Chapter 9 Killing Chickens with Cattle Knives
"Who are you?" Zhu Zhen looked at the old eunuch with a eunuch face.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the old slave is named Hou Lixie, and he is the head of Changyang Palace." Eunuch Hou lowered his eyebrows and said.
"The surname Hou is the person who is the concubine." Zhu Di whispered to the sixth brother: "Eighty percent is for the seventh brother, right?" She is notoriously unreasonable, you bullied people and peeed on their sons, can you not settle accounts with you? ”
"No, I'm just helping him practice calligraphy." Zhu Zhen asked Eunuch Hou with an innocent face: "Is there anything delicious there for Niangniang?" ”
"Of course, I prepared a lot of fruit for His Highness to eat." Eunuch Hou said with a smile.
"Then the king will go there." Zhu Zhen responded, turned his head to Zhu Di and said, "Fourth brother and fifth brother, I can't go with you." ”
"We'll go with you." Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "You are a child, you will be bullied." ”
"His Royal Highness King Yan forgives his sins, my mother has something to ask His Royal Highness the King of Chu alone." Hou Lixie refused.
"Who are you? Can you manage loneliness?! Zhu Di didn't bird him, rolled up his sleeves and said, "I still have to go, can you stop it?" ”
"Don't worry, Fourth Brother." Zhu Zhen helped the other party persuade him, and said with a sensible little look: "Even if the mother wants to settle the account, it will save face for me." Anyway, at most scold me twice, it's definitely better to be scolded in private than in public, right? ”
"Also, if no one hears it, it means that you haven't been scolded." Zhu Di thought deeply and said: "Anyway, she doesn't have a ring ruler from the imperial gift, so she doesn't dare to move your finger." ”
"Come back and let people be safe." The fifth brother shook Zhu Zhen's fat hand vigorously. This sixth child is really sensible now.
Separated from the two elder brothers, Zhu Zhen followed Concubine Ding's entourage and went to Changyang Palace.
Hou Lixie didn't go back, saying that he was going to go in and make up for King Qi.
During the main class, no one was allowed to enter, so he could only wait until after the school was over.
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Changyang Palace is in the East Sixth Palace, and you have to go through the East Second Long Street.
Wang Defa didn't dare to interject just now, and only then did he dare to ask in a low voice: "Your Highness, what happened?" ”
"I scared the seventh to pee, and Concubine Ding's mother wanted to talk to me." Zhu Zhen looked at Wang Defa, who was still in the dark, and felt that it was better to talk to him.
"It just so happens that I also want to talk to her about something, and it's a two-way street."
"Going both ways?" Wang Defa was a little confused: "What are you doing to find a concubine?" ”
"I beg her to spare my mother." Zhu Zhen said with an innocent expression: "My father said that as long as she agrees, I will let my mother come back." ”
"Oh, my little highness, you have really grown up...... Wang De heard this, his nose was sour, and he hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears and said: "If Niangniang knew that she was thinking of saving her, she would definitely be relieved." ”
"Who let me have such an unconscious mother." Zhu Zhen sighed.
"Uh......" Wang Defa almost choked to death with saliva, seeing that Changyangmen was in front of him, he hurriedly advised: "If Concubine Ding's mother says something that you don't like, Your Highness must not take it to heart." ”
After a pause, he said softly: "Just do your best, don't be too aggrieved and demanding." It's a big deal, let's think of another way. ”
For His Royal Highness's trip, Wang Defa has no hope. It's just that His Royal Highness's filial piety is commendable, and of course he should be encouraged.
"Well, don't worry." Zhu Zhen nodded, although this old eunuch is a sissy, he seems to really care about himself.
After the ceremony, Concubine Ding was invited in, and Wang Defa was stopped outside the palace gate without accident.
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The main hall of Changyang Division is luxuriously furnished and full of flowers.
Concubine Dading, who has been restored to become the first beauty in the palace, deliberately chose the meeting place here in order to turn this conversation into a crushing game.
