Chapter 57: The Good Saint Sun

Zhu Di heard, heart to melt, immediately turned back to urge also lost ha: “pastry, pastry.”

Yiluoha did not dare to slow down, and ran out in a huff.

Zhu Di smiled and said, “Good grandson, come and tell Imperial Grandfather why your mother consort is wearing cloth.”

Zhang hastily kowtowed, “Returning to Father’s words ……”

Zhu Di shook his head and said, “I’ll ask the royal grandson.”

Zhang then didn’t say anything.

Zhu Zhanji said, “Royal Grandfather, you have grown so big, but I can’t imagine that you don’t know any better.”

“Ah ……,” Zhu froze.

Zhu Zhanji seriously ‘lectured’ Zhu Di: “We are producing gauze, here so many spinning machines, father and mother consort have said, come here to wear a short cloth shirt, otherwise, wearing long sleeves, can be inconvenient, accidentally will fall.”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Zhanji then said, “Imperial grandfather should also learn and grow his knowledge in the future so that he can be capable.”

Zhu Di couldn’t help but laugh so hard that tears were coming out of his eyes, and said with a tiger’s face, “You little guy, Imperial Grandpa knows a lot.”

Zhu Zhanji then said, “Then does Royal Grandfather know how to spin?”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Di was silent for a moment, well at this time …… also lost ha hurriedly came back, carrying a food box, after carefully going up, took out a plate of osmanthus cake, Zhu Di took out a piece, and then sent it to Zhu Zhanji s mouth.

Zhu Zhanji eyes straight at the pastries, throat rolling, swallowing saliva, cocoa water is still indisputable like a waterfall from the corners of the mouth continue to flow out.

“Here, good grandson, come and eat.”

Zhu Zhanji, however, did not move, just looked straight.

Zhu said, “Eat.”

Zhu Zhanji gluttonous like Zhangjiajie saw the tourists monkey, constantly swallowing saliva.

Zhu saw his oddity: “Why don’t you eat, don’t you like it? Then what do you want to eat?”

Zhu Zhanji’s eyes revealed a struggle, and with great effort, he averted his gaze from the pastries before saying, “Grandson can’t eat it.”

“Why can’t we eat?”

Zhu Zhanji said: “Mother Consort said …… now the East Palace came so many people, money and food is certainly insufficient, to community times difficult, together through the difficult times, father and mother consort have to make an example of the original three meals, changed to two meals, the upper line can be the lower effect … …I …… listen most to mother consort’s words, mother consort eat two meals, I also eat two meals, now is not the time to use meals, grandson is eaten, others look at it, mother consort’s words will not work.”

When Zhu Di heard this, his body subconsciously trembled.

And then looked at Zhu Zhanji with a look of otherworldliness.

Zhu Zhanji was still swallowing his saliva, but his little head was desperately trying to resist the pastry cupped in Zhu’s hand.

Zhu lowered his head, looked at Zhang and said, “We can’t condemn the child.”

Zhang responded, “Father, it is my concubine who is at fault.”

Zhu Zhanji muttered, “It’s not mother consort’s fault, it’s my own idea, mother consort is scrimping and saving, how can a son eat and drink? When imperial grandfather saw the high emperor teared up, could he still eat and drink a lot?”

Zhu Di seemed to be touched, touched Zhu Zhanji’s little head, and muttered under his breath, “Good, good, your words will be my question, how can I answer you well.”

Speaking, Zhu Di’s eyes are red, both heartache, but also a thousand feelings: “Sun, this East Palace new in many showgirls? Who bought them?”

“My uncle.” Zhu Zhanji said.

Obviously this answer was unexpected by Zhu Di, frowning slightly, “Zhang Anshi?”

Zhu Zhanji said dryly, “Yeah.”

Zhu Di said, “I heard that he picks up cheap prices, is that right?”

Zhu Zhanji said, “Yeah.”

Zhu Di revealed a few points of displeasure: “The people sell their children …… he is good ……”

Zhu Zhanji immediately retorted this time, “No.”

“Ah …… this ……”

Zhu Zhanji huffed and puffed, “Don’t allow Imperial Grandpa to scold A-Uncle.”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Zhanji said, “These people are very poor, they were bought, many people have been starving for many days, I see them, they are still barefoot it, uncle said …… we have to help the disaster relief, mother consort then also said, something she to bear, first will be picked up into the palace is important, in the East Palace, there is always a mouthful of rice to eat, if it is sent to other places, I do not know what it looks like.”

Zhu Di heard this and snapped out of it.

He turned around and saw many palace eunuchs here, although they were all wearing cloth and short shirts just like Zhang, but many of them were very thin, and it was obvious that their bodies had not fully recovered yet, but their complexion, however, seemed to have improved a lot.

Zhu Di nodded his head and said, “Yes, it’s my fault, I’m a person which, impulsive and easy to anger, the grandson taught me a lesson, I will understand, you really do not eat pastry?”

Zhu Zhanji took another look at the pastry, his eyes flashed with reluctance, and finally firmly said, “No, say no, no.”

