The prince is gifted and intelligent, he has written well at the age of six, and his temperament is calm and introverted, which is different from the eldest brother, and now the brothers are in the study, although they each have their own teachers, they will inevitably be compared. And the eldest brother has not been able to accept his heart to study, the emperor has been angry about this, although he entered the study earlier than the prince to enlighten, but with the prince's capital, it will not take long to learn to be stronger than the elder brother.

In the first month, there are many gatherings, women get together to gossip, in the early years, they only talk about the good or bad of some drama stories or rouge gouache, and now they gradually begin to talk about children's affairs, talking about the prince's two teachers now, several mothers have a face in the court, all heard from the family about the origin of these two Han teachers, among which Prince Kang recommended Li Guangdi from Fujian, rumored to be a traitor to Bo Shang's friends to seek glory, several women's families talk about the Tao, all say how the emperor is a thousand choices, but the prince chose such an unbearable enlightenment teacher.

In the afternoon of this day, all the concubines gathered at Rong Concubine, listened to Yinzhi recite the "Thousand Character Text", praised the child's intelligence, and talked about the prince's teacher, Lan Qi hugged Yinzhi on the side, only to hear An Guiren say to Hui Concubine: "Although the eldest brother is naughty, he has a good teacher, and the mother doesn't have to worry." ”

Concubine Hui leisurely peeled the crystal clear grapefruit for the sisters, and smiled in her mouth: "My sister coaxed me, the eldest brother's talent is not good, this child will be a martial artist in the future, the emperor also said, in the future, he will not be forced to read poetry and books, since he is active, he will practice martial arts and cavalry and archery, people always have strengths and weaknesses, and I am very down-to-earth." But the prince is different, he is the future emperor of our Qing Dynasty, naturally he has to be familiar with both ancient and modern civil and military affairs, I heard Mingzhu say, this Li Guangdi is a first-class talent, the emperor sees that people's eyes are poisonous, what kind of rumors about betraying friends to seek glory, maybe it is blindly arranged by people who are jealous of him? What matters is talent, and talented people are worthy of being the prince's teacher. Having said that, let's not talk about the good of the East Palace, the emperor doesn't like it. ”

As she spoke, she divided the good grapefruit into everyone to eat, the palace maid brought hot water to wash her hands, Concubine Rong asked Ji Xin to take her gel to wipe her hands, Hui Concubine said that her face was dry, and she wanted to borrow her use, so she simply went to the inner hall with Ji Xin.

And as soon as she left, she heard An Guiren whisper to the people on the side: "Concubine Hui Niangniang really thinks about it, her son can't read well, so she just can't say it, who knows if the emperor said so, she is actually afraid that she will really be compared to the prince, and her face will be dull." ”

Everyone sighed for a while, Rong Concubine coughed a few times, and then stopped the topic, she picked an interesting topic to talk about, not to mention the child's study, and Yinzhi was also making a fuss to play with her sisters, Lan Qi signaled to Rong Concubine, and led him to Rong Xian.

In Rongxian's house here, the three sisters Chunxi, Rongxian, and Duanjing were getting together and didn't know what to do, driving the nursing mother and palace maids out of the door, and as soon as they heard Yinzhi's voice, Duanjing shouted loudly: "Don't come in, Yinzhi, don't come in." ”

Yinzhi looked at Lan Qi pitifully, and said delicately: "De Niangniang, my sisters always bully me, I want to play with Yinzhen, let's go find Yinzhen, okay?" ”

Lan Qi was surprised, I heard the prince say that Yinzhen robbed the third elder brother's things before, is it because the child doesn't hold grudges, or does he not have those things at all? Squatted down with a smile and asked Yinzhi: "Yinzhi likes the fourth elder brother?" ”

"Well, because I'm the elder brother, the elder brother wants to play with the younger brother." Yinzhi looked proud, and said with a smile, "Yinzhen listens to me, he is a younger brother, I won't bully Yinzhen, but my sisters always bully me." ”

"Yinzhen listens to you?" Lan Qi was even more confused, probing the child, "Why did he listen to you?" ”

"Because I'm my brother." But Yinzhi said to himself, he couldn't understand what Lan Qi wanted him to express, and pulled Lan Qi to go outside, saying that he wanted to find Yinzhen, at least to prove the harmony and friendship between their brothers.

