Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

The next morning, Chu Yao came out early to prepare for morning exercises, but after waiting for a long time, Xiao Zuochen did not come.

Could it be that you were too tired yesterday and got up late today?

Chu Yao waited for a while, and when he was sure that Xiao Zuochen had not gotten up, he prepared to knock on his door.

You have to persevere in practicing. How can you say you can't do it?

"Knock Knock-"

"Yun Chen, get up and practice martial arts!"

Chu Yao has always called Xiao Zuochen Yun Chen. This was the name he used when they first introduced themselves to each other. Apart from his identity as King Yun, he has always used this name.

There was no response from inside the house.

"Yun Chen? Still sleeping?"

There was still no response from inside the house.

Are you sleeping so deeply?

Chu Yao was puzzled for a moment, but he didn't think much about it and turned to leave. Just as he was about to take a step forward, a voice suddenly came from inside the house.

"Cough-cough!"

"Yun Chen!?"

Chu Yao heard the cough and immediately pushed the door open. Turning his head, he saw Xiao Zuochen leaning against the bed, his body shaking due to violent coughing.

Seeing this, Chu Yao patted his back to help him calm down.

"What's going on? Is it because of the wind last night? You've been coughing so badly all night. Does Yanluo know? Why doesn't anyone seem to care about you?"

"Cough cough~"

Chu Yao asked several questions in a row, but Xiao Zuochen didn't have time to answer any of them. He covered his mouth with one hand and waved the other quickly.

"How can I do this? I'll be coughing my lungs out in a moment."

Chu Yao was worried that if Xiao Zuochen continued coughing like this, his lungs would be damaged, so he walked out of the room and shouted.

"Yanluo! Yanluo?"

After a while, the eldest sister came over.

"Master Chu."

Yan Luo just bowed to him, and the next second she heard Xiao Zuochen coughing in the house. She poked her head out, but did not go into the house. Instead, she stood outside and looked at Chu Yao.

When Chu Yao saw that Yan Luo did not react, his eyes widened in surprise and both hands pointed inside the house at the same time.

"You don't care about this? Your master is about to cough himself away!"

Yan Luo was about to say something when Xiao Zuochen in the room seemed to have recovered.

"It's none of her business..."

When Chu Yao heard him talking, he immediately turned around and went back into the house.

"...She heard me coughing in the middle of the night. It was me who didn't let her make medicine for me."

"Then why are you doing this? Holding on?"

Xiao Zuochen shook his head to indicate no.

Just when Chu Yao was about to ask something, Yun Wei came back with a person under his armpit. Yun Wei threw the person directly from under his armpit when he landed.

"Ouch! Be gentle!"

The person thrown on the ground was an old man with a beard, and his hair was already mixed with some silver threads. This person was the imperial physician Li Qing who was on duty at the Imperial Hospital last night, and now he was grumbling because he was thrown on the ground.

"Young man, you must learn to respect the old and love the young!... Is this how Prince Yun disciplines his servants?... I will tell you when I return to the palace..."

But before he could finish the second half of his sentence, Yun Wei had already put the sword on his neck.

This old man talks a lot!

"See a doctor immediately!"

"Hey! Hey!"

As soon as the sword was placed on his neck, Li Yuyi immediately shut up and responded to Yun Wei's orders. But in fact, Yun Wei didn't even draw his sword from its sheath. He didn't expect the old man to be so frightened.

"Where is the patient?"

"In the house!"

Yun Wei watched from behind as Imperial Physician Li entered the house. Chu Yao also heard the noise outside and came out to greet him. When he saw Imperial Physician Li carrying a medicine box, he knew that he was a famous doctor.

After entering the room, Imperial Physician Li realized that the patient he was going to treat was Prince Yun, and his heart suddenly tightened.

When Prince Yun was a child, he had been treated by himself. At that time, Prince Yun was too weak and the imperial doctors in the palace were helpless, which led to the Sixth Prince being fostered in Hanshan Temple. Since then, the imperial doctors dared not treat the Sixth Prince anymore, for fear of being accused of being quacks.

But right now, Prince Yun was lying on the bed, coughing non-stop. It would be wrong if he looked at it himself, and it would be wrong if he didn't look at it. Isn't this just forcing someone to do something?

Chu Yao couldn't help but question the doctor when he saw him hesitating.

"Do you know how to treat illnesses? Go and take my pulse!"

Imperial Physician Li's legs went weak after hearing Chu Yao's shout and he almost fell.

"Where did you hire this low-level doctor?"

Chu Yao's face now showed "This doctor is unreliable".

Before Yun Wei could answer, Imperial Physician Li became unhappy. One could say that he was a coward, but one could never say that he was not up to standard!

"I am the imperial physician in the palace!"

"what!?"

