Chapter 17: Waiting

"Youxiao, dressed like this, are you going to run again?" Early in the morning, Zhu Changluo, who couldn't sleep because of insomnia, was pacing in the yard, but saw that his son got up so early to exercise. Speaking of running, his tone and demeanor couldn't help but be a little strange, in his eyes, this kind of panting, sweating activity is really insulting, and he doesn't know where this little doll learned it, every morning.

"Yes, Father." Zhu Youxiao moved, heard someone talking to him, turned his head and looked, but it was his cheap father. Under the constraints of feudal etiquette, although he was reluctant, he had to come forward to greet him.

"The Imperial Father is well." After coming forward to pay respects, Zhu Youxiao got up and said: "If the father is fine, the son will go for a run." ”

"Go ahead, remember to come back for dinner." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and let his son, who was only a little older, go to the activity by himself. He is a cowardly person and has never been very careful, and the affairs in the palace are generally handled by Wang An and the crown princess Guo, while he lives a leisurely life. The same is true for the education of his sons, who himself has not received a very good education, let alone for his sons.

For his eldest son, Zhu Changluo's feelings are very complicated, because of this son, his position has been stabilized, but since he was a child, he didn't know his eldest son at all. No matter what he does, he seems to have his own opinions, including the layout of his bedroom, the choice of serving the eunuchs and palace maids around him, and some other trivial things in life, which are different from the people around him and have his own set of standards.

Zhu Changluo didn't experience the feeling of being a father at all, this feeling was only felt from the other children born later, but those children were blessed, and they were in a rich family, but they didn't have a life to enjoy.

"I don't know where I learned it to say that." Looking at the back of his eldest son, Zhu Changluo shook his head, then turned around and walked to his room, he didn't sleep well all night last night because of his son's performance, and he had to go to sleep at this moment.

"Crunch!"

The sound of the wooden shaft turning came far away in the early morning of this summer, and the wooden door decorated with a hollow dragon pattern was pushed open by him, and on the side of his body, Zhu Changluo walked in. There was another creak, and the door was closed, only to be heard as the wooden door was about to close.

"It's always good that a son is better than his father!"

The sigh was faint, with a faint sourness and a hint of relief in it, and it was broken and blown away by the morning breeze before it could be heard far.

The white practice uniform was worn on Zhu Youxiao's small body, which looked like a small ball of cotton floating on the ground, and the summer morning was very cool, and the faint sunlight shone down from the clouds, making the entire Forbidden City look very sacred.

On the empty royal road, only the dutiful palace guards walked back and forth, and then there were some miscellaneous eunuchs, who came early in the morning to collect the filth of the previous night. These eunuchs are all the lowest-ranking eunuchs in the palace, with poor food and few monthly cases, but they do the dirtiest, hardest and most tiring work, and they are really the bottom.

After running around Ciqing Palace, he felt that he had moved, and an inexhaustible energy poured out of his body, as if he could keep running. However, Zhu Youxiao restrained the desire that poured out from the bottom of his heart, he is still growing his body now, just run a few laps to exercise, too much will hurt his body.

He now has more exercise than the average adult. After running around Ciqing Palace for two more laps, Zhu Youxiao stopped and began to walk slowly to calm his violently beating heart. The red palace wall shines in the sun, and the carvings of various auspicious beasts can be seen everywhere, and the boundless atmosphere and dignity are shown in the eaves and corners.

"These are all my property." Standing and looking at the endless pavilions in the distance, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel like he was in a dream. I am the master of this vast and magnificent palace!

"Huh~~" exhaled vigorously, he slowly calmed down the emotions stirring in his heart, and slowly walked towards Ciqing Gate, it was time to have breakfast.

Back at Ciqing Palace, according to the etiquette, he first went to the crown princess and his biological mother to say goodbye, and then went to his father's place to stay overnight, but found that his cheap father fell asleep again. Shaking his head speechlessly, he returned to his new lodgings and began to eat breakfast.

Well, of course, the saying in the palace is called eating.

As for the other concubines, they don't have this qualification yet, so let the dignified imperial grandson go and greet them. There are only three people in the entire Ciqing Palace who have this qualification, the crown prince, the crown princess, and the biological mother.

Passing through a small door and walking into the courtyard, I saw that the palace maids and eunuchs who had been cooked were already busy preparing all kinds of toiletries and breakfast.

"I finally have my own independent space." Compared with the entire Ciqing Palace, this courtyard on the east side of the palace is not large, but it completely belongs to Zhu Youxiao alone, where he can exercise his rights without restraint.

This is a courtyard where he lives alone, it was just cleaned up yesterday, and after he finished saying that ambition, Wanli let him live alone in another room, faintly independent in Ciqing Palace.

In the face of the supreme emperor's will, no one in the palace dared to say a word, but in an hour, this courtyard was sorted out, all kinds of daily necessities, and the place where the palace maids and eunuchs lived, were all prepared. On the evening of returning to Ciqing Palace from Wanli, Zhu Youxiao moved out of the palace next to Wang Cairen and lived here.

