Chapter 2 Chance encounters are not coincidental
Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and ruled the world for a total of 31 years, during which he basically only did two things, set rules, and then killed.
He first set the rules for his own world and for his descendants after him, and then killed those who broke the rules. It's just that I don't know how he analyzes it, and I think that people who have the ability to break the rules should also die. So the rebellious Hu Weiyong died, and the rebellious Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, and they also died.
In the past thirty-one years, he can be described as a veritable killer demon king.
As long as he wants to kill someone, that person is basically dead. But in fact, there is still a half-person in this world who can stop it, the first person is Queen Ma, and only Queen Ma's persuasion Zhu Yuanzhang can really listen to it, and there is no need to suspect it, because he knows that this old wife's heart will always be by his side. But it's a pity that Queen Ma went to Hongwu in the fifteenth year, which is bad news for Zhu Yuanzhang, and even more bad news for the civil and military officials who lived in the fifteenth year of Hongwu to the thirty-first year of Hongwu.
After the death of Queen Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking went to an extreme, and he wanted to leave an iron-clad country for his son Zhu Biao. Zhu Biao is the only son of Queen Ma, and Zhu Yuanzhang's love for Zhu Biao is also true. But alas, they seem to be people of two worlds. Zhu Yuanzhang Huai was born in cloth, saw through benevolence, righteousness and morality, and was a realistic person, while Zhu Biao grew up in the hands of a group of civil officials.
The shrewdness of these civil officials is not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang, because Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't reason with you, he talks to you about knives, so they changed their goals. They assimilated Zhu Biao into one of their own, and then asked Zhu Biao to stop his father.
In a sense, what they did was right, there are two elements in this plan, first, Zhu Yuanzhang will not kill Zhu Biao anyway; second, Zhu Biao must be the future emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang has suffered in this generation, and it would be good to enjoy Zhu Biao's happiness when he is a big deal.
It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang really won't kill Zhu Biao, but Zhu Biao himself was scared to death by Zhu Yuanzhang. This year is the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu.
Zhu Biao's death was a blow to the civilian clique, as their investment failed. But there are only two people in this world who are really sad about Zhu Biao's death: his father Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Yunwen.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, there is only one thing he can do, or make amends, is to transfer his love for Zhu Biao to his son, his grandson Zhu Yunwen. For this reason, while his other sons were still there, he set up fifteen-year-old Zhu Yunwen as the emperor's grandson and let him inherit the country.
And for Zhu Yunwen, all he can do seems to be to mourn silently by himself.
It stands to reason that a fifteen-year-old boy is already a man, but Zhu Yunwen, who grew up in the deep palace compound, actually didn't realize this, he only knew that his father who sheltered himself from the wind and rain went. My own life is about to change.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, which is a good time to kill people and a good opportunity to plot. If you're looking for someone to do something, now is the time to do it.
At this moment, twenty-four chairs were gathered around the dry well of Tianmen, and the dry well had been covered by a flat bluestone slab, becoming a simple square table.
In the small courtyard, which was originally empty, at some point, a person came and found a chair to sit down. After a while, another man came. They didn't say hello to each other, they just sat quietly. Then another, and another, knew that twenty-four chairs were full. It was indeed dark, and no one was holding the lamp, and the faces of these twenty-four people could not see each other clearly, but they knew that they were eunuchs in the palace by vaguely looking at their clothes.
Twenty-four people sat silently, sitting.
Long. One of them spoke: "Let's find out." "I don't know who said that.
But when his words fell, everyone rushed into their arms, and then threw the bluestone table in the middle.
"Bang bang bang. After a series of sounds, twenty-four gold medals appeared on the table, staggered and horizontal, just to form a gossip map.
"Lao Liu" Another voice sounded, "The identity is right, let's talk about things." β
"The old master is gone. The first voice sounded again, "Leave a successor for us to take care of, called Xu Yunzheng." That's the first thing. β
"First things first, is there anything else?"
