The reborn prince is hard to raise

When the emperor went to Fengyi Palace, it was just at the end of Chen hour (seven to nine o'clock).

Hearing the servants outside the palace singing loudly, Empress Xu Qiwu opened her slightly closed eyes in surprise, "How long has it been since you went to court, why did your majesty come so soon?" There was a peach blossom tattoo under the corner of her eyes, making her His eyes looked very lazy.

At this time, she was leaning on the phoenix couch, her slender and white fingers were like water onions, and a little servant girl was kneeling on the ground to smear her with the juice mixed with flower juice and dew, and the fingertips were light pink when stained, delicate Not flattering, light but not gaudy, against the delicate skin is like a smear of red on white jade.

"Your Majesty is thinking of you, Madam." Aunt A Jing turned her head and smiled while making tea.She is a dowry maid brought by the queen from her own home, and now she is the female official in charge of Fengyi Palace, and all the servants in the palace call her Aunt Ajing.

She combed her temple hair neatly, with a red hairpin on one side only, and she was making tea gently with her hands, and the hall was filled with the fragrance of tea for a while.

"It's not about me, it's about the prince?" Xu Qiwu raised his hand, looked at the pink color on his fingertips, nodded with satisfaction, then got up, and put on the jade luan step rocking hairpin with lotus and begonia on his hair There was a light crashing sound, and the luxurious Feiluoku Jinthorn Wufeng Jifu changed her temperament from lazy to luxurious in an instant.

After finishing speaking lightly, he rolled up his wide sleeves and walked towards the entrance of the hall.Her footsteps are very light, and her figure is graceful, and Zhuang Hua's dress can't hide her beauty like a flower bud blooming on a branch.

"The concubine pays homage to His Majesty." Before he knelt down, Xu Qiwu was helped up by the emperor, and Lu Zezhang's gentle chuckle was next to his ears, "Qiwu doesn't need to be polite." His voice was full of joy, and he was in a good mood appearance.

As they spoke, they held Xu Qiwu's hand in one hand, and walked into the hall together.

Xu Qiwu's long clothes fell on the ground, and the phoenix embroidered with gold thread spread its wings wide, trying to fly into the air.

"The crown prince and Mingheng are coming soon." Xu Qiwu offered tea to Lu Zezhang with his own hands. The appearance of holding a white porcelain teacup with his ten fingers smeared with flower juice is very eye-catching, but the emperor just took her tea casually, not at all. Just didn't notice.

Xu Qiwu's hand paused indistinctly, but the smile on his face did not change at all, his eyes were like spring water.

"I don't know how Chengning and the princess are getting along." Lu Zezhang looked out of the palace door from time to time, with a slightly worried tone.He took a sip of tea, put the cup on the table, and praised with a warm smile, "Ah Jing's tea art has improved a lot."

"Your Majesty's praise." Aunt Ah Jing hurriedly stood up when she heard the words, then half-bent down and said in a humble voice.

"The prince has never liked drinking tea. Every time he comes to my Fengyi Palace, he never touches the teacup." Xu Qiwu said with a smile, "Ah Jing has been sad for a long time because of this, and she tried every means to get the prince to have a sip of tea."

"Chengning has been a picky eater since he was a child." Lu Zezhang's expression lightened, and he comforted him, "Chengning is still young, and it's good to have some hobbies. When he grows up, he will have time to learn how to be a king." Said His eyes fell on the tip of the leaf floating up and down in the teacup, and he didn't notice Xu Qiwu's froze expression instantly.

Half an hour later, the palace attendant came to report that the prince and princess had arrived outside Fengyi Palace.

Gu Mingheng took Lu Chengning's hand into Fengyi Palace, and the palace servants waiting on both sides of the avenue knelt down to salute.

"A-Ning is going to meet the emperor and queen mother, are you happy?" Gu Mingheng walked and talked to Lu Chengning, looking at him with his face slightly sideways, with loose hair brushing his cheeks, making his brows and eyes soft.

Lu Chengning didn't answer him, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

Gu Mingheng suddenly remembered the appearance of the old scholar in the Chongwen Museum when he was flipping through ancient books, and his expression was very similar to that of Aning at this time.I laughed when I thought about it.

