It's just dark, the lights are lit everywhere, but the people haven't rested, and this is the time when the scenery is at its most prosperous.

When Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the dining room, he heard a moving call: "King Gaoyang." He stopped and turned his head, and when he saw Miao Jin hurrying to follow, he turned around and saluted.

Miao Jin said to the eunuch next to him: "You go back to serve the saint, and I will send King Gaoyang out of the inner hall." The two eunuchs handed the lantern and said, "Yes." ”

So Zhu Gaoxu and Miaojin walked slowly to the inner hall gatehouse one after the other, Miaojin looked preoccupied, and the original Qinggao face looked a little poignant at this time.

Zhu Gaoxu felt that he had a thousand words to say to her, the apologies for detaining her for a year, when she was released, and Jingqing's surrender...... Wait, but for a while, in the inner hall of the Yan Palace, he couldn't even talk about it.

Miaojin also seemed to be thinking about something, so the two of them walked silently on the long street in the house.

When Zhu Gaoxu was in the dining room before, he was smiling most of the time, his mother's face was almost stiff, and when he walked out, the light of the lantern was not very good, and he was not smiling at all. At this time, he opened his mouth and asked, "Little aunt cultivates, do you really believe that there are immortals?" ”

Miaojin looked hesitant when she heard this, hesitated for a moment before nodding and said, "There is a god three feet above your head, I believe it." Gaoyang Wang believes this? ”

"I am suspicious of the gods." Zhu Gaoxu said, "But I believe that there is something in this world that mortals cannot understand, it is not necessarily a god, but it must be very mysterious, beyond our cognition." ”

Miaojin didn't answer.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu said with some feelings: "If a person does ordinary things, whether he succeeds or not mainly depends on his own character and ability...... For example, in his previous life, he was worse than ordinary people of the same class, which is a personality problem.

He continued, "But when you do extraordinary things, luck is the most important thing!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's expression of this feeling is not groundless. He participated in almost the entire battle of Jingjing, although his father was powerful, but he was able to win in the end, what was that luck? If there is one less gale, the father will be finished.

And he was lucky to get away in Beijing last year, as long as there is one detail that is unlucky, can he escape? As well as what he will do now, Zhu Gaoxu is also praying that his luck will not be too bad.

Miao Jin said softly: "King Gaoyang is reasonable. ”

After a while, when he was almost at the gatehouse of the inner hall, Miao Jin called softly and said in a low voice: "The courtyard opposite Chi Yueguan is still King Gaoyang's?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

She raised her head, and her naturally beautiful apricot eyes shone with the orange light of a lantern, as if she had puffed up her breath before she said, "Can we meet tomorrow morning?" After saying that, she seemed to exhale secretly, as if she had hesitated for a long time and finally spoke.

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little strange for a moment, but immediately understood that Miaojin took the initiative to propose a private meeting, and it was really not easy to say it with her heart.

Early tomorrow morning? Zhu Gaoxu planned to do that dangerous thing tonight, and he suddenly realized: After doing that thing, he quietly ran to Chi Yueguan, and the person was gone, would there be any extraneous branches?

He was about to speak, but he saw someone coming from the gatehouse, so he had to stop first.

At this time, Miao Jin said: "I will send King Gaoyang here, it is dark, King Gaoyang walks slowly." ”

Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to say goodbye to her and went out of the gatehouse, and the eunuchs near the gatehouse continued to send him out of the Yanwang Mansion. Along the way, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but wonder: What did Miaojin have to say, and he took the initiative to propose a private meeting?

But he doesn't care so much! Inevitably had a lot of dreams at night, and after Zhu Gaoxu returned home, he immediately started to do things, and he did it when he wanted to!

…… After the family banquet, the prince and the princess returned to the house in a sedan chair, and as soon as they entered the gate, a large group of honor guards dispersed one after another, and some people gathered in the sedan chair to enter the inner house.

At this moment, a childish voice came from outside: "Who dares to grab my things?" ”

The prince stretched out his head and saw that his son Zhu Zhanji was sitting on the ground, covered in mud, holding a wooden sword in his hand, and the eunuchs and maids were hurrying to support him.

"It's dark, why is Junji still stubborn here?" Shizi frowned.

The slaves and maids hurriedly knelt on the ground, and a eunuch said, "The slaves and maids know that they are wrong!" Immediately take the grandson to bathe and change clothes. ”

But Zhu Zhanji seemed to be angry, sat on the ground and didn't get up, and hit the approaching eunuch with a wooden sword.

Shizi looked annoyed, struggled to get out of the sedan chair, went up and lifted Zhu Zhanji over, waved his palm and hit the fart with a "snap", Zhu Zhanji suddenly cried "wow".

The Zhang family came out immediately, grabbed the prince, and said with a painful face: "Lord Shizi, he is your own son, why do you do it so hard?" ”

"Mother, mother......" Zhu Zhanji cried, got up as soon as he turned over, and hugged Zhang's legs, "The child wants to tell grandpa, dad beats me ......"

"If the Son does not teach, the Father is at fault! Since he was a child, he didn't know how to be humble, who could rob him of his things? Shizi said angrily, but he didn't hit the child anymore.

