Chapter 4: Standing out from the crowd and smug
Xin Kejia looked at me in amazement, it was the first time Xin Keru had picked up a paintbrush.
I didn't use the brush very well, and sharpened the charcoal on a whim, even though it wasn't very easy to use. Before my mother died, I drew a black-and-white portrait of my father, who looked at the painting and closed her eyes, and the last thing she muttered was her general.
Everyone was so busy grieving that it was only in hindsight that they remembered to ask me when I had learned to draw, or if it was such a strange drawing, I couldn't tell them that it was all born of my subconscious.
After the funeral of my mother, Xin Kejia and I officially entered the palace, although I was only five years old, but I think I have a lot more heart than Xin Kejia when he was five years old.
I haven't seen Xin Kejia for two years, he is much taller than me, and his body is no longer as obviously naïve and silly childish as before, and sure enough, the blade of the sword is sharpened. It is said that he has also been assigned by a famous teacher and has practiced a good martial arts, I think this is good, whoever wants to make me unhappy, let Xin Kejia beat him.
What does life in the palace say? It's okay to say yes, no one can bully me anyway, including His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Lan Yunwei, who is high in the upper nostrils, because I am a child with a heart.
Just these two points, first, I have a heart, can run and talk, and I know a little bit about the world, and second, I am a child, and I have no taboo words.
The palace is said to be big and big, and there are many pavilions and pavilions, and every pavilion has a master, so there are many people. The place where Xin Kejia and I lived was renamed as the House of Honors since we moved in. On weekdays, the palace maids, grandmothers, guards, and eunuchs who serve us are all divided into batches, and the four groups of people take turns to change one big for three days and one small change for two days. Except that I can't remember who they are, my life is still quite comfortable, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation are more than one grade higher than in Xinfu.
Xin Kejia doesn't enjoy it as much as I do, he basically doesn't rely on other people's hands, he is half a little adult, he knows that he takes care of himself, and he also knows how to take care of me.
There is probably one thing he understands better than me, no matter how good and comfortable it is, it is not our home, we just live in someone else's house, and I actually vaguely understand the taste of sending people under the fence, in my subconscious. However, I don't think that my comfortable life of worry-free food and clothing, and everyone spoils me, has a little bit of a taste of being under the fence.
I just think that Xin Kejia has more eyes now, he was lacking before, but now he has more, and it is enough to have a normal one.
"Aru, don't be stubborn! We are now in the palace, but not at home, now my mother is gone, my father is also out and can not come back, although we have the grace of the saint, but we must also avoid knowing the etiquette and abiding by the rules, the heart of heaven is unpredictable, in case there is a day... Anyway, we shouldn't be caught, because it's likely to be criticized by some people, not only us, but also Daddy's..."
He often supervised me with all his heart, and when he spoke, he didn't care whether I, a five or six-year-old child, could understand these words, and I had to finish them all my way.
"Xin Kejia, you think too much, my father abandoned our young brothers and sisters and served the country abroad, the king needs to be good to us to soothe the hearts of the army, and show the grace of heaven to the Manchu Dynasty, so that everyone can serve him well. So, let's not enjoy it, how can we be worthy of Daddy's bloody battle outside? "That's what I said, I'm really annoyed by him, why is he so worried?
Xin Kejia was quite surprised, thinking that he was going to end up with "Forget it, you are still a child, you don't understand what I tell you", but he was choked back by the keen insight and amazing words of a five-year-old child.
"Who... Where did you find out? ”
I'm kind of sharp-tongued, and I can answer him like anything except his words anyway, but every time he can't say anything to me, he likes to ask this sentence that I can't answer.
"I taught her!" Every time His Royal Highness the Crown Prince comes to our palace by himself, he does not bring an entourage, and he is not as bluffing as he goes to the side. So he always appeared behind me quietly, and I didn't know when he appeared, how long he came, what he was going to do.
Xin Kejia bowed down and addressed him "Your Highness" very politely, he was so attentive that he no longer called him Ah Wei casually.
On the one hand, I think that he probably broke through Yun Wei's calculations when he was a child, and on the other hand, I think he just has more eyes, although they are not as close as before, but I think the relationship is still quite good.
At least His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't come to us as casually and frequently as the family palace, and he skipped Xin Kejia, and no longer counted me by Xin Kejia's hand, he could already use his own means to calculate me.
Look at what he said in this sentence "He taught me", it sounds like he is helping me out of the siege, yes, just listening to the "like" is for me to solve the siege, he just wants to let my brother know that he is helping me out of the siege. Xin Kejia still doesn't have enough eyes, and has been blinded by him, believing that he specially created an illusion that he was good to me in front of people.
"Aru, you are really a child, Your Highness is just a excuse for relief, you really take it seriously!" Xin Kejia said, the implication is that if someone else's family gives you a little sunshine, you will be brilliant.
I looked at Lan Yunwei, and I didn't bother to reply to Xin Kejia, so I said "oh" without a small sound.
"You don't joke, you just want to make you take it seriously, Ajia, she's right!" He was taller than me, and he always touched my head.
"It's not tall!" I raised my head and frowned at him and shouted.
"It doesn't matter, it's pretty easy!" He treated me like a cane, using me as a handrail, and even more excessively, he kept holding me down.
I was unhappy, but I couldn't get out. With an idea, he squatted down quickly, the height of the handrail was uncomfortable, and his body was crooked uncoordinatedly. I broke free from his clutches and wandered away where he was.
"It's still the same!" Xin Kejia accompanied him and smiled unscrupulously, not at all towards me.
They are little adults, although I spend a lot of time with them, but I don't like to play with them, if I play, I still play comfortably with children of my age, I know more than them, I am the king of children.
Looking at the simple and ignorant little eyes, the words of the child king are what they can do whatever you say, I always think at this time, in the future, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will become the king of the world, and everyone in the world will bow down to him, how majestic it should be!
But I don't envy him, because he uses his God-given power and prestige, and I use my wisdom, so I still have a slight advantage over him.
I have a lot of good things in my head, deal with the children, I teach them to play some small games they have never seen, hopscotch, sandbag throwing, skipping rope, bamboo dragonfly, you go in and I retreat, they are always very novel, just these little meanings send them away.
I was proud to look at their adoring little eyes.
Xin Kejia said that I was young and playful, and I was not childish, and Lan Yunwei said that I stood out from the crowd and was smug. I also have to say that Yun Wei knows me better than Xin Kejia, I don't like to play with children, and I don't play, I only teach them, I just like to enjoy the feeling of being sought after by them.