Daily life in the academy

Yan Qingchen rode back to Prince Ning's mansion at full speed and had a consultation with Prince Ning in the study. No one knew what the father and son were discussing. After a long time, he came out of the study and went straight back to his own courtyard.

In the evening, around the beginning of the evening, someone quietly sneaked into Yan Qingchen's courtyard. He was sitting in the house at this time, seemingly waiting for someone to come.

The man respectfully called out "Prince" and then handed the stack of papers he brought to Yan Qingchen. He unfolded one of the papers and took a look at it. He nodded to the man and ordered, "Continue to investigate."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After the person left, Yan Qingchen carefully checked the information recorded on the paper.

Huang De, whose ancestral home is Yizhou, his father Huang Mingyang once served as a military officer in Yizhou's warehouse. In the 12th year of Qiyuan, due to his negligence in disciplining his subordinates, a fire broke out in Yizhou warehouse, resulting in the loss of nearly half of the reserve grain. Huang Mingyang was imprisoned awaiting trial. Unfortunately, Yizhou suffered from drought and little rain that year, and the people's grain production dropped sharply. They urgently needed to open the warehouse to release the grain. However, as nearly half of the reserve grain was burned, the excess grain could not be released. The people complained and jointly petitioned for severe punishment of Huang Mingyang.

Originally, the Chief Secretary of Yizhou only wanted to give Huang Mingyang a light punishment but unfortunately Huang Mingyang was unlucky and had to be punished more severely.

Huang Mingyang was only a subordinate official of the seventh rank. According to the laws of the State of Yan, if he committed a serious crime, the governor of the prefecture could make the decision on his own and inform him in a letter when the time came.

Huang Mingyang was dismissed from his post and sentenced to three years of corvee labor, and his subordinates were sentenced to five years of corvee labor.

The forced labor and mining were really hard, and this was the only way to appease the people's anger.

However, the investigation showed that Huang Mingyang was released after only three months of labor service, and brought his family to Sheng'an City, where he opened a shop and started a business.

Young Huang De followed his father to Sheng'an City and rose through the ranks to become the Minister of Personnel.

The stack of papers contained a detailed account of all matters concerning the Huang Mansion, but it did not mention a single word about which expert had helped Huang Mingyang at the time.

Yan Qingchen's eyes focused on one of the rows, his gaze emitting a cold light. What a righteous Minister Huang who was actually a beast behind others. Tonight he was going to have a good meeting with him and see how tough this Minister Huang was.

"Someone, call Butler Shen over."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At the end of the hour of Hai, Yan Qingchen put on his nightgown, carried a bag of the same color as his nightgown, and flew out of the palace.

At the beginning of the Hai month, the Huang Mansion study

"Master, my mistress asked me to come and ask you if you will be staying there tonight?"

Huang De didn't even raise his head and waved his hand: "Go back and tell my wife that I'm busy with official duties these days. There's no need to wait for me. Just rest on your own."

"Yes, sir."

After the servant left, Huang De told his attendant, "Go and prepare some hot water for me."

At midnight, except for the study, the Huang Mansion was completely silent.

Huang De dismissed all the servants except his personal attendant, and told them to rest well and not to come over again. After everyone left, he stood up and walked to the bookshelf. He moved one of the white porcelain vases, and the bookshelf opened from both sides, revealing the secret room inside. He walked in leisurely.

The secret room door blocked out all sounds, and no one knew what was happening inside.

At midnight, Huang De came out of the secret room with a refreshed look on his face and called his servants to fetch water for him to take a bath.

The screen blocked the water vapor, and for a moment the entire bathtub was surrounded by water vapor. Huang De leaned back in the bathtub with his eyes closed to rest, but his fat face was covered with a satisfied smile, which actually revealed his obscene meaning.

Suddenly, all the candles in the study went out.

Huang De suddenly opened his eyes and called out to his attendant: "Huang Yu, I haven't even gotten out of the bath yet. Why did you put out the light? Light it up again."

After a long time, there was no response.

Huang Defang sensed something was wrong and called out to Huang Yu several times, but still received no response. There was a splashing sound in the bathtub, as well as a painful banging sound, as if he wanted to climb out of the bathtub, but was unable to see in the darkness and could not move forward.

Suddenly, just as Huang De was about to climb out of the bathtub, a gust of cold wind blew in the study. The cold air made Huang De's body tremble, and he had to squat back into the bathtub.

He asked in a trembling voice: "Who is playing tricks? Come out quickly!"

"Huang De...you black-hearted man..." A sinister and sharp female voice echoed from the eaves, and a ghost face with a red glow appeared in Huang De's face.

"Ah—a ghost."

Huang De was so frightened that he retreated into the tub and gulped down several mouthfuls of water, which was also tainted with the yellow liquid that had seeped out of his fear...

"Huang De...you caused my death so tragically..."

"I died so miserably... My body aches so much..."

"Huang De...give me your life..."

"Ghost, don't come over here... don't come over here..."

Huang De's body was shaking like a sieve, splashing the water in the bathtub everywhere, and an unpleasant smell of urine was mixed in and drifted out.

Yan Qingchen covered his mouth and nose in disgust, picked up a piece of clothing on the screen, rolled Huang De out of the bathtub and threw him to the ground. He had a strong night vision and saw Huang De was just a ball of white fat, which was really an eye-catching sight. He covered Huang De with the clothing again and continued to change his voice.

Huang De's voice was hoarse, and he cried and shouted: "Don't come over, don't hurt me... I'm not the mastermind, go find the mastermind..."

"The King of Hell took pity on my life and granted me permission to return to the living world to apprehend the real culprit. It was you who caused my tragic death... Today, I will drag you to hell."

"Don't look for me..." Huang De kept kowtowed to the front, "It's not my fault... I always listened to An... An... followed Lord Cao... listened to Lord Cao."

The incoherent speech made Yan Qingchen a little annoyed. He patiently asked, "Which Lord Cao?"

"It's Cao Han, the captain of the Central Army under the command of the general. Lord Cao. It's all because of him... If you want revenge, go find him."

"..."

There was no response from inside the house.

After a long while, Huang De plucked up the courage to take a look. There was no more horrifying ghost face, and the gloomy cold wind had stopped. He felt as if he had walked through the gates of hell. He collapsed to the ground in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

inside the carriage

Bai Zhi listened with great interest. She couldn't help but ask, "Brother Yan, how did you scare him? Or did you disguise yourself as a female ghost?"

Yan Qingchen snorted coldly: "I just asked Butler Shen to prepare a paper figurine and embedded a red candle in it. Huang De has something to hide, so naturally he is afraid."

Bai Zhi asked again: "Then how do you imitate a female voice?"

"is it hard?"

"Isn't it... difficult?" Moreover, she couldn't imagine Yan Qingchen pinching his throat to speak, and always felt that it would damage his image.

Yan Qingchen seemed to have sensed Bai Zhi's thoughts and tapped her forehead with his index and middle fingers: "Don't think about anything."

"Ah——" Bai Zhi felt pain.