Fengxian Hall, standing on a huge white Sumeru seat.

Walk through the white stone steps in front of the hall, then come to the front of the Fengtian Palace, the golden top, the red door, the antique style, make people feel solemn spontaneously.

After a moment of silence, Huang Xiongying followed the old eunuch into the Fengxian Palace.

In the temple.

At this moment, this place is empty, and in the passage, only Huang Xiongying's footsteps echo.

The old eunuch wore cloth shoes and walked silently, like a ghost.

Moment.

Then came to the front hall, the hall has the throne of the dragon and phoenix god after the holy column, the bean case, the incense silk case, the blessing case, the respect case and so on.

Under the kerosene lamp, which is not too bright, everything looks solemn.

However, the old eunuch did not stop here, and took Huang Xiongying around the front hall and walked inside.

The Fengxian hall is an I-shaped structure, and the front and rear halls are connected by passing halls to form an internal passage.

Huang Xiongying wondered in her heart.

Emperor Hongwu, what's wrong? Let yourself come to the temple of the ancestors, not to mention, but also let yourself enter the private apse?

You must know that the apse is not accessible to ordinary people.

With doubts in his heart, he came to the apse under the leadership of the old eunuch.

The apse is deeper than the previous one.

Here enshrines the holy queen god tablet, with treasure bed, treasure chair, 楥椥, front set up offering case, lamp and other things.

And there are also portraits of the ancestors of the Zhu family hanging on it.

Emperor Zhu Chuyi of Xizu Yu, Empress Yu Wang, Emperor Renzu Chun Zhu Shizhen, Empress Chun Chen, and King Zhu Xinglong of Nanchang......

Empress Xiaoci Gao!

Huang Xiongying looked at the graceful and luxurious woman in the portrait, and his heart couldn't help but stir.

This is the famous virtuous queen in history, Queen Ma.

Queen Ma can be called a real mother in the world and a model of the harem.

This woman has a noble character of advocating virtue and frugality, and the traditional virtues of generosity, wisdom, simplicity and kindness reflected from her constitute her unique personality charm.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always respected her, and even a little fearful.

It is no exaggeration to say that Empress Ma played an indelible role in assisting Zhu Yuanzhang in achieving the imperial cause and having a far-reaching influence on all aspects of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a legendary woman, and she is also full of praise in the history books of later generations.

Huang Xiongying looked at the woman in the portrait, and for some reason, she felt a sense of closeness, perhaps because of the kindness and kindness of Queen Ma in the portrait, which made people feel good.

Huang Xiongying looked at them one by one carefully, and finally his eyes fell on a portrait of Yingwu.

The middle-aged man in the portrait is heroic, with two mustaches and a pair of bright eyes.

It was the crown prince Zhu Biao who died a few months ago.

No wonder the palace maid just now said that the prince stared at her.

Huang Xiongying looked at it and couldn't help but feel a little familiar, but he couldn't think of anything for a while.

"Heh, how could I have met the prince?"

Huang Xiongying laughed at herself in her heart, and inadvertently turned her head, but found that at some point, the old eunuch had quietly retreated.

In the entire empty apse, only one person remained, and there were lifelike portraits of the ancestors of the Zhu family hanging on it.

However, Huang Xiongying was not afraid, he didn't believe in any ghosts and gods, on the contrary, he felt a lot more at ease, he was alone in this royal land, no one bothered, he could have a good visit.

After looking at the crown prince Zhu Biao, Huang Xiongying's eyes fell on the last tablet.

The last tablet does not have a portrait here.

Huaiwang Zhu Xiongying!

When he saw the name on the tablet, Huang Xiongying couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

Zhu Xiongying, the eldest son and grandson of Emperor Hongwu, died when he was eight years old, and even his name did not even have the five elements in Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral teachings.

Because Zhu Xiongying is the eldest son of the crown prince Zhu Biao, he should have become the emperor's grandson, but he died too early, and he died before he could wait for the ceremony of establishing the emperor's grandson and giving his name.

After his death, Zhu Xiongying was posthumously named King Yu, and his nickname was Huai.

King Huai, I'm afraid that this Huai character doesn't carry the deep nostalgia of Emperor Hongwu, Empress Ma and others.

Huang Xiongying sighed in his heart.

