The prince has also changed a lot in recent years.
First of all, he is more calm and introverted than before, giving people a feeling of impenetrability, which is probably related to the gradual increase in power in his hands.
Men in Da Zhou began to grow beards when they were over 30 years old, so the crown prince also grew out his beards, except for some short beards on his chin, because they are usually well-trimmed, so he does not look old, but makes his appearance more handsome. Another layer of dustiness.
As for Pan'er, she was born with a thin background. There hasn't been much change in the past two years. Her figure is still slender, but she lacks the sickly thinness and has more beauty and grace.
"Then what do you say about this matter? You don't know, the concubine Tang came here in person just now, and I will apologize and be a low-key girl, don't mention how embarrassing it is. Let's forget about it, don't worry about it, wait for him later Any bigger, and who knows what else could happen."
Compared with Pan'er, the prince naturally saw his son from another perspective.
"Qian'er is not as bad as you said. You see, he is young, but he actually has his own ideas. Why didn't he get into such troubles before? If it weren't for the whip being robbed this time, he wouldn't beat people up. .”
Well, the three children and the child's father all think that they did nothing wrong, but only her mother thinks it's wrong, so there is still a need to talk about this matter
Pan'er angrily went to the chair and sat down, and the prince followed.
"Anyway, you are his father. If he got into trouble and you clean up the mess, you're right if you say it's right. Today I see Concubine Tang's appearance, and it seems that she has no intention of letting it go. If someone makes a big fuss, will you cause trouble for your mother? "I was originally angry, but in the end, it turned into worry.
In fact, what Pan'er wanted to say was whether he would cause trouble for the prince.
Although she is a woman and child in the back house, she knows more or less in the past two years. As the crown prince has cultivated more and more cronies in the court, it is inevitable that she will become more and more antagonistic to King Qi and King Chu.
On the surface, they are brothers, hello, me, him, but in fact, after going to the palace banquet a few times, you can see that the eyes of these two people looking at the prince can eat him up, and they don't miss any attack on weekdays. The prince's opportunity, let alone whether he will make a fuss out of a molehill, is sure to make a fuss out of a molehill.
She thought that Concubine Gao would definitely not let go of this opportunity to speak in front of Emperor Cheng'an, Empress Fu would definitely be so angry at being squeezed out, maybe Emperor Cheng'an would call the prince over to reprimand him, after all he is rare to find Opportunity can reprimand the son of the prince.
"It's okay." The prince pinched her cheek with a bit of a smile, worried about her.
"Are you all right?"
"No."
Well, don't look at Pan'er worried, but if the prince really said that, she wouldn't think so, she knew that the prince is not a random person.
"Don't worry? It's getting late, let's go back and have dinner."
The two went out, during which Pan'er told the people in Zong Yue's yard to tell the three children to go back to the East First Yard for dinner. When she and the prince returned to the yard, after a while, the three children came back.
In the outer room, the servants were setting meals, and the first thing the three children did when they came back was to wash their faces and hands.
For a while, the maids and eunuchs came in and out, Zong Qian returned to his old ways and splashed water on his elder brother and elder sister. Zong Yue was the elder brother who endured it, and Wan Wei would not be polite to him, so she fished him over and beat his ass a few times.
Zong Qian came to complain to Pan'er, but Pan'er didn't feel sorry for him at all.
After the quarrel, start eating.
Now the prince's refraining from eating, sleeping and talking has long been destroyed beyond recognition. It is too early to tell the three children who together are only in their teens. Especially since Pan'er was the first offender, if the crown prince didn't mention her, he would naturally be unable to teach a few children a lesson, so this 'bad habit' was retained.
"You have to eat vegetables, and if you pick out the vegetables and don't eat them, mother will let them chop up the vegetables and cook porridge for you."
Zong Qian was frightened.
To be precise, he was frightened by vegetable porridge. He usually likes to eat meat but not vegetables. To deal with him, Pan Er asked people to cook vegetable porridge for him. I can't pick it out, it's slippery and rotten in my mouth, in Zong Qian's words...it's disgusting.
Zong Qian eats vegetables as if he is taking poison, Wan Yan remembers that he has made trouble just now, and gives him another chopsticks of mushroom and cabbage.
"Mother let you eat vegetables for your own good, eat more."
Everyone at the table had smiles in their eyes, but Zong Qian had a bitter face, as if he was being tortured.
After eating, the prince asked Zong Yue about his homework, and Zong Yue explained exactly what his husband taught in the upper study today.
