flstandardbreds Chapter 166 Zheng Lu Nian
Chapter 166 Zheng Lu Nian
Duke Zhenguo Helian Zhen, however, did not quite like the sweet taste. He picked up a small bamboo bag filled with fried French fries and said, "This is still the best. Your Majesty, how long until the potatoes in your greenhouse can be harvested?"
Emperor Shengde was feeling frustrated as he watched the others wolfing down their food, not daring to reach out and snatch some himself, when he heard these words.
Anshun, being particularly perceptive, quickly replied, "Old Duke, it will probably be around the Lantern Festival after the New Year."
The Duke of Zhenguo nodded: "If we can send the seeds to Longhu Pass next spring so that Yan Zhi and the others can be self-sufficient, it will save us a lot of trouble."
Emperor Shengde: "..."
He plans to plant it in Huangzhuang next year first to see the yield on land, and then make plans to see if it can be promoted nationwide.
However, the old Duke had completely blocked him.
What did this make him say?
Limited seeds?
It seems to be OK.
Long Yi quickly explained, "There's no rush. As someone said, this potato isn't picky about where it's planted."
Shouldn't the generals first clear the land? That person plans to plant on a large scale next year.
Aren't there plenty of seeds?
"Wouldn't it be better if we learned the entire planting process and then delivered it to the General?"
Upon hearing this, the Duke of Zhenguo nodded, acknowledging that he had acted too hastily.
Afterwards, the group ate and chatted.
At this moment, another man in black came in to report that Duke Wu woke up as soon as he returned to his residence.
Afterwards, he shooed everyone away, leaving only the young Duke Zheng Lunian by his side.
Because there were too many guards in the study, they could not get close.
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Meanwhile, the Duke of Wu, whom they were talking about, had vomited blood several more times since waking up.
Then, with mixed feelings, she looked at her eldest son and led him, stumbling, through the hidden door of the study to the underground palace.
Looking at the empty houses, he realized that in just one day, all of his savings of thirty years had vanished.
How did those people discover it?
Who exactly moved out?
How did they manage to move out in just one day?
You know, he just looked at those things last night, and he was still there at the time.
Thinking about it, he spat out several more mouthfuls of blood, and his steps became even more unsteady.
Zheng Lu Nian stepped forward to help him, but he was pushed away. Finally, Zheng Si Han tripped and fell, stepping on his own foot with his left. Only then did Zheng Si Han let Zheng Lu Nian help him walk.
The two of them made their way to the most secret chamber in the underground palace.
Zheng Sihan turned to look at Zheng Lunian with a cold smile: "I know you've been here before. You'd better put away your inappropriate thoughts and sit properly in your position as Duke of Wu."
After saying that, he pushed Zheng Lunian away again, and with a trembling body, he approached the hidden door step by step.
His intention was to eliminate Zheng Lu Nian here, as he had brought him in.
He couldn't leave any potential problems for his son, Feng'er.
What he didn't know was that Zheng Lu Nian had the same idea.
When Zheng Sihan took the last step, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
The final secret is here: as long as you have these, it doesn't matter if you lose those other things.
As long as the things inside are there, he still has a chance to turn things around.
Thinking of this, his eyes flashed with a fierce determination. He couldn't wait any longer; it seemed his plan needed to be brought forward.
Cang Lingyuan, you ignorant brat, it's time to change your position.
Thinking this, he suddenly put his foot down, and the hidden door opened silently.
"Pfft... Pfft..." Zheng Sihan looked at the empty room, could no longer hold on, spat out two more mouthfuls of blood, and collapsed to the ground.
"Father...! Father...!" Zheng Lunian couldn't call out to anyone right now, so he rushed over and clung to his father, shaking him violently.
But the excitement in his eyes and the excited shouts were impossible to hide.
Blood was still flowing from Zheng Sihan's mouth as he was being shaken, but he had completely lost consciousness.
Upon seeing this, a fierce glint flashed in Zheng Lunian's eyes. He simply sat down on the side, ceasing both shaking and shouting.
He burst into laughter, a hearty, unrestrained, and melancholic laugh.
