Daming prepares the emperor
Chapter 101 Zhu Di's Determination
When Zhu Biao returned home, he went to his yard first, planning to take Liu Chubai to have dinner together.
Ju Fei runs to the kitchen all day long, relying on her husband's liking for cats from time to time, so she goes to his place to eat and drink, so she doesn't have to think about it, she won't die of hunger.
Passing by the goldfish pond, he glanced at the water, frowned and sighed.There are several black mud spots in that clear water.
This is Huang Xiuzhu's one-person spring water specially transported in wooden barrels. No matter how hot the weather is, the temperature will not change.And those few fish were given by Wu Pin, who said they could predict good fortune and good fortune, and they were auspicious things.
As a result, after being seen by that little bastard Zhu Jingjing, she used it to wash her hands and face every day, and it became her secret base.
"She must be here again."
Shaking his head helplessly, Zhu Biao snapped his fingers casually, cleared the water, and stepped into the study with his hands behind his back.
Liuchubai was lying in the study room, with his tongue sticking out of his mouth and resting on one side, his two paws next to his face, sleeping with his eyes closed.
Hearing Zhu Biao's footsteps, the dog's ears pricked up before he woke up, then he struggled to open his eyes, wagged his tail and barked twice, stood up and rushed towards his master.
"Good dog, good dog." Zhu Biao rubbed its head, took jerky jerky out of his pocket and fed it, "Let's go, I'll take you to dinner."
One person and one dog walked through most of the Shuai's mansion, and went to Ma Xiuying's place.In winter, they ate inside the house, but now that it was summer, they naturally moved to the yard.
The rattan chairs and rattan tables are still the same set they used when they first came to Yingtian Mansion, and they haven't changed them, but the big trees by the pond, nourished by the popularity, are more luxuriant.
"Biao'er is here."
As Zhu Biao expected, Zhu Yuanzhang had already started eating, with a steamed bun in his left hand, a pancake in his right hand, and a large bowl of meatball soup in it.
Ma Xiuying came out of the kitchen, holding a plate of squirrel fish with a damp cloth in her hand, and said with a smile, "It's okay if you're late, mother left you good dishes, your father, he eats rough vegetables."
Li Li in the back brought out the salted duck and soup buns, and it looked like they had just been made, so it was true.
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "We like to eat this."
"Wow!" Liu Chubai barked at Li Li, and went with her to fetch his dog food.
"Mother." Zhu Biao called out.
"Sit down and eat." Old Comrade Zhu said, "How are your affairs going? I heard from Wu Ce that you went to Deng Yu's house? You also went to the Town God's Temple twice?"
"I didn't expect such a coincidence." Zhu Biao said with a smile, "Father, I have something nice to tell you."
"You said."
"Zhao Desheng, General Zhao, is the ghost of Deng Yu's family."
Zhu Yuanzhang stopped holding the burrito: "Has he turned into a ghost? What kind of resentment? Are you dissatisfied with us or..."
"No, it's because he is obsessed with the unification of the Central Plains. He went to Deng Yu's house mainly because the last person he saw before his death and the person who poured out his thoughts was Deng Yu, and that's all he was involved with."
"What do you mean by coincidence?"
"It's a coincidence that Zhao Desheng turned into a ghost. The body of the ghost is still clean. He guarded one side before he was alive. He is loyal and brave, and has the world in his heart. He is a good material for being a city god. I have persuaded him and Miao Zhu to keep him there."
"Oh..." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It's fine if you have an idea. Do you need anything? If you don't need it, go to Baishi to ask for it. If you have any trouble, let us know. It's the first time you're doing something big by yourself, so we have to help you."
"The current situation is still very good." Zhu Biao said, "Speaking of Mr. Li, Dad, how is the conversation between him and Shen Wansan going?"
"Then what else can happen." Zhu Yuanzhang wrote lightly, "If the negotiation fails, can he still live?"
"What do the businessmen of his faction think? Did you ask for any conditions?"
"I mentioned it. I want to do business on Chen Youliang's original site, and I want us to collect less tax. These are trivial things, but the key is that they handed us the certificate of nomination, so both parties can rest assured."
"It can be seen that Zhang Shicheng's rule is no longer stable, which is a good thing for us."
"No, no, it has nothing to do with governance." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "It only has something to do with interests, no matter how good Zhang Shicheng treats the people and how well he manages them, as long as they can make money with us, he doesn't care about anything. "
"Even if it's selling the rope to hang yourself?"
"Your metaphor is good!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "That's what happened."
"Stop chatting, don't talk about other things while eating." Ma Xiuying stared alone, "It's not good for the stomach."
Zhu Biao nodded obediently and picked up the chopsticks.
Comrade Zhu still wanted to chat while holding back, so while Ma Xiuying turned around and went into the kitchen, he said quietly: "When it's evening, you go to our room, and we will chat with you again."
"Father, isn't the emperor living in your room? Where can I find you?"
"Ah, that's right. We changed places, so let's go find you, don't fall asleep, stay awake and wait for us."
"it is good."
After the meal was over, Zhu Biao took the dog and left first.
Recently, the Hu family——Zhu Biao met once from a distance, and the doctor found out that he was pregnant. He saw it with his eyes, and it was a boy. Don't be fooled by ghosts, and the same thing happened as Zhu Jingjing.
Now that I have free time, I just happen to take a few more laps in the mansion.
Such a move was a bit abrupt, but due to their status, no one said anything.
It took a long time to go out this time, and the decorations in many places have changed, so let's walk along the road to see.
The mission was completed like a patrol, and after greeting several guards on the way, the moon had already risen, and it was time for his father to come, so Zhu Biao returned to the inner courtyard.