Don't look at the princes and grandchildren who go to the study at the age of five. In fact, they are enlightened early. If they go to the study without any foundation, it will only cause jokes, so Zong Yue was enlightened at the age of three. There are special teachers to teach, and usually the prince will also teach some.
Compared with the boys, the girls were much more relaxed. The prince only asked the daughter a few questions about homework, and then it was time for father and daughter to act like a baby.
Pan'er thinks that Wanrong's acting like a baby is just because of her. Seeing that she is not like a girl in a hurry, the key point is that she acts like a baby, and the prince just wants to eat her. Pan'er seldom acted like a baby.
Pan'er felt that she was jealous, and after the three children had left, the prince looked at her with a smirk, as if Gudu understood it in his heart.
In the past few years, as the children have grown up, the house in the East Palace has also been remodeled a lot.
The crown prince asked people to build a few courtyards on the east side behind Yuqing Palace, specially for Zongduo Zongyue and the others to live in. Boys moved to the front before going to the study to avoid being outgrown by women.
A few small courtyards were built on the west side of Jidetang for several princesses to live in, and they would be divided into courtyards after they were five years old.
In fact, at Zongqian's age, he was not ready to live in separate courtyards, but since Zongyue and Wanrong moved the courtyard, he was not happy to live in the first courtyard, and spent most of a month living in the courtyard of his elder brother and elder sister. Although Zong Yue and Wan Rong despise him, they still take good care of this little brother on the whole and will take him with them.
On the way back to the yard, Wanxuan was still telling the younger brother not to get into trouble in the future, and he would not be able to save him next time.
During the period, she probably didn't say that she had a good time. Wanwang saw that it was still early, so she didn't go back to her yard, but followed the two brothers Zong Yue and Zong Qian to the front.
Before he got to the gate of the courtyard, he saw two people standing at the gate, it was Zong Duo who was leading the young eunuch into Zhongzhong.
Zong Duo, who is less than six years old this year, already has the demeanor of a prince's eldest son. Wearing a blue robe and tall and tall, it is probably due to the prince's good genes. The male heirs of the East Palace are all tall, far exceeding their peers, so Zong Duo already has a somewhat personable and elegant attitude, which makes him People have a look like seeing the prince when he was a child, but his body is a little thinner.
The moment Zong Yue saw Zong Qian, he became more mature and introverted, and called out big brother.
Wanrong and Zongqian also called elder brother.
"Is there nothing wrong? After I came back, I heard about Tang's concubine's finding from my mother's concubine. Su Liangdi has always been strict with Zong Qian. Zong Qian, you have not been reprimanded, have you?"
Zong Qian glanced at him, said nothing, then lowered his head.
"I'm still being scolded, and I'm in a bad mood right now." The younger brother was rude, and the older brother naturally had to cover it up, Zong Yue said helplessly to Zong Duo.
"Zong Qian is still young, it's normal to get into trouble, besides, Zong Zuo caused trouble first, Zong Qian, don't be unhappy, turn around and ask someone to bring you the whip that my father gave me last time, haven't you always like very much… "
Zong Yue was a little embarrassed: "Brother, it's better not to use it. My mother has already searched for his whip, and I will get another one for him. I may not know what trouble he will cause."
Zong Duo didn't insist, "If that's the case, forget it."
Afterwards, the two brothers exchanged some pleasantries, and the three of them watched Zong Duo go back to their yard.
All the way into the yard in silence, and after entering the house, Wan Rong said to Zong Qian: "I'll let you down, others will see the joke."
Zong Yue said: "You tell him what to do, he is still young and doesn't understand."
"He's so young, he knows a lot. Just now the eldest brother said that he would give him the whip that the emperor gave him, why didn't he rush to ask for it? Normally, he would have happily agreed."
Zong Qian said stubbornly: "I don't want him, my father gave it to me!"
Speaking of this whip, there is still a bit of a story. …
The royal family of the Great Zhou not only paid attention to the studies of the princes and grandchildren, but also paid attention to their kung fu and riding and shooting. Generally, males enter the study room after the age of five, study in the morning, and spend one or two hours in the afternoon going to the school grounds to let the martial arts masters hone their muscles and bones to practice riding and shooting.
Therefore, after the children are five years old, in addition to a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, they will also be given a horsewhip to encourage them to work harder.
When Zong Duo entered the study room, the prince specially asked people to find high-quality rhinoceros hide and tendon, and tanned two whips.
