Guangzong Yaoming

Chapter 6: Father’s Kindness and Son’s Filial Piety (Please Collect and Read)

Chen Ju had knelt in the rain for so long and suffered a lot, but now he could only hurry up and chase after him.

When he reached the corridor east of Kunning Palace, he did not stop, but said in a hoarse voice to a eunuch on duty there: "Go quickly!"

The young eunuch first saw the emperor walking angrily towards Jingyang Palace with a sharp knife in his hand. Now, upon hearing what was said, he quickly took a step and trotted westward.

Chen Ju had already told him about this when he went to the palace garden before.

When Chen Ju arrived outside Jingyang Palace, he could already hear Concubine Wang Gong and Concubine Zheng Guifei crying and shouting: "Your Majesty, please have mercy!"

When they went in, they saw Zhu Changluo and Wang An kneeling in the rain. Concubine Wang Gong was also kneeling on the ground under the umbrella of her maid and kowtowed repeatedly. The furious emperor was held back by Concubine Zheng.

Seeing this, Chen Ju naturally joined the "persuasion" team, kneeling down and hugging Zhu Yijun's legs tightly: "Your Majesty, you must not do this!"

"Rebellious son!" Zhu Yijun raised his knife towards Zhu Changluo, his hands shaking with anger.

Zhu Changluo was shocked as he looked at the rain dripping from the tip of the knife.

He knew that Zhu Yijun didn't like him, but thinking about bringing the father and son together, Zhu Yijun actually brought a knife.

So the look in his eyes when he looked at Zhu Yijun naturally brought out despair and grief, and his emotions were easily filled with emotion.

Counting on one's fingers, it has actually been ten years since the eldest prince last saw his father.

Zhu Changluo put himself in his shoes and spoke in a natural tone: "I dare to ask you to clarify, father, is the word traitorous son because I disobeyed your order?"

Seeing that he was still so brave in the face of the emperor, Concubine Wang Gong's psychology was not enough to withstand such stimulation and she fainted successfully.

Zhu Changluo felt very guilty. Although he had only stayed here for a little over two months, he was deeply touched by his mother's care for him during his illness and her cautiousness towards his life.

But he knew it would be okay.

And the current situation is very necessary for him.

After all, the father and son met, although the father was not kind and the son was unfilial.

"You are rebellious! You are rebellious!" Zhu Yijun shouted angrily, "You disobeyed my order. I called you a rebellious son. Was that wrong?"

"Can't my son ask for a favor and protect his capable servant?"

"Ask for mercy?" Zhu Yijun seemed to laugh out of anger, "Is there a way to ask for mercy?"

"My son hasn't seen his father for ten years!" Zhu Changluo acted indignant and extreme. "Wang An has done nothing wrong. If he disobeys the emperor's order, how can he see his father? If he pleads for mercy in person, who can protect Wang An's life?"

"You're going to protect his life? Great, you know how to win people's hearts!" Zhu Yijun was still furious, the tip of his knife pointed at Wang An, "I asked this dog servant to accompany you to study, and now he has taught you to be rebellious and unfilial, to speak nonsense, to contradict the imperial concubine, and to disobey the imperial order! I want to kill him, can you protect him?"

"If the emperor wants to kill him, he will kill his son as well!"

"You are really going to rebel!" Zhu Yijun was furious and raised his hands high. "Do you think I dare not?"

A new round of the rally started again. Zheng Mengjing was trying hard, and Chen Ju was also trying hard, and tried to take the knife from Zhu Yijun's hand first: "Your Majesty, you must not do this! Your Majesty, calm down, don't hurt yourself, why are you still standing there!"

There are many reasons why the eldest prince could die young, but the only reason he couldn't die was because of the emperor's own beheading.

Zheng Mengjing held the emperor back for herself.

Of course she had brains, otherwise how could she have tricked Zhu Yijun into becoming the most favored concubine in the harem and have him argue with all the civil officials in the court for more than ten years rather than appointing a crown prince?

And today, if the emperor were to execute his eldest son in anger over such a small matter, how could her son possibly gain the recognition of the empress dowager and the support of the court officials?

If someone disobeys the order, it is indeed a serious crime.

But this person is the eldest son of the emperor, so it is ultimately just a dispute between father and son.

If she didn't pull, there were many people who pulled the emperor back.

Aren’t there more and more people coming here now?
The fat man Zhu Yijun was actually in a state of impotent rage. The knife in his hand was eventually taken away by Chen Ju, who grasped the blade with his hand and pulled it away.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to calm down and let's go into the palace to investigate!" After Chen Ju handed the knife to someone else, he knelt on the ground, holding his bloody right hand and pleading bitterly, "The wind is strong and the rain is heavy, Your Majesty, your health is the most important! Your Majesty was angry for a moment, how can there be a father and son who are as hostile as enemies in the world? Your Majesty, do you really want Your Majesty to lose his temper and hurt his health, and then be considered unfilial?"

Later on, he even used a very harsh tone to reprimand Zhu Changluo.

Zhu Changluo walked down the steps and kowtowed to Zhu Yijun in the rain: "I know I was wrong. Is Wang An guilty or not? Father, can you allow me to defend myself? I haven't seen you for ten years. I didn't expect that the next day I saw you, you would come with a knife to kill me. I was so angry that I kept saying the wrong things!"

Of course he knew that his father was someone who needed to be stroked.

It can't really be a case of father killing his son.

Of course, there are many smart people in the palace, and it is impossible for them to let the emperor do such a thing.

It is possible that all of them would be silenced and kept secret, leaving only the official statement that "the eldest prince died of illness."

Besides, using a knife to chop or something... Zhu Changluo, with his 19-year-old body, can't outrun this lame fat man?

