Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 413 Taking care of a baby
When Li An returned home, he was still thinking about Hai Wenren's promotion to deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

This incident was not mentioned in the original drama, but Ang Lee felt that it must have happened.

There are five Hanlin scholars in the Hai family, but that doesn't mean there are five people in the Hanlin Academy at the same time.

This is almost the same as the three generations of Yuan family in the Three Kingdoms period.

The Hanlin Academy is considered the government's think tank. How is it possible for the Hai family to have five people staying in the Hanlin Academy at the same time?

Otherwise, when the emperor asked them for advice, the five members of the Hai family were united and could influence the emperor's decision.

It is also normal for the government to eliminate Prince Yan's power.

Why is it said that leaving the crown prince position vacant is disadvantageous to the country?

Because the crown prince is uncertain, the ministers will take sides and fight with each other in order to get the person they support to the top.

Even if one side wins in the end and the losing side is eliminated and suppressed, it will cause considerable turmoil.

Prince Yan and Prince Yong had been fighting each other for several years, and each had their own group of supporters. In order to be on the safe side, the government naturally had to start cleaning them up.

Given the restrictions that the Song Dynasty imposed on the royal family, plus the government's purge, if Prince Yong did not do anything stupid, Prince Yan would not have had the slightest chance even if he had the guts to rebel.

No wonder Gu Tingye thought it was impossible when he told him this before.

I'm afraid the entire Bian Jing, including the government, thinks so.

That’s why Prince Yan’s rebellion in the original drama almost succeeded.

Now it depends on whether Prince Yong will do something stupid like in the original drama.

"Ray, what's wrong with you?"

When Li An returned home and walked into the main hall, he saw his nephew Li Rui sitting there looking unhappy.

"Uncle!"

When Li Rui saw Li An coming back, he slid down, got off the chair, ran up to him, hugged Li An's legs with a look of grievance on his face.

"What's wrong? Who bullied you?" Li An rubbed his nephew's head, picked him up and pinched his face.

Li Rui is just four years old now. His family is well-off and his chubby little face is so cute.

Upon hearing this, Li Rui buried his head in Li An's arms and said nothing.

"What's wrong with him?" Li An asked the little maid who was serving Li Rui.

The little maid was about eight or nine years old and was bought not long ago. Facing Li An's question, she said nervously, "My lord, I don't know what happened to Rui Ge'er. I asked him but he didn't tell me."

Upon hearing this, Li An carried his nephew to the couch and sat him down, letting him sit on his lap. He said, "Brother Rui, talk to your uncle. What happened? Your uncle will help you vent your anger."

Li Rui pursed his lips and tears flowed out: "Grandmother and mother don't like me anymore."

"How could that be? Your grandmother and your mother love you so much." Li An quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped his tears.

"My uncle is lying. I went to my mother's room, and my grandmother and mother told me to go out and play. They haven't played with me for a long time." Li Rui said aggrievedly.

Li An burst out laughing when he heard this. He finally understood what was going on.

Mrs. Liu loved this grandson very much. He was such a treasure that she teased him every day.

Now that the eldest sister-in-law had just given birth and was still in confinement, she was worried about the maid taking care of her, so she watched over her every day.

Li Rui is now at the age when he should be noisy. His niece was born not long ago and they were worried that Li Rui would disturb the child.

The eldest brother was busy with the restaurant business and had no time to play with him.

In the past, his grandmother and mother all revolved around him, but now he was ignored. The child was sensitive and didn't understand why, so he thought that his grandmother and mother didn't like him anymore and naturally felt very aggrieved.

Li An played with his nephew for a while, and when his nephew was happier, he told him the reason.

Tell him that his sister is still young and his grandmother and mother are busy taking care of her, it’s not that they don’t like him.

During dinner, Li An told his elder brother and mother about this matter. After their consolation, Li Rui finally believed that his grandmother and her family did not dislike him. Although Li Ping and Liu knew that they had ignored Li Rui, they had no good solution.

Li Ping is busy at the restaurant and would feel uneasy if he didn't go.

Mrs. Liu was busy taking care of her daughter-in-law who was in confinement after giving birth.

So the task of playing with Li Rui fell on Li An.

Li Ping also asked Li An to teach Li Rui how to read.

Li An thought that he didn't have anything to do, so he agreed.

The next morning, Li An took Li Rui to his study and began his teaching career.

In the blink of an eye, I have become a teacher. It’s quite funny to think about it.

But when he actually started teaching, Li An found that he had thought it was too simple.

Although there was no pinyin in ancient times, people did have their own set of methods to teach people how to recognize words.

However, Ang Lee didn't know that at all. He didn't take it seriously when he was first enlightened.

After all, he could read, but the characters used in the Song Dynasty were all traditional Chinese characters, so many of them were different.

He was just pretending to learn, and actually just remembered some unfamiliar words. He didn't learn the ancient methods of literacy at all, so how could he teach others?

If we teach him directly, Li Rui is only four years old and has no foundation at all, so the effect will be very poor.

Li An thought about it, made a few small games for the maid to play with his nephew, and started to write the pinyin himself.

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While Li An was busy writing pinyin at home, the day agreed upon by Wen Yanjing and Matchmaker Chen arrived.

That day, Tian Yanjing hired a carriage, took the things he had bought, went to pick up Chen the matchmaker, and went to the Sheng family.

The Sheng family's doormen all knew Wen Yanjing, and when they heard that he was coming to visit Sheng Hong, they sent someone to inform him and led him and the matchmaker to the main hall.

Although Sheng Hong was somewhat disappointed with Wen Yanjing, he still recognized Wen Yanjing's talents and felt that he would have a great chance of passing the exam next time.

When I heard that Wen Yanjing came with gifts, I thought that Wen Yanjing was going back home and came to say goodbye.

Without changing clothes, he went straight to the main hall.

"Teacher!" Wen Yanjing saw Sheng Hong coming in and quickly stood up and saluted.

Matchmaker Chen also bowed.

"Shigao, who... is this?"

Sheng Hong was about to say hello with a smile, but was stunned when he saw Matchmaker Chen.

"Oh, this must be the master of the Sheng family, right? I heard that the fifth daughter of the Sheng family is gentle, virtuous, and well-educated. The young master of the Wen family intends to marry her as his principal wife, so he specially asked me to come here to propose marriage." Matchmaker Chen said with a smile without waiting for Wen Yanjing to speak.

Sheng Hong was stunned at first when he heard this, then his face darkened and he looked at Wen Yanjing.

Wen Yanjing asked someone to propose marriage without informing him, which was simply forcing the emperor to abdicate.

If he doesn't agree and the news gets out, what will others think?
Others would only think that Wen Yanjing’s proposal was something he had agreed to before.

Now that he saw that Wen Yanjing had failed the exam, he regretted it.

Although he had hinted to Wen Yanjing before that if he passed the exam, he would marry his daughter to him.

But he was hinting at Molan, and Wen Yanjing could not have been unaware of this. Now the matchmaker said he wanted to marry Rulan.

Sheng Hong didn't think the matchmaker had made a mistake. This kind of thing must be checked multiple times.

This is the matchmaker's job, how could she make such a mistake?

(End of this chapter)