Daming: From the end of Hongwu

381 Chapter 379 - New Year and Zhu Di's Visit

Time flows.

As the new year advances day by day, in addition to touching the anticipation in people's hearts, it also makes people restless.

Since the last court meeting, Zhen Wu took sick leave as he wished, and stayed at home with his family every day, as if he didn't care about world affairs, and Zhu Di probably cheated Zhen Wu before, so when the new year was approaching, I am also willing to let Zhen Wu take a good rest.

Anyway, nothing important recently.

But this made Xiao Liu very sad.

She rested her head on the table, stared blankly at her big eyes, and complained: "This big brother is about to die, why is he staring at his embroidery spoon every day, when will he be a head?"

Looking at Xiao Liu from the side, the personal servant girl couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckling.

Xiao Liu glared at the servant girl unhappily, and then said angrily, "Sister-in-law doesn't even keep an eye on him."

At this time, the little girl Fei Que from outside ran in excitedly and said, "Miss, Miss, the third master and the others have arrived for the new year. There are several large carts, and now they are parked at the side door to unload the goods. I just went to look at them." Look, there are a lot of fish, all kinds of shrimp crawling, and things I don't know, there are so many."

Fei Que is only 13 years old, still young, and has a lot of playfulness. Zhu Yuying thinks that Xiao Liu is about to get married, and she is one of the four girls picked out from the Zhuangzi at home.

These four maids happened to be in love with birds during that period of time, so they were named Feique, Oriole, Bailu and Caihe respectively. Liu's personal maid, Hong Dou, is enough for Xiao Liu to order.

When Xiao Liu, who was originally bored, heard this, his eyes lit up.

The next moment, Xiao Liu jumped up and ran outside: "I'll go and see if Third Brother has prepared anything good for me."

Before the words were finished, Xiao Liu had already ran out of the house.

Feique and Hongdou hurriedly chased after them.

After Xiao Liu arrived at the side door, he grabbed the carriage and looked inside to see what was there. Most of the guards escorting the New Year's goods were old people in the house, and they knew the aunt at home.

One person came forward with a smile and said: "Third Master and the others have prepared gifts for you early on. I was just thinking about sending you to the hospital. I didn't expect you to come out."

"What's there?" Xiao Liu asked with interest.

The man smiled and led Xiao Liu to the gift car prepared for Xiao Liu and said: "Look, by the way, there are still a few small live fishes. The third lady specially told us to take care of them together. They are colorful and colorful." of."

While talking, the servants found the wooden bucket containing the live fish. Xiao Liu squatted beside the wooden bucket, watching the live fish swimming happily in the bucket, and giggled with narrowed eyes.

However, she smiled for a while, then she retracted her smile, rolled her eyes, and took advantage of the porter's inattention, and slipped out of the porter with the two of them.

When the porter saw it, he hurriedly asked a few guards to catch up to protect Xiao Liu, while sighing and stomping his feet skillfully, he turned his head and went to report to Zhen Wu.

It's just that the porter on the way was a little puzzled. Xiaoliu, who was very concerned about the New Year's ceremony in the past, why this year he only took a few glances, and then slipped out full of thoughts.

After all, I am old enough to know that it is fun outside.

After Xiao Liu ran outside, he found an alley with few people and got in.

She coughed twice and said, "Come out."

After a while, two masters who played hide-and-seek with Xiao Liu from Duke Ding's mansion came out from the dark. Come on, just say that I am waiting for him at the Mochizuki Tower."

The two people in Dingguo's mansion left without asking why.

Then Xiao Liu went to Wangyue Tower.

She has something to ask Xu Jingchang.

Soon, Xu Jingchang came to Wangyue Tower in a hurry, but Xiao Liu still rolled his eyes, a little disgusted that Xu Jingchang came too slowly, then she ignored Xu Jingchang's excited expression, and asked directly: "I'm asking you, my elder brother Why are you always at home these days, and look a little depressed, tell me honestly, did something happen during this period?"

Xu Jingchang was taken aback and said, "You don't know?"

"Should I know?"

