Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu clasped his fists in return and watched him turn his horse's head.

Zheng He on the side didn't say a word, but Zhu Gaoxu understood that he was saving face for himself... It was indeed a risk. If Wei Da was caught and tortured, no one could guarantee whether he would confess the purpose of the trip and affect the overall situation.

But when Zhu Gaoxu crawled out of the coffin, he no longer cared about taking risks.At the beginning when he was almost blocked by officials in Xiangzhu Street in the capital, King Yan's "overall situation" failed to save his life. Instead, it was a little nun who saved him.

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Zhu Gaoxu and his group took a ferry, crossed the river with horses and horses, and then rode northward on horseback.They made a detour back to Peiping, and the journey went relatively smoothly.

When I left Peiping, the weather in the north was still very cold, but now the vegetation is lush, and I can't wear thick clothes anymore.The people and objects in the entire Beiping City seemed to become strange again in Zhu Gaoxu's eyes.

After entering the city, Zheng He went to Yanwangfu, and Zhu Gaoxu and others went straight back to Junwangfu.

Just after passing the screen wall, we saw Wei Da standing in the yard!Wei Da came back first, but he ran very fast.

Zhu Gaoxu handed the reins to the servant who came up to meet him, then turned to Du Qianrui and said, "Miss Du, go and rest for a while."

"Yes, my lord." Du Qianrui bent her knees slightly, and she was also exhausted.As she passed Wade, she glanced at him, then looked back and forth.

Zhu Gaoxu walked over and said, "It's good that General Wei comes back...Where's the person with him?"

Wei Da clasped his fists and stood there, "The last general is ineffective, please forgive me, my lord!"

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu felt a burst of disappointment, but he didn't show it, he just said, "Let's talk in the room."

The two entered an upside-down room one after the other. Wei Da stood in the middle of the room, bent over and said: "After the general returned to Beijing, he lied that he was an old acquaintance of Yao Ji's hometown and went to Jiming Temple to find her. But the nun in the temple Tell the general that Yao Ji has been locked up! According to the nun, someone in the temple complained to the abbot, accusing Yao Ji of breaking the precepts and having a private opinion with men. So the abbot ordered Yao Ji to be severely punished, and she was imprisoned. anyone to meet.

The general asked again, when will it be released?The nun said it was not that easy, and there was no definite number.The last general didn't dare to do anything wrong in the capital, and had nothing to do, so he had to come back and report first. "

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a while, and said, "I see. General Wei is not to blame for this matter. When did you arrive in Beiping?"

Wei Da said: "Go back to the prince, I will arrive in the morning."

"Let's go back and rest. This time we escaped death, I will definitely ask for credit for you in front of the father." Zhu Gaoxu said.

"The most dangerous thing is the prince. The general will feel at ease when he returns." Wei Da clasped his fists and said, "The general will leave."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and watched Wei Da go out.He himself sat in the upside-down room for a long time, feeling a little lost and sad... Before going to the mourning hall that day, he saw Yao Ji in the courtyard of Jiming Temple in the afternoon.If he had known this, he should have sent someone to find her and let her go out of the city with Zheng He, Wang Bin and others!

He wondered for a while, why didn't he do that?The main reason was not that he thought it was dangerous, but that he was not sure whether hiding in the coffin would be successful. At that time, his attention was all on that matter, and he didn't care about Yao Ji's affairs at all.

At this moment, Wang Gui walked into the door, and he said with a happy face: "Your servant heard that the prince is back, so hurry up and see, you are really back!"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to mention the absurd dangers of this business again, so he pretended to be calm and asked in a low voice: "I've been away for a few months, and the work I entrusted to you, how are you doing?"

Wang Gui glanced back, walked forward, bowed his head and said in a low voice: "This servant has been very careful, and nothing has gone wrong. She is also very calm, neither trying to escape, nor shouting. It's just... recently She has contracted a cold, and the servants have already grabbed some medicines and sent them down."

"Is it serious?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Wang Gui frowned and said: "I am not sure about this, let alone ask the doctor to show her."

Zhu Gaoxu immediately stood up, walked out of the door, and went to the hallway, Wang Gui hurriedly followed.I met Aunt Wang on the road, and I haven't seen her for a few months. Zhu Gaoxu exchanged a few words with her casually.

Aunt Wang was about to leave, Zhu Gaoxu called her again: "From now on, Ms. Du will live in the inner hall, let her take care of me nearby, and you are not allowed to come in if you have nothing to do."

"My lord brought Miss Du back, we have nothing to do..." Aunt Wang laughed.

