Abandoned prince's favorite

Spring is cold.

In the second half of the night, there was a drizzle, and the patter did not stop until dawn. The raindrops hung under the eaves, fell on the banana leaves under the window and rolled into the folded leaves, forming a cloud. Little Wang's rain.

The sky was glowing with the color of Qingdai, and at the end of the ugly hour, the whole palace was lit up with lights.

Nanny Shi waved her hand to the palace people waiting outside the door to wash and wash, and lowered her voice extremely low, "You guys wait here first, let the second prince sleep for a while."

The palace people agreed with their blessings.

Standing cautiously in the cold morning wind, the wind carried some damp and blew the lanterns under the porch creaking.

It's the first moment of Yin time.

The second prince in the room suddenly woke up from the nightmare, his voice was hoarse.

"What time is it?"

Nanny Shi hurriedly beckoned people to come in and take care of dressing and freshening up, "It's just passed Yinshi."

The second prince, Xie Chengan, is only five or six years old now, and has baby fat on his little face, but he speaks very sophisticatedly. He frowned, and sternly shouted: "Stupid, why didn't you wake me up sooner?" ?”

The servants in a room knelt down on the ground, and Madam Shi hurriedly put his hands on him to dress him. She is Xie Chengan's wet nurse, and her status is different. She said with red eyes: "The slaves are watching His Highness working hard, so I told them to let you wear clothes." They waited outside the door for a while. Poor Your Highness, at this age, it's time for him to grow up. He suffers like this every day. I'm afraid that in the future..."

Little Xie Chengan's anger gradually subsided, and he reached out to hold Nanny's hand.

"Mommy, I know you love me, but my mother is going to test my homework today. If I am late, my mother will be angry, and you will be punished together."

Nanny Shi has lived in the palace for a long time, and she is used to the sky-high wealth. She also knows that this blessing is not something that everyone can afford. Take the second prince he served as an example, the second son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, The future crown prince is regarded by everyone as a noble, but only she knows the hard work involved.

"Although the servant girl is just a lowly slave, she also knows that she can only do other things when she is in good health. If the body is broken, isn't it just empty talk?"

Xie Chengan held the slightly rough hand of the nanny.

Many times he was thinking that it would be great if Nanny was his own mother. Nanny would take care of him when he was sick, would give him good food, would worry about him, and would not force him to read and practice calligraphy. .

Little Xie Chengan didn't have time to eat breakfast, so he just hid a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his sleeve and hurried to Jingren Palace.

He was still young, and it took a lot of effort to cross the threshold. When he walked into the hall, he knelt down to pay his respects to the queen, "My son to my mother." He pressed his forehead to the ground, and his whole body trembled from the cold bricks. Even if he didn't look at his mother's face, he knew that her mother must be angry, because today he was late by an incense stick.

The queen was sitting on the chair, her eyes were half downcast, her cold and gorgeous armor passed through the Persian cat lying on her knees, and followed it once and for all.

She paused for a moment, then glanced at Xie Chengan who was kneeling on the ground.

"Are you familiar with the books I asked you to memorize yesterday? Recite it to Ben Gong."

Little Xie Cheng'an was so frightened, coupled with his empty stomach, he stumbled over the passage he had already familiarized himself with, and when the last sentence was finished, he cautiously raised his head to look at the queen sitting on the seat, and was struck by her coldness again. The stern eyes were scared away, and he stood in the hall with his hands down.

After a few breaths, he stretched out his hands obediently.

"The son is stupid, so please ask the queen mother to punish him."

The nanny who was serving at the side took the bamboo stick and handed it to the queen. The queen walked up to him with the bamboo stick and gave him a hard slap.

There was a burning pain in his palm, little Xie Chengan bit his lip to prevent himself from crying.

"When your elder brother was around, why was he so useless like you? You have to know that you are a child of my palace, the future heir of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and an example for all princes. When your elder brother was as old as you, he recognized There are many words, and you can even understand the memorial, but what about you? I have given you three days to write an article, but you have not yet mastered it by heart. How can you compete with others in the future and set an example for others? "

When little Xie Chengan left Jingren Palace, his little hands were swollen and it was difficult to even hold them.

On the way to the study, little Xie Chengan hurriedly took out the sweet-scented osmanthus crisps that had been hidden in advance from his pocket, and ate two mouthfuls with hot water.

When he returned to the palace after a day of training and schoolwork, he was so tired that he didn't want to say anything, and fell asleep on the bed. Nanny Shi wiped his tears while taking off his shoes and socks.

I don't know how long I slept, but I woke up hungry.

There were lights in the house, and it was dark night outside.

He rubbed his eyes, and immediately woke up from the pain in his little hand. He let out a breath and blew on his hand.

