It snowed heavily during the night.

Early the next morning, the weather cleared, and the world was white under the winter sun.

In the royal harem of Dongliang Kyoto, the maids are busy sweeping the snow in full swing.

Kun'er held a small wooden box inlaid with pearls and emeralds in her arms, stepped on the white snow that was too late to sweep up the sidewalk, stepped on a string of creaky and crunchy sounds, and ran happily into Qian'er's dormitory, "Brother Huang, brother, I have something good to give you." ”

Qian'er was writing, put down the wolf in his hand, turned to look at his younger brother, and a smile appeared on his handsome face, "What kind of good thing? Seeing that you are so anxious, look, where is the snow on the top, and you have become a pulsatilla." As he spoke, he wiped the snow on Kun'er's head with his own hands.

Kun'er gritted her teeth and smiled mischievously, "It must have been me sneaking through the sidewalk and alarming the snow on those pine branches." Don't worry, brother, take a look at this-" As he spoke, he opened the box, and the box was wrapped in another layer of golden soft satin. The chubby little hand uncovered the soft satin, revealing a crystal clear jade.

This jade is the size of an adult's palm, and it is a rough stone that has not been polished and carved. But it is not ordinary jade, but precious nephrite.

"Nephrite?"

The big palace maid who was waiting on the side of the case glanced at it, and suddenly laughed.

Kun'er was puzzled, and when she looked up, the palace maid quickly covered her mouth, but she still kept laughing.

"What are you laughing at? Do you suspect that I am reluctant to give it to my brother? Let me tell you, I am willing, although nephrite jade is expensive, can it be more valuable than our brotherhood?" Kun'er asked, curling her neck.

The palace maid stopped laughing, shook her head and defended: "No, no, the slave maid will show you this-" As she spoke, she lifted an ebony box on the desk, and there was also a bright and crystalline jade lying in the box.

It is also a nephrite rough that has not been carved in any way.

Kun'er's eyes straightened with surprise when she saw it.

This nephrite is so big!

"Nephrite? You also have nephrite? Where did it come from?" Kun'er was curious, put down her box, and reached out to touch her brother's, his brother's jade was much larger than his, maybe three times larger, and it was also much more transparent and beautiful.

His eyes were full of envy, "Wasn't it rewarded by my father?" I thought that my father only rewarded me alone, so I rushed to my brother and wanted to give it to my brother, but I didn't expect that my brother got it before me, and he was much older than mine. ”

Qian'er closed the box, put Kun'er's jade into the box inlaid with pearls and emeralds, and smiled, "We have all of them, so you don't have to give you to me, take it back and save it, since it is a reward from our father, we must keep it well." Come, my brother will teach you how to write. ”

Kun'er looked at the two boxes, comparing the two pieces of jade he had just seen, the difference in size was too great, and then looked at the smiling expression of the big palace maid grinding on the side, he had a little shadow in his heart, remembering his aunt's repeated words, saying that his father was eccentric, and he loved Qian'er everywhere far better than Kun'er, and now it seems that his father is indeed eccentric, and the nephrite jade awarded to the two people is so different, and he wants to give it to his brother with a baby-like nephrite in his eyes, but his brother doesn't even have a good look, because they already have a better one, and it also provokes a palace maid to laugh at him。

Since his brother was harmed by himself once, he came back to life and was still so good to himself regardless of his previous suspicions, he desperately wanted to be good to his brother in his heart, better than before, but there were always some knots in his heart that could not be solved, and Aunt Duanyi would mutter a lot in his ears when he met once, saying that he was not angry, had no brains, lived up to his aunt's training, forgot the hatred of his biological mother, recognized the thief as a brother, and was a useless goods...... They are all the sons of their fathers, why are they such unprofitable goods? He felt extremely ashamed.

He picked up the box and forcibly endured the discomfort in his heart, "Brother Huang, I'm going back." ”

Qian'er didn't force him to stay, and sent him out with a smile.

