The Third Prince furrowed his brows, tilted his head, let out a hiss, and asked Xue Yao suspiciously, "Why are you here? Qing He said that you were not doing your job well and were whisked out of the palace by Consort Shi?"
Xue Yao sighed in relief, it seemed that Consort Tong had not told the Third Prince about him.
He was transferred to the Seventh Prince's side, and so far he had not had the chance to correspond with Qing He, who probably thought that he had been whisked out of the palace by relenting his anger after he had stepped forward to go to Consort Shi's palace to apologize.
Xue Yao nodded and returned, "I was ...... transferred to the Cang Dome Palace as a companion reader, and I haven't had a chance to see Your Highness again, today ......"
He didn't dare to say that he was transferred by Consort Shio, fearing that the Third Prince would think he was a traitor and had done something to curry favor with Consort Shio.
"What?" The Third Prince's face revealed a look of forbearance, "Transferred to the Cang Dome Palace? You went to be Old Seven's companion?"
Xue Yao: "...... Yes."
The Third Prince burst into laughter, turned his head and patted the Fourth Prince on the shoulder, joyfully pointing at Xue Yao, ''Father saw that my companion was always bullying Old Seven, and in a fit of rage, he transferred this companion to Old Seven! This is the meaning of asking him to stick close to Old Seven and bully him, huh? Hahahahaha!"
The Fourth Prince clapped his hands together and laughed caterwaulingly.
The Third Prince stepped forward, raised his arm, wrapped it around Xue Yao's neck, and leaned into his ear to command, "Father's meaning is clear to you, isn't it? Afraid that you don't have much of a chance by my side, letting you 'take care' of Old Seven by his side at all times, you can't let Father's expectations down!" Saying that, he laughed again.
Xue Yao lowered her gaze, the corners of her mouth twitching as she laughed with him.
"Aiya--" The Third Prince let go of Xue Yao, sighed, wiped the tears from his eyes, turned around and walked slowly to the Sixth Prince, lecturing, "What kind of eyes are you looking at, Old Six? Brother looks uncomfortable in his heart, why are you still teary-eyed?"
The Sixth Prince's arm was hurt by the pull he just gave him, and at this moment, his eyes were brimming with tears, his little mouth was straight up, and he looked at him without moving.
"Wipe your tears and give me a smile." The Third Prince ordered.
The Sixth Prince was young and had already lost his ability to move because of the shock and aggravation, and at the moment, he was tearfully mortared in place, staring at the Third Prince in awe.
"Do you hear me, Old Six?" The Third Prince glared and threatened in a menacing whisper, "Wipe, your eyes, your tears, your eyes, your tears."
The Fifth Prince standing not far away suddenly ran forward, shivering his hands, and quickly wiped his sixth brother's tears.
"I want him to wipe himself!" The Third Prince let out a steep roar!
The entire room, shuddered.
The Sixth and Seventh Emperors were directly yelled at by him and cried.
The Third Prince raised his hand and pushed the Fifth Prince's shoulder, making him face him straight on, and chided, ''Did I tell you to come over? I have yet to settle the score with you! You come to me all day long! Why don't you let your brother San'er have this cuju field from now on?"
The Fifth Prince lowered his head, not daring to meet his eyes.
The Sixth Prince covered his little face and whimpered with a huff.
The Seventh Prince rubbed his eyes and looked around, eventually running like a little penguin to his Fifth Brother, begging for a hug.
But at a time like this, the Fifth Prince didn't dare to hug him.
"Let's not delay Third Highness from playing soccer." Xue Yao looked at the two little ones being scared like this, his heart was broken, and he hurriedly tried to find a way to escape from the Third Prince's clutches first, so he turned around with a smile and reminded the Fifth Prince with a feigned calmness, "Your Highness, why don't we practice another day?"
The Fifth Prince had long wanted to escape, but he just didn't dare to take matters into his own hands in front of the Third Prince, and at the moment, he was grateful to Xue Yao for relieving him of the siege, and panickedly nodded, wanting to take his younger brother on the run.
"Don't!" The Third Prince interrupted, laughing gloatingly, "It's a rare occasion for us to meet, so why don't we have a cuju game together?"
