"I didn't give birth to this child!" Qiu Xiang broke free from her arms and tried her best to defend herself. When she saw Zhong Nanzheng looking at herself playfully, she realized that she had been fooled, so she pounced on the other party's chest and beat it lightly, "So you know everything, then you still say that, bad guy!" ”

"We've only been separated for a little over two years, and this girl looks like she's two or three years old, right?"

Qiu Xiang thought about it carefully, the time was really wrong, her father-in-law had always been careful, how could she not guess if she thought about it a few more times. She said softly: "Brother Zhong, this girl was picked up by me outside at the end of last year, and I saw her crying pitifully at that time, and I was afraid that you would come to me after a long time, so I thought about adopting her, so I could accompany me as a companion." ”

"Since I have a fate with you, let's continue to raise her," Zhong Nan does not have the idea that a man must have a son to inherit the ancestry of the ancients, so he is not exclusive to *, "It hurts to have a child, so you can avoid that sin!" ”

Hearing Zhong Nan say this, Qiu Xiang knew that her father-in-law was comforting herself in disguise, she was moved in her heart, thinking that she didn't know the blessings she had cultivated in several lifetimes, and she could marry such a good man, but she couldn't let Zhong Nan have no successor, and when there was a suitable girl, she must marry home and give birth to a son to the Zhong family.

Where did Zhong Nan know Qiu Xiang's "absurd" idea, he was still immersed in the excitement of seeing his wife again, until Xu Wanzhou outside the shed couldn't wait, and came in and said, "It's already dark, do you want to go back to Jinan City first", Zhong Nan stopped talking and hugged Qiu Xiang back to the city.

The next day, Zhong Nan took Qiu Xiang to walk around Jinan City, bought a few large bags of things, all clothes, cosmetics and some * and the like, and ate a large table of good meals at the best Quancheng restaurant in Jinan at noon, Qiu Xiang protested against him spending money indiscriminately, but it didn't work at all, and he still bought and bought in the afternoon. A few of the accompanying soldiers acted as coolies, carrying all kinds of goods in large and small bags, and they did not return to the inn until the lights were on.

Looking at the things on the bed, Qiu Xiang said angrily: "Brother Zhong, don't waste it like this in the future!" ”

Zhong Nan didn't speak, but his eyes were full of tenderness, he looked at the jade man in front of him, and kissed it emotionally again......

The next day was the day when the Shandong delegation went to Beijing, Qiu Xiang originally planned to return to Dongchang first to wait for Zhong Nan, but Zhong Nan insisted on letting her go to Beijing with her, so she had no choice but to follow. However, Qiu Xiang did not go with the mission, but Zhong Nan arranged for his own personal soldiers to escort him, and a few days later, the two people arrived in Beijing with the kung fu of the front and back feet.

After arriving in Beijing, the mission stayed in the accommodation prepared by the imperial court, and Zhong Nan found it inconvenient, so he found another inn next to the official hotel and opened an upper room for Qiu Xiang. Once everything is settled, all that's left is to wait in peace.

Jingshi is the capital of a country, and at that time it specifically referred to Beijing Shuntianfu in order to distinguish it from Nanjing Yingtianfu. After the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to this, the Ming Dynasty formed a pattern of "two capitals and thirteen provinces", the two capitals are the north and the south of the country, and the thirteen provinces are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

The prosperity of Beijing is not comparable with other cities, although Nanjing is also very prosperous, but the prosperity of Beijing has more majestic charm, Yongle Emperor "the Son of Heaven guards the country" courage has been integrated into the city. In the past few days, as long as there is no official business, Zhong Nan will take Qiu Xiang to play around, and gradually, the Shandong officials who are traveling with him know that Zhong Guerrilla has succeeded in finding his wife, and the part of the people who said that the media before has also dispelled the idea.

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor wanted to summon the heroes of the Eastern Expedition to Korea, and only Shi Changting and Zhong Nan were among the officials in Shandong. On the evening of the 28th, Shi Changting personally explained to Zhong Nan some things to pay attention to when he was in the audience, and he hoped that Zhong Nan could take the opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor this time to leave a good impression on Zhu Yijun.

In his opinion, Zhu Yijun is a very contradictory person, and his later actions are related to the depressive experience of childhood, which is very similar to those people in modern society who were overly disciplined in their teenage years, resulting in an extreme personality in adulthood. If this kind of person is in a high position, most of them will be rebellious, stubborn, suspicious, so happy and hope to prove themselves, in fact, if someone can give psychological counseling to Zhu Yijun, I believe that the time of "Wanli Zhongxing" will be longer.

The order of the emperor's meetings was arranged according to the rank of official, which meant that Zhong Nam would be the last person to be summoned. Because the waiting time was too long, Zhong Nan almost fell asleep halfway, and finally waited for the eunuch to report, it was already after evening.

