The ceremonial procession of the vassal princes leaving the capital slowly started, starting from the Forbidden City and exiting the Daming Gate.
After leaving Daming Gate, these little brothers, who had never been apart for a day since childhood, had to go their separate ways.
In fact, the life trajectory of the emperor's son is very similar to that of ordinary people.
When you grow up, you have to say goodbye to the past. Say goodbye to your former relatives, friends, and partners, and say goodbye to your youth. Then, you crush the simplest beauty in life and hide it in your heart, and try your best to pretend to be an adult.
The team moved forward slowly, with several feudal lords on the carriage, looking back frequently.
With the support of Zhu Yunxi, the master stood on the tower in front of the palace gate, looking reluctantly at his sons who were about to leave. His eyes, following their tracks, began to stretch with sadness.
"Grandpa Huang, why don't you go down and take a look, and then take another look!" Zhu Yunxi comforted the old man and said.
"Hey!" The old man nodded.
Zhu Yunxi noticed that the old man was holding his hand, which was particularly trembling.
These young princes are not like those princes and princes who were strictly required to reach adulthood early from childhood. They are all the old sons of the old man. The old man gave birth to them and never thought about how to be harsh on them.
In other words, watching them grow up is one of the few joys the old man has.
The carriages of the vassal princes stopped in front of Daming Gate. In front of them, bursts of crying suddenly broke out.
Zhu Yunxi and the old man saw clearly from behind the concubines who came out to see off their sons.
A son is everything a woman has.
They either grabbed their son's bike frame, pulled their son's clothes, or pulled their son's hand, crying like rain.
"Let me write you a letter when you get there! Don't make mother anxious!"
"Don't be ridiculous! Be sensible, you know?"
"It's colder over there than in the capital. Mom asked someone to make a good quilt for you. Did you bring it with you?"
"You have been weak since you were a child. If you feel uncomfortable, remember to take medicine. Don't hold on!"
"Son, once you leave, Mom will never see you again. Let Mom touch you!"
Wherever the son is going, the mother is at home.
I wish you much peace, every word is from my heart.
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"We can't go through!" The old man's footsteps suddenly stopped, as if he was like a child who has done something wrong, "We can't go through, eldest grandson, you go and see him off, you go and see him off!"
"Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Yunxi supported the old man, "If you don't want to let them go, let your grandsons stay!" He said, waving his hands and saying, "Go, pass the order from the front, stop!"
"Don't!" The old man shrank his hands in his sleeves, looked over there again, and stamped his feet cruelly, "Let them go, our son would rather wander around than be a caged bird!" As he said that, he looked at Zhu Yunxi, "Human!"
, Man, there are so many things that you have to go through in your life. Just a few tears and you don’t care about anything? No way!”
After saying this, the old man turned around and turned around with the help of the eunuch, "Grandson, go and see him off, you go and see him off!"
"yes!"
Daming Gate was full of people.
There are concubines who came out specially to see me off, as well as people from the lord's mother clan.
"Son, let me take a look at you!" Concubine Li Xian, the mother-in-law of King Zhu Kuang of the Tang Dynasty, touched his face lovingly and cried, "My son has grown up and has a beard!"
"Mother!" Zhu Huang's eyes flashed with tears. He grabbed his mother's hand and put it on his cheek. "Your son has grown up and is a man. Now, he will go to the fiefdom and guard the border for the Ming Dynasty!"
"Yes!" Concubine Li Xian nodded, tears falling like beads, "Go! Go!"
He said go ahead, but he held his son with both hands and refused to let go.
"Empress!" Zhu Huang's uncle, Qianshi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, choked back his tears, "Let the prince go, don't delay the auspicious time!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know!" Concubine Li Xian said, looking at her son with dreamy eyes.
"Uncle!" Zhu Huang said to his uncle, "After I leave, no one will come to your house to ask for anything anymore!"
"Chen..." His uncle burst into tears immediately, "Chen's family still has many good things hidden, and Chitose hasn't even found them yet!"
"I'll go back next time!" Zhu Huang smiled, his eyes sparkling.
Then he looked at his mother-in-law and said, "Mom, once my son leaves, he will be thousands of miles away. You should take care of yourself in the palace and wait for your son!"
"I know, I know!" Concubine Li Xian grabbed her son and kept nodding and crying.
"In the future, if one day, my son asks for a decree to let his mother and concubine come and live in his palace! At that time, my mother will help her son take care of his grandchildren and take care of the house. We will never be separated again!"
"Well! Mom is waiting for you!" Concubine Li Xian couldn't bear it any longer and her cries started to wail, "Mother is waiting for you!"
There was a lot of crying in front of the feudal king's carriage.
