Inside the Imperial Garden.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, he was so angry that he trembled, his snow-white beard trembled with anger, and a pair of eyes gradually narrowed due to the fierce killing intention, like a blade, scraping around Zhu Di's body fiercely.

"Zhu Di, you ...... How dare you be so disrespectful! Although Yun Wei is your nephew, he is the future monarch of the Ming Dynasty, and he is your monarch! You...... Have you forgotten what I taught you the way of a king? Zhu Yuanzhang gasped and shouted.

Zhu Di was smashed so that blood flowed from the corners of his forehead, he knelt down in a panic, didn't care about covering the bleeding wound, slammed his head on the ground three times, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Father spares his life, his son is wrong!" Erchen has not seen His Royal Highness Taisun for many years...... I just want to say a few witty words to His Royal Highness the Taisun and amuse him...... Father, the son really has no disrespect! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "You still dare to deceive me!" Is the future monarch of the Ming Dynasty for you to tease? If you have no king and no father, what is the use of me keeping you? Come! Where is the brocade pro-army! ”

Zhu Yunwen hurriedly stepped forward to support Zhu Yuanzhang and shouted: "Grandfather Huang, slow, slow!" Imperial grandfather, King Yan was indeed playing with his grandson just now, he didn't notice it for a while, his words were a little too much, begging the emperor's grandfather to be merciful and spare the four emperor uncles, the grandson did not blame him, besides, he is the grandson's uncle, if the grandfather kills him because of me, the grandson will also bear the notoriety of killing the uncle because of his nephew, what face will the grandson face in the future to the emperor's uncle? ”

Xiao Fan heard it in one breath and mentioned it suddenly, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire, if it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's presence, and the negative teaching material of King Yan as a reference, he really wanted to rush forward and give Zhu Yunwen a blow to split Huashan, so that his brain became a little clearer, what a good opportunity, just let it go.

The original surname is really more difficult to change than the country!

Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry and said: "Yun Wei, your stupid benevolent surname hasn't changed? Keeping such a kingless and fatherless person will become a disaster for me in the future! I will kill this son of a crime today! ”

Xiao Fan was excited when he heard it, right! Lao Zhu is too much to his liking, if he is not a foreign minister, it is not appropriate to meddle in royal family affairs, he really wants to persuade Lao Zhu to be a person who adheres to principles, and quickly asks someone to chop up the scourge of King Yan...... Who knew that Zhu Yunwen was not as good as he wanted, he still tried to persuade him, and put one hand behind his back and secretly gestured to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di immediately understood when he saw the gesture, so he kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang three times, and said in a trembling voice: "Father, you are angry, don't be angry with the dragon body, all the mistakes are the fault of the son, the son...... The sons and daughters apologized to their fathers and their royal highnesses, and the sons and daughters retired first, and after the father's anger was gone, the sons and daughters came to ask their fathers and their highnesses for their sins......"

After speaking, without waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to react, Zhu Di got up in embarrassment and quickly exited the imperial garden in a panic.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Di leaving, his gray eyebrows lifted, and he waited for someone to take him down, and then somehow, he finally didn't make a sound, seeing Zhu Di withdraw from the imperial garden in embarrassment, Zhu Yuanzhang let out a long sigh, his old body looked more and more rickety, and the whole person was much more depressed.

"That's it, children and grandchildren, I have my own children and grandchildren to bear, I have killed people all my life, I have done evil things all my life, and now I ...... I'm tired, I can't do it anymore. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was gloomy, as if he had aged a lot in an instant, and his face covered with age spots revealed the sadness of the hero's twilight.

"Yun Wei, talk to me in the Wuying Palace...... Xiao Fan. ”

"The minister is here."

"Wait outside the hall."

"Obey."

Zhu Di stumbled and fled the palace, and hurriedly got on his horse when he got out of Chengtianmen, surrounded by the guards waiting outside the door, hurriedly beat his horse and walked towards the courtyard of Wuyi Lane, galloping all the way, like a lost dog, frightening many pedestrians and vendors.

Entering the door of the courtyard, Monk Daoyan stepped forward, looked at the bleeding wound on Zhu Di's forehead, and exclaimed, "Why is Your Highness so embarrassed?" ”

Zhu Di didn't care about elaborating, grabbed Dao Yan's hand and walked out, and said hurriedly: "I don't have time to elaborate, Mr. hurry back to Beiping with this king, the Jingshi can't wait, and if it's late, he will have to worry about his life......"

