Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 388 Too Young (asking for monthly ticket)

Duanjing Hall.

The news that Li Zisheng took Zhang Luan and Wang Ji to treat the emperor was soon brought by Qin Ji to let Zhu Youtang and his wife know.

"My father-in-law has worked so hard."

When Zhu Youtang heard this, he felt even more grateful to Zhang Luan.

Zhang Yu asked, "My dear Mr. Qin, why haven't I heard of the Imperial Hospital treating my father? It's really curious, isn't this their job?"

Tan Ji explained: "It's probably because the people in the Imperial Hospital are helpless in treating Your Majesty. But it's hard to say..."

Qin Ji himself is a good person. In the past, he would never slander others in front of Zhu Youtang, but now he has probably learned to be "bad" from Zhang Yu. It is also because he has more contact with human beings and affairs with Zhu Youtang, and even he himself will occasionally speak out his true thoughts.

In other words, I used to think it was better to keep it secret, but now I feel it is more comfortable to speak it out.

Zhu Youtang said: "Father is always fair...If father-in-law has no achievements and performance in treating diseases, father will not use him. This just shows that father-in-law is a miracle doctor in the world, there is no doubt about this."

"Ugh!"

Zhang Yu sighed heavily.

As a daughter, she is not sure whether her father is capable or not. She was afraid that something might happen to her father before, but now it seems that her father is at least doing a pretty good job in filling in the gaps.

"Yu'er, I have to leave the palace again."

Zhu Youtang said, "I haven't been to Wenhua Palace to study for a few days. My father didn't allow my teachers to come to the palace to teach. He only asked me to investigate the shortage of Tongzhou warehouse, but I still have no clue."

"Didn't you come to my house these two days?"

Zhang Yu asked.

Zhu Youtang smiled and replied: "Isn't this your home?"

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes at him and said, "Humph, your home is your home, and my home is my home. I know the difference very clearly."

"Okay, Yu'er, I'm just chatting and laughing with you." Zhu Youtang said, "I'm embarrassed to disturb your father. Recently, Yanling has been helping your father make some medicine. They are very busy. I think since my father specifically used this matter to test me and let me do it well myself, I don't want to entrust too much to others."

"hehe."

Zhang Yu almost wanted to laugh at her silly husband.

On your own?

Just save it!
Do you really think you have that ability?
Can you defeat so many treacherous ministers in the court?
You are still a little naive!

"Go."

Zhang Yu advised, "I think you should ask Yanling for advice. I haven't seen him for a long time. How is his family doing now? Can you help me check it out? I really hope I can go out of the palace with you in the future."

Zhu Youtang nodded and said, "I know you miss home. The more you miss home, the better I will treat you, so that your homesickness will be alleviated. Yu'er, I promise that I will always treat you well..."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Qin is still here, you should go quickly, the sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."

Zhang Yu's cheeks turned red with embarrassment.

Is there actually a day when my stupid husband would say sweet words to me?
I get goosebumps just listening to it.

Qin Ji next to him turned his head away with a smile, meaning I didn't hear anything and what you say has nothing to do with me.

Zhu Youtang looked very happy and said, "Then wait for me. I'll go right away. Don't worry, I won't go out fooling around... I will only go to places related to the case. If you don't believe me, ask my wife when you come back."

"Humph!"

Zhang Yu rolled her eyes at her husband.

Although she was afraid that her husband would go out and have affairs with other women, she also felt that he was not that kind of person.

The main thing is... even if her husband really wants to have an affair in the future, it seems that she won't be able to stop him with her own ability. After all, he is the prince now and will be the emperor in the future.
……

……

"We found Wang Ji. I don't know why he said those things in front of His Majesty! This guy is also strange. He should be able to tell at a glance that I am just filling in the gap, right? But he always treats me with respect. So I think this guy is very good at disguising himself and is not a good person."

Inside the alchemy workshop.

Zhang Yanling was working on filtering and purification there, while Zhang Luan was sitting there with his legs crossed, commenting on Wang Ji's actions.

Zhang Yanling raised his head and said, "Someone is sharing your burden, but you still don't appreciate their kindness? You said that Wang Ji is a man who doesn't even care about his own life for the sake of fame and fortune?"

"I haven't seen His Majesty really blame anyone."

Zhang Luan said with disdain, "You can't blame the doctor for this illness, right? Besides, which emperor in the past dynasties didn't get sick?"

"Dad, you really dare to say that. You don't want to tell me that His Majesty's worsening condition is his own fault, right?" Zhang Yanling said.

"You kid! You're even more daring than me."

Zhang Luan rolled his eyes at his son and said, "Then tell me, what should we do about the emperor's illness? You said before that you wanted me to get out of this as soon as possible, so why don't you mention it now?"

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Dad, if I tell you that I was the one who recommended Wang Ji to Li Zisheng, do you think this is reliable?"

"what?"

Zhang Luan was shocked.

"if not?"

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Do you think that Li Zisheng, who has such great power in the court, really has the heart to investigate whether there are any good doctors among the people? He thinks that you alone are enough.

"I was the one who told Butler Pang Da about this person called Wang Ji, and then Butler Pang Da must have told Li Zisheng, so he sent someone to Huizhou to invite this person back."

Zhang Luan frowned and said, "I remember that it was you who instigated Wang Ji to leave the capital, right? If you wanted to use him, why did you let him go?"

