A Guide to Keeping a Domestic Unicorn

On the early morning of the New Year's Eve, the whole palace was beaming with joy and decorated with lanterns and festoons, preparing for tonight's royal New Year's Eve dinner.

Today's royal New Year's Eve banquet is different from the past. This year is the day when the prince comes of age. According to the laws and customs handed down from the ancestors, all princes' coming-of-age ceremonies will be held at the New Year's Eve banquet.

For all the princes, this is also a great opportunity to express themselves. After all, in the history of the past, the change of the course and the replacement of the prince have happened from time to time. It is the princes who look forward to and dream of attracting the emperor's attention with their own talents. of.

This night will become a "battlefield" where more than a dozen princes, big and small, are fighting fiercely. Not only are the princes nervous and excited, but behind those princes, the ladies representing the power of each family are also nervous and inexplicable. It started early. Intrigue.

Under the festive surface of the palace, there is an unspeakable murderousness and tension hidden.

The first impression at the banquet is the most important. Some princes and princesses have never even seen Emperor Taiyuan, who is surrounded by concubines and children. Today, all the royal family gathered together, and all the princes showed their faces. And take this opportunity to prove to the officials who is the most worthy master in the future, and it is also an opportunity for princes and nobles to choose the prince who has the most potential to become emperor.

In order to stand out and give their father and officials a stunning appearance, some princes began to prepare their gorgeous dresses early on, while others began to practice their accent and appearance a year earlier.In short, the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing its ability.

However, there was only one prince who, on such an important day, not only did not prepare anything, but instead washed the sheets and dried the quilt by himself in the well in the yard.

The weather was particularly fine during the day, and the servants who waited on him were transferred to prepare the royal banquet.For this prince, there would be three days a month when the attendants would come to clean up. During the rest of the time, he would live alone in a remote and narrow courtyard called "Yinrui Palace" in the imperial palace.

This prince is the fourth prince who is the most unfavored among all the princes—the reason why he is not favored is that his mother and concubine are concubines who are drafted by ordinary people to enter the palace. What's more unfortunate is that when he was eight years old, the prince and the princes were studying in an imperial academy, one day the prince accidentally broke the white jade vase that was bestowed by the former emperor in the academy, the fourth prince helped the prince to clean it, and the prince came over It was a waste of help to pick up the debris, accidentally cut my finger, and a few drops of blood flowed.

As a result, Emperor Taiyuan was furious when he knew about this incident, and demoted the fourth prince to such a small place in the palace to live alone.

The prince was born to the concubine who was the most beloved of Emperor Taiyuan. This concubine died because of giving birth to the prince. From then on, Emperor Taiyuan regarded the prince as a treasure. Even the second prince born to the queen was not established as the prince.Emperor Taiyuan was even worried that those concubines would abuse the prince, so he personally brought the prince with him, and specially hired someone to take care of him when he grew up. The nanny who took care of the prince also gained a prominent status, and he was even tougher than the high-ranking concubines when speaking in the palace.

As for the fourth prince, there has been no special attendant since then, only the palace servants from the cleaning department who come to the door three times a month will come to collect the dirty clothes.

Of course, no one will deliver or cook meals for him. His daily meal is to go to the imperial dining room and the lower dining room to eat with the palace people.

There won't be any new clothes, let alone gorgeous court dresses to wear, and the palace people in the imperial clothing room will give him clothes that other princes discarded.

In fact, even these old clothes that other princes look down on are exquisite enough for ordinary people. The fourth prince will wash these clothes and mend them for a while before wearing them to study in the academy and practice martial arts. The master recognized it with a sneer.

In short, the fourth prince lived a simple life like ordinary people every day - going to the cafeteria to eat, go to study, practice martial arts, do housework, and sleep.

Since he has no background or power, he is destined to have nothing to do with the imperial power for the rest of his life. The other princes pay little attention to him, even the bully princes who like to bully people seldom notice him—when they start bullying people, the four The prince was wise enough to protect himself and slipped away long ago.

Although he is a prince, the fourth prince feels that this kind of undisturbed life is quite suitable for his personality.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with this kind of life. After he came of age, he would be able to get a title and leave the court to become a king or be appointed by the country. Thinking about it, he still looks forward to it.

This is also the first time for the fourth prince to attend a royal banquet. In previous years, only a few favored princes were eligible to attend the banquet.In order to participate in the banquet, the fourth prince took out the eliminated robes of the sixth prince that he had already washed. This robe was his best piece of clothing, and the embroidery was very exquisite. Throwing it to the old clothes department, it was bought back by the fourth prince.

