Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 330 The Arrogant Zhang Brothers

The Zhou family is the maternal relative of Empress Dowager Zhou and has great influence in Peking. Although they are not as favored as the two younger brothers of Empress Zhang, they are also unique.

When Emperor Hongzhi was still young, it is said that Empress Dowager Zhou called the young Emperor Hongzhi to Renshou Palace and raised him personally in order to prevent Concubine Wan from harming him.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi has ascended the throne, he naturally treats the old empress dowager with great respect.

It took the Zhou family's steward a day to find out who Zhou Nan was in contact with. In the evening, the Zhou family's steward came to Chen Ce's courtyard with his hands behind his back.

Chen Ce had just finished dinner and was sitting on a stone bench under the old locust tree in the courtyard drinking tea. Manager Zhou knocked on the door, stepped inside, looked around, and finally fixed his eyes on Chen Ce, and asked in a domineering tone: "Do you know Master Zhou Nan?"

Chen Ce nodded: "Yeah."

The Zhou family steward said calmly, "Our young master wants to open a school. Was it you who persuaded him to do so?"

Chen Ce shook his head and said, "Opening a school is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. How can you say that you are bewitching him?"

Great! It turns out that you are the one bewitching the young master!
A good thing that benefits the country and the people? Ugh! Even though I haven't been to school, I know this is not a good thing. If a Confucian academy is established, it can be regarded as training future talents for the Zhou family.

What kind of accounting school is this? What kind of talents are they training? If others knew what our young master did, wouldn't they laugh at our Zhou family to their heart's content?!
If the Empress Dowager knew that there was such a useless guy among the descendants of the Zhou family, wouldn't she be so angry that she died on the spot?

How audacious! How arrogant! You are so rude!
"Hey! You farted!" The Zhou family's old steward pointed at Chen Ce and shouted.

"Yo yo yo, what are you doing?"

"You bleed after I said a few words to you, right? Are you pretending to be me? What kind of scenes have I not seen?"

"Old man, I'm telling you, don't play this game..."

Chen Ce felt a little unwell again. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief and started coughing uncontrollably.

The Zhou family's steward was stunned. "I didn't do anything. I just said a few words to you. Why do you want to spit blood just because I said a few words to you? Aren't you blackmailing me?"

We in the Zhou family are not afraid of being blackmailed by others!

Manager Zhou was trembling slightly, mainly because he was afraid that his young master would take revenge on him.

At this moment, Madam Wu came back from outside and heard Chen Ce coughing in the yard. She pushed open the door anxiously and saw Chen Ce coughing up blood.

Manager Zhou was standing aside and was about to explain when Madam Wu kicked him. She looked around, picked up a stone and walked towards Manager Zhou.

"Hey, young lady, you, you are wrong, I didn't bully him!"

"Don't do this, don't do this, he coughed up blood himself, it has nothing to do with me!"

Chen Ce said weakly: "It has nothing to do with him."

Madam Wu stared coldly at the Zhou family steward and said sternly, "Get lost!"

The Zhou family's steward ran away as if he had been pardoned. Madam Wu hurried to Chen Ce and asked, "Are you sick again?"

Chen Ce hummed.

Madam Wu helped Chen Ce to his room to rest, while she went to the kitchen to prepare medicine for Chen Ce.

Chen Ce's condition had stabilized some time ago, but Madam Wu discovered that Chen Ce's condition seemed to be getting worse recently.

When she finished boiling the medicine, she found that Chen Ce had fallen asleep on the bed.

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Zhou House.

Manager Zhou told Changning Earl Zhou Yu everything that happened today. Manager Zhou was a smart man, he did not have any conflict with Chen Ce, the main reason was that he did not know Chen Ce's specific identity, so he did not dare to offend him.

Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "This boy is not simple. His woman actually dared to kick you?"

"Either he has a background or he's just a fool!"

Zhou Yu thought about it and said to the Zhou family manager, "Check carefully to see if this person has any background. Find out first."

"Well, you did a good job today. Remember, you must be restrained when encountering things."

Ever since Queen Mother Zhou educated him last time, Zhou Yu has become much more restrained.

What Queen Mother Zhou said was right. Now Queen Mother Zhou is still alive, and the Zhou family can still enjoy a prosperous life, but Queen Mother Zhou is getting older and older, and it is not certain how many years she can live.

She was indebted to Emperor Hongzhi, but the Zhou family was not. Once Empress Dowager Zhou was gone, who could protect the Zhou family?

Therefore, Zhou Yu began to become low-key in his behavior during this period. Unlike the two arrogant brothers of the Zhang family, their presence in the capital is becoming weaker and weaker because they are afraid of offending others.

While Zhou Yu was investigating Chen Ce's identity, Zhou Nan also began to prepare for his own accounting school in full swing.

He took out a sum of money from the Zhou family treasury and found a construction businessman in Shuntian Prefecture. After the construction businessman contracted the project, he started construction as quickly as possible and promised Zhou Nan that the academy could be completed in about ten days.

As the Zhou family steward investigated Chen Ce in depth, he increasingly discovered that Chen Ce was no simple person.

"Old, sir."

Seeing that the old steward seemed to have encountered a ghost, Zhou Yu said unhappily: "What's wrong? Did you encounter a ghost?"

The old steward of the Zhou family shook his head and said, "No, it was the kid who tricked the young master into opening a school... He is really not a simple person! The master is wise, fortunately we didn't do anything to that kid at that time."

Zhou Yu asked in confusion: "Why? Why is it so complicated?"

The Zhou family steward said: "In just these few days, I have seen the Minister of Revenue, the Minister of Works, and the Crown Prince all visit him in his courtyard."

hiss!
Zhou Yu sucked in a breath of cold air, and the hand that was stroking his beard was so shocked that it pulled out a few strands of his beard, and he grimaced in pain!

"Who is that boy?"

The Zhou family steward shook his head and said, "I can't find out anything about this. He doesn't seem to have any status. I don't know why so many nobles would visit him."

Zhou Yu calmed down instantly.

He had originally planned to teach that brat a lesson for daring to fool his silly son... But now he had put this idea out of his mind.

It is better to resolve a feud than to create one. Harmony is the most important thing in everything. Yes, that’s it!
Seeing that Manager Zhou had not left yet, Zhou Yu could not help but ask, "Anything else?"

Manager Zhou said tremblingly: "Yes... yes."

"The two marquises of the Zhang family said outside that our young master has a mental problem, and also said that if the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked."

"They are mocking you for not teaching the young master well. I guess they have heard that the young master is going to open an accounting school."

Zhou Yu's beard trembled with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "These two bastards! They went to the southwest last time, and now they are even more arrogant. Now they don't take our Zhou family seriously at all!"

"Just because of that piece of land? They still hold a grudge against me? They are such a piece of shit!"

"If my sister hadn't told me not to cause trouble, I would have skinned them alive!"

(End of this chapter)