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Chapter 107 Poor Judy
After arriving at Xu's house, Zhu Di slowly got out of the carriage, trying his best to make his movements look less limping.

As a man, you can give up some face in front of your parents and elder brother, but you can't be timid in front of your wife's family.

If people knew that he, the dignified Prince of Yan, was beaten like this upon returning to the capital, how would he face people in the future?

My father-in-law Xu Da is stationed in the north!
"Your Highness is here, please come in, the princess and my wife have prepared the food and are waiting for you!"

The doorman naturally recognized Zhu Di and greeted him warmly as soon as they met.

Zhu Di really wanted to say that he was not in a hurry and could walk slowly, but when he heard that everyone was waiting for him, he felt embarrassed to make them wait anxiously, so he could only grit his teeth and follow the doorman to the mansion as quickly as possible.

Not long after.

He was led into the reception room by the concierge.

In fact, it would not be convenient for Zhu Di, as a vassal king, to visit his wife's family. If they had to have a meal together, it would be better to hold a banquet outside. After all, the Xu family was the number one military general among the Huaixi nobles. It was not a good thing for a prince who was about to go to Yan to be a vassal to get too close to them.

But now Xu Da is guarding the border in the north and is not at home, and Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun hurried to Fengyang right after their wedding. In this situation, it is indeed time for them to come over for a meal and a few drinks. After being beaten today, Zhu Di specifically mentioned this to his eldest brother, and they did not come in private, but came openly.

——Because his future self would rebel and get beaten up, Zhu Di is now particularly concerned about this aspect, fearing that he will offend his father again.

After entering the room, I saw only a few people at the table.

Madam Xie, Xu Miaoyun, and Xu Yungong, who had a sullen face and was obviously unhappy.

The other children in the family were still young, the oldest was less than ten years old, and Xu Da, the man of the house, was not at home. It would be inappropriate for the concubines to sit at the table on such occasions, so there were only a few of them.

Zhu Di didn't think anything of it. He slowed down his pace, walked closer to his wife and sat down, then smiled and said:
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. Please forgive me. I'll drink three cups as punishment later."

Before Xu Miaoyun could say anything, Mrs. Xie smiled happily.

She personally poured a glass of wine for the wealthy son-in-law and placed it in front of Zhu Di:
"What are you talking about, Your Highness? We are all family, why are you being so formal? You have been traveling a lot these past few days, if you don't mind our simple meals, just eat more and replenish yourself!"

"Miaoyun and I both have a low alcohol tolerance. If you don't mind, you can have a couple of drinks with Yungong. Just drink until you feel happy. Don't be polite!"

Hearing what Madam Xie said, Xu Yungong slowly frowned.

He was not going to go home today, but in the afternoon in the Shaodaozi shop, he heard His Majesty mention intentionally or unintentionally that the Prince of Yan and the Princess had returned to Yingtian Prefecture, so he hurried back.

It's true that I enjoy having a few sips, but not everyone is willing to drink it.

Eating and drinking with ordinary soldiers from the three camps, their status was not as high as mine, but they could be happy with just a bowl of Shaodaozi and a plate of braised dishes. Drinking with them was also fun and could enhance the friendship between comrades in the barracks.

Drinking at home...with King Yan?

To drink wine you have to use a cup as small as a fingernail and sip it. Isn't this a joke?

What's more, he didn't like the King of Yan in the first place.

When Xu Miaoyun was still unmarried, among all her brothers and sisters, Xu Yungong was the only one he liked and could talk to. Although this girl was born to Madam Xie, her brain was many times better than Madam Xie's. When she was at home, Xu Yungong would feel much better even when his father went to guard the border, because she would at least help balance the relationships at home.

But the only sister who had brains was married to Zhu Di.

Even though it was the emperor who personally arranged the marriage, Xu Yungong still felt that this boy must have fallen in love with his sister a long time ago, so Zhu Di smiled like a flower on the day of the wedding.

After marrying him, Xu Miaoyun first followed him to Fengyang to suffer, and two years later she had to go to Yan to suffer again. She was afraid that if she suffered any grievances there, it would be difficult for her to report back home. When Xu Yungong thought of this, he looked at Zhu Di with more disdain.

"Come on, Your Highness, would you like to have a drink?"

Xu Yungong raised his cup to Zhu Di - no, to be exact, he raised an entire wine jug.

Zhu Di also had another similar wine jug in his hand.

Zhu Di felt that the provocation from his elder brother-in-law was a bit too strong, but a man cannot say that he is not capable!
He gritted his teeth, smiled and stretched out his hand, avoiding the small glass of wine poured by his mother-in-law, and picked up the wine pot and clinked it with Xu Yungong:
"Drink victory!"

