Chapter 51: I can't help but go
Although it was late at night, the lights were still on in the winter garden, and there was a clanging sound inside, Zhao Ta commanded several craftsmen in the mansion to be busy, and I don't know what new things Lu Dao was making, but everyone was used to the prince's nonsense, and everyone took it to heart, and even the spies who were responsible for monitoring were not interested, and they were too lazy to take a peek.
"Who's making noise out there?" Zhao Ta suddenly heard someone talking outside the door, and asked with a frown.
"Lord, it's the princess who is looking for you!" Wangfu heard the prince's question, and came in to pray.
"Well, let her in!" Zhao Ta thought for a while and said, "Everyone has worked hard today, you go back to rest first, let's do it tomorrow, I have ordered the kitchen to prepare some snacks for everyone!" He said to a few of the craftsmen in the hall.
"The prince is polite, and the prince has to worry about the matter of raising his hands!" Zhang Erbao, the head of the craftsman, hurriedly saluted.
"Yes, what have you done, I have to ask everyone not to spread the word!" Zhao Ta waved his hand and said.
"Although the prince can rest assured, everyone knows what Lu Dao says!" Zhang Erbao looked at several of his subordinates and said.
"Then the king thanked everyone!" Zhao Ta nodded and said with a smile, a few craftsmen didn't even dare to say it, in fact, the things that the prince asked them to make, let them say that they couldn't say why, but no one asked, they were all old people in the house, the harvester in the house back then, and even the first consecutive guns were all from these people, everyone naturally knew the rules of the road, since the prince didn't let him say it, even if he was killed, he couldn't tell anyone.
"Zhen'er, why did you find it, you haven't rested so late!" Zhao Ta saw that Zhu Shuzhen had come in. He waved his hand to make everyone stand back and said.
"The prince hasn't been back to the summer courtyard for a few days, I don't worry about coming over to take a look!" Zhu Shuzhen said. He looked suspiciously at the somewhat messy main hall, where the furniture had been moved aside. There were bamboo poles, wooden sticks, and some fine silk oilcloth scattered on the ground.
"Hehe, I've been busy making gadgets for the past two days, and I've been living here as soon as I'm busy!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.
"Is there something the prince is hiding from me!" Zhu Shuzhen felt that the prince was a little strange these days, some people were dismissed in the mansion, and the internal guards became mysterious, and the prince spent more time in the winter garden, which reminded him of what the prince said a few days ago, and his heart was uneasy. I looked for it today and wanted to ask for clarification.
"I originally wanted to tell you in a few days, but since I'm here today, I'll tell you!" Zhao Ta thought about it and said, there are some things that she has to know after all, since it is better to ask.
Zhao Ta and the two came to the study, and when they saw that Xi was waiting for the prince to wash up, and sent a few plates of snacks and tea for supper, they closed the door and retreated, guarding the door. Ordered the guards to retreat ten paces away, lest they hear something they shouldn't have heard.
"Zhen'er, haven't you always been curious about what I've done all these years, I'll tell you about it today!" Zhao Ta drank a cup of tea. After eating a few pieces of snack, he thought about it and said.
"Why did the prince remember to say this today?" Zhu Shuzhen poured water for the prince and said, seeing the prince's solemn face, he was both expectant and a little timid in his heart.
Zhao Ta started from his rebirth out of the palace. Of course, I was exempted from the experience of being in Xiangyi in the 21st century. and what he did after arriving in the northwest was explained in detail one by one, and he even married two Khitan wives. and responded to Zhe Meiluan's marriage, and all of them were recruited.
And Zhu Shuzhen is the first time to hear the prince talk about his experience, these are more thrilling than the rumors of the outside world, and can even be said to be bizarre, she didn't expect that the prince has experienced so many things over the years, encountered so many dangers, it is even more legendary than the script...
"Zhen'er, I didn't blame me for hiding from you to marry a wife, right?" Zhao Ta looked at Zhu Shuzhen and was silent, and asked stubbornly.
"Lord Wang, how could it be? You have been alone for many years, and you always need a woman to take care of you, but we have been married for many years, but we have been together less and more often, and we have never served by our side, nor have we left a man and a woman for the prince..."Zhu Shuzhen smiled bitterly and shook her head.
But Zhu Shu really knows that people with the status of the prince are like the prince, not to mention finding three, even finding three more is not a new thing, not looking for it is a new thing, but she still felt sour and sad when she heard it at first glance, and she couldn't say sad, but even if she was a wife, she couldn't stop it, and she had to take the initiative to take concubines for her husband, especially if she didn't give birth to offspring, but the prince's troubles cleared the name of 'jealous woman' for herself.
"Alas, I've always wanted to tell you about this, but this thing is too bizarre and life-threatening, so I've kept it from it until now!" Although Zhu Shuzhen said that he didn't blame him, Zhao Ta still felt that he was not doing this authentically and explained.
"The prince doesn't have to be so careful, I think I have also seen that Miss Zhao, and I have never seen that she is a woman, she has been with the prince for many years, and she has sacrificed herself to save your life, and there is a long-term love, and she follows the prince all day long, and she has slept in the same house, how will she marry others in the future!" Zhu Shuzhen looked at the prince timidly looking like a child who had done something wrong, and she was secretly happy in her heart, and said with a smile.
