Chapter 1067, A Scene in the Palace
"Why are you here?"
The emperor had just finished dealing with state affairs and was about to take the twins to the imperial garden to relax when he saw Prince Ping coming into the palace again. A look of disgust immediately appeared on his face.
Prince Ping said with a smile, "The rice awns and seedlings are very active. I am afraid that you will get tired, so I want to help you."
The emperor glanced at him and said, "There are so many eunuchs and maids in the palace, do they need your help?" As he said that, he strode towards the back hall.
Prince Ping hurriedly followed.
In the back hall, the twins were playing games with the palace maids. When they saw Prince Ping coming, they immediately dropped the game and ran towards Prince Ping.
"Grandpa, we miss you so much!"
Prince Ping squatted down, holding one in each hand and said, "Grandfather misses you too. Did you eat and sleep well in the palace?"
The twins nodded in unison.
"Yes, we are very good."
"Did Grandfather eat and sleep well?"
Prince Ping also nodded repeatedly, and got close to the twins for a while, and then he raised his eyebrows at the emperor proudly, as if to say, "See, the twins still prefer him as their grandfather."
The emperor felt itchy, glared at Prince Ping, and said to the twins with a smile: "Come to Grandpa, and Grandpa will take you to the Imperial Garden to play."
When they heard they could go out and play, the twins immediately let go of Prince Ping.
Daomang ran to the emperor and said coquettishly, "Grandpa Emperor, I want to play with a scooter, can I?"
The emperor agreed without a second thought: "Okay, you can play whatever you want."
When Prince Ping heard this, he immediately showed a look of watching a joke. His granddaughter was very good at playing with a scooter. Every time he played with her, he would lose half his life just to chase her.
Isn't my brother capable? Let him go after my granddaughter this time.
Soon, the twins took their respective scooters and followed the Emperor and Prince Heping out of the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
After leaving the Qianqing Palace, Daomang began to let himself go. He stood on the scooter with one foot and stepped on the ground with the other, sliding forward quickly.
The emperor was shocked when he saw this for the first time: "Daomang, slow down, don't fall."
Daomang slowed down, turned around and smiled at the emperor while sliding, "Grandpa Emperor, I'm really good. I won't fall."
The emperor didn't believe this at all and ran over to grab the little girl.
Dao Mang thought the emperor was playing with her, giggling and sliding forward quickly: "Grandpa Emperor, come and catch up with me."
Looking at the little girl getting farther and farther away, the emperor said: "."
Compared to Daomang's activeness, Daomiao was very quiet. He didn't like to move much, so he didn't chase his sister. Instead, he looked at Prince Ping and said, "Grandfather, let's go see the flowers."
Prince Ping felt relieved that his granddaughter was under the Emperor's watch, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay, Grandfather will take you to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers."
Rice seedlings: "Grandfather, I heard there are a lot of flowers in the palace. When you go back later, please bring some back. It just so happens that there are not many flowers left in our house after we plucked them."
Seeing his grandson, so young, already knowing how to tinker around the house, Prince Ping was overjoyed: "Okay, okay, wait a minute, let's get some more flowers back home. When you return from the palace, you can pick them and play with them again."
When the eunuchs and palace maids behind him heard this, they looked at each other in confusion.
The flowers in the imperial garden are all precious species collected from various places. They are for appreciation, not for plucking for fun.
Prince Ping didn't care about that. The world was vast, but grandchildren were the most important. Who asked his brother to steal his grandchildren? The flowers in his mansion were all plucked, so why couldn't the flowers in the palace be plucked?
"Hehehe~"
Laughter as sweet as wind chimes echoed throughout the palace.
On this day, the palace maids and eunuchs were all stunned to see the usually majestic emperor chasing after a little girl.
"Grandpa Huang, hurry up! I've already stopped to wait for you, but you still can't catch up with me."
The emperor, who was panting in the back, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Looking at the little girl's sunny smile, the smile in his eyes went straight to the bottom of his heart.
I have to say, after running such a lap, my body feels a lot lighter.
"Grandpa Huang is old and can't run fast anymore. You have to slow down."
"Okay, I'll go slower then."
When the concubines, princes and grandchildren in the palace heard the news, they couldn't help but run out to see what was going on.
When everyone saw with their own eyes the emperor chasing after the little girl Daomang, they realized how much the emperor doted on the little girl.
The news spread quickly to all directions. The four forces of the eldest prince, the second prince, the fifth prince, and the sixth prince, who were the most popular candidates for the crown prince, once again began to weigh the importance of Prince Ping's Mansion.
When Daohua received the news, she couldn't help but frown. The emperor's favor is a double-edged sword. If you are not careful, it will be taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives.
Daozi is only eight years old and the twins are only three years old. She doesn't want her children to be involved in all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues so early.
Xiao Yeyang noticed Daohua's worry and consoled her, "Fortunately, it's only Daomang. Daomang is a little girl, so it's okay for Uncle Emperor to pamper her a little more."
