Zhao Hong: ???
Zhao Cha: "Go already!"
Zhao Hong: ...
Zhao Cha didn’t let him off, turning back to point at Xiao Baoqi’s table: "You should know Xiao Baoqi, right? He’s from the White Lotus Sect."
"The guy sitting next to him with the pointed chin and monkey cheeks, he’s from the restaurant beyond the pavilion..."
"Go report them to the authorities, have them all arrested, thrown into the death cell, and executed after autumn!"
Zhao Hong, whose worldview had just been repaired, felt it shatter all over again. His eyes bulged like a cow’s: "You knew all along?"
Zhao Cha was cracking sunflower seeds, nodding indifferently: "Yeah, I knew long ago."
Zhao Hong: "And you still hung out with them?"
Zhao Cha: "Yeah, didn’t you see?"
Zhao Hong trembled with anger and burst out: "Impossible..."
Zhao Cha gave him a look: "Don’t make me slap you in front of everyone!"
Seeing her serious expression, Zhao Hong forced himself to calm down and said gruffly: "Does... does Dad know about this?"
Zhao Cha: "What do you think?"
Zhao Hong: "And he doesn’t care?"
Zhao Cha: "Didn’t I just tell you to report it to the authorities? If you think the imperial guards are useless, you can also try bringing in the forbidden troops to see."
Zhao Hong: "Can’t you speak properly?"
Zhao Cha: "You don’t have a brain yourself, can’t even understand such a simple matter, and you blame me for not speaking properly?"
Zhao Hong: "A soldier is a soldier, a thief is a thief..."
Zhao Cha: "Exactly, so go report them!"
Zhao Hong: ...
His head throbbed in pain.
He just couldn’t understand, couldn’t make sense of it at all!
Zhao Cha, seeing he seemed to have calmed down, couldn’t bear it, and while putting down her sunflower seeds, softened her tone: "You know your second brother’s title, right?"
Zhao Hong nodded blankly: "Marquis of Luting."
Zhao Cha: "He is the Marquis of Luting, and this place is Lu Ting."
Zhao Hong: "Our Wei dynasty traditions..."
Zhao Cha: "Am I talking or are you?"
Zhao Hong: "You talk."
Zhao Cha: "Then don’t argue with me... Lu Ting is Erlang’s home, and all these people came for Erlang. Here, they are just Erlang’s guests. As long as Erlang doesn’t rebel, no matter who they are outside, what their identity is, as long as they enter Lu Ting, they have to behave. If they cause trouble, Erlang will deal with them. No one can provoke Erlang, they fear him more than they fear our father!"
Zhao Hong: "Then who can guarantee that your second brother won’t rebel?"
Zhao Cha: "No one can guarantee that..."
Zhao Hong: "What?"
Zhao Cha: "If someone could control Erlang, would I still be here? Would you still be here?"
Zhao Hong said bitterly: "With all the court’s scholars and warriors, a million strong army, we can’t take down Yang Erlang?"
Zhao Cha: "Why did you think of taking him down?"
Zhao Hong: "People like him..."
Zhao Cha: "People like him must be held tightly in your hands, otherwise you feel like sitting on pins and needles, as if there’s a thorn in your back, like having a fishbone stuck in your throat?"
Zhao Hong responded with silence.
Zhao Cha didn’t know what else to say.
Both of them thought the other’s thinking was absurd.
It was also at this moment that Zhao Cha finally understood completely why her father thickened his face to push them together
Such a creature as a monarch... simply absurd!
Even one like Zhao Hong who had not yet ascended to the throne as Crown Prince.
"I do not know if our father, has the capability to control my second brother... perhaps he has, perhaps not, but even if he does, the consequences would definitely be severe."
She sighed and said, "I only know that if my second brother wants to rebel, he would certainly be more formidable than Ming Sect and the White Lotus Sect combined... Don’t look at me with that kind of eyes, stay a bit longer, and you will understand why I say this."
"However, my second brother is naturally lazy, kind-hearted, despises trouble, and cannot bear to see the world’s suffering, and rebellion is exactly troublesome and will result in many, many deaths."
"Based on my understanding of him, as long as you do not push the common people to a point where they can no longer survive, you completely do not need to worry about him rebelling."
"On the contrary, as long as you can let the common people live a good life, my second brother will be your amulet, anyone who wants to harm you must get past him first!"
Zhao Hong, frowning, muttered, "It is difficult to paint the bone when depicting a tiger, to know a person’s face is not to know their heart, even if he indeed is as you say now, it doesn’t guarantee he will not change his mind later..."
Zhao Cha nonchalantly: "Fair point, then just slowly see for yourself, it’s none of my business!"
Zhao Hong: "How can you say it’s none of your business? I have tolerated you for a long time, don’t forget your own last name!"
Zhao Cha: "Now you remember my last name? How come you couldn’t remember when you called me a wench before?"
Zhao Hong had no response.
Zhao Cha couldn’t be bothered to interact with him any longer, her peripheral vision caught Zhang Erniu in the courtyard lifting the ice cellar lid to get the beef and offal, she dropped the seeds she was holding and rushed towards the courtyard like a gust of wind: "Erniu, let me do it, let me..."
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Timely, the two people who had finished exchanging pleasantries on the second floor, were also engaged in a similar conversation.
Yang Tiansheng: "Who is the girl that was greeting the guests? Young Master, she seemed very familiar to you!"
Yang Ge: "You mean Miaomiao? The Zhao Family’s."
Yang Tiansheng: "Which Zhao Family?"
Yang Ge: "Which Zhao Family do you think?"
Yang Tiansheng: "It can’t be the Zhao Family I’m thinking of, right?"
Yang Ge: "It is exactly the Zhao Family you’re thinking of."
Yang Tiansheng’s tactical retreat in shock: "A princess? Why would a princess be in your shop?"
"Absurd, right?"
Yang Ge laughed: "There’s something even more absurd, remember the young man who just went to lead your horse?"
Yang Tiansheng asked incredulously: "He is also from the Zhao Family? A prince?"
Yang Ge: "Crown Prince."
Yang Tiansheng was so startled he nearly jumped off his chair: "Yang Ge, are you alright? Are you really planning to sell yourself to the Zhao Family?"
Everyone else only knew Yang Ge was impressive.