Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 2

How on earth did he fall into the water that day?
Zhu Zhen remembered that day, it was in the small garden behind the Daben Hall.

During the lunch break, I thought of my mother and concubine, so I went to the lotus pond alone to cry.

Crying and crying, it seemed as if someone pushed her and fell into the water with a plop.

It's just that I didn't see who pushed me down.

Zhu Zhen has thought about this matter several times.But when he blurted out, he held back.

It's not that I can't trust my brother.Rather, his vast experience of watching Gongdou dramas told him that in this deep palace, the consequences of talking nonsense are very serious.Especially in this situation now, you have to control your mouth even more.

"Haven't you recalled it yet?" the prince asked with a frown.

"En." Zhu Zhen nodded, showing a timid expression.

"You saved the fourth child and the sixth child. I didn't see anyone else present at that time?" Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Di again.

"Brother, I've said it several times. I heard the sound and passed by. At that time, Lao Liu was splashing in the water alone, and I didn't see anyone else." Zhu Di curled his lips, bowed his waist and kicked his legs, and jumped up to Lao Liu. , Picked a fiery red persimmon from the tree and threw it to Zhu Biao.

"It's a big matter, don't be impatient." Zhu Biao took the persimmon and said in a deep voice, "Father was very angry when the sixth son fell into the water. If he is not careful, it's okay to say. But if he is pushed into the water, it will be very difficult." Serious!"

"You and the royal father should worry too much, who would dare to do anything to the prince of Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Di said nonchalantly, while repeating his old trick, he picked three more persimmons and distributed them to his two younger brothers.

"Bite the edge a bit, and drink the soup while sucking." He was afraid that Zhu Zhen wouldn't be able to eat, so he guided him thoughtfully.

"It's not too much to worry about. The world is initially determined. The inside of this palace is as mixed as the outside. Although it has been sieved several times, there are still Beiyuan spies, or Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang's remnant party lurking." The prince took a sip of the persimmon, and praised:
"Not bad, runny."

"Hey, I've been eyeing this persimmon tree for a long time." Zhu Di was extremely proud.

Zhu Zhen sucked on the sweet and cold persimmons, but couldn't hold back his dry mouth.My heart said shit, Gongdouju didn't lie.The palace is indeed very dangerous.The idea of ​​eating and waiting to die without heart and lungs is bad.

Seeing Lao Liu's face turned pale, the prince comforted him and said, "Don't worry, even if there is a murderer, most likely it's not rushing you. You probably just happened at the right time."

"That means you were unlucky enough to meet him." Zhu Di translated.

"Yes, you are the safest now." The crown prince smiled and said, "Once it might be an accident, but twice it can't be. If you have another accident, you will definitely attract the wrath of the emperor."

"Father..." Zhu Zhen's heart tightened, that was the terrible Zhu Yuanzhang.

He remembered that after falling into the water, his father came to see him once.But at that time the whole person was groggy, and afraid of revealing his secrets, he simply pretended not to wake up.They didn't dare to open their eyes to see whether Boss Zhu's face was round or flat.

"Father can't be entirely blamed for being a concubine." The crown prince thought that he had a problem with his father, so he took out a handkerchief to wipe the juice from the corner of his mouth, and comforted him in a warm voice, "And what's wrong with your father?" The love will remain the same as before.”

Zhu Zhen couldn't help complaining secretly, as if the love in the past was not very good... But there is nothing to complain about.This is the case when there are many brothers and sisters.There is fatherly love, but not much.

Let's keep the mother's love first.

"My mother and concubine, what did you do?" He looked at Zhu Biao and then at Zhu Di, thinking it was better to ask the latter. "Fourth brother, just tell me, I'm almost suffocating."

"There's nothing you can't say about it." This time, I really asked the right person, and seeing Zhu Di beaming, he said, "Didn't it mean that at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, your mother rewarded Concubine Ding with two big bags!"

"Think about it, how embarrassing it is to eat a big bag, and there are still two?" Zhu Di said while gesticulating, admiringly said: "Forehand and backhand, all in one go! Being a concubine is indeed a hero among women!"

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhu Biao glared at the monkey-like fourth child, sighed and said to Zhu Zhen, "That's what happened, but we juniors don't know the reason and the specific process. Shouldn't have asked."

"..." Zhu Zhen's head was buzzing, if so, the old lady is really not wronged.

"Oh, it would be great if the queen mother was here." At this time, the king of Wu, Zhu Xi, sighed quietly.

"I'll go, fifth, when did you come?" Zhu Di was startled when he heard the sound, and almost threw the leftover persimmon in his younger brother's face.

"I came with you two..." Zhu Wei raised the persimmon in his hand resentfully. "This is what you gave me."

"Oh, is that so? Didn't notice. Hahaha, why do you always keep quiet..." Zhu Di embarrassedly said haha, and quickly changed the subject: "You are right, if the mother is in the palace Here, there won’t be so many moths.”

