The air seemed to be frozen, the two children were motionless, and others did not dare to move or make a sound.
Zhu Bai suddenly laughed: "Ha, I won."
Zhu Di frowned and sneered: "Nonsense, if you shoot me in the forehead and I shoot you in the left chest, you will die. Why do you say you won?"
"I guess you will aim at the biggest left chest in order to win. Sure enough..." Zhu Bai pulled out the arrow nailed to his left chest, and proudly took out the copybook from his arms, "The second-power bow you took , a two-foot arrow can penetrate this book at most."
Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang see clearly that the arrowheads of the two arrows had been pulled out and wrapped in a ball of glutinous rice stained with red ink.
The breath he had been holding was relieved now, and his legs suddenly felt weak, and he almost sat down on the ground.
Erhu hurriedly supported Lao Zhu.
Zhu Bai didn't seem to realize that Lao Zhu had arrived, and then smiled evilly: "But my arrow can penetrate your skull. Do you think I won?"
Although Zhu Bai was cheating, Zhu Di had just made a fight in front of everyone, and he was so much older than Zhu Bai, so it was natural that he could not deny it.
He threw the bow away dejectedly: "I lost. What do you want to do?"
These two bastards turned out to be making a bet, which almost cost him his life.
Zhu Yuanzhang shouted angrily: "You two little beasts, kneel down for me."
The palace people sighed secretly: The emperor is really angry. If you call your son a beast, then he is...
Zhu Di and Zhu Bai hurriedly knelt down when they heard that Lao Zhu was coming.
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he raised his hand several times and put it down again. He gritted his teeth for a long time and said, "What are you two bastards going to do?"
The ministers said in front that the vassal king must rebel, but these two guys started fighting behind him. Isn't this just to undermine him and encourage the arrogance of those sour scholars?
But children fighting is something that no one can do without.
He was reluctant to beat the child for this matter.
Zhu Di said: "Back to my father, my twelfth brother said he wanted to see the power of the Erli Gong. My son will demonstrate it to him."
Zhu Yuanzhang lost some of his anger as soon as he heard this.
Having said that, these two guys are quite accurate in archery.
A good boy will bring good things, and a good girl will bring good luck...
Lao Zhu snorted and turned to Zhu Bai: "What about you? You are usually very sharp-tongued, why are you silent now?"
Zhu Bai originally planned to play dumb. After all, he was young and could disturb the pool quietly.
When asked by Lao Zhu, he could only raise his head and answer: "Yes, I just want to try the feeling of being hit by an arrow."
In other words, it’s courting death…
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth: "You want to play, right? Very good! From today on, after noon and before dark, all the princes will go to the school to practice riding and shooting. I will designate a master for you."
Zhu Biao arrived just now, running as if he was about to die. Before he could take a breath, he almost fainted after hearing these words.
He spent the whole afternoon on the school grounds every afternoon, but it still cost him his life.
The other princes all looked happy: Oh, that’s great! Instead of having to study the boring Zhu Shengren in the main hall for an afternoon, they would be willing to go to the school grounds and run around all afternoon.
Zhu Bai was also stunned.
Damn it, why is this Lao Zhu’s brain circuitry different from other people’s?
He and Zhu Di were just simulating a life-and-death struggle for Lao Zhu.
Why did Lao Zhu hire a master to teach them martial arts? ! !
Wouldn't they fight even more fiercely after that?
Moreover, isn’t he doing bad things with good intentions? They were originally going to expose Zhu Di's true nature to Zhu Yuanzhang, but instead they gave Zhu Di and the others a chance to practice martial arts!
No, he wanted to give up Lao Zhu’s idea.
Zhu Bai hurriedly turned his short legs to catch up with Zhu Yuanzhang, who was about to leave after saying this: "Father, I am small and young, so I can't beat my brothers."
Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly amused. He turned around and glanced at Zhu Bai: "Why, are you scared now?!"
Zhu Bai grabbed the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's clothes and nodded quickly: "Afraid!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned cold: "If you're afraid, just practice hard. On the battlefield in the future, the Mongols will not be merciful."
Zhu Bai rolled his eyes and said, "I'm afraid that the Crown Prince won't be able to stand it if I practice too hard. Besides, swords don't have eyes..."
When Zhu Biao burps early on the school field, what else is he going to do?
