What kind of place is the palace? Aside from the people who live inside, it is actually a collection of countless courtyards and palaces, and a majestic palace wall surrounds the outside. So how many houses are there in the palace? I'm afraid no one knows, some say 9,999, others say no. Zhu Yuanzhang himself couldn't say clearly. But in the inner courtyard of this magnificent palace, his favorite place to stay is the Wuying Palace. Queen Ma didn't pay attention to him before she left him, but with Queen Ma's departure, his four years towards her increased day by day. By chance, he saw the name of Wu Yingdian. Wuyingdian is just a very common name, but Zhu Yuanzhang noticed the extraordinaryness of this name: it has the martial character of Hongwu and the English character of Ma Xiuying. After that, Wuyingdian became the place where Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed and summoned the minister, and it was also the place where he missed his deceased wife.

Slowly putting down the brocade guard secret report in his hand, Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his sour eyes, "Jiang Xuan"

At the foot of the steps, Jiang Cheng fell to his knees.

"You've been the commander of the Jinyi Guard for more than half a month, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Jiang Zhen and waved his hand, "Get up and talk back"

"Your Majesty Xie" Jiang Xuan stood up from the ground, "If you return to the Holy Lord, Your Majesty will not give up, and it has been nineteen days since the minister became the commander of the Jinyi Guard. ”

"En" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "I have already read the secret report you submitted this morning, but you don't seem to understand my intention to reopen the brocade guard... ”

"Forgive the minister for being stupid" Jiang Xuan's sweat suddenly came out, and his voice trembled a little.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, "What I care about is not the civilian officials, Mao Xiang has already helped me deal with them very well, has there been any recent movement in the army, Liang Guogong, Ying Guogong, what has been the recent movement in their mansion?"

The Mao Xiang mentioned by Zhu Yuanzhang was the first commander of Jinyiwei, and he also created a sharp blade for him in the Hu Weiyong case, the empty seal case, and the Guo Huan case, and was finally killed by Zhu Yuanzhang to calm the anger of the public.

"Back to the emperor's words," Jiang Xuan thought carefully for a while, "There is nothing abnormal in the army and in the mansions of the princes, but there is a new scholar in the mansion of the Liangguo Mansion recently, named Xu Ruyi。。。。。 ”

Jiang Zhen briefly talked about Xu Ruyi's matter, and then talked about the meeting between Lan Yu and Xu Ruyi on the top of the mountain in detail.

"The one named Xu Ruyi, pay attention" Zhu Yuanzhang quietly listened to Jiang Xuan's reply, and said lightly, "Okay, you go down." Think about it, why did I reopen the brocade guard, if I don't understand。。。。。 ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say it, but Jiang Zhen already understood. After kneeling on the ground and kowtowing heavily, Jiang Zhen withdrew from the Wuying Hall and walked quickly to the outside of the palace. If you don't care about civilian officials, who can you care about? He also specially asked about the military and the nobles. Jiang Zhen understood what Zhu Yuanzhang meant, his steps were faster, he needed to hurry up.

With Jiang Zheng's departure, only Zhu Yuanzhang and his personal eunuch were left in the Wuying Palace.

"It's okay to mistake Xu Ruyi as Liu Futong's heir, but instead of reporting to me, he took it upon himself to take care of him" Zhu Yuanzhang muttered to himself, with a grim smile on the corner of his mouth. Lao Zhang on the side didn't talk, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like to be disturbed by others when he was thinking.

"It's that Xu Ruyi. Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "What is he doing in the Blue Jade Mansion?"

"Lao Zhang, is there any report from the school inspection recently?"

"Back to Your Majesty," Lao Zhang said softly, "Recently, the school inspection side also mentioned this Xu Ruyi, and the situation is similar to what Jiang Zhen said." ”

Lao Zhang knew very well what Zhu Yuanzhang was asking, "Jinyiwei doesn't seem to know the specific identity of Xu Ruyi, and the record about him seems to have been erased... ”

"I know about this matter, it seems that Lao Liu has done a good job. Is there anything else?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again, "Have you found out the purpose of his trip to the Blue Jade Mansion?"

"Well, I don't know. ”

After a moment of silence ...

"Do you dare to get involved in my affairs?" Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes, remembering what Xu Ruyi had said to Zhu Yunwen before to keep the generals in the army. "I'm afraid you don't have that ability. ”

"Can you read the book seriously for a while! Didn't I tell you? I haven't thought of a new story yet!" Xu Ruyi's hand slapped heavily on the bookcase in front of him, and roared angrily at Lan Chun, who was sitting in front of him.

