When she was young, the old woman served a bowl of steaming Lantern Festival.

It turns out that this Lantern Festival was a common folk snack in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not deliberately eaten during the Shangyuan Festival.

On the Shangyuan Festival, many people pay more attention to the grand Aoshan Lantern Festival in the palace, as well as the temple fairs and lantern streets organized by the people.

As for the Lantern Festival, it is just a food that adds to the festive atmosphere at the dinner party.

Zhu Youxiao lowered his head, smelled the aroma of osmanthus flowers, saw the snow-white glutinous rice ball, and when he bit into it, the quicksand sweet filling was revealed, and his lips and teeth were fragrant.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the imperial food in the palace is really inferior to the folk snacks.

Precious materials, but just in vain, how can this bowl of Lantern Festival bring a deeper feeling to Zhu Youxiao.

Glimpsing Wang Chaofu swallowing saliva behind him, Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "Mother-in-law, come a bowl for each of these brothers behind me, don't stand stupidly, sit down!" ”

After the words fell, several brocade guards and Wang Chaofu sat at another table stiffly, staring wide-eyed, waiting for their own bowl of Lantern Festival.

After a while, several bowls of Lantern Festival were served on the table, and immediately, a few hungry people picked up the bowls and ate carefully with gratitude to the emperor.

A few months ago, the depressing life in the palace made Zhu Youxiao, who had not been here for a long time, physically and mentally exhausted, and unhappy in every way.

After a few months of personal expedition, he returned to Beijing in advance to inspect the people, this green mountains and green waters, this good fighting soldiers, and even a bowl of simple food cooked by an old woman made people feel refreshed and happy.

Zhu Youjiao tasted the beauty, but saw two scholars in green shirts come to the shop, sit down next to the table, and ask for two bowls of Lantern Festival.

While waiting, the two also had their own demeanor.

One of them had a worried face, not looking left and right, as if he was afraid of something, while the other looked slightly rude, and his face was full of disdain.

Just listen to them lower their voices and start talking.

"The humanitarian court has won a great victory in the southwest, and the emperor has not returned to the palace, and rumors have spread inside and outside the capital."

"Some people say that when the emperor returns to the palace, this great victory will be a great victory, and there will be a lot of banquets and tours, and the excellent miscellaneous dramas will not be left and right."

"Humph!" The other man took a sip of the water given by the old woman and said, "I heard that after the emperor ascended the throne, he rode every day and galloped across the South China Sea to shoot and hunt. ”

"That's it, it's okay, and I'm still messing with that Wei eunuch every day. This time the emperor went out of Beijing, and the fans repeatedly went to prison, and I am afraid that the disaster of Wang Zhen and Liu Jin will reappear..."

When another scholar heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly covered his mouth and whispered a warning beside him:

"Pay attention to what you say, this time is different from the past, if you are listened to by Dongchang, no matter whether the future is worrying or not, your life will not be guaranteed!"

"Some time ago, Suzhou was reinstated in prison, and Wei Gelding used Wei Liangqing's matter to make Fan ride to Suzhou and arrest five scholars."

"I've heard about that, too." The scholar from before was full of indignation, and said:

"The soldiers and civilians of Suzhou, when they heard that the five people were arrested by Fanzi and brought to Beijing, they were angry and wronged, and Xian asked for their lives and killed two Fanqi."

Zhu Youxiao hung his head and unconsciously pulled the light soup in the bowl, in fact, this bowl of Lantern Festival had already been eaten.

What the two of them said was that during this period of pro-conquest, major events with far-reaching effects occurred in the Jiangnan area.

The five scholars who were arrested before were all closed disciples of the so-called Seven Sages of Donglin.

It enjoys a clear reputation among the people and scholars, and it is rumored that because he is a fair and upright person, he dares to act, so he offended the eunuch and was liquidated.

In response to the counterattack of these local scholars, Wei Zhongxian will not sit idly by.

He linked Wei Liangqing with the deaths of the two fanqi, deliberately magnified it, and issued a ministerial proposal.

In the end, Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was punished for his crime and ordered the arrest of the troublemakers to be imprisoned, and Xu Xianchun sent Beizhen Fu Si Tiqi to cooperate with Dongchang to arrest the troublemakers.

