My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 5 Zhu Di's Suspicion

Zhu Di suddenly became furious, and Hu Yan and Zhu Gaosui were so scared that they knelt down!
Zhu Di walked quickly back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, while Zhu Gaosui and others knelt there and dared not move.

After a while, Zhu Di suddenly pointed at Hu Yan and said, "You, go back to the Imperial College. All those who participated in the fight will be whipped five times. For all the damaged items, after the price is verified, let them share the cost equally."

"Ah, yes!" Hu Yan knelt there and saluted when he heard it. Then he thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Xu Qin and Duke Dingguo Xu Jingchang have left the Imperial College. They left after the fight."

"Can we still enter and exit the Imperial College at will?" Zhu Di asked Hu Yan angrily while staring at him.

"Your Majesty, if they want to go out, I can't stop them. Besides, even if I stop them, they can still climb over the wall and go out!" Hu Yan continued to flatter him.

Zhu Di walked around a few more times with his hands behind his back and said, "Don't worry about the punishment of Xu Qin and Xu Jingchang for now. Don't count the expenses for them. I have other punishments for them!"

"Yes!" Hu Yan responded with a bow.

Zhu Di waved his hand, Hu Yan bowed to him, and then left.

Zhu Di returned to the dragon throne and sat down again, touching his forehead. Zhu Gaosui also stood up, came to Zhu Di, hooked his waist and said: "Dad, there is no need to investigate this matter, right? It is impossible for Shakyabao to cure the disease. I guess my uncle is lying."

Zhu Di put down his hand and stared at Zhu Gaosui.

"Dad?" Zhu Gaosui looked at Zhu Di in confusion. Zhu Di wanted to slap him in the face. Why not investigate? How could he know who cured Xu Huizu without investigating? If he could cure Xu Huizu, he could cure his own queen. Is this son a pig-brained person? His mother coughed day and night and looked emaciated. He didn't feel sorry for her? He didn't feel sorry for himself, but for his first wife?

"Dad?" Seeing that Zhu Di didn't say anything, Zhu Gaosui shouted again.

Zhu Di suppressed his annoyance and tried to speak in a calm tone, saying, "It is unlikely that your uncle is lying. After all, if Shakyabao cannot treat the disease when the time comes, it will be bad for both him and Shakyabao! However, this matter is suspicious! Go and check it out, go now!"

"That's right!" Zhu Gaosui immediately saluted when he heard Zhu Di say this, then hesitantly asked, "What about the fight between Shakyabao and others?"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Di suddenly became furious and shouted at Zhu Gaosui: "Compared with your mother's illness, how big of a deal is a fight? No one was killed, so what if someone was killed?"

"Yes, yes! Dad, I will go investigate now!" When Zhu Gaosui saw that Zhu Di was so angry, he didn't dare to stay here and immediately bowed and left.

Zhu Di was sitting in the study, pinching the top of his nose with his hand, suffering from a headache.

I kept thinking in my heart, what exactly does Xu Huizu want to do? Does he really want to take this opportunity to let me release him?

I can let him out as long as he surrenders to me, but with Xu Huizu's character, will he do that?
If he didn't surrender and pledge allegiance to me, could I let him out? Would I let him gather the world's army to overthrow me? Xu Huizu dared to do such a thing and he had the ability to do it.

In the past few years, he had purged the ministers left behind by Zhu Yunwen and killed many of Jianwen's old ministers, all in order to keep this position. Once pulled down by others, there would be eternal damnation for him and his family.

After Zhu Gaosui left, he could only find ways to investigate and find out who cured Xu Huizu's illness. However, he also asked the doctor who had treated Xu Huizu before. He felt strange that it was not him who cured him.

But in recent years, no one has visited Xu Huizu. Moreover, after Xu Huizu was imprisoned, visits were banned no matter who it was.

The only people who could enter Xu Huizu's mansion were Xu Huizu's family members and the servants in the mansion, but those servants did not have the ability to do so.

"How can I check this?" Zhu Gaosui pondered over this matter as he walked.

Xu Qin also arrived at the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and was chatting with his grandmother Xie. Xu Jingchang and his mother Mu were also sitting next to them.

After chatting for a while, Xu Qin also found that his grandmother was just happy when she saw him just now, but after chatting for a while, his grandmother Xie still frowned slightly, as if she was worried about something. Xu Qin also knew what it was and was about to tell her.

Unexpectedly, my grandmother asked first: "Shakyabao, tell me the truth, what happened to your father? You are not allowed to lie to me, I love you the most."

As Xie spoke, she held Xu Qin's hands with both hands. She was in great pain, with tears welling up in her eyes. Xie had experienced the death of Xu Da and the murder of Xu Zengshou. Now her eldest son Xu Huizu was seriously ill and was obviously dying. Moreover, her eldest daughter Xu Miaoyun was also bedridden. These things were a heavy blow to Xie.

"Ah, it's okay, grandma. I came here today to pick you up. My father is fine!" Xu Qin looked at his grandmother with a puzzled look, not wanting her to know so much.

"You little monkey, you are lying to grandma. You think that grandma is really blind because she is old. Even if grandma is blind, her heart is not blind. How could grandma not know about your father's illness? How could grandma not understand anything? You are coughing up blood. Hey, Sakyabao, tell grandma the truth!" Xie didn't believe it and gently patted Xu Qin's hand to show her dissatisfaction with Xu Qin's lie.

