As soon as Zhou Renyuan rode his horse to the palace gate, the two guards of the Imperial Forest Army on duty saluted and said, "Lord Wang!" ”

"Yo, Liu Wuting, Lu Haifeng, it's the two of you on duty again!" Zhou Renyuan dismounted with a smile and said. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The guard who called Liu Wuting hurriedly came over to lead his horse, and said with a smile: "Our brothers are working hard for their lives, isn't this the most practical for me and Lao Lu in this Beijing defense camp, Shangguan told me to go east to the east, and we went to the west, and we went west." ”

"Are you still really? Better than a monkey! I think Lao Lu is real! Zhou Renyuan scolded with a smile, and then took out ten taels of silver from his pocket and threw it to Liu Wuting, "The weather is cold, wait for Fang and Lao Lu to buy a pot of wine to warm up." ”

Liu Wuting took the silver with a smile, gave five taels to Lu Haifeng, and scolded, "Old Lu, what are you doing standing there stupidly?" Why don't you thank the prince for the reward? ”

Lu Haifeng took the silver and said with a sincere smile, "Thank you-thank you!" ”

At this time, a big eunuch with pale hair was hurriedly coming out of it, and when he saw Zhou Renyuan, he was overjoyed and shouted, "Hey, my lord, you can count it." The emperor has urged it several times, if you don't come again, the old slave will go to the post house again, poor old slave these two old legs! ”

"Yo, this can't be delayed! Lord Wang, please come in!" Liu Wuting hurriedly said.

"This father-in-law's surname?" Zhou Ren asked as he walked.

The old eunuch lowered his eyebrows and replied, "The old slave Wang Dehua!" ”

"Oh, it turned out to be the prince, today there is a prince of Lao running around for the little king, hard work!" Zhou Renyuan said and took out twenty taels of silver to Wang Dehua.

Wang Dehua happily took the silver and whispered, "I just saw that the emperor was displeased, please be careful to reply." The emperor was waiting in the imperial study. ”

Zhou Renyuan nodded.

Zhou Renyuan followed Wang Dehua to the imperial study, and Wang Dehua reported. Let Zhou Renyuan go in by himself.

"Fourth brother, you're here!" Chongzhen said a word and kept looking at him.

Zhou Renyuan was uncomfortable being stared at by Chongzhen, so he had to reluctantly smile and said, "Brother Huang gave a banquet, how dare the younger brother not come?" ”

"Oh! Feasting? Chongzhen raised his eyebrows, "It's still early, let's take a look at this note first." ”

Zhou Renyuan respectfully took the note handed over by Chongzhen, which said that Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, scattered all the fertile land in Hengzhou to cultivate the displaced people and recruited young people to be the people. It didn't say that Zhu Changying had ill intentions, but only that King Gui's move violated the system to balance the hearts of the people of the state, and the recruitment of young people was to guard against thieves. But for King Gui's move, the emperor still wants the dictatorship of the Sacred Heart.

Zhou Renyuan finished reading the song and said, "My father's move to disperse the fertile land is expected by the younger brother. But this militia minister really doesn't know. ”

"How?" Chongzhen asked curiously.

When the courtiers left, they told their father that there were thieves all over the world because there was no land to cultivate, and the people could not survive without land and food. Although my Hengzhou is stable, there are many displaced people, in order to prevent trouble, we must let those landless people have something to rely on, so that those displaced people do not attach themselves to the counter-flow thieves. Zhou Renyuan said slowly, "But where does this field come from, I have to come out of King Gui's Mansion to look at the emperor's brother Mingjian." ”

Chongzhen nodded, "What do you say about the 30,000 young and strong militias?" As long as it is equipped with armor and weapons, this militia is an army of 30,000. Don't fool me. ”

Zhou Renyuan hurriedly said: "Brother don't dare!" Presumably, there is a new movement from the sacrificial thief. ”

Chongzhen hesitated for a moment, and said slowly, "The thief has broken through Xiangyang, Hubei, and the king of Xiang has been martyred." I have sent two general soldiers, Zuo Liangyu and You Shilu, to support Hubei. ”

"That's right." Zhou Renyuan had confidence and said, "This thief has long coveted the rich land of Jingchu, and the thief is powerful, if I don't recruit more people in Hengzhou, I'm afraid it will be the second Xiangyang." ”

Thinking that Xiangyang was broken by Zhang Xianzhong's eighteen cavalry under Li Dingguo, Chongzhen was angry, and at the same time he was extremely disappointed in the incompetence of the vassal kings in various places. So after Zhou Renyuan said this, King Gui's approach was reasonable. The suspicion in his heart retreated slightly, and his face was soothing, "After the fourth brother's explanation, I also feel that there is some truth. King Gui's move should not be reprimanded, but should be rewarded. ”

