Chapter 52 The Third Prince's ambition is clear, he even prepared the dragon robe in private
The little girl was cute and fierce. Xue Yili thought she was very cute and interesting. He wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare to laugh, for fear that she really wouldn't come to see him tomorrow. He nodded quickly and said, "I'm sorry, I won't do that next time."
Seeing that he admitted his mistakes with a good attitude, Ji Jinyou put down her two hands and said, "Your Highness, please go back now."
As she spoke, she waved her little hand and chased them away.
Xue Yili agreed, turned around and walked out, then turned back after two steps and said, "I'll wait for you tomorrow."
Ji Jinyou nodded: "Okay."
Xue Yili smiled, turned around and walked out the door, calling Cong'an who was waiting outside the yard to go back with him.
As he walked, he suddenly laughed out loud.
Cong An looked down at the little prince who was much shorter than him, and saw that he had an especially bright smile on his face. He couldn't help but smile too, and asked in wonder, "Your Highness, are you so happy to see the little princess?"
Xue Yili nodded, his tone filled with joy: "I just hugged the little princess again. It was so warm when I hugged her."
Cong An recalled the scene just now, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and stretched out his hand to show Xue Yili: "It's so hot today, and the little princess is so fat. I am sweating from the heat. Your Highness, you two are hugging each other, how can you not be warm."
"..." Xue Yili's smile froze: "Shut up."
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Ji Jinyou returned to Miaoyunxuan and found that Concubine Ning and Concubine Zhen had not left yet.
Ji Jinyou walked in, greeted the two, then leaned on Rupin's legs and stretched out her little hand to touch her: "Mother, hold me."
Rupin held the little girl in her arms, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Ji Jin lay in Rupin's arms, listening quietly to Zhenpin's words, looking at them as she listened.
Concubine Ning is the mother of the eighteenth prince. She was born a palace maid, and was promoted to concubine step by step after giving birth to the eighteenth prince. However, her temperament is even worse than that of her mother, Concubine Ru. She is timid and submissive. It is said that two people came to visit Concubine Ru, but she said almost nothing and just sat there quietly.
Rupin didn't like it and wasn't good at chatting with people. In the past, her Miaoyunxuan was deserted and no concubines ever came to visit her. Now, she was really not used to this situation. She just responded and smiled from time to time and didn't say much.
Concubine Zhen was a very talkative person. She talked endlessly and when she talked about something she found interesting, she would occasionally laugh out loud. From beginning to end, she never let the atmosphere become dull.
Ji Jinyou listened for a while and found that they were all talking about jewelry materials, rouge and powder. She was really not interested, so she felt sleepy and yawned loudly.
Rupin rubbed the little girl's head and asked, "Are you sleepy, Youyou?"
Seeing that Rupin also looked tired, Ji Jinyou leaned against her in her arms, clenched her two small hands into fists and rubbed her eyes: "Youyou, I'm sleepy, I need to sleep."
Rupin looked at Zhenpin with an embarrassed look on her face: "My two sisters, I am really sorry, the child is sleepy, you guys sit down first, I will go and coax Youyou to sleep."
Ningpin was thinking about the Eighteenth Prince and had been unable to sit still for a long time. Hearing this, she stood up quickly and said, "Then we won't bother you anymore and will come back another day."
Only then did Zhenpin realize that she seemed to have said too much. She smiled dryly and stood up as well: "Yes, yes, come again another day. You guys take a rest first."
Rupin apologized again and asked Jinxing to see them off. However, Zhenpin walked to the door and turned back, saying in an awkward tone, "Sister Rupin, I have something to ask of you."
Rupin stood up holding Youyou, "Sister, please speak."
Concubine Zhen looked at the plump little baby in Concubine Ru's arms with envy, "That's right, next time you see His Majesty, can you mention me? His Majesty hasn't come to my room for more than a year."
When Concubine Zhen said this, she had completely lost the frankness she had during the previous conversation. She hesitated and even became a little embarrassed.
Rupin was stunned. Before she could say no, Zhenpin said, "I don't have any other reason. It's just that I'm already old and still don't have my own flesh and blood. In a few years..."
Upon hearing this, Ji Jinyou became a little anxious, fearing that Rupin would soften her heart and agree.
