"Xiongying is intelligent, he is quite courageous at a young age, and he is the eldest grandson, there is nothing wrong with me making him the grandson, if you don't like me, you don't overstep the line." Lao Zhu is in a good mood, and his tone is also rare and kind.

Zhu Biao replied: "Xiongying is the eldest son of Erchen, and he is the eldest grandson of His Majesty, and there is nothing wrong with His Majesty wanting to make him the grandson." ”

Lao Zhu frowned and asked, "Didn't you ask me to talk about this?" What is that to say? ”

He seemed a little displeased, turned around and entered the small pavilion next to him and sat down on the stone bench, Zhu Biao followed in, lifted his robe and knelt in front of Lao Zhu, "Erchen wants to ask Your Majesty, which noble will be unlucky next?" ”

Sure enough, this happened again, Lao Zhu couldn't see anger on his face, and only said: "Last night, I already let Bao'er go home for the New Year." ”

"What the sons want to say is not a private matter but the government, Your Majesty rules the world with officials, how can the world be safe if the officials are uneasy?"

Old Zhu was silent and looked around, and finally stopped on a clump of withered moon flowers and instructed the eunuch: "Break a moon branch for me." ”

The eunuch Xiao Huang hurriedly listened to the order and went to the side of the flower bed, just after the New Year, the flower branches have not returned to green, and the flower branches are also simple, but the barbs on the flower branches are sharp and hard at this time, Xiao Huang held the flower branches in front of Lao Zhu's eyes, and his hands were already stained with blood.

"Throw it on the ground!" Lao Zhu pointed with his chin, and Xiao Huang put the branch in front of Zhu Biao.

"This flower branch is the Ming Dynasty that I left to you, and my son may hold it steady?"

Is this flower branch the Ming Dynasty? Zhu Biao didn't know what Lao Zhu meant, looked at the flower branches full of spikes on the ground, stretched out two fingers to pinch the thorns at the end of the flower branches, and picked up the flower branches, "Erchen picked it up!" ”

Lao Zhu suddenly bowed down and pinched the other end, and with a little force, the branch had already fallen into Lao Zhu's hand, and Lao Zhu threw the flower branch on the ground, "You have lost the Daming Jiangshan I gave you." ”

"Go find a knife!" Lao Zhu gave an order and looked at his son with a smile.

Zhu Biao slowly lowered his head and was silent, he immediately understood what Lao Zhu meant, if the flower branch is compared to the Ming Dynasty, some people are the flowers and leaves on the flower branch can add color to the Ming Dynasty, and some people are the thorns on the flower branches, which will only add trouble to his governance.

Lao Zhu asked people to get knives to remove these thorns and give him a perfect country, what my uncle said was right, my father killed people for me, he was moved and guilty in his heart, and even at this moment he was a little disgusted with himself.

Bang Bang Bang ...... It was Xiao Huang's footsteps, presumably he came back with a knife, for a while Zhu Biao didn't know how to refute, did he really want to be persuaded like this?

"Your Majesty, the knife is here!" Xiao Huang held the knife in front of Lao Zhu, which was the standard weapon of the palace guards.

Lao Zhu took the knife and was about to ask Xiao Huang to hand him the flower branch, but Zhu Biao suddenly moved, picked up the flower branch on the ground, and his white and tender palm faced the sharp spike and held it tightly, Zhu Biao snorted, obviously it hurt badly.

But he didn't mean to let go, but continued to shake it until it became a fist, and the blood moistened the dry branches, and they dripped to the ground.

"Prince! Let go! Prince! Xiao Huang screamed, and his sharp voice almost punctured people's eardrums.

Lao Zhu was also stunned, the eldest son was a gentle, friendly, kind and elegant person in his eyes, some time ago he jumped into the pond in order to intercede for Song Lian, this is already the most extreme move of Zhu Biao since he was born, he really can't believe that the bloody person holding the wattle in front of him is actually his eldest son.

Lao Zhu kicked Xiao Huang's buttocks, "What are you screaming for, why don't you go to the imperial doctor quickly!" He looked at Zhu Biao again, and said with some distress in his eyes: "Idiot, why are you so troubled?" Don't let go yet! ”

Zhu Biao raised his head with hazy tears in his eyes, and cried: "It is the son's weakness and incompetence that makes his father work hard for the state affairs every day, and even more so that the son-in-law can smoothly rule the world in the future, and he does not hesitate to kill the heroes and bear the stigma, and it is the son's unfilial piety." ”

Lao Zhu's face wrinkled, "What do I have to do with killing people!" He emphasized this to Zhu Biao more than once, but if he did, the more powerless he became.

Zhu Biao continued: "There is no perfect person in this world, and where is the perfect courtier. Even if all these thorns are shaved, new thorns will surely grow in the spring, and in the autumn and winter they will still become sharp and hard, just like the blood that can pierce a person's hand.

Erchen remembered that His Majesty had taught children to avoid their shortcomings and use their strengths, and in fact, the barbs of this flower branch were the same. Although they are pierced into the flesh of the retainers and make bloody, but they are also integrated with my flesh and blood, if someone comes to snatch the child's flower branches, the child can only desperately hold on to the flower branches and not let the flower branches get out of his hands, otherwise the whole palm will be bloody and even wasted.

Please take it again, and see if your son will get rid of it! ”

Zhu Biao said and handed the flower branch to Lao Zhu's body, with a resolute and persistent expression in his eyes, which Lao Zhu had never felt in his eldest son.

Lao Zhu didn't take the flower branch in Zhu Biao's hand, and after being stunned for a while, he suddenly smiled: "Haha...... I don't want to verify what you say, I just know that my son is already a real man, and I underestimated you in the past, and I know what you said, so I don't hurry up and throw it away! ”

"Yes!" Only then did Zhu Biao get up and slowly let go of his hand, but there were still thorns embedded in his palm.

It just so happened that Xu Daliang followed the eunuch trotting over, and treated Zhu Biao's injury after seeing the old Zhu father and son, he cleaned the thorns with tweezers, and said while applying the medicine: "The injury is not serious, the thorns in it have been cleaned up by His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness must not eat hair recently, and it will be able to scar in four or five days." Recently, Weichen has prepared a kind of women's mark removal cream, which can smooth out the scar, and will send it to His Royal Highness when he turns around, so that His Royal Highness's hands will be as warm as ever. ”

"Nonsense, my son is a real man, he will use women's messy things, and what is it if a man's husband has a scar on his body. Biao'er, is what I said right or not? ”

Knowing that his father was ridiculing him, Zhu Biao said a little shyly: "Yes, what my father said is very right!" ”

Xu Daliang was confused, he was scolded for doing his duty, and he was really doing more wrong, the emperor has recently gone on a killing spree, so it's better to talk less, and just bow his head and bandage Zhu Biao.

A eunuch hurriedly came over and said a few words to Xiao Huang, and Xiao Huang said to Lao Zhu again: "The emperor just sent someone from the academy to tell you that Young Master Zhu died last night. ”

The father and son both sighed when they heard this, and Lao Zhu said: "I have been rewarded before, so I will no longer posthumously seal it, and I will drop out of the day to show my condolences." The prince went to mourn on my behalf, and then gave Zhu Yunsheng some property for his funeral. ”

"Erchen will do it here!" Zhu Biao got up and gave up.

Seeing that Zhu Biao was far away, Lao Zhu instructed Xiao Huang again: "Let the prince's actions today be passed on to Jinyiwei." ”