When Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his bedroom, he was already drenched.
The umbrella that the 22nd brother of the Assassins Organization gave him was actually broken and leaked all the way!
"Father, why are you drenched like this? Where did you go?"
A graceful middle-aged man hurriedly walked out of the hall. He was the Crown Prince, Zhu Biao.
He had something to discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang, so he came early.
However, the palace servants said that the Emperor did not allow anyone to follow them. They did not know where they had gone.
"It's a long story. Take this, I'll go change my clothes.”
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he threw the wet vegetable leaves to Zhu Biao and went to the back hall to change his clothes.
Zhu Biao took the vegetable leaf in confusion, his face full of confusion.
"What is this thing…"
After Zhu Yuanzhang changed his clothes and came out, Zhu Biao was still holding the vegetable leaves in a daze.
Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a kick!
"What are you doing with it? Let the servants take it to the small kitchen to cook!"
Zhu Biao had a face full of question marks as he clutched his butt in pain. This skillful movement showed that he had been kicked often.
He complained in his heart, Didn't you ask me to hold it? You didn't say that you were going to make it…
Although he was complaining in his heart, Zhu Biao still obediently handed the dishes to the eunuch who was serving him.
As for how to cook it, it was up to the chef in the small kitchen.
"Father, what dish is this? Where did it come from? Where did you go this afternoon? Why didn't you come back for so long?"
Zhu Biao asked a few questions in one breath and successfully got kicked again.
Zhu Yuanzhang: " You're asking so many questions at once. Do you want me to die of exhaustion?"”
"I'm just concerned about you." Zhu Biao laughed.”
Zhu Yuanzhang humphed and sat down in the hall.
"I went to Old Twenty-Two's place. This is the dish he gave me. It's called sweet potato leaves.”
Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to hide from Zhu Biao.
This was his most beloved son, and also his hope.
Although he was beaten up often, this kind of bickering was already a norm in the Zhu family.
Usually, the more he liked his son, the more he would kick him.
The King of Yan, Zhu Di, was an example.
"Old Twenty-Two?"
Zhu Biao was also stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he quickly reacted.
As the eldest brother, he remembered everyone even though he had many siblings.
"I remember that Old Twenty-Two lives in the Cold Palace. Did you go to the Cold Palace?”Zhu Biao said.
Zhu Yuanzhang found it strange. Why did Zhu Biao remember it so clearly?
As a father, he only knew where Zhu Ying lived from the Jinyiwei, and Zhu Biao immediately thought of it.
"How do you know that Old Twenty-Two lives in the Cold Palace?”
"When you ordered Old Twenty-Two to live in the Cold Palace, I was there." Zhu Biao replied without hesitation.”
At that time, he had even pleaded with Zhu Ying.
After all, it was too miserable for such a young child to live in the cold palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up excitedly and asked Zhu Biao loudly,
"What did you say? Did I order Old Twenty-Two to live in the Cold Palace?”
Zhu Biao was shocked by Zhu Yuanzhang's excitement and nodded.
"Yeah…"
Zhu Yuanzhang scratched his head and tried hard to recall, but he couldn't remember anything.
"Tell me more clearly. What exactly happened at that time?”
He really couldn't remember, so he let Zhu Biao speak.
Zhu was very good at marking. He only thought for a moment and remembered.
"Four years ago, Old Twenty-Two's biological mother made a mistake and was banished to the Cold Palace. At that time, he knelt at the entrance of the Cold Palace every day and refused to leave. You knew about it, so you ordered him to live directly next to the Cold Palace. You also told him not to come out unless he had nothing to do. You made him…stay in the Cold Palace as long as he wanted…"
Zhu Biao remembered this clearly.
As the elder brother, he was kind-hearted. When he saw Zhu Ying's pitiful appearance, he could not bear it and went to plead with Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was already irritable because of the successive deaths of Zhu Xiongying and Empress Ma, and he was annoyed by the endless involvement of the "Hu Weiyong case."
When Zhu Biao pleaded for mercy, he was even scolded by Zhu Yuanzhang…
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this answer, he was stunned.
Why didn't he have any recollection of this at all…
Could it be that one could forget so many things when one was old?
He had no impression of Zhu Ying's mother.
Could it be that the woman who was lying on the wall and giving Zhu Ying cheese was Zhu Ying's mother?
"Is Old Twenty-Two's mother still in the Cold Palace?”Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
Zhu Biao shook his head." He died not long after he was locked up in the Cold Palace. It seems like he committed suicide."”
"He's dead."
It seemed that the woman who gave Zhu Ying the cheese wasn't his mother.
"What mistake did she make back then?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.
Zhu Biao awkwardly wiped the sweat off his forehead." This…I don't know…"
In those years, Zhu Yuanzhang was like a crazy ball, killing and punishing people without a word. He really didn't know what mistake Zhu Ying's mother had made.
"Then what did she do when she was alive?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
Why did he not have any impression of this woman at all?
Zhu Biao was really speechless by Zhu Yuanzhang's question…
"Father, I really don't know much about the harem.”
He could remember his siblings, but he never cared who their birth mothers were.
"Oh, so be it.”
Zhu Yuanzhang did not continue to ask about Zhu Ying's mother.
Other than Empress Ma, all other women were dispensable to him.
However…
It was all because of him that Old Twenty-Two ended up like this all these years…
Can the big shots give us some data? It didn't increase at all. I'm so flustered…
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