love palace

After lunch, Huang Ye discussed matters with several ministers, but because he was only the crown prince, he could only talk about the various situations in the world to avoid being charged with forming a party and making false comments.

For example, the turmoil outside the Great Wall, the war in the north, the drought in the west, the bandits in the east, etc. Huang Ye could not give instructions, but could only listen to the ministers.

Don't think it's a boring thing, but a large part of the emperor's so-called "everyday management" is to listen to the opinions of the officials and obtain their opinions.

After the two-hour interview ended, Zhao Guowei came just after the eunuch sent the ministers away. Maybe he thought he had merit in recommending the crown prince, so Zhao Guowei broke into the study regardless of etiquette.

"Go down." Huang Ye pushed back the eunuch and maid who deliberately blocked him, and gave Zhao Guowei a seat.

"Your Highness, please forgive me for being so presumptuous. I really want to know how you think about it?" Zhao Guowei asked with a frown.

"I said that I will give you an answer today, but I still feel that it is difficult to tell Father about this matter." Huang Ye paused and said, "You also know that Father has taken great care of his tenth younger brother Yonglin."

"Because of this, the old minister felt that he had to guard against it!"

Now that the eldest prince Yaozu has fallen, he was supposed to be sentenced to death, but the empress dowager loves this eldest grandson the most and refuses to say anything.Feeling helpless, the emperor had to cut Yaozu's title and put him under house arrest in a private house in the west of the city, and sent officers and soldiers to guard him.

As for Eunuch Zhang, who advised him and did all kinds of bad things, he was found shot in the abdomen and died in the reed pond in front of the east gate.

Suspected that he rushed back to the imperial city and wanted to ask for the protection of the empress dowager, but he didn't want to be punished and silenced.If Eunuch Zhang was not dead, the First Prince would not be able to escape the death penalty.

The matter has come to this point, Zhao Guowei can only give up, the other older princes have been sealed out of the palace, and the young princes are difficult to achieve, only the 11-year-old Yong Lin can threaten Huang Ye's crown prince.

As long as Huang Ye has not ascended the throne for a day, it is not new for the prince to change hands, and Zhao Guowei only wants to help Huang Ye, and does not want to cause trouble, so the night before yesterday, he specially came to a secret meeting with the prince and asked him to persuade the emperor to send the emperor's tenth son Yong Lin Go to the palace to avoid future troubles.

But Huang Ye didn't think so in his heart, maybe others didn't know, but he knew this brother very well.For Yonglin, power and money are just things outside of him, which he doesn't bring with him when he is born, and he doesn't take with him when he dies.I only need three meals for food and clothing, and I am content to paint in my spare time.

Being the ruler of the world and being admired by thousands of people is not as warm as a smile from a court lady. What he longs for is just a piece of human warmth...

However, being born in the emperor's family, he is doomed to have no relationship with his family in this life. Even the death of his mother, Concubine Hui, was not an accident.

Huang Ye was once warned by his mother and concubine, don't pay attention to this tenth brother, just let him fend for himself.But Huang Ye couldn't turn a blind eye to his younger brother, who was five years younger than him, who was extremely lonely and sick.

So, in the middle of the night, he taught him Qinglu Kingdom martial arts, so that he could strengthen his body and resist the attack of illness. No one knew how deeply the two of them had intersected.

Huang Ye has not seen his tenth brother for a long time, but this will not affect the relationship between them. Among the many princes, Huang Ye is closest to Yong Lin. If he is sent out of the palace, Zhao Guowei will definitely suffer. This is what he doesn't want to see.

Besides, Huang Ye didn't think that there was anything in him that was worth fighting for by Yonglin.

"Your Highness?" Seeing Huang Ye pondering for a while, Zhao Guowei urged anxiously, thinking that this matter could be done.

