Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 21

The commander of the guards was about to drag the girl down for thirty sticks, but when he heard Zhu Houzhao walk up to the girl, he said softly, "Raise your head."

The girl panicked and raised her head with a panicked expression.

On the handsome face, there are pear blossoms with rain, pink and white and handsome.

The girl looked up at Zhu Houzhao, also full of doubts.

"Who is this young man? Not only is he dressed so neatly, but he is also fat and white. He is about the same age as me. He seems to be an eunuch here? No, it seems not. Is he the head of the Ouchi guards? How good is his martial arts?" High? However, this does not seem to be "

Zhu Hou looked into the girl's innocent eyes and asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Snow White."

"Where are you from?"

"Northern Zhili people"

Zhu Houzhao frowned, and looked at the Ouchi guard commander beside him: "You all step back!"

"Yes!"

"You come with me!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao's words fell, the maid was so frightened that she couldn't help but trembled in her heart: "This game is over, this game is over, it must be another trouble! This time, I am afraid that the empress will not be able to save me."

After Bai Xue got up, she followed the crowd to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The little maid had been looking suspiciously at Zhu Houzhao and the guards beside him.

The young man who walked in the front was obviously different from the others, with red lips and white teeth, clean and dashing.

The little maid was very afraid of the surrounding guards, but she didn't feel the slightest fear of the young man at the front.

The little maid followed Zhu Houzhao into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and she was even more confused. She had just entered the palace for three months, and she hadn't fully learned the rules of the palace, but there were many rules in the Huanyi Bureau. She couldn't imagine how big the Forbidden City was.

She had no idea that the Hall of Mental Cultivation was the residence of Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao.

After all the guards and eunuchs walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the little palace maid finally breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still puzzled, could there be such a young and handsome boy in the palace?Judging by his age, he should be about the same as me.

"Thank you for saving me today. I will stay here for one night and I will go back tomorrow."

After the little palace maid Bai Xue finished speaking, she sat on the chair next to her without restraint, made a cup of tea and drank it herself.

She was sweating profusely from nervousness just now, and her mouth was already dry.She originally thought that she would be executed, but she didn't expect to come here by mistake.

Suddenly, she felt something was wrong!
She didn't believe her own feelings at all, even, she felt that it was just an illusion from being frightened just now.

She didn't believe that she would meet the emperor at all.

Zhu Houzhao asked the little maid to come to the Hall of Mental Cultivation because he wanted to ask about the folk affairs. The memorials written by the court officials were full of hype, but he didn't know the truth outside.

He wants to know the actual situation of the entire Ming Dynasty, is the real world as peaceful as it is written in the memorial?

"Since you are from Beizhili, tell me, how is the folk customs in Beizhili? How is the life of ordinary people?"

After hearing this, the palace maid Bai Xue took back her thoughts and thought about it seriously: "Beizhili has been really miserable in the past few years. My family is a big family and we still have a little surplus food. Other common people who don't have any surplus food start to wander around every spring. Go begging."

"The growth rate of the dealers is not good. In addition, there has been a severe drought in Beizhili in the past few years. Many fields have been abandoned and no one is going to cultivate them."

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Zhu Houzhao asked Bai Xue a few more questions about people's livelihood.

And what the little maid said was completely different from what was written in the memorial sent by the civil and military officials, especially in terms of people's livelihood.

More people outside are hungry.

But those officials who have obtained fame and honor and the hereditary earls who are not hereditary are living in the world of singing and dancing.

The little maid felt very strange at this moment, why did the young man in front of her ask herself about the common people outside?
Does this have anything to do with him?

After Zhu Houzhao asked a few questions, he looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh. He didn't expect that what his father, Emperor Hongzhi left him, turned out to be a vain world of peace and prosperity.
"Come here!" Zhu Houzhao called the eunuch in.

"Go, take her to the clothes bureau,"

"According to the order!"

The little palace lady followed the little eunuch out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation in confusion. When she stepped out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and looked back at the golden characters, her heart pounded like a deer.

This also confirmed her conjecture just now.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation?
Is it?

Her face instantly turned red to her neck, and he remembered that his boss once said that the place where the emperor lives is the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor's bedroom.

Could it be? ? ?

A bold idea came to her mind.

Is this young man today? ?

The little maid shuddered in fright.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the Clothes Bureau. From now on, I guess you won't have to do what the servants did."

Bai Xue looked at the eunuch who escorted her just now, and asked in a low voice: "Eunuch, that boy was just now."

"Shh! Don't keep talking, just know it in your heart."

Bai Xue realized later.

The young man in the palace can command the guards and command the eunuchs. If not the emperor, who else could he be?
Bai Xue never expected that the person she ran into by mistake was actually His Majesty today, and it wasn't scary.

This Baixue was originally an ordinary female worker in the Clothes Bureau, responsible for cleaning the royal family's clothes. This time, she got lost and strayed into the corridor of the emperor.

She originally thought it was a disaster, but who knew it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, and she followed His Majesty into the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart.

From then on, no matter whether she was blessed by the emperor or not, she was someone who had met the emperor and shared the same room with the emperor. Many people began to envy Bai Xue's good luck.

Cining Palace.

The emperor Zhu Houzhao arrived. Although it was dim night, the surrounding maids and eunuchs still bowed down respectfully to the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao came to the Empress Dowager Zhang, bowed and said, "My son, please greet the Queen Mother!"

Empress Zhang saw that Zhu Houzhao had come only now, so she made a serious face on purpose: "Zhao'er, I called you here so early, why did you arrive so late?"

"Mother, I still have some memorials to deal with, so I wasted some time. Please forgive me, mother!"

The reason why Queen Mother Zhang is so stern is that she really doesn't want Zhu Houzhao to work overtime. How did her husband, Emperor Hongzhi, die?She knew very well in her heart that for the sake of her ancestors' foundation, she would rather exhaust herself to death in the end.

The country is important, but the body comes first.

"You have to pay attention to your health in the future. Now that you are still young, you can share some things and let the cabinet complete them. You just ask them for the results. You don't have to do everything yourself."

Empress Dowager Zhang reprimanded Zhu Houzhao angrily, and ordered the people around her to bring the longan and lotus seed soup that had just been warmed up.

"Zhao'er, drink some lotus seed soup first, I have something important to tell you later."

When Queen Mother Zhang said this, she was observing Zhu Houzhao's face. She is a master in this regard.

"Mother, are you telling me about my cousin? Don't worry about it, wait for me"

"No! As a mother, I am still looking forward to having a grandson, and you have reached the age to talk about marriage. The Ai family and your second and third mothers must take care of this for you."

Before Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, Empress Dowager Zhang interrupted him. In the Forbidden City, perhaps only Empress Dowager Zhang could talk to Zhu Houzhao like this.

"This"

Zhu Houzhao picked up the soup bowl and put it on the table again
　Kneeling for collection.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)