On the official road outside Luoyang City, a group of guards with bright armor and marching in an orderly manner came towards Luoyang City.

Guarded in the center were two men dressed in black and riding on horses. One of them was wearing a square scarf and looking like he was in his early thirties in civilian clothes, and he arched his hand on the horse and said: "Father-in-law Lu, Luoyang City is not far ahead, and the official is on official business, so I can't accompany my father-in-law for the rest of the journey." ”

The eunuch known as Gonggong Lu is not like the eunuchs in later TV dramas, with a weird voice, and he likes to pinch an orchid finger when he has nothing to do. This Gonggong Lu has starry eyebrows and sword eyes, and his appearance is dignified, but his white face is less bearded and a little less majestic.

"That's right, Lord Ma guards the mansion, for the honor of the Luoyang mansion, go into the city quickly. Let's rush to Fengyang, so let's leave it at that. ”

"This way I have been taken care of by my father-in-law, Shiying has benefited a lot, and if I have the opportunity to enter Beijing again in the future, I will go to my father-in-law's mansion to thank you."

In order to avenge Wu Xifeng, Zhu Yousong escorted Meng Taidong to the capital and handed it over to Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian went further, and even his uncle Luoyang prefect was cleaned up by the way. This Ma Shiying is the replacement of Meng Kangyu, the new prefect of Luoyang. On the way to take office, he just caught up with Lu Jiude, the great eunuch who went out of Beijing to supervise the army, and the two walked along the way.

Lu Jiude glanced at Luoyang City from afar on the horse, feeling a little sad in his heart. He entered the palace when he was young, and he served Zhu Changxun, the blessed king who was still the prince at the time, and this service was more than 20 years. Although Zhu Changxun didn't treat him well, Princess Zou treated him very well, and now I heard that the Fu Wangfu Mansion was on fire, and I don't know how the princess is.

The two were about to turn around and go their separate ways, when they saw a group of people coming in the distance. The world has been peaceful for a long time, and the two of them do not suspect him, but they are not panicked, but they just look at it curiously. I don't know who travels, there is such a battle.

Lu Jiude expected such a battle, but he was afraid that the Henan Mansion, which had the highest official position here, would go out of the city to welcome the new prefect. However, this Wang Yinchang has not been a feudal official for a long time, and his behavior is too disproportionate, even if such a battle is a provincial participation in politics, it is a bit overstepping. However, he has been in the palace since he was a child, and he is cautious and does not like to offend people easily. Although he was a little unhappy in his heart, he said: "Lord Ma, it must be the hundred officials of Luoyang who went out of the city to greet him, it seems that Lord Ma has a lot of prestige in Shilin." ”

Ma Shiying was also confused, he was not from the Donglin Party, and the officials in Luoyang would not have greeted each other with such fanfare. However, with such treatment, Ma Shiying couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and said modestly: "The lower officials have no prestige, it's just that these colleagues are promoted." ”

As a eunuch, Lu Jiude did not want to meet with the officials in Luoyang, and he had to turn his horse's head as soon as he confessed. At this time, a horse galloped in, a soldier who looked like a guard

On the horse, he clasped his fists and shouted: "It's Lu Jiude's father-in-law who came?" ”

Lu Jiude looked puzzled and said, "Our family Lu Jiude, who are you?" ”

Immediately, the man said with a smile: "We are the palace guards, and the prince Fu learned that Lu Gong Highway passed Luoyang, so he specially went out of the city to greet him, and invited Lu Gong Gong to enter the city." The prince was behind him, and he came to inform his father-in-law under the special standard. ”

Knowing that it was King Xiaofu, Lu Jiude and Ma Shiying were taken aback, Lu Jiude's heart was even warmer, his eyes were thick, and he said: "Our palace is just an old slave, how dare you bother the prince to go out of the city in person, where is the prince?" Let's go and say goodbye. ”

Ma Shiying was secretly surprised, and thought in his heart, they all said that the old Fu King Zhu Changxun was mean and unkind, but he didn't expect the little Fu King to miss the old like this. Lu Jiude was just a eunuch who took care of him when he was a child, and it was already a great grace to send someone into the city to see him, but he didn't expect to go out of the city to greet him in person.

As the new prefect, according to the rules, he had to go to the Fuwang Mansion to meet the vassal king of Luoyang, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he also followed Lu Jiude and the palace guards.

Zhu Yousong was in the carriage, and when he heard the report from the guards, Lu Jiude came and also walked out of the carriage. This Lu Jiude is not simple, Zhu Yousong, who is familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, knows that it is this eunuch, and in the future, the governor of Jiangbei and the four towns of Jiangbei will be controlled by him. And according to the memory of this life, this Lu Jiude is indeed very good to the prince of Fuwang when he was a child. At that time, Zhu Changxun's main princess was still Yao, and Zou was just a side concubine. Zhu Yousong was born to the Zou family, and the Zou family was very good to Lu Jiude, so this eunuch loved the house and Wu, and took care of the Zou son with all his heart. Later, Yao's family fell ill and died, and Zou's mother became the princess of the main family.

Lu Jiude looked at Zhu Yousong, the ignorant child of the year has grown into a handsome offspring, and his appearance still has the shadow of the past. Now that he is a prince, do you remember one of the slaves who took care of him when he was a child?

Zhu Yousong remembered Lu Jiude's appearance, he had lived in the palace in the capital for a long time, and he had not suffered from wind and frost, and he had not changed much over the years. smiled and asked, "Does Uncle Xiao De still recognize me?" ”

Lu Jiude was reminded of his little Uncle De, when he was still a little eunuch who had just entered the palace, they all called him Xiao Dezi, only the emperor's grandson Zhu Yousong called him Uncle Xiao De when there was no one behind him because he was close to him. Lu Jiude got off the horse, moved in his heart, and cried: "If the prince wants to see the old slave, as long as he sends someone to summon him, he will torture the old slave like this." ”

Zhu Yousong stepped forward to help him up and said: "Uncle Xiaode watched me grow up, I don't know how much worry he has worried about me, what is it to go out of the city, walk, since he is here, he will stay in the palace for a few more days." My mother told me before leaving today that you must take you back, otherwise she will not be able to spare me. ”

"Does the princess remember the old slave?" Lu Jiude has been in the palace for 20 years and has seen too much of the hot and cold world. Now this Fu Wangfu doesn't need to be himself, but he treats each other like this, he can't speak, and he only feels full of warmth in his heart.

"Who is this?" Zhu Yousong noticed Ma Shiying following behind Lu Jiude, and looked at his bearing and dressed, not like Lu Jiude's subordinate.

"Xiaguan's new Luoyang prefect Ma Shiying has seen the prince."

"You're Ma Shiying?" Zhu Yousong was shocked, this is Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the original Nanming? Although this person was framed by the Donglin Party and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he had a bad reputation, but when Qian Qianyi opened the door and knelt down to the Qing Dynasty, he went south to Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places in Zhejiang, and finally entered Taihu Lake to join the army of Changxingbo Wu Risheng to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty, and was later defeated and killed in Taihu Lake.

Qinggou hated him very much, peeled the skin and filled the grass, which was extremely miserable, but he was called Qin Hui of Nanming by Donglin, and he was extremely insulted and slandered.

Zhu Yousong still praised this person in his heart, if Nanming had more such hard-working "Qin Hui", and a little less sharp-toothed Donglin mouth cannon, maybe there would be no later disaster.