"Ah," the man in the darkness coughed, "The inheritance of our Tianmen under this dry well, the old master also left it to that Xu Yunzheng." Everyone knows that the organ inherited by the Tianmen and the Earth Palace is either opened with these twenty-four gold medals, or the door master uses the organ to open it, and now the organ is left to Xu Yunzheng. β
"What? you're going to ask about the mechanism?" a gruff voice interrupted the former. "The old master is gone, I believe it, you want to say that the old master is dead... Hey, hey, hey, aren't you afraid that your head will fall off? Maybe the old master is around here. β
"Listen to what our family has said, why are you still in such a hurry, fourth. β
"Hmph, forgive me for not having the guts," replied in a rough voice.
"The meaning of the old master, this inheritance, the little master's skill is not completed, he knows that the mechanism can't be opened, and when his skill is completed, he doesn't know when, so let's leave it alone, and don't move. Don't come here again until you have to. β
There was silence again.
"The old master is as kind to us as a mountain, and there are door rules on the top, which is nothing to say. β
"Today, we just want to take you to meet the little master, and then pave the way for him, so that there is a direction, right? By the way, we will also discuss our future path. β
That's to the point. But our family has a slow brain, so let's talk about it first, right?"
"You have to meet the little door master first, right?"
"The little master is nearby, I'll call him over later. Let's talk about it first. β
"Zhu Chongba doesn't believe in our eunuchs, one person is dictatorial, the road is not easy to walk, and it is not easy to live. β
"There's always something he can't control. This great palace belongs to him, but isn't it also our twenty-four eunuchs?"
"That's it, even if he is old and old, he is not immortal, I see that the road of the group of big turbans outside the palace is good, aiming at his next generation. They can do it, and we won't learn it?"
"Lao Qi is reasonable, I think Zhu Yunwen is a road, Deputy Master Ma also wanted to take this road, but he went to Beiping to vote for King Yan, which is a bit incomprehensible. β
"Let's not talk about it in Beiping, we have to go down the road of Zhu Yunwen. Let's think about it, how about putting the little door master next to him? How should I put it? Think about it. β
In the middle of all his mouths, an idea came up.
"Ahem" The voice at the beginning sounded again, "Let the others go first, let me ask, fourteenth brother?"
"Huh?" replied in a feminine voice.
"You kill Zhu Biao to make sure there is no mistake... β
"Hehehehe" the soft laughter "Don't worry, this bone-turning palm master has been practicing for more than forty years." Unless they dig up the body of Zhu Biao and leave it for another month, they will find that his bones are broken. Rest assured."
"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. also blame those big turbans, telling Zhu Biao all day long that our eunuchs are not, and Zhu Biao is also stupid, so he has to believe it. We can't help it. β
"I see, don't tell the little master about this, it'll rot in our stomachs. β
"What the third child said is... β
"The third brother is right... β
In a small house not far from the garden, Xu Yunzheng sat cross-legged, with his heart facing the sky, silently practicing Tiangang Tongzigong. He is now seizing all the time to practice, first practicing Tiangang Tongzi Gong, continuing his internal strength, and then using the internal force of Tongzi Gong to supplement the White Bone Zen Divine Skill. He found that after the internal force went around like this, Bai Gu Zen's kung fu had improved, and Tong Zigong's body protection true qi seemed to be more condensed. It's just that I don't know if it's an illusion, he always feels that something is wrong, first of all, he seems to feel that he has become more handsome, and it is not accurate to say that he is handsome, it should be feminine beauty, and secondly, the internal force seems to have a cold feeling, not cold, but more like an evil spirit. But he didn't care about that. I'm a eunuch myself, and I'm not afraid of being transgender.
After practicing for more than an hour, Xu Yunzheng slowly finished his work and opened his eyes.
It has been three days since he left Ren Xiao and was taken away by the brocade eunuch. In the past three days, the brocade-robed eunuch did not give him any tasks, but just let him practice with peace of mind first, or in the original courtyard. I knew that I had dinner this afternoon, so I brought him here and asked him to wait for a while. That's two hours.
'I don't know when,' Xu Yunzheng thought silently.
At this time, I saw the brocade-robed eunuch walk into the house, "Come with us." β
"Yes" Xu Yunzheng responded, got up and followed behind the brocade-robed eunuch.
