After breakfast, looking at Chai Jingnan, who was not leaving, Zhu Di asked, "Little brother, where do you live?" I'll send you back. ”

Chai Jingnan thought for a while and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'm going to the capital."

"Then, then I'll go to the capital too."

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Di knew what the hell he was doing: "What are you doing in the capital?" ”

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to see Mom and Dad, are you?"

"My mother once said that I have a cousin in the capital, and I will go to find him."

Zhu Di didn't believe it, but when he saw that he was wearing a jade bracelet on his right wrist, he involuntarily pulled up his little hand.

His hand was held by Zhu Di, and a warmth suddenly spread all over his body, for some reason, Chai Jingnan very much wanted to stay with this person, and preferred the feeling of being held in his arms.

I only heard Zhu Di ask: "Where did this bracelet come from?" Did Mom leave it for you? ”

If it was someone else, Chai Jingnan would have asked the other party what he wanted to do, but when the words came out of his mouth, he nodded: "Well, my mother gave it to me before she died, saying that it was left by my ancestors, don't lose it." Usually I'm afraid of others robbing, and I never dare to bring it out, but last night I heard that those bad guys were going to harm you, so I brought it out in a hurry. Is it good-looking? ”

Zhu Di took a closer look and saw a line of small characters engraved on it - Miao Wang He Yu Liang Wangfu.

The title of "King Liang" has been around since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was Zhou Shizong Chai Rong who was entitled, is this child a descendant of Queen Chai Liang? Thinking of this, Zhu Di sighed secretly: Why doubt a child casually. So he smiled: "It's beautiful, and your mother must be beautiful." ”

"Yes, my mother is very beautiful, just like ......" Suddenly, Chai Jingnan stared at Zhu Di's eyes and stopped talking.

Zhu Di wondered: "What is it?" ”

Chai Jingnan still didn't answer.

Could it be that I said something wrong? Zhu Di was a little uneasy in his heart, but coincidentally, Zong Xi and Dao Yan came. Although Zong Xi is a monk, he is a Zuo Shanshi in the middle of the court, and is known as the "royal monk", Zhu Di was about to ask about the situation in Beijing, so he stood up and greeted the two, but his neck was tightly hugged by Chai Jingnan, which made him not know how to do it.

Dao Yan smiled: "Little doll, you come with me." ”

"I don't like monks." Chai Jingnan twisted his little face.

Dao Yan was not angry: "I want to tell you about the fourth master, do you want to hear it?" ”

Chai Jingnan thought for a while and jumped down from Zhu Di's arms: "Okay, let's see what you can say." ”

Seeing that Zhu Di had come out to talk to Zong Xi, Dao Yan asked Chai Jingnan to sit opposite him and casually talked to him: "Little doll, do you like King Yan very much?" ”

"yes, but I don't like you."

"Don't talk about me," Dao Yan said with a smile, "Are you willing to protect King Yan like Yin Daxia when someone bullies him in the future?" ”

Speaking of Yin Yunming, Chai Jingnan really nodded with envy.

"Do you want to practice martial arts?" Dao Yan looked at him.

"What are you doing in martial arts?"

"Of course, it's to protect King Yan."

Chai Jingnan laughed: "I can protect him without practicing martial arts." ”

"How do you protect it?" Dao Yan is strange.

Chai Jingnan waved his little hand: "Use the dog stone!" ”

Dao Yan nodded slightly: "Yes, your stone is very accurate, but if you are far away, can you still hit it?" ”

Chai Jingnan was really stunned: "What do you say?" ”

"Then you have to practice, and only by practicing can you increase the strength of your hands."

"What is velocity?"

"Strength is ......"

Speaking of this, I remembered that the other party was only seven or eight years old, and after a pause, Dao Yan said, "For example," as he said, he picked up the Buddhist beads in his hand, "Can you just touch one of the beads with your fingers, but make it lay flat into a circle?" ”

"That's not easy, I can not touch a bead." Saying that, putting the Buddha beads flat on the stone table, Chai Jingnan smiled, "Okay." ”

Dao Yan laughed secretly in his heart: This little guy is clever. Then he said: "You can't put it on anything, you have to put it out of thin air." ”

Chai Jingnan thought for a while: "Can you?" ”

"Look at it," Dao Yan put the Buddha beads on one finger and volleyed them around, and the string of Buddha beads rotated flatly, "This is called strength, my finger gives the Buddha beads a strength, and it can't come down." ”

"Tell me, how can I throw the stone farther?" Chai Jingnan asked with great interest.