"I still don't think it's right." Huang Ye raised his head, stared at Zhao Guowei and said, "One is that the emperor favors the tenth younger brother. As we all know, if you ask him to leave the palace, he will definitely be rejected, and you will be bored. Second, the tenth younger brother I was weak and sick since I was a child, and keeping him is just to satisfy my father's kind heart. The stability of the harem is not harmful to me. Three things are also the most important..."

"How?" Zhao Guowei's face was already a little ugly, but he still asked with patience.

"I understand that you are loyal to me, General Zhao, but I have just been registered as the crown prince, and I hurriedly kicked out my younger brother. My father must have doubts about this. There is a saying that if the king doubts his ministers, the ministers will die. How can I How can I do something to make my father doubt me at such a critical juncture?" Huang Ye analyzed calmly.

"This..." It's not that Zhao Guowei doesn't know this truth, but keeping Yonglin is always a future problem, so hurry up if you want to get rid of it!But what Huang Ye said is also reasonable, it's not that he doesn't kill, it's just that if he acts too hastily, he will get angry. Isn't there a way to get the best of both worlds?

"When he turns 16." Huang Ye mused, "I'll ask my father to marry Princess Fan, and he will become the king of Fan in the future. Naturally, he won't be able to interfere in Dayan's political affairs."

The impoverished and remote Fanbang is a country to the south of Dayan. The folk customs are rough, with thatched houses and mud huts, but they are good at riding and shooting. They send envoys to pay tribute to Dayan every year.

Because it is a place where there is not much oil and water to fish for, even Jiedu envoys seldom go there, and it is extremely inconvenient to travel between mountains and rivers.But at the same time, it is also a place that Zhao Guowei's minions cannot touch. For Yonglin, it is a simple but safe place for life.

"This plan kills two birds with one stone, very good!" Zhao Guowei clapped his hands and shouted, "Prince Fan is the prince of the court, and he is sincerely for Dayan. I think the emperor will not object."

Huang Ye nodded slightly, and the matter was considered settled.

"The old minister will resign first!" Zhao Guowei's proposal was not easy to be dismissed, so he somehow saved face and left again in high spirits.

For some reason, Huang Ye was standing by the desk while playing chess, thinking that maybe Ke Weiqing should be kept by his side. At such a time, I really want to see his face...

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The spring rain is falling, the mountains are blue and the flowers are red, and the rain like smoke and mist nourishes the earth and people's hearts.

Since it was a rainy day, the work of drying the medicine could not be done. Ke Weiqing held a large roll of cut kraft paper, wrapped the herbs that had been sun-dried in the previous day, tied them tightly with rope, and put them in sacks for storage.

Tai Hospital has a room dedicated to storing medicinal herbs, which is called the medicine storehouse.Every first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, the door will be opened to clean up, the rotten ones will be removed, and the new medicines will be registered in the warehouse. Today is Ke Weiqing's turn.

Even if the face is covered with a white cloth, the smell is still choking, there are sour, bitter, astringent, and smelly, several smells are mixed together, and the room is not ventilated, so I finally bundled three sacks of herbs, Ke Weiqing felt a little dizzy.

After going out to breathe for a while, I heard a commotion in the imperial hospital ahead, and I could hear the deacon and eunuch shouting loudly, "His tenth highness is here!"

"Your Majesty the Tenth?" Ke Weiqing was a little surprised. The masters would not come to the Tai Hospital. Why did the Tenth Majesty come here?

And Dan ranked tenth... Ke Weiqing thought to himself, he should be the younger brother of His Royal Highness, right?

On the Zhuque River Valley last fall, Ke Weiqing had a bad impression of the tyrannical eldest prince, but he didn't know much about the other princes.

Of course, even the imperial doctor may not know all the princes and grandchildren, let alone Ke Weiqing, who is an apprentice. Although he wants to see what the prince's younger brother looks like, the most important thing at the moment is to clean up the medicine storehouse.

