Thirty thousand taels? 30,000 taels is not enough to return to the capital! Settle accounts, no need for a glass of wine, the military power has been released!

Military power? How can a prince have military power? Training 800 warriors is just to raise soldiers for the Son of Heaven, and now it seems to be a matter of course to completely return the warriors to the Son of Heaven, but the investment of his prince has turned into an indefinite empty check!

That's it, 30,000 taels is a lot of money, don't don't do it in vain! "Thank you for the emperor's reward!"

Out of the Qianqing Palace, it was late at night, and Yue Mansion couldn't go back, so Zhu Qiming could only go to the East Pavilion of Qingning Palace to rest.

"Who's on duty tonight?"

When he called a few times in front of the door of the East Pavilion, he saw the lights in the side room on the side, and after a while, an attendant came out with a lamp in one hand and a sleepy eye rubbed in the other.

"His Royal Highness the King of Yue! For the small ones, see His Royal Highness the King of Yue. ”

What a familiar sound! "Kiko-chan? Why are you here? ”

Under the light, Xiao Xizi's small eyes narrowed into a glimmer of heaven again, "Your Royal Highness is going to stay in the palace courtyard, and the Queen Mother summoned the little one a few days ago and ordered the little one to wait for Her Highness." ”

The door of the East Pavilion opened with a "squeak", and Xiao Xizi let Zhu Qiming into the East Pavilion, and then several lights were lit inside.

Zhu Qiming took off his armor and changed into his regular clothes, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. He hurriedly glanced around the room by the light and saw that the East Pavilion was in order, and the air was mixed with a faint smell of lavender.

Walking up to the familiar bookcase and taking a seat, he subconsciously told him that he was about to return to the world of books he had many years ago, and that although he was no longer a prince, he would eventually become a prince of idleness, or like his father, he would have to get used to passing the time in leisure.

Xiao Xizi came to Zhu Qiming's seat and bowed down, "Your Highness, the Empress Dowager said that His Royal Highness might come to the East Pavilion to rest, and in the morning he ordered someone to come over and clean up carefully, and all the furnishings were replaced with new ones." ”

Zhu Qiming's heart moved. Putting aside the power and intrigue in the palace, just in terms of family affection, the Empress Dowager is still an inextricable grandmother, and she is still worried about her (grandchildren) traveling thousands of miles. In her lifetime, she will undoubtedly become his ultimate caretaker, perhaps, the discomfort he felt in the past in Qingning Palace stems from her other special identity - the most resolute and resolute guardian saint of the Sheji Dynasty!

"Why are you the only one in the palace? Did the Empress Dowager summon someone else from Yuefu? ”

"Go back to Your Highness, listen to the meaning of the Queen Mother, the maidservants and grandmothers have to be selected from the palace. Oh, Gonggong Huang is also going to enter the palace to serve His Royal Highness, he is already the head of the other courtyard and the inner servant. ”

Huang An? Thinking that the Empress Dowager had already retired, and now for the sake of him, the king of Yue, moving to another courtyard, he did not hesitate to drag his old body and personally come forward to take care of some affairs, Zhu Qiming couldn't help but be silent for a long time.

There was a sound of broken footsteps outside the door, and after a while, a grandmother beside the Empress Dowager slowly walked in, glanced at Zhu Qiming, and her eyes suddenly lit up, "Slave maid see His Royal Highness King Yue." It was really said by the old ancestor, His Royal Highness really returned to the East Pavilion, and the old ancestor was still waiting for His Royal Highness in the main hall! ”

Zhu Qiming immediately got up, walked out of the East Pavilion, walked quickly across the road, and broke into the main hall. I saw the Empress Dowager leaning on the back of the chair, her increasingly thin face was wrinkled, her eyes were slightly narrowed, and her mind seemed to be half-asleep and half-awake.

"Qi Ming, the king of Chenyue, knocked on the empress dowager, and the grandson respectfully invited the imperial grandmother Sheng'an!"

The Empress Dowager's eyes suddenly widened, the light in her eyes was much darker than before, and the loose muscles on her face seemed to tremble slightly. "Hurry up! It's good to come back safely, and it's good to come back safely. ”

"At the beginning, the grandson said goodbye without saying goodbye, and the grandmother of the emperor was worried, hoping that the grandmother of the emperor would forgive her sins!"

The Empress Dowager stretched out her hand to grope beside the seat, and the palace maid hurriedly handed the cane to her, and saw the Empress Dowager standing up with a trembling cane, and with the support of the palace maid, she approached Zhu Qiming and looked him up and down.

Another palace maid lit several palace lamps, and the light in the room immediately became brighter, comparable to daylight.

"It is said that you have an extraordinary appearance, like a heroic general, why does the imperial grandmother look at you, the more she looks at you, the more she feels like a scholar?"

General? It's supposed to be a young general, right? Zhu Qiming saw the demeanor of the Empress Dowager, and wanted to find the charm of many years ago, but found that she was slow to react and no longer graceful. "Imperial grandmother, one day my grandson will wear a military uniform for you to take a good look at."

"Uniform? Oh, Grandmother Forget that you returned to Beijing in a silver armor. A good horse with a good saddle all say that you wear silver armor, and that style is no different from the fairy general in the sky! The Empress Dowager squinted at Zhu Qiming's regular clothes, and shook her head gently, "You have grown taller again, this regular clothes are small, it's time to change to a new one." ”

Zhu Qiming stepped forward to help the Empress Dowager to return to the seat, and the Empress Dowager slowly sat down and grabbed Zhu Qiming's hand, "You sit next to the imperial grandmother, and the imperial grandmother can't see it from a distance." ”

The palace maid sent a stool, and Zhu Qiming sat down, his knee almost touching the empress dowager's leg.

