The peach blossoms bloomed and failed, defeated and bloomed, and in the blink of an eye, it was ten spring and autumn.

On the bluestone-paved path of the Imperial Garden, Xiao Xiwei was standing not far away, holding a piece of osmanthus in his hand to induce the toddler Yaoguang.

In the past ten years, the Emperor Taishang passed away. She first gave birth to the second prince Chu Tianming, and then gave birth to the third princess Yaoguang, who is now just one year old. In the past ten years, Chu Xizhi has never accepted a concubine, which has led to a lot of discussion among the courtiers, four years ago, several humerus ministers had knelt in front of the palace and begged His Majesty to make a decree to draft a rich harem, Chu Xizhi turned a deaf ear, and those ministers knelt in front of the palace for three hours, and then Chu Xizhi was angry, so he sent all the beauties sent by the country to the ministers' mansions, which caused the ministers to catch fire in the backyards, and no longer had time to care about Chu Xizhi's concubines, and the other ministers were also silent when they saw this, and they didn't dare to say more than half a word about the concubine. In addition, Xiao Xiwei has been cautious in his words and deeds over the years, never intervened in the government affairs, and kept the harem tightly organized, and the harem was clear, so no one has mentioned the matter of concubines over the years.

"Yaoguang, come, come to the queen mother's ......" Xiao Xi shook the pastry in his hand slightly, and looked at Yaoguang who was still standing in place and didn't dare to move with a smile.

Ye'er can walk in eleven months, Ming'er is even earlier, and she can walk in ten months, but Yaoguang is now more than a year old but still doesn't dare to walk alone.

Yaoguang blinked her round eyes, glanced at her mother, and finally her eyes fell on the dessert in her mother's hand, the tempting taste, she remembered, but this distance......

His clear eyes were filled with hesitation all of a sudden.

"Yaoguang, if you don't want this snack, the queen mother will eat it." Xiao Xiwei said that he was about to deliver the pastry to himself.

Seeing this, the one-year-old Yaoguang couldn't help but move towards Xiao Xiwei step by step with her little fat legs, and when she was still a few steps away from Xiao Xiwei, she stabbed herself into Xiao Xiwei's arms.

"Why are you so anxious every time, didn't the queen mother say that the road has to be taken step by step." Xiao Xi hurriedly reached out to hug Yaoguang, and while supporting her, he couldn't help but feel distressed.

One-year-old Yaoguang didn't care what her mother said, she raised her hand and snatched the pastry in Xiao Xiwei's hand, and stuffed it into her small mouth when she raised her hand, this gluttonous appearance made the palace maid next to her couldn't help but laugh.

"The little princess looks like this, and I don't know who she is with." Ziyan, who was married to a wife, looked at Yaoguang and said with a smile.

"It's not going to be just me." A hearty voice took over Ziyan's words.

Xiao Xi raised his head slightly, and saw Chu Xizhi wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, and walked towards her handsomely, followed by two small tails.

"The Queen Mother." With the two little tails behind him, Chu Tianye and Chu Tianming stepped forward together and saluted Xiao Xiwei.

Xiao Xi smiled and nodded at the two of them.

Before she could speak, the purple smoke on the side was finished, but she smiled at Chu Xizhi and said, "That's not necessarily, the slave maid has been waiting for the queen for so many years, but I haven't seen the lady love to eat snacks." ”

"Then you've seen me love snacks." Chu Xiyi said as he bent down and hugged Yaoguang, stretched out his hand to pinch Yaoguang's pink and tender little face.

"How does this slave know?" Ziyan said with a smile.

Such conversations are always heard in the palace from time to time, if it weren't for the bright yellow dragon robe on Chu Xizhi's body, I am afraid that many people would not believe that an emperor would make such a joke with a slave. So many years later, there will always be older grandmothers who will remember the first emperor to the new palace maids.

Xiao Xiwei didn't listen to the conversation between the two at the moment, because, when she saw her youngest son Chu Tianming's little face twisted, with a depressed look, she couldn't help but say, "What's wrong with Ming'er?" Chu Tianming asked the question, but his eyes were looking at Chu Xizhi, who was holding Yaoguang with a doting face.

Chu Xizhi turned his face and looked at Chu Tianming's eyes sinking, "Haven't you told your queen mother yourself, what's the matter, do you still want me to speak?" ”

was said by Chu Xizhi, and Chu Tianming's little face collapsed suddenly.

"What the hell is going on?" Xiao Xi frowned slightly puzzled, and moved his gaze to Chu Tianye next to him.

Chu Tianye is four years older than Chu Tianming, but his temperament has been extremely stable since he was a child, compared to Chu Tianming's liveliness and activity, but the eleven-year-old Chu Tianye is too young and old, although it is reassuring, but Xiao Xiwei always feels that his temperament is not because he was fostered by her when he was a child.

"After returning to my mother, the teacher assigned homework yesterday."

"Big brother, don't say it!" Chu Tianming turned his head and glared at Chu Tianye and said loudly.

He grew up to the age of seven, and after countless lessons, he learned that in this palace, it doesn't matter how much trouble he causes, even angering his father, as long as he is protected by his mother, he will always be safe and sound in the end. But there is one person he doesn't dare to provoke at all, because once she gets angry, her father will beat him to death, and no one can persuade him, this person is his mother.