Chen Youliang is dead, Gao Bailing has escaped, as expected, nothing happened recently, everything is safe and sound.However, this is also related to Comrade Zhu's increasingly thick dragon spirit, and if you think about the ghost of a child who sneaks in, he must be a ghost of ten thousand years old.
Thousands of years ago, was it the era of Shan Hai Jing?
Liu Chubai sniffed around, stopped suddenly, and whimpered twice towards a room in the distance.
"Is anyone still asleep in there?"
Zhu Biao glanced at it: "It's the fourth brother's room. I'm young, maybe I still have something on my mind, so I have insomnia?"
He's a little curious, but he doesn't use his eyes to pry into other people's privacy. It's fine if he's looking into things, but it's too dirty to be satisfied.
"Never mind, let's go back."
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Time passed until dinner.
Outside Zhu Biao's study.
"Can snails live in water?" Zhu Di asked curiously.
"Isn't that what it is?" Zhu Jingjing looked confident, "I've learned a lot, my elder brother often tells me that true knowledge comes from practice. If you don't come out to play with me, there is no chance of seeing it."
"How big is a snail?" Zhu Di began to doubt, and searched for similar things in his memory, "I seem to have seen this kind of thing on the dinner table. It is used for eating and cooking."
"Then tell me, what is it?"
"Yes..." Zhu Di thought for a long time, "Clam, yes, it's a river clam."
"It must have sneaked here. It's not good for big brother's goldfish. Let's take it away and take it to the kitchen. Let the cook cook it and eat it!"
The clam was pretending to be dead without moving, but it couldn't hold back any longer when it heard this, what should I do, should I run, or I will die if I don't!
But if I run away, I will be exposed again. What if they find out that I am a monster?
If I hadn't fallen asleep just now, how could I have fallen into this situation with the supernatural power given by the young master...
This little girl is so fast...
Just when it lost all hope, Zhu Di descended like a voice from heaven: "Today the kitchen roasted mutton, there is no need to eat this."
Yes, yes, I don't have much meat!
"Why are you so stupid." Zhu Jingjing said, "This is our child's wish, your mother and my mother will be happy."
"Only your mother can." Zhu Di revealed the truth mercilessly, "Because you are usually too noisy and caused her a lot of trouble, so as long as there is a little good thing, your mother will be very happy."
Zhu Jingjing's eyes widened: "Nonsense, just say whether you want to eat or not!"
"...Eat! Why don't you eat it." Zhu Di poked his neck, "I saw that they were roasted and eaten. I'll go find charcoal fire, and you go find salt and garlic."
Help, he is a little more ruthless than this little girl!
"Then let's go." Zhu Jingjing wiped her hands on her skirt, and the sunlight shone down through the gaps in the bamboo leaves, making her forehead and face red, and her collar was wet with sweat, but even so After playing all day, my physical strength and energy are still abundant, and I never seem to know how tired I am.
The clam, which was the size of an adult's palm, was held tightly in her hand, as easily as a feather.Ordinary little girls would have a sense of fear towards soft and slippery things—after all, there is meat in the shell, but she felt nothing and was very interested.
"Wait! Wait! Can't eat me, put me down!"
Zhu Di stayed where he was as if struck by lightning, and said in a trembling voice, "Did you hear someone talking?"
"No." Zhu Jingjing had already run to the gravel road, all she wanted was to eat and drink for a while, seeing that he would not leave, she beckoned impatiently, "Come on, come on."
"Didn't you hear?" Zhu Di didn't move, he said nervously, "Don't talk, listen carefully."
Although Zhu Jingjing was puzzled, he still followed his advice.
This time she held her breath, pricked up her ears, and she really heard the movement, and the movement turned out to be coming from her hand!She quickly bowed her head.
The mussel opened its mouth, and the human language spit out from inside: "Let go, I won't do bad things, the young master agreed to let me stay here!"
It is already ready to be thrown on the ground. When people see monsters, they always react in the same way. They either lift things up to hit them, or run away from them. Can this little girl be an exception?
Who knew that Zhu Jingjing's eyes lit up like two searchlights, and cheered, "This is a monster! Zhu Di, look quickly, a monster!"
"I can see it!" Zhu Di's hair was about to explode, he stepped back a few steps, and shouted, "Throw it away!"
Seeing that Zhu Jingjing didn't move for a long time, he gritted his teeth, rubbed the soles of his shoes on the ground a few times, and mustered up the courage to rush over, trying to grab the clam and throw it away.
Before he could move, Zhu Jingjing held the clam in front of her chest, jumped up and down, laughed while not forgetting her little friend, and said to him: "I haven't told you, I'm always a friend A dream, I dreamed that I was wrapped in a quilt, and then I was taken out of the handsome mansion by a ghost, there was a beautiful colored cloth room, there was a snake, there was the moon and the Qinhuai River, and there was a big brother!"
"I actually saw a live monster today! I'm so happy!"
He Mu hurriedly said, "You won't eat me anymore, will you?"
"How come, let's be friends! You sleep in bed with me, eat together, listen to stories together, and I will put a water basin in the room to raise you!"
Zhu Di rushed over and slapped her hand a few times, the pain made her let go, the mussel rolled down and rolled around, and stopped in the rose next to the grass.
"Have you forgotten that story?" Zhu Di said anxiously, "Li Li said it, the story of the weasel begging for the title! Monsters can deceive people, they are monsters, they will make you unlucky, and they will eat you!"
"No way, it's very weak, didn't I just hold it with one hand?"
The clam is about to cry. Its few skills were used up in the operation to capture the black flood dragon. Most of the pot of blood with particularly strong aura is used to instill supernatural powers and nourish the body. Now Although it has stepped into the realm of a big monster, it is as fragile as a newly unearthed seedling, which can be destroyed by young children, leaving only the advantage of extremely fast speed.
