The prince is seriously ill

There were two more heavy snowfalls. The thick snow covered the original color of the earth, and everything in the world was covered with a layer of silver.The sun is out, and under the warm sunshine, the white snow turns into transparent drops of water and melts into the fragrant soil. There will probably be a good harvest next year.

During the winter solstice, the days are surprisingly short.When the lights came on, the whole room was illuminated by candlelight, and the silhouettes of women and children sitting side by side were clearly projected on the hollow door covered with tulle.

"What did you learn in the Imperial College these days?" Concubine Xian pushed a plate of pastries in front of the child.

Xun Yu bit his lip and bowed his head in silence.

Concubine Xian smiled knowingly, and touched the back of his head, which looked extremely depressed, "Come, eat an osmanthus cake."

Xun Yu accepted it obediently, just took a bite, then stopped with a strange expression after chewing twice, glanced at Concubine Xian, saw that she had no reaction at all, and began to take small bites again.

"Is it delicious?" After he ate the whole piece of "Osmanthus Cake" without changing his face, Concubine Xian raised the corners of her mouth and asked.

Xun Yu blinked his eyes, hesitated for a while, and nodded very lightly.

"Eat more if it tastes good," Concubine Xian handed him another piece.

Xun Yu took it again, ignoring the rejection in his heart, and stuffed it in his mouth expressionlessly.

Concubine Xian's smile faded, her voice seemed gentle, "Is it delicious?"

Xun Yu nodded this time without even thinking about it, he didn't even need to struggle with lying.

Concubine Xian stared at him for a long time, the child's actions surprised her, what he ate was not sweet-scented osmanthus cake at all, but red meat cake with a bitter taste and extremely mouth-watering taste.Few people can really eat red flesh cake, even the poorest common people would not choose to eat this in ordinary life, only when there is a famine and there is no food to eat, people have no choice but to eat it.

The reason why one of her concubines has red meat cakes is because her father, General Mu Pingchuan, was originally a commoner. He almost starved to death during the famine earlier, and only saved his life by eating red meat cakes. The military exploits moved into the General's Mansion, and set a family rule for the Mu family - every winter solstice, everyone in the Mu Mansion will eat red meat cakes for a day. Bitter thoughts are sweet, and we must not forget the kindness of the emperor.

She remembered that she ate this for the first time when she was a child, and she refused to eat it. Finally, she was hungry for a whole day before barely eating one.But the child in front of her turned a blind eye and ate the two. Very good, she suddenly wanted to see how long he could endure.

"Come on, eat another one." Concubine Xian smiled gently, and picked up one for him.

"Don't stop."

"Go ahead and eat."

……

The plate is empty!

Xun Yu swallowed the last mouthful with difficulty, and was about to secretly breathe a sigh of relief when a violent reflux surged up his throat. The child gritted his teeth and glanced at Concubine Xian, took a deep breath and swallowed with a distorted expression, got up and said: "Mother, the child is going to the toilet."

Concubine Xian nodded her head in agreement, and watched him go out with a complicated expression. Seeing the thin figure disappear at the right corner, she felt a bit of chill and sadness. expected.What she couldn't even do, he, a child who was only seven years old, did it in front of her, and he seemed to have done it with ease.He is cruel enough to himself and tolerant enough, and from this point of view, he may be very likely to be the winner of the royal battle.

When Xun Yu came back from the toilet, he spit out half of the strange cakes he ate, feeling much more comfortable in his stomach.

"How is it? Did you spit it out?" Concubine Xian asked beyond doubt.

Xun Yu shook his body, his hands and feet stopped at the same time, a trace of panic appeared in his eyes, "Mother, I..."

Concubine Xian turned cold, "Mother doesn't like children who lie."

Xun Yu lowered his head secretly when he heard the words.

"Is the sweet-scented osmanthus cake delicious?" Concubine Xian said seriously, without any intention of joking.

Xun Yu broke his fingers, shook his head for a long while.

"Mother wants you to tell me yourself!" Concubine Xian said.

"It's not delicious," Xun Yu lowered his head, his voice was as low as that of a child who has done something wrong.

"Since you don't like it, why does Yu'er still eat it?" Concubine Xian didn't seem to want to let him go.

"Mother wants me to eat, I will eat." Xun Yu answered it as a matter of course, without any awareness of what was unreasonable.

Concubine Xian was stunned, is this the child's world?Then he turned his power into pity, and sighed: "Mother wants you to eat, but if you don't like it, just tell mother, why do you force yourself to eat so much? If you tell mother that you don't want to eat, why don't you still eat?" Will you eat it?"

"Can I say I don't like it?" Xun Yu raised his head, eyes flickering, and asked with uncertainty.

