Chapter 72 Tang Sai'er
"It seems I guessed it right. Let me guess again." Seeing Zhu Chong was speechless, Guanyin Nu smiled even more happily. "Although I can't guess how you discovered it, your father certainly doesn't want this to be revealed. Did he also impose a gag order on you?"
"Yes, that must be the case. Given your father's temperament, he might even be planning to send you away. Yes, that must be the case. Otherwise, you wouldn't have such a big reaction. Am I wrong?"
There was a dangerous glint in Zhu Chong's eyes. For the first time, he felt that women could be so annoying when they were annoying!
But before he could react, a servant came running outside and knocked on the door, asking Zhu Chong and Guanyin Nu to come out quickly to receive the imperial edict.
"Sure enough, I guessed it right again." Guanyin Nu clapped her hands. "Only your father would issue an edict so late at night. It seems he is really anxious, or maybe he doesn't want too many people to know about this edict tonight?"
Zhu Chong grinned at Guanyin Nu, and the woman walked out first with a sweet smile. Zhu Chong, feeling resentful, followed her out.
When he arrived at the front hall and saw that the person who came to announce the decree was Mao Xiang, Zhu Chong understood everything. He let this person come to announce the decree personally. As Guanyin Nu said, Old Zhu did not want too many people to know about this decree.
After Mao Xiang issued the decree, Zhu Chong's guess was confirmed, but not by the content of the decree, but by what Mao Xiang said to Zhu Chong alone after the decree was issued.
"Your Highness, Prince of Qin, His Majesty has issued an oral order that you must marry within three days and return to your fiefdom immediately after the wedding. You are not allowed to return to the capital without an imperial decree."
Zhu Chong sent Mao Xiang away with a sneer on his face, then sat alone in the hall, looking at the imperial edict in his hand, his eyes becoming increasingly cold.
"As long as the crown prince is around, you will never have a chance to make a name for yourself. But with Xu Miaoyun as your principal wife, it is also a good choice for you to go to Chang'an and be a leisurely prince for the rest of your life." Guanyinnu's annoying voice once again sounded in Zhu Chong's ears.
"You actually use such a clumsy method of provoking me. This is not like your style!" Zhu Chong retorted.
"Isn't it? If you go to Chang'an to be a vassal, everything in Songming City will have nothing to do with you. From now on, you and Xu Miaoyun will live together in Chang'an City. Isn't that a beautiful thing?"
Zhu Chong shook his head and no longer wanted to talk to Guanyin Nu. He had already made plans for the future, so how could he be easily shaken by others?
After what happened tonight, he was completely disappointed with Old Zhu. Old Zhu was still the outrageous Old Zhu in history. In this case, Zhu Chong would not feel any psychological pressure if he really had a head-on conflict with Old Zhu in the future.
What happened today made him understand that even if he didn't fight for it, as the first heir after the crown prince, many things were beyond his control, especially with such an eccentric father like Old Zhu!
Just as Guanyinnu said, with the sudden death of the Crown Princess, many events originally recorded in history have been brought forward.
Although Zhu Xiongying escaped this time, can we guarantee that a child who is less than four years old can win the second or even third time?
Some things, once started, can never be stopped. In Zhu Chong's impression, no matter it was Crown Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xiongying, or even Empress Ma, they all ended up in disaster. When the Crown Prince's concubine Lu came to the throne and Zhu Yunwen became the Crown Prince, it was likely that the situation would be the same.
But why? Why should the throne only belong to the prince's family? Zhu Yuanzhang only has one legitimate son, so why should he give up his throne to a child who doesn't deserve it?
However, Zhu Chong could not say this to Guanyin Nu. He stood up and returned to his study. Guanyin Nu looked at Zhu Chong's back with an inexplicable look of surprise in her eyes.
On the second day, Zhu Chong went out alone early in the morning and went to the inn to meet Zhou Xiuying and Yang Miaozhen.
"My lord, I have thoroughly investigated the matter you instructed. The Yingtian Prefecture government began arresting people yesterday. We followed the officers and found their residence."
"How did Yingtian Prefecture deal with that child?" Zhu Chong asked casually.
Zhou Xiuying hesitated for a moment, then replied with a cupped hand, "If my lord is free, it would be best if you could go and see it in person."
Hearing Zhou Xiuying say this, Zhu Chong felt a little surprised. Since he was free now, he asked Zhou Xiuying to lead the way, and the group headed straight to a dilapidated village outside the city.
When they stopped in front of a thatched hut that looked abandoned for a long time, Zhu Chong asked in astonishment, "You said the person is inside now?"
Zhou Xiuying and Yang Miaozhen nodded at the same time. Zhu Chong raised his eyebrows, got off the carriage and walked straight in. As soon as he entered, he was stunned.
There was almost no furnishings in the thatched house except for piles of thatch. The first thing Zhu Chong saw when he entered was a group of children huddled in a pile of thatch, including the little female thief from yesterday.
Zhu Chong could tell that these children should be the ones the little female thief mentioned yesterday, but he couldn't understand why the patrol camp people didn't take good care of these children when he had clearly handed the little girl over to them yesterday?
When the children saw Zhu Chong, Zhou Xiuying and others enter the house, they all stared at them with panic in their eyes.
But when the little girl saw Zhu Chong, she was stunned at first, then she lowered her head, blushed and curled up her body, as if she didn't want Zhu Chong to see her.
Looking at the ragged children, Zhu Chong shook his head and turned to ask Zhou Xiuying, "Do you have any dry food? Give them some and bring that little girl over."
Zhou Xiuying and Yang Miaozhen immediately took the order, turned around and took out dry food from the carriage, and distributed it to the children in the house one by one.
When the children saw the dry food, their eyes turned green. It was unknown how long they had been hungry. Some of the children grabbed a piece of bread and swallowed it in just two or three bites.
The little girl was still curled up in the haystack, motionless. Although she saw Zhou Xiuying and others distributing dry food, and for a moment, the same eager look appeared in her eyes, she ultimately did not step forward.
"Take it. I wronged you yesterday. This is my apology to you." Zhu Chong took a pancake from Yang Miaozhen's hand and walked up to the little girl and forced it into her hand.
After hearing what Zhu Chong said, the little girl grabbed the pancake and started to bite it with an embarrassed look on her face. However, compared with those children who were eating voraciously, she was obviously much more polite.
Looking at the young girl in front of him, who ate in a very methodical manner, which was obviously not the habit of a child of her age, Zhu Chong couldn't help but ask, "What's your name? Where are you from? Where are your parents?"
"My name is Tang Sai'er. I'm from Binzhou, Qilu. My family suffered a natural disaster, and I was sold here..."
After hearing the little girl's introduction, Zhu Chong didn't take it seriously at first, but after thinking about it carefully, his eyes widened and the look he gave Tang Sai'er suddenly changed.
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