Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 572

But how can everything go as expected?
The Shangyuan agreement between the sixth child and Miss Xu Er finally came to nothing...

It's not that the children are in love with each other, or that the old parents are beating mandarin ducks with sticks, but that something happened to the sixth child's family.

The life of his uncle, Boss Zhu's only surviving relative, Cao Guogong Li Zhen, has come to an end...

In the past few years, Li Zhen's health has been poor. Last year in the twelfth lunar month, she had a cold again, and then she was bedridden, and suddenly she couldn't speak at the end of the year.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma came to Cao Guofu to inquire about illness in person. The emperor held his brother-in-law's hand and asked him, "Do you still know us?"

Li Zhen couldn't answer, so she could only cry on her back, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop crying.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his son to visit the door every day to ask about illnesses, and the imperial hospital was almost fully mobilized to guard Cao Guo's mansion.But also to no avail.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Zhen finally reached her deathbed.After hearing about it in the newspaper, he came again with Empress Ma to send his elder brother off for the last time.

Prince Zhu Biao also accompanied the princes.

The smell of medicine in Cao Guofu's main bedroom was strong. Zhu Yuanzhang sat by the bed, holding Li Zhen's skinny and cold hand, and looked at his sallow and haggard face.

Listen carefully, Li Zhen has already breathed in, but has no breath...

Zhu Yuanzhang had bid farewell to many people, and he knew that by this time, he was not far from dying.

With tears in his eyes, he said to Li Wenzhong in a low voice: "Bao'er, we have been thinking about it for the past few days, when he came to see your father that day, did he have something to say to us?"

"Your Majesty, when my father was able to speak, what he often said was, 'I was a farmer back then. Emperor Meng Renzu did not give up, and Sansheng was lucky to marry the eldest princess. Later, the Central Plains were in chaos, and the whole family was left alone. I can take you to hide in Tibet and make a living by begging. It is only when I go to the emperor that I settle down and have no worries about food and clothing.'

"Later, it was even more glorious to the third generation, and the blessings were overwhelming in one family. Today, there is no one who is more than a minister in the family of Shilu." Li Wenzhong couldn't take off his clothes, and he was ill day and night, and his own condition was also very poor.But he didn't care about himself, choked up and said:

"Father said that the emperor's kindness to our family has never been seen in history. Although he is so heartbroken that he can't repay him, there can be no more unreasonable requests... If father has anything to say to the emperor, it must be my wish. Huangbao emphasizes the dragon body, so don't be too sad.

"I also mean the same thing. My father is already 77 years old. He enjoys a long life and good fortune. I don't have any regrets. The emperor treats my father with the utmost honor and favor. There is nothing to regret."

"Alas..." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, but still said sadly:
"Back then, our relatives were all poor, and only your family could barely eat enough. Your parents often asked us to come home and steamed multigrain pancakes for us. We could eat ten at a time with plain water. You But dad never gets angry, and before he left, he even brought us a bag so that we could eat when the cows were hungry."

"We know that your family's situation is not very good, and you still have to support your brothers. Every time you say no, your father chases us to the village entrance and forces it to us." He wiped his tears and stopped. Tears poured down uncontrollably.

"At that time, we swore that if we were prosperous in the future, we would let your father and your mother live a good life. Unexpectedly, when we really developed later, your mother was gone... The rest of our family members were also gone. Your father is left, if we don't treat him well, who else will we treat?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was crying, holding Li Zhen's hand tightly: "Brother-in-law, we really don't want you to go. Don't you follow my will the most? We will make an order now to let you live. Do you hear me?" ?”

"..." But Li Zhen could no longer hear the emperor's voice.

The emperor in the world cannot change the number of days after all...

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The sixth child was also waiting in the outer hall with his brothers, accompanied by Li Jinglong.

Although Cao Guofu has one family and two kingdoms, its furnishings are very simple.There are no calligraphy or paintings hanging on the wall.The tables, chairs and benches were all very ordinary, and they used ordinary white porcelain tea sets. There were cracks in the cup rims. I don’t know how long they had been used.

In a daze, the sixth child seemed to be returning to his grandfather's house.I didn't expect that my uncle's family, which was more noble than my grandpa's family, was just as stingy.

Even Li Jinglong, a well-known playboy in Beijing, dressed very plainly when he was at home.Looking at the half-worn cotton robe and faded cotton shoes on his body, Zhu Zhen really couldn't connect him with the gorgeously dressed and suave young man.

Seeing several young highnesses staring directly at his attire, Li Jinglong said embarrassingly: "You have to wear this at home, otherwise my grandpa will be unhappy."

"My uncle is such a person." The prince sitting in the seat sighed softly: "He is always uneasy about the sudden wealth. He often says, 'Once rich and noble forget poverty, a gentleman will not do anything. '"

"That's what he said, and that's what he did." After a pause, the prince continued, "For many years, my uncle, just like my father, only seeks to dress fitly, not to be gorgeous, and to eat only to be palatable, not to be extravagant.

"Father often gives him clothes, but when he wears them out, he must mend them before wearing them. As long as others can't see the patches... He said that he didn't feel ashamed to let people see the patches, but he was afraid that others would say that he did it on purpose. This looks like a disgrace to the court."

"What the prince said is true," Li Jinglong nodded and said seriously: "Grandpa has repeatedly told us since we were young about what he experienced when he was a farmer, and warned us not to forget our roots and not to be extravagant..."

When Li Jinglong said this, the third, fourth, and sixth all couldn't help casting strange glances at him.He didn't listen to a word of his grandfather's words, and there is no master who dares to spend more than him outside.

"Uncle's teachings, you must also keep in mind." The prince's eyes swept over the brothers, and said indifferently: "With the power of Cao Guofu, although there are delicious food every day, why do you have to worry about it? Uncle never wastes extravagantly, yes Doesn’t he know how to enjoy? Wrong, in this world, it’s easy to go from being frugal to being extravagant, and no one can learn to be extravagant and wasteful.”

"The reason why he insists on being frugal is that one is because he knows that the country was founded and there is a shortage of money everywhere; the other is that he knows that his father used diligence and frugality to transform the world. As a relative of the emperor, he must set a good example and not drag his father and queen. Uncle If that's the case, how can those of us who are princes not know how to be thrifty?"

"It's Big Brother." The younger brothers hurriedly bowed to be taught.

The second child and the third child knew that it was the elder brother's beating.The sixth child was also a little guilty. Although Deng Duo and Hu Xian paid for the river lantern and fireworks on the third night of junior high school, the wool came from the sheep, and he would be the one to pay the bill in the end.

Seeing the younger brothers not daring to breathe, the prince just wanted to say a few words to ease the atmosphere, but he heard his father's heart-piercing cry from the inner bedroom, and then Li Wenzhong also burst into tears.

"Grandpa..." Li Jinglong rushed into the inner bedroom when he heard the sound, only to see the imperial physician and maids kneeling on the ground, all sobbing.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month in the 12th year of Hongwu, Dr. Rong Lu, Du Ma Duwei, You Zhuguo, and Cao Guogong Li Zhenxi were specially recruited, and they were seventy years old.

I went to mourn and stopped watching the court for three days. I drove to pay homage to him, and he was posthumously named King of Longxi and offered his posthumous title.

The civil and military officials of the court went to Cao Guofu to express their condolences.

At the age of seven, he was buried in the original place of Douguang Mountain, Lingji Township, Xuyi County, from the princess Zhao.

On the day of departure, I drove back and looked at the Xicheng Tower crying...

(End of this chapter)