Kun'er stepped on the snow and walked all the way, not going back to his dormitory, but entering Qingyun Palace.

"Where did you hit a gray head, why are you crying with a sad face? What the hell?" Duanyi Niangniang looked up and saw her nephew hanging down, her heart moved, and she came up and grabbed the child's shoulder to check.

Kun'er shook off her hand, "It's nothing, it's just that the snow is slippery, and on the way to my aunt, I almost fell." ”

Duanyi looked at his nephew's expression and sneered: "Are those chamberlains and palace maids just taking care of sweeping the snow outside the palace of the queen mother and the queen mother first, and leaving the gate of the palace to the end? Hmph, dare to look down on the palace like this, and have their good fruits to eat when you turn around! Tell me, what's uncomfortable?"

Kun'er looked at the extremely charming face covered with fat powder in front of her, and suddenly felt disgusted in her heart, and handed the box in her hand forward, "It's nothing, this is for my aunt." ”

After saying that, I got up and left.

Duanyi grabbed it, "Wait, what is this?"

I opened it and smiled, "Is it a reward from your father?" Silly boy, this is a good thing, nephrite jade is worth a lot now, the old pit of nephrite jade in Moro has been dug up, and the newly opened pit continues to produce jade, but the quality is no longer comparable to that of old pit jade. And now that Moro and our Dongliang Kingdom are at war with each other, it is really difficult for us to get nephrite jade from them, and it is said that even if we have a lot of money in our hands, it is rare to buy good jade in the market. Does Bai Feng know, the old marshal back then, who had made great military exploits, why did he hand over his military power and live in seclusion in the countryside, and now why was he beheaded by His Majesty's order? It's not all because of nephrite, this nephrite-" She suddenly stopped talking, because she thought of Kun'er and Qian'er having a lot of trouble, and even Prince Qian'er almost lost his life, not because of a piece of nephrite paperweight caused by the public case.

Her mind flowed, she thought about it, and smiled again, "Good boy, you are your father's favorite prince, look at this nephrite, although it is an uncarved raw material, it is also the most precious, as long as we find a skilled craftsman to carve it well, and make a paperweight for you." This is your father's heart, how can you give it away casually. Someone else certainly doesn't have it, it's a preference for you alone. ”

Kun'er's eyes were confused, and he suddenly said: "Brother Huang, he already has it, he is several times bigger than mine, and it is far more expensive than this." ”

Duanyi froze instantly, and didn't say anything, there was something complicated in his eyes.

Kun'er's eyes were filled with tears of grievance, and she pursed her lips to cry, but she didn't cry, she just murmured: "Why is my brother's jade much bigger than mine? It's bigger than a circle, and it's much more beautiful, does my father really don't love me, only my brother alone?"

"Don't call me brother!" Duan Yi reprimanded, "Brother Huang, call Brother Huang! Where did any brother and brother come from in the palace, only Brother Huang Huang, you can remember! Also, you always can't listen to what I usually tell you, but now I have seen it with my own eyes, believe it, alas, you kid, you are just an honest pimple! Poor sister, leaving such a stupid child, no matter how I teach it, how can I avenge my sister in the future!"

Kun'er staggered to her feet, and suddenly ran away from Qingyun Palace in one breath.

The palace maid wanted to go out to chase, Duanyi stopped, "Don't chase, as long as he has grievances in his heart, comparisons, and grievances, it's a great thing, this kid loves to drill the horns, as long as he starts to think about these things, we will be easy to do in the future." I don't have to worry about my aunt's words, and he won't listen to them. ”

Kun'er didn't go back to the palace, he ran around in the snow, ran far away in one breath, stepped on a long series of crooked footprints, and when he was tired of running, he looked back, with tears in his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Why, why is my father so partial? Why does even a palace maid dare to openly laugh at me? I want to be a person who has no quarrel with the world, and I will never fight with my brother in my life, including all glory and wealth, including the throne, but why do you all bully me like this? What should I do?"