Drink!
Three rounds!
A full twenty-seven bowls—Lin Su drained them all!
"Good lad, your capacity for drink has grown! Dare you take another three rounds?" Prince Nan fixed him with a pair of ox eyes.
Lin Su said, "And what are these three rounds for?"
"For how, back at the Palace Examination, this prince had the keen eye to recognize talent and took a liking to you at first sight! I caught myself a son-in-law after the ranks were posted." Prince Nan threw back his head and laughed.
Beside the flowers outside, the Princess Consort clutched her forehead. She was too ashamed to face anyone. Keen eye to recognize talent? Who had taught him those words?
"Prince, that wasn't called having a keen eye to recognize talent. You didn't know me at all—you just fished around blindly. You didn't even know my real name..."
"You bastard, you gave this prince the name Wu Zixu back then and fooled me completely! When I got back and told the Princess Consort, she gave me a thorough scolding. She said that if I had read even three and a half sentences of books, I would know what 'Zixu' meant. Ah, Esteemed Son-in-law, quietly tell this prince—what does Zixu mean? I still haven't figured it out..."
Good heavens! The Princess Consort turned her gaze toward the maid beside her. "Has this old fool had too much to drink? He's even bringing up such embarrassing things."
The maid was once again speechless. Did she dare say that the Prince had always been ignorant and unlearned? Did she dare say that, drunk or sober, he was only ever at this level?
She could only change the subject. "The Prince and the Literary King have met with complete honesty and no reserve between them. This servant thinks