The night breeze in August was slightly cool.

The curtain at the door swayed gently in the wind. Sometimes, the thick candles in the palace would beat a few times with the wind.

Zhu Yunxi carefully held a copper basin with hot water in it, and slowly moved towards Zhu Yuanzhang's palace. Pu Wuyong followed quietly, carrying a copper kettle filled with hot water.

When the palace attendants around saw His Highness King Wu approaching, they respectfully opened the curtains and silently saluted, and at the same time they felt relieved.

In the eyes of the emperor, eunuchs are not even human beings. In this palace so many years ago,

How many times have the eunuchs died of sticks because the emperor was angry with his slaves?

At the door of Zhu Yuanzhang's palace, it was Pu Bucheng who was on duty. When he saw Zhu Yunxi, he smiled with an expressionless face, and then whispered to the inside, "Your Majesty, Your Highness is here!"

"Come in when you're here!" Zhu Yuanzhang's voice came from inside, "I've told you so many times, our eldest grandson is here, no need to announce!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled at Pu Bucheng, then carried the copper basin and crossed the threshold.

Under the candlelight, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting behind the desk, still reading the memorial by the light.

"What do you have in your hand?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and asked.

Zhu Yunxi placed the copper basin at the old man's feet and said with a smile, "I will leave the capital tomorrow. Today I will be filial to you and give you a foot bath!"

In one sentence, the wrinkles on Zhu Yuanzhang's face opened and there was a smile on his face.

Zhu Yunxi rolled up his sleeves, gently helped the old man take off his shoes and socks, held his feet and slowly lowered them into the water.

"Grandpa, do you want to perm it or not?" Zhu Yuanzhang's feet were ugly. They were covered with hard calluses and his nails were deformed and black in color.

"Hiss!" Zhu Yuanzhang tested the water temperature, "Not bad, not hot enough!"

"This is already very hot!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "You are so hot that you are gasping for breath, and you still say it is not hot!"

"What do you know? The hotter your feet, the better! Heat the water!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

Later, Pu Wuyong came over and refilled the copper basin with some hot water. Zhu Yuanzhang explored it again and nodded with satisfaction.

"Hiss!" The old man grinned, and put his feet in without a royal image, with a bit of contentment in his brows, "You just don't know how to live. You can't use a copper basin to hot your feet, you have to use a wooden basin! "

Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "I just didn't find the wooden basin." Then while raising the old man's trousers, he said, "Your grandson has read a foot soak recipe with medicinal ingredients in a book before, saying it can relax the muscles and activate blood circulation. I'll go look for it later and ask the Imperial Hospital to match it up. From now on, you can soak your feet every day to relieve your fatigue!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed happily, "That's great!"

At this time, Zhu Yunxi rolled up the old man's trousers and found several centipede-like twisted and hideous scars on his calves.

"Fourteen years ago, when we were attacking Chuzhou, we rode on horseback to charge into the Yuan army's position." Zhu Yuanzhang said quietly, "At that time, I only had half an armor on my upper body and nothing on my legs. Someone came and cut me down here with a knife!" Looking at it, the old man pointed at the outside of his thigh, "This is a scar that someone poked with a spear."

The old man said it lightly, but the danger involved was self-evident.

"Does it hurt?" Zhu Yunxi wiped the old man's legs with a hot towel and asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "At that time, I was so scared that I didn't know how painful it was! When we sat down to eat after the battle, Tang He told us. Chongba, is there blood on your leg? Haha!"

As he said that, the old man's eyes became profound, "Who among the fighting people was not injured? We didn't take it seriously at that time, we just wiped it off a few times and let the doctor take care of it, and we continued to fight the next day!

It's all a trivial matter. As long as the bow and arrow don't hit the vital part, you usually won't die. "

"You are really lucky!" In these days, even a little bit of tetanus can kill someone, let alone such a deep stab wound. Zhu Yunxi smiled and raised his head, "This is also destiny, destiny is yours!"

"Bullshit!" Zhu Yuanzhang felt impressed, but did not accept the flattery. Instead, he said seriously, "How can there be destiny? This world was created by your grandfather with one knife and one shot.

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Grandson, you must remember that no matter what time comes, only the knife in your hand is destiny! "

"Political power comes from the handle of a knife!" Zhu Yunxi concluded with a smile.

"Yes, we like to hear that!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

The water gradually became less hot. Zhu Yunxi squatted on the ground and wiped the old man's feet.

"Grandpa, after all these years, why do you still have calluses on your feet?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile.

"It's not clean!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile, "Your grandfather didn't even have shoes before he was fifteen years old. He was barefoot in the ground all day long. Later he became a monk and traveled around the world on two feet wearing straw sandals. After becoming a soldier, Not to mention. On the day we got married to your grandma, when we took off our shoes, there were dry cracks on our feet. Your grandma was heartbroken.

Fortunately these years, when I was young, my feet were covered in frostbite in the winter, which was painful and itchy! "

As he spoke, he sighed, "The feet of poor people are all like this. Only the feet of nobles are white and tender."

"Grandpa!" Zhu Yunxi said while washing the old man's feet, "I will always remember that our Zhu family is a child of a poor family.

