Chapter 46: Your Majesty, You Need to Pay More...
After Zhu Yunhuan recited the entire Thousand Character Classic backwards, the huge hall suddenly fell into deathly silence.
After a long while, a sudden applause rang out, followed by thunderous applause and noisy clapping of the table.
All the princes were celebrating the birth of a new top student in the Ohondo with great enthusiasm.
Qi Tai was also surprisingly tolerant. Instead of stopping the princes from making a fuss, he also clapped with a smile on his face.
As for Erhu, who was squatting at the door flipping through a book, when he heard the princes' cheers, he picked up a board and banged on the ground to express his ecstasy.
Zhu Yunhuan felt the warm cheers from all around him, and while he was happy, he also felt a little guilty.
He is different from Mr. Qi Taiqi. The other is a real academic master, while he is just a counterfeit product.
What if the ability to memorize in dreams cannot be reproduced, and Mr. Qi mistakenly believes that he is a real academic master, and brings him a thicker book tomorrow, won’t he cry to death?
Therefore, Zhu Yunhuan felt that he should cool down everyone so that everyone would not have too high expectations of him.
"Thank you for your compliments. I'm not as smart as you think. I spent a year memorizing this secret..."
Zhu Yunhuan's humble words immediately drew boos.
"Zhu Yunxun, you don't have to be so modest. You just learned the Thousand Character Classic last month. Where did you get a year?"
Qi Tai ruthlessly exposed Zhu Yunhuan's little lie, which once again caused laughter in the main hall.
While the princes laughed, their impression of Mr. Qi also changed greatly.
Mr. Qi is not so serious, he can still make jokes...
Zhu Yunhuan realized that he couldn't explain it clearly, so he just let them go.
Anyway, I avoided a beating today, so it’s a win anyway.
After the episode of Zhu Yunhuan reciting the Thousand Character Classic backwards ended, the inspection in the main hall continued.
However, Zhu Yunhuan had delayed too long, which had seriously delayed the normal school dismissal time.
Therefore, Qi Tai decided to use a big move and let everyone endorse it together.
When the princes heard this, they were shocked and overjoyed.
They study all kinds of subjects. If they recite together, wouldn't it be as noisy as a vegetable market, giving them the opportunity to fill in the numbers with mediocre knowledge?
However, it turned out that they were still too young.
Qi Tai was a talented man who managed to pass the imperial examination and become a top scorer in Yingtian Prefecture, a place with rich cultural heritage. How could he fail in such a small ditch like theirs?
Eight or nine princes were reciting the book together, and any mistakes or omissions would be pointed out promptly and accurately by Qi Tai.
That’s not all, after everyone had finished reciting the book, this guy actually remembered who got the answers wrong!
Generally speaking, students who make fewer than three mistakes will not be punished. They will only be ordered to go back and rewrite the paper at night and be re-examined the next day.
As for those who made more than three mistakes, he handed them over to the Jinyiwei for beating without mercy.
The Crown Prince passed away recently, and Your Majesty has no time to care about the princes' studies, which has caused the princes to slack off a lot. This is a good opportunity to improve the learning atmosphere in the main hall.
Soon, there came the sound of people hitting with sticks and screams of ghosts howling like wolves from the corridor.
When Zhu Yunhuan saw the miserable appearance of the little uncles, his face turned pale with fright.
He thought that he would not have to struggle for the rest of his life after becoming a prince. However, he never expected that the royal education would be so strict. He would be beaten so severely just for not doing his homework well!
Relatively speaking, the beating that Lao Zhu gave him yesterday was a show of mercy no matter how you look at it.
After the princes were beaten, the imperial physician immediately ran in to apply medicine, and then the young eunuchs came in and carried them back to their respective residences.
While this one-stop service was in progress, the main hall was officially closed.
Zhu Yunhuan walked towards the Prince's Mansion with a lot on his mind, while Wang De followed carefully behind him carrying a book box.
