At this time, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was far away in Yingtianfu, was hiding alone in the temple of Shengde in Yingtianfu's palace, although the auspicious day for his ascension to the throne had been determined, but his heart did not seem to be as excited and excited as he originally thought, Zhu Di did not understand, the bloody battle of the Battle of Jingyan, nine deaths and a lifetime, was it not just for the sake of inheriting the great unification in a few days? But now, he only felt boundless emptiness and loneliness. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Di raised his head and looked around the dark palace, in the entire hall, only a few candles on the offering table were flickering, and a few chairs in the hall were flickering by the candle flames. Behind the candlelight, there is a plaque written with the filial piety of Emperor Ma, here is the life of the horse, following the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang Queen of the palace of the palace. But at this time, Zhu Di was holding a woodcarved villain in his hand, carving a woman with a kind face, lifelike, as if smiling at him, Zhu Di sat on the ground and looked at the villain, his expression was already in a trance.

"Mother, can you forgive the child? Since ancient times, the monarchy of the capital has been bestowed, but if there is no good background, how can the king serve the people? Queen Ma is not my own mother, but I can only say this before, and I must say this in the future, because the child has no other way out...... "Zhu Di muttered to the wooden man.

A gust of wind blew out a candle out of nowhere, making the room even darker.

Zhu Di continued to say to himself: "You came to the Central Plains from Goryeo thousands of miles away and gave birth to me, an unfilial son, but I have never called you mother, how shameless and selfish I am! But who let the child be born in the emperor's family? It is said that the son is more precious than the mother, and if the child wants to survive among the 20 or so children of his father, the only way is to find someone who can be relied on to be his mother. ”

Zhu Di stroked Mu Daodao with his hand: "In the child's heart, there is only one mother for you, forgive the child, if the child wants to survive, he can only do this!"

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, followed by a cough, Zhu Di hurriedly hid the little wooden figure in his arms, and knelt in front of Queen Ma's offering card.

"Your Majesty. ”

"Who?"

"Weichen Yuan Heng, there is an urgent need to play. ”

Zhu Di stabilized his mind and said in a low voice: "Come in." ”

Taoist priest Yuan Heng came in, and when he arrived in front of Zhu Di, he found that Zhu Di had tears on his face, and hurriedly knelt down: "The emperor not only covers the world, but also has an unprecedented heart of filial piety. ”

Zhu Di sighed, waved his hand and said: "I have been busy with government affairs for several days, and I have paid my respects to my mother flawlessly, and today I came to her old man to apologize, what is the matter with Aiqing, but it doesn't matter?"

Yuan Jue saw that he said, kowtowed, and said: "Emperor Qibing, Yao Guangxiao was found not in the mansion today, and the servants don't know where he is, whether he is ......."

Zhu Di said with a smile: "Guangxiao went home to save his relatives, and I already knew that this was human nature, so I dictated and did not tell other ministers that Aiqing didn't have to work hard about this matter, and he would come back before the enthronement ceremony." ”

Yuan Jue Nuonuo said: "Yes, the emperor." There is another thing, according to the report of the informant of Yipinge, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, seems to be stuck in Yixing, and invites friends to form a party. ”

Zhu Di slowly stood up and paced in the hall: "My brother, there is always a knot in his heart, and he always feels that I owe him, don't you know that I am thinking about him, let him stay away from the whirlpool of the capital, avoid this place of right and wrong, I never thought that he still failed to understand my good intentions as an elder brother." ”

"Please show the emperor. Yuan Jue said.

"Let the red-eyed phoenix go to the sea, don't startle the snake, just watch the changes, and play at any time. Zhu Di said slowly.

"Obey!" Although Zhu Di did not say it explicitly, he immediately sent Fu Hai, one of the two masters with the highest quality martial arts, to go forward, and Yuan Hui had already spied on Zhu Di's attention to this matter.

At the same time, there is only less than a day left before the Chongxiao Festival, and in the Chongxiao Building, the largest Taoist temple in Yixing City, everything has been arranged and stopped according to the intention of Ning Wang Zhu Quan, and the heroes who have been invited from all walks of life have also arrived one after another. However, regardless of ancient or modern, if there are many people, it is inevitable that all kinds of fish and eyes will be mixed. This night party is no exception, although there is no shortage of highly respected people in the martial arts, but many young people are also mixed in, wanting to take this opportunity to get acquainted with King Ning.

Ye Cheng asked while walking, and finally came to Yixing City, he had never been to Yixing before, and when he saw it today, the city was really lively, although the pavement of the bluestone slab was still a little waterlogged after the rain, but the vendors had already come out of the stalls, and there were many people in the rivers and lakes, and the whole city was even more lively.

"This big brother, let me ask, why are there so many people in the rivers and lakes here, but what kind of party can't be done?" Ye Cheng stopped a porter and asked.

"I don't know why, there are indeed a lot of people practicing martial arts in the city recently, alas, some of these people are fine, and some are just like bandits, and the yamen in the city can't control it, so they have to turn a blind eye, but it hurts us people. The porter shook his head helplessly and said.

