Gao Chi of the Ming River

When Zhu Gaochi was awakened in a daze, it was still dark outside, he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, and heard a slightly hoarse voice, "Chi'er..."

Zhu Gaochi slowly raised his head, his mind was still a little confused, "Father..."

"It's time to get up." Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochi rubbing his eyes in a daze, smiled slightly, raised his hand and rubbed Zhu Gaochi's head, and said in a low voice.

"Oh……"

He sat up, took the wet towel from his father, rubbed his face fiercely, and then he was fully awake. He was thinking in a daze, every time he slept with his father, he would always sleep because of sleep. It was so comfortable that I forgot the time. When I was sleeping alone, he would wake up before the hour...

Hmm...it must be that the bed here is so comfortable.Zhu Gaochi was very sure.

After practicing martial arts, Zhu Gaochi was having breakfast, slowly picking the porridge in the bowl.

Zhu Di picked up a meat bun and put it in Zhu Gaochi's bowl, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "What? Xiao Roubao won't eat meat buns today?"

Zhu Gaochi paused, turned his head, and said seriously, "Father, my son is thirteen!"

Zhu Di looked up and down, and after a long while, he smiled maliciously and said, "Well, the little meat bun is a bit bigger." While talking, he pinched Zhu Gaochi's little face, paused, and smiled, "No matter how big it is, it's still small." Meat bun."

Zhu Gaochi froze, and couldn't help but whispered, "Then you are the meat bun daddy!"

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes and hummed, "What are you talking about?! Huh?"

"No..." Zhu Gaochi lowered his head, continued to eat the porridge, and sighed in his heart, little meat buns... Why does he think that his father is going back as he lives?He's not a little meat bun anymore, is he?

Looking at the meat buns in the bowl, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but muttered, "I really want to eat noodles..."

Zhu Di paused, this kid...is picking his mouth again?Noodle?Just ask the government to do it.But... this kid wants to eat something outside.

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After Zhu Gaochi finished his breakfast, he went back to Tingtao Courtyard to read and write by himself. Because of the Taoist disease, Zhu Gaochi has been reading and writing by himself in the past few days.

While concentrating on writing, Zhiqin hurried over and reported respectfully, "My son, the princess invites my son to meet the guests in the front hall."

Zhu Gaochi came back to his senses, smiled gently and said, "Okay, I see."

After Zhu Gaochi finished speaking, he slowly put down the brush, got up, habitually put his hands behind his back, and walked leisurely outside.

On the way, Zhu Gaochi asked gently, "San Bao, do you know who is coming from the front hall?"

Ma Sanbao had already inquired about it secretly, and now he hurriedly stepped forward and replied in a low voice, "I heard that it is the wife of the new chief envoy Mr. Zhang and his daughter..."

Zhu Gaochi paused immediately.

Female dependents?

Isn't the concubine mother and concubine here to see the female relatives?He's a man, isn't it convenient?

Or... what is the concubine's plan? ? ?

Zhu Gaochi was embarrassed, he was only 13 years old, mother and concubine!

Embarrassed, but on the face, Zhu Gaochi still moved slowly towards the front hall. The mother and concubine had spoken, and he couldn't go if he didn't go.

And this time...

In the Songzhu Courtyard, Zhu Di asked coldly, "Wangfei invites the son to go to the front hall?"

"Returning to the prince, it is the wife of the new chief minister Zhang Suzhang and his daughter who have come..."

Female dependents?

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly.Let Chi'er go to see the female relatives?What does princess mean? !

Zhu Gaochi arrived in the front hall, bowed his hands respectfully and bowed to Mrs. Xu, "My son pays homage to his mother and concubine!"

Mrs. Xu smiled, motioned Zhu Gaochi to get up, and then said, "Chi'er, come, this is Mrs. Zhang Suzhang's wife, this is Mrs. Zhang's first daughter..."

Zhu Gaochi followed Xu's line of sight, as if she was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl?Zhu Gaochi just glanced slightly, then lowered his eyes, and stood aside gently and quietly after saluting respectfully.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi didn't see the blush on the little girl's face and Xu's meaningful smile.

