The old man glanced at me and suddenly asked with a smile: "I just heard you talk to those people about Da Wu's rules. How could you know this at such a young age?"

"Is this what you want to inquire?" I muttered to myself, only to think about the old man, but soon after thinking about it, he answered perfunctorily: "I have seen it before, so I remember it."

"Brother, why do you see such things?" The old man obviously didn't believe this answer, but he couldn't blame him, because no half-aged child in the world could remember the laws of the country? If I hadn't been determined to make a name for myself in front of my father and get his attention since I was a child, I wouldn't have studied so hard, and I would have memorized all the laws and tax orders of our Dawu in my heart.

"Brother, where is your home? Ordinary people should have a book that records the Great Wu Luling." The old man looked at me with interest and smiled slightly.

"Oh no..." I didn't expect that the old man could see the flaw just by such a simple sentence. He quickly changed his mind and quickly said in ambiguous way: "This... I have a lot of books in my house, I've just read it."

Seeing that I insisted on not saying anything, the old man looked up and down at me a few more eyes, as if he wanted to see through the secret that I had hidden in his heart. I felt his eyes, but before he could speak, the eighteenth brother on the side said, "You don't know, my seventeenth brother likes reading the books the most on weekdays. Even the teacher said that he is very knowledgeable. If he wants to take the imperial examination, he will definitely be a Jinshi."

The eighteenth brother always admired me. He smiled proudly and continued to praise my brother. It seemed that my "learning" also made him benefit a lot. After hearing his words, the old man looked at me again and said, "So, brother, do you want to become an official and get a fame when you grow up?"

"Get the exam for fame? Alas..." I sighed softly in my heart, "How can I get the exam for fame with my origin? I just hope that my father will notice me in the future and let me share his worries. That would be great." Although I thought so in my heart, I didn't dare to show my face at this time, and I quickly said quietly: "Old man, don't listen to my eighteenth brother's nonsense. How can I get the exam for fame and fortune with my little knowledge? At most, I am just a savage who is reading some idle books at home."

The old woman next to the old man didn't say anything. When she heard what I said, she shook her head and said, "Brother, you are humble, but a man cannot be so unwilling to be so arrogant! In my opinion, good men must always have great ambitions, and we women should respect such men."

After hearing the old woman's words, I didn't know why, but I felt very close to her heart. I looked up at her encouraging gaze, remembering that I didn't even know what my father looked like, so how could I dare to say anything about great ambitions? My eyes couldn't help but turn red.

"Brother Seventeen, what's wrong with you?" Brother Eighteen's thick-lined head didn't know what I was thinking. Seeing that I looked sad, he immediately shook my hand and asked with concern.

The old woman saw me like this, although she didn't know why, but she moved her body closer to me and said in a harmonious voice: "You are a good child, don't underestimate yourself. You must set great ambitions and will definitely succeed in the future."

Actually, it’s strange to say that it’s just the first time I met this old woman, but her expression brought me a very close feeling, just like a mother, but not entirely, and my mood suddenly became extremely exciting.

After a while, I slowly regained my mind. I looked at the sky outside and found that it was almost noon. I quickly stood up and said to my eighteen brother: "Old Eighteen, we should leave quickly, otherwise it will not be too late." While speaking, I said to the old couple reluctantly, "Two old men, we are leaving. If we are destined to do so in the future, let's see you again!"

The old couple seemed reluctant to leave when they saw that we were about to leave. The old man thought for a while, suddenly took out a jade pendant from his arms and handed it to my hand, and said, "You can hold this jade pendant. If you really want to take Yingtian Mansion to take the big exam in the future, I will hand it over to your examiner, and I will naturally know that I will come to see you."

"Examination?" I took the jade pendant in my heart in surprise. Although I never wanted to take the imperial examination in my life, when I heard the old man's words, I realized in my heart that if he was not a minister in the court, he would definitely be a relative of the king. If this were not the case, how could he have anything to do with the examiner?

I looked at the jade pendant with a Pixiu engraved on it. The lifelike Pixiu also had a round square hole in its mouth. When the jade pendant was placed in my hand, a trace of warmth immediately came, and it felt extremely comfortable.

"This piece of warm jade is probably very valuable!" Although I don't know what's good about this jade pendant, I'm a royal family after all. I can tell at a glance that its workmanship is exquisite and definitely not an ordinary product. I immediately thanked the old man: "Thank you, old man. If I really go to Yingtian Mansion in the future, I will definitely visit you." It was not too early to see that I hurriedly pulled my eighteenth brother out in a hurry.

Running out of the restaurant far away, I turned around and took a look. The old couple walked to the restaurant and looked at our figures. For some reason, I suddenly had the urge to turn around and run back at that moment, but in the end I could only bear it. I could only say to myself in a low voice: "I will definitely go to Yingtian Mansion to visit you."

When we returned to the palace, although we were hit by the guards, we all knew the identities of my eighteenth brother and I. Instead, we were afraid to bear the blame for being sneaked out by the two little princes, and we didn't dare to say anything. Therefore, we all returned home smoothly without any "wind" leaking.

The days passed secretly, and about ten days later, I suddenly heard a news from the nineteenth sister that shocked me, that is, my grandfather and grandmother, the Emperor Hongwu of Dawu, and the Empress of the Empress, came to our Yanjing together, and now they live in the royal palace.

Because I heard that my grandfather and grandmother went north secretly, not many people even knew about this news in the palace. Except for a few important concubines and princes, no one else in the palace had the chance to know this news. I, the prince who had been neglected for a long time, wouldn't know. Fortunately, the nineteenth sister sneaked to where I lived, told me the huge news, and then slipped back. I realized that my grandfather and grandmother, who had admired for a long time, was also living under the same roof as me!