Yes, I am fast!
She let go and slipped away!
"That's not okay, what if, what if it poisons you? Let's go to the demon town and let the people there take it away."
Town Monster, is Town Monster the place Grandpa Shiqiao mentioned?
He Peng paused, planning to listen a few more times.Speaking of which, this girl is the young master's younger sister, and that boy is his younger brother, right?They smell very similar to Young Master, but they are not as powerful as him.
"It didn't harm me, it just told me to let it go. It's a good monster. A good monster doesn't need to go to the demon town, it can stay."
"Is it a good monster? You have to let monks and Taoists see it. We can't."
The two are not very old, but as the saying goes, three years old and old, Zhu Jingjing and Zhu Di have distinct personalities, one is cautious and thoughtful, the other is generous and straightforward, and they can be regarded as the nine sons of a dragon.
"Wait! Don't go looking for someone!" He Mum jumped onto the road. In order not to cause trouble for Zhu Biao, it was quick to think, "I just passed by here by chance. I saw that the pool was good and I just took a rest in it. I will leave immediately. You watch me go!"
After saying this, the mussel opened its shell and blew hard on the ground, using it to fly to the edge of the wall, then turned around and said, "You guys, watch out, I'm really leaving!"
Like a rocket launch, it flew very high suddenly, drawing an arc visible to the naked eye, making sure that the two little radish heads could really see clearly, and then rushed to the clouds far away from the commander-in-chief's mansion.
God knows that it is a river clam swimming in the water, and it will run into the air to hide from the children.
It's over, I'm in trouble.My son is not here now, what should I do?It would be a blessing in misfortune for them not to go to the demon town to find someone, so what should they do if they tell others?
These are the son's younger siblings, so they can't be violent.What's more, I can't fight rough!
Help.Might as well be roasted.
By the way, look for Shi Lao, it is easy to find a place where Shi Lao does not move, and he is old and knowledgeable, so there must be a way.
Having decided so, He Mu used his supernatural powers to escape towards the Qinhuai River.
Looking up at the clam flying away, Zhu Di opened his mouth wide, feeling a little confused, how did things turn out like this?Should he tell the adults?
Will my mother believe it?Last time, I didn't want to play with my younger brother, and lied to her that my stomach hurt. After she found out, she didn't believe me.
Zhu Di suddenly understood the story of "The Wolf is Coming" - this story was also told to him by Li Li.
Are you looking for dad?Dad is not easy to find, he is very busy every day, and he is very fierce, if he asks why he is in the yard of his eldest brother, he will probably be beaten.He just came back from the war recently, and he has new hard-soled shoes, it must be very painful to hit someone...
In Zhu Di's head, these thoughts were going back and forth, circling in circles. He didn't know what to do, so he decided to ask others for their opinions.
"Shall we tell him about..."
Zhu Jingjing interrupted him, put his hands on his hips, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that the mussel is gone, let's go have dinner, and come out to play after dinner?"
"Come out to play? You still want to come out to play?" Zhu Di's head grew big, "You have no other ideas? Maybe the river clam didn't really leave, but deliberately deceived us, for, maybe to steal to eat, or to steal something."
"But it's gone." Zhu Jingjing tilted her head and said, "We all saw it, and I don't think it's a villain, so of course it's fine."
The flower rope on her head swayed with the movement, like a small wind chime, very cute.
But in Zhu Di's eyes, she was like some kind of creature that he could never understand.
He was about to say something more when he suddenly heard a call from not far away.
Five or six maids rushed over and trotted in a hurry, they were obviously relieved when they saw them, they divided into two groups, each found their own, and surrounded them.
The voices of the Fourth Young Master and the Eldest Miss were intertwined and yelled at, and being hugged by the wet nurse, Zhu Di had no chance to speak at all, and followed him back.
The two groups separated on a certain day road, and Zhu Di only had time to look at the back of Zhu Jingjing's head before being carried into the yard of Yu's family.
And Zhu Jingjing didn't look back at all.
"Where did you go wild? You still have mud on your hands."
It was only then that Zhu Di realized that he forgot to wash his hands. He couldn't help but feel regretful. He blamed Zhu Jingjing for picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons. Now he will be scolded again!
But Yu didn't say anything, she seemed to be in a good mood today, hugging her second child, who was Zhu Lu, and patting him, coaxing him to sleep early, and at the same time softly humming a nursery rhyme that Zhu Di often listened to.
There was rice on the table, a big bowl of vegetable porridge, a plate of fried meat, a roast leg of lamb, a plate of chopped peaches, and small steamed buns.
Compared with Ma Xiuying's side, the quality and quantity of the meals are slightly worse, but they are still very nutritious, and can also feed her growing children well.
Yu is a very smart woman. She knows that Zhu Yuanzhang likes to be frugal, and Ma Xiuying doesn't like extravagance, so from the day she got married until now, she has never been extravagant or wasted.Even if she has already given birth to two children, she is entitled to occupy more resources.
As long as the food is enough, the clothes are comfortable.
Of course, she will find ways to get money and status, but definitely not by low-end means.Secretly, she has gold and silver jewellery, houses and shops, which are only secret things, and will not be easily discovered by others.
"Mom, you seem very happy."
"By the way, guess why?" Shi Yan smiled.
"I don't know." Zhu Di washed his hands with soap in his own low-legged basin, wiped his face with a towel in his short hand, and then sat down at the table, "Is uncle coming to see mother?"
"No." Yan said, "It's your father. He captured several cities, and the spoils have already arrived. There are quite a lot of jewelry and antiques. Madam told us to pick them."