Xiao Liu waved his hand with an unhappy expression in the next moment: "Don't mention it, my elder brother is still nagging at home about happy things, and my elder brother who is unhappy has a strict mouth, and won't say a word."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Liu glanced sideways at Xu Jingchang, and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey, hey, I said my elder brother is in a low mood, why are you smirking?"

Xu Jingchang looked at the beautiful woman with jade cheeks, and was taken aback for another moment. He couldn't help covering his mouth with his hand: "Did I laugh? No."

Seeing Xu Jingchang like this, Xiao Liu knocked on the table without temper and said, "Okay, okay, what do you think you were asked to come out for? Hurry up and talk about something."

Xu Jingchang calmed down his turbulent mind, and then began to tell Xiao Liu about the recent events in detail.

Some of them were known to him, and some were just rumors, all of them were told to Xiao Liu.

At this time, Zhen Wu also received a report from the porter. He thought for a while and said, "Give her two sticks of incense time this time. After the time is up, you can just ask someone to bring her back."

The concierge should have gone down.

Zhen Wu looked at Shi Leng again.

This time it was Shi Leng who brought the third child's new year's goods over, and reported some business matters to Zhen Wu along the way.

Shi Leng first took out a few letters and handed them to Zhen Wudao: "This is a letter from the third master and the seventh master to the family. The seventh master has settled down there, and now he lives with the third master. You can rest assured .”

Speaking of Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi went to Changle with Zhuzi and the others last time. When he went there, Zhang Yuqing often talked about it unwillingly, but when the child grows up, he always wants to go out and make troubles. , and also looking for the third child, Zhang Yuqing finally nodded in agreement.

After Zhen Wu received the letter, he put it away first, and chatted with Shi Leng about serious matters.

In fact, the Zhen family's business is not too much now, but they are all arranged in areas with prosperous business in the future, and they are also hot businesses such as tea, furs, restaurants, etc., so the family is not short of money.

After the two chatted for a while, they chatted about business for a while, and Shi Leng got up to leave.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu picked up the letters and read them. They were all the recent records of the third child and the seventh child, and there was nothing worth mentioning. After Zhen Wu read the letter to him, he took the third child and the seventh child to the Zhang Yuqing's letter went to Zhang Yuqing's yard.

For Zhang Yuqing, the New Year is not as lively as the children.

Especially this year, the eldest came back with great difficulty, but the third and seventh were not here, Zhang Yuqing couldn't help feeling sorry for this.

It seems that since the children in the family have grown up, they can't get together every year.

This made her, a mother, endlessly worried and worried every year.

Today, the third child and the others brought their new year's goods, and she had been waiting for Zhen Wu and Zhu Yuying to come and report these things to her after they had packed them up.

Of course, she didn't care about those New Year's goods, but wanted to know some information about the third child and the seventh child.

When she saw Zhen Wu coming with the letter, Zhang Yuqing's spirits lifted immediately, and before Zhen Wu could speak, she hurriedly said, "Sit closer and read to me what the third child and the seventh child have said."

Zhen Wu walked over to sit down with a smile, then opened the third letter first, and read it slowly.

Zhang Yuqing listened to these, as if she was listening to the third child whispering in her ear.

The letter from the third child is very long, probably the third child has been out of town for a long time, and it coincides with the end of the new year, and he misses Zhang Yuqing more. I said a lot of things.

And Xiaoqi's letter was much simpler, and it was just a report of safety under the carelessness.

Zhang Yuqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Xiaoqi's gone?"

Zhen Wu nodded and said, "It's gone."

Zhang Yuqing nagged dissatisfiedly: "It's the first time for this child to travel far away, and he doesn't know how to talk to his family, whether he is tired from the errands, or whether it is hard or not, it's good to talk about it."

Zhen Wu coaxed: "I personally arranged his errands, how can he be tired and hard, don't worry about him too much, after he has experienced two years, I will detain him at home, then you will let him Get married first, and give birth to a big fat grandson for you, do you think this will work?"

"You know how to coax me."