"You... Do you dare to murder me?" Eight-year-old Xiao Lanchun's face was full of incredulity, and her little face was full of grievances, "I, I'll go to my mother"

As he spoke, Lan Chun got up from his chair and ran out, leaving only a few little maids in the study and Xu Ruyi with an angry face.

Lan Chun's original husband, Fang Yi, had been kicked out of the Liangguo Mansion, and he was also promoted by his wife to be Lan Chun's companion reading boy.

Mrs. Mu said that she asked him to teach Lan Chun to read before the new husband arrived, but in fact, she just put a playmate by her son Lan Chun's side, and he didn't need to do anything. Xu Ruyi's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" only took one day to finish the follow-up. After that, he excused himself from making up a new story. The little master always pestered him to tell stories, so the scene just now happened.

But the inability to make up a story is obviously not the reason why Xu Ruyi is angry.

"Alas" Looking at the figure of the little young master Lan Chun leaving, Xu Ruyi sighed, and a trace of helplessness and confusion flashed in his eyes.

As for the purpose of coming to Lanyu Mansion, Xu Ruyi remembered it very clearly. In my memory, around February next year, Zhu Yuanzhang will start purging the army, and the Lanyu Mansion will not leave chickens and dogs. Why Li Caiyu asked him to come here, he didn't know. But he himself came here to see if he could find any evidence of Lan Yu's rebellion, so that it could be directly related to the massacre that was about to begin. Ideally, this evidence should be a list with tens of thousands of names written on it. The goal is very clear, but since he had a drink with Lan Yu on Fengxia Mountain a few days ago, Xu Ruyi has been a little hesitant. After that day, Lan Yu never came to see him again, but asked Madame Mu to put him by Lan Chun's side, and there was no follow-up. Lan Yu was trying to protect him and didn't want him to attract the attention of others. Although Xu Ruyi doesn't need this kind of protection, the feelings contained in it are real. This feeling made Xu Ruyi feel that he couldn't bear it.

Looking at everything familiar around him, Xu Ruyi knew that soon, these would all disappear. Lan Yu did not object, Xu Ruyi understood this very well, and Zhu Yuanzhang also knew it very well. But Lan Yu's death is not because he has this idea, but because he has this ability, as long as he has this ability, Zhu Yuanzhang will kill him, but he is the introduction of Zhu Yuanzhang's choice.

These are Xu Ruyi's biggest troubles, and these troubles have made him very short-tempered recently.

Gently closing his eyes, Xu Ruyi fell into thought, 'The Lan Yu family is dead, no matter what he does, it will not affect the final ending. Then it is understandable to take advantage of the opportunity. ’

Xu Ruyi knows the truth very well, and he doesn't need others to teach him. But man is such a complex and contradictory animal. 10,000 dead people, 100,000 dead people are just cold numbers on paper, as long as there is no contact with them, it does not make people feel anything special. The last time Li Shanchang's incident increased Xu Ruyi's killing point by more than four hundred, it only made him feel happy. But now, after really living in Lan Yu's Mansion for a while, especially after feeling Lan Yu's concern for him, Xu Ruyi can no longer regard these people as the benefits he deserves.

The door of the study opened again, and the little young master Lan Chun ran back. The grievances on his face did not dissipate, and he was not followed by others, he was still alone.

"What did Madam say?" Xu Ruyi opened his eyes and looked at the little young master standing in front of him.

"Yes, I'm sorry" Lan Chun bowed to Xu Ruyi, this move made Xu Ruyi stunned.

"Eh, no, it's okay" Xu Ruyi waved his hand randomly, although he had not been in contact with Lan Chun for a long time, Xu Ruyi knew that Lan Chun still had a little temper as a young master, how could he apologize to him as a scholar?

"Hmph" Lan Chun snorted, turned around and picked up a book on the table, muttering, "I don't know why my mother is facing you, obviously you yelled at me, my mother must not like me." ”

"You can't have anything to do with the lives here!" Hearing Xiao Lanchun's self-talk, Xu Ruyi said to himself secretly, this was what his conscience told him.

Shaking his head, looking at Lan Chun's pouting mouth and bulging cheeks, Xu Ruyi opened his mouth and said, "In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the heroes were competing for each other. Liu Bang as a 。。。。。 ”

Hearing Xu Ruyi tell a new story, Lan Chun was happy and put down the book in his hand. Children, cry fast, and they are not slow to be happy.

Xu Ruyi didn't know why he told Liu Bang's story. He knew that this story involved Liu Bang's murder of heroes, and he was a little taboo, but he still said it.

It's just a story, anyway, and it's nothing to listen to. Xu Ruyi comforted herself.