Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 567 Another Home (asking for monthly ticket)

Forbidden City, Duanjing Hall.

When Zhang Luan entered the palace, he was directly invited here. He was a little confused for a moment.

Didn't you ask me to come to the palace to treat Huai En?
Why did you call me to the old East Palace?

There was a lot of activity going on inside and outside the Duanjing Hall, with many people moving things around. Zhang Luan felt awkward standing there. He was too embarrassed to go forward and ask the palace maids and eunuchs, and no one came to disturb him.

After waiting for a long time, I finally saw my daughter coming out of the palace gate.

"It will make it easier for me to wait."

Zhang Luan seemed a little impatient. He pointed around and asked, "What are you doing?"

Zhang Yu's eyebrows curved, and he smiled and said, "It was your precious son who did it!"

Zhang Luan frowned and complained, "I've told you long ago that you can't listen to that brat... Look at what he has done to this peaceful place. It would have been fine if he had messed with our family before, but now he's actually messing with the Imperial Palace again. He's really rebellious!"

Zhang Yu was originally smiling, but frowned slightly when he heard this and asked, "Father, from what you said, you are disgusted by your son's torment? Fine, I ask His Majesty to restore you to your original state, demote you to a commoner, and simply return to your hometown in Xingji to retire!"

"Cough cough."

Zhang Luan was choked and speechless for a moment.

"Ugh!"

Zhang Yu sighed and continued, "Your Majesty was upset the whole night last night because he learned that Huai Daiban was seriously ill and dying. He cried several times and couldn't sleep or eat well... This time, I asked my father to come here for this matter."

"Or this one..."

Zhang Luan looked as if he had expected a situation like this and there was no way to escape it.

Seeing his father's negative look, Zhang Yu said helplessly: "In fact, I also know that father has no ability to cure diseases and save lives. He should have let my second brother come directly to the palace... Alas..."

"Ah!? My dear, is this what you said to His Majesty?" Zhang Luan was shocked when he heard this, and thought to himself, what a great daughter I have. She always likes to ruin her father's show?
Zhang Yu said angrily: "I haven't the nerve to say it yet...but...if I keep it secret, wouldn't it be the same as deceiving the emperor?"

"No, please don't... Your Majesty, you are a noble lady, please don't treat me like a minister."

Zhang Luan said with a sad face, "If you really expose this, then my father's treatment of the late emperor in the palace would be considered as fraud, which is definitely a capital crime.

"Besides, don't you have a younger brother who can treat illnesses? I can learn something from him and put it into practice... Actually, I don't want to get involved in this matter... Look who I have taken the initiative to treat before? It was Qin Chang who came to me and asked me to help. I also asked your brother to watch it with his own eyes beforehand, and I just read it out. Isn't that okay?"

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, "Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore... His Majesty may come over at noon, let's have a meal together, and bring Eunuch Huai with you. You should think about how to deal with it first."

Zhang Luan smiled and said, "It's still good to have a daughter... She's like a warm and cozy little cotton-padded jacket, unlike those two ungrateful people in your mother's family who always make you angry for no reason."

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes at his old father, obviously not taking Zhang Luan's words to heart.

Are you saying something nice here?
He was glaring at me before!
I believe you, you big-headed ghost.

……

……

Zhang Yu took Zhang Luan to visit the weaving workshop located in the old site of the East Palace.

After walking around, Zhang Luan was also very surprised: "This... these are all done by your brother..."

Zhang Yu patiently explained, "He designed everything in advance. The drawings were piled up thickly. His Majesty assigned people to follow the drawings, and it was soon built like this... The palace was mainly managed by Tan Laoban and Chen Gui. I just came to take a look from time to time, and I didn't need to do anything myself."

Zhang Luan smiled and said, "Of course, you are the queen now, what can I ask of you?"

“Sometimes I just can’t resist the urge to try it myself!”

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "I have nothing to do anyway, so doing these things makes me feel extremely peaceful and fulfilled."

When Zhang Luan heard this, he felt puzzled.

I thought, is my daughter stupid?
Being the queen of the Ming Dynasty, she could just wait and enjoy the good life. Why did she have to do everything herself? She likes to work just like her mother. Isn't this a cheap fate?
Zhang Yu said happily, "Sometimes when His Majesty comes, he will weave with me... That feeling is really great!"

"..."

Zhang Luan was completely speechless now.

Zhang Yu smiled and asked, "Why? Dad, can't you figure it out? Before entering the palace, I also thought that after entering the palace, I didn't have to do anything, just like a bird in a cage, never seeing the sun.

"But when I got there, I found that except for not being able to leave the palace, everything else was very free... I could go wherever I wanted, and I could always find something to do in the palace to make myself less bored."

Zhang Luan said as a matter of course: "That's right, you are deeply favored by His Majesty, and you are the mother of a country. This imperial palace is your home, and you can naturally wander around in your own backyard.

"But my son, you have to control your temper a little. Women should behave properly. That's the etiquette. Who would run out and wander around like you?"

Zhang Yu's face immediately darkened, and he asked, "Dad, tell me clearly, who was wandering around? This is the Eastern Palace, my other home, and I have lived here for more than half a year... I moved here from Kunning Palace and revisited the old place, so how come you said I was wandering around?"

"Cough cough..."

Zhang Luan almost choked on his own saliva again.

He thought, it's fine if a daughter is extrovert, but the problem is, if she marries well, does that mean she can ignore her father?
If I married into an ordinary family and I occasionally went back to my parents' home and if you still spoke to me like this, I would beat you to a pulp!

