Chapter 128: The Shopkeeper of Biyue Building
The East Palace has been abandoned for many years, and at the beginning, the palace people still came to clean it, thinking that the prince would come again one day.
But after about half a year, the palace people finally reacted that the prince was really expelled from the imperial city.
The East Palace is cleaned once every six months, and the furniture is dusty, looking like a cold palace where the concubines are imprisoned. Zhou Heng took Fu Cheng's hand and walked slowly in the East Palace, sometimes he would stop when he touched the place in his memory, and the childhood situation emerged, vividly as yesterday, at this time Zhou Heng would tell Fu Cheng about his time.
Zhou Heng was quite familiar with this place, he moved out of the Changchun Palace where his mother lived before he was ten years old, and he would be scared when he first moved here, he was the only one in such a big East Palace.
"I'm afraid of ghosts. Fu Cheng couldn't help but imagine that Zhou Heng at that time should be a child carved in pink, with a sense of arrogance in his eyebrows.
Zhou Heng didn't dare to talk to Emperor Yongle, Emperor Yongle likes an obedient and sensible son, Zhou Heng can only play such a son, he can learn everything the best and fastest.
Few people in the prince are willing to endure hardships to learn martial arts, and he is willing. Zhou Heng's martial arts and knowledge are among the best among his peers, so that Emperor Yongle will be happy, and the queen mother will be happy.
"I'm always very happy. "It seems that nothing can bother him at all, he is relaxed when he wakes up in the morning, and happy before bed.
Zhou Heng remembered a lot of things, he was the proud son of the time, Emperor Yongle once carried him up to the city wall, telling him that this lower is Zhou Heng's lower after all, and the people below are Zhou Heng's people.
Zhou Heng's life has been smooth for more than ten years ago, and there will be no more noble child than him, he is really one person under ten thousand people.
"Then I knew that I would be a good emperor. If this sentence came out of Bei Rao's mouth, Fu Cheng would feel that the person was narcissistic, but there was nothing wrong with it coming out of Zhou Heng's mouth, Zhou Heng would be a good emperor.
However, there was a sudden change. Empress Chen was imprisoned in the cold palace without telling Zhou Hengming the truth, and at first he didn't know why, and he didn't know why he lost his favor.
Zhou Heng was in pain and dazed, unable to believe what had happened. A few days later, he learned a rumor that the crown prince was fake, which was a ridiculous truth, and there would not be any dynasty that would have such a ridiculous thing again, and the emperor would not be able to have children.
What should it be like for an emperor who is unable to have children? What is it like for a man who was full of spirit to fight everywhere in his early years, gained the supreme position and became the supreme of the Ninety-Five, and he had all the glory, wealth and power, and then he realized that he could not leave his own bloodline?
Zhou Heng went to question Emperor Yongle, but Emperor Yongle only said that the queen mother was cheap. The two broke off and could never be repaired.
Emperor Yongle grew old overnight, he became absurd and tyrannical, and became a faint king. Now he is asking for the medicine of immortality, taking it for immortality, to really be the long-lived master, and continue to plague the next ten thousand years!
This is Zhou Heng's revenge, Zhou Heng will slowly revenge, the people who cross his path, like the palace people who murdered Queen Chen back then, no matter how difficult the obstacle is, they will not escape the fate of death.
This is Zhou Heng's conceit, he will solve these people. Hatred is a powerful thing, spreading like wildfire in Zhou Heng's heart.
Fu Cheng was faintly worried, afraid that he had lost something more important on the road of hatred.
"I'll be with you. Fu Cheng was silent for a while, and finally only said this sentence. Zhou Heng looked at Fu Cheng, the other party was willing to follow him all the way from Bailu City to Kyoto, Zhou Heng pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth, and said, "You won't." Fu Cheng was stunned, he had never talked to Zhou Heng about this matter carefully, he felt that Zhou Heng had married a wife and had children, and after taking revenge, he ascended the throne, everything would pass, and Fu Cheng was not worth mentioning in the face of huge power.