Fortunately, Concubine Ru was not that stupid. She was embarrassed to turn people away when they came to her house to chat, but she was very clear-headed on important matters. She herself was afraid to meet His Majesty, so how could she dare to mention other women in front of him?
She was afraid that Zhenpin would not know the seriousness of the matter and say something inappropriate for the child to hear, so she quickly interrupted her and said apologetically, "Sister Zhenpin, I am really sorry. His Majesty has not been to my courtyard for more than half a year. I can't help you with this."
Seeing that Rupin refused so firmly, Zhenpin's face froze, but she didn't know what to say. She smiled awkwardly, turned around and left.
Ji Jinyou felt relieved and hugged Rupin and put his cheek against hers.
She wanted to ask the system what kind of people Concubine Ning and Concubine Zhen were, and what their final outcome was, but she was so sleepy that her mind was no longer working. She lay on Concubine Ru's shoulder, and her eyelids began to twitch.
Rupin quickly ordered someone to prepare water, took the little girl to take a bath, changed her into thin pajamas, and carried her to bed to sleep.
Rupin placed the little girl's head on her arm, patted her round belly gently, and hummed a little tune.
After taking a bath, Ji Jinyou felt more energetic and asked in a baby voice, "Mother, do you want father to come and see you?"
Rupin said without even thinking: "No."
Ji Jinyou turned sideways and faced Rupin: "Why?"
Rupin lowered her voice and whispered, "It is enough for mother to have Youyou, but don't tell this to anyone else."
"Okay, Youyou won't say anything." Ji Jinyou nodded seriously, and then said, "Youyou only has your mother."
Rupin chuckled and kissed the little girl on the cheek: "Go to sleep."
Ji Jinyou was about to close his eyes, but then he remembered the agreement with Xue Yili and told Rupin about it.
Rupin thought about it and felt that something seemed wrong.
Your Majesty has changed his attitude towards the little proton now, and the Empress has also said that no one should treat him harshly. Just go with the flow and it's okay to visit him occasionally.
But if Youyou gets too close to the little prince of Yao country, and the two children become close friends, what if His Majesty's attitude changes again in the future?
She didn't understand politics, but she knew that the relationship between Shengyao and China had been unstable for many years, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
If the situation changes at some point, Youyou will be forced to distance herself from that child again, and she will be so sad.
Not wanting Youyou to be sad, Rupin suggested, "Youyou, you are only three years old now. You will be four next year, and then you will be old enough to start learning. Why don't you start learning next year?"
Ji Jinyou shook her head: "But Youyou wants to learn."
Although Rupin's mother's family was not a prominent family, it was also a family of scholars. Her parents were not authoritarian and overbearing people. They would discuss things with their children before communicating with them, and this was especially true for her and Youyou.
Seeing that the little girl didn't listen to her advice, she didn't get angry, but just changed the way of negotiating: "How about, mother teaches you first? Mother also knows a lot of words."
Ji Jinyou didn't want Rupin to teach her, lest she would have to pretend to be stupid later. She snuggled into Rupin's arms and said coquettishly, "Youyou wants to learn to read with the little prince."
The soft and sweet little girl, with a baby voice, leaned against her arms. Rupin was unwilling to refuse, so she quickly said yes, patted the little girl's back gently, and coaxed her to sleep.
Ji Jinyou had been running all day, and after a brief moment of alertness, he quickly fell asleep.
Listening to the little girl's soft cry, Rupin lowered her head and kissed the little girl on the forehead, again and again, with a smile on her face.
She didn't know why everyone suddenly liked Youyou so much, but it was a good thing after all.
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The next morning, when Ji Jinyou woke up, the seventh and eighth princesses had not arrived yet. She didn't care and had breakfast with Concubine Ru.
The Empress Dowager has almost recovered and started to work again today. After dinner, Concubine Ru wanted to go to Fengyi Palace to pay her respects, so she left Jin Xing behind and took Youyou with her.
Before leaving, she squatted in front of the little girl and reminded her, "Youyou, things have been a bit uneasy in the palace these days. If your seventh and eighth sisters don't come to pick you up, why don't you stay in the courtyard and play?"
Ji Jinyou had just woken up in the morning, and her little brain was still in a semi-downtime state. She didn't remember the agreement with Xue Yili for a moment, and nodded obediently, "Then you stay at home and wait for your mother to come back."
