The distance between Taisun Mansion and the East Palace is not too far, and the tea kung fu will arrive, but after Zhu Zhanji divided the mansion, the number of times he came back was not too much.

This is also the reason why his mother, the crown princess Zhang, and all his younger brothers and sisters have arrived in Beijing to live in the East Palace, when his mother had not yet arrived in Beijing, he did not set foot here at all!

The guards of Yidong Palace were very surprised when they saw the grandson's car, and the eunuch guarding the door hurriedly went in to report to the princess, saying that the grandson was back!

At that time, the crown prince and the crown princess were having dinner in the flower hall, and the crown princess was first overjoyed when she heard the news, and then her face sank again, and she said lightly: "As for it?" What are you yelling about? He loves not to come back. ”

"Hey, it's ......" The eunuch guarding the door knew that this was because the prince was also present, and the princess wanted to take care of the prince's feelings, so he lowered his head and quietly withdrew.

"......" As soon as the eunuch went out, there was silence in the flower hall for a while, and the prince picked up two mouthfuls of rice indiscriminately, then put down the bowl and held on to the table to get up.

Zhang's hand pressed on the prince's arm, and the prince frowned and looked at the princess, but saw that her eyes were full of begging.

The prince has always respected the Zhang family as a guest, and the Zhang family has never acted beyond the norm, making such a move at this moment, he naturally suppressed it in his heart for too long, and he really couldn't help it.

"Your Highness, how long will you be angry with him?" There were already tears in Zhang's eyes, and he pleaded softly.

"Ah......" the prince sighed, and finally sat down.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji came in and saw his parents sitting at the table waiting for him, so he hurriedly took off his robe, knelt down, and said respectfully: "My son and my mother ask for peace." ”

"Get up." The prince naturally didn't say anything, and it was Zhang who spoke: "What are you doing here?" ”

"The first is to ask for peace to my father and mother, and the second is to ......" The grandson looked up at the prince and said in a low voice: "Come and ask my father for his guilt." ”

"Don't dare to be." The prince snorted, Zhu Gaochi is kind-hearted and gentle, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have fire, especially for this son who deviates from morality and openly sings against himself, the prince is really not peaceful.

"It was all Erchen's fault before, and Erchen knew that he was wrong......" Zhu Zhanji was not surprised at all by the prince's reaction, and bowed his head to excuse himself.

"Hmph......" The prince snorted again, and wanted to say something. Zhang took over and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, father and son still have an overnight feud, since Ji'er knows that he is wrong, His Highness will forgive him." As he spoke, he glared at Taisun and said, "If you dare to be disrespectful to your father in the future, don't enter this house again!" ”

"Erchen knows." Zhu Zhanji nodded obediently.

Seeing that his attitude was very upright, Zhang was very pleased and said, "Have you had dinner?" ”

"Never." Zhu Zhanji shook his head.

"Let's sit down and eat together." Zhang said, and the palace maid saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not object, so she hurriedly brought a chair to the grandson, added tableware, and brought a porcelain basin to wash her hands.

After Zhu Zhanji sat down, as soon as he ate a few bites of food, the prince slowly got up and said, "It's good to be alone, go to the study to read." ”

"Father." Zhu Zhanji hurriedly spit out the food in his mouth in the net bucket, got up and said, "Erchen still has important things to ask." ”

Zhu Gaochi paused, and then turned behind the screen with the support of the two eunuchs.

"You eat first, and then go to the study after eating." Zhang's felt sorry for his son, and when he saw the prince leaving, he hurriedly pulled Zhu Zhanji to sit down, and while personally giving him vegetables, he smiled and said: "Your father is hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, knowing that he is here, you will not eat well, so he will leave first." ”

"Yes, my father has always loved his sons, and it's all wrong with his sons." Zhu Zhanji lowered his head and continued to eat. In fact, he had something on his mind and couldn't eat it at all, but in order to reassure Zhang, Zhu Zhanji still took a big bite of grilled rice.

After devouring a meal, Zhu Zhanji told Zhang that he was going to the study to find the prince, and Zhang wished that the father and son could have a good talk, solve the misunderstanding, and stop continuing the Cold War. He let him go very quickly, and told him that he must control his temper and stop contradicting his father.

Zhu Zhanji naturally agreed, said goodbye to his mother temporarily, and came to the door of the study in the East Palace. When he arrived at the door, he was about to knock on the door, but Zhu Zhanji's movements stopped, and he suddenly became hesitant, as if he couldn't make up his mind whether he should knock on this door or not.

"Come in." At this time, he heard the voice of the prince inside.

"Father." Zhu Zhanji pushed open the door and entered, and saw the prince holding a book in his hand and looking at him with his eyes.

Zhu Zhanji stood in front of the kang with his hands tied, and the prince sat on the kang with a book, the father and son had not been alone like this for a year, and the atmosphere was inevitably a little awkward.

"Father, our father and son are in big trouble...... Zhu Zhanji said softly in the end.

"You mean, your second uncle is going out of the mountain?" There was no superfluous expression on Zhu Gaochi's face, only the calm of a deep pool in autumn.

