high official

Chapter 359
After stuttering in Kowloon, His Royal Highness was simmering with evil fire in his heart, especially since the emperor didn't talk about him being "wise and powerful, young and mature", which made Zhu Zhanji worried and frustrated.

After returning, his father was framed again and again, and both father and son were in the most dangerous situation at the same time.This made Zhu Zhanji couldn't help turning his suspicious eyes on Zhu Gaoxu!Although there is no evidence, Zhu Zhanji firmly believes that his second uncle is behind the scenes, so he naturally hates his buddy Ji Gang.

His Royal Highness Taisun roared, and the guards of the Eastern Palace also had a backbone, and they all drew their swords at each other.

The ministers who came and went on the imperial street also scolded Jin Yiwei for being presumptuous, even disrespecting the prince and grandson. Although Jin Yiwei's arrogance was arrogant, he couldn't stand it now.

"Back off." Ji Gang finally came back to his senses, waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to leave temporarily, "I'll just meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."

"Yes." Zhuang Jing and the others withdrew completely in a blink of an eye, Ji Gang turned his gaze, and said coldly to Zhu Zhanji: "Does Your Highness want to hold the sword and escort the humble minister into the Meridian Gate like this?"

"Hmph..." Zhu Zhanji snorted, and at the same time as he withdrew his sword, Jiansui slammed it fiercely on Ji Gang's face, half of the face of the big boss of Jin Yiwei turned red immediately.

"Okay, okay, okay..." The other half of Ji Gang's face was also flushed, and he stared at Taisun with fiery eyes, but found that he had nothing to say.

"Go away!" Zhu Zhanji glanced at him contemptuously.

Then a guard stepped forward and 'invited' Ji Gang aside.

A group of civil servants immediately surrounded him, bowed deeply to the grandson and the prince in the carriage, and said, "Your highness, don't worry, we will risk our lives to keep your highness safe and sound!"

"Thank you all..." At this time, the civil servants dared to step up and say such things, which shows how high the status of His Highness the Crown Prince is in the hearts of civil servants.Zhu Zhanji was moved to tears, but he shook his head firmly and said: "But absolutely not, everyone, please don't get involved!"

"Why?" The courtiers asked puzzledly, don't you two need support most now?

"It was just a little misunderstanding. My father explained it to my grandpa clearly, and everything went smoothly." Zhu Zhanji smiled and said, "My grandpa thought my father borrowed his servants to suppress my father." Zhu Zhanji said with a smile.

"Your Highness said so." When the ministers heard it, since it was a family matter of the royal family, and the grandson said it could be resolved, why should everyone mess with it?So they gave up the idea of ​​persuading them, and just wait and see what happens.

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After persuading the minister to leave, Zhu Zhanji returned to the carriage, and Zhu Gaochi said worriedly: "Ji'er, be careful of what Ji Gang told you."

"Did he sue less?" Zhu Zhanji said with a livid face: "This dog is in collusion with my second uncle. He has long regarded my father and son as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh. It is still light to beat him today, and I will kill him tomorrow. !"

Looking at his murderous son, Zhu Gaochi really realized that he was too weak, and sighed: "I just thought about it, there must be something wrong with that glass of wine, but how could Liu Mian hurt me?"

"Then who knows, people's hearts are separated from the belly..." Zhu Zhanji's eyes flashed, and he said slowly: "When I asked someone to take him down, he had already committed suicide."

"Ah..." Zhu Gaochi's complexion changed: "Is it worth it?!"

"Let's keep it a secret for his master." Zhu Zhanji snorted, and said with a cold face: "Father still doesn't understand, he is a spy placed by our second uncle!"

"Oh, Gu is not mean to him..." Zhu Gaochi was quite shocked, and said dejectedly: "How could he..."

"Father, now is not the time to be emotional," Zhu Zhanji interrupted him in a deep voice: "After seeing Grandpa Huang, I will take care of everything, as long as you behave in pain."

"Why is it so painful?"

"It hurts both physically and mentally." Zhu Zhanji paused word by word.

"This..." Zhu Gaochi nodded hesitantly and said, "Okay."

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The father and son got off the car in front of Fengtianmen, and Zhu Zhanji supported Zhu Gaochi, and walked slowly to the Qianqing Palace... It is said that the prince was inconvenient because of his legs and feet, and the emperor gave him a ride in the Forbidden City. There has to be an apology.

At this time, the banquet held to welcome the emperor's triumphant return is about to begin.The palace people were busy shuttling back and forth, nobles and dignitaries were waiting, and ministers of civil and military affairs also came in groups. When they met His Highness, they all saluted from a distance, and no one dared to come forward to say hello.

"The minister is not as good as the junior minister." Zhu Zhanji muttered angrily.

"Don't worry about it, a gentleman seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages." Zhu Gaochi thought openly: "The minister knows more than the junior minister, and understands that Gu and father are not just a superficial matter, who dares to say whether father will abolish me? Of course I dare not go forward."

"Father will turn bad luck into good fortune." Zhu Zhanji said with firm eyes.

When the father and son came to Qianqing Palace, they met Zhu Di's father-in-law coming out for a banquet, so the father and son hurriedly knelt down by the road.

Seeing the prince and grandson coming, Wang Yan hurriedly reported to the emperor in the big sedan chair, but Zhu Di did not respond at all, so Wang Yan had no choice but to look helplessly at the prince, and followed the emperor's guard of honor away.

