Prince loves to pick up trash

After leaving the boundary of Fengyi Palace, Qi Wenliang walked straight to the East Palace.

However, the palace of the Qi Dynasty is large, even if you go the shortest way, you have to go through several small gardens.

It's autumn now, and the vegetation everywhere is declining.

But the imperial palace is not an ordinary place, even in winter there are still blooming flowers.

The vegetation on this road is still extremely lush.

In addition to the cats, cats and dogs raised by the nobles, there are also some wild animals in the palace, which are always walking back and forth among the flowers.

Qi Wenliang chose this road because he thought it was close and remote, and usually not many people would go there.

Walking on this road, eight out of ten times a cat would bump into his arms while he was not paying attention.

Today he was already on guard, when something bumped into his arms, he took advantage of the opportunity to stop it.

But soon he found out that it was a person, so he had to hug him up.

"Brother Prince, why haven't you come to see me for a long time?" A soft voice asked.

The speaker was the emperor's thirteenth princess, named Jingshu, who just passed her seventh birthday in the first month of this year.

Qi Wenliang has a gentle temperament, and the children in the palace like him, but he is already an adult, and he is not suitable for frequent walking in the harem, so he hasn't visited these children in the past two months.

He didn't answer Jing Shu's words. Instead, he trimmed the broken hair on her forehead and asked her, "Where is your nanny taking care of? Why did you run around by yourself, and your hair hasn't been combed yet."

Jingshu put her head on Qi Wenliang's shoulder, and said unhappily: "They don't like to play with me, they like to whisper in circles. Sometimes when the concubine mother calls them, they can't hear them either!"

After finishing speaking, she asked again: "Is it because Jing Shu is not good that they don't like to play with Jing Shu? Is it also because of this reason that the prince brother didn't come to play with Jing Shu?"

Qi Wenliang shaved Jing Shu's hair so that it was barely neat, and then seriously replied: "Of course it's not because of this reason, Jing Shu is so good, I want to come to play with Jing Shu every day. But it's because I always want to come I was looking for you to play, so I failed to complete the task assigned to me by the Taifu in time, and the Taifu punished me for copying books, so I have no time to come and play with you."

Jing Shu asked suspiciously: "Is it true? Then the prince brother will take me out of the palace to play?"

"Of course! Let's go!"

The palace maid who was following the prince hurriedly stopped her: "After all, this is the child of Concubine Rou. It's probably not good for you to just take it out like this."

The prince replied nonchalantly: "I'll be more careful, nothing will happen to her, just take her out for a while, don't be so nervous."

"It's you, go back and tell the concubine mother to let her discipline the people in the erotic palace for the concubine Rou. If the palace people can't do it, start to replace her. Of course, it mainly depends on the concubine Rou's intentions, her temper It's too soft, and the slaves climbed onto the master's head."

Just as he was talking, a person suddenly appeared at the corner not far away, with a flustered expression and hurried steps. He didn't know whether he had seen the prince or Jing Shu, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

It turned out to be the eldest prince.

He and Jingshu are compatriots, both are the children of Concubine Rou.

At this moment, he must be looking for Jing Shu.

Seeing him, Qi Wenliang called "Brother" eagerly, but he bowed his hands respectfully and said that he would see His Highness the Crown Prince.

Jing Shu didn't seem to be close to him. Seeing him coming, she subconsciously hid in Qi Wenliang's arms, and then timidly called out "brother".

The eldest prince stretched out his hand to ask Qi Wenliang for someone.

Qi Wenliang didn't pass Jing Shu over, but instead said to the eldest prince: "Brother sees me, why do you still call your Highness, it's too natural!"

As if he didn't hear what he said, the eldest prince suddenly said thank you without thinking.

He has always been like this, reticent and has a bad temper, Qi Wenliang has long been used to it.

He guessed that the eldest prince said this because he heard what he said just now, so he explained: "I didn't do this to help you. The queen mother rules the six palaces, and no matter which palace goes wrong, she will be responsible. Take care of everyone The palace is where the queen mother's responsibility lies, I just pay more attention to the queen mother."

After hearing this, the eldest prince stared at Qi Wenliang, hesitant to speak.

Qi Wenliang guessed what he wanted to say, and spoke for him again.

"Do you want to say that I shouldn't tell you what I said, because that can sell you a favor?"

After finishing speaking, he smiled, "What's big brother thinking? You and I are already brothers and close relatives, so why should I betray you. I believe that if I need help from big brother, even if I don't ask big brother, he will help me .Is it right?"

The eldest prince nodded, and silently walked beside Qi Wenliang, apparently planning to walk with him for a while.

Qi Wenliang adjusted the posture of his hands, hugged Jingshu more firmly, turned around and said to the maid who sent him off, "Let's send it here, you go back first, don't forget what I told you."

Although the palace maid was unwilling, she did not dare to disobey her orders, she was short and resigned.

"Brother doesn't like to stay where there are strangers, right?" Qi Wenliang asked with a smile.

Seeing him being so caring, the First Prince's expression was moved, but he didn't say anything.

Qi Wenliang led him outside.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen my eldest brother since the day I became crowned. It's been two months now, why doesn't my eldest brother come out for a walk?"

