Because of the warning of the eldest lady in front, the girls of the Gu family were very restrained, separated from the eldest lady far away, and all of them followed behind the old lady Gu with low eyebrows.

The more she went into the corridor, the quieter it became, Gu Qingwan quietly glanced forward, only to find that the maid in the corridor had already fallen to her knees, and Steward Zhang, who came from the outer courtyard, was kneeling straight at the front.

Gu Qingwan's heart jumped, but she didn't dare to look at it again, so she quickly withdrew her eyes and lowered her head.

When Old Madam Gu saw this battle, her expression was already a little wrong. She hurried behind the eldest lady, and saw a man in his twenties sitting on the railing of the corridor facing them, who was now looking at Steward Zhang, kneeling in front of him, with anger on his face.

The eldest lady glanced at Steward Zhang, and saw that his face had already turned pale.

Although Old Madam Gu muttered a little in her heart, she saw that the person's expression was very fierce, so she saluted first: "The courtier Sun clan knocked on the Fifth Prince's Royal Highness, I didn't know that His Royal Highness deigned to visit, and I missed the welcome, and I asked Your Highness for forgiveness." It's just that this is the inner house, and I asked His Royal Highness to move outside the second gate, and the courtiers immediately sent someone to invite the Hou Ye to come. ”

The Hou Ye that Old Lady Gu said in his mouth was naturally Gu Mingde, the Marquis of Dingyuan. Today is Mu Xiu, Dingyuan Hou doesn't need to go to the yamen, I'm afraid he is still in the study outside the second gate at this hour.

When all the ladies and girls of the Gu family heard Old Madam Gu's words, they were all shocked, and although they all knelt down, they couldn't help but raise their heads and look up.

The fifth prince and the current third prince are born from the same mother, and his biological mother, Concubine De, was the prince Liangdi when she was the crown prince today. After succeeding to the throne today, among the four concubines, only Concubine De and Concubine Xian were sealed, and the other two concubines were vacant. Although it is not said that the heirs are thin, there are only six princes who survived safely in this deep palace.

In addition to the crown prince from the queen's mother, the second prince from Concubine Xian, the third prince and the fifth prince from Concubine De, there are only four princes from Concubine Li. These ladies are the lords of the first palace, Concubine Xian is the daughter of the ruling prince of one of the four founding dukes, Concubine Li is the only daughter of General Zhenwei, and Concubine De is the daughter of the Song clan in Jiangling, and she is also a big family in Jiangnan.

Although the biological mother of the sixth prince is a palace maid, she first became a noble person by virtue of her mother, and then won the eyes of the queen's mother, so she climbed to the position of concubine. Besides, the sixth prince is only twelve years old this year, and the age difference between him and the older brothers above him is too big, and there is no threat anymore. can grow up to this day peacefully, and the luck of the feet is also first-class.

is as powerful and connected as Concubine De, but when the fifth prince was ten years old, he still "stumbled" and fell into the water. Although the person was rescued, he burned for two days and two nights, and his brain had already burned out after he woke up.

The second year of the birth of the fifth prince happened to be the succession to the throne, and among so many princes and princesses, the fifth prince was the youngest at that time, and he was very smart since childhood. In addition to the crown prince, the five princes are also quite blue-eyed. In the second year of his fall into the water, Concubine De also passed away due to illness, although he felt very sorry for the five princes, but in the face of a heartless fool, after a long time, the feelings naturally faded.

After the wedding of the princes, they had to build a mansion and move out of the palace to live in another place, and after the marriage of the three princes, they asked the five princes to move to their mansions with him. At that time, the fifth prince was only fourteen years old, and now he thinks that he has no one in the palace to plan for him, which is naturally accurate.

Four years have passed, and the third prince has always been loyal and docile, and compared to the second prince, he has no sense of existence in front of him. What's more, the fifth prince has been stupid for so many years, he moved out of the palace at the age of fourteen, and he can only see the face of heaven during the palace banquet in the past four years, and his impression of him is even more vague today.

The fourth prince is only one year older than the fifth prince, but he was married the year before last, and the fifth prince seems to have been forgotten in the palace.

Old Madam Gu had seen the Fifth Prince two years ago, and now she naturally recognized it at a sight. Although she knew that the fifth prince of the Dao Dao was mentally incomplete, she didn't dare to be presumptuous when she saw the anger on his face. Anyway, even if the five princes in front of him are fools, they are also royal blood, and they have the blood of the royal family flowing on their bodies.

The people in the clan are the most protective of their shortcomings, and Old Madam Gu does not dare to be careless.

The ladies of the Gu family naturally wondered about Old Madam Gu's attitude, and they looked up one after another in curiosity. When I saw an unusually cold face, I was a little overwhelmed.

Everyone in the Gu family was very worried in their hearts, and the eldest lady was also a little surprised when she stood aside, but she looked at Princess Huai for a while, and laughed out loud.

"Okay, Ari, don't scare them, the old lady is old, but she can't afford to be scared." Princess Huai took a few steps forward and pushed the fifth prince Zheng Rui, and then led him to the eldest lady, "This is Bin'er's aunt and your cousin, you saw her when you were a child, but now I'm afraid I don't remember." ”

As she spoke, Princess Huai personally invited Old Madam Gu to get up, and asked the wives and girls of the Gu family to get up.

Zheng Rui had a fierce expression on his face, but he didn't understand the meaning of Princess Huai's words, and he didn't care much about the eldest lady, so he just pointed to Steward Zhang, who was kneeling on the ground, and complained to Princess Huai: "Aunt Huang, he just let people beat me." ”

King Duan is the half-brother of Jinshang, but when the princes call King Duan and Princess Duan, they only call them by their titles. Although King Huai is still separated from Jinshang, the princes call him "Uncle Huang" and "Aunt Huang", and Jinshang naturally acquiesces to the difference in this title, which shows where the Sacred Heart is.