Zhu Gaochi didn't stay for long, and after a while, Mrs. Xu asked him to leave.

Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly left after saluting respectfully.But his heart began to worry, his mother seemed to be choosing a wife for him?

But... he is the son of the world.And he is only 13 years old, isn't his mother too early?

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Gaochi threw it aside. If his mother really had such a plan, he would definitely object. She is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, how could an uncle like him do it?

And after Mrs. Xu sent Mrs. Zhang away, she returned to the Fanghua Courtyard. Not long after returning to the Fanghua Courtyard, the villain outside hurriedly reported, "My lord, the prince is here."

Mrs. Xu was startled, and hurriedly led someone to kneel down to meet her.

Zhu Di strode into the Fanghua Courtyard, motioned for Ping to go behind him, waved his servants back, and asked, "Why did you let Chi'er go to see the female relatives of the Zhang family?"

Mrs. Xu was taken aback, and seeing Zhu Di's gloomy expression, she hurriedly explained, "If I go back to the prince, I just think that Chi'er is already thirteen, and I should pay attention to the marriage, so..."

Zhu Di was silent for a while, then said lightly, "Now is not the time to talk about this."

Xu was taken aback.Isn't it time to say these things?

Zhu Di turned around and said lightly, "Let's talk about it in three years."

Three years later?Mrs. Xu suddenly thought of some recent news from the capital, and she had some comprehension in her heart, so she nodded and said in a low voice, "It's my concubine who is impatient."

Zhu Di was silent, and strode out of Fanghuayuan.

After walking out of Fanghuayuan, Zhu Di led the horse out of the palace directly.

Feeling irritable and depressed, Zhu Di rode his horse straight out of the city and galloped around a few times. The restlessness in his heart was relieved a little, and then he rode his horse back to the city slowly.

On the road, Zhu Di reined in his horse and stopped before passing a small stall with the word "Noodle Soup" hanging on it.

Zhu Neng and Zhang Yu, who followed closely behind, quickly got off their horses and looked at each other, wondering what happened to the prince?Why are you so irritable?

The shopkeeper ordered a bowl of noodle soup, took a few mouthfuls, then put down his chopsticks with a frown.Zhu Neng and Zhang Yu hurriedly put down their chopsticks.

Feeling at a loss, my lord... still hates noodles.

When Zhu Di got up to leave, he asked abruptly, "Are there any sales in the morning?"

The shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly said with a flattering smile, "Yes, yes, yes..."

Zhu Di nodded, then turned and left.

The rest of the store looked suspiciously at the three bowls of noodle soup on the table that hadn't touched the chopsticks at all, and was entangled in his heart. Is his noodle soup... bad? ? ?

After Zhu Di returned to the mansion, he walked with big strides all the way, with a gloomy expression, and his pace became more and more urgent, but he suddenly stopped when he saw a young man walking slowly with his hands behind his back not far away.

Staring deeply at the young man who walked by unnoticed leisurely, Zhu Di couldn't help clenching his hands into fists.

...What is this obsession that doesn't want anyone to get close to him, doesn't want him to belong to anyone, and only allows him to be alone in his heart?

He...is his favorite son.

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The next day, Zhu Gaochi finished his martial arts practice, took a shower, and walked out of the back room refreshed, and saw his father sitting on the main seat, looking at him with a calm expression.

Zhu Gaochi was taken aback, and was about to salute respectfully, when Zhu Di waved his hands impatiently, "Stop making those false salutes! Come here!"

Zhu Gaochi grinned and slowly moved over.

Zhu Di frowned, stood up simply, and pulled Zhu Gaochi's big hand closer. Zhu Gaochi staggered and fell into Zhu Di's arms. The irritability and depression in my heart seemed to disappear at this moment.

"Chi'er, dad will take you to eat delicious food today." Zhu Di lowered his head and said with a hearty smile.

delicious?Meat buns or pancakes?Comfortably leaning against Zhu Gaochi in his father's warm embrace, he tilted his head and thought, he wants to eat noodles...

