Nowadays, the Xishan Armory is going to be built for a long time, so the outer walls, observation towers, the armory inside, etc. are all being built. The environment is not really good, and the sky is full of dust.
Yan Shiyue had always felt that the fourth prince was very capable of enduring hardships, but seeing as how the fifth prince looked like a child, he actually took the lead, let alone making cannons, and even built houses from time to time. He was much more concerned about it than she was.
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How does it feel to people... It's as if he is approaching this mission with trepidation, fearing that something will happen.
Yan Shiyue felt pitiful just looking at him. In the past, when he saw the fifth prince always smiling, he thought he was a smiling tiger, but he didn't expect that he was a smiling cat.
She advised him: "You really don't have to go every day. Just go there every now and then. They won't dare to be lazy."
The fifth prince smiled and said: "I'm fine anyway. It's better to go out for a walk."
Okay, let her charge and build cannons anyway, but she won't do it if she is asked to build a house and get all soiled. So she started fishing, wandering around to see her young marquis every day to watch them train and set up troops.
It was Meng Min's birthday a few days later. Yan Shiyue worked hard for two days and asked a craftsman to make several stethoscopes, the kind that could listen to fetal heartbeats, and planned to take them back to make Meng Min happy.
When I came out, I wanted to talk to the fifth prince, so I asked him and found out he was in the courtyard.
As soon as she passed by, Xia Bei greeted her and asked, "Where is the fifth brother?"
Xia Bei bent over and said with a smile on his face, "I'm in the house!"
She said casually: "He didn't go out today?"
Xia Bei hesitated for a moment: "Well, today, our master felt a little uncomfortable today, so he didn't go out."
Yan Shiyue didn't care and went in. The fifth prince smiled and stood up: "Yue'er."
Yan Shiyue said to him: "I will go back in the afternoon, will you come back?"
The fifth prince smiled and said, "Are you going back to celebrate my uncle's birthday? I won't go." He took out a box and said, "This is a little thought from me. Yue'er can give it to me on my behalf."
Yan Shiyue really admired his thoughtfulness in doing things. The two of them didn't go down until they got up. This was probably prepared in advance and was much more thoughtful than her as a daughter. She only thought of giving the gift the day before yesterday anyway.
The fifth prince smiled and said: "Yue'er has been busy for two days, what did you do?"
Yan Shiyue immediately turned on the stethoscope he brought over: "Come on, let me listen to what you are saying?"
She punched him in the chest. The fifth prince opened his arms and looked at him curiously. Yan Shiyue listened seriously for a long time, and then said, "Are you scolding me in your heart?"
The fifth prince had a strange expression: "This thing... can still deceive people?"
Yan Shiyue couldn't stop laughing. The fifth prince took it and put it on his ear like her, then compared it with her. Maybe because he felt embarrassed, he said in a loud voice: "Xia Bei."
When Xia Bei came in, he also listened to him and said, "Are you scolding me in your heart?"
Xia Bei was stunned and then knelt down: "I don't dare."
Yan Shiyue and the fifth prince couldn't help but look at each other.
It was just for fun, but looking at his performance, he was really scolding him in his heart??
Yan Shiyue said: "Get out."
Xia Bei didn't dare to argue with her and went out. Yan Shiyue asked: "You didn't go out all day today?"
The fifth prince nodded: "The west side was almost completed yesterday, only the plastering was left. I didn't go there and looked at the drawings in the room."
But Xia Bei's tone and attitude seemed to imply to her that because she was not here, the fifth prince would not go out, as if the fifth prince was always pretending.
Yan Shiyue said: "You are such a bad eunuch!"
The fifth prince coughed and said nothing. Yan Shiyue said directly: "How about I take him back to my mother-in-law when I go back, and then ask you for another one?"
"No!" The fifth prince looked outside and said softly: "No need."
"Why?" She was a little puzzled: "How miserable would it be if the person you take with you is not one of your own? You don't dare to sleep peacefully."
The fifth prince was silent for a moment: "He doesn't dare to kill me anyway."
"But it's quite bad to use some dirty tricks for nothing!"
The fifth prince said helplessly: "Yue'er, things in the palace are not black and white. I know you have good intentions, but..."
He hesitated for a moment, then said with all his heart: "First of all, you have a good relationship with the fourth brother, so there is no need to offend the Concubine Xian for me. Secondly," he paused: "I am a powerless person.
, even if you come again, it may not be clean, and even if you come clean, you don’t know when you will betray me, so why bother."
He was naturally handsome and had a pair of clear black and white eyes, and he looked at her like this: "Now that Yue'er knows that he is wrong, it will be my blessing to think more carefully when listening to him again."
Yan Shiyue really didn't expect that a prince could live such a humble life. He was so pitiful!
After Yan Shiyue returned to the palace to deliver the stethoscope, she told the queen by the way.
The queen smiled and said: "Wulang, this kid, has been used to showing weakness since he was a child. Don't be fooled by him." She paused and said, "But Concubine Xian's hand is too long."
She directly selected a young eunuch named Wang Bao to replace Xia Bei and sent it directly to Concubine Xian.
The queen didn't have any ill intentions. Firstly, she was here for herself, and secondly, she was also sending a message to others that following her daughter would be beneficial.
In the harem, this kind of method is very common. Even if there is no reason, there are still many people who are willing to do it as a slap in the face.
In fact, for the fifth prince, this is equivalent to replacing the person of the virtuous concubine beside him with the person of the queen.
But the good thing is that the fifth prince originally wanted to hug Yan Shiyue's thigh, and the queen is far more generous than the concubine Xian, so she will not disgust you. So this way, it is a lot better for him
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But to others, it was another willfulness of Yan Shiyue.
For the sake of the fifth prince, she damaged the fourth prince's face. She had a very good relationship with the fourth prince before! Doesn't this mean that they fell out with each other?
As expected, this person is unpredictable and must be kept at a distance.
Yan Shiyue didn't think much about it. After telling the queen, she returned to the house.
Meng Min was more than seven months pregnant, and she could clearly hear the fetal heartbeat with her stethoscope. The two played with each other for a long time.
Even though it was Meng Min's birthday the next day, the whole family just had a meal together, nothing big.
Yan Shiyue got up the next day and was about to pack her things and go back to Xishan when she saw Ding Xiaoyan running over: "Master! Master! It's not good! Someone found an anti-poetry on Mr. Xu's case! It has been reported to the emperor!"
Yan Shiyue was surprised: "What?"
"Anti-poetry!" Ding Xiaoyan said: "It is said that Mr. Xu is going to be imprisoned!"
Yan Shiyue didn't have time to think too much, so she hurriedly changed into court clothes and entered the palace. (To be continued)