After turning around three times, the two of them walked back to the dry well garden. Xu Yunzheng's eyes were sitting, trying to see the people sitting in front of him clearly, but unfortunately he still couldn't see clearly.
The two of them stood still, and they could only hear a voice from among the people seated, "This is the little door master?"
The brocade-robed eunuch replied, "Yes, it's him." Everyone has seen it, so let's disperse, anyway, the matter is over. Nothing else, right?"
As soon as the words fell, the rough voice from before sounded again, "There is a small matter"
"What?" the brocade-robed eunuch looked at one of the figures.
"The name of the little door master is not good, it is too loud. Xu Yunzheng, Zhu Chongba doesn't like us slaves to have good names. Guilty of taboo"
"Well... The brocade-robed eunuch nodded, "It's still the fourth child who is careful." After a little thought, the brocade-robed eunuch said again, "It's called Xu Ruyi." Okay, let's disperse if it's okay, and the rest of our family will talk to the little door master. β
'The name was changed like this!, you didn't even ask me!!' Xu Yunzheng roared in his heart, but he didn't have a point.
One by one, the figures gradually dispersed, and they didn't leave the door, and in a flash, they went up to the room and crossed the wall. Xu Yunzheng still didn't see their appearances. Oh, it's time to call Xu Ruyi now.
Watching the figures disperse, the brocade-robed eunuch spoke, "Okay, little master, the old master is gone, leave you, and our family will give you a way." By the way, our family's surname is Liu, the master of Tianmen Tianzi Hall, and you don't need to know the identity in the palace. β
"Uh... Xu Ruyi quietly looked up at Eunuch Liu beside him.
Eunuch Liu looked at him, and then said, "You don't have to talk back, just listen quietly." β
After a moment of silence, Eunuch Liu spoke: "The Gate of Heaven is in your hands, and you have the responsibility of inheritance." The old master gave you kung fu and the underground palace below, and our elder brothers want to send you to Zhu Yunwen to give you power. Now at this time, we rootless people are having a hard time, and we can only find a way from him. Prince Zhu Biao just went, and now all the princes are in the capital, and in the next few days, you take the broom in your house, and go to the imperial garden every day to sweep it, and I will lead you to turn around this palace in a while. Our brother will find a way to give you a chance in this imperial garden, but the specific response depends on yourself. It's up to you to make it. Remember, your identity on the surface is that you are a little eunuch who has just entered the palace, and you are in charge of sweeping the imperial garden in the palace. Do you understand everything?"
"Yes, Ruyi understands" Xu Ruyi nodded hurriedly.
"Well, it's good to understand" Eunuch Liu was very satisfied when he heard Xu Yunzheng claim to be Ruyi. nodded, turned around and walked out of the small courtyard, and began to lead Xu Ruyi to familiarize himself with the palace.
Is the palace big?
According to historical records, it covers an area of one million square meters. If you want to walk thoroughly, that night is not enough, why do you have to walk for half a month. Eunuch Liu obviously didn't have that time. led Xu Ruyi to recognize the location of the three major halls and the imperial garden, and led him to recognize the place where the Shang Diet Supervisor ate, after all, a little eunuch can't always have someone to serve and deliver food, it will arouse suspicion.
After visiting these places, and telling him many of the rules of the palace, I sent him back to his courtyard, and his residence remained unchanged.
Seeing that there was no problem with Liu Ruyi, Eunuch Liu left. Before leaving, he finally said, "No one will bring you food from tomorrow, so don't show your martial arts easily." The rest is up to you, we'll look for you. β
Seeing Eunuch Liu leave, look at the time, it is already four watches. Xu Ruyi was also really tired. No matter how strong the spirit is, no matter how high the kung fu is, after all, the body is still a nine-year-old child. After a brief clean-up, wiped his face, Xu Ruyi fell asleep deeply.
Three months have passed since Zhu Biao, that is, Prince Yiwen, has arrived, and all the princes and kings have also rushed to the capital. Just three days ago, Zhu Yuanzhang officially established the identity of Zhu Yunwen's grandson. For fifteen-year-old Zhu Yunwen, he probably knew that this should be a good thing, but he couldn't be happy. My father went, and every time he met several of his uncles, especially the Four Emperors' uncle Yanwang Zhu Di, he always felt uncomfortable.
