is called "Zhang Yan", and she is from Henan, fourteen or fifteen years old......

This information cannot but remind Zheng Haizhu of the empress of the Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao in history, Zhang Yan.

No matter how familiar you are with history, you may not know all the queens of the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhang Yan's reputation and reputation are very high, and it is impossible for students majoring in Ming and Qing history not to know about it.

Zhang Yan is recognized by the historian as a virtuous queen, after entering the palace, she can compete with Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, and she can always be recognized by Zhu Youxiao in the relationship between husband and wife, and when Zhu Youxiao died, she promoted Zhu Youzhen to ascend the throne with a calm attitude.

Because this Empress Zhang is not an idle person, the eunuch party once spread rumors and framed, saying that Zhang Yan was not the daughter of the Kaifeng scribe Zhang Guoji, and her biological father was actually a death row prisoner.

Fortunately, the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not believe in the eunuchs he particularly relied on in this matter, and Zhang Yan's position remained unmoved.

However, at this time, Zheng Haizhu thought about it again, the Ming Dynasty chose the queen, tending to be a girl from a small family, and the history has never recorded that the Queen of the Apocalypse has any distant and near relationship with the British public, perhaps, it is just a duplicate name.

She then turned her energy and was planning how to ask Princess Ningde about the recent situation in the inner court, Ningde's eyes that looked at the courtyard from time to time suddenly lit up.

"Hey, big brother!"

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, he looked back and saw that next to the water pavilion on the other side of the Moon Cave Gate, the young man in the scarlet robe was indeed Zhu Youxiao.

Princess Ningde was slightly surprised, just because the Zhang family sisters were nearby, it was not easy to speak out, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared, and she said eloquently: "Master Zheng, the eldest brother must have come to see the crystal palace in the pool, last time he said that there is an organ that he can't understand, so he still has to ask Master Zheng." ”

After that, as a difficult color, he looked at Zhang Wei and Zhang Yin.

Zheng Haizhu knew his heart, and said with a straight face: "The girl of the Guogong family is here, it's not appropriate for the eldest son of the emperor to come in, I'll go out, you continue to listen." ”

……

The small waterfall pours down from the wooden pavilion in the stone of Taihu Lake, because of the wonder of craftsmanship, there is no surging momentum of flying flowers and splashing jade.

A curtain of water is like a mirror.

Zhu Youxiao turned his sleeves outward, and from the standing mirror made of water, he saw Master Zheng stopping behind him.

Zhu Youxiao hung up, hesitated, and finally left.

Zheng Haizhu said lightly: "Sun Hanlin said that the birthday of the emperor's eldest son is coming. I think, after all, we are a master and apprentice, and the apprentices are growing up in their years and have a solid heart, and those who are masters are naturally happy and should send congratulatory gifts. ”

Zhu Youxiao turned around and saw that Master Zheng put the small wooden box in his hand on the ground, but he didn't pay attention to the etiquette of a woman's taboo, squatted down directly, opened the lid of the box, and cautiously, as if holding tofu, took out a device that blended wood color and metallic luster.

"Striking bells?" Zhu Youxiao recognized it at a glance.

When his grandfather Wanli was alive, Matteo Ricci, a Tessie man who was led by Xu Guangqi of the Hanlin Academy, donated two self-striking bells.

One of them, tall and gorgeous, towering like a mountain, is supported by four carved copper pillars at the bottom, and the timing is also the sexagenary branch of the Chinese language. Emperor Wanli liked it very much, and built a wooden attic in the imperial garden to install a large clock.

Another small self-striking bell that is as delicate as the size of a table screen, Wanli is more fond of it, and often plays and tastes in the Qianqing Palace.

After the attack, Wanli probably asked Wang An to bring Zhu Youxiao, the eldest grandson, to the Qianqing Palace for the first time in order to further appease the East Palace, and show him some novelties to pay tribute from all over the world.

Zhu Youxiao was trembling in the face of his strange grandfather at that time, and Wanli couldn't hide his displeasure for this grandson who was not related to Concubine Zheng's blood. It wasn't until Wang An came to ring the bell and Zhu Youxiao found the place to wind it without a teacher, and Wanli's suddenly warm face eased the atmosphere of the scene a little.

At this age, Wanli died, and the small self-striking bell became a funeral object.

