Zhu Rong bowed and clenched his fists: "Please go back to the camp tent, so as not to shoot and injure Your Highness by secretly releasing arrows." ”

The prince sighed lightly, turned around and walked towards the camp, but said: "In fact, you don't say that I am the prince, who knows which prince is, except for the civil and military officials, the people don't know it, and those thieves and rebels must not recognize it." ”

Zhu Rong and Kaijiang followed silently behind them, they all knew that the queen and the Yang family protected the prince very carefully, and the concubine and her party were entangled for ten years, and they did not lose any of them.

But the excessive protection made the prince's hands and feet tied, and he developed a restrained and dull temperament, and he was not intimate with the emperor.

The emperor said to Zhu Rong that compared to his sons, he was closer to Zhu Rong, the affairs of the court, the affairs of the inner palace, what Zhu Rong should know and what he should not know, and they have the bottom of each other's hearts.

Zhu Rong had already talked to his father about this matter, and the tragedy of the first emperor back then may be staged in this generation, but fortunately, he did not favor any of his sons today, and the four princes and other princes were not enough to shake the status of the East Palace.

After returning to the camp, the prince immediately asked the two: "I heard the queen mother mention that there was a suspicious person who broke into the capital, and the thief in the palace that day was also a suspected accomplice. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was protected by layers of protection for fear of encountering assassins, and listening to my mother's voice, it seemed that my father deliberately designed it to seduce the thief into a trap. ”

Zhu Rong said: "The details will be explained to you in detail after Weichen returns to Beijing, please rest your highness earlier." ”

The prince asked: "The so-called thief, the so-called suspicious person, is it the Kishu Palace?" Is Uncle still alive? ”

Kaijiang said: "As His Royal Highness said, the ministers suspect that the prince of Sheng sneaked into the capital, but there is no evidence. And the other party is menacing, the master is like a cloud, and one of the emperor's secret envoys died in their hands. ”

Zhu Rong knew that Kaijiang was talking about fairness, but Kaijiang didn't know that it was fairness, otherwise he wouldn't be talking about it if he was killed.

The prince's eyes showed excitement: "Xiang Qi is still alive!" I knew he was alive! ”

The two brothers glanced at each other, and Zhu Rong said: "Please rest early, Your Highness, and the ministers are guarding outside." ”

The prince was in a very good mood: "Yes, I will hurry to the imperial tomb early tomorrow morning, and report this matter to the emperor." ”

An attendant came in to serve the prince, Zhu Rong and Kaijiang withdrew from the door, a little farther away, and Kaijiang said softly: "If the emperor listens to this, will he kill his son with his own cane?" ”

Zhu Rong's eyes flashed with a cold light: "In the next few days, you and I will be cautious in our words, and don't provoke the prince to say these words again." ”

Kaijiang sighed: "The princes are not bad in temperament, and their character is not bad, and the four princes are not interested in the throne of the powerful, who do you say is most like the emperor?" ”

Zhu Rong did not answer, saying that he would sleep for two hours first, and then come back in the middle of the night to change the frontier.

Whenever there is a similar errand, Zhu Rong always rushes to sleep first, but what he grabs is not that he can be lazy, but that he doesn't have to stay up until dawn to open up the territory, and he goes on the road immediately without resting.

"You......" Kaijiang said, "Guard, I'll go to sleep, you are now a family man, you have to think about it for the sake of help, take care of your body." ”

Watching his good brother walk away, Zhu Rong smiled helplessly and raised his eyes to the sky, but the night sky was pitch black, and there were no stars and moons in sight.

I don't know what night Fuyi is in at the moment, I don't know if my father is embarrassing her again, I don't know if the eldest lady has bullied her, and I don't know if she can bear the teaching of the eldest sister.

This concern made him feel satisfied and stable in his heart, and no matter where he was, his body and mind had a home.

Zhu Rong looked around, vigilant of all movements, and remembered what Fang Kaijiang had just said.

He didn't tell Kaijiang, in his opinion, the crown prince and the four princes were very much like emperors.

A few people can know that the crown prince back then was not greedy for the status of imperial power, and after being forced to this position step by step, in the end, everything was distorted.

Since he walked out of the capital many years ago, seen a wider world, and witnessed the hardships and hardships of the people, he began to realize the shortcomings of today's governance and realized the great flaws in the emperor's temperament.

Due to the pressure of the royal family, aristocrats and bureaucrats, for thousands of years, not every generation of emperors in the Central Plains has been able to open up the enke and win the scholars by the imperial examination.

After the poor students became the official eunuchs and nobles, it will inevitably affect the interests of the old nobles of the imperial family, and in the past three hundred years of the Great Qi, there have also been decades when the imperial examination was abolished, and the Shiqing Shilu and the military merit system were implemented.

When the first emperor was alive, he did not open Enke according to the law, and only when there was a shortage of officials in the court and the central government, he had to take officials from the people, and even in the early years, it was a common practice to donate officials.

