His Royal Highness the First Prince of Daliang

When Kang Ning was born, it rained for a long time in the capital.Everything is damp, Yongchun Palace is afraid of the newborns and dare not scent the room, the air in the palace has a long-term damp smell of moss and mud.

Zhao Yunqiao was distraught by the continuous rain, and her newborn son was always sick. He was crying day and night, which made her dream about the lingering baby crying.

She really loves the little thing - but well, she's suffering too.She was almost exhausted by the little guy.

On a rainy afternoon, the little prince was finally coaxed to sleep. He was lying in the swaddle with his little fists raised, his eyelashes trembling from time to time like butterfly wings, and there was a little tinge on his pink and white face. Unknown grievances.

Zhao Yunqiao wanted to cry just by looking at him—are you still wronged?The old lady is still wronged!

Sitting by the little bean cradle, her mind was full of the gloomy assertions of the disease doctors, as if the child was destined not to stay with her for a long time—they even said that it was a miracle that he lived past his first birthday.

But in such three or four months, Zhao Yunqiao had almost forgotten all the hopes and expectations she had for the little prince when he was still in her womb.

The infinite tenderness and love brought by the blood connection in the ten months of pregnancy can't match the doubts brought to her by seeing her child struggling day by day in this world.

At this time, she is still far from being able to give birth to any courage to believe and put all her eggs in one basket. Everyone expresses a kind of disappointment, frustration, sadness, regret, and even her own mother in front of her intentionally or unintentionally.

The imperial doctor's diagnosis was spread all over Miyagi.On that day, Mrs. Zhao entered the palace in the rain, and hugged her eldest daughter distressedly:

"About our little highness is a little fairy, he ran down for a while, and it's not time for him to reincarnate. He will come to accompany Aqiao for a few months, wait for two years, Aqiao and him are ready He will return to your stomach again."

Zhao Yunqiao looked at his mother in panic.She wants to ask, how can you say that?Do you think he's going to die too?Are you comforting me?

--I do not want to hear.

At the very beginning, Zhao Yunqiao was in pain, reluctant to give up, and refused to believe the unanimous judgment of the imperial doctor.But the baby cried, convulsed, got sick one after another, and was even unable to eat for a while, making her frail and frightening—she also lost her confidence bit by bit.

What hurt her especially was that this little life seemed to be suffering in the world.She wanted to keep him with her, but he was probably suffering because of it, suffering from his mother's desires in his short life.

Zhao Yunqiao sat withered, and gradually burst into tears, the unspeakable tiredness and those faint weeping sounds were mixed in the sound of the rain outside the window.

She didn't know how long she had been crying like this, nor did she notice when her hand was in her son's quilt.In short, when she noticed that the little guy had woken up from sleep, she was suddenly startled——

She opened her mouth to call Mammy over.The "little fairy" she gave birth to is probably the god in the sky who is in charge of debt collection, and she can't handle it alone.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, she stopped abruptly—the troublemaker didn't cry at the moment, or even hummed, he just looked at her with big black grape-like eyes, and her clear eyes were filled with her tears. reflection.

"Son..." Zhao Yunqiao didn't even bother to wipe off the tears on his face, so he gently touched Xiao Douding, "You slept very well, didn't you? You slept comfortably and sweetly... sleep Out of a good mood!"

Her voice was cautious, afraid that any movement she made would become a reminder to the crybaby.

But the little prince still behaved very calmly.

He twisted twice under his mother's terrified gaze, and frowned slightly—then his little hand like tender tofu broke out of the swaddle, and grabbed Zhao Yunqiao's fingers in the palm of his hand.

The feeling of warmth and lightness, the feeling of being involved in the blood made Zhao Yunqiao hold his breath for an instant.

The vast universe seems to have fallen into boundless tranquility in an instant.

There was an almost indescribable joy descending on Zhao Yunqiao's chest.She didn't realize that she immediately burst into a huge and silent smile.She moved her fingers gently as if she was afraid of disturbing a butterfly:

"Little darling, do you know people? You know mother..."

The little baby didn't understand what she was talking about, but just stared at his mother intently.

It was a long time later, when Zhao Yunqiao finally woke up from the silent emotion and ecstasy, she felt something was wrong.She turned her head and looked out of the window—as expected, the lingering light rain that had been falling for several months stopped at this moment, and the cloudy capital finally cleared up this summer evening.

A few rays of twilight slanted in through the window, first casting two or three patches of light on the face of the imperial concubine, and then those spots of light swam slowly, and then slid towards the fence of the little prince—the little guy had never seen After this, his innocent face is full of a kind of amusing silliness and novelty.When the sun brushed across his face, the little thing narrowed his eyes in shock, and then he showed his first smile since he came into this world.

so beautiful.

Zhao Yunqiao was almost completely intoxicated at the moment, until Emperor Hui who stepped in broke the tranquility of the room.

"Aqiao, it's settled, and I'll call it Kang Ning!" The emperor who went up to Yuantong Temple in Yunding Mountain in the rain was extremely excited but carefully lowered his voice, "This is the name I asked before the Buddha. It's very clever—you Look, it was still raining when I left, but on the way back the sky was..."

"Hey! He's awake?! Didn't he cry?" Emperor Hui, who entered the inner room, also noticed the staring baby in the cradle, and was startled.

