Feng Lingxiao hasn't arrived yet, but it is expected that he will not sit with the Queen Mother and others tonight. He should sit with King Qingping because tonight is a banquet for King Qingping.
There are ten people at a table. Long Chuxia is here with the Queen Mother, the Queen, Concubine Hua, Concubine Shu, several nobles Zhaoyi, plus herself, there are exactly ten people. In fact, she has been hanging around in the harem for so long. She really doesn’t know a few of them.
She looked over at King Qingping's table and saw a familiar figure, the third prince, the son of Concubine Ying. He was sitting there alone, his young and mature face looked a little melancholy. He probably knew that something had happened to his mother and concubine, but
But they cannot leave the palace to meet each other. The prince is basically not allowed to leave the palace before he is under age. Unless he is accompanied by a large group of people, he will not leave the palace easily.
She looked at her table. It was already full, and there was no room for one more person. Next to the third prince were several children of about the same age. I think they were the eldest prince and the second prince. Their mothers and concubines were already there.
They died and are now being raised by the queen. The queen personally teaches them literary and martial arts. She treats them as her own children but she is not her biological mother. The two princes are not very close to the queen, and their temperaments are relatively withdrawn. Their expressions are the same as those of the third prince, and they are not used to it.
Sitting with many princes
Long Chuxia rolled her eyes, then quietly walked to the third prince and said, "Boy, how about we find another table to sit down at?"
The third prince's eyes were filled with joy and he whispered: "Sister Long, is it you?"
"Yes, let's sit over there, okay?" Long Chuxia pointed to the table at the end and said
"Okay, okay!" The third prince stood up quickly, and the eldest prince and second prince also stood up and whispered: "We will go too!"
Long Chuxia waved her hand, and several little kids followed her to the table at the end. One of them, a tall man of about twenty-five years old, wearing a blue satin brocade jacket, shouted to the three of them: "You guys
Where are you going? Come back quickly and sit here with the emperor!"
However, Long Chuxia held on to her mother-in-law as if she couldn't hear him, and kept drinking the tea soup in front of her.
When the man in green clothes saw this, he stood up and walked over. He looked at Long Chuxia and found that he had never seen him before, so he asked: "Is this the new comer to the palace? Is he the empress or the mistress?"
Long Chuxia shook his head and said: "I am the teacher of the three of them. I just want to check their homework tonight, so I want them to sit next to me!"
"Teacher?" The man in green gave Long Chuxia a strange look, "Why is there a female teacher? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"This teacher is newly hired by the Queen Mother. Naturally, the Emperor's uncle has never seen it before!" The eldest prince was the eldest prince after all. He was very alert and immediately moved the Queen out.
The man in green was relieved, "I see, then you guys sit next to me obediently and don't mess around, you know?"
"Yes, Uncle Twelve Emperors!" All three of them nodded obediently.
Long Chuxia also said to the Twelve Princes: "Don't worry, Prince, I will take care of the three of them. It will be fine!"
"Then there's Mr. Lao!" The Twelve Prince didn't mind Long Chuxia's impoliteness, but respected him very much. It turned out that the Twelve Prince was a warrior and didn't like to study, but he only knew knowledge after he joined the court and participated in political affairs.
Therefore, I had a feeling of admiration for scholars. Now that I heard that Long Chuxia, a female prostitute, could enter the palace as a teacher, I naturally admired her very much and thought that I would definitely ask her for advice someday.
"Are you the boss?" Long Chuxia asked, pointing to a boy about eleven or twelve years old.
"Yes!" the eldest prince said maturely, sitting upright, "Who are you? Why are you so familiar with the third emperor's brother?"
"Then you are naturally the second child!" After Long Chuxia finished speaking, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile. This question was a bit indecent. Fortunately, the children didn't know why she was smiling. The second prince said seriously: "Yes, this prince is
Dick!"
The third prince smiled and said, "Sister Long, why did you come to the banquet tonight?"
Of course, Long Chuxia would not say that she was greedy, let alone that she was doing it with a group of children because they had little appetite and would not fight for food with her. She just curled her lips and said: "I didn't want to come at first, but the Queen Mother decided
I have no choice but to come here to socialize!"
The third prince said very boringly: "Yeah, it's not fun at all!"
Seeing that everyone was listless, Long Chuxia said, "We'll eat quickly. After we finish, I'll take you to play!"
The eldest prince said in disbelief: "You are taking us there? Where can we go? We can't leave the palace. I really want to see the world outside the palace!"
Long Chuxia was a little moved, "Have you never left the palace?"
"No!" The three of them shook their heads together, looking a little lonely. Long Chuxia suddenly felt that the children in the harem were all pitiful people. Although they were nobles from Tianhuang, they were not as good as ordinary people. The eldest prince thought for a moment and then said: "Actually, this prince is.
I have been there. That year when my mother-in-law was buried, I sent my mother-in-law’s coffin into the imperial mausoleum and went out once.”
The second prince also said: "Yes, I also went there when my mother-in-law was buried!"
Long Chuxia touched the second prince's head and said, "Okay, I'll take you out to play some other time when I'm free."
"No, my father will punish us if he finds out!" The eldest prince immediately shook his head, "And we have to go to school and practice martial arts every day, so we can't leave at all!"
Long Chuxia whispered: "If we go out secretly, won't no one know about it?"
The three of them looked at each other, and they were all a little ready to move. The third prince said: "It would be great if I could leave the palace and see my mother and concubine."
The eldest prince and the second prince said in unison: "It would be great if I could go to my grandpa's house. Grandpa and grandma really love me!"
The tone and words of both of them are the same. It seems that this wish has been stored in their hearts for a long time, but they have never been acted upon. Although their grandparents occasionally visit them in the palace, in the end, the palace is no better than the outside, except for many things.
There are many etiquette and restrictions, and I don’t even dare to say my own words.
Long Chuxia made up his mind to take these three bone dragons out of the palace to play someday.
As he was talking, he saw a bright yellow figure in front of him in the dim light, surrounded by a large group of palace people. He walked briskly, and he could tell that he was in a good mood tonight.
"See you, Your Majesty!" Everyone quickly stood up and saluted.
Feng Lingxiao stretched out his hand and pressed it and said: "We are all brothers tonight, so there is no need to be polite. Everyone sits down!"
He glanced at the whole audience, and when his eyes touched Long Chuxia, he was stunned for a moment. He was slightly shocked when he saw that the three princes were sitting at the same table as Long Chuxia, but he remained calm and only paid attention to Manager Li beside him.
After saying a few words, Manager Li nodded and walked straight in the direction of Long Chuxia.
"Miss Long, the emperor ordered you and the three princes to sit over here!"
Long Chuxia counted the heads and said: "Now there are seven people at that table. If we sit over, there will be one more person, okay?" If there are eleven people at a table, wouldn't it mean that we have to fight over it to eat?
Manager Li warned: "Girl, you'd better not disobey me tonight, otherwise it will be bad to make me angry."
The third prince dragged Long Chuxia's hand and said: "Sister Long, it's better to go over there. Once the father is angry, it will be terrible!" The third prince has always been afraid of his father, and so are the eldest prince and the second prince. When they heard that he was the emperor,
They all murmured the orders without daring to say a word.