The sky was slightly cool, and the sound of insects was lazy, obviously it was the rain before dawn, which made the noisy insects also become lazy.

At this time, there are still two hours before the fifth watch. However, Zhu Houzhao turned around, obviously unable to sleep all night. It's not this continuous rain, but the lovesickness that is hard to endure every second.

When it was dawn, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, but this seemed to be a normal thing in Jiangnan. However, Zhu Houzhao still has a very important thing to do today, that is, to take paintings.

Nominally, it is a painting, but in fact, it is an exchange of emotions and heart-to-heart communication.

Because of the subtle feeling like a low-volt alternating current electric shock, itchy, numb, makes people feel extremely happy.

It's just that now it's not the sky blue and other smoke and rain, but the beauty has not arrived, and the downpour has fallen. Zhu Houzhao was wondering if he should hurry up and take a look.

Zhu Houzhao asked for an umbrella and was about to go out, but was stopped by Liu Jin.

"Your Highness, it's raining too hard right now. You better wait for the rain to be smaller, and the slave and maid will accompany His Highness again! Liu Jin looked at the dense rain line on the canopy of the sky and was a little worried, why did this rain not pick the time.

If Your Highness doesn't go to a tryst, it won't rain this time, what a coincidence! You know, Your Highness likes this woman very much. But anyone who can enter the eyes of His Royal Highness is a unique beauty of the Ming Dynasty in terms of three from the four virtues, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, body posture and appearance, and this is not His Highness's fault. Who will not be tempted when they meet a woman they like, His Royal Highness is just more reckless.

"You dog-like thing, a rain scares you like this! Hongu can't miss this date! Zhu Houzhao put on a cloak and held an umbrella. Of course, he also had another coat in his hand, and rushed into the rain without hesitation.

"Your Royal Highness......" Looking at Zhu Houzhao's running figure gradually blurring in the rain curtain, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh. Ask what the world is like. Straight people promise life and death! His Royal Highness is really an amorous person, but it's a pity that he is a eunuch and can't appreciate the greatness of such love.

Zhu Houzhao ran wildly in the rain, and Liu Jin followed closely behind.

"This palace is coming soon, you must not miss the appointment!" Zhu Houzhao ran.

Sure enough, Zhu Houzhao waited alone in the wind and rain. But fortunately he didn't give up, and at the moment when he looked back five hundred times, he saw a thin figure running towards him quickly in the rain.

"Sorry I'm late!"

"It's okay, I've just arrived!" Zhu Houming was already cold, but he still took a breath of hot air to warm the woman's hand.

"It's raining so hard, why are you still here?" The woman asked.

"Don't you do the same, don't ask, don't ask!" Zhu Houzhao said softly, like a quiet beautiful man.

"It's a painting, half of you, half of me. If this painting is restored...... "The woman's face was a little shy, and she didn't know what to say.

"When this painting is combined, it will be when I marry you home." Zhu Houzhao spat out, crisp and neat.

"Come and put on this cloak I prepared for you, and the umbrella is also for you!" Zhu Houzhao put on a robe for the woman and handed her the umbrella.

"You...... Don't you ask me what my name is? My family lives there, how do you find me? The woman was visibly flustered.

"No need to ask, as long as your other half is drawn in my heart, I can find you. Five hundred glances back in the past life were exchanged for a passing in this life. Since we can have a time for a painting, it means that we were ...... in our previous life" Zhu Houzhao snorted very confidently, "You know! ”

"It's raining too much, you can go back!" Zhu Houzhao advised.

"What about you...... Then you have to do it well! Other...... Don't forget what you said. The woman turned around and walked away.

When the shadow disappeared in the rain, Liu Jin immediately ran out of the corner.

"Your Highness, don't catch a cold!" Liu Jin hurriedly took off his coat and gave it to Zhu Houzhao, and then opened the umbrella and went back with Zhu Houzhao.

Two days later, the group set off again, and the news that Zhu Houzhao liked a woman was transmitted back to Jingshi.

Jingshi, Kunning Palace.

"Look at this kid, he can't be in a hurry! I just went out to play for a few days and found one for myself, but when the time comes, the queen will check with me, if it is really both ability and political integrity, and the family background is not bad. Just take a side concubine, I still think it's good for this kid to find a woman he likes. Emperor Hongzhi sighed with emotion, "I am really a blessing, when I first chose a concubine." It's really among thousands of flowers, but the emperor's grandmother chose the right person for me at a glance, and now I think about it, I am really a blessing to be able to marry such a good queen! Hahaha! ”

"Being able to marry Your Majesty is also a blessing for a concubine!" The joy on Empress Zhang's face was beyond words, and these words really warmed people's hearts.

Although Emperor Hongzhi's huge harem was only one woman, Empress Zhang didn't want her son to marry one. After all, there are many sons and many blessings, and in the future, Zhu Houzhao will also shoulder the heavy responsibility of inheriting the Ming Dynasty, so he would rather marry more than marry.

Although marrying less has the advantage of marrying less, marrying more is easy to be jealous. But if you marry less, the problem of this heir cannot be guaranteed, so the lesser of two evils. The conclusion is that you should marry more daughters-in-law and have more children.

"Queen, what do you think of this matter?" Emperor Hongji asked.

"The concubine felt that Houzhao was a little nonsense, how could he make his own decisions about such a big matter! Your Majesty, you have indulged him a little in this matter! Empress Zhang said, "But boys are young, and there will always be feelings!" ”

"Well, so be it! Queen, send someone to find out who this woman is. When the time comes, let's see what this kid's vision is, how? "Emperor Hongji is very interested.

"Okay, the concubine also wants to see who this kid chooses!" Empress Zhang is also interested, otherwise how can they be two people!

These days, some people are busy. Empress Zhang asked people to check this woman's life experience, family background and various backgrounds.

A dense pile of manuscripts was stacked like a hill. But this did not affect Empress Zhang to read each one seriously. Because this is Zhu Houzhao's business, of course, it is also his own business. All mothers, almost without exception, do not take their sons lightly.

Especially in the royal family, not to mention that there are many things involved, at least it is related to the reproduction of heirs, and at worst, it is related to the future heir of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji. So, in general, it is absolutely not to be taken lightly.

"This woman from Yangzhou, from a scholarly family, has been an official for three generations, but they are all petty officials. And the wind evaluation is extremely positive, and the official is honest. The father of the Yang family is a businessman and has two elder brothers, one is a concubine and one is a younger brother. An older brother went into business with his father. The other is twenty-three years old and has already taken the exam. And Yang Qingling, the daughter of the Yang family, is good at painting, and worships the contemporary master Shen Zhou as her teacher, which is good! Empress Zhang muttered to herself and flipped through the manuscript.