Chapter 026 Master
For a moment, the entire Winter Palace was filled with the emperor's hearty laughter.
The emperor patted Yan You's shoulder with a smile and looked him up and down with admiration.
Yan You couldn't help but feel uneasy when seeing this. Would this guy not like others saying no to him?
"Someone! Put Xiaoliu in solitary confinement for a month!"
The emperor turned away with a flick of his sleeves, still smiling, but this time his eyes were cold. The chief eunuch Xu Fang lowered his head and stepped forward.
"Let Li Aiqing come to the palace to investigate."
Li Yuanfeng, the Minister of Dali Temple and the emperor's confidant, Xu Fang quickly agreed and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince should not have angered His Majesty.
Xu Fang glanced at Yan You's stubborn face and muttered in her heart, "It's rare to see a child who is not afraid of His Majesty and even dares to talk back. The position of His Royal Highness the Third Prince is in jeopardy."
The emperor turned and walked away with great speed. He took a few steps and walked a few meters away. He was about to leave Winterfell Palace.
The Third Prince, who was secretly glaring at Yan You, could no longer care and shouted anxiously, "Father, wait for the child! Wait for the child!"
Yan You almost wondered how he had attracted his attention, but luckily, he was just put in solitary confinement. He inexplicably felt like he was back in the county town, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yulan lowered her head and her whole body went limp, and she was dragged away by the guards.
Yan You couldn't help but take a step forward.
But he saw the guards in red standing silently in front of him, and the crossed red staffs fell in front of Yan You.
The leading guard said calmly, "Your Highness, please stop. Aunt Yulan needs to cooperate with the investigation."
“…”
The two looked at each other.
Yan You opened his mouth rebelliously: "Stand—uh!"
The chief guard waved his hand. The guards were worthy of being in the emperor's service. They were very good at observing the emperor's words and expressions. They acted quickly on the spot. Two guards covered Yan You's mouth together and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Yan You: “…”
Between the red walls.
The emperor's procession was so grand that people dared not look too closely, and the palace maids all knelt down around him.
"...I said that Xiaoliu doesn't look like someone who would practice witchcraft. Father, I will go to Xiaoliu to apologize in a while."
The third prince leaned close to the emperor and spoke coquettishly. It was the end of spring and the beginning of summer at this time. The thin shirt covering his chubby skin was soaked with sweat, and his round face was flushed.
The emperor thought for a moment, "Who is Xiaoliu's master?"
The third prince was stunned.
The Sixth Prince has always been a transparent person in everyone's eyes. Who knows who his master is?
"Oh, look at me as a brother, Xiaoliu's matter... Father! Wait for the child!"
The emperor ignored him and strode away.
Noon.
Xu Fang was serving the emperor.
There were rumors in the palace that someone was using witchcraft to curse the noble.
A young eunuch came to the Third Prince and informed him that Yulan, a maid in Winterfell Palace, was the culprit.
His Royal Highness the Third Prince has always been a fool. He immediately reported the matter to the emperor and urged the emperor to go to Winterfell Palace.
I guess he didn't expect that the Sixth Prince would actually catch the attention of His Majesty. He must be regretting it to death.
However, it is rare to see a child like the Sixth Prince who is willing to disobey His Majesty for a little palace maid...
Xu Fang couldn't help but be absent-minded.
The emperor paused.
He glanced at the roast suckling pig on the table and pointed casually: "Give it to the third brother."
His Majesty, as he did in the past, pointed to the dishes he liked and fed them to the Third Prince.
Xu Fang received the order and went out.
After the meal, it was time for the emperor to review memorials.
Xu Fang stood aside and waited quietly.
The emperor held the memorial and suddenly said, "Xu Fang! Xiaoliu's master..."
Xu Fang had already understood it: "Your Majesty, the Sixth Prince has not yet appointed a master."
The emperor smiled and said, "Go, get that Taoist priest to be Xiao Liu's master."
He stroked his chin, lowered his eyes to hide his thoughtful look, and continued his day as an emperor's social animal.
****
“Pah—”
A teacup was broken on the ground, with a lot of scattered porcelain fragments around it.
The Third Prince panted heavily and cursed fiercely, "Mei Shu, this sick little bastard! When I find the chance, I will kill him!"
"How dare he snatch the favor from my father! Little bastard! Little beast!" His chubby face was distorted in an extremely ugly way.
The girl sitting in the main seat turned a blind eye.
The girl had beautiful eyebrows, a pair of upturned almond-shaped eyes, and a very majestic temperament. She took a sip of tea.
"Second sister!" The third prince said sharply, "Speak now!"
The second princess frowned and said, "Wait a moment, I'm tasting tea."
The Third Prince snorted and laughed, took a few steps forward, grabbed the tea bowl and threw it out. He was caught off guard and was scalded by the tea in the bowl. He screamed in pain: "Sister! It hurts!"
"You are ten thousand times more noisy than the ghost baby!"
The maids quickly brought a basin of water, and the second princess took the third prince's hand and dipped it into the cold water.
The third prince's hands were white, tender and chubby, with red dimples and curled fingers, feeling like a baby's fingers. In contrast, the third prince's twin sister had slender and long fingers, as white as scallions and as hard as jade.
