The middle-aged man, who was a little fat, screamed like a ghost, and turned around abruptly.
Xia Xun looked at him, it was really him, Zhu Yunwen had only been more than ten years old, he seemed to have aged dozens of years, his fat body, fat cheeks, droopy eye bags, and rosacea nose had only been working hard for more than ten years, how did he become like this The white-faced bearded old man screamed and flashed in front of Zhu Yunwen, and opened his arms to protect him, just like an old hen protecting its chicks, his faint eyebrows were twisted, and a solemn murderous aura surged up, and he shouted to Xia Xun: "You are the person sent by the Yan thief, you are so bold, do you dare to kill the king?"
Xia Xun glanced at him deeply, and said with a faint smile: "Old man, I admire you very much, although there are many people who look down on people like you who are physically imperfect. ” He looked at Zhu Yunwen again and said, "But he is no longer the emperor, you are free, go live your own life."
The old eunuch's face flushed with excitement, and he shouted: "A bunch of nonsense, you are a big rebel, the king is the king, the minister is the minister, our family has been the slave of the emperor's side all my life, if you dare to be unfavorable to the emperor, our family will fight with you" A hand gently put on his shoulder, slowly pushed him aside, and the old eunuch said in a panic: "Your Majesty" Zhu Yunwen slowly puffed up his chest, and at this moment, his body vaguely regained a bit of the majesty of the Ninety-Five Supreme in the past.
"Ke Zhou, he's right, I'm not an emperor anymore" "Your Majesty, You" Zhu Yunwen waved his hand, slowly took a step forward, stood in front of Xia Xun, squinted and looked at Xia Xun for a long time, and then said slowly: "I recognize you, I recognize you, you are Yang Yang" Xia Xun bowed lightly and said, "Yang Xu" "For Yang Xu Yang Xu for so many years, you have hardly changed" Xia Xun said: "Your Majesty's changes are not small. ” Zhu Yunwen smiled miserably and said: "You don't need to call me Your Majesty, you are right, I am no longer the emperor, from the day I abandoned my wife and children and cheated my life to steal my life, I am no longer the Son of Heaven."
Xia Xun said: "Then, I should call you Mr.
Ribery" Zhu Yunwen didn't answer, he looked at Xia Xun, but his eyes seemed to drift far, far away, and after a long time, he asked softly: "He became the emperor, right?"
Xia Xun replied: "It was he who became the emperor." ” Zhu Yunwen asked again: "My son Wengui, is he still alive?"
Xia Xun said: "Alive, he is imprisoned in Guang'an Palace, Fengyang, the central capital. ” Zhu Yunwen's tears flowed down, and he choked up: "Is Daming okay?"
Xia Xun's expression moved slightly, and replied: "Very good, the Yunnan-Guizhou region has set up a liuguan, the East China Sea is no longer a climate, the army of the Timurid Empire wants to conquer my Ming Dynasty but returns in vain, and the Tatars and Warats in the north who took advantage of the civil strife in our Ming Dynasty have collapsed under the personal conquest of Your Majesty, and the imperial court has also set up a Nuer Gandu Division in the far north.
Now, the emperor is about to move the capital to Yanjing, Yongzhen Saibei nomadic herding, to prevent its resurgence, south, the imperial court sent troops into Annam, put down its rebellion, and reinstate Annam's hometown in our territory.
At sea, he also sent a huge fleet to appease Zhuyi and trade extensively, and I was a forerunner. ” Zhu Yunwen's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked urgently, "You weren't specially sent by him to arrest me?"
Xia Xun smiled and said, "The ocean-going fleet has another commander, and I, my mission is to find your whereabouts.
It's just that I didn't believe you were in the West anymore, I wanted to step out of a voyage, but I didn't expect that when I didn't want to go to you anymore, I just ran into you, and I was in the bathroom."
Xia Xun said a few words briefly, and the old eunuch knew that he was careless, otherwise his emperor would probably never be exposed, the old eunuch immediately knelt on the ground, knocked his head and cried: "The slave and the maid should die, the slave and the maid should die, it is the slave's fault, the emperor, you kill the slave and the maid."
Zhu Yunwen said in a deep voice: "It's my life to get up, it's not your fault" Xia Xun glanced at the old eunuch, then at Zhu Yunwen, and asked, "It is said that there are no less than dozens of people escorting you, what about those people?"
Zhu Yunwen didn't answer, he leaned down, first helped the old eunuch, then turned to Xia Xun, and said gloomily: "I fled all the way to Quanzhou, where I got on a merchant ship that went to the South Seas, fled to Srivijaya, and lived there for a while, because there are often smuggling merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty, I was worried about not being safe, so I continued to go west, this time, I went to Guli, and settled there."
I thought that this time I could live there for the rest of my life, but a few years later, a merchant from Nanyang said that the Ming Dynasty sent a huge and incomparable fleet, huge like a castle floating on the sea, this fleet has reached Nanwuli, and it is said that it will also go to the area of Xiao Gülan, Kezhi, and Guli.
I couldn't help it, I was afraid that something would happen, so I had to keep fleeing west."
Zhu Yunwen said sadly: "Run, run, finally one day, I fled to the Persian Gulf, and some of my entourage died of illness, some were swept into the sea by the wind and waves, and there were less than ten people left by my side."