At that time, even if it is Fucheng, Zhou Heng will slowly forget him. What good can an emperor and a swordsman have?
When it really comes, drifting away is the best ending. Zhou Heng and Fu Cheng sat on the cold steps, Zhou Heng leaned on the steps behind him at this time, supporting himself with one hand, he had vaguely revealed an imperial appearance, Zhou Heng's eyes locked Fu Cheng like a torch, and said, "You will go." "Zhou Heng knew what Fu Cheng was thinking, this palace couldn't accommodate Fu Cheng.
Fushiro is a wolf, an eagle, and can only be reduced to a plaything in Kyoto. Zhou Heng knew Fu Cheng's strange behavior recently, he lived like a father-in-law, and hurried to play some bed tricks with Zhou Heng, not extravagant or jealous, he shrunk himself in a circle and lowered his posture, because he wanted to leave at any time.
Fu Cheng shook Zhou Heng's hand and comforted him as if he was loyal: "I will watch you ascend the throne, you will be the emperor, and I will watch you in the crowd." "Fu Cheng is telling the truth, he will see, the most important one in Zhou Heng's life, Fu Cheng will look up to their new emperor in the crowd.
Thousands of people worship, long live like a mountain shouting, in that kind of scene, there will be no name of Fucheng, but there will be a place in Fucheng.
"Not enough. Zhou Heng interrupted Fu Cheng. Fucheng was hugged by Zhou Heng, the other party used force, and it hurt a little to strangle Fucheng, Zhou Heng's voice came: "It's not enough, Fucheng, I regret it, I don't want you to ask for the Tao, if you want to go, I will cut off your hands and feet, abolish your martial arts, lock in the palace, you can't go, you can't run away." Xu Yun couldn't help but ask for anyone. Zhou Heng once when he was in bed, Fu Cheng always felt that he was childish, but now it doesn't sound like that, Zhou Heng even took Xu Yunqi's matter into consideration.
Fu Cheng smiled, it was really angry, there was no cage under him that could trap him. Fu Cheng touched Zhou Heng's back, feeling that this prince was rare and vulnerable, and he didn't want to leave Zhou Heng alone in the crisis-ridden Kyoto now.
When Zhou Heng was unaccompanied in the huge East Palace, he embarked on such a path when he grew up. The prince's pursuit of power is destined to be extremely lonely, and Fu Cheng wants to accompany him for a while.
Fu Cheng pulled him up and said, "It's almost dawn, you can't go out if you don't walk out again." "After the nine doors are opened, it is not easy to sneak out at that time, and it will be a trouble to go out if you swagger out.
Zhou Heng nodded, he seemed to be really tired, and said, "You carry me." "Fu Cheng heard that he really carried Zhou Heng, the first time he carried Zhou Heng was in a mass grave, and at that time they were still investigating the truth of Xue Fengniang's death.
At that time, Zhou Heng was like a thorn in the head, and a word could choke people to death. Fushiro remembered his days in Bailu City, he had only been in Kyoto for less than a month, and he had already begun to miss that remote town.
If Zhou Heng was not the crown prince, he really wanted to bring the man behind him back to Bailu City, so that he could live this life happily.
The two opened a restaurant with Jin Ling, he was the shopkeeper, Zhou Heng was the bookkeeper, Jin Ling was the cook, and Jin Ling's husband could come to be a runner.
This used to be Fucheng's dream, but now it's really just a spring and autumn dream. Fu Cheng took Zhou Heng out of the palace smoothly, and walked very steadily all the way, Zhou Heng had already fallen asleep.
When they arrived at the Prince's Mansion, it was already bright, and the people in the Prince's Mansion were a little surprised to see that their prince was carried back by Fucheng.
Fu Cheng glanced at him, and the other party understood. Fu Cheng put Zhou Heng on the bed, personally changed his clothes, and frowned when he watched the other party sleep, not knowing what he was calculating in his dream.
Fucheng is not sleepy, he is also a husband raised in the prince's mansion on weekdays, there is nothing to worry about, some is time to make up for sleep, but after yesterday, he wants to do something for Zhou Heng.
