The next morning, during breakfast, Liang Zhen mentioned that he wanted to take Xu’er to pay homage to his father. Zhu Yunxuan was holding Xu’er and feeding him porridge. Hearing what Liang Zhen said, he raised his eyes and glanced at him: “If you want to go, you can go. Just go..."

Liang Zhen smiled: "I'm afraid Your Majesty will think it's not good to take children to that kind of place, and His Majesty agrees."

"...Since Xu'er calls your father, it's appropriate to go to pay homage to your grandfather."

The smile in Liang Zhen's eyes deepened: "Okay."

Xiao Junbo's cemetery is located on the mountain on the southwest side of the island. A small piece of mountain is all used as a cemetery. In the past 20 years, people have died on the island and have been buried here. Xiao Junbo's cemetery only occupies a small area. The one piece of the stele is not prominent. The stele was erected by Liang Zhen himself, and it was wiped very clean. In the middle is engraved "First Examination of Sir Xiao Taboo Junbo", and in the lower left corner is engraved "Unworthy Son Xiao Nian Weeping".

There is also an epitaph on the monument, which records Xiao Junbo's life. He has not remarried after more than 20 years of living abroad. The wife column only contains 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. After a moment of silence, he raised his hand and pressed the ignorant Tu'er's shoulder, reminding him, "Good boy, kneel down and kowtow to your grandfather."

Xu'er knelt down obediently and kowtowed three times before 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 heap.

Zhu Yunxuan took up the sacrificial wine glass with his own hands and sprinkled three glasses of wine in front of the monument.

After worshiping their ancestors, they went down the mountain. Zhu Yunxuan's mood was still a little heavy, but Liang Zhen took the initiative to mention it to him in a relaxed tone. His father's bones were buried at the foot of the mountain behind Yuanji Temple. His former Zhuangzi On the other side, the abbot of Yuanji Temple helped his father collect the corpse. He only hoped that one day his father and father could be buried together, and his father's last wish was fulfilled.

Zhu Yunxuan was slightly startled: "...Why did you never mention it before?"

Liang Zhen shook his head: "The old abbot was afraid that the late emperor would find my father's remains, so he didn't even dare to erect a tombstone for him. It's just a nameless tomb bag, what's there to mention."

"So you built a village there, in fact, to guard your father's tomb?"

Liang Zhen sighed: "Yeah, unfortunately Zhuangzi has already been confiscated. When I left Beijing, I thought about taking Dad's corpse with me, but after thinking about it, I still feel that he has been buried in the ground for many years, so why bother him again? I asked the old abbot to continue to take care of me, I never thought I would meet my father here in Nanyang.”

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes flickered for a moment: "Zhuangzi is still there."

"Um?"

Zhu Yunxuan restrained the emotion in his eyes and told him: "Zhuangzi... I haven't told anyone to touch it, it's still the same, and I haven't given it to anyone."

Liang Zhen laughed softly: "That's good."

Zhu Yunxuan was a little embarrassed and changed the subject: "Your father gave your name later?"

"Well," Liang Zhen grinned and explained to him, "Even before my father was ordered to go out 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. He already knew at that time that he would never be able to come back, so this name is the last thought left to my father."

When talking about these past events, Liang Zhen's expression no longer had the gloom and gloom of the past, only the unobvious melancholy hidden behind the smile, Zhu Yunxuan knew that he had completely let go.

Seeing Zhu Yunxuan's dazed expression, Xu'er, who was being held by him, raised his head blankly and kept looking at them, Liang Zhen smiled helplessly, picked up the child, and asked Zhu Yunxuan, "Do you want to see the military camp on this island, Your Majesty? "

Zhu Yunxuan suddenly came back to his senses: "...Can you see?"

"There's nothing to hide."

Liang Zhen led them along the other road to the next mountain. The mountains on this island are not high, and they reached the top in two quarters of hours, and the scene behind the mountain was unobstructed.

It turned out that there is still half the size of the front of the mountain behind the mountain, where the soldiers lined up neatly to practice, and about twenty ships parked on the pier by the sea. .

Liang Zhen said: "Back then, my father brought the last 1,000 people here, plus the children who grew up on this island, and the people who have escaped from other places in Nanyang, now the team has nearly three. Thousands."

Zhu Yunxuan frowned: "The one who escaped?"

"Yes, many places in Nanyang are now occupied by those from the Fanbang. If there are people who can't survive, they want to flee. We don't accept everyone. The ones we accept are at least decent, otherwise we will enter. The spies from outside have no choice but to pay for their losses, most of them are people from the Central Plains who were brought to Nanyang from Fujian and Guangdong to seek life in the current dynasty or even the previous dynasty, and they are of the same roots as us.”

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes fell on those ships: "Where do so many ships and the artillery on board come from?"

Liang Zhen explained calmly: "In those days my father and the others were left on this island, only the last two ships were left, and the others were rebuilt from the merchant ships bought by the Nanyang merchants and the Fanbang people. As for the artillery, they were naturally bought from the Fanbang people. of."

Zhu Yunxuan glanced at him suspiciously, and didn't quite believe it: "They have such good intentions, not only do they not come to capture you, but also sell artillery to you?"

