Hotaru [The Tale of Genji]

Prince Ying seems to be in distress recently.He would often sit silently, staring at the courtyard in a daze.The tender back reveals a confused and low breath.

In this palace, there are only two people who really feel close to His Royal Highness the Prince.One is Dong Gong and the other is his mother.

However, His Royal Highness Suzaku has always regarded Prince Ying as a child who needs the care and care of his elder brother.And where he couldn't see, the adult side displayed by His Royal Highness the fourth prince did not always attract the attention of this Highness.This child is more precocious than what Donggong knew.

The servants dare not disturb the prince.And when Prince Ying put away the ups and downs in his heart and appeared in front of the East Palace with an innocent face, his elder brother did not notice the strange and premature appearance of the fourth prince's unknown worry.

And in this world, the only person who can thoroughly see the different side of Prince Zaohui from ordinary people is his maverick mother.

Today's sky is light and rainy.

It is really strange that the spring of previous years is not as rainy as this year.This kind of humid weather will only fill people's hearts and make people more depressed.

The rain gradually became heavier, and the maids hurriedly put down the cover to prevent the rain from getting in and wet the essentials.In this way, the light in the room is even more dim.

His Royal Highness was in a daze, the rain came in and wet his forehead hair, and also wet the scroll on his hand.But Yingying is ignorant, just looking at the distance dimly.A corner of the palace wall was already submerged in mist and rain, and that silent, cool atmosphere lingered around him.

"firefly……"

The prince's body moved, he turned his head, and there was a person standing in a dark corner of the room.The hem of the clothes rustled on the ground, and a slim figure approached.

"His Majesty the Mother."

"Why are you sitting here? You'll get chills in the wind and rain."

"Ah."

The prince replied, stood up obediently and moved back a few steps.Under the watchful eyes of his mother, someone changed into dry clothes and dried his hair.

The mother and son sit here enjoying the rain, silent to each other.All that remains is the sound of bamboo joints beating stones from time to time.I don't know how many rings passed.The female royal did not intend to disturb His Highness's thoughts, but just sat silently with her, waiting until the prince expressed his confusion.

There is a scroll between the two of them, which is exactly the one just now.The corners have been soaked, I'm afraid it has affected the inside and destroyed the ink.

finally--

"Mother... what is the love between a man and a woman..."

"This..." I didn't expect the youngest son to ask this question.Nuyu smiled bitterly, rubbed the delicate lines on the cuffs, and said softly: "This, mother doesn't know either."

The prince looked up at the female royal.There was bitterness on her beautiful face, but her eyes were full of tenderness.

"Your Majesty, have you ever liked anyone?"

"Hey, yes." Her Royal Highness put away her reminiscing thoughts and chuckled, "Even now, I still love that person."

"It turns out that liking someone can last for so long."

"If you really fall in love with someone, it may be a lifetime."

"Won't it change?"

"This probably depends on the person."

"Is it……"

His Highness Yingying seemed even more confused.

Nuyu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she didn't know what to say.How to explain the mysterious and strange feeling of love between a man and a woman—this kind of sweet and bitter taste that you will experience at an old age is something that a six-year-old child cannot understand.

She could only throw out one sentence feebly.

"The love between a man and a woman, this will be understood after Yingying performs the crowning ceremony."

"En," the prince replied absently, and his eyes fell on the scroll at hand.

"This painting is about the East Palace."

"It is indeed His Royal Highness, brother."

"Is it finished? I remember Hotaru is going to give this painting away."

"It was originally planned, but let's forget it now."

"why?"

Prince Ying lowered his head, pursed his lips, and said: "...Because it's different."

Suzaku back then was different from what it is now.

Something happened around Donggong that Prince Ying could not participate in.His Royal Highness felt a bleak sense of gain and loss: he admired the emperor deeply, and perhaps he would no longer belong to him alone.

"Did something happen?"

"That day, I went to Chaoyang House to find Brother Huang—"

Prince Ying described what he saw that day.He remembered that Suzaku laughed after the young lady finished speaking.And Donggong's response made the female son very happy.There was an atmosphere between the two that no one could disturb.Elegant East Palace, beautiful girl.Apricot blossoms fell on their sleeves and skirts one after another.That is the scene that only appears in the most elegant poetry.