Not only will I remember it, but I will also tell future generations that it was not easy for our ancestors to start a business and that life in the world is difficult. "

"Good boy!" Zhu Yuanzhang's big hand touched Zhu Yunxi's head, "Tell us, why did you take the initiative to ask for orders to go to Jiangxi today?"

"Reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles." Zhu Yunxi said, "What you read on paper will eventually feel shallow. I think it is better to go to the places to see and learn, so that you can better govern.

Otherwise, if you stay in the palace for the rest of your life, wouldn't it mean that your eyes are completely dark and you don't know anything? "

"Yes!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Besides, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Only by doing it yourself can you know which method is right." Zhu Yunxi continued to smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nod, "That's a good saying, it's right, it's a wise saying!" He said, smiling, "It's better to study in the palace than to do it yourself. If you think so, grandpa is very happy!"

Then, the old man said again, "When you get to the place, what's your first step?"

"I think the first step is to be steady. My grandson is the emperor's imperial envoy. Knowing that I am coming, the people will not be so panicked.

Then let the local government open a warehouse for relief and set up a porridge factory at a fixed location, so that homeless people can pick it up at a fixed point every day. "

As for those who have families, they are also given daily rations. Don't give too much food to prevent someone from taking too much. "

“The memorial in Fuzhou only talked about the civil uprising, but it didn’t say what happened to the place where the Fu River burst, nor did it say whether to organize civilians to build river embankments.

The grandson wants to organize the men among the victims while providing relief, and repair the river embankments properly. "

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded repeatedly, "It's rare that you can come up with so much in a hurry. The two people we sent to you are both veterans who can do things. You should listen more, ask more, learn more, and don't put on airs in front of them. .”

"I understand!" Zhu Yunxi smiled, and then said to Pu Wuyong behind him, "Go find a scraping stone!"

Then, Zhu Yunxi took the foot scraping stone and slowly scraped the soft calluses on Zhu Yuanzhang's heels. After a while, there was a white patch in the basin.

"Haha! What's the point of having children? That's why!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to Pu Bucheng with a smile on his face, "Look, he is our biological grandson after all. He doesn't dislike us! Haha!"

However, after the old man finished laughing, he smiled and said to Pu Bucheng, "Hey, why are we telling you this? You don't have a queen!"

The words are full of real men's contempt for fake men.

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Early the next morning, as the first ray of sunshine fell, Zhu Yunxi got up from the bed.

Pu Wuyong and several eunuchs helped him wash up, put on his clothes, and came to Fengtian Hall again.

The old man also got up and was getting dressed, being attended by the eunuch.

Seeing that Zhu Yunxi was only wearing a simple lining, he frowned and said, "Why are you wearing this? Where is the dress?"

According to the rules, the prince should wear a royal crown and a dragon dress woven with gold thread when traveling.

"I have to go on an errand, not just to show off. I have to take my bodyguard with me and get to the disaster area as soon as possible! Wearing a dress is inconvenient." Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.

The lining on his body is a costume that combines the characteristics of the northern nomads. It has narrow sleeves and a waist, which is suitable for horseback riding and martial arts training. This kind of clothing can be traced back to the Liao and Jin Dynasties and was popular in the Yuan Dynasty. After wearing it, it not only facilitates movement, but also makes the figure appear taller and taller.

Jin Yiwei's clothing is similar to this. Moreover, the ministers and military generals in the palace often wore this kind of clothing.

"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and walked to the imperial desk, "You are old, and we have nothing to tell you. Just one sentence, do your job well and don't make people laugh."

"I took note of it carefully!" Zhu Yunxi bowed and raised his head, "Grandpa, you must take care of yourself while I am away."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled a few times, "My health is very good!" Although he was smiling, there was a trace of reluctance hidden in his eyes, "Go early and come back early. Remember that October is our birthday. You have to come back!"

"Grandpa, I will definitely come to wish you a birthday, run errands, and comfort the victims in Jiangxi. This is just a birthday gift for you!" Zhu Yunxi said loudly.

Looking at the heroic Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded silently, then slowly walked to the imperial desk, directly grabbed the sword that had been with him all his life, and "bring it with you."

Snap, the heavy sword was caught in his hand.

"The first time we killed people back then, we took this thing, and we relied on this to build the Ming Dynasty. Now, I leave it to you." After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang did not look at Zhu Yunxi, but said behind his back, "Dasun, go ahead. !”

Zhu Yunxi said nothing, holding the sword in both hands, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing respectfully.

Then, stand up and turn around to go out.

Beside the imperial desk, the old man's body trembled.

The sword was on his waist, and he was covered with a cape. After leaving Fengtian Hall, a group of cavalry was waiting there on the side of the hall, including Tie Xuan and Xie Jin.

"I will see you, Your Highness!"

"No need to be polite!" Zhu Yunxi strode past, flicked his cloak, "Mount your horse!"

With a crash, hundreds of cavalry armed to the teeth got on their horses, their armor making a loud scraping sound.

Zhu Yunxi rode his horse at the front of the cavalry queue and slowly passed in front of the main hall.

Amidst the sound of horse hooves, Zhu Yunxi turned his head and looked back.

The old man arrived at the door at some point and waved slightly to him.

"Grandpa!" Zhu Yunxi shouted, "Waiting for your grandson!"