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

Chapter 419 Zhang doesn't play with ugly people
Zhan Ruoshui went to the central hall and found Chen Ce.

Chen Ce looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with some curiosity, and asked doubtfully: "Do we know each other?"

Zhan Ruoshui said: "Please come with me, sir. Someone wants to see you."

Chen Ce: “?”

He asked Madam Wu to take care of Xiaohua, and told Zhu Houzhao and the Zhang brothers not to embarrass themselves again, and then went out with Zhan Ruoshui.

Phew, in fact, Chen Ce had wanted to part ways with this group of people a long time ago, he really couldn't afford to lose face.

Zhu Houzhao and the Zhang brothers looked at each other with a black question mark in their eyes.

What do you mean? What do you mean we are embarrassed? How have we embarrassed ourselves?

Being able to come to Lun Wenxu's wedding banquet is giving Lun Wenxu enough face, okay!

On the road.

Zhan Ruoshui introduced himself. After hearing his name, Chen Ce looked at him seriously. Another founder of the School of Mind?

Part of Wang Shouren's theory of mind was inherited from Zhan Ruoshui's doctrine.

Chen Ce then remembered that Zhan Ruoshui was from Guangzhou Prefecture, and Lun Wenxu was also from Guangzhou, so it was normal for them to recognize each other.

Zhan Ruoshui frowned and glanced at Chen Ce, then said to him in a teaching tone, "May I ask which government office you belong to?"

Chen Ce thought for a moment and said, "I used to be an official in the Ministry of Finance, but now I have no official position."

Zhan Ruoshui nodded. This coincided with his thought. He thought that Chen Ce was either a scholar or an official.

"Since you are a scholar, you should also understand etiquette and be magnanimous."

Zhan Ruoshui said: "I know you are unwilling, but things have come to this point, and the result can't change anything. Why embarrass others and yourself?"

Chen Ce: “Ah?”

"what are you saying?"

Zhan Ruoshui shook his head in disappointment and said, "Since you are stubborn, then forget it. I am just a scholar, so naturally I cannot convince you. Just follow me."

In Zhan Ruoshui's opinion, Chen Ce was clearly pretending to be ignorant even though he knew the truth.

He clearly brought people to the wedding banquet to take revenge and cause trouble, and now you are pretending that everything has nothing to do with you, right?

Since you are an official, it will be easy. Uncle Cheng happens to be an official in the Ministry of Rites. I hope you can still say this when you see Uncle Cheng.

Any official in Beijing does not want to offend the Ministry of Rites, which is composed of a group of quasi-cabinet officials. If the Ministry of Personnel was the head of all officials before, now it is the Ministry of Rites.

Chen Ce had no idea what Zhan Ruoshui was talking about, and followed him to Cheng Minzheng in confusion.

Cheng Minzheng looked at Chen Ce in astonishment and asked suspiciously, "Chun Jian, why are you here?"

Chen Ce said: "Lord Liang sent me an invitation."

Cheng Minzheng frowned, as if he understood Liang Chu's intention, and shook his head slightly, saying, "Humph, this Liang Chu is really scheming. If you really mean that, how can his favorite student get married?"

No.

Zhan Ruoshui stared at the two of them with a puzzled look on his face. "Uncle Cheng, shouldn't you teach this kid a lesson? What does this mean now?"
"Uncle Master, he was the one who deliberately disrupted Bo Chou's wedding."

Zhan Ruoshui reminded Cheng Minzheng.

Cheng Minzheng: “?”

"You said Chun Jian disrupted the order of the wedding?"

Zhan Ruoshui nodded and said, "Yes."

Cheng Minzheng was a little unhappy and snorted, "What you said is a bit too much."

"What order did Chun Jian disrupt? The daughter of Ning Cheng's family and Chun Jian were engaged as children, but it was Ning Junrui who didn't like Chun Jian, so the marriage was called off."

"If Chun Jian hadn't torn up the marriage certificate, it wouldn't be Lun Wenxu's turn now!" Why is Zhan Ruoshui getting more and more confused? This is not what Master Liang said.

"And with Chun Jian's current status and position, does he really need to disrupt order and do such a despicable thing? If he really didn't want Lun Wenxu to get married, could Liang Chu and Lun Wenxu get married today?"

hiss!
Zhan Ruoshui took a deep breath. From what Master Cheng said, this person's identity and status were not simple!

Cheng Minzheng is still a little unhappy. He felt cheated when he recruited Ning Cheng to the Ministry of Rites! If he had known that the marriage between Ning Cheng's daughter and Chen Ce was cancelled, would he have promoted Ning Cheng to the Ministry of Rites? How could he be qualified to jump two levels and enter the Ministry of Rites?

Chen Ce now probably understood what was going on. It turned out that Zhan Ruoshui and Liang Chu both thought that he was here to disrupt the wedding.

Logically speaking, it wasn't Zhan Ruoshui's fault. Looking at the looks of Zhu Houzhao and the Zhang brothers, anyone would have thought they were there to cause trouble.

Despite Chen Ce's repeated explanations, Zhan Ruoshui was still skeptical.

"Okay Yuanming, I think there is a misunderstanding. You go first. I will talk to Chunjian for a while."

Zhan Ruoshui uttered an 'oh' sound, feeling a little embarrassed, but still bowed his hands to apologize to Chen Ce, saying, "Mr. Chen, I misunderstood and was rude. I am really sorry for what happened just now."

Chen Ce shook his head and said, "It's okay."

Cheng Minzheng took Chen Ce and walked slowly to a secluded place in the backyard. He then asked Chen Ce with concern, "Are you feeling better?"

Chen Ce sighed and said, "No."

Cheng Minzheng sighed and asked Chen Ce, "Did Liang Chu really invite you here? Or do you just can't forget this marriage?"

Chen Ce: “…”

"Liang Chu really invited me here. I'm afraid he has the same idea as you, so he deliberately asked me to come here to stop him... But I really don't have this idea!"

Cheng Minzheng smiled and said, "Don't blame Liang Chu. His behavior just shows that he is not confident. He knows that with your current status and position, this wedding could be cancelled at any time if you want."

Chen Ce hummed and said, "I don't blame him."

"What about you?" Cheng Minzheng asked, "Are you not planning to get married?"

Chen Ce was silent for a long time before he said, "Let's talk about it later."

If Cheng Minzheng had asked this before, Chen Ce would definitely shake his head and say no, but it is different now.

He didn't know whether he should marry Wu Shuxian. He was afraid that he would die soon after marrying her, leaving her alone in the world, and it would be extremely difficult to get married again in the future.

It's not that he didn't know what Madam Wu meant to him, he really didn't want to delay Madam Wu.

If it were in later generations, perhaps Madam Wu could remarry, but this was the Ming Dynasty, where etiquette and laws were strictly enforced. It would not be easy to remarry, and how sad it would be to be alone all her life!

……

After drinking for more than thirty minutes, Lun Wenche was a little drunk. He found the Zhang brothers and said with a red face: "My brother is the top scholar of the dynasty. The people at the banquet today must be well-educated people."

"You guys?"

The Zhang brothers burped, looked up to the sky and laughed, saying, "Nonsense!"

"Who is not a learned man? Why?"

Zhu Houzhao wanted to pull his two drunk uncles aside, thinking to himself, "Stop bragging. Are you the only ones who think you are well-educated?"
Lun Wenche laughed and said, “Good!”

"Then I will show you how to write a couplet, sir."

Zhang Heling laughed and said, "You really made a fool of yourself! But I won't write couplets with ugly people."

Zhu Houzhao: "..."

Madam Wu: “…”

Lun Wenche: “…”

(End of this chapter)