After lunch, everyone saw that the Queen Mother was a little tired, so they knelt down and retreated. King Kang was slightly drunk, and Jiang Yichen ordered his attendants to help him away.

On the way back for the three of them, Jiang Yicheng said with a smile: "When the imperial grandfather has a straight face on weekdays, he looks quite scary, I remember when I saw him when I was a child, I was a little afraid of him, but I didn't expect him to be drunk and like an old naughty boy, which is interesting."

Concubine Hui said: "Your imperial grandfather is so happy, today is probably his happiest day in the past ten years."

Jiang Yichen looked into the distance and said: "If the people of Jiang Country are as loyal and upright as General Shen and King Kang, why worry that the country is not strong and the people are not rich."

Concubine Hui agreed: "Yes, this invasion of Beiliang and King Yong's rebellion are not all caused by the long-term weakness of Jiang Guo. ”

"It seems to be the crown prince in front." At this time, Jiang Yicheng pointed to a person in the imperial garden not far away and said.

Following the direction pointed by Jiang Yicheng, Jiang Yichen saw that it was indeed the crown prince Jiang Yihong not far away, he seemed to be reprimanding the person opposite, the person lowered his head and kept not speaking, as if he was afraid of him.

Jiang Yicheng said angrily: "Hmph! The prince is bullying the third brother again! ”

Taking advantage of the moment when the person opposite looked up, Jiang Yichen took a closer look, and sure enough, it was the third brother Jiang Yiheng.

He asked, "Does he often do this to the third brother?"

Jiang Yicheng said indignantly: "No, when the sixth brother was here, he liked to bully you the most, the sixth brother left, he began to bully me again, I listened to the sixth brother, I was no longer afraid of him, he saw that I was tough, so he bullied less, who knew that he turned his target to the third brother again, you also know the third brother, the third brother is the person, only promised, and did not dare to resist."

"Hey, Yiheng's kid is not easy." At this time, Concubine Hui sighed: "The source of all this is because he was born earlier than the crown prince. At that time, Concubine Xian's sister had not yet entered the palace, and the queen mother at that time was still reasonable, gentle and virtuous, and was deeply favored and respected by the emperor. All the changes came after she lost two sons in a row, she couldn't stand the blow and fell ill in bed, and she lay down for a year. In this year, the emperor favored the concubine who was still a noble person at that time, and the concubine gave birth to the prince in one fell swoop, although it was the third son of the emperor, but nominally the eldest son of the emperor. ”

Concubine Hui took a deep breath and continued: "The queen mother on the hospital bed heard that someone had given birth to the emperor's eldest son, and she was deeply stimulated, and with the timely persuasion of the prime minister, her illness was cured at once. After recovering from her illness, her temperament changed greatly and became domineering and jealous, and later she regained the emperor's favor and gave birth to the emperor's fourth son, Jiang Yihong and Princess Anping, one after another. She was afraid that her son would die early like his two elder brothers, so she spoiled the prince and indulged him, which led to his arrogant and domineering character. But the fact that her sister-in-law is not the eldest son has always made her angry, so their mother and son openly and secretly gave Concubine Jin and Heng'er a lot of hardships. Concubine Jin is cautious and timid by nature, and she knows that her mother's family is weak, so she swallows the bitterness in her stomach, and Heng'er is influenced by her mother, and she has become timid and cowardly. ”

"Yes, he not only bullied us royal brothers, but even the royal sisters, Qian Concubine is the queen's mother, and he even bullied her daughter Princess Jingshu. In this whole palace, Princess Anping is not bullied. The more Jiang Yicheng spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help kicking the stones under his feet.

While the three of them were talking, the prince also saw them and walked over with his head tilted up and arrogant.

"Isn't this the sixth brother, you were terminally ill back then, and you can still come back alive, congratulations." Jiang Yihong said with a smile.

Jiang Yichen saluted him without humility or arrogance: "Thank you Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince for your concern."

Although Jiang Yicheng was angry that he had just said that about the sixth brother, because of his status as the crown prince, he reluctantly gave him a salute.

The prince said to Jiang Yichen with satisfaction: "It seems that you haven't gone in vain all these years, and you have learned a lot."

Jiang Yichen said: "This is also thanks to His Royal Highness the Prince's teaching, and the younger brother dare not forget."

The prince raised his voice and said, "Don't you dare to forget? I think you've forgotten about it, but you've been out of the limelight this time. ”

"As a prince, my brother should defend the country, but I just did my duty."

