Daming: From the end of Hongwu

184 Chapter 182 - The Fire and the Kin
Yan Wangfu.

In the cold morning, Zhu Yuying's little foot tentatively stuck out of the quilt, and then shrank back suddenly. Sure enough, the weather was getting colder in the morning and evening.

Jin'er walked in and said, "My princess, get up quickly, don't stay in bed, today is a beautiful day."

"Yesterday, my mother and concubine spared me this morning's greeting, and finally I can sleep late, so I can't afford it." Zhu Yuying turned over and wrapped the quilt tightly again.

But just when Zhu Yuying turned over, she saw the music box that had been placed in front of her bed all the time. She rolled her eyes, and asked lazily and casually, "Recently... is there anything new in the palace?"

The corners of Jin'er's mouth could not help but rise a little.

She grew up with Zhu Yuying since she was a child, so she didn't know what her princess wanted, she was asking what's new in the palace, she obviously wanted to inquire about General Zhen.

Jin'er guarded her duty as a little maid and didn't point it out. She smiled slightly and said, "Speaking of which, there is something new. I heard from Xiao Anzi that in the polo match held in the barracks yesterday, General Zhen's men won the first prize." .”

Zhu Yuying's eyes lit up, and she immediately sat up happily. The silk-like quilt slipped from her fragrant shoulders, revealing her pure white arms. The black filaments fell on her shoulders, and the exquisite collarbone was faintly hidden in it, making her look particularly beautiful. moving.

But the next moment, Zhu Yuying, whose face was full of joy, asked in doubt, "Didn't Brother Zhen be punished by the father? Is the father no longer annoyed?"

Jin'er smiled and said: "A few days ago, it was said that General Zhen had visited the palace. As for whether the prince is still annoyed, Jin'er doesn't know."

Zhu Yuying's eyes lit up again, and she couldn't hide her happiness.

She thought for a while, and said to Jin'er: "Help me change quickly, I'm going to ask my concubine."

Jin'er couldn't help laughing, but when she saw Zhu Yuying staring at her, she quickly put it away, but there was still a smile in her eyes, she turned her head and shouted outside: "Come in."

Three or five maids came in with clothes, Jin'er took the clothes from one of them, went to Zhu Yuying's side, and got up to dress herself.

Soon, Zhu Yuying cleaned up.

She simply drank a bowl of porridge, and then went straight to Xu Miaoyun with Jin'er.

Xu Miaoyun recently got a new pot of beautiful flowers, which Mu Ying sent someone to send over along the way when they came to Beijing, but the flowers don't look very energetic, probably because of the climate, Xu Miaoyun was sighing: "Is it because the oranges grow in Huainan? Tangerine, born in Huaibei, is trifoliate orange. You said that apart from the majestic wind and sand in this city of Beiping, why can’t there be such a beautiful flower.”

At this time Zhu Yuying trotted in all the way.

Seeing Zhu Yuying's recklessness, Xu Miaoyun said in a accusatory tone: "Look at you, how can you still look like a princess? The manners and rules your mother taught you in the past are really in vain."

Zhu Yuying tidied up her clothes, and said coquettishly, "Isn't this in a hurry to see the concubine mother?" Then she stepped forward and took Xu Miaoyun's arm.

"Mother, what kind of flower is this? I haven't seen it before?" As he spoke, he began to fiddle with the other hand.

"Since when did you become interested in flowers, girl?" Xu Miaoyun directly pulled her hand off, a good flower could have lived for two or three days, if Zhu Yuying messed with it, she might be defeated that day.

Afterwards, Xu Miaoyun directly pulled Zhu Yuying aside, swept her beautiful eyes over Zhu Yuying, and said, "Tell me, why don't you sleep late, what are you doing here?"

Zhu Yuying wanted to gossip at first, but she didn't expect Xu Miaoyun to get to the point with a single sentence. Zhu Yuying smiled shyly and pulled Xu Miaoyun to sit down.

Zhu Yuying originally planned to directly explain the reason for her visit, but when she thought of Zhen Wu, she became inexplicably shy, and her words turned into "Mother, how delicious is the food this morning?"

