The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

The Zhang family of Nuo Da was gloomy.The hall is full of black and white things, and many important officials in the court came to express their condolences, even the prince Zhu Yijun came, suffering in front of Zhang Fan's mourning hall.Although Emperor Longqing was not present, he issued an edict.Today's Zhang Fan is a second-rank member of the imperial court, with the title of Uncle Zhongyong plus the title of Prince Taifu, but for a deceased person, no matter how high the honor is, it has no effect at all.What's more, Zhang Fan's body was never recovered.

In the hall, only Zhang Juzheng was in charge of welcoming the guests. Although there was no Zhang Fan's family in the mourning hall to thank him, no one took offense.

Mrs. Zhao was resting in her own room, ever since she heard the news of her son's death, she cried when she woke up, until she was tired from crying and passed out again, the girl Xiangmei stayed by her side all the time.

On Ruxue's side, Zhaoxue took care of her, and she didn't dare to leave her sister's side at all.When she heard of her husband's death, Ru Xue only knew she was lying there holding Zhang Fan's badge that Zhang Juzheng gave her.The night before, Zhaoxue was worried that her sister would not be able to sleep, so she went to check in her room, only to see Ruxue attempting to commit suicide by hanging herself with a white damask.Zhaoxue immediately called for servants to rescue her sister. Fortunately, she was rescued after a short time.The next day, after Zhaoxue left her for a while, when she came back, she saw her sister holding a pair of sharp scissors against her throat.In this way, Zhaoxue never dared to leave her sister, and stayed with her every step of the way.Ru Xue always murmured something like "Sanggong, why haven't you come back, my concubine is waiting for you..." and so on.Looking at her sister who was about to go crazy, Zhaoxue was even more heartbroken, but half of it was because she hadn't told him the love in her heart.

"Master Wang, Minister of Rituals, is here!" Wang Xilie walked in with a sad face as the master of ceremonies announced.

"Master Shangshu!" After saluting Zhang Juzheng, Wang Xilie paid homage to Zhang Fanling.Although he was older than Zhang Fan, he wanted to thank Zhang Fan for saving his life.

Here, Wang Xilie was talking to Zhang Juzheng, when the master of ceremonies' voice came again: "Eunuch Feng, the supervisor of ceremonies, is here!"

Feng Bao also came, which surprised some officials present.No wonder, they only knew that Zhang Fan used to be a member of Jinyiwei, so he should be very estranged from Feng Bao, the governor of the East Factory, but they didn't know that Zhang Fan and Feng Bao had a deep friendship.

Worshiping Zhang Fan's spiritual seat, Feng Bao's face was also tear-stained.When he came to Zhang Juzheng, he greeted him and said, "Oh, Mr. Zhang is in the prime of his life. Why did he go like this when he was in the prime of his life? Mr. Zhang was kind and upright in his life, and he respected even the eunuchs of our family. Very, but he is not as kind as others, and he doesn't know how to scold us in his heart."

When the other officials on the side heard this, they couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, but they didn't dare to show it on their faces.Thinking about Feng Bao's identity, the governor of Dongchang, he is labeled as ruthless and unscrupulous. Officials in the court, except for the high-ranking and powerful people in the cabinet, can ignore him, who dares to show dissatisfaction with him!

But Zhang Juzheng didn't care, he knew a little bit of Feng Bao's thoughts, Feng Bao's expression was mixed with sincerity, and he said: "Fan'er has achieved such achievements at a young age, and he has a bright future. It's a pity, a pity. !"

"Gao Gong, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Li Chunfang, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, and Guo Pu, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, are here!" the voice of the master of ceremonies came again.

This time it shocked many people.Although Zhang Juzheng is the second assistant of the cabinet, after all, as Zhang Fan's mentor, it is understandable to come here to express his condolences.The prince and Zhang Fan's deep relationship is well known throughout the court, and with the addition of the honorary title that Long Qing gave to Zhang Fan as the prince's Taifu, it is understandable for Zhu Yijun to come here to worship his own Taifu.But Gao Gong has nothing to do with Zhang Fan, and he has never even met him face to face. Now that the four cabinet ministers are gathered here, Zhang Fan's influence is really great.Although everyone felt a little disrespectful to the deceased, they couldn't help thinking that fortunately Zhang Fan was dead. If he was still alive, the atmosphere in the court would have changed drastically without waiting for Zhu Yijun to become the emperor.

The three came to the mourning hall, worshiped, and greeted Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, and the five began to chat.

"Oh, heaven is jealous of talents!" Gao Gong sighed and said, "Master Zhang, although I have never met Lingtu, I still admire him!"

Guo Pu has always been looking forward to Gao Gong's head, and said: "Uncle Zhongyong used his wisdom to solve the danger of our military disaster. The highest credit is only in the expansion of the territory. But it is a pity to die young."

