Prince Jin'an stepped out of the hall door and saw the second prince walking happily.
"Brother, let's go to Father's place to look at the map," he said.
Since that day, the second prince became more and more interested in maps and was quite spiritual. The emperor simply asked an official from the Taishi Bureau to teach him geography, not wanting him to learn anything, just for fun.
Prince Jin'an smiled and shook his head.
As a prince, he can see the map, but as the prince, he cannot see the map all the time.
"Go ahead, my mother has sent you a New Year's gift. I'm going to sort it out and check it out." He smiled.
"Really? That's great, brother, go quickly." The second prince said happily.
"I will pick some good specialties for you to keep." King Jin'an said, "My youngest brother is about the same as you. He will definitely send me some toys for you to play with."
The second prince became more and more happy, blushing and nodding like a chicken eating rice.
"Your Highness, let's go quickly. Don't keep Your Majesty waiting." The chamberlain reminded from behind, "Didn't the Queen tell you something?"
The second prince said oh, waved to Prince Jin'an and left happily.
And the eldest prince here is also being pushed out the door.
"Mother, I don't want to go. I haven't finished memorizing my books yet..." he said.
The imperial concubine stared.
"Endorsement? What's so easy to memorize! Your father likes this now, why don't you learn it quickly?" She said, "I've heard people say that you don't study hard. Every time I ask you, you can't answer."
superior."
"But I don't like to learn this..." the eldest prince said aggrievedly.
"Okay, whether you like to learn or not, it doesn't matter what you learn. The important thing is to let your father see that you are learning." The imperial concubine softened her tone again, reached down and touched his face, "Be good,
Fourth brother, be obedient and go quickly."
The eldest prince said oh and followed the chamberlain reluctantly.
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"Ms. Cheng, did you give me a gift?"
Accompanied by the children's shouts, Chen Danniang ran into the room.
In the room, the parents and sisters were sitting and listening to the servant woman. She suddenly broke in and interrupted their conversation.
"How dignified is it to yell?" Chen Shao said displeased.
Chen Danniang hurriedly lowered her head and bowed to admit her mistake. Chen Shiba Niang waved her over to sit down. Chen Danniang hurriedly went over and sat down among her sisters, looking at the servant girl with some excitement.
"How are you, Mrs. Cheng? Did you say when you will be back?" She couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
Chen Shiba Niang shook her head at her and signaled to stop talking.
"She is weak and depressed. Don't the Qin family members know what's going on?" Mrs. Chen then asked.
The maid nodded.
"Apart from the dowry lawsuit, there is nothing else," she said.
"That's because of the lawsuit." Mrs. Chen said.
Chen Shao shook his head.
"She's going to fight her own lawsuit and she's going to be upset about it?" he said.
"She is a daughter after all, and she is only the age of eighteen mothers." Mrs. Chen said, sighing, "She shouldn't go back. What's the good of going back."
He looked at the servant girl again.
"She really still rejected the Qin family's marriage proposal?"
The servant girl nodded.
"Then others' ones didn't suit your taste?" Mrs. Chen asked.
"Ms. Cheng said she won't consider the marriage for the time being," the servant woman said.
At this time, I was not in the mood to think about any marriage matters. Besides, what kind of marriage could a family like Xiu say? Mrs. Chen nodded and asked the maid to go down to rest. Chen Shao also got up and went to the study. The atmosphere was lively when only the sisters were left in the room.
"It's nothing, it's just that Mrs. Cheng is in some trouble." Chen Shiba Niang said.
"It doesn't matter, Mrs. Cheng will not be afraid of anything." Chen Danniang said with a sigh of relief.
Chen Shiba Niang smiled and reached out to poke her forehead.
"It's not about whether she's afraid or not, but whether she's in a good mood or not." She said, "Think about it, would you be happy when your father and mother scold you?"
Chen Danniang nodded and shook her head.
"Not happy," she said.
Yes, it’s not fun to be reprimanded, let alone go to court to break up with your loved ones.
"I used to envy Mrs. Cheng for her calm manner," Chen Shiba Niang said, "Now that I think about it, everyone has their own misfortune."
"Letting go requires seeing through, and wisdom comes from suffering." Mrs. Chen said, "Nothing in this world is easy to come by. Instead of envying what others have, it is better to think more about how much they have paid for it."
The children nodded and bowed to thank their mother for her teachings.
The eldest prince stood in the palace, looking at the map hanging in front of him. He heard sounds coming and going from far away. His eyes widened, but he still couldn't suppress his sleepiness.
Can't be sleepy, can't be sleepy, because the last time he was sleepy here, he took a nap, and his father sent someone to send him back. He was made to stand for half a day by the imperial concubine.
Just endorse it and you won’t feel sleepy if you endorse it.
"…..If you don’t know, you know; if you don’t know, you don’t know. Therefore, it is said: The sage does not know, but he knows by asking..."
The scriptures were a bit difficult to read, but they were his favorites. He just liked these books. He read, recited, listened and talked about them. They were all so simple, unlike these geography, astronomy and stars, which were really confusing to listen to.
The teachers praised him for reading these books well, saying that he could memorize them quickly, and that he was smart and had a photographic memory.
He is the smartest...
The eldest prince couldn't help but grin.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?"
