"Redress your grievances? Don't be delusional! This is the second time you have come in, and you will be executed tomorrow, and you will see the emperor, and this is an extra move! ”

The cell head gnawing on the chicken leg waved his greasy dirty hands impatiently.

Li Shanchang dragged half of his almost necrotic leg to the side of the cell door.

He didn't know what Madame was going to do, but he knew it must be more important than her own life.

"Cell boss, you help. I, Li Shanchang, have never asked anyone in my life, so I beg you to help inform me. ”

Mrs. Li plucked the golden hairpin from her head and stuffed it into the cell boss's hand.

The cell boss put the golden hairpin into his coat pocket, sat back in the chair, crossed Erlang's legs, and continued to gnaw on the chicken legs, while proudly imagining how many little wives this golden hairpin could buy back.

A man with a hat and a brown monk's robe knocked on the steel bar of the cell door.

The cell boss woke up like a dream, and almost fell to the ground in shock.

He didn't know how the monk in front of him had passed through the two rock-solid gates.

The monk was tall, but scrawny and did not look threatening.

His hat was pressed very low, and it was obvious that he didn't want others to see his face.

The cell boss was pleasantly surprised to find that the monk was not carrying any weapons, and his courage immediately grew, like a monkey seeing that there were no tigers in the forest.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass into the edict! The cell boss drew his knife and slashed at the monk's head.

The monk jumped lightly to the side and stretched out his hand to flick it on the inner point of the cell head.

The broadsword changed its original path and fell to the ground with a "clang".

The cell boss grabbed his arm and screamed.

The monk took a token from his bosom and placed it in front of the cell leader.

"My lord! The little ones are so offended! The cell boss quickly knelt down, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.

He no longer has to be held accountable for someone breaking into prison.

"Jin Hai!" The monk put the token in his bosom and placed an empty hand in front of the cell leader.

The cell boss hurriedly took out the golden hairpin, wiped the oil stains off it with his rough clothes, and handed it to the monk.

The monk turned to Mrs. Li and said, "Madam, you can't wear your hair when you see the emperor. ”

Mrs. Li took the golden hairpin tremblingly, not because she was afraid, but because she was excited.

With tears in her eyes, she bowed down and said, "Thank you, Master!" ”

Li Shanchang muttered to himself: "Thank you, master! Thank you, Master! ”

Mrs. Li followed the monk to the Qianqing Palace.

After the eunuch took the half of the edict handed by Mrs. Li, the monk left immediately.

The oil lamp was very bright when he was ugly, and before Zhu Yuanzhang was fully awake, his back was already soaked with cold sweat, and his eyes began to cry.

The familiar words are like Queen Ma's eyes, looking at him with a smile, looking at him solemnly, looking at him reproachfully, and looking at him lovingly.

He originally thought that he would never see the Li family again, and he would not listen to the Li family again.

Li Shanchang became his deceased friend, and even if he wanted to meet, it was in the underworld.

"Call Mrs. Li in!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted.

The eunuch put on a cotton robe for Zhu Yuanzhang and handed him a hand stove.

Mrs. Li knelt in the hall, calm and calm.

She had nothing left to lose, and she even tasted a little temptation from heaven.

Before she left, she had to complete one last thing and convey Queen Ma's meaning to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Queen Ma's edict is more important than her life, it is a decree that can save the life of the stone.

Because only the spliced and incomplete half of it remains, she must fully express Queen Ma's last words.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mrs. Li, his lips moved a few times, but what he wanted to say was like a fish bone stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out.

"Your Majesty," Mrs. Li opened her mouth first, "Two days before Empress Ma died, she summoned her concubines and handed them a decree, ordering them to protect the stones. Now that the Li family is full of beheadings, the concubines will hand over the Yi decree to the emperor in accordance with Queen Ma's last wishes. ”

"Stones?" Zhu Yuanzhang muttered softly in confusion.

"What is the stone?? The concubine and the emperor's children, the emperor wanted to execute the stone,?? In desperation, the concubine begged Queen Ma to help her. Queen Ma found a dead baby to replace the stone, and sent the stone to the Li family, so that the Xianggong could take in the stone. In order not to arouse the emperor's suspicion, the concubine held the dead baby and pretended to run away, and fell off the cliff with the dead baby and died. ”

"After Jin Yiwei found them, he really decided that it was?? Concubine and stone. In this way, the stone escaped. The stone grew up safely in the Li family, and the Li family has always kept this secret. If it weren't for the Li family's catastrophe now, the concubine would never have spoken out about it. ”

Mrs. Li is calm and calm, and in the tracing of the past, she pays more attention not to emotion, but to narrate it as a matter of course.

She couldn't let the suspicious Zhu Yuanzhang feel that they had deceived him, she wanted to make him feel guilty.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head very slowly, as if if his actions were bigger, the past would set off turbulent waves in his mind.

