Section 14 Morning in the East Palace

The next morning, it was still dark.

"Little Flower Cat, Little Flower Cat, it's time to get up." I shook the man in my arms.

There was no movement for half a day.

Regardless of it, he pulled the string at the head of the bed, and the palace door was immediately pushed open, and the palace maids with various toiletries and clothes lined up to enter. Walking at the back is Xiao Cui, who is holding the little princess.

I lifted the tent and asked Cui to put the little princess on her pillow and lay down next to her father.

I want to cultivate the father-daughter relationship between the prince and the little princess, I don't want to be like Xie Jiu, who only cares about carrying my son to the queen's side all day long to please the queen, and has almost no contact with the prince.

As soon as the prince opened his eyes, he immediately saw a cute little face. The little princess's big eyes looked at her father curiously, and when she looked at it, she actually showed a bright smile at him, and at that moment, like a spring flower blooming, the whole dormitory was illuminated.

I'm so moved by this scene, but it's a shame to look at the father again. He actually shrank his head and hid in the quilt, and his hand was still firmly grasping my hand, as if he had seen something that scared him, and wanted to grab me as a life-saving straw.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this is your daughter, little princess Meow." I reluctantly introduced the father and daughter to the first time they met.

Before the emperor gave her an official title, I called her Meow Meow, the daughter of the little flower cat.

The prince still hid in the quilt and refused to show his head, there was no way, I had to forcibly pull out his hand and put it on my daughter's immature little face. Probably because the touch was so good, he was reluctant to put it down when he touched it.

Okay, that's enough, I asked Xiaocui to take Meow Meow away, and helped the prince up hard and said, "Your Highness really should get up, if you don't get up, it's too late." ”

Seeing him staring at his hands in a daze, and unconsciously following the direction of the little princess's departure, I thought with satisfaction: this effect is better than I imagined.

In fact, with the character of the prince, he should like children very much, and it is easy to get along with children. It's just that he is more afraid of life by nature, and he needs to be given time to get familiar and adapt. I believe that in time, he will definitely become a good playmate and father of Meowmeow.

In addition to that, I have some other hopes. I want to awaken the love and sense of responsibility in the heart of the little princess. After all, a future king of a country can't always hide in my arms as a coquettish little cat. I want him to realize that he is a father and an adult, and he should be like an adult and pick up the burden that an adult should carry.

Accompanied the prince to the restaurant, I didn't expect Xie Jiu to arrive before us, and when he saw us, he smiled and said, "Princess, go take care of the little princess, just have me to serve here." ”

"Don't you have to take care of your own son?" I guess I'm not the only one who has children.

"No, Xiao'er wasn't here last night, and was left in Qinghui Hall by the queen." It's a smug tone that I try to suppress but still can't hide.

It seems that the queen really likes this grandson, does she want to bring it herself? Does this mean that the emperor and the empress have already planned to train this grandson on the road to the emperor's grandson?

And even if it was, so what?

No matter how much the emperor and the empress want this child to inherit the throne, they can't set up an imperial grandson now. If that kid wants to become the prince in the name of righteousness, he must wait for the emperor to have a chance after a hundred years. And at that time, the world is already the world of me and the prince, and everything has to be decided by us.

Thinking of this, I was no longer irritable, but smiled and said to her very easily: "The little princess can be taken care of by a nurse, if my daughter has to take care of everything herself, then what do you need those people to do?" If you're not busy, sit down and have breakfast with us. ”

I beckoned the prince to sit down, and the prince rested on my shoulder with his eyes half-closed as usual, and I fed him. Xie Jiu sat awkwardly on the side, sometimes looking at us, sometimes eating two bites mechanically.

I guess, in the past few days of my confinement, the prince's diet has always been ordered by her, I don't know how she served the prince, is she also like me to feed him like a child?

At this time, Zhang Hong was still standing on the side with an excerpt reading the prince's day's schedule, anyway, every day was full, and there was no leisure.

As soon as Zhang Hong finished reading, Manager Zhang hurriedly ran in, and said with a panicked expression: "There is news from Qinghui Palace, the queen mother is sick, she had a high fever last night, and she wanted to struggle to get up this morning, but she fainted as soon as she got out of bed. ”

"Huh? What about my son? Xie Jiu stood up in panic. At this moment, she didn't think about the queen's illness, but only thought of her son who was still in the Qinghui Palace.

I understood the feelings of a mother, and immediately said to her, "We are now going to the Queen." ”

The prince had already ripped off his scarf and ran out. Xie Jiu and I also followed closely behind.

The road outside the Qinghui Hall was already full of people. Everyone was talking in a whisper, and it seemed that the situation was not good.

The prince became so panicked that his hands trembled, and I held him tightly and walked with him through the crowd into the inner sanctum of the Qinghui Palace.

The tent on the queen's big bed hung low, the emperor, the concubine, Zuo Guifei and others were sitting on the edge of the bed, and several imperial doctors were sitting helplessly on the other side, as if they had given up diagnosis and treatment.

Seeing the prince enter, the emperor called "Emperor", and tears welled up in his eyes.

The prince was panicked enough, but when he saw his father like this, he was so frightened that he immediately threw himself on the ground in front of the bed, crying and calling his mother, while slowly lifting the curtain in front of the bed with trembling hands.