Chapter 799 What's wrong

The crowd talked for a long time in the living room in the courtyard, and Zhu Gaoxu said that he should clean up the dust on his clothes and rest for a while.

He left the living room, followed by two confidant eunuchs, and went to another room in the courtyard.

Zhu Gaoxu changed into a dress.When the eunuch drew water into the house, he washed his face again.

But Zhu Gaoxu did not show up again. He sent Zhang Sheng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, to prepare another carriage and select some entourages.After making arrangements, he went out through the back door and left the mint.

After a while, the eunuch Cao Fu went to the courtyard to announce the imperial edict, asking civil and military officials who were resting everywhere to return to the imperial city with the imperial carriage.Naturally, the emperor could no longer show up in public.

Perhaps some officials may feel a little strange and suspect that the emperor is not on the imperial carriage, but it doesn’t matter.It was still relatively easy for the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty to leave the palace; ministers generally ignored this matter.

Zhu Gaoxu left the brigade and the place he was going to was Ma Enhui's mansion.

The mint is inside the gate above the outer wall, while Enhui's mansion is near Taiping Gate in the inner city.

However, both places are in the outer city, and are on the east side of the inner city; so Zhu Gaoxu took advantage of today's outside the palace and had to go north to go to Ma Enhui's house on the side of Yàn Que Lake.

I haven't seen Ma Enhui for a long time, and Zhu Gaoxu also wants to see her...

A group of people, cars and horses walked north along the road.The guards of the Jinyiwei were all wearing blue and gray robes, looking like they were from a wealthy family. After all, ordinary people did not have so many followers.

This road leads to the inner city near Tongji Gate.

However, everyone did not go to Tongji Gate. They turned east at a fork in the south to cross the Qinhuai River from Zhonghe Bridge.

Then the carriages and horses continued to detour north along a road near the inner city wall.

Zhu Gaoxu sat alone in the carriage, waiting silently to go to his destination.

He looked back at this time and thought about the scene in the living room in the mint today, and then he realized that the atmosphere was indeed a bit weird; just like he was talking by himself, the officials' reaction was a little cold.

Zhu Gaoxu guessed that most officials probably felt that those seemingly imaginative ideas were not practical.But no one objected to refute it.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and thought that such a coldness was actually a kind of conciseness and courtesy.

During the Battle of Crime, the Han Palace was based on the seizure of power by force. There were many military generals, but few civil officials could use it. Therefore, the civil officials in the court, except for the group of Jinshi selected in the first palace examination of Wude, and the rest were inevitably those who stood in the wrong position.

Zhu Gaoxu promoted the deposed princeling to the cabinet, and today he promoted Song Li to the chief official of the third rank yamen. The ministers had already felt Zhu Gaoxu's tolerance and sincerity; in this way, any official who knew some favors should try to compromise with the emperor.

Some of the traditional concepts of dealing with the world can easily feel the shadows even in modern society hundreds of years later.

Humility has always been a virtue advocated by Oriental people. They are mutually accommodated and courteous, respect each other and exchanges with people. They are also considered good relationships.

People often don’t say it out loud, but need the other party to feel it consciously and have the awareness of rewarding it.

Some people find it difficult to understand this tactful way.

It was precisely Zhu Gaoxu who could understand that the officials in the court certainly understood better.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, then breathed out.He suddenly thought of the Ma Enhui whom he was going to meet today, and he suddenly felt even more difficult to understand.

Looking back at the relationship between the two, it was also like showing each other's kindness, as if testing each other's feelings, and accidentally started a relationship.

In Yonglechu, because Zhu Gaoxu had no disgust towards Ma Enhui, she saved her when she burned herself, and brought her some news about Wen Gui, trying to help her.

Later, Ma Enhui told Zhu Gaoxu that Jianwen had escaped from the secret passage, but Zhu Gaoxu also used it.

Later, the deposed prince's family was set on fire. Zhu Gaoxu and Ma Enhui were considering each other in that incident.

Love and friendship are becoming more and more sincere.

This year, Zhu Gaoxu gave Ma Enhui's mansion and various land deeds to make her feel more comfortable.

But this time, Ma Enhui not only did not appreciate it, but her attitude turned sharply, looking a little bad, and she was still angry?

Zhu Gaoxu occasionally remembered the last time he met, but never understood: What did I do wrong?

At this time, the followers riding a horse were protecting the carriage and had arrived outside the door of the mansion.There was no need to knock on the door to report, and the door opened directly. It was probably Zhang Sheng who sent someone to arrange everything in advance.

The carriage drove into the yard and stopped beside a corridor.

When Zhu Gaoxu got off from the back of the carriage, he saw that Ma Enhui was already waiting there.

There are no slaves around her, but in this yard, Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to make the situation too big, so he said first: Madam, please give up the gift.

Please, Master.Ma Enhui was stunned for a moment, then bent down and made a gesture.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at her and saw that she looked calm and behaved calmly, but she didn't look angry.

