Chapter 141 Chapter 141 Why send so many people...
The eldest prince didn't say anything, but stared at him with a pair of eyes that looked very similar to Khan Ama's.
The fear in Yinzhen's heart instantly reached its peak, and he almost couldn't help shaking all over.
After a long while, he finally found his voice again, "Big brother, do you know who wants to harm you?"
The eldest prince was silent for a long time before slowly shaking his head. "I don't know. Khan Ama said he would send people to investigate. They've been investigating for three or four years, but they haven't found anything."
"It's also my fault. I discovered it too late..."
Yinzhen quickly shook his head, "Don't blame me, big brother. It's the person behind this who has ulterior motives, is so cruel and insane that he's unworthy of being a human being!"
"Brother, you are so wonderful, but you can't... belittle yourself like this."
Yinzhen thought for a moment and continued, "If you do this, you will set a bad example for me and the other brothers!"
Just this last sentence made the eldest prince's tense heartstrings suddenly relax.
He picked up Yinzhen from the ground and placed him on his desk.
She was still casually thinking in her heart that this fifth brother's temperament was exactly the same as that of Empress Ling Fei. They were indeed mother and son. He could comfort people in such a way that it made them laugh and cry.
As he thought about it, he straightened Yinzhen's messy clothes and said, "I'm afraid Yinqi and An'er won't be able to sleep in one bed with you."
Yinzhen shook his head, he didn't notice this.
But come to think of it, if the bed wasn't too small, why would the two younger brothers be sitting so close to him?
The eldest prince said: "I will take you back, and by the way, send Yinqi and An'er back to their own rooms to sleep."
"To be frank, you guys are all five or six years old now, almost grown up. How can you still sleep in the same bed like you did when you were little? If you tell me, others will laugh at you."
While muttering to himself, he picked up Yinzhen, asked him to sit in his arms, and carried him back to his courtyard effortlessly.
As soon as they saw him coming, the palace servants serving in the yard quickly stood up and bowed to greet him.
The eldest prince looked down at them and said, "Yinqi and An'er are young and naive. Are you still naive?"
"If you can't even give your master the basic advice, you will be punished at the Ministry of Internal Affairs tomorrow."
He punished the palace maids who followed Yinqi and An'er.
When Yinzhen heard this, he kicked his feet excitedly, "Brother!"
The eldest prince looked at him and Yinzhen immediately dared not speak.
He was carried back to the inner room in silence.
If he was like this, how could the other palace servants dare to protest and beg for mercy?
What is even more frightening is that if the cry for mercy gets louder and alarms the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince who are resting in the other two courtyards, then several lives will not be enough to punish the First Prince.
He could only accept the punishment silently and dared not say anything.
In the room, he was unaware that the palace maids serving him had already met with disaster.
The two little kids were still sitting quietly on the bed, looking towards the door like they were waiting for their husbands to leave.
The door was opened, and a tall figure walked out. I could vaguely see that the figure had two heads...
An'er's heart immediately trembled, and he screamed and hid behind Yinqi who was in the bed.
Yinqi has been caring since he was young. Although he is the youngest among his brothers, he always stands in front of his two older brothers. So at this moment, he also consciously crawled two steps forward and shouted at the figure in a loud voice: "What are you doing!"
Because of anxiety and panic, even the pronunciation was not clear.
Yinzhen sat in the arms of the eldest prince, his expression startled for a moment, then he curved his eyebrows and seemed to want to laugh.
He kicked his feet and the eldest prince let him down.
Yinzhen said to his two younger brothers, "It's me and my eldest brother."
He said, "Yinqi, didn't you just say that you missed your big brother? So I went to ask your big brother to come see you. Are you happy?"
Yinqi: “…”
I'm not happy.
He just likes to talk about his brothers, but he doesn't like being disciplined by them.
Especially the eldest prince.
This is how Ling'e Niang described them: the fifth brother was five hundred ducks, he and An'er were one thousand ducks, and the eldest brother was ten thousand ducks.
Ten thousand is much more than one thousand, which is enough to show how annoying the eldest brother is.
He slowly crawled out of the bed and asked in a low voice, "Brother, why are you here?"
With a "hiss", the eldest prince lit the candle in the room. He did not turn around in a hurry, but carefully inspected the furnishings in the room. After making sure that there was no problem, he turned his attention to the two little guys on the bed.
His thick eyebrows raised, his expression half-smiled: "What? You two are so inseparable from Yinzhen? Not only do you want the prince to come with you, but you even want to sleep with him?"
"Xiao Ba is only two years old now and can sleep by himself without anyone accompanying him. Why are you two going backwards?"
"Do you really think you're a baby who hasn't been weaned yet?"
When Yinqi and An'er heard this, they didn't dare to refute.
After being stunned for a few seconds, he crawled under the bed angrily.
I think they heard their brother crying and came to accompany him because they were worried about him.
But big brother's mouth...
Forget it. The two of them were used to being told this by their eldest brother, but their younger brother was different. It was rare for him to be scolded like this by their eldest brother. If their eldest brother made their younger brother cry again, they really wouldn't know how to comfort him.
...Forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it...
These little guys are so mean, just let Big Brother go.
After climbing out of bed and putting on their shoes, the two little hands were tightly pulled together like magnets.
At the same time, they both politely waved their other hand towards Yinzhen.
Yinqi said, "Brother, come and keep me company. An'er and I will go back to sleep first."
An'er also spoke softly: "See you in the study tomorrow, my two brothers."
After saying that, they ran out happily, fearing that if they ran too slowly, the eldest prince would start mocking them again.