Xue Yao's brain buzzed.
Cuju play up inevitably body collision, the third prince this is trying to find ways to beat a few younger brothers?
He was panicking and trying to think of a way to free himself when he heard a hurried footstep approaching from outside the field.
"Third Highness! Consort Tong asks you to return to Lin You Palace immediately to catch up." The little eunuch came to report.
The Third Prince sniffed with an annoyed tsk, glared at the eunuch, and turned back to scan his three younger brothers, unwillingly raising the back of his hand and patting the Fifth Prince's face, "Wait, sooner or later, our brothers are going to have to compete in a match."
He used his force in a smothering and heavy manner, and the Fifth Prince's face was slapped askew, but he didn't dare to resist.
Nowadays, the coastal Japanese invaders in groups, Tong Fei wife's elder brother led the suppression of the army, the victory more than the loss of few, the emperor and let Tong Fei three points, and which palace concubine dared to offend Tong Fei's son?
The fifth prince is already nine years old, slightly understand some things, was mother consort reminded after, never dare to disrespect the third prince.
The Sixth and Seventh Emperors didn't really understand adult matters, but they had been bullied a few times before and had no one to do anything for them, so they were both terrified of the Third Prince.
Fortunately, the third prince still has a few moments of respect for his own mother consort, and after hearing the notification, he didn't dare to delay, and turned around and left after leaving his harsh words.
The three young emperors looked straight at the Third Prince as he left, their expressions all looking like they had been robbed of their lives.
The Sixth Prince stopped crying, his expression frozen.
The Seventh Prince, who was being held by Xue Yao, rubbed his little bun face towards Xue Yao's arm, not knowing if he was wiping away his tears or if he was insecure.
Although the Third Prince had left, his loyal lapdog, the Fourth Prince, remained where he was.
The Fourth Prince's face was devoid of the provocative smirk he had just displayed, and he frowned at his three younger brothers.
For a long time, he sighed, walked up, rubbed Old Seven's soft hair, turned his head to look at Old Five in a depressed manner, and chided in a low voice: ''Why did you have to bring them to this cuju field in front of the academy? Can't you take a detour to play by the Huaqing Pond? You have to be fixed by Third Brother before you learn!"
The Fifth Prince nodded in embarrassment and said, "My younger brother knows, and will never come here to practice again."
The Fourth Prince nodded with a grave expression and urged, "Quickly take Old Six and Old Seven to eat something and take a nap, just now they are guaranteed to be frightened, hurry to suppress the shock."
Xue Yao was a bit confused.
This Fourth Prince doesn't seem to be the typical dogged villain in the original?
His obedience was done to the Third Prince?
In the original, the fourth prince's part is similar to that of him, the cannon fodder, and there is a cursory reference to the fact that the fourth prince's mother was a courtesan.
The emperor on a whim to honor the courtesan, a hit, let her give birth to the fourth son, and sealed her as a nobleman, but still low status.
This was the reason why the Fourth Prince needed to find a backer.
In the original, the end of the fourth prince is under house arrest, cut off the palace supply, starving all day long, relying on the birth mother to eunuchs to send a little bit of self-money every month to spend the day, the end is very miserable.
At this moment, the fourth prince did not have the original dogged villain as, but also quite gently pacify a few younger brothers, after saying goodbye to leave, return to catch up with the third prince, together to go to the Lin You Palace.
*
Rinyo Palace.
Inside the bedchamber, Tong Fei lying in the consort chair, listening to the veil field courtesan report, then carelessly opened the door: "That Xue's little brat only said these? You are present to listen?"
The palace maid nodded and replied, "Your Highness, don't worry, Consort Shi is very trusting of her slave girl and lets her accompany her often, Xue Yao Tong came to the Qing Dome Palace three times, and every time the slave girl was present."
Consort Tong was silent, holding a tea cup and taking a sip of tea, her mind was foggy.
Who the hell is that little bastard Xue Yao? What's on his mind?
Consort Tong couldn't stand people she couldn't control, and after a little thought, she instructed, "Go and get a message through to Consort Shi, say that you've seen Xue Yao going in and out of the Reservoir Palace, and let Consort Shi think that Xue Yao is the Empress's inside man."