The fourth uncle has a cheerful and heroic personality, and his temperament is most like his imperial grandfather, but for some reason, he always feels that the fourth uncle's eyes look at him as if he is mixed with something else, there is pity, and there seems to be some jealousy, more like... I want to eat him the same. He could feel it, but he couldn't say it. The imperial grandfather likes him, but the imperial grandfather also likes the battle-hardened fourth uncle. He doesn't know what to do ...
It was another night, and the whole palace was silent.
Zhu Yunwen, who was lying on the bed, heard that the several palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting for him outside the house were already asleep, so he quietly got up and got out of bed. He simply put on a robe and walked out of the palace.
Completely subconsciously walking around, he didn't know where he was going, he only knew that a stroll would make him feel better. It's not the first time I've wandered around in the middle of the night. Anyway, no one in this deep palace compound will harm themselves.
The white moonlight should be on Zhu Yunwen's face, and there was some sadness and sadness on his elegant face. The body is not tall, only about one meter five, and the body with a simple white placket is extraordinarily thin. Zhu Yunwen's body bones were not strong, plus he had been guarding his father's spirit and fasting for seven days, and his body was getting thinner and thinner...
Walking and walking, he looked up suddenly, and Zhu Yunwen found himself walking into the imperial garden, "Look at the flowers and birds. β
Thinking like this, Zhu Yunwen stepped into the imperial garden.
'It's still so beautiful, it's still so quiet,' Zhu Yunwen thought to himself. As far as the eye can see, it is a typical royal garden. The palace road promenade shuttles through the garden, and on both sides of the promenade are strange mountains and strange stones, located on the green grass, and the flowers are clustered and measured. There is also a small river in the middle, and the cranes and sika deer roam freely, of course, these animals have fallen asleep at this moment. The palace people have also fallen asleep.
Further on, there is a small gazebo, and a child is fishing with a fishing rodγγγγγγγγ βοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌβ
Zhu Yunwen was stunned suddenly, "What the hell?!"
Take a closer look, on the fence of the small pavilion, a child in a eunuch's robe holds a simple fishing rod, fishing quietly. There was no one around, and the child's face was gritting his teeth.
Who is Xiao Tong? It is none other than Xu Yunzheng before and Xu Ruyi now.
Xu Ruyi is also out of line. During the day, I swept around with a broom in the imperial garden, and I was already very tired, and I was recuperating from my injuries for more than a month, and my mind was not on eating, and I didn't care much about food. But now it's different, the days are hopeful, plus tired, and the appetite is extraordinarily strong. But God doesn't fulfill it. He's really suffered in the past two days. The food given to these low-level eunuchs is unpalatable, and it doesn't show how unpalatable the food is. There are still many partial. It's okay if there are too many people, and it's not impossible to eat together. The key is that I can't stand the taste. Many eunuchs have a faint commotion on them. It's innate, some people have it, some people don't. Eunuchs with high status will bring some aromatherapy to cover them, and eunuchs who know kung fu will collect the muscles of their lower abdomen, which can also avoid this smell, and Xu Ruyi has just discovered this method. The low-level eunuchs who eat together in the key canteen don't have these conditions.,That taste.γγγγ It's hard to put into words. Don't talk about eating, even if he doesn't vomit, Xu Ruyi is determined.
It's easy to talk about a day or two, but today he really can't stand it. He also thought about going to the kitchen at night to steal some food, but he thought too much. The palace is not allowed to run around at night, but there is one exception, and that is the imperial dining room. There are three shifts in this place.,After all, no one can say which master is hungry.γγγ
After thinking about it, Xu Ruyi thought of a way. He built a small earthen stove in his small courtyard. There are wood-splitting and so on. Just make a barbecue with all the ingredients. He can't steal food, but it's okay to steal some salt.