Just as He Weiqing was about to go back to the pharmacy, he saw a group of people coming across the courtyard.The eunuch on the right is holding an umbrella, accompanied by Imperial Physician Yang on the left, and the young man in the middle is wearing a feather crown and a light yellow brocade robe, walking gracefully.

"Ah—!" Ke Weiqing stretched out his hand, pointed at the boy, and stammered, "This, isn't this...?!"

"Bold slave!" Seeing this, the eunuch opened his mouth and scolded, "Your Majesty the Tenth Highness, what are you doing with your fingers?! Why don't you kneel down and pay your respects!"

"Yes." Ke Weiqing knelt down immediately, and they stopped in front of him.

"The old slave is incapable of discipline, please forgive me, Your Highness!" Doctor Yang apologized hastily.As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, even if His Highness the Tenth Highness is unlikely to inherit the throne of Dayan, but he is a prince after all, how dare they neglect the slightest bit.

"Hehe, that's all. I said before that I can only get out of bed and walk around because there are too many elixir in the hospital. I came today to thank you. There is no reason to punish you." The tenth prince Yonglin smiled, Show off your clean, white teeth.

"A slave deserves death!" Doctor Yang knelt down, shaking his beard with excitement, "It is the duty of this old slave to heal His Highness, how dare I accept thanks! It really is death..."

"Okay, why are you looking for death? It seems that I have come to the wrong place. Get up." Yonglin's voice is gentle and honest, just like the continuous spring rain, which makes people feel very comfortable.

"Xiao Shunzi." Yong Lin called softly.

"The slave is here."

"Just give me the umbrella. You can help Imperial Physician Yang go back to rest. Didn't I bring some snacks? Share them with everyone. I want to chat with this little slave alone for a while, and I'll go back later."

"Yes."

In this world, probably only the Tenth Prince would be considerate of the slaves, but because of this, although he has no power or influence, he is very lovable.Doctor Yang thanked him a thousand times and went back to the Imperial Hospital with the eunuch.

"Get up." Yonglin covered Ke Weiqing's head with the umbrella, "I'm all wet."

"What are you doing here?" Although Ke Weiqing knew that he shouldn't make a mistake, he couldn't help but glared at the pretendingly weak prince, "Aren't you a guard today?"

"Haha!" Yonglin laughed loudly, "You really still remember me."

"I'm afraid it's hard to forget..." Ke Weiqing muttered softly after suffering from pain in her buttocks for several days, and she couldn't even sleep well.

"Then, are you going to report me?" Yonglin smiled and said, "It's a lie to say that I'm weak and sick, but it's true that I'm good at martial arts, and I even pretended to be a guard and wandered around."

Ke Weiqing thought for a while, then shook his head, "No."

"why?"

"Everyone has secrets, I can't control so much." Ke Weiqing replied honestly.He has so much to learn, how can he have the time to take care of the Tenth Prince's affairs.

"Furthermore..." Ke Weiqing hesitated to speak.

"how?"

"I'm glad to see that it's fake that His Highness is weak and sick. It's hard to be sick." When Ke Weiqing was a child, he suffered from many illnesses. He was young and couldn't eat enough. It was not easy for the cook to pull him up.During the day he didn't dare to cry hungry, but at night he ate rotten cold meals, and ended up with vomiting and diarrhea, and a fever, and dragged his drowsy body to thaw grass to feed the horses, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

"You are not big, but what you say is very sensible." Yong Lin said with a smile, "You will become a great weapon in the future."

"Hmph, I will grow taller in the future, we are only one year away!" Ke Weiqing protested.

"But I will always be one year older than you, won't I? If you grow taller, I will grow taller too." Yong Lin deliberately stimulated Ke Weiqing, "Compared to me, you are just a little bit."

"His Royal Highness!" Ke Weiqing blushed as expected, her cheeks were puffed out, she was so cute!

"Okay, here's something delicious." Yonglin smiled, took out a paper package from his sleeve, opened it, and it turned out to be a little rabbit made of sugar and rice flour.

