In the early hours of the second day, it snowed heavily all night, just before dawn broke. On the market street in front of the Fengjing Imperial Palace, there were a few small vendors with stalls.

"I thought the snow wouldn't stop this morning, and I thought I could get some sleep. As soon as the snow stopped, he let the mother-in-law of my family pull it up. A middle-aged man who finished sweeping the snow on the stall and began to put together the fire stall casually said to the vendor next to him.

"Hey, what we earn is this hard-earned money, and we are destined to be a hard life in our lives." The stall owner next to him was also picking up a shack on the pole, and behind him there was a woman with pale cheeks, who was putting a fire on the small soot stove in front of him.

"If you want to say that you Nankang people have good craftsmanship, you can simply sell some wontons, not to mention that you earn more than me. If you don't have kung fu, you can teach me. The middle-aged man set up the oil pot, and took out the meat filling prepared by his wife last night to make noodles: "Look, I sell this meat patty, not to mention the cost, every day I make all my body and face full of oil." ”

The white-faced sister-in-law patted the soot on her hand, and didn't look at him, but just accosted him in a salty and nonchalant manner: "Who knows who has difficulties here." It's all hard-earned money, and it's easier for anyone than anyone. And your baked meatloaf sells wontons in my family, and everyone has a business to do when it is sold, which is not very good. The sister-in-law didn't answer at all, and directly ignored the fact that the owner of the meatloaf stall wanted to learn the craft.

Gradually, in this palace market with a strong atmosphere of life, many familiar faces came in twos and threes, everyone greeted each other, and occasionally mixed with two curses, cursing the snow that stopped at the wrong time.

At this moment, the palace gate was wide open, and a team of people rushed out of the palace gate. This group of people is dressed in white power suits, and they are riding war horses under their crotches. In front of the team, there were two handymen wearing government uniforms, who were playing the gong "dong" in the street cleaning gong...... Boom...... Knock".

Hearing these gongs, the stall owners on both sides of the street and the pedestrians who came to walk early bowed their heads and knelt on the ground. I could only hear the sound of horses' hooves, and the sound of wheels running over the stone road, hula and cheer passing in front of me. When the gong sounded away, the streets were bustling again.

"Second brother and second aunt, what do you say is wrong today, why did you disperse so early? I don't know which prince is in the car. Why didn't the other adults come out? Yesterday morning, Lord Wu from the military department didn't bring any money, and I'm still waiting for him to deliver it today. The owner of the meatloaf shop was doing his work while talking to the wonton stall next to him. Come on, two meatloafs just out of the pot, be careful to scald. ”

The old man took the meatloaf, sat on the bench of the wonton stall, bowed his chin to the second aunt, and carefully placed the birdcage on the bench: "This is what you don't know." Judging from today's hour, it is impossible to disperse the dynasty, and there must be no dynasty at all. Wait, the adults will come out of the duty room after a while. ”

The second aunt of the wonton just silently fished out eight meat wontons, sprinkled a handful of coriander and a handful of small shrimp skins, and then put the bowl in front of the old man, no one answered, and continued to do the work at hand. And the owner of the meatloaf stall clapped his hands with a smile: "That's good, that's good, I'm just afraid that my mother-in-law will prepare too many ingredients, and adults won't come to eat it." Since Lord Xiao said so, it is accurate and cannot be wrong. ”

After a while, the officials of all sizes who came out of the palace gate with neat crowns and belts, all of them neatly dressed in court clothes, walked in groups of three or five to the familiar stalls. Whether it is the boss or the diner, there is no cowardice of the official on weekdays, and there are a few acquaintances who talk and laugh with each other.

This market in front of the palace gate was originally gathered for the officials of the morning dynasty every day, so the quality of the food will be much better than that of other markets, and of course the price will be higher. It is true that most of the people who can come here to eat are military generals who have discharged their armor and returned to the fields, or civil officials who have been sealed for the elderly, and some scholarly families with solid family backgrounds. Even those rich merchants rarely come to the market in front of this palace.

The carriage of the white-clothed warriors who passed by here just now was heading in the direction of Zhongshan Lane, which was not far from the palace gate.

