Chapter 21: I'm afraid the world will not be in chaos

Prince Yan walked in front, followed by Zhu Gaoxu, his three brothers and Yao Guangxiao, and they walked into a living room in the courtyard. It was hot and dry, and Yao Guangxiao had been reading for a long time in Princess Xu's room. Someone brought in tea, so everyone drank tea and rested for a while.

Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Zhu Gaoxu had some words brewing in his mind for a while before he spoke, "Father, I have a few words to say but I don't know whether I should say them or not."

"Speak." Zhu Di looked over. His tiger eyes were still bright but seemed full of anxiety. He only spoke one word, nothing extra.

Zhu Gaoxu leaned forward, and although he was sitting, he leaned forward to the upper seat with the intention of bowing, "Your son, I suggest that Zhang Xin, the commander-in-chief of Beiping, may be able to be won over. Why don't you, father ..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Di interrupted him directly, "I have a lot of things to do recently, and your mother is seriously ill. You don't have to worry about me, just don't add to my troubles. Listen, don't just find some people to spread nonsense everywhere, hoping that the world will not be in chaos!"

Zhu Gaoxu was about to argue that he was very careful in doing things, and if he could participate in a confidential plan, he would not leak it casually... Unexpectedly, Yao Guangxiao stared with a pair of triangular eyes and spoke first, "After all, the Prince of Gaoyang is young and does not know the cunning of the officialdom. That Zhang Xin is the commander-in-chief of a province. If we try to win him over at this time, wouldn't that be a cover-up?"

"Okay." The Prince of Yan raised his hand and frowned, and the people around him had no choice but to shut up. Zhu Gaoxu also swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue, and felt that his stomach seemed to have swelled up a lot.

At this time, the King of Yan stood up from his chair and said, "Let's go."

Zhu Gaoxu thought that his elder brother and third brother had arrived earlier and had probably already seen Mother, and he had not yet had time to see Mother, so he said, "I will go see Mother again."

So the others followed Prince Yan out of Princess Xu's courtyard, and Zhu Gaoxu returned to the princess's room to check on her condition.

There was a pungent smell of Chinese medicine in the room. Zhu Gaoxu asked the maid next to him to lift the curtain a little, and saw that the princess was indeed very sick. Fortunately, she was not unconscious, but she was weak even when speaking, and she couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. It was really very serious!

"Seeing that Gao Xu... has gradually become sensible, mother is... relieved..." Princess Xu was barely able to breathe and finally managed to say another word.

Zhu Gaoxu said a few words of comfort and was about to leave. Anyway, he had nothing to do here. At this time, only Zhu Gaoxu and Chi Yue were by the bed. Princess Xu had no strength and her voice was low, so she said, "Chi Yue, see him off."

"Yeah." Master Chi Yue on the side responded.

In order to hear what Princess Xu said clearly, Zhu Gaoxu and Chi Yue moved closer to her bedside. Zhu Gaoxu finally had the opportunity to see Chi Yue's face up close. Although her face was covered with a veil, her forehead and eyes could be seen.

Chi Yue had a pair of almond-shaped eyes, but the corners of her eyes were slightly tilted upwards, which gave her a natural charm. Unfortunately, there was no emotion in her eyes, and her expression was cold and slightly gloomy, as if she had experienced something bitter and hateful.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that her plain dress was an illusion. If this woman was not dressed in Taoist robes, she would not have the temperament of a Taoist priest at all.

When the two of them left the room, Chi Yue stood aside for a moment, then looked at Zhu Gaoxu with a strange look. Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to walk to the front.

This subtle move made Zhu Gaoxu a little confused: Could it be that this female Taoist priest had eyes behind her back and knew that I was watching her waist and butt from behind last time, so she didn't give me a chance this time?

Chi Yue said nothing along the way, and showed no sign of speaking. Zhu Gaoxu felt depressed and had no interest in flirting. So it was another silent and embarrassing road.

Fortunately, we will soon reach the moon cave door, and Chi Yue will only send it there.

Zhu Gaoxu stood still, turned around, and wanted to say something nonsense like not giving it away. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a voice came from outside the wall, coming from the picture window on the wall.

A strange voice said, "Then King Gaoyang is really funny. If he can even make suggestions in front of the prince, what else do we have to do?"

Then Yao Guangxiao spoke earnestly, "He is still young. Who is not frivolous when they are teenagers? This kind of child, once he has some ideas, will inevitably be self-righteous, thinking that except for himself, everyone else is a puppet without a brain. Don't bother with him."

The person who just spoke laughed, "Yes! Look at his outfit today. He came to visit the patient, and he was dressed like that in his own house. If you don't know him, you would think he was doing something important and was going to meet a lot of people! He even wore black boots, and he didn't mind the hot weather. It made me laugh to death!"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he lowered his head to look at his clothes and thought to himself: Before I came, I didn't know that my mother was seriously ill. I originally wanted to pay a visit to my father in the front hall of the Prince of Yan's Mansion.

He glanced sideways and saw Chi Yue also looking at him, with a smile in her eyes...but it was a mocking smile.