When Zhu Youxiao first took a class in the Wenhua Palace, he mentioned the self-striking bell to Master Zheng, who taught Western studies, and received a refreshing response from the master: "Songjiang switch, it is not difficult to find a good thing, give the prince a statue." ”

Zhu Youxiao was still a little worried, saying that "sending the bell" and "sending the end" have the same sound, afraid that Xi Li Niangniang would not allow it, but it was his younger brother Zhu Youzhen who did not hesitate to use "How could there be such a taboo when the emperor collected the bell from him" to dispel Zhu Youxiao's concerns.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao's coldness was replaced by surprise, and he blurted out: "This is from Songjiang?" So fast? ”

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao's coldness was replaced by surprise, and he blurted out: "This is from Songjiang?" So fast? ”

Zheng Haizhu handed the bell to Zhu Youxiao's personal little eunuch to hold, and pointed to the outer outline of the fish pond on the side and said: "Thanks to the convenience of the Songjiang switch, the female students who follow me to help the princess do not have to go through the canal, and the sea boat is now the last season of southeast wind, from Songjiang to Tianjin Wei, it will arrive in three or four days." ”

Zhu Youxiao said "oh" and echoed: "The sea route is really fast, the master said that it only takes one day to go from Dengzhou to Dengliao Sea Road to Lushun. ”

As he spoke, his hands were already fiddling with the wooden door on the side of the chiming bell, and when he opened it, he looked inside, trying to figure out if the mechanism inside was related to the wooden carved birds and birds in the glass cover.

But Master Zheng's calm voice came from his ears: "If the eldest son of the emperor likes it, just enjoy it slowly, and the official will go to His Royal Highness Ningde to continue teaching." ”

"Master!"

As if he had been plucked by clockwork, Zhu Youxiao suddenly raised his head and called Zheng Haizhu.

The little eunuch Monkey Jing'er, with two eyes glancing at the master's face, immediately said cautiously: "Brother, such a precious thing, can the slave maid first take it to the stone table in the pavilion to stabilize it?" ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and the little eunuch hugged the bell and retreated numbly.

"Why did you lie to me?" Zhu Youxiao's emotions came up, staring at Zheng Haizhu and getting straight to the point.

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was even a little taller than her, an adult woman.

But Zheng Haizhu did not feel the pressure of being looked down on.

Yes, that Zhu Youzhen is still a ten-year-old child, and when she looks up at Zheng Haizhu, she feels that she is looking at her equally.

And Zhu Youxiao looked at her, and his gaze, with an aura of lack of flattery, was just a milk murderer, and he even showed the trembling meaning of the rabbit seeing the eagle in an instant.

Zheng Haizhu was not proud of winning at all, but sighed.

It's a very good boy, in terms of spirit, he was selected by Xi Li and Mama Ke, and he was badly trampled like this!

Zheng Haizhu sighed lightly: "It's a helpless move to keep you in the dark, Your Highness is soft-hearted, and you haven't experienced some of the past, it's hard to believe." Master, I don't think it's wrong this time, because I don't mean to lie to you, but to lie to the guest. deceived a harmful person and made her humiliate herself, the eldest son of the emperor thinks, is it wrong? Guilty? Is it enough to sever the friendship between our teachers and students? ”

Zhu Youxiao felt a little winding.

On that day, Ke Yinyue stole chickens and rice, and was ordered out of the palace by the Son of Heaven, Zhu Youxiao returned to the inner court, and lost his temper with his younger brothers and sisters for the first time. Even though Zhu Youzhen was still responsible, after driving away the slaves and maids, he frankly admitted that he had asked Master Zheng to do the matter himself, but Zhu Youxiao was still so angry that he cried.

At this moment, Master Zheng did not appease, but asked rhetorically, which made Zhu Youxiao's weak temperament suddenly provoked a little blood.

He no longer argues with the master about the rationality of "deception", and the master's eloquence will stun him.

He simply took two steps forward, glared at Zheng Haizhu and said, "You have a man outside the palace to protect you, but Mama doesn't!" Do you know that on the third day that Mama was kicked out of the palace, she was bullied! ”

Zheng Haizhu met the gaze of the imperial prince, but praised him for being a little manly, so he also responded to him in a stern tone: "I know, in Nanhaizi, she went out to buy vegetables, and the former nurse of the fifth prince poured feces on her. ”

Zhu Youxiao was stunned: "The nurse of the fifth prince? Isn't it one of those fathers-in-law in the palace who wants to take advantage of grandma? ”

Zheng Haizhu sneered: "She asked someone to bring you a message?" She is still deceiving you, looking at you to pity her and feel sorry for her, and go and beg Wan Sui Ye to get her back as a grandmother as soon as possible. Your Highness, why was the first one to jump out to look for her bad luck was another nurse who had been out of the palace for many years? The two of them are not serving the same prince, so there won't be any old grudges for favor, right? ”

The anger in Zhu Youxiao's eyes darkened: "For, why?" ”

Zheng Haizhu said calmly: "So I believe in the words of the fifth prince more, his biological mother Liu Niangniang may have been calculated by the Hakka family at the beginning." The nurse of the five princes thought of the old master and went to vent the evil spirit for the old master under the loess. ”

"You're just guessing." Zhu Youxiao muttered.

"Am I guessing?" Zheng Haizhu smiled, not teasing, but stunned, "Okay, even if the old account is my blind guess, then what about her calculation of the sixth princess?" Am I guessing, or have you seen it with your own eyes, from Long Live Lord to Your Highness? To the princess, she dared to do this, who did she think she was? Your Royal Highness, this is the inner court of your Zhu family, not that she is a nurse who is qualified to make waves! ”