Rebirth of Yongle Merry

Shen Kunwu was safe and sound, Shen Yunxu came to his senses, only to find that the man who came back with him was the man he had contacted a few days ago.

"Stay in charge?"

"Just now in Qinghuai Lane, I was almost hit by a collapsed house. It was Guan Shi who saved me."

For the rest of his life after the catastrophe, Shen Kunwu looked at the man who came back with him, his eyes were full of gratitude.

Qi Zhaonan approached them. The previous contact was not pleasant, but his expression was not unnatural, and his voice was still slightly low, "Are you okay?"

"Thank you for saving Kunwu."

Shen Yunxu showed a smile. Although the man in front of him looked indifferent, he helped out in times of crisis, which showed that his heart was not bad.

Shen Kunwu said: "Young master, the uncle who is in charge of Qi wants to meet you. He came to see us specially and asked if we would like to stay in Beiping and work for them."

"Let us stay in Peiping?"

Shen Yunxu raised his head in astonishment.

Qi Zhaonan said plainly: "Next time if you want to pour rice soup in someone's courtyard, you'd better say hello in advance."

Sprinkle rice soup on the white stone, and thick moss will grow after the rain, which has a poetic and picturesque scene of "green moss marks".Shen Yunxu's face was hot, "Sorry, I made my own decision."

"Fortunately, the master likes you very much, even my uncle is full of praise for you."

Qi Zhaonan twitched the corners of his lips, revealing a faint smile.His appearance is actually very good. When he smiles, his whole person becomes brighter.

With this smile, the unpleasant old things of a few days ago are gone with the wind.

Shen Yunxu took Shen Kunwu and followed Qi Zhaonan to meet his uncle Qi Kan.Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, ordered the construction of the capital city in Beiping. Qi Kan’s great-grandfather once participated in it. After more than 100 years of accumulation, the Qi family has now become a very famous family of craftsmen in Beiping, ranging from official residences to private residences. , There are countless projects built.

When they arrived at Qi's Si Qi residence, Qi Kan was messing with a pot of Yuqian flowers in the greenhouse.

Green vines hung down from the roll shed, and Qi Kan, who had a pale face, was over fifty years old, wearing a green cloth robe, elegant and energetic.Seeing Shen Yunxu enter the door, he stretched out his hand to beckon him over, "Little baby, you must know how to grow flowers, right? My pot of Yuqian flowers was given by a friend in the south. After two years of growing them, they still can't bloom. Come on, it really makes people scratch their heads."

baby?Shen Yunxu almost laughed, Qi Kan is really a very cute old man.

"Mr. Qi," he reached out and touched the leaves, and then said: "The flower before the rain is also called Ziyuan, not because its petals are purple, but its essence is on the pistil in the center of the flower. A purple flying bird. It grows most in the Huaiyu Mountains, and it only blooms before the rain. The color of the flower is extremely beautiful, but it is not suitable for garden planting, and it is impossible to bloom after transplanting."

"Really?" Qi Kan showed a disappointed expression, "It's a pity, a pity."

"Without flowers, viewing the leaves is the same." Shen Yunxu held up the flowers and leaves, "Under each leaf of the flower before the rain, there are different textures. Does this one look like a phoenix pattern?"

"I never found out!"

Qi Kan's eyes lit up, and he felt as if he hated Shen Yunxu for seeing each other so late, and pulled him to watch the flowers and plants planted in the greenhouse one by one.Shen Kunwu and Qi Zhaonan were left alone, and a strange feeling arose in his heart. Shen Yunxu knew everything about flowers before the rain, but he clearly remembered that he had never been in contact with this kind of flowers and plants?

Qi Zhaonan folded his arms and leaned against the pillar, with a look of helplessness on his face, Qi Kan obviously forgot the purpose of calling Shen Yunxu here.

Qi Kan is actually a very troublesome old man.

When he was 45 years old, he left all his family business to Qi Zhaonan to take care of, and then lived a semi-retirement life, obsessed with gardening and gardening, repairing his residence every three years, and renovating his house every five years. .Now that he has brought Shen Yunxu here, he has come up with the idea of ​​rebuilding the house again.Qi Zhaonan has always been smooth, as long as Qi Kan is willing, even if Si Qiju is razed to the ground and rebuilt, he will not have any objections.

Shen Yunxu and Shen Kunwu were left at Qi's house.

Qi Kan was very fond of Shen Yunxu, and asked his servants to make sure that he should be properly prepared, and treat him like a family member.That night, Shen Yunxu changed his outer robe and was about to go to bed, when Shen Kunwu came back from outside.

Seeing him picking up the copper basin to fetch water to wash his feet, Shen Yunxu called him, "Kunwu, I have already washed it myself, you don't need to work."