Zhang Juzheng, regardless of whether the two were duplicity or not, said that "stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling face", and said with a sigh: "Fan'er is a generous person, it's really a pity."

Li Chunfang is kind and kind, but he doesn't say much on the sidelines.Zhang Juzheng could see from his eyes that he really felt sorry for Zhang Fan, and he couldn't help being very grateful.

Gao Gong came for another purpose this time, seeing that Feng Bao, who did not get along with him, was already sitting on the side drinking tea, and then said to Zhang Juzheng: "Master Zhang, now that the northern affairs have come to an end, please don't worry about it." It’s too sad to focus on government affairs, we still have a lot to do.” This is to remind Zhang Juzheng that he is going to start cracking down on those who disagree with him in the court.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't understand what he meant, but he had already made an agreement with him, and he didn't plan to break the agreement, he said: "Brother Suqing said exactly, Juzheng will help Brother Suqing."

Gao Gong and Guo Pu were very happy when they heard this.Gao Gong doesn't expect Zhang Juzheng to help him eliminate political enemies, as long as he doesn't stop him.

He was talking here, but Zhu Yijun came out from behind. He went to visit his teacher's wife, Ru Xue, just now, but now his eyes are still red and tears can still be seen on his little face.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Everyone present bowed down to him immediately.

Zhu Yijun looked at these people very disgustingly, but said something embarrassing to most of these elderly officials in his immature voice: "It's not too early for this palace to come here. It is true that apart from Mr. Zhang, a scholar of the Hall of Martial Arts, There is no one else. Why, the emperor's imperial edict and my palace have arrived, and you are all here!"

The people below were very embarrassed, thinking that the prince didn't deliberately make things difficult for them!After all, the emperor's imperial decree came, and the prince came in person. If they don't come again, could it be that they don't want to mess with their official career?

Zhu Yijun just vented his dissatisfaction in his heart. After all, children don't have deep hatred against these people, so they get up after a lesson.

Just as Gao Gong and the others wanted to say a few words to Zhu Yijun, there was a noisy sound outside the door, accompanied by one or two screams.Zhu Yijun couldn't help frowning, and shouted: "Whoever is making noise outside and is disrespectful to my Grand Tutor, why don't you go and arrest me?"

He had just finished speaking, but two figures came in outside the door, a man and a woman with bandages on their bodies, they walked in supporting each other.The officials who saw them seemed to have seen a ghost and avoided them one after another.

When they came to the mourning hall, Zhu Yijun, the four cabinet ministers, and Feng Bao, the eunuch of Bingbi, were also stunned when they saw the faces of the visitors, and the entire Zhang Mansion was silent.After a while, the emcee's trembling and distraught voice came from outside the door: "Zhong... Zhongyong Bo, Prince... Prince Tai Fu Zhang Fan is here!"

Well!Feelings still have their own condolences!

In the Forbidden City, in Longqing's imperial study.Long Qing looked at Zhang Fan who was standing in front of him, covered in bandages all over his body, ignored Feng Bao's reminder, walked up to him, touched his chin and just his shoulders.He didn't stop until he touched Zhang Fan's wound, which caused a cry of pain.

"Zhang... Zhang Aiqing, Zhang Fan, is it really you?" Long Qing asked with some uncertainty.

Zhang Fan said inexplicably: "Returning to Your Majesty, it is the humble minister."

"Aren't you the ghost of Zhang Qing's family?" Long Qing asked.

Zhang Fan couldn't help showing a strange expression on his face, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm not a ghost, I'm still alive. Has your Majesty heard that ghosts can still get hurt?"

"That's true!" Long Qing finally confirmed that Zhang Fan was still alive, and immediately became happy, "Hehe, Zhang Aiqing has deceived me and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty!"

Zhang Fan was also very puzzled and asked: "Your Majesty, who is it that said that the minister is dead?"

Feng Bao said from the side: "It's Wang Baihu who guards Mr. Zhang."

"Wang Meng, is he still alive?" Zhang Fan thought Wang Meng was dead, and was very happy to hear that he was still alive, but he was puzzled why Wang Meng said he was dead.

At this moment, the guard outside the door reported to the imperial physician for an interview.The imperial doctor came in and saw Zhang Fan, but he was not surprised, but said to Long Qing: "Your Majesty, Wang Baihu's fever has receded, and he has come to his senses. He said that Mr. Zhang is not dead, but just disappeared."

Long Qing was furious immediately, he wanted to hit him because the imperial doctor couldn't rescue Wang Meng in time, he made himself a big oolong, it was very embarrassing, he wanted someone to drag him out and chop him right away.But seeing Zhang Fan, he felt that blood should not be seen today, so he gave up.

