I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 282

Chapter 281

As a woman, Empress Zhou was actually not satisfied with Daming's social atmosphere.She is different from Emperor Chongzhen, who grew up in the deep palace and did not know the real face of those great Confucians and gentry.

But Empress Zhou was born as a commoner, and her father Zhou Kui was a fortune teller and medical practitioner. Although he did not belong to a poor family, he did not leave the grassroots class.

When Empress Zhou was young, she had to help her father with housework and crops. It was precisely because of this that Empress Zhou used the seeds sent by Cheng Shijie to plant more than six acres of land in the Royal Garden, and harvested a lot of sweet potatoes and Potato.

The defense between men and women has never been as strict as that of the rich and powerful among the people, otherwise, livelihood would be a problem.Sure enough, after arriving in Jinzhou City, a large number of women appeared in the shops on both sides of the street. Although Liaodong is not as conservative as the Central Plains, in fact, women need to cover their eyes and ears when they go out, which is like deceiving their ears and stealing their bells.

Especially the yellow-flowered girls who have not left the pavilion, almost no one wears women's clothes to go out, but the so-called men's clothes they wear are not as gorgeous as women's clothes, and they are mainly long gowns.Many women are still wearing earrings, earrings, and holding folding fans, for fear that others will not know that they are women.

"Pass by, don't miss it. Authentic Jiangnan Hibiscus Cake, taste first and then buy!"

"Inch heart candy!"

"Magnolia slices!"

"Kebab!"

"roasted beef!"

It was the first time for the little prince Zhu Cihong to go out of the palace, and the first time he saw such a bustling market. He looked at the crowded and dazzling streets, and he felt that his eyes were not enough.Of course, what's more, seeing the children on the street eating mutton skewers, sour jujube cake, and Baizi cake, Zhu Cihong drools.

Zhu Weiti saw the envious look on his little nephew's face, so he smiled and said, "His Royal Highness, do you want to eat?"

Zhu Cihong didn't agree or disagree, but looked at Queen Zhou.

Empress Zhou looked at her skinny son, sighed and said, "Cihong, what do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat……"

Zhu Cihong discovered that he couldn't name many things at all.

Zhu Weiti got up, opened the closet of the carriage house behind her, and took out some pastries from it. This carriage is a carriage house. Because of its good shock absorption, you can sleep directly in the house car when you are sleepy, and eat something casually when you are hungry.

In Zhu Weiti's carriage, there are not only dozens of pastries, but also canned food, beef jerky, fruit, and several kinds of wine.

From Lushun to Jinzhou, it was more than 120 miles, and the carriage was not traveling fast, not only Zhu Cihong was hungry, but also Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang were hungry.

Zhu Weiti took out four plates, which contained Huozhi Cake, Zhuangyuan Cake, Mung Bean Cake, Chicken Cake, Qin Cake, Cha Cake, Peach Cake, Chuan Xin Cake, luncheon meat, canned beef, and canned fruit.

Of course, although the outer packaging of the canned food that Zhu Weiti eats is the same as ordinary canned food, there are four small characters printed on the bottom: "for internal use"

That means that Zhu Weiti's canned luncheon meat is made of the best meat, not starch mixed with a little meat.

Zhu Ciliang held the beef jerky in his left hand and the walnut cake in his right, and devoured them hungrily.

"Eat slowly, don't swallow!"

Empress Zhou felt sad when she saw Zhu Cihong who had let herself go. Emperor Chongzhen was very harsh on his own life, and he only ate a small bowl of good rice every meal.Emperor Chongzhen was so simple, so was the young prince Zhu Cihong.

After finally arriving at the Ning Navy General Mansion, Zhu Weiti hosted a banquet for the two wives, Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang. Although she didn't find outsiders to accompany her, the meal was very extravagant.

All kinds of delicacies are served like pearls, not only mountain delicacies, but also all kinds of seafood, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water and the sea, everything that one expects to find.

Like braised bear paws, braised venison, braised beef, braised mutton, there are more than a dozen braised dishes without heavy ingredients, such as steamed green grouper, braised sea cucumber, rock sugar elbow, stuffed lotus root, and other dishes from LV. The specialty fruit of Song Dynasty and the fruit of Jiangnan.

Cheng Shijie never wronged himself. Some of the cooks in Ning Naval General Mansion came from Shandong, some from Beizhili, some from Sichuan, and a few from Guangdong.There are more than 60 chefs working in the Ning Navy General Mansion alone. Although there are not as many chefs in the imperial dining room of Emperor Chongzhen, the ingredients and cooking techniques are far more than the imperial dining room.

