The palace people set up a table for lunch, and the emperor took Xiao Yanzhi's hand to the table, and let Xiao Yanzhi sit beside him, chatting while eating.

"I heard that you are doing business in the Jiangnan area to support your family? What kind of business are you doing? ”

Swallowing the slices of meat in his mouth, Xiao Yanzhi replied unhurriedly: "It's a brewing business." ”

"Winemaking?" As soon as he heard this, the emperor suddenly became a little interested, "You can make wine?" ”

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head and said, "Originally, I didn't, I specially found a wine general to learn." ”

"Why winemaking?" The emperor was puzzled, "The merchants in Jiangnan do the most diverse business, isn't it easier to do some side things?" ”

Xiao Yanzhi thought for a while and said: "Those that are easy to do, Erchen can do it, others can also do it, and those who do it earlier than Erchen can't compare to Erchen, it is better to learn a skill, be a craftsman, and the worst thing after leaving the teacher is to make the same thing as the master, if you are lucky, you can create something unique to yourself, then you can sell it for money." ”

Hearing this, the emperor pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "You are right. So which one do you belong to? Already able to make your own stuff? ”

Xiao Yanzhi said with a smile: "Erchen brews flower and fruit wine, what can be brewed is all up to the will of heaven, there is no skill to speak of, but it has failed the master's cultivation." After that, I made money, hired someone to help, and my skills became even more rusty. ”

"Then now that you leave Jiangnan, who will take care of the business?" The Emperor asked curiously.

"It's the eldest brother in the family." Xiao Yanzhi secretly thought that he had obviously avoided this topic as much as possible, why did the emperor bring it up himself?

Sure enough, hearing Xiao Yanzhi's answer, the emperor's face froze, and he seemed to realize that he had asked a question that he shouldn't have asked, but the words had already come out, and if he suddenly changed to something else, it would seem that he was too undignified.

So the emperor smiled reluctantly, but he couldn't control his mouth and asked again: "Brother is your mother and ......."

The emperor's question was not complete, but he believed that Xiao Yanzhi understood.

Xiao Yanzhi understood, but he was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, so he just looked at the emperor and laughed dryly.

The emperor narrowed his eyes, blocking the sadness in his eyes, but he wanted to know more, so he continued to ask, "How many younger siblings do you have?" ”

Seeing that the emperor was holding on to this problem, Xiao Yanzhi simply let go and said, "When my mother was with my father-in-law, my father-in-law had an older sister by his side, and later he had two younger brothers and a younger sister. ”

The emperor was stunned.

Did she give birth to two sons and a daughter to another man? It was thanks to them that they had a son with great difficulty.

Seeing that the emperor was in a trance, Xiao Yanzhi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I finally escaped death, my mother fell ill, and she couldn't take me to other places, so she could only settle down in a remote village...... When I learned that you died in battle, my mother wanted to go with you, and even tied up the white silk. ”

These are the things that the emperor should know.

The emperor was stunned, looked at Xiao Yanzhi in shock, and asked urgently: "Died in battle?" Why did I die in battle? ”

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head and said, "Eighteen years ago, when I was four years old, I repeatedly asked people to inquire several times, but they all had the same result, saying that the leader of the troops had been replaced by someone else. ”

"Eighteen years ago......" The emperor lowered his eyes, trying to recall the events of eighteen years ago, and when he finally remembered something, the emperor's heart became more and more sad.

I see...... Eighteen years ago, a year after the army was raised, they had been suffering defeat, and the war had reached a dead end...... Why did they let their mother and son get this news?

After ascending the throne, the emperor didn't send someone to find Xiao Yanzhi's mother and son, but only when he heard that Xiao Yanzhi's mother had remarried, the emperor was furious for a while, and didn't take Xiao Yanzhi back to the palace. It's just that the emperor didn't expect that Xiao Yanzhi's mother remarried because of this, knowing such a reason, what qualifications does he have to blame his wife?

They just missed it......

"And then?" The emperor's voice trembled a little, but he continued to ask as if he was fine.

He wanted to know, and if that was the case, he would want to know what life would happen to his wife after that.

Xiao Yanzhi looked at the emperor's gloomy expression, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Father, let's eat first, I can wait for the empty minister to tell you about this matter." ”

Looking at the emperor's excessively sad appearance, Xiao Yanzhi was really afraid that he would not be able to bear it.