"Oh."

Shen Kunwu put the copper basin back to its original place, his brows and eyes stretched, obviously in a very good mood.

A few days ago, he was clamoring to go back to Jiangnan, so homesick that he wanted to cry.

Shen Yunxu looked at him with a smile, "Kunwu, was Manager Qi looking for you just now?"

"Guan Qi is a very good person." Shen Kunwu nodded happily, "He asked me if I like to eat candied fruit. The taste marinated with honey is very different from the ones in our hometown. It is very delicious."

"You ate it all by yourself?"

Shen Yunxu blinked and smiled like a naughty child.

Shen Kunwu suddenly felt very guilty, "My lord, I didn't leave you any."

"Kunwu, do you still miss home?"

Shen Yunxu reached out to rub his hair, "I want to stay in Beiping for a while, would you like it?"

In fact, Shen Kunwu had never been able to understand Shen Yunxu's thoughts. He suddenly proposed to come to Peiping, but suddenly changed his mind and said back.But the trust formed by following Shen Yunxu since he was a child, he nodded without thinking, "If you want to stay, son, you can stay, and Kunwu will always follow."

At the most difficult moment, this little servant never complained to him.

The moonlight came in through the window, and Shen Yunxu lay on the bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

He was beaten in prison, tortured to death, and the extreme pain seemed to be attached to his bones.Helpless, cold, and pain in the bones of maggots, every time he thinks about it, he wakes up in a cold sweat in his dream.It was as if someone was in his ear, calling him to come to Peiping.Originally, after going to King Yan's Mansion, he had already despaired of his established destiny, but Zhu Di stood in the rubble after the dragon raised his head and asked him: "Are you afraid?" From such a close distance, with a firm and daring look in his eyes, He can touch it.

He had already met that person, and he was unwilling to give up like this, so he decided to stay.

On the verdant and verdant Gouling Mountain, rare purple irises are in full bloom, and a snow-white fox squats in front of him with a flower branch in its mouth, watching him with brown and purple mandarin duck eyes. ...Scenes like in a dream emerged, Shen Yunxu fell into a deep sleep, reborn after death, it was the first time he slept so peacefully.

The next day, Shen Yunxu began to draw the layout of the garden renovation according to Qi Kan's intention.

After he left Suzhou at the age of 16 and took refuge in his aunt in Hangzhou, his skills improved by leaps and bounds under the guidance of a famous teacher. It took him nine years to hone his skills, so his first move is already extraordinary.Qi Kan asked him about his age several times, but he was full of praise in the end.

Among his peers, he is already very outstanding, let alone 16 years old?Shen Yunxu sweated in secret, he almost said "25 years old".

Shen Kunwu watched from the side, and the weird feeling became stronger and stronger.

He has long discovered that many of Shen Yunxu's words, deeds and habits have become different from when he was in Suzhou's ancestral home, as if he had grown up eight or nine years old all of a sudden, but he couldn't figure out the reason.

Shen Yunxu took Shen Kunwu to stay in Siqiju, half a month had passed before he knew it.

When he got up early that day, he walked out of the room and saw Shen Kunwu laying on the stone table in a daze, with a duck egg of quite beautiful shape and color in front of him.

"Is this early today?"

Seeing Shen Yunxu approaching, Shen Kunwu held the duck egg in his palm like a treasure, "It's raw, you can't eat it."

Shen Yunxu looked at him in surprise, "Kunwu, you don't intend to hatch it, do you?"

"I'm not a mother duck."

Shen Kunwu muttered, "Master, is there any way to cut this egg, but the yolk and white inside won't flow out?"

"It's the problem that Manager Qi gave you again?"

Shen Kunwu nodded with a bright light in his eyes. He thought about this question last night and fell asleep, and continued after waking up, but he still didn't figure it out.Shen Yunxu raised his forehead, Qi Zhaonan took pleasure in teasing his servant, always asking him some very weird questions.

"You can boil duck eggs."

"It can only be raw."

"That's also very simple, you burn the kitchen knife red, and then cut it."

"what?"

Shen Kunwu jumped up, clutched the duck egg and ran out. "My lord, you are really smart."

Shen Yunxu looked at his back and shook his head, it wasn't that he was too smart, but someone was too stupid, Qi Zhaonan was clearly teasing him, okay?Accidentally broke the answer, but during breakfast, Qi Zhaonan stared at Shen Yunxu several times with an unfriendly expression.He watched Qi Zhaonan poke the sesame seed cake in front of him vigorously with his chopsticks, and felt as if ten or eight holes had been poked out of him.

He seems to have offended Qi Zhaonan?