What a tender scene.However, it does not belong to His Royal Highness Ying—this is a scene that His Royal Highness, as the younger brother of the emperor, cannot participate in.

"At that time, the emperor's brother also showed the same gentle eyes as his mother just now." The prince murmured softly, the second half of his words were weak and inaudible, "The kindness that Suzaku looked at that girl..."

and to me

……no the same

People at this time will indeed become very different from usual.Although it was subtle, Hotaru, who was always paying attention to Suzaku, noticed it very keenly.

If so, this is love.

This feeling can last so long on one person.Or maybe it will be entrusted to another person as people come and go.No matter what the situation is, Prince Ying can't participate in it, and can't control it.In the near future, he could only look at others standing beside Dong Gongxia.

If only the Fourth Prince a year ago could say things like hate and hate willfully.But now that His Royal Highness, who has already learned the truth, is concerned about Donggong's mood, how can he let the happy Suzaku fall into a dilemma.

Yingying is a sensible child, but in the end there is something ignorant and unknown.Before being able to appreciate all kinds of love and love in the world, the precocious prince who has experienced incomplete world affairs can only be so distressed day after day.

"...Is that so, Dong Gonggong has already reached Mu Shaoai's age."

The prince looked at his mother earnestly, hoping to say something from her that could relieve his depressed mood.

"What is Yingying planning to do?" The female imperial servant looked directly into His Royal Highness Yingying's eyes.The two looked at each other like this for a while, the fourth prince shook his head, and replied, "I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, and I don't know how to do it."

"Don't you like Donggong talking to that young lady?"

"No, I do not know."

"Do you want Donggong to only have you in his eyes?"

"I, I don't know... Mother..."

"When Donggong is gentle to others, will you be jealous?"

"Mother! That's not the case!"

"firefly!"

There was an explosion and thunder in the air, and the continuous rain now seemed to have gone crazy, turning into a torrential rain.One after another, it seems that it will never be finished.There is no other superfluous sound between heaven and earth——

The prince was stunned.

He was held in his mother's arms blankly, and the tip of his nose was filled with the smell of his mother.The tense strength on his body and the constant warmth from his mother made him calm down the chaotic emotions just now.Firefly stretched out her hand to hug her mother back, there was a slight trembling and inconspicuous crying after barely calming down in her words.

"Mother, I don't know what you said just now."

"Sorry." The maid of Chengxiang Palace hugged her son tightly, and rubbed her face on the tender neck of His Highness the Prince.She patted the prince on the back and comforted him, "I'm sorry, Yingying, it's because mother is too impatient."

His Royal Highness shook his head and buried his face in his mother's arms.

"Son, many opportunities will be lost because you don't know the inside story of many things. If you can't resolve the emotions in your heart, why not confess to the East Palace." Feeling the child trembling in his arms, His Royal Highness continued to say : "Or, you can get to know that young lady..."

Perhaps it was the mother's words that somewhat pointed Prince Ying in a direction.The child finally nodded in his mother's arms before withdrawing from his mother's arms.He belatedly felt a little embarrassed about his coquettish behavior, so he took the painting and left with the excuse that he still had to study for homework.

Her Royal Highness watched her child leave with a smile.He didn't stop smiling until he could no longer hear the child's footsteps.She fell to the side hastily as if she lost her strength, and barely supported it with her arms.

The long hair like a flowing spring was languishing on the ground, winding in an unbearable appearance, trembling almost invisibly.Nuyu's expression was obscure, and it took a long time before she took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and supported herself to sit up straight.

She tried her best to sit upright, and a line of Yin Hong's blood flowed out from the corner of her mouth.The fishy smell infiltrated the determination of the female imperial court, just like when she locked herself in the Sensen Imperial Palace many years ago with a lonely heart.

"... Firefly, no matter what you do, your mother will protect you."

Blonde is what you long for,

Still, what you long for...

that person.

The author has something to say: Chengxiangdian is a very smart woman, and she can perceive many things in the sidelines.

Her determination is related to her own experience.

In addition, Dong Gong is straight now, not a pedophile.Please don't criticize him for wanting to have a relationship, QAQ