Chapter 428: The Gradually Outrageous World
You took great pains to explain to your father what Arthas is and got him to praise you as a filial son.
You don’t know what to say, you just silently gave yourself a thumbs up, and congratulated yourself on your ability to make up stories that were so amazing that you could turn a story about a filial son into a story about a truly filial son.
However, you still got a beating.
In the seventh year, your notoriety spread from the capital to Hainan, and everyone in Ryukyu knew about it.
The main reason is that as the son of the Minister of Revenue, you are naturally hostile to almost all the upright people . In addition, you tell stories to your friends all day long and spread many popular novels that will appear in the future. Therefore, you have become a synonym for a playboy in the capital.
Some people even said that you defiled their daughter.
After hearing this accusation, you went home and pondered over it for several days, but you still couldn't figure out how these outrageous people could come up with the idea of framing a seven-year-old child for having actual advances on their young lady.
Fortunately, your father is an honest official and has been the Minister of Revenue for ten years, which means he is worth millions. There are even rumors that the emperor couldn't help but ask a question after the Jinyiwei secretly checked the list of your family's property and saw it.
"My dear, why are you so poor?"
So your notoriety means nothing to your dad.
but.
"Son."
"Speak, father."
"We may be in trouble."
"What?! Are you going to be thrown into prison?!"
"Where's my cane..."
Your father looked at you with a headache, and finally decided to tell you the truth.
"Your father has been in the position of Minister of Revenue for ten years. Your uncle Zheng, the Vice Minister of Revenue, is about to retire and return home, but he has not yet reached the position of Minister. So the Emperor intends to change my position. By the way, there have been some minor mistakes in the recent accounts, so your father has been demoted."
Your father said it very calmly, but you could feel that he was feeling very relaxed and happy.
You asked curiously.
"So you are an outsider?"
The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of money and grain, and it is very difficult to transfer money horizontally. You feel that your father may have committed some taboo, which is why he was alienated by the Emperor.
"Ah, that's not the case. Your father is now a fourth-rank left and right assistant censor, and also a junior official of the Dali Temple. In addition to being a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, your father can only receive four salaries now, and there is basically nothing to do now. Oh, I forgot to mention that I now have the title of Prince Taibao, so it is four salaries."
Your father said it in a relaxed and casual manner, without any intention of being demoted. However, you, who already knew about the official positions and unspoken rules in ancient times, looked at your father with an embarrassed look.
When your father saw you like this, he didn't even bother to hide the smugness on his face, which earned him a look of disgust from you.
But you still followed your father's idea and expressed your guess.
" Is the prince going to take charge of the government in the next few years?"
In other words, when the old emperor wanted to provide a team for his son, he would move the second-rank officer to the fourth-rank, and then add a prince's guardian.
"My son is really smart."
Your father is very happy, and if you remember correctly, this father who sent you to places like Jinshan Temple and Wulei Temple (formerly known as Sanqing Temple) for no reason is 42 years old this year.
Is this him...
And if he remembered correctly, his fiancée's sister married the prince.
In other words, you and the prince are now brothers-in-law.
"Fuck, am I now a relative by marriage?"
So you looked at your father with strange eyes.
"Didn't you ask me to be a cleansing person before?"
Your dad smiled and stroked your head.
“Times have changed.”
In the eighth year, as your father was no longer the Minister of Revenue, your reputation miraculously began to change and was no longer the kind that would cause your reputation to languish ten miles away .
Only then did you realize that your father's decision to retire at such a young age might have been intended to preserve your reputation.
but……
"You bastard, if you have nothing to do, you can go read the Spring and Autumn Annals, write a novel, or even make some charcoal to chew on."
Your father's hands were shaking as he looked at the simple sewing machine you had restored.
"Our family really can't handle this thing."
So the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace had an additional title of inventor.
And you were forced to take the daughter of an unknown minor official as your concubine.
Your father told you privately.
This is the trouble left over from the current emperor's early years.
You feel that this matter is becoming more and more outrageous.
In the ninth year, you invented the bicycle, but unfortunately, the world's steel production meant that this thing was destined to be a toy for the nobles, so there was no need to send it to your brother-in-law and brother-in-law, and turn it into your own family property.
You even managed to come up with some springs, but unfortunately for the same reason, these springs aren't very useful.
At least it doesn't mean much to industrialization.
However, because your voice has increased, your father actually gave you a field to manage, and you began to cultivate excellent seeds and experiment with grafting techniques.
You really don't know much, but you do have a lot of samples.
And we have everything you want.
Anyone who dares to gossip about you will usually be sent to the imperial prison to count ants the next day.
In the tenth year, you started to prepare for the imperial examination. Everything went smoothly because it was just a cloze test, which was not difficult at all. You passed the boy's test easily.
Your master and the prince spend all day together, and you even think they are gay.
Your friends gradually can no longer play happily with you because they also have to ask the teacher to teach them, and now it is the time when their schoolwork is the most serious.
But the most crucial thing is that party strife broke out.
Although your father stayed out of the matter early on, you still failed the provincial examination.
The six ministries no longer have the harmony they had in the early years.
Your friends are all strangers to you.
But your father still lives a very comfortable life, he even gave you a younger brother.
In the eleventh year, you tinkered with a tricycle. Although it was a beggar's version with only the gears and chains made of iron, it was a pity that it was still a toy for the nobles.
And your grafting and hybridization experimental fields have undoubtedly produced results.
There were 2,800 cases of errors.
But you still experiment tirelessly, because from these problems, you have already realized where the problem lies.
In the twelfth year, you developed a hybrid wheat with a yield slightly increased by 10%. When you thought that this was not enough, something happened that broke your three views.
You see a weirdo and a smiling, maternal woman.
To be precise, it was a man with horns on his head and a transparent stomach so that people could clearly see his intestines. He tasted your wheat and then looked at your yield.
I asked you a question.
"Young man, why don't you follow me?"
You were silent for a while, took a look at his dress and appearance, and asked a question.
"Did you really die from eating the herb?"
"No, it hurts all the time. Even if I become a god now, I still get scared every time I see it. Young man, what are you doing? Why are you hitting your head with a stone? Hey! It's bleeding!"
You didn't respond to him, but just banged your head against the stone silently.
Because your worldview has collapsed.