Xiao Xi glanced at Chu Tianye with displeasure in his eyes, and then looked at Chu Tianye again, "Ye'er, you continue." Is it that Ming'er didn't do his homework. ”

Xiang Mingxuan has always been strict with the homework of the two children, and it must be Tianming's stubbornness that he did not do the homework assigned to Xiang Mingxuan well, which angered him.

"No, the second brother did his homework. It's just that the teacher handed over the second brother's homework to his father. Chu Tianye said.

Xiao Xi frowned slightly, raised his eyes and looked at Chu Xizhi, "What's wrong?" What's wrong with that homework? ”

Chu Xizhi snorted, then took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Xiwei, "You better take a look for yourself." ”

Xiao Xi took the piece of paper and unfolded it in disbelief, and what caught his eye was Chu Tianming's untidy handwriting, and he saw a crooked poem written on it.

As soon as the teacher turned around,

Scared a cow to death on the edge of the field.

The teacher turned back the second time,

The rabbit fell into the ditch.

Xiao Xiwei's face changed, and he raised his hand to throw the piece of paper in front of Chu Tianming, and said angrily, "You...... What are you writing about? ”

Chu Tianming shrugged his head and muttered in a low voice, "Isn't it poetry......

"You! Do you write poetry like this? Xiao Xiwei couldn't wait to step forward and knock Chu Tianming's head open to see what was inside.

Obviously he is a brother of a mother's compatriots, why is this so stubborn, no wonder Xiang Mingxuan will present this poem to him, I don't know how angry he will be.

Chu Tianming hung his head, and under the anger of the queen mother, he didn't dare to hum half a word.

He was sure that if he said one more word, he might not know how his father would beat him in a while, and most importantly, the queen mother would definitely not protect him anymore. Thinking of this, his little face twisted into a ball, and he was half annoyed with Xiang Mingxuan in his heart, didn't he write a poem to make fun of him, as for stabbing in front of the queen mother?

"Biyun, go and prepare a generous gift, and then prepare the chariot, in a while, the emperor and the palace will go to Xiangfu." Xiao Xi said with a slightly calm face.

"Yes."

"What, I'm going too?"

He brought Tianming over, but he was afraid that he would upset her by beating this kid in private, so he exposed Tianming's mistake in front of her, so that this kid had nowhere to cry out, and he didn't want to, but he even took himself in. Looking at Xiao Xiwei's posture, it seemed that he still intended to let him make amends and say good things in front of Xiang Mingxuan, thinking of this, Chu Xizhi became more and more unhappy.

"Won't Your Majesty?" Xiao Xi's slightly slender eyebrows were raised, and his phoenix eyes were slanted and long, and Chu Xi swept over.

Chu Xizhi tugged the corners of his mouth hard, changed the Yaoguang in his arms to an arm, and said in a sneering voice, "How dare I ......" After speaking, he glanced at Chu Tianming fiercely with the corner of his eye.

It's obviously the fault of this bastard boy, why did he end up letting him, the old man, make amends, where did he find a place to say courtesy!

Chu Tianming didn't expect this to be the result, and was snickering in his heart that he had escaped the catastrophe, but he didn't want to, but Xiao Xiwei's voice sounded again.

"Ming'er also goes, didn't there be a crime of honesty in ancient times? As a sign of sincerity, you should carry the wattle on your back and go to the mansion. Xiao Xi looked at Chu Tianming coldly.

"Queen Mother......" Chu Tianming's face fell, he begged for mercy and looked at Xiao Xiwei, but this time, the queen mother, who had always been generous to him, didn't even bother to give him a look, and turned around and left directly.

Seeing that Xiao Xiwei was leaving, Chu Xizhi turned his head and said to the palace man beside him, "Didn't you hear the words of the queen's mother, why don't you go and prepare thorn strips for the second prince." ”

"Yes." Seeing that the emperor was angry, the people in the palace hurriedly retreated.

Chu Tianming pursed his mouth, looking like he was about to cry, "Father, really, really want to be like this......"

He just wrote a limerick poem on a whim.

Chu Xizhi looked at him and snorted coldly, "You said it?" With that, he walked away with Yaoguang in his arms.

Seeing that his father and mother ignored him, Chu Tianming sniffed, and there was nowhere to release the grievances in his heart, he turned his head and saw Chu Tianye standing silently on the side, and the anger in his heart suddenly came out, "Chu Tianye, didn't I just ask you not to tell the queen mother!" That's how you want to see my jokes! ”

Chu Tianye raised his eyes, his dark eyes swept Chu Tianming's eyes, and after a while, his voice rang out, "

Second brother, when will you grow up? With that, he turned and walked away.

Chu Tianming stared at Chu Tianye's back and shouted, "You stuffy gourd, what do you know!" ”

At the end of the path, Chu Tianye's figure didn't pause, and soon disappeared at the corner of the path.

He really didn't know anything, he only knew that since he was sensible, his father taught him, saying that he should become the queen mother's support in the future, and he couldn't let others bully his mother. Over the years, his father has been taking him with him to teach carefully, and he is stricter than anyone else, although he doesn't know why, but he has seen his father standing alone in the imperial study and looking at the portrait of the queen mother in a daze, the eyes are very sad and reluctant......

Here, Xiao Xiwei ordered someone to prepare a gift, and after packing up, he and Chu Xizhi prepared to go to the mansion. When she arrived in front of the sedan chair, she raised her legs and was just about to get on the sedan chair, when she suddenly saw Chu Xizhi's body shaking beside her, and before she could come back to her senses, she saw him slamming towards her......