The Emperor shook his head slowly but firmly, and said, "You can say it now, I want to know." ”

Xiao Yanzhi sighed and said, "At that time, it was I who suddenly broke into my mother's room, and my mother also saw me, so she couldn't bear to leave me alone in the world. But a sick woman with a four-year-old child couldn't make a living, and her mother had no choice but to remarry an honest man. The father-in-law's family was also sad, and when he had no money to buy rice, he sold his sister to a merchant as a concubine. When I was 10 years old, my mother ......"

"After that, your mother never asked me about it again?" The emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Xiao Yanzhi said in a low voice: "Mother last, I swallowed my breath when I read your name. ”

Where do you dare to ask? If you learn that the man you love is still alive, how will the woman who forced her to remarry live?

The emperor closed his eyes, and tears slipped from the corners of his eyes: "I'm the one who bears her...... I was the one who lost her ......."

He should have taken their mother and son with him back then! Most of the women he met after him were with him, only his cherished wife, he didn't want her to suffer, he wanted to wait for him to take her to share the glory when he became a treasure, but he didn't expect it...... I didn't expect it......

Zhao Kang was stunned, waved away the palace people waiting on the side, and he himself left the room after glancing at Xiao Yanzhi, and closed the door for the father and son in the house, and Zhao Kang stayed outside.

Seeing the emperor's true feelings, Xiao Yanzhi sighed secretly and said with relief: "Say another disrespectful word, my mother should have felt that she could finally go to you, so she left with a smile, you ...... Don't blame yourself. ”

I don't know if I listened to this relief in my heart, the emperor quickly calmed down his sadness, but he looked a little tired, looked at Xiao Yanzhi and asked, "Yanzhi, would you like to call me dad again?" ”

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Dad." ”

After calling this father, the emperor will treat him with more sincerity as a father and son, why not call?

The emperor also smiled, and this time, the emperor's smile was from the bottom of his heart, a little more loving, a little less guarded.

"Let's eat, it's going to be cold."

"Okay."

Although it was not unswerving, those few tears still proved the emperor's sincerity to that woman. Now, that woman should be able to rest in peace, right?

After lunch, the people from the Shangfu Bureau came, I don't know if Zhao Kang gave a special order, and the palace province in charge of the imperial clothes of the Son of Heaven also sent people from the Shangyi Bureau.

In front of the emperor, the two groups of people did not dare to slack off in the slightest, just measuring the length of an arm would take a quarter of an hour, and when all the numbers were measured, Xiao Yanzhi was also tired enough.

After that, the emperor was enthusiastic to choose clothes for Xiao Yanzhi, and Xiao Yanzhi, who was not interested in this, could only sit with a smile, no matter what the emperor said, he praised and applauded, even so, a group of people were also nested in the Liangyi Hall for an afternoon, Xiao Yanzhi was able to return to the Wanchun Hall after dinner in the Liangyi Palace.

After bathing and changing clothes, Xiao Yanzhi leaned crookedly on the couch and drank the hot soup sent by Xiushui. Extremely tired, but not sleepy.

"Xiushui, where does King Wucheng live?"

"King Wucheng?" Xiushui didn't know why Xiao Yanzhi suddenly asked King Wucheng, "King Wucheng's palace is in the northeast of the palace, and it is in the same place as the palace of His Second Highness, and the palace of Your Highness and Your Third Highness is also built in that place." ”

Xiao Yanzhi raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise: "Wucheng Wangfu is outside the palace?" ”

When the words fell, Xiao Yanzhi realized that he had asked a stupid question.

Xiushui only thought that Xiao Yanzhi didn't understand, and nodded: "Well, the palace is all outside the palace." But there are also places in the palace for your highnesses to live, like our Wanchun Palace, and the Lizheng Hall where His Royal Highness Er Er'er lives in the east is next to us. The residence of the three highnesses is far away from us, in the Chengqing Hall on the west side of the Liangyi Palace. King Wucheng is the son of His Majesty, and he can get some of the same treatment as the prince, so there is also a sleeping hall in the palace, which is the Daji Hall to the east of the Lizheng Palace, which is next to the Lizheng Palace. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yanzhi pursed his lips, secretly thinking that the relationship between Pei Ze and Xu Lishan was really too good, and it was just enough to stand on the same political front, and even the places where they lived were next to each other.

Xiao Yanzhi asked again: "Where does King Wucheng live today?" ”