246 BC, the first year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang in Zhu Xiang's previous life.
In this life, Ying Xiaozheng was born four years earlier. He was already a handsome young man of seventeen and was still the Crown Prince of Qin.
At his age, he should have a few people to warm his bed.
But Zhu Xiang felt that his own son Zheng was still young, and Zichu must have been considering the matter of Ying Xiaozheng's concubine, so he could not interfere and did not mention the matter.
Xue Ji did suggest to Zhu Xiang that Ying Xiaozheng should get married, and Zhu Xiang convinced her.
Although Ying Xiaozheng was raised by them, he is the prince after all. His backyard heirs are all important affairs of the Qin State, and there must be many conflicts of interest, not just a person who knows the cold and the warm.
As Ying Xiaozheng's adoptive father and mother, Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji have already had a profound influence on Ying Xiaozheng and are not allowed to interfere in Ying Xiaozheng's backyard anymore.
Xue Ji sighed, feeling a little uncomfortable.
As a mother, she was looking forward to seeing her child get married and have children when he grew up. But now she could only wait helplessly, not knowing when Xianyang would be able to come up with a conclusion.
Xue Ji was extremely worried and wanted to ask Zhu Xiang to urge them, but she was also worried about what Zhu Xiang would say: "The court thinks that we have too much influence on the prince and it is not good for his growth", so she had to endure it.
She was feeling irritated, so she left Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng behind and buried herself in her work.
Ying Xiaozheng had no idea what his uncle and aunt were worried about.
Although he is indeed as old as young Mu Ai now, I don’t know if he is too busy to think about those things, or if most of his hobbies outside of work are focused on eating. Although Ying Xiaozheng has maids to take care of him, he has never thought of taking a concubine.
Moreover, he thought the same as Zhu Xiang. The people in his room must have many conflicts of interest, and his king and father must have been considering it.
The Qin State had long been isolated from the Central Plains culture. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, the succession was not based on the eldest son, but on the virtuous. Although this had little to do with "virtue".
The dethronement and enthronement of the Qin monarchs was once controlled by the country's great nobles for a long time.
Before King Huiwen of Qin, the highest official position in Qin was called "Shuzhang". Shuzhang often forced to death or deposed the kings they were dissatisfied with, and established the youngest son or the exiled prince of Qin as the king. Therefore, the kings of Qin rarely had wives.
Since the political reforms carried out by Duke Xian of Qin in the Warring States Period and the Shang Yang Reforms carried out by Duke Xiao of Qin, the monarchs of Qin truly took control of state power, frequently engaged in political marriages, and the number of records of their principal wives increased.
However, not every king of Qin had a wife. Most of them would only have a wife when there was a need for political marriage.
Sometimes the King of Qin or the Prince of Qin would not appoint a principal wife for many years. Many years later, he would choose the most favored one among the many women in the backyard, or the heir's biological mother as his principal wife.
The former is like Lady Huayang, and the latter is like Zhao Ji, the biological mother of Ying Xiaozheng.
In Ying Xiaozheng's dream, the great Ying Zheng ascended the throne too early. When it was time for him to appoint a wife, there was no longer a need for a political marriage, so the throne of queen remained vacant.
However, Ying Xiaozheng probably guessed who his wife would be in this life.
Perhaps it was because that person died too early, and Emperor Ying Zheng's memory of her was already very vague. She was a relative of Lady Huayang, a woman with the surname Mi.
Originally, in the dream, King Ying Zheng should have made a woman with the surname Mi his queen, so Lord Changping and Lord Changwen, who were from the royal family of the Chu State, would help King Ying Zheng to quell the rebellion of Lao Ai.
But after she gave birth to Fusu, she became bedridden. Emperor Ying Zheng said that he would raise the issue after she got better, but she died before she could be made queen.
Because of the incident with Queen Mother Zhao, Emperor Ying Zheng was very disgusted with the harem and the relatives of the emperor interfering in politics. Since he was going to destroy the six kingdoms, there was no need to form an alliance with other kingdoms, so Emperor Ying Zheng happily stopped considering the matter of establishing a queen.
When Ying Xiaozheng watched the memories of Da Yingzheng in his dream, the memories that Da Yingzheng had a deep impression of were clear, while the memories that Da Yingzheng had a shallow impression of were vague. Therefore, he did not have much impression of Da Yingzheng's concubines and children.