"If you turn your body around and throw it out, it will be far away."

Chai Jingnan jumped off the stone bench and picked up a stone, quickly turned around on the spot, opened his hand and threw the stone out, seeing that it was really far away, he immediately jumped and jumped happily. After throwing out a few pieces one after another, he was already dizzy, and the stones couldn't distinguish the direction and flew around, which frightened the little novices on both sides to dodge.

Dao Yan shouted: "Okay, you're going to hit King Yan!" ”

Chai Jingnan stopped at this time and staggered back: "Dizzy, I can't do it." ”

Dao Yan was angry and funny: "If you learn martial arts, you don't have to turn around like this, how can you hit the enemy without knowing the direction like this?!" ”

Chai Jingnan froze: "Will you be able to beat someone without turning in a circle?" ”

Dao Yan didn't really want to teach him anything, but now that he was like this, he felt cute, so he pulled him: "If you want to learn, follow me." ”

The two came to a spacious place, Dao Yan picked up a small stone, pinched it on his chest with the thumb and index finger of his right hand and crossed an arc, the palm of his hand went down, and the stone "ding" hit the bird bell under the eaves, and then turned his head: "This is called 'yin hand' in the hidden weapon technique, and if the palm is up, it is called 'yang hand', generally these two techniques." While talking, he taught him how to use his strength, how to shoot, and finally said, "It's not enough to just learn the technique, you must practice martial arts well in order to use the secret weapon well." ”

Zhu Di and Zong Xi talked for a long time, and they also had some understanding of the recent situation in Beijing, and when it came to Queen Ma's illness, Zong Xi said: "The queen's phoenix body doesn't seem to be very good, otherwise Your Majesty will not order Lao Qu to recruit the world's high-ranking monks to enter Beijing." ”

Zhu Di was very sad when he heard it: "The relationship between the father and the queen mother has always been very good, and the old man must be very sad when the queen mother is seriously ill." ”

Zong Xi sighed: "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, and the battle between the north and the south is tight, and he is already working hard, and he is ......."

Speaking of which, a little novice said that Jing Ci was invited, and everyone went together......

The next afternoon, Yu Liang came back, and when he saw Zhu Di, he was overjoyed: "King Yan, everything is arranged, we can leave early tomorrow morning, guess who will pick us up?" ”

Zhu Di was a little amused when he saw him: "Who is it?" ”

Yu Liang pretended to be mysterious: "You will know when you cross the river tomorrow." ”

The next morning, after everyone had breakfast and cleaned up, Zhu Di asked Zhou Duo to leave incense money for the temple and left. Because Chai Jingnan said that there was a cousin in Beijing, Zhu Di took him with him and let him ride the same horse with him.

When they arrived at the ferry, there were already boats waiting, and everyone abandoned the shore to board the boat. As soon as the boat was halfway through, I saw a team of brocade guards waiting on the opposite side, and when the boat docked, a brocade guard wearing a red robe and a stern face in front of the team stepped forward and knelt down to salute: "Jiang Xuan, deputy commander of the brocade guard, greets King Yan Chitose"

Zhu Di waved his hand: "Please get up." I thought to myself: What is there to forgive me for that? raised his eyes and glanced at him, only to see Yu Liang snickering.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a person jump out from behind the flag and grabbed Zhu Di's hand: "Fourth brother!" ”

When everyone looked at it, they saw that it was a young man with a golden crown and a brocade robe, and he was already smiling excitedly at this time. Of course Zhu Di knows, it is his half-brother Zhu Hu, the fifth prince of Zhou.

Zhu Yuanzhang has a total of twenty-six sons, of which only this fifth brother was born to Zhu Di's mother, and the two were born to the virtuous concubine Weng, who lost his mother since he was a child, and his feelings are naturally the deepest. Originally, Zhu Hu's fief was in Kaifeng, and he became a feudal domain at the same time as Zhu Di two years ago, so he didn't want to return to Beijing first this time.

