Chapter 95
Qu Dubian buried Dahei on a mountain outside Beijing.
He didn't want to bury it in the palace, in that cage that looked gorgeous but was actually cramped.
The puppy that Dahei brought from the kennel was a male dog. Because its right ear was white, Qu Watanabe named it "A Little White".
Yidianbai is a real puppy. When he was little, he was naughty and did a lot of teeth grinding. He is not as mature and steady as his grandmother Dahei - perhaps he is not old enough.
When Dahei just passed away, countless people came to care for him openly or secretly, worried that he would not be able to bear it and fall ill.
Qu Watanabe was sad, but not that sad.
He knew that Dahei had lived a happy life during the past few years with him, and that he had fulfilled his insistence on pulling the cart once more when he went to Wangxing, so he had no regrets.
No regrets...
Qu Watanabe still occasionally recalls things from his past life.
When he was very young in his previous life, he also had a father and a mother. Later, the three of them went to an amusement park and had a car accident. His parents protected him, but they did not survive.
Because the stimulation was too great, the brain automatically blocked and deleted that memory, leaving only some vague fragments.
He remembered being under his parents, looking up and calling them, their sticky blood dripping onto his face, nose, and mouth.
From then on, he began to be allergic to the smell of blood.
He got much better when he grew up, but unexpectedly he also died in a car accident. It was fate.
His biggest regret at that time was that he didn't have a proper farewell to his parents and didn't have the chance to love them properly.
Although there are many bad things in this life, at least he has much more family love, friendship, and love with dogs than in his previous life.
“Ouch!”
A dog barked from below.
Qu Dubian rolled over and got up from the roof, and saw Yidianbai running out of his bedroom with his boots in its mouth.
It dropped its boot, tilted its head towards him, then dragged it away with the boot in its mouth right in front of him, falling backwards as it went down the stairs.
Qu Watanabe: “…”
He summoned Liuliu to pull him down from the roof, then rushed to chase the dog:
"You unfilial son! You stole shoes again!!"
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Purple Palace.
Emperor Chongzhao: "How is Xiaoqi?"
Eunuch Yu: "I was in a low mood for a few days, had a cold and a stuffy nose, but I seem to be better these days."
The Imperial Hospital and Shunning Palace have been on high alert these days, waiting for the Seventh Prince to make some noise so that they can prescribe medicine for him. The Imperial Hospital has all the medicinal materials ready, all of which are for treating symptoms of depression and relieving sadness and congestion.
Unexpectedly, the seventh prince managed to hold on.
Emperor Chongzhao: "We must not relax."
Eunuch Yu: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, we are watching." He secretly glanced at Emperor Chongzhao's expression, and remembered what Empress Xuan had told him to find out, and added softly, "Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince is almost ten years old. Do you think we should prepare for the prince's residence in advance?"
Emperor Chongzhao frowned and sighed, "Let him live in Shunning Palace until he is twelve years old. Concubine Xuan has taken good care of him. He will be stronger when he is two years older."
Eunuch Yu: “Yes.”
He did not spread the news.
When the Seventh Prince was ten years old, there was no movement in the Prince's Residence and Shunning Palace, and everyone knew what Emperor Chongzhao meant.
The eldest prince was already married, so he wasn't jealous, but he still felt a little emotional.
"Father's favorite is still Xiao Qi. I thought that after Si He was born, Father's favor would be somewhat taken away, but in fact, it was not the case at all."
Shu Wenxin: "After all, the Seventh Prince is His Majesty's youngest son, and was personally raised by His Majesty for several months, so he is naturally different. Princess Sihe has been raised by the Queen since she was a child, and His Majesty only sees her a few times a month?"
You can tell the difference just by thinking with your feet.
The second prince and the third prince sat together.
The second prince sighed: "We didn't have the same treatment as the seventh brother back then."
The Third Prince: "Isn't it? When Concubine Rong died, Little Five was still a few months away from turning ten, but Father still sent him to the Prince's Residence."
He poured a glass of wine, "Second brother is getting married, I heard that she is the daughter of a Hanlin scholar, from a noble family, very nice."
The Second Prince: "She is just a concubine. The position of principal wife should be reserved for the one you love."
"Hahahaha, what are you saying, second brother? We don't have that kind of freedom."
"You are not as good as my third brother. Concubine Wen stepped forward and asked the eldest granddaughter of the Minister of Rites for help." The second prince smiled and complimented.
The third prince smiled and said, "I still have to wait two years before I get married."
The two of them raised their glasses and chatted.
The prince's residence.
"I thought that Xiao Qi would have to act like a spoiled child before Father would agree," the fifth prince laughed, "but I underestimated Xiao Qi's position in Father's heart."
The Fourth Prince: "It's as expected. The process is not important." He tried to open his tired eyes and patted the Fifth Prince's arm, "Don't be unbalanced."
The fifth prince laughed: "Of course not."
Unbalanced? No one knew better than him what a cold-hearted person his father was.
The golden-eyed scorpion on the desk reminds him all the time.
He didn't care for the kind of love that was mixed with falsehood and full of power play.
No matter what people outside think.
Qu Dubian was indeed still leading a peaceful daily life in Shunning Palace, but with occasional chaos and turmoil. He was in a straight line between outside the palace, the school, Shunning Palace, Cining Palace, the prince's residence, and Zichen Hall...
He walked along the palace road holding the puppy. In the blink of an eye, another two years had passed.
Yidianbai gradually grew into a young and handsome medium-sized dog, and Qu Watanabe also turned twelve years old and became a teenager.
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Nanning Hostage House.
Yu Ruo was quite depressed.