"Is there an inn to stay in?" Ye Cheng continued to ask.

"Inn? Then don't think about it, all the inns before today are full, and many guests have not expired their previous residences, and they have been kicked out by those people in the rivers and lakes. The porter said that he would continue to carry the burden.

Ye Chengxin said: "In this way, this matter has not started yet, the father and daughter of the Zhong family should still be in the city, why don't you investigate carefully and then pay attention to it." ”

"Brother Ye, I'm hungry and want to eat sugar gourd. Youling struggled to get off the horse, Ye Cheng hurriedly helped her off the horse, and found a sugar gourd seller to buy one for her.

Ye Cheng led the horse with one hand and Youling with the sugar gourd in the other, wanting to find an inn and strolling around, but saw people from the rivers and lakes getting together from time to time and talking in a low voice.

After walking for a long time, he finally found an inn, this inn is medium in size, and there is a place to rest on the first floor, Ye Cheng looked up, but saw four words on the plaque on the door: "Falling Lamp Inn".

"In the Huangmei season, it rains at home, and the grass pond is full of frogs. There is an appointment not to come for the night and a half, and the chess pieces are idle and the lights are dropped. I didn't expect this inn to be named after poetry, it seems that this prosperous place, the characters are very different. Ye Cheng looked at the name of the store and remembered the poems of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Zhao Shixiu, and kept chanting.

At this moment, the shopkeeper had already walked to the door, saw Ye Cheng looking like a talent, and then looked at the tall horse behind him, thinking that the person who came must be a rich person, he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly took the horse rope and beckoned Ye Cheng into the store.

Ye Cheng smiled and said in his heart: "Although the name of the store is good, it seems that the people who open inns in the world are still the same. ”

Ye Cheng led Youling into the store, but saw that the furnishings in the store were quite elegant, and many calligraphy and paintings were hung under the front of the corridor.

"Xiao Er, is there still a guest room?" Ye Cheng picked up a corner seat and sat down and asked.

"Guest officer, you are unfortunate to come, not only in our store, but also in the entire Yixing City, I guarantee that you will not be able to find a guest room." Xiao Er replied while wiping the table.

"What is it that has alarmed so many people?" Ye Cheng continued to ask.

"King Ning's matter, how can we little people know, and we don't dare to inquire casually, I heard that King Ning is going to Dongchang to take office this time, passing through here, I don't know why I stopped. Xiao Er looked around, deliberately lowered his voice and said to Ye Cheng.

Ye Cheng nodded and didn't ask anymore, because at this time he noticed that there was an old man sitting diagonally opposite him, who was drinking tea by himself, and suddenly remembered that it was an old man riding a donkey who passed by on the official road.

Although this old man seems to be unattractive, but he is quite personable, Ye Cheng wanted to come forward to pay a visit, but at this time, the voice at the door was boiling, and after a while, a group of people came in.

"Brother Ye, you see that they are so fierce, are they bad people?" asked Youling while eating a sugar gourd.

Ye Cheng peeked at the side, but saw that some of the people who came in were wearing dark blue short coats, and some were wearing earthy yellow clothes, which seemed to be two sects. Sure enough, as soon as these people sat down, they heard one of the big men in yellow shouting: "Xiao Er, quickly serve wine to the master!" His grandmother's is not far away, and he has to ask for some bullshit hero post to participate in the meeting, Lao Tzu has nothing to do, and King Ning also looks down on our Sand Snake Gang too much!"

A middle-aged man in a blue coat next to him sighed: "Don't you just say, we were still fighting just now, we were not treated well for a long time, and we didn't even give a hero post, and it seems that this party is not for us to participate in at all! ”

The boss Qian in the yellow shirt slapped the table and said: "Let's go, you Liu Gang leader go, I, Qian Baihu, don't go! Isn't this a joke for people in the martial arts? The dignified Sand Snake Gang is so spineless, and people will run away when they don't see it!"

"That's right, helper, you see that the water ghost gate and we are all here together, why do they have a hero post, on weekdays, our Hailongzhai is on an equal footing with them, and in the future, how can we rob others of the business on the sea?

Although Ye Cheng can't fully understand the ins and outs, he has already made it clear that the big event here is the gathering they are talking about, and if you want to participate in this meeting, you must have King Ning's heroic post.

At this time, Youling seemed to be a little sleepy beside her, and tugged on Ye Cheng's sleeve and said, "Brother Ye, Youling is sleepy, there is still a sugar gourd here for you to eat, I want to sleep." ”

Ye Cheng was eating the sugar gourd and continued to want to hear the conversation between the two gangs on the other side, but the other side seemed to start talking about something important, and suddenly lowered his voice, Ye Cheng sat there, and couldn't hear what they were saying at all.

At this time, Ye Cheng accidentally found that the old man sitting next to him was looking at him with a smile again, and he felt very puzzled, and at this moment, he saw a person from Hailongzhai on the opposite side get up and said, "I'll go and relieve myself." ”

"Here's the opportunity!" Ye Cheng said secretly happily.