gnovel Chapter 5 Zhu Gaoxu: This is my answer!
Chapter 5 Zhu Gaoxu: This is my answer!
Inside the Fengtian Hall, there was a deathly silence!
Zhu Gaoxu looked up at the sword his father handed him and felt that this scene was so familiar!
As an Earthling, he seemed to have seen such a scene before, except that the person Zhu Di handed the sword to was not himself, but the Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi.
Now the situation has reversed!
"well……"
Zhu Gaoxu sighed inwardly.
He turned his head and looked at Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui, and Zhu Zhanji.
All three of them were trembling with fear.
Under the old man's astonished gaze, Zhu Gaoxu stood up.
He took the sword with one hand, then turned to look at Zhu Gaochi's family, including the third son, Zhu Gaosui.
The group panicked completely!
Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, in particular, stared wide-eyed!
Seriously? Second brother, you're really planning to chop me up?!
Only the third brother's eyes flashed with a slight smile; he seemed to be watching a show!
Anyway, the people the old man is angry with these days are his second and eldest sons.
To put it bluntly, he was just going through the motions as the underling!
Go ahead and make a scene!
The bigger the commotion, the better!
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the sword in his hand and sighed softly.
"Father, if I were to actually strike you down with my sword, how would history record your deeds?"
Zhu Di did not speak, but stared intently at Zhu Gaoxu.
History books will say that Yongle usurped the throne, and his descendants all followed his example!
"Then the historians will write that Emperor Yongle usurped the throne, and his son not only followed his example but also murdered his own relatives!"
"When that time comes, we'll turn against each other, the world will be in chaos, and our Zhu family will become a laughingstock!"
"Father, when these things really happen, and history is written in stone, are you really not worried at all?"
Zhu Gaoxu posed a soul-searching question.
Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Gaoxu in astonishment. No, Second Brother, you've finally figured it out?
Did you really say these words?
He turned to look at Zhanji, his mind racing.
Zhanji, slap me a few times, let me see if this is a dream!
Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Zhanji were equally bewildered, their eyes wide as if they were meeting this Prince of Han for the first time!
Because if it were an ordinary Prince Han, he would never have said such a thing.
But now, these words have actually come out of his mouth.
Is this still the same Han King who tells others every day that he is like Qin King Li Shimin?
Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Father, what do you think?"
Zhu Di kept staring at Zhu Gaoxu, and at this moment, it seemed that he could no longer see through Zhu Gaoxu.
For the first time, he felt he couldn't understand his second son.
Zhu Gaoxu continued, "Regardless of whether the eldest son is the crown prince or not, he is still my elder brother. We brothers should treat each other with utmost respect, not kill each other for the throne!"
"If it means killing one's own flesh and blood for the sake of imperial power and the emperor, I cannot do it!"
He inserted the sword in his hand into the scabbard on the wall.
"Your subject only wishes to go to his fiefdom; your subject only wants to be a law-abiding and obedient feudal lord!"
After saying all this, he ignored Zhu Di and the others, picked up a pen, and wrote a few lines on a piece of white paper.
"That's my answer!"
After the Prince of Han finished writing, he told Zhu Di that the contents of the paper were his answer.
He glanced at Zhu Gaochi and the others, then walked out of Fengtian Hall with an air of nonchalance.
The entire Fengtian Hall fell into an unprecedented silence.
Zhu Di took the paper and stared intently at its contents, remaining completely absorbed for a long time before reacting.
Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, and Zhu Gaosui all knelt on the ground, not daring to utter a sound!
They were very curious about what Zhu Gaoxu had written and why the old man kept reading it.
After a long while, Zhu Di let out a sigh of relief.
"Get up, everyone."
Seeing this, Zhu Gaochi and the others breathed a sigh of relief and carefully stood up.
"What do you think of what the second brother just said?" Zhu Di suddenly asked, posing the question to Zhu Gaochi.
Zhu Gaochi knew this was the old man testing him, so he quickly spoke:
"Father, I think the second son is right. We are a family, and we cannot let the matter of the Crown Prince cause bloodshed among our own flesh and blood."
"If Father is truly uneasy, then your youngest son is willing to resign as Crown Prince and pass the position to the second son, thus avoiding a fratricidal conflict!"
Zhu Gaochi was very magnanimous; he even said he would resign as crown prince, which shows that he had great courage.
Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Gaosui were both stunned.
First the second son was going to his fiefdom, and now the eldest son has even proposed to resign as crown prince?
Good heavens, what's going on today?
Zhu Di's face twitched slightly.
"Is the position of Crown Prince something you can simply resign from?"
Zhu Di squinted and said, "You brat, get up! Don't give me that nonsense!"
Zhu Gaochi: ...
This old man is really hard to please.
"This is what the second brother wrote. You should take a good look at it."
Zhu Di handed over the white paper in his hand.
Zhu Gaochi quickly took it from him.
It reads:
The tiger is the king of beasts; who dares to provoke its wrath?
Only the bond between parents and children remains, a bond that is cherished and revisited with every step.
Not only him, but Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Gaosui also came over and started watching.
"This...this was written by the second brother?" Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth slightly.
Zhu Zhanji thought to himself: This second uncle, does he have such awareness? And such literary talent?
Zhu Di murmured to himself, "Only the bond between father and son remains, and I look back with every step."
He kept repeating this sentence, and then he left Fengtian Hall, leaving Zhu Gaochi and the others behind.
"Brother, what should we do next?" Zhu Gaosui asked cautiously.
"Now you know how to call me 'Big Brother'? What were you doing at the beginning?" Zhu Gaochi rolled his eyes at him.
"Brother, this situation is different. After what happened today, I'm still scared!" Zhu Gaosui said.
"Alright, there's nothing to be afraid of. Go back to sleep," Zhu Gaochi said softly.
He dragged his heavy body outside, and Zhu Zhanji, being very perceptive, helped his father.
The brothers walked out of Fengtian Hall, and Zhu Gaoxu left early.
"Father, what do you think of Second Uncle...?" Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth.
"I can't see through your second uncle anymore," Zhu Gaochi said with a complicated expression. "In the past, whatever he did was predictable, but as for what happened today..."
Zhu Gaochi let out a breath.
"No matter what, your grandfather will be there to watch over things, even if the sky falls. Anyway, the fact that your second uncle didn't kill us today shows that he still cherishes our brotherhood."
Zhu Zhanji smirked: "That's hard to say. After all, he can't really behead us in front of his grandfather, can he?"
Snapped!
Zhu Gaochi slapped him across the face.
"You unfilial son, you can't say such things, do you hear me?" Zhu Gaochi said angrily.
"Father, I understand, I understand!"
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