Chu Yao's face was about to wrinkle, and he looked up and down at Li Imperial Physician with disdain. Is this what the palace is like?

"Then you better hurry up!"

Imperial Physician Li walked to the bedside and hesitated, not daring to put his hand on Prince Yun's pulse.

"Ahem~ It's okay, Imperial Doctor Li, I just caught a cold and have a cough, that's all. Just take my pulse and see what medicine you should prescribe."

"Ah, did His Majesty King Yun just cough?"

It sounds like there is really no serious illness, and Imperial Physician Li confirmed with Prince Yun again.

"Yeah. Ahem~cough!"

But this cough sounds pretty serious.

Imperial Physician Li felt relieved and took the patient's pulse. Yes, it was indeed cold air entering the body, but there were no other symptoms.

"I will prescribe the medicine right now. Your Majesty, take three doses and I guarantee that the disease will be cured!"

"...guaranteed to cure the disease~"

Chu Yao was on the side, imitating the way Imperial Physician Li spoke in a sarcastic tone, and everyone in the room could hear it.

Prince Yun rolled his eyes at him and smiled helplessly. Imperial Physician Li blew his beard and glared, snorted, and left. This time, Yun Wei also sent him out of Prince Yun's mansion. In order to let Imperial Physician Li go back to the mansion to rest earlier, he flew him out again and threw him at the door of his house.

"Me! I'm going to pick you up right now! Ouch~ my old waist!"

But Yun Wei had already flown away without looking back.

The emperor soon learned about this matter because Li, the imperial physician, went home and told his son about it. His son was also on duty at the Imperial Hospital, so he went to the palace with the ministers who were attending the court and told the Third Prince's party about it. Then the news spread directly in the palace.

After hearing this, the emperor just said some comforting words, rewarded Li Imperial Physician with some things, and did not say what punishment the Sixth Prince needed to receive.

Just when the Third Prince's party was about to say something, Grand Tutor Baili Du stepped forward and spoke.

"Your Majesty, since the Sixth Prince caught a cold yesterday and his symptoms are so severe, we should ask the Imperial Physician to see the Third Prince as well."

"Oh? Why show it to the Third Prince? Could it be that he and the Sixth Prince were blowing the wind together?"

"Reporting to the emperor, I was in good spirits today, so I went out a little early. I met the third prince lying on the ground on the official road. I went forward to check and found that the third prince was full of alcohol and holding a wine pot tightly in his hand. I guess he fainted on the official road last night after drinking too much. He must have been blown by the cold wind all night."

"this..."

The ministers were whispering, some wanted to let the matter go, while others wanted to bring up the third prince as well.

"Okay, okay~"

The emperor interrupted these ministers. He knew what they were thinking.

"Prince Yun caught a cold because he accompanied me on business. He was not in good health to begin with, so it is understandable that his subordinates acted impulsively. The Third Prince drank with me and made mistakes, which damaged the image of the royal family. I will ask the Imperial Hospital to prepare a bowl of the bitterest cold-dispelling soup for him to drink! I hope he can remember this lesson."

The emperor did not punish the third prince, but just made him drink a bowl of bitter medicine, and the third prince's party did not say anything more.

"Is there anything else important to report?"

The emperor asked, resting his hands on the table.

"Your Majesty!..."

It is the Minister of Revenue, Mr. Zhang Mingli.

"...The pension issue was implemented yesterday. Although a small number of people have already started paying, most people are not very clear about the specific benefits of the pension. Everyone has to go to the registration office to ask for a long time, which really affects the speed of other people's payment."

"Well, this is indeed a problem. It affects efficiency at first, and later it may affect the enthusiasm of the people to pay. Do you have any good ideas to solve this problem?"

"..."

The ministers remained silent. Some of them thought they had a solution but did not want to benefit the Sixth Prince and Prince Qing, while others really had no solution.

"Can't you think of a solution for such a small matter?"

The emperor lowered his voice, as if to oppress everyone.

"Report——!"

Suddenly, the shrill voice of the messenger eunuch was heard outside the hall door.

"His Royal Highness Prince Qing has arrived!"

"Why did the Qing King come at this time?..."

"What a coincidence!..."

"It's a good opportunity for His Majesty to ask Prince Qing what to do..."

Accompanied by another wave of whispers from the ministers, Prince Qing walked to the front.

"Father!"

"Why are you attending court at this hour?"

Either you come on time or you don’t come, why do you always have to be stuck in the middle?

The King of Qing also looked apologetic and then began his nonsense.