The black whip body is wrapped with gold thread, and the handle is black jade. How can a child resist this temptation? When Zongqian saw Zongduo's whip, he liked it very much. After the other one fell into Zongyue's hands, he couldn't hold it anymore, and pestered the prince for a long time. That's why I made another one.
However, it should be two sizes smaller, which is suitable for Zong Qian's age to play with. So Zong Qian has always treasured his own whip, otherwise he would have beaten Zong Zuo today.
"Since you don't want his things, you should know how to avoid causing trouble outside, so as not to embarrass your mother."
"Understood." Zong Qian said weakly.
"Okay, you don't have to say a few words, and teach him slowly." Zong Yue persuaded.
Wan Rong said: "I would like to say a few words less, but if you don't say it, mother doesn't care, don't let him grow up to be a little fool."
"You're such a fool!" Zong Qian made a grimace, and ran into the room, and the eunuch who was waiting hurriedly followed.
Zong Yue said helplessly: "Mother has always been big-hearted, she didn't teach us at the beginning, isn't that what we have become now? The environment in the palace is like this, when he gets older, he will understand without teaching himself."
"Okay, whatever you say makes sense. Anyway, he spends a lot of time with you, so you should teach him something more. I'm going back. I'm sweating all over in the afternoon. I'll go back and take a bath."
Leaving these words behind, Wanrong left in a hurry.
Zong Yue went into the inner room, intending to teach his younger brother by precept and example.
After Wanyu went back, she asked the maids to prepare water and she took a shower. Just after she came out of the bathroom, she was being brushed on her hair when the Second Princess Wanshu came.
"Fifth sister, are you going to take a break so early?" Wan Shu was wearing a thin shirt embroidered with orchids in Songjiang white silk and a pink pleated skirt. The girl who was almost ten years old already had the demure appearance of a girl. She looks like a princess, and she can see that she will be a beauty in the future.
Wanyu got off the kang, and invited Wanshu to sit on the kang, and then returned to the kang to let the little maid wipe her hair.
"I sweated a lot in the afternoon, so I took a shower first when I came back, lest my clothes stick to my body and make me feel uncomfortable."
Wan Shu glanced enviously at the whip that Wan Rong had casually placed on the table, and said, "Fifth Sister is going to practice horse riding again?"
"I'm not tall enough, so I can only ride a horse and let the little eunuch pull me around for a couple of laps, and that's all I can enjoy."
"very nice."
Seeing Wanshu's envious face, Wanrong said disapprovingly: "If the second sister wants to learn how to ride a horse, tell the father and king, and then we will practice together."
There was a flash of emotion on Wanshu's small face, but she still shook her head: "I can't do it, I'm not as strong as Fifth Sister."
Now that Wan Shu said that she couldn't do it anymore, Wan Rong didn't try to persuade her anymore. Anyway, she said it several times, and Wan Rong got tired of saying it, but for the sake of the scene, she still had to say it.
"Is Zong Qian okay? I heard people say that Su Liangdi is very angry, didn't she punish Zong Qian?"
"No, my mother was just angry for a while, and Zong Qian is so young and ignorant, and my father also said that Zong Qian is not to blame for this matter."
"Father knows? That's good. I'm afraid that Su Liangdi will punish Zongqian," Wan Shu said with a smile, and stood up. "In this case, I don't worry. Fifth sister, you are busy. say."
"Second sister, then I won't see you off."
After Wan Shu left, Ban Xia hesitated to speak: "Princess, didn't you tell the slaves not to mention His Royal Highness in the East First Courtyard in front of the Second Princess."
"She didn't want to know if my mother would punish Zongqian, but she wanted to know how the father would react, so I let her know." Wanrong's tone was very impatient.
In fact, she also knew that she should not mention her father, but Zong Duo first and then Wan Shu. On the surface, the eldest brother and the second sister cared about the younger siblings below, but it always made people feel unspeakable... feeling. It's not the first time something like this has happened, maybe they have different ideas if they have different positions, Wanrong always feels that they have ulterior motives.
Let her see that the affairs between adults should not be related to the children below, but she thinks so and others don't think so. Besides, her mother is also a decent concubine of her father who was given a royal certificate, so it is too uncomfortable to be guarded like this just because she is favored.
After thinking about it for a while, Wanrong felt a terrible headache, so she stopped thinking about it.
When her hair was almost dry, she remembered that her father had asked her about calligraphy just now, and asked the maids to spread paper and grind ink to practice calligraphy.
Don't look at her mouth that she doesn't care, but she still doesn't want to disappoint her father.