The Great Seminary

Chapter 253 A real man will inevitably have an unkind wife and an unfilial son!

During the Ming and Song dynasties, the highest judicial power was jointly exercised by the Court of Judicial Review, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate.

It was called a 'joint trial by three judicial departments'.

An administrative censor from the Censorate predicted that the Three Judicial Offices might not obey the imperial edict.

This indicates, in a sense, that judicial power had begun to slip out of the control of the Ming and Song emperors.

Zhang Gui paused for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully.
"I see, I understand now."

Don't worry, Brother Qing, Chu Tuantuan and I are actually very close friends.

If the Eastern Depot truly has any designs on the Zhang family of Pingyang in accordance with the imperial edict...

He would naturally pull strings and tip people off.

Zhang Jiuqing looked surprised and clapped his hands in praise:
"Your brother truly lives up to his reputation as the 'General of the Opening Ceremony' and possesses the spirit of a powerful overseas force."

Even the local chief eunuch, the head of the Eastern Depot in a prefecture, was subdued.

As your elder brother, I am ashamed of my inferiority.

“Brother Qingtang, you are a rare and outstanding minister in times of peace.”

I, your humble servant, am a 'warlord of troubled times' chosen from among thousands.

In times of peace and prosperity, you, brother, can serve the holy emperor and rule with ease, while you regulate yin and yang.

The achievements you will attain in the future are naturally beyond the reach of someone like me.

But alas, these are chaotic times.

Zhang Gui replied leisurely upon hearing this.

Zhang Jiuqing's hand, gripping the wine glass, showed prominent veins, yet he smiled calmly.

“It’s the time and the situation.

"Now, our Zhang family of Pingyang ultimately needs your protection, brother."

Zhang Gui glanced at the back of his hand, laughed, and said no more.

He thought to himself, "Zhang Jiuqing is going to get me today. He used to be so arrogant and difficult to study."

"You infuriating bastard!"

Just then, Zhang Bawang, being carried on the back of a burly servant, was accompanied by two maids who were gesturing and telling the servant carrying him to walk faster.
After a while, the strong servant, who had made sure Sun Suzi's steps were light and not too bumpy, returned home.

Zhang Gui hurriedly got up.

After performing the proper New Year's greetings and reciting a few lines of a 'joyful song,' he inquired with concern about Zhang Bawang's injuries.

From the day he was born until now, for the past eighteen years, from the day he could hop and skip around on the street, he has visited Zhang Bawang's house to pay New Year's greetings every year.

However, before the age of fifteen, he was a brat who was disliked by dogs and cats.

After the age of fifteen, his status became more and more important each year, until now he has become one of the most important people in the entire family.

Naturally, the treatment became very different from before.

The hostess, Sun Suzi, hurriedly helped Zhang Gui to his feet.

The male master, Zhang Bawang, hurriedly asked his strong servant to put him down, and stood on one leg, saying that he was fine.

You'll be fine after resting for two or three days.

"Uncle Bawang, it's good that you didn't break any bones. But if you have any more bumps or bruises in the future, you might as well ask a doctor to come to your home to treat you."

Otherwise, if the wound is touched again, it would only worsen the injury.

"That's what I said too. Jiuqing even went to invite the doctor himself last night."

It's all agreed that the doctor will come again today to change the dressing.

As a result, your Uncle Bawang insisted that there were few doctors willing to see patients during the Lunar New Year and that he was unwilling to trouble him to come to your door again.

"They insist we go to the clinic ourselves to change the dressing; I don't know what they're after."

"I see.

Uncle Bawang's insight is the right path to "a family that accumulates blessings will surely have abundant joys".

My nephew's thinking is too simplistic.

Zhang Gui sincerely praised him. He then told Zhang Bawang and Sun Suzi about the comfortable life he had fabricated in the Yuanshan Empire's "Great Wolf Capital".

After all, he couldn't very well tell the truth that his friend was acting a bit crazy, locking himself in a nearly empty room, doing nothing but eating, sleeping, and daydreaming.

That would cost the lives of Zhang Bawang, the father, and Sun Suzi, the mother!
They talked in this rambling, vague way for a full hour, until Zhang Bawang's legs were too sore to continue, and Zhang Guicai took his leave.

As a result, it took him only a short while to get back to his home in Youyufang.

Zhang Jiuqing also casually came to Zhang Gui's house to offer New Year's greetings.

Upon entering the courtyard, with the gate still open, he immediately prostrated himself three times at the feet of Tsuneo Dorje.

Even as Tsurugi was repeatedly saying, "There's no need for that, there's no need for that,"...

He solemnly explained that when his younger brother Zhang Jiujiang was alive, he performed the full ceremony when he visited to offer New Year's greetings, so he could only offer half the ceremony in return.

However, since Zhang Jiujiang did not return home for the New Year this year, he will have to perform a grand ceremony when visiting to offer New Year's greetings again.

These words were reasonable and well-founded, but Zhang Gui, who was standing to the side, grimaced at the sound.

Just because of that one moment.

Zhang Jiuqing, the former Imperial Censor of Dongyuehai Province, was not only a paternal cousin of the Stone Corpse Prince and the Dragon Tiger General.

Moreover, the rumor that they were close family friends and had a close relationship is considered to be true.

You should know that in wealthy and powerful families, there are thousands upon thousands of relatives and friends.

Being of the same clan or lineage and having a very deep personal relationship are two completely different concepts.

Sometimes you can't even get close to someone you want to climb up to.

But the elders in Zhang Gui's family and the elders in Chang Jiuqing's family are actually old friends.

When Zhang Gui was fifteen, he left school to make a living, and his first job was as a shop assistant in the overseas town of Blackwood.

After that, he completed in just six months what others might not be able to do in a lifetime, and became the steward of Blackwood Town.

It was because Tsuneo-do-gei was carrying two jars of stinky shrimp paste that she found Sun Su-zi and Zhang Ba-wang and his wife.

Zhang Bawang 'helped' by taking advantage of Chang Jiuqing's influence.

Since these "hometowns" have such a relationship, what can their descendants do?

We can only let things take their course.

In short, we spent the first day of the Lunar New Year in a busy manner, with each person paying respects to their elders and the other to their mother.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, according to custom, we visit our maternal grandmother's house.

Zhang Gui had long since lost his maternal grandmother, so he naturally didn't need to go through any hardship.

However, his two maternal aunts' daughters, who were married far away, never had the custom of visiting their parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

But in the last two years, they suddenly appeared, and last year there was only one, but this year there are several.

There was also a new 'project' where the children were specially instructed to kowtow to their uncles in a warm and respectful manner to wish them a Happy New Year.

I beg the Crown Prince's uncle to grant me a promising future.

Five or six-year-old kids, still wet behind the ears, with snot running down their noses even in the dead of winter, what kind of future do they want?

Zhang Gui was so dizzy from the noise that he felt lightheaded.

He could only give out several red envelopes containing silver notes, and promised that when the children grew up, he, as their uncle, would definitely make arrangements, and only then did he manage to get through it.

Later, during dinner.

Several brothers-in-law, whose faces were so unrecognizable, took turns expressing their gratitude and trying to curry favor with him.

And the attitudes of his two aunts, who had watched him grow up, have subtly changed without him even realizing it.

Even her five younger cousins ​​were starting to show subtle differences.

Zhang Gui then suddenly realized Amu's 'brilliance' and recalled a common saying:
A real man will inevitably have an unkind wife and an unfilial son!

He silently thought to himself:

"What kind of bullshit family relationship is this?!"
A meal between relatives turned into this.

What the hell is this?!

(End of this chapter)