Rupin kissed the little girl, then got up and left.
Jin Xing took out all the toys that the Seventh and Eighth Princesses had sent her last time and said with a smile, "My young master, let's play with them."
Although Ji Jinyou did not live to adulthood in her previous life and could not be considered an adult, she was still a big child. These toys were for real children of a few years old, so she was naturally not interested in them.
Instead of sitting there fiddling with a wave drum or a rag doll, you might as well go exercise.
She took Jin Xing's hand and went to the yard. She found a slightly harder piece of dry soil from the flower bed, drew grids on the ground, and taught Jin Xing to play hopscotch.
Jin Xing saw the little girl jumping up and down, and was afraid that she would fall, so she followed closely with her arms outstretched to protect her.
While they were dancing, the Seventh and Eighth Princesses came in from the courtyard gate. They both looked serious, but when they saw Xiaojiu they couldn't help laughing.
The Eighth Princess squatted down and opened her arms: "Xiaojiu, come here, Eighth Sister."
Ji Jinyou stopped jumping and ran over with her short legs, rushing into the Eighth Princess' arms like a small cannonball and knocking her down on her butt, causing everyone in the yard to laugh.
The Eighth Princess laughed even more and slapped the little girl on the butt: "Xiaojiu, you little rascal."
"You are too heavy." Ji Jinyou also laughed, and with her two little hands she pulled the Eighth Princess's arms up, while the Seventh Princess pulled from the other side, and finally managed to pull her up.
Since Concubine Ru was not there, Princess Seventh and Eighth Princess took Xiaojiu away directly, and Jin Xing followed.
The Eighth Princess walked forward with Ji Jinyou in her arms, explaining to her, "Seventh Sister and I were delayed this morning by something, so we came a little late. Xiaojiu must be anxious waiting for you, right?"
"Youyou is not in a hurry." Ji Jinyou shook his head.
She didn't know that the Empress and the Royal Consort had given the Seventh and Eighth Princesses the task of taking care of her every day. She just thought that they liked playing with her, so they came to see her every day. She thought they would not come today, so she was naturally not in a hurry.
Seeing that the little girl was jumping around happily and didn't look anxious, Princess Seven or Eight felt relieved and walked forward in silence, as if she had something on her mind.
Ji Jinyou found that the two sisters did not talk to each other as usual. She was puzzled, but she did not ask, so she just asked: "Eighth sister, where are we going to play?"
Eighth Princess: "Hibiscus Palace."
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The Sixth Prince entered the palace early in the morning and is currently in Hibiscus Palace, talking to the Royal Concubine about the news he had found out today.
"The evidence in my hands is enough to prove that it was Old Five who did it."
"We have also sent people to keep an eye on the Fifth Brother's house. That idiot has been very well behaved recently. He has never left the house and no one has visited him. Not even a pigeon has flown out. I really don't know how he is in contact with the Third Brother. No matter how we investigate, we can't find anything on the Third Brother."
The Imperial Concubine snorted coldly: "If it were so easy for you to find out, I wouldn't be the Third Brother anymore."
The Sixth Prince pounded the armrest of his chair in annoyance: "If we can't find him, he will get away with it again."
The Royal Concubine soothed him, "Don't worry. If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. Since he did it, we can always find some clues."
The Sixth Prince nodded: "Okay, I will continue investigating."
As they were talking, the Seventh and Eighth Princess came in holding Little Nine. Ji Jinyou struggled to get down from the ground and first paid his respects to the Imperial Consort, then to the Sixth Prince.
"Xiaojiu, come here, let Sixth Brother hug you." When the Sixth Prince saw the adorable little chubby girl, his mood immediately improved. He stood up, walked forward, pinched the little girl's chubby waist, picked her up, and threw her into the air.
Ji Jinyou suddenly jumped up, and her baby voice choked up, "Help!"
The Sixth Prince laughed loudly and caught the little girl steadily: "Don't be afraid, Xiaojiu, Sixth Brother won't let you fall."
The Royal Concubine scolded, "Sixth Brother, put Xiaojiu down immediately."