Hearing the low laughter, Lu Chengning suddenly turned his head to look at Gu Mingheng, tilted his head, as if he couldn't understand why he was laughing.

"Ah Heng go back and play the piano for Ah Ning to listen to." Gu Mingheng said to him in a good mood, the smile on the corner of his mouth was like the wind in March, containing the gentle sunshine and slightly warm breath.Lu Chengning didn't nod or shake his head, he just followed Gu Mingheng into the hall cooperatively.

After saluting and getting up, Gu Mingheng felt a gaze fall on him, knowing that it was the emperor looking at him.

He stood there calmly, holding Lu Chengning's hand without any relaxation.In fact, he really didn't have much affection for the emperor.

As the only son of His Majesty today, Lu Chengning has been crowned as the crown prince since he was born. Although he was found to be a bit stupid when he was three years old, the emperor still insisted on his position as the crown prince, and for this reason he was willing to resist the pressure of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Since he was so persistent, why did he gradually show his intention to change the crown prince after Lu Chengning reached the crown?

Gu Mingheng will always remember how during that time the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty counted the crimes of "Prince Dayong" and the harm he did to the country of Dayong.And how to curry favor with Prince An, curry favor with flattery, and snub the ex-prince Lu Chengning who was hostile to him.

The emperor used to be a prince, didn't he think about what kind of situation Lu Chengning would encounter with his behavior?Back then, after King An was named the emperor's younger brother, the reason why he insisted on executing himself was because he wanted to remove the last wing of the former prince Lu Chengning - Puyang Gu family.

Only the death of himself, the princess who stands behind the entire Gu family in Puyang, can eliminate the suspicion and worry in his heart.

And the emperor acquiesced.

He acquiesced to Prince An's decision to cut off Lu Chengning's only way out and also his only way out.

If King An ascended the throne as emperor, would he really be able to tolerate the existence of Lu Chengning, the "son of the former emperor"?Ah Ning has such a temper, if he loses his life, the body may not be found anywhere.

Every emperor's heart is narrow, they can hold the whole world, the whole country of thousands of miles, but they can't accommodate a person who threatens their throne.

Thinking of this, Gu Mingheng held Lu Chengning's hand tightly, his eyebrows drooped low, and his eyes kept falling on the ground without raising his head.Therefore, no one saw his sharp eyes like arrows and his shocking determination.

Aning, that is your position, I will not let anyone take it away!I will let thousands of people prostrate at your feet and let you rule the world.

Otherwise, what's the point of my existence?

"I heard that the sound of the piano in the East Palace last night lasted all night?" The palace was silent for a long time, and the emperor Lu Zezhang said suddenly.

He stood in his old age, and his appearance inherited the handsomeness of the Lu family's royal family. In comparison, Lu Chengning may be because he is still young, and his appearance is not so similar to Lu Zezhang, nor is he very similar to the queen.

"I want to tell Your Majesty that Your Highness wanted to listen to the piano music last night, so I played the Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night, and His Highness liked it very much." Gu Mingheng saluted respectfully, with a smile in his voice.

"Chengning likes to listen to the piano?" Lu Zezhang's expression was very surprised. He looked at Lu Chengning who was still standing quietly beside Gu Mingheng, and his heart was full of ecstasy, with some uncontrollable excitement, "Chengning, what's wrong with him?" reaction?"

"Your Highness, he asked me to play it to him again in the morning." He smiled slightly, with an expression of admiration, "I taught His Highness a piece of piano music, and His Highness played it right." His voice was still the same. The joy in the boy's voice was obvious at this moment.

Lu Zezhang laughed and looked at Gu Mingheng with admiration, "Very good, very good! Let me just say, my prince Chengning is not a fool!" He looked at the queen sitting beside him with pride in his eyes, "Queen, you Look, Cheng Ning is really smart!"

Xu Qiwu nodded reservedly, "The crown prince has always been very smart, maybe it's just that he didn't like the teachers and teachers in the past, so he didn't want to learn." Looking at Lu Chengning, he said softly, "The crown prince is really powerful. How about playing the piano for your mother to listen to?" Lu Chengning ignored it, still looking like he was wandering away.

