Under the mottled palace wall, the grandfather and grandson stood, and Pu Bucheng knelt.

Not far away, two palace ladies held up white gauze lanterns and looked down at their own toes.

There are no secrets in the world, especially when it comes to torture.

Pu Bucheng's voice sounded like an old woman, "I have found out that the two servants who talked about the master behind his back are servants of the Clothing Bureau. The arranged words of the master they said behind his back are widely circulated. I will follow them He followed the example and arrested more than a hundred people."

"The final source points to the outer court!"

"Outer court?" Zhu Yuanzhang was startled, and Zhu Yunxi was also shocked. Could it be that officials from the outer court were involved? If that's the case, with the old man's temperament, he might pick up the butcher's knife again and kill people.

"Who?" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

Pu Bucheng raised his head slightly, "According to the confessions of those cheap maids, the female officer of the Huanyi Bureau had some contact with Zhou Ji, the foreman of the outer court guard. Did it come from the mouth of Zhou Ji, and then it started to spread in the palace?"

Zhou Ji, the son of Jiangxiahou Zhou Dexing?

In an instant, the clear context of these conspiracies in Zhu Yunxi's mind became hazy. He had heard of Zhou Ji, but he had never met him, and he had never had any dealings with him.

His father was Zhou Dexing, the emperor's childhood playmate and a Ming general who grew up in a village. (Adapted from real events)

It stands to reason that people who come from a noble family of military commanders should not be so stupid. Naturally, Ouchi's guards must know what can and cannot be said. Zhou Ji said this for no reason. Was he really stupid, did he dislike his longevity, or did he think someone could save him?

Zhu Yunxi was still thinking when Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly kicked out.

With a bang, Pu Bucheng's mouth and nose started to bleed. But he only shook his body twice and immediately fell to his knees again, "You deserve to die!"

"You deserve to die!" Zhu Yuanzhang cursed through gritted teeth, with a horrifying expression. "You don't know that such a scandal happened in the palace? How did you become the head of the royal affairs room? I think you are tired of living!"

The old man was really angry, his half-white beard and hair were trembling, and his expression looked like a man-eating tiger.

Zhu Yunxi quickly supported him, "Grandpa Huang, calm down!"

A scandal, indeed a scandal.

It is a huge scandal in itself for a guard from the outer court to have contact with a female official from the Clothing Bureau of the inner court.

To put it mildly, it was an affair between inside and outside, but to put it badly, it was a filthy affair. Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of such shameful things in this deep palace, such as lonely palace maids and strong young guards.

Going a little further, the so-called stinky man, the dirty Tang Dynasty, and the chaotic Song Dynasty.

The palace has never been a holy place. On the contrary, there are the loneliest people in the world and the most unspeakable activities in the world.

If a person can manage things, he is no longer a person, but a saint.

Supporting Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunxi said, "Then who put those little people in Gu's study?"

Pu Bucheng wiped the blood on his face and said, "Go back to King Wu, Master, and the servants in your palace will torture you again. The last nun can't bear it..."

"The Crown Princess?" Zhu Yunxi said in a stern tone, "Is it really her?" He said, sneering, "I have always looked up to her, but I didn't expect her to be so stupid."

"A person who is obsessed with profit will become stupid no matter how smart he is. All he thinks about is the seat under our butt, and all he thinks about is harming others. How can she be smart?" Zhu Yuanzhang pushed Zhu Yunxi's hand away and sneered, "Besides, she is a woman from a small family. No matter how smart she is, how smart can she be?"

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"We have seen through the twenty-year disguise and we are disgusted. She has no choice but to use these insidious and stupid methods." Zhu Yuanzhang was still sneering, "It's just that she didn't expect who this position would be given to. It’s settled.”

The old man is right, Lu has been pretending for his son for so many years. But after her disguise was exposed by herself, and after the old man had given the two of them a suspended sentence in his heart, she became a loser gambler, doing everything possible.

The bad people in this world are not just smart people. Most of them are insidious and vicious fools who harm others without benefiting themselves.

"For twenty years, we have always thought that she was a good daughter-in-law! Haha, I never expected that we have a snake that spits out letters next to us!" Zhu Yuanzhang continued to sneer, "She is also looking forward to my early death." As he said, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said, "We have been fighting men all our lives, but I didn't expect that we would be tricked by such a woman!"

"Grandpa Emperor, don't worry!" Zhu Yunxi's hand stroked Zhu Yuanzhang's back, "It doesn't matter who the bad guys want to harm." He said, hesitating, "Since ancient times, have we not often killed each other? She harmed you. It's just a way to help, but the main thing is to kill the grandson. Not only do you want to kill the grandson, but you also use this kind of witchcraft to make the grandson never stand up again."