"Don't think that the prince has always been kind to you, so there is no rule!" Wang Gui said coldly.

Aunt Wang suppressed her smile and said, "It's not that I don't obey the prince's words."

Zhu Gaoxu said to Wang Gui earnestly, "I know, Mrs. Wang is well-mannered, so don't worry about her mouth."

After hearing this, Aunt Wang was immediately relieved.

Zhu Gaoxu and Wang Gui entered the inner hall one after the other, he saw that there were maids cleaning the eaves and the yard, so he entered his bedroom and paced back and forth in the room.

Wang Gui bent down and said in a low voice: "Does the lord want to see the person in the cellar? The servants call everyone in the inner hall out."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: "The rules I just mentioned, you also agree with the servants in the house."

"Yes." Wang Gui bent down and took out another bunch of keys from his pocket, then turned and walked out.

Zhu Gaoxu took a few steps in the room, looked into the window, and saw that the maids had left one after another, so he left the bedroom and went straight to the back garden.

He opened the copper lock of the gatehouse from the inner hall to the back garden, and walked into the garden.I found a pair of ladders in the utility room over there, opened the door of the room at the entrance to the cellar, and walked in.

After removing the iron bars at the entrance of the cellar, Zhu Gaoxu set up the ladder and climbed inside.

Looking back on the ladder, he saw Xu Miaojin sitting up on the bed.She covered her mouth with her hands and coughed twice, looking at Zhu Gaoxu.After he got off the ladder, Xu Miaojin said: "King Gaoyang, you are finally back! I haven't seen you for several months, and I don't know how long you will imprison me."

"I'm sorry for you..." Zhu Gaoxu apologized, "Is the illness serious?"

Xu Miaojin said weakly: "I haven't seen the sun after staying in this place for a long time, my body is weak, it's just that I got a little bit of wind and cold, I should recover after a few days of rest."

Zhu Gaoxu walked to the bed and pulled up the quilt, Xu Miaojin's face turned red.

Seeing that the stove next to him was cold, he picked up flints, toilet paper, etc. from the table, and struck there to start a fire.While busy with his work, he said without turning his head, "Has Wang Gui made medicine for my aunt?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't hear Xu Miaojin's answer, so he turned his head and saw that she was looking at him. When her eyes met, she looked away again, "There is a firewood stove and water here. I can make medicine myself."

Chapter 1 Twelve The Emperor Is Great

An orange flame was burning under the casserole, and Zhu Gaoxu slowly added firewood to the stove.

"Is the matter that King Gao Yang is going to do going well?" Xu Miaojin asked in a voice.

While observing the firewood burning, Zhu Gaoxu replied: "It didn't go well, I almost lost my life a few times, and finally escaped by luck... But before I left, I told Wang Gui that if I couldn't come back, I would let my aunt go." .”

After he finished speaking, he looked slightly sideways to observe Xu Miaojin's reaction, but he didn't see anything strange.Xu Miaojin's body is weak, her face is a little pale, and she leans lazily on the pillow, like a girl who just woke up.Her expression seemed to be a little rejoicing, glad that Zhu Gaoxu was safe and sound, or glad that she had a way out?

Xu Miaojin also noticed Zhu Gaoxu's eyes, her eyes flickered slightly, she pulled up the quilt again to cover her chest, and said embarrassingly: "King Gao Yang came in suddenly, I'm disheveled, it's really unreasonable. You just avoid it a little bit , I want to get dressed."

Xu Miaojin was wearing clothes, and the white lining was long sleeves.Even when she got up to get dressed, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't see anything... Women in the Ming Dynasty were very particular.

He said: "Little aunt is sick, don't worry about it, just lie down. I'll go out after the medicine is ready."

Xu Miaojin asked again: "Since King Gaoyang is back, you don't intend to let me go?"

She posed an extremely difficult question, and Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a long time, unable to answer it.

If she is released and allowed to return to Concubine Xu, in case she finds out the list of those who surrendered in the court and reveals it back...then King Yan's strategy of "going straight to the sky" will face great challenges Risk, if unfortunately defeated, Zhu Gaoxu will be unlucky, will he have a good end?

What's more, on the trip to the capital, Zhu Gaoxu escaped death, if it was of no use in the end, it would be very disappointing.

But if she is not released, I don't know how long the "Battle of Jingnan" will last. Should she be locked up in this cellar until the end of the war?

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't answer this profound question for a while. After pondering for a long time, he raised his head and said, "I remembered a strange thing from before..."