Xue Yao's way of restraining her feelings is to "take it all in".
He's going to take the food he exchanged for whitewash points and divide it equally among the three cubs in the academy, no longer giving the seventh prince a separate small meal.
Last night I redeemed a large 3kg bag of nougat milk puff candies in the food court.
Took six packages of individual packages, unwrapped the bags, replaced the oil paper wrapped, as a home-made special cakes, brought to the school, ready to give the cubs at any time to quench their thirst.
Xue Yao used to think that princes were not allowed to consume food of unknown origin, but during the time he stayed in the academy, he realized that the other accompanying readers would occasionally pull out various kinds of snacks wrapped in greaseproof paper for the young masters to satisfy their cravings.
Just feeding the prince has a certain risk of liability, in case of stomach problems, things can be very big or small.
Xue Yao had read the recipe for the nougat, it was all natural ingredients, she had tasted one herself, the sugar content wasn't too high, and it had a rich milky flavor, the Seventh Prince should like it.
Still selfish, he redeemed this food item according to the seventh prince's tastes.
After the lunch break on this day, several young emperors started their activity time again.
The unpleasant memories of the last encounter with the Third Prince at the Cuju arena have made the three little ones temporarily lose their enthusiasm for Cuju and start a new game.
Marching and fighting drills.
This was the way the Fifth Prince came up with the game.
Divide the attendants in the academy into two groups of soldiers, with one wave playing the role of pursuers.
Another wave followed the young royals as they withdrew and fled, then counterattacked by surprise.
So, a group of palace maids and eunuchs followed the five emperors to run, and then the school hall in the back garden, around the rockery pond ran round and round.
The solid fat pup of Xue Yao's family was so tired that he could no longer tell where he was or what was happening to him.
The more the Fifth Prince played, the more he got into the play, and eventually climbed to a wider wigwam within the flower garden, and raised his arms and shouted, "Quickly go up the mountain, we will ambush at the top of the mountain, and in a while, when the enemy soldiers pass by, we will attack him from the flanks and take him by surprise!"
"Good eh!" The Sixth Prince ran until his head of soft hair was wet with sweat, still very much giving face to Fifth Brother, lifting his feet and following to climb up the wigwam.
But he was so young and weak that his arms couldn't support the weight of his body and he couldn't climb up.
Fortunately, there was a tall fourteen year old companion accompanying him, half dragging and half pulling the Sixth Prince up the wigwam.
Thus, the three-year-old Seventh Prince was left at the bottom of the mountain, along with his eight-year-old companion, Xue Yao.
The two men turned their heads and looked at each other with a tacit understanding, both seeing despair in the other's eyes.
Xue Yao despaired at the weight of the solid pups.
He's afraid there's no way he can pull His Highness up the wigwam.
The Seventh Prince didn't want to go up the mountain at all.
"Hurry up and come up!" The Fifth Prince stood at the top of the hill, calling out enthusiastically.
Having no choice, Xue Yao could only climb up the first mountain rock with a stiff upper hand, turning around and handing his hand to the Seventh Prince.
The expression of despair on the face of the seventh prince's little bun was so calm, but he still "cooperated with the work" and put his little fat hand on Xue Yao's palm, not moving.
The palace maids and eunuchs were about to come forward to carry the seventh prince onto the stone, but they were repelled by the fifth prince.
"You guys guard him carefully from the side and let him train to climb on his own!" The Fifth Prince lowered his head and urged, "Climb harder, Old Seven!"
The seventh prince lifted his short legs, completely unable to reach the stone slope, so he crouched down, poised and ready to jump on the stone.
Xue Yao's eyes lit up.
Here it comes, the Dragon Pride pups are finally going to show their talent for lightness!
The Seventh Prince stomped and leapt without fail.
An amazing bounce.
Two centimeters off the ground!
It fell back to the ground.
"......"
No longer able to look forward to this Dragon Ao Tian cub, Xue Yao turned his head and discussed with the Fifth Prince: "Wait for His Highness to be older before practicing climbing."
The Fifth Prince could only stop.
However, he believed that engagement maneuvers should borrow as little external force as possible, so he still did not allow his retainers to carry Old Seven up the mountain, and after thinking about it, he ordered the Seventh Prince: "Seventh Brother lead the troops, go and lure the enemy soldiers to pass through here, and we'll attack from the flanks later on and meet up with you!"
The only soldier that the Seventh Prince had brought with him was naturally Xue Yao, who resigned himself to jumping off the rocks and looked up to ask the Fifth Prince, "How are we going to bait the enemy?"