Two pairs of hands were immersed in the basin, and the more mature pair of hands slowly picked up the water and poured it down.
"Our primary target right now is not him. If necessary, we can also win over Xiaoliu," the Second Princess smiled meaningfully, "His background can also help us."
The third prince groaned and allowed his sister to do what she wanted. He whispered, "Don't treat him as your brother."
"You are my only brother." The second princess gently patted the third prince's hand.
Her calm eyes were burning with ambition, and she leaned close to her brother and whispered, "We have always been the only ones for each other."
A smile suddenly broke out on the third prince's chubby face.
When the emperor's meal arrived, the third prince was completely delighted. He didn't care that the second princess despised him and stuck to her, muttering, "I told you that my father loves me the most. I like roast suckling pig the most!"
The second princess responded softly, holding the teacup and watching the third prince wolfing down his food.
***
The guards on duty did their best.
No matter how Yan You flirted with him, she never even glanced at him.
Li Yuanfeng, the Dali Temple Minister who was appointed to investigate the witchcraft case, came to question Yan You.
Yan You went around in circles and didn't reveal much information, but he managed to get a lot out of Li Yuanfeng.
Halfway through, Li Yuanfeng finally reacted.
This cautious old man kept looking at Yan You as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Yan You let him watch. He knew the old man's character very well and didn't dare to ask any questions.
"Goodbye, Lord Li." Yan You said with a smile.
Li Yuanfeng felt choked up, his brows twisted into a knot, and he turned his head to say something.
"What did Lord Li leave behind?" Yan You looked surprised.
Seeing the Sixth Prince's pretending-to-be-silent smile, Li Yuanfeng became even more furious. He snorted to express his indignation, then left with his deputy.
Yan You let out a comfortable breath.
It is true that having an old person in the family is like having a treasure!
At noon and in the evening, meals were delivered personally by the canteen, and the treatment for those in solitary confinement was better than without confinement.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The extent to which the emperor cared about the witchcraft case was a matter of opinion, and some people regarded it as a joke. This surprised Yan You. In his previous life, witchcraft cases usually irritated the emperor. It was strange that a whole group of people who were dancing in the emperor's minefield did not care as much as a minister who was beaten up in the middle of the night in front of the emperor of Zhongzhou.
After all, the emperor was too lazy to let the guards take care of the witchcraft case. Instead, after the minister was beaten, he went out of the palace overnight to express his condolences.
This man is over fifty years old, and can be called an old man. I don't understand why he is so relaxed.
It's impossible that he can really become an immortal and knows that witchcraft curses can't kill him, right?
Yan You criticized half-confusedly based on his experience from his previous life, but after all, he was trapped in a small county in Nanzhou for seven years and knew nothing. Nanzhou and Zhongzhou were fighting all the time, so it would be impossible for him to know the secrets of Zhongzhou.
Time passed in secret speculation.
The invisibility feature did not take effect at night, so Yan You managed to get a good night's sleep.
The next morning.
Yan You felt refreshed and wanted to pour a glass of water to quench his thirst.
"The imperial edict has arrived—"
Yan You: “…”
I quickly poured myself a glass of water and took two sips.
The one who came to announce the decree was the chief eunuch Xu Fang.
The content of the imperial edict was very simple - "Xiao Liu, you are old enough and it is time for you to go to school. I have appointed a teacher for you. The teacher has come with the imperial edict. You can go and meet him."
Yan You took the imperial edict and straightened his bent waist.
The guards moved to both sides, revealing the so-called teachers inside. Yan You squinted his eyes and looked at them.
The teacher was tall, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, wearing a loose Taoist robe with fluttering sleeves, giving him a sense of otherworldliness.
Xu Fang led the way in front of him, and the two of them stopped in front of Yan You.
Xu Fang introduced with a smile: "Master, this is the young prince."
The young teacher looked down with empty eyes and saw a childish face with no flesh on the cheeks. The eyebrows were cold and had a look of scrutiny. What was more eye-catching were the pair of beautiful big eyes.
It's round, but it doesn't look innocent. Instead, it looks like...
"Bang--"
——A different kind of majesty?
"Master? Master? What's wrong with you?"
Xu Fang's voice was rarely flustered.
Congxin blinked in confusion, and had the illusion that the little prince in front of him had suddenly grown taller.
Why?
"Master, please stand up first. There is no need to perform such a great ceremony!" Xu Fang bent down and spoke in a low voice into Cong Xin's ear.
Why, he knelt down?
Congxin looked up at Yanyou blankly, and Yanyou looked down at Congxin blankly.
Silence, endless silence.
The small garden of Winterfell Palace never thought that the embarrassing moment would happen a second time or a third time. Even the non-existent toes of the small garden were about to draw a castle!
The Taoist priest, who was as tall and straight as a bamboo and had an immortal look, knelt on one knee in front of the Sixth Prince, who was only seven years old. The two looked at each other calmly.
The Taoist's voice was even cold, carrying the dignity and severity of a teacher: "Sixth Prince, good morning."
The young Sixth Prince was silent, with the same student look on his face, and said respectfully to the teacher: "Good morning, teacher."
One tall and one short, both showing their nobility.
Even the guards who were doing their duty couldn't help but glance over there. They had never seen such a scene in their lives! If you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life!
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