Jiang Yihong said fiercely: "Duty, what qualifications do you have to say your duty as a sick man who has fallen out of favor, it is not your turn to interfere in major national affairs, I think you have long forgotten the original lesson."

Lesson? Of course, he didn't forget the biting cold of kneeling in the snow back then, and he still remembers it clearly.

Jiang Yicheng endured his anger and said: "The salute we should have done has been done, and the things that should be said have been made clear, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should not offend Jinqi."

"Yo, this is someone who supports him, and even the tone of his voice is different. Don't forget, I am the crown prince, the future emperor of Jiang Kingdom, offending me will not benefit you!" He paused and said: "And you, Jiang Yichen, don't think that if you make some achievements, you can raise your eyebrows, you want to fight with me, you are still a little tender, I want to see what kind of climate you can achieve as a sick seedling." After saying that, he walked away.

Jiang Yicheng was afraid that the sixth brother would be unhappy, so he comforted: "Sixth brother don't want to be angry with him, he has always been like this, arrogant, just ignore him."

"How so." Jiang Yichen comforted him in turn.

At this time, Jiang Yiheng also came over, "Sixth brother, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"Third brother." Jiang Yichen looked at him cowering, and felt some sympathy for him.

Jiang Yicheng asked, "Third brother, did the prince bully you again?"

Jiang Yiheng smiled bitterly and said: "I just walked well in this imperial garden, and when I saw the prince approaching him, I hurriedly got out of the way, but he deliberately bumped into me, and said that I was in his way and rushed into him."

Jiang Yicheng said angrily: "He has always been rampant and domineering by relying on his status as the crown prince, and sooner or later, I will report to my father."

Concubine Hui stopped him and said: "Trouble comes from the mouth, Cheng'er don't talk nonsense!"

Jiang Yiheng barely squeezed out a smile and said: "The seventh brother's heart, the third brother's heart, he didn't treat me like this for a day or two, I have long been used to it."

Jiang Yichen asked, "Does the third brother plan to be like this for the rest of his life and be suppressed by him?"

Jiang Yiheng said helplessly: "What if you don't do this? Who made me and my mother weak and unfavorable? ”

"Third brother!" Jiang Yicheng wanted to persuade him again, but he didn't know how to persuade him.

"The third brother still has something to do, so he retired first." Jiang Yiheng gave a salute and left.

Jiang Yicheng looked at the third brother who was walking away, and said dejectedly: "The third brother looks so pitiful."

Jiang Yichen said calmly: "It doesn't matter if you are pitiful or not, you can afford to look up to yourself, and others can look at you."

"Well, what the sixth brother said makes sense. By the way, Sixth Brother, the prince mentioned it just now, and I just remembered it, but I saw that your cough was much better, and I forgot to ask you, how is your leg disease? Jiang Yicheng asked with concern.

Jiang Yichen said indifferently: "It's a lot better, it only occasionally hurts when it's cold, if it wasn't for the early appearance of the Queen Mother, I'm afraid that the sixth brother's leg would have been scrapped long ago, speaking of which, thank you Seventh Brother for going to ventilate and report the news."

Jiang Yicheng waved his hand and said, "What do our brothers say thank you, in fact, I also helped the sixth brother by mistake." On that day, I saw that the snow was big, and I thought about going to find the sixth brother to have a snowball fight, and when I arrived at Chaoyang Palace, I found that the door was closed, so I secretly looked through the crack in the door, and found that the sixth brother was kneeling in the snow, and the queen's mother was there, so I hurried to tell the mother. ”

Concubine Hui continued: "At that time, I was accompanying the Queen Mother to enjoy the plum blossoms in the Imperial Garden, Cheng'er came to me and told me to let me save you, I thought, I will definitely not be able to go, if I go to report to the emperor, if the emperor punishes the queen, the queen will inevitably hold a grudge and take revenge on you and me." So I pretended to tell the Queen Mother, you miss her, and the Queen Mother was very happy when she heard it, so she drove to Chaoyang Palace and saved you. ”

Jiang Yichen said gratefully: "Thank you Concubine Hui for her wise thoughts, so I saved Chen'er safely."

Concubine Hui said: "Silly boy, thank you, I was like a sister to your mother back then, and her son is naturally my son, even if I fight for my life, I will save you."

Jiang Yichen was deeply moved in her heart, she is also the sister of her mother, one regards her mother as a stepping stone to climb up, and the other can go to the soup for her mother, and her human nature is undoubtedly revealed.