Bright Spring

He was about to speak, but when he saw someone approaching from the gatehouse, he had no choice but to shut up first.

At this time, Miao Jin said: "I will send King Gaoyang here. It's getting dark, so please go slowly."

Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to bid farewell to her and left the gatehouse. The eunuchs near the gatehouse continued to send him out of Yanwang Mansion.Along the way, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ponder: What did Miao Jin have to say, and he even proposed a private meeting?

But he doesn't care that much anymore!Unavoidable that the night was long and dreamy, Zhu Gaoxu immediately started to do things after returning home, just do it when he thinks about it!

...After the family banquet, the prince and concubine went back to the mansion in sedan chairs. As soon as they entered the gate, a large group of guards of honor dispersed one after another, and the rest of them entered the palace in sedan chairs.

At this moment, a childish voice came from outside: "Who dares to snatch my things?"

The son stretched out his head to see that his son Zhu Zhanji was sitting on the ground, covered in mud, holding a wooden sword in his hand, and the eunuchs and maids were rushing to support him.

"It's getting dark, why is Zhanji still being stubborn here?" The prince frowned.

The servants hurriedly knelt down on the ground, and an eunuch said, "The servants know they are wrong! Take the grandson to take a bath and change clothes immediately."

But Zhu Zhanji seemed to be angry. He sat on the ground and couldn't get up. He also beat the eunuch who was close to him with a wooden sword.

With an angry look on his face, the son struggled to get out of the sedan chair, and when he got up, he turned Zhu Zhanji over, waved his palm and hit his buttocks with a "slap", Zhu Zhanji burst into tears immediately stand up.

Mrs. Zhang came out immediately, grabbed Shizi, and said with a painful face: "Master Shizi, he is your own son, why do you do it so hard?"

"Mother, mother..." Zhu Zhanji cried, got up as soon as he turned over, and hugged Zhang's leg, "I want to tell grandpa, dad hit me..."

"The son doesn't teach, it's the father's fault! He didn't know how to be modest since he was a child, who can take his things?" The son was annoyed, but he didn't beat the son anymore.

Zhang said, "Zhanji is still young, what does he know?"

The prince flicked his robe sleeves and walked into the upper room, his back turned back and forth, and the eunuchs hurried forward to support him.

After the prince entered the room, he slumped down on the soft couch he used to sit on.After a while, Mrs. Zhang came in with a cup of tea in her hands, and waved: "You all go out."

"Yes." The eunuchs and maids bowed their knees and retreated.

"Come on, drink a cup of tea to sober up, who has offended the prince, and is so angry when he comes back?" Mrs. Zhang blew lightly on the water surface with her small mouth.

The prince frowned and said: "I told you not to worry about Tan Yuan's rebellious son, but it's alright, today Gao Xu brought it up and said it in public!"

Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "Let him say, did my mother and concubine blame me? But Shizi finally realized that there was something thorny in what the second uncle said. You said that he is a man who leads soldiers, and I am a woman. It’s hard for him to fight with words.”

The prince said: "Gao Xu was even more naughty than our Zhanji since he was a child. The emperor's grandpa even hated him. Zhanji is very popular with his grandfather. This kid, you still want to sue me!"

Mrs. Zhang smiled wide-eyed.

The prince pondered again: "But the younger brothers are all grown up, and Gao Xu knows what to do. He knows that the eldest brother will not be able to step down. After all, he is still a brother."

"Hey!" Mrs. Zhang sneered suddenly, "My son won't really believe that he wants to support you as the crown prince?"

Shizi shook his head, then hesitated again.He was contemplating something, and the expression on his face changed subtly, as if recalling different past events.

Mrs. Zhang gently reminded: "Jun Yingcao."

Shizi really frowned.Mrs. Zhang took the opportunity to say in a low voice: "Your brother, Shizi, is very scary. It turns out that he is just cunning and fierce. Now it seems that he is very patient and able to judge the situation. Today he made a call at the father's palace, and took advantage of the situation to bribe him again." The hearts of princesses. Master, don't take it lightly!"

At this moment, the prince suddenly said: "What do you think, father?"

"It's hard to say." Mrs. Zhang said with a frown, "Second uncle has indeed made great contributions and helped the emperor a lot. Now he looks meek and obedient to the emperor's words. It is not easy for the emperor to beat him if he has the heart. .”