Then rumors spread that the factory guards joined forces to arrest the people of Suzhou while the emperor was personally conscripting.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian and Xu Xianchun only arrested some troublemakers, but the power of public opinion among scholars is too great, and this matter has been washed away until now.

Murder and heart.

Zhu Youxiao also sneered when he heard what they said, and naturally understood in his heart that the Donglin Party thought that he was far away in the southwest and didn't know about the affairs of Beijing.

wanted to use public opinion and the prestige of the imperial court to fight Wei Zhongxian to fight back.

If the emperor was confused, he would have returned to Beijing this time, but I was afraid that he would really think that Wei Zhongxian had acted arrogantly and was led away by the Donglin Party.

You must know that from ancient times to the present, the power of keyboard warriors is huge, and public opinion is a knife that kills people without seeing blood!

Speaking of this, the two scholars sighed.

"The wind of outspoken words in the past is now gone, even if he cares about his life, he is at odds with that Wei Eunuch, and within a few days, he will either die or be deposed."

"The emperor is still happy about the victory of the conquest, but I don't know what kind of situation the people have reached when they hate that Wei Gelding, and they are simply deaf to the extreme..."

Hearing this, the scholar who spoke showed that he was extremely disappointed in the court and had nowhere to use his skills.

Zhu Youxiao was amazed at the ability of these scholars to open their eyes and tell nonsense, and looked at the happy atmosphere in the market.

I believe you are a ghost, you scholars are very bad!

Wang Chaofu and the others had already eaten the Lantern Festival in the bowl, and when they heard the words of the two scholars, they were already embarrassed.

Zhu Youxiao slowly put down his chopsticks, Wang Chaofu called tentatively, and the rest of the brocade guards also got up one after another, looking at the two scholars in front of them with bad intentions.

Zhu Youxiao lowered his eyes and shook his head slightly, but he stepped forward with a smile and arched his hand:

"Listening to the two of you talk about the faint king and majesty, I am quite interested."

The two of them looked up, surprised by Zhu Youxiao's graceful and handsome, and had identified him as a rich child in their hearts, and immediately looked vigilant.

Zhu Youxiao sat between the two and said calmly:

"Don't be afraid, I'm just a foreigner."

"If the faint king is really so ignorant of loyalty and treachery, then he will not die well, but I don't know something."

"It is said that the faint monarch connived at Wei Biao to do so many bad things, why wasn't he stabbed to death by a native soldier when he personally went into battle in Xinnan?"

Zhu Youxiao talked eloquently, originally wanting to play with them, but when he saw the two scholars get up one after another, not only did not relax, but looked even more afraid.

"You, you are so fluent in official language, and you still say that you are a foreigner!" A scholar pointed at Zhu Youxiao, and his heart was chilling.

Who is this man, why is he deceiving them, why is his temperament so outstanding!

Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, and the two were about to turn around and leave, but they were blocked by several big men, so they turned around.

They looked at each other and asked:

"Little brother, the emperor is the Son of Heaven, should he die or not, he has his own number of days, it may be that his life is good or not..."

"Emperor, he's a faint king! According to you, such an angry emperor, why didn't God kill him with a thunderbolt? ”

Zhu Youxiao sneered:

"It's the indignation that Fang just said, and now what is there to be afraid of, a faint monarch is a faint monarch, a holy monarch is a holy monarch, it can't be washed white, and it can't be smeared!"

"If you really have a backbone, just shout a word on this street, so that the world will know what you think in your heart."

Both of them looked scared, and they kept going to the market, and they were relieved to find that everything was as usual, and they hadn't passed by for a long time.

"Don't you dare say that."

"Little brother, what do you have to say?"

Zhu Youxiao gradually felt bored, so he asked: "Where are the five Xiucai you said who were captured from Suzhou being punished?" ”

The two scholars gradually reassured, and one of them replied:

"It's not a secret, it's in Baijia Lane next to Donghua Gate, there are a lot of admirers and spectators, you know it in the past."

Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly, turned around and instructed Wang Chaofu to stay and settle the bill, Fang wanted to leave, but he didn't take a few steps but stopped, and looked back and said:

"Thank you."