Knowing daughter Mo Ruomu, why didn't Xu Miaoyun understand that the question was not intended to come, but she deliberately followed Zhu Yuying's words, and didn't ask any more questions, and only answered "It's okay."

"Did the mother sleep well yesterday?"

"Fortunately."

"Did dad sleep well yesterday?"

"Alright."

"Then..." Zhu Yuying was still thinking about the next question, Xu Miaoyun couldn't help laughing when she saw this, she stretched out her hand to help Zhu Yuying mess up her bangs, and looked carefully, did her daughter grow up?

"Mother knows what's on your mind. You should be honest and don't run around at home these days, and learn the rules from your mother. If you have nothing to do, embroider flowers, you know?"

After finishing speaking, Xu Miaoyun looked at Zhu Yuying, and said unintentionally, "You won't be staying in the palace for long. A few days ago, your father asked the people in the palace to start choosing a son-in-law, um...it seems that the man named Zhen Wu is choosing a son-in-law." Among them, as for the final result, it depends on your grandpa's decision."

And at this time, Zhu Gaoxu, who also ran over in such a hurry, happened to hear this.

He froze in place immediately.

Zhen Wu, are you going to be his brother-in-law? !
He had been feeling uncomfortable after being detained for the past few days, and he was stunned by the news just as he relaxed.

……

Zhen Yong circled around the city, and finally confirmed that the two women behind him were following him. Zhen Yong found a corner to hide himself, and only after the two women walked over did he suddenly appear.

"Why are you two following me all this time? Didn't I save people and even rescue thieves?!" Zhen Yong stared at them and said in a deep voice.

The two women were obviously flustered, but they stabilized their expressions the next moment. The older woman thought about it, stepped forward and asked, "I heard that your surname is Zhen?"

"The surname is Zhen, I don't know what the two of you are doing?"

"Then you know a person named Zhen Xingci."

Zhen Yong was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately became vigilant. This was his father's name, how could he not know, and Zhen Yong's changes all fell into the eyes of the two women, which completely confirmed their conjecture.

"Are you Zhen Xingci's child?" the woman asked.

Zhen Yong frowned: "So what?"

The older woman smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, I am Zhen Xingci's sister-in-law. If you don't believe me, you can take me home and let him know at a glance."

Zhen Yong was taken aback, relative?

But this relative came out too suddenly, too coincidental. In his impression, his parents rarely talked about other relatives, and his mother would even say a few words. There was a lost brother, but his father almost never talked about it. .

But even if he seldom said it, Zhen Yong could know from the small conversations in his life that his father was originally from a scholarly family, but his father didn't like reading since he was a child.

Because of this, the father fell out with the family and was even expelled from the family tree.

Joining the army in the Ming Dynasty was not a trivial matter. If one person joins the army, generations of descendants will be soldiers. Even if there is no descendant unfortunately, one must find someone from the relatives to make up for it. In short, there must be carrots in this hole, so Zhen Xing resigned This move can be said to affect relatives.

This made it impossible for the clan to accept it.

Zhen Xingci also has a stubborn temper. Since the clan was worried about implicating them, he reborn in a fit of anger, and he did not contact the clan for many years.

Even when he died, he was not notified.

Zhen Yong shrank his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You probably have misunderstood the wrong person. My father never said that he has any relatives, so this lady, don't make any further attempts to seek relatives."

When the lady heard Zhen Yong's words, she was taken aback, and her face suddenly became desperate.

However, the younger girl who kept hearing it now, couldn't help it.

"Why do you speak so badly? You are obviously relatives, why do you call them relatives? Do you know that your uncle was killed by someone, and the enemy is in Beiping City. If the fire yesterday was as expected, it was still aimed at us. Come on, if you don’t help as a relative at this time, who will help, do you want to see your uncle’s widow also die at the hands of the enemy?"

……

　Thanks for the reward of 'awakening the soul', thank you very much.

　　I’m late again today, I’m sorry, my tonsils have been inflamed for the past two days, it’s very serious, my throat hurts and I’ve been getting infusions all the time, the code words are very affected, I’ve been working hard to overcome it, everyone forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)