In this way, a group of officials met, and then a group of gentry elders. Chongzhen was very interested and very kind. Even if some old men had a difficult accent, he would patiently listen to the words, making him feel like a good emperor who personally listened to the sufferings of the people.

Even if it is pretending, that's OK, Zhou Shixian thought in his heart.

After all, it was already noon. He took on the job of leading the shift. It took him three hours from morning to now. He found that this job was not so easy to do, and his back was not very painful.

Looking at Chongzhen again, he also sat on the imperial throne from the morning until now, and he always sat upright, with no tired look on his face.

Zhou Shixian couldn't help but admire him secretly. In terms of diligence, among the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, only Chongzhen could compare with Nazu's ancestors. Maybe there was even more than that among them.

"Shixian," Chongzhen finally stood up from the imperial throne, and wiped his face with the wet towel handed over by Wang Chengen, and said, "Today, you come and have dinner together."

"minister……"

"The queen has been crying for two days," Chongzhen sighed, "You can talk with her and see if she can make her happier."

So that's it. Zhou Shixian thought that the queen was heartbroken by her son's fall into the hands of a thief. This is the most painful thing in the world and is probably difficult to relieve. Only time can be slowly diluted. However, if speaking can make her feel better for the time being, then it is natural that she must be.

He sent Chongzhen back to the second floor, and he returned to the room for a short rest. Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps downstairs. He was surprised and walked out of the room and saw that there were two groups of people downstairs, the eunuchs and palace maids sent by Han Zanzhou across the river.

He knew that there were more than a thousand eunuchs in Nanjing. After all, it was the Xiaoling Mausoleum. There were quite a few eunuchs who guarded the tomb alone. In the past, most of the eunuchs who made mistakes in Beijing were sent to Nanjing to guard the Xiaoling Mausoleum. Even the famous eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the East Factory, spent several years guarding the tomb and growing vegetables in Nanjing.

But there were also palace maids... Zhou Shixian didn't quite understand. He watched Wang Chengen and Zhuzi whispering the rules and assigned things to the eunuchs and the palace maids, and he was very happy for them~~ These two people had gone through a lot of hardships along the way, and finally became the eunuchs and the palace maids again, and no longer had to be a lonely person who was wronged.

He watched Wang Chengen run in and out a few times, and finally allocated the matter. Then he took a loophole and said with a smile: "Eunuch Wang, congratulations."

"Hi! This is Han Zanzhou who wants to flatter him, but it is also considered his filial piety." Wang Chengen said with a smile, "But most of them have never served the emperor and don't understand many rules, so they have to explain more to them."

"Are all these transferred from Xiaoling?"

"Not all," Wang Chengen knew that his son-in-law didn't understand, so he explained to him in detail, "In the third prison of Nanjing, the garrison eunuchs are respected. There are two others, one is the Xiaoling Shengong Supervisor, responsible for the Taizu Tomb, and the other is the eunuch of Nanjing's Sili Prison, who is in charge of the twenty-four inner palaces in Nanjing. Most of the following are from the inner palace."

Zhou Shixian understood that these eunuchs and palace maids from the twenty-four inner palace had been rotated over a hundred decades, but they didn't expect that they would really wait for the day of serving the emperor, which was magical.

When it was dinner, Zhou Shixian came to Chongzhen's room in a regular manner, standing next to the rectangular table for meals, watching the eunuchs who were delivering the meals set up the cups and plates, and then he saw Empress Zhou and two princesses accompanying Zhuzi.

The queen has been relying on his care all the way south, and now she sees him again, and she does feel relieved. Princess Kunxing has been crying with her mother these two days. When she sees him, she is naturally happy, but she cannot show it on her face. Only the little girl Zhaoren, who was depressed for two days, finally saw Shixian again. Just as she was about to have fun, Chongzhen coughed and walked out of the inner room.

Then there was no more fun. He waited until Chongzhen finished his seat, and then sat down respectfully and had a meal in a proper manner.

The food is extremely exquisite and must not be the craftsmanship of the military chef. Zhou Shixian thought that this was probably the private kitchen transferred by Zhang Gongri from his home. Compared with the treatment of eating sesame cakes along the way, this is in heaven and earth.

However, Chongzhen didn't care much about the quality of the food. He hurriedly picked up a few bites of the food and ate it all in a bowl of rice and put down his chopsticks.

"I have been busy with government affairs these two days, and I have been running around for a while, and I am really tired." Chongzhen picked up the teacup and pretended to be careless, "Shixian, do you have any ancient records, jokes, etc., to help me relieve my fatigue."

Zhou Shixian thought to himself that Emperor Chongzhen was deeply in love with his husband and wife. In order to help the queen, he came up with such an explanation.

That means, you have to tell jokes.

He knows how to tell jokes, but he has never tried it. First of all, he can't tell dirty jokes, and secondly, he can't tell modern jokes accidentally, so there is very limited room for choice.

Fortunately, I still have some historical foundation. I thought about it for a while and decided to tell a joke that Fang Xuanling was afraid of.

"Your Majesty, look at this jealous dish on the table," Zhou Shixian said respectfully, "When the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Fang Xuanling was afraid of the beautiful women, and he did not dare to accept them. Taizong had no choice but to send someone to plead for him. Who knew that the wife would not agree if she was alive. Taizong was angry..."

"Yes, I know this," Chongzhen slapped the table and said with a smile, "Taizong took a pot of vinegar for her as poisonous wine. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Fang would rather die than bow her head. She picked it up and drank it all. As a result, she found that it was just a pot of strong vinegar, hahaha..."

He smiled happily himself, and Zhou Shixian had to laugh with him, but the queen just looked at the emperor gently, and the two princesses didn't know why their father laughed.

Chongzhen laughed a few times, felt very bored, picked up the teacup to cover up his embarrassment, and said embarrassedly: "You say, you say."

"Yes." Zhou Shixian thought about it and decided to change his approach.

"When it comes to Longping Hou Zhang Gongri..."

"Zhang Gongri?" Chongzhen widened his eyes.

"Zhang Gongri?" The queen also became interested and asked, "It's the one who is outside with Jiantian's chest and abdomen? What's wrong with him?"

"Once, Zhang Gongri was patrolling in Nanjing, and someone committed a curfew and was caught by him. This man claimed to be a scholar and studied his studies with his fellow friends, so he came back late."

Zhou Shixian said vividly that the emperor and the queen were both fascinated by the hearing.

"Zhang Gongri said, since you said you were a scholar, how dare you ask me to take the exam? The scholar bowed and asked the adults to give the question. So Zhang Gongri twisted his beard and concentrated."

"Oh, he can still make questions," the queen remembered Zhang Gongri's appearance, and a smile appeared on her face, "I wonder what kind of question is there?"

"Since you are a scholar, you should draw questions from the Analects of Confucius," Chongzhen said thinking, "If you intercept the Shangshu, it will be difficult."

Zhou Shixian smiled and shook his head. Seeing that the emperor, empress and princess were looking at him, she continued to talk.

"After a long time, I heard Zhang Gongri say hatefully: Humph, I'm going to be a bargain, I just happened to have no questions today."

Chongzhen choked his throat with a mouthful of tea, causing a big cough. Wang Chengen, in panic, quickly came up to massage his back, but the queen squirted all the tea in her mouth on the table, laughing so hard that she trembled all over. She had to rub her with beads, but she was not angry. After a while, she finally laughed out loud.

The Duke Kunxing maintained his demeanor in front of the prince-consort, making his face flushed. Only the little girl Zhaoren could finally be arrogant in front of his father and let out a heroic laughter. When the guards nearby heard this, they were inexplicably surprised.
Chapter completed!