Zhu Changluo offered him the stairs, and Zhu Yijun finally angrily passed him and walked towards the main hall.

By the way, he was pulled again because Zhu Yijun couldn't help but want to kick him.

When Chen Ju chased after Zhu Changluo and passed by him, he gave him an undisguised look of resentment.

Zhu Changluo looked at his still bleeding hand and felt even more apologetic.

He understood Chen Ju, but he had his own purpose.

I hope that knife doesn't have a tetanus blade.

When they entered the palace, Concubine Wang Gong had already been carried to the bed and was being taken care of. Zheng Mengjing was sitting beside her to "comfort" the emperor.

Wang An could only continue to be held under the eaves outside the palace, waiting for the eldest prince to explain and the emperor to make his final decision. "You said he has done nothing wrong, I want to see how you can speak eloquently and explain it to me!"

"Father, please understand!" Zhu Changluo stopped being rebellious and knelt down to pay his respects. "As the eldest son, I should be the first to go to school. I should set an example and study hard. Do you agree with me, Father?"

"……snort!"

Zhu Yijun couldn't deny this, after all, it was a very legitimate truth.

Would it be better to say that he doesn't study and acts like a fool?
"After recovering from a serious illness, I admired my father's extraordinary intelligence in the past, and was praised by the court and the public! My father's calligraphy is even more amazing. Privately, I have been copying my father's calligraphy to prepare a birthday gift this year. Wang An also has some accomplishments in calligraphy, which has helped me a lot. I can't claim credit, but there is evidence. Father, can I ask him to bring it to you and give me some pointers?"

That's just how people are sometimes.

You know what, Zhu Yijun felt strangely comfortable when his son, who had been so unruly just now, suddenly started to flatter him in a disgusting way.

"Humph!"

He continued to snort arrogantly, with a stern face and no comment.

But no objection meant no objection, so Zhu Changluo directly let Wang An go first.

Wang An didn't dare to move.

"I beg you to have mercy on me and look at my son's handwriting!"

Zhu Changluo kowtowed again, in a humble tone.

Zhu Yijun was a little hesitant.

He has been so well behaved since he admitted his mistake... Never mind. We still need to look at the witnesses and evidence to try the case.

"Hmph!" He finally nodded.

When Wang An saw the emperor nod, he kowtowed to express his gratitude and then got up and left.

Zhu Changluo did not wait and continued, "Father, you are very observant. Perhaps you know that your son swept the courtyard yesterday and quoted that sentence. Although your father did not issue a clear order before, your son first cultivated his character, swept the courtyard and quoted the words of the predecessors. I think it is not wrong."

Zhu Yijun felt uncomfortable again and snorted again.

"What a rebellious statement!"

"Everyone knows about the dispute over the foundation of the country. I am just waiting for your holy decision. If you are favored, I will be prepared. Thousands of years later, history will praise the man you have appointed. If you lose your favor, I will just clean up the house and be a wise king."

Zheng Mengjing was listening to him talking and couldn't help but look at the emperor.

"Humph! If this isn't madness, then what is it?"

"Father, what you said is very true. It is a rebellious statement after all. If Father doubts me because of it, it would be considered as treason. I dare to ask you, Father. Would Wang An dare to teach me such a statement?"

“…It’s hard to say!”

Zhu Yijun didn't expect to end up here.

What was Wang An's crime? He corrupted the eldest son of the emperor.

Now that this rebellious son's "badness" has exceeded the limits of what ordinary servants dare to "teach", can it still be the same?

Wang An just came back at this time. Upon hearing what was said, he held the box with trembling hands, opened the lid and revealed a few pieces of paper inside.

After being presented to him by the imperial eunuch beside him, Zhu Yijun looked at the copied words on the paper with mixed feelings.

All are good words: His prestige spreads across the world, his wisdom is unparalleled. He is in the prime of his life, and he enjoys a long and happy life...

He loved writing, so much so that Zhang Juzheng once used Song Huizong as a counterexample to warn him.

What his son is copying now is his brushwork.

There was an emperor in the palace who loved writing, and the emperor had quite a few handwritten letters. After all, he gave out a lot of them when he was in a good mood.

The copying was not good. After all, I was the one who kept delaying my son's education.

According to the rules, the crown prince must be appointed first before he can go out to teach.

The ceremony of enthronement was still pending because court officials repeatedly said that the eldest prince was already too old, so they decided to retreat and just ask for the start of the discussion.

Zhu Yijun also knew that once the outer court lecturer gave lectures to the eldest prince, he would be the crown prince.

Although he often obstructed him, he was only allowed to attend a few lectures in the past few years, and each time it was not the ritual of the prince giving lectures.

But today I saw: this kid is so eloquent, and his handwriting is so...

Although my writing skills are still not up to the point, I have gotten on the right track after all.

Zhu Yijun looked at Wang An, who was kneeling on the ground with a red and swollen face: Could it be that this servant really has no merits but no faults?
He went to school only a few times, and the eldest son's teacher was actually this servant.

Wang An's neck shrank when the emperor looked at him, and he knelt again like a fish waiting to be chopsticked.

"Humph! You are so scheming!"

If he had been interested in it for a long time, why would he only start practicing the emperor's calligraphy after recovering from a serious illness? He said this himself.

Zhu Changluo raised his head and looked directly at Zhu Yijun: "Then today I was able to see the emperor by disobeying the imperial order. Did Wang An dare to instigate my son to make such a claim? The main reason why Wang An was a student companion is that my son has grown up."

As soon as these words came out, Chen Ju's heart skipped a beat: Oh no!
Thanks to De Bu Huan for 500 points, Wang Qing_ for 300 points, Qiu Qi Xiao Nai for 100 points

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