Chapter Twenty-Seven: Someone from the Palace

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In view of the fact that our Duan Chong little prince experienced an extremely tense killing last night, he poured a soak of urine on the Prime Minister's Mansion again, and it was already early morning of the second day when the whole person relaxed. And it was only at this time that the heavy drowsiness swept in, and it couldn't be stopped, so our little prince could only fall asleep on the bed.

Then he slept until three o'clock in the morning, and still did not wake up. Until there was a hurried knock on the door, Su'er shouted at the door: "Little master, get up quickly, someone is coming from the palace." ”

Duan Zhong opened his sleepy eyes, picked the corners of his eyes with his hand, pulled out a big lump of eye feces, bounced it out with his flying hand, and slowly sat up: "If someone comes, someone will come, what is the hurry?" However, as soon as the words fell, Duan Chong's squinted eyes suddenly opened, "Someone from the palace?" Hurriedly put on his clothes and pants, took the towel in Su'er's hand and wiped his face, and then flew down the stairs and went straight to the gate.

The hall on the first floor of the inn was already full of people at the moment, but there were only two people sitting. A man with a full head of silver hair and a eunuch robe could be seen at a glance as the head of the eunuch in the palace. And the other person is naturally Xiao Beiping, who is familiar and can't be more familiar.

Seeing Duan Zhong walking down the stairs, Xiao Beiping was the first to stand up and shouted "Senior Brother" from afar. Duan nodded his head, naturally he couldn't show too much intimacy on this occasion, and bowed slightly: "Hello eldest prince!" ”

Xiao Beiping quickly stepped forward to greet Duan Chong and said, "I just received your letter yesterday, but I didn't expect you to do such a big thing." You really can't stop. ”

Duan Zhong smiled slightly, looked up and looked forward, just in front of the eunuch sitting in the chair. Xiao Beiping hurriedly said: "Let me introduce to you, this is the chief eunuch in the palace, Grandpa Cao, who came to see you today at the behest of his father." After all, yesterday's events were a bit of a big fuss. As soon as I heard this yesterday, I hurriedly asked my father to come and see you today. ”

Duan Zhong smiled and bowed: "Hello Gonggong Cao!" But he smiled secretly in his heart, how could he not guess the thoughts of Emperor Nanliang? There was such a big incident yesterday, and I confided in my identity again, so the palace will naturally send someone to verify it. Originally, this matter of verifying the identity was extremely troublesome, but with Xiao Beiping present, it was different. Since this relationship between Zhong and Xiao Beiping is a brother and sister, as long as Xiao Beiping recognizes it, there will inevitably be no fake. Therefore, Xiao Beiping took the initiative to ask Ying for this errand, which reduced a lot of trouble for Duan Chong.

This Gonggong Cao stood up and said with a smile: "Since His Royal Highness recognizes the prince of Dali, naturally there will be no mistake." Today, His Majesty ordered the old slave to come, firstly, to see if the prince of Dali is true or false, and secondly, to give an explanation of what happened yesterday. ”

Duan Chong secretly said funny, if this old eunuch knew what happened last night, wouldn't he want to eat himself alive? And confess, this matter is done by Duan, and the son-in-law of the prime minister's family is also a major Duan, what can you, an old eunuch, explain? However, Duan Zhong still nodded very respectfully: "What my father-in-law said is true." ”

Gonggong Cao stood for a while, then sat down again, pointed to the stool on the side and said, "Your Highness, Prince Duan, let's sit and talk." ”

When Xiao Beiping heard this, he hurriedly pulled Duan Chong to sit down, and whispered in Duan Chong's ear: "I'm not the protagonist today, this Gonggong Cao has been ordered by his father, and he wants to educate you well, I won't be able to help you when the time comes, you have to deal with it." ”

Duan Chong nodded and looked at Gonggong Cao with a smile, but there was a secret scolding in his heart: "What kind of stand is this stinky eunuch putting up." ”

Naturally, Gonggong Cao didn't know what Duan was thinking, but he just looked at the extremely respectful attitude of this prince of Dali, and was very satisfied: "When did Prince Duan come to Liang, why didn't he report it to the palace?" ”

Duan Zhong smiled slightly: "I set off with the tributary team, but there were some things delayed on the way, so I came later." As soon as I arrived in Nanjing two days ago, I repaired a letter to the eldest prince, but naturally I didn't have time to inform him. And this time I came to Nanliang to have a long experience, so I don't have to bother the palace. Who knew that there was such a farce yesterday, and it still disturbed the palace in the end. Duan Zhong felt very guilty. ”

Gonggong Cao shook his head and said, "Where did Prince Duan say?" In the past, our eldest prince went to your country to study, and it was also very disturbing, and this time Prince Duan came, we should treat it well. ”

Duan Zhong hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

"Prince Duan is a close disciple of Dong University, and His Majesty the Emperor also attaches great importance to it. Specially told the old slave to come over and protect Prince Duan, and not to make a tragedy like yesterday. Although the son of the prime minister's family is noble, but Prince Duan beat him, this Prime Minister Zhu doesn't know the general situation, His Majesty has already reprimanded him in the early dynasty, and asked Prince Duan to be relieved. ”