Zhu Yijun summoned Zhong Nan in the imperial study, and after kneeling and saluting, the two sides sat on their chairs and observed each other. The emperor looked carefully, and Zhong Nan peeked cautiously, after all, he was afraid of being charged with "offending Tianyan". Through observation, Zhong Nan found that Zhu Yijun was good-looking, very elegant, with a long beard unique to middle-aged men in ancient times, but I don't know if the previous summons took too much energy, and it was likely that he hadn't eaten dinner yet, the emperor looked very tired, just looked at Zhong Nan, and didn't say anything.

Seeing this situation, Zhong Nan decided to go sideways, he respectfully stepped forward and bowed, and then said: "Your Majesty, Weichen has not eaten for a day, and he is already so hungry that his chest is close to his back at this time......"

Before he finished speaking, the eunuch behind the emperor screamed: "Bold, didn't the emperor send you food?" ”

"Your Majesty, although someone gave you a snack during the waiting period, none of the other adults moved, so Weichen had to ........." Zhong Nan said the truth.

"It's okay, I just happened to be hungry," Zhu Yijun saw that although Zhong Nan was talking with vibrating, there was a hint of banter in his expression, which made him feel very funny, thinking that Zhong Nan was very different from his other courtiers. At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, there were no military officials, all of whom were like Zhang Juzheng's unsmiling type, with a poker face all day long, especially when the court meeting and political discussion, it was so serious that even the emperor was scared. Now seeing a courtier like Zhong Nan who is serious and joking, the emperor is naturally more tolerant.

As soon as the eunuch behind him heard that the emperor was hungry, he immediately ordered the imperial dining room to serve food, and it didn't take long for a little eunuch to bring it up with a food box, and after completing the procedure, Zhu Yijun beckoned Zhong Nan to eat and talk about business. Zhong Nan was also not polite, and after thanking him, he settled the dinner like a storm, which made Emperor Wanli, who was eating Xiang Siwen on the side, intuitively funny.

Zhong Nan saw Zhu Yijun staring at him and laughing, so he said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Weichen's family has been poor since he was a child, and he often can't eat enough, and the imperial meal given to Weichen by the emperor is too delicious, so it looks ugly." After saying that, he smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Zhong Guerrilla still can't eat enough when he was a child?" Zhu Yijun was very surprised, he always felt that the people of the Ming Dynasty were living very well, and he couldn't figure out how Zhong Nan could starve when he was a child.

"Emperor Qiqi, Weichen's family is in the remote area of Sichuan and Shu, and due to geographical reasons, the harvest in the field is not stable," Zhong Nan saw that the emperor did not interrupt him, so he continued: "So some years are inevitably hungry, but although it was very bitter at that time, my mother was very strict with me!" ”

Zhong Nan quietly brought the topic to the point that he did it intentionally when he was a child, and he had to shorten the distance between the two to make the emperor remember him, so he found another way at the beginning to change the taste of the emperor who was tired of the ministers of the court.

Sure enough, Zhu Yijun became interested, but he still asked, "How to be strict?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi, I still remember that once I was so hungry that I stole half of the neighbor's steamed bun, and when my mother found out, she beat me hard," Zhong Nan began his narration, "Actually, I'm not afraid of being beaten, I'm afraid that my mother will punish me for kneeling and reciting the book, and I won't let me get up if I don't carry it." ”

Listening to the story of Zhong Nan being punished by his mother for kneeling, Zhu Yijun thought of being punished by his mother for kneeling when he was a child. That was once when he was drunk, and was told by his eldest companion Feng Bao, his mother asked him to kneel down and scolded loudly, no matter how he repented, and promised not to make the same mistake again, his mother did not give up, and finally took out a book, turned to one of them for himself to read, this article is "Huo Guang Biography", he knew that the biggest thing Huo Guang did was to abolish the emperor, so at that moment he was afraid to die, and felt that his mother's implication was to abolish himself. Thinking about it, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but be more interested in Zhong Nan's story, he stopped to eat and asked, "What about later?" ”

"Your Majesty, my mother later scared me with the wild men in the mountains, saying that if I didn't learn well, I would be caught by the wild people, so scared that I was afraid that the wild men would come to catch me when I walked alone every day." Zhong Nan didn't seem to notice the emperor's expression, and continued to tell his childhood story, "And the gentleman who teaches is also very strict, I accidentally read a wrong word when I endorsed the book, and he scolded me loudly, so that I didn't want to read later, in fact, I originally liked calligraphy, but after he was often scolded, I became disgusted with reading-related things." ”

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he clenched his fists even more, isn't this the same experience as himself? He was already attracted by Zhong Nan's story, as if the protagonist of the story was himself, and he couldn't help asking, "What happened after that?" ”

"Emperor Qi, after that, although I won the show, but I was not admitted to the lift, I had no choice but to do business, how do I know that business is not easy to do, once I went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to sell goods was cheated out of silver, and as a result, I was exiled to Suzhou, and finally was confiscated to Shandong." Zhong Nan's answer was mixed.