Not long after Fu Cheng came back, Hu Yikan came, Fu Cheng stopped people outside the door, and said, "Sleep, outside." Hu Yikan was relieved when he heard that the prince had no accident, he heard the news that the clan relatives were assassinated at the birthday banquet of King Qi early in the morning, and many people were injured, the prince of King Yan was dead, and now King Yan was messing with the emperor.
Hu Yikan talked with Fu Cheng in the courtyard and said, "I was thinking that I would not let the prince enter the palace today." "Now there is chaos in the palace, it is when people are terrible, Zhou Heng was splashed with dirty water when he entered the palace, and there was no one who even said a word, Emperor Yongle looked at Zhou Heng like a thorn in his eye, and any thing would become a reason for Emperor Yongle to pinch Zhou Heng.
Fu Cheng thought for a while, he heard the conversation between Zhou Heng and King Qi yesterday, and said, "The outer prince is seriously injured. Hu Yikan replied and ordered his subordinates to work on this matter and spread the news today.
When the order was finished, Hu Yikan felt strange again, eh, why did he listen to Fu Cheng? Hu Yikan looked at Fu Cheng intently, Rama had indeed changed Fu Cheng, Fu Cheng was too lazy to pretend to be a prince, and there was a coldness in his eyebrows and eyes.
Hu Yikan asked: "What happened yesterday?" Fu Cheng briefly repeated, specially bypassing his dog's stupid thing of meddling with a mouse, Hu Yikan frowned again and again after hearing it, and said: "Twin Blades?" Fu Cheng didn't really deal with the Twin Blades Society, and said: "I don't know what it will be, but it's not that simple." Hu Yikan thought that the Double Knife Society would only find trouble for corrupt officials, and he had never heard that he would be so blatantly trying to assassinate the prince.
Fu Cheng said: "It should be for Zhou Heng." Hu Yikan was too lazy to correct the problem of not calling the prince by his name, and said, "How do you know?" Fu Cheng said: "He cultivates."
"Shut up Zen", one arrow at a time, Tong Zigong, there are not many people who can practice under the whole, if it weren't for me and Zhou Heng, for a prince with mediocre martial arts, he would have succeeded.
His first target was to go to Zhou Heng. Fu Cheng paused, and then said: "I only know about assassination, you know what is behind it." Hu Yikan pondered for a while, if it was really for the prince, this battle looked a little strange, and the other party obviously looked at Zhou Heng's strength.
Even if Fucheng is not there that day, Zhou Heng will only be colored and will not die at most. Could it be that someone specially set up a situation to provoke conflicts?
The interrogation on the side of the Criminal Department has not yet come out, and Hu Yikan does not dare to guess. And Fu Cheng knew that the other party should know more than himself, so he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Is there anything I can do?" Zhou Heng protected Fu Cheng too well, and didn't let him touch anything at all.
Now Fu Cheng felt that he could no longer stay out of it. Hu Yikan also understands that he actually wants you to be strong in martial arts, and if you assassinate Zhou Heng's enemy directly, we won't have so much to do, and we don't even need a military advisor if it's simple and rude.
But Zhou Heng clearly warned Hu Yikan and asked him not to put his mind on Fu Cheng. Hu Yikan didn't have the courage to look for it, so he waved his hand and said, "What can you do as a swordsman to help? Don't trouble me." Hu Yikan's answer was expected, Fu Cheng didn't feel anything when he heard it, he decided to use his own strength to go out and investigate.
The news of the assassination of the clan relatives has indeed spread all over the city, and the Twin Blades Society has become the target of public criticism.
It has been many years since the Jinyi Weicha Double Knife Meeting, and there has been no substantial progress. The double knife will be cunning and three holes, and the Jinyi guard can only catch some minions every time to explain.
There are a lot of people in the city of Kyoto who are bustling, and they have long complained about the heavy taxes in the past two years, and the people are not as good as a day, and they have to see the clan relatives eating and drinking spicy.
