The next morning, during breakfast, Liang Zhen mentioned that he wanted to take Min'er to pay homage to his father. Zhu Yunxuan was holding Min'er and feeding him porridge. Just go…”
Liang Zhen smiled: "I'm afraid His Majesty will not feel comfortable taking children to that kind of place, as long as His Majesty agrees."
"...Since Miner is called your father, it is also appropriate to go to pay homage to your grandfather."
The smile in Liang Zhen's eyes deepened: "Okay."
Xiao Junbo's cemetery is on the mountain in the southwest of the island. A small piece of mountain land has been used as a cemetery. People who died on the island have been buried here for more than 20 years. Xiao Junbo's cemetery only occupies a small area. The stone tablet is not prominent, it was erected by Liang Zhen himself, it was wiped very clean, in the middle is engraved with "Let's test Mr. Xiao's taboo Junbo", and in the lower left corner is engraved "Unworthy son Xiao Nian weeps and stands".
There is also an epitaph on the stele, which records the life of Xiao Junbo. He has been living abroad for more than 20 years and has not remarried. The wife column only has the names of Liang Zhen and his father.
Liang Zhen placed the sacrifices one by one in front of the tombstone, lit the paper money, and Zhu Yunxuan stood behind him and silently read the epitaph. Xiao Junbo's tragic life seemed to pass by in front of his eyes, which was very embarrassing. After a moment of silence, he raised his hand and pressed the ignorant Min'er's shoulder, reminding him: "Good boy, kneel down and kowtow to your grandfather."
Min'er knelt down obediently, and earnestly kowtowed three times in front of the grave. Liang Zhen raised his hand and touched his head, gave him a string of ingot paper money, held his hand and threw it into the fire. in the pile.
Zhu Yunxuan took up the sacrificial wine cup with his own hands, and sprinkled three cups of wine in front of the stele.
After worshiping their ancestors, they went down the mountain. Zhu Yunxuan's heart was still a little heavy, but Liang Zhen took the initiative to mention to him in a relaxed tone that his father's bones were buried at the foot of the mountain behind Yuanji Temple. Besides, the abbot of Yuanji Temple collected his father's body back then. He only hoped that one day he could bury his father together with his father, fulfilling his father's last wish.
Zhu Yunxuan was slightly taken aback: "...why didn't you mention it before?"
Liang Zhen shook his head: "Back then, the old abbot was afraid that the late emperor would find my father's remains, so he didn't even dare to set up a tombstone for him. It's just an unnamed grave bag. There's nothing to mention."
"So you built a Zhuangzi there, in fact, to guard your father's tomb?"
Liang Zhen sighed: "Yes, it's a pity that Zhuangzi has been confiscated. When I left Beijing, I thought about taking my father's bones away, but after thinking about it, I still feel that he has been buried in the ground for many years. Why bother him again? I entrusted the old abbot to continue to take care of me, I never thought I would run into my father here in Nanyang."
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes wandered for a moment: "Zhuangzi is still there."
"Um?"
Zhu Yunxuan suppressed the emotion in his eyes and told him: "Zhuangzi... I haven't been touched by anyone, I've remained the same, and I haven't given it to anyone else."
Liang Zhen laughed lightly: "That's good."
Zhu Yunxuan was a little embarrassed, and changed the subject: "Your father gave you your last name?"
"Well," Liang Zhen explained to him with a smile on his lips, "before my father was ordered to go to war, he gave me this name when I was still in my father's womb. He said that it can be used by both boys and girls. At that time, he already knew that he would never come back after he left, this name should be regarded as the last thought left for my father."
When talking about these past events, Liang Zhen's expression no longer had the gloomy and gloomy expression of the past, only the unobvious melancholy hidden behind the smile, Zhu Yunxuan knew that he had completely let go.
Seeing Zhu Yunxuan's expression was in a trance, and Min'er who was being led by him looked up at them in a daze, Liang Zhen smiled helplessly, picked up the child, and asked Zhu Yunxuan: "Does Your Majesty want to visit the military camp on this island? "
Zhu Yunxuan suddenly came back to his senses: "...can I watch?"
"There's nothing to hide."
Liang Zhen led them along another road to the next mountain. The mountains on this island are not high, and they reached the top of the mountain in two quarters of an hour. The scenery behind the mountain was panoramic.
It turned out that behind the mountain there was still half the size of the front, where the neatly lined up soldiers practiced, and there were about 20 ships parked on the pier by the sea, although they were far behind Dayan's navy, Zhu Yunxuan was really shocked .
Liang Zhen said: "Father brought the last thousand people here back then, plus the children who grew up on this island, and the people who escaped from other places in Nanyang over the years, the team now has nearly three Thousands of people."
Zhu Yunxuan frowned: "A person who escaped?"
"Yes, many places in Nanyang are now occupied by those foreigners. Some of them really can't survive, so they want to flee. We don't accept everyone. The ones we accept are at least of good character, or they can't enter. The spies from outside have to make up for it, most of them are Central Plains people who brought Nanyang from Fujian and Guangdong to live in this dynasty or even the previous dynasty, and they are of the same root as us."
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes fell on those ships: "Where do so many ships and the artillery on them come from?"
Liang Zhen explained calmly: "Father and the others were exiled on this island back then, only the last two ships remained, and the others were rebuilt from merchant ships bought by those Nanyang merchants and foreign people. As for the artillery, they were naturally bought from those foreign people. of."
Zhu Yunxuan gave him a puzzled look, not convinced: "They have such good intentions, instead of coming to capture you, they sell you artillery?"
