Jinyi champion

Chapter 50 To go, or not to go, is the question
After Zhu Hao's words fell, even Zhu Youzhu, who had been stern and serious before, couldn't help being moved.

If it were someone else, he would say "loyalty is commendable" at most, but Zhu Hao took practical actions. When life and death were at stake in the scene of the fire, he put the only wet blanket on his son instead of himself. ...

Yuan Zonggao said with a smile: "King Xing, since ancient times a hero was born in a young age. Zhu Hao is worthy of being a loyal and good queen. He has the legacy of his father and should be rewarded."

Zhu Youzhao nodded, but remained silent. It seemed that Yuan Zonggao was letting Yuan Zonggao take full control.

"How about this, Zhu Hao, the lord appreciates your act of saving people today, and I will reward you with twenty taels of silver as a reward." Yuan Zonggao said.

"Thank you."

Zhu Hao bowed again, but his expression was calm and unmoved, as if the twenty taels of silver were not in his eyes.

That's how people are.

Orphans and widows are coerced by the family, you give me twenty taels of silver, and it doesn't end up in the hands of the Zhu family?I risked my life to save people just to fight for the twenty taels of silver for my family?

Insult who?

Yuan Zonggao had expected that Zhu Hao was not interested in this, so he continued to ask: "Zhu Hao, what are your plans for the next step?"

Zhu Hao blurted out: "I want to leave the palace, I...I want to go home."

"Oh? You don't want to stay in the palace to study?"

Yuan Zonggao was a little surprised and asked.

Zhu Hao stared at Yuan Zonggao with eyes like sizing up a monster, and said with lingering fear: "I originally wanted to go to the palace to study hard, but the people in the palace don't seem to welcome me... This time I'm lucky, I can come out of the fire, if I come again Back...please the lord and Mr. Yuan, let me leave the palace, and the reward will be forfeited."

Retreat to advance!

You, Yuan Zonggao, stop pretending in front of me and ask me what I plan to do next, why don't you just ask me if I still want to stay in the palace to spy on information?
Give some rewards, even if you repay the kindness of the savior, do you really think I am a seven-year-old child?

Yuan Zonggao sighed: "You have a great talent for reading, but it's a pity that the motive for entering the palace is not pure. The fire this time may be caused by the fall of the revolving lantern in your house. Don't think that someone is going to murder you. But since you decided to leave, then It's not convenient for the palace to keep it, so you go back and clean it up, I will prepare twenty taels of silver here, and take it with you when you leave."

"Ah."

Zhu Hao nodded heavily, not thinking about it at all.

But then a look of sadness appeared on Zhu Hao's face, and Yuan Zonggao sighed when he saw it: "The things you brought seem to have been burned by a fire, how about this, the mansion will give you another five taels of silver to buy your outfit. Alright, you go first go down."

"Students leave!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhu Hao bowed his hands and left after saluting.

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Watching Zhu Hao's figure disappear at the door of the study, Yuan Zonggao tilted his head, looked at Zhu Youzhu with a smile, and asked, "King Xing, what is your impression of him?"

Zhu Youzhao frowned slightly, shook his head, and did not answer.

"King Xing, I have a suggestion, why not leave this little guy in the palace and study with the prince in the future?" Yuan Zonggao's words surprised Zhu Youzhao.

Zhu Youzhu stared blankly and said: "Yuan Changshi, he is from Jinyiwei Zhu's family. Before you proposed to be on guard against him, it was just because he saved people in the fire, so you wanted to keep him? You didn't say that before."

Yuan Zonggao lightly stroked his long beard: "Before, I was just probing, to see if he intends to stay in the palace and whether he has any evil intentions, but he offered to leave, presumably because he was really afraid of accidents."

"Oh."

Zhu Youjian looked at Yuan Zonggao in surprise, with a strange expression, as if to say, Yuan Changshi, you actually went to test a child?Is that necessary?
"Perhaps King Xing was puzzled about keeping him. In fact, thinking about it, it would be easy to send him out of the palace, but would Jin Yiwei stop here? Of course not! Send away a child who stands in the clear and has a heart for the prince. How to deal with spies with ulterior motives?" Yuan Zonggao explained his reasons.

Zhu Youzhao got up and paced back and forth, before nodding his head after a long time.

Yuan Zonggao continued: "In the beginning, we accepted the proposal of the two little princes to select companions, so that Jin Yiwei would have the opportunity to send people in. We took targeted precautions. Now it seems that we treat Zhu Hao as if we were hiding from the plague. If you don't get the information you want, sooner or later you will find another way..."

"Based on Zhu Hao's bad relationship with the Zhu family and his loyal character, even if he contacts the prince, it won't cause any harm. On the contrary, he can pass on the information we want to send..."

Zhu Youzhu interrupted: "Yuan Changshi means... let him send some fake news from time to time?"

"Not necessarily false."

Yuan Zonggao said with a smile, "Actually, what Jin Yiwei wants to know most is the situation of the prince. As long as they think that the prince is mediocre and has no ambition to fight for power and profit, and they find that there are not many secrets in the palace, they can deal with the superiors and revitalize the palace. won’t be the target of public criticism.”

Zhu Youzhu admired Yuan Zonggao's resourcefulness and nodded in agreement.

"And Zhu Hao, I admire him very much. He is very talented, and he takes good care of his friends. If he stays in the palace and studies with the prince, it may help the prince's studies."

What Yuan Zonggao meant was that in order to become a talent, Zhu Houcong needs to grow up with people who are excellent in character and learning. Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black. If they always play chess with stinky chess baskets, even gifted children will eventually become stinky chess baskets.

