Chapter 146 Chapter 146 "The words engraved on it are, Yin...
The eldest prince finally came to his senses, smiled bitterly and bowed to Li Shuyao: "Thank you, your mother, for your concern for me. I will think about it carefully when I get home."
Li Shuyao thought that by the time he finished thinking, the fight for the throne might have already begun.
Now, Concubine Hui has already begun to show some signs of rebellion. She is also close to the Nalan family. What kind of person is Nalan Mingzhu? The backbone of the eldest prince's party is probably already secretly contacting officials.
Li Shuyao instinctively felt that this matter could not wait.
After returning to Changchun Palace, she waited for a while and finally waited for Yinzhen to come back and pay his respects to her on his first day of school.
Yinzhen seemed to be in a good mood. He knelt in the center of the main hall with a smile on his face. He saluted Li Shuyao politely, then straightened his back and asked her, "Did mother miss me?"
Li Shuyao was very frank, "Of course I do!"
After saying this, she looked around and dismissed everyone. At the same time, she beckoned Yinzhen to come over to her. She pinched his soft cheek, which had become more defined due to the loss of baby fat, and whispered, "You were studying in the upper study. Did you see your brother, the Crown Prince?"
Yinzhen nodded obediently, not trying to save his cheek from Li Shuyao's grasp. "I saw it."
Li Shuyao asked again, "Did he have a fight with your elder brother?"
Yinzhen was shocked when he heard this. "Mother, how come you even know this?"
"Have you placed someone in the upper study?"
"Hiss, mother, you are too bold. The Upper Study is under the jurisdiction of the Palace of Heavenly Purity, right under the nose of Khan Ama. How could you..."
Before she finished speaking, Li Shuyao exerted a little force on her hands and narrowed her eyes dangerously.
Yinzhen instantly fell silent, "Oh, no one has been sent in."
He said that his mother has always been timid.
But he was still curious, "How did my mother know?"
"I just know it!" Li Shuyao hummed and let go of her hand.
Yinzhen's mind raced, "Brother didn't come to the martial arts arena this afternoon because he came to mother's place to complain to you?"
Li Shuyao shook her head: "No, he had a quarrel with the prince, why would he come to complain to me?" After thinking about it, she told Yinzhen what happened in the afternoon truthfully, without forgetting to hide the details of the quarrel between Concubine Tong and Concubine Hui.
Otherwise, given Yinzhen's personality of caring about Imperial Noble Concubine Tong more than her, he would probably run away in the next second.
——Run to Chengqian Palace and act like a tail-wagging puppy showing love to Imperial Noble Consort Tong.
Yinzhen was shocked after hearing this, "How could such a thing happen!"
No wonder, no wonder his elder brother didn't let him drink the calming soup casually that night.
But, such a thing clearly never happened in my previous life.
What went wrong?
Yinzhen stood there, wishing he could hold his head with both hands and scratch it.
The moment he raised his right hand, it occurred to him that he had grown up. He was no longer the triangular rice ball he was when he was a child. It was okay to scratch it with one hand, but using two hands at the same time would somewhat ruin his image.
So he kept his left hand still and just scratched his forehead with his right hand.
"How about I go to the Crown Prince and get some information later?"
Li Shuyao thought about it and it seemed possible.
She reached out and pulled Yinzhen over, with a mysterious expression, "Then mother won't keep you for dinner. You should go to Yuqing Palace to have dinner with your brother, the Crown Prince. And on your way there, bring some things for mother..."
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After sending her son away, Li Shuyao called Yueshu over and handed her a square wooden box. "Go and take this to the prince's residence, to the eldest prince."
Yue Shu didn't doubt it and took it while bending her knees, "Yes, my lady."
After Yueshu left, Li Shuyao stood up and walked around the hall anxiously. Oh, what should I do? Is the fight for the throne going to start now?
She counted on her fingers, the eldest prince, the crown prince...
Changsheng, oh no, Yinchu, Yinchu will definitely not join. Although he survived, his body is relatively weak and his resistance is fragile. He coughs and gets sick from time to time. It is not a serious illness, just a cold and fever.
Rong Fei listened to her words, and every time Yinchu was sick, she would ask someone to prepare more food rich in protein and vitamins for him, instead of following the rules of the ancestors and feeding him two meals of porridge a day and nothing else.
It's hard to say about Yinzhi. He is still the big devil in the Forbidden City. He was so naughty that he beat up a cousin of his clan on the first day he entered the study. Relying on his status as a prince, he defeated three people at once. After beating them, he arrogantly shouted that they should come to the palace to apologize to him. In the end, he was punished by the emperor with a slap on the hand.
Li Shuyao heard that Yinzhi had a bad impression among the officials of the previous dynasty. If he did not change his temper, I am afraid that not many people would support him.