The little prince was indeed interrupted by this big man who suddenly appeared.But he is also very familiar with the person who just came in - it just so happened that he made a good face today, buy one get one free, so the little guy also grinned and narrowed his eyes for his father.

"Hey! Good baby! Let Father give you a hug..." Emperor Hui never thought that he could get this kind of treatment, he was flattered, "What's going on today? So happy?" He hugged his youngest son Walking around in the inner room, "Oh...keep looking over there, go to the window! It's sunny, isn't it...we can't go to the window, Father will take you to take a look inside the house , okay? Oh, why do you say?" The emperor asked himself while hugging his son, "Because we are still young and cannot see strong light—look at our beautiful big eyes."

Zhao Yunqiao leaned against the closet not far away and looked at them, and at that moment, the first trace of stubborn belief suddenly appeared in his heart.

"He won't die," she thought silently in her heart, "he likes the sun, he likes here. And he has a name, he has a name in this world—his name is Kang Ning."

-

Kang Ning eats complementary food later than other children, and most of them are tasteless rice flour puree.On the evening of his second birthday, he fell asleep and woke up suddenly, crying to find his mother.

Concubine Zhao Gui and Emperor Hui are eating longevity noodles for their son.The people in the dining room naturally knew who the noodles were for, and the noodles were cooked in a very delicate and delicious way.

At that time, the little prince didn't even look at his mother, he pointed with his little hand and insisted on sitting in the emperor's arms.

The small bowl of longevity noodles must be finished. The emperor could only put his arms around his son in one hand and pick up the chopsticks in the other, trying to eat the long noodles quickly.

As a result, before he brought the chopsticks to his mouth, the little prince in his arms moved towards the noodles with his mouth open.

The people in the room laughed together, and Emperor Hui couldn't laugh or cry. He moved his chopsticks away, but his son reluctantly reached for his hand and continued to move his face towards him.Kang Ning didn't cry, and silently held the emperor's hand, exerting force in his direction.

Of course such a child cannot shake the strength of an adult.Emperor Hui coaxed him, "This is not delicious, can the emperor ask the mother to give you rice cereal?"

Usually, rice flour is also fine.

But at this moment, Kang Ning said, "No!" He held Emperor Hui's hand with both hands, and was about to stand up on his father's lap, "For Ningning!"

He also turned his head, with a serious childlike condemnation in his eyes, "Father," he had a serious expression that he didn't know where he learned it, probably Concubine Zhao or someone who once posed to him. After showing this face, he felt that it was very intimidating: "Let go! Give it to Ningning!"

The emperor was really powerless to resist, so he quickly raised the white flag, "Give him something to eat, it's fine, it's okay to eat a little bit." I don't know whether Emperor Hui was discussing with someone or comforting himself, "This is very salty, be good. Just nibble a little bit and taste it, okay?"

The little prince didn't say yes - he took a big mouthful of the noodles, and tasted the carefully cooked noodles in the broth that was made from delicacies from mountains and seas, and then his eyes widened in shock.

So the adult secretly ate such a delicious food behind his back?

For a long time since then, the little prince has contracted a problem - when the people around him are eating, he always walks around other people's feet, trying to taste the food on their plates.

It wasn't until later that the people in Yongchun Palace ate bitter gourds for a long time before they completely got rid of the little prince's bad habit.

-

Kang Ning often stayed in his father's palace when he was a child.Compared with Zhao Yunqiao, Emperor Hui is undoubtedly a father who is easier to compromise. Children will always know who is easier to achieve their goals with.

But children are like this - where they often stay, they will slowly accumulate a lot of cumbersome things.

But his little clothes, little quilts, little toys, it doesn't really matter.There is no shortage of maidservants in Qinghe Palace, even if the little prince's things are ten times more, all the maidservants with great powers will clean them up for him.

The problem is, Corning has a little secret:

There is a decorative pillar on the head of his father's bed, which is hollow inside, and there are many boring things in the eyes of the little prince.Including but not limited to a few pieces of paper, and one or two heavy and ugly play animals.

At the beginning, Kang Ning put his treasures to coexist with those boring things-a small bell, a wilted flower, a piece of "fairy stone" picked up in the garden, and half a piece of leftover snacks.There wasn't much space inside that column, but luckily he could put the snacks in even if he crushed them.

But one day, the little prince's second brother caught him a beautiful big dragonfly. He was afraid that his mother would throw it away if he brought it back to Yongchun Palace, so he ran to the secret base in his father's palace and took those useless dragonflies. Throwing things under the bed, carefully hiding the big dragonfly inside.

After all, those tigers and horses of his father are fake, he is a live dragonfly!

How can the father hide some things that even he doesn't care to play with?Have you never seen such a big dragonfly with transparent wings?

Kang Ning closed the small door valve hidden on the pillar, knelt at the head of his father's bed, patted the mud on his body, and ran out triumphantly.

That night, Emperor Hui sat on the head of the bed and touched the back of the pillar with his backhand, trying to take out his private seal that he hadn't used for a while.

But as soon as he unscrewed the door valve, many inexplicable things spilled out, including withered flowers, old bells, broken stones, broken snacks...

But that's not the most important-

Let's not talk about where his two private seals and a few secret letters went.Who can tell him why there is a big dragonfly flying out of the dragon bed and sleeping hall of his dignified son of heaven?