The lonely village was buried in the ground forever by the mudslide, and Emperor Hongwu issued a holy decree to scold Zhu Di, and even wrote it into the "Imperial Records", scolding Zhu Di for only caring about the prince's honor guard, marching slowly, and delaying the opportunity for disaster relief. ordered to take away the Yan King's half a year's Yulu, and punished him in the Imperial Mausoleum of Jiming Mountain.

The Fengyang crisis is over, and when I return to the capital, it is already the end of summer, and the cool breeze is blowing, but Xu Miaoyi is angry, and she is upset for Zhu Di, "It is the prince who leads the disaster relief, and the prince leads the credit, and it is your fourth brother's fault that the dead person is your fourth brother's fault, and your father is too indistinguishable from wrong." ”

In the pharmacy, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, handcopied a remnant of an ancient prescription, and seemed to have been accustomed to it for a long time, "The prince is the crown prince, we can't compete with the prince, but we have to take the initiative to carry the black pot." The prince is the eldest brother and the king, we are the ministers, for the venerable, for the elders, and the father must maintain the image of the prince as a wise and martial prince. Don't worry, when this gust of wind passes, my father will let the fourth brother out. ”

Zhu Hu looked at Xu Miaoyi carefully for a while, and said with a smile, "You can't delay your marriage with the fourth brother." Miaoyi, you are so good to my fourth brother, and you are qualified to be my fourth sister-in-law. ”

Xu Miaoyi was not shy, but had a worried look on her face, "For Zhu Di, this time is not just as simple as carrying the black pot, he gets along well with those dead people in the lonely village, and he feels guilty in his heart, and the emperor will teach him a lesson indiscriminately, and force the blame on his head, without considering whether Zhu Di can bear it." ”

Zhu Hu paused, "Oh? Does the fourth brother also have a time to resist? ”

Zhu Hu grew up under the protection of the fourth brother's wings since he was a child, if there was no Wang Yinnu beauty trick caused by emotional injury, Zhu Hu may have been innocent and pure, in Zhu Hu's opinion, the fourth brother is stronger than his father, it seems to be omnipotent, and there is no wind and rain that he can't resist.

Xu Miaoyi was annoyed, waved her hand and slapped the back of Zhu Hu's head, "People's hearts are flesh and blood, you should think that he is cast from iron and steel!" ”

Zhu Hu covered the back of his head and exclaimed in pain, "Ouch, it is said that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, if you are not my fourth sister-in-law, you will come up and slap it, and you will become Princess Yan in the future, and you will have to stick every day!" ”

Xu Miaoyi came up and slapped another hand knife, "At this time, you have to think about jokes!" Think about how to unravel Zhu Di. He was imprisoned in the filial piety mausoleum, and I couldn't see him. ”

Zhu Hu covered his head and said, "Stop fighting, I have a way to take you to see him......"

In the fruit groves all over the mountains, Zhu Di carefully taught the lonely village to hunt dogs, "...... When you are a hunter, you must first be careful and observe the rules of prey, rather than wandering around the mountains with a bow and arrows, which will be fruitless. You see, there's a pheasant over there. ”

The dog bent his bow and arrows, eager to try. Zhu Di said: "The heart should be heavy, the hands should be steady, and we should pay attention to the change of wind direction......"

Arrows flew out, right in the middle of the mountain pheasant. The dog yelled happily and ran to pick up the prey, "Cuihua!" Emerald Flowers! I can hunt! ”

A young woman with a black face and a strong body came to meet her, holding a fat baby with a bare fart in her arms and only wearing a red cloth, which was the daughter-in-law of the dog, Cuihua, who was very happy, stared at the pheasant and said: "Tonight, pluck the hair and stew mushrooms, and send a bowl to Wang Tieniu's family." ”

The dog plucked the most gorgeous chicken feather on the pheasant's tail to tease the fat son, "Boy, call Dad." ”

The little baby babbled, waving his fat hand to grab the feathers, and it was easy to grab it, and he immediately wanted to stuff it into his mouth, but his mother stopped the road and intercepted him, complaining to his husband, "He is not sensible, and the shit has to be caught in his mouth to taste it, don't tease him like this in the future." ”

Goudan stretched out his hand and hugged his son, "Okay, okay, listen to you, hey, this kid is heavy again......"

The family of three was happy, and suddenly the world changed color, Zhu Di had a bad heart, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up!" A mudslide is coming! Run! ”

But the Goudan family turned a deaf ear, and the mudslide swept in like a tyrannosaurus, engulfing the family of three......

Zhu Di woke up from the nightmare suddenly, his forehead was full of cold sweat, Ma Sanbao half-knelt in front of the couch, "Your Highness, you had a nightmare just now, you couldn't wake up no matter how you screamed, and you scared the slave to death." ”

Zhu Di looked at the intricate dragon pattern on the top of his head and the simple and generous Huanghuali furniture in the bedroom, and remembered that he had returned to Beijing for three days, and he had long been away from the farming life in the isolated village of Fengyang.

In that almost isolated village, in order to harvest wheat, Goudan was buried in a mudslide in a dream, and Cuihua miscarried in grief, with one corpse and two lives...... The family is gone.

That kind of fresh life is gone.

Ma Sanbao was worried about Zhu Di's body, "Your Highness, your face is ugly, the slave maid will ask the imperial doctor to take a look at you." ”

Zhu Di said: "No. "I feel uncomfortable, and it is useless to take medicine.

Ma Sanbao leaned over and whispered: "It's King Zhou, His Royal Highness King Zhou will bring Miss Xu to see you later on the pretext of visiting His Highness." ”

Hearing that Xu Miaoyi was coming, the haze in Zhu Di's eyes suddenly dissipated a lot, and just as he was about to see Miaoyi, Emperor Hongwu came first.

Emperor Hongwu felt a little distressed when he saw that his son was black and thin, with a haggard face, and that he was his biological father, but he was used to being stern in front of his sons, even if he was out of concern, the words he said were cold.

Emperor Hongwu said: "I heard that you have been having trouble sleeping lately? Manly husband, how to learn from the weak style of those literati! It's a shame for my Zhu family! ”

Zhu Di's tone was colder than that of his father, and he said: "Since my father has punished his sons, his sons should have the appearance of thinking, and they should reflect on their bodies three times a day." If you eat all day and sleep until dawn, how can you think about it? ”

Unexpectedly, the fourth son, who has always been obedient and worry-free, actually said sarcastic, Emperor Hongwu choked and said: "You have been with Xu Miaoyi for a long time, and even the tone of your voice is like her." You blame me for the injustice of the rewards and punishments, don't you? ”

Zhu Di said: "What the sons have done in Fengyang, the Jinyi guard will tell his father about everything. Erchen is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and all the people are from the people, so he should protect the Fengyang River embankment with his life, since it is a matter of duty, Erchen does not dare to ask for rewards. ”

Emperor Hongwu said: "Then are you blaming me for putting the crime of dereliction of duty on your head for the tragedy in the lonely village?" ”

Zhu Di looked at his father quietly for a long time, and said, "Father, the son is also your son." ”

As Xu Miaoyi said, Zhu Di is also a human being, not cast by iron and steel, there are always some things that are difficult for him to bear, he feels guilty, he blames himself, because his conscience is still there. It's not that he should bear it all alone.

Under the double pressure of himself and the outside world, if Zhu Di has no grievances and anger at all, and still acts calmly, then he is a heartless mud bodhisattva in the temple.