But this time she was dressed too plain, with only cloth towels and wooden hairpins on her folded hair.

She may not look like a mourning woman, but at least she doesn't look like a lady with such a big mansion.

But even so, her white face and bulging chest are still quite beautiful.

The key to a woman is to grow up well naturally.

Zhu Gaoxu chose this house, and he had been here, so of course he knew the general direction, so he took the initiative to walk into a corridor.The two of them walked north along Langwu first.

After a while of silence, Zhu Gaoxu said: I am just a martial artist. I used to deal with rough people in the army. I am afraid I am not as elegant and decent as those well-educated Confucian scholars.If you say something wrong and do things incompletely, your wife will have to take care of it.

Ma Enhui's voice immediately said: The emperor is meticulous and polite in his words and deeds, so you don't have to be too careful.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and looked at Ma Enhui on the back, seeing that her behavior was a bit weird.

Her hands were tightly held in front of her abdomen, and her posture was dignified, but her expression was too tense.

Ma Enhui noticed Zhu Gaoxu's movements and looked up at him. Her eyes were filled with melancholy, showing a pretty expression.

Enhui said: There are many national affairs, why did the emperor remember me here?

Zhu Gaoxu pretended to be relaxed and said: Today I will go to the mint to observe the workshop of newly minted copper coins.It is just south of Qinhuai River, not far from the upper gate.There is a river that converges to the Qinhuai River.

Enhui nodded and said: When the emperor said, I already know where I am.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: When I come back, I also have to go in this direction, so I will come and visit.

He thought about it, took out two copper coins from his arms, turned around and handed them over: The first batch of new money was given to his wife.He smiled and said, "This is really a polite gift, only two cents."

Enhui reached out to take it into her palm and looked at it: It was done very carefully.Her face turned slightly red and she said softly, "Interesting gift, Xie Sheng."

Zhu Gaoxu just forgot to return the sample and suddenly remembered this thing, but it seemed that Ma Enhui liked it quite a bit.

When they first met, the inexplicable embarrassment and tension quickly eased, and the two of them started talking casually.

They walked to the bamboo forest, and Zhu Gaoxu watched from side to side and said: These Hsinchus seem to have grown up a little, and are even quieter than when they saw them last time.

It should be, the bamboo grows quite fast.Ma Enhui's voice also became a little lighter. I saw it every day, but I couldn't notice it.

After walking through the bamboo forest, my vision suddenly became wide.

Standing on the road, Zhu Gaoxu could also see the surface of Yàn Que Lake in the distance.

However, there is still a wall in the middle. The colorful waterscape of the lake can only be viewed from a distance, but not from close to it.

I think that if I didn’t respect the emperor last time, the emperor would be angry. However, you asked if you did something wrong or said something wrong. Ma Enhui murmured in her voice.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately looked sideways and said in surprise: Isn’t it really not?

Ma Enhui smiled bitterly, shook her head, then showed her worries, and sighed softly.

Zhu Gaoxu was immediately even more confused because he believed what Ma Enhui said just now.

He also speculated that there were too many grudges between the Jianwen family and the Yàn Prince's Mansion, and Ma Enhui might be in a bit embarrassing situation.

But that time at the Shen family's mansion, on the eve of the Northern Expedition, she clearly said that she did not want to pay attention to morality anymore.

Ma Enhui wanted to speak but stopped.Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at him with a scrupulous look.

Unexpectedly, a maid walked out of the attic in the small courtyard next to her.The maid looked here and walked over with her head buried.Ma Enhui immediately stopped talking.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately saw that maid was very upset.

When the maid approached, she gave way to the side.The maid bent her knees and said: Madam, don’t let the lights in front of the Buddha statue go out. I have already added some oil just now.

Enhui said: I understand, go.

yes.The maid bent down and said.After Zhu Gaoxu and the others passed first, she walked back on the road and walked far away.

Zhu Gaoxu said in surprise: Do you believe in Buddhism?

Enhui said: Don’t the Lord know?

Zhu Gaoxu really doesn't know.

There should be people arranged by the Jinyiwei in this yard, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't ask too much about the specific personnel.

However, Ma Enhui is no longer a figure in the court, so unless Zhu Gaoxu takes the initiative to ask, no one will report on the movements of Enhui and others.

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was silent, Enhui said lightly: Everyone in the world should believe it, it is not surprising that it is similar to me.There are gods three feet tall, and people are always a little awe.I worship Buddha and seek a state of mind.

Zhu Gaoxu said: I don’t believe it at all.Buddha, Taoism, Hui and Hui sects, Nestorians, and Hinduism do not believe them.I think there may be gods, but not gods that humans have figured out by themselves.

Ma Enhui was a little surprised when she heard this, but she didn't say anything. Most people probably are similar to her and don’t care much about other people’s religious beliefs.