Yingtian Prefecture, North Gate.
"Your highness, it's already been ten minutes, could your judgement be wrong?”
Beside Zhu Gaochen, the butler Old Xiao looked at him doubtfully. He was also muttering in his heart. Right now, all the people in the city had gone to the south to welcome Emperor Yongle, but Zhu Gaochen had to come to the north gate to welcome him.
Zhu Gaochen avoided Old Xiao's question. He held two sticks of candied haws he bought on the street and kept stuffing them into his mouth. At the same time, he kept looking outside the city.
Old Xiao secretly glanced at Zhu Gaochen and shook his head, sighing inwardly.
Just as the two of them were speechless.
A carriage came from outside the city.
Old Xiao pointed at the carriage heading toward the north gate and said,""Wangye, look, there's a carriage coming towards us.”
"I'm not blind!" Zhu Gaochen rolled his eyes at Old Xiao.
Just as Zhu Gaochen was talking to Butler Huang.
The carriage stopped at the north gate.
On the carriage was a burly man dressed in coarse cloth. The man's face was not as simple and honest as a real horse carriage driver, but filled with killing intent.
"Light Guards!"
Zhu Gaochen frowned. He saw through the man's identity at first glance.
The Ming Guards were the palace guards of the Ming Dynasty. Not only were they burly, but they also had extraordinary martial strength. In layman's terms, they were top-notch special forces, the personal bodyguards who specialized in protecting the emperor's safety.
If the coachman was a Ming guard, then behind the curtain of the carriage, it was most likely the Ming Emperor Zhu Di.
Thinking of this, the corners of Zhu Gaochen's mouth curled up. He looked past the Ming Guards on the carriage and towards the figure behind the curtain. He cupped his fists and bowed,""Father, your son has specially come to receive you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty laugh sounded.
Then, the curtain on the carriage was lifted.
A middle-aged man with mixed black and white hair, dressed in ordinary clothes, but with an extraordinary aura, stepped down from the carriage.
The middle-aged man was Ming Dynasty's Emperor Yongle, Zhu Di!!
"Little brat, how did you know that I was going to enter the city from the north gate?”Zhu Di got off the carriage and walked up to Zhu Gaochen, his eyes filled with admiration.
Before returning to court, Zhu Di had specially drafted an edict to inform the Ying Tian Prefecture that he would enter the city from the Hongwu Gate in the south.
However, he didn't expect that the smart Zhu Gaochen would actually think of receiving him at the north gate.
Zhu Di felt gratified to see such an intelligent son.
"Brat, not bad, you look like me!" Zhu Di smiled and patted Zhu Gaochen's shoulder.
Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di despised the cumbersome etiquette of the royal family.
Usually, he would address his child as an ordinary family.
Similarly, the Princes usually addressed Zhu Di as they addressed their parents.
"Father, try the secret recipe of Tanghulu from the Ying Tian Prefecture. I specially went to an old shop that has been making it for decades and bought it!”
Zhu Gaochen grinned and handed the candied haws to Zhu Di.
Zhu Di was stunned at first, but then he laughed and took the candied haws from Zhu Gaochen's hands and started eating.
The father and son ate candied haws at the North Gate City without any royal image.
The butler, Old Xiao, shivered and didn't dare to say anything. It was clearly bought casually on the street, but he actually said it so pompously. His skin was really thick!
Zhu Gaochen saw that Zhu Di was enjoying his meal and asked,""Father, how about this candied haws?"
"Not bad. The sweetness and sourness are moderate.”Zhu Di nodded.
"Since the taste is not bad, then pay up. One thousand taels!”Zhu Gaochen stuffed the last candied hawthorn into his mouth, then reached out his hand and asked Zhu Di for silver.
Zhu Di was stunned. He looked at the half-eaten candied fruit in his hand and then at Zhu Gaochen, who was smiling at him. He was stunned for a long time.
"I have no money!"
Zhu Di wanted to throw away the candied haws in his hand, but he couldn't bear to do so. However, he couldn't bear to give them money, so he simply said that he didn't have any money.
"If you don't have money, why are you eating my candied haws?”Zhu Gaochen snapped.
Zhu Di pursed his lips and said,"Go ask your brother, the Crown Prince. I don't have money anyway!"”
Hearing this, Zhu Gaochen shook his head and said,""My big brother? He was famous for being stingy. It was better to ask for money from you than him.”
The big brother Zhu Gaochen was referring to was naturally the current Crown Prince, Zhu Gaochi.
The future Emperor Renzong was famous for his benevolence. Although he was benevolent, he was stingy!
At the north gate.
The scene of Zhu Gaochen shamelessly asking Zhu Di for money was very similar to the scene of a landlord's good-for-nothing son asking the landlord for money.
The nearby housekeeper Old Xiao and the Ming Guard who was acting as the horse groom were also frightened by this scene.
Throughout all the dynasties, there were not many princes who dared to extort the emperor for pocket money so confidently.
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