But how can Chengqian Palace go casually, Lan Qi can only coax him: "You can see Yinzhen during the Lantern Festival, I want to go to Ningshou Palace for dinner tonight, I can see Yinqi, De Niangniang will let the nurse bring Yinzuo again, and then the two younger brothers will play with you, okay?" ”

When the child was coaxed, the first burst of laughter came in the house, and a few nurses in front of the door couldn't help but go in to see the scene, and heard the shouting "little ancestor", Lan Qi was also curious, and led Yinzhi into the house, and saw that the faces of the girls were painted colorfully, and all kinds of rouge gouache were spread on a table, and Duanjing's lips were wiped into a bloody mouth, and the girls laughed at each other, and the nurses were so anxious to fetch water to wash their faces.

Yinzhi pointed to the three sisters and laughed, Rong Xian was not convinced, grabbed the rouge and rushed over and wiped his younger brother red, Yinzhi cried, making Lan Qi at a loss, and the Rong concubines over there heard the movement and came to look, but they saw that the daughters had become big faces, and the table was full of fat powder, which was really angry and funny.

Concubine Hui also smiled: "No wonder I went to Sister Rong's house to spread powder, there are few decent things on the table, I said Sister Rong why is it so simple, Ji Xin also said that the thing is missing, it turned out that they took it." ”

"Eniang, my sister wipes my ......" Yinzhi saw Rong Concubine, pounced on her and cried, her face was full of rouge and rubbed on her auspicious clothes, Jixin said that this dress would be worn at night, and she was busy pulling the master to the side to wipe it, Yinzhi chased and cried, Rong Xian actually ran over and grabbed his younger brother to kill him, "What are you crying for a boy, you want to be happy in the first month, I will beat you if you cry again." ”

Yinzhi was murdered by his sister, he really held his mouth and didn't dare to make a sound, sobbing and choking tears, so distressed that Lan Qi and Hui Concubine pulled them away, Rong Xian also waved his fist to murder his younger brother: "Don't open your mouth, it's very ugly, I'll beat you if you cry again." ”

Everyone was amused, Duan Concubine and Bu Guiren were also busy washing their faces for Chunxi and Duan Jing, blaming them for being too naughty, and Rong Concubine had a headache on the side and said: "This sister and brother are fighting when they see the sky, I take care of this and that crying, and I have a headache every day." ”

Everyone said that this is the blessing of Rong Concubine, she is the only one in the palace with both children under her knees, Rong Concubine is polite, very proud, and then said that the laughter and laughter are also scattered, leaving only Lan Qi, Duan Concubine, Hui Concubine A few people, the three sisters washed their faces, and begged Lan Qi and Bu Guiren to paint them well, sure enough, the girls have grown up, and began to want to learn from the adults to apply grease and powder, Duan Concubine sat aside and watched, and suddenly sighed: "Little people are slim in a blink of an eye, I was afraid that they would not grow up, but now I am afraid that time is too fast, and I should marry when I grow up, I don't know where to go and kiss. ”

One sentence made everyone sigh, Chunxi and Duanjing were not born to her and were still so affectionate, not to mention the daughter born and raised by Concubine Rong herself, thinking about the eldest princesses in the royal family, most of them married far away, and it was difficult to see them a few times in their lives, and they inevitably felt sad, only Concubine Hui persuaded them: "What about the son, he will be busy with state affairs and court affairs in the future, and if he has a daughter-in-law and forgets his mother, even if he is in the capital, how many times can he see him in his life?" In the end, we sisters live together, and we can't count on our children. ”

