Father can be an enemy to the country

"This, isn't this appropriate?" Zhu Zhen stared blankly at the food and wine put out by his fourth brother.

"I didn't hide this, my father-in-law put it here." Lao Si poured the wine and said with a grin: "Isn't he in poor health? The imperial doctor said that he needs to stop drinking and eat a light diet. Your sister-in-law Using chicken feathers as an arrow, he gave his father-in-law a ban on alcohol and stipulated that he could only eat two taels of meat and one egg a day. "

"How good it is to eat healthy." Zhu Zhen said.

"Can you bear to eat like this?" Zhu Di clinked glasses with him: "Let's go."

"That's unbearable." Zhu Zhen raised his neck and took a sip of wine and took a bite of sausage: "I don't like anything but meat."

"The same goes for my father-in-law." Zhu Di smiled and said: "After a lifetime of military service, he is used to drinking from large bowls and eating large pieces of meat. If you tell him to eat lightly and not drink, will it cost his life?"

He said with a smile: "So he secretly hid the food and wine in the study, but the more he drank alone, the more bored he became. So he often called me and Huizu to drink with him in the name of teaching the art of war. ”

"Yes, I know how my father-in-law's illness came about." Zhu Zhen said, dumbfounded: "You should report it to your sister-in-law, instead of helping him hide it from her, let alone drink with him."

"Well, you weren't there at that time. The great general had to hide it when he wanted to drink some wine. Don't you think it's pitiful?" Zhu Di shook his head and said, "We can't even get a hot dish to go with the wine, and we still have to hide it." Are you embarrassed to betray him?"

"Oh, that's true." Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "I will probably protect him."

"Right." Zhu Di drank another glass with him and said, "Besides, my father-in-law's back gangrene was not caused by drinking these two sips of wine. He was angry and anxious about the military rations, and that's why he attacked like this. A bag as big as a bowl."

"Things like the cause of the disease are all guesswork. I can't refute what you say." Zhu Zhen nodded.

"That's what I think. As for treating him, I'll leave it to Lao Wu. One of us is responsible for investigating the military ration case to the end, and the other is responsible for replenishing the military rations for him. Don't delay the dispatch of troops." Zhu Di Then he smiled at him and said, "Lao Wu will do the things that make you good, and you will do the things that make you look good. I will do the things that offend others. Do you think my brother's arrangement is appropriate?"

Zhu Zhen was moved to tears. He poured a glass of wine for his fourth brother and said, "Brother, just because I left you, my reputation has been ruined in the past few years."

"Is there no one who will take the blame for you?" Zhu Di patted his shoulder proudly and said, "Look at this tough guy, he is suitable for this job."

"No, Fourth Brother, are you really afraid that I will investigate the case?" Lao Liu understood in his heart, and thought it would be better to be honest with Fourth Brother.

"No, no..." Zhu Di laughed awkwardly, but his dark face began to turn pale, and beads of sweat appeared.

"I'd be sweating without you." Zhu Zhen smiled.

"It's too hot in the room." Zhu Di quickly wiped his face with his sleeves, and then said with a self-deprecating smile: "Look at me, we two brothers don't know each other, why are we playing tricks with you?"

"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "Things have changed, but our relationship will not change. It will remain the same as before. Just say whatever you want."

"Hey, then I'll take the real approach." Zhu Di seemed to have misunderstood. He nodded heavily, and then said in a low voice:

"In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, on the fourth day of the second lunar month, I asked someone to slap Feng Baihu, the left guard, for trivial matters. Although I gave him money afterwards, I remembered my father's teachings and sent him to Liaodong... "

"In April of the 16th year of Hongwu, Zhou Qianshi of the General's Mansion asked me to say a few good words to him and gave me five cantaloupes. After they were rotten, I discovered that they were full of golden melon seeds. Two of them were already missing. The interrogator said that the two died early and didn't know there was a mystery in them, so they threw them away. In the end, they couldn't find those two, so they could only accept three..." Zhu Di paused. road:

"But I didn't speak for him either, so it can't be considered a bribe, right?"

"Pfft..." Zhu Zhen almost sprayed his face with a sip of wine: "It's not Fourth Brother, why are you telling me this?"

"Didn't you ask me to tell you my heart and soul? Doesn't that imply that I should confess and be lenient?" Zhu Di said pitifully: "As for personal ethics, there is no need to confess, right?"

"Where are all this? I'm not here to investigate the case, I'm just here to see my father-in-law!" Zhu Zhen said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry: "Who do you think I am? A brother killer? Even if I can kill my relatives righteously, I will definitely It won’t come to your head.”

"Really?" Lao Si blinked.

"Fake." Zhu Zhen said angrily: "I grew up following you. Don't you know who I am?"

"Hahaha, let me tell you, you will always be the good sixth brother of the fourth brother." The fourth brother was relieved, smiled broadly, put his arm around the sixth brother's shoulders and said: "It's those people who have been saying all day long that you are becoming more powerful now. I can’t treat you like I did before. I was confused for a moment and believed their lies. Come on, brother, I’ll punish myself with three drinks!”

"I think we should be fined nine cups." Zhu Zhen also followed his words and said: "It really hurts my heart that I don't believe my brother."

"Nine cups are nine cups, whatever you say is what it is." Zhu Di happily drank nine cups in a row, and Zhu Zhen also accompanied him for nine cups. With their wine-barrel bodies, this little wine was just water.

"Haha, have fun!" After the two brothers finished drinking, they put their arms around each other, and there was no longer any barrier, as if they were back in the past.

"But things are still arranged this way. We can each use our strengths and we can't let you work alone." Zhu Di peeled off a salted duck egg, gave him the yolk, and kept the egg white for himself. "And the matter of organizing military rations, even if It’s not that easy for you to do.”

"Of course, that's why I didn't fully agree." Zhu Zhen said with deep approval: "In fact, it is not difficult to raise two million shi of food. My eldest brother showed me the accounts. The court has calmed down and is not as poor as it was back then. But how to transport these two million stones of grain to Peking within one month is a big problem. "

"Yes. If it's better in other seasons, Hai Zheng Yamen can reach Dagukou in ten days from Liujiagang, and then directly transport it to Xifengkou, which is more convenient than going to Peiping." Zhu Di said depressedly: "But I asked the people at the Maritime Administration and they said that the ports along the Bohai Bay are frozen for miles, and the sea is covered with ice, making it impossible to dock ships, so shipping has stopped. "

"They didn't lie to you." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "Every year from winter to February of the following year, no grain is transported to Peiping and Liaodong. One is the ice you mentioned, and the other is the ice during this season. The northwest wind makes sailing very difficult. We have to wait until spring starts and the north wind stops blowing before sailing can sail northward again. "