The experience of long-distance horseback riding was very new to the third prince at first, but as time went by, even though his legs were specially padded, he still felt that certain parts were burned and painful. Moreover, compared to those who rode
As a person with superb skills, he must also concentrate on controlling his mount, otherwise even if Ah Liu can rescue him in time, he will be exposed early.
Therefore, the young Crown Prince gritted his teeth and endured, even if there was no rest in between, but he remained silent. Even so, Ah Liu on the side was always on guard, ready to help at any time, but until he finally came
In that small Baijia Village, he never found a chance. The third prince endured it all the way.
That is, when he jumped off the horse, he found that the third prince who had reined in his horse was having difficulty, so he immediately stepped forward to help him without saying a word. When he reached out his hand to help the person to the ground gently and deftly, he saw that the person was dead.
Gritting his teeth, he took two steps but limped. He couldn't help but sigh slightly.
"Don't be brave, just take a carriage on the way back."
The third prince wanted to refuse, but then his eyes widened and he instinctively asked in a low voice: "Where did the carriage come from?"
Seeing several servants from Zhao Guogong's residence looking over here either unexpectedly or out of curiosity, Ah Liu did not answer, but reached out and gently patted the third prince's shoulder as if to comfort him. Seeing his intimate behavior
, others took it for granted that Ah Liu and the young chamberlain from the palace knew each other or had friendship, and quickly withdrew their observational gaze.
When he found that others no longer paid attention to him, the third prince naturally breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not dare to ask any more questions. When Ah Liu familiarly assigned people to guard various places outside the village, he led him into the village and pretended to be completely out of the way.
After the eyes of those people, he who was following behind couldn't help but ask: "Brother Six, aren't you worried that I will go out of the palace privately and implicate the teacher?"
Ah Liu paused for a moment, and then said without looking back: "After the eldest lady told me, I went to the public school urgently and sent a letter to the young master." Although he only wrote three words, the young master should...
Do you understand?
Hearing Ah Liu informed Zhang Shou, the third prince was not angry, but breathed a sigh of relief, and said to himself: "Although I was afraid that my father would blame the teacher, and I was afraid that the teacher would stop me, so I didn't talk to him beforehand.
He's ventilated, but if he really doesn't know anything, he might still be severely scolded by his father later... Brother Six, thank you for sending me here today."
"You should thank the eldest lady." Ah Liu replied seriously. Hearing that His Highness the Crown Prince behind him suddenly became speechless, he added lightly, "If the eldest lady hadn't told me until today and asked her sincerely again and again,
, I won’t agree.”
The third prince thought about Ah Liu's position and knew that these words were spoken from the bottom of his heart and not to cater to himself. But the more he felt like this, the more peaceful he felt. The feeling of depression that he had been living in the deep palace since he was appointed crown prince was all gone.
It was replaced by an indescribable feeling of comfort. Therefore, when he saw a familiar figure from a distance, he couldn't help but shout: "Fourth brother!"
Wearing a cotton coat, cotton trousers and cotton shoes, and a thick felt hat, with his hands still in the sleeves, and the clothes, shoes and socks are all a bit unfitting and bulky, this is the image of the fourth prince at this moment. He was so cold that he suddenly shrank.
When I heard this call, I couldn't help but shake my head, feeling that I was hallucinating.
Otherwise, why would his third brother appear here? It's not like King Jiangdu has nothing to do. As the prince, the third brother is very busy and has to attend so many classes every day!
The fourth prince smiled to himself in his heart, feeling that he was suffering and tired from staying outside for so many days, so he mistook anyone's voice for his third brother. However, he walked forward regardless.
After taking two steps, he suddenly heard the voice of Fourth Brother again. This time, he couldn't help but look up and around in confusion, and soon caught a figure running quickly.
However, until the person hugged him, he was still stiff and felt that he couldn't turn his head around. He wanted to ask you if you had the wrong person, but when the words came to his mouth, it seemed as if he was blocked, and he couldn't say a word.
He couldn't spit it out. It wasn't until the hands holding him gradually loosened and he finally saw clearly the overjoyed face in front of him that he finally reacted.