But there are a lot of panicked, the princes, princes, nobles and ministers in Kyoto are all in danger, and these two prohibit family members from going out, even if they go out, they are escorted by guards on the inside and outside of the three layers.
The ladies of the Prince's Mansion were a little scared, they had made an appointment to go to the Wanguo Temple to worship the Buddha today, and it was already a rare entertainment for them to get together with a group of official women.
It's a pity that no one dares to go out now. Liu Liu and Yun Niang have nothing to do but find the new sister Fucheng to play mahjong together, this prince's mansion is also strange, Liu Liu and Yun Niang have not slept for several years, they just entered the house and thought about competing for favor, and then even the prince couldn't see it, it is better for the two of them to report to the group to be a good sister, otherwise one is too boring.
Fortunately, now that Fucheng is here, they don't have much sense of competition in Fucheng, and after hearing about men, they are not interested in women, and the same is true for the crown prince.
Liu Liu and Yun Niang reached an agreement on this matter, anyway, they can't compete for any honor, so it's better to get along with Fucheng.
They can see that the prince is obedient to Fu Cheng's words, and if there is anything to help in the future, if he finds Fu Cheng, who has soft ears, he can also do it.
Fucheng really knows how to play mahjong, he eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, except for prostitution because he doesn't like to touch Rao's fault, he can't learn, the others are still in school, three are missing, and finally he pulled the golden bell, the golden bell was not very good at first, and he was familiar with it after playing two games, and slowly figured out the way of it.
Fu Cheng held a grass while skillfully touching the cards, and mixed with the three women, there was no sense of disobedience at all, while looking at the cards, while saying: "Is the thing you gave you last time useful?" Fu Cheng was touching the cards, thinking for a while about the charm of that night, and said: "It's okay." Liu Liu snorted proudly and said, "I asked my sister for it, and they also have a husband in the house." What about the things I entrusted you?" Liu Liu did not give away things for nothing.
Fu Cheng took out a cloth bag from his arms and slammed it on the table with such a big grin, Liu Liu exclaimed in surprise and said, "Dim sum." Liu Liu held the cloth bag and lifted the three layers of cloth inside and outside, revealing a hairpin, made by the shopkeeper of Biyue Building, this time he can be in the limelight in the female dependents.
These two martial law, she is not easy to go out as a woman, and Liu Liu, as a concubine, can only call a personal girl.
But Fucheng has no access control, he can go wherever he wants, and when he goes out, Liu Liu will ask him to bring something back.
Yun Niang gritted her teeth and watched Liu Liu put on a new hairpin. Unexpectedly, she came first, but Liu Liu took the lead and took the first step to establish a good relationship with Fucheng.
Yun Niang didn't say anything, she just meditated in her heart, isn't it just medicine? I can find a better one another day, to ensure that you are so comfortable that you can't get out of bed.
Liu Liu and Yun Niang completely deviated from their cognition as the crown princess and concubine, and came to curry favor with Fucheng.
Jin Ling's big eyes slid around, stunned that he didn't understand what they were doing, Jin Ling adhered to the principle of asking if he didn't understand, and said, "What is easy to use?" Fu Cheng glanced at her and said, "Don't worry about what you shouldn't care." Fu Cheng asked, "Have you learned to ride a horse?" Jin Ling touched the tip of her nose and said, "No." "She's never been so frustrated, and her whole life seems to have been like riding a horse.
Fu Cheng said again: "Did you go to find Grandpa Cui?" Jin Ling didn't know why Fu Cheng suddenly asked this question, and replied honestly: "I went to Dongchang for a turn, he pulled me, I haven't thought about it yet." Fu Cheng snorted and said, "It's better to be cautious when recognizing people as teachers." Jin Ling and Fu Cheng had a simple conversation, Yun Niang and Liu Liu were shocked when they heard it, this girl was chased by Cui Gonggong to accept the apprentice, that was the cold-faced owl Cui Gonggong.
