His Royal Highness the First Prince of Daliang

It seems that Qi Changfeng's departure brought a meaningful end to Kang Ning's carefree childhood. Since then, life has become very fast, and everyone has grown up, busy, doing their own things, and loved each other There was also a slowly growing, silent estrangement between the brothers.

During the Spring Festival four years ago, Kang Ning couldn't even hear the meaning of Yan Gui's words, but today, he already knows that he can no longer invite the second and third brothers to his palace as guests, and he can feel it. When he went to congratulate the newly added niece of the prince's concubine, the princess's eyes were cold, and he even understood that the mother clan of the second emperor's brother was suppressing Concubine Yang's faction in the court. It is no longer possible to cover your eyes and hide in the deep palace of Yongchun Palace, which is always as warm and safe as a spring day.

He is also growing up little by little.

It's strange, before Qi Changfeng left, he mistakenly thought that the whole world loved him.After Qi Changfeng left, he realized that he could only decide his own love, hate, good and evil.Everything in the world, sunshine, rain, wind, thunder and lightning, cannot be controlled by him.

For a while, he began to repeatedly recall the scene when he and Qi Changfeng parted.From that humid and cool spring night, I recalled the candlelights lit up in Chengdun Palace where Qi Changfeng lived.

On that spring night when he was counting down to parting, he lay beside his best friend, and he felt only a kind of long-lost peace in his heart.The dim candlelight cast the shadow of Chuo Chuo on Qi Changfeng's eyebrows and eyes through the gauze curtain. Kang Ning looked at his face seriously under the dim light, and realized that the people who accompanied him day and night all these years had grown up and matured so much.

The little prince stared at people like this, and for some reason he saw a little funny feeling. He first laughed, and he didn't know where he found the joy from the corners of Qi Changfeng's eyes and brows. The whole body is shaking.

Then a line of tears like broken stars slipped down unexpectedly, and fell into the muslin sleeve of Qi Changfeng who was resting on his side.

"I'm sorry." The tall boy murmured, not knowing what he was apologizing for.He leaned on Kang Ning with one arm, and carefully tried to wipe away the wet marks on the little prince's cheek with the other hand.

But the tears flowed more and more, and fell straight down Qi Changfeng's hand, never entering the small distance between them, soaking the young man's heart sorely and softly.

Corning didn't say a word that night.Before coming to Chengdun Palace with Qi Changfeng, he imagined that he had to say goodbye to him, told him to take care of himself, and asked him to promise himself that he would return safely.

But he only remembered that he smirked at first that night, then wept all the time in embarrassment, and finally fell asleep beside Qi Changfeng.On that spring night when the moon was thin and the stars were sparse, he didn't have any nightmares anymore, and spent the night softly, peacefully, sweetly and warmly.

And when he woke up from his dream at dawn, Qi Changfeng had already left without saying goodbye.A small tiger tooth necklace was hanging on the little prince's neck.

A few years ago, in the palace where Qi Changfeng hid and wept, Kang Ning had heard the story of this necklace——

"Father hung it on me," Qi Changfeng held the child's hand at that time, pulled the animal tooth out of his collar, and put it on his lips seriously and piously, "Father said it will last forever." Protect mine."

The tiger tooth necklace also needs to protect the little prince now.Although the scene of missing parting will bring some strength and courage to Kang Ning, he still has to rely more on himself.

In the past, when Concubine Zhao was in charge of palace affairs, Kang Ning didn't realize the importance of palace power and common affairs at all. However, when Concubine Yang took care of Kang Ning's daily expenses with an overly thoughtful, overly considerate manner, she treated guests like a performer. When the care of nature was applied to him, the only prince who was still underage and was still raised in the palace, he realized day by day that not everyone thought this palace city was his home.

After the eldest brother became the crown prince, everything changed.After he finished the countdown spring night waiting for Qi Changfeng to leave, he went to the countdown of leaving the palace city where he grew up and leaving his father, mother and concubine that Yang Huangguifei counted for him.

Like the second and third brothers, they have all become guests at home.The difference is that he is still young, and he can still live in this extraordinary palace for a few years until a point that everyone knows well.

After he was no longer ignorant and ignorant, Kang Ning suddenly gave a wink like never before. He could see the impatience of his mother and concubine, and the helplessness and consideration of his father, which made him become a sensible child without a teacher. Performing the innocence and happiness that he could have every day without any effort when he was young, except for his long illness, he seems to have completely escaped the influence of the experiences of the past few years, and he loves to talk and laugh again.

After Emperor Hui established the crown prince, he hardly concealed his love and favor for his younger son.The crown prince bestowed Jingchen Palace as the hidden residence of the East Palace according to the regulations, but the youngest son drew the blueprints himself, and rebuilt a nine-fold palace courtyard near the Qinghe Palace into a beautiful one. , the country's rare treasures were sent to the place where the youngest son moved like a stream of water, and the maidservants and servants were promoted layer by layer, and even a maid who cleaned the palace had to ask the ancestors.