The Seventh and Eighth Princesses rushed over, the Eighth Princess pushed the Sixth Prince, and the Seventh Princess snatched the little girl down, held her in her arms and rocked her gently, coaxing her: "Don't be afraid, Little Nine, don't be afraid."
Ji Jinyou put his hands around the Seventh Princess' neck, still in shock: [Sir, I really want to beat up Sixth Brother. Doesn't he know that children shouldn't be frightened?]
System: [Yeah, that's bad, it scared us Youzi. ]
Ji Jinyou: [Why is Sixth Brother so idle? He goes to the palace every day. Doesn’t he have any work to do? ]
System: [He is just like that, but there is something that is related to him today.]
Ji Jinyou asked hurriedly: [What's the matter? ]
The others immediately fell silent, listening with a little nervousness, fearing that Tong Tong might say something serious that might affect human life.
System: [It’s about the brothel girl Liu Yun’er. According to the original plot, today the girl disguised herself as an embroiderer and was taken to the Fifth Prince’s residence, where she met the Third Prince.]
[Under the Third Prince's explicit and implicit suggestion, the two of them hooked up. From today onwards, Liu Yun'er began to slowly poison the Sixth Prince.]
Now that Liu Yun'er had been exposed and the Sixth Prince was sitting here quietly, everyone naturally did not worry and continued to listen quietly.
Ji Jinyou asked in confusion: [Liu Yuner went to the Fifth Prince's Mansion, and the Third Prince also went to the Fifth Prince's Mansion. So he is not afraid of being seen and thinking of them together? ]
System: [There is only one courtyard between the Third Prince's residence and the Fifth Prince's residence. The Third Prince has always used the Fifth Prince as a pawn, but he doesn't want people to know that he and the Fifth Prince are too close, so he went through the middle courtyard and dug a tunnel. If there is anything that needs to be met in private, he will go through the tunnel. No one knows except a few close people around them.]
The Sixth Prince and the Imperial Concubine looked at each other, and both of them brightened up. No wonder there was no evidence of contact between the Third Prince and the Fifth Prince. It turned out that the two of them had walked through the tunnel.
[No wonder.] Ji Jinyou asked again: [But how is the Third Prince better than Sixth Brother? Why would Liu Yuner listen to him and hurt Sixth Brother who really loves her?]
System: [The Third Prince is not bad looking, and he is also a good actor. He appears to be polite and elegant. Compared to the childish Sixth Prince, he looks more mature, which is exactly the type that Liu Yuner likes. They are like a turtle and a mung bean, and they are attracted to each other.]
[In addition, the Third Prince made a big promise to her, saying that when he became the crown prince and ascended the throne, he would definitely make her his concubine. As for the Sixth Prince, because the Royal Concubine strongly opposed it, he could not even give her a definite answer.]
[What's more, Liu Yun'er was bought and placed beside the Sixth Prince. She was guilty and naturally worried about being discovered one day. With all these factors, she was more inclined to the Third Prince.]
Ji Jinyou sighed: [But she still got nothing in the end. ]
System: [Yes, after she killed the Sixth Prince, she happily went to the Third Prince to seek credit. The Third Prince was very ambitious and had even made a dragon robe in private. How could he leave someone who had something on him to use against him, especially a prostitute who could ruin his reputation? He strangled Liu Yuner to death.]
Dragon robe? The third brother actually made a dragon robe in private?
The Sixth Prince sat up from his chair excitedly, and the Seventh and Eighth Princesses were also too excited to sit still. However, as soon as they moved their buttocks, they received a warning look from the Royal Consort, and they had to sit down obediently. The Sixth Prince also suppressed his shock and sat back.
Ji Jinyou did not react to the huge amount of information in this casual sentence, but just sighed: [Sixth brother trusted Liu Yuner so much, but she killed Sixth brother, and in the end she died at the hands of the Third Prince whom she trusted. This can be regarded as retribution.]
[If she had confessed to Sixth Brother at that time, maybe Sixth Brother would have spared her life. She really hurt herself by hurting others.]
The system also said: [Who says it is not true? This is called "those who do too much evil will eventually perish."]
Ji Jinyou realized it belatedly and asked: [Didn’t it say that all the princes died in the end? Then did the third prince die because he had made the dragon robe and it was discovered?]