Zhu Di didn't quite understand the meaning of the trophies, nor did he realize what Comrade Zhu's other cities represented.
Qi felt that this was a guarantee of his future status. What he thought was that those golden and silver things were just more beautiful, and they were not interesting at all.
But this time he was wrong.
"Mother is not like them. Mother brought you a good handwriting. You can trace it. Do you hear that? When you get older, mother will ask your father to ask Mr. to teach you how to read. A family like ours does not need to take the imperial examination, but To be a man, one has to be cultured to be sensible.”
"Ok!"
"In addition to this, the monthly payment is also extra. Every few days, my mother will call the tailor to make you a new dress. What color do you like?"
Zhu Di remembered the clothes that Zhu Biao wore occasionally, and replied, "I want black ones."
"Black ones?" Mrs. Yan was taken aback for a moment, then she understood what her son was thinking, "Like your elder brother? Your elder brother wears black clothes because he is practicing martial arts. What did you learn?"
"Then any color is fine." Zhu Di said, "It should be shorter."
"Why is it shorter?" Yan asked with a smile.
"Because I want to be a general." Zhu Di replied, "You can't wear long clothes in war. If you wear long clothes, you will fall, and you will lose when you wrestle. The second brother fights with others because he tripped over his clothes."
"Okay, I'll make it short for you."
The son has ambition, and the Qi family is very happy.Over the past few years, she has somewhat figured out Comrade Zhu's thoughts.This man was different from the one she had known in the boudoir.
He was born in the poor, the lowest, the lowest poor, and he had to live as a monk. His thoughts in his bones were extremely simple, but because of his gradually improved status, he also had an improved vision and thinking.
He already has what those princes, grandsons and marquises have.He has the self-made experience and perseverance that they don't have.
Contradictory, very contradictory.Everything about him is contradictory, without the rules and etiquette that a traditional family should have, he manages the family and subordinates with almost intuitive things, overthrows everything and rebuilds, like a knife chopping tofu, deal with what is not pleasing to the eye, He doesn't talk about euphemism and doesn't try to learn Huairou's methods.
In this way, it becomes difficult to please him and serve him.It is even more impossible to compete for favor.
However, although he is not easy to get along with, as long as I don't mess with my wife and eldest son, and don't do too much, for the sake of my two sons, life will be better.
There should be no problem for them to go to the battlefield to fight for their future.
In a daze, time passed.After returning to his senses, Zhu Di saw that Zhu Di had already finished his meal and was playing with the flowers he raised with his finger.
"Sleep or not? Go to sleep when you're tired from playing."
"Not very sleepy..." Zhu Di struggled.
Just like most mothers, Yu's inquiry was not actually an inquiry, but a request that could not be refused.
"Sleep, children won't grow tall if they don't sleep, what kind of general is a dwarf? He can't even mount a horse."
There was no other way, Zhu Di could only wash up, climb onto the bed, take off his clothes, and lie under the covers.
At this time the fireflies got up and flew among the bushes and flowers. The green dots undulated and occasionally fell, and the light dots reflected on the wall of the house through the window.
These are very vague, almost invisible, indistinct, but they attracted all his attention.
Slowly, Zhu Di's eyelids began to fight and close together, he felt that he was slowly lowering, lowering, sinking all the way down, and was about to touch the ground...
The young master agrees with me to stay here!
The voice rang in his ears, and Zhu Di woke up suddenly. This sentence in the afternoon was amplified somehow, and it was recalled at this time.
Who said it?Zhu Jingjing?
No, it was the monster who said it!
It says son.Who is the son?It can't be me, the second brother and the third brother are strictly controlled, there is no chance to come out, and it can't be them.
The probability of people outside the mansion is also very small, the whole Yingtian Mansion can be called that... Zhu Di doesn't know who, but he thinks it is unlikely, after all, He Mu came here.
So this guy is the big brother?
Dad went out this time, and elder brother was not at home. He usually goes out often, and he is very imposing. Hehe is here to look for him, right?
It is Big Brother's pet.
Zhu Di came to a conclusion.
The elder brother kept monsters as pets, this is a secret.Zhu Di decided to keep this secret for Zhu Biao, not to tell others, and the idea of telling the adults disappeared.
So, mussels are monsters, so are dogs and cats?
Liu Chubai is very human. When playing with Zhu Jingjing, if she falls down, she will take the initiative to put it on the bottom.Ju Fei often circled around under the feet of the maids, lying down with her belly exposed, as if there was nothing special about it, but every time Zhu Jingjing wanted to touch it, it could avoid it.
Zhu Jingjing ran so fast that ordinary cats couldn't avoid it.
Must be?
But how did the eldest brother control the monsters? Although he is a few years older than me, he is not an adult. My mother said that we cannot practice Taoism. What method does he use?
Although the Marshal's Mansion is not an imperial palace, it has been expanded many times. In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's status, it is not like a deep palace but better than a deep palace, only the name is missing.
Zhu Di lives here. No one restricts him to move around, but no one will tell him to go out. Where can such a big child go?The whole mansion is his paradise.
Paradise is both big and small.
Eat and drink every day, play and sleep, and the days will pass.In a sense, Zhu Xi and Zhu Yan didn't want to play with Zhu Di because they disliked him for being too young, and Zhu Di wasn't too happy to be with them. He felt that it was a bit boring and left no room for thinking.
This incident happened by chance, like a glass bead falling into the lake, there is almost no splash, but the ripples spread out in circles, disrupting the monotonous life.
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep, Zhu Di tossed and turned, the summer night was already stuffy, and he was sweating very quickly.
He got out of bed, fearing that mosquitoes would get in, carefully lifted the gauze curtain, groped to the table in the dark, and poured a glass of water on tiptoe.