Zhu Youtang was still worried: "He stays with the prince all the time, what should he do if he does something wrong? Many things are out of his control, what if someone makes him harm the prince?"

Yuan Zonggao's eyes narrowed into a slit: "Let him get in touch with the third prince more, he will not be able to distinguish the identity of the prince for a while, and then be careful... If he really intends to hurt the prince, he will not make a move this time." Save. Besides, if someone really wants to harm the son, even if it's not Zhu Hao, it's hard to guard against, isn't it?"

Zhu Youtang's face was full of sadness.

His eldest son died of illness shortly after he was born, and the cause of death is unknown until now. Zhu Hao must be more than one spy in the palace. Jin Yiwei really wants to harm people, and Xingwang's mansion can't prevent it. The main strategy now is to continue to release the mist to distract people. The true identities of Zhu San and Zhu Si are unclear.

"The lesser of two evils, King Xing, I will meet with Zhu Hao in the future, instill in him some thoughts of loyalty, and let him work for the palace, so that we can know the movements of Jinyiwei in reverse, which is much better than everything is controlled by others now. ...what do you think?"

Yuan Zonggao revealed the ultimate plan.

The biggest purpose of keeping Zhu Hao is to let him act as a double agent.

The palace should take advantage of Zhu Hao's young age and lack of knowledge to find out all the arrangements of Jin Yiwei for the palace, and change from passive to active.

Zhu Youzhu nodded and did not say anything more, which meant that Yuan Zonggao had the full power to deal with this matter.

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Zhu Hao went out the door.

Lu Song was a little nervous outside. He was afraid that Zhu Hao would not be able to withstand repeated interrogation after seeing Zhu Youzhu and Yuan Zonggao, and his identity would be revealed.

"Master Zhu, what's the matter?"

Lu Song found that no one was following, so he hurried over to ask in a low voice.

Zhu Hao spread his hands: "King Xing rewarded me with twenty taels of silver... I proposed to leave the palace and go home, and Yuan Changshi agreed."

"Uh?"

Lu Song was a little confused.

You offered to go?
Zhu Hao said: "The palace is too dangerous. If I escaped once today, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky next time. I'm just a child. I entered the palace to study... Life is much more important than studying."

Reasonable.

Lu Song nodded.

There is nothing wrong with this statement.

But if Zhu Hao really offered to leave and left the palace voluntarily, would the arson matter have anything to do with Zhu Hao?

This kid set fire just to tell others that he was in danger in the palace and had to leave early?

What Lu Song is most worried about is that Zhu Hao designed everything to stay in the palace and then mix with the little prince.

It doesn't make sense.

But he still breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. If Zhu Hao really left, no one in the palace would know his identity anymore, and he didn't have to worry about being discovered when they met secretly in the future.

"Lu Dianzhan, what are you doing in a daze? Why don't you send me out of the house soon? I was terrified today, and I'm afraid I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life." Zhu Hao looked impatient.

"Ah."

Lu Song wished he could send this little plague god out of Prince Xing's mansion.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the two of them left the backyard, a servant girl came to pass a message: "Lu Dianzhan, the prince sent you over."

Lu Song looked at Zhu Hao, and there was someone from the Imperial Palace's Yiwei Department outside the door. He immediately called his subordinates to come and send Zhu Hao to the courtyard where the craftsmen gathered, and he followed the maid to see Zhu Youzhao.

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Xingwang's study room.

"King Xing, Lu Dianzhan is here."

Yuan Zonggao said with a smile, "Today, Lu Dianzhang contributed a lot to fighting the fire...Fortunately, he is here, so the son is safe and sound."

"Ah."

Zhu Youzhu nodded, his eyes full of appreciation.

Lu Song knelt down on one knee to salute, with a look of sincerity and fear, thinking in his heart, didn't he already praised him just now?He also said that adding three months' salary is not equal to Zhu Hao's one-time reward of twenty taels of silver. It is clear that he is the first credit...

No, I wasn't the first to do it, so why do I have the heart to fight for it?

Yuan Zonggao's face suddenly darkened: "Although you have made great contributions in fighting the fire, I heard that you are also in the East Courtyard today. If you didn't know that someone set the fire in advance, you are still responsible for negligence."

Only then did Lu Song realize that the praise was fake, but the beating was real.

"Humble and incompetent."

Lu Song knelt down on one knee and kowtowed to apologize.

After all, Jian Maoying was invited to drink by him, and he went out to urinate under his nose, but ended up setting fire to it, saying that this matter had nothing to do with him, it was just a sophistry.

Lu Song's character is to admit when he is wrong.

Seeing Lu Song's performance, Yuan Zonggao was very satisfied, and nodded approvingly: "But I can't blame you for this matter, after all, no one knows that such a thing will happen...Let's leave it at that, and you can help Zhu Hao arrange it later. The place was burned down, so we arranged a residence near the palace of the palace guards, and resettled it later."

"what?"

Lu Song was stunned.

Didn't Zhu Hao say he was going to leave the palace?
Why did Yuan Zonggao say that the boy would not leave, and he still had to arrange a place for him?

"Lu Dianzhan, what doubts do you have?"

Yuan Zonggao did not expect that Lu Song would react so strongly to the fact that Zhu Hao stayed in the palace.

Lu Song immediately realized that he had lost his composure, and hurriedly explained: "I believe that although Zhu Hao has made great contributions to saving people, this fire was all caused by him. If he stays in the palace...it may add trouble in the future."

Yuan Zonggao said: "What you said is reasonable, but he has made meritorious service in saving the world. If he is sent away, it will violate the principle of clear rewards and punishments in the Woxing Palace... You don't have to have doubts, just obey orders!"

　In the new week, the Son of Heaven asks for all support!
　　
　
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