Zhang Yuqing smacked his mouth, as if he hadn't listened to the letter just now, but he also knew that he had read the letter, so he muttered in a low mood: "Okay, why do you have to go to practice, I don't know what is good to practice Yes, you are the big brother too, and your family is not what it used to be, so is it possible that you still use Xiao Qi to make contributions?"

Zhen Wu smiled wryly and said: "Oh, my old lady, didn't I tell you earlier, that is Xiaoqi's own ambition, and I can't stop it, why do you think you still have emotions?"

Zhang Yuqing was not happy anymore: "I said what's wrong with you, it's alright, don't stay with me, go to your business." Zhang Yuqing called her maid and said: "Go, Let's go outside and walk around, and when we come back, you will accompany me to ponder over the leaf card, last time I followed the old master to the palace, why did I lose so much money, it doesn't make sense."

Zhen Wu got up and helped Zhang Yuqing up, and then followed Zhang Yuqing to the yard. After watching Zhang Yuqing go for a walk accompanied by the maid, he smiled wryly and turned and walked towards his own yard.

Zhang Yuqing was getting old, and was often locked in this deep house compound. She was full of thoughts about these children, but she also knew that children had their own lives, and she couldn't disturb them often, so she had to find fun and waste time by herself.

Zhen Wu didn't have a good solution for this, except to ask Zhu Yuying to take Zhang Yuqing to visit the house more often, and he could only gossip with Zhang Yuqing when he had nothing to do.

……

Just as Zhen Wu walked out of Zhang Yuqing's courtyard, he suddenly found Xiao Liu rushing over from the corridor in a hurry.

Zhen Wu wanted to reprimand Xiao Liu.

But Xiao Liu stood in front of him, looked at him with red eyes, and finally threw himself into his arms.

"Brother, let's stay at home, Xiao Liu will accompany you." Xiao Liu said sullenly.

Zhen Wu was taken aback, then realized that Xiao Liu must have gotten some rumors about him outside, he laughed, rubbed Xiao Liu's head and said: "You little girl, what are you worrying about. "

"I'm not worrying about it."

"Okay, okay." Zhen Wu suddenly said with a bit of a mood: "Well, how about going to shoot arrows with my brother, my body is almost rusted, let's just compare, if you beat me, I will let you choose I have something for you."

"Okay." Xiao Liu responded crisply.

Then the two walked towards the archery range.

After some competition, it doesn't matter who wins and who loses. The two of you are either cheating on you or cheating on me. They are so noisy that they have long forgotten their previous agreement.

……

The life at home has always been demure and comfortable.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year arrived as scheduled.

And the New Year's day is actually not as light as the days before the New Year, because as soon as the New Year arrives, people start to be busy with all kinds of New Year's greetings and relatives.

Zhen Wugui is the Duke of the state and the governor of the Youfu. On the one hand, he has to meet many subordinates, on the other hand, he also has to go to the palace to pay a visit to Zhu Di, and then he has to go to the homes of some elders such as Tan Yuan.

In short, Zhen Wu has been busy since the first day of the Lunar New Year.

As the days passed, it came to the tenth day of the first lunar month in a blink of an eye.

This afternoon, Zhen Wu was playing with his children at home when Zhu Di suddenly came to his home.

Zhu Di didn't let anyone report it, and went straight to the back house. When Zhu Di saw Zhen Wu leisurely playing with his children, he raised his eyebrows on the spot.

"After all, you are also a duke of the state. How decent you are to stay at home and enjoy your children all day long!" As the voice got closer, Zhu Di came over and stepped forward to kick Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu was taken aback by Zhu Di's sudden arrival, but when he understood what Zhu Di said, he looked at Zhu Zhanji who was following Zhu Di with a strange expression.

Zhen Wu has heard a lot these days that Zhu Di often asks Zhu Zhanji to accompany him by his side.

Have the face to say him? !
Zhu Di blushed: "Can you be the same as me? How old are you? You are in the prime of life. You don't want to serve the court. What do you mean by having children and grandchildren?"

Zhen Wu grinned: "What Your Majesty said, I see that Your Majesty is still alive and well, in the prime of life."

"I use you to hold it?" Zhu Di said, staring at Zhen Wu.

"This is not flattery." Zhen Wu said with a deadpan face.