There was movement at this end, and Nanny Shi woke up.

"Your Highness, are you hungry?"

Little Xie Chengan nodded.

Nanny Shi hurriedly asked someone to heat up the food and brought it up. Little Xie Chengan must have been hungry and devoured the food. Nanny Shi thought about it and reminded, "His Royal Highness, please eat slowly, and carefully let outsiders I saw it, and it spread to the empress's ears, saying that you have no rules when eating, and you will be punished again."

When the word "punishment" was mentioned, there was a burst of pain in the palm of my hand.

He took small bites of his meal, and finally raised his head, looking at Nanny Shi with bright eyes, "Mommy, is elder brother really that good? Why don't my father and queen mother like me, but only elder brother."

Nanny Shi wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, and hugged her into her arms.

"Who says your highness is bad? In the eyes of the nanny, your highness is the best child in the world. He is obedient and sensible, works hard, and ordinary children are still playing in mud at your age, but our highness already knows many of them. Words."

Little Xie Chengan lowered his eyes, and did not get too much comfort from Nanny Shi's words.

He broke free from Nanny Shi's arms, climbed onto the bed by himself, and covered himself with the quilt.

"Father is going to teach me how to ride and shoot tomorrow, so I'll go to bed first, so mother should go to bed early too!"

The next day, the sky was bright and clear.

Little Xie Cheng'an suffered a loss yesterday, he was hit by a slap in the palm of his hand, and today he got up very early in the morning, just after the ugly hour, and during the meal break, he silently wrote about the queen's school exam today, As usual, I first went to Jingren Palace to say hello, and then went to the study to study with the Taifus.

In the afternoon, I followed Emperor Qianyuan to the Royal Animal Garden.

It was the first time for little Xie Cheng'an to come here, and he felt that it was very fresh. There were many precious animals in it.

Little Xie Cheng'an had short legs, so he could barely keep up with Emperor Qianyuan's pace after trotting all the way.

Emperor Qianyuan pointed to the horses in the garden and said, "You pick one yourself."

Little Xie Chengan rolled his round eyes, and finally picked out an exceptionally handsome little white horse, and he asked cautiously, "Father, can I have this one?"

Emperor Qianyuan asked in a deep voice, "Why did you choose this horse?"

Little Xie Chengan was young, and he didn't know how to hide it, so he said bluntly.

"Because it has a pure coat color and looks good-looking, like a snow ball, my son plans to name it a snow ball."

Emperor Qianyuan looked sullen and shouted.

"ignorance."

The servants of Yumayuan knelt on the ground.

Emperor Qianyuan put a cold face on his face, "If you are a superior, you must always remember the word majesty. This white horse is just for show. Come here, pull it down and behead it. Bring the black horse to the second prince." .”

Some palace servants led the little white horse down, little Xie Chengan felt reluctance in his eyes, but he didn't dare to beg for mercy.

He took the rein of the black horse and followed Emperor Qianyuan to the turf.

Emperor Qianyuan simply said the precautions for riding a horse, then got on the horse, and then looked at little Xie Chengan.

Little Xie Chengan was only five or six years old, after climbing onto the horse's back with difficulty, he didn't know what kind of temper the black pony had developed, and it ran wildly. Little Xie Chengan was frightened and cried immediately, he hugged the horse's neck tightly , crying: "Father, save my son, I'm afraid..."

Emperor Qianyuan just watched with cold eyes.

"A manly man bleeds and doesn't shed tears. You are my son and the heir apparent of the future Great Zhou Dynasty. How can you behave like this?"

He didn't save him, and he didn't allow the palace people to save him.

Little Xie Cheng'an's strength was limited, he couldn't hug him any longer soon, he fell down when he tilted his body, but his foot got stuck in the stirrup, he was dragged by the black horse for a long time, until Emperor Qianyuan found out that something was wrong, and ordered him to die. People rescued him.

"It's useless. When your elder brother was your age, he was already proficient in riding and shooting."

Little Xie Chengan heard these words in a daze.

"Send the man back to the palace and let the imperial physician take a look."

Emperor Qianyuan left these words and left.

When little Xie Chengan was sent back to the palace covered in blood, Nanny Shi was terrified.

When the imperial physician came for diagnosis and treatment, Madam Shi saw that little Xie Cheng'an's back had been worn off a layer of skin. Although the little man was in a coma, he kept yelling about the pain.

Nanny Shi guarded him all night, and the tears never stopped.

When little Xie Chengan woke up, he saw only Madam Shi beside the bed, the light in his eyes dimmed.

"I'm hurt, will you see later, mother?"

Sister Shi couldn't bear to see him disappointed, so she smiled and comforted him: "The empress manages the six palaces, and the daily affairs are intricate..."