After dismissing the imperial physician, Long Qing sat back on his dragon chair, gave Zhang Fan a seat, and asked, "I see that Zhang Qing's family is covered with injuries, is it important?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, thanks to a woman, this injury is no longer serious." Zhang Fan thought of Li Yingyue.

"By the way, I heard that Aiqing and a woman helped each other back." Long Qing was also very gossip, and hurriedly asked: "Aiqing, tell me in detail quickly, what's going on."

It turned out that Battelle held back many enemies that day, Wang Mengsha rushed out in blood, and the three of them rode horses to the river. The river was so fast and the water was deep that they couldn't cross the horses, but they had no way out.There were more than ten Tartars chasing after him. Seeing that there was no way to retreat, Wang Meng fought desperately.Yingyue even guarded Zhang Fan's side. Although she had good saber skills, she was not injured, but the woman's strength was limited after all, and she was powerless after a fight.

In addition to being brave, Wang Meng had many flaws and suffered many stab wounds.A wave of will supported him, but it gradually became weak.At this time, finally a Tartar rushed in front of Zhang Fan, Wang Meng and Yingyue failed to rescue him, Zhang Fan was stabbed and fell off his horse.But Wang Meng was entangled by the Tartars around him and couldn't return to help; Yingyue got off her horse immediately and stood in front of Zhang Fan.

At this time, Yingyue also suffered multiple stab wounds and was unable to fight anymore.Seeing that the companion behind him was about to be killed by Wang Meng, the remaining Tartars made up their minds, stopped hacking, and stabbed Zhang Fan and Yingyue to death.Seeing this, Wang Meng ignored the Tartars who were attacking him, and bumped into the Tartar who was about to stab the knife.The blade still pierced through Yingyue's body and pierced into Zhang Fan's body, but it was because Wang Meng's impact did not hurt the vitals.But Wang Meng's collision was so powerful that he knocked Zhang Fan and Yingyue into the river.

The two who fell into the river were seriously injured, but they were woken up by the cold water.The two who had no strength hugged each other tightly, planning to live and die together.The two went down the river like this, but they were rushed into the territory of Daming by the river, and got stuck in a crevice of rocks.

After all, Zhang Fan was protected by someone. Although he suffered many stab wounds, the last stabbing in the mouth was the most serious.With his last strength, he dragged the unconscious Yingyue back to the shore.The clothes of the two of them were soaked by the cold river water. If they wore them again, they might not be able to survive.Without hesitation, Zhang Fan found a cave, lit a bonfire, and took off their clothes.The two hugged each other passionately to keep each other warm.

Yingyue's body was bleeding uncontrollably from multiple stab wounds, and she asked Zhang Fan to burn herself with fire to stop the bleeding when she was slightly awake.Hearing Yingyue's screams, Zhang Fan was moved but secretly vowed to repay her.

The two of them had no food in the cold winter, and only had some strength after eating things like leather in their clothes.Wrapped in flimsy clothes, they supported each other and walked for two days before arriving at the nearest Liangzhou Wei.Although Zhang Fan's Jinyiwei waist badge was lost in the river, luckily he still had the East Factory Commander Feng Bao gave him on his body, and when he showed the token, someone rushed to treat the two of them.

But Zhang Fan was worried about his mother and wife in the capital, and wanted to return to Beijing as soon as possible.But Yingyue was seriously injured, he wanted her to stay and recuperate, so he came back first.But Yingyue said nothing.In desperation, he reluctantly rode a fast horse back to Beijing with her.The road was non-stop, and the horse was a little tired, so I went to the nearest post station to change horses and continue running wildly.Only then did he catch up with his own funeral!

Of course, the part with Yingyue was not elaborated in front of Long Qing.After hearing this, Long Qing sighed that Zhang Fan was lucky.Zhang Fan was very grateful to Feng Bao, if he hadn't given him the East Factory Superintendent, it would have been difficult for him to return home now.

"Jun'er was very sad when he heard the news of the death of the Qing family." Long Qing said, "If I hadn't tried my best to persuade him to go back, I'm afraid he would be pestering the Qing family again now."

"Your Majesty and His Royal Highness are worried, and I am terrified." Zhang Fan immediately saluted and said.

"The Qing family is currently injured, so there is no need to be polite." Long Qing said, "Your injury has not healed yet, and there are people in the family who are looking forward to you again. You should go back first, and we will discuss other matters later. Say I am unreasonable!" Long Qing looked very happy.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Zhang Fan said gratefully. He was really worried about his mother and wife, as well as Yingyue who was in his own home.

"Well, Feng Bao, send Zhang Qing's family home." Long Qing ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Feng Bao said.