But his reaction was to take a step back in panic, then raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, stared at the other person several times, and finally stammered and asked: "Third... Third brother? You..."
…Why…why are you here?”
Facing the fourth prince who was almost tongue-tied, the third prince couldn't help but be a little confused. He took two steps forward again, but his answer was wrong and he asked: "Are you unhappy that I am here?"
"No, no, no!" The fourth prince shook his head like a rattle, and then looked around as if asking for help. However, Zhang Shou, who he thought would appear here, and his father who came with him were nowhere to be seen. Even this
None of the villagers and children, who were most common in the village in winter, could be seen at this time.
He couldn't help but swallow hard, then stepped forward and grabbed the third prince, and ran away. However, when he led the people to the back of a house, and saw that no one was there, he immediately asked nervously
: "Third brother, why are you here? Why are you the only one? Where is the teacher? Where is the father? Where are the people following you? How many people did you bring out..."
Seeing the fourth prince's barrage of questions, the third prince immediately couldn't laugh or cry. Finally, he had to interrupt his brother and said word by word: "Father is not here, and neither is the teacher."
The fourth prince almost stared out of his eyes. It was not relief, but panic. Fortunately, the third prince's next words gave him reassurance: "But I brought a lot of guards, and the sixth brother also
Send it to me."
But this sense of stability only lasted for a moment. The next moment when the third prince revealed the follow-up, he almost jumped up in shock.
"But I sneaked out during class. Senior Brother Lu stayed in Ciqing Palace to cover me. My father didn't know about it at all. The teacher probably didn't understand the whole story either, because he just got a letter from Brother Six.
.Grandma and sister Yingying helped me sneak out together."
The third prince seemed not to notice his fourth brother's big mouth, which was as big as if he could swallow an egg. His expression was calm and a bit bitter: "My father and my grandmother had a big quarrel, and I haven't been here these days."
In Zhaoren Palace, I live in my grandmother’s Qingning Palace.”
The third prince did not even disclose the details of the dispute that night to Zhang Shou, but he told his fourth brother. As expected, the fourth prince was simply dumbfounded, especially when he learned that the emperor even threatened to seal the palace.
The fearless boy couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, and finally swallowed hard.
"Father...Father, this seems to be going too far...but what the royal grandmother said was wrong!"
Although the fourth prince had an quarrel with the emperor, he had never been very close to the queen mother, and he still subconsciously helped his father. However, he did not expect that his third brother, who was not as talkative as him in the past, would actually tell the story vividly.
Focusing on what the Queen Mother said about his father, he suddenly forgot to defend his father.
After all, although he and his third brother both grew up beside their father, they had seen many aspects that the ministers could not see, not even the queen and the eldest prince and the second prince could see. In his spare time, his father also engaged in government affairs.
I will tell them some things from the past, but they are all about outsmarting ministers, and they will never involve the jumping up and down in childhood.
And when he heard the two brothers exchanging the emperor's childhood embarrassments, Ah Liu, who was watching the wind on the roof, couldn't help but touch his chin in annoyance.
He didn't want to hear about the emperor's unknown childhood embarrassments at all, but couldn't the third prince be more cautious? He knew that he might be watching nearby, but he still said it... Or maybe the third prince completely forgot about his
Exist? But when the third prince thought about it, wouldn't he feel a knot in his heart? If the emperor knew about it, would he want to silence him...
But that's not the case. In fact, a lot of people knew about the emperor's old stories. He had heard Hua Qi talk about it in a random way, but because it had nothing to do with him, he just threw it away after hearing it.
Just the back of the head.
Thinking of this, the troubled Ah Liu shook his head, but he did not leave to avoid suspicion, but waited patiently until the brothers finished talking about the emperor.
Fortunately, the third prince also knew that he was not just here to exchange some embarrassing childhood stories about his father with his fourth brother, so he just picked a few to talk about and then stopped.
"Fourth brother, I came today. Firstly, I came here because I haven't seen you for a long time, and I am worried about you. Secondly, I came here because of another thing. I sent Luo Sanhe here specially before, but you deceived him into sending him to another village.
Yes, right?"