Liang Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Your Majesty doesn't know anything, there are many islands in the South China Sea, and they want to occupy them all. It's just a small island hanging out, they don't like it, there's no need to waste their energy. Here, what's more, those Fanbang people in Nanyang come from different countries in the Western Continent, and they are constantly fighting each other for territory. With enough money, it's not difficult to buy some artillery that they eliminated."

Zhu Yunxuan lowered his gaze: "But they also dare to play Dayan's idea..."

Liang Zhen nodded and said: "They sent envoys to Beijing in the past, in order to gain greater benefits in terms of shipments and tariffs when trading with Dayan, but they have never received the support of the Dayan court. Relax."

Zhu Yunxuan snorted lightly, but he didn't look down on these Fanbang people with wolf ambitions and high self-esteem. He looked at 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 thank His Majesty Long En for them first."

Zhu Yunxuan looked away, and Liang Zhen didn't ask any more. This "them" package did not include Liang Zhen himself, and none of them mentioned it, but they knew it.

Xu'er, who couldn't understand what they were talking about at all, looked blank and pulled the sleeves of the two of them: "Xuan'er wants to go to the beach to play."

Liang Zhen smiled and scratched his nose: "Okay, I'll take you there in the afternoon."

Zhu Yunxuan threw away the chaotic thoughts in his head and turned around: "Let's go, go back first."

Not long after, the two took their children to the beach they visited last night. The soft white sand was shining under the blazing sun, and it looked even better than yesterday evening, as beautiful and picturesque.

Liang Zhen put Xu'er down on the ground, squatted down and helped him take off his shoes and socks, and stepped on the warm soft sand.

Before Zhu Yunxuan could say anything, Liang Zhen smiled and raised his eyebrows at him: "Everyone here plays like this, there are not so many rules, do you want to try it, Your Majesty?"

Zhu Yunxuan hesitated for a while, but in the end he was still concerned about the majesty of his emperor, and shook his head. Liang Zhen didn't care.

When the tide was low in the afternoon, the beach was full of fish, shrimps, crabs and shells washed ashore by the sea water. Women and children came to catch the sea with buckets and basins. Xu'er saw it strangely and grabbed Liang Zhen's hand and said that they were going to pick up conch shells. , Liang Zhen 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: "Take Xu'er there, I'll sit here for a while."

Liang Zhen raised his hand and stroked his face, his voice was extraordinarily gentle: "Your Majesty can sleep on the reef for a while, I won't take Xu'er too far, it's near here, you can rest assured."

Zhu Yunxuan was stunned for a moment, and nodded under Liang Zhen's smiling eyes.

Liang Zhen went to the front with the wooden barrel in one hand and Xu'er in the other. Zhu Yunxuan found a reef on the shore and sat down, staring at the big and small figures, watching them stop and dig things, like Looking for some amazing treasure, watching Xu'er clinging to Liang Zhen's arm and laughing into his arms, watching a big and a small chasing figure, after a long time, he slowly closed his eyes, This sunny and warm afternoon gradually sank into dreamland.

It wasn't until he heard Xu'er's laughter again that Zhu Yunxuan woke up in a daze, and for a while he didn't know what year it was. Liang Zhen hugged Xu'er and sat beside him, holding the conch he just picked up in his hand, and put it to Xu'er's ear for him to listen to. The child stared in surprise and joy. Seeing that Zhu Yunxuan was awake, he immediately jumped on him, shouting "Daddy" and asking him to listen to the conch they picked up.

The conch is indeed bigger than the one I bought at the sea market last time, and the texture is more beautiful. The meat of the conch has been removed and cleaned. Xu'er held a treasure in both hands and sent it to Zhu Yunxuan. Liang Zhen took it. Get up and get close to Zhu Yunxuan's ear: "Listen."

Listening to the faint sound of the waves coming from inside, Zhu Yunxuan's expression moved, and he looked at Liang Zhen with doubts. When he looked up, he realized that the two of them were too close at the moment, and Liang Zhen turned to his side when talking to him. It has almost deceived him, so close to breathing.

Zhu Yunxuan looked at his figure reflected in his smiling eyes, stunned and speechless, and the sound in his ears turned into a vain one.

Xu'er blinked innocently and suddenly said, "Father, father, are you playing kissing?"

Zhu Yunxuan narrowed his eyes to cover the flash of panic in his eyes, and stepped back, Liang Zhen smiled softly, turned his head and pinched his son's chin: "Oh, little baby, do you still know what a kiss is? Where can I learn it? come?"

The child thought that Liang Zhen was complimenting himself, and said happily: "Xu'er has seen it, the eldest father and father are playing kisses like this, and we won't let us see it. Brother Yuanbao took me and Minger to see it secretly several times."

Zhu Yunxuan: "..."

Liang Zhen burst into laughter, and scratched the little doll's nose with his fingers: "You are really the happy fruit of father and father."

Zhu Yunxuan's ears were all red, he glared at Liang Zhen, Liang Zhen leaned in, quickly tapped his lips and backed away, tilted his head and smiled and blinked with Xu'er: "Did you see clearly? It's my dear."