Zhu Di's expression was solemn, and he hurriedly walked to the dormitory of the Taimiao. Dao Yan, Ma Sanbao, and Li Shilu followed closely behind him.

At the entrance of the temple, he stopped and nodded to Redstone, who was waiting on the side.

"Redstone, master, you wait here, I'll go in and worship my ancestors."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

The sound of Zhu Di kneeling on the ground passed through the darkness and reached the ears of several people.

His cries followed, heavy and slow, with a proper rhythm.

Zhu Yunwen didn't know if he stopped crying, or his cry was drowned in Zhu Di's crying, and the people outside the hall couldn't notice that there were two people in the hall.

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhu Di finally stood up slowly, walked outside the hall with his head down, and stumbled beside Hongshi.

Five hands stretched out involuntarily, and Hongshi supported Zhu Di: "Your Highness, worry!" ”

Zhu Di raised his head and looked at everyone, and there was only a slit left in his peach-like swollen eyes.

"Your Highness, don't be too sad, hurt your body." Ma Sanbao was worried, Zhu Di's life was his life.

"That's good, why did the eldest brother leave? I didn't see the last sight, I didn't see the last sight! ”

Tears flowed out of the crack like raindrops, forming a curtain of rain.

"Your Highness, every man has his own life. It is the will of Heaven that the crown prince is gone...... He was reunited with the Queen's mother. Dao Yan comforted Zhu Di from the most authoritative point of view.

"Yes, I'm just here to ask the queen mother, have you seen the eldest brother, are they all okay?" Zhu Di confided in a clear eye.

"Brother-in-law, they are all in the Western Elysium, I don't know how many times better than we are in this world."

Xu Miaojin's eyes were filled with tears, and Zhu Di's injury also stung her.

"Your Highness, you have been kneeling here for a long time, go back to the palace to rest!" Li Shilu finally spoke.

Except for Redstone, everyone has dissected their true hearts.

An old man with gray hair and a withered demeanor staggered towards the dormitory.

Zhu Di immediately shook off the hand that Hongshi was holding him and knelt on the ground, and everyone quickly knelt down.

"Father, sons, come to see the queen mother and ancestors." Zhu Di said.

This person is the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

He was dressed in plain clothes, haggard, the wrinkles that were crisscrossing him unscrupulously destroyed his face, his back that could no longer straighten mourned the once burly figure, his sluggish feet struggled to maintain balance, he lost not only his strong physique, his lofty spirit, but also boiling blood and fiery passion.

The prince's bad news worsened the destruction of this unbeatable founding king.

He was afraid that this was the retribution that God had given him, and this fear kept him awake at night.

Redstone didn't sympathize with the dying old man who had been struck, and that glimpse was already stuck in his heart like a knife, and he was in pain to the bone.

All his losses were because of Zhu Yuanzhang, who deprived him of everything.

Hongshi gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and unexpectedly surged an urge to kill Zhu Yuanzhang after the silence of the past few years.

"I've come to see your queen mother." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly, as if he was talking to himself.

"Father......" Zhu Di began to choke.

"Let's go." Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted him and walked straight to the hall.

"Yes, Father!" Zhu Di reluctantly stood up, just one step away, and his father would see him crying bitterly.

The night could not stop the willfulness of the rain, it could do everything to drive away the light, but it still could not enjoy the sky alone.

Hongshi came to Zhu Yunwen's dormitory. Zhu Yunwen was anxiously waiting for him.

To identify herself, Redstone talks about the details of the encounter she had ten years ago.

Zhu Yunwen's sad face showed a smile, and the lightness and happiness of his childhood only replaced his sorrow in an instant.

"Brother, I didn't expect to meet you."

"Your Highness...... The minister didn't expect His Highness to remember the minister as an insignificant person. ”

"No, my brother's words helped me solve many problems. Good knows evil, evil knows good', it always reminds me not to see only one side of things. When I meet people and things that I can't accept, and I think that they also have good things, I open my mind. However, I can also find their shortcomings in people and things that are too perfect in disguise, and naturally I will not believe them easily. ”

Hongshi nodded slowly, ashamed in his heart, when he blurted out this sentence, he only knew a little bit about it

"Brother, can you help me save my mother?" Zhu Yunwen's eyes glowed.

"I have a plan in my heart, and the ending can only depend on the will of God."

"What's the plan?"

"According to the primogeniture inheritance system, the emperor will soon appoint you as the emperor's grandson. After he dies, you are the Son of Heaven. The emperor is worried that your mother will interfere in the government's affairs, after all, you are still young. In ancient times, there were also precedents of killing mothers and children, so the emperor used the name of martyrdom to eliminate the troubles in his heart. ”

Zhu Yunwen was silent, obviously he also thought about the reason why the imperial grandfather killed his mother, but he didn't dare to face it.