"Father, it's my fault. Originally, I was supposed to attend the morning court on time today, because my sixth brother and I heard about the pension yesterday. During dinner, I went to the place where the pension was paid to check it out. Then we discussed the countermeasures and wanted to present it to you in the morning court today. But before I left in the morning, I heard the maid who went out to buy vegetables said that she saw my sixth brother invited the imperial physician in the morning. I thought that maybe I took my sixth brother out of the house yesterday and caused him to catch a cold. I felt guilty, so I went to visit him first. So I was late for the morning court. Please punish me, father!"

After the King of Qing finished speaking, he knelt on the ground obediently, looking as if he accepted the punishment.

In fact, the emperor knew that the sixth brother was infected with the cold because he went to the secret room of Mingxiang Pavilion.

"Aiya, this Prince Qing is now thinking about the people and is being friendly and respectful to the Sixth Prince. He is really a good role model~"

"Yes, he has the style of the emperor in his past~"

"..."

Then it was time for the ministers’ strong point – flattery.

The emperor had no intention of punishing the Prince of Qing. One of them lost the imperial physician, and the other drank too much and fell asleep on the official road, but he was not punished. How could he punish the Prince of Qing for being late? But these three brothers are really worry-free.

Listening to the compliments from the ministers in the audience, the emperor curled his lips helplessly.

"You should get up first."

"Thank you, Father!"

"Have you written down the solution in the memorial?"

"Yes!"

Prince Qing took out the memorial from his sleeve and handed it to the eunuch beside him. The eunuch gave it to Eunuch Mu Yi, who presented it to the emperor.

The emperor opened it and took a look. He thought that this method seemed to be quite good.

"Hmm~ Let Master Zhang take a look."

The emperor closed the memorial and handed it to Mu Yi, who then passed it to the young eunuch beside him, who delivered it to Zhang Mingli.

Lord Zhang opened it and looked at it, and several ministers behind him couldn't help but lean over.

After a while, Lord Zhang spoke.

"That's a good idea indeed. I'll do it right after I leave the court!"

"Well! There is one more thing you have to do later. Give the residences of the people on the list that Prince Yun wants to see."

Zhang Mingli was stunned for a moment, looked up at the emperor's expression before speaking.

"Yes!"

After that, the court discussed some trivial matters and then adjourned.

Zhang Mingli also hurried back to the Ministry of Revenue. There were a lot of tasks to do today~ and the emperor's mind was really hard to guess!

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When the ministers had all left, Mu Yi accompanied the emperor back to his study. The emperor sat on the dragon chair, pondering over a thick pile of memorials.

Mu Yi observed for a while and asked softly.

"Is there anything on your mind, Your Majesty?"

Although it was just nonsense, what the emperor needed was Mu Yi's caring nonsense.

"Did Mu Dai confirm last night that the person that Lao Liu brought to Mingxiang Pavilion was called Chu Yao?"

It turned out that after the emperor left Mingxiang Pavilion yesterday, he ordered Mu Dai to guard Mingxiang Pavilion. He had been hiding on the roof. After Xiao Zuochen flew to the roof, he could see him as long as he went around to the back.

The emperor already knew that Xiao Zuochen would take Chu Yao to Mingxiang Pavilion. He knew the rules of Shenyin Pavilion, Chu Yiyi's habits, and the layout of the entire Mingxiang Pavilion. He had been waiting for Chu Yao for eleven years, until he even thought that Chu Yao had disappeared from this world, otherwise why didn't he show up and look for clues left by Chu Yiyi. It was not until two days ago when he found that the cloth bag had been taken away and brought into the Yunwang Mansion that he knew that his good son would help him bring Chu Yao.

"Uh...Mu Dai heard King Yun call another person 'Chu Yao', so it can't be wrong."

Eunuch Mu Yi said this, but his expression looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Why? Is there anything else?"

"Kiyo said that the Queen also went to Mingxiang Pavilion yesterday."

"The Queen is there too? Oh, she is really dishonest. Let her be. Without her, this play will be difficult to perform!"

Mu Yi smiled along at the side. The emperor and empress were scheming against each other, and he didn't dare to interrupt.

"... Tell me, why did Lao Liu suddenly take the imperial physician away to see him? His cough is an old problem, and he can be cured by taking a few doses of medicine according to the usual prescriptions, but he had to kidnap the imperial physician in a big way."

Although the emperor asked the question, there was a playful smile on his face, as if he had seen through Xiao Zuochen's thoughts.

"This...I guess it's because King Yun's subordinates were too reckless."

"Oh, I think he did it on purpose for me to see! He wanted me to think that I made him sick and make me feel guilty. In fact, it was just a gimmick to cover up the fact that he also went to Mingxiang Pavilion at night."

"this..."

Mu Yi didn't know what to say. The emperor doted on Prince Yun, but now it seemed that there was some calculation in this doting.

"Mu Yi, go tell the imperial kitchen to make some supplements for Lao Liu. Let him feel that I am guilty!"

"Yes~"