Chapter 24: Out of the Palace

Cining Palace, the prince leaned on the couch, his eyes were red and swollen, looking at a book in his hand, he couldn't read it at all, his eyes looked in the direction of the palace door from time to time, and his face was impatient.

Hearing the words of a palace maid, Zhu Cihong turned over and got out of bed: "Let him come in"

"The little one has seen the prince" Chang Yu entered the hall and bowed down.

"Come and sit down"

Zhu Cihong pointed to a chair beside him and hurriedly said, not caring at all about the slightly surprised expressions of the two palace maids in the hall, the prince of a country let the eunuch sit beside him, there is no other!

Chang Yu was not hypocritical, thanked Zhu Cihong and slowly walked to him and sat down: "Prince, last night was fine."

"Fair"

Zhu Cihong swallowed his saliva, thinking about last night's events, his expression was still a little excited: "Father summoned the loyal ministers you said overnight last night......

"These little ones already knew about it last night, I just want to know if there are some practical measures" Chang Yu interrupted him, he still had some illusions, to see if he could change the overall situation.

"It's just that the thief army sent troops to the east, it has not been confirmed yet, and my father did not leak his words to those courtiers, but he was open and honest with those courtiers last night about his intention to move south, and now he is just waiting to come up with countermeasures to ...... in the court" Zhu Cihong said quickly, but Chang Yu felt cold in his heart, and now he clearly tells you that there are only two months, and there is still a heart...... Ah, ah, ah.

"Prince, loyal ministers are not equal to capable ministers, knowing the overall situation is not equal to being able to change the overall situation, thinking that the thief army has been on the eastward expedition for two days, and the court has not received the news yet, it can be seen that the outside is already rotten, prince, make plans early!"

Looking at Chang Yu's serious expression, Zhu Cihong paused, his face was ashen, and his mouth was lightly broken: "The news should be sent soon, and the father has already ordered Jinyiwei to expedite the investigation of this matter for eight hundred miles......"

Knowing and how to deal with it is another thing, Chang Yu sneered, but he didn't say it, because he had already said what he should say, and he had no ability to change anything in the overall situation, and now he just wanted to do what he could.

Zhu Cihong wanted to say something, but seeing Chang Yu's silence and the sneer on the corner of his mouth, he exhaled a long breath and said lightly: "If you want to go out of the palace to do errands, you need the palace to send someone to help you, Tang Poshan has been with him since he was a child in the palace, and he is a trustworthy person."

Chang Yu got up and bowed to Zhu Cihong: "Prince, this matter is very important, at the big point, it is related to the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, and at the small point, it is also related to the prince's life. ”

"Nope"

Zhu Cihong hurriedly got up and waved his hand: "Only you, I and the master of the horse know about this matter, no third party knows about it" said and stared at Chang Yu tightly: "This palace is really betting your life on you!" ”

"Prince" Chang Yu glanced up at him: "The little loyalty can be seen by the sun and the moon, if he has the heart, why take such a big risk to leak the heavenly secrets"

Zhu Cihong's expression was a little excited, he walked up to Chang Yu, stretched out his hand to hold his fists: "This palace believes in you"

Cool Cool Cool ...... Tang Potian walked behind Chang Yu, his boots on his feet stepped on the remnants of snow and thin ice on the ground, and the expression on his face changed repeatedly.

Just now he received an order from the prince to accompany this Chang Gonggong out of the palace, and also lead the way and escort, as for what this Chang Gonggong is doing, he doesn't know, but let a subordinate protect him in the future is a bit of a slap in the face.

Looking at the thin figure in front of him who was hunched up, with his hands in his sleeves, and walked forward without saying a word, Tang Potian couldn't help but feel a trace of disdain at the corner of his mouth, to tell the truth he was not convinced! Although this kid can be a man, he felt unconvinced that he lost in that competition.