Dao Yan's expression froze, he broke away from Zhu Di's hand, and shouted: "Your Highness, slow down!" What the hell is going on? Didn't His Highness enter the palace to face the saint? How can an unprovoked person have a surname to worry about? ”

Zhu Di's face was full of remorse, he sighed, and told the story of today's story in detail.

As soon as Dao Yan heard this, he stomped his feet and said, "Your Highness, you ...... You're confused! The inner land of the palace, how can you speak so Meng Lang! How can you act so frivolously! You are so reckless, how can you achieve great things! The future is ruined! ”

Monk Daoyan is the first strategist under Zhu Di, and he and Zhu Di are both subordinates and friends, so Daoyan does not have to take Zhu Di's face into account when he speaks.

Zhu Di's face was blue and white when he heard this, full of shame.

"What the gentleman is saying is that this king ...... Alas! This king said today to see the immoral and incompetent child, a resentment in his heart is difficult to settle, only feel that life in the world, noble as the prince and prince, the situation is so unfair, why this king guards the northern frontier, the knife comes and goes, several lives hang by a thread, several times escape from death, count the remnants of the yuan, countless meritorious contributions, but the father still only let this king be a vassal king who guards a place, and that Huangkou child does not have to do anything, not even the door does not have to go out, he can inherit the entire Ming Dynasty in peace and stability, my uncle who has made countless meritorious contributions still has to serve him as the master, The injustice of the heavens, what is it! ”

Dao Yan looked at Zhu Di's face that had become distorted by resentment, and said coldly: "Heaven is already unfair, has His Highness only understood it today?" Since it's unfair, let's try to change it! Fight with the heavens! Those who dare to fight with the sky need extraordinary courage, extraordinary wisdom, great strength, and most importantly, a cool head! Your Highness, you have done something stupid and stupid! ”

Zhu Di clenched his fists and smashed his fist into the pillar under the cloister, with a fierce light in his eyes, and said viciously: "Everything has been done, what else does this king have to say!" Sir, before Jinyiwei takes people, you and I hurry up and leave Jingshi and return to Beiping! When you arrive in Beiping, it is the world of this king, who else is this king afraid of? Let's not do it endlessly, just wave our division to the south and sit on this Ming Dynasty! ”

Dao Yan's tone became more and more cold: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to fight with your father?" ”

"I ......"

"Are you ready to go south? Does your army have enough food and grass? Is there a high morale? Do you have the courage to fight against the orthodox heavenly soldiers of the imperial court? Have you sent your officials to the south to control the cities under their rule? As the son of man, openly plotting against his father, who in the world will be on your side? Are you morally justifiable? And most importantly...... From the point of view of simple military affairs, have you ever beaten your father who has been in a hundred battles and fought all his life? The right time, place and people, which one do you occupy? ”

Dao Yan asked one sharp question after another, so that Zhu Di's face was pale, he was covered in cold sweat, his whole burly body was shaky, he clenched his fists, like a trapped beast in a cage, staring at Dao Yan deadly, and roared in a low voice: "Are we just waiting here for my father to kill me?" I, Zhu Di Hero I, even if I die, I can't die so badly! ”

Dao Yan rubbed his temples with a cold expression, thought about it carefully, and asked coldly: "Your Highness just said that you fled from the Imperial Garden because the imperial grandson secretly gestured to you?" ”

"Yes."

Dao Yan's eyes showed a relaxed color, and he said lightly: "That's it, Your Highness, rest assured, your surname is safe, and the imperial grandson will say something for you in front of Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Di showed a suspicious look and said, "Really? This is no joke, why is Sir so sure? ”

Dao Yan let out a long sigh and said, "The imperial grandson...... After all, it's still too soft-hearted! Your Royal Highness, your opponent is too weak, this is the opportunity given to you by God, you have to seize it, don't act recklessly, Your Majesty is now old, Your Highness only needs to wait a few more years, when Your Majesty returns to the sky, and the emperor's grandson inherits the unification, then the lord is weak and the minister is strong, and the world can be allowed to gallop through His Highness. ”

Zhu Di nodded apprehensively.

"What should the king do now?"