"Dad, my dear dad, haha... it turns out you're not omnipotent after all."
"Haha... I know you like Third Brother, and you've always known you wanted to get rid of me to pave the way for Third Brother."
"Hehe... Father, I am the eldest son, I am the eldest son! Just because I am the child of a merchant's daughter, you treat me so coldly."
"All your possessions are my mother's dowry, what right do you have to look down on me, huh!"
"Hehe... You gave all the resources I've had since I was a child to the third brother. Do you know that I saw through your intentions a long time ago?"
"They want me to be their stepping stone, Zheng Lufeng. Do you think I'll just sit here and wait to die?"
"Hehehe... Father, you don't know, do you? I know everything, I know everything, and I saw everything."
It was you who killed that child and switched the son of the woman you loved most with your stepmother, my dear third brother.
Hahaha... You're so cruel! Even tigers don't eat their cubs.
This child born to your stepmother is also your own son? You did this for that woman's child... hahaha..."
After Zheng Lunian finished laughing maniacally, his face turned horribly gloomy and extremely ugly: "Old man, you were the one who killed my mother, weren't you? Did she discover your secret?"
"That makes sense, otherwise how would I have discovered this place? So this secret chamber is where you kept your imperial robes, isn't it?"
Zheng Lu Nian reached out and patted Zheng Si Han's face: "Just don't say anything, that's true, otherwise why would you be so angry?"
"Lost, haha, it seems everything's lost. The Duke's mansion is finished. A capital offense, punishable by death and the extermination of nine generations of their family."
"Old man, you're the one behind my maternal grandfather's family too, aren't you! Haha..."
Zheng Lu Nian's face was contorted to the extreme as he spoke those words almost insanely.
Zheng Sihan married two principal wives in his lifetime. Zheng Lunian was born to his first principal wife, Liu, because the marriage was arranged by the old Duke.
The Liu family were imperial merchants, and Zheng Sihan had no choice but to marry them because of his ambition.
After Liu entered the Zheng family, she was not particularly favored, but she had the protection of the old Duke and even gave birth to a son.
Unfortunately, the Liu family was not exactly ambitious either.
Because of the birth of Zheng Lu Nian, the eldest son and eldest grandson.
The Liu family felt that their daughter was promising, so they started to act arrogantly, committing many evil deeds, bullying others, forcibly abducting women, and oppressing the people.
They started by doing things covertly, but as Zheng Lunian grew up year by year, they eventually came out in the open, and the Duke of Wu's mansion had to clean up their messes quite a bit.
After his father, the old Duke, passed away, Zheng Sihan used the late emperor's hand to wipe out the entire Liu family, including his legal wife. Most of the Liu family's property was given to him.
After the Liu family was destroyed, he took a fancy to Zhao Manman, the daughter of Zhao Gang, the Prince of Qingzhou, at a palace banquet.
Zheng Sihan targeted the daughter of the Prince of Qingzhou because the Prince of Qingzhou, Zhao Gang, had retired from the Helian army and held considerable prestige within the military.
He was a man who stood shoulder to shoulder with General Gu Qiguo, and back then he could be considered the right-hand man of Duke Helian Zhen.
Because Zhao Gang was injured in his right shoulder and left leg, the Duke of Zhenguo used his military merits to exchange him for a princely title and sent him to Qingzhou to serve in the capital.
The reason Zhao Gang married his daughter to Zheng Sihan as his second wife was also due to the instigation of the Zheng family.
He only regretted it when the late emperor passed away and his faction came to light.
After Zheng Sihan and Zhao Manman got married, on his way back to his parents' home, he met Zhao Manman's younger sister, Zhao Wanwan.
Zhao Wanwan's beauty could be described as breathtaking, and she had been kept hidden in the mansion all along.
She hadn't left her own courtyard for over a decade, and no one except her own family knew of her existence.
Since meeting Zhao Wanwan, Zheng Sihan has been unable to eat or sleep.
After Zhao Manman married Zheng Sihan, it was because of her younger sister Zhao Wanwan.