"Greetings to His Majesty, to His Majesty the Crown Prince!"
The emperor and the prince came together, and Queen Ma and the Chang family girls took the initiative to stand up to greet them.
The daughter of the Chang family even knelt down and saluted: "Greetings to the emperor, paying homage to His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Girl, we are a family. Why are you doing this with us? By the way, it's been a long time since I saw you come back to see the Queen. Are you okay with your family work?"
When the girl from the Chang family heard this, she burst into tears.
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked to realize something was wrong. He and Zhu Biao looked at each other:
"What's wrong with you?" Lao Zhu quickly asked the Chang family girl.
"Your Majesty, my brother Chang Sen accidentally fell into the water today...he is gone!"
"What?"
The girl from the Chang family on the side was wiping tears, and the expressions of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao changed drastically.
Chang Sen is dead?
They immediately thought of Zhang Yi's pen, writing Chang Sen's fate on the paper.
Chang Sen, died young...
Have these four simple words successfully predicted Chang Sen's death?
"Your brother is so dead, why did he die?"
Zhu Yuanzhang continued to question the Chang family girl, and the Chang family girl said:
"Just now..., he drowned in the back garden, but no one saw him!
By the time the family found out about my brother, they had already..."
Along with the cries of the Chang family girl, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked in a trance.
Die, just die alone?
"My mother has sent a letter home to inform my father. At the same time, she also asked me to go to the palace to report to the Queen!"
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao could no longer hear the words of the Chang family girl clearly. They were still immersed in the four words written by Zhang Yi. How could they just leave alone?
"Chongba..."
Seeing that the emperor seemed to have lost his soul, Empress Ma reminded Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Ah, he's gone, by the way..."
Zhu Yuanzhang was reminded by Empress Ma and finally came to his senses.
He comforted the Chang family girl:
"Nine times out of ten, life will be unsatisfactory. You have to express your condolences. I know this and I will ask the prince to send you back... When you come back, I will send someone to express my condolences!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Prince, please send the girl back and appease the Lan family on my behalf!"
Zhu Biao nodded and walked over to ask the Chang family girl to go with him. Lao Zhu watched the two of them leave, still unable to let go.
Zhang Yi's pen is really like the legendary judge's pen, can it determine a person's death so easily?
No, if he can predict Chang Sen's fate, does that mean that something will happen to Chang Yuchun and others later on?
"Chongba, are you worried?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang was in despair, a pair of hands were placed on his hands. Old Zhu turned his head and saw that Queen Ma was already leaning against him tenderly.
Empress Ma was dressed in plain clothes. If she were not the first wife she had been with day and night, Lao Zhu doubted that outsiders would think that the simple woman in front of her was the master of the harem of the Ming Dynasty.
Her appearance was not extremely beautiful, just delicate at best, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who had seen many beauties in the harem, was still immersed in her gentle eyes.
She could see her abnormality at a glance, and Lao Zhu was not surprised.
Queen Ma married Zhu Yuanzhang when he was still a top soldier. Over the years, the husband and wife have been close to each other and supported each other, and have gone through many hardships to get to where they are today.
No change in herself could escape her eyes.
"Sister, do you think anyone in this world can predict the future?"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not answer Queen Ma's question directly, but asked rhetorically.
Ma laughed:
"Why not? That Taoist Zhou Dian liked to sue Taiping back then. Didn't he make many predictions for you, and they all came true later? It's just that you, Zhu Chongba, believe in gods. Zhou Dian said something you didn't like to say. Didn’t you also throw people into the river to feed the fish?”
"Since when have you, Zhu Chongba, been a person who fears gods and ghosts? Why do you get hurt by these things?"
Zhu Yuanzhang also fell into memories when he heard Empress Ma mention Zhou Dian.
There was indeed such a Taoist around him back then.
This Taoist often made some predictions, and most of them were successfully realized. During the battle against Chen Youliang, he came to sue Taiping and told Zhu Yuanzhang that the battle would be won. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed.
It was just that the white-tip dolphins were infested by the river, but he predicted that many people would die in this battle. Because he was tempted by the military, Lao Zhu simply drowned him in the river...
Zhu Yuanzhang is this kind of person, not even gods can change his will.
He dares to kill even the immortals who dare to block his way!
Lao Zhu recalled that past and understood what Queen Ma meant.
He just sighed and said:
"It's not that I have changed, it's that what that person predicted this time has something to do with my descendants!"
When Queen Ma heard this, she looked like she was like this.
She is Zhu Yuanzhang's wife who has always been close to each other, and she understands Lao Zhu best.
Zhu Yuanzhang lost his parents when he was young, his family was broken up, and his relatives were separated. Thinking that he remembered the suffering of the past, Zhu Yuanzhang paid more and more attention to family ties.
Relatives are Zhu Yuanzhang's enemies. Someone dared to curse the Zhu family with words. Empress Ma seemed to have seen that person's head hanging on the gate of Nanjing City.
"Chongba, where did you meet the strange person? Could it be the Zhang Changsheng you met these days? I heard that the heavenly masters of Longhu Mountain have many miraculous powers, but Longhu Mountain has experienced eighty years of wealth and wealth, unlike Are you trying to win your trust through fortune telling?"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "It's not Zhang Chenggong, but his son who is less than eight years old!"
"Sister, before Biao'er and I returned to the palace, the child told us that the third child of Chang Yuchun's family would definitely die in infancy!"
This time it was Empress Ma's turn to look moved. She finally understood why Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were devastated when they heard about Chang Sen's death.
Lao Zhu started to talk about Zhang Yi's various magical things to Queen Ma.
Empress Ma listened attentively. The emperor spoke for an hour before finishing Zhang Yi's story.
"This kid's mouth is worse than Zhou Dian's. I almost couldn't help but kill him today!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned Zhang Yi's prophecy, he was still a little aggrieved, but Empress Ma fell into deep thought.
"Your Majesty, what did you expect to gain from leaving Zhang Yi behind?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned by this question. He thought for a moment and then said:
"I hope to gain the benefit of predicting the future from him..."
"Did your Majesty get it?"
Empress Ma smiled and reminded Zhu Yuanzhang.
"I don't know whether what the child said is true or false. After all, the affairs of the Immortal Family have been illusory since ancient times! But the future you want, isn't that child given to you? You, don't you just want to hear good things? Yeah, don’t want to hear bad things?
In fact, I think you don’t completely trust that child and always feel that he is deceiving you, but let’s think about it from another angle?
If what he said is true, then are these things a disaster or a blessing for you, the emperor, and for me, the Ming Dynasty? "
Zhu Yuanzhang was not a fool. He lowered his head and meditated, and the anger in his heart gradually dissipated.
"In the past, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty once said: If you use copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; if you use ancient times as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; if you use people as a mirror, you can know gains and losses!
But Li Shimin may not be as blessed as you and have the opportunity to learn from the future!
Making good use of that little fairy is my great blessing! I am here, congratulations to Your Majesty! "
Empress Ma's few words were enough to dissolve Zhu Yuanzhang's knot in his heart. What she said did make some sense.
Just as Lao Zhu was sometimes confused, whether his words and deeds would have a good impact on future generations, could he, Zhu Yuanzhang, be a good emperor?
No one can predict whether the decision they make is correct.
But by making good use of Zhang Yi, he was able to eliminate many wrong options.
"Sister, you are still good at comforting people!"
Lao Zhu laughed heartily and held Queen Ma's hand tightly.