Dao Yan shook his head and smiled: "You don't have to do anything, two days later, you will personally enter the palace to ask your father for the guilt according to what you said, at that time, your father's anger has subsided, and he will not kill you, most likely to severely reprimand you, and the matter will be stopped." ”

Zhu Di was still very convinced of Dao Yan's words, and he breathed a long sigh of relief when he heard the words.

The surname is already worry-free, but Dao Yan's curiosity has come up.

"What's the matter with the wound on His Highness's forehead? His Majesty's anger is understandable, but what did he use to smash it? ”

When he mentioned this, Zhu Di hated it so much that he said with a straight face: "Father smashed ...... with a stone"

"Stones? Where did your majesty get the stone? ”

"The ...... that Xiao Fan handed him"

Dao Yan was dumbfounded, and only after a while did he eat: "This ...... The countryman is not only greedy for money, but also very despicable, it is definitely someone else who hanged himself, and he handed the rope next to him, Your Highness, this person must not be guarded against! ”

Zhu Di gritted his teeth and said: "This king swears to kill this person!" Hiss - it hurts the king to death! ”

Xiao Fan stood outside the Wuying Palace, waiting bored, not knowing how long the ancestors and grandchildren would have to talk inside.

What happened today may be a good thing, the eloquent Zhu Di couldn't hold back the jealousy in his heart, and finally made a stupid move, which was just right to be seen by Zhu Yuanzhang, this is the will of heaven, I only hope that Zhu Yuanzhang can be vigilant against the vassal king before he dies, so that he can completely understand that the vassal king is not as loyal as he imagined, and what he left to future generations is not an iron bucket country, on the contrary, this country has been full of dangers and many hidden dangers.

It would be great if Lao Zhu could figure out this, and then use his personal charm and prestige to correct or completely cancel the policy of the vassal king while he was alive, and how much trouble would be saved for Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Di's actions also gave Xiao Fan a reminder, just now in the imperial garden, he thought that no one knew about the conversation between him and Zhu Yunwen, so he dared to make such a big disrespectful remark, but he didn't know that people were doing it, the sky was watching, and there was no room for filth under the sun, and he was discovered by Zhu Yuanzhang in an instant. The sage has a saying that is still very correct: "A gentleman does not bully the dark room", Xiao Fan secretly warned himself in his heart, if you want to be a decent gentleman, it is best not to sneak around, maybe you think that you are doing something that you don't know, it is no longer a secret in the eyes of others,—— the three thousand taels of silver buried in the backyard of the house, it is better to bury it in another place, it is very unsafe to think about it.

When he was thinking wildly, under the corridor at the corner of the hall, a pretty figure suddenly floated by, like a Lingbo fairy, Yingying was coming towards the door of the palace, and the beauty was approaching, Xiao Fan only felt that his nose smelled a faint fragrance, like the orchid of the empty valley, elegant and refined, and had a long aftertaste.

Xiao Fan came back to his senses and looked at the beauty, but saw that she was dressed in a lilac palace dress, her hair was coiled into two buns, showing that she was still Yunying's unmarried daughter, and there was a golden step swaying obliquely behind the bun, which trembled with the shaking of her body, a fair-skinned and immature peerless face, apricot eyes Mingren, fragrant and dazzling, red lips and plain teeth, emerald hair and moth eyebrows, and the whole person exuded a gentle and elegant temperament.

Xiao Fan's eyes are straight, all the palace maids in the palace look like this? No wonder Lao Zhu gave birth to more than 20 sons and 10 ** daughters like piglets in his life, and Xiao Fan is Lao Zhu, and he is so beautiful when he brings a palace maid out of the palace, he can give birth to so much, and he must have more than Lao Zhu...... Be an emperor...... That's nice! To be honest, he understands Zhu Di a little bit now.

Beauty has walked in front of Xiao Fan, she glanced at Xiao Fan curiously, her eyes are very clear, very quiet, with a bit of timidity when she first saw people, at a glance, she quickly lowered her head, looked away, and her fair face was suddenly covered with a layer of shy flush.

Then she couldn't help but look up again, this time she didn't look at Xiao Fan, but stood at the door of the hall, and looked timidly into the hall, but except for Xiao Fan, she didn't see anyone else, and the beauty couldn't help but be slightly disappointed, and murmured in a low voice: "Strange, isn't Grandpa Qing here?" ”

Xiao Fan knew that the father-in-law she was talking about was referring to Zhu Yuanzhang's personal attendant eunuch Qingtong.