"Fish and blood?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought thoughtfully, his angry eyes a little lonely and sad.

How could he not understand the meaning of these words? In order to avoid fratricide and to prevent his own son from being killed in a river of blood, he did not hesitate to enfeoff the kings despite the opposition of the ministers.

The palms and backs of the hands are all flesh, so they can be sent far away to enjoy the glory and wealth. They don't have to stare at the crown prince's position with red eyes, they don't have to kill each other after his death, and they can avoid the suspicion between father and son.

The last thing he wants to see is for the Zhu family to kill the Zhu family. Now the Zhu family is not fighting each other, but an outsider is making trouble among them.

"The most poisonous thing in the world is the heart of a woman!" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered bitterly.

"Actually!" Zhu Yunxi hesitated, "Actually, my grandson has known for a long time that she has bad intentions. Last time her grandson returned to the East Palace, she assigned a eunuch foreman to her grandson, and she happened to meet him. That person was in grandson's house. In the study!"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

Zhu Yunxi stroked the old man's somewhat thin back, "Old man, state affairs are enough to give you a headache. How can my grandson bear to distract you with these things! It makes you worry!"

Looking at Zhu Yunxi's sincere face, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a warm current in his heart. What a filial child, for fear of worrying about us, I hide these things in my heart.

"Are you stupid?" Zhu Yuanzhang scolded, "Others want to plot against you, but you still..."

"With Grandpa Huang here, what are the grandchildren afraid of?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "Besides, the grandchildren are well behaved and upright, what can they have to plan?"

As he said that, he helped Zhu Yuanzhang sit down in a place with his own hands and squatted in front of the old man. "My grandson knew that they were planning a plan. I had already thought about it. If one day my grandson takes over your responsibility, I will kill them." Send them away from afar. Let them be rich and idle, so that they can be worthy of my father and you."

"But the grandson still underestimates human nature. There is only one high-ranking person. They regard the grandson as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh. They want to get rid of it quickly! But they also think wrongly. How could grandpa be handed over to the hands of people with evil intentions in the Ming Dynasty."

"A weaker monarch might have believed in the matter of witchcraft. But you are so wise and powerful, and with these little tricks, they can only shoot themselves in the foot."

"Grandpa Huang, you are a hero who was killed in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. You know best that there are some people in this world who are so heartless that snakes swallow elephants."

"Grandpa Huang must not get so angry because of their tricks. People like them can just be dealt with. They are not worthy of Grandpa Huang's anger."

Looking at his grandson's sincere face, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, "They want to harm you, but we listen to your tone and don't hate them?"

"What's the use of hating?" Zhu Yunxi said with a bitter smile, "They have already done it. In fact, what Sun Er hates is not that they want to harm me. It is that they have hurt your heart, but that they are ungrateful. Compared with hating them, Sun Er hates them. I would rather they find other ways to harm my grandson than let their vicious tricks hurt Grandpa Huang’s heart!”

"You kid!" Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed Zhu Yunxi's hair and sighed, "You are so kind-hearted!"

Zhu Yunxi said nothing and put his head on the old emperor's knees.

Is it really good? Zhu Yunxi felt a little ashamed.

If you are really kind-hearted, you won't take retreat at this time. He wouldn't say such a trivial thing at this time, and he wouldn't bring Zhu Yunwen along with him.

Zhu Yunxi said that they wanted to harm his grandson, not that Lu wanted to harm his grandson. A difference of one word makes a world of difference.

Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his grandson's cheek for a moment and sighed.

"Dasun, please go back!"

"Where to go?" Zhu Yunxi looked up.

"Go back to Fengtian Hall and go to sleep!" Zhu Yuanzhang said gently.

"and you?"

"Grandpa, help you do something!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head, looked at the dark corners of the palace, and sneered, "You are still young, and there are some things that grandpa doesn't want you to see."

"Our eldest grandson has a good heart, but if he does some evil things, your grandpa will do it!"

"Fish and blood cannibalize each other? Do you know what to do when flesh and blood are broken? In the past, during the war, the wounds on the body were rotten and the flesh smelled. There was only one way, and that was to cut them off with a knife!"

Zhu Yunxi knew clearly in his heart, but he looked up in confusion.

"Silly boy, do you know the relationship between Zhou Ji and Lu?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile.

Zhu Yunxi shook his head.

"The Zhou family's daughter-in-law is Lu's cousin, they are in-laws!"