The weather was very cold, although it was afternoon, but there was no trace of sunshine on a cloudy day, that kind of yin wind was really cold, Chang Yu bent over and thought about his thoughts, he really didn't care about Tang Potian's expression behind him, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

He went out of the palace to do a secret thing, and he didn't want too many people to know, but after thinking about it, he was completely blind to the outside of the city, and having a guide to run errands should save a lot of trouble, so the first master of the dignified prince's mansion became an errand runner, and he didn't know it yet.

Out of the noon gate, to Chengtianmen (Tiananmen) Chang Yu couldn't help but look up, after all, it is the main gate of the imperial city, although it is not as magnificent as the later generations, but it is magnificent.

There are guards on duty at the imperial city gate, Chang Yu and Tang Potian went through the formalities, looked back at the towering city tower, Chang Yu let out a long breath, remembering that when he first came in, he dreamed of leaving quickly, and at that time he definitely didn't expect to come out so easily, but he was reluctant to leave!

"Where are we going?" Tang Potian felt that the behavior of this little eunuch was really weird, what should a normal eunuch do when he left the palace in a hurry, but he looked back at the palace with an expression, how could he have a feeling of running away from home and never returning, could it be that the prince asked me to protect him in name, but in fact, it was surveillance?

Sure enough, it's the royal guard, too sensitive.

"Wandering around, since I entered the palace for more than three months, I haven't left the palace for a single step, and now I have the prince's favor to steal half a day" Chang Yu looked at Tang Potian and smiled slightly, but the royal guard responded with a smile on the surface, but he didn't think so in his heart.

"The prince values Chang Gonggong" Tang Potian patted his ass lightly, and then said: "Chang Gonggong wants to wander around and find a companion in the next place, but he has found the right person, this inner nine and outer seven imperial cities are not familiar with me."

"That's good, Brother Tang pointed out a lively place, let's go for a walk"

Tang Potian smiled slightly: "If Father-in-law Chang likes to be lively, then naturally he will go to Dashilar (Qianmen Street)" said and pointed towards a towering city tower in the distance due south, just outside Zhengyangmen (Qianmen).

Outside the Chengtian Gate, a long and wide stone road leads directly to the south of the Daming Gate (the current monument), this road is not taken by ordinary people, it is the imperial road, and only the emperor is qualified.

There is a thousand-step corridor with 700 steps long with the eaves through the ridge on both sides of the central royal road, the left gate of Chang'an in the east, the right gate of Chang'an in the west, 110 rooms in the east and west, and 34 rooms in the north direction. Outside the thousand-step corridor, a vermilion palace wall of more than 6 meters high is built. On both sides of the wall were the central yamen of the time. Outside the east palace wall are the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Zongren Mansion, the Qintianjian and other rich and powerful official offices (now the Chinese Revolution Museum, the Chinese History Museum), and outside the west palace wall is the military yamen of the Five Armies Governor's Office, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple and so on (the area of the Great Hall of the People today).

The two of them had no time to look at the scenery of each yamen, and hurriedly walked out of the Daming Gate, which was officially out of the imperial city.

Zhengyang Gate is close in front of you, the city tower, the arrow tower, the urn city, the shape is tall, the momentum is majestic, it seems that this has the title of 'four gates, three bridges and five archways', and the first of the nine gates is indeed worthy of its name.

Outside the Zhengyang Gate, the Zhengyang Bridge, the moat has long been frozen, and there are many naughty children playing on it, and the sound of laughter makes Chang Yu unable to tell where he is for a while.

Finally saw the figure of ordinary people, although the sky was cold, but as the most prosperous area of the capital, the big fence outside the Zhengyang Gate, was crowded, although it was not as good as the corner of the later generations, but it was also noisy in this deserted world.

There is no brocade clothes and jade belts, no fresh clothes and angry horses, although it is the most prosperous area of the capital, the eyes are all ordinary people wearing heavy cotton clothes and looking extremely bloated, or coming and going in a hurry, or shouting snacks in a low voice, or beating gongs and drums to lead people to juggle on the side.

