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"Today, while you are away, two letters came from the house. Xu untied his clothes, changed into a set of Songjiang cloth underwear, and said: "One is my eldest brother's, report safety, and say that according to the provisions of the "Audit Record", the extra family members and ceremonies in the Guogong Mansion will be handed over to Yousi. ”

Zhu Di's slightly dazed brain gradually cleared up, and said, "Who are they?"

"They are all the descendants of my father's personal guards," Xu fed him a little sobering soup, and said: "After the war, my father sent them back to their hometown, but they didn't want to go back, and they have been raising them in the Guogong Mansion, and now the emperor has a holy decree, and he doesn't dare to raise them." ”

Zhu Di closed his eyes slightly and said, "Where are these people?"

"Fa Fengyang is a member of the people. Xu said: "The eldest brother said that it was okay, to be an ordinary person honestly, it should have been like this a long time ago, what to do with his father's kindness, and the house can't protect them." ”

"This is also a matter of last year," Xu said slowly: "At that time, the blue jade case was being issued, and the eldest brother did not dare to pass on the letter, and only after the situation calmed down, did he dare to report it." ”

In February of the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Jin Yiwei commanded Jiang Zhen to sue Lan Yu for rebellion and sent an edict to Xun Xun. October prison equipment clan punishment. Later, the "Record of Rebel Ministers" was issued, and there was a duke, thirteen marquises, and two uncles. About 15,000 people were annihilated by the party under the lieges. It is known as the "Blue Jade Case" in history.

"Lan Yu, the material of a general," Zhu Di remembered the experience of fighting side by side four years ago, and finally squeezed out a gnat-like voice in his throat: "It's a pity, it's a pity-"

"I'm afraid he's not the only one who is a pity. Xu said.

Zhu Di thought of the battle of the Northern Expedition, suddenly turned over and sat up, and said, "There is something I want to tell you, do you know Xue Xian, Marquis of Yongcheng?"

Xu's family was born in a noble family, and his father Xu Da was the first meritorious hero, so he naturally knew the family history of the military generals and ministers, and said: "He once conquered Mobei from his father, and followed Song Guogong out of Jinshan, because he killed Xu officials without permission, he was resided in Hainan, and Hongwu was recalled in the winter of 20 years, but he died in Shanhaiwei, and posthumously presented Yongguo Gong, Huan Xiang. has no children, and for twenty-three years he has been chasing Hu Weiyong's party and removing him. ”

"Yes, that's him. Zhu Di said: "He has no children, but he has a daughter, and this daughter is unknown." ”

Xue Xian had no children, so when he chased Hu Weiyong's party, he was just removed from the lord, and unlike other nobles, his family members sat together.

"In the winter of the twentieth year of Hongwu, he asked someone to bring a message," Zhu Di said: "He said that he has a daughter in Yongcheng, Henan, who was born in the thirteenth year of Hongwu. ”

"Xue Xianyu has a great favor to me, this girl is to be taken care of. Zhu Di recalled: "In the third year of Hongwu, I was first crowned King of Yan, and it happened that my father-in-law was going to conquer Mobei, so I secretly followed up with the team, and I also wanted to make contributions." ”

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was only ten years old, secretly followed the team that went out to Mobei, because he had thick bones and an old face since he was a child, and the people in the barracks only said that he was a new army that had just come from Huaibei, and let him go all the way to the pass.

At the time of the inspection, Zhu Di's identity was seen by Xue Xian, who was a partial general at the time, and Xue Xian did not say anything to anyone, but sent him back to Nanjing from more than ten horsemen, but because he sent troops privately, he was not only punished by Xu Da, but also deprived of credit by the emperor when he finally counted his merits.

"I didn't know the severity back then, and I was very resentful when I was sent back," Zhu Di sighed: "Later, I understood that I didn't know how many people I would kill when I left." ”

Other people don't know about this matter, but Zhu Di has always been grateful in his heart, Xue Xian said that when he was marching, he robbed a woman from a good family, and later became pregnant, and was sent to Yongcheng by his own soldiers, because his fief was there. After that, I knew that I gave birth to a girl, but I didn't dare to recognize each other, and then Xue Xian was recalled, walked from Hainan to Shanhaiwei, and died inexplicably.

