After a long time of beating, Zhu Houzhao's anger almost subsided.

After growing up, Zhu Houzhao went out to see the world, and learned something from Chen Xi, and became more sensible, and he was not as willful as before. If he had been in the past, he would have probably caused people to beat the unopposed eunuch in front of him to make him look like a little bitch, but now he is thinking:

"This kid doesn't know me. If I were him, if I saw a sneaky man wearing eunuch clothes calling himself the prince, I would also ask someone to press him to spank. Well, this kid is a bit loyal. It's useless for me to beat him to death now. Just beat him up and relieve your anger!"

Zhu Houzhao asked, "Dog slave, get up. Didn't you say that the prince in the palace needs someone to serve? What's going on? Did the father change the prince?"

The eunuch was a little confused, but it was rare that the prince stopped pursuing himself. He didn't care about the pain and knelt on the ground and said with a flattering look on his face:

"Your Highness, have you been in Kunning Palace all the time? This is what the palace says these days... At the beginning, you said that you had to follow His Majesty to study and review the memorials, but later you said that you can't afford to get sick. In order not to infect others, you can also take better care of yourself, so you will continue to stay in Kunning Palace for rest."

"Because you need someone to take care of you when you are sick, the original people have been transferred to Kunning Palace. I only came to the East Palace after that, so that it will not be abandoned, not because I was deliberately offending the prince!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard that it was not changing the crown prince, but concealing the truth about his departure from the palace. Instead, he did not blame the eunuch in front of him, he felt that this person was a little cute.

He said with a smile: "So that's the case. It seems that even if the father is strict, he will still think about his son... Oh, if I had known this, I would have been playing outside for a few more days. It's all Mr. Chen who insisted on sending someone to escort me back. Isn't this sincerely letting me fall into the trap?"

"You guys, listen well. Now I pretend that I didn't see me, and quietly took me back to Kunning Palace, and brought my crown and regular clothes with me. I will naturally change it after I return to Kunning Palace. Have you heard?"

Several eunuchs looked at each other, not knowing what Zhu Houzhao sold in the gourd.

But the person in front of him had something they had. In this palace, except for the emperor, only the prince had this thing, which means that the person in front of him must be the prince. They don’t believe that anyone could sneak into the palace where the palace was strictly prohibited and did not dare to be careless at all. Now he has offended the prince. If he does not do what the prince told him, he may be moving.

The eunuch who had just been beaten up, cried and plucked up the courage to ask, "Your Highness, what are you going to do? I... I don't want to die..."

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "Who told you to die? You don't know much about me. In fact, I am kind. If you hadn't been rude before, how could I beat you?"

"Hurry up, do what I told you. This matter is not complicated, and it is not troublesome. As long as you do it well, follow me in the future and ensure that you are delicious and spicy. If you do not do it well, I will punish you heavily and make your ass blossom!"

The eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground did not dare to neglect them. They quickly stood up and took out the clothes he usually wore from the bottom of the box according to Zhu Houzhao's orders, carefully packed them up, and then took Zhu Houzhao, who was dressed as a little eunuch, to Kunning Palace together.

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Just as Zhu Houzhao returned to the palace quietly, Zhu Youzing was still annoyed by the disappearance of his son.

However, what he targeted was not Zhu Houzhao, but the ministers who forced the palace to be the ministers.

When Zhu Youzhang heard that the court had spread the disappearance of Zhu Houzhao and the cabinet issued a document asking Jiangnan to come to help find the prince, Zhu Youzhang was furious.

Emperor Hongzhi was already very anxious when his son disappeared, but in order to ensure Zhu Houzhao's safety, he did not want to affect the prince's glorious image among his subjects, and did not spread the matter. But the cabinet dared to go against his wishes and spread the matter, fearing that the world would not know, and it was clearly not giving him the emperor's face.

Zhu Youtang immediately summoned Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others to the Ganqing Palace, scolding the people for their presumption, and coughing while scolding, without any concern that many of the people in front of him were his husband.

"...My prince is now in the palace. You dare to tell the local officials below that he is missing... Cough cough... You are really my good ministers... Cough cough... You must make everyone in the world think that the prince is ridiculous and erratic, so you are satisfied, right?"

