Chapter 660: Husband and wife mixed doubles

Wei Shiyu considers himself a very good brother.

Seeing his fifth brother being so obedient, he nodded with satisfaction and said "hmm", acting like a good brother: "Okay, then you guys go ahead and dig."

As he spoke, Wei Shiyu squatted aside, looking like he was waiting to see some excitement.

Xingxing was speechless.

Although this guy doesn't have the slightest bit of airs as a prince, he is too humble!

Xing Xing asked her maid to dig up a small yellow bell plant, and then grabbed a handful of soil to wrap the roots. She asked the palace servants to send the yellow bell to the Zhenxi General's Mansion and plant it in the garden first, so as to prevent the yellow bell from being away from the soil for too long and getting damaged.

After Xing Xing finished all this, Wei Shiyu still found it hard to believe: "That's it?"

Xing Xing looked at Wei Shiyu in surprise: "What else?"

Wei Shiyu muttered, "I didn't expect that you came here in such a grand manner just to dig up a piece of... grass?"

Xing Xing explained seriously, "This is not an ordinary grass. This is an excellent medicinal agent. The plants in Yu Garden are of excellent age and have strong medicinal effects."

Wei Shiyu didn't quite understand, but he still nodded curtly and said "oh oh" twice: "Have you met my mother? And my prince's sister-in-law?"

Xingxing agreed to all of them.

She suddenly remembered something: "...By the way, Third Prince, the Queen Mother said that your birthday is coming soon. What birthday gift do you want?"

Wei Shiyu's eyes suddenly lit up: "You mean, can I ask you for a birthday present?"

Xingxing nodded.

Since the Queen Mother has invited her to attend the Third Prince's fourteenth birthday party, she can't come empty-handed, right?

Wei Shiyu stroked his chin with great interest and thought for a long time.

He just thought of it and clapped his hands: "I got it! I heard that you have a lot of brothers and sisters in your family, and I haven't been to your Zhenxi General's house to play. Please invite me to your house as a guest later!"

Xing Xing was a little surprised: "That's it?"

What kind of gift is this?

Wei Shiyan waved his hand carelessly: "I don't need anything, this is good enough for me."

Xing Xing thought about it for a moment and then agreed.

The two were talking here, and no one noticed that although the Fifth Prince, who was standing nearby, had a smile on his face, his eyes became increasingly gloomy.

Wei Shiyu was very satisfied when Xingxing agreed to let him visit Yu's house. He asked Xingxing actively, "Are you still going to my mother's palace?"

After getting Xing Xing's affirmative reply, Wei Shiyu said happily: "Then let's go together!"

Having said that, Wei Shiyu was about to walk away.

The fifth prince's eyes became increasingly gloomy.

Xing Xing did not follow. She turned around and looked at the Fifth Prince: "Fifth Prince, I have to go to Zhaoyang Palace now."

The Fifth Prince paused for a moment, and the gloom in his eyes gradually disappeared, revealing some genuine surprise.

He didn't expect that Xingxing would greet him again.

The fifth prince was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then the princess can go. I have other things to do, so I will not accompany the princess to my mother's palace."

Xing Xing nodded.

Wei Shiyu didn't think much about it, thinking that his fifth brother really had other things to do, and urged him, "Okay, fifth brother, go and do something else. Xingxing, I'll stay here with you."

What Wei Shiyu said was natural.

——Because that’s what he thought: Fifth brother has something to do, Xingxing is a little girl in the palace and needs someone to accompany her. And it just so happens that I also need to go to Zhaoyang Palace, so can’t I accompany her?

But the Fifth Prince took Wei Shiyu's matter-of-fact remark as a demonstration and bragging, and the gloom in his eyes began to surge again.

Xingxing didn't see this scene. After she bowed slightly to the Fifth Prince, she followed Wei Shiyu directly to Zhaoyang Palace.

The Fifth Prince was left alone, standing coldly for a long time in a corner at the south wall of the Yu Garden.

Queen Nie prepared some sweet water, and as soon as Xingxing came back, Queen Nie happily invited her to come over and drink some sweet peach gum and white fungus.

Before Xing Xing could reply, another person came out from the corner, grinning, "How did the Queen Mother know that I wanted to eat this?"

As he said this, he took a quick step forward, picked up the bowl of peach gum and white fungus soup that Queen Nie had prepared for Xing Xing, and began to gulp it down.

Queen Nie was both angry and amused. She called Wei Shiyu by his full name with a stern face: "Ayu, where are your rules? This is prepared for Princess Fusui. Drink it when you come!"

After drinking, Wei Shiyu wiped his mouth and looked at Queen Nie innocently: "Mother, don't be so partial to me. I am your biological son!"

