On a summer morning, the sun was shining brightly. The old groom Hong Benlei was carrying a bucket of water to brush a white horse. Hong Benlei hummed a little tune from Liaodong and seemed to be in a good mood. There were originally five grooms in the Jiangdong Palace, and now there were six of them. Hong Benlei is now the leader of these grooms. The grooms did not know who the old guy named Hong was, but they just heard that they seemed to be the prince's distant relative. This old guy loved horses and had nothing to do when he arrived at the prince's mansion, so the new prince Yin Jiang asked him to come to the stable to be the leader.

Since he is a relative, of course, it is better not to mess with him. So the grooms raised some money and invited the new Bima Wen to drink. The old guy named Hong was not polite and came happily and passed by the grooms. The groom Liu Er tried to ask the old guy's background, what kind of relative he was with the prince, but the old guy fought and got over it.

Since people don’t want to say it, of course it’s not easy to ask again. It’s possible that Liu Er has this little bit of vision. However, when Liu Er was filling the horses today, he accidentally found that the new prince Yin Jiang was wearing casual clothes, wearing a filial belt on his waist, carrying a pot of wine and a roast chicken, but it scared Liu Er. The grandma Master walked to the stable? Liu Er quickly knelt down and kowtowed to salute, stammering and shouting "The Prince Qiansui," he didn’t expect that the new prince was very kind and said casually, "Go ahead and go!"

Liu Erru received a general amnesty and quickly stood up and wiped the sweat from her head. There was no way. The little man was afraid of seeing the official, especially the official as big as the prince. Liu Er continued to add fodder to the horse in uneasy, and turned his head to look at the prince in awe, but suddenly he suddenly felt that the prince was afraid that he would come to find the old guy named Hong. Liu Er glanced at Hong Benlei who was washing the horses, and was envious in his heart. This old guy could not have anything, but could actually get in the prince to visit him in person. As expected, it was better for the prince to be relatives.

Then Liu Er heard the prince smile and said with a smile: "Grandpa Hong, I'll come to see you!" Liu Er was dumbfounded. It turned out that the old man Hong was actually a relative of the prince's grandfather. It seemed that he could not offend him, but he also had to be more flattering! When Hong Benlei heard Yin Jiang's voice, he turned around and looked at Yin Jiang. Without saying a word, he put down the wooden bucket in his hand, washed his hands in the bucket, silently took the wine pot and roast chicken, and placed it on the tattered small table beside him.

Yin Jiang was not polite. Seeing two broken horse stools next to him, he moved a horse stool and sat on it. Yin Jiang looked at Hong Benlei in a daze. Hong Benlei didn't say anything. He walked a few steps and squatted to a place five feet away from Yin Jiang. He pulled out a pipe from his belt, put it in the tobacco, took out a flint from his arms, and lit a piece of paper, and then slowly lit the tobacco with the paper. After a while, Hong Benlei said depressedly, "You have become the prince, don't make trouble in the future, right? Let's call me Old Man Hong!"

Yin Jiang first shook his head, then nodded, and said with a bitter smile: "I won't suffer any loss by calling you Grandpa. I would be happy if I could have such a strong grandpa! If you hadn't come back from Tianchang all the way with me, I would have died eight times on the way! I had nothing else, I just felt a little depressed and wanted to chat with you for a while! From the first time I saw you, I felt destined to be with you."

Hong Benlei smiled and quipped: "Didn't they say that as long as you have money, you will be destined to be with anyone!"

Yin Jiang laughed loudly and then said softly: "Grandpa Hong, I originally thought that as long as I can become the King of Jiangdong, I would not be angry anymore. But after I became this prince, I suddenly realized that I was even more angry!"

Hong Benlei laughed and scolded: "You damn, you are a prince, and you are like a bullied girl. You say you are more angry. Can the prime minister take a boat? Besides, have you seen Jiannandao where Niu Mandi is a military commander? Have you seen Yin Quan as a prince's southwestdao? You go and see the people living there, and you will know what it means to be really angry! You are so angry? You really don't feel hurt when you stand and speak!"

Yin Jiang looked scoundrel and laughed: "Grandpa Hong, I'm sitting now, but my waist hurts yet!"