Anyway, he would still recruit noble ladies from the six countries into his harem to appease the old nobles of the six countries, so there would be no shortage of women in the backyard. Now he was too lazy to think about these things.
I just wonder if my uncle and aunt will be so angry that they will curse at me if I give them too many grandchildren to take care of.
Ying Xiaozheng knew that he would have many children in the future and would not have to worry about an heir. Although it seemed that the elder Ying Zheng could not choose a suitable heir, he had his uncle and aunt to help take care of the children, so he did not have to worry about getting married and having children.
Compared to women and children, Ying Xiaozheng now just wants to conquer Nanchu as soon as possible.
He wants to go to the army secretly!
If his uncle said he didn't want to go, then he didn't have to go? He knew his uncle was right, a gentleman wouldn't stand under a dangerous wall, but his uncle couldn't do it himself, so why should he do it!
Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng both thought that Prince Chu of Qin was considering Ying Xiaozheng's marriage.
Prince Chu of Qin had indeed considered who to marry for Ying Xiaozheng, and he already had several candidates in mind.
However, Ying Xiaozheng would marry his first wife after the ceremony of coming of age, so Prince Chu of Qin was not in a hurry.
As for the training and bed-warming maids that princes must have before marriage, he thought that Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji must have arranged them for Ying Xiaozheng long ago, so he didn't take it seriously and didn't ask.
The people of Wu County were not qualified to send someone to the prince, and Xianyang City was too far away, so the Queen Mother Huayang and Queen Mother Xia were both powerless. So with the "tacit understanding" between Zichu and Zhu Xiang, Ying Xiaozheng remained single.
However, the elder Ying Zheng also had his first son at the age of 19. Some princes had children at the age of 11, and some were still unmarried at the age of 30. It was not surprising that Ying Zheng was single now.
Ying Xiaozheng devoted all his youthful energy to endless work, which frightened Zhu Xiang. He quickly took Xue Ji to "seize power" and forced Ying Xiaozheng to take a few days off.
Ying Xiaozheng was so angry that he jumped up and down: "I'm not tired!"
Zhu Xiang pulled Ying Xiaozheng's sleeve to get on board: "Your hands are almost broken and you still say you're not tired!"
Xiao Chengjiao waved from the bow: "Brother, come here quickly, let's go fishing!"
Ying Xiaozheng was forced to take a vacation in a huff. He held the fishing rod and pulled it back and forth on the water, as if he wanted to pull out the fish under the water. Bai Qi shook his head when he saw it.
The prince was very mature when handling government affairs, but became a child as soon as he returned home. No one knew how Zhu Xiang raised him.
Bai Qi very much agreed with Zhu Xiang's "seizure of power" this time.
Although papermaking had been promoted in the major cities of the Qin State, administrative agencies at the county and township levels still mainly used bamboo slips and wooden tablets.
For small places, bamboo, which is readily available, has a much lower technological content than paper. In order to reduce administrative costs, bamboo slips and wooden tablets may continue to be used in parallel with paper for many years.
Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty had already improved the cost-effective Cai Lun paper, and bamboo slips and wooden tablets were still in use. If the Manchu wooden tablets of the Qing Palace are not included, the latest bamboo slips and wooden tablets cultural relics were unearthed during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
If Ying Xiaozheng had been the King of Qin, most of the documents he handled would have been paper documents. Unfortunately, he is now a local official, and most of the documents he handles are bamboo slips, a local specialty.
When Zhu Xiang met Ying Xiaozheng after inspecting the spring plowing in the three counties of Southern Qin, he saw that Ying Xiaozheng, who was in charge of the government affairs of the three counties, had his arm hanging up and his wrist was swollen.
For the first time in his life, Zhu Xiang was so angry that he wanted to beat Ying Xiaozheng, but Xue Ji held him back.
"My dear! If you want to scold Zheng'er, you have to wait until his injury is healed." Xue Ji advised.
Zhu Xiang said angrily: "I will calm down after his injury heals!"
Xue Ji: “…” It’s all your fault that Zheng’er has become like this!
In the end, Xue Ji calmed Zhu Xiang down.
