Before the time came, Zhu Biao had already gotten up early, washed and dressed, and went directly to his study. It's not to come to work, but to incense the queen horse.

In the past, he only went to the temple on the first and fifteenth day of each month to offer incense to the deceased queen of horses. However, an incident happened a few years ago, and I have today's habits.

After the funeral of the queen of the horse, the grief in Zhu Biao's heart was difficult to calm for a long time, and he had nowhere to talk about his poor relationship with Chang, and he couldn't help but think of the more empathetic Lu family.

Although the Lu family is in the cold palace, but the prince personally takes care of the life, it is naturally not bad, the Lu family's appearance has not diminished, and the body has not been blessed, and the character is more and more gentle and obedient.

If Zhu Biao is the emperor, there is naturally no problem, but now it is Lao Zhu who is the emperor, and things are very big. The drunken old Zhu was furious, picked up the whip and pumped, seeing that the more violent Lao Tzu moved the real guy, Zhu Biao did not stupidly kneel on the ground and be beaten and run away.

In the raging storm, the father and son ran away with their lives and chased each other, Rao is Zhu Biao's young legs and feet are not as good as the old Zhu Mali who started immediately, and was chased by Lao Zhu for a while, just thinking that he was about to be killed, Lao Zhu suddenly stopped, holding the jade pendant of the yin and yang fish on his chest and crying.

The jade pendant was handed over to Zhu Biao when the queen was funeral, and he was placed in the coffin to be buried with the queen horse, when he was too sad and forgot for a while, and then remembered that the coffin had been nailed to death, he did not give Ma Du to stay by his side to make a thought, and never thought that he would save his life today.

Although he escaped with his life under the old Zhu whip, Zhu Biao fell ill all of a sudden after being frightened, and the high fever did not go away and became pneumonia, and the imperial doctors were helpless. After sobering up, Lao Zhu regretted it, vowed to quit drinking again, and cut two incompetent imperial doctors to shock Zhu Biao.

Of course, this method is not very easy to make, thanks to the fact that Ma Du and Zhu were purifying penicillin at that time, but it was not yet tested on humans at that time, but under Lao Zhu's obscenity, he had to use Zhu Biao as a guinea pig, God blessed Zhu Biao without penicillin allergy, so he came back to life.

Walking in front of the gate of the palace of the king of Hades, Zhu Biao's temperament has also changed greatly, especially the attitude towards Lao Zhu has changed from respect to awe in an instant, he truly understands that ordinary courtiers tremble in the face of Lao Zhu as if walking on thin ice, and every morning he has to give the horse a stick of incense, begging her to protect himself in the spirit of heaven to spend this day safely.

After praying in his heart, Zhu marked out the study and faintly heard a faint sound of shouting from the corner of the East Palace, it must be Zhu Xiongying practicing martial arts again.

For this son Zhu Biao's heart is very complicated, it's not that Zhu Xiongying is not good enough, on the contrary, he is too good.

Zhu Xiongying, who is now in his early twenties, is not only proficient in the subset of classics and history, but also has a strong martial arts, holding a nunchuck that can make dozens of soldiers unable to get close, and he also learned a good marksmanship from Ma Du.

What's even more rare is that he is extremely favored by Lao Zhu, and Lao Zhu loves Zhu Xiongying to what extent, which can be seen from the imperial concubine that Lao Zhu personally chose for him.

It's not that this imperial concubine has amazing beauty and talent, and she doesn't have any prominent family background, but she is just the daughter of Guanglu Siqing, but this Guanglu Siqing named Ma Quan is from Suzhou.

surnamed Ma and Suzhou, this is not just a coincidence, even if this imperial concubine is not the queen of Ma's mother's family, it can't help but arouse reverie.

Zhu Biao once asked Ma Du about this, and Ma Du told him with a smile, "This is the emperor's plan for immortality." He suddenly woke up Lao Zhu and doted on Zhu Xiongying, not just because Zhu Xiongying looked like Lao Zhu or because he was both civil and military, but regarded Zhu Xiongying as a continuation of his life, and simply another self.

Therefore, Zhu Xiongying can talk and laugh with Lao Zhu no matter how big or small, drink and sing with him, and even since two years ago, Lao Zhu has allowed Zhu Xiongying to gather power in the DPRK.

Now under Zhu Xiongying's command, there is a group of people led by Chen Ying, the imperial history of the capital, and their strength is directly chasing him as the prince, so that his political opinions often need the support of his son to pass in the court.

I believe that it won't be long before Zhu Xiongying's influence in the court will overshadow him, the first heir, because Zhu Xiongying's subordinates not only have the old Zhu but not the leniency, but also the generosity that Zhu Biao does not have.

Zhu Xiongying has always been generous to his subordinates, and often intercedes for the punished courtiers, but the old Zhu still gives him face, and now everyone in the officialdom knows that the emperor's grandson is the best place to go.

Zhu Biao often smiled bitterly at this, and if he continued like this, he would probably only be able to become the emperor directly, unless his father would collapse within a year or two.

If this son is really tolerant and generous, what he is most afraid of is that he is wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, at the beginning of this year, an official asked for Zhu Yun to be crowned a prince, and Lao Zhu was very happy to approve it.

can see that the title is King Huai's fief is Yangzhou, Zhu Biao knows that Zhu Xiongying is a ghost, and his brothers are not qualified to be crowned kings around Gyeonggi, and his son is even less qualified. Yangzhou seems to be a place full of fireworks, but it is close to Yingtian, but if there is a little noise, it will be wiped out immediately.

