Chapter 289: First Encounter with the Six Princes
Su Jiao snorted twice, from the beginning when she heard the rumors of Nankang, she still had some expectations for Nankang, but she had completely transformed into full disgust now.
Hearing this, Xiao Huai'an first stopped and absorbed the true face of Nankang in this short period of effort, and searched for the future movements of the Wa Kingdom, before he came back to his senses and asked Su Jiao to understand.
"You mean, Lin Feng and Miss Zhang? I'm afraid that this matter, the two of them are not very convenient. ”
"I said that sometimes, you just underestimate the strength of your fans too much, even if you are strong, everyone else is not weak. It's a pity that Lin Feng ......" Su Jiao shook her head, and the two brothers put one hand on Xiao Huai'an's shoulder.
She just wanted to continue talking more, but fortunately she shut up in time, otherwise the words that followed really made her feel as if she was almost ready to help Xiao Huai'an and Lin Feng, two traffickers.
"Uh," Su Jiao paused, looked at Xiao Huai'an's scrutinizing gaze, and hurriedly smiled and waved her hand. "Anyway, you just give them a chance, maybe they can find someone."
"I didn't mean that," Xiao Huai'an looked at Su Jiao's face full of flattering smiles, and sighed in his heart, but he didn't feel anything bad, so he relaxed his attitude.
"Then since you are so sure of packing tickets for the two of them, I will personally repair a book in a while, and during the time we return to Daze, the task of investigation will have to be handed over to the two of them first."
"Pretty good." Su Jiao smiled and nodded like pounded garlic.
On the other side, the Osawa Imperial Palace.
It was already late autumn, and even the most envied palace, which thought it was green and full of spring all year round, was very forced to usher in its most depressed and defeated season.
Xu Ruyu still lives in the dormitory of his palace, and the last time he heard that Xia Shu's accident did not affect him, the emperor's love for her is the same as before, which naturally attracts the resentment of other concubines in the palace who have heirs.
But in the same way, after Wenren Xia Shu left, Xu Ruyu's physical condition was getting worse and worse, and he was already getting weaker and weaker with the naked eye, so many people began to open their eyes wide, looking forward to the day when he returned to the West as soon as possible.
On that day, Xu Yi sat beside Xu Ruyu and used warm water to grind the ink away for him. Xu Ruyu turned his head, the ink-stained brush in his hand did not fall on the rice paper for a long time, the ink gradually condensed, and he took the initiative to drip down, smudging a stain.
Outside the window, the ginkgo biloba and sycamore leaves are swept by the autumn wind, and the stone paths and lawn flower beds are full of flowers. There were still some green leaves on the treetops, and they were rustled by the wind, as if they were fighting for their predecessors who had long since fallen.
And in this natural noise, it seems that the sound of people passing by outside the courtyard wall can still be heard.
There was a child who looked to be only seven or eight years old, combing the child's hair in a bun, white and tender all over his body, he looked pampered since childhood, he squatted next to the lawn and played with a bow, suddenly heard the voice of someone talking behind him, and quickly hid in the bushes on the side.
"Huai'an, is there any news?" Emperor Xu Hua has always been reluctant to admit that he also has the day of old age, so he also dislikes autumn the most, but this natural law is irreversible.
He clenched one hand into a fist in front of his mouth, and coughed lightly twice, and the cough clearly showed her current physical condition.
"Yes, there is already news, Lord Xiao, they will be preparing to leave for Beijing in a few days." Dequan didn't have any extra effort to deal with the dispute between the three princes and the five princes at this moment, and only devoted himself to serving the emperor, and his eyes were full of feelings about the emperor's injustice in the world, so that such a heroic and wise monarch could not live for thousands of generations.
As he spoke, so as not to carefully support the emperor, the emperor nodded, but he didn't pay attention for a while, and he was indeed old, and he couldn't see a branch under his feet, and he almost fell.
Dequan hurriedly went to help, and the child hiding behind the flowers and trees saw that the emperor was almost about to fall, so he gritted his teeth, drilled out of the dead branches and fallen leaves all over his body, and held the emperor's hand with both hands raised.
"Father, be careful."
At first glance, when he heard that the child who suddenly appeared called himself his father, Xu Huayin was still a little stunned and didn't react, but Dequan recognized who this child was, and reminded him in a whisper.
"Your Majesty, this is the sixth prince of Hui Zhaoyi in the Cold Palace, Xu Ruye, the sixth highness."
"Ye'er?" The emperor came back to his senses, pressed the child's shoulder, carefully measured his face that looked like himself, Hui Zhaoyi, and even Xiao Huai'an, and his memories suddenly twisted together.
Hui Zhaoyi, Jiang Hui, was originally a woman from the rivers and lakes that the emperor met on the way back to Beijing once, because she loved its agility and liveliness, so she was favored after entering the palace, until she was named Zhaoyi and gave birth to Xu Ruye.