Zhu Di didn't let him get up, so the father and son had to kneel there for more than an hour... Zhu Zhanji was young and strong, with copper skin and iron bones, and his knees felt like a knife was being cut, and his whole body was in pain.Not to mention Zhu Gaochi, a fat and frail disabled person, seeing his face as white as paper and sweat profusely crumbling, the palace people on the side wanted to hold an umbrella for the prince.

"Go away!" It was Zhu Zhanji who made the sound, and he yelled: "You still think my grandpa is not angry enough!"

Zhu Gaochi's dry and chapped lips moved a few times, and he wanted to beg for a glass of water, but he stopped after hearing what his son said.

The father and son knelt for another quarter of an hour, and finally waited for Zhu Di to return. This time, Luanyu stopped for a moment in front of the two of them. Zhu Di glanced at the drowned prince, snorted with disgust in his eyes, and then got up and drove back to the palace.

After a long while, the prince finally couldn't hold on anymore, he fainted, hit his head on the stone pavement, and his head was bleeding immediately.

"What are you still doing in a daze, save my father!" Seeing that no one dared to come forward, Zhu Zhanji's eyes widened with anger, he jumped up from the ground, and shouted, "Go and report to my grandpa!"

"Yes!" The grievance of the people around me, isn't it because you didn't allow us to go forward... hurriedly stepped forward to help the prince, then called the imperial doctor, first bandaged the prince, then tore off the front of his robe, and used moxa Moxibustion on his chest woke up His Royal Highness.

As soon as Zhu Gaochi opened his eyes, he saw Wang Yan standing in front of him, grabbing his hand, and looking at him pitifully.

"The emperor invites His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to enter." Wang Yan sighed softly: "Prince, I will help you in." He and Zhu Zhanji helped Zhu Gaochi into the Qianqing Palace.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Di didn’t change his court clothes because he didn’t live there permanently. He was still dressed in a yellow tuanlongguan uniform, revealing the respect and majesty of the emperor. At this moment, he was sitting on the dragon chair with an expressionless face and cold eyes Looking at the prince who staggered in under the support of the two.

As soon as Zhu Gaochi entered the hall, Zhu Di asked sarcastically, "The prince is sober?"

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly broke free from the support, knelt down in front of the emperor, kowtowed heavily and said: "My son is rude today, has a good state, and has betrayed the emperor's favor. Please punish him severely!"

"You are more than rude!" Zhu Di snorted and said, "I returned from an expedition to Mobei in triumph, and all civil and military envoys from the Manchu Dynasty and foreign envoys were waiting for me at Longjiang Pass, but you, the prince of the prison, are actually hungover I'm sorry, I lost time to welcome you!" The more the emperor said, the more angry he became, he slapped the armrest heavily, and cursed: "You have made me lose all face!"

"My son is guilty!" Zhu Gaochi kowtowed vigorously: "Please punish the emperor!"

"Do you think that if you ask me for a crime, I will let you go? Just dream!" Zhu Di said coldly: "As a supervisor, you drink too much! Drunk and dreaming to death! Wasted political affairs! As a prince, you have no father in your eyes! I was supposed to set an example for my ministers, but my eyes are rude! How can I hand over the great country to you, who has no courtesy, no country, no king and no father?!"

Hearing his father's implication, Zhu Gaochi didn't even hide his intention to waste Chu. He couldn't help trembling all over, but he knew that he couldn't explain it, because his father had already hated him, and whatever he said he disliked his father would only be counterproductive.I had no choice but to kowtow hard and said: "My son, I will let my father punish me!" I cried in my heart, my son, it's all up to you!
Zhu Zhanji really stepped forward. He was kneeling behind his father, but now he walked forward, raised his head and said loudly to Zhu Di who was full of anger: "Grandfather, my father is a loyal gentleman, quick in deeds but slow in words." , grandson implores Chen Zou on behalf of his father!"

"Don't meddle with you," Zhu Di said with a straight face, "You don't have a place to talk here, step back quickly!"

"No, if my grandson doesn't cry out for injustice, it would be too terrible for my father to be wronged innocently. It would be terrible for the grandpa to misunderstand the prince and do things that hurt relatives and make enemies happy!" Zhu Zhanji's character, and other My father decided that he had never been the master of resignation, but he could not tolerate any grievances. This time, after leaving the mouth of Jiulong, the resentment was smoldering in his chest, and at this moment in front of the emperor, he finally burst out. He burst into tears and said: "Grandfather , you are wise and powerful, unparalleled in the world, why can't you even see through this little trick!"

Zhu Di didn't want to talk to him at first, but after hearing this, he snorted coldly and said, "Just tell me, I can't see through any tricks!"

"Grandson, may I ask Grandpa Huang, do you know when my father returned to the East Palace last night?" Zhu Zhanji asked loudly.

"How do I know?"

"It's actually very simple, because my father has been planning today's grand ceremony with the Ministry of Rites, the officials of Honglu Temple, and the head of internal supervision last night. The emperor only needs to pass them on, and he will know!"

"Speak straight, don't go around in circles!" Zhu Di frowned.

"Yes, when my father returned to the East Palace last night, it was already four o'clock!" Zhu Zhanji said loudly: "Excuse me, grandpa, with your vigorous spirit, if you work hard until four o'clock, do you still have the energy and mood? To drink and have fun?!"

(End of this chapter)