Chapter 1: The Book of Scholars (3)

But in fact, there is a big secret in this, Old Master Chen has never mentioned it to anyone, that is, Zhu Wenyu was not actually born to the Zhu couple. When the Zhu family was destroyed in the war, the family suffered, the old master Chen escaped alone, Zhu Wenyu was just a baby picked up by the old master Chen on the way to escape, there were many such things in the war, the old master Chen was pitiful, and he was raised by his side, and when Zhu Yuanzhang found him, he panicked and said that the child he picked up was also an orphan of the Zhu family, named Zhu Wenyu, and pretended to be the younger brother of his student Zhu Tianyu, so as not to be abandoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Wenyu was only four or five years old at the time, if he was left alone in the people, In the war, it is inevitable to die, and Old Master Chen secretly said in his heart that Zhu Wenyu is really a descendant of the Zhu family, and inheriting the Zhu family's incense can be regarded as a worthy treat of the Zhu family and his wife. This matter is really deceptive, and it is enough to deceive the king, but in fact, when Zhu Wenyu was born, the Zhu family of the gentry in Xujia Village had already broken down for more than a year, and the graves of the Zhu family and his wife had grown grass, where would there be such a descendant as Zhu Wenyu? But if Old Master Chen didn't say anything about this matter himself, no one in the world would know, and even Zhu Wenyu himself was kept in the dark, not knowing at all, just thinking that he was really a descendant of the Zhu family.

Zhu Wenyu sometimes recalled the scene when the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang saw him for the first time in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and he still couldn't help but smile to himself in his heart. He lived with Mr. Chen, since he can remember, he has never had a day in the troubled times to pamper the rich son of a rich man who has no worries about food and clothing, Mr. Chen is a poor Confucian, and can only barely provide him with one or two meals a day, often hungry and full, he often plays games with his young friends of the same age on the street, and no one cares about him, and develops a character who does not accept the sky and the earth, the character of a newborn calf, no matter who he sees, he just wants to say it, there is no rule, the first time he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he was not afraid at all, He also stared at Zhu Yuanzhang with his head held high and squinted eyes and asked, "You are the emperor?" How does it look different from the one on the stage? Zhu Yuanzhang squirted out a mouthful of tea. Later, he opened his mouth and called "Uncle Emperor", accompanied by the eunuch to reprimand him, but Zhu Yuanzhang laughed disapprenosingly and stopped the eunuch, since then, the words "Uncle Emperor" have been stereotyped in Zhu Wenyu's mouth, and since ancient times, he has been called the emperor like this and the first person in the world.

This old master Chen is an old talent, although he failed to take the imperial examination in the previous dynasty, he can also see the first-hand article. It is even more rare that the old master knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially a good hand, as for poetry and songs, although he is not everyone, but he is also quite a bit of literary talent, perhaps because of too much distraction from what he has learned, the old master failed to enter the official in the imperial examination article, and became a Xixi in the Zhu family, teaching Zhu Wenyu's nominal "big brother" Zhu Tianyu to read. Zhu Wenyu was only a few years old and laughed at him for not making sense of the article, and he was so angry that the old master blew his beard and stared at him. It's just that in the past few years, under the coaxing of Old Master Chen to teach him, Zhu Wenyu has also had a first glimpse of all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, coupled with his intelligent nature, he has learned the skills of this old master, which makes the old master feel a lot more relieved. It's just that Zhu Wenyu was abandoned in the grass back then, suffered some internal injuries, and had a weakness in his bones, and coughed from time to time, which always reassured Old Master Chen. The master also has a hand, and after looking at it carefully, he only knows that he is weak and weak, but he can't afford to buy a big tonic medicine, so he has to prescribe a few prescriptions by himself, and from time to time get some licorice, plantain, honeysuckle, blood river carts and the like to make up for Zhu Wenyu's indiscriminate use, just because of the benefits of the herbs he found, how can he have the money to buy medicines in the pharmacy? Today's recipe, tomorrow's recipe, what to eat and feed indiscriminately, fortunately, I still grew up to six or seven years old peacefully. Hongwu was received by Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace in the sixth year, and the situation was naturally a thousand times better than before, so he re-opened a prescription, drinking a bowl every day, and finally being able to make up for it often, but just this bowl of medicinal juice every day, I don't know how many times Zhu Wenyu had a headache, and when he saw that his head was big, he could always escape, and he could hide, and he didn't care, and often choked the old master.

