Although Leng Ming was still young, he was in a very bad mood today, so he nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll ask someone to prepare it. Let's have some drinks, three of us."
Leng Xi waved his hand directly, "Just order three pots of wine, and we'll sit here and not leave until we're drunk."
Leng Yu neither agreed nor opposed their proposal. Since it has come true, let's just make the best of it!
After a while, the servants came in with three pots of wine and a few dishes. The three of them sat on the ground, each holding a pot of wine, and began to drink with their own thoughts.
This was one of the few times the three brothers got together to drink.
Leng Xi held the wine jug in his hand, looked at Leng Yu, and said expressionlessly:
"Fourth brother, you will always be my fourth brother, but if I, your fifth brother, do anything to let you down, please don't blame me."
Leng Yu raised the wine jug in his hand, a hint of bitterness appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Fifth brother, I hope that we brothers can live in harmony forever. But if one day, we are on opposite sides, I hope that we will all protect Ming'er and not hurt him, because he has the weakest character and he won't argue with others."
A hint of indifference appeared on Leng Xi's lips, and he nodded with a deep look in his eyes.
"Of course. Now that we've come to this, let's make a gentleman's agreement. No one, no matter who it is, is allowed to harm Ming'er."
Listening to their conversation, Leng Ming suddenly covered his face with his hands and started crying.
He kept sobbing and mumbling,
"Why? Just because we were born into the royal family, can't we always be brothers? I don't want this."
Leng Xi and Leng Yu looked at each other, with a strong coldness in their eyes.
Although they don't want to hurt each other from the bottom of their hearts, their current position has made them powerless to make a choice.
Leng Xi suddenly sneered with red eyes, "Fourth brother, today we will only drink and talk about brotherhood, nothing else."
Leng Yu also nodded with a calm look in his eyes, raised the wine jug in his hand, and drank a glass with Leng Xi. Leng Ming also joined in.
Finally, Leng Ming fell to the ground due to being drunk. When Leng Yu and Leng Ming were left alone, they leaned against each other and suddenly recalled their childhood.
"Fourth brother, when we were little, you often took me to climb trees. For that, my mother often spanked me."
"Yeah, you were timid back then, and you had to have me pull you up..."
"Don't you remember? One time, we were playing hide-and-seek with my eldest brother, second sister, and third sister. I hid behind a rockery, and none of you could find me. Finally... finally, it was dark, and no one came looking for me. I was so scared I started crying. Luckily, my mother brought the servants to look for me."
"Hehehe, that time we were all punished by our father. He made each of us copy the "De Zigui" ten times. You couldn't finish it, so your second and third sisters helped you copy it..."
"Hey, Fourth Brother, how wonderful it would be if we weren't born into an imperial family. Then my eldest brother wouldn't be so cruel, and my second and third sisters wouldn't have to marry foreigners. We brothers could live in harmony..."
At this point, Leng Xi's eyes suddenly became wet. He poured all the wine in the wine pot into his mouth, then stood up swayingly and smiled at Leng Yu:
"Fourth brother, from today on, you and I, Leng Xi, will fight to the end for this throne."
Seeing him say this so casually, Leng Yu stood up from the ground. He looked at Leng Xi, pointed at him, and said bluntly with cold eyes:
"If you promise that you can be a good emperor, I will not fight with you. I will give you this position."
Leng Xi opened his arms, shook his hands and laughed:
"Hahaha, give it to me? I don't need you to give it to me. I don't want to be a good emperor. I want to be the emperor because if I become the emperor, I can get everything I want and marry the woman I want. Hahaha..."
While talking drunkenly, he threw the wine jug in his hand far away. As the jug fell to the ground with a bang, he walked out of Dening Palace dejectedly. Although his steps were shaky, they were firm.
Looking at his back, Leng Yu raised the wine jug in his hand, drank a glass towards his back, and gulped down the last of the wine. Then he shook his hand and threw the wine jug far away. He looked down at Leng Ming, shook his hand and left.
Perhaps, as Leng Xi said, after today, the real battle between the brothers will begin, but what can be done about it? They each have different reasons for wanting to be emperor, but their ultimate goal is the same, so they can only become enemies.
Thinking of this, Leng Yu felt a wave of sadness in his heart. The twins and Zhang Yuan who were guarding the door came over to help him, but he blocked them with his hands.
"I can walk by myself, back... back home."
Although his voice was drunk, it also sounded helpless. This was the first time in his life that he had drunk so much alcohol, and he believed that this would be the last time.
The autumn wind blew outside, and Leng Yu suddenly felt a chill. He was so cold that his whole body trembled and his heart was chilled.
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In the blink of an eye, another month passed. Little Huaiyu could already crawl. He often crawled around on the bed. Looking at his cute appearance, Luo Lan was in a good mood.
Luo Lan's belly was getting bigger and bigger. During this period, she had been very cautious, and everyone in the palace was also very cautious.
In the evening, Ah Hong was carrying a basket of eggs and happily walked towards the back door of Prince Yu's Mansion. The princess was about to give birth, so she had been running out of the city to the countryside in the past few days. She had been running around all day to buy this basket of eggs from several households.
Just as she reached the door, she suddenly saw a basket there. She looked around and saw that there was no one around, and she immediately became suspicious.
Why is there a basket here? What's in it?
Thinking of this, she stepped forward cautiously, and the floral cloth on the basket actually moved.
"ah!"
Ah Hong was so frightened that she retracted her head. After calming herself down, she put the basket of eggs on the ground, then mustered up the courage to step forward and slowly lift the floral cloth in the basket.
ah!
There was actually a fair-looking child in there.
Oh my god!
She covered her mouth in astonishment. How could there be a child here? Who put it here?
She looked around hurriedly, trying to find who had left the basket there.
But, there's not even a single person here...
What should she do? This child was obviously placed here on purpose, she couldn't just ignore him.
So she covered the bamboo basket with the floral cloth again, picked up the bamboo basket, picked up the basket of eggs with her other hand, and carefully walked into the palace.
Since she came back with a basket of eggs every day during those few days, the servants in the palace did not notice anything unusual about her.
At this time, Luo Lan was sitting at the table drinking the crucian carp soup that Ah Cai had just brought. Ah Hong hurriedly pushed the door open and said to Ah Cai:
"Acai, close the door and go guard outside. I have something important to tell the princess."
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