Zhu Youting coughed and squirted, and kept asking questions.

As the lord of the nine fives, Zhu Youzhang belongs to his family in the world. He naturally believes that his family affairs do not need to be explained to the court officials, and that everything can be done as it should.

Even if his son disappears, it is his own business and the court officials have no right to interfere.

But in the minds of Li Dongyang and others, there is nothing small about the Tian family. All the people in the Tian family are related to the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the prince is missing now, not an ordinary prince and grandson.

The emperor's face was angry.

In the Ganqing Palace, the ministers who were summoned did not dare to speak. At this time, the only one who was truly confident to take the emperor was the chief minister of the cabinet Liu Jian.

Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, the prince is safe and in danger. He is in the fate of the Ming Dynasty. There are rumors and all kinds of statements. He can't control it. There must be a reason for the groundless things. I wonder if Your Majesty can bring the prince to the hall to correct the audio-visual of the people in the world?"

This is very clever, first showing that the position of the prince in the Ming Dynasty is related to the destiny of the country and cannot be casual. If he disappears, he cannot ignore it.

Moreover, Liu Jian did not admit that he and Li Dongyang leaked the news, but said that there were rumors among the people, hoping that the emperor would calm the rumor and use facts to testify.

After Liu Jian said this, Emperor Hongzhi became even more annoyed... My son was missing, but he insisted that I prove to you that he is still in the palace?

Li Dongyang echoed: "Your Majesty, the prince has not received normal king education for several months, and has not attended the lectures on the sutras... Whether he is healthy or not, he should meet the lecturer. Even if he is unwell, the lecturer will be able to recite Confucian classics next to him, which will be helpful to the prince's future administration!"

Zhu Youtang raised his face and questioned: "The prince is sick and wants him to listen to the chanting of scriptures? Isn't it because he is reborn?"

Li Dongyang quickly explained: "I have no intention of this!"

Zhu Youzhang sneered and said nothing. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others rarely saw the emperor. Instead, they felt that this was an opportunity to put pressure on the emperor and were not in a hurry to leave.

Liu Jian said: "There is no case of the prince's illness in the Imperial Hospital. The imperial physicians hesitate about this matter and do not know what it means. Your Majesty, do you know what the prince's illness is?"

The two veterans of the cabinet pressed each other step by step, which seemed to be a deception to Zhu Youting, but because Zhu Youting was afraid that the king would not be joking, he was afraid that the historian would leave a handle and did not want to speak nonsense. Xiao Jing looked around and was anxious, thinking: "It was obviously Your Majesty who called the cabinet ministers and a group of Eastern Palace lecturers, and the Japanese lecturers were scolded, so that they could not ask about the prince again. Why did it turn out like this? Instead, it was like the ministers who came to question Your Majesty?"

Seeing that the emperor refused to answer, Liu Jian turned to Xiao Jing and said in a pleading tone: "Eunuch Xiao, can you solve the old minister's questions?"

Xiao Jing dared not say anything now.

Zhu Youzhang was about to pretend to be sick and shut the ministers present away, but he saw a eunuch coming in from the back hall. Zhu Youzhang immediately felt angry and met the court officials here. Why did you, a eunuch, trespass? Who gave you the courage?

"Who is so unaware of the rules!" Xiao Jingye shouted.

The person who came was shocked and knelt directly behind the gauze tent of the inner curtain, with his hands in front of him, but he knelt down but did not kowtow, saying in an ordinary tone: "Your Majesty, the prince's condition has been repeated. After the queen checks, please go and visit him!"

The speaker is Zhang Yuan, the eunuch of the Eastern Palace who was deeply favored by Queen Zhang.

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ps: My uncle died of illness and the emperor went to mourn. This chapter is updated late, please forgive me!

Since the emperor caught a disease on the 30th of last month, he has been experiencing a low fever. He has gone to the nearby Grade A hospital for infusions eight times. Unfortunately, he still has severe coughing, fatigue and sleepiness until now, so he still has severe coughing, fatigue and sleepiness. So what everyone sees is that the update of the work is very abnormal! Here, the emperor says sorry!
Chapter completed!