However, Zhu Wenyu was born to be active, always restless, idle, after entering the palace, there was no partner of the same age, and he was really impatient with a bunch of stinky rules of the eunuchs, and the serious eight hundred imperial relatives naturally looked down on him as the "wild emperor nephew" and never paid attention to him, so Zhu Wenyu was most happy to hang out with those guards. The guards are under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Great Inner Army, and they specialize in guarding the safety of the inner palace. The chief leader of the guards is the "Thunder Swordsman" Nangong Lei, and there is also a deputy chief He Wencan, but He Wencan is said to be the deputy commander of the Imperial Forest Army in the capital, so he rarely comes to the palace guard room, just a name, Zhu Wenyu is not familiar with it, but he has only met a few times, and most of them are still playing with the guards on weekdays. However, listening to the guards chatting about the deputy leader He on weekdays, they all looked a little disdainful, as if to say that He Wencan is just a military attaché, at most more powerful than ordinary people, but he doesn't know any martial arts, but he has something to do with Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to become the deputy chief, the guards look down on him a little, just obey the control of Nangong Lei, He Wencan also knowingly does not care about these palace guards, over time, Everyone almost forgot that there was such a deputy chief of the guards. The guards have nothing to do except guard Ouchi, and Zhu Wenyu is lively and messy, so he is also willing to play with him, and Zhu Wenyu is arguing to learn kung fu between jokes, so he also teaches a move and a half, but only teaches moves, as for the secret that everyone does not pass on, it is naturally secret, and it is just nonsense and fun. Even Nangong Lei, who was the head of the guards, was pestered by him to teach a few swordsmanship, and he always practiced so much that he forgot to eat, and every time he was reluctantly returned, Gonggong Ren sent Xiao Gaozi to call him.

This "Thunder Swordsman" Nangong Lei is one of the best masters under the Nangong Sect of the famous family of the martial arts family, and the court hires the masters of the Nangong family to enter the palace to guard, and the contemporary master of the Nangong family "Ruthless Sword" Nangong Wang is rumored to have some old friends after Zhu Yuanzhang's incident, but at this time Zhu Yuanzhang is already the Ming Emperor, and the Nangong family is naturally reluctant to cling to it, so as not to be suspected of becoming inflammatory. Zhu Yuanzhang knew the prestige of the Nangong family in the rivers and lakes, and had the heart to invite Nangong Wang to lead the palace guards. This "Thunder Swordsman" Nangong Lei is more than fifty years old, with a thin body, long white hair, but his face is ruddy and full of black hair, not a single silver wire is missing, and the temples are bulging high, showing that his internal strength has been perfected. Its swordsmanship and sword go thunder, fierce and fast, invincible, according to legend, he is the top master within fifty on the rivers and lakes. Unstoppable when facing the enemy, the emperor is extremely strict on weekdays, and the guards are trembling in front of him and dare not slack off, but in front of Zhu Wenyu, he is just a kind elder, and he really likes Zhu Wenyu's talent and intelligence. If he was in the rivers and lakes, he was afraid that he would have already accepted Zhu Wenyu as an apprentice, but now he was in the palace, and he did not dare to accept the idea of accepting apprentices because of the strict orders of the master, but he just tried his best to teach Zhu Wenyu some subtle tricks. Although Nangong Lei Sword is domineering, his temperament is upright and peaceful, and he strictly obeys the orders of the master of the door and will never participate in political affairs, not to mention accepting disciples with official backgrounds like Zhu Wenyu, but he is at ease in the palace as the head of his guards, which is also the reason why Nangong Wang is relieved to let him enter the palace.

Although Zhu Wenyu has learned a lot of subtle tricks, he just has no internal strength, and the moves he attacks are decent, but he has no strength at all, just an empty shelf, and everyone has the right to tease him for fun, Zhu Wenyu doesn't know the trick of internal strength, so he is naturally happy.