After sitting on the chair at the street stall, Zhu Gaochi looked at the big bowl of noodles in front of him, his eyes lit up involuntarily.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochi's eyes lit up, and felt amused in his heart, thinking that when the kid had breakfast the day before yesterday, he chanted "I haven't eaten noodles for a long time", and I remembered it in my heart, although the cook of the palace can also make noodles. Do, but Zhu Di knew that this kid didn't like the food made in the house, except braised pork and mapo tofu, but liked the food from the street vendors.

I kept it in mind, when I passed by yesterday, I couldn't help but stop and ate a bowl. I felt that the taste was not bad and it was relatively clean, so I brought this kid out today.

"Do you like it?" Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochi eating with a smile on his face, and asked with a low smile.

"I like it!" Zhu Gaochi swallowed the following and raised his head smilingly in response.

My heart seems to be filled to the brim, but I just said it unintentionally once, and my father remembered it?

His father... is so nice.

But looking at the barely touched noodles in front of his father, Zhu Gaochi raised his head, "Father, why don't you eat it?"

Zhu Di smiled faintly, "Father has eaten and is not hungry. You can eat."

Zhu Gaochi stared at his father for a while, then lowered his head and slowly swallowed the noodles.

By the way, his dad doesn't like noodles, how could he forget?

Zhu Gaochi felt a little ashamed, couldn't help but raised his head, and said nana, "Father... Later, my son will accompany you to eat sesame seed cakes..."

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and raised his hand to touch Zhu Gaochi's head, "Can you still eat later? Dad is not hungry, you can eat."

Zhu Gaochi thought about it too, hehe smirked, buried his head in eating noodles, thinking in his heart, he had to be nicer to his father!

After eating the noodles, he rubbed his swollen stomach, looked at his father's frowning and displeased face, and Zhu Gaochi smiled foolishly. After all, he... still couldn't help it... he was full...

Zhu Di sighed inwardly, raised his hand and pinched Zhu Gaochi's face who was pretending to be smirking, a little helplessly pampered, "Let's go."

After finishing speaking, he clasped Zhu Gaochi's wrist and strode forward.

However, Zhu Gaochi used to walk very slowly, and his steps were also very small. After barely following a few steps, he staggered a little.

Zhu Di paused for a moment, then slowed down, letting Zhu Gaochi slowly follow.

Zhu Gaochi glanced at his father's calm face, thinking to himself, actually...his father can let go of his hand, and he can walk slowly by himself.But he glanced at the wrist tightly clasped by his father, and the big dark and rough hand clasped his white and tender wrist... Zhu Gaochi thought about it, that's all, he also likes being led away by his father like this.

Zhu Gaochi tried to speed up his pace, and slowly, he finally caught up with his father.

So, on the streets of Beiping, a tall and handsome man led a cute boy and walked slowly.

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Today, in Daqingshou Temple.

Zhu Di stared at the chessboard, holding the black chess in his hand, but found that the chess game had no way out.

After a long while of silence, Zhu Di put down the black chess dully.

"Is there something on your mind?" Dao Yan asked softly.

"Dao Yan, you once said that if a person has no weakness, even if he is invincible, he is still a pitiful person."

"Yes... and such a person will act without scruples. If he is allowed to have a certain amount of power, I am afraid it will bring harm to the common people..."

"Dao Yan, what if...you become obsessed with your weakness?"

Dao Yan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Everyone has obsessions...as long as it doesn't endanger others, what's the problem?" He asked a little teasingly, "I don't know which woman has this blessing?"

Zhu Di looked calm, and changed the subject, "Is there any news from the capital?"

Dao Yan's expression was complete, and he said seriously, "My lord, it's confirmed. The prince... I'm afraid he will die soon." Finally, Dao Yan lowered his voice, but the excitement in his heart was still hard to hide in his lowered voice.

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, and couldn't help clenching the black chess in his hand.

Is the time... has it come?