Emperor Hongwu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Shiro, your eldest brother is the crown prince, and he also interceded for you." If I don't punish you strictly, it will be difficult to calm the anger of the officials and the people in the world. ”

Zhu Di said: "For as long as I can remember, everyone has told Erchen that the eldest brother is the son, and later the prince, who wants to inherit the family business of the Zhu family, and Erchen is the younger brother and wants to help the eldest brother protect the family business." Erchen has never questioned it, and he will not in the future. But the father, it is okay to let the sons carry other black pots, but the tragedy of the lonely village overwhelms the sons. ”

"Father, your son is also your son, can you make an exception? Let Erchen not be so painful. Erchen's heart hurts, as long as he closes his eyes, he will dream of those villagers in the lonely village, Erchen knows all of them, and his voice and smile are as if he was alive. Erchen fought on the battlefield and killed far more enemies than the villagers in the lonely village, but only this time, Erchen felt so painful. ”

Zhu Di half-knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's knee, his shoulders twitched slightly, trying his best to endure the pain, looking so entangled and helpless. Zhu Yuanzhang was in a trance, and Zhu Di in front of his knees instantly became smaller, becoming the appearance of three or four years old, when Zhu Di's biological mother Concubine Shuo had just died of illness.

Wulang Zhu Hu is only half a year old, he can't climb yet, he squirms on the bed like a little meat worm, his little fat hand pats Concubine Shuo's face, his toothless little mouth babbles, and his little bald head arches his mother's chest, wanting to eat breast milk.

The little Zhu Di was a little at a loss, he knew what death was about, and he wanted to cry at this time, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the king of Wu at the time, said: "From today on, you are a little man, a man can't cry, and he will take care of his younger brother in the future, do you cry with your younger brother?" ”

Xiao Zhu Di nodded, tears swirling in his eyes, but they didn't fall after all.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Okay, the two brothers have seen Shuo's last face, let's bury her." ”

For Zhu Yuanzhang, Shuo is a Goryeo slave girl with a low status, and her only credit is that she gave birth to two sons for him, continuing the bloodline for the Zhu family, and he even forgot what Shuo looked like.

The nurse forcibly took Xiao Zhu Hu away, Zhu Hu grinned and cried, waving his fists towards Shuo's body, Zhu Hu's cry destroyed Zhu Di's last patience, and tears fell like a shower, but Zhu Di was so stubborn by nature, although the tears fell, he resolutely gritted his teeth and refused to cry.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked down at his fourth son, Xiao Zhu Di's clothes were soaked, and he held back his grief, and his shoulders and neck trembled violently.

After many years, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has become Emperor Hongwu, saw this scene again, which shows that Zhu Di is not lying, and the grief in his heart is almost overwhelming.

Now Shiro has grown up and is about to marry a wife and start a family, but he has always been my son and my flesh and blood......

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his right hand and wanted to pat his son's shoulder to comfort him, just like when Zhu Di lost his mother when he was a child, he couldn't hold back and refused to cry, Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of Wu, couldn't bear to look at it, and finally put down the mask of his father Yan and hugged little Zhu Di.

At that time, Xiao Zhu Di was very surprised, in his memory, his father only hugged his daughters, never his sons, and he seemed to be the only one. Xiao Zhu Di was flattered, he had just lost his mother, he stopped his tears and hugged his father's neck tightly.

He rested his chin on his father's broad shoulders, a sense of security arose, looking at his biological mother who had died on the sickbed, he was still sad, but no longer afraid, because he still had a father, and his father cared about him, and he would listen to his father in the future and be a good son and brother......

More than ten years have passed, and Zhu Yuanzhang's hand paused when it was almost only the thickness of a piece of rice paper above Zhu Di's shoulder.

Zhu Yuanzhang's right hand trembled, exactly the same as Zhu Di's painful shoulder, he weighed, pondered, and struggled, choosing between the two identities of father and emperor.

As a father, he wants to comfort his son and let him know that no matter how old he is or what his status is, in a father's heart, a son is always a son, and a father will protect his son for a lifetime and be an eternal supporter.

But as an emperor, he wants to be clear and humble. The crown prince is a son and a prince, and the status of the prince is higher than that of the prince, and the prince must not have flaws and obvious mistakes, otherwise the prince will be unstable and the world will be in chaos in the future......

Zhu Yuanzhang blinked and made a decision, he withdrew his right hand, and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "You have thought about it carefully, I will announce your return to the palace on the fifteenth day of August." 166 Reading Network