The ingredients are all done, and it's time to eat. He thought and thought, and finally set his sights on the koi fish in the pond of the Imperial Garden. It's not that he's bold, he's also stepped on it and thought about it carefully. First of all, there should be no one here at night, after all, no one usually does the work of enjoying flowers and visiting the garden at night, and Zhu Yuanzhang's workaholic temperament will not have this leisure. Secondly, there is no one here at night. In the end, the koi fish in the pond are fat and big, easy to catch, and not to mention one or two less, even one or two less will not be noticed.
I have to say that these are logically correct, five fish were hung in just a quarter of an hour, and no one found out...
"You!" Zhu Yunwen shouted, "Who are you? What are you doing?"
Xu Ruyi was startled, and the fishing rod in his hand fell off directly. The lower abdomen, which was tightening all the time, also felt a spasm at this moment. The crotch is slightly cool...
'Calm down!' Xu Ruyi bothered his spirits, turned his head to look, and saw a thin boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a single coat, standing not far from him, looking at himself.
"People, the clothes are not good, the status is not high, the thin is weak, I can beat him!" I have been a gangster for thirty years in my previous life, and I still have this eyesight. Xu Ruyi got the above conclusion and immediately relieved. His eyes glared back, "Bah! Where are you brother, which of the twenty-four prisons are you mixed in?
Xu Ruyi's move to make people first Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, he had never seen this in black and vernacular, even bluffing and scareting, and he was thinking about what reaction he should give, and Xu Ruyi spoke again.
"There is no root in the world, and it is also fate for you and me to meet late at night. As the saying goes, there is a fate to eat fish for thousands of miles, Confucius also said that half of the meeting will be divided, I will invite you to eat fish, and then we will forget about each other in the rivers and lakes?" Xu Ruyi said, stepped forward to grab Zhu Yunwen, and walked to his courtyard with the fish. Xu Ruyi's move is called even hitting and pulling. In his previous life, Xu Ruyi didn't have any skills, but he had a set of making friends at the wine table. Basically, I had a meal with him, and my friends didn't dare to say it, and there was friendship...
Zhu Yunwen looked at the cloud and mountain fog covered by the little eunuch who was a head shorter than him, and he was also stunned for a while, and he was also a little hungry in his stomach, plus a little stimulation of rebellion, and followed Xu Ruyi into his small courtyard half-pushed.
Everything in the small yard is ready-made, just make a fire and handle the fish. After entering the small courtyard, Xu Ruyi became bolder, and if he said something unpleasant, he really couldn't kill the little eunuch next to him here, and no one knew. Of course, it's better not to kill.,There's no need to take a human life to solve it with a meal.,It's also very troublesome to dispose of a corpse.γγ
"You go and make a fire, I'll take care of the fish, and we'll talk while we eat. Xu Ruyi said very naturally, as if he had brought a little brother to the restaurant.
"Uh... I won't" Zhu Yunwen scratched his nose, a little embarrassed. When you think about it, it seems embarrassing not to be able to start a fire. No, it should be very embarrassing, Zhu Yunwen's face turned a little red.
"Come, I'll teach you" Lighting the fire is also quite studious, Xu Ruyi will look at it in the imperial dining room, but it is too troublesome to watch, and he is unwilling to do it. He didn't doubt that Zhu Yunwen couldn't make a fire. Although Zhu Yunwen is tall, he has a young face, and at first he thought he was fifteen or sixteen years old, but if he is so thin, may he be born tall? It is normal not to be able to make a fire, maybe people are the little followers of the general manager or something, and the palace has its own duties, and it is not normal to not know how to cook.
As he spoke, Xu Ruyi took out two flints from his arms, hit them twice, and popped out a few sparks.
"Do you see~" Xu Ruyi said while doing it, "When you hit Mars, get closer to the firewood and grass in the stove, let the sparks splash on the firewood, you see the meaning of the firewood, you just blow slowly, and you always know that the wind helps the fire." β
Zhu Yunwen looked at it very carefully, nodded again and again, reached out and took the flint in Xu Ruyi's hand, and got busy.
"Hmmm... Xu Ruyi nodded like a senior, then went into the house to get a basin of water, took a knife and began to deal with the fish in his hand.
In the quiet of the night, everything seems to be in order. By the time they put on the fish, lit the fire and began to eat, it was already a quarter of an hour laterγγγγγ