Zhou Renyuan hurriedly said respectfully: "What the younger brother and the younger brother and the father of the minister do is only for me, and they are all for the duty of the courtiers, and I dare not reward the imperial brother." I also ask the imperial brother to keep these rewards and reward them to other meritorious ministers of my Ming Dynasty. ”

Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction, just now he was just testing Zhou Renyuan, seeing Zhou Renyuan's respectful attitude, the doubts in his heart really dissipated this time. As an emperor, he should praise his courtiers when he should be praised, and he should be suppressed when he should be suppressed, even if he is his most trusted cousin. Immediately smiled and said, "The fourth brother is not proud of his achievements, and I am very satisfied." I heard you got drunk today? I'm curious, fourth brother, a thoughtful person like you can also have gaffes? ”

Zhou Renyuan said embarrassedly, "Brother Chen, Brother Chen is greedy for a cup for a while!"

"Greedy cup? No way! I believe that others are greedy for cups, but if you want to say that you are greedy for cups, I don't believe it. Chongzhen joked.

"This-this--" Zhou Renyuan thought about it and said embarrassedly, "It's that when the younger brother was drinking, he learned that his favorite woman was still alive, and he was happy in his heart, so he unconsciously drank a few more glasses." ”

"Oh--? The fourth brother already has a favorite woman? How did you know that you are still alive? Hurry up and say it! Chongzhen began to gossip.

Zhou Renyuan had to tell Chongzhen about his acquaintance with Wang Wanting, how he met Wang Wanting, and how he saved people from being injured. Then he left Qingyuan and left a love token, and in the end, how did he think that Wang Wanting died in Qingyuan, and he was grief-stricken.

Chongzhen quietly listened to Zhou Renyuan's narration, and asked with a sigh: "The Miss Wang you are talking about is the daughter of the martyred Qingyuan County Order?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhou Renyuan nodded and replied.

Chongzhen slapped the table and exclaimed excitedly, "Oops! It's a double blessing. Your father happened to have a share of the heir of the county order, but he didn't expect that he was still the fourth brother's beautiful woman. I am about to make this Miss Wang the county lord of Qingyuan. What a coincidence! Haha--"

In fact, Chongzhen also has a different mind, now that Zhou Renyuan has a favorite person, his daughter Changping should also retreat in the face of difficulties and settle down.

In the Kunning Palace of the harem, Empress Zhou is arranging a dinner party, and today the emperor is feasting King Yongming again, and she is happy and worried. Happy is that she still remembers the last royal dinner, this cousin is very good at adjusting the atmosphere, several other concubines in the palace are praised, and the other concubines learned that King Yongming is coming again, so they have already dressed up and come to their Kunning Palace. The worry is that Tian Guifei is sick and can't come, according to the imperial doctor, she is very sick, and she has visited her many times, but the medicine stone is always ineffective. Also, when Changping saw the fourth brother today, he wouldn't make any moves.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Changping, who was sitting on the chair, holding a cup in his hand and spinning it, not knowing what she was thinking at this time.

And the two older princes, Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihuan, were pestering the crown prince Zhu Cihong, saying over and over again, "Brother prince, do you think the sunrise on the sea is really so beautiful?" And you said that the sea is so big that you can't see the edge? So there are really so many people on the streets of Fuzhou, and they look strange? ”

Since Zhu Cihong returned to the palace, he has been like his younger brothers showing off that they have seen a lot of different things on this trip, and these two younger brothers came to him to ask him about these novel things, Zhu Cihong was almost annoyed by their questions, and said, "Don't you believe that you will wait and ask the fourth uncle to go?" He knows a lot more than I do. ”

It just so happened that Chongzhen and Zhou Renyuan came to Kunning Palace, Chongzhen was in a good mood now, and said with a smile, "What's the matter, princes, what do you want to ask your fourth uncle?" ”

When Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihuan saw them, they didn't care about the etiquette, and one of them took Zhou Renyuan's hand and said, "Fourth uncle, you tell us, are there really so many people with different skin colors in the world?" The prince's brother said that he saw the white color, the black color, the real fake? ”

Zhou Renyuan smiled, "Of course it's true, then there are people in Africa who can't be seen at night with dark skin!" ”

"Wow--- there are such black people? Wouldn't you have to light a candle to see that night? Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihuan said innocently.

Chongzhen and the concubines laughed crookedly, "Hey, hey—my stomach hurts when I laugh, these four brothers will lie to people as soon as they come." Yuan Guifei said with a smile while holding her stomach.

Queen Zhou also smiled when she saw Chongzhen, and sighed in her heart, "It's been a long time since I've seen the emperor smile, this fourth brother is really a wonderful person, he can be literate and martial, if only he could stay in the capital all year round." ”

She looked at Changping again, and as soon as Changping saw Zhou Renyuan's eyes lit up, she immediately darkened again, and when she heard Zhou Renyuan's jokes, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Empress Zhou shook her head, this stupid child!