Next is her Yinzhen. There is no doubt that Yinzhen will not participate in the fight for the throne. This is something that the mother and son have already discussed privately.
It is highly likely that Yinqi will not be able to do so either, and the next one is Yinyou. Yinyou has a foot disability and is naturally disqualified from participating in the fight for the throne.
Yinsi?
Yinsi still has a possibility.
But now Yinsi is still being raised by Concubine Hui. He is a soft and cute little boy who can only say "Aba Aba" when drinking milk and act coquettishly. He is only over two years old. Officials of the previous dynasty must be crazy to target Yinsi.
So this is the current situation. To know the specific situation, we have to see what the situation is with the eldest prince and the crown prince, and then we can take countermeasures accordingly.
After Li Shuyao finished thinking, she suddenly felt dizzy.
Did she just say something nonsense?
Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore, let’s leave it like this for now.
Li Shuyao originally wanted to go talk to Qingyao, but then she thought that Qingyao hadn't seen Yinqi for several days and probably missed him very much, so it would be better for her not to disturb him.
So I walked around twice more and could faintly smell the aroma of food coming from the small kitchen.
Her eyes suddenly lit up and she said, "Go eat!"
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When Yinzhen arrived at Yuqing Palace, he was quickly welcomed in without having to wait for an announcement.
"Brother Prince!"
Yinzhen's eyes were sparkling, as if filled with the stars of the Milky Way. After walking in, he put the wooden box in his hand on the table and was about to bow to the prince.
The prince had walked over from behind the table when he entered. Seeing him, he quickly reached out and supported his wrist, saying with a smile, "When did Xiao Si become so polite?"
Yinzhen puffed his cheeks and said, "Because once I enter the upper study, I will have to start observing etiquette."
This was the first lesson his master taught him today, and he hasn't forgotten it!
The smile between the prince's eyebrows deepened a little, "Then if I don't enter the upper study, I don't have to be polite?"
Yinzhen shook his head, "That's different."
"What's different?"
"Anyway, it's different. Oh, Prince, don't ask anymore." Yinzhen used the trick he learned from his mother, pinched the prince's sleeve and started to act coquettishly.
At first, when he was imitating his mother to act like a spoiled child, he felt a little embarrassed. After all, he was also a person who was reborn, and the combined age of his previous life and this life was probably two years older than his mother's.
However, as the memories of the previous life faded, the childish nature resurfaced, and he acted like a spoiled child more and more often, and gradually got used to it.
While acting coquettishly, she rubbed the prince's cuffs with both hands until they were wrinkled. Then she seemed to react, carefully flattened the cloth in her hands, leaned close and blew on it, as if this could make the wrinkles disappear and make it flat again.
The smile on the prince's face became more helpless.
He withdrew his hand, patted Yinzhen's head briefly, and said, "It's okay. I won't be going out this afternoon anyway."
After he finished speaking, he took Yinzhen's hand and was about to lead him to sit on the chair.
Yinzhen pointed hurriedly at the wooden box on the table, "Wait, Prince, this is what my mother asked me to bring."
The prince was puzzled: "What is it?"
Yinzhen: "I don't know either. My mother told me to do this when I went to pay my respects to her just now."
As he said this, he broke free from the prince's hand, walked to the table, brought the wooden box over, and gestured for the prince to open it himself.
The prince stretched out his hand as he was told, but when he saw the objects in the box, his expression froze.
Little did he know that on the other side of the Forbidden City, the eldest prince in the prince's residence, when he saw the object in the box for the first time, he also showed the same stunned expression with a bit of melancholy and nostalgia as him.
Yinzhen tilted his head and looked at it, "Hey, isn't this the wooden dagger that you carved yourself, Crown Prince?"
Because the brothers all loved playing in the toy house in Changchun Palace, and his mother did not have the patience to look after the children, the crown prince and the eldest brother would come over from time to time and take on the responsibility of taking care of the family.
But the two of them never played with other children. They either sat beside each other reading and chatting, or playing chess, or studying calligraphy. Occasionally, they would go to the small room next door to practice Bu Ku with each other to hone their martial arts.
This dagger was made by him and his elder brother at that time.
They also invited craftsmen from the Imperial Household Department to teach them how to carve dragon patterns.
Afterwards, because his mother liked him very much, she asked him to go play with her for a few days...
Yinzhen always thought that his mother returned the dagger to his two brothers after playing with it, but who would have known that his mother kept it until now?
No need to think, it must have been left there by some means of acting coquettishly and rolling around.
Yinzhen couldn't help but complain in his heart that his mother was so childish.
I have never seen such a concubine in my past life or this life...
Just as he was thinking, a large white hand appeared in front of him, took out the dagger from the wooden box, and held it in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.
After a long while, the prince finally spoke in a complicated tone, "This is not my dagger."
"The words engraved on it are, Yinzhen."
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