There was a call in his ears, and the eldest prince suddenly came back to his senses. He saw that the official from the Taishi Bureau in front of him was looking over with a bit of embarrassment. On the other side, the second prince blinked at him, and then leaned closer. The man on the dragon couch
The emperor looked at him expressionlessly.
What's up?
The eldest prince suddenly felt panicked.
"Fourth brother, which direction is the river heading in?" the emperor asked.
Big river….
The eldest prince looked at the map. Those lines and dots represented the mountains and rivers that he couldn't understand at first. Now it was even more confusing. Where is the river? He had never seen what a real river looked like, let alone the river described by the dots and lines on the map.
.
"Several…"
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the second prince lip-syncing at him.
What?
He couldn't help but put his head around to get a closer look.
"Fourth brother, if you don't like it, don't come and listen to it," the emperor said.
The eldest prince suddenly looked panicked and wanted to drive him back again? The imperial concubine would definitely scold him.
Why are you so stupid? Why are you so stupid? Brother Six can do it, why can’t you? Why are you not as good as him!
The eldest prince couldn't help but hear the concubine's voice and her disgusted and angry face.
He couldn't help biting his lower lip.
"I don't know either." The second prince suddenly shouted, "Father, I didn't understand just now, please let me explain it again."
The eldest prince looked at the emperor's solemn face with a smile. He had seen that smile before, even after he endorsed his father, but now...
"You're clever." The emperor said, nodding to the officials over there, "Then let's say it again."
The official responded yes and began to tell the story again.
When the eldest prince saw the second prince laughing at him, he turned away and looked at the map with an expressionless face.
"Brother, brother."
The emperor didn't have much time to spend with his sons, and besides, he only regarded this as a hobby, so he left after a while. The eldest prince didn't want to stay here for a moment, and hurried away as soon as he went out. The second prince called from behind.
Voice.
He just pretended not to hear and kept walking.
The second prince was smaller and lighter than him, so he quickly caught up with him.
"Brother, can you teach me memorization?" He asked with a smile, "I still can't remember what the teacher taught me. I will ask you tomorrow."
The eldest prince kept a straight face and did not speak, but just walked away. The second prince did not feel annoyed and followed him with a smile.
Soon after walking to the imperial garden, the second prince thought of something else and grabbed the eldest prince's sleeve.
"Brother, shall we go pick plum blossoms? The Queen liked it very much last time," he said.
The eldest prince snorted and was about to roll off his sleeves, when the chamberlain beside him spoke.
"Yes, yes, the plum blossoms are blooming well, why not go pick some, and go back all the way to give some to the ladies." He said, looking at the eldest prince with some hints.
The eldest prince stiffened.
These things are obviously done by the palace maids and eunuchs, but they have to be done by themselves. Filial piety, filial piety, is really boring.
The eldest prince gritted his teeth and turned around and walked towards the imperial garden.
The second prince followed happily.
There is a special plum mountain in the imperial garden. Walking along the lakeside that is several acres in size, you will soon see white and red plums blooming all over the mountain.
The eldest prince was out of breath because he was too fat and could not walk for long, so he ordered the servants to climb and break as they pleased, while the second prince himself ran around under the trees in the mountains, picking and choosing.
"Brother, do you think this looks good?" He would bring it back from time to time to show it to the eldest prince.
The eldest prince sat and rested on a stone cushioned by a chamberlain who had taken off his clothes.
"It doesn't look good," he said.
"Brother, brother, come and see this." The second prince stretched out his hand and said.
The eldest prince had no choice but to get up and follow.
It was an old plum that grew beside the rocks. It was curved and half-opened, red and white. Even the eldest prince who didn't like flowers and plants was a little moved when he saw it. He thought of a picture of plum blossoms in his father's study...
"I'll give this to Father..." The second prince smiled and walked over.
"I want this!" the eldest prince said, taking a step forward and reaching out to give the second prince a hard push.
The chamberlain who was following him saw it and hurriedly stepped forward and spoke.
"Your Highnesses, please stop playing around..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the second prince, who had been pushed and stumbled a few steps away, tilted his body, let out a cry, and stepped on the slippery and soft earth and rocks and slid down.
The eldest prince subconsciously stretched out his hand to pull, and he fell down as well. Fortunately, he was fat and strong, and half of his body was hanging on the edge and did not fall.
The servants screamed and rushed over.
"Brother, brother..."
The second prince, who was holding one hand by the eldest prince, cried and shouted, hanging in the air, too scared to move.
Brother, brother...
The eldest prince looked at the second prince. Even when he was frightened and embarrassed, his little face was still rosy and happy...
He is smart...and can talk...his father likes him...
Why are you so stupid! Why are you not as good as him? He is younger than you!
It's all because of him...
Otherwise, I wouldn’t listen to things I don’t understand, I wouldn’t be scolded by the imperial concubine, I wouldn’t be shaken by my father in displeasure. Obviously, I was the one who was praised by everyone, but now no one can see that I am good at studying, and everyone laughs at me
I am stupid because I cannot recognize the map.
It's all because of him...
Without him, my father would still like me the most, and the teacher would still say that I am the smartest, and the imperial concubine would no longer force me to do these things she doesn't like...
This was just a thought in the flash of lightning. The servants around him shouted and rushed over and stretched out their hands. It seemed that everything became slow and distant. The eldest prince looked at the crying second prince and let go of his hand.
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