At this time, Chongzhen smiled and said, "Okay, don't pester your fourth uncle." ”

Zhou Renyuan muttered a few words in the ears of the two little princes, and Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihong ran away happily.

Chongzhen asked softly, "What did you just say to them?" Why were they so obedient and ran away? ”

"The younger brother said that as long as they finished the homework assigned to them by the waiter today, the younger brother would tell them the story of the black man." Zhou Renyuan replied with a smile.

"Huh?" Chongzhen couldn't help but smile and pointed at Zhou Renyuan, "You-you--"

Zhou Renyuan straightened his sleeves at this time, stepped forward to greet Queen Zhou and all the imperial concubines and concubines one by one, and when he saw that Zhang Yan was also there, he was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

Zhang Yan owes herself, which can be regarded as a courtesy.

When Zhou Renyuan saluted Changping, Changping's face turned red, and then he turned sideways to say a blessing, and said softly, "The fourth uncle is an elder, and Changping doesn't dare to accept the courtesy." ”

Zhou Ren saw that Changping was thinner than last time, so he said, "The princess seems to be thinner than last time, the princess should pay attention to her body!" ”

Changping's face became redder when he heard this, and he said in a panic, "Huh? Yes! Changping will pay attention. Fourth Uncle Xie cares. ”

Chongzhen hurriedly coughed twice, "Queen, let's have a banquet." ”

Zhu Cihong sat down next to Zhou Renyuan and asked in a low voice, "Fourth uncle, I heard my father say that you asked to go to the north?" ”

Zhou Renyuan nodded silently.

"Then the north is when the war is raging, and the fourth uncle is not as dangerous as the south." Zhu Cihong said urgently.

When Chongzhen heard it, he glared at him, "This is a family banquet, don't talk about state affairs, the prince." ”

Zhu Cihong silently lowered his head, not daring to say anything more. Chongzhen's heart moved, and an indescribable emotion filled his heart, and he said softly, "You are still too young, you don't need to worry about military affairs, I have to discuss with your fourth uncle." ”

Zhu Cihong felt better when he heard this, and nodded, he really didn't want Zhou Renyuan to be in danger.

After three rounds of drinking, "Fourth brother, you can still sing today." Yuan Guifei asked.

Zhou Renyuan was about to answer, but Chongzhen interrupted, "Ai Concubine, the fourth brother doesn't sing today, but I want to announce a happy event!"

When everyone heard this, they put down their chopsticks and listened together.

"I'm going to give you a stake about King Yongming's marriage today!" Chongzhen said here. Meaningfully glanced at Changping.

Queen Zhou and Princess Changping were suffocated when they heard this, and Queen Zhou thought to herself, the emperor will not risk the disapproval of the world, and the niece marries her uncle, which is too ridiculous.

Changping was flustered, and he didn't know where to put his hands for a while, and the sweat in his palms was rising.

"That's it! Your Majesty, don't sell Guanzi, tell me quickly, which girl did these four brothers fall in love with? Yuan Guifei said with a smile.

"King Yongming and Wang Wanting, the daughter of the martyred Qingyuan County Wang County Commander, are in love with each other and love each other! I will grant this happy marriage now! Chongzhen said loudly.

Queen Zhou finally fell to the ground when she heard this, it turned out that the fourth brother had already had a favorite person, but it was my daughter.

When Changping heard this, bitterness and pain dripped in his heart, and tears couldn't stop coming out.

"What's wrong? Changping, why are you crying? Yuan Guifei said curiously.

"No—nothing. Changping shed tears for the fourth uncle's happiness. "Changping Zhiwu said.

Yuan Guifei looked suspicious, obviously not convinced.

Seeing this, Queen Zhou hurriedly interrupted, "Fourth brother, tell me how you met this Miss Wang?" ”

Zhou Renyuan smiled bitterly, thinking that he was going to say it again?

Chongzhen hurriedly said, "The fourth brother's face is a little thin, so let's talk about it for me." So he told everyone about the experience that Zhou Renyuan had just told him in the imperial study.

"Fourth brother, the hero saves the beauty, it is really the fate of the Miss Wang, poor Miss Wang, you have to treat the Miss Wang, otherwise I, the sister-in-law, will not spare you." Empress Zhou said.

"That Miss Wang is the niece of Princess Gui, and she is really close to the fourth brother, what a match made in heaven!" Yuan Guifei also said.

Empress Zhang Yan of Ci'an sighed in her heart, now there are very few men in the royal family who are as affectionate and righteous as the fourth brother, and this fourth brother is really a big anomaly. Is he really a perfect man? Zhang Yan's curiosity was unconsciously aroused.

After listening to the story of Zhou Renyuan and Wang Wanting, Changping felt a wave of sadness, why was he born in this royal family, can there be a person with such a character as the fourth uncle in the world? Should I wake up from this dream?

If you have loved you, you will know that you are serious, and if you have been drunk, you will know that the wine is strong. Wake up or not, the pain is there!