System: [No, I read in the synopsis that until the very end, when the Third Prince died, his dragon robe was well hidden in the cellar connected to the tunnel. It is said that before he died, he was thinking about his dragon robe. It can be said that he died with regrets and could not close his eyes.]
Oh my, the mystery is finally solved. It turns out that the dragon robe is hidden in the cellar.
The Sixth Prince was so excited that he rubbed his hands and wanted to rush to His Majesty right now and report the matter to him.
The Royal Consort glanced at him and told him to be patient.
Ji Jinyou then asked: [Then how did he die? ]
System: [The Fourth Prince is dead, and it was eventually discovered that the matter was related to the Third Prince. The Sixth Prince, who was already severely poisoned, stabbed him to death with his sword in order to avenge his brother, and then he himself died of the poison.]
It turns out that the matter of the fourth brother is also related to the third brother. The face of the sixth prince suddenly darkened, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
Although his fourth brother likes to beat him up since he was a child, he always thinks he is annoyed and does not let him follow him, but every time he encounters something, the fourth brother will always rush to the front.
Therefore, no one could touch his fourth brother. If anyone touched, he would fight to the death.
Ji Jinyou sighed: [Sixth brother killed the third prince with his own hands, which can be considered revenge for me. But there are so many princes in the palace, why did the third prince have to kill the fourth brother and the sixth brother? ]
System: [It's because the throne has always been vacant. Everyone thinks they are the most suitable one, and the third prince is no exception.]
[But he couldn't just pick the eldest prince right away, because that would be too obvious and too risky. So he wanted to get rid of the fourth and sixth princes first, cut off the eldest prince's left and right arms, and then it would be much easier to deal with the eldest prince.]
Ji Jinyou: [People’s hearts are really complicated. Fortunately, Sixth Brother already knows that Liu Yun’er is not a good person. As for Fourth Brother, Big Brother also wrote a letter to remind him. They have escaped this disaster, and they should be fine in the future.]
System: [In the original plot, they both died. Now that neither of them has to die, I don’t know what will happen in the future.]
Ji Jinyou: [Everyone, after you upgrade, can you predict the plot after the changes? ]
System: [I don’t know yet, but I’ve heard from some more advanced predecessors that they know everything that has happened in the world they live in.]
Ji Jinyou: [Yi Tong, I hope you can do that, and then you can tell me some interesting things every day.]
System: [I think so too, Youzi, but this is not something I can decide. It depends on the arrangement of the superior system.]
Ji Jinyou: [Okay, let’s wait and see. ]
After talking about the Third Prince, Ji Jinyou thought that the Fourth Prince and the Sixth Prince were fine. As a little kid, she didn't intend to expose the fact that the Third Prince had secretly made a dragon robe, so she reached out and took an apple from the table and slowly ate it.
Seeing that the little girl and Tong Tong stopped talking, the Imperial Concubine and the Sixth Prince looked at each other, and both mother and son stood up at the same time.
The Imperial Concubine winked at the Seventh and Eighth Princesses, and then deliberately said loudly, "Xiaojiu, you and your two sisters stay here to play. Your mother will take your Sixth Brother to pay respects to your mother."
Like other concubines, the Imperial Concubine also had to pay her respects to the Empress every day. The princes and princesses who moved to live outside the palace also had to pay their respects to the Empress and His Majesty after entering the palace.
Therefore, Ji Jinyou did not think much about it and nodded her head: "You know, Madam, hold an umbrella. It's too sunny outside, don't get sunburned."
"Our Xiaojiu is so thoughtful. Mother knows about it." The Royal Concubine said with a smile, and then left with the Sixth Prince.
The two of them went straight to Fengyi Palace. The concubines were already waiting inside the palace, but the Sixth Prince did not go in and just waited outside.
The Royal Concubine bypassed all the concubines and went straight into the inner room. In a few words, she quickly told the Empress about the Third Prince.
"How dare you make a dragon robe in private?" Upon hearing this, the queen's face immediately darkened.
The Royal Concubine nodded and said, "So far, Tong Tong has never told a lie. If he said so, it must be true."
"Okay, follow me." The Queen walked out with the Imperial Concubine, her expression ferocious, and she shouted, "Come here, tie up the Jing Concubine, gag her, and go with me to see His Majesty."
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