The prince is not doing his job [traveling]

After the palace staff set up a table for lunch, the emperor took Xiao Yanzhi's hand to the table, and let Xiao Yanzhi sit beside him, chatting while eating.

"I heard that you support your family by doing business in the Jiangnan area? What kind of business do you do?"

Swallowing the piece of meat in his mouth, Xiao Yanzhi replied calmly: "It's a wine making business."

"Wine making?" Hearing this, the emperor suddenly became interested, "Do you know how to make wine?"

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head and said, "I didn't know it originally, but I specially asked the bartender to learn it."

"Why brewing?" The emperor was puzzled. "The merchants in the south of the Yangtze River do all kinds of business. Isn't it easier to do something else?"

Xiao Yanzhi thought for a while, and said: "The things that are easy to do, my minister can do, and others can also do it. Those who can do it earlier than my minister are even more incomparable. It's better to learn a skill and become a craftsman. , the worst thing after becoming a teacher is to make the same things as the master, if you are lucky, you can create something that is unique to you, and then you can sell it for money."

Hearing this, the emperor pondered for a moment, then nodded, and said, "You are right. Then which one do you belong to? Are you able to make your own things?"

Xiao Yanzhi smiled and said: "My son brews flower and fruit wine, what can be brewed depends on God's will, there is no skill to speak of, but it has failed the master's cultivation. After earning money, I hired someone to help. Even more rusty."

"Then you leave Jiangnan now, who will take care of the business?" the emperor asked curiously.

"He's the eldest brother in the family." Xiao Yanzhi thought to himself that he had tried his best to avoid this topic, so why did the emperor bring it up by himself?

Sure enough, upon hearing Xiao Yanzhi's answer, the emperor's expression froze, and he seemed to realize that he had asked a question that shouldn't be asked, but the words had already been spoken, and it would appear that he was too immodest if he suddenly changed to something else.

So the emperor forced a smile, but asked one more question as if he couldn't control his mouth: "Your brother is your mother and..."

The emperor's question was not complete, but he believed that Xiao Yanzhi understood.

Xiao Yanzhi understood, but he was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, so he just looked at the emperor and gave a dry laugh.

The emperor narrowed his eyes to hide the sadness in his eyes, but wanted to know more, so he continued to ask, "How many siblings do you have?"

Seeing that the emperor was holding on to this question, Xiao Yanzhi simply let it go and said, "When mother was with foster father, foster father had an older sister with him, and later he had two younger brothers and a younger sister."

The emperor was disappointed.

Did she bear two sons and a daughter to another man?Fortunately, they finally got a son.

Seeing the emperor's expression was in a trance, Xiao Yanzhi hesitated for a moment, and said again: "Back then, my mother was ill and couldn't take me to other places, so I had to stay in a remote village. Every time I asked those people who went to the market to help find out the news, I learned... When I learned that you died in battle, my mother wanted to go with you, and even tied the white silk."

The emperor should know these things.

The emperor was startled, looked at Xiao Yanzhi in shock, and asked anxiously, "Death in battle? Why did I die in battle?"

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head and said: "It was 18 years ago, when I was four years old, I asked people to inquire several times, but the result was the same, saying that the leader of the army has been replaced by someone else."

"18 years ago..." The emperor lowered his eyes, trying to recall what happened 18 years ago. When he finally remembered something, the emperor felt even more sad.

It turned out to be like this... 18 years ago, one year after the war, they had been losing battles, and the war was deadlocked. He tricked the enemy to lure the enemy... How did they let their mother and son get the news?

After ascension to the throne, the emperor sent someone to find Xiao Yanzhi's mother and son, but only after finding out that Xiao Yanzhi's mother had remarried, the emperor was furious for a while and refused to take Xiao Yanzhi back to the palace. Some hated, if Qin Tai hadn't found out where Xiao Yan was, the emperor would never have reminded himself of Xiao Yan.It's just that the emperor didn't expect that Xiao Yanzhi's mother remarried because of this. Knowing the whole story, how can he blame his first wife?

They just missed it...

"What happened next?" The emperor's voice trembled a little, but he continued to ask, pretending to be fine.

He wanted to know, if so, he wanted to know even more about his life after his wife was born.

Seeing the emperor's gloomy expression, Xiao Yanzhi hesitated for a moment, and said, "Father, let's eat first, and I will talk to you about this matter after Kong Erchen."