The prince sighed and said: "You were not in our house before, and you don't know what happened when you were young. The emperor likes the second and third brothers the most, but I am the one who dislikes me the most. Last time Gao Xu poisoned me with Junying grass, the emperor also took sides. He, made a muddy mess and let it go..."

Mrs. Zhang whispered calmly: "Father is now the Son of Heaven."

At this moment, the eunuch called cautiously outside the door, Mrs. Zhang turned her head and waved, and the eunuch came in with a pot of red-hot charcoal.

It's already February, but the evenings in Peiping are still chilly and chilly.Ordinary people don't need to burn charcoal, but the Shizi Mansion definitely wants the nobles to live most comfortably.

The fiery red charcoal was so clean that there was no wisp of smoke, and the room gradually became warmer and more comfortable.

……

But at this moment, Zhu Gaoxu was in a cold alley, when he got out of the carriage, he suddenly felt the air was very cold.For the convenience of movement, he only wore a blue singlet over the lining, which was indeed very thin.

The carriage has just blocked a door.Standing there, Zhu Gaoxu glanced left and right at both ends of the alley, then reached out and gently knocked on the door three times.The sound was not loud, and quickly disappeared into the night, and there was no movement in the alley.

So Zhu Gaoxu took out an iron sled from the carriage and forced it into the crack of the door. The muscles on his arms bulged, and there was a sound of cracking wood, and the door opened.

Zhu Gaoxu entered sideways, seeing darkness in front of him, but he immediately smelled a musty smell mixed with dust.So he directly exited the door, twisted a tightly bound man with one hand, dragged him into the door, and was still inside.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... " a man lets out muffled snort.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Make a little more noise, and I will kill you right now!"

He turned around and went out, walked to the front of the carriage, and said in a low voice: "Drive back to the mansion, go in through the gate of the back garden, and wait in the mansion."

"My lord..." Wang Gui's tone was a little worried.

Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "There will be inspections after late at night, and the carriage is a big target. At that time, driving the carriage on the street will definitely be found. The carriage should not be thrown around here. Hurry up and leave while there is no one!"

"My lord, take care!" Wang Gui whispered.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the door, found a stool, and closed the door.He stood in the dark for a while, groping along the place where he put the people just now, and the two people were still there, so he didn't dare to say anything.

He dragged the two of them inside and walked into another dark room.This room does not know what to do, not even a little light.There is still faint light in the alley outside, but here you can't see your fingers, and there may be no windows.

Zhu Gaoxu fumbled to close the door, then took out a fire pocket, carefully blew it up, and took a photo at the place where the two were, and saw a man staring at him with a terrified and bewildered expression.

"Brothers, I sent you off with good wine and good food before, and I am doing my best. In the next life, remember, don't kill people indiscriminately. The kind of people you kill will have endless hardships in a lifetime, and everyone is suffering. People, why bother?"

Chapter 149 It's safe and sound

There was a faint knocking sound of wooden clappers in the distance, "It's three o'clock, everything is safe..."

Zhu Gaoxu sat in the dark for a long time, and finally stood up.

He first took out a stick of incense from the cloth bag, then blew on the fire bag to light the incense, and turned his head to watch by the light of the fire.After the incense was lit, he held his breath, inserted the incense into the crack of the wooden table board not far away, and then covered it with a fire fold.He immediately walked out of the house and shut the door tightly.

With a cloth bag on his back and a high stool, Zhu Gaoxu silently groped out of the house, walking carefully against the wall.

Walking out of the alley, there is still a poke light at the gate of the mansion in the distance, and the light is brighter.Sometimes Zhu Gaoxu walked quickly, and sometimes walked cautiously, trying to keep himself in the shadows as much as possible.Following the road explored during the day, he walked outside the mansion where Qu Neng was under house arrest in a short while.

Last year in the capital, he went to the funeral home to lie in the coffin, and he did accumulate some experience.Now that it was the second time he entered someone's mansion in the middle of the night, he felt more agile and skillful.

After finding the spot that he was aiming for during the day, Zhu Gaoxu put down the high stool, stood on it, and stretched his arms upwards to touch the wall.

He climbed up to the top of the wall, grabbed the rope and carefully lifted the high stool up.After slipping down the wall, Zhu Gaoxu walked to the wall of a nearby house, took a look with his head, and roughly saw that it was a small yard, and unexpectedly there was a room open, with a fire burning in the stove inside.

He poked his head out again, looked at the burning room, and saw two soldiers inside, sitting beside the stove and dozing off.