Seeing that the fourth prince suddenly showed an expression of extreme guilt and unnaturally avoided his gaze, the third prince said frankly: "I know that he is a bit self-righteous and unrealistically naive, so he is not likeable...
Of course, I actually don’t like him either. But just like I don’t like Chu Kuan but I have to keep him, sometimes I can’t just leave everything to my liking.”
"Fourth brother, there must be someone around us who dares to speak unpleasantly...just like the imperial censors my father keeps."
The third prince said to the fourth prince that he thought it was right, but in fact there was some disagreement. Seeing the fourth prince being stunned for a moment, he nodded hesitantly, and he sighed and said: "Of course, you
You can also think that I am spying on you."
The fourth prince was shocked. He was about to explain that he didn't mean that, but his third brother suddenly changed his words and said: "There is one more thing I want to tell you. There is an extra foreign boy who is attending the teacher's place. The thing is like this..."
Although he was a little confused, when the third prince told the whole story, the fourth prince, who had always been out-tempered, was extremely happy. He even gloated and punched the wall beside him and said with a smile: "How dare you sneak in like this?"
If the boat is really thrown into the sea, he won't even have a place to reason! He is lucky to be able to make it ashore alive... It's also the teacher and third brother, you have a good heart!"
Seeing that the fourth prince expressed a lot of emotion with relish, and finally added a sentence abruptly as if to please himself, the third prince couldn't help but smile. But then, he looked at his fourth brother with a very serious expression.
He said in a tone of voice: "So, fourth brother, would you like to learn those idioms?"
The fourth prince suddenly felt a little stupid. He stared at the third prince blankly for a long time before saying with a bitter look on his face: "Third brother, it is said that it is difficult to learn those weird words... and what do you do after you learn them?
ah?"
"The teacher once demonstrated at the Sutra Banquet a boat that can move automatically on the water without wind or oars. So, if such a boat can be built in the future, the once distant places will not be far away.
.Moreover, if the steel ship can be launched, the sea will be much safer, right?"
The third prince, who had never seen the sea and didn't know the violent side of the sea, said things that he took completely for granted. As if he didn't see the look in the fourth prince's eyes that gradually changed from surprise to a bit of yearning, he said: "Once upon a time,
I always feel that Emperor Taizu took a boat out to sea after abdicating the throne and never heard from him again. This was really reckless and unwise."
"But later, when I heard the teacher talk about the country thousands of miles away, which had different customs and customs from China, as well as all kinds of romantic people, I gradually felt that it was no wonder that Emperor Taizu would go to sea by boat. He must be so ambitious.
You will feel that today’s Ming Dynasty is still too young.”
The world is so vast. For the two brothers, who used to only be able to view the sky from a map and now from a globe, they have never had a clear idea of the vastness of the world. However, the third prince is now more and more aware of his own weight as a prince, so he has no idea how big the world is.
He listened particularly carefully to history and geography classes, and sometimes even asked Zhang Shou to teach them.
Because he has deeply realized that compared to other readers, Zhang Shou's relaxed stories are easier to remember, and the views Zhang Shou expresses from time to time are also very unique.
This is also the reason why he said that Da Ming is too young. At this moment, he looked at his younger brother who was similar in age to him and had a different kind of brilliance on his face, but he suddenly smiled and said: "But
, sailing is still too dangerous, the teacher once told me that in the pre-Qin Dynasty, wooden rails were laid on the post roads, and then horse-drawn carts were used, so the speed was extremely fast."
"If ships can be driven by machinery in the future, can horse-drawn carriages be used?"
"It is said that Marquis Zhuge Wu once built a wooden ox and a flowing horse to transport supplies, so why can't we now? The track will be laid all the way to the far west, and then it will be driven by a machine like a wooden ox and flowing horse. Then according to the map on the globe, then
Isn’t it possible to reach those countries in the West? The land route is not as risky as the sea route.”
The third prince talked about a very distant topic, and then smiled at the fourth prince and said: "What, do you think I want you to lead a team to the west by boat? Of course not, when everything cannot be guaranteed to be safe.
, how could I let my brother take this risk! But once, twice, three times...many times, after it is proven to be absolutely safe, you can go!"
"At that time, you can take my place and see the vast world!"