"Master is well." As soon as I walked into the courtyard, all kinds of greetings kept coming. Zhu Youxiao didn't look at who it was, they all bowed their heads one by one, and then slowly came to the living and washing place, and after cleaning up his personal hygiene, he came to the side hall, which was where he ate.

The breakfast was very generous, buns, fritters, soy milk, eggs, and there was no shortage of the same. Maybe it's because of the exercise, Zhu Youxiao's meal is very large, and at this time he is almost like an ordinary adult, a five-year-old child, he eats the same as an adult, and if he is seen by the people outside, he must not be killed.

Eat so much now, when you reach the age of eating poor Lao Tzu, you can't eat a cow for a meal, what else do you have to do with such a baby, just kill it as soon as possible.

While eating breakfast, oh no, breakfast, Zhu Youxiao was thinking nonsense, and all kinds of rambling thoughts appeared in his head one by one. He was a little glad that he was born in the palace, although he could only be kept in captivity in this huge Forbidden City at present, but in terms of material life, he was very rich.

If he really crossed over to the ordinary people outside, he really didn't know if he could live by it. He shuddered a little when he thought of the days when he ate without meat and wiped his butt with leaves and stones.

This kind of life is too horrible to imagine.

After breakfast, Zhu Youxiao wore regular clothes and came to the study located in the west of his dormitory, and started another extremely important activity, reading.

Oh no, it should be said that he can read and write, in the eyes of outsiders, His Royal Highness Taisun, who is already five years old, is still illiterate, and he can't read a lot of words. Although Zhu Youxiao knows simplified Chinese characters, and traditional Chinese characters can even be recognized by Meng Daichai, he has never shown it.

All kinds of oral idioms can be said to be smart since childhood, and they have heard it from the great eunuchs, but no one can teach them to recognize words, how can this be explained? Living in the strict palace, Zhu Youxiao is not careful.

Under the magnificent appearance of the Forbidden City, there are a lot of white bones, and every year I don't know how many palace maids and eunuchs are transported out early in the morning and thrown to mass graves. Just one Ciqing Palace, he remembered that he had changed several familiar faces.

From the exposure of his infancy, Zhu Youxiao, who was originally a little arrogant and outspoken, also learned to be cautious, like a hunter walking in the forest, carefully vigilant to everything around him, looking for prey, and preventing himself from becoming the prey of others.

"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read!" Looking back on the past five years, Xiao Wen felt a little emotional. But soon, he adjusted his mentality and pushed open the door of the study.

In the empty study, there was a eunuch waiting, this person was none other than Zhu Youxiao, one of the three eunuchs, Cao Huachun.

The history of Cao Huachun's poetry, calligraphy and painting, proficient in everything, through the inner study hall. Of course, Zhu Youxuan didn't know about this evaluation, he only remembered that in the last years of Chongzhen, it seemed that it was this one who betrayed Chongzhen and let Li Zicheng enter Beijing. Of course, for him now, these things have not happened, and they do not affect Zhu Youxiao's appreciation of Cao Huachun now.

Among the three attendant eunuchs, Cao Huachun has the highest level of education, as for how high, Zhu Youxiao said that the scum could not measure it. But no matter what the level is, it is more than enough to enlighten him.

After the Qianqing Palace said those bold words yesterday, Wanli didn't have much reaction, except for letting him live alone in another room, he only said one sentence: "You should study!" ”

Studying, naturally there should be a teacher, but Wanli didn't say a word, just let Cao Huachun beside him enlighten first, saying that he would find a good teacher to come over.

When he heard this, Zhu Youxiao's little heart became excited in vain, whether it was his memory or those things in the Ming Dynasty, he was clearly told that his teacher was named Sun Chengzong.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Optimus Giant Pillar and the Alloy Beam stabilized the situation in Liaodong with their own strength, so that the Ming Dynasty gained a chance to breathe.

With anticipation, Zhu Youshou entered the study and began to recognize words with Cao Huachun's enlightenment. At the level of his previous life, literacy was the easiest, but he didn't dare to let it go too much, for fear of scaring others.

However, Rao is like this, Zhu Youxiao's performance once again refreshed the cognition of Cao Huachun, a highly cultural eunuch, but after teaching one side, His Royal Highness the intelligent Taisun can read through the three-character scripture.

Fortunately, Cao Huachun regained his confidence in the subsequent content explanation, and he didn't feel that he had read all the books in the dog's stomach.

It's not that Zhu Youxiao is clumsy, but it really won't. He had heard the classic sentences in the Three Character Sutra, but he had never read through it or understood what it was about. He thought that he would wait until he had a child before he would read this book, but he didn't expect that the thirty-eighth year of Wanli gave him this opportunity.

In this way, Zhu Youxiao began to recognize words with Cao Huachun. Every day, he is running, reading and reading, and waiting, waiting for the arrival of his teacher, Qi Jin, Yu Zhigao, and ....... Sun Chengzong.