"Your Majesty, please finish your meal before you leave." Concubine Da Ding immediately became anxious. "I have put a lot of effort into this table of dishes..."
"No, we just want to... go and feel proud! Eat? What a waste!" Emperor Hongwu was in high spirits and went out without looking back.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty." The prince hurriedly bowed and apologized: "I didn't think carefully."
"What did you say, Your Highness?" Concubine Da Ding suppressed her anger and said with a smile, "Of course, state affairs are the most important thing."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding of justice." The prince clasped his fists and excused himself, "Then I'll go over first."
"Good go, Your Highness." Concubine Da Ding hurriedly stood up to see her off.
"Your Majesty, please stay..."
As soon as the prince left, Da Shi turned around and entered the palace. Unable to hold on any longer, she suddenly waved her sleeves and swept the cups and plates on the table to the floor.
Amidst the crashing sound of ping-ping-pong-pang, the palace people immediately fell into silence.
Hou Lixie hurriedly repelled the people around him and asked them to close the palace door tightly.
Then he said to Concubine Da Ding who was lying on the table crying: "Your Majesty, our army has won a great victory and your highnesses have made contributions. This is a great joy. I must be happy. If people gossip and spread it..."
"I'm so happy!" Concubine Da Ding straightened up suddenly, her face turned red from crying, and said angrily to herself: "Your Majesty has come all this time this month, and I invited him like a god! How could he?
Can’t you finish this meal?”
"Oh, empress, things have their own priorities." Hou Lixie sighed: "Our King of Qi did not go out with the army, so the emperor can't tell you."
"This poor thing like Lao Qi just knows how to eat and die in the palace..." Concubine Da Ding gritted her silver teeth, hating that iron could never become steel. "Bring him here to me!"
"Your Highness is still young, how can he go to the battlefield?" Hou Lixie said in a puzzled tone: "I don't know that Your Highness, King Chu, is one year older than him and is still staying in the capital."
"Hmm..." Concubine Da Ding snorted and let Lao Qi go for the time being.
"The prince, too, has never seen me as a concubine in his eyes!" But her anger did not go away. She actually turned her finger on the prince and cursed: "I think he is here to mess with me on purpose.
It’s a good thing!”
"Your Majesty, your words are serious. Your Highness the Crown Prince is not that kind of person." Hou Lixie became more and more outrageous when she heard her words. Why did she even scold the next emperor?
"He wasn't originally, but he has changed over the years!" Concubine Da Ding said bitterly: "I let the sixth one coax me around, but I am very tight to the seventh one. Even my mother-in-law doesn't take it seriously.
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"Where are all this?" Eunuch Hou couldn't laugh or cry.
"People say that the mother is more valuable than her son. This is not true at all! If you don't believe it, do you think he would treat Concubine Hu Chong like this?" Concubine Da Ding became more and more sad as she spoke. She burst into tears and said, "They are all my own sons."
What a waste! As long as he gets a little angry, Concubine Xian will be mine!"
As she spoke, she slapped the table and said, "No, I still have to beat him up, otherwise I won't be able to get out of this bad mood!"
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Kunning Palace.
The empress was chanting sutras in the Buddhist hall and praying for her sons who were on the battlefield.
In the quiet palace, there is only the soothing sound of wooden fish chanting sutras.
Suddenly, a burst of noisy footsteps broke the tranquility, and then Boss Zhu's broken gong voice sounded: "Mother, hahaha, mother-in-law, where are you!"
In the Buddhist hall, the female officer serving nearby quickly looked at the queen.
"Bar the door." Queen Ma continued to chant the Buddha's name without opening her eyes.
"..." The female officer tiptoed to the door, raised the door latch with both hands, and slowly pushed it toward the nose of the door.
Before she could get in, the palace door was pushed open violently. The female officer quickly knelt down holding the door latch, but this time she moved extremely quickly.
"Haha, mother-in-law, you are here!" Boss Zhu walked in at a leisurely pace. He caught a glimpse of the door latch in the female officer's arms from the corner of his eye, and his pupils shrank.
"Sister, are you going to lock us out?"
"Humph." Queen Ma ignored him.
"Hey, sister, don't read it now, good news, good news!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted loudly: "Tiande is victorious!"
Halfway through his words, he paused, looked at Queen Ma's side face, and smiled without saying a word.
Queen Ma opened her eyes as expected, turned to glare at him and said: "Zhu Chongba, why are you so embarrassed? Tell me quickly, how are the children?"
"The fourth son of our family, remember the first achievement!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted so loudly that he wished the whole city of Nanjing could hear:
"Third brother, second in merit!"
"Second brother, third in credit!"
"Wenying, fourth in merit!"
Wenying is Muying. After Zhu Yuanzhang adopted Muying as his adopted son, he changed his name to Zhu Wenying.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Boss Zhu asked Mu Ying to change his surname back to his surname to honor his ancestors. However, the emperor's family still called him by his old name. He was also the one who had the best relationship with the prince among the many adopted sons. It was inappropriate to talk about being brothers because the two of them had always been together.
Treating each other as a biological brother, the queen naturally also regards him as her own.
"Are the children safe?" After hearing this, Queen Ma asked calmly: "Are they not injured?"
"No, no, they all need to be tailed!" Zhu Yuanzhang said proudly: "Let's just say, our sons are also lucky. On the battlefield, bows and arrows fly away from them!"
Boss Zhu waited patiently for her to finish reciting the sutra, then he smiled and extended his hand and said, "Sister, get up?"
"..." Queen Ma rolled her eyes at him, but in the end she stretched out her hand and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to help her up.
"Now do you know that your worries are unnecessary?" After walking out for a few steps, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but said in plain words: "Our seeds are destined to be right! Don't worry about it all day long."
"Do you think I'm the kind of mother who holds back my children?" Queen Ma shook her head and said:
"In the past twenty years, how many mothers have I encouraged to send their sons to the battlefield? How could I be reluctant to let go of my son? There is no reason for that."
"and you……"
"I'm angry at you for being indiscriminate and sending them all up at once. The second child's wife is so pregnant. The fourth child just got married, and they're not even a boy and a half girl. The fifth child didn't even get married - it's not Sheji.
Why rush to send them to the battlefield when life or death is at stake?" Queen Ma sighed:
"Won't we let the third child go to the battlefield first this time, and then let a few of them go on the battlefield next time?"
"Yeah, we were a little anxious." Zhu Yuanzhang scratched his head and said sarcastically: "The main reason is that they arrived in Peiping just in time to catch up with the general's expedition. At that juncture, if our son went back, he would definitely say something unpleasant.
Yes. Therefore, there is no other way but to go out with the army, and we cannot let the soldiers feel cold!"
"Oh, you." Queen Ma was in a good mood and finally let him go and said, "You have given birth to a litter of good sons."
"It's all the girl's credit, we didn't put in much effort." Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard this and said: