Chapter 708: The Four Princes
Great Zhou Dynasty, Kyoto Tokai!
In the southeast corner of the vast Great Zhou Palace, there is a small side courtyard.
This is a relatively frugally decorated courtyard, which is incompatible with the splendid Great Zhou Palace, as if it is like a rooster in a bunch of golden phoenixes, which is a bit dazzling.
In the same way, there were no guards in this courtyard, and there were very few slaves.
In the courtyard house, simple furnishings are placed, and a young man in a brocade robe is writing quietly on his desk.
His name was Zhou Qing, the fourth and youngest son of the current emperor Zhou Ren of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who was only sixteen years old.
Unlike the deceased Emperor Zhou Heng, who had more than 30 princes and princesses, Zhou Ren, who is now 99 years old, has only four sons.
Even this fourth son was inadvertently obtained by having a relationship with the palace maid after getting drunk at a certain banquet.
Fortunately, this kind of thing is nothing to the king of a country, and even after that night, he forgot about this palace maid. But no one could have imagined that the palace maid would get pregnant because of this, and as the belly got bigger and bigger, the paper couldn't hold the fire, and the news still reached the queen who was the lord of the harem.
The queen was furious because of this incident and tortured the palace maid in every possible way, but the palace maid still insisted until she gave birth to the child and exhausted her last life.
When the emperor learned of this, he regretted it and ordered the child to be named the fourth prince and gave him an official title!
Because he was a concubine, the fourth prince Zhou Qing has been treated coldly in the palace, and was often bullied by many noble concubines in the harem, and his three brothers never regarded him as their younger brother, and even the eunuchs and palace maids looked down on him.
But Zhou Qing was born smart, sensitive and studious, and when he was studying in the Black Emperor Gate Academy, he was often praised by his husband.
Now he is completing a strategy, and in a short time, it will be the 100th birthday of Emperor Zhou Ren, and he is ready to dedicate this thing to his father as a congratulatory gift.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The knock was loud, and you could tell that the knocker was extremely unkind!
Immediately after, an arrogant and sharp voice sounded.
"Little mongrel, don't open the door soon, the master is here to bring you food!"
Zhou Qing frowned, this was the voice of Lu Si, the eunuch who was in charge of serving him.
Lu Si was sent by the queen to be in charge of his diet and daily life, as a subordinate eunuch, he was like an uncle on weekdays, and he never gave Zhou Qing a good look.
Zhou Qing opened the door and saw Lu Si pinching his waist with one hand and holding a lunch box in the other, looking at him with an unkind face.
"Why did you open the door so late, do you still want to eat!"
His yin and yang weird eunuch tone fell on Zhou Qing's ears extremely harshly, and Zhou Qing didn't bother to be as knowledgeable as him, took the lunch box, and returned to the desk.
Lu Si sneered.
"Hurry up and eat, we have to take it back to the imperial dining room after eating! Did you hear me? ”
When Zhou Qing heard this, his fists clenched, the green tendons burst out, and his fingertips were embedded in his palms, oozing blood.
He stared at Lu Si with fire in his eyes, and after a long time, he still swallowed this breath and sat down to eat.
Zhou Qing is not without temper, he has had the urge to kill Lu Si countless times, and even several times, he couldn't bear it anymore and made a move on Lu Si, but in exchange for it, it was the queen's reprimand and punishment.
The emperor was busy with government affairs, and often couldn't see his youngest son a few times a year, and even if he did, Zhou Qing didn't want to use such trivial things to make his father and emperor trouble.
He knew very well that Lu Si was sent by the queen to disgust him, but he had no choice. For the real royal relatives, this deep palace is a paradise, and for those who have no power and no power, only an empty prince, this is a hell in dire straits!
Zhou Qing was even afraid that one day he would die in the palace without knowing anything.
After eating, he packed up the lunch box and handed it back to Lu Si.
Lu Si, who was leaning on the door frame, saw what Zhou Qing was writing on the desk, and sneered after taking back the lunch box.
"Why, you still don't give up, do you really think you can be reused by the emperor? Do you still want to compete with the three princes for the crown prince? Hehe, pee on yourself, you really think of yourself as a prince! Don't look at who the biological mother is! A child born to a cheap maid still dreams of ascending to the sky! ”
Zhou Qing was furious, he couldn't bear it anymore, and punched out!
Bang!
The fist landed on Lu Si's face, and Lu Si was directly knocked out, his teeth fell out, and his nose was beaten out with blood!
Zhou Qing, who is now studying in the Black Emperor Gate Academy, has also learned a lot of martial arts, although he does not have a particularly strong cultivation talent, but his physical fitness is far from being comparable to that of a eunuch!
This punch contains his pent-up anger for many years!
"Lu Si, you can insult me, but you can't insult my mother! Otherwise, even if you have the queen's backing, I will see you beat you once! ”
Zhou Qing said word by word.
Lu Si covered his face, embarrassed and angry, and shouted sharply: "Okay, you little bastard!" Dare to touch our house, good! Good! You are amazing, right, if you offend our family, our family will not let you have a good life! ”
He said cruel words, picked up the lunch box, and left angrily.
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