Empress Zhou looked at Zhu Weiti and said, "Bamei, there are too many dishes, how can we eat them all!"

"It's okay, sister-in-law, don't worry!"

Zhu Weiti said: "Although waste of food is prohibited in Liaodong, it does not restrict consumption. You only need to send uneatable food to the street office. They will reprocess the ingredients and give them to those who need them most! Let's eat No less, some people can eat it, and those poor people wish the rich would have a lot of fish and meat every day, because they can also mix in some oil and water!"

Empress Zhang asked with some puzzlement: "Why didn't you see the foster daughter of my palace?"

"Oh!"

Zhu Weiti explained: "Jiayue should be in school. She is different from other children. In addition to going to school normally, she also needs to learn music, handicrafts, and military training!"

"military training?"

Queen Zhou asked in confusion: "Do girls still use military training?"

"It was arranged by my husband, and there is nothing I can do about it. I have no say in the education of Jialong and Jiayue. Now that Jiayue is young and her physical fitness is not very good, so I only need to train one of them every day." At Shichen, no matter it is windy or raining, Jialong is unshakable every day, military training for two hours, half an hour for running, half an hour for fighting, and training for riding!"

Zhu Weiti sighed and said: "Emperor's sister-in-law doesn't know something, my husband is too..."

"Too much?"

"Too strict!"

While talking, there were dense footsteps outside.Without looking, Zhu Weiti knew that this was Cheng Jiayue who came back from school.

Sure enough, Cheng Jiayue, accompanied by the four companions, ran towards Zhu Weiti.

Zhu Weiti hurried to meet her, the ground in the yard had just been sprinkled with water, it would be bad if she fell while walking without looking at the road.

Zhu Weiti grabbed Cheng Jialong and pressed her nose hard: "Jiayue, how many times have I told you that you depend on the road, what should you do if you fall?"

"Aunt Zhu, I'm not afraid, I won't fall!"

At this moment, Cheng Jiayue saw several strangers in the hall, she hastily tilted her head and asked, "Auntie, who are they?"

"These are our distinguished guests!"

Zhu Weiti brought Cheng Jiayue to the living room: "Jiayue, come and pay respects to the empress!"

"Queen?"

Cheng Jiayue just entered the living room.

Queen Zhang was actually more excited than Queen Zhou.

Empress Zhang is now 28 years old. Although she had a son, Zhu Ciran, the prince of Huaichong, was born stillborn. This tragedy is fatal to a woman.

When Emperor Chongzhen found her and wanted her to come forward and adopt Cheng Jiayue as a righteous daughter, Empress Zhang was actually very willing because her identity was very sensitive. If it wasn't for Cheng Shijie, she would have no way to adopt anyone's children.Of course, without the permission of Emperor Chongzhen, it is impossible for her to adopt Cheng Jiayue.

Empress Zhang looked at Cheng Jiayue, Cheng Jiayue was different from everyone in Daming, even facing the two most noble women in Daming, Cheng Jiayue had no fear or timidity, her eyes were bright, like a spring, very clear.

The moment she saw Cheng Jiayue, Queen Zhang froze.

"Meet the Empress!"

Cheng Jiayue's eyes fell on Zhu Cihong who was now six years old. According to the habits of this era, Zhu Cihong who was six years old should be considered seven years old.

"Auntie, who is he?"

"He is...your father's student!"

Cheng Jiayue happily jumped in front of Zhu Cihong and said: "Then you are lucky, my father never accepts apprentices, you can worship him as a teacher, it is a blessing you cultivated in your previous life! Let me tell you, my father knows a lot of things. There are too many, you can learn a thing from him casually, in this life..."

Zhu Cihong was a little frightened, and backed away unknowingly.

Cheng Jiayue reached out and touched Zhu Cihong's head.

At this moment, an eunuch following behind shouted loudly: "Bold! Dare to be unreasonable to His Royal Highness!"

The eunuch's scream really startled Cheng Jiayue.

Empress Zhou looked at the eunuch and said, "Hu Liang'an, step down!"

"It's the Empress!"

Looking at the strangers in the room, Cheng Jiayue backed away quietly. She ran to the door and started running towards the outside: "Brother, someone bullied me, brother, someone bullied me..."

Cheng Jiayue cried while running.

She immediately ran to the Dongkua courtyard in the backyard. When she came to Dongkua courtyard, she found that Cheng Jialong was not here, so she looked at the guards in Dongkua courtyard and said, "Where is my brother?"

"The eldest son has gone out and hasn't come back yet!"

"Take me to my brother!"

