As soon as Zhu Houzhao returned to Cining Palace, he first went to the Empress Dowager Zhang's place.

Empress Dowager Zhang is not yet thirty-five years old, but perhaps because of the recent death of Emperor Hongzhi, she doesn't apply much fat powder, and there are still tears in the corners of her eyes.

"Queen Mother!"

Zhu Houzhao shouted with a smile when he came in, and now that he has been with the Empress Dowager Zhang for a long time, he didn't feel embarrassed to call her the queen mother, and naturally sat next to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

And Empress Dowager Zhang will only smile when Zhu Houzhao appears, and she always habitually holds Zhu Houzhao in her arms:

"Where are you going again, don't go out to play blindly, be careful of the lights outside, now you have a few meals a day, your father is gone, but you have to be obedient, no one will cover you now."

Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help but choke every time she said this: "The mourning family dreamed of your father and the emperor again last night, he was still in the Qianqing Palace to see the folds, he has always been weak, and the mourning family will personally boil a bowl of white fungus soup for him at night, and when the mourning family sent it last night, he was still smiling at the mourning family." ”

Zhu Houzhao is particularly touched at this time, he understands the mood of the Empress Dowager Zhang very well, and also knows the pain of losing his loved ones, but he doesn't know how to comfort the Empress Dowager Zhang, and even he is not used to being affectionately held in his arms by the Empress Dowager Zhang, so he only pushed away the Empress Dowager Zhang's hand and sat up:

"Queen mother, don't be sad, although the father is old, there are still children, the children will take care of you, and the children will give you the honorific title, so that you can enjoy the rest of your life in peace, and let the children accompany you every day in the future."

Whenever Zhu Houzhao said it at this time, he would think of the history that Empress Zhang would face the death of her only son in the sixteenth year, so he was even more afraid that he would die as early as Zhu Houzhao in the original history at this time.

Empress Dowager Zhang was also very relieved because Zhu Houzhao said this, and said with a smile: "The mourning family has no other requirements, and I don't want you to be a good emperor, as long as you are safe and happy, your father is too much for the people, and in the end he didn't get anything." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang seems to have very developed tear ducts, or maybe the death of Emperor Hongzhi hit her too hard, and she became sad again as she spoke.

Zhu Houzhao was also more curious about the death of Emperor Hongzhi because Empress Dowager Zhang was so sad, and couldn't help asking: "Queen Mother, there is no hidden illness in front of my father, why did he die and leave after a moment of heat, and the child has always been puzzled by this." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang only changed her face suddenly: "You just need to remember that your father died of illness, why bother to ask again, this is good for you!" You know? Don't ask too much outside, don't let people check blindly, don't make things out of nothing. ”

Zhu Houzhao could only nod yes, but because of this, he was even more suspicious in his heart, thinking that he hadn't said that he was going to investigate, and his mother had warned him first, could it be that his mother really knew what was hidden.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he couldn't ask from the mouth of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and now he didn't show too obvious interest in the death of Emperor Hongzhi, so he didn't ask any more, but still talked to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Because it was a day of fasting, in the evening, Zhu Houzhao and Empress Dowager Zhang simply ate vegetarian food together.

Zhu Houzhao also relied on the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Exposition to make a lot of money during this time, not only to improve the treatment of the people around him, but also to improve the treatment of himself, each meal is not small five or six exquisite side dishes, now, Zhu Houzhao eats vegetarian food and pours for a while can not get off the chopsticks, not to mention dinner.

The Empress Dowager Zhang seemed to see that Zhu Houzhao was difficult to swallow, so she said: "My son, no matter how insistent it is, it will only be about twenty-seven days, and it is nothing that the mourning family and your father ate these every day, your father was still worse than this when he was a child, he couldn't eat enough a few times a day, and he ate better after following your imperial grandmother, but he didn't dare to eat more to prevent Wan Guifei from being poisoned, and you were happier." ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed when he saw Empress Dowager Zhang talking and talking, thinking that this Empress Zhang and Emperor Hongzhi were really in love, and they could even think of him after eating a fast, and the happy smile on his face could not be concealed, and even the trace of loneliness that flashed after finishing speaking was even more touching.

