With a hint of hostility on his face that did not match his age, the little Zhu Di looked at Zhu Biao and shouted angrily: "You don't like Di'er and Niang, my mother told me!" Just because I scratched your face when I was a child, your mother drove my mother and me to live in another hospital......"

Zhu Biao covered Zhu Di's mouth, and hurriedly excused him with Ah Xiu: "Wang Niang, aunt, my brother misses his mother and is in a hurry, I will send my brother back!" Ah Xiu straightened up, nodded as usual, Zhu Biao picked up Zhu Di, who was still struggling, pressed his head and saluted, turned around and dragged him away. Zhu Di was small, struggling desperately, but he couldn't support his brother, who was five years older than him, and was taken away by Lian with a carry.

Huilan watched the two little people walk away worriedly, turned around to look at Ah Xiu, and said worriedly: "The prince is afraid that his sister will be angry, and Na Di'er is indeed angry...... Speaking of this, she suddenly felt too talkative, and hurriedly stopped and lowered her head, Zhu Biao is her own child, and now she opens her mouth to explain to the two children, it seems that Ah Xiu is not virtuous, which is really inappropriate. Lian'er hurriedly interrupted her voice, pulled Zhu Zi and said, "Zi'er, there is a snack in your aunt's house, you and your mother take your brother and brother to eat together, okay?" Zi'er nodded, saluted Ah Xiu respectfully, and pulled up the eight-year-old Zhu Li and the six-year-old Zhu Fan to go back with Huilan.

Ah Xiu didn't know what to say, or Huilan was really unintentional, but she still felt hurt: how good, they are all so happy, they all have people to help talk and excuse themselves, Di'er is only more than four years old, and she knows how to protect her mother; Biao'er is only nine years old, and he knows how to protect his younger brother; Although Huilan can't recognize Biao'er and them, she can still speak for them. Although Lian'er and Huilan are united with me at the moment, what about the future? No one can resist the influence of power! It's just me, and I'm alone in both the future and the present. No...... I still have Yuanzhang, I have Yuanzhang who can seek justice for me, be angry for me, and deal with the Zhao family for me! But - what if Yuanzhang doesn't help me one day? No, no, never! Never!

When they also walked away, Lian'er looked at Ah Xiu's face and said, "Isn't my sister still unhappy about the Zhao family's affairs?" In fact, my sister doesn't need to mind, my sister has me and Huilan, and we will all accompany my sister. Lian'er took Ah Xiu's hand, shook it, and passed the temperature in her hand to the slightly cool hand in her hand: "Sister, you still have us." Ours is my sister's, isn't it? Ah Xiu smiled reluctantly and said: "My natural way is you, but you are inevitably sad, Di'er is too young, I always feel that it is a little cruel." ”

Lian'er sighed, took Ah Xiu's arm, and walked back: "Sister is too kind and gentle, Huilan and I persuaded my sister not to cherish her earlier, she will not know that her sister has good intentions, no matter what her sister gives her, how good she is to her, she thinks it is right, and even thinks that her sister is not as good as giving it to others!" If my sister gives something to others, whether it is better or worse than hers, she will feel dissatisfied and feel that her sister is partial. As everyone knows, where is there so much in the world that should be taken for granted? Where do so many things come from? Justice is at ease in people's hearts. To put it mildly, where is my sister's partiality, it is her heart that is not right, so she will feel that her sister is partial. My sister doesn't need to pay attention to it anymore, she never planted good causes before, but she was just blindly jealous and hateful, so she has today's retribution, and her sister has nothing to do. ”

Ah Xiu nodded, smiled bitterly, and walked slowly, but his heart was still not calm: To change this unfairness, only if I stand at the top and hold the power, can the people below me obtain relative fairness. If I don't fight, I will back down and stand there with someone else, not only may I not let me go, but I will not have any so-called fairness to others! Thinking of this, Ah Xiu thought of Su Xin and Wen Zheng again: In the past few days, I heard Yuan Zhang say that he wanted to send a reward to reward the three armies, and wanted Wen Zheng to be the governor of the capital, but there was no other reward, but Chang Yuchun and Liao Yongzhong were ready to reward him because of the battle of Poyang Lake. Will Wen Zheng get upset because of this, and then rebel? Since I want to do something, let's start by saving Wen Zheng.

Ah Xiu looked at the sky, it was already dusk: the sun in the sky, hanging in the western sky, a few touches of sunset, painted on the curtain from blue to orange, without the cover of high-rise buildings, very beautiful. So do it! Ah Xiu finally made up his mind to do something for Wenzheng and Su Xin.

A few days later, Zhu Wenzheng and Su Xin went north to meet Zhu Yuanzhang and A Xiu. presented Zhu Yuanzhang with a lot of gift lists, and prepared to wait for Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday before returning to Hongdu. Ah Xiu knew that he was flying a pigeon to pass a book to Su Xin, asking him and Wen Zheng to come to pay homage to his birthday, so wouldn't he be able to avoid the catastrophe of Zhu Wenzheng's rebellion in Hongdu in August? Su Xin and Zhu Wenzheng met Zhu Yuanzhang and came to the palace to see Ah Xiu. Su Xin brought Ah Xiu pearls from Hongdu, as well as hundreds of brushes and various gifts.