Zhu Xiang couldn't bear to beat him, so she did it. This child really makes his parents tremble with fear every day if they don't keep an eye on him.
Li Si, Han Fei and Fu Qiu were on the shore respectfully seeing off Crown Prince Zheng to go on vacation at the beach, while Meng Tian was sighing.
He also wants to go on vacation.
After the boat left the shore, Li Si, Han Fei and Fuqiu whispered to each other.
"Finally, we're leaving!"
"My hand, I thought it was going to break."
"Your Highness, you should be diligent in your work and take care of yourself. Your body and hair are given to you by your parents. If you don't take care of yourself, you are unfilial."
Han Fei and Li Si nodded in agreement.
Fuqiu is right!
Meng Tian rolled his eyes.
The prince's body and hair were not given by Lord Changping and Lady Wujun.
Li Si, Han Fei, and Fu Qiu turned their gazes to Meng Tian: "You don't agree?"
Meng Tian: “…”
"I agree." Meng Tian said in a deep tone.
Three colleagues older than Meng Tian nodded with satisfaction.
Meng Tian shouted in his heart, Lord Wu Cheng! Please take me away!
It's a pity that Li Mu went to the south to train troops and could not hear the wailing in Meng Tian's heart.
This time, in order to prevent Ying Xiaozheng from working secretly during his vacation, Zhu Xiang specially took Ying Xiaozheng to the beach.
The area of the Yangtze River Delta is not very large and the development is not complete, so Zhu Xiang built a sea view courtyard in a slightly higher place to isolate Ying Xiaozheng from government affairs.
Ying Xiaozheng arrived at the sea-view courtyard where vegetables were planted and said speechlessly: "Uncle, are you going to exile me?"
Zhu Xiang said, "Yes, I will go into exile with you. Come here, I will change the medicine for you."
Ying Xiaozheng sat dejectedly opposite Zhu Xiang, asking Zhu Xiang to untie his bandages and apply medicine again.
When applying the medicine, you need to use massage techniques to reduce swelling in your wrists and forearms.
As soon as Zhu Xiang exerted force, Ying Xiaozheng screamed in pain.
Zhu Xiang scolded distressedly: "Do you feel the pain now?"
Xue Ji took Xiao Chengjiao to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables, and got some fresh small sea fish from the fishermen guarding the manor, and asked Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng what they wanted to eat in the evening.
Hearing Zhu Xiang scolding Ying Xiaozheng, Xue Ji said, "He learned it from you."
Zhu Xiang: “?”
Ying Xiaozheng, who was grimacing in pain, had to laugh at his uncle even though his expression was distorted.
Xue Ji tapped Ying Xiaozheng's forehead and said, "Your uncle is worrying enough, and you are worrying too. Can you let your aunt relax? Look how well-behaved little Chengjiao is. He never causes any trouble."
Xiao Chengjiao puffed out his chest, raised his chin, and looked at Ying Xiaozheng proudly.
Ying Xiaozheng's mouth twitched slightly.
Cheng Jiao just eats, sleeps and plays every day, which is of course easy. Can this be the same as him? When he was Cheng Jiao's age...
Well, when I was Cheng Jiao’s age, I had already traveled all over the country with my uncle and became a county magistrate.
Ying Xiaozheng fell into deep thought. Was his childhood too busy
"Ahhh, uncle, be gentle!"
"Hold it."
“Ouch!”
“You deserve it.”
Xue Ji smiled and took Xiao Chengjiao away.
Let's eat stewed fish with pancakes today. Although my cooking skills are not as good as my husband's, I can still make this simple dish well.
Ying Xiaozheng experienced two days of "work withdrawal reaction" and finally adapted to vacation life.
Zhu Xiang had the documents that the Wujun quartet could not handle sent to the seaside. He and Bai Qi solved most of them by splitting them up, leaving only Ying Xiaozheng to make the final decision.
Ying Xiaozheng has plenty of free time and can even take Xiao Chengjiao to go fishing.
After resting for a few days, Ying Xiaozheng's hand no longer needed to be hung, he just needed to continue applying medicine.
He was barefoot, carrying a small wooden bucket, and picking up small seafood on the beach at low tide with Xiao Chengjiao.
Little Chengjiao was wearing a small vest and shorts, running around on the beach like crazy. He ran so fast that he fell and rolled on the ground, getting sand all over his body and hair.