The steps outside the door must have been covered with snowflakes, and they scrambled to drill into the crack of the door, staring at Zhu Yuanzhang fearlessly to see what he could do with them.

Why does everyone have to defend that child? They all pleaded with him before they died,?? The concubine is like this, Queen Ma is like this, and Mrs. Li is like this.

They were protecting the child with their lives, but did they ever think about his feelings?

"Wasn't he dead twenty years ago? Why do you want me to know he's alive? Are you trying to send him to a dead end? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the armrest heavily, and the chair creaked for help.

His eyes were still fixed on the snowflakes that he didn't know what to do, and now it was the time for a showdown.

"When Lord Hu died, wasn't the concubine's husband still alive? Cuttlefish hides itself, won't it still become a fisherman's meal? Only if the emperor really spares the stone, the stone can live! ”

Mrs. Li fell to the ground and bowed deeply.

"Your Majesty, in the past 20 years, the Ming Dynasty has prospered and the people have lived in peace. This is enough to prove that the stone is not an ominous person. Back then?? The concubine paid for this, and Queen Ma was seriously ill and could not forget this matter, so she planned to hand over the decree to the concubine for safekeeping before she died, just in case. I implore the emperor to do it?? The wish of the concubine and Queen Ma, let go of the stone. ”

Mrs. Li bowed to the ground again.

Those snowflakes became a thing of the past, piece by piece, piece by piece, chaotically flying in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.

?? The face of the concubine, the face of Queen Ma, the face of their crying, the face of their knees, the face of their fear, the face of their despair.

And that baby, except for that pair of double pupils, he really resembles himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang was haggard, silently lowered his head, waved his hand, and said, "You go down." ”

The guards took Mrs. Li back to her cell.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the eunuch to get the list of the Li family's executioners, and he carefully read it again, and approved the two big words "closed".

"Did Yunqi find it?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered the young man who rushed out to stop the sedan chair in front of Hu Weiyong's mansion.

"Back to the emperor, not yet!"

Summer nights are particularly short, and frogs are the ones who know how to cherish the night view the most.

They were still screaming merrily when the moon was wearily hidden into the clouds.

The frogs in the palace of King Qin were the loudest, dozens, hundreds, they knew that they were born in a rich family, and they must have a superior sonor.

The sonata is unimaginably harmonious, and it is a piece that even the best luthier in the world could compose.

What Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, heard in his ears was not the vigorous performance of frogs, he liked to listen to the sounds of "coo-goo" and "oh-oh-oh".

This voice sounds especially moving at night.

He knew if it was Luhua laying eggs, persimmon yellow courting, green rooster kicking legs, or white rooster flapping wings.

They are like his children and even get more of his pets than his children.

If you don't see each other for three days, for cockfighting, he definitely has this qualification to enjoy the title of "love species".

Quietly listening to the cockfight's every move through the wall, his heart was as quiet as water, and he drifted into sleep.

Zhu Fan has also developed such a habit over the years.

Sleep for an hour, wake up and hear the sound of cockfighting, then sleep for another hour, wake up and listen again, and then sleep again.

After the Anxi military affairs handed over to him by his father were settled, he fell in love with cockfighting at the instigation of a diner.

He found that when Ji Pingzi and Lu Zhaobo used two chickens to compete with two chickens two years ago, it was destined that Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, would go down in history because of cockfighting.

He began to build a chicken workshop in the palace of King Qin, and the chicken workshop must not be less than the palace.

His bodyguards and concubines were chosen for him by his father, and cockfighting was chosen by himself. He chooses as much as he likes, and he chooses as much as he wants.

The historic Luxi region, the pure breed Turpan region, the fierce Kaifeng of Henan Province and the Yunnan border with many dark horses have been screened layer by layer, and the top fighting cocks have all arrived in the palace of the Qin king.

He also sent guards who ate white-flour beef into the chicken shop to train chickens, and he asked them to use 1,000 percent of their potential in cockfighting.

He wanted his chickens to have the claws of an eagle and the speed of a leopard, to be more obedient than a prisoner in prison, and braver than a cavalryman on the battlefield.

Not only that, but he also selected more than a dozen of the most gentle and careful, and good at dressing up from the maids who took care of the concubines and sent them to the chicken shop to dress up and tidy up the chickens.

In terms of appearance, he was much stricter with chickens than from his concubines.

They must have shiny feathers, a crown as tall as a mountain, chest muscles as hard as stones, and leg muscles to kick the sky.

In any case, it is not easy to become his fighting, and it is even more necessary to strive for him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not responsible for Zhu Zhang's penchant for cockfighting.

First, because Zhu Zhang's obsession with habits is based on the stability of Guanxi, although he spends most of his time on cockfighting, he still magically spends enough time to train troops and deploy defenses.

The second reason is that cockfighting is a time-honored entertainment activity, which represents the stability of the world and the peace of the people.

In the era of war and chaos, who has the heart to fight cocks?

How could Zhu Yuanzhang be unwilling to show the world a world of great governance?