Fengxian Hall Fengxian Palace, which was originally a place to worship the ancestors, is now enshrined in the descendants, I am afraid that every time Emperor Hongwu comes here, his heart is not a taste.

But what if Emperor Hongwu wants to call himself here?

Huang Xiongying has never figured out, is it because he also has the word Xiongying in his name?

"Great grandson."

Suddenly, an old voice sounded behind him, making Huang Xiongying turn his head sharply.

I saw an old man behind him, with pale white hair tied up with a wooden hairpin, a tall skeleton, and long hands and feet.

In the light of the candles, the old man looked a little thin, but not weak, and in the dimly lit hall, his eyes were frighteningly bright.

"Grandpa, why are you here? What about the old emperor Hongwu? ”

Hearing Huang Xiongying's words, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to come back to his senses, smiled, and said, "The old emperor Hongwu has something to do, and he will come over in a while." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang stepped forward and came to Huang Xiongying's side.

"While the old emperor Hongwu is not here, let's talk?"

Huang Xiongying nodded, he found that the old man seemed to be different from usual today.

The old man said leisurely: "Child, we still remember, when we first met you, you said that you would give us a pension for the elderly, do you still count?" ”

"Of course."

Huang Xiongying nodded, not saying much, but his determined eyes said everything.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled when he heard this, and said: "It's really our good grandson, when we want to enter the earth, we can still meet our eldest grandson, it's really God's favor, you accompany us through the last years, and we will spend the rest of our lives growing up with you!" ”

Listening to the old man's words, Huang Xiongying was a little confused.

What's wrong with the old man today, why did he suddenly become sentimental, and there was a smell of explaining the aftermath in his words.

"Grandpa, the days to come are still long, with me by your side, you will definitely live a long life!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, who knows how long they can live?" Don't others shout long live the emperor every day? But can the emperor really live long? ”

Saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the portrait of the prince, "Look at the prince, he is benevolent and virtuous, people inside and outside the court respect him very much, the old emperor has cultivated him for 20 years, and originally wanted him to inherit the throne, but he said to leave as soon as he left, and he didn't think about it at all!" ”

Huang Xiongying nodded and said, "The prince is virtuous, it is indeed a pity. ”

The old man retracted his gaze, looked at Huang Xiongying, and said slowly: "So, we want to talk to you about the two of us while we can still talk, we are afraid, we are afraid of regrets!" ”

"What about the two of us?"

Huang Xiongying was slightly stunned.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Child, we haven't mentioned anything about us since we have known you for so long, do you want to hear our story?" ”

"Yes!"

Huang Xiongying nodded heavily.

He tried to knock on the side, but he was bypassed by the old man several times, and now that the old man mentioned it himself, of course he was curious.

"In the first year of the calendar, we were born in a peasant family, the family was very poor, my father and mother worked hard for a year, and they couldn't even eat a full meal, and the family just looked like a person, but they lived completely like a person."

"I've been hungry since I was a child, but at least I still have a home, and the family is better than anything else!"

Recalling when he was a child, the old man's eyes seemed to return to that poor but innocent time all of a sudden, and he did not hide the infatuation in his eyes.

"It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, when we were six years old, our hometown suffered a great drought, and then there was a plague, and then there was a plague, the court didn't care, our hometown was a famine, there were people everywhere, the bark of all the trees on this mountain was gnawed away, and it was no wonder that it was eaten by the child!"

"We don't have overnight food at home, so we are so hungry that our chests are close to our backs, so we can only gulp cold water and then tighten our belts."

"But if you're hungry, you're hungry, at least you're still there!"

"Our requirements are not high, we just want our family to be safe, and we can have something to eat, but ......"

Speaking of this, the old man's gaze seemed to suddenly pull to sixty years ago, and he began to show a painful look.

After a moment of silence.

The old man said leisurely: "We still remember to this day, when we were twelve years old, our father starved to death on the sixth day of the fourth month, our eldest brother starved to death on the ninth day of the first month, and on the twelfth, our eldest brother's eldest son starved to death, and on the twenty-second, our mother starved to death......

"When we picked up our mother's body, there were not a few firewoods to ......"

Speaking of this, the tears in the old man's eyes couldn't help but flow.

Recalling this tragic past, Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't let go, just like at the beginning, let the tears flow.

"Grandpa......"

