Chapter 12: Nursery Rhymes
"Liaodong rode a horse and knocked that dong, and a stinky wild boar came in front."
"Stinky wild boar, ugly, really fierce and unreasonable."
"Unreasonable, rushing around, a big black bear flew behind me."
"Big black bear, what a hero, defeat the wild boar!"
I don't know when it began, a nursery rhyme "Flying Bear" began to be popular in the palace, which was sung among the eunuchs and palace maids. At first, Zhu Youxiao didn't care, are there still few nursery rhymes in the palace?
Once he happened to go to the imperial prison, but he heard two little palace maids singing this nursery rhyme, so he listened to it for a while, and then realized that this nursery rhyme was sung by Xiong Tingbi to Liaodong.
"You," Zhu Youxiao walked down from the palace porch, "where did you hear this nursery rhyme?" ”
"The emperor forgives his sins!" The two little palace maids were having a good time, when they suddenly saw the emperor appear, their faces were pale, their legs and stomachs trembled, and they knelt on the ground with a puff.
"I don't blame, let's say." Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly.
The two little palace maids trembled and lay on the ground tremblingly, and they didn't speak for a long time. Chen Hong was anxious, and hurriedly said, "The emperor asked!" ”
One of the palace maids who was a little bolder knelt and moved two steps forward, kowtowed, and said, "The slave maid also heard it, and everyone in the palace knows it." ”
"Everyone knows, no one knows......" Zhu Youxiao smacked this sentence carefully, he looked at Chen Hong and said lightly: "You also know." ”
I'm good! Chen Hong was annoyed by this palace maid, and sold him with just one sentence!
"Back to the emperor, the slave and maid have heard of it a little, but the slave and maid are stupid and don't understand." Chen Hong bowed and said respectfully.
"Go, find out where this nursery rhyme came from." After Zhu Youxiao left such a sentence, he left directly.
Chen Hong was stunned in place, where else could it be circulated from, wasn't it made up by the emperor himself! But since the emperor asked him to check, he didn't dare not check.
After Zhu Youxiao returned to the Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian had already waited for the emperor at the door of the carpenter's studio for a long time.
He paced back and forth in the doorway, the dust in his hand dangling, shaking his head and sighing from time to time, "What can I do......
It seemed that Wei Zhongxian was annoyed by something, and he had always been shrewd and did not even notice that the emperor had returned.
"What is to be done?" Zhu Youxiao stood behind Wei Zhongxian and said coldly.
Lao Wei was so frightened that he almost didn't jump up, and after coming back to his senses suddenly, he quickly turned around and knelt down and said, "Emperor, the old slave doesn't know how to talk about it." ”
"Something to talk about." Zhu Youxiao opened the door of the studio and strode across the threshold and walked in.
"Old slave ......" Wei Zhongxian followed in like a dog, and said hesitantly: "The old slave recently heard the first nursery rhyme......
"Flying Bear?" Zhu Youxiao picked up a log on the table and gently tapped it with his fingers.
"Back to the emperor, exactly. This nursery rhyme has been widely spread in the palace, and the old slave heard that it was passed into the palace by the people outside the palace...... And some adults, I heard that the emperor was bewitched by treachery......" Wei Zhongxian said, his voice getting softer and softer, and his stomach getting lower and lower.
He was afraid that the emperor would blame him, after all, he was looking for a Taoist priest.
"Go and call Chen Hong in." Zhu Youxiao picked up the carving knife expressionlessly and began to scratch on the logs, as if he hadn't heard Wei Zhongxian's words.
Wei Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what the emperor was going to do, but he still responded respectfully and slowly retreated.
Zhu Youxiao paced back and forth in the hall with his hands in his hands, thinking about what to do.
At the same time, after Chen Hong came in, he saw that the emperor was thinking, so he kept kneeling silently three meters away, and he even thought about how to face his emperor's monstrous anger.
After pondering for a long time, Zhu Youxiao slowly spoke: "Chen Hong, I will give you an errand, give you three days, and you will lead someone to clean up the palace." ”
After a slight sigh, Zhu Youxiao continued: "What should be left in the palace and what should not be left, you know, go and do it!" ”
"Slave and maid command." Chen Hong was not blamed, but was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, not to mention how abnormal the excitement in his heart was.
The last time the emperor asked him to pass on the decree, if this time the matter can be done well, then he will definitely be reused.
Seeing that Chen Hong was gone, Zhu You said to Wang An, who was serving on the side: "Princess, you are the old man beside the first emperor, and you are also the closest servant by my side. There are a lot of people in the palace, Chen Hong is young, and he doesn't take things seriously, you take care of these, what is going on, although I know that I don't have to have all my scruples, I still trust you. ”
"Don't worry, the old slave knows what to do." Wang An naturally understood what the emperor meant, and replied respectfully after giving a salute.
The emperor let himself keep an eye on Chen Hong, don't let him take advantage of this incident, and at the same time stare at him to do his errand.
This kind of thing is very familiar to the eunuchs in the palace, and an old eunuch like him has a lot of news channels in the palace.
"Get out! No one is allowed to come in without my permission. Zhu Youxiao finally ordered.
"Yes, Emperor." Wang An slowly retreated.
Three days passed, and at this time, Zhu Youzheng was sitting on the huge dragon chair in the Qianqing Palace.
In the past three days, a lot has happened, two people have been put under house arrest by the emperor, countless people have been killed, and the original hidden fragrance of plum blossoms in the air of the Forbidden City has been replaced by the smell of blood at this time.
The two people under house arrest were Li Xuanzhi (Emperor Taichang's Concubine Li Kang) and Concubine Zheng (Emperor Wanli's Concubine Zheng Guifei). Concubine Zheng Guifei had a very famous son, that is, the father of the later Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty - Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu.
There is a reason why Zhu Youxiao has put these two people under house arrest, and that is because these are two restless women.
Li Xuanzhi is better, she just wants to grab power; Concubine Zheng Guifei is not so simple, she wants her son to be the emperor wholeheartedly, not to mention, she is also involved in the Red Pill case.
His cheap dad died after only being the emperor for a month, and the matter is likely to involve Concubine Zheng.
On July 21, the 48th year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli died of illness. Cheap dad succeeded to the throne and changed the name to Taichang, known as Emperor Taichang in history.
On the first day of the first month of August, at the enthronement ceremony, the cheap father was "peaceful" and "flushed without illness", that is, walking, normal demeanor, and no signs of disease.
Later, the cheap daddy night royal eighth girl had a relationship with Concubine Zheng Guifei, and those women were sent by her.
As a result, the father was empty overnight, and the eunuch who treated him, that is, the chamberlain Cui Wensheng, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, was in charge of the pharmacy and ate rhubarb to the cheap father.
The cheap dad had a lot of diarrhea after eating, and went to the toilet thirty or forty times overnight.
Not to mention a person who is extremely weak, even a strong man can't stand such a peach.
To say that there is no conspiracy here, Zhu Youxiao absolutely does not believe it.