Empress Nie was so disappointed that they could not make it. She said, "Yes, what a pity! If I could, I would rather Xingxing was my own daughter!"

Wei Shiyu nodded seriously: "Yes, that's right, I would rather Xingxing was my biological daughter."

He sighed with true feelings, "Who wouldn't want to have a lovely daughter like Princess Fusui?"

Queen Nie was so angry at her naughty little son that she was speechless. She slapped Wei Shiyu on the back of his head and said, "You idiot! You have no respect for your elders! Apologize to Xing Xing!"

Wei Shiyu stuck out his tongue and apologized to Xingxing with a smile insincerely: "...Princess, please be magnanimous and don't bother with a fool like me."

Queen Nie was extremely angry.

Just then, a voice came from outside, and it turned out that Emperor Jiazheng had arrived.

Empress Nie stood up and took Xing Xing and Wei Shiyu to pay their respects to Emperor Jiazheng.

Emperor Jiazheng was somewhat surprised to see Xingxing and his third son were there.

However, he ignored his son and said to Xingxing with a smile, "Xingxing is here too? No wonder the Queen looked so good today. It turns out that Xingxing is here."

There was no mention of Wei Shiyu in his words.

Wei Shiyu pointed at his nose and said, "Father, what about me?"

Emperor Jiazheng said bluntly: "It would be great if you don't make me and your mother sick!"

Wei Shiyu: “???”

Emperor Jiazheng scolded again: "The Grand Tutor has complained to me about you today. The Grand Tutor is old, how could you catch a bird and put it in his carriage?!"

Wei Shiyu looked innocent: "I saw that the bird was about to be frozen to death, but the warmest place nearby was the carriage of the Grand Tutor, so I had to put the bird in the carriage to warm it up. Why was the Grand Tutor angry? Saving a life is worse than building a seven-story pagoda. Although a bird's life is not as valuable as a human life, it is at least worth a one-story pagoda, right? I have already given you a one-story pagoda, why is the Grand Tutor still angry?... Mainly, your son did not expect that the Grand Tutor is already old, but still so timid. How could a frozen bird scare the Grand Tutor to the point of almost falling off the carriage? It's simply ridiculous..."

Seeing Wei Shiyu's confident look, Emperor Jiazheng and Empress Nie looked at each other tacitly and began to look for something handy at hand.

It has to be said that Emperor Jiazheng and Empress Nie really did not treat Xingxing as an outsider. In front of Xingxing, this supreme couple directly staged a full-scale fight with Xingxing and beat Wei Shiyu so badly that the whole palace was in chaos and people were howling like ghosts.

If laughing wasn't impolite, Xingxing would have held her stomach and laughed out loud.

I'm trying so hard to hold back my laughter that my stomach hurts!

Wei Shiyu ended up lying on the ground in a humiliating manner with a streak of chicken feathers on his head - that was left by Queen Nie when she picked up a chicken feather whisk that was placed aside and beat him.

Queen Nie's forehead was slightly sweaty from beating her son. She sat back on the couch and wiped the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief: "I've made a fool of myself in front of Xingxing."

Xing Xingcheng shook her head in dismay: "No. I have many brothers in my family, and they were all very naughty when they were young. Sometimes my grandmother and my aunts were like this too, beating them all over the yard. These naughty monkeys, sometimes they deserve to be beaten."

When Empress Nie heard Xing Xing saying things like "You naughty monkey deserve a beating" in such a serious and condescending manner, she couldn't help laughing.

Emperor Jiazheng looked at Empress Nie's beautiful smile and treated Xingxing even better.

Laughter could be heard from time to time in Zhaoyang Palace.

Wei Shiyu, who was lying on the ground gasping for breath, said: "???"

No, are we a family of three or are you and Xingxing a family of three?

…

The fifth prince returned to the prince's residence from Yu Garden, where the fourth prince was studying.

Seeing the Fifth Prince coming back, the Fourth Prince glanced at him and asked with concern, "Ever since the eunuch from Yu Garden came over and said that he saw Princess Fusui entering the palace, you went to Yu Garden to wait for a chance encounter. It's been two hours now. How is it going?"

The fifth prince unhappily kicked away another chair beside the table and sat down: "It was originally good. But..."

His eyes were dark and gloomy.

The fourth prince knew that the fifth prince had returned empty-handed. He sneered in his heart, but his face showed some concern without showing it: "Why? Failed?... It shouldn't be, fifth brother. I'm not saying that you are handsome, and you are a prince. How could Princess Fusui not be moved when she sees you?"