My grandfather, Mr. Hongwu, is named Zhu Yuanxing. It is said that he was born in a very difficult family when he was a child. He had herded cattle for rich families since he was a child. Later, because of the plague in the countryside, his parents and brothers died, and he was left alone to run to the monk temple to sit up the little novice monk. Later, his grandfather traveled around the world, and when various rebel armies were rising one after another, he was spotted by one of the rebel leaders Guo Zi'an, and he took him under his command, and he also became a member of the rebel army.

My grandfather was a brave and good at fighting. After years of war, he defeated Chen Youliang, Zhang Zhouzong, Fang Guozhen and other rebel forces, and completely expelled the Mongols to the north, and finally established the country's destiny of my Great Wu. I read books about recording my grandfather's achievements since I was a child, and imagined how capable it would be for a person to transform from nothing to the master of the world? So I really admire him for a long time.

And behind my grandfather, who had been silently supporting his grandmother, was the standard for a good wife and mother in my heart. My grandmother was originally a low-ranking maid in Guo Zi'an's family. Just because Guo Zi'an saw that his grandfather was a very useful general, he pretended to accept his grandmother as his adopted daughter, and then married her to his grandfather in order to win over his grandfather's heart. It is said that once, Guo Zi'an found an excuse to lock his grandfather in the woodshed because he was jealous of his grandfather's reputation in the rebel army, but he didn't give him food and drink, and wanted to starve him to death. Later, my grandmother secretly took out the hot fried pancake from the pot, hid it on his chest, and sent it to the woodshed for his grandfather to eat. When my grandfather took out the pancake from my grandmother's arms, it was not only hot, but also saw that his grandmother's breasts were burned. From then on, my grandfather praised his grandmother's virtuousness when he met everyone and also loved her in her heart.

"They are here. It would be great if I could see them at first sight!" Suddenly, I really envied my nineteenth sister. She was the daughter of her father and concubine since she was born. She was loved and attracted by everyone since she was a child. She was simply a world apart from me.

"But..." I thought about the old woman that day, "I can't lose my ambition because of this. A man should rely on his own hands to make a name for himself. Well... Liu Ji once said that the weak will sigh that he is born in a bad time in a chaotic world, and in a peaceful and prosperous era, he will sigh that he is not satisfied with his talents. Only the strong will strive for self-improvement and never blame others." When I was thinking this in my heart, I suddenly developed a fighting spirit for everything in front of me, and my fists were clenched tightly without realizing it.

"Think of a way, think of a way to see my grandfather, even if I look at him from a distance." But I still have to say that, no matter how strong my fighting spirit is, if I want to meet my grandfather for a while, I am afraid there is no other way. This is the most frustrating thing for me.

I don’t know if God intended to fulfill my wish. When I was thinking about this for several days, my father’s eunuchs came to the residences of the princes and princesses to pass the imperial edict, saying that his father wanted to see us, so he asked us to go to Yin'an Hall of the palace the next day.

Of course, I was so happy that I didn't sleep well all night. Not to mention that I knew that this was not because my father wanted to see us, but because my grandparents wanted to see us grandchildren. Just saying that being able to meet my father was already my dream. Of course, my eighteenth brother didn't know about my grandfather and grandfather at all, so he was very simple to be happy to be able to see his father.

Early the next morning, I put on my most precious and beautiful clothes, and followed the eunuchs who came to Yin'an Hall to take me away. When I arrived at Yin'an Hall, there were more than 30 brothers and sisters standing there, all of them wearing clothes that they would only wear during the festival, standing quietly in the hall waiting. Perhaps everyone knew that as long as the father could pay attention to him this time, the day of favor would come.

I am no exception to this and throw away all my utilitarianism. Which child does not want to be loved by my father? Perhaps in addition to my little utilitarianism, I want to be close to my father!

In addition to us princes and princesses standing in the hall, there were three dressed ladies sitting on the seats on both sides. Although I had never met each other, I still guessed their identities. They should be the three concubines of my father, who are my true aunts, second mothers and third mothers.

I had already found out that my aunt's surname was Ma, and was from my grandmother's family; my second mother's surname was Song, and she was the girl of the current crown prince's grand tutor Song Lian, and she was considered a lady from a scholarly family; my third mother's surname was Li, and her father was Li, the first prime minister of my Great Wu. They can be said to be all from famous families, and my mother's identity is simply incomparable to them.

Soon, I saw the nineteenth sister, and I saw her standing next to a boy who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and her hand was also holding the boy. I looked up at the boy, and saw that he had a heroic look and bright eyes. Perhaps because they looked like the prince, I felt that the boy's face was very similar to the eighteenth brother, even though he was more delicate than the eighteenth brother.

"Is this the second brother Zhu Changxu?" When I saw the nineteenth sister, she also saw me. After she grimaced at me, she became serious again, probably because she was afraid that she would be seen by her second mother.

I looked at the prince beside my second brother again, and saw that he looked very kind and his fat figure looked like a rich man in the countryside. The prince was about eighteen or nineteen years old. Just looking at the age of the princes, I didn’t have to think that he was my eldest brother, Zhu Changchi, the current prince of Yan.

"Just with this look, if you want to be a prince in the future, it seems to be too powerless." Although the eldest brother's appearance can give people a sense of intimacy, I still feel that this look is too ordinary and has no momentum at all.

On the other side of my second brother, there was a prince standing. The prince was only about thirteen or fourteen years old, but his face was extremely gloomy, which was extremely disproportionate to his age. The eyes only made people feel disgusted.

"No need to say, if you can stand in front of the princes and princesses, he must be my fifth brother Zhu Changsui." This trip to Yin'an Palace was not in vain to see these three princes with the most prominent status in the palace at one time.
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