"Of course," Concubine Xian said, her voice changed, "Now my mother asks you, do you like to go to the Imperial College?"

Xun Yu's eyes lit up, "I don't like it."

Needless to say, she also knew that he didn't like it. Since going to the Imperial College for half a month, she saw that he went there listlessly every day, and returned sullenly, asking him how he was doing in the Imperial College, but she didn't say anything.She also knew in her heart that how could an unfavored disabled prince not be wronged among a group of pampered and pampered princes?

"Is it because your mother told you to go, so you went?" Concubine Xian knew that it was probably because of this reason, and she couldn't laugh or cry.She had never expected that the child would trust her so much, so that as long as it was her request, no matter how much he resisted in his heart, he would silently do what she said.

Xun Yu nodded. He hated the Imperial College, those poor kids, Mr. Chen, and even that Master Yan who had never met before. He hated everyone except his mother. "Can I not go to the Imperial College?" The child looked at her longingly, with a hint of pleading in his tone, and said cautiously.

She found that the child had already regarded her as the only one to rely on, and he was willing to listen to whoever treated him well.She originally thought that he was still young and didn't understand anything, but now she couldn't help admitting that in this child's world, a set of standards of good and bad likes and dislikes had been formed. Maybe these standards were rude or even ridiculous, but It was absolutely easy for the kid.Who is good to him, who is not good to him, who is a good person and who is a bad person, he knows it all in his heart.

One day, when the child has experienced a lot, his mind is complicated, and he finds that there is no clear line between good and bad, he will grow up.Only when he gradually abandons the standard of good and bad that does not apply to the adult world, and replaces it with more complex conflicts of interest as the basis for judgment, the child really grows up.

Now, she hopes to let him understand that people live in this world, and many things cannot be decided based on one's own preferences, but must be considered from the perspective of long-term interests.

"Yu'er, mother knows that you don't want to go to the Imperial College, but mother can't obey you in this matter. The opportunity to go to the Imperial College was obtained by mother who spent all her efforts to go to the Queen Mother. Going to school is a good thing, and it can benefit you. Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school." Concubine Xian looked at him and said meticulously.

"But Mother said it just now, if I don't like Mother, she won't let me do it." Xun Yu looked disappointed.

"My mother said that not liking sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and not liking going to the Imperial College are two different things. You can choose what you like to eat in food, but we live in this world, and we can't just choose what we like to do. Everyone has their own preferences. You can't help yourself, you have things you don't want to do, and mother also has things that mother doesn't want to do. But if we don't do things we don't like, we will never be able to grow, and there may even be consequences that no one can bear. You If you don't go to school, then you can only be an ignorant person, and you will never be able to appreciate the benefits of learning. Do you understand what mother means? People can be picky about food, but they can't be picky about things." Xianfei said.

"Then if I just want to be an ignorant person, can I not go to the Imperial College?" Xun Yu still did not give up.

"There is a golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, if Yu'er wants to be an ignorant person, he will lose a lot of fun." Concubine Xian said.

"I don't need these pleasures." Xun Yu said eagerly.

Concubine Xian sternly, she has never been a patient person, if it were someone else, she would have slapped it out long ago and was too lazy to care about it, but she has no choice but to take care of this child!After being his mother for so long, every time she saw him, she would think of her poor child who was stillborn ten years ago. Rumors said that she could not have a child, but in fact she was pregnant with one, but that The child was murdered less than two months old.

When she heard Yu Er happily calling her mother, she felt that her baby was back again!Although they got along not long ago, after this month, not only did he regard himself as his mother, but she also regarded him as her child.

"How about this, as long as you agree to Mother's request, Mother will never force you to go to the Imperial College again." Concubine Xian blinked.

"What request?" Xun Yu secretly jumped up when he heard that there was room for maneuver.

"Mother made an agreement with you that as long as you have finished reading the Analects of Confucius and Mencius, as well as poems, books, rites, Yi, and Spring and Autumn Annals, as well as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Sun Tzu's Art of War, and passed the examination by mother, you can How about not going to the Imperial College? At that time, even if you still want to be an ignorant person, Mother will not stop you." A cunning flashed in Concubine Xian's eyes.

Xun Yu thought for a moment, there were exactly ten Analects, Mencius, Poems, Books, Rites, Yi, Chunqiu, Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Sun Tzu's Art of War. He tilted his head and said, "Is what mother said true?"

"It's absolutely true," Concubine Xian raised her thick eyebrows, and said solemnly, this little thing alone is enough for you to look at it for ten or eight years.

"It's a deal!" Xun Yu's dark eyes glowed, but he didn't know that Jiang was old and spicy, and Concubine Xian was digging a big hole for him to jump into.