The cold water poured into his stomach, and Zhu Di became much more sober.
I need to figure it out!
Ju Fei runs to the kitchen all day long, relying on her husband's liking for cats from time to time, so she goes to his place to eat and drink, so she doesn't have to think about it, she won't die of hunger.
Passing by the goldfish pond, he glanced at the water, frowned and sighed.There are several black mud spots in that clear water.
This is Huang Xiuzhu's one-person spring water specially transported in wooden barrels. No matter how hot the weather is, the temperature will not change.And those few fish were given by Wu Pin, who said they could predict good fortune and good fortune, and they were auspicious things.
As a result, after being seen by that little bastard Zhu Jingjing, she used it to wash her hands and face every day, and it became her secret base.
"She must be here again."
Shaking his head helplessly, Zhu Biao snapped his fingers casually, cleared the water, and stepped into the study with his hands behind his back.
Liuchubai was lying in the study room, with his tongue sticking out of his mouth and resting on one side, his two paws next to his face, sleeping with his eyes closed.
Hearing Zhu Biao's footsteps, the dog's ears pricked up before he woke up, then he struggled to open his eyes, wagged his tail and barked twice, stood up and rushed towards his master.
"Good dog, good dog." Zhu Biao rubbed its head, took jerky jerky out of his pocket and fed it, "Let's go, I'll take you to dinner."
One person and one dog walked through most of the Shuai's mansion, and went to Ma Xiuying's place.In winter, they ate inside the house, but now that it was summer, they naturally moved to the yard.
The rattan chairs and rattan tables are still the same set they used when they first came to Yingtian Mansion, and they haven't changed them, but the big trees by the pond, nourished by the popularity, are more luxuriant.
"Biao'er is here."
As Zhu Biao expected, Zhu Yuanzhang had already started eating, with a steamed bun in his left hand, a pancake in his right hand, and a large bowl of meatball soup in it.
Ma Xiuying came out of the kitchen, holding a plate of squirrel fish with a damp cloth in her hand, and said with a smile, "It's okay if you're late, mother left you good dishes, your father, he eats rough vegetables."
Li Li in the back brought out the salted duck and soup buns, and it looked like they had just been made, so it was true.
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "We like to eat this."
"Wow!" Liu Chubai barked at Li Li, and went with her to fetch his dog food.
"Mother." Zhu Biao called out.
"Sit down and eat." Old Comrade Zhu said, "How are your affairs going? I heard from Wu Ce that you went to Deng Yu's house? You also went to the Town God's Temple twice?"
"I didn't expect such a coincidence." Zhu Biao said with a smile, "Father, I have something nice to tell you."
"You said."
"Zhao Desheng, General Zhao, is the ghost of Deng Yu's family."
Zhu Yuanzhang stopped holding the burrito: "Has he turned into a ghost? What kind of resentment? Are you dissatisfied with us or..."
"No, it's because he is obsessed with the unification of the Central Plains. He went to Deng Yu's house mainly because the last person he saw before his death and the person who poured out his thoughts was Deng Yu, and that's all he was involved with."
"What do you mean by coincidence?"
"It's a coincidence that Zhao Desheng turned into a ghost. The body of the ghost is still clean. He guarded one side before he was alive. He is loyal and brave, and has the world in his heart. He is a good material for being a city god. I have persuaded him and Miao Zhu to keep him there."
"Oh..." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It's fine if you have an idea. Do you need anything? If you don't need it, go to Baishi to ask for it. If you have any trouble, let us know. It's the first time you're doing something big by yourself, so we have to help you."
"The current situation is still very good." Zhu Biao said, "Speaking of Mr. Li, Dad, how is the conversation between him and Shen Wansan going?"
"Then what else can happen." Zhu Yuanzhang wrote lightly, "If the negotiation fails, can he still live?"
"What do the businessmen of his faction think? Did you ask for any conditions?"
"I mentioned it. I want to do business on Chen Youliang's original site, and I want us to collect less tax. These are trivial things, but the key is that they handed us the certificate of nomination, so both parties can rest assured."
"It can be seen that Zhang Shicheng's rule is no longer stable, which is a good thing for us."
"No, no, it has nothing to do with governance." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "It only has something to do with interests, no matter how good Zhang Shicheng treats the people and how well he manages them, as long as they can make money with us, he doesn't care about anything. "
"Even if it's selling the rope to hang yourself?"
"Your metaphor is good!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "That's what happened."
"Stop chatting, don't talk about other things while eating." Ma Xiuying stared alone, "It's not good for the stomach."
Zhu Biao nodded obediently and picked up the chopsticks.
Comrade Zhu still wanted to chat while holding back, so while Ma Xiuying turned around and went into the kitchen, he said quietly: "When it's evening, you go to our room, and we will chat with you again."
"Father, isn't the emperor living in your room? Where can I find you?"
"Ah, that's right. We changed places, so let's go find you, don't fall asleep, stay awake and wait for us."
"it is good."
After the meal was over, Zhu Biao took the dog and left first.
Recently, the Hu family——Zhu Biao met once from a distance, and the doctor found out that he was pregnant. He saw it with his eyes, and it was a boy. Don't be fooled by ghosts, and the same thing happened as Zhu Jingjing.
Now that I have free time, I just happen to take a few more laps in the mansion.
Such a move was a bit abrupt, but due to their status, no one said anything.
It took a long time to go out this time, and the decorations in many places have changed, so let's walk along the road to see.
The mission was completed like a patrol, and after greeting several guards on the way, the moon had already risen, and it was time for his father to come, so Zhu Biao returned to the inner courtyard.
