Yangxin Palace, built in the Jiajing year of the Ming Dynasty, is located on the west side of the Qianqing Palace in the inner court, which is not luxurious and extravagant, and was only used as a palace for the emperor to rest temporarily. Yangxin Hall is an independent courtyard, about 60 meters long from north to south, about 80 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 5,000 square meters. The name of the Yangxin Hall comes from Mencius's "Nourishing the Heart is not good at having few desires", which means: "The best way to cultivate the mind is to reduce desire." ”

Gao Jie followed Emperor Tianqi and Zhu Youzhen, and after entering the main hall of the Yangxin Palace, he did not stay, and came to the east to the right, which is the so-called East Warm Pavilion, where lunch was arranged.

As soon as I walked into the Winter Warm Pavilion, I heard a soft female voice shouting: "Fengsheng has seen Your Majesty!"

Gao Jie looked at it and saw a woman wearing a phoenix crown and a curtain bowing at the door, making a big salute to welcome the arrival of the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Emperor Apocalypse hurriedly stepped forward, hurriedly helped the woman up, and blamed: "Ke Niang, I said a long time ago that our mother and son will meet, don't make such a big gift, you just don't listen!"

The woman said softly: "Your Majesty is my Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the concubine should guard the way of the monarch and the minister, how can this gift be wasted!" After speaking, she slowly raised her head.

What appeared in front of Gao Jie's eyes was a face that was not stunning, but her skin was better than snow, as if she had just been bathed in milk, her eyes were not big, some slender, and her smile was like a crescent moon, giving people a feeling of incomparably closeness. The most impressive thing is that when she smiles charmingly, two shallow pear sockets appear on both sides of her mouth, which makes Gao Jie can't help but think of a sentence: "Pear vortex shallow smile heartthrob".

This woman is about thirty years old, but she looks very young, plump, but not fat, with a bumpy figure, a lazy and charming demeanor, no worse than the so-called stunning beauty, which can be called a stunner.

Gao Jie listened to the little eunuch's announcement in front of him, Mrs. Fengsheng is dining with the emperor here, then this person must be the nurse of the famous Emperor of the Apocalypse, Mrs. Fengsheng. It's just that what he didn't expect was that a nurse who was supposed to be ordinary would grow up to be so "disaster to the country and the people", and she was maintained as if she was just in her early twenties.

The Hakka family is named Baba, originally a native of Dingxing County, Baoding, Hebei Province, married Hou Baer (Hou Er) at the age of 16 and gave birth to a son, Hou Guoxing. She was elected to the palace at the age of eighteen to serve as the nurse of Zhu Youxiao, the imperial grandson who was only one year old at the time, and is now Chinese New Year's Eve six years old. Emperor Apocalypse's mother-in-law died when he was very young, and his father Zhu Changluo's designated adoptive mother Xili Li Xuanzhi has been abusing the young Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen brothers since then, only the Hakka family treats Zhu Youxiao as his own parent, so Zhu Youxiao has long regarded the Hakka family as his own mother in his heart. Therefore, only ten days after Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he issued an order to give an unprecedentedly a wet nurse as "Mrs. Fengsheng", which shows his love and gratitude to the Hakka family, and every time she celebrates her birthday, Zhu Youxiao will definitely congratulate her in person.

Before the marriage of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the Hakka family often went in and out with the emperor and was inseparable. In February of the first year of the Apocalypse, Xizong got married and married Empress Zhang Yan, and the Hakka family naturally had to avoid it. Later, at the request of Liu Lan and others, the Emperor of the Apocalypse had to send the Hakka family out of the palace. However, it wasn't long before he recalled Hakka. Zhu You said to the courtiers: "I Sike Clan is diligent in serving me day and night, not leaving the left and right, going out of the palace, and not using lunch until evening. At dusk, I cried at dawn, my heart was painful, I rested, and I was dizzy and in a trance. In the future, I will often go inside to serve and comfort me. "Since the emperor has caused anorexia, insomnia, dizziness and trance because of the departure of the Hakka family, it is ineffective for the ministers to oppose it. Therefore, the Hakka family had the privilege of freely entering and leaving the court.

At the same time, because the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian have a "food" relationship, they are his "vegetable households", most of the time, she will stay in the palace and live with Wei Zhongxian.

Since Gao Jie knew that this was the Hakka family, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to greet him: "Boy Gao Jie, meet Mrs. Fengsheng!"

When the Ke family heard this, he hurriedly called him up, and after looking up and down for a long time, he smiled at Zhu Youxiao, who was supporting him: "This beautiful little brother is the Gao Jie that Your Majesty and Gonggong Wei often mention, by the way, now it should be called the Marquis of Zhongyong!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and smiled: "Mom is right, it's him! Don't look at his young age, but he is extraordinary, wise, and he is a genius boy that I rarely see in a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty!"

Gao Jie arched his hand embarrassedly: "Your Majesty has a good reputation, and Xiao Jie is ashamed!"

Ke Shi smiled and said: "Marquis Zhongyong doesn't have to be humble, in the eyes of the concubine, you, Your Majesty, and His Royal Highness King Xin, are all rare genius boys in the world!"

This was a compliment that sounded normal, but Gao Jie chuckled in his heart when he heard it. The so-called speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Hakka's casual words put Gao Jie and the current emperor together to praise, but it is taboo. If Zhu Youxiao is a suspicious and jealous emperor, this sentence will be like a thorn, piercing into his heart, and Gao Jie will not only have no future from now on, but he is afraid that disaster will not be far away. Therefore, Gao Jie was so nervous that his vest was soaked with sweat.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao listened to it and didn't mind at all, but laughed and said: "In the eyes of my mother, I am good in everything!"