Zhu Di was very surprised, and grabbed him: "Fifth brother, why are you here, it really makes the fourth brother think about it." ”

"I miss you too, I always dream of you at night, the fourth brother!" Zhu Hu jumped and said.

In fact, the age difference between the two is only one year old, Zhu Di looks demure and calm, but Zhu Hu is still lively and cheerful, not childish, as if he is much younger. Looking at him, Zhu Di smiled and said, "Look at you, you've been a vassal king for two years, and you're still so childish." ”

The two walked on the road hand in hand, and Zhu Hu said, "Fourth brother, how do we go?" It is better to go east from Xuanwu Lake, enter the Taiping Gate, and be closer to the imperial city...... Just go straight to Chaoyangmen! ”

Zhu Di sank for a moment: "No, the fourth brother wants to go from the west." ”

Zhu Hu nodded: "Okay, go to Jinchuan Gate or Yifeng Gate?" ”

"I want to go through the Three Mountains Gate." Zhu Di said.

Zhu Hu was stunned: "Then you have to take a long detour into the city!" ”

Zhu Di smiled: "Fourth brother wants to ...... Look at Mochou Lake, Qinhuai River ......"

Zhu Hu immediately shouted: "Oh, yes, today is the Midyear Festival, and the night view of the Qinhuai River must be very beautiful at night!" ”

As he was talking, Zong Xi came over and said, "King Yan, King Zhou, Lao Wei wants to rush back to the Ministry of Rites, so he will leave first." ”

Only then did Zhu Hu notice him: "Huh? Master Zongxi, why are you here? ”

Zhu Di smiled and nodded: "Okay, master, please." ”

Zong Xi gave a salute and walked towards Xuanwu Lake with Daoyan.

Everyone got on the horse again, and Yin Yunming saw that Chai Jingnan could no longer ride with Zhu Di, so he carried him to his horse. Zhu Di and Zhu Hu brothers walked side by side, Yu Liang and Zhou Duo were on the left and right, Jiang Zhen commanded Jinyi Wei to sanitation on all sides, and he carried his horse in front to open the way. Zhu Di saw it and thought to himself: No wonder he became the deputy commander at such a young age, and he really had a heart.

The group walked all the way, stopping and stopping, and when they reached the straight road leading to Sanshanmen, it was already evening. Zhu Di stopped and looked at the smoky Mochou Lake on the left, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, Zhu Hu smiled and said, "Why did the fourth brother get sad when he arrived at Mochou Lake?" ”

Zhu Di sighed: "Two years ago, you and my brother left Beijing to go north to join the domain, and the queen mother came here to see him off, and gave each of them a fox fur sewn by hand. But now ......"

Zhu Hu didn't smile anymore when he heard it.

Continue along the lakeside, and when you enter the Sanshan Gate, it is already dark at night.

As soon as you enter the city, you can see that the lights on both sides of the Qinhuai River are like stars, many residents play by the river, and there are many river lanterns in Hanoi, which adds a bit of charm to the night in the south of the city.

Chai Jingnan clapped his little hands and shouted: "It's so beautiful!" ”

Zhu Di looked at him and smiled knowingly, turned his head to Yin Yunming and said, "Yin Daxia, if you hadn't come to the rescue that day, I'm afraid there would be a river lantern lit for Xiao Wang in this river tonight." ”

Zhu Hu was shocked when he heard this: "What's wrong?" What's wrong! ”

Zhu Di smiled and comforted: "It's nothing, just a few thieves." Zhu Hu wanted to ask again, but he diverted the conversation, "Fifth brother, where do you live?" ”

Zhu Hu blinked: "I still live in the palace, with my eldest brother, you can come too." ”

The "eldest brother" is the crown prince Zhu Biao. The biological mother of Zhu Di and Zhu Hu died early, and Queen Ma has always adopted the two by her side, so her relationship with Zhu Biao is closer than that of other brothers. Zhu Di thought for a while: "I'm still staying at the inn tonight, and I'll talk about the residence after meeting my father and queen mother tomorrow." Zhu Hu knew that what he decided would not be easily changed, so he no longer insisted, and accompanied him along the Qinhuai River to the east of Jubaomen, crossed the Wende Bridge, continued to walk to the northeast, and turned onto the east-west street, and saw the tall walls of the imperial city in the distance.