Chapter 651 Boys, Don’t Try Too Hard

Lu Liang brought the two maids to a closed room, knocked on the door and announced, "Master, the maids are here to bring you food."

After a while, the door opened from the inside, and a white-faced, beardless man wearing a green eunuch's uniform and a black gauze hat appeared, and raised his chin towards the two maids.

Qin Yao raised her eyebrows. Why is there a eunuch here?

Could the master that Lu Liang was referring to be the one in the East Palace?

The heavy guards in the Imperial Master's Mansion suddenly made sense, as well as the three internal martial arts masters in the dark at Puyuan. It turned out that they were there to protect this nobleman.

The maid lowered her head and took the food box in very obediently, without even a glance from beginning to end. She opened the food box first and had the eunuch check it one by one with the poison testing instrument. When they confirmed that everything was correct, the two maids secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

They also couldn't understand why they were still worried about someone poisoning the master when there were so many guards in the Imperial Master's Mansion.

However, a distinguished person has come to the house today. Now that the mission is completed, it is better to leave quickly.

When the food was delivered, the two maids lowered their brows and knelt down to bow in the direction of the screen, then backed away all the way to the door, then turned around and quickly left Puyuan.

The eunuch brought the food behind the screen, which turned out to be a bedroom that was different from ordinary houses. All the furniture in the room was very simple, even looked a bit old, and the shapes were also strange. The height of the sleeping furniture was uniform, and there were handrails and slopes made of wooden boards everywhere.

Next to the screen, there was a wooden wheelchair parked. The wheels looked badly worn, like some kind of junk.

Everything in this room seems so out of place in the magnificent Imperial Master's Mansion.

The eunuch glanced at the young man sitting in front of the bed. He was about thirty years old, wearing a round-necked light yellow silk shirt, a jade belt around his waist, a crown of the same color on his head, and a face as white as jade. His phoenix eyes were slightly lowered as he looked at the person on the bed, full of pity and kindness.

Such a young man, with noble air and kind and peaceful eyes, shows no trace of the years left on him.

It is rare to see such an almost innocent temperament in a prince.

From his peaceful expression, it can be seen that he must be a person who is favored a lot and has a full sense of security.

"Sir, please get up and have your meal." Baili Qingyang called out in a gentle voice to the old man who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed and refused to open them.

The eunuch smiled and said, "Your Highness personally brought a royal chef who is good at home cooking to you. He made a dish of green beans and tofu, bacon and bamboo shoots, and your favorite rice-flavored fish."

His original intention was to please the person, but he didn't expect that the person lying on the bed didn't say a word for a long time, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

But the movement of his eyes under his eyelids revealed the fact that he was actually very sober.

It’s just that the old man’s breathing was a little short, and he looked listless. There was a smell of bitter medicine lingering on his body, and he looked so lifeless that it was frightening to see.

Baili Qingyang sighed, feeling helpless and a little depressed, "Sir, you neither want to eat nor seek medical treatment. Do you want to starve yourself to death and make me feel guilty for the rest of my life?"

This was a serious statement. When the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace said this, Gong Liangliao, who was lying on the bed breathing more out than in, had to open his eyes and said hoarsely and weakly, "Your Highness, your words are too serious."

Baili Qingyang was delighted and quickly waved to the eunuch to bring the food over. He looked at Gong Liangliao expectantly and said, "Sir, why don't you try it? This chef's cooking skills are quite good."

Gong Liangliao forced a wry smile and glanced sideways with effort. The food on the tray had lost its fresh-out-of-the-pot heat after all the tossing and turning along the way. He lost his appetite at the first sight!

But that bastard Imperial Master had moved in His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he couldn't go too far anyway.

Gong Liangliao sighed and tried to hold up his much thinner body.

The two servants in the room hurried forward and helped him sit up.

Just the simple action of propping himself up and sitting on the bed made Gong Liangliao exhausted. Fine beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his bloodless lips were slightly parted, he took deep breaths, and a "ho ho" sound came from his throat, like the mournful wail of a broken drum being ravaged by the wind.

Gong Liangliao's eyes, which should have been filled with wisdom and playfulness, had lost the last bit of their luster.

He really wanted to just die like this.

But he couldn't. If he died at this moment, there would be a catastrophe in the court.

But if he lives one more day, he will be exploited by that bastard Imperial Master.

Dead or alive, he felt so miserable that he wanted to die!

Refusing to eat and refusing to seek medical treatment are the only ways he can resist right now.

Thinking of this, Gong Liangliao was so angry that he laughed at himself. Why was he suffering like this?

Baili Qingyang signaled to the servant to feed Gong Liangliao, then he stood up with his hands behind his back and looked around the house that the imperial master had decorated with items he brought back from a remote countryside.

This kind of furniture and this kind of wood were also used by him when he was young. Thinking back now, the days when the whole family squeezed together in a small mud house to avoid pursuers seemed like a dream.

At that time, my father had only mother as his wife, and his eldest sister was a rude and arrogant girl who threatened to conquer the four states of Jiangdong and was ignorant of the immensity of the world.

But his mother said that boys don't need to think too much, just grow up well. If you are afraid of being tired, you can become a leisurely nobleman in the future. If you are afraid of hardship, you can ask your eldest sister to send him a few more subordinates to serve him.

Anyway, he doesn't need to worry about anything, just take care of himself.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t stick to practicing martial arts. Boys don’t need to work too hard.

It’s okay to feel tired from studying. It’s enough to be able to write and do math. You don’t need to be like your elder sister, who had to work hard to prove herself in order to gain respect as a woman among her subordinates.

Therefore, my mother was always very harsh on my eldest sister, wanting her to be the best in everything. If she failed, she would be scolded and punished.

As for him, his mother always smiled gently. He only needed to try to do a little better to get the most praise.

Ever since he could remember, his eldest sister hated him and said that he received all the favoritism from his parents.

However, quarrels between siblings and brothers are very common in ordinary families. They quarrel and fight, but when something really happens, the eldest sister never leaves him behind.

When his mother captured the old capital of the previous dynasty, he and his elder sister were left behind and were hunted down by the retreating enemy troops.

My father was with them at the time. The coachman was afraid that my father would be captured, so he threw him out of the carriage so that it could go faster.

When he was at a loss and crying, it was his eldest sister who came with her followers and rescued him.

At that moment, he slowly realized one thing, that is, his eldest sister, who was always demanded by her mother to be the best in everything and had suffered a lot, was actually so powerful!

But when he encountered something, he was at a loss and could only cry bitterly.

His mother's preference has always been a point of pride for him, but at that moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have been spoiled by his mother.

Just like his father, he does nothing but eat, drink and have fun.

Which year did you suddenly make up your mind to study hard and learn martial arts?

It seemed like it was the year when my father was instigated by his ministers to declare himself king before my mother.

Mr. Gongliang rebuked him bitterly: "As the eldest son of the king, you will inherit the throne in the future. How can you be so unambitious and have no ambition? You only care about having fun!"

At that time, when he saw that his elder sister had an army of 50,000 under her command, he felt a strong sense of crisis for the first time.

However, since he was given the important task of "inheriting the throne", he has never been happy since then.

Just like what the eldest sister said, a person like him may not be able to afford an entire dynasty.