Upon hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's question.
The Imperial Guard beside Jiang Yan immediately replied, "Reporting to Your Majesty."
"This portrait was obtained after our Imperial Guard brothers secretly investigated the place where the Marquis of Victory lived back then for nearly a month. After making many inquiries, the portrait was repeatedly copied and revised. It is absolutely authentic."
The Imperial Guard answered with great confidence.
Hearing this!
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, his gaze falling upon the portrait.
"Nanny Ma."
"She had followed your mother ever since she married into the family."
"Your mother regarded her as an elder sister. Many of your mother's affairs were handled through her."
"Back then, your mother insisted that since the imperial physicians could not cure her, I would vent my anger on all the palace servants around her. So, before she passed, she dismissed every one of them. Now, finding them is like searching for a needle in the sea, and we know absolutely nothing about what happened back then."
Looking at the portrait, Zhu Yuanzhang appeared deeply helpless.
His sister had truly thought too harshly of him.
"Father."
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang like this, Zhu Biao said helplessly, "Mother understood you best. If she had not dismissed them in advance, forget this portrait—there truly would have been nothing left. And perhaps Mother's dismissal of the palace servants back then was also related to Xiongying."
"Back then, Nanny Ma and Mother were as close as sisters. There must have been a reason Mother entrusted Xiongying to Nanny Ma."
Regarding this.
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that saying more now was useless.
Given his temper when he was consumed by rage back then.
Perhaps a few of his sister's trusted attendants might have survived, but those imperial physicians and ordinary palace servants would likely have been buried with her.