In the middle of the night, I couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning on the couch, so I simply got up and wanted to see if Bixi had fallen asleep outside.

Bixi and Qingdai are both five years older than me and have been with me for as long as I can remember, and they are my only two playmates.

I crouched down beside Bixi's bedside and called her softly. "Bixi, are you asleep?"

Bixi rubbed her eyes and got up. "What does Your Highness command?"

"It's nothing, I just can't sleep."

Ever since I met the boy named Ah Ran at noon, my heart felt like a stone had been crushed.

Why did he carry a chain made by his mother? Could he really be my brother?

"Your Highness has something on your mind? Would you like to talk to the slave and maid? ”

Bixi got out of bed and put on a dress. "Your Highness is dressed too thinly, and the slave and maid will go back to the inner room with you."

With that, she went back to the inner room with me.

Bixi helped me back to the couch and folded the quilt for me, while she squatted beside the bed.

"When did Your Highness bother?"

I looked at her, lifted the corner of the quilt and said:

"You're going to catch a cold like this, so cover it up."

When she saw me like this, she was quite frightened.

"Slaves don't dare."

"Why don't you dare?" I said angrily: "I have been with you and Qingdai since I was a child, and you are not a subordinate person in my eyes!" Be obedient and cover the quilt. ”

"Your Highness!" She didn't shirk anymore and got into the covers.

"Bixi, do you know that among these princes, there are people with the word 'burning' in their names?"

"'Yet'? Isn't that your highness? She looked at me with a little confusion.

"I mean, apart from me, is there a prince with this word in his name?

It doesn't have to be me, is there a homonym? ”

Bixi thought about it for a long time, but still shook her head. "As far as the slave knows, no."

"No?" I frowned. "Is there a prince who has been kept outside the palace and only brought back to the palace today?"

Hearing me ask, Bixi's eyes flashed, she should know something.

"Yes, right? Which mother is he? Why keep it outside the palace? ”

I looked at her expectantly, but I didn't want her to avoid my eyes:

"I didn't ...... Not at all! ”

"Really?"

Bixi struggled for a while before she said in embarrassment: "Your Highness, the slave maid can't say ......"

Can't say?

"Why?" I'm in a bit of a hurry.

"Before that master returned to the palace, His Majesty decreed that no one should talk about anything related to him behind his back......"

I sighed.

"Forget it, if you don't want to say it, don't say it. I'm fine, you go back to sleep. ”

"The slave and maid are gone."

With that, she retreated apologetically towards the door. I was still thinking about what she had just said.

Who is that Ah Ran? Why did my father make such a will?

"Alas......"

I sighed, and I couldn't seem to sleep anymore after listening to Bixi's words.

"Your Highness......"

"Bixi? Why are you back again? I looked at her quizzically.

"Your Highness really wants to know?"

I nodded solemnly.

"Your Highness promised the slave and maid, and after you heard it, pretended not to know, and the slave and maid told you."

Bixi seemed to have made a great determination.

"Okay, I promise you!" I lifted the covers again. "Come, come in."

She got back into the quilt and said, "The master you are talking about is the brother of your mother's compatriots. ”

"He's really my brother!?" I was amazed and delighted.

Actually, I still have brothers, just because they are not from the same mother as me.

It's just that my father was afraid that I would be killed, so he didn't allow me to associate with him.

So I always hoped that my mother would have a younger brother and sister so that I wouldn't have to be so lonely......

"Shhhh Let people hear that Bixi's life is hard to protect! ”

"You go on, you go on."

I lowered my voice again.

"What's my brother's name?"

"The name of this master ......"

Bixi was a little embarrassed.

I knew that I didn't have the courage to say my brother's name in a big way, so I stretched out my palms in front of her.

"You write it down."

Hearing this, the gloom on Bixi's face suddenly disappeared, took my hand, and wrote two words in my palm one stroke at a time:

"Thorough...... Xiao ......"

Soaring ...... Yan Chexiao......

What a good name for my brother! There is a domineering spirit that runs through the mountains and rivers, this is the name that a man should have!

So I actually have an older brother......

It's so strange, I don't know why, I learned that I actually had an older brother who suddenly became very confident, and I couldn't help but smile at the corner of my mouth.

"Your Highness is so happy? I knew that the slave maid had told His Highness earlier. ”

Bixi's words gave me a wake-up call.

"Why didn't I know about this brother all along?"

"That's because the third prince has had bad rumors since he was born, and it even affected his mother.

His Majesty did not want these gossips to bother His Highness, so he ordered that any news related to the Third Highness should never reach the East Palace......

So Qingdai and I didn't mean to hide it from Your Highness, don't blame Your Highness. ”

"No blame, no wonder, you go on, what is that rumor that is so serious?"