Princess Huai couldn't help but laugh again: "This is the inner courtyard, foreign men can't come in, you broke in, it was yours in the first place." Now that he has knelt and knelt, and you have been punished, the anger should be gone, right? ”

Although the fifth prince was a little lacking in his mind, he was not so stupid that he didn't know anything, so he pointed to the prince of Huai Wang unconvinced and said, "The imperial aunt lied to people, and Bin'er came in." I saw Bin'er come in, so I came in to look for him. ”

After Gu Qingwan got up, she kept her head down, and when she heard the fifth prince use such an innocent tone, she learned to call the princess Huai Wang Shizi in general, so she could only lower her head.

As soon as the fifth prince's words fell, the green tendons on both sides of the candle's temples loomed. He glanced at the fifth prince, and his voice was very cold: "Is it mine, it's not me, it's disturbing the old lady and the ladies, I'll send someone to get those two pots of flowers tomorrow, and then bring the camellia over too." ”

In the past few years, Huaiwangfu and the five princes had no contact, and the three princes looked closely at the five princes, and the candle and the five princes only met a few times a year during the palace banquet. It was still last spring when he and everyone were running horses in the suburbs of Beijing, and Candle saw that the five princes were too pitiful to be alone, so he was moved by compassion, so he took him to run together.

It's just that I didn't expect that through that time, the five princes completely relied on their Huaiwang Mansion, and from time to time they would drill into his mansion. Fortunately, everyone in the world knows that the five princes of Lu Dao are mentally incomplete, even if he walks around the Huaiwang Mansion very frequently, no one talks about this matter.

Today, the five princes came to look for him in the Huaiwang Mansion, but they didn't expect to pounce. If it is an ordinary person, forget it, but the fifth prince is a person who walks all the way to the end, and he actually twisted the entourage in his mansion and took him all the way to the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion. Huaiwang Shizi was helpless, so he appeased the five princes, and then followed Gu Cunyu to the Humble Administrator's Hall.

However, he obviously overestimated the patience of the five princes, and he was probably impatient to wait, so he actually found the inner courtyard. The people who followed the five princes, as well as the entourage left by the prince of Huai, naturally did not dare to follow the five princes into the inner courtyard, so the five princes wandered alone in the Humble Administrator's Hall.

When the candle came over, the housekeeper of the outer courtyard was looking for the courtyard to tie up the five princes and leave. It's just that because the fifth prince is mentally incomplete, the third prince is afraid that he will suffer, so after moving out of the palace, he invited a master to teach the five princes fist and foot kung fu, and the ordinary nursing courtyard is not his opponent at all. It's just that because there are many people on Steward Zhang's side, and the two sides are entangled, the five princes still suffer.

When Steward Zhang knew that he had beaten the emperor's son, his legs were already weak, and before the fifth prince could put on a terrifying expression, he knelt down.

Prince Huai Wang saluted to Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu: "I will leave first today, and I will come back another day to ask the old lady and aunt for guilt." As he spoke, he wanted to pull the five princes out of the garden.

But the fifth prince seemed to be a refusal to suffer, he was half-dragged by the candle and walked a few steps into the corridor, and hooked the railing with his foot stretched: "I'm not leaving, he just let people beat me, I can't just leave." ”

His feet were hooked to the railing, and one hand took the opportunity to hold the carved pillar on the cloister, and no matter how hard the candle tried, he could not be dragged by it.

Candle withdrew his hand, and just glanced at the fifth prince lightly. The fifth prince seemed to be a little jealous of Wang Shizi's look, and hurriedly walked a few steps in the direction of Princess Huai.

"And what do you want?" Candle stared at the five princes and sighed softly.

The fifth prince looked at Steward Zhang for a while, his face sank, and he shouted in a low voice: "Presumptuous! ”

There was the coercion of the superior in this voice, not only Steward Zhang, but also Old Madam Gu were shocked by this "presumptuousness".

Steward Zhang trembled and kowtowed hard: "Your Highness spares your life, the son of the world spares your life, the slave has no eyes to know Mount Tai, and offended His Highness." Your Highness doesn't care about villains...... Your Highness spares ......"

If he committed a crime in the Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion, he was betrayed at most, but if he beat the prince, it was a matter of losing his head. Steward Zhang naturally knew that he was in big trouble, even the old lady couldn't save him, and the only thing he could ask for was the person in front of him.

Princess Huai laughed again: "Ah Rui, you have secretly learned all the tricks of your fourth emperor brother, be careful that your fourth emperor brother knows the way......"

When the fifth prince heard Princess Huai talk about the fourth prince, he shrunk his neck with a smile.

"Okay, let's all disperse, Ari has a pure mind and won't go to his heart." Saying that, Princess Huai covered her mouth and smiled again, "Those are all scaring you, even the maids in our Huaiwang Mansion, and many of them have been scared by him." ”

The frightened hearts of everyone were finally appeased by Princess Huai's words, and the maids and women who gathered in the corridor inside and outside dispersed.

When Gu Qingwan raised her head again, the fifth prince had already been taken to the other end of the corridor by the prince of Huai.

Those secrets in the palace, although Gu Qingwan didn't hear much, she also knew a little about it. At least she knew in her heart that it was definitely not an accident that the fifth prince fell into the water back then.

Even this small Dingyuan Marquis Mansion is very uncomfortable, let alone in the deep palace.