Chapter 92 —Substitutes

Three days later.

Early in the morning, Zhu Di had an intuition that something was going to happen.

Meddlesome? Bad? It makes no difference, in his position, there is no choice between good and bad things, so he has to bear it on one shoulder. After the pain of bereavement, a certain comic book hero of the Earth Age finally realized the truth that "with great power comes great responsibility", and as a prince, this is just an innate code of conduct.

He was patient and calm, and in terms of behavior, he maintained the same behavior as usual, and no one noticed anything unusual about him, including Xing Baihu who hurried to the Guoshu Academy from Beizhen Fusi.

Xing Yiwei came to report on the progress of the case of the murder of his brother by the 25 princes, and since the members of the royal family enjoy a certain degree of criminal immunity, in order to legally try and convict the 25 princes, the Senate specially passed a new law to deal with the crimes committed by the members of the royal family. Finally, the initial reunification was achieved in the first two days.

Just last night, the new law that was finally introduced was sent to the palace, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the case of the twenty-fifth prince could finally be concluded, and the court no longer had to find a reason to delay time under the noses of all the Ming people......

But no one could have imagined that news came out of the palace in the early hours of this morning - His Majesty the Emperor rejected the resolution of the Senate and refused to promulgate a new law!

The news has not yet officially spread, but everyone in the know can imagine the consequences, public opinion is bound to be in an uproar, and the republicans and radical revolutionaries will certainly not let go of the opportunity to attack the royal family, such as the radical standard-bearer Li Yindu, who has long insisted on calling for changing the monarchy to a federal system and completely abolishing the special status of the imperial family.

Xing Yiwei, as a Jinyi guard, the emperor's pro-army, was not only worried about the future fate of the imperial family, but also worried about his own job, so he ran to the Guoshu Academy from Beizhen Fusi early in the morning, and couldn't find the fourth prince in the principal's office, and chased to the central square very smartly.

However, Zhu Di was not on the flag-raising platform, Xing Yi built a pergola with his hands, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and he almost didn't raise his legs to play the golden rooster independently, but there was no figure standing out among the officials on the stage.

Could it be that something big is happening here at the Guoshu Academy? Where did the Four Princes go? Xing Yiwei couldn't find anyone, and he was doubly panicked.

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Actually, although Zhu Di is waiting for him, there is really nothing big on his side.

If you don't count the "surprise" that Zhu Biao deliberately brought him.

Yesterday he reported to Emperor Zhu on the defense of the 19th District, and before the Emperor found a new topic to embarrass him, he seized the time to sleep hard to make up for the losses he had made up for these days, and got up in good spirits today and went out on time to participate in the morning exercise in the central square.

In the early winter, the sky was getting later and later, and the sky was still full of stars at four o'clock in the morning, and the air that Zhu Di breathed seemed to be overflowing with light blue starlight.

His face was so solemn that no one could tell what he was thinking, he took a deep breath and exhaled, staring at the white mist in front of him, his eyebrows slowly tightening.

Zhu Di missed the 19th district, and the atmosphere in the capital was stagnant like a pool of stagnant water, and he was gradually about to lose his breath.

But just leaving Qiē on the way home, he was not reconciled.

What should be the next step, Zhu Di did not succeed, the emperor hated him for abducting Zhu Biao, impatient to maintain the surface of father's kindness and filial piety, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has always been such a person, love wants to live, evil wants to die.

The lucky one who was loved by the emperor was Empress Xiaoci Gao, then the crown prince, and now Zhu Biao. As for the rest of his wives and children, including himself, they are just pawns to defend the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di calmly thought that Empress Xiaoci Gao died, and the prince disappeared mysteriously, he thought that his opportunity had come, and the facts proved that his judgment was correct, and the emperor not only did not reprimand him for leaving his post without permission, but acquiesced to him to stay in the capital, and used various means to actively build momentum for him...... Even if he was just a rake deliberately set up by the emperor and a bait thrown out, he also got real benefits, didn't he? Who in the Ming Dynasty doesn't know him now? If the crown prince really had a chance in case, he would at least have a head start over his brothers.

He calculated everything, even if it was Zhu Biao, a variable that came out of nowhere, he had it in the palm of his hand early, but he didn't expect the emperor to be even crazier than he imagined.

The emperor is planning a shocking plan, Zhu Di vaguely grasps his psychology, it is really ironic, their father and son, who hate each other, are the people who know each other in the world.

He regretted it, he wanted to force himself back into the Nineteenth District, and he didn't even plan to find the prince again, because he now had a new replacement.

Zhu Biao.

Zhu Di's hands behind him were clenched into fists, their joints protruding and their mounds jagged, as if they wanted to lock the name and the person connected to it into a five-fingered prison.

"Aha! You're here! ”

Zhu Di raised his head suddenly, and the person he was thinking about just now suddenly appeared in front of him, wearing a round-necked shirt, but with a pair of sneakers underneath, and a bare head without a hat, revealing a short hair like fluffy spring grass.

Brother Zhu smiled, he was in a good mood today, and he didn't pay attention to a few brocade guards who surrounded him with unkind eyes, since Brother Xiaolin and their brothers were replaced, the four princes came and went every day and were newcomers, and they couldn't even be familiar.

Zhu Di waved his hand to let Jinyiwei retreat, his eyebrows drooped slightly, his eyes looked at him heavily, and just about to say something, Zhu Biao hurriedly took his hand, put it on his lips and gently "shhh

He didn't know why he did this, it was purely a subconscious reaction, and after doing it, he felt the body of the fourth prince shake slightly, and the aftermath of the shock passed down his fingers to him, and suddenly even he trembled slightly.

Zhu Biao turned his head red-faced, not daring to look at the expression of the fourth prince at this time, he cleared his throat and said in a dumb voice: "Don't speak, I have something to show you." ”

Zhu Di stared at the young man's thin ears and couldn't take his eyes off, those ears were so red that they seemed to be dripping blood, and he seemed to be able to feel the steaming heat just by looking at it. And their handshakes, Zhu Di is not the first time to shake Zhu Biao's hand, but he has never sensed the preservation of that hand like this moment - the warm skin on the back of his hand, the slightly shorter fingers that are a little fleshy, and the sweaty and slippery palm of his palm......

"Smack!"

Zhu Biao snapped his fingers with the empty other, and the starry sky overturned in response, and the day fell in advance.