Chapter 220: Innocence
…… Jia Jingjing roughly explained the reason, and Chu Yuewan listened very carefully.
"In this way, the imperial brother and Prince Su not only did not fight each other when they were young, but they were also very close."
The early moon is late.
"The old slave didn't know what Prince Su thought of the emperor back then, but presumably the emperor was innocent at that age."
Jia Jingjing said, "Later, the emperor entered the Jingwei Courtyard, and Prince Su was also there, at that time, Prince Su was still young and had not yet established another palace, so in the Jingwei Courtyard, he always took care of the emperor. ”
Chuyue calculated their age later, the second emperor brother was ten years older than the imperial brother, and the imperial brother entered the Wenlan Pavilion for enlightenment in the Jingwei Academy, and the second imperial brother studied in the Shangshu Pavilion.
It's just that I heard that because the imperial brother is the crown prince, he is different from others, so he was directly exempted from his schoolwork in the Wenlan Pavilion, and was sent to the Shangshu Pavilion to study at the age of three.
So at that time, the second emperor brother should have been accompanying him.
Chu Yuewan remembered that when she went to the Shangshu Pavilion to listen for a while, and sat next to her uncle and the prince's brother, she would feel sweet in her heart.
It's just that she remembers another thing.
"But I heard ...... Prince Su was already in love and married to Lan Zhiyuan's second sister-in-law at the age of sixteen. ”
Chu Yuewan said, "Is he still in Shangshuguan later?" Jia Jingjing heard her mention this and shook her head slightly.
Chu Yuewan realized that things might not be the same as what she had heard in the past, and followed him suspiciously.
"Her Royal Highness doesn't know anything, but even now it's not much of a secret."
Jia Jingjing said, "Since Prince Su can't break through the ground, the old slave might as well tell you the truth." ”
"The truth?" The premonition of the early moon night is not good.
"Exactly."
Jia Jingjing said, "Prince Su, there has never been that Xiao Yaohua 'in love'." ”
"But I heard ...... Prince Su was already in love and married to Lan Zhiyuan's second sister-in-law at the age of sixteen. ”
Chu Yuewan said, "Is he still in Shangshuguan later?" Jia Jingjing heard her mention this and shook her head slightly.
Chu Yuewan realized that things might not be the same as what she had heard in the past, and followed him suspiciously.
"Her Royal Highness doesn't know anything, but even now it's not much of a secret."
Jia Jingjing said, "Since Prince Su can't break through the ground, the old slave might as well tell you the truth." ”
"The truth?" The premonition of the early moon night is not good.
"Exactly."
Jia Jingjing said, "Prince Su, there has never been that Xiao Yaohua 'in love'." ”
…… Chu Yongwang in the council hall was uneasy.
After all these years, he thought that he would no longer care about that person and so many irreparable things.
But when the first moon was mentioned, many memories were stirred up by a vortex like rotten dead wood sunk in the abyss, making the originally clear mind become cloudy.
"Chu Yongnian......" he whispered the name.
A name that has long since disappeared for so many years, and has nothing to do with him.
Chu Yongwang had never understood that person.
Until he died.
Chu Yongnian did not complete the schoolwork in Shangshuguan, which would last until the weak crown, and when he was sixteen years old, he moved out of the palace because of his marriage and set up his own palace.
And at that time, this matter was also in an uproar, which can be called restlessness.
Legend has it that there are different appearances in the mouths of different people, and some people say that it was the suave second prince who fell in love with Xiao Yaohua, the talented daughter of Lan Zhiyuan, and occupied it after courtship, and forced the other party to marry him after having a child.
Some people beautify it and praise it, saying that this is just a romantic story of your love and my wish to be a concubine.
This is a legendary rhetoric, which can be regarded as saving a little face for the royal family.
However, some people say that the two have already discussed, after all, Xiao Yaohua is the niece of Concubine Xiao Xian, and it can be regarded as a kiss and a kiss to her son, each taking what he needs.
However, Chu Yongwang never believed any of these statements.
for he saw.
The twilight was a little gloomy that day, and it seemed like it was going to rain.
In the past, Chu Yongwang didn't interact with others, except for listening to Mrs. Yan's teaching, he stayed honestly by Chu Yongnian's side to read and write.
He was a withdrawn child who was only five or six years old, and he couldn't integrate at all in Shangshuguan.
The noble status of others can always get countless knots, but Chu Yongwang, the overly noble prince, seems to have covered him with a layer of gold wire cage, which makes people dare not approach easily.
