Chapter 377 The First Time in Life

No one would believe that there was no cat-smell involved.

"Let's go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony first. Has the prince woken up?"

Tang Shiliang quickly followed the emperor: "The Empress asked me to tell you that the rash on the prince's face has healed and he has returned to Hexi Palace."

The emperor immediately turned around and headed for Hexi Palace. He was not able to accompany the prince in the morning court today. He was in a bad mood all morning and was always worried about him, afraid that he would feel uncomfortable and cry again.

The little guy cried until his throat was hoarse last night, but he was not heartbroken.

This is the prince he raised with great difficulty!

"Hit, hit, hit..."

In Hexi Palace, the fourth prince and the prince sat on the soft mat on the ground, playing whack-a-mole together that Jiang Xinyue made for them.

The Crown Prince, who had eaten and drunk enough, was in high spirits. He had forgotten the discomfort of allergies. He held up a small hammer and kept hitting it, shouting excitedly: "Hit, hit, hit..."

The fourth prince followed him: "Hit, hit, hit..."

There was a lot of hitting in Hexi Palace, and from time to time you could hear a few dogs barking, and the sound was also very excited.

It should be "Come over" who was also in there, playing with the two little ones!

When the emperor went in, he saw Jiang Xinyue holding the sixth prince, holding his hand and playing whack-a-mole together. Every time a new whack-a-mole jumped out, he screamed with excitement, and fell into his mother's arms with some fear.

He was more clingy than before.

The emperor did not let anyone know, but when the people in the palace saw the emperor, they all knelt down to salute. Jiang Xinyue pointed at the door and said, "Xiao Tuan Tuan, look who's here?"

The voice attracted the prince to look over, and it was another familiar face.

He threw down the small wooden hammer, pushed Jiang Xinyue's hand away, and stood up unsteadily on his tiptoes.

This was the first time in his life that he stood alone. Amid the busy Magpies and Frost, all the palace servants stopped what they were doing, widened their eyes, held their breath, and waited for his next move.

"Hey... Hey..."

Little Radish Dun sat down again, trying to seek help from his mother, but after making eye contact, he found that his mother looked encouraging, but did not intend to help him up.

He then propped himself up with his hands, raised his butt high, and slowly, shakily, stood up.

His legs bravely took the first step.

Jiang Xinyue covered her mouth with red eyes. It was true that she was a little moved, but not so exaggerated. She was acting for the emperor.

"Hehehehe..."

The little prince ran into the emperor's arms, grabbing the golden crown on his father's head and refusing to let go: "Give... give..."

The only ones who dared to touch the emperor's head were the Empress and the Crown Prince.

"You want your father's golden crown?"

"Hmm!"

The little prince might not know what "hmm" means, but he has a strong ability to imitate.

The fourth prince just said "hmm" a few times, and now he is learning and using it.

Emperor Xuanwu laughed heartily a few times: "If I give it to you now, you won't have any hair to tie up! When your hair grows longer, I'll have someone make you a better-looking one, okay?"

"Yeah yeah..."

This time he not only answered, but also nodded continuously.

"What a clever guy."

The emperor held him up and flipped him up twice, and the little prince immediately squinted his eyes and smiled like a flower, making a childish "hehe" sound.

Jiang Xinyue glanced at the fourth prince and hugged him in her arms: "Oh! Xiao Mingman seems to have become fat like a little pig recently, and the queen mother can't hold him anymore."

The fourth prince felt warm in his heart. How could he not know that this was the queen mother's comfort for him because she was afraid that he would be sad?

Alas...

The ancestors said that people are born different, and people can't want everything. People who are too greedy will not have a good end.

He can't have the love of his mother and still want the love of his father.

Having one is already good enough!

It was not in vain that when the criminal Ye launched a palace coup, he used all means to attract the attention of his father.

The best decision he made in his life was to deliberately provoke the bad eunuchs who were on duty not far from Hexi Palace at that time. He

deliberately spit on them and provoked them, so that they were blinded by anger and punched and kicked him like countless times before.

He was lucky, and was seen by the emperor after only a dozen kicks. He was sent to Hexi Palace together with his grandfather.

From then on, he didn't have to rack his brains to find a way to survive, because with his mother, no one dared to bully him.

It was enough for him to have a mother!

"Xiao Man'er, Grand Tutor Jing has been praising you to me recently, saying that you have done very well in your studies, and that you have set a good example for your younger brother,

the Crown Prince. Don't be proud, and keep up the good work, okay?" Just such a simple compliment to the Fourth Prince made his originally calm eyes sparkle with brilliance: "Father, rest assured, I will definitely protect your younger brother, the Crown Prince, and set a good example for him."

He didn't know that his younger brother, the Crown Prince, had already been to Prince Yan.

Jiang Xinyue touched his head: "You and your younger brother the Crown Prince are both good children of your mother. As an elder brother, you want to protect your younger brother, and your mother is very grateful to you. But people should not put other people's lives before their own. No matter when, you are the most important. Your mother hopes that you can protect your younger brother the Crown Prince while protecting yourself, understand?"

These words sounded very familiar to Emperor Xuanwu. Wasn't it what Yue'er said to him at the beginning, that you should put your own feelings first and not compromise yourself for anyone?

It was because of those words that he had true feelings for Yue'er that were different from other concubines in the harem.

The emperor couldn't hold it back at that time, let alone the fourth prince who had a similar experience to the emperor?

His eyes were wet, and he looked at Jiang Xinyue with admiration, fell into her arms, and was embarrassed to look up.

From the perspective of an observer, the emperor truly felt that when Jiang Xinyue said these words, she was really sincere, not to tame anyone.

Jiang Xinyue certainly knew that the emperor would have a familiar feeling, but he was wrong.

She was really sincere to the Fourth Prince, not tamed. But she was tamed and not sincere to the Emperor who had countless women.

It would be better to ascend to heaven than to be sincere to the Emperor.

So far, her coquettishness, crying, and jealousy were all acting.

She asked him to only favor her and not allow him to choose concubines, all to make him feel that she loved him very much and did not want to share him with other women.

With this as an excuse, there were no new people in the palace, so that the prince could thrive and be less persecuted.

As long as the emperor could endure loneliness and not mess around when the prince was young, when the prince grew up, he could choose a hundred beauties to enter the palace. If

the emperor behaved well, she would love him and grow old together.

If he did not behave well...

As I said before, the emperor was more than ten years older than her and would die earlier than her.