"rabbit?"

"Cute, isn't it? It's filled with very sweet and fragrant lotus seed paste. It's still warm. Eat it quickly."

"You don't get paid for nothing..." Ke Weiqing muttered softly, remembering a sentence he had read in a book.

"Hehe, why are you useless? You covered me and slipped away, didn't you? This is a special treat for you. Your butt should hurt, right?"

"..."

"It seems that I made you suffer." Yonglin tilted his head and said.

"If your Highness is fine, please go back." Ke Weiqing raised his head and said, "I still have to tidy up the medicine store."

"You are the only one to tidy up such a big medicine warehouse?" Yonglin visited the warehouse, "Isn't it too hard?"

"I can do it."

"No, let me help you? Do you want to tie up all the sacks over there?" Yonglin said, and stuffed the snacks and the oil umbrella into Ke Weiqing's hands.

"Huh? Your Highness!"

"I've been lying on the bed for several days, it's time for me to move my muscles and bones." Yong Lin said to himself, walking towards the scattered sacks, "Well, this bag is honeysuckle, right?"

"His Highness recognizes it?"

"You've become a doctor after a long illness, haha." Yong Lin rolled up his sleeves, not like a prince at all, and worked hard.

"That's not the case, this bag has to be moved there." Ke Weiqing put away the snacks, followed Yong Lin, and started to work quickly.

The two worked together, and it didn't take long to take care of the warehouse in order.Ke Weiqing fetched water and washed Yonglin's hands, but the rain became heavier and heavier, so the two sat on the sack to rest.

Ke Weiqing ate the palace dessert that Yonglin gave him, and his mouth was full of fragrance. He had never eaten such a delicious thing.

"Come on, I'll wipe it for you." Yong Lin smiled and reached out to wipe away the debris from Ke Weiqing's mouth.

"Thank you." Ke Weiqing bowed his head and continued to nibble on the snacks.

"You don't seem surprised."

"Um?"

"I'm the prince." Yonglin laughed.

"Probably because... I am the bodyguard of His Highness the Crown Prince." The Crown Prince was also a prince, so he was naturally not surprised.

Also, for some reason, Ke Weiqing thought of Huang Ye when the ten princes approached him that day with lightness kung fu, and had a feeling of déjà vu, but maybe it was because he was careless.

"Really?" Yonglin was very surprised, and asked, "You are brother Jiu, no, you are the guard of His Royal Highness?"

"Well, it's still a personal bodyguard." Ke Weiqing raised his head and stared at Yonglin with piercing eyes.

Speaking of which, Yong Lin had heard that Huang Ye recruited new people after the autumn harvest, but he didn't know which ones.

"Then why did you come to the Imperial Hospital? Shouldn't you be guarding the Prince's Hall?" Yonglin asked puzzled.

"This..." Ke Weiqing couldn't say it out loud. He made mistakes all the time, so he was thrown out by the prince.Thinking of this, his chest hurts like a sudden grab.

"Okay, I got it." Seeing Ke Weiqing lowered his eyes, still unable to hide the tears in his eyes, Yong Lin quickly comforted him, "There is nothing wrong with studying medicine, I still expect you to see a doctor for me."

Probably because Ke Weiqing was too young and was excluded by others, that's why he came to Tai Hospital. This was Yonglin's idea.

"I will go back to the Prince's Hall in the future." Unexpectedly, Ke Weiqing said very firmly, "Before that, I will study hard!"

"Haha, ambitious, like a real man." Yong Lin smiled and patted Ke Weiqing on the shoulder, "Although you are a little one now."

"I will grow up! In three years, I will be able to go to the battlefield!" Ke Weiqing didn't know how many times he protested.

"Yeah, haha." After Yonglin laughed, he suddenly said seriously, "Little one, do you know?"

"what?"

