The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

Nanyang Mountain, the imperial palace.

Emperor Mingde met Zhu Lingxiu who was recuperating here.

Zhu Lingxiu at this moment no longer looked the same as when he was carried out of the underground palace that day.

He was still thin, but his beauty was unmistakable. His good looks were a natural blessing, but they also became the source of his miserable life.

Zhu Lingxiu wanted to stand up and salute, but was stopped by Emperor Mingde, "Zixin, you are not fully recovered yet, so there is no need for the formal ceremony."

Zhu Lingxiu smiled bitterly, "Your Majesty may not live to see the day when Zi Xin is fully recovered."

Emperor Mingde said in a deep voice, "I said you can get better, then you will definitely get better. I will find the best doctor in the world for you."

Zhu Lingzheng was about to speak when a woman came in from outside.

The woman was dressed elegantly, her hair was gray, and her face was filled with sorrow. She walked up to Emperor Mingde and knelt down to greet him, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

Emperor Mingde said gently, "Madam Zhu, please stand up. I am here to check on Zixin's health."

The woman was Zhu Lingxiu's mother, Zhao.

The identity of this Zhao family is a bit complicated. In addition to being Zhu Lingxiu's biological mother, she is also the aunt of the deceased imperial concubine Li Qinghui and the biological sister of the deceased Mei Xiu.

Because of her bad fate, Mrs. Zhu was raised in another place since she was a child. She returned to Beijing after she came of age and was not very close to her family.

The reason why she was able to return to Beijing was entirely because the Zhu family, although with an ordinary family background in their early years, had an arranged marriage between their children and the Zhao family arranged by the older generation.

This marriage was originally supposed to be arranged by Ms. Mei Xiu, but she did not want to marry into the Zhu family, so she asked her parents to bring her sister back to marry in her place, thus avoiding ruining the marriage.

Ms. Mei Xiu herself married her ideal husband, Li Shixin, and gave birth to a daughter, Li Qinghui.

After Mrs. Zhu married into the Zhu family, she fell in love with her husband Zhu Yu at first sight, gave birth to a son, Zhu Lingxiu, and lived a happy life.

Zhu Yu was particularly ambitious and entered the government as a third place winner. He made achievements as an official outside the capital. When he was transferred back to the capital, he had already achieved some success.

At a palace banquet, Emperor Mingde, who was still a prince, saw Zhu Lingxiu and asked the late emperor to make him his study companion.

Zhu Lingxiu is not only beautiful, but also a very talented person. He has been personally taught by Madam Zhu since he was a child, and has some experience in painting skills.

Why can we achieve twice the result with half the effort with Mrs. Zhu's guidance?

In fact, Mrs. Zhu has another hidden identity, that is, the great painter Baiyin Jushi who has amazed the world.

People in Beiyi only know that there is Mr. Baiyin, but few people know who Mr. Baiyin is.

There are four famous female painters in Beiyi, and three of them are from the Zhao family: Mrs. Zhu, a Baiyin lay Buddhist, Mrs. Li, a Meixiu lay Buddhist, and Li Qinghui, a Qingyin master.

But Mrs. Zhu is a low-key person. She is never like Mr. Mei Xiu, who is complacent, likes to teach others, and never brags about her little achievements.

Her works were sent out secretly, and she never let outsiders know that she was Baiyin Jushi.

Moreover, her achievements in painting far surpassed those of Mei Xiu and Qing Yin, and they were not on the same level at all.

In the early days, when Mr. Mei Xiu was not very famous, he always asked people to link his works with those of Mr. Bai Yin, misleading many people who did not understand painting into thinking that the skills of Mr. Mei Xiu and Mr. Bai Yin were comparable.

However, Ms. Meixiu never knew until her death that the Ms. Baiyin, whom she had been pulling down, jealous of, and belittling, was actually her own sister who had been raised in another place since childhood.

Mrs. Zhu was a very open-minded mother. Although she had little affection for the Zhao family, she did not strongly object when her son Zhu Lingxiu fell in love with her sister's daughter Li Qinghui.

She thought that letting her son find true love was the best arrangement for his life.

But she regretted it so much!

She didn't expect that her sister's family were such beasts in human form.

Li Qinghui and her daughter made her son suffer a fate worse than death, but she had to hide the truth from her son and not let him know Li Qinghui's true face.

Mrs. Zhu had been accompanying her son in the palace for so long and had kept the news of Li Qinghui being stung to death by a bee a secret.

She knew very well that the emperor asked her to keep it secret for the good of his son.

But she felt it was time to let her son know the truth.

Madam Zhu still knelt and refused to get up. "Your Majesty, I dare to ask you to move aside. I have something to say."

Zhu Lingxiu was very sensitive and immediately said, "Mother, what do you want to say to the emperor? Don't cause trouble for the emperor, your son is fine."

He was afraid that his mother would make excessive demands and put Emperor Mingde in an awkward position.

Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but shed tears when she saw that her son always thought of others first.

She wiped away her tears and tried to smile, "Son, mother will not make any requests to the emperor. Mother just wants to talk to the emperor."

Zhu Lingxiu was skeptical, "Really?"

Emperor Mingde saw a look of determination in Madam Zhu's eyes.

He then knew that Madam Zhu was unwilling to keep the secret any longer.

He rarely saw a mother as determined as Mrs. Zhu, who was willing to hurt her son in order to make him understand the truth.

Emperor Mingde hesitated for a moment, "Madam Zhu, please get up first. Today I am here to explain the whole story to Zixin."

Madam Zhu's eyes lit up, and she bowed deeply, "Your Majesty, thank you."

Emperor Mingde asked, "Aren't you worried that he won't be able to bear it?"

Madam Zhu shook her head. "He failed in the first half of his life because he could not see clearly the true and false of a person. If he still cannot live clearly in the second half of his life, wouldn't it be tragic?"

Seeing that Emperor Mingde did not speak, she continued, "It is better to suffer a short pain than a long one, just like a warrior cutting off his arm. Only by digging out the rotten flesh can a new life be created."

Emperor Mingde nodded and had Zhu Lingxiu carried to a chair.

The two of them sat in the garden with the sun setting, silent for a while, not knowing where to start.

Mrs. Zhu looked at the two men's backs and sighed deeply.

What she didn't say was that her son even thought that Emperor Mingde fell in love with that vicious woman.

If she didn't let her son know the truth, she was worried that he would resent Emperor Mingde over time.

If one day, her son becomes that kind of person, she, as a mother, would be too ashamed to face the emperor.

in the garden.

Emperor Mingde and Zhu Lingxiu spoke at the same time.

One shouted, "Zixin."

One shouted, "Yun De."

The two of them laughed at the same time, just like when they were young.

"You speak first."

"You speak first."

They spoke at the same time again.

Emperor Mingde laughed in silence, "Then I'll tell you first. I fell in love with a woman, and then I realized that in addition to the country, life also needs beauty."

Zhu Lingxiu couldn't move, but his eyelids twitched and he said bitterly, "The emperor finally understands the taste of love in the world. I'm sure that woman is very happy."

Emperor Mingde pondered for a moment and shook his head, "That woman doesn't know that I have fallen in love with her. I don't intend to let her know, because my harem has been filled with too many people, and too many people's lives have been delayed."

Zhu Lingxiu's heart sank. "Perhaps, Your Majesty, you should explain it to her clearly, so that you can live together with her. I believe that no one in this world can refuse you, Your Majesty."

Emperor Mingde slowly smiled meaningfully, "Zixin, do you think the woman I'm talking about is Li Qinghui?"