Ying Xiaozheng said sternly, "Don't run to the beach, be careful not to be washed away by the sea water... Don't fall, and don't roll if you fall. You are covered in sand, how are you going to clean it later?"
Little Chengjiao completely ignored his elder brother, the Crown Prince, and struggled on the beach like a worm, trying to bury himself in the sand.
Ying Xiaozheng held his forehead and sighed.
Is this little brother really related to me? I don't think he's even a different species from me.
Why bury yourself in the sand?! At Cheng Jiao's age, he was already the head of a county!
Xue Ji couldn't stand the sun, so she sat under a large parasol to guard the belongings, while Zhu Xiang walked behind Ying Xiaozheng with his hands behind his back.
"Children are like this. Zheng'er, you can be more lively." Zhu Xiang said.
Ying Xiaozheng said weakly: "Uncle, you should have said this to me ten years ago. Now I have grown up... Hey? Uncle, look at that shell, it's so big!"
Ying Xiaozheng immediately jumped over.
Zhu Xiang laughed. Yes, yes, you have grown up, but you still get excited when you see big shells.
Ying Xiaozheng held up the big shell: "Uncle, look, the shell is still alive!"
Zhu Xiang said: "Only pick up the living ones, dead seafood cannot be eaten."
Ying Xiaozheng threw the shells into a wooden barrel filled with a little sea water and continued to look for treasures on the beach.
The beach looks bare, but if you look closely, you can see that it is full of breathing holes.
As long as you use a long wire to poke the breathing hole and then dig up the sand, you will always get a good harvest.
Sea shells, crabs, conchs, and anemones. Ying Xiaozheng also found a dying sea fish in a sand pit.
Little Chengjiao was also very lucky. He took a dead conch to play with. After breaking it with a shovel, he found an orange conch pearl the size of a little finger inside. The child was so happy that he started rolling on the beach again.
"I want to give it to my aunt!"
After Xiao Chengjiao rolled over, he got up and ran towards Xue Ji, shaking off countless sand and sea water along the way, which made Ying Xiaozheng frown.
Zhu Xiang patted Ying Xiaozheng on the shoulder and said, "Why, you also want to find a conch pearl?"
Ying Xiaozheng snorted coldly, handed the wooden barrel to Zhu Xiang, and concentrated on looking for the conch.
He just didn't believe that Cheng Jiao could find the conch pearl. He couldn't find it!
Whether Ying Xiaozheng found the conch pearl or not was not mentioned. That night Zhu Xiang set up a big pot on the beach. Ying Xiaozheng brought Xiao Chengjiao to collect firewood. Xue Ji and Bai Qi helped to wash the seafood with sea water. They only added a little onion, ginger, garlic and rice wine and blanched the seafood in a pot.
Zhu Xiang also boiled a pot of ginger, garlic and brown sugar water to nourish the stomachs of those who were eating seafood.
Bai Qi lived in the interior and rarely had the freshest seafood, so he developed a big appetite.
Zhu Xiang usually advised Bai Qi to eat more, but today he quickly advised Bai Qi to eat less to avoid stomachache due to indigestion.
While eating heartily, Ying Xiaozheng said, "The sea is rich in products, and we should collect fishing taxes."
Zhu Xiang: “…”
Don't say such spoiling things on your day off. Are you a tyrant
Well, you are.
Zhu Xiang said: "As for the tax on the seashore, you can ask the officials of Qi how to implement it. Qi was founded on the sea, so they must have a mature plan."
Ying Xiaozheng said: "The Jixia Academy of Qi State is almost in name only, and many scholars went west to study at the Xianyang Academy. After the emperor and his father were deposed, the Confucian scholars who supported the emperor and his father and uncle were driven away by other countries. There should be many Qi Confucian scholars who came to Qin State for refuge. I just don't know if those Qi Confucian scholars have the laws and classics of Qi State in their hands."
Zhu Xiang said, "You don't have to worry about this. Confucian scholars have read the strengths of many schools of thought, and there must be people who are proficient in laws and regulations. You ask the Qi Confucian recommended by Xunzi, he must be very good at Qi's laws."
Ying Xiaozheng looked strange: "Uncle, when I write to Xunzi, can I include your words in it?"