Zhu Gaoxu blushed and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't explain anything.

The voice of the man outside was getting louder and louder. He had already approached this side, only separated by a wall. The man said, "But does what King Gaoyang said make sense?"

Yao Guangxiao's voice immediately said, "He just made up his mind, what does he know? Does he know how deep the relationship between the court and Peking is? In this situation, if the person he mentioned can be won over, I will dive into the Qingshou Temple's release pond and turn into a turtle!"

The man chuckled and said, "Don't be angry, calm down. It's all because King Gaoyang is ignorant and wants to take advantage of others as soon as he comes."

Zhu Gaoxu was also very angry. The more he listened, the angrier he got. The veins on his forehead popped out. When he looked at Chi Yue next to him, he saw that she had a cold expression on her face. But at this time, Zhu Gaoxu felt that there was contempt in her coldness!

At this moment, the people around Yao Guangxiao looked into the cave door and found Zhu Gaoxu. They were stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "Is the Prince of Gaoyang still in the mansion?"

Zhu Gaoxu turned around and looked at Yao Guangxiao. Zhu Gaoxu's face turned red, and he stood there in anger without saying a word. But Monk Yao was so thick-skinned that he remained calm at this moment! Monk Yao calmly made a one-handed salute as a greeting, then turned around and left.

Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, calmed himself, and said, "Master Chi Yue will not see you off." He thought Chi Yue would turn a deaf ear to what had just happened.

Unexpectedly, Chi Yue asked, "Prince Gaoyang is suggesting that we win over someone?"

"That's all." Zhu Gaoxu looked at her with a little surprise. If Chi Yue hadn't always given him the impression of being taciturn and indifferent to everything, he wouldn't have felt a little strange.

Chi Yue nodded slightly, his expression returned to indifference, "I'm leaving now."

When Zhu Gaoxu came out of the Prince of Yan's mansion, he saw his followers waiting outside. He asked them to bring the horses over, then he got on the horses and rode away without saying a word, ready to go straight home. Perhaps because his followers saw that he looked unhappy, they were also cautious and did not dare to say a word.

Zhu Gaoxu spent the entire afternoon changing clothes and running back and forth, doing almost nothing, and was naturally very depressed.

When he got home, he quickly stripped off his dragon robe, black gauze hat, and black boots and threw them in the middle of the bedroom, making a mess. Then he changed into some light clothes, put on his clogs, and went to the study.

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that he had done nothing wrong! He even found what Wang Gui had written and reread it three times!

He thought to himself: It's just a word from Yao Guangxiao, why should I doubt myself?

In the eyes of others, he was indeed only sixteen or seventeen years old, too young and inexperienced to be able to think things through. But he knew that Zhu Gaoxu's current thinking was not that of a teenager.

"Wang Gui! Wang Gui!" Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and shouted at the roof.

After a while, it was Aunt Wang who came. Aunt Wang said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. Wang Gui is not in the back hall. I will go and call him right away."

"Okay." Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

Wang Gui ran into the study, panting and bending over, and asked, "My Lord, what did I do wrong?"

"No, I just asked you to come over." Zhu Gaoxu had regained his composure.

"Yes, yes. What do you want me to do, Your Majesty?" Wang Gui said.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at him slowly and praised him, "Your writing is very good, I should reward you. Go to the storehouse and get 50 strings of cash and write my opinion on the account."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Wang Gui knelt on the ground. "Your Highness gave me the money bag on the road last time. I have put the unspent money into the treasury."

Zhu Gaoxu said, "You are indeed loyal. You can take the money as well."

He paused for a moment and whispered , "Wang Gui, there is a commander named Zhang Xin in what you wrote. Don't do anything else recently. Go to his house and wait for him to find out more."

Zhu Gaoxu thought that if this matter was handed over to Professor Hou, it would definitely be handled more properly, after all, Professor Hou could even find out other people's family affairs and the relationships between relatives and friends. However, Zhu Gaoxu thought of what the Prince of Yan said, "spreading nonsense everywhere in order to create chaos in the world", and the Prince of Yan had clearly warned him against it, so he was afraid that the news would leak out and reach the Prince of Yan's ears, which would cause him great trouble.

Compared with Professor Hou, Wang Gui is obviously much more reliable.

Wang Gui said, "I obey your command. I can ask my godson for help in this matter."

Zhu Gaoxu immediately said, "You go in person, and keep it secret!"

Wang Gui said, "I will do what your Highness has told me to do, but I need to take a nap, so I need to find a helper to take over. My godson is very reliable and will never say a word. Your Highness, rest assured, I will discipline him well."

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it and said, "Okay, remember my instructions."

Wang Gui bowed and said, "I'll remember this."

Zhu Gaoxu sent Wang Gui away and walked around in the study. There were actually many books in this study. I remember that Taizu didn't like Zhu Gaoxu because he liked to run around and cause trouble when he was studying; but Zhu Gaoxu was not illiterate, as evidenced by his good handwriting, but he was only interested in martial arts and was not so obsessed with poetry and books.