In Kyoto, you can't go wrong with the people of the East Factory, how can there be a reason to check your family background, and getting close to the people of the East Factory can save a lot of trouble.
Liu Liu and Yun Niang's mother family is not a big family, and there is nowhere to climb if they want to have a relationship with Grandpa Cui, this girl still has to think about it?
At the moment, Liu Liu and Yun Niang's attitude towards the brother and sister of Fucheng and Jin Ling became more attentive. Fu Cheng said casually: "I just came to Kyoto and I am not very sensible, and the prince of the world in Kyoto has a headache when he listens to it." Liu Liu and Yun Niang saw that the opportunity was coming, and said in unison: "I'll give it to you!" Yun Niang and Liu Liu glanced at each other, thinking that it was really a dog's leg, Liu Liu sneered: "A merchant woman, what do you know?" Yun Niang was not to be outdone, and said: "I can finally afford the hairpin of Biyue Lou by myself." "Yun Niang's family is in the cloth business, and the tax paid in a year is quite considerable.
Jin Ling suddenly understood, Fu Cheng deliberately asked Grandpa Cui at the card table, it turned out to be for this. Jin Ling was a little dissatisfied with the lack of guns, and stepped on Fu Cheng under the table, and Fu Cheng didn't tremble.
Then Fucheng succeeded in getting what he wanted, Liu Liu and Yun Niang, you say a word, Fu Cheng synthesized, not only heard the opinion of the official woman on the court, but also heard the attitude of the merchant woman to the new deal.
Taken together, the two sides happen to be the most complete piece of information. The emperor ignored the government for a long time, and was represented by the two prime ministers on the left and right.
The right prime minister Chen Huaihong is the prime minister of the three dynasties, and there have been two generations of queens in the family, and Zhou Heng's mother, Queen Chen, is one of them.
After the death of Empress Chen, Emperor Yongle became suspicious of the Chen family and newly established the post of Zuo Prime Minister, nominally to assist Chen Huaihong, but in fact to divide power and contain it.
When Zhou Heng had an accident, Chen Huaihong, who was an uncle, couldn't help at all, and he couldn't wait to draw a line and not drag down the Chen family.
Zuo Prime Minister He Bin vigorously promoted the new policy, used to be Zhou Heng's teacher, and Zhou Heng is a little friendly, but this pair of masters and apprentices have long been different about the new policy, Zhou Heng and Zuo Prime Minister are also teachers and friends also serve as Dongchang and Jinyiwei directly obey the orders of Emperor Yongle, when Dongchang is favored, the two prime ministers on the left and right can't control it at all, Dongchang implements the emperor's order, but over time there is the meaning of holding chicken feathers as tokens, and doing a lot of scolding things in the name of Emperor Yongle.
The next is a situation where relatives are dictatorial and eunuchs are in charge. Although chaos is chaos, fortunately, the prime ministers on the left and right have the means, and they can still be stabilized to some extent.
However, this year, there is a new national teacher corridor, and the national teacher claims to be able to interpret the order and call for wind and rain.
The national teacher gave his sister to Emperor Yongle, and once he was favored, he was the concubine Lou after entering the palace. The corridor kills babies in the name of alchemy, and searches everywhere for children born on the seventh day of each month to use this alchemy.
As long as the national teacher uses alchemy as an excuse, he can bring down any enemy under the pretense of the hand of Emperor Yongle. The national teacher himself is strong in martial arts, and Cui Gonggong can't walk under him for ten blinks, recruiting talented people, people who can do magic, and charlatans who can change tricks have a trick, and the entire court is in a miasma.
The more Fu Cheng listened, the tighter his brows wrinkled, it was strange that this Great Zhou Dynasty could last for three years. In front of Zhou Heng turned out to be such a situation, how difficult it was for Zhou Heng to find his own way in such a troubled world.
Liu Liu and Yun Niang talked a little more, which minister belonged to which faction, which prince and Zuo Xiang got closer, and Fucheng wrote them down one by one.