The fifth prince pursed his lips and said unhappily, "…It's not that there's a problem with Princess Fusui. I was chatting with the princess very well and we even went to the south wall of Yu Garden together. But the third prince seemed to be haunted and crawled out from the dog hole over there!"

The fourth prince paused, then patted the fifth prince's shoulder with some regret: "It turned out that it was the third prince who messed up the situation. Fifth brother, it's not unfair that you lost. The third prince is the legitimate son of our mother, and the younger brother of the crown prince. Whether it's our father, mother, or the crown prince, they have always loved him... We are just princes born to ordinary concubines, how can we compare with the third prince?"

The more earnestly the Fourth Prince persuaded, the uglier the Fifth Prince's expression became.

He let out a depressed sigh: "...Fourth brother, I don't accept it! We are all about the same age. Third brother is just the legitimate son of the queen mother. Apart from that, his knowledge, riding and archery are all inferior to mine. Why is it okay for him to mess around all day? Even..."

The fifth prince paused and said nothing more.

The fourth prince shook his head and sighed, "Although we are both royal nobles in the eyes of outsiders, you and I have lived in the palace for so long, don't you understand? Father treats you and me just ordinary. Only the crown prince and the third brother are the real flesh and blood of father. How can we compare?"

For a moment, both of them fell silent.

The resentment in the Fifth Prince's eyes grew stronger and stronger. He clenched his fists, thinking of Xingxing's little face, and then of the Zhenxi General's Mansion behind Xingxing.

...If he marries a princess like Xingxing, his influence in the court will be greatly expanded in the future.

For martial arts, there is Yu Yonghuai, for literature, there is Yu Yongliu. I heard that Xingxing's second brother, Yu Yongbai, is even richer than a country. By then, he will have both martial and literary talents around him, and he will have no shortage of money. He may be able to compete with her!

A hint of gloom flashed across the eyes of the fifth prince, and he also showed a bit of determination to win.

The Fourth Prince glanced at the ambition that could not be concealed in the eyes of his Fifth Brother and sneered in his heart.

Idiot!

Do you really think that position is so easy to fight for?

He just said it, in the eyes of their good father, they are the only family.

Whether it was him, the fifth prince, the seventh prince raised by Concubine Rougui, or the princesses in the palace.

Even if all of them are added together, they are probably no match for Wei Shiyu.

Not to mention the eldest brother, the crown prince, who has been raised by the king since he was a child!

What are they comparing?

Thinking of this, the Fourth Prince suddenly fell silent, and then brought up another matter: "...Speaking of which, Fifth Brother, do you still remember Second Brother?"

The Fifth Prince was originally immersed in the fantasy of the abundant resources he would get after marrying Xing Xing, but the Fourth Prince's question stunned him.

He lowered his voice and said to the Fourth Prince, "Fourth Brother, didn't you say that the Second Brother died young and that the palace doesn't allow anyone to mention his name? Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

The fourth prince was silent for a moment, then smiled again: "Nothing, I remember things early. I remember that when I was very young, I seemed to have seen the second brother from a distance once."

The fifth prince frowned and said, "I don't remember. But, if we think about it, the second prince should also be the mother's legitimate son. If he were here, we would be afraid..."

I'm afraid there will be less hope.

The fifth prince did not say the second half of the sentence.

The fourth prince looked into the distance and smiled sadly, "Right. I think so too. If the second prince were here, he would be the legitimate son of the emperor and the queen. I'm afraid that in the eyes of the emperor, there would be no place for people like us."

The fifth prince frowned and was about to say something when a very outrageous thought suddenly flashed through his mind -

Wait, the eldest brother Crown Prince and the third brother are so favored because they are the legitimate children of the Queen Mother.

But if his mother became the Empress of the Central Palace, then he...

The Fifth Prince himself knew that this thought was ridiculous, but what was even more ridiculous was that this thought was like a sacrificial altar. He knew that it was useless to think about it, but he couldn't help thinking about it.

The fifth prince trembled slightly.

The fourth prince pretended not to understand. He asked the fifth prince with a puzzled look on his face, "But the charcoal fire in the study here is not burning well? I see you seem a little cold, why are you shivering? I'll ask someone to add more charcoal."

The fifth prince shook his head violently: "Nothing! I just, I just... It seems like I haven't visited my mother for a long time. I'm going to Hexi Palace to see her!"

After saying this, the fifth prince rushed out.

Looking at the back of the Fifth Prince running away, the concern on the Fourth Prince's face slowly faded and gradually turned into a somewhat sarcastic expression.

He sat back in his chair, picked up the book, and continued reading slowly.

This stupid fifth brother, after all these years, still can't see through the affection that the emperor has for his mother?

But it doesn't matter, let this stupid and brainless Old Five have a try.

He just waits to analyze the situation.