There were flowers blooming at both ends, one on each side. Leaving aside what was going on at the brothel, Zhu Yunxi and his entourage walked through the bustling streets and entered a quiet alley full of residential buildings.
"Everyone, stay away!" Zhu Yunxi walked in the alley and said to the people around him, "Follow me, Mr. Cao Guo!"
Afterwards, Fu asked He Guangyi and others to direct the guards to be on guard and distance themselves from Zhu Yunxi. Li Jinglong, who was named, had a look of fear on his face.
When the emperor's grandson is happy, he usually calls him Lao Li.
If he is unhappy, he will just call him Cao Guogong.
Zhu Yunxi took a few steps forward, then suddenly turned back and said, "Did you ask someone to deliver a letter to the Founding Father?"
It was such a coincidence that Chang Sheng came here, and he seemed to be in a hurry. He must have rushed here in a hurry. If no one reported the news, he would be damned.
With a plop, Li Jinglong knelt down directly and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me. I am the servant who informed my uncle Chang!"
Speaking is an art. Li Jinglong did not talk about Cao Guogong, but talked about the seniority among relatives.
His father, Li Zhong, was originally a generation younger than Chang Yuchun. He and Zhu Yunxi were cousins, so it was reasonable to call him cousin.
"Oh, you are good at finding relatives!" Zhu Yunxi laughed angrily, "Who gave you the courage? Let someone secretly communicate with you?"
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"Your Highness, please listen to me first!" Li Jinglong kowtowed, with tears in his eyes, "The second oldest son of the Chang family may be wrong in many ways, but he is also a relative of your mother's clan. If things really get serious, outsiders will think that he is relying on
Your power."
"If today's farce is too big, it will be His Highness's reputation that will be damaged in the end! Therefore, I sent someone to notify my cousin Chang. As the saying goes, family scandals should not be made public. I am thinking of Your Highness's reputation and don't want the capital to suffer.
The common people are pointing fingers behind our backs!"
"You!" Zhu Yunxi paused and scolded, "You are so eloquent and don't tell stories, you are not a good person!"
If you think about it carefully, what Li Jinglong said makes sense. This farce can only be put to an appropriate end if Chang Sheng comes forward. Moreover, if word spread among the people that the troublemaker was the cousin of the emperor's grandson, it would not be a good news.
Ordinary people don't care about that, lest it's not lively enough. The cousin of the emperor's grandson smashed a brothel in the street and beat the court official. This story will be circulated in the capital for at least several decades.
"I only have Your Highness in my heart. If Your Highness's virtuous name is insulted, I will truly be guilty of an unforgivable crime!" Li Jinglong kowtowed again.
"Get up!" Zhu Yunxi sighed slightly, "I'll spare you for today!"
"Your Highness's holy virtues will be remembered for five years!" Li Jinglong stood up slowly, but the next second, his face became very ugly.
Beside the alley, the door of a house was ajar.
Inside the door, a five-year-old girl with braided hair and a half-bitten bun in one hand was looking at him with a slightly mocking look.
Seeing that Li Jinglong saw her, the little girl smiled sweetly, showing a mouth full of broken teeth.
Then, he actually stretched out a hand, scratched the tip of her nose twice with his round and white fingers, and said in a sweet voice, "Uncle, I'm so embarrassed to cry! I didn't even cry when my mother beat me, but you actually cry!"
After saying that, he smiled sweetly and took a bite of the bun.
"Shame! Shame!" the little girl teased twice more, turned around and ran back to the house, disappearing.
Li Jinglong rubbed his eyes and cursed in his mind, "Whose child is unlucky!"
After seeing this scene, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but smile, "Go back to the palace!"
This was probably the happiest thing he had seen today.
After Zhu Yunxi's death, He Guangyi, Fu Rang and others saw this and passed it by, and they also admired Li Jinglong a little.
It should be noted that it is a taboo to accompany the emperor's grandson but secretly communicate with others. If you are a close official of the prince, but leak the prince's whereabouts, it means you have ulterior motives.
"Your Highness is really tolerant of Duke Cao!" He Guangyi squinted his eyes and muttered.
By chance, Fu Rang next to him listened and said with a smile, "You and I can't learn the knowledge of Duke Cao Guo!"
Just as He Guangyi was about to nod, Wang said with a smile, "Either way, he is the Duke of the country, and you, Commander Fu, are just the commander!"
After saying that, he took a duck step and hurriedly caught up with him.
Fu Rang looked at his back and cursed with a smile, "You old Wang!"
"He Guangyi!" Zhu Yunxi suddenly called from the front.
"Your Majesty, I'm here!" He Guangyi, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, hurried forward and bowed his head slightly to listen.
"Just now, the brothel madam said there was someone behind her, right?" Zhu Yunxi asked as he walked.
He Guangyi was deliberately shorter than Zhu Yunxi, "Your Highness, this is what he said!"
"Do you know who it is?"
"My lord, let me go check it out!"
"Check it carefully!" Zhu Yunxi said angrily, "Now Jiangxia Hou Zhou's family has opened a casino, and now someone has opened a brothel. How come the honorable sons of the Ming Dynasty like to be a protective umbrella for others? Are they so worthless?"
After hearing this, He Guangyi recalled for no reason the face of Zhou Dexing, the Marquis of Jiangxia, who was poisoned to death by his own hands.
