[Red Chamber] I just want to be a dummy

Then, the shopkeeper broke out his best acting skills ever, made a trembling look, tremblingly wanted to take out the money from the counter, and said in a trembling voice, "Second Lord's protection fee for this month, I have already prepared it." alright."

Jia Jing:? ? ?

What the hell?Protection fees?Didn't he come to sell the storybook, why did he become a local hooligan?Could it be that Cang Zhu's tone was too fierce when he was negotiating the price just now?

Jia Jing thought about it for a while and felt that Cang Zhu seemed to be a bit fierce just now.When Jia Jing was young, his father taught him not to bully others, otherwise he would serve him with sticks.

So Jia Jing quickly scolded, "Cang Zhu, I'm here to sell the book, why are you acting like you want to rob the bookstore?"

Then he said softly to the shopkeeper, "Twelve taels is ten taels."

what?Is it because you think you can't act well, so you don't act?Why are you here to sell storybooks again?However, if you can spend ten taels of silver to invite Jia Jing, the great Buddha, away, that's still quite worth it.

"My junior brother is interesting." Weifu privately interviewed the prince who brought his eighth brother to the bookstore to pick up the book, watched the whole process, and couldn't help but find it interesting.

Logically, such a high-ranking figure as the crown prince shouldn't appear in such a small bookstore.Not to mention that his status is not very suitable, but to say that he can't finish the official duties assigned to the prince today is enough for the prince to spend every day in the pile of books.

Therefore, being a prince is really not a good job. Not only is it high-risk, but you also have to do your best to handle official duties diligently for the present, and you don't even have the chance to kick your child.

In the future, this world will be yours, and now there is nothing wrong with dealing with official duties and learning a bit.

What?You said that you must be the one who can guarantee the succession to the throne in the future?Uh, who knows what will happen in the future, as long as you ensure that you are obedient and don't take any wrong steps, it is still possible.

It is precisely because it is impossible for the prince to appear in such a small bookstore, so even Jia Jing has seen the prince, and the position of the prince and the eighth prince is conspicuous.

Jia Jing didn't recognize the prince, of course, this also saved Jia Jing from having to salute in a hurry.

The reason why the prince came to such a small bookstore, in the final analysis, is because we have a pregnant princess.

The prince and the princess have been married for more than ten years, and the relationship has not been very good.

The concubine of the crown prince is chosen after thousands of choices, but it is obvious that she is not chosen to compete with the crown prince's Yingying Yanyan, but to be the mother of the country.

The Crown Princess is naturally much more dignified than those of the Crown Prince's concubines, and because Guo Liangdi gave birth to the Crown Prince's eldest son earlier, there was a gap.

The prince needs to rely on the help of the princess's natal family because of those brothers who are like wolves and tigers, but the princess's natal family can't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles.

The prince made it clear that he didn't like their daughters, even the eldest son.If you leave it to an ordinary family, I'm afraid you will call the door.The princess's natal family can't break into the palace, but there are people who refuse to help the prince with an attitude.

As a result, the relationship between the prince and his wife became even worse.

But the prince can become the prince only by relying on the orthodox thought of traditional Confucianism. Even if the prince wants to maintain his own status, the princess has to respect it.But it was only on the fifteenth day of the lunar new year that I went to the princess's place.

Then, it just so happened that the princess was pregnant.

Because of this, the crown prince got a good face from today for the first time since he became an adult and his younger brothers grew up day by day.

Not only that, but the princess's natal family also became more energetic when they started working.Whose family's grandson will be the master of the empire in the future, will his family's family who will become the prince or even the emperor's family work well?

The people in the prince's faction were also beaming. Those who followed the prince were basically either forcibly drawn to the prince when the prince was young, or the prince recruited him by relying on his orthodox status.

Once the princess is pregnant, as long as it is a boy, isn't that considered orthodox.The eldest son inheritance system can continue smoothly, which is a belief for Confucian defenders.

This also made the prince realize the importance of the piece of meat in the princess' stomach.

In this way, the relationship between the prince and the princess gradually began to improve.In many cases, the prince who could not tell his ministers and concubines also began to come back and talk to the princess.

Occasionally, the prince is willing to listen to the concubine's persuasion, especially when giving gifts to the courtiers and family members around him.The prince also found that he often followed the advice of the princess and was praised by his father.

The prince's emphasis on the baby in the princess' belly has also doubled several times.The eldest son, the eldest son who gave himself extra points, and he was the kind whose mother was particularly smart.

The pregnant concubine just loves to read story books, even if she loves to watch stars, the prince has to pick them up for her, right?

The storybook is not a rare item, and the eunuch was sent to bring the banknotes to the outside of the palace, and they could bring a box back in half a day.

Even if the princess wanted to read one book, it would not be difficult to throw one away and use another as a pillow.The prince is just worried that this is not very good for prenatal education.

But in view of the dizziness, vomiting and bad temper of the concubine after she left the script, the prince dared not raise any objections even if it was possible that the prenatal education was not very good.

I can only read the Analects of Confucius to the princess' stomach several times in my free time, trying to break the mind of this unborn son.

But in the past few days, the Crown Princess felt that it was a routine for the Crown Prince to order someone to bring in boxes from outside the palace.

Nothing new and very crooked.

"Which girl can have only one maid by her side, and still be instigated by the maid to fall in love with a poor scholar? I think that maid is suitable for the scholar. If the maid next to my daughter..." The princess threw away the book and The prince complained.

"Amitabha, Buddha bless, my wife is talking nonsense, what kind of girl, she must be a boy."

Originally, the prince was leisurely flipping through the biography of geography, and listened to the complaints of the princess by the way.When the crown prince said "my daughter", the prince immediately changed his face, and prayed to God and Buddha to bless him to have a son.

In fact, five months after the concubine's belly was full, both Jinjin and the prince asked the imperial doctor to check the pulse, and the imperial doctor said that there was no doubt that it was a boy.

However, since the imperial doctors always report the good news but not the bad news, no one knows whether it is a man or a woman until the fruit is ripe, and the imperial doctors always talk about the best.

Also, the crown princess doesn't like eating sour food like ordinary women who are pregnant with boys.

The prince became sensitive to the gender of the child in the princess' womb.The concubine of the former son of the crown prince said sourly that if he was a princess, the crown prince would completely disregard the original love and order him to slap his mouth.

That is to say, when the princess talked about her daughter, the prince just prayed to God and worshiped Buddha.

"Oh, men are really big pigs." The princess secretly complained in her heart, and rolled her eyes by the way.

Well, the family does have a throne to inherit, and thinking about the wealth and life of himself and the child in his stomach, it depends on the performance of the prince, and the princess can't say anything.