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Chapter 137 The Gao Brothers

There was only one master in Prince Yi's Mansion, Zhou Chang, and he had few servants. The brothers Gao Yuan and Gao Yun also had their own small courtyard.

Before Zhou Chang entered the yard, he heard people arguing inside.

"I just don't want to study. Brother, please don't force me anymore." Gao Yun's voice was so loud that it could be heard through the wall.

"What do you want to do if you don't study?" Gao Yuan's dull voice said, "Are you going to be like me, relying on physical strength to make a living for the rest of your life?"

Zhou Chang had never heard Gao Yuan talk so much at once, but he was obviously angry.

"Anything is fine, even helping with farming in the palace is good too." Gao Yun couldn't overpower his brother in terms of momentum.

Gao Yuan seemed to be extremely angry but couldn't argue with his brother: "Anyway, you, you must listen to me. I have supported you for so many years, you, you must pass the exam to become a scholar."

Gao Yun only had two words: "I won't."

"Snapped--"

The sound of teacups breaking.

Zhou Chang walked in.

Perhaps because of the footsteps, the house on the east side of the yard suddenly became quiet.

With a creaky sound, the door opened from the inside.

Gao Yuan obviously didn't expect it to be Zhou Chang. He was so surprised that he couldn't speak clearly: "Your Majesty? Why are you here?"

Gao Yunze was squatting on the ground picking up the broken pieces of a teacup. He looked up when he heard his brother talking.

He was also very surprised to see that it was Zhou Chang. He stood up and saluted hastily, and spoke more fluently than Gao Yuan: "My Lord, are you here in a hurry to find your brother?"

Normally, the master would not come to the place where the servants lived. Zhou Chang just wanted to take a walk, but he did not expect the two to be so surprised. He was quite embarrassed: "Ahem..., ah, no, I came to see you."

"Looking for me?" Gao Yun was even more confused. This was the first time that Prince Yi took the initiative to look for him, and he came to where he and his brother lived.

"Ah, I was passing by here and heard the quarrel, so I came in to take a look." Zhou Chang also wanted to ease the embarrassment.

Gao Yuan immediately felt ashamed: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, we shouldn't have quarreled."

"I only heard a few words, nothing much." Zhou Chang tried to be as casual as possible.

Gao Yun quickly cleaned up the broken porcelain pieces on the floor and made a gesture of invitation: "If your Highness does not mind the simplicity of this room, please come in and sit down. If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know."

Since Zhou Chang came here, maybe it was some important mission.

Gao Yuan was a little at a loss: "What should I do? Your Majesty, please go to my room. Oh, no, my room is not good either."

"It's okay. I'm sorry to bother you. Just sit here for a while." Zhou Chang was indifferent. Since he was already here, it would be okay to go in and sit for a while.

Gao Yun's room is not big, but Zhou Chang doesn't think it is simple. It is even a hundred times better than Prince Yi Fengming's study because there are many books in it.

In addition to the bookshelf, there is a bed, a desk, a chair, a square table and two stools in the room. All the things together fill up the small room.

Gao Yuan was still at a loss as to what to do.

Gao Yun hurriedly moved a chair from the side of the desk and placed it in front of the square table in the middle of the room: "Your Highness, please sit down."

Zhou Chang sat on the chair and looked up at Gao Yun: "You have so many books in this room, why don't you want to read?"

"This book is thanks to Mr. Zhong. Ah, no, it should be thanks to you, Your Highness." Gao Yun was never as reserved as his brother Gao Yuan when facing Zhou Chang. "Mr. Zhong picked out some books that I can read from your place and gave them to me to read."

To Zhou Chang's surprise, Prince Yi Fengming's memory had emerged.

When Prince Yi built his palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also had bookshelves, antique racks, and other book displays.

However, Feng Ming himself did not like reading, and later in order to exchange for silver, he sold all his things one after another.

It was selling, but they were books after all, so Zhong Yubian took over.

Zhong Yu was a man of books, so if the books were handed over to him, it meant that not a single book could be thrown away or sold, and all had to be kept.

Zhou Chang had no objection. After all, she was also a person who didn't study like Prince Yi. She looked up at Gao Yuan and said, "I think there's nothing wrong with not studying. Why do you have to force your brother to study?"

Gao Yuan, who usually had a blank expression on his face, also fell. "Your Highness, you don't know that for people like us who come from poor families, what future do we have if we don't study?"

“But studying doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a future,” Gao Yun retorted.

Gao Yuan glared at his brother.

Gao Yun had no choice but to shut up.

The two of them couldn't continue quarreling in front of Zhou Chang.

"What did your family do before?" Prince Yi Fengming had a vague memory about the background of the brothers Gao Yuan and Gao Yun, so it was normal for Zhou Chang to ask this question.

"He was a farmer who farmed the land. Later, his subordinates became soldiers." Gao Yuan always spoke simply.

"What about your younger brother? Has he been studying since he was young?" According to Zhou Chang's understanding, farmers in ancient times generally would not think of letting their children go to school.

Gao Yuan pursed his lips and tried to organize his words before speaking: "My father was a farmer. He used to farm. Later, when I grew up, I joined the army. My younger brother was still young at that time. If he was older and his parents hadn't died of illness, my younger brother would have also been a farmer. But later, when I retired from the army, because I lost an arm, the army gave me some money, so I wanted to let my younger brother study, so I supported him for a few years."

It was a pleasant surprise to hear Gao Yuan say so many words at once.

Zhou Chang only roughly understood that Gao Yuan had served as a soldier and gained some experience.

After seeing the benefits of being a scholar, I wanted my younger brother to study as well.

"What about you?" Zhou Chang asked Gao Yun again, "Why don't you want to study?"

Gao Yun speaks much more fluently than his brother Gao Yuan, perhaps because he has studied: "I started to study at the age of seven, while other children started at the age of three or four. I tried hard at the beginning, but it may be because I started late, and I just couldn't get it. I am already seventeen years old this year, and I have studied on and off for ten years, but I didn't even pass the examination to become a student. I am really not cut out for studying."

Not having passed the examination to become a tongsheng for ten years reminded Zhou Chang of a certain "famous person" - Fan Jin, who passed the examination to become a tongsheng at the age of twenty and passed the imperial examination at the age of fifty-four.

"Then are you willing to farm? However, farming in the palace is not a long-term solution." Now that Zhou Chang thought of Fan Jin, he felt that studying might not be of much use.

Gao Yun replied: "I farm because the palace needs me. I haven't decided what I want to do, but the palace is so big, I will follow the prince for the rest of my life, so I won't have to worry about having nothing to do."

"Uh..." This is her iron rice job, so I have to continue asking, "But your brother doesn't want you to be a servant for the rest of your life, do you understand?" "Accept the separation, accept the impermanence of the world, it's better to be in the rain than to hold a broken umbrella."