klisemfg Chapter 167 The Overly Frugal Crown Prince's Tutor
Chapter 167 The Overly Frugal Crown Prince's Tutor
In the household of the Crown Prince's tutor, the master is the servant, and the servant is the master. Everything is done personally; meals are cooked by oneself, bathwater is heated by oneself…
Most importantly, we use our own people, so we don't need to pay them wages.
Shen Zhiyi paused for a moment.
But they should at least give me some pocket money every month.
She looked through the pocket money that the Crown Prince's tutor had given to his family and couldn't help but gasp.
That's cruel! That's really cruel! The allowance is far too little.
The Crown Prince suddenly realized that the mystery of why the Crown Prince's tutor and his family had never attended social events for years had finally been solved.
Going out to socialize requires money, but if you don't have enough, then you don't socialize. Over time, people might think that the Crown Prince's tutor and his family are aloof, but little do they know it's because the Crown Prince's tutor gives them too little money.
【besides.】
[In the Crown Prince's household, the candles are extinguished as soon as it gets dark.]
The crown prince's head was filled with countless colons, and he wondered if he had misheard.
There's something wrong with that statement. Candles are lit when it gets dark, so how are they extinguished?
The Crown Prince's tutor, noticing the Crown Prince's gaze directed his way, silently looked away.
Shen Zhiyi's words were truly sophisticated.
It's basically a complaint that he doesn't allow candles to be lit at all.
Candles are expensive. It's dark, so you should go to sleep. Why light candles?
One piece of pork can make ten different dishes!
The prince was so shocked that he dropped the brush he was holding to the ground.
He couldn't bear it anymore.
He glanced furtively at Shen Zhiyi, who was engrossed in what she was watching, and then quietly moved to stand next to the Crown Prince's tutor.
He lowered his voice: "A piece of pork? Ten dishes? How did you do that? Grand Tutor, please teach me."
The Crown Prince's tutor was surprised by the Crown Prince's eagerness to learn and showed a very gratified expression.
Children can be taught.
"It's very simple. First, take a small piece of pork and fry it until the oil is rendered. Then add scallions, ginger, and garlic, then add cabbage, water, and soaked glass noodles. This is the first dish, pork stew with glass noodles."
"That solves it."
"What's the rush? Take the pork out again, continue to fry it until the oil is rendered, add some vegetables, and you'll have a stir-fry with meaty flavor. This method can be used to make many dishes. Ten dishes is nothing, twenty dishes are no problem."
Crown Prince: ...
"Then take out the pork. This time we cut it up and mince it into a paste so we can make meat patties."
"at last……"
The crown prince was shocked: "There's more?"
"What's the rush? Take out the filling from the meat patty, roll it into balls, and you can make meatball soup."
Prince:! ! !
"As expected of the Grand Tutor."
The Crown Prince's tutor smiled smugly: "It's all about practice."
[I've seen frugality before, but never this extreme! It's insane! What did the little pig do wrong? I've never seen pork belly fried like this before.]
Is this a sign of moral decay, or simply a decline in human nature?
Shen Zhiyi clasped her hands together and prayed for the poor little pig to be reborn in the afterlife.
I refuse to believe that an entire family can tolerate such unhealthy frugality!
The Crown Prince's tutor was very confident that his family members were just as frugal as he was.
After all, thrift is a virtue.
Hahahaha, I knew it!
[This kind of abnormal eating habit is something no normal person could maintain for long; the Crown Prince's tutor's household accounts are all managed by his wife.]
The Crown Prince's tutor said: He checks the family's accounts every month and there are absolutely no problems. Every year, a huge amount of silver is saved.
Therefore, the account books that the Grand Tutor's wife showed him were all fake. Every time the Grand Tutor went to work, the whole family would eat their fill beforehand, and then when he returned, they would repeatedly stir-fry, steam, boil, and fry a pitiful piece of pork.
The Crown Prince's tutor stood up abruptly.
To avoid being discovered by the Grand Tutor, the wife always took her entire family out to eat.
The Crown Prince's tutor could no longer stand.
He said to the Crown Prince, "I suddenly remembered that I have an urgent matter to attend to. I will have the Grand Tutor come over in a bit. I will take my leave now."
Damn it, they eat out every day. Even if their family owns a gold mine, they couldn't afford it.
His money, his money!
The Crown Prince's tutor felt as if his heart was bleeding.
"Hahahaha."
Unable to contain his laughter, the prince began pounding the table wildly.
Because it was too exaggerated, it caught Shen Zhiyi's attention.
[Could this prince have epilepsy?]
The Crown Prince didn't care what Shen Zhiyi said at all; he thought Shen Zhiyi was extremely strong in combat.
Look, it hasn't been long at all, and they've already chased two people away. Impressive.
“Shen Lang, you really are something else.”
As he spoke, the Crown Prince gave Shen Zhiyi a thumbs up.
This left Shen Zhiyi even more confused.
"Your Highness, why has the Grand Tutor left as well?"
"Oh, something came up. It's nothing, Tai-bao will be here in a bit."
The Crown Prince began to gloat, but then the Grand Tutor claimed that he had recently caught a bad cold and was unable to meet with the Crown Prince for fear of offending him, so he asked for leave and would not be coming.
The Crown Prince was disappointed.
He gritted his teeth and said, "That old fox is really cunning."
In the following days, the three of them came up with all sorts of excuses for not showing up.
Enraged, the Crown Prince dragged Shen Zhiyi to the old emperor early in the morning to complain.
"Dad, you decide what to do about this."
The old emperor glanced at Shen Zhiyi and immediately understood the reason.
"Ahem, actually, you don't necessarily need those three people to come over to practice calligraphy. How about this, you all go to Hongwen Hall."
[Ugh, this old emperor is crazy! He's determined to make me practice calligraphy, but traditional characters are so tiring to write. The person who invented simplified characters was truly great.]
The old emperor also thought the simplified Chinese characters used by Shen Zhiyi were very good, but this kind of thing was not suitable for promotion.
Although he had not read Shen Zhiyi's daily records, the historians had complained to him about it.
It is said that Shen Zhiyi wrote a lot of typos and simplified characters.
Although Shen Zhiyi tries her best to use traditional Chinese characters, she still occasionally writes a lot of simplified Chinese characters.
Simplified Chinese characters were once popular among the common people in the previous dynasty, but they were quickly suppressed by the previous dynasty's court.
Anyone who writes simplified Chinese characters will be imprisoned for life or executed.
The old emperor could say quite directly that, in this place, no one except Shen Zhiyi dared to write simplified characters.
When the historian saw the simplified characters written by Shen Zhiyi, he almost knelt down in awe.
Looking at Shen Zhiyi's gloomy face, the Crown Prince smiled and said to the old emperor, "Father, how about we forget about Shen Lang? Anyway, with you here and me here, we're all safe."
The Crown Prince knew that the old emperor wanted Shen Zhiyi to get used to traditional Chinese characters, but Shen Zhiyi came from a place that was clearly more open-minded, so why imprison her after she came here?
The old emperor glanced at Shen Zhiyi, his expression filled with many indescribable emotions.
Finally, he slowly nodded and said, "Never mind, it's fine if I don't learn it."
[Oh yeah! Long live the old emperor! Long live the crown prince!]
"but……"