Liang Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Your Majesty knows something. There are many islands in South Seas, and they can't take them all if they want to. This is just a small island hanging outside. They don't like it. There is no need to waste energy Here, what's more, those foreigners in Nanyang come from different countries in the Western Continent, and they are constantly fighting each other for territory. They have no time to take care of our small island with only a few thousand people. It is not difficult to buy some artillery that they have eliminated after enough money."
Zhu Yunxuan lowered his eyes: "But they dare to play Dayan's idea..."
Liang Zhen nodded and said: "Back then they sent envoys to Beijing, in order to obtain greater benefits in terms of shipments and tariffs when doing business with Dayan, but they have never received the approval of the Dayan court. Let go."
Zhu Yunxuan snorted lightly, and didn't think highly of these foreigners who were ambitious and had high self-esteem. He looked towards the rough sea ahead, and after a long silence, he sighed softly: "No matter what, the people who stay on this island are all Dayan's subjects. If they really want to go back, I will issue an order."
Liang Zhen smiled slightly: "Then I will first thank His Majesty Long En for them."
Zhu Yunxuan looked away, and Liang Zhen didn't ask again, this "they" didn't include Liang Zhen himself, none of them mentioned it, but they knew it.
Min'er, who couldn't understand what they were talking about at all, looked bewildered, and tugged at the sleeves of the two of them: "Mr. want to go to the beach to play."
Liang Zhen scratched his nose with a smile: "Okay, I'll take you there this afternoon."
Zhu Yunxuan put away those chaotic thoughts in his head, turned around: "Let's go, let's go back first."
At the end of the day, the two of them took their children to the seaside they visited last night. The soft white sand was shining under the scorching sun, and it looked even more beautiful than yesterday evening, as beautiful as a picture.
Liang Zhen put Min'er down on the ground, knelt down to help him take off his shoes and socks, and stepped on the warm soft sand. The child said "ah", stomped hard a few times, and giggled.
Before Zhu Yunxuan could say anything, Liang Zhen raised his eyebrows at him with a smile: "People here play like this, there are not so many rules, do you want to try, Your Majesty?"
Zhu Yunxuan hesitated for a moment, but in the end he still cared about his majesty as an emperor, and shook his head, but Liang Zhen didn't care, he just let it go if he didn't want to, and stepped on the sand with his son with bare feet.
At the time of low tide in the afternoon, the beach was full of fish, shrimps, crabs and shells washed ashore by the sea. Women and children came to catch the sea with buckets and basins. Mi'er was surprised to see it, and grabbed Liang Zhen's hand and said that he was going to pick up conch shells. , Liang Zhen fully agreed, asked someone to ask for a wooden barrel, and asked Zhu Yunxuan: "Is Your Majesty going?"
Zhu Yunxuan was a little sleepy, and just wanted to sit down and watch the sea quietly for a while: "You take Miner, I'll just sit here for a while."
Liang Zhen raised his hand to caress his face, and his voice was extraordinarily gentle: "Your Majesty, if you are sleepy, you can lean against the reef to sleep for a while, I won't take Min'er too far, it's nearby, you can rest assured to sleep."
Zhu Yunxuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded under Liang Zhen's smiling eyes.
Liang Zhen took the wooden bucket in one hand and led Min'er to the front. Zhu Yunxuan found a rock on the shore and sat down, staring at the big and small figures, watching them stop and go digging, like I was looking for some great treasure, I saw Xi'er clinging to Liang Zhen's arm and throwing herself into his arms with a smile, watching the big and small figures chasing each other with a smile, after a long time, I slowly closed my eyes, This sunny and warm afternoon gradually sank into dreamland.
Zhu Yunxuan woke up dazedly only when he heard Li'er's laughter again, not knowing what year it was. Liang Zhen was sitting next to him with his arms in his arms, holding the conch he had just picked up in his hand, and sticking it to his ear for him to listen to. The child stared in surprise and joy, seeing that Zhu Yunxuan woke up, he immediately threw himself on him, yelling "Daddy" and asking him to listen to the conch they picked up.
The conch was indeed bigger than the one bought in the sea market last time, and the texture was more colorful. The meat of the conch had been removed and cleaned, and Yu'er held it in front of Zhu Yunxuan as if holding a treasure in both hands. Liang Zhen took it Get up, close to Zhu Yunxuan's ear: "Listen."
Hearing the faint sound of sea waves coming from inside, Zhu Yunxuan's expression moved, and he looked at Liang Zhen suspiciously, only when he raised his eyes did he realize that the two of them were too close at the moment, Liang Zhen turned sideways when talking to him, It was almost in front of his eyes, so close that his breath intersected.
Zhu Yunxuan stared at his own figure reflected in his smiling eyes, speechless in a daze, and the voice beside his ear became false.
Min'er blinked innocently, and suddenly said: "Father, father, are you playing kiss?"
Zhu Yunxuan lowered her eyes to hide the flash of panic in her eyes, and stepped back. Liang Zhen smiled softly, turned around and pinched his son's chin: "Yo, baby, do you know what playing with kisses is? How can you learn?" here?"
The child thought that Liang Zhen was praising him, and said happily: "Yu'er has seen it before. That's how big daddy and father play kissing. They didn't let us see it. Brother Yuan Bao took me and Ming'er to watch secretly several times."
Zhu Yunxuan: "..."
Liang Zhen laughed loudly, and scratched the little baby's nose with his finger: "You are really Daddy and Father's happy fruit."
Zhu Yunxuan's ears were red, and he gave Liang Zhen a look. Liang Zhen moved closer, tapped his lips quickly, then backed away, tilted his head and smiled, and blinked with Yun'er: "Have you seen clearly? It's dear."