The queen didn't say anything more, instead she said a few words to Lu Zezhang, all of which were praises of Lu Chengning.

Standing aside, Gu Mingheng frowned secretly in his heart, he was very sensitive to the "fool" in the emperor's words, he always hated others calling Lu Chengning "fool", this title made him feel it was a kind of insult and contempt.

Moreover, it is indeed a happy event for the prince to learn how to play the piano, but why did the queen speak up like this?Playing the piano to please listeners has its own musicians, but a gentleman learns the six arts, and playing the piano is for self-cultivation.

As a queen, you will not understand this.

The prince of the current dynasty, the future emperor of Dayong, how can he be generalized as a musician?

Although Gu Mingheng was unhappy in his heart, he didn't show the slightest bit on his face.There was a smile on the corner of his mouth all the time, his expression was soft, and his eyes never showed any change in expression.

Several people talked for a while, the queen waved to Aunt A Jing who was waiting at the side, and then smiled at Gu Mingheng, "Ah Jing made some scented tea by herself a few days ago, and the smell of it in this palace is very wonderful , I don’t know if the crown prince will like it.” She told Ah Jing, “Pour a cup for your majesty, the crown prince and the crown princess.”

Ah Jing bowed sideways, then stepped back and sat quietly by the tea table, where the snow water from the plum blossoms was being boiled on a red clay stove.

Gu Mingheng led Lu Chengning to sit under the empress. The content of the conversation between the few people was also very simple, nothing more than the usual studies and the situation in Gu's mansion, and did not involve the government and officials of the court.

Gu Mingheng responded respectfully one by one, with appropriate admiration in the respect, like an 11-year-old boy meeting an elder whom he had admired for a long time for the first time, with an anxious and excited appearance.

Judging from Lu Zezhang's expression, Gu Mingheng who was neither humble nor overbearing but also a little apprehensive made him even more appreciative.

From time to time, Ah Jing came forward with a lacquered wooden tray, bowed her knees and saluted, and then placed the teacups on the tray in front of everyone one by one.The cup is a crystal carved glass cup with excellent craftsmanship, and delicate flowers and plants are printed on it to compare the solar terms of the four seasons.

There are pieces of petals floating on the surface of the water in the cup, and they are fully unfolded in the water, like blooming flowers.It has not yet entered the mouth, but there is already a suitable fragrance.

Gu Mingheng glanced at Lu Chengning from the corner of his eye, and saw him carefully looking at the cup in front of him, and then at the cup in Gu Mingheng's hand. His eyes were a little confused, but he didn't move or touch it.He focused on the rising smoke, his eyes like ink.

Seeing his unresponsive appearance, the queen was not unhappy, and turned to Gu Mingheng with a pleasant face, "If you like it, take some back to the East Palace, and you can try it in your spare time." Her eyes were loving, as if she was looking at her own child generally.

"Thank you for the gift, Queen Mother." Standing up to thank you, Gu Mingheng, who was about to sit down, suddenly changed his expression, and shouted "A Ning" in a voice, full of panic, and then the sound of the glass cup shattering exploded in his ears.

He pulled Lu Chengning into his arms, anxiously shook off the water droplets on his arm, and asked anxiously, "Is Ah Ning hot? Ah Ning?" When he opened the sleeves, he saw that his wrist was hot red with blisters.

Gu Mingheng felt that his heart was suddenly grasped, almost suffocating.He looked into Lu Chengning's eyes and asked distressedly, "A-Ning...does it hurt?"

Lu Chengning kept looking at him, as if he didn't understand what happened, and Gu Mingheng felt even more distressed by his blank look.So Gu Mingheng held him in his arms and comforted him, "A-Ning is fine, it doesn't hurt..."

Lu Zezhang repeatedly asked someone to bring scald ointment, his expression was a little nervous, and then he said angrily, "What's going on? Why was the prince scalded?" At this moment, his voice was full of majesty and anger, without the previous amiable look, he was full of imperial majesty .He looked at Lu Chengning's wrist with blisters, and felt distressed in his eyes.

