After returning to Kunning Palace, Emperor Hongzhi's heart was still like a big stone blocked, like a fish in his throat, which made him breathless.

This Ming Dynasty is really a dynasty full of disasters and difficulties, and since the day of the founding of the country, it has never lived in peace.

Earthquakes, droughts, floods, locust plagues, the list goes on, and since Zhu Youzhu ascended the throne, there have been natural disasters of greater or lesser magnitude in every territory across the country.

So much so that he talked about natural disasters, and this landslide happened once last year, on a small scale, but it also caused thousands of casualties, and it also happened once in the previous two years, on a slightly larger scale, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded.

Every landslide will also cause a series of subsequent disasters, floods, food disasters, and if it catches up with summer, there will be plagues.

With natural disasters comes man-made disasters.

This catastrophe had happened several times during his years in power, and each time he was so frightened that he stayed up all night.

And what Xia Yuan said yesterday collapsed, shaking thousands of miles and affecting several provinces. Just thinking about it, Emperor Hongzhi's hands and feet were cold, and his face was a little pale.

Taking a deep breath, he suppressed these worries and began to deal with the notebook that had piled up on the imperial case.

As soon as he opened the notebook, an inner eunuch bowed in, looked left and right, didn't see Xiao Jing, and immediately knelt down and said: "Emperor, Gonggong Xiao of Dongchang is asking to see him outside the palace." ”

As the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the supervisor of the East Factory, Xiao Jing is the genuine Xiao Gonggong, and others call him just Xiao Gonggong, and his godson is also surnamed Xiao, in order to make it easier to distinguish, the prefix Dongchang was added.

The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace are all called like this, and Emperor Hongzhi also knows who he is talking about, so he didn't raise his head and said, "Let him in." ”

Soon, Gonggong Xiao of Dongchang walked in, still looking like a stuffy gourd, even if he saw the emperor, he had no expression, knelt down and kowtowed with a blank face, bowed and worshipped, and spoke with no emotion.

"The slave Xiao Yan has seen the emperor, and I respectfully invite the emperor Sheng'an."

The surname is Xiao, the full name is Xiao Yan, Xiao Jing hopes that his son can say more, as a eunuch, he can speak well, and his small mouth is generally the most useful when he smears honey, so he gave it such a name.

But things in this world are often so unreasonable, and they always backfire.

"Get up, why did you enter the palace this time, but the investigation has an eyebrow?"

"Yes."

Xiao Yan just answered yes, got up immediately, and took out a secret letter soaked in wax from his arms, and then walked over and presented it to the emperor.

The contents of this letter are confidential reports from the factory guards.

Unwrapping this secret report, unfolding the letters in it, Emperor Hongzhi read the contents of it line by line, and soon, the whole person became murderous.

After learning that the prince worshipped a master last year, he specially ordered someone to check Xia Yuan, from the death of his parents, to who his ancestors were, what kind of style he was in the village, and the marriage cheating on marriage, along with his cheating wife.

After all, the matter involves the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally found out.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi knew as early as last year that his wife was the adopted daughter of the Zhao family, not his own child, but was taken by her mother to escape the famine, and finally married the Zhao family as a concubine.

It's not hard to find out about it, just ask anyone and know it.

But it was not investigated in detail, it was just incidental, the main investigation was on the Xia family's side, and the secret report in his hand recorded everything about Zhao Yuerong.

Or everything that can be found.

The circumstances of these years, whether she can investigate the clues hidden in her life experience, as well as her so-called mother

[Inferior people search for reports, inquire in many places, or accompany the merchants, or accompany the merchants, every time they talk to the Zhao Cunqu generation, ask about the Zhao family's adopted daughter, they are confused, or Wan'er, or have a pity color, and the words are mostly sighing and sighing.

The adopted daughter of the Zhao family has a lot of unsatisfactory things in the Zhao family, and she is often called a small in front of people because of the deception of relatives, and the Xia and Zhao families cut off contact, so they have not been honored as sons-in-law. When the people of Zhao Village talked about this, they felt pity for the Zhao family. 】

Little. These three words were too dazzling, Zhu Youzhu couldn't help himself, he laughed angrily, and his hand holding the secret report was trembling.

Okay, very good, my daughter, the princess of the Ming Dynasty, has been unsatisfactory in the Zhao family all these years, but she is scolded as a little, or she is often called a little in front of people

She's a little, that me

It was as if some thought crossed his mind, but as soon as it flashed, Emperor Hongzhi seemed to be uncontrollable, and his whole body trembled slightly.

At this moment, there is a childhood memory that has been dusted in his heart for many years, and he is most reluctant to mention and most afraid to remember.

"This palace never expected that the people in this palace would dare to deceive the sky, and actually harbor such a little as you."

This sentence seems to linger in my ears again.

The woman's face seemed to appear in front of her again, and she just leaned over, with hatred on her face but also suppressed hatred, and coldness in the corners of her mouth and half-closed eyes.

The voice was very soft, but the chill that stood out became more and more obvious.

The face was over fifty years old, and in order to hide his old age, his face was covered with a thick layer of powder.

The forehead, the bridge of the nose, and the chin are also applied to the three whites.

This face looked even more hideous and terrifying in the slightly dim Anxi Palace, Zhu Youzhu was only seven years old at the time, and that was the first time he saw this woman who enjoyed a prestigious name in the palace - Wan Guifei.

The first time we met, I encountered such a scene, such a face, such a terrifying face.

Seven-year-old Zhu Youzhu was so frightened that he cried out and wet his pants at the same time.

Since then, the scene of this day has become the nightmare of his life, the source of the nightmare, the shadow of his childhood, the most humiliating and humiliating thing in his life.

It was the thing he wanted to forget the most in his life, and it was also the thing he had forgotten.

But now that I see the three words of the little scumbag, this matter comes to mind again, and Emperor Hongzhi's body trembles, and he, the supreme emperor, seems to have returned to the old days and changed back to the seven-year-old child.

Hesitation, humiliation, fear, fear buzzed in his head, and his ears were full of the woman's voice: "This palace never expected that the people in this palace would dare to deceive the sky, and actually harbor such a little as you."

"This palace never expected that the people in this palace."

"Hongu never expected it."

"Hongu."

kept repeating, as if there was an echo, and the old woman in front of her seemed to be laughing.

"Get out of here!" Zhu Youzhu finally lost his voice and roared, and then his eyes suddenly got up with red eyes, and pushed all the copies on the imperial case to the ground, his body kept trembling, his face turned from blue to white, and he roared murderously:

"Arrest, catch this Zhao family, send Dongchang, send Jinyi Guard, and arrest all the Zhao family!"

The eunuchs standing in the hall were frightened, they had never seen Emperor Hongzhi erupt into such a shocking rage, the power of thunder, and they were busy kneeling on the ground and kowtowing again and again.

Xiao Yan didn't seem to be affected, his face was still that wooden, and when he heard this, he just answered, and then turned around and walked out of the hall.

It's just that the hands in the cuffs are shaking uncontrollably, and the legs and stomachs are shaking.

(End of chapter)