Zhu Yunxi, who wanted to say goodbye to each other for a while, also stopped.
Don't dare to step forward!
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After crying for a while, the official of the Ministry of Rites looked at the time and began to shout loudly in front of the door, "The auspicious time has come, the kings set off!"
Today is the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. The time chosen to leave the palace was also calculated by Qin Tianjian as a suitable time for travel.
The feudal lords wiped away their tears, bid farewell to their mother and concubine, and boarded the carriage.
Slowly, the wheels were moving, the Daming Gate was getting closer and closer, and the Forbidden City behind them was getting further and further away from them.
Suddenly, heartbreaking cries came from the direction of the Forbidden City.
"Guoguo! Guoguo!"
In an instant, the vassal princes who were on horseback turned around again, and Zhu Yunxi who was standing beside him also turned around.
Little Fu'er was crying, stumbling and running, making inarticulate shouts.
"Guoguo!"
Her braids were messed up, and her clothes were blurred with tears. She ran hard and fell to the ground, but she didn't cry. Instead, she got up immediately, opened her hands and continued running.
"Little Fu'er!" Several vassal kings instantly had wet eyes.
"Twenty-three brothers, twenty-four brothers..."
Zhu Nan picked up the fallen little Fu'er and ran wildly with her sister, "Are you going to leave your brother behind?"
"Twenty-sixth brother!" Zhu Dong cried loudly on the bicycle frame.
"Wait for me, wait for me!"
Zhu Yunxi saw Liujin running out of the palace gate, following Xiaofuer and Zhu Nan.
"You are not allowed to leave, you are not allowed to leave!" The gauze crown on Liu Jin's head fell to the ground. He didn't even look at it. He threw his legs away and ran wildly.
Behind the children, a group of eunuchs and palace servants chased out.
Mei Liang hugged Liu Jin and said, "Oh, Crown Prince!"
"Get out of here!" Liu Jin grabbed the opponent's face, broke free, and shouted at the frame of the car, "You are not allowed to leave! I don't allow you to leave!"
"Six pounds!" Zhu Huang jumped directly from the frame.
Several other vassal kings jumped down regardless of the obstruction of others.
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"Guoguo! Where are you going!"
"Brother Twenty-three, Brother Twenty-four, why don't you take me with you!"
"Gu is the prince, I won't allow you to leave!" Liujin pulled one and then the other, "No matter what, I will just call you uncle from now on! You are not allowed to leave!"
"Guoguo, don't go! Give me a hug!"
In the spring, the older children took the younger children to fly kites.
In summer, they cuddle up by the lake and feed the fish.
In autumn, they played mischief in the old man's field.
In winter, they laughed and built snowmen in the garden.
"Twenty-one fruits!!" Xiao Fuer grabbed Zhu Song's lapel tightly, his big eyes covered with a layer of frost, "You promised me during the Chinese New Year that you would build a snowman for me in winter. You don't keep your word.
,you're lying!"
"Brother, I didn't lie to you!" Zhu Song held back his tears and hugged his youngest sister, "Brother, from now on..."
"I don't want the future... I want twenty-one fruits, I want twenty-three fruits, don't leave. Don't leave Xiao Fu'er, don't let me be alone!" Xiao Fu'er cried.
"Father, father!"
Liu Jin found Zhu Yunxi who was stopped and rushed towards him crying.
"I can't stop them from walking, please! My son will study hard and write Chinese characters well in the future!" Liu Jin hugged Zhu Yunxi coquettishly and rolled on the ground with his limbs in the air. "Ah, ah, if they want to leave, I will jump into the well."
!I jumped into the well!”
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi suddenly laughed, "You brat!"
Then, look back at the tower of the palace gate.
The figure of the old man is no longer visible.
"This old man is stubborn with his mouth, but also with a stubborn heart!"
After thinking something in his mind, Zhu Yunxi said to the people around him, "Come here, tell me my decree. Several vassal kings will talk about the vassal affairs later!"
"This..." The officials of the Ministry of Rites looked at each other, "Your Majesty, how can we change the edict lightly? Furthermore, several thousand years old have become vassals. You, the Ministry of Rites, have announced it to the world, and also offered sacrifices to heaven.
....."
Zhu Yunxi suddenly looked unhappy, "I don't want to say anything about my Zhu family's affairs!"
At this moment, Pu Bucheng rushed over and whispered in Zhu Yunxi's ear, "Long live my lord, the master just cried again and told the slave, how about..."
In front, Liujin had already cheered, "I'm not leaving. My father said I won't leave. Long live my father! Long live my father!"
At this time, Zhu Yunxi turned around, looked at the old man who appeared on the gate tower again, and smiled.