Did I give you face?
But the problem is now...

As the queen, she was willing to talk to me for a few words. It seemed like an honor to me, and I had to accept it humbly.

Damn it, isn’t it wonderful to be the father-in-law of the emperor?
"What are those?" After walking for a while, Zhang Luan suddenly pointed to a shelf not far away and asked.

“That’s the shelf.”

Zhang Yu introduced, "We have been preparing for a while. Today, the first batch of goods will be full, so they are all piled outside... This batch of cloth will be sold through the imperial farm channel and transported to various imperial stores in the capital... Dad, do you want to go and take a look?"

Zhang Luan asked in surprise: "It's only been a few days, and they've already shipped in large quantities?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "This is already considered slow... because in the early days, the main task was to train those palace maids to become qualified weaving women...

"Things are progressing very slowly because they have to be taught one by one... Once they learn it, it's a lifelong skill. Right now, they are not very skilled, and some of the fabrics they weave are still defective."

"I knew it. Cloth woven so quickly can't be very good. As the saying goes...slow work makes fine work..." Zhang Luan was about to show off his erudition when a palace maid came over and handed a cloth sample to Zhang Yu for review.

Zhang Yu took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and Zhang Luan also leaned over with a smug look to take a closer look.

When Zhang Luan saw the cloth clearly, he immediately asked in surprise: "Is this woven on a new loom?"

"Ah."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Yes, Dad, it's a pity that I can't give you a few horses, because these are the treasures of the palace, and they have long been recorded. I don't want to take them from here..."

"No, no, that's not what I meant... I want to ask, how come this cloth is woven so finely? Let me take a good look at it."

Zhang Luan took the cloth and rubbed it in his hands for a long time, but he was still a little unresponsive.

Zhang Yu frowned and asked, "Father, wasn't it Yanling who personally pushed forward this matter? The credit is also attributed to you...How come you don't even know the quality of the woven cloth?"

"I... I didn't have the time to pay attention to this before. Queen, please tell me, what is going on?" Zhang Luan asked quickly.

Zhang Yu introduced: "The yarn spun by the new spinning machine is very uniform in thickness, even ordinary cotton and linen yarn can be made of the same thickness.

"The workshop is now developing standards. The quality and specifications of the threads of each type of cloth will be different. Because of the fineness and uniformity, and the ability of the loom to press the threads evenly, the woven cloth will be smoother."

Zhang Luan exclaimed: "Yes, this is obviously cotton, but it is almost as good as silk... Magical!"

"Father, you have to be more serious in the future and stop being so careless."

Zhang Yu reminded.

"Huh? What's wrong with me?"

Zhang Luan asked dissatisfiedly, "You mean... I can't touch or look around freely when I come to the palace, right? Humph, it was you who brought me here to visit, why are you blaming me?"

"I mean, if there's something going on at home in the future, you can't let Yanling handle everything. You have to stand up for yourself... Do you know how long Yanling has been running around for this matter of weaving? I thought you were helping him secretly...

"I just realized now that you are a hands-off boss who has never even seen what the cloth woven on your own loom looks like... Humph, I've never seen a father like you..."

Zhang Yu became a little angry when he said this.

Angry and unwilling to fight!

Zhang Luan sneered and scolded, "You two are exactly the same. You always blame your father for nothing... I guess you are so capable and I am just following you to benefit from it, right?"

"Is not it?"

Zhang Yu was now the queen and no longer needed to give face to her old father, so she questioned him immediately.

"This……"

Zhang Luan was overwhelmed by the extremely strong Zhang Yu who was giving his all. His old face turned red. "Even if that's the case, don't say it openly. Don't you want to save your face as a father?"

"We are having a private conversation between father and daughter. Is there anyone listening? You cover your ears when I talk to you seriously, and you get angry when I talk too much. What else do you want me to say to you?"

Zhang Yu would not tolerate Zhang Luan's bad habits and continued to vent his anger. "I heard from my mother that you haven't even been home lately. Maybe you have a mistress outside. How can you be the head of the family if you are like this?"

"Who said that? Who did your mother ask to tell you?"

Zhang Luan asked angrily.

"My mother said that when she came to the palace to visit her daughter."

Zhang Yu glared at Zhang Luan and said, "I can see that you haven't been home for the past two days. You don't even know about such a big thing as your mother entering the palace. How dare you talk about this here?"

"I……"

Zhang Luan suddenly felt that he no longer had the face to face his precious daughter.

Zhang Yu continued to persuade him: "Yanling has always been the pillar of our Zhang family. As a father, you are the supporting pillar. Don't think of undermining him. If you relax, the whole family will collapse.

"After all, Yanling is still young. When something big happens, you have to step forward. Just like today, I might ask you to treat Huai Daban. If you embarrass yourself, it will be a disgrace to our Zhang family. I will be ashamed for you."

"Alright, that's enough. You're so long-winded."

Zhang Luan waved his hand and said, "Take me to see other places... I've seen them, so it's convenient for me to go back and tell your brother so that he can understand what's going on... This should be all right now, right?"

Zhang Yu said disdainfully: "Yanling will come to the palace to check on the progress of the project at any time. Is it necessary for you to talk to him? You should pay more attention to the family affairs and don't let him be distracted all the time. In this way, you will have fulfilled your father's responsibilities!"

(On March 2, continue to ask for guaranteed monthly tickets!)

(End of this chapter)