"Father, father!"

Although Emperor Hongzhi made up his mind, if Zhu Houzhao came back, he would definitely put on a straight face and teach a lesson. However, when he really saw his son rushing into the Dongnuan Pavilion and saw the miserable dress, he immediately softened. But he, a father, can stand up after all, but Queen Zhang is different, seeing Zhu Houzhao's crooked hat and blue shirt, she almost almost shed tears, almost got up from her seat almost all at once, and stepped forward to take her son into her arms.

"My son, where did you run away, do you know how worried your father and queen mother are!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao entered the door, he found that the queen mother was also there, and he was about to salute together, but at this time, he was hugged by Queen Zhang, and he was suddenly a little breathless. Bared his teeth and grinned for a while, remembering the scene when he had just tried the case outside, he couldn't help but gradually raise his hand, and responded to Queen Zhang's enthusiasm a little awkwardly, and it took a while to pat the queen mother's back twice, and then snorted: "Queen mother, I am not too young, and my father is looking at it......"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at this mother and son with deep affection, and he didn't realize that he was also very relieved - although he was not old, but from the precarious crown prince to the son of heaven who bowed the world and balanced the court, his heart was naturally no longer young - until Zhu Houzhao finally said that his father looked at it, he coughed majestically, and then asked lightly: "Houzhao, you didn't go to Wenhua Hall to listen to the lecture today, but sneaked out of the palace, are you guilty?" ”

"Your Majesty!"

Empress Zhang saw that her husband was asking for guilt as soon as he opened his mouth, and she was immediately anxious. But before she could open her mouth to ask for mercy, she only felt that her sleeves were being pulled, and when she turned around, she saw Zhu Houzhao winking at her vigorously, and shaking his head there. She was slightly stunned, thinking that it would not be too late to plead for intercession when Emperor Hongzhi wanted to punish Zhu Houzhao, so she hesitated and stood up. At this time, Zhu Houzhao immediately knelt down, and knocked his head with a bang, which immediately frightened the sitting Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang, who had not yet sat down.

"Parents of body hair and skin, there is a way to admit mistakes, what are you doing!" Emperor Hongzhi used to worry that his son was greedy for fun and didn't listen to the lesson, but at this time, Zhu Houzhao also knelt and kowtowed, but he was afraid that this kid would be hard topped, so he sank his face again as he spoke, "Don't want to play tricks, say quickly, what are you doing today!" ”

"Return to my father, mother." Zhu Houzhao deliberately glanced at Empress Zhang as he spoke, and then raised his head and said, "Erchen and Xu Xun caught a bastard who pretended to be the emperor's prince today, and they have already been tried together with Beizhen Fusi Ye Guang." The son belores his father to behead this bastard and exile all the people in his family to Liaodong as an example! ”

What does that mean?

Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi's face was confused, and Empress Zhang was also at a loss, Zhu Houzhao, who was kneeling straight, suddenly shouted: "Liu Jin, don't drag people in yet!" ”

With his shout, a person immediately came in outside, but it was Lao Liu Jin who dragged someone in by the collar of a Qianqing palace attendant. The man was still struggling, but when he saw the emperor, he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and did not dare to say a word. But at this time, Zhu Houzhao actually got up, pointed at him and shouted: "Liu Shan, you still don't know the crime? ”

Liu Shan was inexplicably dragged in by Liu Jin, and before he knew what was going on, he heard the prince's shout, and he was almost scared to lie down. He swallowed hard, then raised his head a little, and stammered, "Too...... Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't ...... Don't scare the slaves, this ...... How does this start? ”

"You still don't admit it?" When Zhu Houzhao was interrogating Zheng Wang in the west of Wang Gongchang just now, he was already angry and punched and kicked, and at this moment he instinctively kicked again, and then said angrily, "Let me ask you, what is the matter with Zheng Wang, and what is the matter with Wang's daughter?" You tell that Zheng Wang'er that he wants to be the royal family, what's the matter? ”

Emperor Hongzhi wanted to drink Zhu Houzhao at first, but when he heard this last sentence, he immediately stood up in shock, his face full of incredulity. And although Empress Zhang didn't fully understand, she still understood the meaning of the word "imperial prince" - you must know that the alley in front of her brother Zhang Heling's mansion of Shouning Marquis Zhang was called Zhang Huangqin Street. If it weren't for Emperor Hongzhi's constant words for so many years, she would almost think that her husband was hiding in the golden house behind her back.