Hong Benlei tapped Yin Jiang's shoulder with his cigarette pip

He joked, "Your damn is kidney deficiency!" The two looked at each other and laughed. Hong Benlei said again, "If you have anything to say, I don't like to beat around the bush. Since I promised you to stay in the Jiangdong Palace, I will definitely stay here. As long as you don't do anything that hurts the world, I will save your life!"

Yin Jiang laughed and bowed, "Then I have to thank my grandpa!" Yin Jiang withdrew his cynical expression and sighed, "You have seen what happened these days. First, Yin Ji was forced to commit suicide by me, and then my father was gone. My two unscrupulous brothers took the poison, otherwise I would not be able to explain to the court. Now Princess Pingyuan has almost taken over my Jiangdong Palace, and I can do nothing. I can only wait for the imperial edict at home. I don't know if I can be enthroned as a king or driven out of the palace!"

Hong Benlei smoked a pipe and said in a muffled voice: "You boy, you look very smart, why can't you see through sometimes? If Princess Pingyuan doesn't take over the affairs in your palace, you will cry! It is because she takes over the affairs that the emperor can leave you a way out! Your father and the King of Lingnan Yin Chun are flirting with each other, and the court is having no choice but to catch up with your family's internal strife. Your father is still dead at the hands of your brother. Don't ordinary emperors take this opportunity to reduce the vassals and seize the title?"

Yin Jiang nodded and said helplessly: "This is true. The disaster was caused by our brothers. Even if we were taken away, there was no way! I had a good plan. I thought that Yin Ji would be able to take over the position of prince, but I never expected that it would be the mantis stalking cicadas and orioles behind me. My two younger brothers were still thinking about fighting for the throne, but things were out of control in the end. Fortunately, Brother Tang didn't listen to my begging to come with me, otherwise it would be even more troublesome, and even he would be involved."

Hong Benlei said disdainfully: "Even if the second young master agrees, the national master will not agree! You really have been a national master for so many years in the officialdom. The court is guarding against you princes, especially the second young master is a king of a different surname, which is even more eye-catching. In this case, if you two princes get together, what do you want to do? No emperor can stand it! It is already a great deal to be able to lend you some Xiaowei and Yingwei, and let me accompany you! He has asked Princess Pingyuan to help you, and there is no problem at all!"

Hong Benlei stuffed some tobacco into the tobacco pot again, and then said: "In fact, even if you plan well, some accidents will happen. Even if things are completely beyond your control. If you fall, you will be able to run away from your control. If you have great power, you will have great power to be an emperor? But he also has so many troubles. There are conflicts between countries. Da Shang and Da Xia still look at each other dislike each other! So don't complain, do more practical things! Even if you step down, let the people remember your goodness!"

Yin Jiang was dull for a while and chuckled, "I was eager to achieve it! I thought it was too simple before, thinking that if I was the King of Jiangdong, everything would be fine. Now, I think about it, it would be that I was the prince, and I could change everything at will? Just like a person who had been sick for a long time, it was impossible for him to get better at once. He had to take care of himself slowly. After all, I was lazy and had less dealing with people in the past few years!"

Hong Benlei looked at the white horse eating grass and suddenly laughed, "If you deal with people too much, you think it is better to deal with beasts. At least this game is simple-minded, not deceiving or hypocritical. If you treat it well, it will be nice to you. Unlike some people who will betray you for the sake of interests! I look at your two brothers, who are still calculating each other in order to compete for the throne, how boring!"

Yin Jiang also looked at the white horse in a daze, and then said for a while: "Grandpa, I'll see you today. Actually, I'm afraid you will leave. If you leave, our palace will not even have an old monster in charge! I feel unsure!"

Hong Benlei laughed and said, "What are you saying? When you left Tianchang, the National Master and the Second Master talked to me. They respected my own opinions when they stayed there. Since I promised you to stay in the Prince of Jiangdong, I will stay here! After all, I have to think of you, the prince, giving me a few pots of good wine, a few little roast chickens, and calling me a friend of the old man! But about my identity,

It’s good if you and Yin Hao know it. If the rest of the mansion don’t know it, they won’t know it!”

