"Enjoy it."
After paying his respects, the Third Prince knelt on the ground and said these two words. Seeing the horrifying expression on the Emperor's face, he said frankly, "I have always been a law-abiding person. This is the first time in my life that I have done something so outrageous. I even coerced Senior Brother Lu to help conceal it, and persuaded the Empress Dowager to take me out of the palace. The people who followed me didn't know my identity the whole time. This feeling is very special."
"Of course, if the Empress Dowager hadn't helped me, I wouldn't have been able to leave. If Sister Yingying hadn't helped me mobilize a team of soldiers and horses, my journey would have been risky. If Ah Liu hadn't prepared the carriage, ointment and bandages in advance, I would have been riding a horse for a long time and probably wouldn't have been able to walk for the next few days... So, I am far from what my father was in the past."
Is this a compliment or an insult
The emperor felt the veins on his forehead twitching, and then he heard Zhang Shou's laughter from behind him. This time he finally found an outlet. He immediately turned around, stared at the guy who was laughing, and shouted fiercely: "Zhang Shou, what are you laughing at!"
Zhang Shou, who was originally laughing, immediately changed his face to a serious one: "Your Majesty, I am laughing because the Crown Prince believes that like father, like son, so he intends to imitate the emperor's behavior of wearing incognito to get close to the people. And the emperor wants to let the officials and people of the world see how wise and studious the Crown Prince is, and sometimes he even does not hesitate to belittle himself for this. This is really a deep family love."
"Get lost!"
The emperor couldn't help but blurt out a swear word. Seeing Zhang Shou's bewildered expression, as if he didn't understand what he said, he became even more furious: "You have corrupted the good prince! Why did you have to learn from me when you can learn from me and be willful and impulsive? Now those guys who watch the palace every day can finally find fault with me!"
"I am not afraid of being criticized, nor do I want to be a virtuous prince in the eyes of others." The Third Prince saw that the Emperor and Zhang Shou were staring at each other, but one was aggressive and the other was pretending to be confused. He quickly made up his mind and argued loudly, "I know that as long as I tell my father, he will definitely allow me to visit my fourth brother, but I want to go quietly and give him a surprise!"
The emperor turned around and before he could scold the Third Prince for being naive, he saw the little prince stand up and walk in front of him. He looked up and said, "The Empress Dowager said that she was busy with government affairs and neglected my father. She didn't say many things to him in time, so it was always difficult for her and my father to open up to each other later."
"After hearing this, I was very scared. I am worried that things will continue to go the same way between me and you, father... Father, I never thought about becoming the crown prince before. I was willing to do so because you asked me to do so. So I don't care about the reputation of being a virtuous crown prince at all! So, I can be as virtuous as others hope, but I can also be as willful as you were back then!"
"The Queen Mother said that I am still young, so I might as well be young and reckless and experience what my father felt back then. I know that she wants my father to be anxious and experience how she felt when she heard that my father's white dragon fish suit was outside, but I..."
"I just hope that you will not forget what you cherished most in order to win praise and recognition from others! Besides my mother, my father and my fourth brother are the ones I cherish most!"