Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 203 Road Encounter "Slayer Sword"

After staying in Fengjiazhuang's inn for one night, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai hurriedly set off and continued their journey to the southwest.

On the second day, they came to Jining from Yanzhou.

As for the place of Jining, it was still a "fu" in the first year of Emperor Taizu, and Yanzhou belonged to Jining Prefecture at that time, but later Taizu made his tenth son King of Lu and feudalized Yanzhou, so Yanzhou was promoted to The government, and Jining was reduced to the state.

Anyway, these two places are right next to each other, so whoever can do it administratively will do. You can understand this by looking through the map, so we won’t dwell too much on it.

Here we still have to talk about this "King Lu".

Don't get me wrong, the king of Lu who was conferred by Taizu himself is not the same as the king of Lu who we are going to mention now...the difference between the two is almost three hundred years.

"Lu" is a title.

The emperor confers vassal kings, basically according to the names of the places (most dynasties are like this, there are exceptions, such as the Song Dynasty, which is named with auspicious characters), the fiefs in Shandong are called King Lu, those in Sichuan are called King Shu, and those in Liaodong are called Kings of Lu. King of Liao; there are also names directly named after counties and counties, such as King Huainan, King Chenliu...

The title of the prince can be hereditary, usually inherited by the eldest son.

That is to say, the eldest son of King Lu is still called King Lu after his throne. As long as this line of incense continues, "King Lu" will always exist, but the person with this title may have changed dozens of times. up.

So what about names like "Lu Huang Wang" and "Lu Ai Wang"?
Those are the names of dead people. The word in their names is "posthumous title". You Yang"... These words were added after death, but they were not there when they were alive.

If you dare to call a living prince King Lu Yang, then he will most likely kill you on the spot.

To sum up, King Lu in our story does not have the character in the middle, let alone his son Zhu Xi.

If Zhu Xi can formally succeed the King of Lu in the future, then he may really be able to get the word "Huang" after his death, but whether this "if" will happen, I believe everyone who reads it knows...

Let's go back to the king of Lu, whose surname is Zhu Mingyu. He is seventy-three this year, and as the saying goes, he is "living on Kan'er".

Seeing this, someone may want to say it again, why are all the descendants of the old Zhu family in your book with single names?This is not in line with the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty.

Now I have to reply to you, what I am writing is about a certain parallel universe, not the familiar Daming.

I know that in Daming, only Zhu Yuanzhang's 26 sons have single names, and all of them are next to wooden characters; The twenty characters of "Kang Zhuang Yu Ben Ning" are combined with the radicals of "Huo Tu Jin Shuimu" to name them in a circular format.

But every time someone writes about the old Zhu’s family, he has to look up his family and name him… Isn’t that troublesome?It's not like I'm a prince, why should I worry so much?
So for the big man in our book, the rules of the "twenty generation" no longer exist, so let's keep the meaning of the rules of fire, earth, gold, water and wood.

Closer to home...

King Zhu Zhu of Lu and the current emperor Zhu Zhu are of the same generation, but there is a difference of more than 20 years in age.

This man Zhu Xun is alive in this life--he has a good life, he is the eldest son.

Prince Dazhu's rule of recognizing his son and not his concubine made the fate of his son and concubine very different.

No matter how hard Zhu Yan is, he doesn't have to worry about his livelihood in the future, so in his life... except for eating, drinking and having fun, he hardly does anything else.

Of course, you can't say how unbearable he is. If it were you... If you knew from the time you were sensible that you would be financially free all your life, would you still work hard?

I won't anyway.

Because I, like everyone here, even if I don't have financial freedom now, I don't work very hard.

He also said that Zhu Yan, he has come here in a daze for more than 70 years. If there is anything that has worried him in these years, it should be——before the age of 48, he only had a daughter and no "son" .

This matter is a big deal in the prince's family, because the position of the prince is passed on from male to female, even if the daughter born on the first line can only inherit part of his fief and the title of a princess, if the remaining fief and the palace are not If the son comes to inherit, the court will take it back.

However, it was a coincidence that Zhu Yan married so many wives and concubines, all of them gave birth to daughters.