During the afternoon break, Chu Yongnian was suddenly called out, and Chu Yongwang threw down the scroll and was about to follow out, but he held him down.
"Jiu'er is waiting for me here, and I'll be back in a while."
Chu Yongnian signaled him to be obedient, and Chu Yongwang was also a little older, so he sat down sensibly and didn't move.
But Chu Yongnian's connections are really good, and he is good at all kinds of rhetoric to make people happy on weekdays, and many of the girls in Lan Zhiyuan have a soft spot for him, because whenever Chu Yongnian goes out, he always attracts a lot of coaxing.
"Where has the Second Highness gone?" Someone is asking.
"I heard that there is a girl from Lan Zhiyuan who is invited to invite."
The man who came in through the door answered, "Guess who it is this time?" ”
"It's hard to guess! Now the entire Lan Zhiyuan is afraid that it is not all under the Second Highness! ”
"Don't talk nonsense, it's all everyone's beautiful ......"
"They are stealing glances at our Second Highness from the crack in the window one by one, and we are not allowed to say what?" Chu Yongwang couldn't understand their topics about men and women, so he only cared about turning the books by himself.
"Don't talk about it, His Royal Highness the Little Prince is here."
Someone noticed that he was in a bad mood and hurriedly told everyone to be quiet.
Chu Yongwang was indeed in a very bad mood.
Let them say as if the second emperor brother is the kind of frivolous person.
In fact, he follows Chu Yongnian the most on weekdays, and he knows in his heart that Chu Yongnian is just a mouthful, and he is measured in his dealings with the eldest ladies, after all, men and women are not kissed, and it is rare to be able to say a few words.
What's more, the royal family who don't go out much is locked up in the palace all day long.
The royal family at Chu Yongnian's age began to be arranged with their own concubines, and Chu Yongnian was no exception, and Chu Yongwang occasionally went to Concubine Xiao Xian's palace to see her, but in their opinion, it was just a beautiful palace maid with an extra bed in the place of service.
I don't know, what's so strange about talking to girls.
Chu Yongwang only waited for him to come back after a while, but he waited until it was dark, and he still didn't see Chu Yongnian.
Mrs. Yan was dedicated to teaching, and when he saw that he didn't come, he sent someone to find him, and he didn't care about anything else.
A strange intuition haunted Chu Yongwang's little head, but he didn't know what he was worried about, and he never came back to report the news, and his ink-stained brush drew circles one after another on the rice paper.
Chu Yongwang didn't want to go to the Jingwei Academy to take classes, there were so many people in the Jingwei Academy, as long as he sat here alone, he would involuntarily break out in a cold sweat.
Chu Yongnian was the only consolation that allowed him to stay here.
Fear and noisy auditory hallucinations lingered in his mind, and Chu Yongwang suddenly stood up.
"Taifu...... I'm going to...... Get out. ”
When he stood up, he suddenly froze, and his voice went down.
"Go ahead."
Mrs. Yan agreed.
Chu Yongwang hurriedly opened the curtain and went out, Jia Jingjing was guarding the door with some subordinates, and when he saw him come out, he immediately greeted him and asked him what he needed, but Chu Yongwang shook his head and lied that he was relieved, and did not ask him to follow, so he hurriedly passed through the corridor and ran to find a path where no one was.
The backyard of the Jingwei Academy, which was being taught, was quiet and unoccupied, and the sound of recitation came from other halls, masking the footsteps of Chu Yongwang.
The cold wind poured into the limbs, and there was a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings.
He went outside Lan Zhiyuan, but Lan Zhiyuan's sisters were also teaching in the house, and Chu Yongnian was not inside at all.
"Where has the royal brother gone?"
Chu Yongwang hurriedly avoided the house of Lan Zhiyuan and continued to look inside.
The sound of the wind, the sound of leaves, and the sound of reading confused the surroundings, and he walked to the back of the storeroom where the discarded paper was placed, and the smell of ink wafted into his nostrils along the direction of the wind.
Chu Yongwang suddenly heard something strange, stopped in the corridor and hugged the pillar and stopped moving forward.
In the whining wind, the door of the paper library also shook and creaked.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open from the inside, and Chu Yongnian almost banged the door and walked out, his handsome face was as dark as earth, his eyes were hollow, his clothes were half-open, and his steps swayed, stepping out of the threshold.
Chu Yongwang was so stunned that he couldn't make a sound.