The Fourth Prince had no doubt about what Madam Xu said. He had seen the Third Prince when the children went to the palace for the last Golden Festival, and he also saw that the Third Prince had gained a lot of weight when he was at the Qing Courtyard for his birthday the other day.
Fourth Master said calmly, "You put your heart into it."
Xu was not very beautiful. In the entire backyard, with Song's gentleness and Li Chenjiao's radiance, and now with Niohuru's aloofness, Xu naturally became the one with the most plain appearance.
Hearing the Fourth Prince's words, she simply smiled faintly, her face radiating boundless satisfaction: "These are all the duties of this servant. Seeing the Third Prince grow up healthy day by day fills this servant with contentment."
Fourth Master did not speak again.
When they arrived at the Third Prince's room, he had indeed just woken up and was being held and amused by his wet nurse. The Third Prince was laughing quite happily.
When they got closer, Madam Xu skillfully took the Third Prince from the wet nurse's arms and said, "Third Prince, quickly, pay your respects to your father."
The Third Prince was born prematurely, but Madam Xu put in a lot of effort, and now the child is well-fed and healthy, showing no signs of being premature and weak.
However, when Xie was pregnant with the Third Prince, the few tonics she consumed were all taken by the Third Prince, which shows how lucky he was.
The Fourth Master's expression turned pale again when he thought of Madam Xie.
The Fourth Prince usually had a blank expression, and now that he had turned cold, he was incredibly intimidating. Even the wet nurse who was playing with the Third Prince with a rattle drum paused in her movements.
The Third Prince was even worse off. He had been all smiles in Madam Xu's arms, but now, faced with the Fourth Prince's cold face, his little mouth twitched and he started wailing.
Fourth Master frowned subconsciously.
Madam Xu quickly patted the Third Prince and gently comforted him before picking him up to apologize.
The reason Fourth Master frowned just now wasn't because he was unhappy; he was just wondering if he... was that scary.
Although the Second Princess didn't cry when she saw her in the East Courtyard, she lost much of the smile she had when she was with Li Chenjiao. As for the Third Prince, he was even more terrified. The First Prince was like a mouse seeing a cat when he saw her.
The Fourth Prince frowned, deep in thought.
After a moment, Fourth Master raised his hand to signal Madam Xu to get up: "It's alright."
Madam Xu picked up the Third Prince, who was two months younger than the Second Prince. He couldn't walk yet and usually needed to be carried by the nannies.
Madam Xu was not in a hurry to teach the Third Prince to walk.
She wasn't a talkative person, and at that moment, all she could think about was appeasing the Third Prince; she didn't utter a single other word.
Soon, only Xu Shi's soft voice coaxing the Third Prince and the Third Prince's faint sobs filled the room.
Fourth Prince was not a talkative person. Only after the announcement that dinner was ready did Madam Xu signal the nanny to come forward and carry the Third Prince away, though her eyes still held a hint of reluctance.
After all, before the Fourth Prince came, she personally fed the Third Prince every day. It was fine when the Third Prince was still breastfeeding, but once he was able to eat some complementary foods, Madam Xu personally fed him every day.
When the Fourth Prince got up, he teased the Third Prince once, but only by touching the Third Prince's little hand, and he withdrew his hand after only a few seconds.
However, such teasing was actually a novel experience for the Fourth Prince.
On the way outside, the Fourth Prince remembered what he had just seen and said, "Third Prince, are those hand warmers on your hands?"
It's a bit early to put warm gloves on the Third Prince now.
Madam Xu nodded in agreement and explained in detail: "The Third Prince is currently at the age where he likes to bite his fingers. I was worried about this, so I made two warm gloves to cover his hands tightly."
As she spoke, a flicker of emotion flashed in her eyes, and a slight smile appeared on Xu's lips.
As usual, the Fourth Master said briefly, "You put your heart into it," but after speaking, he fell into a brief state of contemplation.
Back when he was just a prince, he was taught by a tutor in the Imperial Study. However, due to the harsh winter weather, Empress Tongjia didn't pay much attention to him, and sometimes even charcoal was in short supply.
However, it wasn't that Empress Tongjia was mistreating him; it was just that the servants saw that Empress Tongjia wasn't very warm towards her adopted son and changed their tune accordingly.
I remember when he was eleven years old, his fourteenth brother had just been born, and Empress Tongjia was seriously ill. At that time, his mother was already Consort De.
That winter, his mother's maid, Zhao, brought him some warm winter clothes, including a pair of simple, finely embroidered gloves.
That was also the first time that Fourth Master had received care from his birth mother.
Yes, for the first time.
Before this, his birth mother, Consort De, was usually cold to him, let alone sending him gifts in private.
Because he spent his days and nights studying and practicing calligraphy in the Imperial Study, the Fourth Prince never had the chance to wear those warm gloves. He only felt the warmth when he was asleep at night, wrapped in the winter clothes that his mother sent him.
Later, the Fourth Prince learned that it was because Empress Tongjia was ill that his mother dared to send him things.
Everyone in the palace is an informant. Mother is such a cautious person, and for the Fourth Prince, he is the adopted son of Empress Tongjia and the biological son of Consort De. Caught in the middle, it is not appropriate for him to be close to either of them.
At that time, Consort De was not very enthusiastic, and the Fourth Prince naturally appeared even more indifferent on the surface.
Empress Tongjia passed away the following year.
The mother-son relationship between the Fourth Prince and Consort De gradually improved.
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