Ying Tianfu, the Forbidden City, the apse of the canopy hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was lying on the table, woke up from his deep sleep, glanced left and right, there were lamps and candles burning in the study, incense was lit, and there were five more bags on the table that were incompatible with the furnishings in his study, which looked very weird, but this was the fruit he took back from Chu Zhen!

Fatigue fades.

"Someone!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted, and two eunuchs immediately came in lightly outside the door, standing with their heads bowed, waiting for His Majesty to give an order.

"How many days is it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the eunuch on the left who was paying tribute from Goryeo, and he still remembered this person's name, Jin Liyuan.

Although he is a Korean, he is easier to use than the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, it's almost the third watch, and it's time to rest." Jin Liyuan smiled on his face, "Empress Fang Cai sent someone to urge her, and the minister got the orders of Grandpa Banzai, so she didn't dare to disturb the master." ”

"The queen hasn't slept yet?"

Zhu Yuanzhang showed joy on his face and instructed them: "Call a few people in, take these five bags of things for me, and go to the queen!" ”

"Obey."

Jin Liyuan immediately called a few eunuchs into the study, and under the emperor's gaze, he carefully took a few bags from the desk and handed them over to the other eunuchs.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied, although this Goryeo eunuch was not a Ming person, he knew the rules very well and would not let a bunch of people come to his desk to take bags.

"Long live Grandpa, I'm ready."

"Well, show me a good bag, one less fruit to take you asked!"

"Obey the order!"

Jin Liyuan was respectful, lowered his head and waited for a while, and when His Majesty got on the toilet, the eight people lifted up and walked forward, and then he secretly slowed down and came to the side of several eunuchs behind him.

Motioning with his eyes for him to open the bag.

Where did this little eunuch dare to offend the right young eunuch, and quietly opened this strange-looking bag that looked like it was not made of cloth.

Jin Liyuan glanced at it, and it was full of crimson fruits, hanging on the branches, and the leaves were still green.

"This is a fruit unique to Daming?!"

Jin Liyuan was surprised, he couldn't recognize anything at all.

A eunuch next to him came over, looked at it again and again, and then lowered his voice and said, "My lord, this looks like the pickled lychees that Grandpa Banzai used to eat." ”

"Lychee?"

Jin Liyuan from Goryeo is no matter how lonely she is, and she has also heard of this famous Lingnan fruit.

It's not too delicious, it's too famous.

"Why did lychees suddenly appear in the study? Who sent it to the palace? ”

Jin Liyuan was puzzled, it stands to reason that coming in from lychees outside the palace has already caused a lot of uproar in the palace, and even the courtiers outside will talk about it.

But now, half a bag of lychees appeared on the table of Banzai Ye as if falling from the sky.

He also went into the study to add incense to the Lord Banzai on the second watch, and he hadn't seen the bag at that time.

Unable to figure it out, Jin Liyuan quietly looked at other bags and found that they contained different fruits.

There is a yellow fruit the size of a fist, and the aroma is so strong that it makes people drool.

There is also a kind of bayberry as big as a thumb, which is full and attractive in color.

"No wonder Long Live Lord strictly ordered me not to steal food......"

Jin Liyuan swallowed his saliva and resisted the urge to take one.

If he wants to steal food, he must score each of these little eunuchs one by one, otherwise most of them will be exposed.

Forget it, life matters.

"Put it all away, take the bag!"

Since he couldn't eat it, Jin Liyuan could only see it, and asked the little eunuch to put away the bag and walk by himself, so as not to steal it.

All the way to the Queen's Bedchamber.

After getting off the toilet, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the queen leading the palace maid to greet him in front of the door, and he couldn't help laughing: "Sister, come on, I brought you fresh lychees!" ”

Queen Ma was taken aback, "Where is Your Majesty from...... Oh yes, Chu, Chu. ”

She didn't know how to call Chu Shangxian in front of the public for a while.

It's nothing to call Chu Shangxian in private, but with the respect of the queen, in front of many palace maids and eunuchs, calling Chu Shangxian will spread inside and outside the palace the next day, and everyone will begin to inquire about who Chu Shangxian is.

"Chu Zhenren!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile and gave Chu Zhen an official title in the Ming Dynasty.

Queen Ma understood, greeted her, and congratulated: "Your Majesty has received something from Chu Zhenren again, and the concubine congratulates Your Majesty." ”

He smiled and saluted.