Yin Jiang felt relieved and nodded and smiled, "That's natural! Please don't worry, Grandpa, Yin Hao and I will definitely keep our mouths tight!" Yin Jiang thought about it, then frowned and said, "But unfortunately, Yin Tonghai took the opportunity to escape. Although he didn't know your origin, he knew that you were a master, so this matter was not easy to deal with!"

Hong Benlei picked up the small wine pot on the table, poured a sip of wine into his mouth, and smiled and said, "If you want to say my name, there are not many people in the world who still remember it! Alas, it doesn't matter whether others remember my name or not. At least Yin Tonghai will spread the news that such a master is in the Jiangdong Palace. It will be a good thing for you, and there are not many bastards who dare to easily stroke the tiger's beard!"

Yin Jiang stood up with a sincere smile on his face, "Grandpa, then I'm leaving. Occasionally I'll come to the stable to chat with you. We are both drunk and drinking, don't bother me!" Yin Jiang suddenly held back his smile and said, "If you are lonely, I'll find two more young girls to serve you?"

Hong Benlei had just taken a sip of wine and sprayed out a sip. Yin Jiang was covered with a squirt. Yin Jiang quickly wiped his sleeves and smiled embarrassedly. Hong Benlei laughed and said, "My mother is just a groom now. What's the matter with me if you ask two girls to serve me? You are so grand in the Jiangdong Prince's Mansion, even the groom has to find two big girls to serve me? I have a horse manure smell, so don't harm the young girls. I am old enough to be their grandfather!"

Yin Jiang laughed uncontrollably, "I understand, I understand, it turns out that the old man doesn't like little girls, I like the old lady! It's easy to say, I'll ask someone to find two widows and old ladies to warm your quilt for you!"

Hong Benlei smiled and kicked Yin Jiang on the butt, and shouted: "Get out!" Yin Jiang laughed and left, his steps were extremely light. He was sure that Hong Benlei would not leave the Jiangdong Palace, and he suddenly felt that the dark clouds all over the sky had dissipated.

The groom Liu Er had been hiding in the stable, watching the two of them talking and laughing from afar. Although he couldn't hear what they were saying, it seemed that the prince was very happy. When he saw Hong Benlei kicking Yin Jiang's ass, he thought to himself, "My mother, what is this old man's identity? He dares to kick the prince's ass!"

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In the Great Inner Palace of Yong'an City, in the hall of Chunhe Palace Yangshen Pavilion, Yin Guang held his hands behind him, staring at the full map of Da Shang hanging on the wall, and was stunned. The floor of the hall was arranged in an orderly manner, which was obviously used to make wooden tools. Wen Xiu was painting the already made wooden tools, and Yu Fu was sawing the wood with a small saw. Unlike usual, there were two women in the hall, and the two most powerful women in the harem of the Da Shang Empire, one was the queen Chu Fengying, the other was the former mountain king, and the current imperial concubine Leng Hongxing.

Empress Chu Fengying and Empress Leng Hongxing sat opposite each other on the small table, and the two were playing chess. Chu Fengying turned out to be playing Go, and recently learned to play chess with Leng Hongxing. However, the chess skills were far worse than Leng Hongxing. They always lost more and won less. However, they still enjoyed it and pestered Leng Hongxing. Leng Hongxing had to patiently accompany the Empress of the Palace and occasionally let her win a game, so Chu Fengying smiled happily. The two young women were chattering while playing chess, which was a rare phoenix scene in the harem.

Yu Fu sawed the wood, put the saw, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, raised his head, but still saw the emperor standing in front of the map, and walked behind Yin Guang with a smile.

Not long after Tang Jiusheng completely accepted Jiannan Road, the Empress finally couldn't stand the loneliness and became a real couple with the emperor. Since then, the emperor's mood has been much better than before and has a greater smile. However, he has been in a bad mood these days. Yu Fu knew that the emperor was a little upset because of the matter in the Jiangdong Palace.

Yin Guang turned around and saw Yu Fu behind him, and said in a depressed mood: "Yu Fu, what do you think Tang Fulong and his son are trying to do? They dare to interfere in the affairs of the Jiangdong Prince's Mansion?"

Yu Fu then realized that what the emperor was most worried about was not the Jiangdong Palace, but the national master and son.
Chapter completed!