The queen mother in the two populations is the famous Queen Ma.Naturally, there is no need to repeat the love story between the lady boss of Daming and boss Zhu.

After Zhu Yuanzhang won the country, he wanted to confer titles on Empress Ma's family, but Empress Ma resigned forcefully because "Juelu is a private family, illegal".

But when it comes to the early death of her parents, Empress Ma still sheds tears.So Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed the empress first Kao Ma Gong as Xu Wang, and his first concubine Zheng Yu as Wang's wife. He built a tomb and a temple in his hometown to pay homage to him forever.

This year, the tomb temple of Empress Ma's parents was completed.Accompanied by her second and third sons, she went back to Suzhou to hold the ceremony of moving the grave and building the temple.

Therefore, she has not been in the palace for several months.

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"When will the queen mother come back?" Zhu Zhenqiji asked, he felt that the aunt was worth looking forward to.

"The third son wrote in a letter the day before yesterday, saying that he can almost come back to celebrate the New Year." Zhu Biao replied.

"It's so late..." Zhu Zhen said with red eyes, "I don't know if my concubine can survive until then."

"Don't worry, I've already told the steward of the Nei'an Letang to treat the imperial concubine kindly." Zhu Biao comforted Zhu Zhen in a soft voice:

"In addition, taking advantage of your falling into the water, I persuaded the emperor again. This time he obviously calmed down, and his tone relaxed a lot... However, the concubine Ding has to let go before the concubine concubine can be forgiven. .”

"How is that possible? That woman has to be reasonable and unforgiving, not to mention eating two big biscuits!" Zhu Di discouraged.

"Oh, it's really not easy." Zhu Biao nodded in agreement, that Concubine Ding is also a wonderful flower.He touched the chubby cheeks of the sixth younger brother and said, "Don't worry, Big Brother will figure out a way."

"Thank you, brother." Zhu Zhen thanked him sincerely.He can still feel who is sincerely treating him.

~~
After the brothers had finished speaking, the three princes were about to go back.

Zhu Zhen sent them to the gate of Wan'an, and Fifth Brother, who had been very quiet all this time, suddenly stopped.

After the two elder brothers walked a certain distance, Fifth Brother mysteriously took out a piece of paper and said to him:
"This is an ancient prescription I found in medical books. It is specially used to treat people who are frightened by cold. I even improved it. Eat it and see, how does it work?"

"Uh, thank you fifth brother." Zhu Zhen's mouth twitched, good guy, here is a self-taught doctor, my brothers are all talents.

You can't talk nonsense, and you can't take medicine indiscriminately, fifth brother!
~~
Until dark, Zhu Zhen was digesting the news he heard from his brother.

Before you know it, it's bedtime.

When he was young, he naturally slept with his mother and concubine in the warm pavilion in the east room.After she was eight years old, she moved to the Nuan Pavilion in Xishaojian.

There is no need to wash and change clothes before going to bed, and the maids will do it for you.People always go from being frugal to extravagant, so he got used to it very quickly.

The only thing he wasn't quite used to was that he was two feet away from the side of the bed, and there was always a maid guarding him.

When he thought of someone watching him while he was sleeping, he felt very uncomfortable, so he asked the maid to go out.

The maid named Mu Xiang knelt down and begged, saying that this was a palace rule, and she had to be by her side at all times, to see if he was sleeping peacefully, and to wait for him to drink water at night.If you leave your post without authorization, you will be sent to punish him.

Zhu Zhen is just putting on airs right now, and it is impossible to really ignore other people's life and death.

In addition, Mu Xiang was relatively big, experienced and steady in doing things, shrewd and careful, it was hard not to be liked, so Zhu Zhen just let her go.

As the night went on, the two gradually became acquainted with each other, and they also whispered some whispers.

"Mu Xiang, what exactly is the Nei'an Letang?" Zhu Zhen asked while lying on the bed, looking at the golden and embroidered phoenix ceiling.

"Boss Wang is not allowed to talk nonsense." Mu Xiang, who was kneeling by the bed, shook her head and whispered.

"Are you listening to him or to me?" Zhu Zhen stiffened again now.

"Of course I listen to His Highness." Mu Xiang hesitated for a moment, but still obeyed: "I heard that the place is between the sheep houses. If the concubines and concubines are old or guilty, they will be sent here first, and they will send out clothes after a long time. Bureau. As for what's going on inside, the servant girl really doesn't know."

"Because no one is allowed to enter that place, and the servant girl has never seen anyone coming out of it." She also explained in case His Highness would not believe it.

It doesn't matter if you don't explain it, this explanation made Zhu Zhen burst into tears involuntarily.

Mu Xiang hurriedly wiped his tears, patted his back lightly, and said comforting words.

Zhu Zhen was also a little helpless, and said to the little boy in his heart, don't worry, I will make a move.

I really had to wait or not, and figured out a way to save people by myself.

Otherwise, it will be freezing cold, and the cold palace will be full of old and sick people.When the queen comes back at the end of the year, maybe the mother and concubine will be completely cold...

(End of this chapter)