For a moment, Xue Yao almost rushed out to protect her cubs, but quickly calmed down.
Little princes trespassing seven array, at most a reprimand and "gentle" whip, accompanied by readers trespassing, but to be boarded, can kill people.
Xue Yao hurriedly picked up the hairpin that was thrown aside by the little fat kid, gently pushed open the cupboard, climbed out of the window to escape from the side hall, made a big circle, and returned to the schoolyard.
The three princes are standing in the three corners of the drill hall, each being "interrogated" by their instructors to find out which one of them is leading the charge.
Xue Yao slowly moved in the direction of the Seventh Prince without moving, wanting to eavesdrop on the interrogation.
The Vice Instructor gripped the slender little whip and slapped his palm one by one, staring at the Seventh Prince's chubby little face and asking in a low voice, "Does Your Highness know that trespassing into the Seven Pass Formation is dangerous?"
The Seventh Prince asked rhetorically with a confused look on his face, "What is the Seven Pass Formation?"
The deputy instructor froze, "You don't know where you just went?"
The Seventh Prince shook his head blankly, and replied obediently, "There is a lot of water there, Fifth Brother has to cross the bridge, the bridge is so thin, Your Highness is so scared!"
The fearful gaze that flickered under the long eyelashes of the chubby little prince made the stern vice instructor's heart soften, easing his tone, "Your Highness doesn't want to go there, you were brought there by the fifth prince, right?"
The Seventh Prince deflated his mouth, his baby-fat little face pouting, his aggrieved teal pupils gazing into the Vice Instructor's eyes, "Your Highness is so scared oh!"
Xue Yao, who was eavesdropping not far away, "......"
Appeared!
The fake Long Ao Tian who is willing to give up his dignity in order to escape punishment!
"It's alright! Your Highness don't be afraid, this time we will definitely let His Highness the Fifth Prince know how powerful he is." The vice instructor relaxed his guard under the surprise attack of His Highness's innocent little fat face, dropped the whip and led the frightened seventh prince, to the teepee to rest.
The Sixth Prince, who was still receiving the chastisement, looked towards the Seventh Brother who had retreated in his entirety without receiving a whip, shock and doubt written all over his face!
Before the Seventh Prince left, he turned his head, pointed to the Sixth Brother and secretly made a "two, four, six" gesture, reminding the Sixth Prince: push the pot all the way to the Fifth Brother, or else the twenty strokes of the whip will have to be taken by all three together, turning it into sixty strokes.
The Sixth Prince spaced out and comprehended his Seventh Brother's hint, struggled internally for a moment, and then looked at his Fifth Brother in the distance.
Turning back, the Sixth Prince firmly told the Vice Instructor, "It was Fifth Brother who picked the head!"
The two successfully dumped royals abandoned Fifth Brother, one after the other, and left the drill ground safely.
Xue Yao was shocked.
The little chubby boy dumps the pot, the old father can pretend he didn't see it, how come the warm baby dumps it too?
Not at all the warm baby he remembered!
It's still the Fifth Prince who is the older brother who has the responsibility.
The Fifth Prince raised his head and chest to accept the interrogation, and very readily admitted that he was the one who brought his two younger brothers to the Seven Pass Formation, and was willing to bear the punishment on behalf of his two younger brothers.
Trespassing on the Seven Levels Formation just closed the case without any suspense.
In the end, only the Fifth Prince accepted the punishment.
Before the head teacher lifted the whip and beat it down on the Fifth Prince's ass, he inquired once more, "Your Highness volunteers to receive twenty more whips?"
"Mister fight!" The Fifth Prince looked at death!
Xue Yao sighed with emotion in the crowd of onlookers - the Fifth Prince was not bad at being a brother!
The instructor squeezed the whip and snapped it!
"Oh!" The Fifth Prince covered his butt and jumped a big step forward!
Turning his head to the instructor incredulously, "How come it hurts more than the usual training hits?"
The instructor smiled a "that's for sure" smile and raised his hand for the second whip.
"Wait!" The Fifth Prince took two steps back, panting for a moment with a tangled expression, his gaze steeped in determination, and he whispered to the Head Teacher to confide in a low voice, "Sir, truth be told, just now it was Old Six and Old Seven who were curious and insisted that I take them in to take a look!"
Instructor: "......"
Xue Yao: "......"
Plastic bromance that can't stand the test of time!
Thus, the three young emperors were punished together for squatting horse stance.