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji was slightly surprised, since the prince saw that he was suspicious of the emperor, he had been closing the door and refusing to accept foreign guests, which seemed to be a deaf ear to the affairs outside the window. But obviously, the news of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not an ordinary well-informed, and it took a few hours to know the will that had just been set and had not yet been issued.

But this is not the time to be surprised, because when the emperor is inclined to the king of Han, Zhu Zhanji and the crown prince have become a success-or-failure relationship again, and the more powerful the prince, the more beneficial it will be for Zhu Zhanji.

"I wonder what my father thinks?" Zhu Zhanji asked softly.

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and no one can stop it." Zhu Gaochi said with a gloomy expression: "It would be nice if Zhongde was here." ”

"Zhongde," Zhu Zhanji paused, and said softly, "Yesterday someone gave me a message." ”

"What?" Zhu Gaochi's eyes lit up immediately, and he clutched the scroll hard, trying his best to control his excitement.

"There are only eight words in total," Zhu Zhanji said softly: "If you persist for one month, there will be a way." Other than that, there are no more words. ”

"That's enough! Chung Tak made it clear enough! Zhu Gaochi said, frowned at Zhu Zhanji and said, "Since you received Zhongde's letter yesterday, why didn't you block the emperor's appointment today?" ”

"I stopped it," Zhu Zhanji said helplessly: "But I can't stop it at all." ”

"You didn't do your best!" Zhu Gaochi put the book on the table heavily, and once again couldn't hold back his anger and said: "It was like this last time, the selfishness is too heavy, you stop at a shallow taste, and shrink your head when you encounter resistance, how did you become like this?!" ”

"I'm ......" Zhu Zhanji is here to discuss countermeasures with the prince today, so naturally he has to bear everything. He forced himself to nod and said, "What my father taught me is, but now that the imperial grandfather has made an order, the wood has been completed, what can I do?" ”

"Has the decree been decreed?" Zhu Gaochi raised his eyelids and said sharply.

"Not yet." Zhu Zhanji shook his head.

"Then there is hope!" Zhu Gao said in a deep voice.

"But the emperor's grandfather has already made up his mind, and he personally drafted the will to appoint my second uncle, how can he take it back?" Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said.

"Yes, as long as you can get out of it!" Zhu Gaochi said lightly: "Tomorrow is the day of the last dynasty, and it is estimated that the three scholars should try to delay the will until after the court meeting." ”

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji nodded, he didn't expect that his father, who he had always looked down on, would be able to guess the actions of Yang Shiqi and others as if he had seen it himself. I couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did my father find out?" ”

"Lone has worked with them for more than ten years, and I can still guess a few points." Zhu Gaochi said plainly, but the weight revealed in his words made Zhu Zhanji a little unable to raise his head - he felt that the prince seemed to be saying, boy, what you rely on now are all my people!

"Out of the way?" Zhu Zhanji asked softly, "Please teach my father." ”

"Put your most valuable bet on the table," His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said in a deep voice.

"My most valuable ......" Zhu Zhanji thought about it, and said with a pale face: "This is the identity of this grandson." ”

"Then bet this identity," the prince looked at Zhu Zhanji and said lightly: "It's impossible for the emperor not to give you a chance to gamble." ”

"This ......" Zhu Zhanji regretted coming to this trip a little, and said in his heart, "Isn't this a waste of time?" What good ideas could he have? The tone couldn't help but be a little dissatisfied: "Father, the identity of the grandson is not the child's private property, but the national capital of my Ming Dynasty, how can it be used for gambling casually?" ”

"At this time, if you don't gamble, how can you buy time?" Zhu Gaochi said calmly: "If you don't gamble, how can you win?" ”

"Father," Zhu Zhanji felt deeply embarrassed: "The situation is indeed extremely critical, but Wang Xian didn't say a word, I don't know what he is doing now, let alone what he wants to do!" How dare a child take a gamble when he knows nothing?! ”

"Can you be sure that the news was sent to you by Wang Xian?" Zhu Gaochi glanced at Zhu Zhanji.

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji nodded.

"That's enough." Zhu Gaochi looked at his somewhat unfamiliar son, and said word by word: "With the word 'Wang Xian', can't it help you make up your mind?" ”

"This ......" Zhu Zhanji was speechless for a while, Wang Xian had indeed never let him down, and he had trusted him immensely. But this time the bet was too heavy and too heavy, and Wang Xian had lost so completely before, how could His Royal Highness Taisun dare to ignore it and put all his net worth on him?

"Think about it," Zhu Gaochi picked up the scroll a little tiredly, and said slowly: "Who saved you from danger again and again, turning the impossible into possibility, if you can't even trust him completely, I'm afraid there is no one in this world who you can trust......"

"Erchen knows......" Zhu Zhanji lowered his head, and when he saw that Zhu Gaochi no longer spoke, he quietly withdrew with his hand.

When he closed the door ......of the study, Zhu Zhanji heard a sigh, and he didn't know if his father was worried about the current situation or disappointed in himself.

That night, Zhu Zhanji stayed awake all night, sitting on a chair and waiting for the court. When the sky was bright in the east, he finally made up his mind that he and his father were different after all, and he must not be emotional!

As for the final result, Zhu Zhanji is not worried, because he knows his father too well......