Huang Xiongying didn't know what to say, so he had to stroke the old man's back to show comfort.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, wiped the tears in his eyes with his sleeve, and choked up: "At that time, our sister got married, and the third brother went to the door, and we and our second brother were left in our family. ”

"But we don't even have a straw mat left, what should we do to bury our father and mother, our eldest brother!"

"At that time, our father and mother and our eldest brother were at home, and they were already stinking, and we were thinking, if anyone can bury our father and mother and our eldest brother, we can even give him our lives!"

"Desperate, let's go to the landlord, beg him to find a place for us to bury his father and eldest brother for the sake of our father and mother who have planted a field for him all his life, and drive us out directly!"

"Fortunately, on the road of endless heaven, a kind-hearted person saw that our two brothers were pitiful, and finally gave us a place to bury our father and eldest brother."

Speaking of this, the old man's red eyes couldn't help but reveal a touch of warmth.

Huang Xiongying saw it in his eyes and knew that it was the darkest moment in the old man's life, and the help of well-wishers made his cold and numb heart feel a little warm, and he will never forget it in this life.

Zhu Yuanzhang fell into the memories and continued to tell: "We remember, on the day our father and mother were buried, we and our second brother were crying while digging a pit, we were so hungry that our hands were shaking, but we still worked hard and dug out a big pit, so that our father, our eldest brother, and our nephew could be buried together. ”

"After burying them, the well-wishers saw that we were really pitiful, so they gave us half a catty of rice bran."

"At that time, there were only us and our second brother, our sister-in-law, and our nephew who had just learned to speak, so we boiled a pot of rice bran, and then the family gathered together, just like the New Year, after eating the half pot of rice bran."

"The next day, the family broke up and went their separate ways!"

"There's no way, there's only a dead end together, maybe you can pick up a life when you go out, your sister-in-law took her nephew back to her parents' house, and your second grandfather took a broken bowl and went out to beg for food, since then, we haven't seen your second grandfather!"

As he spoke, the old man's tears flowed again.

Huang Xiongying listened to the sad past of the old man, and he couldn't help but have red eyes, he listened quietly, because he knew that the old man at this time needed a listener the most.

The old man wiped his tears and continued: "God finally didn't force us to death, we met an old monk, and then entered the temple as a monk. ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiongying's eyes widened suddenly.

Why is the old man's life experience so similar to that of Emperor Hongwu.

Could it be that the old man is Emperor Hongwu?

Did he mistakenly treat Emperor Hongwu as his grandfather at that time, and Emperor Hongwu would also be wrong and recognize his grandson?

Knock knock!

Huang Xiongying's heartbeat couldn't help but accelerate.

But he didn't say anything, because he knew that the old man would tell him everything himself.

The old man continued: "The monks in the temple are not good people, they don't chant scriptures, they don't worship the Buddha, they don't even wipe the Buddha's golden body, they have their own fields, and they have incense money, so they eat meat and drink wine, and even marry wives and have children, but that's none of our business." ”

"We only need a bite to eat, we will do whatever the monks tell us to do, do all the rough work, and we will be scolded if we make a slight mistake, but we are very content!"

"We'll have enough to eat, that's enough, isn't it?"

"But his mother's little wish to eat enough can't be realized, because the famine is too serious, and the temple can't afford to support so many monks, so we can only let the monks go out to make a relationship, what is a relationship? That's begging! ”

"But damn it, we will be bullied if we go to Huayuan, and the land we were assigned to go to is in Huaixi and Henan, where the famine is the most serious, and we can't eat enough, who can give us Huahua?"

"Huh!" Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "We think we haven't seen any suffering, aren't we just begging?" Let's go! ”

"But we were wrong, you haven't begged for food, you don't know, although it doesn't take effort to beg, but it costs dignity!"

"Let's take a bowl and hold a branch, and we'll go out to beg for food, and we'll beg for food as we go."

"Walking through the city and the village, I knocked on the door from door to door, but every time I knocked on the door, most of us were stared at and sneered."

"We need to tear apart what little dignity we have left, otherwise we will starve to death!"

"Since that time, we have understood a truth, if a person wants to gain a foothold in this world, it is not possible to rely on others, he must rely on himself!"

"We want to become stronger, so we beg and study at the same time, and we know many people, in fact, they are also begging for food like us, but there are also many of them who are knowledgeable, which has benefited us a lot."