Then came down, Qi Zhaonan wanted to go to the north of the city to inspect the construction site, Shen Kunwu asked if he could go with him. The word "No" came to his lips, Shen Yunxu raised his head to meet Qi Zhaonan's two eyes that wanted to pierce him, and swallowed the words abruptly.

Shen Kunwu cheerfully followed Qi Zhaonan out.

Seeing the two figures disappear behind the screen wall, Shen Yunxu frowned uncomfortably.

After Qi Kan finished eating the rice porridge, he took the cloth towel handed over by the maid to wipe his mouth, and said, "That kid from Zhaonan still remembers his dead brother."

I see.Shen Yunxu was relieved all of a sudden.

That night, Shen Kunwu and Qi Zhaonan didn't come back very late.Shen Yunxu waited for a while, then went to bed by himself.As a result, when he woke up the next morning, Shen Kunwu didn't come to serve him as usual, but fetched water to wash his face.Shen Yunxu went to his room to look for him, only to find that Shen Kunwu was ill.

"Kunwu, did you eat something unclean outside?"

Shen Kunwu struggled to get up and went to the hut, almost unable to walk steadily. Shen Yunxu saw the blood stains left on his mattress, and suddenly seemed to be struck by lightning.

He might not have understood it when he was 16, but now he doesn't need a second glance to understand what's going on.

"It's Qi Zhaonan, right?"

Shen Kunwu lowered his eyes, not even daring to look up at him.

Shen Yunxu was so angry that his whole body trembled, Qi Zhaonan brought the doctor in, he rushed up, grabbed his collar forcefully, wishing to use all his strength to roar.

"What have you done to Kunwu?"

"I will take responsibility." Qi Zhaonan slightly turned his face away.

"He's only 16 years old, how can you treat him like this?" Shen Yunxu pushed Qi Zhaonan away vigorously, if he didn't insist on coming to Beiping, Shen Kunwu would not have encountered such a thing.After all, he killed him.He turned around and held Shen Kunwu's hand, "Kunwu, I'll take you away, we'll leave here right away."

Qi Zhaonan blocked the door with his body, his eyes fell on Shen Kunwu and refused to move away, tears were faintly seen.

"You promised me that I would not go back to Jiangnan."

Shen Yunxu turned around suddenly, and Shen Kunwu lowered his head. "...Young Master, if I leave, brother Qi will be too pitiful."

"He just regards you as a dead brother, do you understand?"

"I, I know."

Shen Kunwu's hand slipped away, and Shen Yunxu grabbed it tightly again.He had no choice but to leave the servant who had been with him since childhood into Qi Zhaonan's hands.The three of them were at a stalemate, and Qi Kan finally arrived after hearing the servant girl's report.

He frowned and reprimanded: "Zhao Nan, you are really fooling around this time!"

Qi Zhaonan stubbornly raised his head and looked at him, Qi Kan's brows became more and more wrinkled, and there was a hint of anger, so he stepped back reluctantly.

Qi Kan ordered the doctor to prescribe medicine for Shen Kunwu, then turned to Shen Yunxu and said, "Son, come out with me."

He seldom went out on weekdays, and he was dressed in a simple green robe. Only then did Shen Yunxu notice that he had changed into a brocade suit. "Give them some time." Qi Kan took the lead and walked far ahead, Shen Yunxu looked back at Shen Kunwu, and finally followed.

Qi Zhaonan stopped him from behind: "Take care of uncle for me, he can't get angry."

Shen Yunxu's chest was filled with suffocation all the time, and he said heavily: "Please take care of my Kunwu too!"

"Yandi Luantan (both historical data and gossip)" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The seventh bomb: Yan Di's soldiers.

In order to consolidate the rule of himself and his descendants, Zhu Yuanzhang enfeoffed more than 20 members of his clan as vassal kings and stationed them all over the country.The entrusted kings established palaces in their own fiefdoms, set up officials, and their status was quite high. Dukes and ministers had to pay homage to the prince when they came to see the prince, and no one dared to neglect.

The vassal king has the right to command the military, and set up the prince's guard commander in the palace to govern the three guards of the army. There are as few as 3000 guards and as many as 19000 guards.Because the kings of the frontier fortress had the important task of defending against the invasion of the Mongolian nobles, they had more guards. "The king of Yan was good at seeking (Zhu Di), and the king of Ning was good at fighting (Zhu Quan)". With 10 soldiers, Ning Wang Zhu Quan stationed in Daning (now Chifeng City, Mongolia) "with [-] armor and [-] leather chariots".

Zhu Di went north to Mongolia five times, built cities in frontier fortresses, trained generals, inspected vital areas, and supervised the manufacture of military weapons. He not only respected the order of his family, but also became the head of the kings in terms of military strength.