It seems that this woman should be the palace maid of the inner palace, it is very strange, Wuying Hall belongs to the outer palace, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the ministers and generals in this palace, Xiao Fan has also been in and out several times, except for the eunuchs who are waiting for the waiter, he has never seen the palace maids of the inner palace come here.

Xiao Fan coughed twice, then pointed to his nose and said seriously: "This palace maid sister, there is a big living person standing in front of you, if you have any questions about this living person, for example, you can ask me if Gonggong Qing is not there." ”

The beauty was startled when she heard this, as if she saw a statue speak, she covered her small mouth and looked at Xiao Fan in surprise, and then her big eyes gradually bent down, turning into two charming crescent moons.

"You...... Do you think I'm ...... Lady-in-waiting? "Beauty eats and eats.

Xiao Fan nodded, is it difficult to be a palace maid or a princess?

But it's really no wonder that he has been in and out of the palace a few times, but he has never seen what the palace maid looks like, what clothes should she wear, and the woman she meets in the palace is not a palace maid.

Seeing Xiao Fan's serious expression, the smile in her eyes deepened, and her beautiful face became more and more blushing, she covered her small mouth and laughed lowly, and said, "Okay, then let me ask you, is Grandpa Qing here?" ”

"No. Didn't you see it all? Xiao Fan replied very simply.

Beauty smiled again, and then she pointed to the hall and said coquettishly, "Then can I go in?" ”

Xiao Fan shook his head: "You can't go in, Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Taisun are talking inside, what can you tell me." ”

The beauty looked at him curiously, looked at the five-grade official robe he was wearing, and hesitated: "You are a new ......"

Xiao Fan smiled and nodded: "I am indeed new." ”

“…… Eunuch? ”

Xiao Fanjun's face darkened, and his mood was a little sad and indignant...... "Have you ever seen such a handsome eunuch?" Xiao Fan asked very seriously, very seriously.

The beauty smiled, her pretty face was as red as the sunset, and then she lowered her head very embarrassedly, and said in a slightly panicked voice: "I...... Since Your Majesty has something to do, I ...... I'll go back first......"

After that, she turned around and hurriedly walked back, the defense of men and women in this era was not as strict as that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but the rules in the deep palace were strict, and it was not a decent thing for women in the palace to talk to strange men.

Xiao Fan saw that she looked flustered, and his mind of teasing suddenly became angry, so he smiled evilly and said, "Beauty, leave a contact number......

"Yikes!" The beauty was frightened by his "beauty" that was equivalent to flirting, like a single young woman who met a hooligan after work late at night, she suddenly panicked, her feet were unstable, and she slipped and slipped, and her whole soft delicate body couldn't stop falling in front of Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan was also stunned, he didn't expect such an ordinary sentence to scare other beauties like this, the incident was so sudden, he didn't have time to help him for a while.

The body of the beauty was planted on the ground, and in the panic, she was so frightened that her hands waved and grabbed randomly, like a drowning person subconsciously looking for driftwood in the water, and suddenly the jade hand touched a thing, this thing is not long or short, soft and hard, the beauty was in a hurry, regardless of the strength of the hard to grab it, and the delicate body that quickly fell down was suddenly slowed down, and at the same time, I heard the man in front of him with a comfortable snort in pain.

The beauty stood up in shock, her jade hand was still holding the thing, and she whispered thank you in a daze and very educated: "Thank you...... This son volunteered to help. ”

Xiao Fan's face was pale, gradually purple, and a few words burst out from between his teeth with sweat: "Don't thank me, thank you...... Just thank it! ”

The beauty looked curiously at the object in her hand, and at a glance, the frightened pale face turned crimson in the blink of an eye, like a boiled crab.

"Now you believe I'm not a eunuch, do you?" Xiao Fan was sweating profusely in pain, and pointed to the things that Lirenyu was still holding in her hand with difficulty: "...... If I were a eunuch, you would have to break a bone today. ”

Beauty seemed to be stunned, her whole mind was blank, staring at her hands without moving, and ...... Something in your hand.

"This girl, I'm not a casual person, let you catch it for an hour, and if you don't let go after an hour, I'm going to shout to catch the hooligan."

(To be continued)