Chapter 76: Do you still want to be beaten?
As soon as Old Zhu saw his eager expression, he knew that this grandson was very upset and he didn't know what he was cursing at in his heart.
Hearing that his grandson was eager to confirm his position with him, he couldn't help but snort.
"certainly!"
"I said I won't fight you, so I won't fight you. Even if you point your finger at me and scold me, I won't fight you today!"
Lao Zhu emphasized the word "today", and the meaning was obvious: we can still continue fighting after today.
Zhu Yunhuan did not notice the loophole here, or perhaps he had indeed tolerated Zhu for a long time.
"Since you have said so, then I, your grandson, must say a few words to you!"
"You just said that the women in the Prince's Mansion asked to be buried alive with the emperor?"
"Please pat your chest and ask yourself, do you believe this?"
"I, a little kid, knew that I was just being polite to you, but you actually took it seriously!"
After hearing such treasonous words, Zhu Yuanzhang kept trying to persuade himself in his heart.
I'm not angry, I've already promised not to beat him today...
"Keep talking!"
"Hehe, just say it!"
"Then let's talk about the second point. What's wrong with me helping my father gain a reputation for benevolence and righteousness?"
"My father has been a benevolent and righteous man all his life, but in the end you made him bear the responsibility for more than 20 lives. Isn't this a violation of my father's original intention?"
When Old Zhu heard this, although he was very angry, he had to admit that what this rebellious grandson said made some sense.
"continue!"
"Now let's talk about the third point. I really can't imagine how much impact killing these twenty people will have on the Prince's Mansion."
"The Prince's Mansion isn't so poor that it can't even support a few women, right?"
This time, Old Zhu couldn't help it and immediately scolded.
"What do you know?"
"Don't you think about it? The women your father left behind are all around 30 years old."
"As the saying goes, thirty is like..."
When Mr. Zhu said this, he suddenly realized something was wrong. Why was he talking about this to a child?
However, just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard his grandson continue!
"Wolf?"
This time it was Old Zhu's turn to be confused. How old is his grandson? How come he knows such things!
"Little rebellious grandson, where did you learn these weird words from!"
"Mr. Qi taught you, right?"
"Confucius said: At fifteen I was determined to study; at thirty I was like a wolf; at forty I was like a tiger; at fifty I could sit on the ground and suck up dirt..."
When Old Zhu heard this, he was shocked and looked at Zhu Yunhuan in disbelief. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that such ferocious words came from a child who knew nothing about the world!
"Qitai taught you this?"
When Zhu Yunhuan heard Old Zhu say this, he immediately muttered guiltily.
"Maybe it was Lu who taught me..."
Old Zhu looked at Nisun with a conflicted look on his face and said in a deep voice.
"Don't talk nonsense in front of us!"
"Although Lu is a little scheming, she is still a lady from a wealthy family. How could she tell you this?"
"explain!"
"Where on earth did you hear that from?!"
Zhu Yunhuan's eyes rolled slightly, and he thought of the scene just now at the gate of the Prince's Mansion where several burly maids were dragging several little girls, and he immediately put the blame on them.
"Are those the maids around Mrs. Lu?"
"oops!"
"You know, I have a dissociative disorder and I don't remember many things from the past. How would I know where I heard it from?"
When Old Zhu heard this, he actually believed it a bit, because the maids in the palace came from complex backgrounds, and most of them were married women with children.
He would not be surprised if such vicious words came out of their mouths.
When Old Zhu thought about this, he secretly decided that he would find an opportunity to lay off a group of people tomorrow, especially those gossipy women in the Prince's Mansion. None of them should be allowed to stay!
"Are you always afraid that they will cheat on my father?"
Old Zhu snorted twice and ignored his grandson.
"Grandpa Emperor, I have to say something about you. Your feudal ideas are unacceptable!"
"Our Ming Dynasty has experienced wars and its population has dropped sharply. Although the economy and population have recovered well after decades of your governance, there are still large tracts of barren land."
"For women of childbearing age, we should allow them to give full play to their subjective initiative and encourage them to find their own way out, so as to achieve the rational allocation of resources and contribute to the optimization of the population structure of the Ming Dynasty."
"What do you mean?"
Old Zhu couldn't help but blink when he heard this. Although he didn't understand a few of the terms, he could make a rough guess when he heard words like population and lack of people.
"Ni Sun, you don't want us to allow them to remarry, do you?"
Zhu Yunhuan scratched his head in embarrassment.
"If you insist on saying so, it's not impossible..."
When Old Zhu heard this, he could no longer bear it. He grabbed the collar of a filial son, lifted him up and put him on his lap, then swung his hand and slapped him on the butt, making him scream.
"You are not keeping your word again. Didn't we clearly agree that you wouldn't hit me no matter what I said? Why are you hitting me again? Wuwuwu..."
"Let's stop you from talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense. What I said are all mature and wise words for governing a country. They are serious strategies for governing a country!"
"How dare you say that!"
Seeing that this rebellious grandson still dared to be stubborn, Old Zhu gave him three consecutive hits.
"Even if our Ming Dynasty is short of people, we still have your father's women!"
"Let me tell you, in this huge Prince's Mansion, except for your mother Chang, who was carried in from Hongwu Gate in a sedan chair with eight bearers according to the six rituals, all the rest were bought by us with real money, high positions and generous salaries!"
"They took the betrothal gifts , ate our Zhu family's rice, and still want to find other wild men to be happy?"
"Oh, you wish!"
"If you marry into our Zhu family, you are a member of our Zhu family in life and a ghost of our Zhu family in death!"
"You want to remarry? No way!"
When Lao Zhu got to this point, he started to rant at someone in frustration.
"I really want to beat you to death. If it weren't for you, the rebellious grandson, who caused trouble, those evildoers would have been in hell with your father by now, and I wouldn't be so troubled!"
“Pah pah pah…”
Facing Old Zhu's continuous attacks, Zhu Yunheng kept crying loudly but remained stubborn.
"Father, please open your eyes and see that I am almost beaten to death by your father in order to protect your reputation of benevolence and righteousness!"
"Father, please walk slowly and wait for me on the road. Your father will send the child down to accompany you soon..."
"I exchanged my life for more than twenty lives, and I was able to preserve my father's reputation for benevolence and righteousness. My son died a worthy death, a glorious death, and I have no regrets. Wow, wow, wow..."
Old Zhu almost fainted when he heard this. Isn't this grandson really good at stabbing people in the heart?
This knife is stabbing you, every stab is stabbing you right in the heart!
But what this grandson said sounded very reasonable. If he hadn't been crying loudly, we would have thought he was an imperial censor in the court!
Old Zhu withdrew his hand depressedly, then wiped his tears with his sleeve.
"get out!"
"Don't let me see you again today!"
Zhu Yunhuan did not run away after regaining his freedom. Instead, he covered his butt and looked at himself crying.
"Why don't you leave? Do you want to be beaten?"
"Old Zhu, are you planning to coax me away and then secretly send someone to kill all my father's women?"
"you!"
