"Look, look." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Concubine Hu Xian helplessly and said, "It's lawless to follow one after another."
After a pause, he looked at Lao Liu with some schadenfreude and said: "You don't have to eat now, do you?"
Zhu Zhen rolled his eyes depressedly, "Why don't you wait until after the meal?"
"I still don't want to persuade my mother and concubine." Zhu Yuanzhang pursed his lips.
Zhu Zhen rolled his eyes at the old thief, put down his chopsticks, and followed him out of the East Room to comfort his mother and concubine who was crying.
Boss Zhu was minding his own business and continued to eat. Little Liuzi didn't know that everything he ate tasted equally good.
~~
In the east room.
While sobbing, Concubine Hu Xian asked her son: "Why did you offend your father?"
"Mom, I didn't." Zhu Zhen wiped her tears and said with a wry smile: "The prince moved out of the palace when he was twelve years old. The rules have always been like this. My brothers are also like this, and it's not against me."
"Can it be the same? You have been away for so long in the past two years, and my mother has not even spent a few days with you." Concubine Hu Xian said with great reluctance.
"I'm so old, how can I stay at home with my mother all day?" Zhu Zhen was helpless. He now took it as his own responsibility to transform the Ming Dynasty, but my mother still regarded him as a baby...
"How old is he? He is also my son." Concubine Hu Xian burst into tears again and said, "Mom is just a child like you, and I haven't kissed you enough. Are you willing to leave me alone?"
"Mom, look what you said. I just moved out of Wan'an Palace, but I still live in the palace. I can still come to greet you every day, eat with you, chat, and drink. Other than not sleeping here, there is no difference.
"Zhu Zhen persuaded patiently.
"It makes some sense." Concubine Hu Xian felt a little relieved.
Zhu Zhen hurriedly continued to work harder. "If Mom is really bored, why not have another younger brother or sister? Then there will be nothing more to talk about?"
"Get out!" Concubine Hu Xian's face turned red. Her anger was instantly replaced by shame. She kicked her son in the buttocks and said, "A dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth!"
Zhu Zhen took advantage of the situation and escaped.
Concubine Hu Xian sat for a while longer, then she told Miao Shanggong: "I'll make some oyster and leek soup for your majesty..."
~~
In the evening, Boss Zhu stayed at Wan'an Palace. As for whether he and Concubine Hu Xian were sumo wrestling or wrestling, there is no way of knowing.
Zhu Zhen didn't care about those grown-up things. He put down his job and went to the cattle pen in the back garden of Wan'an Palace to watch the newly arrived Tai Chi.
Ordinary animals will definitely be very uneasy if they change places, let alone the noble giant panda...
He actually wanted Tai Chi to sleep in the same room as him, but Wang Ma persuaded him to do so.
Raising giant pandas in the harem is nonsense enough. If they are brought into the palace to eat and sleep together, even if it is taboo in the history books, it will definitely be written down in the notebooks of officials and scholars.
"Well, it's okay for me to move to the cattle pen, right?"
"Isn't that different?!" Wang Ma, who usually indulges His Highness in every possible way, showed unusual determination today.
Even if His Royal Highness the King of Chu can be shameless, even the Emperor will be implicated and get the reputation of "conniving the prince and being ridiculous".
In fact, Zhu Zhen didn't care about the reputation of the old thief. The main reason was that Wang Ma said that in the future, people would ask where the "virtue" of Concubine Hu Xian was? That would be too ugly.
Only then did Lao Liu give up.
~~
When King Chu came to the outside of the cattle pen, he heard Wang Defa lecturing the little fireman who was tending the cattle pen.
"Listen to our family, this giant panda is the most beloved of His Highness!"
"Daddy, isn't His Highness's heart and soul that cow?" the eunuch in charge asked in confusion.
"Stubborn mouth!" Wang Defa poked the eunuch's head with his orchid finger. "You only have a liver in your belly and no heart? The Great Sage Pingtian is your highness's liver, and Tai Chi is your highness's heart! Do you understand?!"
"I understand, I understand." The servants nodded one after another, roughly understanding that the giant panda's status was slightly higher than that of the big green ox.
"Then it eats meat and vegetables?" The eunuch asked worriedly, as he had never raised such a thing before. "I remember that there was one in the Royal Horse Prison, but it was fed to death by Fatty Sun, who raised elephants."
"You are not allowed to feed it blindly." Zhu Zhen then said: "I will feed it tonight. Someone will be responsible for feeding the panda later, so you just obey the orders."
"As ordered." The chamberlains quickly responded respectfully.
"I'm telling you, the whole capital, no, the whole Jiangnan, only this one end!" Wang Defa emphasized again: "If something goes wrong, don't even think about it!"
"Yes..." Nuonuo, the chamberlain, responded, and saw His Highness entering the panda house with a handful of bamboo shoots in his arms.
Seeing the familiar 'keeper', Tai Chi, who had been restless, calmed down. He ate a few bamboo shoots and some concentrated feed mixed with a few eggs. Finally, he was full and drank enough, and fell asleep comfortably.
…
Zhu Zhen felt relieved and left the panda house. Just when he was about to go back, his conscience finally struck him and he remembered his old love. He went to take a look at the neglected Monkey King Pingtian again.
The big green cow no longer had stomach pain and could continue to ruminate...
~~
After going back to the west, Mu Xiang took a bath for His Highness the King of Chu, so that he no longer smelled like animals.
Then let him lie on the bed and slowly dry his hair.
Zhu Zhen saw her red lips twitching slightly and hesitated several times. Then he smiled and said, "If you have something to say, just say it. Otherwise, when I move out, I won't have a chance to say anything."
"My maid, I want to go with Your Highness..." Mu Xiang finally plucked up the courage. After blurting out the words, she knew she was being rude and quickly knelt down and said, "What your maid wants is that your Highness please take your maid with you."
When I go to Dongwu Institute, I need someone to take care of me!"
"I heard from my brothers that there are no maids in the East Fifth Palace." Zhu Zhen shook his head slowly. It is not difficult to understand why the prince wants to move out when he reaches twelve years old? Isn't it because at this age, those who have developed early can already stand upright?
Are you going to fight with a stick? So during this period until the wedding, the prince is served by eunuchs. They are not given the opportunity to fight with a stick.
"That's it..." Mu Xiang sobbed in disappointment.
"But I heard that every office has a responsible female officer," His Royal Highness the King of Chu asked slowly, "I wonder if you are interested?"
"Your Highness..." Only then did Mu Xiang realize that she had been teased. She immediately turned from sadness to joy. She stamped her feet in both joy and shame. In a rare childlike manner, she said: "You are teasing my maid!"
"Hahaha." Zhu Zhen couldn't help laughing and said, "So what?"
"Nothing." Mu Xiang bit her red lips tightly and burst into tears again, but this time, she was crying with joy.
Although palace maids and female officials may look similar at first glance, their status is completely different.
Especially in the Hongwu Dynasty, female officials were serious officials who had official reports, received court salary, and had crowns and belts!
She Yingying leaned down and bowed down: "My maid, thank you, Your Highness!"