And because Zhu Xing began to indulge in sex at a very young age, he completely lost his fertility after the age of 40. According to our current terms, he is infertile.

Therefore, from the age of 46 to [-], all his wives never conceived any more children. Needless to say, Zhu should understand...it must be something wrong with him.

Unexpectedly, when Zhu Yan was 47 years old, his third concubine, who was ten years younger than him, was successfully pregnant again.

How did you get pregnant?Then you can refer to the traditional cross talk "Tie the Doll".

I won’t go into detail about such dirty traditional art passages here, because our book is obviously in a more dirty state.

What about Zhu Hua...not stupid, he naturally doubted that the child was not his own.

However, firstly, he had no evidence to prove that the third aunt had an affair with an outsider, and secondly, people at that time did not have a full understanding of infertility, so they still took some chances.

Therefore, he pretended to be confused about this matter for the time being...

Until the day when the third aunt gave birth, Zhu Yan stood outside the room and waited for several hours, and finally waited for a cry.

The midwife took the baby out and showed him, hey, boy, and he does look a bit like him.

Zhu Hua pondered: Is it true that the heavens have eyes to allow me to have a child when I grow old (people's life expectancy was short at that time, and I was already called an old man at the age of 48)?

That day, after he gave the child to the nanny, he immediately ordered the third aunt to be strangled to death and buried quietly.

What kind of logic is this?
It's very simple: he has plenty of concubines, and he won't feel much distress if he kills one, but on the contrary, if he lets this woman who may have cuckolded him live, it will make him continue to doubt, struggle, and feel aggrieved...

Therefore, even if he couldn't confirm whether the third aunt had stolen someone, he would rather kill by mistake than release by mistake.

But for children, he is another standard...

Although he is also not sure whether the child is his, but he can keep the child first, wait for the child to grow up, see if it looks like him, and then make a decision, and try to avoid mistaken killing as much as possible.

Double standard?Is it vicious?cold?
That's right, but this is real human nature. In a certain era and in a certain environment, you may have the same logic as him.

To make a long story short, seven years passed in the blink of an eye.

The baby boy born by the third concubine back then, that is, Zhu Yu, has been fostered by Zhu Yang's regular wife. He hardly ever goes out and never sees strangers. The whole palace is also silent about the existence of this child.

This... is to be prepared for two things: firstly, if Zhu Yu grows up to really look like Zhu Xing, then he will naturally announce that this is the eldest son born to his wife; secondly, if Zhu Xing grows up to be like Zhu Xing It doesn't look like that at all, so I'll kill it, as if there has never been such a person in the palace.

Zhu Yu's luck is good, although he has no blood relationship with Zhu Xing, but he somehow looks like Zhu Xing when he was a child.

Zhu Yan watched Zhu Yu grow up year by year, and he really looked like himself, and gradually he believed that this was really his son.

Only then did he feel a little sorry for the third aunt back then, and of course... it was just a little bit.

All in all, it wasn't until Zhu Yu was seven years old that Zhu Yang officially announced that he had a son, and that he was already seven years old, and that he was born to his regular wife.

He also thought about it well, if the court asked him why he didn't report the birth of a son, he would pretend to be confused and say that he was too old to forget.

But could the imperial court not know about his flirtatious manipulation?In which palace is there no secret work arranged by the court?What if people are paid for nothing?
However, because they knew the child's details, the court turned a blind eye; because the person in charge of monitoring also felt that the child really looked like Zhu Hua, and he should be his own son. No matter which mother was born, Zhu Xing's eldest son is always him, and there is no need to dig out the incident that killed the third concubine back then.

In this way, at the age of seven, Zhu Xi finally had a legal identity, and reported to the imperial court to confirm the name "Zhu Xi".

Of course...Zhu Yu himself was still young at the time, he didn't know about the thieves of the previous generation, and he always thought that his own mother was Zhu Xing's wife.

Time flies, years shuttle.

In a blink of an eye, this little prince has grown up, and Zhu Xun is also very old.

