Queen Ma wore reading glasses and said with a smile: "The good grandson has grown up, and he knows that he feels sorry for the emperor's grandmother!"

Zhu Xiongying didn't speak, showing an embarrassed smile.

"Good grandson, it's not too early, let's go back!"

Queen Ma said again: "Your Majesty, the concubines will retire first!"

"Go back first! When we're done, we'll go to Kunning Palace to see you!" Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to go to Kunning Palace with Queen Ma and Zhu Xiongying, but he didn't finish talking about it, so he couldn't help nodding.

"Grandpa Huang, grandson retires!"

After Zhu Xiongying saluted Zhu Yuanzhang, he walked towards the outside of the Qianqing Palace with Queen Ma.

The eunuch, who had just taken two steps and carried a cake box for Zhu Xiongying, stepped forward and said, "Your Royal Highness, your brocade box!"

As soon as Zhu Xiongying saw the brocade box, he remembered the cake he brought, and hurriedly said, "Grandmother Huang, wait a minute, my grandson still has something to do!"

"What's the matter?" Queen Ma stopped and said suspiciously.

Zhu Xiongying summoned the eunuch carrying the box to his front and reached out to open the lid of the brocade box. After handing the lid of the brocade box to the eunuch to hold, he took the brocade box.

turned around and came to Zhu Yuanzhang, handed the brocade box forward and said, "Grandpa Huang, this is the cake made by my grandson at my cousin's mansion, you can taste it!"

"It's worthy of our good grandson, you think about us wherever you go!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the cakes in the brocade box, his heart was warm, he reached out and took a cake, and didn't care that there were courtiers there, and said while eating: "Well, it's delicious, good grandson, give the cake to your imperial grandmother to taste!"

"Yes, Grandpa!"

Zhu Xiongying carried the brocade box, came to Queen Ma again, and handed the brocade box forward: "Imperial grandmother, you can eat it too!" ap.

"I have to taste the cake made by my good grandson!"

Queen Ma said so, but after taking out the two cakes from the brocade box, she didn't eat them, but ordered, "Good grandson, give the rest of the cakes to your grandfather!" We're going back!"

"Grandpa Huang, here you go!"

Zhu Xiongying nodded, carried the brocade box again, came to Zhu Yuanzhang, handed the brocade box to Zhu Yuanzhang, saluted Zhu Yuanzhang, and left with Queen Ma.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the back of Queen Ma and Zhu Xiongying leaving, and then looked at the cake made by Zhu Xiongying in the brocade box, picked up a cake and ate it, his heart was delicious, in the end, he was the good grandson we brought up, and he knew filial piety to us at a young age.

It's a cake for us again, and it's a birthday gift for us... Wait, birthday gifts? Reading glasses? Sister?

Thinking about it, he suddenly came to his senses and figured out Zhu Xiongying's intention to give a birthday gift in advance, where did he not know that Zhu Xiongying's birthday gift was a sure thing that we would transfer the reading glasses to our sister.

I gave a birthday gift in advance, or rather, I wanted to let our sister wear reading glasses as soon as possible.

Reading glasses are said to be a birthday gift for us, but they are actually a gift for our sister.

No, our good grandson is so filial, how can he do such a thing? It must be Lan Bin's little rabbit cub, who hates us and asks him to prepare gifts for our good grandson again.

I just thought of such a way, let's be angry!

The ministers watched Zhu Yuanzhang eat a cake, they all gritted their teeth, their faces became even more ugly, and they wondered for a while, what happened to the emperor? It was beautiful just now, why is it so angry in a blink of an eye?

But they didn't dare to make a sound, and waited silently.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang finished eating a cake, calmed down, and said while eating the cake in the brocade box, "Okay, continue with the topic just now!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The ministers nodded, and while continuing to discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang, they swallowed silently when they saw Zhu Yuanzhang eating cake.

They haven't had dinner since the afternoon.

The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang has no intention of inviting them to dinner.

When they met such an emperor, they were also convinced! ……

Time is fleeting, and Zhu Yuanzhang's longevity is quietly coming.

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, there will be a three-day holiday during the Wanshou Festival.

On the day of the Wanshou Festival, Nanjing, the city is clothed in red and hung with colors, a festive and lively scene, the civil and military officials of the imperial court in accordance with the process, have presented congratulatory gifts, and participated in the birthday banquet prepared by the palace.

Although Lan Bin's grade was not enough, because Lan Yu was Yongchang Hou, and the imperial court allowed him to lead his family to the banquet, he still followed Lan Yu into the palace to participate in the birthday banquet.

However, at the birthday banquet, don't look at how favored Lan Bin is in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, his generation is still a small character, and he can take out any of them, all of them are his elders.

So much so that at the birthday banquet, Lan Bin could only stay with the second generation of nobles who were also brought to the banquet by the elders.

"Cousin, why are you hiding in a corner alone?"

At the birthday banquet, Lan Bin and the second generation of the nobles exchanged a few words, and just found a corner to sit down in a low-key manner, Chang Sen, who also came to participate in the birthday banquet, walked over.

Lan Bin glanced at Chang Sen, and then at the other groups of second-generation nobles, and smiled: "I'm tired of standing, come and sit for a while!"

In fact, he is not tired of standing, but those second-generation nobles, who are talking about the Qingqi people in the Qinglou, or the sons and daughters of the nobles, competing with others in the Qinglou and so on.

He really couldn't talk to those noble second generations, so he found a place to sit.

"Cousin, I heard that the imperial court is preparing to reformulate the commercial tax rate, and also said that the new commercial tax rate is that the more merchants earn, the more taxes they pay, isn't that true?"

Chang Sen didn't doubt it, came to the place next to Lan Bin and sat down, chatted with Lan Bin for a few words, looked left and right, and changed his words.

Lan Bin raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at Chang Sen, of course he would not say that the imperial court reformulated the commercial tax rate, and he single-handedly promoted it, so he pretended to be suspicious: "Cousin, where did you hear about this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Cousin, you don't know this?" Chang Sen said unexpectedly.

He originally saw that Lan Bin was deeply valued by the emperor and his brother-in-law, and he often went in and out of the palace to face the saints. I plan to verify the authenticity of the rumors of reformulating the commercial tax from Lan Bin.

But he didn't expect Lan Bin to know about it, which really surprised him.

"I don't know, I've been busy with other things lately, and I haven't cared about that."

Lan Bin shook his head and said, "Cousin, where did you hear about this?"

"I listened to what Zhou Ji, the son of Jiang Xiahou, said!" Chang Sen pointed to the second generation of nobles who were chatting around not far away, and said, "They are still talking!"

Lan Bin glanced at the second generation of honors and nobles not far away, and pulled the corners of his mouth, these people are too bold, they talk about business taxes so openly, and it is still at Lao Zhu's birthday banquet.

is not afraid of being heard by the Jinyi Guard's secret pile and reaching Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.

"Cousin, do you think what they say is true?" Chang Sen said again.

Lan Bin noticed that Chang Sen's tone was wrong, and said casually, "Cousin, what do you think about the imperial court's reformulation of the commercial tax rate?"