"Fifth brother! How could you drag Seventh Brother into this? He just didn't even want to go!" It was rare for the Sixth Prince to complain to his Fifth Brother.
The Fifth Prince smiled ingratiatingly at his brother, "This is a strategy, if all three of us don't admit it, they can't punish us with a whip, they can only punish us for squatting horse stance. Look, we can now practice our downward kung fu again and we don't need to be whipped, isn't that great?"
The Sixth Prince reluctantly accepted Fifth Brother's explanation.
Unhappiness was written all over the seventh prince's bun face.
The Fifth Prince cleared his throat, slightly straightened his legs, crossed over the Sixth Brother's head, looked at the Seventh Brother, and curtly said, "Old Seventh, you're short, you don't need to crouch, they can't see it if you stand up, you can be lazy."
The squatting Seventh Prince didn't move at all, simply ignoring Fifth Brother.
The Fifth Prince smiled and coaxed, "Oldest Seven? Seventh brother? Ignoring fifth brother, huh?"
The Seventh Prince had a vengeful look on his face, "From now on, the favor is severed!"
*
Although the matter of grain collection was successfully resolved, Xue Yao's heart was still unsettled.
With only a year and a half left before the crown prince was deposed in the original, it always seemed that something else unforeseen would happen during that time.
The dynasty was at peace, the officials involved in the trial change had already left for the local institutions, and everything was functioning normally under the new policy of lending and releasing grain.
As far as Xue Yao remembered, the Crown Prince was abolished by the impeachment of the speech officials.
Impeachment mainly has two contents: one is the change of law in the trial county of the people, starvation; second is the appointment of officials secretly increase the interest rate of borrowing, reported to the emperor's account is the surplus and deficit.
The meaning is simple: first, the Prince is suspected of enriching himself, and second, the loan has led to mass starvation of the local people.
Xue Yao speculated that the Prince's profit and loss was offset because he was set up during the grain collection period and bought high priced grain, and the first year's borrowing would not have earned much, and it was normal that there was no profit.
As for the claim that the change of law led to starvation, it makes it incomprehensible.
Xue Yao's memory wasn't too good, but he had long since realized that as long as he concentrated, he could recall the details of any plot mentioned in the original, which must be a special ability given to him by the system.
In the episode where the crown prince was abolished, the original only recorded the content of the impeachment zhengben of the speech officer, no detailed records of what happened in the affected counties, there is no way to find out why a lot of ordinary people died of starvation.
The story of the mass starvation of the common people should not be a false accusation of rumor.
After all, although the Emperor was trifling with his wives, his most valued son was the Grand Prince from start to finish.
If things hadn't gotten to the point where a lot of people had died, the Crown Prince wouldn't have been deposed anyways.
Even if he lost all the one million taels of silver that the Emperor had shelled out, the Emperor would not abolish the Crown Prince.
Therefore, Xue Yao was worried that the people of the affected counties would experience sudden changes, especially that Ping Rong County.
There is a system mission to control the plague in Ping Rong County, so there is a possibility that a plague will start in Ping Rong County and spread to the two neighboring affected counties, resulting in the death of some of the common people.
This disaster, so that the people of the affected counties a large number of deaths, the Prince's lending naturally half can not be recovered, the loss on the books, may be filled by the Prince's own pocket, just barely break even.
And the old people who died of illness were said by the speech officials to have died of starvation, and all the sins were poured on the Crown Prince, which led to his eventual abolition.
But this guess doesn't quite make sense.
With the Emperor's regard for the Crown Prince, it was impossible for him to slap a conviction without verifying the cause of death.
After thinking about it, Xue Yao thought that it would be best to have the Crown Prince pay attention to the situation of the common people in Ping Rong County over the past two years, and look for some famous doctors to stay in the area, so as to prevent the spread of malignant diseases at any time.
However, this kind of proposal was made out of the blue, and would surely arouse suspicion, and in the event that the disease did spread in the future, the onlookers might even suspect Xue Yao of plotting and scheming.
Moreover, the Crown Prince was busy with his official duties, and Xue Yao, as the young prince's companion, was not in a position to go to the door alone to ask for an audience, so it would be best if he could drag the little chubby brat along with him.
For some time afterward, Xue Yao took some medical books from the Gap Space every night and studied them diligently.
From getting started to giving up.
Medicine is a subject that is not at all suited to improvisation!
The content is too heterogeneous, and the knowledge of different subjects varies by a hundred thousand miles, so it is not easy to get started with a basic ear, nose, and throat in five years, not to mention applying it in a practical way.