"I'm scared to death, I'll never do this kind of thing again!" Seeing that Zhu Shuzhen smiled, Zhao Ta breathed a long sigh of relief and said, he was worried about this matter for a day or two, afraid that he would cry, make trouble and hang himself.
"I've also seen Sister Zhe, when you retreated from the enemy together, I felt that you were a good match, did the prince have a bad heart for her, but poor Sister Zhe has been waiting for you for so many years, and this time I won't be disappointed!" Zhu Shuzhen said.
"How so? At that time, I thought it would be good if these two little ladies were married to this king! Zhao Tan also joked.
"Oh, I understand, when the prince went to steal Miss Zhao, he must have already fallen in love with the princess of Liao, so he took the sheep and 'stole' it back!" Zhu Shuzhen pointed at the door of the prince's head and said.
"This is wronged to death, that is what Brother Lu did, he stole the princess back, but he couldn't send it back, the situation in Xijing was very complicated at that time, and he had to ... If you don't believe me, ask him! Zhao Ta said with a blushing face.
"Hehe, what are you anxious about, I didn't say anything else, just marry it, multiple princess sisters are also very good!" Zhu Shuzhen rolled her eyes and said.
"Alas, don't be startled, scary!" Zhao Ta breathed a sigh of relief and said, this Zhu Shuzhen usually looks innocent, how can things involving men and women become like little foxes.
"The prince told me this today, are you leaving?" Zhu Shuzhen put away the joke and asked.
"No, it's for us to go together, it's too dangerous to leave you in the capital!" Zhao Ta shook his head and said.
"How can I be in danger, the emperor and the queen have always been very good to us, and the emperor took me to the palace to live for a while before you came back!" Zhu Shuzhen said puzzled.
"You, you're so stupid, where did the emperor take you into the palace to play, that is to take you as a hostage, once I don't return, you will be in danger, do you know the way?" Zhao Ta said with a long sigh.
"What, what is this for, why would the emperor treat you like this?" Zhu Shuzhen was stunned, and asked a few questions about what was wrong.
"Heaven has no flesh and bones, more than ten years ago I fought with the emperor for the crown prince, although I gave up after the worst, but the emperor did not forget. Later, the Emperor Taishang favored me and asked me to govern Hedong, in fact, it was also to contain Tong Guan's expanding power at that time, and at the same time to attack Cai Jing and others in the court, but it aroused the jealousy of the prince, worried that the Emperor Taishang would pass on the throne to me! Zhao Ta said, "After that, because I had too deep a grudge with Wang Hao and others, the emperor still asked me to return to the northwest, and after the Jurchen invasion, the emperor ascended to the great treasure, and has always been very jealous of me and ordered the disbandment of my pro-army, after I led the troops to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, I was worried that I would lead the troops back to Beijing to seize the throne with you as a hostage, and transferred Li Gang's army to force me to return to Beijing!" ”
"Then the prince came back from the northwest because he was worried that I was in danger?" Zhu Shuzhen was stunned, she didn't expect that there were so many reasons for it, and asked anxiously.
"Hehe, isn't it for you? Zong Han was beaten by me and fled, how could he be afraid of his vulnerable forbidden army! Zhao said with a smile.
"Lord Wang, it's me who has caused you trouble!" Zhu Shuzhen hugged the prince and said softly, she realized how much risk the prince had taken to return to Beijing.
"Husband and wife, how can I abandon you!" Zhao Ta gently kissed her on the forehead and said.
"But now that the emperor has risen to the rank of prince, he has given a lot of money and silk, just to let you be free, why does the prince have to leave?" Zhu Shuzhen leaned up in the prince's arms and asked softly.
"These are just to hide people's eyes, the emperor knows that I have an enmity with the Jurchens, but he still promised to take me as a hostage, that is, to put me to death, but I saw the opportunity quickly, otherwise I would have become a ghost under the sword of the Jurchens!" Zhao Tan's face twitched and said, "After that, the Jurchens used counterplots again, and took Zhang Bangchang's mouth to frame me for collaborating with the enemy and treason, if I hadn't obtained that secret letter first, we husband and wife would have been imprisoned long ago!" ”
"Now that a year has passed, the prince is also living in seclusion and no longer participating in court politics, is the emperor still unwilling to let go of the prince?" Zhu Shu was really annoyed, she was aware of the changes in the prince, could it be that the emperor would not know the way?
"Hmph, how many people outside our house are monitoring our every move, and it has become even more intensified recently, and everyone who enters and leaves has to be checked. And now the Jurchens have mobilized heavy troops in Yanjing Mansion and want to go south again, even if he knows that I have no connection with the Jin Army, but the Jurchens released the news that this time they are going south to make me the emperor, abolish the emperor, and share the world. Zhao Ta said with a cold snort.
"The emperor deceived people too much, and he refused to let go of the prince, this was all forced by him!" Zhu Shuzhen's apricot eyes widened, her willow eyebrows were upside down, and she said angrily... (To be continued......)