Zhang Yanling asked, "How could I have known that His Majesty would be so unscrupulous and insist on using you to treat his illness?"

Zhang Luan said, "When one is desperate, one will try any possible means, isn't that the case?"

"Yes."

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "So when I found out that His Majesty had used you and hadn't used you enough, I had no choice but to invite Wang Ji back. And in this matter, I think it would be more appropriate for Li Zisheng to call him back, because no one else can do that..."

Zhang Luan asked mysteriously, "So... were they invited back, or... were they escorted back?" "Hehe."

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "I think it's a bit of both. He's a normal person. Who would want to treat His Majesty right now?"

"you……"

Zhang Luan rolled his eyes and said, "You mean, I'm not a normal father?"

"Dad, you were forced, unlike him."

Zhang Yanling said seriously, "Besides, he escaped from the capital before. If Li Zisheng and His Majesty knew about this, they would think he was really capable."

"What do you mean? Only running away shows ability? Does that mean I should also find an excuse, saying I need to go back to Xingji to worship my ancestors, and then never come back, and come back in a few months... and pick up something ready-made?"

Zhang Luan suddenly started to have some crazy ideas.

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Only capable people know how to hide. Of course, there are also people like you who face challenges head-on... After all, things have developed to this point. Having Wang Ji as your assistant is better than having someone from the Imperial Hospital help you, right?"

Zhang Luan thought about it and nodded, "That's right. If Wang Ji is untrustworthy, then the people in the Imperial Hospital are even less trustworthy."

As they were talking, Qin Yun came in and said, "You two, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has left the palace and has come to your house to see you. Please..."

Zhang Yanling pointed at Zhang Luan and said, "Dad, please go back and receive them first. I'll talk to you after I finish my work here...Eunuch Xiao Jing will be here soon, and I have to give him the medicine I made today."

Zhang Luan asked, "Don't you usually take the medicine in the afternoon?"

"The dosage has been increased."

Zhang Yanling said.

"What? You say add more? What if something goes wrong?"

Zhang Luan said a little nervously.

Zhang Yanling said helplessly: "It was not me who said to add more. It was Your Majesty who proposed to add more because Your Majesty felt that the condition was urgent and the original dosage was not enough, so..."

"Can I add it casually?"

Zhang Luan asked, "If the dosage is increased, will it be..."

Zhang Yanling sighed and said, "Dad, can we wait until Captain Tan leaves before we talk?"

Qin Yun was embarrassed.

However, he also understood that it was the emperor who took the initiative to request an increase in the dosage of the medicine, which increased Zhang Yanling's workload and made Zhang Yanling have almost no time to do anything else recently.

Something went wrong...that should be the emperor's own responsibility, right?

Of course, the emperor himself would not admit it, and would instead blame the person who was in charge.

Zhang Luan said, "You can do whatever you want... I'll go first. Why did the prince come out of the palace for no reason? Don't you know that I'm busy here?"

Qin Yun felt even more awkward after hearing this.

I thought to myself that you father and son are the best.

First, you made medicine for the emperor to treat diseases, and now there's a prince waiting for you two to do things. When I first met you, I would never have thought that you two would have developed to where you are today six months later.

It seems that when I escorted you to Beijing, it was not a hard job at all. I got a great bargain.

……

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Zhang Mansion, main hall.

When Zhu Youtang saw Zhang Luan coming into the room, he quickly stood up and saluted.

"I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhang Luan seemed to be very polite.

Zhu Youtang hurried forward to help him up: "Father-in-law, you don't have to be so polite to me. I should greet you."

"Don't dare to take it seriously."

Zhang Luan said, "Your Highness, you are the crown prince. If there is anything, just send someone to inform me. Why do you need to come in person..."

Zhu Youtang said, "I have to come in person... It's like this, or the previous Ministry of Revenue case has reached a deadlock, and I don't know what to do."

Zhang Luan asked curiously, "Is it not over yet?"

After these words were spoken, Zhu Youtang and Tan Ji, whom he brought with him, both looked very embarrassed.

Where is this going?

You actually think it's over?

Zhu Youtang answered seriously, "We haven't found any clues in the case yet. The account books of Tongzhou Warehouse have not been sent to the capital yet. I wanted to ask the people in the Ministry of Revenue for confirmation again, but... no one contacted me."

Zhang Luan said, "I remember now. His Majesty seemed to have said that he would ask the East Factory and the Imperial Guard to help you investigate."

Qin Ji asked hurriedly: "Mr. Zhang, is that so?"

"Yes."

Zhang Luan said, "Besides, Elder Wan and Elder Liu may be having a hard time right now."

Tan Ji asked on behalf of the prince: "What happened?"

Zhang Luan sighed: "It's hard for me to explain, it's just..."

He thought to himself, I can't just say that those two cabinet ministers are having a hard time because of me, right?
Not right yet!
It should be said that they had nothing to do but torment me, and I ended up doing nothing. They tortured themselves so much that they are now exhausted. They have been fined and have to resign... Li Zisheng even said that the next step would be to let me join the cabinet to replace the two of them.

Of course I knew that Li Zisheng was making fun of me and I couldn't take it seriously.

Zhu Youtang said: "Father-in-law, is there anything you can't say? Tell me, I can accept anything..."

(End of this chapter)