Zhu Biao is afraid, not afraid that he will become the emperor one day, but because he is afraid that the Zhu Ming royal family will follow in the footsteps of the Li Tang royal family.

"Your Highness stays." Just about to arrive at the Jinshen Palace, Xiao Huang stepped forward to stop, "Your Highness stays, the emperor said that today is not early." ”

Zhu Biao's eyebrows furrowed, "Why?" Could it be that my father is unwell? ”

Xiao Huang said softly: "That's not it, last night the emperor received a secret performance from Jinyiwei, saying that it was His Royal Highness King Tan and Princess Tan**, and the emperor didn't close his eyes all night and had no intention of going to court early." ”

Zhu Biao was taken aback, "Why is the eighth child so good!" ”

Xiao Huang shook his head and said: "Where do the slaves and maids know this, in short, the emperor has instructed that today will not be early, His Royal Highness should go back to the East Palace first, and the slaves and maids will send the excerpts handed over by the General Administration Department to you." ”

"The old eight new mourners are sad for their father, and they are going to visit their father, you get out of the way!" Zhu Biao kicked Xiao Huang open and pushed the door in.

In the empty apse, only Lao Zhu was lying on the chaise longue, with a pair of red eyes looking at the dim light above his head without blinking, with tears faintly in the corners of his eyes, as if he had just cried.

Zhu Biao stepped forward and bowed: "People can't be resurrected after death, and I ask my father to mourn on his father's day!" ”

Lao Zhu suddenly sat up from the recliner, looked at Zhu Biao and said, "Why?" ”

"The son doesn't know what his father has heard?"

"I'm asking you why you want to **!"

"Father and Emperor Shengming candlelight, if you don't know your son, you don't know."

"Then you think about it for me, I don't understand, I don't understand!" Lao Zhu shook his head, his face full of pain.

Zhu Biao knelt down and looked back at Lao Zhu, "Erchen heard that his father had issued an edict to reprimand the eighth brother some time ago, but is there any?" ”

Lao Zhu raised his eyebrows, "Lao Ba is messing around, I did issue an order to reprimand him and let him come to Beijing to receive the punishment, in fact, I miss him, I want to meet him, by the way, let your uncle show him why he has no heirs, who knows that he ......"

"The eighth brother has been timid since he was a child and misinterpreted the holy will, thinking that his father insisted on disposing of him, so he couldn't think about it!"

Lao Zhu slapped the handrail with his hand and cried: "He's stupid, the tiger doesn't eat his children, even if I punish him, I can cut off his head, he's stupid......"

Zhu Biao said indifferently: "This ...... It's hard to say, there is a precedent for the first eighth brother to be afraid of, and no one knows if the queen mother's heroic spirit will bless him......"

As soon as Lao Zhu raised his head, his sad eyes became as sharp as a knife, and as soon as he raised his foot, he kicked Zhu Biao's chest, "You! Get out of here! ”

Zhu Biao got up from the ground without saying a word, walked out of the Jinshen Hall quickly, stretched out his hand to rub his chest, it hurt a little, but his heart was full of revenge pleasure.

Lao Zhu in the palace lay down again, and suddenly snorted in his nose and sneered: "I am so cruel, I am so scared of my son, hehe......"

The gloomy laughter was amplified in the empty temple, and Xiao Huang at the back door couldn't help but shiver, holding a tea tray and not knowing whether to go in.

Unfortunately, Lao Zhu called him in the hall, "Xiao Huang come in, I have something to tell you!" ”

Xiao Huang took the tea tray again, swallowed and foamed and entered the hall hard, "Since the emperor is not going to court, let's eat some breakfast to pad my stomach first." ”

"I don't have an appetite, you go and find Jinyiwei and Zhi'an Huzi."

Xiao Huang Rumeng hurriedly put down his breakfast, went out of the Jinshen Palace to find An Huzi in person, and after a stick of incense, he took An Huzi, who was a little disheveled, into the Jinshen Palace.

Without waiting for An Huzi to see the ceremony, Lao Zhu directly ordered: "You take someone to copy Yang Shuping's house." ”

An Huzi, who still looked a little worried, immediately bowed down and asked: "Weichen doesn't know what crime Commander Yang has committed, and I ask Your Majesty to make it clear, and Weichen can act conveniently." ”

"I just don't need him anymore, just look at An Yi for the crime, don't let him come out of the edict, you can take his job by yourself."

An Huzi paused again, "Weichen Xie Your Majesty Longen, after taking office, I will do my best to arrest the rebellious lawlessness in order to repay the grace of the saint." ”

Who knew that Lao Zhu waved his hand, "No, after you take office, let the Jinyi guards take care of themselves, as long as you take care of my honor guard." ”

An Huzi raised his head abruptly and looked at Lao Zhu in disbelief, but Lao Zhu only said lightly, "Don't go yet." ”

"Wechen obeys!" An Huzi kowtowed again, and then bowed and retreated.

Lao Zhu also got up from the recliner, "I have been holding back for a night, and I want to relieve myself." ”

Xiao Huang hurriedly instructed his eunuchs to prepare the toilet, and helped Lao Zhu to the back of the curtain in the corner of the apse, but after waiting for a long time, he heard a few dripping sounds from behind the curtain.

"The slave remembered that the master had said that you should first inhale and then exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale and exhale...... Not out yet? The emperor is not in a hurry, the slave maid still has a trick to learn from the master, shhhh

"Shut up!" Suddenly, Lao Zhu shouted loudly, and Xiao Huang flew out upside down on his back.