At this moment, Zhu Yuying heard the sound and came over. After seeing Zhu Di, Zhu Di asked a few gossips about life with concern, and asked Zhu Yuying to take all the little ones aside to play.

Zhu Yuying smiled, knowing that Zhu Di had something to tell Zhen Wu, she stepped forward and picked up her youngest son, and then called Sanyue, You Shu and Zhu Zhanji to play outside the house.

Standing in front of the window, Zhu Di watched Sanyue and the others playing outside, and suddenly sighed: "Sometimes I envy such a carefree age, but it's just a pity."

Zhen Wu didn't speak.

Zhu Di turned around and asked, "What? Are you still angry?"

Zhen Wu understood what Zhu Di said, shook his head and said, "I haven't been angry from the beginning to the end, otherwise I wouldn't be interested in spending time with my family."

"It's good if I don't have one. Speaking of which, I'm less misunderstood. If I get angry when I'm misunderstood, I'll be pissed off." Zhu Di said, walked to the chair and sat down.

Then, he went on to say: "As for the second child's insistence, you must also understand that whenever there is a chance to achieve our goal peacefully, we should give it a try. After all, the great enemy of Ming Dynasty is always in the north."

"I see."

Zhen Wu nodded and said: "However, there is always some worry in my heart. I feel that Li Jishou will not accept his fate so obediently. I even think that Li Jishou may be paying attention."

"His most likely plan is to kill Chen Tianping, and even for this reason he will not hesitate to ambush Huang Zhong and other Ming generals." Zhu Di said affirmatively at this time.

Zhen Wu looked at Zhu Di in astonishment and said, "Since Your Majesty also has this concern, why do you still have to do this?"

"Didn't I tell you, as long as it can be resolved peacefully, we should try to make peace. After all, everything is inference. If you don't try, how will you know?"

"Can…"

Before Zhen Wu could say anything, Zhu Di sneered and said, "But what? Let me tell you, there is nothing to do. All the people in the world, including you and me, have their own responsibilities. What I want for peace is to be responsible for Daming. Soldiers It is also the responsibility of the soldiers to take the risk of escorting Chen Tianping back, and if Li Jishou really dared to take the lives of our Ming soldiers after eating the Xiongxin leopard, then it is your responsibility, Zhenwu, to avenge their blood."

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Zhu Di stood up excitedly, with the firm and stern light in his eyes, he said: "If Li Jishou obediently accepts his fate and lets the second child control the coast of the East China Sea in Annan, then I won't be bothered." Pay more attention to him, but if he doesn't know good from bad, just like what you said in the court that day, go and wash Lao Tzu's blood and wash the ass of Hu Shi."

Zhen Wu took a breath, stood up and said yes seriously.

After a while.

Both of them calmed down, Zhu Di stretched his waist and said: "By the way, I have heard that the place for practicing martial arts that you built at home is good, let's go, take me to play with two sets of guns, and let the group outside Little bastards, see what his grandpa is capable of."

Zhen Wu smiled and said: "This relationship is good, and I just happened to show off my collection with you, swords, guns, halberds, all kinds of bows and arrows, I guarantee they are all good guys."

When Zhu Di heard this, he became even more energetic.

Afterwards, a group of people went to the martial arts training ground, and Zhu Di played two sets of vigorous marksmanship vigorously. Zhu Zhanji and his group of little guys clapped their hands and applauded, which made Zhu Di happy as if he was a few years younger.

And Zhen Wu thought about what Zhu Di said just now, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes from time to time.

What's the use of worrying all the time!
Just as Zhu Di said, all people in the world have their own responsibilities, so instead of worrying, he might as well wait for Li Jishu's actions.

If only the word "Da Ming" is used now, it is not enough to make people with ambitions outside the territory accept their wildness and bow down to their knees.

Then hit.

They beat him and changed color when they heard Daming.

Zhen Wu felt certain in his eyes, snorted coldly in his heart, and thought to himself: Then it depends on Li Jishou's choice next.

……

　Thank you for the 500 tip of 'Love, First Meeting', thank you boss, the boss is generous.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)