She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 133 Zhou Xu
As soon as this parent is free, he always wants to educate his children. It is human nature, and so is Magistrate Zhou.After all, if you don't cut a jade, you can't make a weapon, if you don't beat a baby, you won't be obedient...

"You rebellious son! Stop for me! Stop!"

Early in the morning, Magistrate Zhou was so angry that his beard almost stood up. He didn't even have time to put on a thicker coat, so he chased him out in his morning clothes.

Zhou Xu was carrying a messy little baggage on his back, looking like he had run away from home.

"No, Father, I've made up my mind. Whether you and A-Niang agree or disagree, I'm going!"

Xu Xu, an old servant of the Zhou family, blocked him with his arms in front of Zhou Xu, but he didn't use any force and was very distracted.On the contrary, the expression on his face was extremely painful, and he echoed the words of Zhou County Magistrate:
"Yes, Dalang, just listen to me."

Zhou Xu didn't dare to hit the old servant with force, fearing that the old man's bones would be brittle due to his age and he would be knocked out. He tried a little harder and suddenly found that the other man's arm moved away smoothly.

It's like touching porcelain.

Zhou Xu glanced at him in disbelief, and saw a faint smile on his wrinkled old face. Zhou Xu pushed his chest tentatively again, and the old servant staggered a few steps and pushed away. .

Zhou Xu now confirmed that the other party had been ordered by someone to let him go, and this person, needless to say, was of course the one who kissed his mother-in-law.

Zhou Xu turned his head and glanced at his father, grabbed the bag tightly and ran out of the backyard of the county government office decisively.

Naturally, County Magistrate Zhou can't chase him out, he has no shame, chasing and beating his son and chasing him into the street, how decent is it?
He could only stop angrily, and cursed:

"This bastard really doesn't usually cause trouble, but when he does, he will make a big one."

"Okay, two days ago you said that he was too cautious and lost his courage to act boldly. Didn't he just change it?"

Mrs. Zhou was not so reckless, she stood outside the threshold wrapped in fur, quietly persuading her.

Magistrate Zhou subconsciously retorted:

"Can this be the same? I want him to be bold in doing business and good things. Look at him."

"No, why are you so calm? And Uncle Zhou, he is a soldier. Even if he comes back to take care of himself for more than ten years, he will not have enough strength. Okay, you actually secretly..."

The Zhou family was in such a commotion, Zhou Xuquan left it behind.

Zhou Xu has indeed been recognized as a sensible child by his relatives and friends since he can remember, and his future development has been carried out steadily and efficiently according to his parents' plans.

He doesn't get into trouble, doesn't trouble his parents, doesn't make people worry about him, and doesn't get into trouble.But at this moment, he suddenly wanted to do something he wanted to do.

Zhou Xu was walking on the street with a burden on his back, when he suddenly heard a voice from a high place:
"Zhou Xu? What are you doing?"

He looked up and saw that it was none other than Xu Shu who was the cause of his impulsive thoughts.

That day, he hesitated to go to Xu Shu with Meng Rongzhi. After returning home, his parents felt that he had done something wrong, and after thinking about it, he also felt guilty.

Zhou Xu is a smart kid who is very good at self-examination and finding problems. It is precisely because of this incident that he suddenly felt that he was indeed a little over-thinking and missed a lot of things that should be done and things that he wanted to do.

This is also the reason why he rebelled against Father so suddenly.

Seeing Xu Shu at this time, Zhou Xu felt a little embarrassed. Although Xu Shu did not necessarily know the differences between him and Meng Rongzhi that day, he knew it in his heart.

"Why are you standing there? Come up, it's such a cold day."

The half-open window opened a little wider, and another head emerged next to Xu Shu, that of Cheng Fei.

Cheng Fei rushed down, waved, and shouted loudly. For a while, all the pedestrians walking on the road in the cold wind looked at Zhou Xu.

An old woman glanced at Zhou Xu's age and stature, then squinted at the two girls above, and urged:

"Oh, it's your older sisters calling you, isn't it? Xiao Lang lost his temper with his parents? You're still burdened, stop losing your temper, go up and talk to your older sisters, lest they come down to find you later."

Embarrassed by what he said, Zhou Xu nodded indiscriminately, and ran to the restaurant.

"What are you doing, kid, still carrying luggage?"

While pouring water for Zhou Xu, Cheng Fei pushed Chen Song's arm on the table, signaling him to make room for Zhou Xu.

Zhou Xu gave Xu Shu a brief salute, thanked Chen Song, and then replied:

"Well... Actually, I just happened to be going to your house."

"What are you going to do? Do you want to hide after being beaten by your father?"

Xu Shu thought to herself, how naughty was my aunt when she was a child, and she has such experience in being beaten.

"Aunt, please stop teasing him. Zhou Xu has always been a sensible child, how could he do such a thing, right?"

Xu Shu had a very good impression of Zhou Xu. During the time Mrs. Zhou and her two sons lived in the Princess Mansion, Zhou Xu helped Xu Shu a lot.

Zhou Xu said astringently:

"The Cheng family's aunt is right. I did make my father angry. However, it's not because of this that I want to go to your house. I mainly want to go to your house for the Taoist priests."

Taoist priest?

In the past few days, Taoist priests are a sensitive word in the princess' mansion. Whenever someone inquires with the servants of the mansion, Pei Peng will always write them down with the attitude of "would rather kill than let go", and arrest the suspicious ones directly Interrogation, if the suspicion is low, send someone to follow, find out the problem and then be arrested.

Most of those arrested were outsiders, and some were orphans from Chengyang County who were hired to inquire. Pei Peng detained the orphans and planned to arrange for them to do some serious things, learn the rules, and be idle. Han was not treated so well and was sent to work on Pei Peng's farm.

Not to mention orphans, and not many people would care about their lives.The disappearance of idlers did not attract much attention, mainly because they either had no family or mouth and no one cared, or they were used to fooling around, and their families didn't care about their disappearance for ten and a half months.This is convenient for the princess mansion to arrest people.

There are also a few who entered by mistake. After sorting out their interpersonal relationships, sources of property, and inquiring about Taoist priests' motives, I can only admit that in the end, these people are most likely really bored and like to inquire. They may have passed through some channels or passed by. At that time, they knew what the Taoist priests raised by the princess were up to, and once they contacted the vision that night, they spontaneously came to inquire.

People like this can't be detained for a long time, they can only be released, and before they are released, they have to find someone who "was wandering around in front of the princess mansion, and happened to lose valuables in the mansion, suspecting that they are accomplices of thieves, to distract attention" and the like They were given an excuse to beat them up and give them a warning, escort them home, and ask the village head and security chief where they lived to pay more attention to see if they had other sneaky behaviors.

In short, the Princess Mansion probably adopted the above methods for those who mentioned sensitive words.

So, what method should be used for Zhou Xu who bumped into him in a daze?

"What are you doing for the Taoist priest?"

Cheng Fei was the first to ask.

Zhou Xu said longingly:

"Of course it was because of the magical flower that night that came into the world. I have heard that it was your Taoist priest who refined a magical elixir, which caused the vision to appear in the sky. To tell you the truth, at this time I Only then did I realize what great wisdom and great supernatural powers are, so I am willing to serve the Heavenly Lord for the rest of my life, just to see that divine flower again."

All right, this is a kid who was lied to.

However, this also proves from the side that the true and false rumors in the Princess Mansion were indeed relatively successful. Even the son of the county magistrate's family was deceived and became lame.

Xu Shu raised the tea cup and drank a cup, and said covertly:

"Ahem, who are you listening to? This is not the case."

Zhou Xu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly lowered his voice nervously:
"Don't you all know that this matter has been spread out? Did someone in your house deliberately leak it? Your Highness, you have to go back and check. This is not a trivial matter. I have recently I heard about it when I went to the teahouse, others may have known about it earlier."

Xu Shu also lowered her voice and asked:

"Oh? Really. What did you hear about it?"

Zhou Xu counted several conjectures he had heard, except for one that Zhou Xu believed in most, Taoist alchemy.

There is also a saying that a maidservant's daughter who bears the fate of the phoenix was born in the princess mansion - this is not too false, after all, there are precedents to be found, hundreds of years ago, there was a humble woman who rose all the way to the queen Hang up the story.

Others say that she is the reincarnation of a certain fairy girl, and the divine flower came to the world to celebrate her. This fairy girl is naturally the fairy girl in charge of the flower god.

Because of this rumor, the value of the plant with purple flowers soared in the market for a while, and people thought it might be the true form of the fairy.

As for other minor rumors, Zhou Xu thought they were too false and didn't mention them.

Xu Shu and Cheng Fei looked at each other and couldn't help but smile. It seems that this set of publicity work for the release of the muddy water-style magic pill has really worked.