Zhu Xiang said, "If you don't want to make your Xun Weng sick, you'd better not write it."
Ying Xiaozheng sighed with regret.
Bai Qi laughed.
The students that Xunzi favored were not pure Confucians. He even heard this joke when he was recuperating at home.
Xue Ji patted the back of Xiao Chengjiao, who was almost choking, and said, "My dear, if you don't want to anger Xunzi, don't say anything that will make Xunzi angry."
Zhu Xiang said, "I said this behind Xunzi's back."
Xue Ji frowned: "Even more so!"
Zhu Xiang raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, I won't say anything."
Ying Xiaozheng interrupted: "My uncle means that I should keep it secret from my aunt in the future."
Zhu Xiang slapped Ying Xiaozheng lightly on the head and said, "You are the only one who talks too much nonsense."
When little Chengjiao saw his brother the prince being beaten by his uncle, he laughed happily.
Ying Xiaozheng immediately slapped Xiao Chengjiao on the head.
Zhu Xiang slapped Ying Xiaozheng on the head again.
Ying Xiaozheng slapped Xiao Chengjiao on the head again.
Xiao Chengjiao got angry and threw himself on Ying Xiaozheng and rolled around, tearing Ying Xiaozheng's clothes askew.
Bai Qi almost choked with laughter.
Xue Ji was a little worried. Zheng'er had been spoiled by his lover and had many bad habits. How could she explain to Queen Mother Huayang that Cheng Jiao had also become like this
After a few days of fishing, Zhu Xiang saw that Ying Xiaozheng's arm had almost recovered, so he took Ying Xiaozheng to the experimental salt field. Zhu Xiang had been experimenting with the salt drying method since he came to Wu County.
After all, he was only a professor of agronomy and didn't know much about the technique of salt-drying. He only inferred the steps of ancient salt-drying based on his common sense of chemistry and his experiences visiting ancient salt-drying fields.
Zhu Xiang was already able to produce more palatable salt by filtering and boiling, which was considered coarse salt in later generations, but was refined salt at this time.
In order to learn from the successful experience of salt boiling, he brought students who were relatively good at basic chemistry and physics courses in the Xianyang Academy, and mixed with a group of craftsmen to experiment again and again with the salt-drying method mentioned by Zhu Xiang.
When Zhu Xiang saw the group of students, their faces were tanned and rough, and they looked no different from the fishermen on the beach.
The students who volunteered to solve the problem of salt drying were divided into two groups, each with its own experimental base.
One group of students simply collected seawater from the sea tide to precipitate sea salt. There are at least eight layers of seawater pools, and the salt water concentration increases from top to bottom. At the bottom layer, a platform was built to pile the crystallized salt into salt blocks, which are left to settle for half a year to a year before they can be consumed.
The older the sea salt is, the fewer impurities it has, and it can be eaten directly. If you want to eat it in advance, you have to boil and filter it after you get home and purify it again.
This method of salt drying is called "flat-spread salt drying". It has the highest yield and consumes the least manpower. However, in the absence of mechanical assistance, it is extremely picky about terrain, and flat-spread salt fields can only be built on a very small number of tidal flats.
Another group of students experimented with a more complicated salt-making method.
They also built pools of various sizes, but the tidal pools were at the bottom.
The tidal pool is covered with fine mud or burnt wood ash soil. When the tide rises, the soil becomes salty and becomes saline soil.
They carried scrapers on their backs and scraped off the salt soil on the surface just like plowing the land. They piled the salt soil next to the salt pond and used bamboo tubes to bring in sea water to pour over the salt soil to precipitate brine.
Afterwards, they placed the brine in the pool on flat ground to dry, and the subsequent process was similar to the previous salt-drying method.
This method of salt production consumes more manpower and material resources and has low salt production efficiency, but it is not picky about terrain.
Drying salt is hard and tiring, and it depends more on the weather than farming.
Zhu Xiang had heard about the history of ancient salt farmers when he was touring the ancient salt fields. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, salt farmers lived by the tides and weather, just like herders on the grassland.
They call themselves "tidebirds" and follow the tide to pick up food, with a very low status.
This is a group of people who don't even need to perform corvée labor. It can be seen that becoming a salt trader is almost the same as performing heavy corvée labor.