"Well, that's true. The prince practices alone, not with other brothers." Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Biao, then took out the corner of Zhu Biao's hand, poked Zhu Bai's forehead with his index finger, and said every word Say, "Okay! Okay! Practice!"
Zhu Bai stood there stunned, his heart racing.
Ah, grass!
Why does the plot always not go according to my plan?
Doesn't Lao Zhu just want me to wait to be beaten?
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Zhu Yuanzhang was obviously very angry with the two princes, so he issued two imperial edicts when he returned.
One is that no one is allowed to carry bladed objects in the courtyard of the palace, except for the guards and the chef in the kitchen, and no one is allowed to shoot arrows in the inner courtyard of the palace. Otherwise, if you are caught once, you will be served with twenty boards until you are beaten to death!
Another thing is that princes who are over seven years old will go to the school to practice martial arts every day starting from today, and each prince will be assigned a martial arts teacher.
Fifteen days later the princes competed.
The person at the bottom will be punished by the master for one month's salary, and the prince will be punished by kneeling for one hour.
The top three will be rewarded with three months', two months' and one month's salary from their masters in turn, and the princes will be rewarded together.
No reward or punishment for others. The prince does not participate in the competition.
Everyone secretly thought about it: excluding the prince and the ninth prince who died young, there are ten princes who are over seven years old.
In other words, the princes who participated in the competition were all older than Zhu Bai.
Moreover, the apprentice’s failure to learn will bring harm to the master.
The fact that Lao Zhu appointed a master is very knowledgeable.
The prince's master is his cousin Zhu Wenzheng.
It was Lao Zhu who said that Zhu Wenzheng was picked out along with the prince.
Then Tang He, Mu Ying, and Guo Ying became the masters of the second, third, and fourth princes respectively.
These three military generals have outstanding achievements, but they are never arrogant about their achievements. They usually speak and behave very cautiously.
The three princes are usually very skilled. If nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely be in the top three.
The three generals were sitting and waiting for their reward.
Zhu Bai's height is less than the waist of the first four brothers.
After only fifteen days of training, he was asked to compete with several brothers, clearly bullying him.
When the time comes, Zhu Bai will take turns being beaten by his nine brothers. No matter how naughty he is, he will be beaten into obedience.
Isn't this because Lao Zhu himself is reluctant to take action, so he can only ask Zhu Bai's brother to teach the rebellious son for him?
Lan Yu is the prince's in-law, but she is pointed out to be Zhu Bai's master.
On the surface, it was Lao Zhu who thought highly of Lan Yu's abilities and assigned him the weakest prince.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye would understand that Lao Zhu was trying to find an excuse to punish Lan Yu.
This time, Lan Yu, who was usually straightforward and arrogant, panicked and went to ask Li Shanchang to intercede for him for the first time.
The cunning Li Shanchang said nothing.
The salary is a trivial matter. If Lao Zhu always harbors a grudge, Lan Yu will be the second Liao Yongzhong.
Now that he is interceding for Lan Yu, isn't that just rushing to the tip of the knife?
When Lan Yu saw that all her good words had been said, Li Shanchang remained silent. She finally got annoyed and said with wide eyes, "We are people who started the rebellion together from our hometown. Mr. Li is a scholar and understands this truth better than me."
Li Shanchang could only sigh when he saw that the words had reached this point: "You have to change your straight temper and be more low-key and kind. Now besides begging the emperor to let King Xiang not participate in the competition, there is nothing else to do." There’s a way.”
So, now it was Lan Yu who was kneeling outside the imperial study room, begging to see the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not invite Lan Yu to go in to talk, but asked Er Hu to come out and send a message: "There is still half a month to practice, Master Lan, don't worry about it being too early. Although the sun is bright in the sky, the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and the ground is too cold. Master Lan is like this You get sick easily, so go back and rest."
Lan Yu usually didn't like to think about the meaning of other people's words, but now she had to rack her brains to think about it.
Tsk, does Lao Zhu mean that the emperor's favor was so great that he was heartbroken by a minister who didn't know what was good for him?
He knelt on the ground and said, "I am scared. I don't know why I have betrayed the divine grace. I beg the emperor to forgive me."
Before he could get up, Zhu Yuanzhang had already led someone out of the imperial study and left.
When Lan Yu saw it, she became even more frightened.
He made it clear that he would never forgive and would not even give him a chance to explain!
It's over, it's over, my life is at stake.
He shouldn't have taken a few sips of yellow soup and talked nonsense at that time!
