amaotonovel Chapter 1221 I, Yang, am a famously honest young man.
Chapter 1221 I, Yang, am a famously honest young man.
Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, and the others quickly left, and Yang Shaofeng and Heizhima Tangyuan also began to act separately.
Black Sesame Dumpling rushed off to find Ms. Chang to discuss the matter, while Yang Shaofeng went home to find Jin'er and Yu'er.
"That's just how things are."
"My father-in-law twisted his ankle, but he wouldn't let my mother-in-law know."
Isn't this worrying?
Yang Shaofeng looked at Jin'er with a fawning smile and said, "I discussed it with His Highness the Crown Prince and would like to ask you and Yu'er to take our baby to the palace to tell your mother about this."
Jin'er gently rocked the cradle, and seeing that Yang Baobei was still sleeping soundly, she looked at Yang Shaofeng with the kind of loving gaze one would give someone with intellectual disabilities.
"Is my husband so preoccupied with how to torment our adoptive father that he has forgotten what our adoptive father's original background was?"
Yang Shaofeng was stunned for a moment, and Jin'er continued, "Back when my godfather was under Commander Guo, he was a pioneer and personally experienced countless battles, big and small. Do you think he's the kind of person who would immediately send someone back to tell you if he twisted his ankle?"
“If he doesn’t say he needs to rest for a few months, or if the Embroidered Uniform Guards secretly come back to report, then it means that he really twisted his ankle, and that the injury is quite serious.”
"In my opinion, your adoptive father's twisting of his ankle this time is most likely a ruse. He sent someone back to say that you twisted your ankle and that you would be given fifty lashes. He also instructed you and His Highness the Crown Prince not to let your adoptive mother know. All of this is fake."
"He probably has ulterior motives; he's probably hoping you and His Highness the Crown Prince will hurry up and complain to your godmother."
"Once your adoptive mother goes to Ningyang County to take care of your adoptive father, you and the Crown Prince will be left in the capital. Let's see if you can still smile then."
Yang Shaofeng stared blankly at Jin'er and asked, "Old... Old Master's plans are so far-reaching?"
Jin'er almost laughed out of anger at Yang Shaofeng.
"Your husband is a good son-in-law of your godfather, and His Highness the Crown Prince is a good son of your godfather. But look what happened, you two don't understand your godfather at all."
Jin'er glanced at Yang Shaofeng and continued, "I'm asking you, when the Embroidered Uniform Guard came to deliver the message today, were the Duke of Han and the Marquis of Chengyi also present? Did they not say anything?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded blankly, and Jin'er snorted and said, "The Duke of Han and the Marquis of Chengyi are both shrewd old men. They won't be as foolish as you and His Highness the Crown Prince, who would be easily deceived."
After Jin'er's analysis, Yang Shaofeng unconsciously smacked his lips.
No wonder Confucius said that rites and music had collapsed and people's hearts were no longer what they used to be.
Look at him, look at old Deng, look how wicked he's become!
Yang Shaofeng became increasingly uneasy as he thought about it, and couldn't help but snort, saying, "No, we can't let old... old father-in-law get away with this so easily."
"Here's what we'll do: later, my wife and Yu'er will take the baby into the palace. Once we get there, you'll say that your father-in-law misses your mother-in-law so much in Ningyang County that he can't eat. The children's rhyme 'The emperor misses his empress so much that he can't eat' has started circulating in Ningyang County. Then, pretend to let it slip that your father-in-law has sprained his ankle and is currently recuperating in Ningyang County."
"When the time comes, your mother-in-law will definitely ask how you twisted your ankle. Just say that your father-in-law saw a bicycle and was so excited that he stole one from Huai'an Prefecture and insisted on riding it to Ningyang County. On the way, he accidentally ran over a pothole and twisted his ankle."
"If your mother-in-law asks again how he got to Ningyang County, just say that he had just left Huai'an not far away, so Xu Jingyu arranged a carriage for your father-in-law to go to Ningyang, and a doctor accompanied him along the way."
"If your mother-in-law asks if he was hurt anywhere else, just say it seems like he just bumped into something lightly. Your father-in-law specifically told the Imperial Guards to keep the news of his twisted ankle a secret, and that you know nothing else about it."
"..."
Yang Shaofeng slowly analyzed what questions Empress Ma might ask, and prepared answers for Jin'er in advance.
Jin'er stared blankly at Yang Shaofeng for a long while before sighing, "My husband's brain isn't great for much else, but when it comes to scheming against people, he's incredibly cunning."
Yang Shaofeng snorted and said, "Wasn't it because we were schemed against first?"
"Everyone knows that your husband is a famously honest young man; he believes almost everything that others say."
"Otherwise, how could we have been so schemed against by Old... Taishan?"
"I'd like to see my mother-in-law arrive in Ningyang County full of anger and worry, only to find my father-in-law still has the nerve to steal bicycles from ordinary people..."
Jin'er interrupted, "Stealing a bicycle?"
Yang Shaofeng raised his voice and said, "That's right. I asked Xia Yu to send someone back to Ningyang to tell everyone to put away their bicycles. When my father-in-law can't find a bicycle to ride, he'll probably go back to his old ways."
Jin'er gave Yang Shaofeng a light glare, "It's truly rare to find a son-in-law in this world who speaks ill of his father-in-law like this."
Yang Shaofeng said smugly, "It is even more precious for me to have married a wife like you who is willing to help her husband scheme against her father."
……
Yang Shaofeng never expected that as his mother-in-law angrily went to Ningyang County to settle scores with Lao Deng, a strange trend about bicycles would inexplicably sweep through the capital.
"Have you heard? Something amazing has come out of Ningyang County. They say cars can move forward by themselves."
"What steam engine? A steam engine has many wheels. This new one from Ningyang County has two wheels. One person can ride it and it can carry a hundred or so kilograms of goods."
"I wonder when this good stuff will be available in the capital."
"Damn it, our capital city is under the emperor's nose, but now it's like a stepmother's child. All the good things have to go to Ningyang County and Dengzhou Prefecture first."
"Shh! Are you out of your mind? Let alone the crowds on the street, even among the people sitting in this teahouse, do you know which ones are members of the Embroidered Uniform Guard? If Yang the Madman finds out you're making up stories about him like this, he might just throw you in the imperial prison and torture you severely!"
All sorts of messy rumors spread, but finally some knowledgeable people stepped forward to refute them.
"The bicycles in Ningyang County don't move on their own; you have to pedal to make them go!"
"It's not that all good things are reserved for Ningyang County and Dengzhou Prefecture. Rather, production capacity is insufficient, and the product is not yet fully finalized or mass-produced. Once it is finalized and mass-produced, it will be sold to the capital first."
“The Prince Consort will not throw you into the Imperial Prison—that's for high-ranking officials; officials below the fifth rank aren't even qualified to go in.”
The result of debunking the rumors is that it would have been better not to debunk them at all.
To the people in Beijing, the debunking meant that while it was false that the car could run on its own, it was true that it could be pedaled and could carry a hundred-odd kilograms of cargo from Jiangxi.
The claim that products were first sold to the capital was false; the real issue was insufficient production capacity. Therefore, even if they were sold to the capital, the officials would be prioritized, while ordinary citizens of the capital would have to wait their turn.
It's a lie that Yang the Madman would arrest people and throw them into the imperial prison at the drop of a hat, but it's most likely true that he arrested people and tortured them severely.
When the news reached Yang Shaofeng's ears, he was completely stunned.
Is that correct?
Something just feels off.