Qi Ying thought for a while, and only uttered two words: "It's inconvenient."

Although he only said two words, Qi Wenliang could still understand the meaning of his words.

Elderly princes should not be walking in the harem, but the design of the palace in the Qi Dynasty was tricky, and the residences of the princes were in the innermost circle with the emperor.

If you go out and take two steps, you will always meet some concubines.

Qi Wenliang is the prince, and when he got older, he moved out of the palace where the princes lived, and moved to the outermost East Palace.

Qi Zian also got the title of prince early, and went out of the palace to build a mansion.

There is only the eldest prince, and until now he is only a prince.

He came from a humble background, his mother was soft, and the emperor didn't pay much attention to it, so no one thought of going out of the palace to build a mansion for him.

He lived in the inner palace, if he always went to the east palace to look for Qi Wenliang, he would have to shuttle around the harem frequently, which was really inconvenient.

But this kind of inconvenience is not a day or two. In the past, the two brothers would get together from time to time, either Qi Wenliang went to look for him, or he came to look for Qi Wenliang.

But after Qi Wenliang became an adult, the emperor became more and more unwilling to let him go to the inner palace, so he had no choice but to not go.

The First Prince never came to look for him once.

Qi Wenliang is a straightforward person, so if he has any doubts in his heart, he must ask: "Isn't it something that happened a long time ago, didn't elder brother often visit me before? Could it be that I am different now that I am crowned?"

This was a casual question, but the eldest prince suddenly frowned after hearing this, and asked in a voice full of anger: "A 25-year-old prince who has achieved nothing and lives in a square inch of the inner palace every day. What face do I have to see you?"

In an instant, it was like a different person.

He suddenly lost his temper, which startled Qi Wenliang.

But it wasn't a day or two for him to be moody, and Qi Wenliang soon recovered.

He realized that his words were inappropriate, and he had irritated his elder brother, so he hurriedly remedied: "Who dares to say that elder brother can accomplish nothing? Is someone talking behind his back?"

The eldest prince also realized that he shouldn't get angry, he shrank his neck, his face was full of self-blame, he seemed to want to apologize, but he still didn't say it, he just shook his head.

Qi Wenliang didn't mind, and just focused on explaining him: "Brother is still staying in the palace, it has nothing to do with success or not, don't think too much about it."

"Father only has our three sons. Zi'an likes to run around and never see a shadow. I am also stupid. Whenever there is a little thing in my hand, I have to think about it for a long time, and I can't often go to the palace. Father is in the palace. It is inevitable that I feel deserted and need your company, so I let you stay."

"He kept you because he loves you."

Which son the emperor really likes is something that even a three-year-old child in the capital knows.

After hearing this, the First Prince became silent and his eyes were dark, but he rarely refuted.

Qi Wenliang didn't expect this sentence to explain the eldest prince, so he talked about other things.

"It's a little inconvenient for you to need another token to go out of the palace now. I will definitely mention this to my father when I see him someday. Don't worry, even if my father doesn't want to listen to me, I can still ask Zi'an to go with him." If he mentions it, he can always agree."

After hearing this, the eldest prince took a long time to say thank you.

Before they knew it, the two of them were almost out of the confines of the harem.

To get out of this palace gate, no matter who it is, they have to go through a series of interrogations. The eldest prince didn't want to suffer such setbacks, and he didn't bring a token today, so he stretched out his hand to Jing Shu and said, "Come here."

Jing Shu seemed reluctant, but in the end she chose her own brother.

She pouted and said to Qi Wenliang: "Goodbye, brother prince. I will be anxious if I don't go back to mother and concubine, so I went back with brother first. You must come to play with me often in the future."

She waited for Qi Wenliang to agree, and then she took the hand of the eldest prince, walked back along the road she had just come, and the small figure gradually disappeared.

Qi Wenliang stood there for a while, as if he just watched the two of them go away.

Today is a rare sunny day, the autumn is high and crisp, the wind stirs the leaves, the light passes through the gaps in the leaves and casts mottled shadows on the ground, dangling around as if chasing something.

Qi Wenliang was fascinated unconsciously.

After reacting, he couldn't help sighing, "It's such a rare and peaceful scene, suitable for taking half a day's leisure."

After speaking, there was no more smile on his face, and he turned back to the East Palace.

This place is close to the East Palace, and he will arrive in a short while. The first thing he did after returning to the East Palace was to catch Lutao and peel her.

Even though Lvtao was shaved, she still had a backbone: "I was sent to you by the empress, so I naturally want to send her a message. I don't want to be with the empress, so why should I still be with His Royal Highness Xianwang?"

Qi Wenliang retorted: "You eat mine, wear mine and use mine, shouldn't you be facing me?"

Lutao felt that this made sense, so she could only admit her mistake: "It's my servant's fault, please think of a way for me to make up for my crime, my servant will listen to everything."

"Okay!" Qi Wenliang was also happy, "I'm going to a poetry meeting with Zi'an the day after tomorrow, you can arrange it for me. After all, it's going out for fun, it's not a serious matter, the less people know about it, the better."