Xu Miaoqing then smiled and said, "As the sister-in-law, I'll take charge today. Everyone will stay in the palace tonight, and tomorrow when my younger sister returns to Yunnan, His Majesty will see her off outside the city."

Zhu Yunying smiled and nodded, then said to Feng Cheng and Sang Shi, "You two don't need to be so reserved. Today, I am the elder brother, and you are my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. You should know how we treat the three of them."

Indeed, he knew perfectly well that the current emperor doted on his younger brother and sister to the point that Prince Wu was becoming the number one playboy in the Ming Dynasty. However, Prince Wu remained fearless because his elder brother would protect him.

"Geng'er, come here." Remembering something, Zhu Yunying said to Zhu Wengeng in an annoyed tone, "Your father knows how to be afraid of me, but you have no respect for your elders here."

Zhu Wengeng didn't mind and happily put his arm around Zhu Yunying's neck, "Uncle, we want that jar. We've been raising so many koi, but we don't have room to keep them anymore."

Zhu Xi and Zhu Yue immediately lowered their heads and laughed. As expected, he was the eldest son of their good-for-nothing younger brother. He had truly surpassed his father.

Zhu Yunying gave Zhu Wengeng's little bottom a slap in annoyance, "Your dad won't take anything from us anymore, so it's your turn?! You raise koi fish, and you want all those big jars? All the good stuff in our warehouse, you two have squandered it all."

Zhu Yunwen didn't care, and just muttered, "Brother, it's just that Geng'er took a fancy to that jar. We looked at it, and it wasn't marked as imperial, so we just took it back. We saw the big jar, and we guessed it came from the Jingde period of the Yuan Dynasty. It's a fine piece, good for raising koi."

What else is there to say? Zhu Yunying had no interest in antiques or anything like that, including many genuine works by famous artists, which were also collected in the palace. However, Zhu Yunying wasn't particularly enthusiastic about them.

As for the large jar that Zhu Yunwen and his son had their eyes on, it was actually the so-called 'Yuan blue and white porcelain'.

Zhu Yunying said irritably, "That's something you can use! That's a dragon with two horns and five claws, and it has a qilin on it. That's something from the official kiln."

That's not wrong either. The only way to distinguish between official and folk kiln wares of Yuan blue and white porcelain is by their decoration. Therefore, any blue and white porcelain with prohibited decorations is also official kiln porcelain produced by folk kilns under orders, but a considerable portion of Yuan blue and white porcelain without these decorations must also be official kiln porcelain.

Zhu Yunwen immediately said with a grin, "It's not the five-clawed one, we're looking at the four-clawed one. We can take it back to make a pair. We brought it back from Father Emperor's place a few years ago. We also have a set of wine utensils, but we're missing the cups."

Xu Miaoqing immediately glanced at the wine glass in Zhu Yunying's hand. Luckily, it was a five-clawed glass. Even if Zhu Yunying had given it to her, the boy wouldn't dare to accept it.

"Big sister, go and pick out three sets of wine utensils." Xu Miaoqing, the generous sister-in-law, said, "Second brother has brought back quite a few things over the years, let's give each of the two sisters two sets of jewelry."

Feng Qi lay sprawled on Zhu Yunying's lap, seemingly understanding the principle that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and called out, "Uncle..."

Zhu Yunying was speechless. He felt that as the eldest brother, if he didn't have some family wealth, he probably wouldn't be able to take good care of his younger siblings. Putting aside these three for now, it was normal for Zhu Yunying to subsidize them, but it seemed that the youngest had also gone astray.

"I've taken a liking to the armor Yin'er wore a while ago, but I won't allow it," Xu Miaoqing said with a smile. "Yin'er, you know how he is. He wears those armors that Grandfather gave him every day, and it makes us all nervous."

Picking up his chubby little nephew, Zhu Yunying said, "You can't wear your eldest brother's armor, the Crown Prince. Your great-grandfather favored him and gave him the five-clawed one, which is only for the emperor. As for you guys, we'll give each of you a set of four-clawed armor and a cloak, and also give each of you an imperial horse, okay?"

Xu Miaoqing fell silent, as did Zhu Xi, Zhu Yue, and even Zhu Yunwen. The most chaotic group of people in the Ming Dynasty when it came to clothing was actually the emperor.

The Hongwu Emperor was biased, giving his grandson a five-clawed armor, while the crown prince didn't even have one. Now, the retired emperor has bypassed the emperor, allowing the crown prince to wear the five-clawed armor and military robes and frolic in the training ground all day long.

Whether it was favoritism or not is something we can ignore for now. The specially bestowed clothing is not outrageous, after all, it was a good precedent set by Zhu Yuanzhang, who once bestowed a dragon robe upon his brother-in-law, Duke Li Zhen of Cao State.

Therefore, Zhu Yunying was simply following the example, which was a tradition of the Zhu family!

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