“I know you all think there’s something wrong with him asking Niannian to teach him how to make fireworks, and that he wants to learn how to use them in weapons.” Gu Shouxin smiled and added, “This kid has already heard the Emperor mention it before.”
"Hmm? Why would the Emperor tell him this for no reason?" Cai Xiaolian asked, taken aback.
"Our Emperor wants to be like my elder brother, like Prince Kang, carefree and traveling everywhere with the Empress. He's already over forty, older than my elder brother, so he's afraid that by the time the Crown Prince comes of age, he'll be too old to travel much further. That's why he wants to groom the Crown Prince early. In the last two months, he's even had the Crown Prince attend the morning court sessions! Although the nannies hold the child by the side of the hall, and he thinks the little Crown Prince is sleeping, the little guy has actually woken up a few times and sat by the door listening with great interest!" Gu Shouxin initially spoke of the Emperor with a look of disdain, then sighed with admiration, "Our Crown Prince is a born emperor."
"Oh?" Cai Xiaolian rarely heard Gu Shouxin praise a child like this.
“Yes, a born emperor.” Gu Shouxin nodded with certainty, and then mentioned a few more things, “Our children, Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba, are all older than the Crown Prince. But none of them can listen to court affairs with such interest as the Crown Prince. At first, I thought he was just curious, but later I asked him, and he actually remembered half of what we were saying. Although he doesn’t understand everything, he listens attentively. He is patient. He is different from ordinary children. Ordinary children need their parents to coax them, but he is the one who coaxes his parents.”
"Huh?" Cai Xiaolian was genuinely surprised.
"When we first returned, I went to the Imperial Study to report back. Then the Emperor asked me to have dinner with my grandmother, and the Empress and the Crown Prince were also there. During the meal, I noticed that the child didn't like vegetables. The Empress was very worried, although she didn't say it and acted very calmly. But the Crown Prince could tell that he was forcing himself to eat the vegetables he didn't like, even though his elders said they were good. It wasn't because those vegetables were good for him, but because he didn't want to see the Empress worry about him!" Gu Shouxin said.
"How can you be so sure?" Cai Xiaolian asked in surprise.
“Our boy doesn’t like vegetables either. All children are the same. He actually has all the characteristics of a child, but the Emperor likes to instill in him things, like ‘You must grow up quickly, your father is old and can’t take it anymore,’ and so on. You know what the Emperor usually says, right? The child really listened. Later, something happened to a concubine in the harem, and the Empress went to deal with it, so the Crown Prince stayed with his grandmother. I spoke with him for a while. So, I can confirm that his situation is different from Renren’s, yours, and Niannian’s. He is really like an ordinary child, but because of Xinxin’s jade bead, he is smarter, more agile, and healthier than ordinary children,” Gu Shouxin said.
"So, the reason why the Crown Prince is like this is all because he drank too much of the Jade Bead Water back then?" Cai Xiaolian pondered for a while before saying.
“That’s right. Think about it, back then I felt that none of the Third Prince, Fifth Prince, Seventh Prince, or Ninth Prince were capable of taking on a great responsibility. I didn’t want to rebel, nor did I want to keep watching other people’s children. So, it was better to raise them from a young age. Back then, in order to protect this child, we used quite a few jade beads.” Gu Shouxin recalled when the Empress was pregnant.
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