Ah Xiu was naturally happy when she saw Su Xin, and hurriedly gave the two of them a seat, and also asked her subordinates to serve tea. After asking some homely things, Su Xin saw that Ah Xiu was very happy, so he took Ah Xiu's hand to introduce the gift list: "Madam, the two boxes of pearls on this list are the top grades of calming the nerves, clearing heat and benefiting yang, brightening the eyes and detoxifying, and moisturizing the skin. Although Madame does not like luxury, it is much better than those gold and silver makeup pieces. As for the 900 brushes on this list, they are the specialties of Lidu Town, which is under the jurisdiction of our Hongdu. More than a dozen of each number were selected. There are wolves, purples, chickens, sheep, and five milli, black, white, flowers, kang four tubes, the pen has red, green, yellow, white, blue, blue and other colors. I took the best two hundred and eighty sticks for the prince and his wife alone, and asked the lady to divide them according to the rules, so that they could practice calligraphy and painting for the prince and other younger brothers and sisters, which were all good. ”

Nodding, Ah Xiu smiled: "Your gift is also exquisite, and it is not too extravagant and wasteful, it is really painstaking." Su Xin replied with a smile: "Thank you princess for the compliment, Su Xin accepted this praise with a beautiful face, you see, the fans written on the back are divided into black and white paper fans, oil paper fans and silk fans, all of which are made of Hongdu Mansion, and the bamboo tendons are made of fine bamboo bones." The black and white paper fan is for the prince and the sons, the oil paper fan is for appreciation, and the silk fan is for the ladies of the mansion to use, and they are not expensive things, they are made in the workshop that Wen Zheng and I opened ourselves, but it took a little more effort to figure out some tricks. The remaining dozens of jars of wine are also produced in the old wine workshop in the Great Song Dynasty in Lidu Town, and I heard that even adults like Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi have drunk it. ”

Hearing Su Xin say this, Ah Xiu smiled at Zhu Wenzheng and said, "Wenzheng, how is it?" Such a thoughtful daughter-in-law, I didn't give it to anyone, so I gave it to you! You have to thank me. When Zhu Wenzheng heard Ah Xiu say this, he also replied respectfully with a smile: "Yes!" Wenzheng is also very grateful for his mother's love, Su Xin has been careful in everything since he passed the house, and no one in our house is not praised, and Su Xin also said that his mother taught him well, so he was like this. She claims that she can't even meet her mother's chances! ”

Ah Xiu smiled even more, the fine lines at the corners of her eyes flashed, and said, "Listen to her!" How old is she? I promise her to be humble, but I don't allow you to be foolish. If there is something uncertain about the major events of the day, it is not too late to discuss with her. Although the female dependents should not interfere in political affairs, but you are reckless, after all, you must be a person who treats you sincerely and delicately, and usually kills you and serves you as a staff officer so as not to make a mistake! ”

Zhu Wenzheng also agreed with a smile, and said, "Mother, you might as well talk to Su Xin more, I'll go back to my residence first, and Su Xin will stay with my mother, okay?" Ah Xiu nodded: "You go, come and pick her up tomorrow." Our women's family said something considerate. By the way, ask Tang He to accompany you around, and cut a few cloud brocades to make clothes for your wife! Zhu Wenzheng bowed his head and retreated. Ah Xiu gradually smiled, and said to Su Xin: "Whether it succeeds or not, it depends on this time." Be careful to stay, and go again after the prince's birthday, I'm afraid it will be fine. ”

Su Xin also nodded and said, "Madam, Su Xin understands, Su Xin Xie has good intentions!" Ah Xiu nodded and asked about other things. was changing the new tea, but someone came in in a panic, saying that someone from the yamen came to the house to reply to his wife, Ah Xiuyi frowned, and said, "Let him come in, you all go down." The subordinates took the order, and after a while, the sergeant of the yamen came in, buried his head deeply, saluted, and bowed his head back: "Our lord asked me to go back to the Ming prince, and the prince knew and asked me to go back and forth to the princess: Yesterday's prisoner Zhao died." ”

Ah Xiu was taken aback and asked, "How did you die?!" The sergeant replied: "Don't dare to deceive the princess, yes, hang yourself." Ah Xiu slapped the table and shouted angrily: "How can this be reasonable, what about the caretaker? Although the prince said that he let people imprison her, he didn't let her die! You guys! You guys! The sergeant hurriedly knelt down tremblingly, and replied: "The princess scolded that it was good during the day, we cleaned the small courtyard where she lived, and she was also very happy, she had eaten all three dishes during the day, and received an extra set of clothes, saying that it was for a change of clothes." In the middle of the night, the Zhao family secretly changed into new clothes, tore the old clothes and window curtains into strips of cloth, and died! It's the incompetence of the lowly officials, please calm the princess's anger! After that, he kowtowed and accused.

Death is death, I have been severely punished, and now I don't know how long and what month I have been imprisoned, and it is also a relief to die! What's more, those sergeants are afraid that they are not as careful as themselves, so the ninth sister noticed it. Ah Xiu thought. So he softened the colors, and let the sergeant get up and go down. Su Xin was not at ease, and asked carefully, Ah Xiu explained slightly, so he didn't say more, and only asked the people to prepare meals and prepare to eat with Su Xin.

Unexpectedly, the next day, something happened again.