"Your Highness, in order to dispel the emperor's doubts, you must first let His Royal Highness's uncle Lu Guangju resign from the post of Taichang Siqing in the court. Lu Guangju is the only relative of the crown princess in the court. After he left, the crown princess had no power to rely on in the court, which may give the emperor a reassurance. ”

"Uncle? The relationship between the mother and the uncle is very deep. When the mother concubine was young, her grandmother died of illness, her grandfather was busy with court politics, and her uncle was both an elder brother and a parent, pulling her mother up. The uncle also saved the life of the mother. They were once attacked by poisonous snakes that broke into their homes in the mountains. The mother's leg was bitten by a snake, and her uncle sucked out the poisonous blood one by one, and he was poisoned and sick for a year. ”

Zhu Yunwen's eyes were filled with tears. His temperament is as gentle as Zhu Biao, and he has never given up his family affection.

"Your Highness said it well! Lu Guangju's heart to protect his sister is unparalleled, how could he bear to see his sister go to death? Wouldn't it be a pleasure for him to be able to exchange his sister's life for a half-official position? ”

"In this way, the mother concubine can really escape death?"

"I don't know, this is the first step, and the most basic step, we can only take one step at a time now. If the emperor still wants to put the crown princess to death, we have to think of other ways. ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded and grabbed Hongshi's hand: "Brother, thank you!" ”

"Your Highness, take care!"

Qingnong walked listlessly on the street with his head down.

For nearly a year, he stayed by the prince's side day and night, and he had long been accustomed to bringing mouthwash to the prince when the first ray of sunlight shone into the house in the morning, serving the prince to enjoy breakfast when the magpies outside the house were chirping, patting his chest and stroking his back when the prince coughed, and covering the quilt for him when the prince turned over.

Now he has nothing to do.

What were the errands assigned to him by the court?

The prince was gone, he didn't walk right, he didn't drink water, he didn't eat right, he didn't sleep right, and his habits were severely challenged.

The prince tried to smile at him before he died, and he smiled at the prince.

He has no tears, he can't cry, he wants the prince to bring his laughter to heaven.

Qingnong didn't think about it anymore, waiting for everything to happen naturally, and new habits were naturally formed, and the prince naturally became a part of his memory.

A seed is submerged in the soil, waiting to take root and sprout, so why dig it out to see if it's a dog's tail grass or a rose?

"Qingnong, I was just about to go to you!" A soft hand patted Qingnong's shoulder from behind, and Xu Miaojin stood behind him in surprise.

"County Lord......" Qingnong lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

The connection he made with Xu Miaojin has lost its meaning of existence because of the death of the crown prince.

"I ......"

Xu Miaojin felt that Qingnong's depression reflected her shame like a mirror - she failed to rush back to the capital in time to rescue Qingnong's master, causing the prince to lose his life.

"County Lord, no, it has nothing to do with you!" Qingnong hurriedly waved his hand, "Providence." ”

"Qingnong, I went to Beiping and found someone to detoxify, but ......" Xu Miaojin was angry and anxious.

How could this happen? She still doesn't want to believe that she and Redstone have been locked up for ten days for some reason.

"Someone is preventing us from going back to the capital! Qingnong, you're right, there may really be someone who wants to harm the prince! ”

The flames were beating in Qingnong's eyes, the green tendons on his neck were thicker than chopsticks, and he clenched his fists: "Really? ”

"Let's go find the friend who can detoxify, his name is Redstone. If you tell him everything, he'll probably see that he's ugly. ”

"Okay, let's go!" Qingnong's eyes looked ahead like nails, determined to dig out the seeds from the soil.

That's right, the difference between the dog's tail grass and the rose is too far away, and it must be figured out!

Ten lixiang friends are full, and sheng songs are boiling.

For more than a hundred years, from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the monarch has changed from generation to generation, but it has opened the same door day after day, year after year.

It is never lonely, even when lonely people have stepped through its threshold. It is also never greedy, even if dignitaries are frequent visitors here.

Redstone walked into the door of the Ten Incense Sticks, looking confused and uneasy.

Yesterday, Zhu Di made the cabinet secretary from the cabinet treasury to the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Zhizheng, that is, the year when Hongshi was born, the Goryeo envoys insulted the Ming Dynasty royal family.

Redstone didn't tell Zhu Di that he wanted to investigate the cause of the incident, and Zhu Di didn't ask.

Everyone has a secret, as long as this secret does not hinder Zhu Di's interests, he will not do anything more.

The cabinet treasury is divided into the east treasury and the west treasury, with the east treasury 10 and the west treasury 10.

A window separated by iron pillars on the north side is open all year round, and the smell of stale wafts outward.

The East Inventory contains actual records, historical books, records, living notes, portraits of emperors and generals, various books and expressions.

The western inventory is stocked with red books, classics and customs defenses.

The incident of the Goryeo envoys to be investigated by Hongshi belongs to the actual records and is stored in the Eastern Treasury.

The Cabinet Secretaries were in charge of writing and documenting, and they knew what was going on behind bars.