As the saying goes, happiness is better shared than happiness alone...
After hearing what Zhang Chen said, the Fourth Prince could not help but stand at the door of the bathroom until Zhang Chen came back from the toilet. Seeing that he was limping, he was sure that Zhang Chen had not lied to him. He was definitely beaten, and probably severely. He immediately felt a little sad.
Although he did not have a very good relationship with Zhang Chen, the abbot who acted arrogantly with Zhang Shou's ruler, during his time at Banshan Hall, after all, Zhang Chen was the only son of Duke Qin and was used to being unruly, but at least he was fair to him and did not look up to him or despise him. So at this time, as they were both wanderers in the world, he felt a sense of sympathy for each other.
At that moment, a certain naughty kid grabbed Zhang Chen's arm and said enthusiastically: "Why do you want to get beaten? Anyway, you'll be a brave man again after you recover from your injuries! Besides, if you hadn't released Senior Brother Lu and the others from Banshan Hall that day, the teacher might have suffered. Duke Qin is being too unreasonable..."
Before the Fourth Prince could finish his words, Zhang Chen sighed again: "My father said that if it weren't for the fact that I helped the teacher, he would have beaten me at least forty times. Now he has halved it, so he will just beat me twenty times!"
He had never been beaten by his father since he was a child, and this time he suffered all the pain he had not experienced in the previous twenty years! But his mother, who always loved him the most, not only did not stop him, but also watched Zhang Chuan beat him in person with joy. After the beating, his mother privately applied medicine to him and taught him that his father beat him for his own good, and this was how a father should be...
After hearing what his mother said, he really wanted to slap himself in the face. He always felt that his father ignored him, but he never thought of making up for it in this way. God knows how painful it would be when Zhang Chuan personally whipped him with a rattan stick!
The Fourth Prince, who was also struck with the ruler twenty times, felt deeply moved when he heard what Zhang Chen said. He had never thought that it was precisely because of the lesson he had received, coupled with the serious political consequences caused by Big Mouth's words, that Duke Qin Zhang Chuan, who had always raised his son like a duck, suddenly changed his attitude and taught Zhang Chen a lesson.
So, at this time, the two people with a big age difference were standing in front of the bathroom door and talking. Zhang Chen naturally didn't like serious things like lectures, and the Fourth Prince was not a studious person. He was willing to work hard on things that interested him, but yawned on things that didn't interest him. He was happy to listen to Zhang Chen talk about those rumors outside.
After all, he hadn't been able to leave the palace for three or four days since that day!
When he heard that Zhang Shou's house was surrounded by people because of his story being leaked, and countless people came to him to learn from him, he couldn't help but curl his lips and said, "Those guys are dreaming. The teacher is so busy, how can he have the time to teach those mediocre people? Besides, the teacher has so many students, and except for me, I have never seen him get beaten for others!"
It would have been fine if he hadn't said this. As soon as he said this, Zhang Chen suddenly realized something and looked at the naughty child next to him with a bit of hostility. His father had always ignored him. In Zhang Shou's words, he only cared about giving birth to him but not raising him. He had not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father at all. He agreed with this.