao Jinping to be so motivated. He seems to be a good person.

So I said to Yi Ping, "Take out 10,000 taels of silver and send it to your teacher. Consider it as our support to them."

"Ten thousand taels?" Yi Ping shouted, but he didn't want anyone to hear him, so he lowered his voice and said, "Are you crazy? With ten thousand taels of silver, we can build a college."

I smiled and said, "Ten thousand taels can open a college, but you can't find a teacher as loving as our eldest brother. It is because of this teacher's kindness and integrity that our eldest brother has been taught to be so motivated and studious. Think about what our eldest brother was like before? He jumped up and down like a monkey. He would disappear in less than a quarter of an hour if he sat down to practice calligraphy. Now he knows how to learn on his own initiative. This is a good quality that no amount of money can buy. Do you think our money is well spent?"

Yi Ping still felt a little sorry for the money, so he turned his head away and said, "You are good at speaking, but I can't beat you in an argument."

I hugged her and said, "I know my dear little sister feels sorry for the money, but that money was never mine in the first place. We should spend it on something useful now, and we can't save it. Maybe if we spend 10,000 taels now, we can earn 100,000 taels in the future?"

Yi Ping thought that if her elder brother became successful in the future, it would be a great honor for her, and she might even be able to get some benefits from it.

So he said, "I will go get it tomorrow and send it to my eldest brother."

I nodded and said, "I'll go with you tomorrow and visit my brother."