I am a cat in the palace

On the first day of school, although I encountered a little unpleasantness, it did not affect the subsequent lectures.Wei Yin taught Rourou very patiently, and Rourou was also a good student, apart from occasionally pulling my tail and stroking my hair, the teacher and student cooperated quite well.

It was probably because the princes were not used to it, so in the schoolwork schedule arranged by the Department of Internal Affairs, the prince's first month of schooling was not long every day, only half a day in the morning, and he could return to the palace at lunch time.Rourou bid farewell to Wei Yin and returned to Yongshan Palace. Mrs. Chen had already waited at the gate of the palace. Seeing Rourou come back, her nervous expression finally relaxed.

"I heard that I met the Fourth Prince and the Second Prince in the morning? Xiao Guizi mumbled for a long time but didn't make it clear. He just wiped his tears and cried with me, saying that His Highness has been greatly wronged." When the meat nap was free, Mrs. Chen took Fulin into the room and whispered.

Fulin also held his breath in his heart, and when Mrs. Chen asked, he told Mrs. Chen what happened in the morning in detail.

Mrs. Chen was trembling with anger after hearing this, and the knuckles of the fingers pinching the handkerchief were blue and white, "Concubine Duan Gui is considered to be from a family background, but she is so ungrateful to the prince behind her back, the fourth prince is our Highness's brother no matter what. , are those stupid words something that a prince should say?"

Fulin sighed, "Although the emperor issued a gag order back then, there are too many people who know about it. In recent years, the emperor has been in poor health, and most of his energy has been devoted to the front court, so he doesn't care about these messy things in the harem. The one in Qingyang Palace is a big-hearted master, and the one in Zining Palace is staring at that seat. They all hope that our Highness will be as dirty as possible, so naturally they let those rumors spread more and more mysterious, and privately There will definitely be efforts to fuel the flames."

"Tell the people around His Highness to stay away from the Fourth Prince as much as possible in the future. Even if it is the Second Prince, although he gets along well with His Highness today, I am always worried about the Queen's hand pushing behind me. In the future, those two will definitely fight to the death, and our Highness doesn't need to join in." Mrs. Chen was angry but helpless.

Hearing Mrs. Chen's words, Fulin's expression was a little strange.Mrs. Chen noticed that Fulin seemed to want to say something, so she motioned for him to say it.

"Do you really think that the emperor doesn't consider our Highness at all?" Fulin didn't complete the sentence, but Mrs. Chen immediately understood what he was referring to, and her brows frowned: "Your Highness has already been crowned king, and our Great Xia has set up a fifty-fifty dynasty." In the past few years, there has never been a prince who has been crowned king changed to be a crown prince."

"Not before, doesn't mean there won't be in the future." Fulin muttered in a low voice.

Mrs. Chen turned pale, "Fulin, I know what you're thinking, but those things are not what you should think about, nor are you able to think about them. If you really think about His Highness, you'd better put those thoughts to rest right now." I don't want you to instill any hints that you shouldn't have in His Highness."

Fulin's face froze slightly, and he quickly waved his hands in denial, saying that he was just asking casually and would never have any undue expectations.

"However, having said that, it seems that His Highness is not unhappy when he comes back. How did that Mr. Wei deal with the matter in the morning?" Mrs. Chen asked a little curiously. She thought that Rourou would definitely be depressed or resentful when he came back, but Listening to Fulin's description of what happened in the morning, she felt so angry that it was hard to calm down, she wished she could rush to the emperor and cry out the evil words and deeds of the fourth prince and his servants.Who knew that Rourou came back at noon and didn't say a word about what happened in the morning. She was still in high spirits, and she just talked to her about how much fun Mr. Wei had in class. ...blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

"Actually, when we met the fourth prince this morning, it was Mr. Wei who pushed our highness to greet him. It stands to reason that our highness is above the fourth prince in terms of status and age. How can an elder brother greet a brother first. "Fulin actually still can't figure out something about what happened in the morning, and I guess he's still suffocating in his heart.Maybe he didn't intend to say it, but since Mrs. Chen took the initiative to ask, Fulin still poured out his dissatisfaction.

After hearing this, Madam Chen did not complain like Fulin. Instead, she pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Boss Fu, you shouldn't blame Mr. Wei for this matter, Mr. Wei is right."

Fulin frowned.

"Today is our Highness and the fourth prince's first day of school. Do you think the emperor doesn't care? The emperor will know everything that happened today."

"But - no matter what, I just feel sorry for our Highness!"

"No matter how much we feel sorry for you, we can't feel sorry for the emperor. He is His Highness's real father."

Fulin remained silent, Mrs. Chen saw that he still had some reservations about Mr. Wei, and she didn't point it out. She just refilled a cup of hot tea for him, chatted a few words casually, and then they got up and went about their business. 's gone.After Fulin left, Mrs. Chen turned her head and ordered the little maid beside her to call in the little eunuch Asi who had served Rourou to school in the morning.