Your mother/Empress Ling once said that you should not go to bed with a lot of anger in your heart, otherwise, you will turn into a puffer fish when you wake up the next day!
That's too scary.
After sending his two younger brothers away, Yinzhen finally had sole ownership of the bed.
Yinzhi watched him climb onto the bed swiftly, grab the two ends of the wrinkled quilt with familiar posture, shake it vigorously, and then slowly lie down, covering himself with the quilt, hiding his hands and feet, leaving only his round little head exposed outside the quilt.
Then, he rolled to the left, righted himself, and then rolled to the right, righted himself...
Just like that, he wrapped himself up in the posture of a cicada pupa.
Yinzhen was amazed. He was indeed a child raised by his mother. His every move was always so unexpected.
He sat quietly beside the bed, waiting for Yinzhen's breathing to become slow and long before he extinguished the candle. He then went to check the rooms of Yinqi and An'er next door, confirming that they were clean and not like when he first moved into the prince's residence, where he could often find some dirty things in tiny places. Only then did he completely put his mind at ease and returned to his own courtyard.
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No need to greet the next day.
Li Shuyao slept until she woke up naturally again. She looked at the Western clock and it was past nine o'clock. It was already bright outside.
She is now the head of the four concubines. In the next few years, as long as she behaves herself, does not have any evil thoughts, does not have any strange ideas, and does not anger the emperor... basically, the position of a noble concubine is not something she cannot dream of.
Even someone as mild-mannered as her gradually understood the emperor's intentions. Nanny Yan, Tian Jiarou and others were even more clear-headed and naturally would not fuss over such a trivial matter as sleeping.
After having brunch, Li Shuyao asked someone to move a lounge chair and placed it under the big tree in the yard. She comfortably enjoyed the cool morning breeze before noon.
But I always felt that something was not right, as if I had forgotten something important.
She turned over and looked at Nanny Yan who was peeling longan for her. "Did anything happen today?"
Nanny Yan paused, frowned, thought for a moment, and shook her head: "No."
But Li Shuyao couldn't help but wonder, "I always feel like..."
Nanny Yan peeled the longan, removed the core, placed it on a plate, and fed it to Li Shuyao with a silver fork. "This old slave really can't remember it."
Nanny Yan is now almost fifty, which is considered old in the Qing Dynasty where the average life expectancy is only in the forties.
Li Shuyao's conscience, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly woke up. She took the silver fork from Nanny Yan's hand with some embarrassment, "Nanny, don't peel it. I'll do it myself."
Deep down in her heart, she treated Nanny Yan as an elder who loved to take care of her, so she couldn't help but act coquettishly. Because she received enough love from Nanny Yan, she would often "unconscionably" forget Nanny Yan's age.
But she didn't dare to say it.
If she said frankly that she was taking Nanny Yan's age into consideration, Nanny Yan would probably think too much and think that she was old and Li Shuyao didn't need her anymore, and that she would soon be sent out of the palace by Li Shuyao, and so on.
They say old kids, old kids...
Wait, kid.
Child = cub.
Zai = Yinzhen.
Yinzhen???
She remembered!
Today is Yinzhen’s first day going to the study!
A few days ago, Concubine Hui had called her over and given her a lot of instructions, saying that she should send someone to check the furnishings and arrangements of the prince's residence, bring enough clothes and manpower for Yinzhen, and go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to greet her...
When Yinzhen went to the study, he would ask her, as his mother, to send someone to bring him food, snacks, tea, etc.
Because the study room is only responsible for teaching and does not care about anything else.
In the afternoon, when Yinzhen went to learn martial arts, horse riding and archery, he would usually send someone to deliver two or three sets of clothes for easy changing.
Otherwise, he would have to run to the prince's place again and again. How much time would he have to spend running back and forth like this?
But he had to go back and change his clothes. After all, he was a nobleman. There were so many guards and ministers coming and going in the study and the martial arts field. He couldn't let people see him wearing tattered clothes, worse than a beggar, right?
Li Shuyao listened very carefully at the time, and her notes were so densely packed that they filled up two large sheets of rice paper.
Unexpectedly, she remembered everything Huifei said, but she forgot the exact day when Yinzhen went to the study, and she slept until after nine o'clock.
The upper study opens at five o'clock...
Calculating the time, breakfast is already over!
Li Shuyao was so frightened that she didn't even bother to eat her longan. She sat up straight in the rocking chair. But the rocking chair was not like a normal chair. The more she moved, the more it rocked.
Li Shuyao struggled like a turtle in the rocking chair for a long time before she finally crawled out.
After putting on my shoes, I ran towards the small kitchen.
Nanny Yan and Tian Jiarou were all dumbfounded. After they came to their senses, they hurriedly followed, "Your Majesty?"
"Madam, where are you going?"
"Oh, there's so much smoke and fire in the small kitchen. Your Majesty, you can't go over there. If you have anything to say, just tell me, okay?"
Li Shuyao was hurriedly pulled back by Tian Jiarou, Yue Shu and seven or eight palace maids.
Li Shuyao pointed to the small kitchen with red eyes and asked, "Do you, do you have anyone to take food to Yinzhen?"
When they heard that they were worried about this matter, the tension on Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu's faces relaxed a little.
Tian Jiarou said, "They have already been sent. Not only the Fifth Prince's, but also the Sixth Prince, Prince Chun's younger brother, the Third Prince, the Fourth Prince, and even the Eldest Prince and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have theirs."
Li Shuyao: “?”
Why do you want to send so many people?
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