In the past two years, he always wanted to say a few words to the Seventh Prince. Maybe it was because he had been tricked by him twice, or maybe it was out of curiosity, he just wanted to meet the Seventh Prince.
But the Seventh Prince would either avoid the subject or rebuke him whenever he saw him.
Every time after choking him, the Seventh Prince would look at him in a strange way and ask him if he had a hobby of "shaking Ai Mu".
He didn't know what Douaimu was and thought it was a special game of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He sincerely said that he could learn it.
The Seventh Prince spat out a mouthful of tea and ran away on the spot.
He asked many people, but no one knew what Douaimu meant, or whether it was recorded in any literary books. These three words remain a mystery to him.
"It is customary for the princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty to enter the Prince's Residence at the age of ten, but some can delay it until they are twelve. The Seventh Prince will soon be twelve years old. Once he enters the Prince's Residence, I can take the initiative to look for him."
After all, the prince is close to the outer court and is far from belonging to the harem.
Usually the Seventh Prince lived in Shunning Palace. If he wanted to talk to the Seventh Prince, he could only passively wait for him to leave the palace.
"Your Highness, are you paying special attention to him because you lost to him twice?" Gu Xin didn't quite understand why his highness was so obsessed with the Seventh Prince.
As a hostage in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Nanning would be troubled by sarcasm from time to time.
Although the Seventh Prince does not verbally attack others, he always undermines Your Highness's pride and looks like an ignorant member of the royal family.
Yu Ruo: "Just think of it as my intuition. I always feel that he is hiding a lot of things, and I am just curious about what he is hiding."
Among all the princes of the Great Zhou, only this one lived differently from the others.
"When is he moving? I'll go check it out sometime."
Gu Xin groaned, "I don't think we can move it for a while."
"Hmm? Didn't the Emperor of Great Zhou issue an order?"
"On the afternoon of the day the decree was issued, the Seventh Prince fell ill again."
Yu Ruo: “…”
Quite timely.
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Imperial Garden.
On the edge of Taihu Lake.
In early summer, the little lotus leaves have already shown their pointed tips.
A simple but comfortable toffee chair was placed on the shore, on which lay a young boy wearing a light blue shirt and a jade ring around his neck.
Qu Dubian was lying leisurely on the toffee chair, fishing here.
The pond is mostly filled with red and gold koi, with only a few long-spine fish.
He had a Shunning Palace brand special ice pack on his head, his cheeks were burning red, and he coughed from time to time, then took the walnuts that Ye Banban had peeled for him from the small table next to him.
They are all freshly peeled green-skinned walnuts, not fried, and have a unique flavor.
Ye Xiaoyuan sat on a small stool, touched his own prince's neck, and said with a worried look: "Your Highness, why don't you go back and lie down?"
"Oh, I'm fine. I'm not feeling bad."
What he said was the truth. This time it was not for the longevity value, but he just wanted to persuade his cheap father a little more and see if he could stay in Shunning Palace for a while, even just for a year.
Although he could return to Shunning Palace after going to the prince's residence, it was still inconvenient.
Qu Dubian looked at the fishing rod that had not caught any fish for a long time and sighed deeply. He never expected that one day he would feel homesick and reluctant to leave.
He raised the fishing rod and said, "This fishing rod is no good. I can't catch any fish."
A little white fish was playing crazily by the lake. After a while, it suddenly stared at the lake without moving, and then dived into the lake.
After a few seconds, it raised its head, holding a long-spine fish in its mouth, and walked proudly to Qu Duanbian and put the fish into the wooden barrel next to him.
A little white dog wagged its tail handsomely.
The biped is sick and cannot survive without it. We still have to rely on it for hunting to keep ourselves alive.
Qu Watanabe: “…”
He half sat up, put the small blanket on his body on the dog's head and rubbed it vigorously, coughing and scolding the dog, "Your mouth is full of mud! I just gave you a bath the day before yesterday!"
He opened his mouth a little, "Open your mouth wide so I can see if you've eaten any mud."
Eunuch Yu searched for a long time and finally saw the Seventh Prince and his companions by the Taihu Lake. He hurried over and said, "Oh, Your Highness, I finally found you."
Qu Watanabe: "I'm fishing. Would you like some walnuts, Eunuch Yu?"
"I won't eat it," Eunuch Yu advised him, "Why do you have to argue with Your Majesty?"
Ever since His Majesty planned to move the Seventh Prince to the Prince's Residence, the Seventh Prince fell ill. He did not go to school or recuperate in Shunning Palace every day, but just strolled outside.
The excuse is to adapt to life outside Shunning Palace in advance.
But in fact, any discerning person can see that the Seventh Prince just wants to live in Shunning Palace and is trying to be stubborn with His Majesty in a roundabout way.
If it were any other prince, Emperor Chongzhao would definitely pack him up and throw him to the prince's place. But the Seventh Prince was different. First, he was fragile and no one dared to pack him up. Second, His Majesty had long been accustomed to being annoyed by the Seventh Prince from time to time.
He came here this time because His Majesty instructed him to have a good talk with the Seventh Prince and at least trick him back to Shunning Palace.
Qu Watanabe: "I didn't argue with him."
Eunuch Yu: "Then you can go back to the palace?"
Qu Watanabe: "No, I'm going to the Purple Palace later."
"?" Eunuch Yu, "You're going to the Purple Palace like this?"
Qu Dubian pointed at the fish in the barrel and said, "I caught this with great difficulty. Let me share it with my father."
The water that melted from the ice pack on his forehead slid down his temples, making him look shaky, which frightened Eunuch Yu.
"Let's go."
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