I squatted on the porch and licked my fur boredly, watching the people coming in and out of Mrs. Chen's room from time to time, I couldn't help but sigh, Rourou really has a worrying adoptive mother, but - I like it.

"Blessings, Mrs. Chen." Asi and Adong are the little eunuchs who are close to the flesh and paper. Pick a companion for Rourou.Since Rourou was able to walk, she followed Rourou, and the two cooperated tacitly, serving Rourou for several years and never made a mistake.

Mrs. Chen waved her hand to avoid his courtesy: "It's no big deal to call you here, I just want to ask you, the fourth prince said such rude things to our highness, did Mr. Wei say anything to our highness about this matter?"

When he mentioned what happened in the morning, Asi also had a look of resentment on his face, but he still answered Mrs. Chen's question very clearly.

"Sir said it."

"Oh? What did you say?"

"Mister asked His Highness if he was angry."

"What does Your Highness say?"

"His Royal Highness said: angry."

"Of course I'm angry. Everyone will be angry after this matter." Mrs. Chen nodded heavily, but then became a little nervous, "Our Highness really said it so directly?"

Asi nodded, "That's what His Highness said."

"Then heard His Highness say what Mr. Qi Wei said?"

Asi tilted his head slightly as if he was seriously remembering, I rolled my eyes outside, that Wei Yin didn't say anything, just touched his fleshy head and smiled.After a while, Asi also seemed to remember, and told Mrs. Chen about Wei Yin's reaction.

Mrs. Chen was about to frown, but Asi immediately said: "Mr. Wei didn't say anything, but asked our Highness a question later."

"Huh? What?"

"Mr. Wei asked His Highness: Do you know why the Fourth Prince treated you like that today?"

Mrs. Chen raised her eyebrows when she heard the words, Asi knew the truth, and without waiting for Mrs. Chen to ask again, she recounted the conversation between Mr. Wei and Rourou. If you want to say that this kid's memory is really Yes, basically nothing they said was missed or misremembered.Today is Wei Yin's first day of class for Rourou, but I feel that Wei Yin has already finished the really important lesson for Rourou before the two of them entered the East Side Hall.

After the second prince and Lu Chaozhong left, Wei Yin had a seemingly casual conversation with Rourou in the porch of the East Side Hall. It was the same question Asi repeated to Mrs. Chen just now. He asked Rourou if he knew four Why did the prince treat him like that.

Rourou replied: Is it because he doesn't like him?

And Wei Yin told him: No, the Fourth Prince didn't dislike him, but was afraid of him.

Although Yongshan Palace prohibits anyone from mentioning the identity of Rourou's coffin son, but as the prince and prince these years, Rourou cannot be completely enclosed in this small palm-sized palace. There are important festivals and banquets in the palace. As the prince, he It is impossible not to participate at all. When there are many people, there will always be some unintentional or intentional people who will tell those secret old things into fleshy ears.If you have experienced such things too much, you will inevitably have doubts about your own life experience, and feel pain because of ignorance or being misled by deliberately distorted facts.Therefore, after obtaining the consent of the emperor, Mrs. Chen and Fulin generously told Rourou the truth without reservation after she was a little sensible. Such a choice proved to be very smart, at least knowing the truth After hearing those rumors, you can immediately tell which ones are unintentional and which ones are malicious, which ones need to be guarded against, and which ones don't need to be cared about.

But no matter what, Rourou is still just a child who is six to seven years old, and his mind is not mature enough. Even if he knows that all the crimes in the rumors have nothing to do with him, he does not need to bear the responsibility for it. No responsibility, but those vicious rumors will still hurt him, at least let him know from a very young age, except for the people in Yongshan Palace and his father, few people in this palace like him, many people see him He will take a detour.

When Rourou heard Wei Yin say that the Fourth Prince was afraid of him, the frustrated expression on his little face made me feel pain in my heart. If it wasn't for Wei Yin's words after that, I really wanted to go up and call He slapped.

In the next few short sentences, Wei Yin talked to Rourou about the struggle for royal power and the cruelty of succession to the throne, and he attributed all the humiliation and injury of the fourth prince to Rourou to the struggle for power.

He told Rourou that the weaker he was, the more people like the Fourth Prince would bully him.

Rourou didn't understand, he asked, "Why?"

Wei Yin said: "Because they are afraid of your existence, and even more afraid of your strength."

"Why? I never thought of hurting anyone."

"It doesn't matter whether you will hurt others, your existence is the biggest threat. Because you are the son of the emperor, and you are not the only son of the emperor."

"We are all sons of the emperor, brothers."

"But your father is the emperor, he is the most powerful person in this country, and his power will be inherited one day."