Then he raised his neck and started drinking.

Xu Yungong grinned, shouted "Drink to win", and was about to finish the pot of wine, but was stopped by Xu Miaoyun.

Xu Miaoyun looked at him disapprovingly:
"Brother, you looked drunk at the gate of the Third Camp this afternoon. You are going to drink like this tonight. Are you addicted to alcohol?"

Xu Yungong was stunned at first, and then horrified.

He looked at his sister in astonishment:

"Did you see what happened this afternoon? How much did you see?"

Xu Miaoyun said calmly:

"I saw them all."

"I originally wanted to go to the military camp to look for you, but when I first saw you, you were drunk and being helped out of the Shaodaozi shop. I was worried at the time, so I asked the driver to follow and look ahead. I saw most of what happened afterwards."

Xu Yungong's throat was boiling and he wanted to say something, but he felt that it was not convenient to talk since Zhu Di and his stepmother were here.

Xu Miaoyun naturally knew what he was worried about.

So Xu Miaoyun paused for a moment and looked at her mother:
"Mom, please go back to your room first. I have something to tell my brother."

Mrs. Xie was happily preparing to serve food to her son-in-law. She was already very uncomfortable when she heard Xu Yungong's provocation just now. As a result, her daughter not only did not stand on her or her son-in-law's side, but started talking to this half-brother.

It seems that there is something that is not convenient for me to know.

She immediately frowned:
"Why, is there anything that is difficult to talk about between us mother and daughter?"

Xu Miaoyun smiled without changing her expression:

"I have seen your way of managing your subordinates several times today. It is really hard to praise you. What I want to say now is also very important. If you don't want the Xu family to get into trouble, it's best to avoid it."

Mrs. Xie was so angry that her chest heaved and her whole body trembled.

She never expected that the daughter whom she had carried for ten months and raised with her own hands would actually say such words at this moment -

Especially in front of the prince's son-in-law and the illegitimate eldest son Xu Yungong!
Isn't this like putting her face on the ground and stepping on it?!

"Well, they are all promising, very promising!"

Mrs. Xie stood up suddenly, pointed at her daughter and said angrily:

"If you have any problems in the future, don't count on me, your unworthy mother!"

She left angrily, slamming the door of the hall as she left.

Zhu Di was not a vague person when it came to drinking. He drank as soon as he said he would. He had already drunk half a pot from the bottle, but then this happened.

He looked at his wife blankly:

"Miaoyun, what are you doing..."

Xu Miaoyun also looked at him:

"Your Highness, when did your meeting with the Emperor end today?"

Zhu Di first exclaimed "Ah", then frowned and thought for a long time before saying:
"Not long after you left, maybe two or three quarters of an hour, someone seemed to come to report something, and then the emperor left in a hurry."

"What's wrong? Is it about our father?"

Although he only saw the emperor for two or three quarters of an hour, he only talked about things for a short while. His elder brother Zhu Biao was quite concise and concise, and he finished talking about the tutoring class in a short time. Then, he was beaten with his father's belt and boots.

The beating lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour - that's half an hour, if you convert it to dollars.

As for why the fight ended so early, but he just arrived at the Xu family now... it was because the Queen Mother and eldest brother asked the imperial physician to apply medicine to his wounds.

Zhu Di swallowed the rest of his words and didn't intend to tell such an embarrassing thing in front of his wife and brother-in-law.

But he didn't expect that his wife didn't care at all whether he was scolded or beaten. After listening, she looked at Xu Yungong.

"Brother, you should have heard from my mother when I returned home, right? At that time, the prince had just finished his audience with the emperor. You can calculate the time yourself. He rode there at full speed."

Xu Yungong's face suddenly turned grim.

Of course he knew who the "he" his sister was referring to, which was why he just asked Xu Miaoyun how much she had seen.

After considering for a moment, Xu Yungong looked at Zhu Di, hinting:
"Is it better to talk about this matter alone?"

Zhu Di's face turned dark at that moment.

Why, you two brothers have to avoid me when you want to talk? Get it straight, your sister is my wife now!

He had already drunk half a pot of wine and was a little drunk, so he was about to lose his temper.

But Xu Miaoyun held her husband back and whispered to her brother:

"We are all family. You know my mother is a confused person, but the prince can be trusted."

"And in the end, although we will go to Yandi in the future, our family is still our family after all. We should help each other in the future. We should know the details, right?"

Xu Yungong thought about it carefully and felt that this was the truth.

He estimated that among the whole family, only his sister was promising and sensible, and that his sister was raised like this because his father was often at home when she was young. But now his father was stationed at the border all year round, and he could not control how his brothers and sisters were raised astray by their stepmother.