The dream of becoming a self-taught miracle healer is shattered!
Xue Yao gave up studying medicine and was so disturbed that when she couldn't sleep, she casually clicked on the Multidimensional Time Reference Line Mall to watch some boring images to help her sleep.
The images in the reference line mall are boring because you can't freely search for the plot of the character you want to see, you can only randomly refresh it.
If you want to search freely, you have to open the Ultimate Mall, and the condition for opening it is to complete the [Cold-Blooded Tyrant's Heartbeat] quest.
Obviously, with such an odd task, Xue Yao had already given up on treating it, so he just made do and watched.
Most of the random images that appear are of the everyday lives of the common people, working in the fields or simply sleeping at night.
That night, the image Xue Yao refreshed was of a simple bedroom, and on the bed, a white-haired old man wrapped in a quilt, coughing from time to time.
Not long after, the door was pushed open and a middle-aged couple walked in with an old gentleman dressed as a Langzhong, checking the pulse of the white-haired old man who was bedridden.
The Bone-setter fished out a small porcelain bottle from his traveling bag, poured a pill into his palm, picked up the old man, and personally fed him the pill.
The old man seemed to have difficulty swallowing, and the bone-setter patiently helped him to smooth out his breath, but the old man steeply spurted out a large mouthful of blood and coughed.
The groom's face was stained with blood, and the couple hurriedly handed over a towel to help the groom wipe it clean.
Looking at the image, Xue Yao's brows unconsciously furrowed.
I don't know what kind of disease the old man was suffering from, but the blood stains on the groom's face were even close to black, it looked very creepy, Xue Yao didn't dare to look at it anymore and hurriedly clicked refresh.
The image that followed appeared to be of what appeared to be a medical clinic, with an old gentleman sitting behind a long table, coughing uncontrollably.
Xue Yao took a closer look and realized that this old gentleman was, in fact, the Langzhong from the previous image.
The Langzhong in the image coughed more and more violently, pulling out a handkerchief from his sleeve to cover his mouth and nose, his body shuddered, and the handkerchief he covered his mouth with was gradually penetrated by blackened blood.
Xue Yao panicked and exited the mental space.
How do you refresh two such images in a row in the middle of the night?
After calming down, a sense of foreboding rose in Xue Yao's heart.
What was the system reminding him of?
From the old man to the groom, coughing, thick black blood.
Could this be the beginning of the plague in Ping Yung County?
Xue Yao feared that these two images were systematic plague warnings, and the next day, he urged the three young emperors to go to the Crown Prince for sword instruction.
The Crown Prince was not in the palace, so Xue Yao had to drag the three young emperors around the Crown Prince's Palace to chat and patiently wait for the Crown Prince to return.
During this time, Xue Yao told the young emperors in colorful detail about the Prince's heroic deed of rescuing the songstress on the road.
The Sixth Prince also gestured twice from time to time, recreating the handsome swordsmanship of the Crown Prince when he rescued the others.
The fifth prince sighed after hearing this, "Several of our brothers, counting big brother's sword skill is the most superb, looks are also the most handsome, mother consort all day long dislike me far less than big brother."
The Seventh Prince was shocked at his words and immediately turned his head to Xue Yao for confirmation, "Master is most handsome!"
Xue Yao glanced at His Highness's chubby little face and couldn't help but giggle as she hurriedly comforted, "His Highness the Seventh Prince is the most adorable of Highnesses."
The Seventh Prince was shocked!
Consort Shi often boasted that her own son's features picked the best of herself and the Emperor, and that there was no child in the world that could be found more beautiful than her son.
Such compliments made the Seventh Prince ignore his baby fat and make unrealistic judgments about his looks.
At this moment, coldly hearing Fifth Brother say that Eldest Brother was the most handsome man among his brothers, Seventh Prince was unconvinced!
The Seventh Prince stubbornly questioned Silly Yao Yao, "Master is more handsome than big brother?"
Xue Yao looked at the little chubby cub's seriously chubby face and wanted to admit it in good conscience, but thinking about the handsome and perfect silhouette of the Crown Prince, he just couldn't say it!
He could only comfort the little chubby cub, "Your Highness is the most adorable, we all like the adorable Your Highness, okay?"
The Seventh Prince lowered his eyes in thought, frowned once, and raised his eyes in seriousness, declaring, "Master still wants to be the most handsome!"
Xue Yao: "......"
You're a little fat kid, can you stop having so many unrealistic dreams!