When he spoke, Chunxi drew it first, squeezed his eyebrows and ran to show off, tired of Duan Concubine asking if it looked good, not long after Rong Xian and Duan Jing also came, the three girls were born well, so simple and simple painting, and a little bit of the taste of a little adult, Hui Concubine smiled: "Don't wash it when you go to Ningshou Palace at night, show it to the Queen Mother, you must say that you are little goblins." ”

Yinzhi was snuggling up to Concubine Hui, and immediately poked out his head and said, "Sister is a goblin." ”

Rong Xian was angry and wanted to come to catch him, the mother and son frolicked together, the room was full of laughter, until it was time to go to Ningshou Palace in the evening, and then they each returned to their appearance, because they all gathered here in Rong Concubine, and they didn't want to rush back, when they wanted to go out together, someone from Qianqing Palace said two things, one is that the emperor asked the eldest brother and the prince to go to Ningshou Palace for dinner tonight, and asked a few ladies to take care of it, and the other is to let De Concubine go to Qianqing Palace first.

Concubine Duan pushed Lan Qi and said, "Go, go, if you don't come back, let's take leave with the Queen Mother for you." ”

Lan Qi didn't want to be teased by them, so she hurried away, and asked Huanchun to return to Yonghe Palace and the nurse to hug Yinzuo, so she led Yukui to Qianqing Palace.

In the first month of the year, the palace is very festive, the snow reflects the red lanterns and red silk, the palace with gold bricks and red walls, there is less serious atmosphere in the past, tonight is the queen mother to invite a few concubines with princes and princesses to go over for dinner, Cining Palace also came to a few old concubines and the palace Fujin, Lan Qi is inconvenient to pestle in front of the emperor as the princess, so she did not go to Zhang Luo, full of thoughts about having a good meal in Ningshou Palace tonight, who knew that Xuan Ye would come to her again.

Therefore, as soon as he entered the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Lan Qi muttered: "The emperor can't let the concubines be used once?" What's the matter? ”

Xuan Ye was playing with objects, and when he heard her say this, he pulled him to his side and said, "You don't want to see me, it's really chilling." ”

Lan Qi looked at the table full of rare treasures from nowhere, she had never been interested in this, Xuan Ye knew that she didn't like jewelry playthings, and she usually didn't coax her with this kind of thing, but today she got a good one, so she called her over, and pulled her aside excitedly, opened a huge box, and there was a kind and lovely Maitreya Buddha lying inside, Xuan Ye smiled: "Invited from Yunnan, the whole piece of jade is carved, and I specially asked someone to invite it to you." ”

As soon as Lan Qi saw the Buddha statue, she prayed together, and then said: "This is good, you should go to the Big Buddha Hall of Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager likes it the most, you leave it to the concubines, aren't you afraid that the Empress Dowager will be unhappy?" ”

Xuan Ye said: "There is another bigger one on the way, that is for the imperial grandmother, although this one is for you, it is not for you to put in Yonghe Palace." ”

Lan Qi carefully closed the box, and listened to Xuan Ye by his side and continued: "I heard you say last time that I wanted to invite you to a Maitreya Buddha for your mother, and I remembered it in my heart. ”

"The concubine didn't tell you." Lan Qi was very surprised, she did mention it, but it was when she sprinkled the Guanyin statue offered in Yonghe Palace, she said to Huanchun, saying that her Eniang likes Maitreya Buddha and wants to ask for a Buddha statue for Eniang, why did this spread to Xuan Ye's ears?

Xuan Ye smiled: "When I came over that day, didn't you clean up in the small Buddha hall with Huanchun?" When I heard you say to Huanchun, I remembered it in my heart. ”

Lan Qi's heart was relieved, and she felt even more guilty, it turned out that Xuan Ye heard it with her own ears, and she thought that her words and deeds were under the emperor's nose, and frankly speaking, Fang Cai really felt uncomfortable for a moment.

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