Zhang said, "Zhan Ji is still young, what does he know?" ”

The prince flicked the sleeves of his robe and walked into the upper room, his back was pouting, and the eunuchs hurriedly stepped forward to help.

When the prince entered the house, he sat down on the soft couch where he usually sits. After a while, Zhang came in with a cup of tea and waved his hand, "You all go out." ”

"Yes." The eunuchs and maids bowed their knees.

"Come, drink a cup of tea and sober up, who provoked the prince of the world, and came back with such an atmosphere?" Zhang gently blew on the surface of the water with his small mouth.

Shizi frowned and said, "I told you to leave Tan Yuan's rebellious business alone, but it's okay, today I was taken by Gao Xu to say it in public!" ”

Zhang smiled: "Let him say, did the mother blame me?" But the prince finally heard it, and there was a thorn in the second uncle's words. You said that he is a man who leads soldiers, and he can still fight with me as a woman, but it is difficult for him. ”

Shizi said: "Gao Xu has been more stubborn than our Zhan Ji since he was a child, and the emperor's grandfather dislikes him. Zhan Ji is very popular with his grandfather, this kid, you have to sue me! ”

Zhang smiled when he heard this.

Shizi muttered again: "But the younger brothers are all older, and Gao Xu is also governor, and he knows that the eldest brother can't get off the stage, after all, he is still a brother." ”

"Ho!" Zhang suddenly sneered, "The prince won't really believe it, he wants to support you as the crown prince?" ”

Shizi shook his head, then hesitated. He pondered something, the expression on his face changing subtly, as if remembering a different past.

Zhang gently reminded: "Jun Ying Cao." ”

Shizi really frowned. Zhang took the opportunity to whisper: "The younger brother of the prince is very terrifying. It turned out that he was just cunning and fierce, but now it seems that he is still very patient and can judge the situation. Today he made a phone call at his father's palace, and took advantage of the situation to buy the hearts of the county lords. Don't take it lightly! ”

At this moment, the prince suddenly said, "What do you think of my father?" ”

"It's hard to say." Zhang frowned and said, "The second uncle has indeed made great contributions and helped his father a lot, but now he looks humble and listens to his father's words very much, and his father has a heart and is not good at beating him." ”

The prince sighed: "You weren't in our house before, you don't know what happened when you were a child, my father likes the second and third brothers the most, and I hate me the most." Last time, Gao Xu poisoned me with Jun Ying Cao, and his father didn't favor him, stirred up a thin mud and then didn't ......"

Zhang whispered quietly: "Father is now the Son of Heaven. ”

At this moment, the eunuch cautiously called outside the door, Zhang turned his head and beckoned, and the eunuch came in with a pot of red-hot charcoal.

It's February now, but the night in Peking is still cold and cold. Ordinary people don't have to burn charcoal anymore, but the prince's mansion must make the nobles the most comfortable.

The fiery charcoal, so clean that there was not a wisp of smoke, and the room slowly became warmer and more comfortable.

……

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu was in a cold alley, and when he came out of the carriage, he suddenly felt that the air was very cold. For the sake of ease of movement, he only wore a cyan single coat over the inner lining, which was indeed very thin.

The carriage had just blocked a door. Zhu Gaoxu stood there, glanced left and right at both ends of the alley, then reached out and gently knocked on the door three times. The sound was not loud, and it quickly disappeared into the night, and there was no movement in the alley.

So Zhu Gaoxu took out an iron sled from the carriage and forcibly inserted it into the crack of the door, and the muscles on his shoulder bulged, and the sound of wood breaking made a "bang", and the door opened.

Zhu Gaoxu walked in sideways, and it was dark in front of him, but he immediately smelled a musty smell mixed with dust. So he went straight out of the door, picked up a tightly tied man with one hand, and dragged him into the door, still inside.

"Woo woo woo ......" a man let out a muffled snort.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Make a little more noise, Lao Tzu will kill you now!" ”

He turned around and went out, walked to the front of the carriage, and whispered, "You rush back to the house, go in through the gate of the back garden, and wait in the house." ”

"Lord Wang......" Wang Gui's tone was a little worried.

Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "There is an inspection after the night, and the carriage has a big target, and it will definitely be found when the car is walking on the street at that time." Carriages should not be thrown around here. Hurry up and leave while no one is around! ”

"Take care!" Wang Gui whispered.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the door, touched a stool, and closed the door. He stood in the dark for a while, and followed the place where he had just been released, and the two of them were still there, and they did not dare to say anything more.

He dragged the two of them inside, into another dark room. I don't know what this room is for, and there is not even a single light. There is still a faint light in the alley outside, but here you can't see your fingers, and there may be no windows.

Zhu Gaoxu fumbled to close the door, then took out the fire fold, carefully blew it on, and took a look at the place of the two people, and saw a man staring at him, with a frightened and dazed expression.

"Brother, I saw you off with good wine and food before, and I can be regarded as benevolent and righteous. In the next life, remember, rob and rob, don't kill indiscriminately. The kind of people you kill, the kind of people you can't endure for a lifetime, everyone is a hard-working person, why bother? ”