Although Zhu Xing has not died yet, the real power of Prince Lu's Mansion has already fallen into Zhu Yu's hands.

The sphere of influence of Prince Lu's Mansion has also increased over the years. According to our current geographical knowledge, it has expanded to the entire Jining area and its surrounding areas.

Among all the surviving princes in Dazhu, this King Lu can be regarded as a powerful one, and as the actual person in charge of the Prince Lu's mansion, Zhu Xi is undoubtedly calling the wind and rain and doing whatever he wants in the Jining territory.

The Fire Lotus Sect, which relies on him, is also rampant in the village, lawless.

No, right now, when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai lined up to enter the city gate, they ran into the Fire Lotus Sect "set up a card".

This group of members of the Fire Lotus Sect are dressed in black uniforms, with a fire lotus embroidered on the chest and back, and they either carry knives or swords. He is a religious believer, and he thought he was subduing uniformed bandits.

Today they set up a card here, and the reasoning they used was that a thief broke into the palace last night with evil intentions. Fortunately, the palace had the Great Immortal Fire Lotus sitting in the guard. Fleeing away, the Immortal did not pursue the bandit in order to protect the safety of the palace, but the bandit must have not escaped from the Jining area. Therefore, from now on, the Fire Lotus Sect will search for travelers at various city gates in order to catch the bandit. Those who disobey will be dealt with as traitors.

"Come on, come on, hurry up! Don't dawdle, reveal everything in the bag by yourself, don't let me do it!"

But the seven or eight Fire Lotus disciples at the gate of the city, the one at the head, with a large knife drawn out of its sheath, stood under the gate of the city, yelling five times and six times, constantly gesturing for the people behind to follow up.

This group of people said they were "searching for thieves", and they still held a portrait in their hands. In fact, they didn't even think about catching thieves.

Those who are rich scratch some money, those who have no money scratch something, and when they meet a pretty girl and daughter-in-law, they have to do something...

If anyone "doesn't cooperate" with them, they will even bluff and shout, and gather around, saying that you are an accomplice of bandits, who would dare to resist?
The common people in the vicinity also know what it means to offend the Fire Lotus Sect. They have long been used to being bullied by these gangsters on weekdays, and they dare not speak out. It's over.

"Hey! Those two in the back, let's talk about you! What are you two doing sneakily? Come here!"

After queuing for half a day, finally...it was Sun Yixie and Huang Dong's turn.

The two of them obviously couldn't easily accept a body search, because they both had too many shady things on their bodies or in their luggage...

Leaving aside the things used by Taoist priests, the key point is that they still have a lot of gold, silver, silver bills, poison, hidden weapons, lime powder...

As long as [-]% of these things are found, the opponent will be shocked. If they are all found, then they must call for reinforcements to arrest them.

So Sun and Huang were queuing up, observing, and whispering... They were discussing how to pass through the city gate.

"Humph!" Sure enough, Sun Yixie put on a completely different attitude from ordinary people when faced with the fire lotus disciple's questioning, "Who are you, sir, what are we talking about, I need to report to you. ?"

"Huh?" The brother holding the knife was stunned.

He has been standing at the city gate for a long time, and no one has dared to talk to him like that. Even those high-ranking officials who enter the city in sedan chairs order their servants to respectfully present them with silver, saying A few kind words, and that's how I let go.

"Hey~ Are you crazy, boy?" said the fire lotus cultist holding the knife, raised the knife and waved it in front of Sun and Huang, "Do you know who you are talking to?"

"I don't know, you should tell me." Huang Donglai retorted.

When they said these two sentences, the surrounding Fire Lotus believers also felt that something was wrong, so they all surrounded them.

"Heh...hahahaha!" The little leader with the knife saw that the fellows were coming, and he became more courageous. He sneered for a while, and said to Shuangxie, "Okay, Xiao Zai, today I will let you Just understand, you two can stand firm for me!" While speaking, he straightened his back, hit the bridge of his nose, raised his chin, and proudly continued, "Master, I am the Qinglian Hall of the Fire Lotus Sect. The fifth seat - 'Cut Immortal Sword' Peng Er!"

(End of this chapter)