"In the palace, those who are too powerful will not live long."

"Ah?" Ke Weiqing looked as if he had been severely injured, his face suddenly turned pale, "Why?"

"When you grow up, you will know." Yong Lin said with a half-smile.

"Then..." Ke Weiqing clenched his knees, and said with tears in his eyes, "Then, His Royal Highness...will die?"

As soon as the word "death" was uttered, Ke Weiqing's tears fell out, and her lips were pressed tightly together in pain!

"Huh?" Yong Lin was stunned, and murmured, "The prince won't know."

"But you said...?"

"Yes, the palace is very dangerous, but the prince is an exception. In other words, he is more powerful than anyone else, so nothing will happen."

"Is it really going to be okay?"

"I promise, doesn't he have such a loyal bodyguard as you?" Yong Lin caressed Ke Weiqing's tear-wet face, "So, don't cry."

"Okay..." Ke Weiqing seemed relieved.

"You are really interesting, or you are very powerful..." Yonglin was so confused by him in this short period of time, he was completely at a loss.

"what?"

"Hehe, I seem to have made you cry again." Yonglin still remembers the last time Ke Weiqing fell from the roof and landed on his buttocks, his eyes were red.

Ke Weiqing silently wiped his face with his sleeve. It is said that men do not shed tears lightly, but why could he not hold back the urge to cry?

Looking at Ke Weiqing, who is delicate, cute, and unexpectedly straightforward, Yonglin likes him more and more. However, he soon thought of another thing.

Could it be that Brother Jiu felt the same way, that's why he sent Ke Weiqing out of the East Palace?It was difficult for a child as dazzling as him not to be noticed.

But it's too dangerous for a child to show his sharpness.Was it because of his preciousness that he was hidden in the Imperial Hospital?

This can be said to be cultivated intentionally, but it is hidden from people's eyes and ears, just like Huang Ye taught him martial arts in those years, but he didn't let him speak out to the outside world.

A prince who is always sick and ignorant is less likely to attract other people's murder.

"Little one, let's pull the hook, shall we?" Yong Lin stretched out his little finger and said with a smile.

"Pull hook?"

"Just hook the little fingers together...yes, like this, hook them tightly." Yonglin taught Ke Weiqing hand in hand, like how to hook the fingers together, and then let each other's thumbs touch.

"This is?"

"Pull hook up, 100 years, not allowed to change." Yonglin read nursery rhymes solemnly, "Xiao Budian and I are good brothers, this secret, no one can tell."

"Your Highness and I?" Ke Weiqing was flattered.

"You do not want it?"

"No..." Ke Weiqing smiled shyly.He was in the palace and didn't have any friends yet, so he happily asked, "Lagou, is that the meaning of the agreement?"

"Yes, you are really smart." Yong Lin hooked Ke Weiqing's little hand, "Come on, little one."

"Understood." Ke Weiqing shook his hands in the same way, thinking, pulling the hook is really interesting. He learned a new thing in the palace, but he didn't know when he would tell His Highness the Crown Prince...

Entering April, spring is in full bloom.In the back garden next to Guozixue, there are green willows hanging down, blue waves rippling, flowers in full bloom, bees swimming and butterflies dancing, which is very lively.

Ke Weiqing was holding a bookbag, pen and inkstone case in his arms, and this garden was the only way to go to work in Tai Hospital after returning from school.

The weather was fine, but Ke Weiqing just couldn't be happy. In the school in the morning, he was teased by other young masters again.

It was just after Yin time in the morning, and a group of officials and sons had already entered the hall for morning reading. When Ke Weiqing entered, they saw that they tore rice paper one after another, rolled it into strips, and stuffed it on their nostrils.

Ke Weiqing didn't know why.When the teacher came, he saw this and asked them, what does this mean?

As a result, they all said in unison that Ke Weiqing's body smelled like medicine, and they couldn't stand it, so they made such a bad move, and hoped that the master would be more considerate.