Zhu Yuanzhang hugged her, "What kind of joy?" I paid for him, let's go back to the room and eat! ”

A group of palace maids carrying lanterns next to them, and the eunuchs standing on the side, all lowered their heads, their faces full of doubts, and they couldn't understand what the Lord and the Queen Mother were talking about.

Who is Chu Zhenren?

Where did lychees come from?

The whole world is the emperor's, long live the lord still has to spend money to buy it?

On the contrary, no one questioned the sentence of going back to the room to eat, long live the folk saying, not called the dormitory, but called the room by the way.

The emperor and queen entered the palace, and Jin Liyuan ordered the little eunuch to hand over the bag to the queen's maid and guard the door.

The ladies opened the bag and laid it on the table.

"Heavy eight."

Queen Ma was amazed, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "You bought all these fruits from Chu Zhenren?" Did you bring money when you went? ”

In private, Queen Ma's address and tone of voice to her husband will be much more casual, but on formal occasions, she still abides by the queen's etiquette to Her Majesty, and also asks Zhu Yuanzhang to call her the formal "queen", or the slightly intimate "Zitong", but Zhu Yuanzhang is too lazy to change, and calls her sister-in-law, reluctantly calling the queen.

"Ahem."

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "Next time, I will bring him ten catties of gold!" Sister, you prepare it for me, and put it in a gift box. ”

"Ten pounds of gold...... You really are! ”

Queen Ma covered her forehead helplessly, glanced at the fruits on the table again, and sighed: "It's not expensive, but it's just this time, don't buy it next time." ”

Fresh lychees from Lingnan are sent by fast horses, and the cost is also a lot, so no fresh lychees have ever come to Yingtianfu.

All told, this lychee is the first fresh lychee to appear in the Forbidden City.

"Hahaha!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "My sister is wrong, ten catties of gold can buy thousands of catties of lychees, Chu Zhen personally said to me, one catty of lychees on his side is three or four cents, I will give him more silver first, lest he refuse to buy more!" ”

"Three or four pennies and a pound of lychees?!"

Queen Ma was very surprised, "I'm afraid that the lychees in Lingnan are only so cheap." And this fruit, which is also Lingnan? Is this bayberry? How can it be so big? ”

She hadn't seen a mango either.

"So eat whatever you want." Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a mango, peeled it for her personally, and taught her how to eat it.

"The concubine will meet, let the concubine come."

Queen Ma smiled and wanted to take the mango, but Zhu Yuanzhang refused and let her sit.

The husband and wife looked at each other.

"Juhachi, do you have something to say to me?" Queen Ma could see that her husband had something on her mind.

"What can it be? Sister, don't think too much, eat it! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang handed the half-peeled mango to his wife.

He couldn't bear to think about what the little girl said, when Emperor Hongwu recovered Liaodong, Empress Ma had been dead for a few years......

He would rather not accept Liaodong for the rest of his life!

Or send troops to collect Liaodong tomorrow!

"Well, it tastes good."

Queen Ma took a bite of the flesh, couldn't help but praise, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Although it was given by Chu Zhenren, Your Majesty spent money to buy it, but it should also be taken out and distributed to the concubines, and I will let people carry it and send it over." ”

"Give it to them? I don't send it! Zhu Yuanzhang refused.

At most, give some to Biao'er to taste, no one else has.

"I can't take care of the court, but I'll take care of the harem!"

Seeing that he didn't agree, Queen Ma also became angry, and raised her hand to invite the palace maid over.

"I'll let you take care of the court!" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped her, "The harem can interfere in politics, and I also have to take care of the affairs of the harem, so I am not allowed to send it!" ”

“……”

Queen Ma was shocked by his words, and stretched out her hand to touch her husband's face, "Are you Zhu Chongba?" ”

"I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I said that the harem can interfere in politics, and the harem can interfere in politics!"

The two had a quarrel and dispute, but in the end Zhu Yuanzhang compromised and allowed Queen Ma to take some fresh lychees, bayberry, and strawberries and give them to the harem concubines.

A total of ten lychees were taken out, but there were twenty concubines in the harem, and how to divide them had to be a headache.

"Tomorrow again, I thought of something."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly instructed Queen Ma: "Tomorrow morning, sister, you call all the concubines in the palace, bring my sons and daughters, and the palace maids and eunuchs in charge of affairs, and come here to wait." ”

Queen Ma was a little surprised and asked him what was the matter, but Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would mention it tomorrow.

Queen Ma could only respond and ordered the palace maid to inform the concubines early tomorrow morning and take care of things.

She guessed it was related to Chu Zhenren!