He was thinking about the few taels of silver the Crown Princess had awarded him, and whether the Crown Princess would take it back because of his own prince's sudden behavior...
Zhu Yunhuan returned to his residence and climbed into bed to sleep, wanting to try to reproduce the superpowers he had just displayed.
Maybe it was because he had just gotten enough sleep in the main hall, or for some other reason, but he tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't fall asleep.
Zhu Yunhuan suspected that the pillow was uncomfortable, so he threw the original porcelain pillow aside and put the hardcover edition of "Records of the Grand Historian" left to him by his father under his head.
After doing all this, Zhu Yunhuan still felt that something was missing. It was not until he held a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" that he lay down contentedly.
He did fall asleep this time, but after waking up from the dream, Zhu Yunhuan became even angrier.
Because he neither dreamed of "Records of the Grand Historian" nor "The Analects of Confucius", but instead dreamed of an unrelated book - Fights Break Sphere!
In his dream, he had read "Fights Break Sphere" thousands of times. Now, although he could not recite it by heart, at least he could write down the entire book word for word.
This made him very depressed and he felt that he had wasted a dream.
If he dreamed of books like Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Journey to the West, he could still make money by selling books. But isn't it a bit too advanced to dream of Battle Through the Heavens? There is no market for it in Ming Dynasty, right?
But what made him even more uncomfortable was that this golden finger had no regularity at all and was far from being able to make whatever he thought or dreamed come true.
From this point of view, it is still a bit difficult for him to pretend to be a top student...
While Zhu Yunhuan was daydreaming, he suddenly felt a rumbling sound in his stomach, followed by a surge of hunger that made him almost faint from hunger.
He instinctively felt that this was related to dreaming. If dreaming had not consumed too much energy, even though he would have been easily hungry, he would never have felt so hungry.
Zhu Yunhuan hurriedly got up from the bed, found a piece of paper and started writing quickly. After he finished writing, he handed it to Sandezi.
"San Dezi, immediately give the menu to Grandpa Xu in the imperial kitchen and tell him that I'm starving too. Ask him to prepare it quickly and send it over..."
"ah?"
"Your Highness, can they care about us?"
"able!"
"This is what Grandfather Emperor told me, they dare not disobey!"
When Wang De heard that it was the emperor's order, he no longer had any doubts and immediately ran towards the imperial kitchen.
Xu Xingzu took the note handed over by Wang De, looked at the full list of dish names on it, and couldn't help but curl his lips.
"Your Highness, the Second Imperial Grandson needs to practice your handwriting. It's bad enough that it's ugly, but there are so many typos, and some words are only written halfway..."
What Xu Xingzu complained about was the simplified Chinese characters. In the eyes of an orthodox Ming Dynasty person, aren’t simplified Chinese characters just half-written typos?
Fortunately, simplified Chinese characters evolved from traditional characters. Even if the ancients did not understand them, they could guess them almost exactly based on the correspondence between the context.
This is just like Zhu Yunhuan reading the traditional Chinese version of pornographic books in his previous life. Even though there were many characters he didn't recognize, it didn't hinder him from understanding the path of cultivating immortals.
"Steamed lamb, steamed bear paws, steamed deer tails, roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted goose..."
Xu Xingzu looked at the name of the dish carefully and was immediately shocked.
"My goodness, this guy is a glutton. He eats much more than our emperor!"
"Many of the names of the dishes above are new to me, even though I've been cooking for my whole life!"
"We don't have bear paws or deer tails in stock in our palace. And what is this hash ant? I've never heard of it."
"We do have sea cucumbers and abalone, but they are quite expensive. The emperor can only afford to eat them a few times a year..."
"If this grandson continues to eat like this, the imperial kitchen's annual budget will be gone in less than three months!"
"No, I have to talk to the Emperor about this!"
When Xu Xingzu thought of this, he immediately took Zhu Yunhuan's menu and ran to the Qianqing Palace to ask for money.
"Your Majesty, His Highness Zhu Yunhuan eats too much, you have to pay more..."
