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Chapter 53: Old Zhu Protects His Son

at the same time.

In the tenth year of Hongwu, it was a side hall of Kunning Palace.

Song Shen, who had left the system space during the exam, returned to the office after the 45-minute exam to take a look. After making sure that there were no mistakes and the system did not punish him for his behavior, he finally put his mind at ease.

After the papers were handed out, Song Shen looked like he was walking leisurely to the office, but in fact he had gone straight back to the real world.

This place is not like my home, this is the palace!
What's more, Kunning Palace is the center of the center. Empress Ma, whom Zhu Yuanzhang regarded like the apple of his eye, was right next door, and there were eunuchs and palace servants guarding outside his house. Even if he threatened with "sudden death", even though he had just almost exposed the future fate of Empress Ma and Zhu Xiongying, there was no guarantee that no one would knock on the door or suddenly break in.

If he was discovered trying to perform a magic trick under the nose of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in the late stage of paranoia, he would have to wait for death.

Song Shen didn't dare and couldn't take the risk, so he chose to go in for only a few minutes at the beginning of the exam, and then wait until the end of the exam to confirm whether there would be any negative effects by doing so, and try to make the time he disappeared into thin air as short as possible.

He took several deep breaths, trying not to show anything unusual, and made himself appear as calm as usual.

Then, Song Shen searched the edge of the bed, grasped the crutches, groped his way to his feet in this completely unfamiliar room where there was no furnishings, and slowly walked to the door.

squeak-

He pushed the door open, and the eunuch at the door said in surprise:

"Mr. Song, have you rested well?"

The voice sounded familiar. It was the eunuch who had just led him there.

In fact, Song Shen had previously felt that the eunuch should have addressed him by his official title, after all, he had also worked in the palace before.

But on second thought, he is now a blind man. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang gives face to his grandfather Song Lian and issues an edict saying that he will keep the position in the palace for him and can be appointed at any time after he recovers, Song Shen is just a commoner now anyway, and it is indeed not appropriate to call him by his previous official position.

After figuring it out, Song Shen felt a little more at ease.

No matter how difficult it was to be an official in the Hongwu Dynasty, at least he turned a disaster into a blessing and left the position, right?
As long as you don't work or hold an official position, you don't have to worry about anything.

"Well, I've had a good rest. Please take me to see the Queen. I have something to report."

Song Shen spoke calmly.

He had few facial expressions to begin with, and now that he was blind, even his eyes gave no clues, so this intimidated people. At first glance, people thought he was a very calm and confident young man.

The eunuch standing at the door was amazed and his attitude towards Song Shen became better.

Hearing Song Shen's request, the eunuch immediately bowed:

"No need to report, no need to report. The Queen has already instructed that if you want to see her, just bring her over directly, no matter when."

"The Queen said that as long as she is in Kunning Palace, she can take you there at any time!"

Song Shen said "Oh" in surprise.

This is...getting the royal pass?

…………

In the lecture hall.

When Li Shimin and others saw Zhangsun Wuji speaking and going straight to Zhu Biao, their brows couldn't help but jump.

No one knows better than them how shrewd and arrogant this old man Wuji is.

Of course, if you ask yourself, if you have a sister who is the empress and a brother-in-law who is the emperor, and you are the first of the founding heroes and the heroes of the rebellion, you may be a hundred times more excessive than Changsun Wuji. But now, Changsun Wuji, who is in his forties, would actually act like this to Zhu Biao, a young man. He must have discovered something.

Li Shimin was not someone who could not bring himself to show his shame, so he immediately imitated his elder brother-in-law and smiled at Zhu Biao in a friendly manner:

"Yes, my friend, could you explain it to me?"

Zhu Biao looked confused.

To be honest, although the arrival of Li Shimin and others made him quite curious, Zhu Biao was now fully concerned with his wife and children.

This was not only because he had just witnessed the death of "Zhu Yunwen" and felt mixed emotions, but also because he cared more about Zhu Xiongying and Chang, and was eager to know whether he had changed the established history.

Therefore, Zhu Biao never thought that Li Shimin and his people would come to ask him questions, and they would ask him in a blocking way!

"What are you doing? Do you think I'm a dead person?"

A rough and deep voice appeared loudly, standing between the two sides.

It’s Zhu Yuanzhang.

He stretched out his hand and directly pulled his son behind his back to protect him. He looked at Li Shimin and Zhangsun Wuji, the leaders of the Tang Four, and said with a smile:
"Since you two know that Biao'er is young, you don't think he is inexperienced and easy to bully, so you want to interrogate him, right?"

"I am a rough man. Everyone knows that I am the first emperor born as a beggar. I am not as refined as you. Please forgive me if I offend you. I am sorry that he brought his father with him. If you have any questions, just come to me. Don't ask him, okay?"

That's really rude of you.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not feel that he was overreacting or being too protective of his son.

The group of people in front of us are the rebels led by Emperor Taizong of Tang and his own Tiance Generals at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. Any one of them would be a figure who would leave his name in history.

To put it bluntly, they are different from Ying Zheng, Liu Che, and Zhang Liang. They all have blood on their hands. Only an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, who started out as a rebellion, can understand how big the threat posed by the other side is.

The guy who looks smiling may actually be full of poison in his heart.

It's never wrong to be cautious.

This is the Tang Dynasty Five.

Everyone was a little confused by Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden intervention.

Especially since the other party's words and expressions seemed to be very wary of them... This seemed unnecessary.

Didn’t you see that the two enemies, Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Zhang Liang, were living in peace with each other?

Li Shimin suppressed his displeasure, and with a smile on his face, he nodded to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"I am being abrupt."

"In that case, may I ask Your Excellency - oh, Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang - can you tell us what the purpose of this exam is?"

Seeing that he was able to hold back his anger, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was indeed the Emperor Taizong of Tang who could be scolded by Wei Zheng, and his patience was very strong.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang used his eyes to ask the opinions of Ying Zheng and Zhang Liang, the two first-batch classmates, and the answers he got were noncommittal and disapproval respectively.

The former is Zhang Liang and the latter is Ying Zheng.

It seems that the First Emperor, like himself, is quite wary of Li Shimin...

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled heartily at the four people from the Tang Dynasty, revealing his eight big white teeth:
"Sorry, no."

(End of this chapter)