Zhou Heng insisted on protecting him, and he could only use his own swordsman to get the news. There will be a disagreement between Liu Liu and Yun Niang because of the double knife, Liu Liu thinks that the double knife will be bad, and the double knife will make people panic, and if they can't keep it, they will find their own door.
And Yun Niang is the daughter of a businessman, she wants to live a little, and the double knife will kill corrupt officials, rob the rich and help the poor, and she is still very loved by the people.
And Fu Cheng listened to it but was thinking, whether it is the prime minister, Jin Yiwei or Dongchang, it is not a place where Fu Cheng can play, this double knife will maybe you can give it a try, he comes from the rivers and lakes, and Kyoto also has its own rivers and lakes.
Liu Liu wanted to speak and stopped, what else did she think, Yun Niang immediately understood her thoughts, and secretly pinched Liu Liu's thigh on the card table to tell her not to talk too much.
Liu Liu bared her teeth and screamed, she also wanted Chen Wanwan, the sister of the right prime minister's family, to have a marriage contract with the prince.
This matter was quite big back then, Queen Chen wanted to officiate the marriage of the crown prince, and the prince Li Jianqing intervened sideways and threatened to marry Chen Wanwan too.
The prince did things in a disproportionate manner, and he was favored, and he had been making trouble for several months, with the intention of fighting with Zhou Heng to the end.
Later, the situation was that neither of the two married. Liu Liu originally wanted to remind Fu Cheng, but he thought that Liu Liu and Yun Niang had no position on this matter, and if it was His Royal Highness the Prince, Liu Liu would keep silent.
Fu Cheng and the two concubines played for a while and then said goodbye, Jin Ling was pulled over by him to fill the number, and only when he walked away did he say: "What do you want to do?" Jin Ling and Fu Cheng are too familiar with each other, sometimes they only need a look to know what the other party is thinking, Jin Ling rarely said seriously: "Don't make trouble, this is not Bailu City." Fu Cheng said: "What can I cause trouble?" Even if Fu Cheng wants to cause trouble, he has to consider Zhou Heng, Zhou Heng is already in such a difficult situation, and he can't let him have an accident because of his own affairs.
Jin Ling didn't feel comfortable after hearing this, he always felt that Fucheng was going to do something, and he drove himself out.
Fu Cheng had to be careful about what he wanted to do, and when he returned to Zhou Heng, Zhou Heng was releasing two carrier pigeons.
The carrier pigeon spread its big white wings, fluttered twice and flew away. Hu Yikan was also there, he was discussing things with Zhou Heng, but he shut up after seeing Fucheng.
Zhou Heng saw that Fu Cheng was holding a piece of grass in his mouth, pinched his chin with one hand, and flattened his face, just like watching the teeth of an animal.
Zhou Heng dragged the grass roots out, he really didn't know what was wrong, and he didn't know that he thought he had raised a sheep.
Zhou Heng let go of him and asked, "What are you doing?" Fu Cheng yawned, stretched his waist like a big cat, and wrapped himself around Zhou Heng very skillfully, and said, "Play mahjong." Zhou Heng asked again, "What are you doing?"
"Ming," Fu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Help them buy some new spices." "Zhou Heng feels that Fucheng is really abnormal, and he has nothing to do to play an innocent and innocent husband!
Fu Cheng lay on top of him and asked, "Is the trial out?" Zhou Heng didn't shy away from Fu Cheng at all, and snorted, "The people of the national teacher." "Zhou Heng now has two methods, kill the assassin and cooperate with the national teacher.
The other is to be truthful, once the news is released, it is a big disrespectful crime for the national teacher to murder the clan.
But Emperor Yongle will definitely protect the corridor, and his path to immortality has not yet been completed, and this matter has become a trip to troubled waters.
Zhou Heng chose the latter, it was impossible for Mingzhe to protect himself, and he was completely opposed to the national teacher.
And Fu Cheng always felt that this thing was strange, how could the national teacher send a Hu dancer to assassinate him?
Fu Cheng had his own plans in his heart, and Zhou Heng also had some things, and the two of them were smart and speechless.