The Queen Mother didn't understand: "Isn't Brother Rui in the house? How big is the house? He can't hear what Zhu Yu said, annoying him, right? How could he not know?!"

The nanny herself couldn't explain it clearly: "But... I look at the appearance of Prince Yong'an, I'm afraid I didn't understand it."

The queen mother frowned, but did not get angry at the people around her. The servants would not always understand what the masters meant, and there was no need for her to force them. These were all old men who had been with her for twenty or thirty years, and they were loyal and could not deliberately fool her. Since the nanny said that Zhu Rui looked like she didn't know anything about it, it must be the truth.

Then she might as well wait until Zhu Rui comes to Cining Palace and ask her grandson directly.

However, the empress dowager also had other things to do. She also sent someone to the West Palace and asked the imperial physicians how the emperor was, and if the condition worsened because of this anger? On the other hand, she also wanted to send someone to the East No. 5 to see the third prince. The third prince was injured by the emperor's medicine bowl on his forehead. Although the nanny said that before he was taken away from the West Palace, a eunuch in front of the imperial court had already done a simple treatment for him. Zhu Rui also gave him some gold-chuang medicine for emergency treatment, but it was not cured. If the injury was severe, it would be bad. The empress dowager blamed the third grandson again and did not want him to have a bad life, so he had to send the imperial physician to treat the third prince's wound.

Not long after, all the people sent by the Empress Dowager came back. The emperor's condition had stabilized and there was nothing serious, but his face was very ugly. The imperial physician prescribed a medicine to calm the spirit at the suggestion of the King of Yan, and now he has fallen asleep. The third prince was bandaged by the imperial physician, and there was no serious injury. The people sent by the Empress Dowager once tried to inquire with him, and he said something in the West Palace to anger the emperor, but he just sneered contemptuously, without mentioning a word other than that.

However, the palace servant in charge of serving the third prince told the envoy that the third prince had been sent back to Dongwu Institute. At that time, he covered the wound on his forehead with one hand, swept all the tea sets on the table to the ground with the other hand, kicked down several chairs, and shouted something like "Why isn't it me! You're not much better than me." Because the third prince complained that the emperor chose the fourth prince instead of inheriting the throne himself, it would have an attack from time to time over the days, so the new servants around him were used to seeing it and didn't think it was a big deal. They were even more worried that the third prince would shed too much blood on the wound. Later, when the empress dowager sent the imperial physician over, he was relieved.

The Empress Dowager just breathed a sigh of relief for the Emperor, and then she was pissed off by the third prince: "Okay! He still has the energy to kick things, but it's obvious that his injury is not a big deal! Just because of his bad temper, he can't choose him as the crown prince. What else can I complain about?!"

Later, Zhu Rui came to Cining Palace. On the one hand, he paid tribute to the empress dowager and said goodbye, and on the other hand, he wanted to take his wife out of the palace and return to the Yan Prince's Mansion. As for the Yan Prince, because he still had to stay by the emperor's side, he did not plan to leave the palace.

The empress dowager was used to it and sighed, "It's not easy for you and me. If the emperor hadn't had a good brother like you and a reliable nephew like you, I don't know what it would be like now!" After praising her grandson, she also tried to ask, "What did Zhu Yu say wrong? The emperor knew that he couldn't get angry, but he was still angry like this!"

Zhu Rui hesitated for a while before answering: "The emperor's grandmother asked, the grandson should have known everything. But... the grandson really didn't know the details of this matter. The third prince was stopped by the emperor before he could speak halfway. The grandson didn't understand why the emperor was angry. It felt like... The third prince knew what the emperor didn't want to know about the secret matter. He wanted to tell the story in front of the fourth prince, the father and the grandson. The emperor was anxious and immediately interrupted. The third prince looked quite proud. I guess... he knew this secret matter for some time, and he threatened the emperor with this..."

The Empress Dowager's face changed: "It's so?! Forget it. Since it's a secret thing that the emperor doesn't want people to know, you, a junior, don't ask much. Please take your wife back. Come back tomorrow. Remember to bring you more clothes to change your clothes. The weather is getting warmer every day. He lives in the palace for a long time and can't always wear those clothes."

Zhu Rui and Xie Mulin quickly responded in unison.

The Empress Dowager paused and said, "Zhu Ju is always so unfilial, and it is embarrassing to let people outside the palace know. Our Zhu family has been in the country for two or three hundred years, and he has never had such a disobedient son. The Ai family's grandmother failed to teach her grandson well, and she felt that she had no shame to meet the ancestors and ancestors."

Zhu Rui knew the meaning of the song: "Don't worry, my grandmother. These are all housework in our palace, so there is no need to let outsiders know about it."

The empress dowager nodded with satisfaction. Zhu Rui took the opportunity to say goodbye to Princess Yongning, and even pulled his wife and elder sister-in-law Xue to express his respects, before leaving the Cining Palace.

After leaving the territory of Cining Palace, there were few pedestrians on the palace road. Xie Mulin noticed that Zhu Rui's face became gloomy, as if he had torn off some kind of disguise.

She hurriedly asked him in a low voice: "What happened? Your face looked so ugly!"

Zhu Rui wanted to speak but stopped, hesitated for a while before whispering: "Let's go home first."

Xie Mulin looked at the palace servant who was responsible for guiding the way one meter away in front of him, and then thought of Xiangtao and Qiuwen following not far behind him, and nodded understandingly.

When they returned to the Yan Prince's Mansion, the couple changed their clothes and washed as usual, handled some affairs in the royal palace, had dinner together, and then took a shower one after another. When all the servants left their room, they crossed their legs and started discussing what happened today.

Xie Mulin asked Zhu Rui’s initial plan before entering the palace: “Have you mentioned that to the emperor?”

Zhu Rui nodded silently: "I discussed with my father first. My father did not object, and he personally led me to the emperor and spoke in front of the fourth prince."

The fourth prince looked at him with a lot of gratitude. Zhu Rui knew that his father, Prince Yan, intended to make him sell well in front of the future new king. He also cooperated to win the favor of the fourth prince, and he felt that there was no problem.

Perhaps the emperor was convinced by his advice and planned to formally issue an order to appoint the fourth prince as the crown prince. But at the same time, the emperor also hoped that the third prince could recognize the reality and not have unrealistic fantasies anymore.

The emperor still held a glimmer of hope, hoping that the third son would not commit suicide, and would get along well with his younger brother, and would become a virtuous king under his rule in the future. The fourth prince is still young, and if the third prince is willing to stand on his side, no one can cause trouble, whether it is the royal family or the foreign minister!

Therefore, the emperor summoned the third prince and showed the fourth prince's edict to establish the crown prince.

Then the third prince was blown up on the spot. He felt that his approach at the dynasty meeting was very wise, so he waited for the emperor's father to change himself to become the crown prince. After all the mechanisms were done, in the end he was still in vain? The third prince could not accept this fact no matter what.

Seeing him like this, the emperor got angry: How could he pass the throne to a cruel and unfilial son?! Before he officially started to fight for the throne, the third prince plotted against his brothers to death. If he really let him inherit the throne, can other princes still have a way out?!

The third prince said that when the emperor fought for the throne, he did not show mercy to his brothers. He just learned from his own father, so why didn’t he let him inherit the throne?!

He shouted at that time: "The father dared to forge an edict..." and was interrupted by the emperor.
Chapter completed!