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

Chapter 71 Looking for trouble

The sky was gloomy, and it was only sunset when it was already dark outside.

Chen Ce lit the lights in the central hall. After the renovation, the house looked much more refined. Chen Ce took out the Longjing tea given to him by Zhu Houzhao to entertain Li Zhen.

The two chatted idly. Li Zhen had no idea what Chen Ce wanted to talk to her about, so she just kept drinking tea in awkwardness.

Suddenly, the gate outside was kicked open with a loud bang.

Li Zhen narrowed his eyes. He finally understood why Chen Ce asked him to come.

It turned out that he knew someone would come to cause trouble and wanted to support him.

Li Zhen smiled bitterly and looked at Chen Ce. He did not leave immediately, but asked: "Is the other party an official? A noble? Or a gentry?"

Chen Ce asked him, "Which of these three can you handle?"

Li Zhen said: "He is a scholar and a juren, and he has no connections to rely on."

"I have to consider whether someone has some official connections or not."

He is not a fool. The fact that he could become a third-rank official in the Embroidered Uniform Guard is enough to show that he has good political wisdom.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Jinyiwei sounded glorious. That was in the past. At least in the current dynasty, the power of the Jinyiwei was infinitely reduced. As long as the other party was a civil servant, Li Zhen, a third-rank Jinyiwei, would not want to cause trouble.

Chen Ce felt sad for this once-popular minion from the bottom of his heart. The emperor clearly had such a sharp knife, but in the end it could only be left in the treasury to rust.

Today's Jinyiwei can only play the role of the emperor's eyes and ears, but... that's enough.

Chen Ce smiled and said, "The other party is neither an official nor a nobleman, but a commoner."

"Is that all?" Li Zhen glanced at Chen Ce and thought to himself, don't fool me.

Chen Ce said: "That's all. If I lied to you, I think our relationship would be over. Do you think I would be so stupid?"

Li Zhen chewed over Chen Ce's words with interest, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

He now seemed to understand why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took a liking to this kid. He spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, his logic was impeccable, and his words were as refreshing as a spring breeze. Although they were not aggressive, they could convince you.

"Come out!"

The man outside said in a somewhat irritable voice, "Are you proud of being a cuckold?"

"Get out! Quickly!"

Chen Ce smiled bitterly, then walked out with his hands behind his back. He closed the door indifferently. If he was kicked twice more, the door would probably be kicked over.

Chen Ce went to open the door.

Then, Nie's son kicked into the air and fell directly from the sky, landing on his buttocks in mid-air with a look of extreme pain.

But he was now burning with rage, so he could only hold back the pain and still keep a fierce expression on his face.

He looked extremely conflicted and complicated.

"Wu Jue!" Madam Wu scolded harshly.

Wu Jue ignored him and stared at Chen Ce coldly, threatening: "Are you the one who's thinking about my sister?"

"Did I give you this sickly face?"

"Why don't you take a piss and look at your own behavior? What qualifications do you have to think about my sister?"

"Move out of here tomorrow and find a place to live. If you dare to look at my sister or say a word, I will break your legs. Do you believe me?"

Madam Wu stood behind him, her eyes gloomy and cold, her hands clenched into fists inside her robe, her face frighteningly gloomy. She then changed her fists into palms, and just as she was about to take action, Li Zhen next to Chen Ce spoke.

"You are going too far."

"I'll be fair..."

Wu Jue pointed at Li Zhen's nose and said, "Can you tell me something fair? Who do you think you are?"

Li Zhen looked at Chen Ce helplessly, and Chen Ce shook his head speechlessly.

This is a big, brainless, rough-and-tumble guy who is not afraid of getting into trouble.

Of course, perhaps the Nie mother and son never took Chen Ce seriously, nor did they think that Chen Ce could know any important people. Chen Ce lamented, "You'd better not be impulsive. My friend works for the Jinyiwei."

"Haha."

"hehe."

Wu Jue smiled unkindly, and then said to Nie behind him: "Mom, did you hear that? He, he is bluffing me."

"I've never seen such a cowardly person, haha."

"You can tell such a lie, and you are a member of the Jinyiwei? If he is a member of the Jinyiwei, then who am I? I am Ji Gang, the ancestor of the Jinyiwei!"

Li Zhen's expression changed slightly.

Ji Gang might not look very impressive in front of outsiders, but he is still quite respected within the Jinyiwei. There is even a portrait of Ji Gang hanging in the Jinyiwei Hall. How can a mere commoner like you insult that?
Nie sneered, "Why waste so much time talking to him? What Jinyiwei bastard, just slap him in the face!"

"When the authorities investigated, they said he intended to rape my daughter."

Chen Ce has witnessed the most vicious heart of a woman.

"I'm going to smash your Jinyiwei's dog head to pieces...ahh ...

"Let me go!"

"It hurts!"

Li Zhen grabbed Wu Jue's wrist and kicked him hard, causing Wu Jue to fly into the air again.

Not long after, Li Zhen came back from the central hall with a knife in his hand, the Xiuchun Knife.

There was a gold-plated badge on the waist: Northern Pacification Office.

After seeing these two things, Wu Jue and Nie's faces turned pale.

Really, is it really the Jinyiwei?

No, why is he serious? Does he really know Jinyiwei?
"How to deal with it?" Li Zhen asked Chen Ce with a sidelong glance.

Chen Ce asked, "How do you usually deal with criminals who are looking for trouble and disrespecting your Jinyiwei ancestors?"

Li Zhen shook his head and said, "I have never handled such a case, but a few beatings and imprisonment in the imperial prison for ten days or half a month should be about the same."

Hearing this, Nie's face turned even paler.

Chen Ce hummed and said, "Then we should deal with it severely and strictly?"

Li Zhen nodded and said, "Okay."

He slowly came to Wu Jue, picked him up like a chicken, and said sternly: "Follow me to the Northern Pacification Office!"

Wu Jue was so scared that he was trembling. He kept begging for mercy and said, "I, I was just joking."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I was just joking, please don't take me to the Imperial Prison!"

When Mrs. Wu saw that Chen Ce was safe, she didn't want to care about her brother's life or death and returned to the courtyard alone.

Nie was terrified. She had never seen the Jinyiwei in her life. She was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. Now she suddenly reacted and knelt on the ground begging Chen Ce for mercy, "Sir, please be magnanimous and spare my son. He didn't mean it."

Chen Ce looked at the old woman and said calmly, "He almost broke my door."

Nie quickly took out a few dozen coins and gave them to Chen Ce, saying, "I'll pay you back. Is this enough?"

Chen Ce nodded and said, "That's enough."

"Then, then my son."

Chen Ce looked at Nie in confusion and asked, "He was captured by the Jinyiwei. Are you going to the Northern Pacification Office to find the Jinyiwei? Don't you know the way?"

How dare I go there!

"Sir, I beg you to let him go."

Chen Ce glanced at him indifferently, closed the door, listened to the banging sounds outside, and silently returned to his study to write.

(End of this chapter)