At this time, Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, who had been silent all along, stepped forward and bowed slightly to the Hakka family and said, "Youzhen has seen Mrs. Fengsheng!"

The Hakka family hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness King Xin is polite! Since the concubine left Ciqing Palace, she had the opportunity to meet with Youzhen Shao, but now it seems that she is becoming more and more estranged, and the concubine often feels inexplicably sad in her body and mind!"

When the Hakka family was Zhu Youxiao's nursing mother, the Zhu Youxiao brothers lived in Ciqing Palace and often played together. Once Zhu Youzhen couldn't breastfeed because his wet nurse was seriously ill, and he once drank Hakka's milk for a few days, and his relationship with Hakka was also quite harmonious at that time. However, after Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne and the brothers lived separately, somehow, Zhu Youzhen's attitude towards the Hakka family gradually changed, as the Hakka family just said, the relationship became more and more estranged, and the words became more and more polite.

Seeing the sad face of the Hakka family, the Emperor of the Apocalypse hurriedly comforted: "You Zhen has just grown up and is sensible, so I am a little restrained when I see you in the palace, don't think about it!"

Zhu Youzhen hesitated for a moment, then saluted again: "Kemu Mom, you know that you are wrong!"

The Ke family hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Youzhen up, and said distressedly: "Youzhen is right, it's all because the concubine thinks too much and talks nonsense!"

Emperor Tianqi happily took the hands of the Hakka family and Zhu Youzhen and said, "Look, isn't this still the same as before?

At this time, Wei Zhongxian whispered on the side: "Your Majesty, King Xin, and Mrs. Fengsheng have a deep affection, which touches the old minister! Presumably, Your Majesty and everyone still have a lot to say, so it is better to pass on the meal and talk while eating!"

Emperor Tianqi smiled and said, "If it weren't for Wei Dada's reminder, I really forgot to pass the meal, if my mother, You Jian and Xiaojie were hungry, it would be a big deal!"

The water used for cooking in the Imperial Dining Room is specially brought from Yuquan Mountain in the western suburbs of Beijing, and it is said that the water here is "the lightest and clearest". The rice eaten is yellow, white, and purple rice. In Yuquan Mountain, Fengzeyuan and Tangquan in western Beijing, there are special people to cultivate this kind of rice, in addition, there are also good colored rice from all over the country, called "tribute rice". The mutton is taken from the palace Keitoji Division. The dining room does not use beef, only milk, which is also served by Keitoyoji. Other chickens, ducks, fish, pork, and fresh vegetables are bought at the market. All kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, strange melons and fruits, and famous dried vegetables from various places are tributed from all over the country. These are prepared in advance.

Some emperors had a meal, and there were more than 120 dishes in a main meal, not counting melons and fruit snacks, which was extremely luxurious. But it has to be said that Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was really a frugal emperor, and soon after he ascended the throne, he reduced the number of imperial dishes to twenty-four. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the emptiness of the Ming treasury at this time.

However, for Gao Jie, twenty dishes are already very scary, after eating this meal, Gao Jie feels the same as last time, the taste is not as good as imagined, mainly because the imperial dining room makes hot dishes, and the eunuchs send them all the way, and then after strict inspection and the palace maid or eunuch taste, those exquisite and delicious dishes have long been cold and tasteless.

During the banquet, Gao Jie rarely spoke, mainly listening to the Apocalypse Emperor and their small talk, and at the same time observing and figuring out the subtle relationship between them.

Zhu Youxiao and the Hakka family naturally have a deep affection for the calf, and Zhu Youxiao also has an attitude of absolute protection and full trust towards Zhu Youzhen, a fellow brother. It's just that Gao Jie can faintly feel that Zhu Youzhen and the Hakka family are still deliberately keeping a distance, and they are by no means as close as they seem, and it can even be said that Zhu Youzhen is quite repulsive and wary of the Hakka family. And although the Ke family is still smiling like a flower and takes great care of Zhu Youzhen, he can occasionally notice a little loss on her face.

Just as Gao Jie was secretly thinking about it, he heard the Ke family laugh and say, "Marquis Zhongyong, I heard that your hometown is from Shaanxi Mizhi?"

Gao Jie hurriedly replied: "Mrs. Fengsheng doesn't need to call me Zhongyonghou, it's awkward, if you don't dislike it, just call me Xiaojie! That's right, the boy's hometown is in Changliang Bay, Mizhi County, Shaanxi!"

Ke Shi looked at him with a smile and said, "I heard that Mizhi is a good place, and the millet there is very famous!

Gao Jie and Zhu Youzhen glanced at each other and nodded yes together.

Emperor Apocalypse shook his head and said: "You Jian went out of the palace to play, met a thief in Mizhi, fortunately met Xiaojie, and returned safely, speaking of which, I still feel a little afraid!"

"Bandits?!" Hakka exclaimed: "I didn't expect that there would be bandits robbing His Royal Highness King Xin, what a boldness!"

Zhu Youzhen said lightly: "There are more bold people in the world! Aren't there riots in Sichuan Extravagant Chongming, Guizhou An Bangyan, and Shandong Xu Hongru recently? Those who attacked me are just some small people, and they can't be put on the stage!" Speaking of this, he turned his head and said to Emperor Tianqi: "Brother Huang, you should pay more attention to the government and politics, care more about the suffering of the people in the world, and let them live and work in peace and contentment, so that naturally no one will rise up to riot!"

Gao Jie didn't expect twelve-year-old Zhu Youzhen to accuse his brother Emperor Tianqi in person, and he was immediately stunned.