"The mourning family also hopes that you can be happy like this forever, and the mourning family is only you."

Empress Dowager Zhang's sudden words made Zhu Houzhao almost not cry, Rao is he is also a man, and can't help but think that the historical Empress Zhang finally faced the end of her husband and son leaving one after another, and was bullied by Emperor Jiajing in her later years and died of desolation.

"It's okay, eating with the queen mother is even eating bran vegetables, which is sweeter than eating delicacies from the mountains and seas!"

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and then said: "Queen Mother, after the funeral of my father, my son will ask the Ministry of Rites to give you the honorific title, so that you can be the most respected person in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Empress Dowager Zhang just smiled: "I am much more sensible than before, but unfortunately your father can't see it!" ”

At this time, there were eunuchs from outside to report that the Marquis of Shouning and the Marquis of Jianchang had come to ask for an audience.

Empress Dowager Zhang was overjoyed when she heard this, and her mood was much better: "The younger brothers are here, let them come in." ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that this Shouning Marquis was Zhang Heling, and Jianchang Marquis was Zhang Yanling, both of whom were the younger brothers of Empress Dowager Zhang, and they could be regarded as his uncles.

According to Zhu Houzhao's impression of these two people, his two uncles are two living treasures.

But after all, it is Empress Zhang's mother's family and his current uncle, and Zhu Houzhao has never thought about what to do with them.

For a while, Zhu Houzhao saw Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, and Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang, walking in.

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were both busy Zhu Houzhao and the Empress Dowager Zhang saluted, and then stood aside with a smirk, among which Zhang Heling greeted first: "The Empress Dowager and Your Majesty should not be too sad recently, and they should also pay attention to their bodies." ”

"That is, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty don't be sad, don't be sad!" Zhang Yanling echoed from the side.

Empress Dowager Zhang saw that her two younger brothers did not have the posture of being a marquis, and sighed helplessly for a while: "If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, what are you doing in the palace today?" ”

When Empress Dowager Zhang asked, Zhang Yanling smiled and pushed Zhang Heling first, meaning to let Zhang Heling speak first.

Zhang Heling pushed Zhang Yanling and asked Zhang Yanling to speak first.

The two prevaricated for a long time, and finally Zhang Heling stood up first: "It's not for anything else, it's just that the Queen Mother, you know, our two brothers now have their own mansions, but there are no decent treasures to decorate, I heard that Your Majesty went outside that day." ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't want Empress Dowager Zhang to know that she was holding a royal fair outside, so she coughed and said, "Two uncles, if you have anything to say, you don't have to go so far." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling knew that Zhu Houzhao didn't want them to tell them about Zhu Houzhao's opening of the Royal Exposition outside, so Zhang Heling smiled and said: "Yes, what Your Majesty said is, then Weichen said bluntly, Weichen wants to ask the Queen Mother to borrow a few royal treasures to go back and swing them, just those glass screens, glass beads, glass bowls or something." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang was a little stunned when she saw this, she has always doted on her two younger brothers, basically this Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling and Jianchang Marquis Zhang Yanling came to give whatever they wanted, but now she didn't understand a little, and only said: "There is no glass here in the mourning family." ”

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were a little disappointed when they saw Empress Dowager Zhang say this.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao laughed and said to Empress Dowager Zhang:

"I understand what the two uncles mean, you don't have it here, you don't have it here, I have it there, speaking of which, I asked Liu Jin and them to find a few skilled craftsmen to make it when I was in the East Palace, but I have already given it away, if the two uncles want it, they will buy it from me, anyway, I will lose my identity if I come forward to do business directly;

I will give you a bargain price, how about 10,000 taels of glass treasures, these things are worth 20,000 or even 40,000 taels of silver outside, and the two uncles can still make money by selling them, even several times the huge profit! ”