Chen Youliang is dead, Gao Bailing has escaped, as expected, nothing happened recently, everything is safe and sound.However, this is also related to Comrade Zhu's increasingly thick dragon spirit, and if you think about the ghost of a child who sneaks in, he must be a ghost of ten thousand years old.
Thousands of years ago, was it the era of Shan Hai Jing?
Liu Chubai sniffed around, stopped suddenly, and whimpered twice towards a room in the distance.
"Is anyone still asleep in there?"
Zhu Biao glanced at it: "It's the fourth brother's room. I'm young, maybe I still have something on my mind, so I have insomnia?"
He's a little curious, but he doesn't use his eyes to pry into other people's privacy. It's fine if he's looking into things, but it's too dirty to be satisfied.
"Never mind, let's go back."
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Time passed until dinner.
Outside Zhu Biao's study.
"Can snails live in water?" Zhu Di asked curiously.
"Isn't that what it is?" Zhu Jingjing looked confident, "I've learned a lot, my elder brother often tells me that true knowledge comes from practice. If you don't come out to play with me, there is no chance of seeing it."
"How big is a snail?" Zhu Di began to doubt, and searched for similar things in his memory, "I seem to have seen this kind of thing on the dinner table. It is used for eating and cooking."
"Then tell me, what is it?"
"Yes..." Zhu Di thought for a long time, "Clam, yes, it's a river clam."
"It must have sneaked here. It's not good for big brother's goldfish. Let's take it away and take it to the kitchen. Let the cook cook it and eat it!"
The clam was pretending to be dead without moving, but it couldn't hold back any longer when it heard this, what should I do, should I run, or I will die if I don't!
But if I run away, I will be exposed again. What if they find out that I am a monster?
If I hadn't fallen asleep just now, how could I have fallen into this situation with the supernatural power given by the young master...
This little girl is so fast...
Just when it lost all hope, Zhu Di descended like a voice from heaven: "Today the kitchen roasted mutton, there is no need to eat this."
Yes, yes, I don't have much meat!
"Why are you so stupid." Zhu Jingjing said, "This is our child's wish, your mother and my mother will be happy."
"Only your mother can." Zhu Di revealed the truth mercilessly, "Because you are usually too noisy and caused her a lot of trouble, so as long as there is a little good thing, your mother will be very happy."
Zhu Jingjing's eyes widened: "Nonsense, just say whether you want to eat or not!"
"...Eat! Why don't you eat it." Zhu Di poked his neck, "I saw that they were roasted and eaten. I'll go find charcoal fire, and you go find salt and garlic."
Help, he is a little more ruthless than this little girl!
"Then let's go." Zhu Jingjing wiped her hands on her skirt, and the sunlight shone down through the gaps in the bamboo leaves, making her forehead and face red, and her collar was wet with sweat, but even so After playing all day, my physical strength and energy are still abundant, and I never seem to know how tired I am.
The clam, which was the size of an adult's palm, was held tightly in her hand, as easily as a feather.Ordinary little girls would have a sense of fear towards soft and slippery things—after all, there is meat in the shell, but she felt nothing and was very interested.
"Wait! Wait! Can't eat me, put me down!"
Zhu Di stayed where he was as if struck by lightning, and said in a trembling voice, "Did you hear someone talking?"
"No." Zhu Jingjing had already run to the gravel road, all she wanted was to eat and drink for a while, seeing that he would not leave, she beckoned impatiently, "Come on, come on."
"Didn't you hear?" Zhu Di didn't move, he said nervously, "Don't talk, listen carefully."
Although Zhu Jingjing was puzzled, he still followed his advice.
This time she held her breath, pricked up her ears, and she really heard the movement, and the movement turned out to be coming from her hand!She quickly bowed her head.
The mussel opened its mouth, and the human language spit out from inside: "Let go, I won't do bad things, the young master agreed to let me stay here!"
It is already ready to be thrown on the ground. When people see monsters, they always react in the same way. They either lift things up to hit them, or run away from them. Can this little girl be an exception?
Who knew that Zhu Jingjing's eyes lit up like two searchlights, and cheered, "This is a monster! Zhu Di, look quickly, a monster!"
"I can see it!" Zhu Di's hair was about to explode, he stepped back a few steps, and shouted, "Throw it away!"
Seeing that Zhu Jingjing didn't move for a long time, he gritted his teeth, rubbed the soles of his shoes on the ground a few times, and mustered up the courage to rush over, trying to grab the clam and throw it away.
Before he could move, Zhu Jingjing held the clam in front of her chest, jumped up and down, laughed while not forgetting her little friend, and said to him: "I haven't told you, I'm always a friend A dream, I dreamed that I was wrapped in a quilt, and then I was taken out of the handsome mansion by a ghost, there was a beautiful colored cloth room, there was a snake, there was the moon and the Qinhuai River, and there was a big brother!"
"I actually saw a live monster today! I'm so happy!"
He Mu hurriedly said, "You won't eat me anymore, will you?"
"How come, let's be friends! You sleep in bed with me, eat together, listen to stories together, and I will put a water basin in the room to raise you!"
Zhu Di rushed over and slapped her hand a few times, the pain made her let go, the mussel rolled down and rolled around, and stopped in the rose next to the grass.
"Have you forgotten that story?" Zhu Di said anxiously, "Li Li said it, the story of the weasel begging for the title! Monsters can deceive people, they are monsters, they will make you unlucky, and they will eat you!"
"No way, it's very weak, didn't I just hold it with one hand?"
The clam is about to cry. Its few skills were used up in the operation to capture the black flood dragon. Most of the pot of blood with particularly strong aura is used to instill supernatural powers and nourish the body. Now Although it has stepped into the realm of a big monster, it is as fragile as a newly unearthed seedling, which can be destroyed by young children, leaving only the advantage of extremely fast speed.