In the final analysis, apart from the wife and children he has, I'm afraid the only person he can rely on in the future is his sister.

"I know what you want to ask, but I can tell you that he rode his horse at full speed to the three camps today, not because of me, not because of the soldiers, and not because something happened in the barracks."

Xu Yungong sighed:
"It's because of Brother Ziwei - that is, Song Shen."

Upon hearing the name, Xu Miaoyun was a little confused.

She hesitated for a long time before saying:
"Song Shen? Is he... the eldest grandson of the Song Longmen family?"

"What is his relationship to your majesty?"

Before Xu Yungong could say anything, Zhu Di jumped up from his chair!

Zhu Di couldn't help but shout in shock:

"Song Shen?! Are you related to Song Shen?!"

The brother and sister looked over at the same time, both of them were stunned.

They are talking about His Majesty and Song Shen...

But what's wrong with Zhu Di's reaction? Is his butt on fire?

Zhu Di seemed to realize that he had overreacted, and quickly sat back in his seat, pulling Xu Yungong and whispering:

"You just said that my father hurried to the three camps this afternoon to meet Song Shen? Is that what you mean?"

Although he didn't know what he was shocked about, Xu Yungong nodded subconsciously:

"Yes... His Majesty concealed his identity when he went there. He was accompanied by people from the Yiluansi. The spy also took me away alone to warn me not to speak carelessly in front of Brother Ziwei, otherwise our whole family would be in disaster."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di immediately took a breath of cold air.

Today, the eldest brother has made it very clear. He certainly knows why and how much his father values ​​Song Shen, but he could never have imagined that his father would go to the extent of making up an identity to get close to Song Shen while wearing incognito.

At first he thought it was nonsense, thinking that such a thing should be verified anyway. But then his elder brother told him that Song Shen had already taken out grain with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu and handed it over to Mao Xiang, the commander of the Yiluansi, and they were just waiting for the right season to start planting.

After hearing this, Zhu Di completely understood why his father attached so much importance to Song Shen.

As for his father's brain about grain, he thought that as long as Song Shen could really produce more than a thousand kilograms of grain per mu, he would dare to confer the title of duke or marquis on him.

“…No wonder, no wonder!”

Zhu Di slapped his thigh, thinking that the reason he was spared a beating today was probably because Song Shen appeared at the gates of the three camps.

As a result, the slap landed right on the spot on his thigh where the skin was torn, and it almost made him cry.

He gritted his teeth and looked at his brother-in-law with tears in his eyes:

"Um, brother-in-law, are you on good terms with Song Shen?"

Xu Yungong had never heard Zhu Di call him brother-in-law before, and he was very surprised for a moment.

He scratched his eyebrows:

"We used to have a good relationship, but Brother Ziwei injured his head a while ago. Not only did he lose his sight, he also lost most of his memory. He has forgotten a lot about the people and things around him."

"Today, Censor Zhang and the man from the Yiluansi Department both advised me to interact with him more. It won't do any harm."

Zhu Di excitedly grabbed his hand and said sincerely:
"Yes, yes, they are right. It won't do you any harm to get along with Song Shenduo and build a good relationship with him. And if you can get him to mention it to the emperor, you will have a bright future!"

"They're not scaring you!"

Xu Yungong and Xu Miaoyun were both frightened by Zhu Di's reaction.

This is no longer the proud, confident, and dashing Prince of Yan... He seems to have gone mad.

Xu Miaoyun probed:

"Your Highness, are you okay? Is Song Shen really that important? Where did you hear that?"

Zhu Di almost swore to heaven:
"My eldest brother told me, my eldest brother, the crown prince, Zhu Biao!"

The brother and sister looked at each other.

Zhu Di grabbed Xu Yungong's hand and said more sincerely than before:
"Brother, after you have established a good relationship with him, can I ask you for a favor?"

"You ask him to say a few good words about me in front of my father. I really don't want to be beaten again. If my father hadn't rushed to the Third Camp to meet Song Shen today, I would have been beaten so hard that I couldn't get out of bed for half a month!"

Only my wife and my eldest brother-in-law were present. The former had seen everything, and the latter, as a man too, had nothing to be embarrassed about.

Zhu Di gritted his teeth and rolled up his sleeves most of the way, revealing his arms that were red, swollen, and purple with no healthy flesh.

He looked at the two people in front of him with tears in his eyes:

"You've only been beating me for 15 minutes and you've beaten me like this. I don't know how long I'll have to stay in Yingtian Prefecture. Can you bear it?"

"Please say something good for me!"

(End of this chapter)