After getting dressed, the fourth prince decided not to eat for a day. I heard that the food standard of the royal banquet is super high, and it is absolutely different from the food in the servant's canteen.

The theme of the banquet is of course food!

Just when the fourth prince had been hungry for a whole day, and it was about to get dark as the sun set, a voice suddenly sounded in his room: "Fourth prince Qingyan, you must remember your innate mission."

"Who is it?!" The fourth prince looked back—and saw a brilliant red phosphorescence appearing in the originally empty room. Amidst the light, a handsome man in a fine attire appeared out of thin air. There were a few strands of red hair mixed in with his black hair, and his expression was serious, but somehow he felt familiar.

"I am the Southern Qilin Immortal—Qingmian. I am here to convey the will of the heavens. Qingyan, your mission is to help the crown prince become a wise king. You must remember your mission! You must never choose the wrong power!" The man said seriously, and after he finished speaking, he walked up to the fourth prince and patted him on the shoulder vigorously.

"Wow! Are you really a god? But even if I don't assist the prince, isn't he the prince, he will definitely be the emperor in the future!" said the fourth prince.

"You don't understand, I'm here to secretly tell you the secret!" Qing Mian curled her lips, "It was originally a violation of the rules of heaven, but I'm afraid that you may go the wrong way and delay your future merits, so I just want to remind you. After all, there are so many people who want to be emperor, remember, you must not compete with the prince for the throne, he is the reincarnation of the dragon son, and his duty is to be emperor, you just need to assist him."

"It seems that there is no possibility of me becoming emperor, right?" Qing Yan said, "I'm not interested in the throne at all. Why did you come here to remind me? Will every prince receive your reminder?"

"Don't think so much! Anyway, I'm just here to remind you, just remember, I'm leaving now! I'll come to you next time! It's not good if the Emperor of Heaven finds out that I've descended to earth without permission!" Qing Mian patted The fourth prince's face suddenly disappeared.

What kind of fairy is this!Saying is tantamount to not saying!

The fourth prince curled his lips and thought.

The sky has completely darkened, and the entire palace is brightly lit, with beautiful and bright palace lanterns hanging everywhere, which is very splendid and spectacular from a distance. The fourth prince Qingyan is walking towards the main hall where the royal banquet is held. If it is an ordinary person walking , from the remote corner where he lived to reach the most spectacular main hall in the entire palace, it would take an hour.

The other princes went there in sedan chairs, while the fourth prince ran there briskly, at a fairly fast speed, and arrived at the decorated main hall in less than a quarter of an hour.

All civil and military officials have already arrived, and when everyone enters the arena, they will receive a seating map issued by the Department of Internal Affairs to find their seats.Qingyan also followed the line of these people to get the seat map.

However, when such an important banquet was about to start, the fourteenth prince was lying in bed unable to get up because he was still busy indulging in beauty and drinking too much during the day, and his mother and concubine cried out in anger.

As for Qingyan, after looking at the seat map for a long time, he did not find his name - he is the most unfavored prince, and the Department of Internal Affairs deliberately arranged his seat at the end of the lower seats outside the main hall , There is no seat for him on the seat map of the main hall!

But Qingyan's luck was quite good. When he was looking for his name, a palace man hurriedly ran to the head of the Department of Internal Affairs to report back, saying that the fourteenth prince could not come because he was drunk, and asked the head to find a way to replace him. The position of the Fourteenth Prince.So that the emperor would not feel that the fourteenth prince was arrogant and rude, so he would hate the fourteenth prince - after all, the grandfather of the fourteenth prince was Mr. Zhao, the elder of the dynasty, who was rich and powerful, and most of the palace people were bought by his family.

"I can take his place!" Qing Yan stood beside the manager and volunteered.

"How did you hear us talking!" The steward was taken aback, obviously he and the eunuch were whispering!However, he looked at Qingyan and felt that Qingyan's figure and appearance were very similar to the fourteenth prince, so he leaned over and said, "Isn't this His Royal Highness the fourth prince? Since cough, please sit in this seat first. You know what I know, don't make it public." After saying that, he quietly stuffed a few banknotes into Qingyan's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, you can just sit there, but don't act like a demon, or you will offend me. For His Highness Fourteenth and Concubine Shu, neither you nor I will end well."

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