CH 103

During the day, after Su Moxiu went to the Ministry of Justice, Yan Jingze had nothing to do so he just kept reading.

When he got home at night, he also took out the book to read again.

Reading and reading…Yan Jingze misses Su Moxiu again.

Is Su Moxiu reading the same book as him right now?

Thinking about it like this, the boring law book becomes interesting!

It’s just the punishments in this book…He always felt that they were too extreme.

But in such an ancient world, severe punishment is normal.

Yan Jingze looked at it for a while, then suddenly thought of something.

He can try his best to occupy Su Moxiu’s time when he is not going to the Ministry of Justice, but he has no idea what Su Moxiu did in the Ministry of Justice.

If possible, wouldn’t it be better for him to go to the Ministry of Justice?

The more Yan Jingze thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea.

At the same time, Su Moxiu made a decision—he wanted to do something practical as soon as possible!

Today when he went to the Ministry of Justice, the officials there greeted him with smiles, but they didn’t let him do anything.

He has to change this situation!

In a blink of an eye, it was the second day.

Yan Jingze was afraid that Su Moxiu would have to wait for him if he went early, so he went out earlier than yesterday, but when he arrived at the agreed place, he saw Su Moxiu walking towards him.

Su Moxiu also came early, they arrived at the same time again!

Today, Yan Jingze took Su Moxiu to another restaurant to eat breakfast.

That restaurant was opened by the third prince, it sells a lot of fresh food, such as milk tea and bread.

This restaurant is very high class. The original owner had visited this restaurant quite a few times before. After entering, Yan Jingze ordered preserved egg porridge with lean meat, milk tea, bread, deep-fried pork chops and a few snacks.

“This restaurant’s taste is the same, but the cleanliness is better!” Yan Jingze said, “They also come out with new dishes from time to time. Today’s fried prawns is something I didn’t have when I came here before. It’s very rare.”

The fried prawns use very large prawns. It’s difficult to buy such prawns in the capital, so they are not available every day.

Yan Jingze picked up a prawn for Su Moxiu: “Try it quickly.”

This restaurant is divided into two floors. The ground floor is full of rare long tables, and the second floor is a private room. One has to pay an extra fee for eating in the private rooms.

Yan Jingze was not short of money, so he directly asked for a room.

There were only the two of them in the room. Su Moxiu ate a fried prawn then asked, “Your highness, how do you plan to resolve Cai Tinghe’s matters?”

Yan Jingze almost forgot about Cai Tinghe. He blinked his eyes and said: “Let him go.” He will try his best to repair the problem in the small world, but he never cared about the world’s operation and those creatures’ life and death.

“Your highness, his majesty values you, but he certainly doesn’t want to see you and the Crown Prince fight against each other. You must find a way to clean up the dirty water that others poured on you…” Cai Tinghe’s accident can indeed hit the crown prince, but his majesty does not want anything to happen to Cai Tinghe.

Su Moxiu considered his words, then said something he had seen and heard from being around Emperor Chengde before and advised Yan Jingze.

Judging from what he observed, Emperor Chengde’s two favorite sons should be the crown prince and the fifth prince.

It’s just that the crown prince is old and cautious in his words and deeds, so he is not very close to Emperor Chengde.

This year, Emperor Chengde asked the crown prince to handle government affairs, not to mention the frequent mistakes made by the crown prince, the people around him were always caught doing something, so Emperor Chengde became more and more dissatisfied with the crown prince.

But Emperor Chengde hadn’t given up on the crown prince yet, at most he hated that iron is not steel.

As for the fifth prince…the fifth prince was not close to Emperor Chengde and even framed his elder brother, Emperor Chengde naturally became more furious.

Su Moxiu felt that if the fifth prince could repair his relationship with Emperor Chengde and make the crown prince make more mistakes, it would be possible if he wanted to be the crown prince.

Yan Jingze was too lazy to care about those power struggles.

However, it was Su Moxiu who said this now, so he listened very carefully.

“Your highness, you should now hide your strength and bide your time. The second prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince are all eyeing the crown prince. If you get involved, you will easily be used as their weapon…After all, you are the empress’s son and a thorn in their side.” Su Moxiu said.

Listening to what Su Moxiu said, Yan Jingze suddenly realized that if someone other than the crown prince succeeds to the throne, his wish to be an idle king and live to be a hundred years old may not necessarily come true.

Among other things, if something happens to the crown prince, as the empress’s only son, he will definitely be targeted.

Even if he said he ‘can’t do’ and had no interest in the throne, others might not believe it.

“You’re right,” Yan Jingze looked at Su Moxiu, “but don’t call me ‘You You You’, I’m not used to it. You call me…call me ‘Jingze’, this is my courtesy name.”

Yan Jingze liked this name that suddenly came to him.

This name may have been born with him, but he may only recently remember it.

Su Moxiu smiled softly: “Jingze.”

He said a lot of things he knew when he was with Emperor Chengde, it was a good deal to exchange for the opportunity to call the fifth prince’s ‘courtesy name’.

Parties involved might be unclear on many matters but those spectators could see clearly. Su Moxiu was afraid that Yan Jingze would do something wrong, so he quoted scriptures and said a lot about father, son, monarch, and ministers.