"After saying that it is absolutely over," Zhu Di said: "But there is still a little blood, I asked someone to secretly search for this child I don't know how many times, it was the news that I got yesterday, and I said that I found it - I am fourteen years old, the child's mother has not remarried, and the local government has expressed it, but how can the orphan mother not be bullied, I think if I can bring them to Beiping, you and me, find a good family for her to marry, so that I can take care of it in front of me, and I will not live up to Xue Xian's grace of saving me back then." ”

Xu nodded and said, "It turns out that there is such a cause. Since Marquis Xue has kindness, he should be descended, but I don't know how His Royal Highness will bring the orphans and widows who are far away in Henan? This is not an easy thing. ”

"I have some sergeants here whose ancestral home is Henan, who have been sent over in the name of visiting relatives, and explain the reason first," Zhu Di said: "If you are willing to come, you will go on the road with the excuse that you have booked a family affair in Beiping." ”

"This matter must be done slowly," Xu said: "In the long run, after all, Jinyi Wei is pervasive, and it is impossible for Beiping soldiers to visit their relatives and return to their hometowns without being scouted." ”

Zhu Di nodded, drank the decanting soup in his hand in one gulp, and asked, "You just said that there is another letter, who is it?"

"It's Ning Guo's," Xu took the letter from the table and said, "It's written to you." ”

Zhu Di opened the letter and read it silently.

Princess Ningguo is the second daughter of the emperor, and she is married to Mei Yin, the son of Marquis Mei Sizu of Runan.

"My sister and brother are separated, and I have been laid since my mother, and I am twelve. Haoyue Yanyun is incompatible. ”

“…… Compatriots share milk, flesh and blood, and now they are participating in business," Zhu Di read word by word: "...... There is less wind and frost, and there is more love for children. ”

Zhu Di couldn't read it anymore, and his wide sleeves covered the tears that slipped between his sideburns.

Xu took the letter and read it slowly: "When my boy was able to act and speak, he was led to the queen mother's bed in the morning and asked: 'Is the queen mother happy? My boy, when he can act and speak, he must give up his seat when he sits, give way to his walk, and let him eat when he eats. Whoever teaches, big brother. ”

Zhu Di thought of when he was very young.

He is not the biological child of Queen Ma, he and Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, are brothers of the same mother, this fact, he did not know until the day he was crowned King Yan. It turned out that the queen mother only had a pair of sons and daughters, who were the crown prince and Ning Guo; the king of Qin and the king of Jin were born to Concubine Li Shu's mother; he and the king of Zhou were born from the Qi family; Mu Ying, Wen Zheng and Wen Zhong were all sons with different surnames.

He was raised under the knees of Queen Ma, and the crown prince, and the king of Qin, and the king of Jin, and the king of Zhou, as well as Ning Guo, and Anqing, as well as Mu Ying, and Qingyang, as well as Fucheng, as well as Zhu Wenzheng, and Li Wenzhong.

It's a family.

When Wen Zheng and Wen Zhong went out to fight, the eldest brother of the prince was forever entangled in their little hairy heads. He always dragged one, hugged one, hung one around his neck, followed by two or three, and went to the queen mother's house to greet him.

After the age of five, he never saw Brother Wen Zheng again; when he was seven years old, he watched Princess Qingyang's car drive away; at the age of ten, he sent Princess Fucheng away; when he was twenty-two years old, the queen mother died; at the age of twenty-four, Brother Wen Zhong also went; at the age of thirty-two, the eldest brother of the prince and Mu Ying went to reunite with the queen mother.

The longer the incident was over, the more he deliberately forgot it, because he knew that it would hurt to think about it, just like he remembered this time two years ago, when he was serving next to the hospital bed, holding the hand of the prince's eldest brother, and getting a slight backshake, just like when he was a child, telling him not to worry.

"The mourning of the eldest brother is going on year after year," the end of the letter reads: "My sister will never forget, and I don't care about my brother? The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven are the extremes?"

"There is a ninety-year-old man in Wanping City," Zhu Di said suddenly: "I once asked him the reason for his longevity, and he said that his children are all filial, and the family has a long life of drinking and eating in the morning and evening." ”

"But our family," Zhu Di said, "has never been." ”

Empress Ma died, and Qin Jinyan, who was raised under the queen's knees, was mourned by the four vassal kings for thousands of miles, and was driven back to the fiefdom in less than two months. In the seventeenth year, when the Zigong was put into the ground, they went to the court again, but the emperor did not let them stay for one more day, and they did not even see each other, so they were sent back to the fiefdom.

His fifth brother, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, was ordered by the emperor to send Yunnan to Yunnan because he secretly left the fiefdom and went to Fengyang to pay tribute to his mother, and was only allowed to return to Kaifeng two years later.

The heavenly family is no longer a family, the father and son are different from each other, and the brothers are thousands of miles apart.