"After more than three years of begging, we are no longer the original us, we have grown up, we are no longer a child who can only watch the death of his parents and eldest brother, no longer a temple handyman who is bullied, but a strong warrior, a determined warrior!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes began to glow, and the momentum of the whole person was different.

Huang Xiongying looked at the old man who showed his momentum, and the whole person was stunned.

The old man glanced at Huang Xiongying and continued: "Three years later, we returned to the temple, and at this time, Han Shantong and Liu Futong rebelled, and they took the lead in raising the banner of rebellion against Meng Yuan!" ”

"As you said, the tyranny of Meng Yuan finally brought bad results, and when the people had no hope of surviving, they could only rise up and resist."

"In just one year, there was a lot of smoke."

"Meng Yuan's army was suppressed everywhere, and even ordinary people were regarded as righteous soldiers, and they were ruthlessly killed, just to get a military merit."

"Although we are not afraid, we are not stupid, let's stay in the temple and observe quietly."

"Until one day, we received a letter from our little friend, in which he said that he had become a thousand households of the rebel army, and hoped that we would also come to join the rebel army and strive for prosperity together."

"But we still didn't act rashly, because the situation was chaotic, we went out rashly, and we didn't know how to die, we weren't afraid of death, but we didn't want to die!"

"But we were denounced, saying that we peeked at the letter from the rebels, and we were forced to a dead end!"

Speaking of this, the old man took another deep breath, his face showed a hideous color, and said slowly: "Who doesn't cherish their lives? Who wants to fight? But we have no way out, there is only one way, and that is against the fuck! ”

"Since we have decided to rebel, then we will no longer hesitate, pack our bags, and we will go to the Huaixi Red Turban Army!"

"This time, there is no turning back!"

Zhu Yuanzhang told his past, and the momentum of the whole person became stronger and stronger.

And Huang Xiongying was already clenching his fists, and his eyes were excited to look at the old man in front of him who seemed to have returned to his former high-spirited youth.

"Huh-"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly laughed and said: "We were full of enthusiasm at the time, but who knew that as soon as we arrived in Huaixi, we were arrested as a spy and caught in front of Guo Dashuai." ”

"Guo Dashuai saw that we looked heroic and didn't look like spies, so he let people loosen the tie and asked us if we were spies and what we were doing."

"Let's insist that we are here to join the army!"

"Guo Dashuai laughed with a sneer, saying that the righteous army has been surrounded by the Yuan army, life and death are unpredictable, and there are still people who come to join the army?"

"We were already out at that time, and we still insisted that we were here to join the army, and we were here to kill the Mengyuan thieves!"

"Guo Dashuai saw that we were not afraid of death, so he no longer embarrassed us, and after confirming with our friends, he left us by his side and became his personal soldiers."

"Since then, our talents have really come into play!"

"The first time we kill the enemy, we sharpen the knife a day in advance, and we are not afraid of the battlefield, anyway, it is the opposite, if we don't kill a piece of the world, we are not reconciled!"

"So we fought for our lives, thinking about it every day, thinking about it every day, just to be able to climb up, and finally we became Guo Dashuai's personal commander!"

"We also met the most important person in our lives, our sister!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang began to smile on his face.

"Our sister is Guo Dashuai's righteous daughter, she is beautiful, smart and virtuous, we can meet her, it is really a blessing from eight lifetimes of cultivation."

"Our sister is like our lucky star, when we meet her, our life begins to change completely!"

"And at this time, we also got a new name!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, looked at Huang Xiongying, who was already stunned, and said with a smile: "We haven't told you our name, in fact, our surname is not Huang, our surname is Zhu!" ”

"In the past, our father and mother named us Zhu Chongba, and later Guo Dashuai gave us a new name!"

"Our new name is Zhu Yuanzhang!"

"Yuan is the Yuan of Meng Yuan, Zhang, it is a sharp jade, Yuan Zhang, it is a sharp weapon to destroy Meng Yuan!"

The old man said lightly, but the breath on his body was awe-inspiring, and under the reflection of the candlelight, this tall figure seemed to be ten thousand feet tall.

Huang Xiongying coaxed in his ears, as if he had been pricked by a sharp needle, his whole body was a little numb, and he subconsciously said: "Zhu ...... Yuan...... Zhang?! ”

The picture seems to freeze.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at the corner of his mouth, looking at Huang Xiongying who was poking there like half a piece of wood in a daze......

(End of chapter)