I saw her in the middle of the bun, wearing a phoenix crown on her forehead, decorated with gold beads and hairpins, wearing a bow coat and a xia veil on the outside, gorgeous and noble, and sitting on the throne of the ground screen with a majestic demeanor, which was very oppressive.
Zhu Zhen walked in and saluted respectfully.
Concubine Dading asked everyone in the palace to step down, and did not give a seat according to the routine, so she looked at the sixth son of the emperor standing in the hall condescendingly.
I saw that he had thick eyebrows and round eyes, cheeks and flesh, and an innocent face, he was completely a harmless child.
'What is Hongu doing?' Fight with a kid? Concubine Da Ding rubbed her temple with her right hand, and felt that she had 'plucked her ears with a horse spoon - making a big fuss'.
"Ahem." But it's all here, hurry up and get it done.
She coughed lightly and said, "Does Your Highness know why this palace invited you here?" ”
"Well, I don't know." Zhu Zhen was timid.
"Then the palace will let you know." Concubine Ding's tone turned cold and asked, "Say, why did you frame the seventh child?!" ”
"I, I don't." Zhu Zhen seemed to be scared to cry.
"Why not? The seventh came back and told me! As soon as she thought of what happened in the morning, Concubine Ding became angry, gritted her silver teeth and said:
"Who did you learn this from, you are full of nonsense at a young age, and you think you are smart, in fact, you are playing with fire and setting yourself on fire, you are stupid to the point of being home, you know?!"
"I'm not talking nonsense, am I?" Zhu Zhen said aggrievedly: "He admitted it all, and he was scared to pee his pants." ”
"Shut up!" Thinking of the good image he created for his son with his painstaking efforts, it was ruined today! Concubine Ding broke the defense on the spot.
If it weren't for the identity of the other party, she would have tore his mouth apart.
"Lao Qi is still a child, and he was coaxed and deceived by you to go to the ditch! Is that how you are a brother?! ”
"He pushed me into the lake and treated me like a brother?" Zhu Zhen said with a crying voice: "Besides, who is not a child yet?" ”
"Hmph, it's useless to say anything. Who doesn't know that Lao Qi is a good boy? Do you think the emperor will believe your words? Seeing that he couldn't support it, Concubine Ding became intimidated with a fierce voice.
"We also said that you have a grudge because of your mother's concubine, and you spew blood, slandering the seventh child!"
"I didn't!" Zhu Zhen argued loudly.
"It's useless to shout louder." Concubine Ding felt that she had won the game, and in a tone of playing with her prey, she said in a pinch tone:
"Do you think the emperor would believe the words of a ten-year-old child? Or do you believe in the words of Hongu? ”
Saying that, she said in an accentuated tone: "And you also have a criminal mother, which is called having a mother and having a son!" ”
"You are talking nonsense, my mother did not commit a crime!" Zhu Zhen was really angry. This woman is also too vicious, how can a ten-year-old child resist such a terrible verbal attack?
You have to be scared by her!
Of course, that's what she's aiming for.
"It's useless to say anything. Your father will believe us! Don't you know that your father hates people to deceive him the most? Once he finds out you're a liar, he'll beat you to death! And then imprisoned to death! ”
Concubine Dingniang completed the final blow, and said in her heart, with the combat effectiveness of the old lady who crowned the six palaces, dealing with such a hairy child, it is really a knife to kill chickens.
She took a sip of the teacup to moisten her throat, and looked at Zhu Zhen for a long time, ready to appreciate the process of his collapse.
I saw Zhu Zhen lowering his head, his shoulders swaying slightly, as if he was said to be crying.
"But for your sake, as long as you kneel down and kowtow to admit your mistake and write a letter of guarantee, this palace is not impossible to consider, expose this article, and don't talk to the emperor......" Concubine Ding felt that the time had come, and she was poor and dagger.
"Thank you, mother." Zhu Zhen thanked him and slowly raised his head. In a calm tone that a ten-year-old child should never have, he said: "Let this king see how disgusting a person can be." ”
Concubine Ding was surprised to find that His Royal Highness the King of Chu was not crying at all, but laughing.
The smile was innocent and bright, but it made her scalp tingle.