"Lord, there is a team of ...... outside the door" The porter staggered to the door of the main hall, and saw that the door of the main hall was wide open, and the three of them, the prince and the housekeeper Tie Armor, and Young Master Sun were sitting on the chairs and bowing their heads speechlessly, and they didn't dare to step through the hall, but just bowed down the steps to report.

"The old man looked at the hour, and it was almost time to come." Guo Yunsong stood up after saying that, walked to the back hall, and looked back at Shen Gui before leaving: "Just here for your mother-in-law's spirit, don't talk much." Shen Gui nodded, stepped forward and took a freshly changed white wax, and lit the small half of the incense that had already been prepared in the incense burner.

Seeing that the old prince walked back to the house, Tie Jia rubbed his eyes vigorously with his hands, and rubbed his eyes, which had been crying all night, even more red and swollen. "Okay?" The peach-like iron armor with swollen eyes looked at Shen Gui and asked, and after seeing that the other party nodded, he touched the ground a few more times, only to make the boy's robe on his body full of dust and folds, and then walked in the direction of the mansion gate.

"The minion iron armor knocks on Your Majesty, and asks Your Majesty to atone for the sin of the minion's slow succession." The iron armor staggered three steps and made two steps, half-crawled and half-rolled to the gate of the palace, and knelt straight in front of a carriage covered with white satin.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing a pair of narrow and bright eyes: "Are you the righteous son of the old prince of Zhongshan?" ”

Tie Jia touched his head to the ground and said loudly: "Back to my emperor's words, the old king is benevolent, and he couldn't bear it back then, afraid that the slave would be burdened by his humble background and hinder his own way to study. But the slave did not dare to trespass, and was only willing to be a steward in the palace, and he had to repay the old king's kindness. ”

"The old prince's vision is really good. You can lead me into the house. Lone came here this time to mourn for Lone's loyal and virtuous brother, Guo Shuang, the deputy commander of the Taibai Praetorian Guard. After that, the man in the carriage stepped on the back of the eunuch who drove the carriage and got out of the car and stood in front of the gate of the Zhongshan Palace. Tie Jia stood up, hunched over and led the way, Tai Baiwei and a few internal officials, surrounded the emperor of the third road in the north, Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt, and walked to the door of the main hall that had been temporarily converted into a mourning hall.

"The people in the hall, quickly kneel down to meet the driver." The accompanying eunuch was none other than Li Qing, the head of the inner court, who was about thirty or forty years old, and was shouting towards the mourning hall in a slightly sharp voice at this time.

"Not necessarily." Emperor Xuande said loudly. "Come alone to mourn Uncle Wang, there is no need to be formal." After saying that, he crossed the threshold of the main hall, and then waved his hand behind him: "Wait for the exit from the gate of the palace as soon as possible, and wait outside the gate of the palace." ”

"Your Majesty, just let the old slave stay here so that it can be served." Li Qing said in an inquiring tone.

"No need, there's iron armor waiting here. You lead the Taibai guards out and wait. ”

"It's ............ Or ............"

"What? Aren't you afraid of the old prince of Zhongshan, and you can't murder the lonely king? ”

"The slave receives the order, and the slave retires."

Li Qing said that, and took the Taibai guards out of the gate of the palace. Emperor Xuande smiled bitterly, looked at the iron armor on his side and said: "Look, this slave has not yet reached the age of not being confused, and he is already deaf, it seems that he really has no ability to recognize people." If he could have half the agility and intelligence of the iron armor, he wouldn't leave anyone unavailable. He shook his head.

"I have heard the name of His Majesty's benevolence and virtue for a long time, and when I see it today, the slave also thinks so." Tie Jia didn't answer, which made Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt show a hint of surprise, and then smiled again: "Good, not bad." After that, he took out a folding fan from his waist and pulled the iron armor's hand directly: "I drew it myself, I rewarded you." didn't wait for Tie Jia to reply, and walked directly to the coffin containing Guo Shuang.

