Lao Zhu waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go. Those of you who are married and have mansions outside, please leave. You don't have to wait for the palace gate guards to open the door for you later."
Zhu Zhu then stood up, saluted Lao Zhu and Queen Ma, and left.
Empress Ma looked at his back and sighed: "I thought it would be better if we got married and became a father. Why does this child seem to be more and more stupid?"
Lao Zhu said: "It's okay, he understands it very well. He just doesn't like to talk."
Seeing Zhu Bai sneaking around and trying to slip away, Lao Zhu called out: "Gui Zi, where are you going? Play a few games of slingshot with us before leaving."
Recently, Zhu Bai asked people to make two cards out of thick paper, and taught Fugui and others how to play upgrades and fight landlords. They won a lot, and they are getting excited.
At this moment, Lao Zhu stopped him, and he sighed secretly: Lao Zhu, why don't you toss Concubine Li Shu, or else toss those young and beautiful new favorites? Why do you have to trap me?
I even hurried back to eat delicious food by the stove and win money from Fugui and others.
He turned around and sneered: "Father, you are tired after drinking, so you should go back and rest early."
Lao Zhu looked at him sideways and said, "Do a good job and let those little eunuchs in your palace go. It's a pity that they worked so hard for a year to save a few taels of silver, and they were deceived by you in a few days. You don't
Lack of money.”
What else did Zhu Bai say?
Lao Zhu glanced at his daughter, reminding Zhu Bai intentionally or unintentionally of the agreement between them.
Zhu Bai could only take a deep breath: "Today is New Year's Eve. I am not going anywhere. I will definitely have a lot of fun with my father."
Nannan had only heard that Zhu Bai was the only one favored by Zhu Bai, but she didn’t expect that Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the “King of Murderers”, and Zhu Bai, the “Little King of Hell”, would be so interesting when facing each other in private as father and son. She couldn’t help but smile.
Queen Ma said: "I will return to the palace first."
Lao Zhu waved his hand: "You go and have a rest."
Nannan stood up quickly, lowered her head and folded her hands to follow Queen Ma quietly.
Queen Ma praised secretly.
After observing her for the past few days, I can see that my daughter does not show her feet, smiles without showing her teeth, behaves like a lady when no one is around, and treats others like a lady, which is quite different from the rumors.
Could it be that there is something hidden in it?
It would be better to check it out carefully.
Lao Zhu was in great spirits and won red hearts.
The palace people cheered vigorously.
Lao Zhu was also extra generous tonight and prepared a tray of small silver ingots, which he would reward whenever he was happy.
Zhu Bai, however, showed little interest. He played multiple sets and scored 40 points, each time on the eighth ring.
Lao Zhu said: "Your hands are quite stable and your aim is good, but it's a little off. All your projectiles fall on the same point, but your score is low because you aim off. You just need to aim when you aim.
Move the other side just a little bit to hit the heart."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Bai got up his nerves and tried three rounds, hitting red hearts one after another.
Lao Zhu smiled: "Let's see, isn't it?"
Lao Zhu shot the slingshot more than a hundred times intermittently, and refused to rest from the middle of Haishi to midnight.
Zhu Bai was so sleepy that he sat on a chair with his slingshot and fell asleep.
He vaguely felt that someone was going to take the slingshot away from his hand. He subconsciously tightened his fingers and muttered: "Mine."
Someone next to me laughed softly.
Zhu Bai felt that his body was hanging in the air, and he seemed to hear Lao Zhu saying: "Send him back. At such a young age, his energy is not as good as that of an old man like us."
Strange, how can you have such a dream?
Zhu Bai thought drowsily.
When he woke up in the morning, he found himself lying on the bed. He sat up and looked at the slingshot in his left hand.
It turned out to be not a dream.
Fugui came in: "Your Highness, are you awake?"
Only then did Zhu Bai realize that he was still holding a jade Ruyi in his right hand. He frowned and asked Fugui: "Where did this come from?"
Fugui said: "Yesterday, I saw His Highness falling asleep while playing with a slingshot. The Emperor said that he sympathized with His Highness's hard work, so in addition to the gold ingot, he also gave you a Ruyi to celebrate the New Year. His Highness seemed not to like Jin Ruyi, and he threw it away as soon as he got it back.
It’s in the warehouse, so this time I’m rewarded with jade Ruyi.”
Zhu Bai looked at the Ruyi in his hand. It was bright green in color, translucent and moist, and the appearance and carvings were of the highest quality.
If you sell this jade Ruyi, you can buy two gold Ruyi of the same size.
Zhu Bai put it aside carefully, with a look of disgust on his face: "This thing is so expensive, but it's actually useless. It can't even crack walnuts. I don't know what to do with it."
Fugui replied with a smile: "The emperor said that you would definitely say that, so I told you to use this jade Ruyi as a paperweight and write a couplet carefully. If you don't write well, you will not be allowed to leave the palace."
Zhu Bai flipped the table: "I knew it wouldn't be that good!!"
There was a faint noise outside.
Zhu Bai asked: "What is this?"
Fugui replied: "Your Majesty asked someone to take several baskets of copper coins and scatter them from the Chengtian Gate tower to the people who came to pay New Year's greetings."
Lao Zhu's original words were: "We are the parents of all the people in the world, so we should give out some lucky money."
Zhu Bai knew that Lao Zhu might have remembered the past again.
Lao Zhu once said that when he was a child, he would go to the landlord's house every New Year's Day to pay New Year greetings, just to ask for a few copper coins.
Most of the people gathering outside the palace gate to pay New Year greetings are also poor people.
There was a knock on the door. It was Concubine Guo Hui who had asked someone to send fried rice dumplings.
During the first month, each palace will make some homemade snacks and snacks as gifts to each other.
Zhu Bai had already asked his restaurant to cook fifty pairs of roasted pigeons, two pairs for each palace.
Concubine Hu Shun sent candied plums, which can be soaked in water. They are sour and sweet, quenching thirst and aiding digestion.
Zhu Biao asked someone to bring roasted chestnuts.
Zhu Rui performed very steadily. Well, as usual, one pill per person, but this time it was packed in a beautiful box, unlike usual times when it was delivered in a package with a piece of paper.
Even the three princes far to the north had already sent people rushing to deliver local snacks and delicacies.
What Zhu Di sent was a donkey rolling.
Zhu Fan sent some ginger pickled in vinegar.
Dried donkey meat sent by Zhu Xiang.
It's so lively to deliver them back and forth.
Zhu Bai was gnashing his teeth and thinking about the new couplet at the moment, and he didn't have time to pay attention to it. He just told Fugui to accept it.
This couplet must avoid taboos, flatter Lao Zhu, and the dialogue must be neat and tidy, and it must not be copied from others. It is really difficult for me.
Someone came outside again, and Fugui called out: "Oh, Nannan, you're here."
Zhu Bai, who was biting the end of his brush and thinking hard, could not help but stand up with his ears.
Nannan whispered: "The queen asked me to bring some rice cakes."
Zhu Bai suppressed the urge to rush out and waited for the fortune to come.
He kind of likes this girl, but not that much.
Acting too eagerly may lead to others catching you at your shortcomings.
Fugui came in and said, "The Queen has sent someone to bring food."
Zhu Bai nodded calmly, put down his pen and raised his chin.
Wealth opens the door.
Nannan stood at the foot of the steps, blushing, lowering her head and not daring to look at Zhu Bai: "The empress told Your Highness that the rice cake must be hot to be delicious, but you can't eat too much at one time, be careful of food accumulation."