"Just intentionally run in front of the enemy formation." The Fifth Prince looked around and ordered, "Seventh Brother, Ah Yao, you guys go over there and run twenty laps around the pond to attract the enemy troops to pursue."
Two ...... twenty laps?
Xue Yao hasn't reacted ......
The seventh prince steeply raised his small fat hand, compared to a "three", eagerly told the fifth brother: "His Highness will only count ...... will only count three ...... "
Probably scared by Fifth Brother's twenty laps, the Seventh Prince was so panicked that he stuttered, and in order to run fewer laps, he did not hesitate to degrade his own intelligence, telling Fifth Brother that he had just learned how to count, and could only count to three.
You can't run twenty laps! Your Highness can run three laps at most!
The Fifth Prince nodded, "It's okay, let Ah Yao count the laps for you."
Xue Yao hadn't yet regained his senses from the bad news of twenty laps around the field when the little fat ball beside him suddenly lifted his leg and flew towards the wigwam!
The entire court of attendants and the royal sons did not return to their senses, just to see the seventh prince noiselessly leaped up, small hands can climb on the edge of the mountain stone, support the chubby body, easily, flipped up on the first mountain stone!
The Seventh Prince had actually climbed a boulder as tall as himself!
Xue Yao's phoenix eyes widened in shock!
This fat cub actually managed to climb up there!
Just now, in order to be lazy, the Seventh Prince pretended to be helpless and did not want to climb the mountain, but the Fifth Prince's "twenty laps" forced out his true strength.
Yes, I almost forgot, this bastard, King Ning, is an expert at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
It may just be that they are too lazy to engage in competition; people with emotional communication disorders have a low sensitivity to honor and are socially inactive.
The Seventh Prince's entire teenage years were spent hibernating in the palace like a well-behaved big cat, occasionally being pushed to the brink by the Third Prince before striking out in the face and being forced to play it cool.
It wasn't until this moment that Xue Yao was certain that Consort Shi hadn't secretly switched children.
This fat pup is really original.
This thought caused Xue Yao's gaze on the Seventh Prince to become a tiny bit worshipful.
The Seventh Prince turned his little chubby face and said to Xue Yao standing under the stone, "Yao Yao baited the enemy."
Xue Yao's adoring gaze instantly turned into hatred.
I can't believe they let him go for twenty laps by himself!
Is there any righteousness or conscience left?
The remaining two boxes of Want Want will be divided between your two brothers!
Fortunately, twenty laps was just a casual remark by the Fifth Prince, Xue Yao ran around the pond for one and a half laps, and when the attendants chased him past the wigwam, the Fifth Prince immediately rushed down the hill with his younger brothers and started to fight back.
After the rehearsal, Xue Yao took out the prepared nougat milk puff candies and distributed them to the three little emperors, two pieces each, saying that they were special desserts from the old country.
The Fifth Prince didn't like desserts and had wanted to give it to his younger brothers, but seeing Xue Yao's look of anticipation, he took a piece to savor as well.
One bite, the rich and fluffy texture fills the mouth, and the milky flavor is mixed with a hint of honey sweetness, mixed with the refreshing sweetness of the dried fruit, sweet but not greasy.
The cream puffs are melted into a softer texture by the temperature of the mouth and gradually melt in the mouth with little chewing.
"This flavor is so special!" The Fifth Prince was surprised as he picked up another piece of pastry and surveyed it, "It's much tastier than the nougat in the palace, if your relatives from your hometown come to the capital to set up store, you can ask the palace to make long-term purchases with your family."
Xue Yao laughed, "The materials needed for this pastry are not worth much, but the laborious workmanship makes it difficult to mass produce, so I only occasionally bring some to the capital for my own family to satisfy their cravings, but as a business, it is difficult to mass produce."
"That's a shame." The Fifth Prince looked at this particular pastry with a bright gaze.
"It's delicious." The Sixth Prince grabbed the pastry and licked it slowly, giving Xue Yao a sweet smile.
The Seventh Prince had already finished his two nougat milk puffs, and was now staring blankly at Xue Yao with the words "No more?" written in big letters on his little bun face.
Seeing this, the Fifth and Sixth Emperors simultaneously handed the Seventh Prince one of their remaining candies, inquiring, "Old Seven still wants to eat?"
Xue Yao: "......"
It seems that these two young brothers are really not the usual favorites of their younger brother, this kind of uneaten delicacy, actually said let let let let.
If only he had such a friendly brother.
The afternoon sunlight spread over the children.
The fifth prince sat high up on the rockery, his childish face faintly revealing the style of a future resolute and bold general.
The Sixth Prince smiled warmly and softly as he fed the milk puffs in his hand to his younger brother, the future famous capital city's graceful gentleman demeanor seemed to have already permeated out from his tiny body and bones, making people unconsciously fall for it.
The Seventh Prince was eating Milk Fudgesicles in earnest.
A low-key do-gooder, it's that King Ning all right.
Xue Yao looked at the three children and smiled without realizing it.
I really hope the strife ahead never reaches these three little ones.
Xue Yao even wanted to spread his feathers to guard the warmth of the cubs at this moment.
*
After school, Xue Yao once again followed the Seventh Prince to the Green Vault Palace to seek an audience with Consort Shi.
This time, Princess Shio did not refuse to meet and ordered the evening meal as before.
But the moment he saw Consort Shio step into the flower hall, Xue Yao's face went white.
It was obvious that Princess Shio was not in the right mood.
She walked through the door with her eyes downcast and indifferent, and said "no need to be courteous" without much emotion, before nonchalantly allowing Xue Yao to take a seat.
Xue Yao had thought about the possibility that he had offended Princess Shi Shi, but he did not expect to be offended so badly.
What could it be about?
Would Princess Shio know about his sneaky breastfeeding at the academy?
That is not so angry ah, let the seventh prince's maid remind him not to feed privately in the future, not on the line?
Why the indifference to this point?
The young Seventh Prince didn't notice anything strange and started the show as per Xue Yao's instructions, saying to Consort Shio, "My child will tell a tale to the Empress!"
Princess Shio was shocked by these words and looked at her son in surprise.
The little guy had never talked to her like a normal kid before.
"What story?" Princess Shio couldn't help but show a look of anticipation.
"Ne Zha haunts the sea." The Seventh Prince replied fluently according to the script that Xue Yao had rehearsed beforehand, "This is my child's favorite story, and I hope Mother Consort likes it as well."
Concubine Shio was so excited that her peach blossom eyes were reddened, staring at her son and trembling, "Good ...... good, mother listen to you."
Xue Yao was slightly relieved.
The Seventh Prince's current character hadn't been fully corrected yet, and this conversation was something Xue Yao had guessed beforehand, as a sort of fake to coax Consort Shi to be happy.
Earlier, he had made a promise to Princess Shio that he would make the Seventh Prince a normal child.
He coaxed Consort Shio ahead of time, also to show his reliability so that she would listen to his advice and refuse the Emperor's invitation to the parade.
This is difficult for a consort.
The emperor's favor is too rare, no concubine will refuse such a unique favor, offend the emperor, that is to give face.
Princess Shio was thrilled when the Seventh Prince finished his story.
Xue Yao talked about some of the recent process of guiding and correcting the Seventh Prince, and Princess Shi's attitude towards him really eased up a lot, only the way she looked at him seemed to contain wariness and disappointment.
Xue Yao couldn't figure out why, but he couldn't care too much about it, and according to the plan he had made before arriving, he looked for an opportunity to speak, "Will the Empress also accompany the Emperor on his parade to Ba Shu?"
Consort Shi's gaze tightened as she stared suspiciously at Xue Yao, "His Majesty is going on a tour of Ba Shu? Who told you that?"
"Big Uncle and my father said that during dinner." Xue Yao pretended to smile innocently, "I also wanted to go to Ba Shu to have fun, but Eldest Uncle said that I was going to throw myself into the net with Auntie Shih, Your Highness, what is throwing myself into the net? Is there a place called Luo Net in Ba Shu?"
Princess Shio's face was astonished.
A pair of vigilant beautiful eyes stared at Xue Yao, and after a long time, she looked back and asked in a low voice, "Your eldest uncle is saying that I'm throwing myself into the net by accompanying His Majesty to Ba Shu? Why?"
Xue Yao shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he didn't know.
There was a silence.
Concubine Shih's gaze was steeply stern: "Good, this harem is really full of talents, even a childish child has such a deep city!"
Xue Yao's heart was shocked, but his face still barely maintained a look of ignorance, "City?"
Concubine Shih sneered, ''You don't have to pretend, just tell me straight, did the Empress get the news that His Majesty is planning to go out on a tour? Did the Empress ask you to threaten me not to accompany her on the trip? Then go back and tell her that I'm going for sure!"
Xue Yao froze.
What is Princess Shio talking about?
Queen?
How could the Empress have entrusted him with an errand? He hadn't even met the Grand Prince.
"Niangniang?" Xue Yao was truly confused this time and stood up in a panic, "I don't understand what you're saying? Did I make a mistake that made you angry?"