The palace maids all retreated, and only the ancestors and grandchildren were left in the room.

"You don't have to go back to Yuefu to live, sooner or later you will have to enter the palace, why do you care about those two or three days of comfort? From tomorrow onwards, you will be admitted to the annex. The Empress Dowager hesitated for a long time, and then continued: "Don't forget to go to Xianxi Palace to say hello first." ”

After thinking about it, you will find that the Empress Dowager's seemingly casual words are hidden in the mystery, and Zhu Qiming couldn't help but think about it after hearing this, "My grandson listens to the emperor's grandmother." ”

The Empress Dowager turned her head slightly, as if she suddenly remembered something important, "You have returned triumphantly, and the glory is to the community, you should treat it with a normal heart." You must remember that the Son of Heaven is right at all times, if you can admonish, you will admonish, if you can't admonish, you will still have to accept the grievances you deserve, you can't be anxious, do your best, and listen to the destiny of heaven. ”

After going through hardships and reading the history books, Zhu Qiming is now more calm in the face of his grievances. Since ancient times, monarchs and ministers have gotten along, and their subordinates can only have one heart, either loyalty or ambition. Ambition is often despised by the world, and loyalty is talked about by the world, but in order to maintain that loyalty, you must be willing to endure all the grievances that may be suffered, otherwise, once the heart is resentful, the so-called loyalty can easily be transformed into ambition.

"My grandson understands."

The Empress Dowager frowned, her eyes closed, as if she was searching for something from her memory. But I saw the breeze stirring the flames, and the candle shadows swaying. As a result, time has become incomparably long, passing slowly in the boundless silence.

I don't know how long it took, the Empress Dowager suddenly opened her eyes, "Well, now it seems that it is really a good thing that Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong faded out of the government, if they don't break the old pattern, how can they get a new atmosphere in the DPRK and China?" How did this success come about? Now the ministers of the court strongly persuade the emperor to get married and pro-government, even Yang Shiqi also has this intention, the emperor has the fact of pro-government, but he is also calm, not as anxious as before. ”

A new atmosphere between North Korea and China? After the old pattern was broken, the imprisoned vitality was only released for a short time, and it was far from anything new. What's more, new troubles are coming one after another, and how the situation will evolve in the future is still worrying, so Zhu Qiming can't find an optimistic reason for himself.

"Imperial grandmother, what about Yang Rong?"

"Oh, you won twice last year, and when the good news came, Yang Rong invited Zhishi, and was tried his best to keep him, and finally took leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors and sweep the tomb, but he died of illness on the way."

Died? Zhu Qiming's heart was hit by some mysterious force, his reason suddenly slipped aside, and his tone suddenly became more perverse, "Hmph, there are always people in this world who die of illness inexplicably, who knows if it is providence or man-made!" ”

The Empress Dowager was shocked, her weak body stepped forward, she was stunned for a long time, and the essence in her eyes that had not been seen for a long time suddenly appeared, "What did you say!" You still can't let go of the injustice of Yuefu and Weifu back then? Could it be that you planned to deal with Er Yang out of personal grudges? Standing up with a cane, the cane was pestle, "Thinking of your youth, the imperial grandmother didn't want to tell you a lot of details about the past, but you were careful and thoughtful, and you hid your grudges so deeply!" Needless to say, your father and the emperor grandmother have always regarded your tenth uncle as her own, how could the imperial grandmother leave their grievances behind a deaf ear? Yes, the imperial grandmother was delirious at that time, but afterwards, the imperial grandmother sent someone to secretly investigate, and it was true that the two of them were wronged and forbidden, but their death was indeed an accident, where did it come from? You have taken those thoughts in the morning, and you must not think about it again! ”

No more cranky? No, it can't be! How can the grievances of the two governments be turned over so easily? Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong were all in the limelight, but in the end they ended miserably, which is their own fault! However, there are still people who are at large, the grievances of the two governments, coupled with their own difficulties, the resentment is heavy, I am afraid that the mountains and seas will be difficult to bear! That man does not pay the price, God will not tolerate it!

"Imperial grandmother, whether it is providence or man-made, the grandson has his own measure, so let time give an accurate answer."

The Empress Dowager sat down in a daze, shrugged her nose, and suddenly burst into tears, crying and crying: "The surviving people have lived too much, and they have done evil!" He had three sons and a daughter, but before he entered the coffin, he was left with only one son. What good is it to have an only son? Let the surviving die alone! What's the benefit of wanting grandchildren, in the end, it's not that you will be angry with your own grandchildren! Woowoo woo ······"

Filial piety comes first. The dead cannot be resurrected, and the living must not be angry to death, otherwise, as a human grandson, this sin will be unbearable! Zhu Qiming grinned, even though he was reluctant, he still left his seat and knelt on the ground, and said sadly: "Grandson is reckless, please let the imperial grandmother calm her anger, grandson is just talking casually, please don't take it to heart." ”

"You swear that you will never hurt any royal family in your life!"

Zhu Qiming's heart is like a knife, the empress dowager in front of him is his only close relative in the world, at this moment, the chest of the only remaining close relatives is rising and falling violently, his eyes are closed, and his old face is almost colorless. So, his nose was sore, and tears flowed down his cheeks, "My grandson swears that I will never hurt any royal family in this life, and if I violate this oath, I will be killed!" ”