But Zhu Biao had failed to fulfill his responsibility as a father.
All these years,
Zhu Yunteng had been bullied by the Lu clan to such an extent, yet he had known nothing about it.
"Though you've forgotten the past, you're still just like when you were little. You always loved talking back to us and your father."
Seeing Zhu Ying's somewhat combative manner, Zhu Yuanzhang could only smile helplessly and shake his head.
"Xiongying."
"Those things are all in the past. No one will bully Yunteng again from now on," Zhu Biao immediately replied.
"Then continue."
"How did you confirm it?" Zhu Ying stopped saying more and continued asking.
"Yunteng told his great-uncle, and then Lan Yu took Chang Mao to the Filial Mausoleum and dug up your grave."
"That confirmed that you were still alive. The burial jade pendant was also missing, and Lan Yu reported everything to me."
"Besides that,"
"They made a jade pendant identical in style to the one matching your identity. Lan Yu observed you in secret and discovered that you truly had such a pendant, confirming it." Zhu Biao smiled.
Hearing this,
Zhu Ying thought back.
He instantly recalled how Lan Yu had deliberately revealed that jade pendant when he had come to visit, and how he himself had glanced at it.
And—
They had even dug up his grave?
That was truly something else!
"What about Your Majesty?" Zhu Ying asked again.
Zhu Biao's side was easy enough to understand. Lan Yu's almost earth-shaking transformation over the past half year made that obvious. But how had Zhu Yuanzhang found out?
"I'm much more reliable than your father."
"The first time I saw you, you were drunk."
"I saw the bite mark on your arm." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a cheerful smile, his