However, after the current emperor ascended the throne, he included the imperial examination system in the Daqi Dynasty program, urged all counties to take the township examination, personally presided over the capital examination every time, and jointly selected the future talents of the Great Qi with the civil and military officials.

Over the years, countless students from poor families have entered the court as officials, and the emperor is not just a cowardly emperor who can't fight in the hearts of the people, but also the henchmen and talents he has cultivated for himself are all over the country.

On the contrary, Zhu Rong was born like this, and when he won the first place in the palace examination that year, it was a national sensation, because just before, countless children of the family were blocked from the palace examination, and Zhu Rong almost raised his eyebrows to the nobles of the family that time.

Thinking of these, Zhu Rong had to shake his heart again, it turned out that being a courtier was not a matter of loyalty and filial piety, but loyalty to the country and loyalty to the king, how to choose.

In the blink of an eye, a night passed, and then the road to the imperial tomb was smooth and stable, and nothing happened to help me or worry about it.

When the crown prince worshiped his ancestors in place of the emperor in the imperial mausoleum, a grand and sumptuous banquet was also set up in the palace of Zhongguo in the capital to celebrate the joy of the full moon of the little prince.

The third lady was pregnant, plump, and had not yet been able to recover her slenderness after giving birth, and the previous clothes could not be worn, so the old lady spared no expense to invite the most prestigious embroidery lady in Beijing to make a new dress for her.

Just the gold and silver thread embroidered auspicious cloud peony, the noble red placket straight-collar robe, is more than a dozen embroidery girls started work at the same time, only to catch up with today's full moon wine.

It was nearly noon, the guests had almost arrived, and the third lady personally came to the inner courtyard to invite her mother-in-law and several old ladies of the family to come over, but before she could say a few words, the next person came to report that the old lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the eldest lady and several young ladies and girls had arrived.

The old lady's heart sank, but she didn't show her face, and excused: "You help my old sisters-in-law to go over first, I will change my clothes and tell Mrs. Min that Xiyuan is far away from here, don't come." I'll be late, and if I'm slacking, it's for the sake of us all being old and having weak legs. ”

Several old ladies said that they were there, and they were not afraid of delaying the hospitality, so they left with the third lady, and the maids came in with basins and scarves to serve the old lady to change her clothes, but she sat still and asked, "Where is the second girl?" ”

The maid responded: "The second girl is in Yuhengxuan, accompanying the fifth son to study." ”

And said that Fuyi was ordered by his grandmother to come to Xiyuan for a banquet and entertain guests, and the third lady liked Fuyi's decency and generosity, and brought her face with brilliance, and praised her nephew and daughter-in-law for her virtuous and capable when she met people.

Therefore, Fuyi is not idle today, and handed over Ping Jue's schoolwork to Yunzhi, and the eldest sister's body has not fully recovered at the moment, and the most bitter thing is the headache and illness, and the noisy people can't stand it, and they are also quietly in Yuhengxuan, but they do not interfere with Ping Jue's homework.

When the old lady came, only the sister and brother were endorsing, but unfortunately the person holding the book was not here.

"Jue'er, go find your big sister." The old lady said, "Grandma has something to say to your second sister." ”

Yunzhi stood up timidly, although she swore to Fuyi that night, saying that she knew how to face her grandmother, but after all, her grandmother was the highest authority in the family, and she dragged it until today.

Naturally, Yun Xin also thought in her heart, she simply didn't say anything, so she simply let her grandmother refuse and completely cut off this matter.

But this doesn't mean that she gave up Min Yanshi, or shaken her determination to get married, she just ......

"I heard that Hanzhi, Pingluo, and Rong'er have all promised you, and it's up to you to decide?" The old lady looked at her granddaughter and said, "As for Fuyi, it was on your side from the beginning, wasn't it?" ”

"Grandma'......" Yun Zhi twisted the book in his hand into strips.

"But you didn't come to me to tell me that someone is here now." The old lady said, "I refuse again in front of everyone, and this matter is really over." ”

"Grandma!" Yunzhi knelt down, trembling slightly.

"Stand up and speak." The old lady snapped, "For whom are you kneeling, for a man?" ”

In the West Garden, the house is full of friends, and it is very lively, although the eldest lady and the second lady are also present, but they are not the east today, and they can't help Zhang Luo, not to mention that the two of them have their own hearts and minds, and they have no intention of enjoying the banquet at all.

I saw the third lady coming, took the tea from the maid's hand, drank it to quench her thirst, and said, "Mother will arrive later, and the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law don't have to go over to greet her." ”

The second lady bowed: "You can go busy, don't worry about us." ”

But when he saw Fu Yi coming, he saluted his mother-in-law and aunts, and said, "Auntie, when the hour comes, the kitchen will come and ask if the food is served." ”

The third lady looked out and muttered, "Is there anyone else who hasn't come?" ”

At this moment, the steward of Xiyuan hurriedly came and said with an embarrassed face: "The front door said that Mrs. Jin and Jin are here...... However, she was dressed in plain clothes and had white flowers on her head. ”