"Wen Yu, come here and endorse! Yesterday's learning of Li Qinglian's "Will Enter the Wine", memorize!" When Zhu Wenyu entered the house, Old Master Chen was already sitting in front of the case, and he didn't ask Zhu Wenyu how late he was, knowing that he couldn't ask anything, and when this kid was cheating, Old Master Chen couldn't do anything about him, so he had to go straight to the point.

"It's endorsement again, Master, can you stop it? Just read it, what's the use of memorizing him? Let's talk about the Book of Changes today, right? Pedant? Zhu Wenyu bargained with a smile.

"How can you eat it without memorizing? I'll talk about it after memorizing!" The old master rolled his eyes up, didn't even look at Zhu Wenyu, still wrenched his face, he knew that once he let go and showed a smile, this little monkey would soon be on the pole, and it would be difficult to stop him.

"Just carry it. You don't see, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, rushes to the sea and does not return......" Zhu Wenyu stuck out his tongue and had to go down with his back. In fact, it's not that he can't memorize it, Li Bai's poem is in line with Zhu Wenyu's temperament, and he likes it very much when he reads it for the first time, Zhu Wenyu has memorized it after reading it twice, it's just his nature and he is just deliberately mischievous.

“…… Sell eternal sorrow with you!" It wasn't until Zhu Wenyu memorized it word for word that Old Master Chen said indifferently: "Okay, "Will Enter the Wine" pass the test!" Today, we are going to lecture on the fourth hexagram of the Book of Changes, the hexagram. In fact, Old Master Chen also knew that it was not difficult for Zhu Wenyu to recite it, because the emperor took care of it, and the old master did not insist on Zhu Wenyu to learn those imperial examination articles, but just picked some heroic or carefree poems and texts to teach him with his temperament, knowing that this little monkey likes this kind of poem, and for the poems and essays that he is interested in, no matter how long the articles are, it is just a matter of reading them once or twice for Zhu Wenyu.

"Master, I heard that the emperor ......" Zhu Wenyu suddenly thought of something, and was about to speak, when the eunuch Ren Gonggong, the chief eunuch of the land, hurriedly ran in and said, "Master, Young Master Yu, the emperor is here." Sure enough, I heard the shouting of the chief eunuch of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu in the courtyard: "The emperor has arrived-" The two hurriedly knelt down with Chen Hanren and other eunuchs to pick up the car.

"Since Zhang Gongqing's hands and feet are not clean, he is not qualified to be the governor of Chongqing, there is no room for sand in my eyes, whoever wants to stretch out his hand to me chaos, I will cut off someone's head, Wei Yong, immediately issued an order, immediately dismissed from his post and asked, ordered Wei Zhengxing to execute the law on the spot, and also exported evil anger to the people of Chongqing."

"Obey. The emperor is sympathetic to the people and sees thousands of miles, which is really the blessing of the people of Chongqing. It's just that as soon as Zhang Gongqing was killed, Chongqing Zhizhou was empty, but I don't know who to take over? Please also ask the emperor to show me. ”

"Well, didn't you mention last time that the magistrate of Chongqing County has an official named Qin Changde, who has a good reputation?"

"Back to the emperor, that Qin Changde is a Jinshi in Hongwu for three years, and he has been in office in Chongqing for five years after filling the vacancy, and the official reputation is still good, and it is said that there are people who have sent Wanmin umbrellas."

"That's him, and give the order." As he spoke, he stepped into the door and let out a hearty laugh: "Little monkey, what have you heard of me again?" …… Teacher, please get up. Little monkey, get up too. "It is the founding son of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, followed by three people, one is the personal eunuch Gao Chan, and the other two are Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, and Hu Weiyong, the prime minister.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang's words fell, he got up, listened to the emperor's question, and said: "Your Majesty, I want to say that I heard that there are countless good books hidden in your Wenyuan Building, I wonder if the emperor's uncle can let me go in and take a look, pick a few interesting books to see?" Originally, it was disrespectful to the emperor to speak like this, but there was a precedent before, the eunuch in front of the emperor came out to reprimand, and the emperor said that Zhu Wenyu was young and ignorant, naughty and nonsense, and was free from heavy etiquette. Therefore, at this time, the great eunuch who followed the emperor chanted and pretended not to see it, and followed him.