Husband, please lend me your virtues

When Wu Wangjin approached, the third prince restrained his expression, opened his mouth and then closed it again.

Wu Wangjin stood up and asked in distress, "Father, is this my third brother who was raised outside the palace with me?"

There must be something strange about it. In this feudal society, he wanted to live with Xie Zijin forever and have no one else around him.

He knew that Xie Zijin's ideal was to travel around the world, but she was a person who could not tolerate any grain of sand in her eyes, so she definitely could not become an emperor.

Then he would definitely have to establish good relations with the future emperor and do him good things. When he ascends the throne one day, he will remember his kindness and not treat him like his other brothers, demoting and imprisoning them in serious cases or demoting and delegating them to a lower title and not letting them be valued. It would be enough to let him and Xie Zijin live freely outside.

"Yes, he is your third brother. You brothers must work together to assist the prince in governing the country."

Emperor Zhengde thought that Wu Wangjin was just curious about another child in the palace, so he introduced him to Wu Wangjin with a smile.

"But, Father, why is my third brother so thin? When I was at Lord Xie's house, Xie was a premature boy who ate a bowl of stinky medicine every three or five days, but he was stronger than my third brother."

Xie Yi is Xie Zijin's biological brother. He was born when Xie's grandmother was only seven months pregnant. He was like a weak cat when he was born and was carefully raised by the Xie family.

"Do the maids and eunuchs around my third brother, as well as the Zhou family, really take care of my third brother? Even Xie Yi's stature cannot compare to it."

When Wu Wangjin said this, Emperor Zhengde's face turned cold. He waved at the third prince, looked at him carefully, and asked him, "Child, is it that the Zhou family didn't take good care of you?"

Otherwise, how could his body be even worse than the Xie family’s premature baby?

"No, the Zhou family treats me very well. It's... it's the wet nurse and the chief eunuch around me."

The third prince told the truth about how the servants around him had been controlling him over the years and how they had used him to put pressure on the Zhou family.

The Zhou family treated him with great respect and took great care in preparing his meals every day, but most of the food went to the dog servant who was by his side.

The third prince cast a grateful look at the eldest prince standing beside him. If it weren't for his eldest brother speaking up for him, he wouldn't have dared to tell this matter.

After all, he had been in such a situation for more than a year or two, and his royal father had never noticed it. It was obvious that he did not care about him and only cared about the prince.

If only his eldest brother were the crown prince or even the future emperor, he would definitely do his best to assist his eldest brother.

"absurd!"

Emperor Zhengde slammed the table heavily and ordered the eunuchs beside him to bring the Zhou family members, eunuchs and wet nurses who served the third prince to the imperial court.

Both parties confronted each other in front of the emperor. Under the accusation of the third prince, all the servants following the third prince were beaten to death. Duke Zhou was fined and demoted three levels for failing to supervise them properly.

If Duke Zhou had not made great contributions to Yan Chao and had not worked diligently for many years, what awaited him would not only be a salary reduction and demotion, but also the confiscation of property and exile.

After coming out of the Qianqing Palace, Wu Wangjin and the third prince were led to the inner palace by the eunuch trusted by Emperor Zhengde.

There was no empress in the harem for the time being. After the death of Empress Yuan, Emperor Zhengde successively appointed two empresses, but both of them were beautiful but had tragic fates and died within less than two years of taking the throne.

The palace affairs were temporarily managed by Consort Liu, who gave birth to the eldest prince, and Consort Rong, the empress's sister. The two of them were in charge of the five palaces in the east and west respectively, and they seemed to be keeping their distance from each other.

No matter how high the imperial concubine's rank was, it was not enough for the two princes to pay a visit to her when they first returned to the palace. Therefore, Wu Wangjin and the third prince came to the inner palace to pay a visit to their biological mother.

Concubine Liu lived in the East Fifth Palace, and the third prince's biological mother, Concubine Shu, lived in the West Fifth Palace. The two said goodbye in front of the palace gate.

Having received the news early, Concubine Liu, who was waiting in front of her palace gate, looked at the ten-year-old and strong Wu Wangjin and burst into tears. The last time she saw her son, he was only a tiny little boy, and in the blink of an eye, he had grown to her chest.

"Wangjin, my son, I haven't seen you for many years. You have grown so much that even your mother can't recognize you."

Concubine Liu asked the nanny beside her to call the eunuch who followed Wu Wangjin, and she, with tears in her eyes, pulled Wu Wangjin to take a closer look.

The mother and son were reunited for only a short while. At sunset, Concubine Liu watched Wu Wangjin leave the inner palace reluctantly.

After leaving the inner palace, Wu Wangjin breathed a sigh of relief. Concubine Liu loved her son too much, and he was not good at dealing with it. When he came to Qiandong Wusuo where the prince lived, Wu Wangjin was very annoyed. Five courtyards of the same size were arranged together, and two courtyards shared a wall.

As the eldest son, Wu Wangjin naturally lived in the first residence. The third prince lived in the second residence next door. The crown prince still lived with Emperor Zhengde, and the remaining princes were not yet old enough to live in the princes' residence.

Going inside, there is a small two-entry layout, not far from the main house of the next courtyard. If you have a loud argument in the main house, the younger brother who lives next door might hear about it and come over immediately to mediate.

Wu Wangjin sighed. According to the development of history, even if the sons of Emperor Zhengde got married, they had to live in the small prince's residence with their wives and concubines.

Only after the prince was granted a title could he leave the palace and set up his own residence. This eldest prince was probably granted the title of a prince and moved out of the palace twelve years after his marriage.

Wu Wangjin lived peacefully in the prince's nest for several days. At a banquet held in the palace, Concubine Shu was so bold as to instigate her own sister, Concubine Meng, who lived in the same palace with her, to poison Wu Wangjin.

Wu Wangjin already knew that there was something wrong with the soup on his table. After all, in their era, TV dramas of all sizes had already made fun of the affairs of the Yan Palace.

Even though the Shufei sisters have played the protagonist and villain in every TV series, the only thing that remains unchanged is that Concubine Meng gave the eldest prince a sterilization drug at the first banquet after his return.

The poor eldest prince realized when he was over forty that his incompetence was not innate, but was murdered by someone. He immediately broke into the harem and killed Concubine Meng.

If the Third Prince and his guards had not arrived quickly, Concubine Shu would have been killed by his sword, and the eldest prince would have been stripped of his title.

Wu Wangjin found it funny to think about why the childless Concubine Meng dared to openly poison the prince.

Concubine Meng and Concubine Shu were both crazy and doted on the Seventh Prince in every way. In order to give the young Seventh Prince the possibility of ascending the throne, they even tried to reduce the advantage of his older brother in the race for the throne.

Concubine Meng not only drugged the eldest prince, but the way she did it was too rough.

She even dared to touch the crown prince who was raised by Emperor Zhengde, and put drugs on his underwear. As time went by, the crown prince was inevitably contaminated, and he would have few offspring in the future.

Concubine Meng and Concubine Shu showed no mercy to the Third Prince, their own son and nephew, and drugged him as well.

However, the Third Prince was blessed by God. There was a medicinal ingredient in the medicine that the Third Prince was slightly allergic to. He would vomit every time he took a sip of it, so he escaped the disaster.

Perhaps the third prince was still affected by the medicine, and after he ascended the throne he had few offspring, only two sons.