"I just knew it. My father is on my side, and my grandfather is on my side as well. Don't you have me in your hearts?" Seeing that the emperor didn't want to help him, the little dumpling started to act unreasonably.
The emperor coaxed the little dumpling who refused to give in, "Nonsense, Grandpa Huang's heart only has you and Xiaoxiao, each of you occupies half of Grandpa Huang's heart."
"Then why doesn't my brother let the Emperor help me? Will the Emperor really not help me?" The little dumpling asked with his little neck tilted up.
"Xuan Yunyao!" Xuan Yuncheng frowned and called out in a slightly deep voice.
The little girl immediately stopped making a fuss, walked over obediently and sat down on the sandalwood chair, picked up the red pen, and began to write seriously.
The emperor was astonished, thinking that Xiaoxiao was really the best.
"If you make trouble and talk nonsense again next time, I will have you locked up in the ancestral hall. You can only come out when you finish your homework." Xuan Yuncheng warned.
"I understand, Prince. I won't dare to do it again next time." The little dumpling raised his hand and promised seriously.
Xuan Yuncheng hummed softly.
The little boy put down his hands in embarrassment, not daring to do anything else and obediently did the homework assigned by the tutor, because if he really annoyed the prince, the prince would really be angry with him and ignore him.
People like my father and grandfather would never be really angry with him.
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Early spring, midsummer, late autumn, cold winter, year after year, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed.
At the age of fifteen, Xuan Yuncheng welcomed his first child, his eldest princess, and also the first granddaughter of Xuan Yanyu and Yan Yuning. When the two heard the news while traveling abroad, they rushed back to the capital as fast as they could.
As soon as he returned to Prince Xuan's palace, he heard a maid saying that their youngest son, who had just turned ten, was publicly pursuing the illegitimate granddaughter of the Minister of Rites, who was the same age as him.
"His Royal Highness Prince Rui sent boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and cloth to the Shangshu Mansion. He even danced with swords in public to make Miss Qu smile, and ordered people to pave the road with flowers. Miss Qu was so moved that she hugged His Royal Highness Prince Rui and cried like a pear blossom in the rain."
"Then what?" Yan Yuning stood in front of the maid who was having a discussion and asked curiously.
"Then, then His Majesty had His Royal Highness Prince Rui locked up in the ancestral hall." The maid blurted out without realizing who was asking her.
"Why?" Yan Yuning raised her eyebrows.
"Because... the Empress Dowager." The maid knelt on the ground in fear, "This servant greets the Emperor, the Empress Dowager. I have discussed the Master, and I deserve to be beaten."
"Please, Emperor Taizong, Empress Dowager, spare this servant of mine."
"I know I was wrong."
The two little girls kowtowed tremblingly.
"It's okay, everyone get up." Yan Yu Ning smiled and waved her hand.
"The servants thank the Queen Mother."
"Go on, why did Xiaoxiao lock Ruirui up in the ancestral hall?"
"Replying to the Empress Dowager, His Royal Highness Prince Rui took the hairpin that Your Majesty ordered to be made for Empress Xuan and gave it to Miss Qu. Empress Xuan gave birth to a little princess, and Your Majesty wanted to give it to Empress Xuan, but found out that His Royal Highness Prince Rui had already taken it away. In a rage, Your Majesty locked His Royal Highness Prince Rui in the ancestral hall."
"..." The corner of Yan Yuning's mouth twitched.
Xuan Yanyu's lips curled up, "You deserve it."
Yan Yuning: “…”
Before going to see her granddaughter, Yan Yuning decided to go to the ancestral hall to see her son first. After all, after seeing her granddaughter, she didn't want to see her son again.
"Meet the Emperor, the Queen Mother."
"My grandson meets Grandpa Huang and Grandma Huang."
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