Mei Yuning smiled bitterly and asked Ji Yan, do you know what her relationship is with the current emperor Zhu Di, this is a bit difficult to Ji Yan.

Ji Yan muttered in his heart, what is their relationship? Is it an enemy relationship? It doesn't look like it, if she is an enemy, she is so good at kung fu, what is she doing when she goes to sea all the way, shouldn't she lurk into the palace, be a palace maid or concubine, take advantage of the emperor's defense, and then assassinate the emperor?

So she should not be an enemy with the emperor, definitely not.

Could it be a lover?

This shouldn't be either, Zhu Di was busy with the Battle of Jingyan a few years ago, and it is estimated that he has been busy stabilizing his newly acquired throne in the past two years, and it is not Qianlong, and there is also kung fu to meet a Xia Yuhe on the shore of Daming Lake or something.

Ji Yan suddenly thought that she was familiar with all kinds of knowledge and culture, which was not something that ordinary people could do, especially for a girl.

Therefore, his voice was soft, and he asked tentatively: "You and the emperor...... Be...... Kinship? ”

Mei Yuning nodded lightly, still smiling bitterly, and said, "If we just grew up in an ordinary big family, then I should call him uncle." My mother is the princess of Ningguo. ”

Mei Yuning didn't continue after finishing speaking, and looked at Ji Yan silently, probably waiting for Ji Yan's reaction after hearing the news.

However, Ji Yan didn't react, he didn't know who Princess Ning Guo was, but judging from the fact that the emperor was Mei Yuning's uncle, then Mei Yuning's mother was Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter, and her father should be a concubine.

Ji Yanwei clarified their relationship and replied, "So you are the daughter of the princess and the concubine?" ”

Mei Yuning nodded again, but she was also a little dissatisfied, and said angrily: "You thought of this? I said that my mother was the princess of Ningguo, and my father was Mei Yin. ”

Belch...... Ji Yan really didn't know what expression to use to face at this time, because he really didn't know what the princess and the colt had done, so he could only pretend to be pensive and said meaningfully: "Hmm...... Over the past few years, you have worked hard. ”

Ji Yan was actually pure guessing, seeing Mei Yuning describing his kinship with the emperor with a wry smile, and the need for a woman to disguise herself as a man to go to sea, so he judged that there must be something unspeakable about their family.

Otherwise, the devil would have let the princess's daughter run out and suffer this sin.

Mei Yuning saw that Ji Yan didn't say anything for a long time, sighed, and said: "Alas, I don't understand how you are going through the errand of the division, don't you deal with paperwork every day, why don't you even know this?" ”

Ji Yan hurriedly found a step for himself, and said: "I am a translator, my main business is translation, generally I mainly deal with the literature and newspapers of our Ming vassal states, and I don't know much about the affairs in the court." ”

Mei Yuning was skeptical, but she was in no mood to continue to pursue it at the moment, maybe these secrets had been piled up in her heart for too long, which made her feel tired, and she hoped to find someone to talk to.

She looked to the side, her eyes blank and her gaze wandering, as if trying to find a point in her memory, a starting point for all the stories that had been written about her.

After a while, she seemed to have finally found it.

I only heard her say slowly: "My mother is the daughter of Emperor Taizu and Empress Ma, Princess Ningguo, Zhu Changning, my father is Rong Guogong, Captain of the Horse, and the nephew of Marquis Mei Sizu of Runan, Mei Yin. ”

"My parents are a match made in heaven by Emperor Taizu, and after marriage, my parents are also very affectionate, it can be said that they are harmonious, Luanfeng and Ming. I was born in Hongwu for 20 years, and I have two older brothers. When I was little, we were a family. One year seems to be when I was five years old, I still remember that my father and mother also took me to the East Palace, saying that this is Brother Yunwen, who is now the crown prince and will be the emperor in the future. ”

"Later, Emperor Taizu asked my father to go to Shandong to be an official, to be the national government and manage the country, my mother was a princess and it was inconvenient to go to Shandong, and the two elder brothers were studying in Guozijian, so my father took me to Shandong to take up my post, and let me dress up as a boy and study and go to school in Shandong."

Mei Yuning said this, her tone was soft, and she smiled, obviously these were some memories that made her happy.

"After that, Brother Yunwen became the emperor and asked his father to go to Huai'an to govern the army, and I also accompanied the army, pretending to be my father's pro-army, and took care of my father by the way."

"In Huai'an, one day my father told me that he said that my uncle Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had rebelled, I really didn't understand, but it didn't take long for the news to spread in the barracks that the capital was captured by the army of the king of Yan."

