It was the first time he was lifted so high, and he was so happy.
For the first time, he felt such strong arms supporting him, and he felt so safe.
So he immediately fell in love with this master.
Later, the master would come to teach him riding and archery every day, and often took him out of the city to play.
The master said that it was called teaching through entertainment. Only when he liked riding and shooting would he study it seriously.
His master was very powerful. He could shoot down birds flying in the sky with a bow. Then he asked his master's wife to make soup for them outside the city.
His master was very gentle and would never get angry with him even if he had to correct his bow and arrow posture a hundred times.
When he tearfully called himself stupid, his master would touch his little head and tell him that the Fifth Prince was just young, not stupid.
He doesn't believe it.
The master smiled and squatted in front of him, compared his big head with his small head, and told him -
"As people grow older, their brains also grow. Look, Fifth Prince, how big is your little head? Master's head is much bigger than yours, right? So Master is smarter than you. But when your head is as big as Master's, you will be as smart as Master."
At that time, he was ignorant and foolishly fooled by his master, so he was happy for a long time.
Every day when I wake up, I touch my head in the mirror to see if it has grown a little bit today and if I have become a little smarter.
During those days, he had a particularly happy time with his master and his mistress's family.
He liked his elder brother Zhu Xuanyuan holding him and riding the pony together, he liked his second brother Zhu Longyuan carrying him on his shoulders to play with him, the only one he didn't like very much was Zhu Wuhuan.
The little sister who is a little younger than him is always soft and crying, so annoying.
He didn't remember how many months it was before everything suddenly changed.
When he returned to the palace that day, he saw his mother who had been waiting for him for a long time.
The palace was very quiet. The queen mother dismissed all the servants and sat there with Feng Changjin, waiting for him.
He was very happy when he entered the door, because he also had his mother and brother waiting for him.
He rushed forward and wanted to share today's joy with his mother and younger brother.
Then, when he pounced forward, he was met with a slap in the face by his mother without any explanation!
The slap was so strong that he lost a tooth immediately.
He staggered and fell to the ground, looking at his mother in disbelief. He grabbed his fallen teeth and covered his mouth with his hands. Blood flowed from between his fingers, and he was in so much pain that tears came to his eyes.
But the Queen Mother didn't care about his blood at all.
She pointed at him and cursed him hysterically, calling him an ungrateful wolf, calling him heartless, calling him a motherless person, and asking him why he didn't just die...
That day, the Queen Mother, who had dismissed the palace maids and eunuchs, pointed at him and scolded him for a full quarter of an hour.
He was also holding his fallen tooth, his hands were covered in blood, and no one cared about him for two quarters of an hour.
Finally, he vaguely understood the reason why his mother was angry.
Because he sprained his ankle while playing at Zhu's house during the day, his master's wife held him in her arms and gently rubbed his little feet. He looked at his master's wife with tears in his eyes and blurted out -
"Master's wife, it would be great if my mother could be as good as you..."
Just this one sentence cost him his teeth knocked out.
He looked at his mother with tears in his eyes, who had beaten and scolded him. He didn't understand why it had to be like this. He had just said something wrong.
He watched Feng Changjin nestle in his mother's arms, coaxing and comforting her, saying that she was the best mother in the world and no one could compare to her. Jin'er loved her most...
He clenched the little tooth that had fallen out of his hand, and thought vaguely, Brother, that's because you haven't seen a better mother...
In the end, after Feng Changjin coaxed the queen mother into laughing, she still asked someone to treat his wounds and apply medicine to his swollen cheeks.
But it still hurts.
He felt wronged and uncomfortable that night, but he told himself that it didn't matter and not to be afraid, because after enduring the night, he would be able to see his master and his mistress at dawn.
The master would definitely hold him in his arms and blow on his wound out of pity.
The master's wife will definitely treat him like a baby and coax him.
The eldest and second brothers of the master's family will definitely accompany him and make him happy.
But... no.
After dawn, he happily put on his clothes, sat on the steps looking at the palace gate, waiting for his master to come and pick him up.
The master didn't come.
What he waited for was his father to come and tell him that he would no longer have a master.
The emperor said that his master had voluntarily resigned in the court today, saying that he would rather retire and become a farmer than have him as his apprentice.
The master said that he was naughty and stupid and could not be taught anything, so it would be better for him to stop learning as soon as possible.
The master said that going back to the countryside to farm was much easier than teaching this stupid prince.
Finally, his father told him that his master had taken a fancy to his third brother and would teach him horse riding and archery from now on...
He didn't believe it, so he begged his father to let him go out of the palace to take a look.
Three days later, he recovered from his injuries and went with his mother to the Grand Secretary's Mansion next to the Zhu family.
He stood on the high pavilion and saw the master holding up his third brother and teaching him how to ride a horse. He saw the master teaching him how to shoot arrows, and he saw the master gently patting his third brother on the head and praising him.
Just like what was done to him before.
The Queen Mother told him beside him—
"You think Zhu Huaining treats you differently, but if you look closely, how is the way he treats you different from how he treats your third brother?"
"He can teach you with all his heart, and he can also teach your third brother with all his heart."
"When you call him Master, his whole family will respect you. But when your third brother calls him Master, his whole family will respect your third brother just like they respect you."
"Zhu Huaining and his family have always only liked your status as a prince."
"What they like is never you as a person."
He was taken away crying by his mother.
Before leaving, he saw his master and his mistress surrounding his third brother and asking about his well-being.
No one in the Zhu family, who loved him so much just a few days ago, came to ask him if he felt pain after his tooth was knocked out.
His tooth really hurts. It hurts a lot. ...
As the memories faded away, Feng Changye rubbed his aching brows.
Ever since he gradually became estranged from the Zhu family, he no longer thought about his childhood.
Seeing Zhu Huaining's family getting closer and closer to his third brother, he just thought it was something between strangers.
We were just master and disciple for two or three months. Now that we were no longer master and disciple, we could just be strangers.
Later, when he grew up, he also guessed that the reason why Zhu Huaining suddenly stopped teaching him riding and shooting when he was a child must be that his mother had intervened.
But what if I guessed it?
Zhu Huaining has long been a good master to the third brother, and the relationship between the master and apprentice is very good.
And he later had another master.
That master is also very good.
They are good to each other.
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