Seeing the emperor's overly sad appearance, Xiao Yanzhi was really afraid that he would not be able to bear it.

The emperor shook his head slowly but firmly, and said, "Just tell me now, I want to know."

Xiao Yanzhi sighed, and said: "At that time, I was the one who broke into my mother's room suddenly, and my mother also saw me, so she couldn't bear to leave me alone in the world. But a sick woman with a four-year-old child After all, she couldn’t make a living, so my mother had no choice but to remarry an honest man. It was hard for my adoptive father’s family to have more people. When he had no money to buy rice, he sold his sister to a businessman as a concubine. When I was ten years old Mother just..."

"After that, your mother never asked about me again?" The emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Xiao Yanzhi said in a low voice: "Mom finally died after saying your name."

Where dare to ask?If she knew that the man she loved was still alive, how would the woman who forced herself to remarry live?

The emperor closed his eyes, and tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes: "I betrayed her...I betrayed her..."

He should have brought their mother and son with him back then!Most of the women he met later were brought with him, only his beloved first wife, he didn't want her to suffer, he wanted to wait for him to be crowned the Great Treasure and bring her to share the glory, but he didn't expect... didn't expect...

Zhao Kang was startled, and waved away the palace servants who were waiting at the side, and he himself left the room after looking at Xiao Yanzhi, and closed the door for the father and son in the room intimately, while Zhao Kang stood guard outside.

Seeing the emperor's true feelings, Xiao Yanzhi sighed secretly, and said in relief: "One more disrespectful word, mother must have thought that she could finally go to your side back then, so she left with a smile on her face, you...don't worry yourself responsibility."

I don't know if he listened to this comforting sentence in his heart, the emperor quickly calmed down his sorrow, but looked a little tired, looked at Xiao Yanzhi and asked, "Yanzhi, would you like to call me daddy again?"

Xiao Yan was taken aback, then smiled: "Father."

After calling him father, the emperor will treat him with more sincerity, so why not call him?

The emperor also smiled, this time, the emperor's smile was from the bottom of his heart, a little more loving and a little less guarded.

"Let's eat, it's getting cold."

"it is good."

Although he was not determined, those few tears still proved the emperor's sincerity to that woman.Now, that woman should be able to rest in peace, right?

After lunch, people from the Shangfu Bureau came. I don't know if Zhao Kang had given special orders, and Dianzhong Province, which is in charge of the emperor's imperial clothes, also sent people from the Shangfu Bureau.

In front of the emperor, the two groups of people did not dare to neglect in the slightest, just measuring the arm length would last a quarter of an hour, and when all the data were measured, Xiao Yanzhi was also exhausted.

After that, the emperor enthusiastically chose clothes for Xiao Yanzhi. Xiao Yanzhi, who was not interested in this, could only sit aside with a smile, no matter what the emperor said, he would praise and applaud. After tossing around in the Hall of Rites all afternoon, Xiao Yanzhi was able to return to Wanchun Hall only after having dinner in the Hall of Erectile Dysfunction.

After taking a bath and changing clothes, Xiao Yanzhi leaned on the couch and drank the hot soup brought by Xiushui.Tired, but not sleepy.

"Xiushui, where does King Wucheng live?"

"Wu Chengwang?" Xiushui didn't know why Xiao Yanzhi suddenly asked Wu Chengwang, "Wu Chengwang's palace is in the northeast direction of the palace, and it is in the same place as the palace of the second highness, your highness and the palace of the third highness are also built. in that place."

Xiao Yanzhi raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "Prince Wucheng's residence is outside the palace?"

After the words fell, Xiao Yanzhi realized that he had asked a stupid question.

Xiushui only thought that Xiao Yanzhi didn't understand, nodded and said: "Well, the palace is outside the palace. But there is also a place for your highness to live in the palace, like our Wanchun Palace, where the second highness lives in the east. The government hall is right next to us. The residence of the third highness is a little further away from us. It is in the Chengqing hall on the west side of the Liangyi hall. King Wucheng is the adopted son of his majesty, so he can get the same treatment as the prince. , so there is also a sleeping hall in the palace, which is the Daji Hall on the east side of the Lizheng Hall, which is next to the Lizheng Hall."

Hearing this, Xiao Yanzhi curled his lips, thinking that the relationship between Pei Ze and Xu Lishan is really too good, it's nothing more than standing on the same political front, they even live next to each other.

Xiao Yanzhi asked again: "Where does King Wu Cheng live today?"