Zhu Yuanzhang, who commanded the wind and rain, lived a long and arduous life.

"Bang..."

The medicine bowl fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Some of the scalding hot medicinal soup spilled onto Zhu Yao's body, instantly turning her skin red.

Not only that,

One of the shards grazed her calf, causing blood to gush out instantly.

"roll!"

"I don't need to take medicine. They all say I'm hopeless, but I'm not sick! I'll definitely get through today!!"

Zhu Xingzu lay on the bed, angrily rebuking, before resuming his incessant coughing.

Despite this unexpected turn of events and Zhu Xingzu's outburst, Zhu Yao seemed completely unfazed, standing calmly with her head down.

My leg was scratched, and the scalding hot medicine was also painfully hot, bringing tears to my eyes.

"grandfather…."

Zhu Yao spoke again, but this time she was not as lively as before, and there was some sadness in her voice: "They... Yao Yao doesn't believe them either. They must have seen wrong. Grandpa, you will definitely make it through today."

Zhu Yao firmly believed it, and has always believed it.

Her parents are both dead, and she has never seen her grandmother since she was born. Her grandfather is the only relative she has left in the world.

She couldn't bear the loss of the manor after her grandfather's death.

Although her great-uncle and great-uncle said she could go live with them, she never thought about going whenever she thought about how their children could talk to their parents and grandparents while she couldn't.

She isn't without relatives; she still has her grandfather!

"You little rascal, I told you to go get the money from your fourth grandfather, did you get it? Cough cough..."

Zhu Xingzu coughed as he spoke.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth: "I took it, but Fourth Grandfather didn't give it to me."

Actually, Zhu Yao didn't take it.

Ever since she was born, her grandfather has been a gambler. He gambled away all the family's money. When he ran out of money, he would ask her great-uncle for more.

I don't know what my fourth grandfather does, but he's very rich. This manor was given to him by my grandfather, and whenever my grandfather asks for money, my fourth grandfather will give it to him.

But Grandpa always lost.

Sometimes, when he got really angry from losing, he would pawn all the servants in the manor on the spot. Back then, the manor was still alive, and many people lived together. Grandpa would always beat and scold them, and he would often gamble them away.

After a while, no one dared to work on the manor anymore.

On several occasions, when Grandpa lost money gambling, he even gambled away several taels of silver with her, and lost again.

She was given away to a family.

Later, it was her great-uncle who heard about this and had someone bring her back in the middle of the night, and also repaid the gambling debts.

This incident greatly frightened my great-uncle, and to prevent anyone from suffering such a disaster in the future, he ordered that no more servants be hired here.

Her great-uncle also asked her to leave, but she refused, wanting to stay with him.

Fourth Grandfather had no choice but to go along with her.

Zhu Yao knew in her heart that her fourth grandfather looked down on her grandfather, but her grandfather would give him money whenever he asked.

My great-uncle was a really, really good person.

Some time ago,

Grandpa was bedridden but still wanted to gamble, but he couldn't get up, so he asked her to go to her fourth grandfather for money.

Zhu Yao did not go.

Because her grandfather used to be very healthy, but his health deteriorated day by day after he started gambling, Zhu Yao thought that if he continued to gamble, his health would get even worse, so she didn't ask him.

"Ahem, Zhu Chongba won't give it to me?"

Zhu Xingzu angrily said, "This Zhu Chongba, I took him to the county town when he was a child. If I hadn't taken him to the county town and broadened his horizons, would he have had the opportunity to leave that wretched village and sit on the throne as emperor?"

"Heh...heh heh heh, what an ungrateful wretch! He's the emperor now, the entire Ming Dynasty is his, what doesn't he want? He won't even give a penny, what an ingrate!!"

"I shouldn't have taken him to the county town back then, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten to this position!"

Zhu Yao cried and said, "Grandpa... Fourth Grandpa is a very good person, you can't say that about him."

Zhu Xingzu stared at her wide-eyed: "You little brat, you're even siding with outsiders? What are you crying about? I'm asking you what you're crying about?"

"I...I..." Zhu Yao cried harder and harder as she was being talked to, but she still tried to wipe her tears with her hands: "Grandpa, I won't cry anymore, I won't cry anymore...please don't be angry."

Zhu Xingzu angrily said, "Do you even think I won't survive tonight?"

That's completely irrelevant.

It seems that Zhu Xingzu is living in his own world now, unable to listen to what others are saying.

In his opinion,

Zhu Yao cried, just like those children who cry at the bedside of the elderly, because the elderly are about to die.

"Grandpa, Yao Yao doesn't have it."

"Don't cry, Yao Yao. You'll get through today."

Zhu Yao kept wiping away her tears, but she could never wipe them away completely; the more she wiped, the more tears she shed.

"You...go borrow money from your fourth grandfather again, I need the money right now!"

Zhu Xingzu said angrily again.

Zhu Yao sobbed, "Grandpa, Fourth Grandpa is busy, let's not bother him, Grandpa, Yao Yao can save you, as long as you take your medicine."

"The medicine...the medicine has all spilled. Yao Yao will go and cook you another bowl."

Zhu Yao made a move to walk out.

Zhu Xingzu quickly stopped her. He wasn't as ignorant as a child. Even the most prestigious imperial physicians in the capital said there was no cure, so what was the point of taking the medicine?

He wants money, he wants money right now!

But Zhu Yao had already run away.

I went to the kitchen and cooked another bowl.

When they returned, they found that... Grandpa couldn't be called over no matter what they did.

"Grandpa, Grandpa..."

Zhu Yao shook it vigorously.

But Zhu Xingzu just lay there blankly, motionless and without any breath.

"Grandpa...please don't go, Yao Yao...you're all I have left..."

"Grandpa, grandpa!"

Zhu Yao shook herself vigorously, even frantically.

And the more she cried, the more intensely she became.

.

…….….….….….

"Huh? Where am I?"

When Zhu Xingzu regained his senses, he found himself in a dark space with smoke swirling around his feet.

After the initial shock,

He found that he was cured and no longer in pain.

"I'm all better, hahaha! I'm all better!!"

"Damn it, that old Liu beat me for three hundred taels a month ago, and this time he called for three hundred taels from Chongba. I'll win back all his winnings!"

Zhu Xingzu laughed loudly.

However, at that moment, an untimely voice rang out.

"Let's go."

The word "悠悠" (youyou) is gentle and elegant.

Yet, he seemed to possess supreme majesty, and Zhu Xingzu subconsciously wanted to follow him.

"who are you?"

"Did you bring me here?"

Looking at the man with his back to him, Zhu Xingzu was full of vigilance.

"If you die, I will take you to the Yellow Springs."

"Dead? No, impossible! I can't be dead! That ingrate Zhu Chongba isn't dead, how could I be?"

Zhu Xingzu kept muttering to himself, but the next moment, he knelt on the ground.

He knelt on the ground without any warning.

"What... what's going on?"

Zhu Xingzu did not understand.

I didn't kneel down, so why did I kneel down?

The man in front calmly said, "If you don't follow me, I'll make you come on your knees."