If the situation is not clear, simply stir up a pot of porridge, so that no one dares to trust anyone, which is the usual trick of Princess Tong.
Without asking why, the palace maid nodded back, "Yes."
"Hurry back to the Green Vault Palace."
After the palace maid left, the maid informed that the third prince had come, so Consort Tong got up to see her son.
Into the side of the hall, I saw my son and the courtesan born of the oldest four talking and laughing, Tong Fei heart disgusted, but on the face of the two children still amicably greeted, and instructed the maid to come to the emperor's reward of the emerald eight treasures cake.
"Your Highness is looking for me?" The Third Prince greeted his mother consort in a diffident manner.
"You went to provoke your brothers again?" Consort Tong did not coldly lower her face in front of the Fourth Prince, but only chided her son with a smile.
"And who told you blindly?" The Third Prince frowned: "I was just about to teach them the skills of cuju, brother and sister, and then you called someone to lead me away, and you accused me wrongly!"
Consort Tong slanted her eyes, showing a slight cold color, and asked rhetorically, "Has this palace wronged you?"
The Third Prince was so agitated that he bowed his head and didn't dare to speak.
There was a silence in the temple.
The palace maid silently brought up the pastries and rested them on the coffee table between the Third and Fourth Emperors.
The pastry box was extremely delicate, most of the goods that Bori paid tribute to were inlaid with jeweled decorations, and even the pastry box was no exception.
Tong Fei does not want to sweep the face of her son in front of outsiders, after a stick, and then give sweet dates: "Quickly taste this pastry, a total of two boxes, his majesty sent a box to the empress dowager, this box specially rewarded me, I do not want to eat, specifically invited you and your fourth brother to come, full of good taste."
Although Consort Tong is powerful, but not arrogant, the palace a little face, she will never offend.
Her son was inexplicably always at loggerheads with Old Seven, and by all rights, she should have had a disagreement with Old Seven's mother consort as well, but that wasn't the case.
Consort Shi was treating Consort Tong as a sister before the incident of the scent bag, and only took precautions after being reminded by Xue Yao, which shows that Consort Tong's social skills are very good.
Even the fourth prince born to the lowly palace consort, Consort Tong never gave a look of disdain.
Unlike the Empress, who explicitly forbade her own son from associating with the Fourth Prince, otherwise the Fourth Prince would have already defected to the Grand Prince.
The palace maid just wanted to open the pastry box, the third prince raised his hand and pressed it, covering it again: "I don't have an appetite! Mother consort keep it for yourself!"
Consort Tong was clueless about this face-giving son, but where she could conceive another son, there was no way she could count on this fool to be her future dependant.
Although the heart is angry, Tong Fei but still and pleasant color: "Your father has recently disliked me more and more affluent, this sweet, I am a mouthful of dip can not be, you do not eat, can be spoiled the good stuff."
The Third Prince sank his face, resenting in his heart that his mother consort was protecting the old seventh.
The reason he loathed Old Seven was very simple - because Old Seven's reputation as a prodigy stepped on his toes.
The third prince's homework is not good, his father, mother and consort often chided him for not trying hard, but he is not in a hurry, and feels that there is plenty of time to make up for it.
That alien little bastard is strange, when it really has the ability to overhear and not forget.
Two months ago, the father examined several royal sons homework, the third prince stumbled recite not.
The young Seventh Prince had actually recited all of what the Third Prince could not recite as if nothing had happened while tinkering with the small toys in his hands!
So ashamed that the Third Prince wanted to find a crack in the ground and could not wait to tear that chubby little brat alive.
He had suffered such a disgrace, and not only did the mother consort not help him out, but instead, she constrained him at every turn, which really infuriated him!
So the Third Prince deliberately went against Consort Tong, pushed the precious pastries towards the Fourth Brother's end, and said, "You take it to your heart's content! I won't eat it anyway!"
The author has something to say:
Third Prince: Old Seven that fat cub just knows how to steal the limelight! Father asked me to memorize the book, what's he interfering with!
Seven Pups: Master is just a three year old repeater, can you stop thinking so much?