There is only one theory circulating in the market, which inevitably makes people feel that the Princess Mansion deliberately guided it, and further makes people suspect that Pei Peng is covering up the truth.

But there are so many half-truths and half-false rumors popping up in the market at the same time, some of which are quite in line with the records of myths and legends, as well as historical precedents, so those who come to investigate, through their own analysis and judgment, are more inclined to visit and investigate. Yu believed in the statement advocated by the Princess Mansion—that is, the theory of Taoist alchemy.

After all, the food doesn’t taste good when you put it in your mouth, and the truth always feels false when you put it in front of your eyes, so let the spies investigate by themselves.

Chen Song brought the topic back:

"Then you want to be a Taoist priest? If you really want to become a monk, your parents probably won't agree."

Zhou Xu's shoulders slumped. Indeed, his father would definitely disagree. It was better for his mother to know what he wanted to do.

Regarding Zhou Xu's misunderstanding, Mrs. Zhou said this to Zhou County Magistrate:

"If this kid wants to go, people must be willing to accept him. The Taoist priest in the princess's residence has such ability, I'm afraid it won't be long before he goes to the capital to offer elixirs. Even if he stays, he will recruit believers in Chengyang County. Her Highness the Princess will not allow them to accept our son's entrance wall. When the time comes, he will suffer a loss and will come back knowing that it is impossible. If you don't allow him to do it now, he will do it firmly. "

Based on the facts that have been circulated, Mrs. Zhou's calculations are indeed very accurate. Pei Peng will not fight with the County Magistrate Zhou for the sake of Zhou Xu's dream as a child. If he drags his son to become a monk, it will really be a feud.

Of course, the premise of this consideration is that the fireworks are really visions produced by alchemy.

But in fact, it is not.

Chen Song looked Zhou Xu critically up and down and asked:
"Have you learned nine chapters of arithmetic? Can you do basic calculations? I'll give you a few questions to test you."

Zhou Xu was puzzled:

"Brother Chen, what do you mean by that?"

I haven't heard that Chen Song is in charge of recruiting disciples in the Taoist temple, and even if he is in charge, shouldn't he be tested on how well he recites scriptures and handwriting of copied scriptures.

Needless to say, Zhou Xu did not fight unprepared. He lit the lamp to read at night yesterday and already memorized two scriptures.

However, Zhou Xu is very conscious of being a job seeker if he wants something from others. Even if the recruiter makes trouble for no reason, he has to endure it.

"Brother Chen, please come up with a question."

Chen Song picked up a few questions and asked Zhou Xu to calculate. All of a sudden, the back and forth between these two people was very lively?
But at this time, the Princess Mansion was rare and quiet. Xu Zhao went back to the hometown where Xu's family lived. On the one hand, he was celebrating his uncle's birthday.

Xu Zhao was older than Xu Shu and the others, so the arrangements for the marriage were more urgent. Of course, they had to discuss with Xu Zhao's parents as soon as possible.

And the New Year's gifts for Xu's family were on the way. In addition, the New Year's gift teams sent to Pei Peng's relatives and friends were also on the road one after another.

The only thing left now is actually the batch sent to the capital. The reason, as you can imagine, is that they are not fully prepared yet.

Xu Shu, Cheng Fei, and Chen Song, the three young men thought of a few ways, and tried a few times, but they were not satisfactory. Either it made the medicine more poisonous, or it made the appearance of the medicine less easy to fool people. .

The three of them tossed a few times, a little disheartened, went out to relax, and that's how they met Zhou Xu.

After Chen Song passed Zhou Xu's exam, he was quite satisfied with him, but whether to join him or not, whether to kidnap the son of the county magistrate's family to work in the wilderness, Chen Song couldn't decide.

Xu Shu was not responsible for taking the blame for Chen Song, so the three of them wanted to persuade Zhou Xu to go home. After they went back and asked Pei Peng's opinion, they decided whether to accept Zhou Xu and how to accept him. How much Xu Shu knew .

Zhou Xu should have been happy, but he still kept asking:
"But, I've already run away from home, and it's hard to go back now. Can I go to the house and bother you for a few days?"

Xu Shu waved her hand and agreed:
"Come on, the yard you lived in is still empty, and you can live in it if you clean it up. But I have to send someone to deliver a letter to your parents. Do you have any objections? If you have any opinions, you have to hold back."

Just like that, Xu Shu took back a handsome young man from home, the kind who only informed his parents arbitrarily and domineeringly.

　Thanks for the monthly ticket of Baigu Shenghua. By the way, this name has a strange beauty.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)