Soon after the birth of the third prince, it was rumored that he was the reincarnation of the nine-tailed fox demon, and he would definitely do lewd and absurd things when he grew up in the future, harming the country.

After a long time, even Niangniang was affected, saying that Niangniang was ...... Hey, it's hard to listen to anyway......"

"So my father sent my brother outside the palace to raise him?"

"Not bad."

"I see...... I can't imagine that my father would listen to slander like this......"

In fact, I have reverence for my father, but also resentment. I blame him for being too strict with me and too cold to my mother.

But in any case, he also thinks highly of me, and perhaps many of the things he has done have been out of the king's last resort......

"Actually...... It's not ......"

Bixi hesitated.

"How?"

"At that time, rumors were boiling, and some people in the court even wrote to ask for the death of Niangniang and the Third Highness.

His Majesty should have sent His Royal Highness out of the palace in order to settle the matter. ”

"How has my brother been outside the palace all these years?"

"Your Majesty sent His Royal Highness to Jingci Temple and handed it over to Master Huiyun, but he hid his identity from the outside world.

The life of the Third Highness may be a little more difficult in these years, but after all, he is a prince, and the master will take care of it more or less.

It's just that Later, His Royal Highness grew up and grew up more and more like a mother, and his appearance became more and more handsome, and he was often ridiculed as a boy and a girl......"

No wonder...... No wonder he was so angry when I said he looked like a girl today.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty in my heart.

Then I remembered the unscrupulous and rampage he had when he spoke today.

This guy's temper is really sorry for his looks!

"Now His Highness's doubts can be solved?"

"Xie understands, thank you Bixi, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known I had such a brother!"

When I think of this, I can't stop laughing.

"Your Highness, where are these words? It is the duty of a slave to solve your doubts. It's just that Your Highness must not forget to promise the slave maid. ”

"Got it! Sleepy, right? Go to sleep! ”

So Bixi bowed and exited the house.

I put my head under the quilt, and my heart was irrepressible with ecstasy:

I have a brother!

No, I've always had an older brother.

I even have an older brother!

is still such a handsome brother!

Even his name is so good!

Soaring ...... My brother!

Brother, when will you come to see me again? Hee-hee......

However, on the second day, before waiting for his brother, he first waited for his father's message.

******

The next day, after the afternoon class, the sun set quickly, and lanterns were lit in the palace.

I was so happy that I could finally go to see my mother, everyone had already arrived at the gate of the palace, but I bumped into my father-in-law Ji Xiang, who was next to my father.

After listening to his father's dictation, I was stunned for a long time before I said:

"Why doesn't my father allow me to see my mother?"

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Concubine Jing has been infected with a cold recently, and His Majesty said that in case Niangniang will be sick to you, you are not allowed to visit for the time being."

"Mother is sick? Isn't it serious? Have you ever asked for a doctor? ”

My original good mood was gone, and I was only worried about my mother's illness.

Moreover, my mother was looking forward to seeing me one day as much as I did, but now that my mother is sick, I am afraid it will be even more sad not to see me.

The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became. No, I have to see my mother no matter what!

I made up my mind, so I said to Ji Xiang: "Father-in-law Ji Xiang, please plead for me in front of my father, and beg him to allow me to see my mother!" ”

"I'm afraid this won't work, the old slave has to go back to serve His Majesty, so I won't bother here, and the old slave will retire."

"Father-in-law Ji Xiang!"

I was so anxious that my eyes were red, but I still managed to hold back because of the desperate efforts of the servants in the courtyard.

What happened to her, Princess?

I paced around the house, and finally decided to find a way to see my mother.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the palace, he was grabbed by the guards.

I'm angry.

"Get out of the way of me, you wood!"

Mu is the guard of the East Palace, nine years older than me, the youngest of the guards.

Because I don't have any playmates in the East Palace, I will chat with him when I have nothing to do.

It's a pity that he is too wooden, he only listens to me every time and never expresses his opinion, so I call him wood.

Wood also has a younger brother, four years older than me, who is my companion, but he is much smarter than his brother.

Wood glanced at me slowly, and said leisurely:

"The prince can't leave the palace without a will, this is the will of the saint, but His Royal Highness has forgotten?"

"Oh, of course I haven't forgotten, but today is urgent, I want to see my father!"

"What is so urgent that even the majesty of the Heavenly Family is ignored?"

A deep voice came from outside the door, and I saw my father being followed into the palace gate by everyone.

"Father...... Father's ...... The son-in-law greets his father! ”

My father hasn't been to the East Palace for a long time, why today? ……

My father glanced at me faintly and said, "Get up!" ”