This type of salt farmers should know the latter method of salt making.
Salt fields with unique natural conditions are extremely rare. To supply salt to a large empire, the only way is to rely on the blood and sweat of the salt farmers.
But in a vertical comparison, drying salt is always easier than boiling salt, and it has higher output, efficiency and quality than boiling salt.
Even if it is bitter, as long as it is less bitter than before, it is called progress.
After listening to Zhu Xiang's introduction, Ying Xiaozheng remained silent for a rare time and did not try to argue with Zhu Xiang.
"Uncle, from now on, salt farmers will not be subject to corvée labor."
"Um."
"No military service either."
"Um."
Ying Xiaozheng said: "Uncle, shall we go and give it a try?"
Zhu Xiang said: "It's very painful. If you try it for one day, you will have to lie down for several days."
Ying Xiaozheng said: "I am in good health, I am not afraid."
Zhu Xiang said: "Then go. Let's go change clothes first."
Xiao Chengjiao raised his hand: "I want to go too!"
Zhu Xiang smiled and said, "Why don't you just sweep the salt soil with your aunt?"
Xiao Chengjiao nodded vigorously: "Okay."
Bai Qi stood with his hands behind his back and watched Zhu Xiang, Xue Ji and the two princes of Qin busy on the salt fields.
He also wanted to try it, but Zhu Xiang refused on the grounds of his poor health and took out all the tokens of the King of Qin.
"Ah, it hurts... I can't wipe the sweat off my hands, and my face hurts when the salt gets on my hands!"
"Indeed... Xue, Cheng Jiao!"
"coming."
"Brother, lower your head. I can't wipe it."
Xue Ji and Cheng Jiao swept the dirt for a while, and when they saw that Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng were unable to wipe their sweat, they quickly gave up sweeping the dirt and focused on wiping the sweat for the two men.
Bai Qi also found something to do, helping Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng to fetch cold water and wring out handkerchiefs.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng looked like they had been fished out of the water, and they were much more tired than doing farm work.
"Uncle, how long does it take to dry out a pool of salt?"
“It takes nine to ten months to dry out a pool of salt.”
"so hard."
"yes."
Ying Xiaozheng lay slumped on the salt soil: "Uncle, the government-run salt business can greatly increase the revenue of the national treasury. We must do this. How can we suppress the price of salt and make the salt farmers' lives a little better? If they suffer so much and still cannot get enough to eat, I am afraid there will be civil unrest."
Zhu Xiang said: "This is something you have to think about yourself, Zheng'er. Your uncle doesn't know everything."
Ying Xiaozheng said disdainfully: "Uncle, what use do I have for you!"
Zhu Xiang asked, "Make some snacks for Zheng'er while he's thinking? Do you want some milk and fruit ice tower?"
Ying Xiaozheng immediately perked up: "Let's eat! Let's go home right away!"
Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng slowly got up, dragged their tired bodies to take a shower and change clothes, and with the help of Xue Ji and Bai Qi, they got on the carriage and went home.
"Zheng'er, uncle is too tired, so I won't make snacks today."
"No, uncle is fat on the sly!"
"Fat is fat."
"Hmph, forget about today, let's change it to tomorrow."
"Thank you, Zheng'er, for your great kindness."
"ah?!"
"I mean, great favor."
Xue Ji was originally worried about Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng who were exhausted, but when she saw the two of them bickering while lying in the carriage, she smiled and shook her head.
"Cheng Jiao, don't learn from your uncle and elder brother." Xue Ji warned.
Little Cheng Jiao asked, "Who did Cheng Jiao learn from?"
Xue Ji frowned and thought for a long time. She couldn't think of anyone better than her husband and Zheng'er, so she was in a dilemma.
Bai Qi laughed: "You should learn from your uncle and brother the crown prince."
"Oh." Xiao Chengjiao moved to Ying Xiaozheng's side, "Brother, do you want me to massage your back?"
Ying Xiaozheng said: "You are being so kind for no reason. Tell me, what do you want?"
Xiao Chengjiao said: "Do ten fewer math problems today!"
Ying Xiaozheng said coldly, "Don't even think about it."
Little Chengjiao felt very aggrieved, but he still tried his best to help his elder brother the prince to massage his back.
Grievance, dong dong dong.
(End of this chapter)