"Grandma, why would I lie to you about this? My father said he wanted to take you back home to live with him, saying he missed you. He also asked why you haven't been home for almost a month." Xu Qin still pretended to be confused.

"Really?" Grandmother was happy when she heard this, and she stared at Mu and asked. Mu knew that Xu Huizu was going to die, and now she was confused after hearing what Xu Qin said. For the past month, she had been trying to stop Xie from going to Xu Huizu's house.

"Shijiabao, I'm bored living alone in the mansion. With your grandmother here, I have someone to talk to, so I let your grandmother live in the mansion. I told your grandmother before that big brother would be fine, but she didn't believe it!" After all, Mu came from a wealthy family. She was the second daughter of Pingxi Hou Mu Ying, so she reacted very quickly. Since Xu Qin said so, she had to say something to follow his lead.

"Okay, okay, hurry up and pack your things. Grandma is going to stay at the eldest brother's house for a while!" Grandma was very happy. She stood up immediately and was about to tell the servants to pack up.

Mu stood up with a worried look on her face and cast a puzzled look at Xu Qin. Xu Qin smiled and said to Mu: "Aunt, let's go together later. You haven't been to my house for a long time. My mother said she missed you!"

"Oh, that's good! Mother, I'll go prepare some gifts too. Sakyabao, let's go to the storehouse and see if there's anything you like?" When Mu heard this, she was even more confused, happy and worried. She was happy that Xu Huizu might really be okay, but she was worried that Xu Huizu might really be dying, and his time was probably up. Xu Qin asked her to go there so that she could take good care of Xie.

"Okay, grandma, hurry up and pack. I'll go to my aunt's storehouse to pick out the good things!" Xu Qin knew that Mu had something to ask him.

Soon, Xu Qin, Xu Jingchang and Mu left their grandmother's courtyard and came to the alley. Mu asked Xu Qin anxiously, "How is your father?"

After hearing this, Xu Qin bowed to Mu, then said with a smile: "Aunt, it's cured. It's really cured. It chased and beat me in the mansion for the whole morning yesterday."

"Ah, really, it's really cured?" Upon hearing this, Mu's eyes widened in surprise, and then tears came down. She knew a lot of things that Xu Zengshou had told Mu before his death, and Xu Zengshou had given many things to Mu for safekeeping.

Soon, the group took a carriage and headed for Xu Huizu's mansion. After arriving, Xie got off and walked quickly inside. When Xu Huizu learned that his mother Xie was coming, he also took Li and others to the gate of the mansion to greet her. After seeing Xie coming in, Xu Huizu immediately knelt down. Xie happily went to greet her and hugged Xu Huizu, and the mother and son began to cry.

In fact, Xie had guessed this before, and now seeing that Xu Huizu was completely fine, she was very excited.

Then the group arrived at the living room, where the servants were carrying the old lady's things into the mansion. In ancient times, parents always lived with their eldest son.

By the evening, Zhu Gaosui had not yet entered the palace to report on the investigation, but Zhu Di could not wait any longer, especially when he saw the empress coughing non-stop, which made him even more anxious.

After returning to the imperial study, Zhu Di summoned the eunuch Liu Yongcheng from the Imperial Household Department, who was in charge of the East Factory for Zhu Di.

"Go and investigate how Xu Huizu recovered! Find out as quickly as possible who cured him! Don't tell me that it was Xu Qin who cured him, I don't believe it!" Zhu Di gave Liu Yongcheng a serious order.

"Yes!" Liu Yongcheng immediately bowed and went out to make arrangements.

The next morning, Liu Yongcheng came to Zhu Di, who had just woken up, with the investigation report. Zhu Di took it and looked through it!

After reading it, he frowned even more. All this seemed to indicate that Xu Qin cured Xu Huizu.

Zhu Di turned his head and stared at Liu Yongcheng.

"Your Majesty, the result of the investigation is indeed true. Since Xu Huizu was imprisoned, no stranger has visited his mansion. Moreover, there have been only a few doctors who treated him in recent years. Therefore, now that Xu Huizu says that he was treated by Xu Qin, we can only acknowledge that it was Xu Qin who treated him! Because we really can't find out who caused the problem. Maybe it was someone in Xu Huizu's mansion, but if Xu Huizu wants to hide it, we can't find out!" Liu Yongcheng said while bowing to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di took the paper, looked at it, then crumpled it up and threw it into the charcoal fire next to him.

"Let the Jinyiwei arrest Xu Qin and send him to the imperial prison!" Zhu Di said coldly.

"Oh, yes!" Liu Yongcheng bowed and walked out immediately after hearing it.

After Zhu Di finished his breakfast, Zhu Gaosui came over. He also received the order to arrest Xu Qin and send him to the imperial prison. He also gave the order, but he was still very happy in his heart. Zhu Gaosui wanted to come over to ask how to deal with Xu Qin. If Zhu Di said he wanted to kill him, then he would have to torture this kid.

"Dad!" Zhu Gaosui entered the study and immediately shouted with a smile.

"How's the investigation going?" Zhu Di looked up at Zhu Gaosui and asked.

"Oh, now all the news points to Xu Qin curing him." Zhu Gaosui immediately reported after hearing this. After he finished speaking, he did not forget to ask: "Dad, after arresting Shijiabao, can we torture him to make him tell the truth?"

When Zhu Di heard this, he looked at Zhu Gaosui with a look of disappointment.

Torture?

What if it was Xu Qin who really treated Xu Huizu after the torture? Shouldn't the queen be treated? Shouldn't the queen's life be saved?

(End of this chapter)