Liu Shan didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao would directly say the names of Zheng Wang and Wang's daughter, and he was so shocked that his soul was gone, and when Zhu Houzhao asked again, he suddenly rolled his eyes and fainted. Seeing this situation, Zhu Houzhao was full of anger and annoyance, and kicked Liu Shan a few more times with hatred. It wasn't until a hand grabbed his shoulder that he stopped for a while, and when he turned around, he saw that it was his father.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Today's matter, which of you dares to show half a word, this little marquis...... Prince Ben must have cut off his head! Now let me out, don't leave the door, but don't eavesdrop...... Liu Jin! Zhu Houzhao agreed to drink at the other Qianqing palaces around him, and when he saw that several people were busy withdrawing, he nodded to Liu Jin again, and saw that Liu Jin went out with him knowingly, obviously surveillance, so he turned his head to look at Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang and said, "Father, mother, forgive the sons and ministers to trespass, because some words are not easy for outsiders to hear!" ”

The son will take out the identity of the prince to do serious things!

Emperor Hongzhi liked it again in his heart, and then suppressed this emotion, pulled Zhu Houzhao to the soft couch and asked: "Houzhao, what is going on, tell me and your mother the truth!" ”

Zhu Houzhao first recalled the unified tone he had set after discussing with Xu Xun and Liu Jin after coming out of there, and then cleared his throat and said, "Father, this is how it happened......"

Although in the son's story, he will turn to some marginal places from time to time, but on the whole, the context is clear, especially when it comes to what he did in the mansion of the eldest princess of Renhe, how to get into the door, how to find a girl to serve, how to beat Zheng Wang, how to show Qi Jiliang's waist card to Beizhen Fusi, how to coerce Qi Jiliang, how to stop the chasing soldiers with a pepper-faced paper bag, how to find Ye Guang in Beizhen Fusi, and how to interrogate the prisoner- The only thing that was omitted was that Zheng Wang said that he was born to his daughter when he was drunk, and Shen Yue's matter was also vaguely confused.

From beginning to end, Emperor Hongzhi listened to the ups and downs of his mood, sometimes full of anger, sometimes in admiration, looking at his son's expression was not as serious as it was at the beginning.

He, an emperor who is accustomed to seeing big things, is still like this, not to mention that he only needs to deal with the queen mother of the two palaces in the harem, and he doesn't have to deal with the concubines and the concubine Empress Zhang like any queen in the past. Queen Zhang didn't expect that there were rumors about any concubines in the palace reaching her son's ears, and she didn't expect that someone would pretend to be the royal prince, and she directly found Renhe's eldest princess's mansion to deceive, and even the eldest princess's son regarded people as guests. If it weren't for Zhu Houzhao's direct trouble, I'm afraid that the entire capital would be in an uproar, and all her face would be lost!

"Father, that's what happened. That Zheng Wang said that it was this Liu Shan who told him that it was Zheng Jinlian, a palace man from Renshou Palace, who helped him find Zheng Wang's daughter, that is, the daughter of the queen of the Qianqing Palace, and said that the king's daughter was ...... Well, that one is going to be a concubine, so he will be the queen prince! ”

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Empress Zhang's face was flushed with anger, and Emperor Hongzhi couldn't take care of himself, he was so angry that his stomach hurt and his liver hurt, so he hurriedly pressed his wife's shoulder and let her sit down, comforting and pleading, and finally said bluntly: "If you don't believe it, you can take someone to see the king's daughter at this time, and some people in the palace are checking whether the woman is complete, and you can see it at a glance!" As for Zheng Jinlian, that is the person next to the Empress Dowager of Renshou Palace, please pass on the queen's will and bring people over to confront her! ”

Empress Zhang thought about it, and finally felt that her husband's calm attitude should be able to explain the problem, but after all, she couldn't bear this unjust anger, and immediately said: "Okay, then Zheng Jinlian is very hateful, and these people definitely can't continue to stay with the Empress Dowager!" Zheng Wang was remanded, Liu Shan didn't know about it, and the concubines in this palace would take care of it first. The concubine will go to take down the king's daughter, and then go to Renshou Palace to see the queen mother! ”

Emperor Hongzhi understood his wife's impatient surname best, and when he saw that he was angry, he went out, he couldn't help but look at his son on the side, and suddenly asked meaningfully: "Houzhao, do you still have something to say?" For example, how did you hear this rumor, how did you know that Zheng Wang would go to the Renhe Eldest Princess's Mansion today, and how did you bump into Xu Xun and Liu Jin? I remember that the attendants in the Chengqian Palace all said that Liu Jin was on leave today, but he didn't accompany you to the Wenhua Palace. ”

