The shopkeeper of the restaurant and Xiao Er hid behind the door if they were dead, worried, and they didn't know what to do with them in the spring.

Chang Yuchun had forgotten their existence, and said to the officials: "You quickly send someone to inform Ying Tianfu Yin, someone in the market is spreading portraits and rumors insulting Princess Ma, and General Yuan and I will go to see King Wu." ”

The stakes were so high that the officials did not dare to delay and hurriedly returned to the government to report to their superiors.

Chang Yuchun and Yuan Xing asked to see Zhu Yuanzhang with their portraits, and told them in detail what they had encountered in the restaurant today.

"Someone dares to insult the princess, come here! Order the Criminal Department to strictly investigate this matter!" Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, Ma Xiuying was his wife, and humiliating Ma Xiuying was tantamount to humiliating him! If he didn't deal with it severely, where would he have face?

Soon, the entire Ying Tianfu arresting officials took action and arrested the rumor-mongers everywhere. Zhu Yuanzhang also sent shadow guards to quietly infiltrate the people to find out the news.

However, those people seemed to have heard the rumors a long time ago, and they all disappeared without a trace, leaving no traces, and the criminal department did not find out for a long time, only caught some unknown good deeds.

However, these rumors have caused a bad impact on the people, and although the people no longer dare to openly discuss Ma Xiuying's rights and wrongs, there are still people who whisper to each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he could not find out the rumor-mongers and could not stop the people from discussing, so he was furious and ordered the criminal department to arrest anyone who mentioned the words watermelon and big feet, and beheaded them after the autumn.

For a time, the people of Ying Tianfu were panicked, and the people wailed. Some people have suffered purely from unwarranted disasters, such as those who buy and sell watermelons, and many people have been arrested. Later, the hawkers could only shout to sell melons, and they didn't dare to bring the West word, and the people avoided watermelons like snakes and scorpions when they saw them, who would buy them.

Ma Xiuying couldn't sit still when she heard this, and came to the study and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "I know that the prince feels sorry for me and doesn't want me to be wronged. But these people are innocent, please let them go. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "They dare to humiliate you and laugh at you, and you still help them intercede?"

Ma Xiuying said sincerely: "The people are just curious, and the people who really humiliate me are those rumor-mongers with bad intentions. By doing this, the prince not only could not wash away my reputation, but instead deepened the misunderstanding among the people. Now that the hearts of the people in Tianfu are fluctuating, I heard that some people have secretly left. There are also some farmers who grow watermelons but do not dare to buy and sell them, so they can only rot in the ground, but this is their harvest in a year, and if I cause them to starve themselves, then my sin will be great. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent.

Ma Xiuying said again: "The prince is about to ascend the throne, the whole world celebrates, and the world is amnesty, it is better to pardon these people, so that the people will be grateful to you, and people's hearts will slowly settle down." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "Then according to what you say, spare their lives." But we can't let them out just yet, until the day I ascend the throne. ”

Ma Xiuying smiled, "Since you have the heart to spare them, let them out as soon as possible, why let these people and their relatives be afraid all day long." At the same time, please stop restricting the people from mentioning watermelon, big feet and other forbidden words, these are just people's daily life words, why bother with this taboo. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to issue a pardon, announcing that the enthronement was imminent, and the amnesty would be granted to the world, except for those who committed the most heinous crimes, the rest would be exempted, and affirmed that the release of the people arrested this time was the princess's intercession for everyone, and if the people still dared to be disrespectful to the princess, they would still not be spared.

After Liu Ji found out, he stroked his palms and laughed, "The world is fortunate!

The next day, he suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang in the court: "If the prince allows, the minister is willing to set up a biography for the princess to uphold the world." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang readily agreed, and used the allusions of "turnip bean porridge" and "Hutuo wheat rice" in front of the ministers to describe the hard life of their husband and wife, and said with emotion: "Guo Zixing suspected Lone, Lone was imprisoned, and the princess hid the freshly steamed pancakes in her arms and gave them to Lone to eat, and burned her body for this. Later, the princess took out all her savings and let the lonely recruit soldiers. At that time, the march was in the year of famine, and the troops lacked provisions, so the princess often saved food and starved herself in order to feed the orphans...... Lone is very touched every time he thinks about these things. The princess's virtue is comparable to that of the eldest grandson of Tang Taizong, so Gu was very angry when he heard that someone slandered the princess. Tell the world today, and set the record straight!"

The ministers suddenly realized, no wonder Zhu Yuanzhang loves Ma Xiuying, such a woman can indeed be called virtuous.

Liu Ji bowed and said: "It is a great honor for Weichen to be able to set up a biography for the princess,"

So later, Ma Xiuying's deeds were recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Queen Ma".

In the past, Ma Xiuying pleaded for amnesty in the world, and then Liu Ji wrote about Ma Xiuying's virtuousness. The people are grateful to Dade, and even some people who are immortal in the catastrophe have also offered Ma Xiuying's tablet at home, grateful to the queen for saving her life.

Li Shanchang and the others were so angry that they didn't splash the dirty water, and they also established a reputation as a virtuous queen for Ma Xiuying, which really shot themselves in the foot. However, Ma Xiuying was in the limelight, and the Criminal Department was investigating the rumor-mongering incident, so they didn't dare to act rashly, so they had to endure it for the time being.

After official propaganda and some hearsay news, the people knew the origin of the woman who was about to become the queen. It turns out that she has done so many good deeds and saved so many people. Not only did no one laugh at Ma Xiuying's big feet anymore, but they all took her as a model for women.

Many Huaixi people are even more proud, and they will say when they meet people: "The emperor is our Huaixi, and the queen is also our Huaixi, and our Huaixi is really a treasure of feng shui for outstanding people!"

The Liu clan in Suxian County was not sure that Ma Xiuying was their clansman before, when the prince Zhu Biao gave Liu Dashan and Ma Shili a mound of clothes had attracted their attention, they wanted to go to the mountain to find out the truth, but there were guards around the tomb, they could not be sure that the mound was repaired for Liu Dashan and the Ma family, so they could not guess the relationship between Zhu Biao and these two.

Now that the news has spread, the Liu clan knows that Ma Xiuying is Liu Xiuying, the daughter of Liu Dashanren, and this time, the clan suddenly became lively like an explosion, with Ma Xiuying, the queen, wouldn't they be relatives of the emperor.

Although when Liu Dashan was killed, they once opened an ancestral hall to erase the existence of Liu Dashan's family on the family tree, but now they hurriedly added the name of Liu Dashan's family to the family tree, and sent a few strong men to escort the patriarch and clan elders to Yingtianfu to ask to see Ma Xiuying.