Before she could finish speaking, little Xie Chengan asked again, "What about the father?"

Nanny Shi patted his head.

"The emperor is busy with state affairs..."

Little Xie Cheng'an turned over, facing the inside, and stopped talking, but tears fell down uncontrollably.

For the first time, I thought that it would be great if I was not born in the royal family.

After he recovered from his injury, he secretly went to the Yumayuan, and asked the masters in the Yumayuan to teach him how to ride. Once, he was about to go back after he had just finished riding, when suddenly a ball of horses sprang out from the grass. The furry thing circled around his feet.

The servant of the Royal Animal Garden replied cautiously: "Your Highness, this is the new chow cub cub born in our Royal Animal Garden."

Little Xie Chengan held the puppy in his arms, very happy.

He quietly raised the puppies in the palace, loved them, ate and slept together, but before raising them for a few days, Emperor Qianyuan found out.

When Emperor Qianyuan came, little Xie Chengan was lying on the ground playing with puppies.

"Playing things and losing one's mind."

He leaned over to pick up the pup, then threw it hard.

Little Xie Cheng'an watched with his own eyes that the puppy's body shook a few times before it lost its breath.For the first time in his life, he was angry, and he said with red eyes: "Since father and queen don't like children so much, why did you give birth to the child again? You like elder brother so much, why don't you just want elder brother to be alone? What did you give birth to me?"

The rest is nothing more than a punishment.

Such days, until the age of 15, he was officially established as the prince.

After becoming the crown prince, he worked diligently and worked hard to make progress, but even so, he still couldn't get a word of affirmation from his father and queen mother, but if he made a slight mistake, he would inevitably be scolded.

It was that year that really made him feel ashamed.

When the imperial army rushed into the East Palace like locusts, he still didn't know what happened.It wasn't until the imperial army found the tools of witchcraft in the East Palace that he realized that he had been framed.

Emperor Qianyuan was seriously ill these days, he supervised the country and started to deal with some political affairs, he was all focused on the outside, but neglected to take precautions inside.

The corner of his lips curled into a sneer, and he no longer looked like a puppy crying after being thrown to death. He stood under the eaves with his hands behind his back, his eyes swept across the people in the yard.

He didn't believe that his father, who was always wise and decisive, would believe these nonsense, besides, he was already a prince, and sooner or later the Great Zhou Dynasty would belong to him, so why would he do such a rebellious act.

But the facts told him that everything was because he was too naive.

As soon as something happened in the East Palace, his queen mother surrendered the power of the Sixth Palace, and locked herself in Jingren Palace to atone for her sins.

Atonement?

What kind of sin to atone for?

What is he guilty of?

Why atonement?

Emperor Qianyuan even read the imperial decree himself.

"Prince Xie Cheng'an's conduct is unprovoked, he acts against the law, disregards the friendship between the monarch and his subjects, father and son, deprives the title of crown prince, demotes him to a commoner, lives in seclusion in the East Palace, and must die."

He threw the decree in his face.

"If it wasn't for thinking that you look a bit like the late eldest prince, I should have killed you, a rebellious son, with my own hands."

Xie Chengan sat paralyzed on the ground, his heart felt like a knife was being twisted, but he didn't shed any tears.

He had been fighting with his dead brother for more than ten years, but in the end he saved his life because of his brother.

How ironic.

When he was a child, he often thought that it would be good if he didn't have this brother, maybe he could live a smoother life and not have to live in his shadow, but as he got older, he realized that being born in the royal family was the original sin.

Because of his background, he was doomed to live in endless struggles all his life.

......

After the fire in winter, a new eunuch was assigned in the palace to serve him, the "wasteful" prince.

The new eunuch was tall and thin, with a good face. If he hadn't become a eunuch, he would have been a handsome young man outside. He was wary of him, just like the chess pieces that were sent in before.

But slowly he discovered that this little eunuch named Yu Fengbao was quite different from the previous ones.

So he sent someone to check his details and found that there was no problem.

A fall into a pit and a wisdom, the current situation cannot help him to act carelessly, he secretly used his unique ability, ecstasy.

He looked into his eyes, fascinated.

asked him a question.

He asked, "Why do you treat me so well?"

Yu Fengbao closed his eyes and mumbled his mouth.

"The slave was sold into the palace as a eunuch as a last resort. Since you entered the East Palace, then you are the master of the slave. The slave is afraid of death, so I don't want to be rich and rich, but to live in peace. In addition... .”

Xie Chengan's expression turned serious, and his voice was lowered.

"What else?"

A red cloud appeared on Yu Fengbao's fair face.

"His Royal Highness is beautiful!"