It was almost obvious that the favor of surpassing the crown prince made the imperial concubine feel a kind of beating that made her gnash her teeth, and she stopped for a while, not daring to blatantly reach out to the emperor's heart and soul.

Corning breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps His Highness the Crown Prince also breathed a sigh of relief.Humans are no different from animals. In an anxious and tense situation, no one can be alone. When the string in the mind is tight for too long, people will start to have real hostility towards imaginary competitors, and from then on, resentment will end. In the next day, horror and hatred abound, and all the beautiful and soft memories will never go back.

He still remembers that when he was young, he sat on the elder brother's arms and raised his arms to ask for sweets. The second brother was swinging a purse and making fun of him, and the third brother was not far away. He repaired a wooden model waterwheel.

The past cannot be traced back, but those memory fragments scattered in the depths of the years like gems can still give the little prince a steady stream of gentle power, making him have the courage to face the growing up that opened like a magic box with Qi Changfeng's departure. Lonely.

After being the youngest brother and the prince to send the eldest princess away from the palace to get married, Kang Ning fell ill again and again.The imperial physicians in the palace have long been accustomed to the little prince's weaker and sicker body in the past few years. They spontaneously deliberate and discuss the prescriptions for the little prince's recuperation without the emperor calling for orders. Most of the masters in the palace are in good health. , these imperial physicians who are always on duty in the Forbidden Palace almost only need to serve Kang Ning, and this night, the two on-duty imperial physicians, Wu and Sun, directly stayed in a side hall in Tangmengxuan where the disease doctor was already resident. .

Until the outermost gate of the Jiuzhong Palace was slammed in the middle of the night.

"His Royal Highness has a sudden illness!"

"The two imperial physicians, please go with the slaves!"

Kang Ning almost immediately sat up in his already unsteady sick dream, he heard panicked exclamations, Bi Tao and Cui Hai hurried over with their clothes on, pretending to be calm and reporting that they were just sleepy The stunned servant knocked over the candle, and was yelled out by the innocent little girl. Now that everything has been dismissed, the night is still early, and the little highness is most afraid of sleeping less when he is ill, so he hurriedly sleeps while he is not sleepy. last a while.

Kang Ning was in a daze of mind during his illness, so he ignored the obvious panic of the maidservant.The servant didn't make a fuss and called the on-duty disease doctor to ask for instructions, and he didn't doubt it, and soon stared over in a daze.

After falling into a daze for less than two hours, Kang Ning woke up again from the dream.Concubine Zhao came here in person, her eyes were red, her clothes were not as dignified as in the past, and there was still an unbelievable daze in her expression. She was sitting beside her son's bed and softly calling Kang Ning's name.

"Ning Ning, get up soon, put on your clothes." Concubine Zhao Guifei had a strange look in her eyes, staring at her child, as if she was afraid that he would disappear: "You follow your mother." The concubine is going to Jingchen Palace. His Royal Highness... your eldest brother, just went."

Corning didn't understand at all.

The low-grade fever on his body due to illness persisted, and he was woken up several times at night. At this time, he was hurriedly served to change his clothes, scrub and comb his hair. He already felt that his mind and body were barely supporting him.

It wasn't until he saw himself dressed in filial piety that he seemed to have escaped from that sloppy drowsiness, and finally realized something, and began to tremble slowly.In such a dark night, he felt a terrible coldness. He opened his mouth to talk, to ask, and even to shout in despair, but he only felt boundless pain and absurdity exploded in his mind at the same time. A parting that he really couldn't accept suddenly came like a nightmare when he was unprepared.

There was no farewell, no countdown, only the sound of the evening wind gently blowing the gorgeous palace lanterns hanging on the courtyard wall.

Kang Ning turned his head in panic, trying to find some flaws in the scene at this moment, to prove that all this is just his absurd nightmare.

But all he saw were the same frightened faces following him.On a dark moonlit night, Bi Tao and the others were dressed in plain clothes and held a blue-white lamp in their hands, which looked like a group of ghostly shadows, which made him feel a gloomy coldness in his heart.

Then he was hugged into his mother's real and warm arms.

Concubine Zhao hugged her child with sobs, embracing that young and thin body, her heart was full of fear that had been surging since the moment she heard the news, which made her even feel pity for Concubine Yang whom she had always hated and hated— —Losing one's own flesh and blood is a disaster no less than a disaster for any mother who loves her children.

She was kissing her son's hair outside the palace wall, and it was only at this moment that she finally felt that all the erratic fantasies fell into tangible reality.Her child was embraced by her between her indestructible arms, and she was more frightened and flustered than her, which made Concubine Zhao give birth to infinite protective power in an instant:

"Don't be afraid, Ningning," she held her son's hand, as if it was the moment when she was supporting that little baby toddler in the warm and peaceful palace of Yongchun Palace many years ago, "Mother and concubine is by your side, so what do you do?" Don't be afraid anymore."