Zhu Di was very emotional, his tone eased up a lot and said towards Zhang, “Get up, it’s not easy for you either.”

Zhang always had an unperturbed look on her face and performed another big salute, “Thank you, Father.”

After saying that, she stood to Empress Xu’s side.

Empress Xu was very happy, although she never said anything, she had been secretly observing all along, and at this time, she pulled Zhang’s hand, “Come, take a look at this material. Let me, as a mother, also try spinning.”

After saying that, ignoring Zhu, she sat down at the spinning machine that Zhang had been working on for a while, while Zhang carefully responded to her, telling her about the tricks of this spinning.

Zhu Di also did not insist on letting Zhu Zhanji eat the pastries, handed them back to Yiluoha, who hugged Zhu Zhanji and kissed him, saying pleasantly, “Good grandson, in the future, he will be able to revitalize my family’s business, and will be better than your father.”

Zhu Zhanji frowned, “Imperial grandfather’s beard is sticking me.”

“Well well well, it’s Imperial Grandpa’s fault.” Zhu Di hugged Zhu Zhanji and was overjoyed, usually he was fierce, now he rarely showed a careful expression.

“Imperial grandfather, are you going to see the new palace maid?”

“Huh?” Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, then he set Zhu Zhanji down and laughed, “Go, take Royal Grandpa there.”

“Royal Grandpa, come.”

Zhu Zhanji gleefully took Zhu Di’s hand, dragging Zhu Di like all the way through the heavy palace, to a corner of the East Palace, where there are mostly low buildings, rows and rows of them.

Zhu Zhanji at this time to break away from Zhu Di’s hand, forked his hand and said: “These people are the day before yesterday, the new in, mother consort and uncle said, the most affected by the Songjiang, so more from the Songjiang purchase, they have not yet adapted to it …… imperial grandfather …… ”

Zhu Zhanji tilted his head and looked eagerly at Zhu Di, “They speak with an accent that I don’t understand, and they are even more timid than I am, like frightened little finches ……”

Zhu Di saw one of the new ‘palace eunuchs’, but he was silent.

Some of these people stepped out and went to the patio in the middle of the house to fetch water, while others were starching their clothes, as they had just arrived and did not yet know how to operate the spinning machine, so they were first allowed to acclimatize here.

Looking at this one woman whose eyes were devoid of any expression and cowering, while her face was withered and yellow, as if oozing with yellow wax, Zhu’s heart was alarmed. There were also a few women whose stomachs were bloated to an enormous extent, but their arms, which were exposed, seemed to be like a section of withered twigs.

Zhu took a few steps forward, and one of the palace eunuchs who was close by wanted to hide.

Zhu called out to her, “What’s your name?”

This palace eagle timidly said something that Zhu Di didn’t understand.

Zhu said, “Speak slowly.”

“Chen Wenya ……”

Zhu Di silkworm eyebrow raised, “There is a name and a surname …… someone in the family who has read a book is it?”

“Yes, it is ……”

“Where is your father and brother?”

When the woman heard it, the grief came from her heart, her bulging stomach rose and fell, her face became more and more waxy, and her godless eyes were tearing like rain: “They are all dead, the father of the family was swept away by the great water, the two brothers …… elder brother was lost and separated, and the second brother and the people seized the food, and he was beaten to death.”

Zhu has been in the army for a long time, naturally, he has also seen the scene after the military disaster, the red earth thousands of miles, but at that time Zhu was a general, iron hearted, all for the purpose of victory.

Today, when I witnessed this woman, I was slow to speak.

After a moment’s reprieve, he said, “Is it okay to be here ……?”

The woman was lying on the ground, her body curled up, kowtowing like garlic, “Your Highness the Crown Prince and Your Highness the Crown Princess Qianqiu, if you don’t buy me, I’m afraid that I would have long been gnawed by the wild dogs …….”

Zhu Di thought of this woman had also come from a scholarly family, but in the blink of an eye, fell to such a point, inhaled a breath, said, “The government can have relief?”

“They …… they had said they would save ……”

Zhu Di seemed to understand what was going on and stormed out, “Into a bunch of motherfucking dog officials!”

The woman was trembling with fear.

Zhu quickly held back his temper and said, “Not scolding you. Hey ……”

Sigh, and looked at the still shivering body of the woman a glance, and then did not say anything more, pulling Zhu Zhanji’s hand turned to leave, one side to teach Zhu Zhanji: “Good grandson, you remember, for the son of a man to know filial piety, can be a human ruler, but we must know to know clearly, do not let people fool, the human heart is sometimes worse than the ferocious beasts.”

Zhu Zhanji said very seriously, “Sunchen understands, who dares to cheat Sunchen, Sunchen into his mother!”

Because it’s serialized, what people find unreasonable may actually be explained in later chapters, and the author can’t possibly explain everything by just adding a few thousand words a day.

But the countdown is on for the storm shift, it’s just for the next two days, people are annoyed with the new book period, and so is Tiger.