"It really is Fourth Brother and Fourth Sister-in-law! What brings them out to play? Hmm, so this is what Fourth Brother is like in front of Fourth Sister-in-law."
Ruoling followed Zhu Dan out as well. It was a rare opportunity for her to leave the palace, and she had begged her grandmother for a long time before she was allowed to. She found it amusing to see her usually unpredictable fourth brother acting like a child, fighting with his wife for candied hawthorns.
Zhu Dan chuckled lightly: "Ruoling, don't call Miss Lu that anymore. Father has already decreed that they should divorce. Calling her that again will damage Miss Lu's reputation."
"Oh, I see." Ruoling nodded reluctantly. "Fifth Brother, Fourth Brother, will Miss Lu get married in the future?"
"Yes, she will definitely get married." Zhu Dan stared intently at the two laughing and joking. He would definitely marry her; she could only marry him.
Ruoling kicked the stone under her feet absentmindedly: "Miss Lu is so good, why did Father Emperor make them divorce? Look how good she is to Fourth Brother."
Zhu Dan rubbed Ruoling's head: "Father has his own considerations. Besides, only the two of them know whether a couple is suitable for each other. Since Fourth Brother wrote the divorce papers first, it seems that they are not suitable for each other."
He smiled and said, "Miss Lu will find someone better and more suitable for her in the future. Let's go, let's go over there."
Ruoling nodded as if she understood, and followed Zhu Dan toward Lu Xiaoyun and Zhu Yu.
Ren Yushan and Zhu Heng stood in a teahouse on the second floor, looking down at the couple laughing and joking on the street.
Zhu Heng smiled sarcastically.
Ren Yushan snorted coldly: "I never expected that His Highness Prince An, who has remained unchanged for thousands of years and never shows his emotions, would have this side to him. He is actually quite the romantic. Even with such serious injuries, he still doesn't forget to accompany his beauty out to laugh and play in the street. He really has no shame at all."
Zhu Heng coldly replied, "What kind of romantic is he? He's just a complete idiot."
Having been completely fooled by Ren Yong'an without learning his lesson, Zhu Heng didn't say this to Ren's father's face.
Once a person has something to worry about, they have a weakness.
Love, however, can be the biggest stumbling block on a man's path. People like them, born into royalty, are not worthy of having love.
If Zhu Yu doesn't provoke him, he'll let it go. But if he dares to provoke him, he'll definitely take action against Lu Xiaoyun first.
Ren Yushan said, "My lord, now that the Northern Army has left, the Duke of Zhenguo has no troops at his disposal, the Northwest Military Command has been transferred to Mucheng, and Prince An is seriously injured, there is no one in Shengjing City who can stop our next arrangements now."
Zhu Heng smiled faintly; he had waited far too long for this day.
Looking up at the sky, the moonlight was as bright as silk, and the distant star, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, seemed to be breaking through the clouds.
Ren Yushan asked in bewilderment, "However, there is one thing I do not understand. Since Your Majesty intends to wage war against the Chen Kingdom, why not use the nearby Lu Family Army instead of sending the Northern Army on a distant expedition?"
Zhu Heng chuckled lightly, no longer watching the two people below who were happily eating a string of cheap candied hawthorns, and walked to the table to sit down.
Zhu Heng said coldly, "This is the suspicion of my good 'father'. Although the Lu family army is stationed in the southern border and has kept the Chen Kingdom outside Yuhai Pass for many years, the dog emperor cannot completely trust the Duke of Zhenguo and his son."
Ren Yushan frowned slightly.
Zhu Heng poured two cups of tea, pushed one of them in front of Ren Yushan, leisurely picked up his own cup, took a sip, and continued, "The Lu family army has accumulated too many military merits. There's a saying, 'Their merits overshadow the emperor.' The emperor, humph, he doesn't trust either the Duke of Zhenguo and his son, nor does he trust the Lu family army."
Therefore, he wanted the Northern Army to travel two thousand miles to attack Chen, rather than allow the Lu family army to achieve unparalleled feats again.
The destruction of Chen is an immense achievement.
Ren Yushan snorted: "It's really a waste of manpower and resources. By then, the Northern Army will be exhausted and their horses will be worn out. Even if the Northern Army is brave and skilled in battle and can really destroy the Chen Kingdom, it will still be severely weakened. Alas, only our emperor could do such a thing."
"So what!" Zhu Heng chuckled. "What the dog emperor wants is for the Northern Army to be severely weakened, so that a group of generals in the palace can be eliminated, and he can promote a group of his own confidants. Only then will the Northern Army become his true personal troops."
The dog emperor still didn't believe that the fourth prince would willingly hand over the Northern Army.
Similarly, he couldn't completely trust Qi Shaocheng.
Zhu Heng smiled coldly: "People and horses are exhausted, ha, how wonderful, many people will die."
Dead people are good, the more the better.
Ren Yushan also snorted coldly.
"Fourth Brother, Miss Lu." Zhu Dan walked over from a distance with a gentle smile on his face, but his eyes were fixed on Lu Xiaoyun, who was sitting on the curb.
Zhu Yu rolled his eyes. He had seen you there a long time ago. Why couldn't you pretend you didn't know? Why did you have to come closer to them?
When did the fifth brother become so tactless and annoying?
The street was crowded with pedestrians, and the sight of these three standing together would make even the best scenery pale in comparison.
"Fourth Brother, Miss Lu." Ruoling also bowed to them.
Hearing Ruoling address him in the same way, Zhu Yu frowned slightly. Little brat, when did she become so tactless?
Zhu Yu, in a soft, affected voice, curtsied to Zhu Dan: "This humble woman greets Your Highness, the Fifth Prince."
I'll make you sick of me, even if I can't make you leave.
Zhu Dan suddenly felt a chill run down her spine: "Miss Lu, there's no need for such formalities."
"Cough cough cough." Lu Xiaoyun almost choked to death on the candied hawthorn.
"Fourth Brother, are you alright?"
Lu Xiaoyun choked so hard that tears welled up in her eyes. Zhu Yu used a handkerchief to wipe Lu Xiaoyun's mouth himself: "Look at you, how can you still choke on food at such a young age?"
"Greetings, Fifth Prince, Princess Ruoling." Lu Yuyan was really worried about his sister's foot, so he hurried over after preparing the medicinal herbs.
“Mr. Lu.” Ruoling’s face lit up with undisguised joy when she saw him.
"Hello, Mr. Lu." Zhu Dan smiled gently as he looked at Lu Xiaoyun, who had stopped coughing and was gently massaging her legs. "Are you tired? Would you like to sit in the building in front?"
"No need, we'll head back now." Zhu Yu said, then helped Lu Xiaoyun to her feet.
Although Zhu Dan had a smile on his lips, he sighed helplessly in his heart. Why was his fourth brother's hostility towards him growing deeper and deeper?
Previously, the relationship between the two of them was the best among the brothers.
But ever since he learned about Yun'er's situation, Fourth Brother has treated him this way.
As a man himself, he understood.
But some things can be tolerated, and some things cannot.
So Zhu Dan stretched out his long arm and blocked Lu Xiaoyun and Zhu Yu's path.
Zhu Yu looked at him coldly: "Your Highness, Fifth Prince, what are you trying to do?"
Zhu Dan looked at Lu Xiaoyun and said, "Fourth Brother, your legs are weak, why don't you let me take you home?"
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