That being the case, the master said, then the little prince should sit at the back.Ke Weiqing had no choice but to lift the bench and sit in the small corner behind.As a result, they threw paper balls, bugs, and mud balls at Ke Weiqing while the master was looking down at the book, making a mess all over the place.

When the master saw him, he thought Ke Weiqing was naughty, so he hit his palm with a ruler, and punished him to clean it up before leaving school.

The young masters rushed away, and the master also left. Ke Weiqing swept the floor first, then flushed the water, wiped the tables and chairs, and cleaned up after being sweaty.

Now, he was rushing back to Doctor Yang's place, but he still slowed down when he passed the picturesque garden.

Beside the sparkling lake are weeping willows and jagged and changeable stones. The stone path extends to a rockery. A pavilion stands on the top of the mountain, with the green word "Wangchun Pavilion" engraved on the plaque.

There are no less than thousands of pavilions and pavilions in the palace, and the scenes are different. Some are only allowed to visit the royal family, but this one is different, ordinary palace people can go up and have a look.

When Ke Weiqing was about to climb up the stairs, he heard a question from behind, "Are you just after school?"

"what?!"

Ke Weiqing turned around abruptly, the movement was so big that the pen case in his arms fell to the ground, but he couldn't pick it up, his eyes and heart were all about the person in front of him.

"His Royal Highness...!" As if in a dream, it has been several months since I saw him. The prince Huang Ye is more and more tall and handsome. Standing there, he makes all the flowers look pale, and the grass and trees are also gloomy.That stunning posture, the aura of a king, made Ke Weiqing's heart jump up suddenly, and he felt the blood rushing all over his body, and he was so excited!

"I passed by here and heard that Guozixue had been released a long time ago, so I thought I wouldn't see you." Huang Ye's black eyes stared at the peachy-faced Ke Weiqing.He has grown taller and gained some weight, but the clear light in his eyes is still as dazzling as the stars.

Ke Weiqing still looks innocent and straightforward, which makes Huang Ye very satisfied. I don't know how many children, once they enter the palace, they will be like falling into lead dust. They always have a worldly air, which is also the so-called official accent.

"Your Highness, do you have anything to do with me?" Ke Weiqing forgot to call himself a slave again. He stared at Huang Ye with shining eyes, afraid that if he blinked, it would be just a daydream.

"Leave first." Huang Ye turned his face slightly, and said to the little eunuchs beside him.

It was only then that Ke Weiqing noticed that the little father-in-law was standing behind the prince with his hands hanging down, and the entrance to the garden was guarded by the Imperial Forest Army.

"Walk with me." Huang Ye said, walking ahead.He didn't go to Wangchun Pavilion, but walked through the cave under the rockery and came to the back, on a stone platform next to the lake.

Ke Weiqing quickly followed, he didn't know that there was a cave at the bottom of the rockery, this cave and the mountain wall separated them from the eunuchs, no one was around, only the spring was bright and the breeze was blowing, which was very pleasant.

"What are you doing standing so far away?" Huang Ye turned around and saw Ke Weiqing standing very cautiously with his head down.

"It's good that I'm here..." The wind blew the hem of his clothes, and Ke Weiqing suddenly remembered one thing - how dare the prince smell the medicine smell on his body?

"Are you hiding from me?"

"Huh? No!" Ke Weiqing hurriedly waved his hands to deny, but saw Huang Ye approaching step by step.

"Since you're not avoiding me, why keep backing away?"

"Your Highness, I... that... Imperial Physician... herbs..." Ke Weiqing blushed and stammered.

"Stop." Huang Ye shouted in a low voice.

"But……"

"You're going to fall."

"what?"

Ke Weiqing turned his head back, there were still several steps away from the lake, how could he fall?At this moment, his arm was pulled forward by a powerful force, Ke Weiqing staggered, and plunged into Huang Ye's arms.