My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 255: Letter from Lao Zhu

"do not want!"

Li Momo immediately shook his head like a rattle, with a disgusted expression on his face.

"As a Nanjing native, you don't even eat live pearls. You've forgotten your roots!" Li Han joked with a smile.

Li Momo immediately retorted, "Tsk, young people in Beijing nowadays can't even drink soy milk, so what if I, a Nanjing person, don't eat live pearls?"

Just as Li Han was about to continue bickering with Li Momo, a man walked in from outside and said, "Li Han, is Li Han here?"

The two of them looked closely and found that it was the postman. Li Han quickly responded, "Hey, it's me. What can I do for you?"

After saying that, he was still a little puzzled. Didn’t he already compensate the post office for the mailbox issue?
"Here is your letter."

As he spoke, the postman took out a letter from the parcel and handed it to Li Han, saying with some emotion: "Not many people write letters these days."

Li Han was a little puzzled. Apart from Lao Zhu, who else would be so bored as to write a letter to him?

"A letter? It's not to promote a magazine, or to sell courses, right?"

"I don't know about that."

Having said that, the postman handed the letter to Li Han and left.

Li Han took the letter and saw that it was an international mail with his address and name written in English and Chinese characters.

He slapped his thigh and immediately understood. Oh well, it really was Old Zhu who wrote the letter!

It’s just that this Old Zhu is not the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, but the Old Zhu who was studying in Europe, his pen pal!
Ever since I started communicating with Zhu Yuanzhang, I dismantled the mailbox and hid it in the storage room, and I have completely forgotten about this pen pal.

Li Momo also looked at Li Han with suspicion. Who would write a letter to Li Han in this day and age?

"Who wrote this letter to you? It's really full of affection."

Listening to Li Momo's sour words, Li Han said happily: "We are just pen buddies. We haven't contacted each other for a long time. I didn't expect you to write to me."

“My pen pal whom I haven’t contacted for a long time!”

Li Momo said sourly: "Then I really can't forget you!"

"What are you talking about? I'm a man, you know!"

As Li Han spoke, he opened the envelope and unfolded the letter. Li Momo also leaned his little head over and stared at the letter, not at all shy.

Li Han didn't mind. After unfolding the letter, he started reading.

"My dear friend,
Time has passed quickly since we last exchanged letters. I haven't heard your elegant voice for many days, and I miss you very much. I want to write thousands of words, but I often face an empty paper and it is difficult to find a soulmate to share the joy of writing with.

In the past, I talked with you about the vastness of history and the depth of culture. Whenever we were excited, we felt that time flew by and we were still not satisfied. But now, this joy of talking has become an irreparable regret in my heart. All the beauty in the world is boring if there is no one to appreciate it with.

I know you may be busy with worldly affairs and have no time to care about such trivial matters, but the love and yearning for history and culture in your heart is like a raging fire, which is hard to suppress. Every time I think of this, I feel more resentful in my heart.

I hope you can recall the time we talked in the past in your spare time, and take the time to reply to me, so that we can continue our unfinished friendship. No matter how the world changes, I hope our friendship will last forever, and we can appreciate the beauty of history and culture together, and live up to this life. There is still one year left before graduation, and I will meet you again when you return home.
Waiting for your voice.

Sincerely from Zhu Yijin. "

"Heh, this little guy is writing in classical Chinese. This is challenging my classical Chinese level!"

Li Han then remembered that when he was communicating with his pen pal Zhu Shuang, in addition to arguing about history, he also specially learned to write traditional Chinese characters in order to compete with Zhu Yijin.

I didn’t expect that he could write traditional Chinese characters so fluently now, which was learned from Zhu Yijin’s ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, Li Momo saw something else.

"Your pen pal named Zhu Yijin still has resentment in her heart, and you still want to keep our friendship forever. She wants to reunite with you. Humph, I want to see what kind of character she is when the time comes!"

Li Han looked at Li Momo in confusion. This girl's angle of reading the letter was really tricky. She must be jealous.

"You haven't seen the handwriting of this person, it's so vigorous and powerful, it must be a man's handwriting!
Besides, she is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Did you see the character Yi? That is the generation of Zhu Di's lineage. Which girl would use generation as a name?"

Li Han felt somewhat proud as he spoke. Zhu Yijin would certainly not have thought that he was in communication with his ancestors.

It seems that I have to call Zhu Yijin "Little Zhu" from now on. After all, the name "Old Zhu" now belongs exclusively to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Li Momo was also interested after hearing this. He read the letter carefully and said, "Looking at the names, it is true. Zhu Di's descendants were named in the order of 'Gao Zhan Qi Jian You, Hou Zai Yi Chang You, Ci He Yi Bo Zhong, Jian Jing Di Xian You'.

His name contains the character "Yi", so he should be a direct descendant of Zhu Di. A direct descendant of Zhu Di is equivalent to a direct descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang."

"But..." Li Momo suddenly changed the subject, "Looking at the address on the envelope, he is in France, right? LGBTQ is rampant there now, so there's no guarantee that he won't be deeply affected. Maybe his biological gender is male, but he considers himself female, or he's heterosexual?"

"Okay, okay, why don't you just say that your self-perception is a Carrefour shopping bag?

Don't make fun of me, I just went there to study abroad." Li Han also said with a smile.

However, he did not expect that after he had forgotten about her for a year or so, Zhu Yijin would actually write to him. It seems that being alone abroad must be quite lonely.

No matter where you are, there is no place better than home, right?
After teasing Li Han for a while, Li Momo was also laughing happily, and then he said: "Okay, okay, I'm just kidding you, come on, what do you want to eat? I won't bother you to cook today, I'll treat you as a thank you for lending me the golden spear."

"A full banquet!" Li Han imitated Li Momo and started talking.

"Manhan, you big-headed ghost, I think you look like the Manhan Banquet, do you want to eat the live pearls? I'll give you a portion of boiled eggs in boy's urine!" Li Momo said unhappily.

That being said, Li Momo still took Li Han out for a sumptuous meal. After sending Li Han home, as if he was worried about him, he repeatedly reminded Li Han not to be poisoned by the decadent Western ideas.

Li Han was also speechless. What a guy, all of them. Second Aunt was like this, and Li Momo was also like this. No matter how you look at him, he was a standard sunny and handsome man, and he was the straightforward type!
After saying goodbye to Li Momo, Li Han wrote a reply to Zhu Yijin, saying that this period was the rising period of his career, so he was lazy about writing letters. After expressing his apologies in the letter, when he thought of his wonderful fate with Zhu Yuanzhang, which started with writing letters to Zhu Yijin, he felt as if he had traveled through time and space for hundreds of years.

After writing the letter, he went to the post office to mail it out, returned home, and then went straight to the warehouse. Xiao Zhu had received a letter, but he didn't know whether Lao Zhu had received a letter. So he opened the mailbox, and his eyes lit up.

What a coincidence, Lao Zhu really replied, and also gave me something, which looked quite unique at first glance, with a touch of classical Chinese steampunk style!

(End of this chapter)