Zhu Di forced his mother and poked her fingers to write a blood letter to his father. I remember that day, my father received my mother's blood letter, and I knelt on the ground holding the blood book and cried, I asked my father, what are you going to do? He didn't answer me, he just cried. ”

Mei Yuning said this, her eyes were also moist, and there were tears in her eyes but they didn't flow, obviously remembering her father's extremely sad scene that day

"My father dried all his tears, and he asked the messenger who sent the blood book, where is the emperor (Emperor Jianwen)?"

The envoy was a servant at his mother's side, and he was out of breath crying. He said, don't be sad, don't be sad, the emperor is dead. ”

"I remember that my father shouted at the time, and he fainted, I hurried over to see him, he was a little short of breath, and said that he wanted to treat the emperor's funeral, otherwise he would be ashamed of the emperor's entrustment."

Speaking of this, Mei Yuning paused, and at this time, outside the cabin, the wind swept into the tsunami, a gust of wind struck, and the entire Fu ship was violently tossed again.

Ji Yan saw that Mei Yuning didn't sit too firmly, so he reached out and grabbed Mei Yuning's arm.

Mei Yuning did not resist or refuse, she looked at Ji Yan, sorted out her emotions, took a long breath, and returned to a light smile on her face, only to hear her continue:

"Later, when my father and I returned to the capital, Zhu Di went to greet him, and he pretended to greet his father, saying that you have worked hard. His father didn't look at him squarely, saying that he had worked for nothing, and he could only be ashamed! ”

I watched Zhu Di glaring at my father fiercely, the corners of his mouth twitched, he didn't speak again, and left directly.

"Later, one day my father found me, and he quietly asked me, Ning'er, would you like to see your brother Yunwen again?"

"I was surprised and asked my father, isn't the emperor already dead?"

"Father shook his head and said, that day, King Yan broke the city, the palace was on fire, your brother Yunwen was actually just missing, and King Yan went around telling people that the emperor was dead in order to ascend the throne in a hurry."

"I then asked my father, where did the emperor go?"

"Father said that now everyone is rumored that the emperor has gone to the West, and my father went on to say that he also heard that Zhu Di was going to send his right-hand man Ma He to the sea to search for the emperor."

"I naturally volunteered, saying that I couldn't let Zhu Di take the lead, so I asked my father to arrange the original subordinates, and I was assigned to the Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi, and participated in Ma He as a school captain, oh, by the way, now he has been given the surname by the emperor, called Zheng He. Participated in Zheng He's fleet. ”

Speaking of this, Mei Yuning shook her head with a wry smile and continued:

"But I didn't expect that the first time I went to sea was to the Ryukyus and Japan, and I thought it would be a good trip to the West, but for some reason, it became an envoy to Japan."

"The first time I saw you that day outside the Xishan Mountains in Ningbo, I was in a hurry to see my father's messenger, and I needed to know if I wanted to go to Japan. So when I saw you, I was a little flustered, but I was actually very scared at the time, afraid that you would break my secret. ”

Ji Yanxin said: You and I are really each other!

He looked at Mei Yuning blankly, at this moment under the moonlight, Mei Yuning's already fair face appeared clearer, even a little pale, Ji Yan couldn't help but be a little stupid.

Mei Yuning continued: "My name, Mei Yuning, although the word in the middle is taken from the word rain of rain, in fact, the original meaning is the homonym of "you and me". ”

When Ji Yan heard this, he couldn't help but praise: "It's really a good name, it sounds good, and the meaning is excellent."

Mei Yuning nodded and said:

"I've told my secret, now it's your turn, what's your secret? Who are you? Why do you want to record adult? ”

Ji Yan thought for a while, crossed his hands, made a pause gesture, and said, "Stop first, can I ask another question first?" ”

Mei Yuning was a little surprised and asked, "What's the problem?" ”

Ji Yan looked at Mei Yuning with a serious expression and asked, "Can you tell us about your mate selection criteria first?" ”

When Mei Yuning heard this question, she couldn't cry or laugh, and she asked rhetorically, "You just want to ask this?" Is this important? ”

Ji Yan replied eagerly: "Important! It doesn't get much more important than that! ”

Mei Yuning pondered for a moment, as if she was a little shy, she didn't look at Ji Yan head-on, turned her head to the side and replied softly, "Just ...... Let's just fall in love. ”

Ji Yan was full of suspicion and asked puzzledly: "Round head?" What is this standard? Isn't it okay to be square? ”

Mei Yuning didn't know whether to be angry or laugh, her face was gloomy, but the corners of her mouth were smiling, and she said to Ji Yan: "Can you be normal?" ”

Ji Yan said with a smile: "I am the most normal today, and what is abnormal is the previous me." ”

Mei Yuning shook off Ji Yan's hand on her arm violently, looking a little angry.

Ji Yan immediately put away his smile and said with a solemn expression:

"Don't laugh, it's the current situation, I'll be honest with you."

He paused, his eyes widened, stared at Mei Yuning, and said word by word:

"Truth be told, I'm here after a few hundred years."