He thought to himself, "Today's events may not be as big as Li Jinglong thought, and can be reduced to small matters!"
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After returning to the palace, the old man met with officials from the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple.
It is late autumn now, and winter is about to begin. Ryukyu Annan and other countries sent envoys early to pay tribute because they were too far away from the Ming Dynasty. And because the Ming Dynasty destroyed Goryeo this year, the tributes from these countries were afraid that they would not be generous enough and offend the Ming Dynasty.
The emperor was furious.
Over in Tubo, the great lama and several Tubo kings will send people to Beijing to pay homage to him after winter comes.
The old man was busy, so Zhu Yunxi also went over and went back to the East Palace to read the memorial.
However, I have something on my mind today, so it is inevitable that I am not as calm and relaxed as in the past.
An hour later, Wang Shai notified He Guangyi, the commander of the Jinyi Guards who had left outside the palace, to ask for an audience.
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In Jingren Palace, Zhu Yunxi didn't wait for the other party to salute, waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, did you ask about the things I asked you to inquire about?"
He Guangyi knelt down and said, "My lord, I have sent someone to find out!"
"Whose family?" Zhu Yunxi said, rubbing his temples.
He Guangyi lowered his head and said, "Xu family!"
"Who?" Zhu Yunxi looked up in shock.
There is only one Xu family in the capital.
That is the family of the late mountain king Xu Da and the current Wei Guogong Xu Huizu.
The Xu family had an extraordinary status among the Ming Dynasty warriors. However, they were cautious and cautious, never arrogant and domineering, and had little contact with the Huaixi warriors.
Xu Da's three sons, Xu Huizu, Xu Yingxu, and Xu Zengshou, each hold important positions in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. Although they come from noble families, these three have no bad deeds at all. Especially the eldest Xu Huizu, who is still considered a
Zhu Yunxi's close ministers still hold official positions in the East Palace.
"Seriously?" Zhu Yunxi asked carefully.
"I don't dare to lie, it is indeed the Xu family!" He Guangyi said, "I asked my men to arrest the old bustard. According to her, 30% of the brothel's annual income goes to the Xu family and is taken over by a housekeeper of the Xu family.
." After saying that, he paused and said, "It's not the Xu Mansion of Wei Guogong, but the Xu Mansion of the Third Master of the Xu family!"
The third eldest son of the Xu family is Xu Zengshou!
Although he does not have the title of Duke of Wei, he still holds the official position of hereditary commander, and the Xu family has a great business, so he is not so short-sighted.
"Are they the slaves of the Xu family who are using their family's name to act recklessly outside?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a frown.
"I don't know about this!" He Guangyi said, "However, the old madam said that she had never met the third master of the Xu family. It was the steward of the Xu family who came into contact with her. In some official matters, the steward also came forward.
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"Check again!" Zhu Yunxi patted the imperial case, "Go, take Gu's handwriting, go to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to find Xu Huizu, and ask him to attend!"
Xu Huizu was an upright man. If something like this happened to his family, he would definitely be more anxious than anyone else!
Zhu Yunxi had only met Xu Zengshou twice. He was Xu Da's youngest son. Because he had poor health when he was a child, and Xu Da had difficulties in having heirs, the old man personally gave him such a name.
I haven't heard that this person has any great talents, but he is not considered mediocre. After being in the capital, he has not shown off his talent, and his popularity is quite good.
From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Yunxi didn't believe that the backer behind the Red Sleeve Tower was the Xu family, or that it was Xu Zengshou.
He is the son of a prince, his eldest brother is a hereditary prince, and his brother-in-law is King Yan of the Ming Dynasty. He will never have anything to do with a place like that.
At this moment, Wang Shai came in again.
"Your Highness, the founding father and his second son are kneeling outside the palace to ask for an audience!" Wang Shai looked at Zhu Yunxi and said cautiously, "This slave has seen that the second master of the Chang family made the founding father beat him until he was covered with blood like a gourd of blood. There was no place on his body.
Good place!"
"Why don't you beat this lawless bastard to death!" Zhu Yunxi snorted, "I knew they were coming to beg for orphans. What's the use of begging for orphans? Let them beg the emperor, huh! You didn't know it when you made trouble and beat up the imperial officials.
I’m afraid, now I know!”
Seeing that Zhu Yunxi looked unhappy, Wang Sha did not dare to say anything more.
Just as he was about to go down, Fu Rang, the commander of the personal guards, knelt down outside and said, "Your Highness, the founding father has snatched the minister's sword and wants to kill their second son!"
Huh, Zhu Yunxi let out a long sigh.
Then he said angrily, "Isn't that embarrassing enough? Let them get out!"
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Watching football in the hospital early in the morning, I discovered a very sentimental side.
During the Portuguese national anthem, there were tears in Ronaldo's eyes. This should be his last time participating in an international competition. Unknowingly, it was time for him to retire after his success.
At that time, I thought of Argentina's Messi again. At the America's Cup, Messi's expression and eyes when the national anthem was played were very similar to Ronaldo's.
Time has passed and life is easy to grow old.
In the world, there will no longer be an unparalleled pair of prides.
The most helpless thing in the world is that the heart is old and the body is old. Like a ten-year-old man...
This chapter has been completed!