"Hey, you guys are coming to Yuqing Palace so brazenly, aren't you afraid your followers will be unhappy?"

Yinreng raised his eyebrows, a smirk flashing across his eyes.

After hearing this, the already unhappy expressions of Yinzhi and the others became even more sour.

"this……"

"Brother, I have absolutely no intention of competing for the throne. If you still harbor resentment, I will go to the Emperor tomorrow and explain it to him. I am determined to be a wise king!"

"Hey, don't go. It's not worth it to push all the officials away just for me..."

When Yinreng heard this, he instantly lost his composure.

His original intention was to make his brothers compete, because if they didn't compete, how could he be lazy?

However, before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Yinzhi again.

"Yinzhen is right. I don't have any intention of competing with my second brother. It's just that the emperor has summoned me to his presence too many times recently, and I have no choice..."

Yinreng waved his hands anxiously.

"No, no, no, how can you push people away for me? It's easier to get things done when you have people under you!"

"But……"

"Oh, no buts, how could I not know you guys? No matter what rumors spread outside, I won't believe them. I was just joking with you just now."

"That won't do!"

Yinzhi frowned.

"When you have more people under you, all kinds of troubles arise. It was because I trusted Mingzhu that I..."

Seeing the surprised looks from his two younger brothers, Yinzhi stopped talking at the right time.

"Just what?"

Yinzhi was a little curious.

Seeing Yinzhi's bad face, Yinreng added,

"Children, don't pry into adults' affairs!"

Yinzhi was full of questions.

He is getting married soon, so what does it have to do with children?

"In fact, not everyone is ambitious. Who knows, those who join your team may all want to get things done."

Yinreng tried to persuade Yinzhi.

Yinzhi rolled his eyes.

"Come on, if they didn't have ambitions, why didn't they come after me when I wasn't favored? Now they're interested in me, tsk..."

The last sound was full of irony.

Yinreng was speechless. It seemed that the boss’s account was ruined.

It doesn't matter.

He also has a group of younger brothers.

So Yinreng tried his best to deceive Yinzhi and Yinzhen, and even said nonsense like "The team you form will be my helper in the future."

Yinzhi and Yinzhen were skeptical.

After leaving Yuqing Palace, Yinzhi and the other two felt a little puzzled as they walked along the palace road.

Yinzhi spoke first.

"Do you think that the second brother is acting abnormally today?"

Yinzhi and Yinzhen were also thinking about this matter, and nodded without thinking.

"I feel the same way."

"Um."

Yinzhi frowned even deeper.

"Why do I feel like he's trying hard to encourage us to compete with him for the throne?"

"cough!"

Yinzhi was choked by his words, and then looked around vigilantly.

"Brother, don't say that!"

Yinzhi also realized that the occasion was not right, so he suggested,

"Come sit over there for a while."

Yinzhi nodded, and Yinzhen naturally had no objection.

When they arrived at Ganxi Wusuo, Yinzhi could not wait to drive out all the palace people and said straight to the point,

"When did you feel this way, brother?"

Yinzhi thought about it and gave a specific time point.

"After returning from the disaster relief work in Yuzhou last year, how about you?"

"Just now, although I had felt that my second brother was acting a little strangely, I had never thought about it in that way. It was only after you said that, eldest brother, that I suddenly realized it."

Listening to his eldest and third brothers reconciling accounts, Yinzhen was a little confused. Was his second brother acting strangely?

What's weird?

He asked his doubts, and Yinzhi kindly answered them for him.

"Do you still remember that a few years ago, the Emperor personally led his army against Galdan, but he fell seriously ill while on the way and wrote to me and my second brother to attend to him?"

Yinzhen nodded.

"Remember."

He was sad for a while.

He felt that the emperor did not value him by letting his second brother take care of his third brother but not him.

"On the way back from the palace, my second brother and I walked very slowly. Whenever he heard there was a temple on a certain mountain, he would stop and hike up the mountain. At first, I thought he was praying for the Emperor."

"But later I discovered that my second brother wasn't praying at all, but was using it as a cover for having fun."

Yinzhen frowned. He was a paper king and couldn't stand his brothers not working hard. But when he heard that Yinreng was going out to play, he was only entangled for a moment and then found a reason for Yinreng.

"My second brother is so busy on weekdays and rarely leaves the palace. It's normal for him to want to travel for the first time."

Upon hearing this, Yinzhi glanced at Yinzhen's stern face and shook his head secretly.

This guy has been fooled by Yinreng and doesn't even realize the problem.

"If that's the case, then how do you explain why he's been in the court for over four years and hasn't had a single important official under him except Suo Etu?"

"this……"

Yinzhen was stuck.

"Okay, stop guessing, he just doesn't want to be the crown prince."

Yinzhi came to a conclusion, and then revealed to the two of them all the abnormalities he had observed about Yinreng over the years.

After listening to it, Yinzhi and Yinzhen were speechless.

No normal person could accept that my father gave the family property that should have been his to other brothers.

Just look at Alinga and you will know.

He did everything he could to get his father's title.

But Yinreng was different. Not only did he accept it with pleasure, he even wanted to give away everything he had obtained.

If this isn't a fool, then what is?

"Why doesn't my second brother want to be the crown prince?"

Yinzhen asked a soul-searching question.

In Yinzhen's heart, Yinreng is a man of both virtue and talent, with means and background. What is rare is that he also has a heart that loves the people like his own children.

From any perspective, Yinreng is the undisputed candidate for the crown prince.

But why doesn't he want to be the crown prince?

Yinzhen was puzzled.

"Confused?"

Yinzhi gloated over other people's misfortunes.

"I've been struggling with this answer for seven or eight years."

He began to have doubts when Yinreng went to his father to plead with him to experience the prince's daily routine.

There is still no answer to this question.

“I can’t guess at all…”

Yinzhi scratched his head. When he thought about becoming the crown prince, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

"I don't want to be a prince anyway!"

"I don't want to either."

Yinzhen also quickly expressed his opinion, fearing that if he was a second late, he would be forced to take on the hot potato.

Then, they both looked at Yinzhi.

Yinzhi was very angry.

"Look at what I'm doing? I've already drawn a line between me and Mingzhu. Isn't this attitude obvious?"

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this, but once he did, Yinzhi couldn't help but become curious.

"Why did you and Mingzhu break up?"

"Didn't the second brother say that? Children shouldn't pry into adult matters!"