"Father, I went to the Renhe Eldest Princess's Mansion because of this." Zhu Houzhao said that he had heard the rumors for a year or two because of Xu Xunqian's instructions, and he had discussed it with Xu Xun and Liu Jin before he came back, saying that the Beizhen Fusi would return to the Beizhen Fusi, and the investigation could not be cut off like this. So, at this moment, he took out a crumpled paper ball from his sleeve and stuffed it into Emperor Hongzhi's hand, and said innocently without waiting for his father to look at it, "As for Erchen meeting Liu Jin and Xu Xun, this is really not a chance, Erchen has already asked Liu Jin to talk to Xu Xun, they have been waiting for Erchen in one place for a long time." ”

Xu Xun's thinking is that some things are not so much a coincidence as a design, which can make people suspicious. At least at this moment, when Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he was quite satisfied. Anyway, the prince is Xiaojun, and they should obey their orders. Besides, Xu Liang, Xing'anbo, he originally watched his son Xu Xun let him attack the seal for the sake of his son. However, when he frowned and read the note, and heard Zhu Houzhao's next words, his face could no longer be hung up, and he was furious.

"In addition, Erchen did have a sentence that he didn't say just now. That Zheng Wang...... That Zheng Wang actually talked nonsense, saying that Erchen was not born to his mother, but to his daughter, and said that he was Erchen's grandfather! ”

"Dog thing, bastard thing!"

Emperor Huo Ran jumped up, walked back and forth in the room for a few steps, and almost hit the wall and table and other ornaments several times. After a long time, he suddenly stopped, looked at Zhu Houzhao and said: "Houzhao, since you personally went to interrogate this person, then according to you, Zheng Wang, Liu Shan and others, should they be tried and executed, or should they be detained?" ”

"Secret executions, of course!" I just saw that Empress Zhang was so annoyed, so the little prince immediately replied without thinking, "There are already rumors in this palace, and he has been swaggering and deceiving the people for a long time, if you don't kill him quickly, do you let people outside talk nonsense?" Moreover, if the queen mother knew that people actually said that I was not born to him, she would definitely be sad! ”

The child has grown up!

At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi felt indescribably relieved in his heart, stretched out his hand and touched Zhu Houzhao's head, and then said lightly: "Since your queen mother already knows a lot, it is not enough to just hide it." You remember, if the matter is so big, instead of pressing it down, it is better to do it bigger. As long as you sit firmly in the future, why worry about someone talking nonsense! ”

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao seemed to understand or not, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly changed his words and said: "However, do you know what the bosses in the court will say if you suddenly skip class today?" In addition, such a big event, you, the prince, actually let Xu Xun participate in it, and you are a reliable person, but if you have ulterior motives, then what? Also, do you think that this time I should reward him for moving out of the name of Beizhen Fusi in a hurry at that time, and cover up for you, the prince, or should I punish him for his audacity in making trouble in the eldest princess's mansion? ”

Zhu Houzhao had never thought about this, his eyes widened and he thought about it for a long time, and then he suddenly smiled smartly: "Of course it's a reward!" The father and the emperor can't reward him, let the queen mother reward him...... No, no, no, just like this, let the two uncles of Erchen treat him well, so that the officials in the court will not be noisy! ”

"You, you, you!"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but smile dumbly, looking at his son's eyes full of doting for a while. Zhu Houzhao didn't notice it, he took his father's hand and talked about Zheng Wang's hatefulness, and even said angrily at the end: "There are also those people in the people, one by one, they treat him as a royal family, not to mention, I heard that there are more than 600 merchants who sent him all kinds of things!" Also, there are several palace artifacts found from him, and by the way, I brought the same back! ”

Zhu Houzhao patted his head, quickly took out a pearl hairpin from his arms and handed it to Emperor Hongzhi, and said in his mouth: "Father, this is the Liu Shan who gave it to Zheng Wang, saying that Zheng Wang's daughter entrusted him to take it out of the palace." If you want me to say, this thing must be stolen! ”

Stole?

Emperor Hongzhi took the pearl hairpin and looked at it again and again for a long time, confirming that the imperial seal on it was indeed fake, and he couldn't help but gradually frown. Although there are palace maids around him, he is just serving his daily life, and he will not casually use this kind of thing to reward people, not to mention, those who need these utensils in the palace now are Queen Zhang and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces.

Thinking of this, he casually tucked the things in his sleeve and smiled casually: "When that's the case, I will let the royal supervisor investigate it thoroughly." ”

(To be continued)