Yes, I am fast!
She let go and slipped away!
"That's not okay, what if, what if it poisons you? Let's go to the demon town and let the people there take it away."
Town Monster, is Town Monster the place Grandpa Shiqiao mentioned?
He Peng paused, planning to listen a few more times.Speaking of which, this girl is the young master's younger sister, and that boy is his younger brother, right?They smell very similar to Young Master, but they are not as powerful as him.
"It didn't harm me, it just told me to let it go. It's a good monster. A good monster doesn't need to go to the demon town, it can stay."
"Is it a good monster? You have to let monks and Taoists see it. We can't."
The two are not very old, but as the saying goes, three years old and old, Zhu Jingjing and Zhu Di have distinct personalities, one is cautious and thoughtful, the other is generous and straightforward, and they can be regarded as the nine sons of a dragon.
"Wait! Don't go looking for someone!" He Mum jumped onto the road. In order not to cause trouble for Zhu Biao, it was quick to think, "I just passed by here by chance. I saw that the pool was good and I just took a rest in it. I will leave immediately. You watch me go!"
After saying this, the mussel opened its shell and blew hard on the ground, using it to fly to the edge of the wall, then turned around and said, "You guys, watch out, I'm really leaving!"
Like a rocket launch, it flew very high suddenly, drawing an arc visible to the naked eye, making sure that the two little radish heads could really see clearly, and then rushed to the clouds far away from the commander-in-chief's mansion.
God knows that it is a river clam swimming in the water, and it will run into the air to hide from the children.
It's over, I'm in trouble.My son is not here now, what should I do?It would be a blessing in misfortune for them not to go to the demon town to find someone, so what should they do if they tell others?
These are the son's younger siblings, so they can't be violent.What's more, I can't fight rough!
Help.Might as well be roasted.
By the way, look for Shi Lao, it is easy to find a place where Shi Lao does not move, and he is old and knowledgeable, so there must be a way.
Having decided so, He Mu used his supernatural powers to escape towards the Qinhuai River.
Looking up at the clam flying away, Zhu Di opened his mouth wide, feeling a little confused, how did things turn out like this?Should he tell the adults?
Will my mother believe it?Last time, I didn't want to play with my younger brother, and lied to her that my stomach hurt. After she found out, she didn't believe me.
Zhu Di suddenly understood the story of "The Wolf is Coming" - this story was also told to him by Li Li.
Are you looking for dad?Dad is not easy to find, he is very busy every day, and he is very fierce, if he asks why he is in the yard of his eldest brother, he will probably be beaten.He just came back from the war recently, and he has new hard-soled shoes, it must be very painful to hit someone...
In Zhu Di's head, these thoughts were going back and forth, circling in circles. He didn't know what to do, so he decided to ask others for their opinions.
"Shall we tell him about..."
Zhu Jingjing interrupted him, put his hands on his hips, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that the mussel is gone, let's go have dinner, and come out to play after dinner?"
"Come out to play? You still want to come out to play?" Zhu Di's head grew big, "You have no other ideas? Maybe the river clam didn't really leave, but deliberately deceived us, for, maybe to steal to eat, or to steal something."
"But it's gone." Zhu Jingjing tilted her head and said, "We all saw it, and I don't think it's a villain, so of course it's fine."
The flower rope on her head swayed with the movement, like a small wind chime, very cute.
But in Zhu Di's eyes, she was like some kind of creature that he could never understand.
He was about to say something more when he suddenly heard a call from not far away.
Five or six maids rushed over and trotted in a hurry, they were obviously relieved when they saw them, they divided into two groups, each found their own, and surrounded them.
The voices of the Fourth Young Master and the Eldest Miss were intertwined and yelled at, and being hugged by the wet nurse, Zhu Di had no chance to speak at all, and followed him back.
The two groups separated on a certain day road, and Zhu Di only had time to look at the back of Zhu Jingjing's head before being carried into the yard of Yu's family.
And Zhu Jingjing didn't look back at all.
"Where did you go wild? You still have mud on your hands."
It was only then that Zhu Di realized that he forgot to wash his hands. He couldn't help but feel regretful. He blamed Zhu Jingjing for picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons. Now he will be scolded again!
But Yu didn't say anything, she seemed to be in a good mood today, hugging her second child, who was Zhu Lu, and patting him, coaxing him to sleep early, and at the same time softly humming a nursery rhyme that Zhu Di often listened to.
There was rice on the table, a big bowl of vegetable porridge, a plate of fried meat, a roast leg of lamb, a plate of chopped peaches, and small steamed buns.
Compared with Ma Xiuying's side, the quality and quantity of the meals are slightly worse, but they are still very nutritious, and can also feed her growing children well.
Yu is a very smart woman. She knows that Zhu Yuanzhang likes to be frugal, and Ma Xiuying doesn't like extravagance, so from the day she got married until now, she has never been extravagant or wasted.Even if she has already given birth to two children, she is entitled to occupy more resources.
As long as the food is enough, the clothes are comfortable.
Of course, she will find ways to get money and status, but definitely not by low-end means.Secretly, she has gold and silver jewellery, houses and shops, which are only secret things, and will not be easily discovered by others.
"Mom, you seem very happy."
"By the way, guess why?" Shi Yan smiled.
"I don't know." Zhu Di washed his hands with soap in his own low-legged basin, wiped his face with a towel in his short hand, and then sat down at the table, "Is uncle coming to see mother?"
"No." Yan said, "It's your father. He captured several cities, and the spoils have already arrived. There are quite a lot of jewelry and antiques. Madam told us to pick them."
Zhu Di didn't quite understand the meaning of the trophies, nor did he realize what Comrade Zhu's other cities represented.