Chang Yu walked around in the company of Tang Potian, enjoying the first shopping after the crossing, of course, not like Grandma Liu to visit the Grand View Garden, after all, there are hundreds of years of knowledge, and there are few that generally arouse his interest, after all, both snacks and entertainment are very scarce these years, plus the weather is cold, there are not many people on the street. Even some stores are hung with thick blankets, making people think that they are closed.

In order to facilitate leaving the palace, Chang Yu has changed into eunuch work clothes in the prince's mansion, and even Tang Potian is dressed normally, the purpose is not to attract attention, and it is true that the two of them are now submerged in Qianmen Street. 、。

The two of them walked around and took a look, but there was nothing that could attract the attention of the two, not to mention that Chang Yuxin was not here.

"Brother Tang, do you have any familiar teeth?"

"What is Grandpa Chang going to do?" Tang Potian was stunned for a moment, and then said: "There is one near here" Saying that, he pointed to an alley not far away, and secretly scolded himself for talking too much, thinking that before leaving the palace, the prince had confessed that he should accompany the little eunuch, and he should not ask too much, why should he owe it so much.

Chang Yu's face was expressionless: "Find a tooth to understand the situation, I'm tired of Brother Tang."

"Father-in-law Chang is polite, I'll go to the front to find it, you are here to be a friend" Tang Potian said and bowed his hand to Chang Yu, turned around and walked towards the mouth of the alley.

Chang Yu looked at his back, and admired him a little in his heart, this product is really widely communicative!

Waiting was a little boring, Chang Yu stood on the side of the street with his sleeves up, looking around, and was soon attracted by the sound of gongs, and a group of people were watching the monkey show more than ten meters away.

Idle and a little curious, Chang Yu slowly leaned over and squeezed into the crowd, but saw a man and two women, two big and one small, a family of three, training three monkeys to do all kinds of tricks to please humans, because the onlookers cheered, but no one took out a copper plate.

Although the monkey play is good-looking, it is not as good as the daughter in case, double eight years, although the clothes are coarse and ragged, but they do not hide their delicate appearance, and the cold face is very cute, presumably everyone is rushing to this girl, and Chang Yu, who is used to seeing beautiful women in later generations, can't help but take a few more looks.

Knock knock, a few gongs fell to the ground, the little girl was shy, holding a wooden plate and walking towards the crowd of onlookers, this is begging for money, the so-called someone is holding the field, there is money to hold the money field, but after all, it is just a scene, but anyone who has been watching for a long time should give a little.

But no matter how the gentlemen in the capital are brushing together, it has always been like this, the little girl held the wood coiled around the half circle and no one paid out of her pocket, even if it was a copper, but there were many rough men who laughed at it, and the little girl's face was red, and the kind of apple that was ripe.

Chang Yu sighed, looked at the poor and pitiful little girl, he scolded secretly, appearance is justice, you are beautiful, you are reasonable, you will give you money if you don't watch the play, reached into his waist and took out two taels of broken silver and threw it into the wooden plate.

The little girl really looked at the white little brother in front of her in surprise, and the two taels of silver were definitely rewarded by local tyrants! There is no 6666!

The onlookers also looked sideways, wow, I didn't expect that there was a second generation who pretended to be rich, he really had money and no place to spend it, and he hated this kind of brain-dead who watched live broadcasts and rewarded the most. The absolute force is to fall in love with this girl.

"Thank you for the reward" The little girl was stunned and didn't speak, her honest and vicissitudes of life father hurriedly walked over and bowed to Chang Yu and thanked him, stretched out his hand and stuffed the silver on the plate into his waist, as if he was afraid that Chang Xiaoge would regret it.

Chang Yu smiled slightly, and just as he was about to speak, someone around him said it for him.

"You're welcome, this is five taels of silver, your girl is my little marquis."

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