Chapter Fifty-Nine: Drinking

  Marriage is a lifetime matter.

  But as for whom he marries and when he gets married, all these are up to the Second Prince himself.

  Maybe he wanted a gentle one, but his father found him a lively one. Maybe he wanted to get married in winter, but his father arranged for him to get married in summer...

  This feeling of being at the mercy of others and being powerless is probably enough to offset the joy of marriage for people with leg disabilities who are more sensitive and emotional than others.

  Why is it that whenever modern people talk about the advantages of new society over old society, they always mention "abolishing arranged marriages and freedom to love"?

  Is it necessarily harmful for parents to arrange everything for their children? Not always. Most of the time, they do so with good intentions and have carefully considered what is best for them.

  But the child doesn't understand this feeling.

  My life is mine, and so are my love and relationships.

  It has to be said that the second prince had such a rebellious spirit.

  But this rebellious spirit is out of place in this era and location.

  Let's get back to the point, even if you want to rebel, you need to have the capital for rebellion. Now that you're living off your father and wearing clothes provided by him, what would be left of you if you were to take off the crown prince hat? Are you good at literature or martial arts? Or can you leave home and make a living on your own?

  Since you're eating from someone else's rice bowl, you should lower your head to them.

  Chao Sheng thought, the second prince's idea should be changed. First, don't think of the emperor as a father, just think of him as an emperor. It will feel more comfortable in your heart. Under the heaven, everything belongs to the king, and the emperor has always been the one who says what goes. If you are not capable of rebelling against him, then you have to listen to his words.

  Besides, "dad" isn't a synonym for "sucker", providing you with food and clothes, wealth and enjoyment, helping you find your relatives, yet still being complained about by you.

  Everyone in this world who is someone's child has to go through this experience.

  The fourth prince will also have this day, but Chao Sheng can intuitively determine that the thoughts and attitudes of the fourth prince are absolutely different from those of the second prince.

  How to describe it...

  Although he wasn't very familiar with it, Chao Sheng thought that the Second Prince first regarded the Emperor as his father and then as the Emperor. So he felt wronged.

  But the fourth prince is different.

  From the last time the Emperor came to visit his illness, Chao Sheng could feel that the attitude of the Fourth Prince was respectful and distant - that is, he treated him as an emperor first, and then as a father.

  This is the right way to do things in this era.

  Unfortunately, Chao Sheng understood it clearly, but he couldn't go and comfort the Second Prince a little, nor could he persuade him to restrain himself, instead of having a provocative look every day, venting his anger on palace servants and eunuchs.

  Eunuchs and palace maids are not considered human in the eyes of those in power, right? Even Song Can, who was by his side and had the most prestige, was slapped with a raised hand, without any face at all.

  "You'd better be careful yourself."

  The second prince is in a bad mood, and Song Can's mood is even worse. The city gate has lost its fire, and if things go wrong, it will harm the fish in the pond.

  Not only did they have to be careful with their words, but even the Fourth Prince seemed a bit too low-key, probably because he was afraid of being too comfortable and offending his Second Brother.

  But trouble isn't something you can avoid just by hiding. The Fourth Prince won't come out, but the Second Prince can kill his way to your doorstep - and he'll even bring his own wine and dishes.

  The fourth prince said: "Tomorrow we still have to test our studies..."

  "I've already told someone, you're not feeling well, take a day off tomorrow."

  The fourth prince still wanted to struggle a bit before dying, but outside the sky was already dark, and he couldn't find an excuse to go out.

  The second prince directly ordered the people who carried him: "You all go back, I will rest here tonight, no need to come and pick me up."

  What else can the fourth prince say? The second prince is so well-prepared that he directly blocks the door and refuses to leave.

  Even if it's in modern times, good brothers who are about to enter the tomb of marriage also have the right to hold a farewell bachelor party the night before. The second prince's move can be understood as this.

  Who are his good brothers? Looking around, ah, only the second prince can be found. Others are either too far away or have a distant relationship. Or it's like the eighth prince, who is still young and not yet old enough to drink.

  Even if the second prince poured out his heart about his troubles of being forced to marry a stranger, could the eighth prince understand?

  Of course, the second prince wouldn't directly say, "I'm so depressed, my dad found me a wife, and I don't even know if she's tall or short, fat or thin, dark or light, beautiful or ugly... And to make matters worse, we're getting married on a hot day, isn't this just torturing people? Besides, the bride's family is not very capable, although it hasn't reached the point where the father dies and the mother remarries, but it's also a situation where the maternal grandmother doesn't care about her and the uncle doesn't love her... *ALABALA...

  Since the second prince didn't mention it, the fourth prince naturally wouldn't bring it up first. The two of them started chatting casually, from the weather to fine wine, from romance to 80,000 miles away, even reminiscing about childhood memories with deep emotion.

  The second prince seemed to have a few drinks, picked up a chopstick with a lotus root, shook his hand, and more than half of it fell on the table, leaving only one root still trembling on the tip of the chopstick. However, Cao Sheng felt that this one was also hard to keep safe, swaying precariously, and it seemed that it would fall off too.

  The fourth prince's face turned slightly red as he looked at his hands, which were still steady.

  The wine brought by the second prince is not some ordinary maple dew or clear sorrow that people usually drink. Those wines don't get you drunk, even if you drink a whole jar, your stomach will be full but you'll still be sober. This wine is a fine wine from the Western Regions, it's a real strong liquor. The fact that the fourth prince can hold on until now, and is even more resilient than the second prince, is already unexpected.

  The second prince is said to have a good capacity for liquor, but today it's possible that the wine isn't intoxicating, yet everyone is getting drunk on their own sorrows.

  Even if he gets drunk to death in a wine jar today, this marriage will still be fixed. When the time comes, he will have to marry her. If he wants to defy his father, it's only possible if this second prince doesn't want to do it anymore.

  "Haha, actually you'll have a day like mine too..." The second prince chuckled twice, probably thinking he was the unlucky one, but this old fourth would soon become his own unlucky brother, and his mood improved somewhat.

  It's not like that, the fourth prince is only two years younger than him, and it's not far from getting married.

  When a person is having bad luck, if there's someone else who's also having bad luck just like him, he'll feel much better.

  This mentality is like, look, I'm not the most unlucky one, there's another one accompanying me.

  The fourth prince's hand pressed down on his wine cup: "Second brother, wine can harm the body, let's drink a little less. The moonlight outside is just right, let's go..."

  The second prince said directly: "I'm not going. Drink."

  The fourth prince couldn't help it, and gave Xiao Shun a look. Xiao Shun hurried over to serve him, pouring the wine into a pot and saying he wanted to warm up the wine. The second prince was already getting a bit dizzy, but Chao Sheng could see clearly that Xiao Shun wasn't just warming the wine, he was actually diluting it with water.

  It's really high

  This move of surrounding Wei to rescue Zhao and removing the firewood from under the cauldron was used too well.

  Why didn't the fourth prince use this move from the start?

  Oh, right, at first the second prince was still sober, and he would have definitely noticed if water had been added then. Now his eyes are almost swollen into slits and his tongue is also swollen, so adding some more water should be fine.

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  This chapter was actually yesterday's second update.

  Last night, the computer suddenly restarted three times in a row. On the third restart, it just died and wouldn't boot up again. I had written half of my article on that computer - I was left staring blankly.

  Originally planned to take the computer to Computer City for repair today, but fortunately, there is a little fat man at home. He disassembled it and wiped it with a cloth, saying that the memory bar was loose, so the computer came back to life again.