Qi felt that this was a guarantee of his future status. What he thought was that those golden and silver things were just more beautiful, and they were not interesting at all.
But this time he was wrong.
"Mother is not like them. Mother brought you a good handwriting. You can trace it. Do you hear that? When you get older, mother will ask your father to ask Mr. to teach you how to read. A family like ours does not need to take the imperial examination, but To be a man, one has to be cultured to be sensible.”
"Ok!"
"In addition to this, the monthly payment is also extra. Every few days, my mother will call the tailor to make you a new dress. What color do you like?"
Zhu Di remembered the clothes that Zhu Biao wore occasionally, and replied, "I want black ones."
"Black ones?" Mrs. Yan was taken aback for a moment, then she understood what her son was thinking, "Like your elder brother? Your elder brother wears black clothes because he is practicing martial arts. What did you learn?"
"Then any color is fine." Zhu Di said, "It should be shorter."
"Why is it shorter?" Yan asked with a smile.
"Because I want to be a general." Zhu Di replied, "You can't wear long clothes in war. If you wear long clothes, you will fall, and you will lose when you wrestle. The second brother fights with others because he tripped over his clothes."
"Okay, I'll make it short for you."
The son has ambition, and the Qi family is very happy.Over the past few years, she has somewhat figured out Comrade Zhu's thoughts.This man was different from the one she had known in the boudoir.
He was born in the poor, the lowest, the lowest poor, and he had to live as a monk. His thoughts in his bones were extremely simple, but because of his gradually improved status, he also had an improved vision and thinking.
He already has what those princes, grandsons and marquises have.He has the self-made experience and perseverance that they don't have.
Contradictory, very contradictory.Everything about him is contradictory, without the rules and etiquette that a traditional family should have, he manages the family and subordinates with almost intuitive things, overthrows everything and rebuilds, like a knife chopping tofu, deal with what is not pleasing to the eye, He doesn't talk about euphemism and doesn't try to learn Huairou's methods.
In this way, it becomes difficult to please him and serve him.It is even more impossible to compete for favor.
However, although he is not easy to get along with, as long as I don't mess with my wife and eldest son, and don't do too much, for the sake of my two sons, life will be better.
There should be no problem for them to go to the battlefield to fight for their future.
In a daze, time passed.After returning to his senses, Zhu Di saw that Zhu Di had already finished his meal and was playing with the flowers he raised with his finger.
"Sleep or not? Go to sleep when you're tired from playing."
"Not very sleepy..." Zhu Di struggled.
Just like most mothers, Yu's inquiry was not actually an inquiry, but a request that could not be refused.
"Sleep, children won't grow tall if they don't sleep, what kind of general is a dwarf? He can't even mount a horse."
There was no other way, Zhu Di could only wash up, climb onto the bed, take off his clothes, and lie under the covers.
At this time the fireflies got up and flew among the bushes and flowers. The green dots undulated and occasionally fell, and the light dots reflected on the wall of the house through the window.
These are very vague, almost invisible, indistinct, but they attracted all his attention.
Slowly, Zhu Di's eyelids began to fight and close together, he felt that he was slowly lowering, lowering, sinking all the way down, and was about to touch the ground...
The young master agrees with me to stay here!
The voice rang in his ears, and Zhu Di woke up suddenly. This sentence in the afternoon was amplified somehow, and it was recalled at this time.
Who said it?Zhu Jingjing?
No, it was the monster who said it!
It says son.Who is the son?It can't be me, the second brother and the third brother are strictly controlled, there is no chance to come out, and it can't be them.
The probability of people outside the mansion is also very small, the whole Yingtian Mansion can be called that... Zhu Di doesn't know who, but he thinks it is unlikely, after all, He Mu came here.
So this guy is the big brother?
Dad went out this time, and elder brother was not at home. He usually goes out often, and he is very imposing. Hehe is here to look for him, right?
It is Big Brother's pet.
Zhu Di came to a conclusion.
The elder brother kept monsters as pets, this is a secret.Zhu Di decided to keep this secret for Zhu Biao, not to tell others, and the idea of telling the adults disappeared.
So, mussels are monsters, so are dogs and cats?
Liu Chubai is very human. When playing with Zhu Jingjing, if she falls down, she will take the initiative to put it on the bottom.Ju Fei often circled around under the feet of the maids, lying down with her belly exposed, as if there was nothing special about it, but every time Zhu Jingjing wanted to touch it, it could avoid it.
Zhu Jingjing ran so fast that ordinary cats couldn't avoid it.
Must be?
But how did the eldest brother control the monsters? Although he is a few years older than me, he is not an adult. My mother said that we cannot practice Taoism. What method does he use?
Although the Marshal's Mansion is not an imperial palace, it has been expanded many times. In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's status, it is not like a deep palace but better than a deep palace, only the name is missing.
Zhu Di lives here. No one restricts him to move around, but no one will tell him to go out. Where can such a big child go?The whole mansion is his paradise.
Paradise is both big and small.
Eat and drink every day, play and sleep, and the days will pass.In a sense, Zhu Xi and Zhu Yan didn't want to play with Zhu Di because they disliked him for being too young, and Zhu Di wasn't too happy to be with them. He felt that it was a bit boring and left no room for thinking.
This incident happened by chance, like a glass bead falling into the lake, there is almost no splash, but the ripples spread out in circles, disrupting the monotonous life.
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep, Zhu Di tossed and turned, the summer night was already stuffy, and he was sweating very quickly.
He got out of bed, fearing that mosquitoes would get in, carefully lifted the gauze curtain, groped to the table in the dark, and poured a glass of water on tiptoe.
The cold water poured into his stomach, and Zhu Di became much more sober.
I need to figure it out!
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