"Uncle Guo Shuang, Uncle Wang, I miss you and the lonely king, you are a monarch and a minister above the court, and you are an uncle and nephew at home. Last night, a gangster entered the palace at night, and it was thanks to Qing and the thieves who fought to the death that they could not retreat, so that the lone king was safe and sound. Unexpectedly, Uncle Wang, why did you go like this! If you go today, who else can keep you alone and sleep all night, and who can protect the palace day and night! Uncle Wang, you go, my old prince of Zhongshan, how can you not break your liver and intestines! Besides, you are tired of protecting orphans, and you have never married a wife after three rounds. Alone in the coming year, I will help you to be the commander of Taibaiwei, rightfully replace the old king, and then marry a princess as a wife! Now Uncle Wang, you are gone, after being called Lonely, who else can you drink with and have fun! ”

As soon as Emperor Xuande entered the main hall, he first put on three incense sticks, and then went straight to the coffin, but when he saw Guo Shuang's body in the coffin, he trembled and held the coffin with his hands, and cried like weeping like tears, and his whole body leaned softly on the coffin to cry. There was a little ash on his face out of nowhere, and he couldn't see a trace of the emperor's majesty.

"Huh? Ay? Is this the emperor? Shen Gui, who had been sitting by the brazier and burning paper, saw that he was ignored by Emperor Xuande, so he took advantage of Emperor Xuande's crying spirit to come to Tiejia's side.

"Is the emperor still fake? Isn't this just like your friend who is looking for flowers and asking willows together, carved out of a mold? With a sad face, Tie Armor found an empty face and whispered to Shen Gui.

"This product is okay, as soon as I entered the door, the tears were like Dongzhu who had worn the thread, and they were not broken at all. Crying and chattering, this breath is very good, if you haven't practiced, it's easy to hold your back on your back. Shen Gui, who knows a lot of artists in the rivers and lakes, commented on Emperor Xuande's style today.

"Look, look, that's it." Seeing Emperor Xuande's soft body, Tie Jia slid down the coffin and fell to the ground, and the whole person burst into tears, clenching his teeth and falling unconscious. After muttering the last sentence with Shen Gui, a series of tears immediately flowed from his eyes, and he rushed to the emperor's side with a sliding step.

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body, quickly let Chief Li outside the door Xuan Imperial Doctor!" After speaking, his left hand pinched Emperor Xuande's tiger's mouth, and his right hand pressed it towards the middle of the person.

"These two things are chess opponents today." Shen Gui was chattering in his heart, but his legs were not slow, and while running towards the front of the mansion, he shouted loudly: "Come on, His Majesty the Emperor is dead!" ”

"Where's this?" Emperor Xuande opened his closed eyes in the arms of Tie Jia and looked around blankly. "Who is this dead?"

"Your Majesty, your dragon body is important, don't be overly sad." Tiejia didn't answer, just wiped his tears and leaned the emperor back in his chair.

"Your Majesty............" Li Qingben, the head of the inner court, was waiting outside the gate of the mansion, and when he heard Shen Gui's loud shout, he immediately dragged the accompanying imperial doctor into the mourning hall.

"I'm fine, let's go down." Emperor Xuande, who was slightly relieved, waved his hand and withdrew the imperial doctor and Li Qing. Then he took a closer look at Shen Gui, who shouted 'The emperor is dead'.

"Is this my Aunt Guo Zhen's child? The shaman takes good care of you. ”

"Yes...... His Majesty the Emperor. Shen Gui's face was excited, and he replied excitedly.

"Good boy, seeing that you are such a talent, the spirits of the great shaman and aunt of the ancestors are enough to be blinded." Emperor Xuande looked at Shen Gui with a kind face.

Shen Gui seemed to be flushed with excitement, but he kept slandering in his heart: This old guy really loves to act, obviously the two families have no blood relationship, but they love to climb relatives when they see people. As soon as I entered the door just now, I cried like a mourner, and I was not over the exam, but I was also an emperor anyway, and now I was almost a family affair with a little fart child in my early tens, and the whole market women were pies.

"Iron Armor...... Who's outside the hall? The inner hall came from the weak and senile voice of Guo Yunsong, the king of Zhongshan, and the iron armor was just about to reply, but Emperor Xuande stopped him:

"The prince of Zhongshan is a nephew. Hunting has come to ask you for guilt......" Emperor Xuande's mood just now calmed down, and he came up again, and replied with a choked voice.

Shen Gui and Tie Jia were on the side, looking at this king of the three roads in the north, they looked at each other, and the two of them admired in their hearts: Where is this pretending to be a grandson, this is a real grandson!