But Jiang Hui is a chivalrous woman with self-esteem and dignity after all, and she accidentally learned that she was just a stand-in for the emperor to remember the only woman he had met in Nankang, so she asked to leave the palace with the emperor in a fit of anger.
The emperor refused, so he imprisoned Jiang Hui in the cold palace, and together with Xu Ruye, he grew up in the cold palace and no one took care of him.
But I didn't expect that these seven or eight years would pass in a flash, and Xu Ruye would grow so big.
The emperor fell into the memories and did not speak for a long time, Dequan thought about the past and reminded him. "Your Majesty, Hui Zhaoyi disobeyed Your Majesty, despised imperial power, acted madly, and was already imprisoned in the cold palace, and Her Royal Highness was raised by her, so it will inevitably make Your Majesty unhappy, so the old slave should send someone to send His Royal Highness back."
"Hmm-" The emperor pondered for a moment, but did not answer, but stopped and pulled Xu Ruye to speak. "Your mother, how are you now? Why are you here? ”
"I've seen my father, my father is healthy," Xu Ruye really has a pair of big round eyes, and his fleshy face looks at the pink jade cute, although he is young, he knows the rules very well, and he has been obediently waiting for the emperor to ask himself, and he knows how to bow first.
"The son missed his father, and heard that his father often came to visit his second brother today, so he thought that it would be good to come over and look at his father from afar. Erchen didn't have an enlightenment teacher, but after the second brother came, he taught me to read and hyphenate and learned a lot of truths. It was only at such an age that the son met his father for the first time, and he hoped that his father would forgive his sins. ”
As he spoke, Xu Ruye pursed his mouth, endured all the grievances and sadness in his heart, and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the emperor. The emperor looked at his small body, a sense of pity arose, and after seeing Xu Ruyu kowtow, he hurriedly pulled him up and wrapped him around the crook of his right hand.
"How can I blame you, it's your mother who has been complaining about me and refusing to leave the cold palace until she died, which has even affected you, and it's also because your father is not good, so he didn't even take care of you."
At the mention of Jiang Hui, even Dequan was silent, Xu Ruye didn't dare to touch the emperor's brow at this time, so he closed his mouth and didn't say much, the emperor thought for a moment, and gently patted the dead leaves and dust on his clothes for him.
"Does your second brother often talk to you and teach you to read and understand?"
"Yes, the second brother is good, since he returned to the palace, he has met Erchen, Erchen often comes to disturb him, he has never felt bored, and Erchen has now learned to memorize the three-character scripture."
Xu Ruye nodded violently, looking at the emperor without blinking, as if he was afraid that he would not see him again. The emperor felt more and more sad, just a three-character scripture, I am afraid that three or four-year-old children can recite it backwards, Xu Ruye, as his own child, has actually fallen to this......
"That's good, in the future, I will let your second brother teach you, there is a palace next to your second brother's dormitory, although it is smaller, but you live well now, and when you grow up, I will replace it for you."
There are only a few concubines in the harem who have children, and Xu Huayin will definitely not let Jiang Hui raise Xu Ruye now, but Concubine Liang doesn't care about anything, and Concubine Xian has that kind of temper, and the queen may not take it to heart, so she simply made her own decision.
"It's just that your second brother is not in good health, don't make him too tired, tomorrow my father will order someone to invite a teacher for you to come over, you must follow him to study hard, especially enlightenment, you must learn well, you must not be lazy, you know?"
"Yes!" As soon as the emperor finished speaking, Xu Ruye was so happy that he almost wanted to jump up, but after Xu Ruye was happy, the words turned around, and his big watery eyes became a little worried.
"It's just that if the son studies hard, will my father still be willing to come to see the son in the future?"
"Naturally," the emperor had mixed feelings in his heart, perhaps because of his age, so he became more and more loving, and he lost the seriousness and harshness when he taught Xu Rulie and Xu Ruzhu when he was young.
"In the future, I will personally inquire about your homework, check it from time to time, if you can't answer that day, be careful of the punishment that your father will give you."
"Yes, the son will definitely work harder to study in the future, and he will definitely not let his father worry too much!"
Hearing the word punishment from the emperor's mouth, I am afraid that Xu Rulie and Xu Ruzhu will tremble with a reflex, but Xu Ruye is very unusually happy.
Xu Hua understood it in his heart, but he didn't think it was a bad thing, but he smiled and asked Xu Ruye to play by himself, and then returned to the Heart Cultivation Hall with Dequan to approve the folds.
And after Xu Ruye lowered his head and waited for the emperor's team to go away, he restrained his innocent and happy face, hugged his bow, and turned his head to Xu Ruyu's study.
"Second brother, I'm here, what are we going to learn today."
Xu Ruye smiled, but at an age when he should have been innocent, such a light smile made people feel a little smiling.
However, Xu Ruyu doesn't think it's unusual, the cold palace is the most important place to hold high and step on low, Xu Ruye can grow so big, in addition to Jiang Hui's protection, if he is bullied in private, he doesn't have to rely on himself to get rid of it.