The palace servants in the hall knelt down one after another, touching their foreheads to the ground.It is not uncommon for the emperor to punish everyone because of the prince's affairs, and at this time they all looked very panicked.This time the prince was scalded, although it was not their fault, but it was hard to escape the punishment.

"Your Majesty, it's all due to the negligence of your servants. You shouldn't serve your Highness tea in glass cups." Aunt Ah Jing knelt on one side, put her hands on the ground, and said quickly, with deep self-blame on her face. She looked at Lu Chengning's hand. I feel very guilty about the injury.

"Your Majesty, Ah Jing didn't do it on purpose." The queen who hadn't spoken all this time stood up suddenly, she looked at Lu Chengning's wrist, "Ah Ning's injury is not serious, it should be fine after applying ointment."

Seeing Lu Zezhang's expression gradually slowing down, he said directly to the kneeling palace attendant, "Get up, Your Majesty has already exonerated you from your crimes. From now on, you should be more careful in serving the prince, and don't make any mistakes."

Gu Mingheng carefully helped Lu Chengning apply the medicine, and it hurt so much to see such a large area reddened by the boiling water.But Lu Chengning didn't say a word, he stared at Gu Mingheng's fingers moving back and forth, as if he had ignored the pain in his wrist.

While listening to the conversation between the emperor and empress, Gu Mingheng was very angry, but suspicious again.It is true that Ah Ning got burned because the glass cup was shielded from heat, so she didn't feel hot when she touched the cup, and she was unprepared.Another thing is that the body of the cup is too slippery. When Aning picked up the cup, he slipped and poured it on his hand, but the hot spot on the back of his hand was not as serious as his wrist.

Looking back now, after Ah Ning's hand was burned, the queen hardly reacted, whether it was anxiety or worry, it didn't show at all.But when Aunt Ah Jing pleaded guilty, she stood up directly and asked the emperor to let them go.Such a comparison suddenly made Gu Mingheng feel a little chilled.

It seems that things are not as simple as I thought.At least at the beginning, he always thought that the emperor and empress loved the crown prince very much, after all, the crown prince was their only child.But now it seems that the facts may deviate from what I imagined.

Perhaps, this is different from the thinking of most people in the world.

Gu Mingheng felt even more frightened when he thought about it.

The emperor often punished the palace servants because of the prince. Although they could make them take care of the prince wholeheartedly out of fear, they did not win their obedience. The courtiers would make a big fuss based on this, even directly involving the prince's benevolence.This is very unfavorable to Lu Chengning.

As the king of a country, the emperor would not fail to think of these things.

As for the queen, Gu Mingheng sneered in his heart, could it be that the prince hadn't been raised under her knees since he was a child, so his relationship has become estranged?

After making sure that the scalded areas were covered with medicine, Gu Mingheng blew on his hand, Lu Chengning saw his movements, and followed his example and blew on his own hand, with a serious and lovely expression.

"The prince likes Mingheng very much." The queen stood aside, looked at Lu Chengning lovingly with a smile, and then said to the emperor.She folded her hands in front of her body, and she was dressed in a neat and luxurious phoenix robe, looking very elegant.

"Sure enough, I didn't choose the wrong person, as long as Chengning likes it." Lu Zezhang smiled and nodded after hearing this, and was very relieved to see Gu Mingheng helping Lu Chengning apply the medicine meticulously.

Kasyapa, the person you have chosen is indeed very good.

It was already afternoon when I came out of Fengyi Palace.Gu Mingheng made the excuse that Lu Chengning wanted to take a nap, so he was able to return to the East Palace.When he boarded the car, Gu Mingheng's eyes sank in an instant. He covered Lu Chengning's injured hand with one hand, worried that he would scratch the wound again, and carefully got into the car.

"A-Ning, tell Ah-Heng, does it hurt?" He held his hand, looked him in the eyes and asked, his tone soft and loving.

After asking four times in a row, Lu Chengning met his eyes.

As if he understood the question Gu Mingheng asked, and also heard the pity and worry in his tone, Lu Chengning raised his hand, slowly passed it to Gu Mingheng's lips, and said in a pitiful voice, "Well, Ah Ning is in pain. , Blow it."

When Gu Mingheng heard this, his eyes became astringent, and he almost shed tears.