Chapter 333: Horseback Horror
() The Mid-Autumn Festival is the day of the royal outing.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang sent an edict to the princes to assemble outside the Donghua Gate at the end of the Chen time and the beginning of the Chen period, so before the Chen time, there were Yulin Wei, Jinyi Wei, Jin Wuwei, etc., and other imperial city guards to block this place.
As soon as the hour passed, the princes came one after another, and the brothers greeted each other one after another, asking long and short questions, probably because they had not seen each other for a long time, and it seemed that everyone was very happy. At the beginning of the day, I only heard a shout,
"The Holy One has arrived!"
Everyone present immediately threw the stirrups off the saddle, dismounted, and fell to their knees in a "hulala".
But I saw that from the Donghua Gate, surrounded by everyone, under the umbrella of Huang Luo, Zhu Yuanzhang appeared in front of everyone on a royal horse, followed by the two people, one in a golden crown and brocade robe, it was the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen, and the other was slightly plain in clothes, but he was graceful and leisurely, it was Zhu Di, the fourth son of the emperor.
Originally, early this morning, Zheng He had prepared a set of brocade robes sent by Shangyi Supervisor, but Zhu Di felt that he was traveling with his own family, and there was no need to deliberately change his clothes, so he still wore the robes he brought and went out to accompany him.
At this time, the princes waiting outside the Donghua Gate and the accompanying guards all bowed down, and the shouts sounded like thunder for a while.
"Respectfully the Emperor! Long live the emperor, long live, long live! ”
"Flat!"
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand slightly, asked everyone to stand up, and looked at Jiang Xuandao, the commander of the Jinyi guard standing beside him,
"Let's go, go to Purple Mountain."
"There is a decree in the saint, set up the Purple Mountain!"
With a shout from Jiang Xuan, the procession began to move towards Chaoyangmen.
As soon as the shout of "driving the Purple Mountain" fell, everyone automatically flashed to both sides, and when Zhu Yuanzhang walked in front of them with Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen, the other princes followed in turn.
Just as he walked in front of the escorted Jinyi guard, Zhu Di suddenly felt some kind of familiar gaze shooting at him, and involuntarily turned his head to look, but saw Jiang Zhen looking this way.
Nodding to him slightly, there was some doubt in his heart: Is it really this person? Something doesn't seem right. I wanted to take a closer look, but at this time, the other princes had already followed and saluted Zhu Di one by one, and a "fourth brother" and then a "fourth brother" called him, so that he had to give up and greet the brothers with a smile.
Out of Chaoyang Gate, I saw that on the road leading to the Purple Mountain, there were guards, and it seemed that the twelve royal guards were out of the nest and heavily guarded. Zhu Yuanzhang probably wanted to travel with his children and grandchildren, so he didn't take a chariot and rode out on a royal horse, so that he could see the emperor's majesty, which made these guards even more nervous.
Everyone walked slowly like this, and they could chat and talk to each other, and these princes seemed to be rushing to talk to Zhu Di, especially Zhu Lu, the king of Zhou, and Zhu Yu, the king of Qi, and later Zhu Bai, the twelfth son of the emperor, also joined the ranks of grabbing words, which made Zhu Di a little overwhelmed.
Seeing that the fourth uncle was smiling and answering questions to those other uncles, Zhu Yunwen was silent all the time, and finally simply turned his head away from looking, probably thinking in his heart, no one would talk to him anyway.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang called him, and Zhu Yunwen hurriedly took a few steps forward and answered. And his move immediately attracted Zhu Di's attention, and he also followed the urging horse. Of course, he didn't want to eavesdrop on what their ancestors and grandchildren had to say, but the horse that Zhu Yunwen was riding was too unsettling. Because as soon as he came out in the morning, Zhu Di found that the child really rode the red fierce horse.
He's really too willful, isn't he-
Zhu Di thought helplessly. But the important thing is that no matter what, you can't let your nephew be late, in addition to Zhu Yunwen's identity, the main thing is that he Zhu Di accompanied the imperial grandson to the horse selected by the imperial horse garden. Although he didn't let him ride this horse at the time, he still rode it, and if something really happened, he really couldn't tell when he tracked it down.
Because of this, from the moment he and Zhu Yunwen converged, Zhu Di has been paying careful attention to this horse, but fortunately, he has been walking slowly all the way, and there is nothing that can make the horse uneasy.
When they came to the mountain of Purple Mountain, Jinyiwei opened the way in front of them, set up defenses in all directions, and entered a flat place to see that it was almost noon, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to prepare lunch.
Zhu Yunwen always stayed by the emperor's grandfather's side, and Zhu Di couldn't be too far away, so he could only follow him. Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the rest time to tell them some past things and past experiences.
After lunch, Zhu Yuanzhang told everyone that they could go around to play freely, and these princes dispersed, and walked around in groups and groups, leaving only Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen's uncle and nephew still with them.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the two of them and couldn't help laughing,
"You two have been by my side all day, haven't you kept enough? Let's go and relax, and let me be quiet. ”
"Grandson obeys."
When Zhu Yunwen heard this, he stood up and saluted, turned around and walked towards his horse.
As soon as he saw that he was going to ride a horse again, Zhu Di also quickly stood up and followed him, and the two came to their respective horses one after the other.
"What is Fourth Uncle doing? Do you want to be your nephew's bodyguard? ”
"Yes, you can't watch the imperial grandson ride a fierce horse and ignore it."
Zhu Di replied with some amusement.
Zhu Yunwen stopped talking, grabbed the reins and got on the horse, and walked towards a river. Zhu Di had no choice, so he had to fly on his horse and follow.
Seeing him coming, Zhu Yunwen said a little angrily,
"Didn't the fourth uncle say that he couldn't gallop with me?"
"Of course not,"
Zhu Di didn't care about him, he was calm and authentic,
"But it's okay to just walk around like this."
The uncle and nephew walked slowly along the river, but who would have imagined that a big fish suddenly jumped in the river, and made a big splash, splashing everywhere. And Zhu Yunwen's horse probably came all the way and was depressed for a long time, after this startle, he started crazy at that time, with a long neigh, his front hooves raised, almost standing upright, and almost threw Zhu Yunwen off the horse, and then galloped wildly.
When Zhu Di saw the "clucking" in his heart, he said in his heart, he was really afraid of something, and hurriedly urged the horse to chase after him.
The imperial grandson's horse was shocked, and the people around saw it, and the Jinyi Guard, Yulin Guard, and Jin Wuwei, who were in charge of guarding, hurriedly stepped forward to intercept them, but the horse saw that there was someone in front of him, so he turned to the side and continued to gallop.
In this way, the horse began to run around in a big circle in the encirclement of everyone, although it would not run far, but after all, it was not a matter to go on like this, not to mention that the emperor who was not good at riding was still on the horse.
At this time, because he was running in the inner circle, Zhu Di had already caught up with the horse, going hand in hand with it, and immediately stretched out his hand to Zhu Yunwen without thinking.
"Yun Wei! Quick, grab the fourth uncle's hand and come here! ”