Listening to these, Yan Jingze decided to find an opportunity to talk to the crown prince, and make the crown prince cultivate a father-son relationship with Emperor Chengde.

As for him…he wants to go to the Ministry of Justice!

That day, after Su Moxiu went to the Ministry of Justice, Yan Jingze rushed into the palace. He found Emperor Chengde and said that he wanted to go to the Ministry of Justice.

“Why do you suddenly want to go to the Ministry of Justice?” Emperor Chengde frowned and looked at Yan Jingze, “Because of Su Moxiu?”

When he suspected his son before, he arranged for people to follow him, and he still hasn’t withdrawn those people.

Therefore, he knew exactly what Yan Jingze had done in the past two days.

This son of his is suddenly so attentive to Su Moxiu, in the past, he would have suspected him of plotting something bad.

However, thinking about it now…When Su Moxiu was by his side, his son didn’t talk to Su Moxiu very much, but now that Su Moxiu went to the Ministry of Justice, he suddenly responded…There must be other reasons, right?

“Yes.” Yan Jingze said.

“What’s going on with you? Why did suddenly fixate on Su Moxiu?” Emperor Chengde asked.

“I just suddenly felt that he looks good.” Yan Jingze said.

When Emperor Chengde said that his son was ‘fixated’ on Su Moxiu, he only said that simply and didn’t think about anything else.

But now that Yan Jingze said this, he suddenly realized that what his son meant was different from what he thought.

Emperor Chengde took a deep breath, and then said: “Su Moxiu is really good-looking. Three years ago, he won first place, and the threshold of the Su family was almost trampled down. I don’t know how many people saw him and wanted him to be their son-in-law. King Chen came to me and wanted me to be a matchmaker to marry Princess Qinghe to him…”

“No!” Yan Jingze said without hesitation.

Su Moxiu must never marry a wife and have children!

Emperor Chengde reacted when he saw Yan Jingze react fiercely, his face sank: “Do you really like men?”

Yan Jingze thought for a moment and said, “Yes.” He didn’t think much about it before, but now he deeply realized one thing – he didn’t want Su Moxiu to marry someone else.

Maybe, maybe, he was…He was really influenced by the original owner, who liked men, so he fell in love with Su Moxiu.

Emperor Chengde suddenly thought of those things from the past: “The Jiang Qi before that…” His son kept looking for Jiang Qi before, could it be because he fell in love with Jiang Qi?

Yan Jingze hurriedly said: “I don’t like that one now!”

If you don’t like that one now, it means you liked him before!

So his son actually fell in love with Jiang Qi before?

Also, besides Jiang Qi, his fifth son used to look at another candidate who joined the imperial examination. On the day of the palace examination, he specially went to see that person. He definitely has the best appearance and is very tall among the group of scholars.

Jiang Qi should also look good.

As for the courtiers his son befriended…Those people can’t be called courtiers, his son just loves to join the low-level high rank palace guards.

The palace guards are different from other places. Generally, only the children of officials can be guards.

Although these people can’t read well, most of them…look good.

These days, ordinary people don’t have enough to eat, no warm clothes, and their looks are not much better. What about these people? Their father was an official, and even if their ancestors were not officials, at least they were well-off land owners. Their mother’s looks were naturally not bad, and they were well-raised since they were young, making them even more handsome.

When Emperor Chengde understood this matter, his heart immediately ached.

His son can’t do that, but he also likes men. This means he will…bend under others?

Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Qi and the others, one by one, all look very strong!

In comparison, Su Moxiu is the most beautiful one, but Su Moxiu is tall and slender, no one will mistake him for a woman.

Speaking of which, Su Moxiu was too young before, so his face was still immature, that’s why his son didn’t take a fancy to him until now, right?

Emperor Chengde took a few deep breaths, and then asked: “Why did you suddenly fall in love with Su Moxiu? And you and those other people, do you and them…have any…are you physically close?”

“When I saw Su Moxiu in the imperial study room a few days ago, I suddenly fell in love with him. As for me and the others…Emperor father, we are all innocent.” Yan Jingze said, “They all like women.”

Emperor Chengde: “…” Fortunately, those people like women, otherwise…

Emperor Chengde felt a little ashamed, but when he thought of his son’s illness, he couldn’t blame him anymore.

“And most of them have already married, so I was just looking.” Yan Jingze expressed the original owner’s thoughts.

The original owner was not interested in people who had already married. At that time, when he was in contact with those people, he only had the thought that he couldn’t eat but he could still look.

“What about Su Moxiu?”

“Su Moxiu isn’t married! And he treats me very well.” Yan Jingze said.

Emperor Chengde was speechless for a moment.

This son is really too worrisome!

If he let others know about it, where would he put his face!

“Emperor father, can I go to the Ministry of Justice?” Yan Jingze asked again.

Emperor Chengde said: “No way!”

Yan Jingze: “…”

Emperor Chengde drove Yan JingZe out. Yan Jingze thought about it, then went to find the empress.

On the other side…Emperor Chengde called the prince over: “You…you don’t know how to control your brother!”

He had no one who he could talk to beside the crown prince.