"This is outrageous! This is outrageous! They are going too far!" After the eunuch who delivered the decree left, Madam Lin was furious.
"Shut up!" the Duke of Zhenguo snapped at her.
"Master, the Emperor suppressed your memorial requesting that Ming'er be granted the title of Heir Apparent. This clearly shows that he knows Lu Zheng is still alive. Why? Why? This is a family matter of our Duke's Mansion. What right does the Emperor have to interfere! That little bastard Lu Zheng is dead, already dead!" Madam Lin roared madly.
"If you want to chase after your father and sister, then keep shouting and making a scene!" the Duke of Zhenguo sneered.
"You..." Madam Lin panicked, looking at the Duke of Zhenguo in disbelief, "Is it because I no longer have the Lin family as my backing that you've revealed your true colors?"
"Think what you want." The Duke of Zhenguo didn't look at Madam Lin, and took the imperial edict back to his room.
Madam Lin was about to chase after him to hit him, but her son stopped her: "Mother, Father doesn't know about this. Besides, you're insulting the Emperor!"
Lu Ming was only one year younger than Lu Zheng. Back then, before Lu Zheng's mother, Zhou Yujia, passed away, Lin Shi and the Duke of Zhenguo had already been having an affair. Lu Ming, who was born at full term, was publicly declared to have been premature.
Lu Ming, who is nineteen years old this year, is still unmarried. The Lin family has had some troubles in the past two years, so his marriage is hard to arrange. Girls with good conditions don't want to marry Lu Ming at this critical time when the Lin family has just collapsed. As for girls with poor conditions, the Lin family doesn't want to marry them. So, it has been delayed until now.
Lin shook off Lu Ming and angrily chased after the Duke of Zhenguo.
The Lu family members were left behind, each with a different expression.
The Lu family did not split up. Besides the line of the Duke of Zhenguo, there was also a second branch. The couple in the second branch were honest people on the surface. Seeing Lin Shi being humiliated, they probably couldn't help but laugh. After Lin Shi left, the couple went home hand in hand.
The rest were Lu Zheng's brothers and sisters of the same generation, and they were all shocked. So their second brother was still alive!
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In the palace, the third prince looked at his younger brother sleeping in the crib in Kunning Palace and wanted to strangle him several times.
After the Empress finished tidying up, she came out and saw the dazed Third Prince. She sighed, walked over, and took his hand: "Your brother is just like you when you were little, just as lazy. All he does is sleep all day. Jue'er, you were like that when you were little too!"
The Third Prince withdrew his hand and looked at the Empress with pain: "So, Mother, did you give birth to a younger brother to replace me?"
The Empress frowned.
The third prince was extremely aggrieved: "Did Mother Empress already know that her son had been deceived, and that her son was beyond saving, which is why she had another son with Father Emperor?"
The Empress sighed, "Yes, I knew all along. Seeing you so obedient to her, even cooperating with her to kill the Third Prince's Consort, has only strengthened my resolve. Jue'er, in the early days of your father's reign, he had the Empress Dowager protecting him, but did the old ministers in the court take him seriously? Was your father influenced by anyone? As the ruler of a country, let alone the cunning ministers in the court, you can't even discern the thoughts of a woman. What qualifications do you have to be the ruler of this country?"
The third prince took a step back and shook his head: "Mother, does this mean that now that you have another son, you can abandon me? Mother, I'm so wronged!"
The Empress released the Third Prince's hand and looked at him sternly: "You feel wronged? What makes you feel wronged? What right do you have to feel wronged?"
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