Unfortunately, he was relieved too early.
While the emperor was running around chasing the rice stalks, in the imperial garden, the rice seedlings kept on burning away half of the garden's precious flowers and plants.
These flowers and plants, including those favored by the emperor, the concubines, the princes and grandchildren, were all pulled out by the rice seedlings and pushed together like weeds in the fields, ready for Prince Ping to transport back to the palace for planting.
After receiving the news, Concubine An, Concubine Xian, Concubine Shu and Concubine De, who were in charge of the affairs of the harem, rushed to the imperial garden.
Looking at the mess in the garden, the four concubines were shocked beyond words. They stared blankly at the little figure who was still making trouble, so frightened that they couldn't speak.
No one has ever been so bold as to act so presumptuously in the Imperial Garden.
"stop!"
Concubine An had long disliked Prince Ping's lineage. Seeing that Daomang was the only child in the garden, she immediately shouted loudly.
The rice seedling, who was happily pulling flowers and plants, was frightened by the roar. He turned around and saw Concubine An and others looking at him angrily. The rice seedling vaguely realized that he seemed to have done something wrong, and hurriedly threw away the green peony in his hand guiltily.
Concubine An looked at Dao Miao with some disgust: "Didn't your parents teach you to follow the rules and know etiquette? Look at you, you have ruined the beautiful Imperial Garden into such a mess."
"Do you really think the palace is your home and you can do whatever you want? Don't think that just because your father is favored by the emperor, you can do whatever you want in the palace."
"You've ruined so many precious flowers and plants. I wonder how your parents will explain this to the Emperor!"
Dao Miao had never been treated so harshly since she was born. Hearing that she was going to be punished again, she trembled, cried out "Wow", and started crying at the top of her lungs.
"Grandfather, where are you? Come back soon, I'm being bullied."
The sound of the rice seedlings was very strong and penetrating. Maybe it was because they were frightened, and their crying was a little sharp, as miserable as it could be.
The four concubines were also shocked when they saw Dao Miao crying.
Dao Miao did something wrong, but he was the prince's son, and it would be difficult to explain to the emperor if he found out about it.
Concubine An thought that she was the one who made the child cry, so she held back and prepared to go forward to comfort the child.
You can't let the child keep crying like this. If someone doesn't know, they might think she is bullying a kid.
However, when Dao Miao saw Concubine An walking towards her, she became even more frightened and turned around and ran outside, crying as she ran: "Grandfather, help me, I'm dying, come and save me."
Concubine An: “.”
Others: “.”
Prince Ping went to the toilet because of a stomachache, but he never expected that when he came back after just a while, he would hear his grandson's shrill cry for help.
"Rice seedlings!"
Prince Ping ran towards the direction of the crying. When he returned to the imperial garden, he just saw Concubine An instructing the palace maids to gather the rice seedlings.
The grandson's tiny figure was surrounded in the middle, his face covered with tears. He looked as pitiful and helpless as he could be.
"How dare you! What are you doing? Stop it!"
Prince Ping rushed over with a ferocious look on his face, pushing and kicking away the palace maids who were surrounding the rice seedlings.
"grandfather!"
When Rice Seedling saw his grandfather, he threw himself into the arms of his kinsman, Prince Ping, like a cub lost in the forest. He trembled and sobbed, "Grandfather, there are bad people here. They are bullying me."
Prince Ping held the rice seedlings tightly in his arms, staring fiercely at Concubine An and the others, but spoke very gently: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, grandfather is here, no one will dare to bully you."
After his grandson stopped crying, Prince Ping looked at Concubine An and the others coldly and said, "My grandson was personally summoned into the palace by my brother. Even if he did something wrong, it is not your turn to intervene."
Concubine An was a little angry. Today she had seen what it meant to turn the tables. Just as she was about to say something, she met Prince Ping's vicious gaze.
"Noble Concubine An, my brother only asked you to assist in managing the six palaces. Do you really think you are the mistress of the harem? I have never seen anyone as presumptuous as you!"
Prince Ping had previously disliked the eldest prince, so he was still somewhat reserved even when causing trouble. But today, he didn't want to save face for Concubine An at all.
Concubine An was so angry that she was about to fight back when she heard the emperor's questioning voice behind her.
"What's wrong?"
Dao Miao raised her head from Prince Ping's shoulder, looked at the emperor with red eyes, and pointed at Concubine An with a face full of grievance and complained: "Grandpa Emperor, she bullied me and had people arrest me. I'm so scared."
Dao Mang saw his brother crying and immediately rushed over: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
When Dao Miao saw her sister, she started crying again: "Sister, they bullied me, avenge me."
Twins who have lived together since childhood are particularly likely to share a common hatred for their enemies, especially when they encounter an external enemy that is stronger than them.
Seeing his brother crying, Dao Mang also burst into tears and threw himself on the emperor: "Grandpa Emperor, the palace is so scary. Someone is bullying my brother. We want to go home."
(End of this chapter)
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