Duan Chong nodded his head again and again, but in his heart, he secretly scolded this old eunuch for definitely the carrot and stick policy, and now that the carrots are finished, the stick should come. Sure enough, this old man Cao changed his words and said: "But Your Majesty also told the old slave to remind Prince Duan of his life." After all, this is the capital of Daliang, even if the son of Prime Minister Zhu Cheng's family is at fault first, but there should be a weight in the shot. Originally, such a matter should have been handed over to the Kyoto Prefecture to deal with, but the eldest prince made such an arrogance, but where did he place my yamen in Kyoto? ”

Duan Zhong hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty reprimanded. At that time, Duan Zhong was too impulsive, and he didn't hold back for a while, and next time he must follow His Majesty's teachings! Seeing that Grandpa Cao's face darkened, he hurriedly changed his words again: "There must be no next time." ”

Gonggong Cao nodded with satisfaction: "After all, this is the capital of Daliang, not Dali City." Prince Duan must always have a sense of proportion in his work. I offended the Prime Minister this time, and it will be embarrassing to meet in the future, isn't it? ”

Duan Zhong hurriedly nodded yes.

Seeing that the education was almost over, Gonggong Cao slowly stood up, took a yellow sermon from the plate held by the little eunuch on the side, and said: "The prince of Dali Guo Duan re-receives the order!" ”

Duan Zhong bent down, as the prince of Dali Kingdom, this kneeling salute is naturally not necessary. Although Dali has always been a vassal to Daliang, it cannot be said to be a real subordinate relationship.

This holy decree of the Southern Liang Emperor has no substantive content, it is all clichΓ©s. The only thing that has some value is two things. The first is to give Duan Zhong a house in Nanjing City, after all, the prince of the dignified Dali Kingdom came to Daliang, and he still lives in an inn, which is really unreasonable. also sent some maids and attendants by the way, Duan Zhong naturally knew that there must be someone in charge of monitoring him. And the second item is a will, allowing Duan Zhong to enter the palace in three days to face the saint.

These two wills were expected by Duan Chong, after all, when Xiao Beiping came to Dali, his emperor Lao Tzu also met with him. So Duan Zhong listened calmly to Gonggong Cao read out the will, accepted the will, thanked him, and then got up and said, "Father-in-law Cao has worked hard." ”

Gonggong Cao's wrinkled old face showed a smile: "Yes, the old slave of His Majesty's will has also arrived, and it is time to go back to the palace." In this new house, His Royal Highness will lead Prince Duan to go, and the old slave will not disturb your senior brothers. ”

Duan Zhong and Xiao Beiping hurriedly said, "Father-in-law go slowly." That's when the old eunuch was sent out.

Duan Zhong sighed: "This old eunuch's shelf is big enough, if it were in our Dali, we would have taken it out and cut it off." ”

Xiao Beiping smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This Gonggong Cao is an old eunuch in the palace, and he served the emperor before the Liang was divided, and then he followed my father, who is very authoritative in the palace, even his father is also extremely favorable, and when he is old, he always likes to put on some shelves." We're used to being princes, so you can bear with it. ”

Duan Zhong smiled and sighed. But I heard Xiao Beiping continue: "Come on, let's stop being wordy, you hurry up and pack up your things, and I'll take you to the new house to have a look." ”

Duan Zhong and his entourage packed up their things, and followed Xiao Beiping to the new house to have a look. And along the way, Duan Zhong also told the story of beating the prime minister's eldest son yesterday. Xiao Beiping, who listened to it, couldn't stop laughing, thinking that this Zhu Zhengming was mentioned on the iron plate, and he dared to move Su'er, this is Duan Chong's heart, but he was beaten, and it was his luck. There are a few compliments on his lips: "The eldest son of the prime minister's family is used to being a fool in the capital, and it is also a good thing for you to teach him a lesson, so that he can be more restrained in the future." ”

Of course, Duan Zhong also heard many interesting things from Xiao Beiping along the way. For example, the original name of Cao's father-in-law who came today was Cao Weijun, but he didn't expect to enter the palace as a eunuch in the end, which really disappointed his father's kindness in giving him this name.

For example, our Prime Minister Zhu Zhenyang's face was extremely bad when he went to the morning court today, and His Majesty the Emperor was furious when he learned about yesterday's incident, and reprimanded our Prime Minister severely. Lord Zhu Zhenyang fainted on the spot when he heard this, and he called the imperial doctor to wake up after pinching for a long time.

Duan Zhong smiled, thinking that this prime minister was definitely not scolded by the emperor of Nanliang. Instead, I was frightened by what happened in the middle of the night yesterday. More than a dozen killers have been damaged, and there are two second-stage masters, how is this called Lord Zhu Zhenyang? And through last night's incident, our Lord Zhu Zhenyang must know that Duan Zhong has a lot of power at hand, if he suddenly kills back and destroys the Prime Minister's Mansion, it will be a shocking big thing.

Of course, Duan Zhong naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to do such a thing at this juncture, even if he wanted revenge, he would have to live for a while, and wait for the wind to fade.

And Duan Zhong felt that our Lord Zhu Zhenyang was not angry to death last night, but was able to hold on to the early dynasty, which was already a very amazing thing!