Chapter 201 Bo Qiaohui 13
The Queen and her friends still found out about their fight, but seeing that they both tacitly ignored the matter, the adults just treated it as a child's play. The Queen only reminded her son to pay attention to the etiquette of hospitality and then let them go.
Liu Xian didn't say anything because he knew he would be in the wrong if he told the prince about it. But when he saw that the prince didn't even complain, he immediately thought he had seen through the prince's situation. Liu Xian, who had been a little afraid of Liu Qi's madness that day, suddenly felt that he was okay.
"It seems that you are not very favored?"
Liu Xian stayed quiet for only a few days before he couldn't help but gossip again: "You didn't even dare to complain to your father, the emperor, and your mother after being beaten. You're really pitiful."
"I can tell from the few days I've been in the palace that your mother cares more about your brother. But it's no wonder. Who would like a lunatic like you?"
Liu Qi raised his head and looked around his Taiji Hall. The bamboo slips, ornaments, and green plants that Liu Xian saw as ordinary were a completely different scene in Liu Qi's eyes.
On his left hand was the military manual he most often read, covered with annotations, some of his own, and some from discussions with Aqiao.
The wooden carvings that he could see when he looked up were a birthday gift from his fourth brother Bo.
Various green plants were arranged in an orderly manner in the room. These were the good varieties that Aqiao and Third Brother Bo had found specifically for his health, and he had raised them personally according to the instructions.
There are also the sachets on his body and the hairbands in his sleeve pockets, all of which show that someone is thinking about him.
The child who had been lacking love in his life in the play raised his head and looked at Liu Xian as if he was looking at a fool:
"roll."
"Are you anxious?"
Liu Xian thought he had hit the nail on the head and immediately became even more excited: "Oh, don't be too sad. My mother said that the women in this palace only care about power, and they definitely don't love you."
"…You have a brain disease."
Liu Qi nodded as if convinced, and buried himself in the ocean of knowledge again, without even a glance.
From dawn to dusk, he was so immersed in it that he didn't notice the passage of time at all. When he came to his senses, the lights in the hall were already on, and Liu Xian was actually lying on the ground, snoring.
"Why haven't you left yet?"
"Um... me? I'm waiting to see you make a fool of yourself."
Liu Xian yawned and stood up with sore waist and legs.
"You're sleeping on the floor just to laugh at my joke?"
Liu Qi just felt that the King of Wu was so pitiful that he could only choose a fool as the crown prince. He wondered how disappointing his other children were.
"Tsk, stop pretending. It's your birthday today, and your mother didn't even show up. Aren't you sad?"
Liu Qi reacted suddenly, pushed Liu Xian away and ran out, even bumping into Dou Yifang who came to deliver shoes.
"Qi'er, where are you going so late?"
Dou Yifang picked up the shoes that had been knocked off the floor and handed them to Liu Qi with a smile. "My mother was a little busy today and didn't have time to spend your birthday with me. I made these shoes for you personally as a birthday gift. Come and see if you like them."
"All the ministers like what the Queen Mother has done."
Liu Qi quickly bowed and took the shoes, then ordered them to be put away. "Mother, I have some things to attend to. If you have anything else to attend to, please go ahead and take care of it. Don't worry about me."
"You are my mother's child. How can I not care about you?" Dou Yifang wanted to reach out and touch Qi'er, but he subconsciously avoided her. Both of them felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
In fact, Liu Qi no longer hated Dou Yifang very much. First, she was his mother after all; second, as she had neglected him because of Liu Wu over the years, Liu Qi had gradually placed all his feelings on Aqiao's family; third, after no longer pursuing maternal love, he also discovered the freedom brought by this neglect.
The boy looked up at his mother who was standing there in a daze with her hands raised, but he still took the initiative to step forward and offered his head: "I am already grown up, so I am not used to it."
Dou Yifang was happy again: "No matter how old you are, you are still the Queen Mother's son."
"Your Majesty is right. It's so late. You should go back and rest early."
Liu Qi looked at the sky which had become pitch dark and was no longer in a hurry to go out. He stood there and exchanged a few words with the queen, then respectfully sent her away. Only then did he relax and turned to look at Liu Xian who was still in the Taiji Hall and was too lazy to pay any more attention to him.
"Someone, escort the Crown Prince of Wu out."
Liu Qi left with his hands behind his back. After Liu Xian was politely sent away by the servants, he returned to the bedroom. Dan Su had already pried open the window and was waiting by the bed.
The boy hurried over and saw a black headband on the bed with a red dragon pattern embroidered on the edge, which matched his clothes perfectly.
Liu Qi took out the white hairband from his sleeve and looked at the two of them together, feeling inexplicably excited. Then, as if he had thought of something, he took out a wooden hairpin from under his pillow.
A pair of birds with spread wings were carved on the wooden hairpin with just a few strokes. Upon closer inspection, they looked very similar to Dansu who was jumping around on the bed at that moment.
He handed the hairpin to Dansu and asked her to hold it in her mouth before letting it go.
In the dark night, Bo Qiaohui, who had already gone to bed, was awakened by a series of knocking sounds.
She put on her cloth shoes and opened the window. Dansu, who had been holding the wooden hairpin in her mouth all the way, hurriedly threw the hairpin into her hand, then squeezed into Shuangdai's nest and refused to say anything.
"Sending a hairpin in the middle of the night..."
Qiaohui put away the wooden hairpin speechlessly, went back to the nest to comfort the exhausted Dansu, and then returned to bed.
"Forget it, it's his intention after all."
The wooden hairpin was moved from Liu Qi's pillow to Qiaohui's pillow. Not long after, everyone in the Bo family knew that the younger sister had a favorite item, which she wore on her head every day and never took off.
………
"Are you telling the truth?"
Liu Qi hid behind the screen, feeling that this matter was unreliable.
Liu Xian looked inside through the crack in the screen, but unfortunately the pool was filled with mist and he couldn't see the body of Princess Zi Ling clearly. Seeing that the prince was still hesitating and asking questions, he immediately became impatient:
"Oh, why would I lie to you? Look, she's about to get up!"
"It's boring. Just watch it yourself. I'm too lazy to accompany you."
Liu Qi didn't understand what was so good about other people's naked bodies. He just thought that Liu Xian was mentally ill. At the same time, he secretly regretted that he would believe the words of a fool and waste his time on such things. He turned around and was about to leave.
Liu Xian hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Now that the prince is gone, who will he find to take the blame?"
The tug-of-war between the two attracted the attention of the young woman in the room. She quickly covered her body with her hands and said, "How dare you, who's hiding there, peeping at me bathing?"
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