Cheng Shijie was not at home, and Cheng Jiayue's only reliance was Cheng Jialong. Cheng Jiayue was cute and cute. Even Cheng Shijie never scolded her. In the palm of his hand, He ever scolded him.

Soon, when Cheng Jiayue was about to leave, Zhu Weiti came over to coax Cheng Jiayue.

Cheng Jiayue was very obedient, although she stopped crying, tears kept flowing.

Zhu Weiti couldn't coax her well, so Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang also came to coax Cheng Jiayue. Although Cheng Jiayue stopped crying, she couldn't hide her grievance.

Zhu Weiti looked at the eunuch with an unkind look on his face.

Although Cheng Jiayue and Cheng Jialong are both Cheng Shijie's children, unlike others, most of them are patriarchal, but Cheng Shijie is patriarchal. Relatively speaking, he cares more about Cheng Jiayue.

Cheng Jiayue's eyes were red from crying.

It's also fortunate that Cheng Shijie is not here. If he were here, Hu Liang'an would probably have to peel off his skin if he didn't die.

However, no matter what, Hu Liang'an was Zhu Cihong's man assigned by Emperor Chongzhen, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, let alone the owner of the dog is the emperor?

When the night was dark, Cheng Jiayue was tired from crying and slowly fell asleep.

At midnight, Cheng Jialong came back.

Before Cheng Jialong could sit down, the guard said: "My lord, this afternoon, the eldest lady will come to see you!"

"Did you say what it was?"

"This... I don't know, but looking at the young lady's appearance, it seems that she has been wronged!"

When Cheng Jialong heard this, he couldn't sit still.

Cheng Shijie repeatedly asked him to take good care of Cheng Jiayue. If Cheng Jiayue was wronged, it would be a disaster.

Cheng Jialong hurried to the Xikua courtyard where Cheng Jiayue lived. At this time, the Xikua courtyard was brightly lit, and Cheng Jiayue seemed to have fallen asleep. Seeing Cheng Jiayue fell asleep, Cheng Jialong breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just when Cheng Jialong was about to leave, Cheng Jiayue turned around suddenly: "Brother, I want to go home, I miss my mother..."

Cheng Jialong looked into Cheng Jiayue's eyes, her eyes had swollen into peaches at this time, this made Cheng Jialong feel bad: "Who is it!"

Cheng Jialong was really angry.

Sun Pu, who was following outside, timidly told Cheng Jialong what happened in the afternoon. At that time, Sun Pu did not add fuel to the matter, but reported the truth.

Cheng Jialong asked, "Where are they?"

"I don't know now, they left after dinner!"

"You inquire!"

Cheng Jialong looked at Li Zaiyang and said, "Go and find Gao Jie for me, and let Gao Jie bring someone here!"

In fact, Cheng Jialong knew very well that Ning Haijun's bodyguards were full of manpower, but the problem was that in the eyes of the bodyguards, Cheng Jialong was the young master, and Zhu Weiti was the mistress.

Not long after, Li Zaiyang soon found out where Queen Zhou stayed. This place was located in a courtyard in the west of Jinzhou City. Zhu Weiti actually wanted Queen Zhou and the crown prince to live in the Ning Navy General Mansion temporarily.

But the problem is, Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang are not alone, they bring three or four hundred people with them, and the three hundred and four hundred people can't live in the Ning Navy General Mansion.

What's more, more than two-thirds of the area of ​​the General Army of the Ning Navy belongs to the government office, and the military headquarters of the Ning Navy and various departments of the Liaodong Management Committee are here.

Gao Jie was just about to rest with the Xing family, took off his clothes, and received Cheng Jialong's order. When he learned that Cheng Jialong asked him to take the manpower, he thought that someone had offended Mr. Cheng by not opening their eyes.

Naturally, Gao Jie would not let go of the opportunity to perform like this.

Gao Jie brought more than 200 people to the Ning Naval General Mansion. Of course, they were stopped by the soldiers and horses of the Guard Division before they were within [-] steps of the Ning Naval General Mansion.

Not long after, Cheng Jialong and Cheng Jiayue came out in a carriage.

"Meet the eldest son!"

Cheng Jialong waved to Gao Jie and said, "Gao Jie, do you dare to kill someone for my son?"

"Willing to die for the eldest son!"

"Very good!"

Cheng Jialong said: "Li Zaiyang, lead the way!"

At this moment, a thin woman appeared on the street, none other than Zhu Weiti's maid, Gu Ziyi, one of Cheng Shijie's concubines.

"My lord, wait a moment!"

(End of this chapter)