I didn't dare to go any further along the sea route, God knows if there would be a storm and we all disappeared into the sea I thought that even if the Ming fleet came to search for my whereabouts, they would not be able to leave so many warships on land to search for me far away, so we abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, and kept going forward until I came here, and when I came here, there were few people around me because of injuries and bandits along the way.
When I came to this place, there were only four people left with me, and one of them later died of illness.
The people here told me that further on, there was an endless sea, and no one had ever been able to reach its end, and no one had ever seen a ship at the end of the sea, and I thought, this is the edge of the sky."
Xia Xun asked: "Luo Kedi, he really arranged it like this" Zhu Yunwen looked at him in surprise, Xia Xun smiled, and there was some relief in his smile: "You actually know how to cover up for him, it seems that you have really changed a lot over the years."
You don't have to worry about him, the city is broken, Lord Luo took poison and committed suicide, he has been dead for many years, you don't have to worry about what he will be implicated in. ” A touch of shame flashed on Zhu Yunwen's face, how many people have died for his country, those martyred civil servants and military generals, and the countless nobodies who died on the battlefield and whose names and surnames are not passed down to the world, but he, the emperor, survived secretly, abandoned the courtiers who were loyal to him, and also abandoned his wife and his own son.
Xia Xun glanced at his gray hair and asked, "There are three other people around you, and the other two."
Zhu Yunwen straightened his chest and said: "I'm here, if you kill me, they are just the people who were ordered to escort me, do you want to kill them all?"
When the old eunuch heard this, he got up again and nervously guarded him in front of him.
Xia Xun shook his head and said, "I'm just curious, why is there only one person left by your side, and the remaining two have abandoned you."
Zhu Yunwen's face immediately turned red: "You are talking nonsense that they are loyal to me, and you are not allowed to insult me like this, I have gone all the way to the west, and I have gone through ups and downs, and the money and property I have carried have been lost, or have been robbed by bandits, and when I arrived here, there was not much left, and they didn't want to follow me to eat empty."
Except for Ke Zhou, who was old and stayed by his side to take care of me, the other two protected me for a while, and after finding that there was no danger here, they went to fend for themselves, but every New Year's Festival, they would come to see me, and they respected me as always, and they were loyal and righteous men of my Ming Dynasty."
Xia Xun said: "I apologize for the different positions, but such a person is very admirable" He looked around and said: "The environment here is not bad, you also married a beautiful French bride and gave birth to a pair of children."
It's just, how did you age so fast?"
Zhu Yunwen's cheeks twitched a few times, and he said bitterly: "Because I have been living in guilt, because I often have nightmares."
All along, I have been told that I will be the future Son of Heaven, that I am the prince of the country, that all the people in the world are my subjects, and that I should stand on the highest place and look down on them, and enjoy their devotion with peace of mind.
Including my queen and my crown prince, anyone who dies for me, I feel that it is right, everyone can die, only I can't, because I am the Son of Heaven, God has given me a special mission, my life does not belong only to me, but when I fled all the way to Nanyang, and then all the way to the west, I began to wonder if my idea was right If I hadn't put on that dragon robe and sat on the Jinluan Palace, what was the difference between me and an ordinary person, why could I let so many people die for me, I often dreamed of their mother and son, if I didn't run away timidly, but bravely faced King Yan, would their mother and son still die The fourth uncle would not dare to openly kill the king, even if he used some methods to get rid of me, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, in order to show his innocence, he would treat my wife and children well, at least he would not let them die.
But I" Zhu Yunwen's eyes flashed with tears, and he sighed: "It was I who lit the fire and said that I would die for the country, but in the end it was my wife and my own son who were pushed into the fire pit, and I escaped shamelessly."
If I hadn't shamelessly fled, these faithful men would not have abandoned their wives and children to escort me west, and they wouldn't have been buried in a foreign land one by one.
I often have nightmares, I dream about them, I can only drink, drink constantly, only then can I sleep. ” The old eunuch had already burst into tears when he heard it, but Xia Xun was silent.
After Zhu Yunwen finished speaking, he pushed the old eunuch away again, one step, two steps, three steps forward, slowly but firmly, until he stood in front of Xia Xun: "Ke Zhou is already old, he is just a useless eunuch, don't kill him" Zhu Yunwen turned around and looked at his wife again, judging from that look, Xia Xun knew that Zhu Yunwen's French wife should know his true identity, so he would understand why he was here as an uninvited guest, so he showed worry and fear.
Zhu Yunwen smiled at her, looked at his children reluctantly, turned his head to face Xia Xun, and pleaded: "My woman is just a country woman who has no knowledge, you see, my children don't look like people in the Ming Dynasty, my daughter has golden hair, and my son has blue eyes, no one in the Ming Dynasty will regard them as the blood of the Ming Emperor, and they don't have the slightest threat to my fourth uncle."
Zhu Yunwen took a long breath and said solemnly: "In the face of society and life and death, I chose to escape in front of my relatives and life and death, I still chose to escape for this, I have suffered for many years in remorse.
Now that you are coming, I will not flee any more, but I will lead the neck to death, but I beg you to spare them."
Zhu Yunwen bent his legs and knelt down with a bang To be continued: