"I'm twelve years old." The Fifth Prince felt that Xue Yao's overprotection would affect his seventh brother's ability to become a "real man", so he argued with a straight face, "I was twelve or thirteen when I woke up one morning, and I felt that ...... "
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!" Xue Yao covered the little chubby cub's ears and began to growl, trying to use his own voice to override the Fifth Prince's unhealthy boasts and prevent the little chubby cub from being contaminated!
Seeing Xue Yao's devastated face, the Sixth Prince rushed forward to cover the Fifth Prince's mouth, "Stop it Fifth Brother! These things, when it's time to understand, Lao Qi will ask himself."
"Old Seven is already asking." The Seventh Prince had a curious look on his face.
"How can Your Highness still hear!" Xue Yao hugged His Highness's head even harder!
Little fat cub baby fat cheeks were squeezed by him small mouth all toot up, the scene is very aggrieved.
Forced to mutter, the Seventh Prince's gaze was majestic, watching the stupid Yao Yao who refused to let go of his hand, and ordering with slurred speech, "Feng (放)肆, let go of his hand, Your Highness, yo (要) listen to what Fifth Brother said!"
The old father simply can not tolerate the child to listen to these adult topics, firmly refused: "Good boy your highness can not listen to these, today go back to feed a bowl of milk, we do not listen to the fifth brother, okay?"
Fifth and Sixth Princes: "......"
How can a man compromise so easily on such things!
Even if it was a hundred bowls of sweet milk, Chitti would have firmly refused!
"Good." The Seventh Prince immediately accepted Silly Yao Yao's bribe.
"Just pretend that I don't have this brother." The Fifth Prince looked into the distance with a vicissitude in his expression.
The Sixth Prince sighed and shook his head, then looked towards the expert eunuch who was still kneeling in the corner of the office room, and turned back to Xue Yao, "Yao Yao, let's help him out, and ask Big Brother to transfer him to Princess Hui's palace as an errand boy."
"You can't do that!" Xue Yao hurriedly explained, "This is a small matter, just leave it to me to take care of, His Highness the Crown Prince's appearance will instead attract the attention of the subordinates, and in case someone investigates this person's former acquaintance with Concubine Hui and spreads gossip, it would be inappropriate."
The Fifth Prince thought it made sense and frowned as he asked, "Then how can we keep people from being suspicious?"
Xue Yao thought for a moment and replied, "I will go to Princess Hui's palace tomorrow to see if there is any little eunuch who wants to work as an errand boy at the Crown Prince's Palace, at that time, I will use the excuse that that little eunuch is making a point to switch this expert to Princess Hui's palace, more than likely no one will pay attention to him."
Prince side of course more promising than the cold palace consort side as an errand, not afraid to find not sharp brain want to change the errand eunuchs, pretending expert eunuchs are the unlucky ones who are replaced, naturally, will not attract attention.
*
The Prince woke up from his lunch break and opened his eyes to see his wife lying on her side, looking at him stupidly.
The moment her eyes met, the Crown Princess blushed and lowered her gaze, getting up and preparing to dress her husband.
When she got up, her clothes were wrung out on the bed, her blouse lifted a notch toward her corset, and the front slipped loosely, revealing the darkly shaded plumpness of her collarbones that gave way to reverie.
This looming scene caused a dark aura of aggression to roll over the newly awakened Prince's gaze.
The Crown Princess hurriedly straightened her front, lest her indiscretion cause her husband to proclaim adultery in the daytime.
Women who are familiar with the four books of women are accustomed to taking their husbands' faults onto themselves, and blaming their own indiscretions for their husbands' evil thoughts in the daytime.
She married a man who couldn't find half a thing wrong with her, and in terms of character and appearance and temperament and conversation, all of which made her feel like she was taking advantage of a huge advantage.
Fear of their own poor step wrong more and more unworthy of him, so on weekdays, the Crown Princess every move seems overly restrained demure.
This kind of modesty is what can bring down a man's fire.
But bloodthirsty men mostly don't like this way of lowering the fire.
Growing up in the palace since he was a child, Lu Jinan had long been tired of seeing these good girls with rules and regulations, which was the reason why he had always felt more pity than love for his wife-
His wife behaved in his presence as if she were as constrained, awkward and squirmy as if she were surrounded by a whole army at any moment.
Before entering the tent at night, the Crown Princess must also let the palace maid extinguish the lamp before taking off the inner garment ......
Married for three years, Lu Jinan had never even seen her underneath her clothes, relying entirely on his sense of touch and imagination to piece together a complete wife.
Although it is a prince, Lu Jinan juvenile also did not less peep at the Chun Gong books and other "harmful reading materials", the heart of the bed of hope, and not now this way.
He wasn't expecting a woman who would rather bite her lips and tear up the mattress than scream out graciously during lovemaking.
But a parent's order is a matchmaker's order, and when he marries her, it's his responsibility to accept the woman's character.
It's okay to leave your teenage fantasies about women in your imagination forever.
The Dauphin gently helped her husband buckle his belt.
Tidy up the front lapel, the eyes fell on the Prince's chin tip, she said softly: "Concubine in the past two years to eat and use have mother's reward, save a lot of fine soft nowhere to spend, it cashed in the silver bills, His Highness pilot grain silo quite a lot of places to spend silver, just so that the concubine's savings in the right way, but also considered to be for the common people to contribute to a force... ..."
After saying that, she rummaged through her sleeve pocket and pulled out a purse with a dead knot, and handed it to Lu Jinan with her head down, not daring to meet her husband's eyes, as if she was afraid that he would think she was being shabby.
Lu Jinan originally had a stern face and wanted to refuse, but he was made to snort by his wife's demented demeanor, and lowered his eyes to look at the purse, noticing that it was tied in a dead knot.
Knowing his wife as he did, there was probably something in the purse that she didn't want to talk about to her face.
Out of curiosity, Lu Jinan took the purse, not to say willing to accept, direct violence ripped off the dead knot, shaking out the inside of the folded square three silver tickets, open a look, his face suddenly changed.
The Crown Prince looked at his wife with a pair of phoenix eyes majestically, "Where did you get such a large amount of savings?"
The prince consort hurriedly explained, "Concubine these two years ......"
"You wouldn't be able to save this much silver even if you didn't eat or drink a penny for two years." The crown prince held his anger, his voice devoid of deliberate gentleness, staring down at his wife and questioning, "You touched your own dowry."
"No!" The Crown Princess panicked and looked up to deny, "Most of this money was saved over the past two years, as well as ...... the head and face that Master had sent to the concubine from before."
Lu Jinan froze, lifting his gaze to the hairpin on his wife's head, it was actually all cheap jewelry, there was also a ceramic hairpin of osmanthus flower that he brought back from Jinling, a head of jewelry adding up to less than ten taels of silver cheapness.
"You sold all the head and face that Lone sent you?" Lu Jinan was stunned!
Prince Consort voice a little trembling: "There are still some left! There are too many heads and faces, my concubine can't use them, always put them aside without wearing them, and the color is not good anymore, so why not take them to the people affected by the disaster to save their lives."
"You ......" Lu Jinan was simply speechless, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, calmed down, bent down and grabbed his wife's hand, shoved the silver ticket back to her and ordered, "Go and change the jewelry back. "
The Crown Princess tilted her head to look at him, "Concubine can't use so many heads and faces."
Lu Jinan reasoned with her calmly: "It's just that you are shabby in front of me, if you let father and mother find out that you bring a head of such things all day long, how can I explain?"
Crown Princess had only wanted to use her own jewelry for some silver to support subsidizing her husband's trial of the new government, and now, after the Prince reminded her, she thought that these head and face were not only her own belongings, but also her husband's face.
Serving by the Empress herself all day long, sooner or later the jewelry issue would be discovered, and the Empress wouldn't be able to blame the Crown Prince!
The Crown Princess blanched.
The female fourth book did not teach her how to help her husband to solve the difficulties of the New Deal, but she always wanted to help, all she could do was to find ways to compress her own food and subsidize her husband, I did not expect that she would make a stupid mistake, her heart was suddenly full of self-reproach, her eyes were red, and she stared at her husband helplessly with her head tilted up.
Once again, Lu Jinan's heart was rubbed crispy by his wife's frightened gaze.
Two years ago, after her second miscarriage, when she got out of bed to welcome him back to the palace, she also had this apologetic look of "I deserve to die for my sins".
"It's not a big deal." Lu Jinan sat down on the edge of the bed, beckoned his wife to sit on his lap, stuffed the silver bills into his wallet, and placed it in her palm: "Redeem all the head and face, and count how many you can redeem."
The Crown Princess lowered her head and hmmm'd, with a few sobs in her voice.
The Prince does not know how to coax women, lowered his head and pondered for half a day, then added, "I will buy you more in the future."
Originally, he wanted to coax her, but he didn't expect the Crown Princess to completely suppress her emotions once she heard this, biting her lower lip or crying out.
She felt that she was not worthy of the Prince's coaxing so strangely, not to mention that she had only just made a stupid mistake and done something wrong, so it was only right that she should be scolded.
When I was young, if my mother made a mistake, my father gave face to outsiders, and I could still hear my father scolding and lecturing my mother in the middle of the night in the room.
For some reason, Lu Jinan had never spoken to her that loudly.
A woman can't be pampered so much by a man; once she gets used to it, she can't stand to be left out in the cold.
She thought that when Jinan became the emperor, he would pull many, many girls younger than her to sit on his long, strong legs, and also gently tell them "I will buy it for you later".
Just this, thinking about this, the Crown Princess couldn't stop crying, already spoiled, how dare she cry out snot bubbles in front of the Crown Prince.
"Don't cry Lara." Lu Jinan didn't understand why the more he coaxed his wife to cry, the more overwhelmed he became.
Being a good husband isn't all it's cracked up to be.
*
The dispatching of the expert eunuchs was accomplished in three days by Xue Yao.
The master eunuch recorded in the booklet of the chief eunuch of internal affairs, his name is Zhang Dogdan, and he is the fourth in his family.
This could be the reason why this mysterious master is particularly secretive and refuses to reveal his full name.
In the original, the fifth prince has always called the master eunuch "Zhang Si", before leaving with the troops, but also only called him once "master".
Xue Yao decided to call the expert eunuch "Old Zhang", although it was a bit inappropriate in terms of age, it was better than calling him "Dog Egg".
Highly skilled old Zhang was cheated by the old eunuch of that more than four hundred taels of silver, Xue Yao has not yet recovered, after all, it is the Crown Prince's Palace, can only next time to visit, and then look for that old liar to settle the score.
For Xue Yao's help, masterful Old Zhang responded in this way - "I owe you my life, so call out if you need me in the future."
Xue Yao actually had a plan, if the problem in Ping Rong County was not solved by the Prince, he must personally make a trip to inspect the situation.
The people of the disaster county are tough and superstitious, so it would be much easier for him to act on his own if he could bring the expert Old Zhang along.
Regarding the plague, there hadn't been any movement yet, Xue Yao first arranged for Old Zhang to go to the back garden every three days to teach the young emperors to train their basic skills.
I thought the little fat cub will use "I'm so tired" to excuse extracurricular training, did not expect, heard that the old Zhang to personally as the head of the coach, the little fat cub did not want to milk coaxing, rushed to the agreed location.
So it seems that the Dragon Ao Tian cubs are still a bit motivated, usually do not want to follow the instructor training, eighty percent is that those royal instructors kung fu is not good enough.
The first lesson of the high master Old Zhang did not teach the mastery of light kung fu, but asked the young emperors to use each of the eighteen kinds of weapons to fight with him for three strokes.
The fifth prince expressed puzzlement at this, "The instructor said that martial arts training should lay a solid foundation, the gun stick hammer whip we have not begun to practice it, can not be so mixed together to learn."
"I'm not trying to teach you eighteen types of weapons." Old Zhang spoke with a haughty face, "It is true that you need to build a solid foundation for practicing martial arts, but you have to find the right direction first, and choose a weapon that best utilizes your strengths; different weapons require very different foundations to be practiced, and you're all at the most malleable age, so how much time do you have to waste on useless work?"
The Sixth Prince was busy saying, "I want to learn swordsmanship, just like big brother! Even if my talent is lacking, I can fill it with hard work."
Old Zhang shook his head, ''Effort can make one stronger, and talent can make one twice as good with half the effort, a combination of the two is the wisest choice. Some people are born with talent in different weapon fields, more people are not so lucky. Uncovering the talent that best suits the disciple is the most important responsibility of being a master, these words were said to me by a reclusive senior, if you want to learn my skills, you have to forget about your identity and obediently listen to your master."
The three young emperors had unhappiness written on their faces.
"Then let's use our swords to fight you first!" The Fifth Prince said to Old Zhang.
"No problem." Old Zhang frowned tightly and seriously raised his hand in a "please" gesture, "Let's go together, within three moves, those who have not dislodged their weapons will be considered to have swordsmanship talent."
The three young emperors exchanged nervous glances at the words, and each went to pick out their longsword, gripping it deathly in their hands.
Xue Yao was in a very nervous mood.
As a matter of fact, the little fat cub was gifted with swordsmanship, or else he wouldn't have been chased by the Sword Saint and begged to teach himself a mastery.
But ......
His Highness is now so fattened by him ......
Can you use your arms and legs?
The old father looked at the cub with distrust.
"Ready?" The Fifth Prince raised his sword and prepared to strike.
"Alright!" The Sixth and Seventh Emperors answered at the same time.
"Watch the move!"
The three emperors made their moves at the same time, attacking towards Old Zhang -
Although Xue Yao's eyes were wide open, he still didn't see Old Zhang's movements, only to see him snake-like, oil-slickly dodging under the pincer attack of the three young emperors-
After a "choking" sound, the iron sword crashed to the ground, Old Zhang swiftly ended the trial of one against three.
The Fifth Prince covered his twisted and sore wrist, glanced at his own longsword that had been knocked down not far away, and his face gradually turned red.
The sword in the Sixth Prince's hand had been snatched away by Old Zhang, and his leg was a little shaky after being kicked in the left knee socket.
Old Zhang carried the Sixth Prince's sword, turned his head to look at the fattest young prince in surprise, and sighed, "Your Highness's stature is truly out of my expectation."
"Humph." The Seventh Prince waved the long sword in his hand, the sword shaking, his voice coldly and arrogantly spoke, "Three more moves, master will still be able to dodge it."
Xue Yao stared at the shoe prints on His Highness' chubby face with a look of despair and sighed, "Your Highness, does your face hurt?"
"Ouch!" The Seventh Prince just couldn't hold on any longer, and as soon as he threw away his sword, he aggrievedly covered his little face that had been reddened by Old Zhang's kick, and rushed towards Silly Yao Yao to beg for a hug!