Hongxi couldn't say a word.
Could it be that when I came here, I saw Brother Fourteen's face was not good, so he got defensive and paid attention to the word "Jiu Niang Wan"?
That means he had ulterior motives and deliberately changed Hong Yu’s wine bowl...
He lowered his eyes and drooped the corners of his mouth, looking only at the tiles on the ground.
Discussing deeds, one does not care about one’s heart, and there is no good person regarding one’s heart.
Doesn't he just love and protect his cousin?
Even if the wine bowl is not that hot, don't you just want to show your kindness and consideration?
As soon as he showed his attitude, everyone knew that there was no need to ask.
The fourth elder brother said to the eldest elder brother: "The things on the table are worth looking at."
So even if Hong Xi didn't answer, as long as he did something, there would still be traces to follow.
The ninth elder brother looked around and said, "Where did this bastard, the fourteenth elder brother, go? How come the thirteenth elder brother is also missing..."
As he spoke, he went outside.
I saw that the personal eunuchs of the Thirteenth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince were there.
"You guys are stuck here, where is your master?" Brother Jiu asked.
The eunuch of Brother Fourteen turned pale, knelt down with a bang, and said: "Master Jiu, our master is missing..."
"ha?"
Brother Jiu was surprised and said, "Why are you missing?"
The eunuch choked up and said, "I don't know, but the Thirteenth Master just came out to look for someone. He looked around the main courtyard and the backyard, but our master was nowhere to be found. The Thirteenth Master was worried that our master had returned to the city, so he has already chased him..."
Brother Jiu had a headache hearing this.
Not to mention, Brother Fourteen is actually not a brave person.
This time he got into trouble. He didn't dare to face his brothers and ran away.
If he went to the imperial court to plead guilty before everyone punished him, it would make the big problem become a trivial matter.
The ninth elder brother looked at the eunuch of the thirteenth elder brother again and said, "Why did the thirteenth elder brother chase him? Did you bring anyone with you?"
The eunuch looked sad and said: "Our master chased him alone and took Master Jiu's horse..."
Just when Brother Thirteen couldn't find anyone, the chief eunuch here brought the imperial doctor over.
There was a horse parked at the door. It was the ninth prince who rode here, and the thirteenth prince rode away directly.
After hearing this, Brother Jiu wanted to jump in. How come no one is sensible?
It was pitch dark now.
The moon rises early, but walking at night alone or on horseback is too willful.
The ninth elder brother felt it was inappropriate, so he turned around and entered the house, and told the eldest elder brother and fourth elder brother about the situation.
The eldest brother and the fourth brother looked at each other and felt that it was difficult.
The fourth elder brother stood up, glanced at Hong Yu, and said: "My nephew looks tired. Brother, please send him back to be resettled. I'll call the guards and give chase."
One is a young boy and the other is a young man. No one can trust them.
The eldest brother nodded and told: "When you catch up to the fourteenth brother, don't shout for beating or killing. Ask for the reason later and then talk about anything else."
Fourth Brother nodded and went out without hesitation.
The ninth elder brother sat by the kang, and they all muttered: "Is the fourteenth elder brother stupid? If you are a small thirty-year-old boy, go back with bare legs, and you are not allowed to go out in the middle of the night."
The elder brother also frowned.
Is this something that can be avoided?
There has to be an explanation.
It's not like a child of a certain age can do whatever he wants.
At fourteen, even if you are not a man, you can no longer be treated as a child.
Hong Xi stood on the ground, no one answered him.
He heard it clearly and knew that Brother Fourteen had run away.
He was so filled with hatred that he really wanted to tell her about the happy bowl, but he swallowed it back as soon as it reached his lips.
Even if the wine bowl was not hot, he wanted to use this to get closer to Hong Yu and take good care of his cousin, so it was nothing to be careful.
If I said everything, it would look like I was holding back...
At this moment, there was movement outside.
It's the third elder brother who is here.
Knowing that Hong Qing was having dinner at the Fifth House tonight, San Age and San Fujin made an agreement with Hong Qing to let him go back to the South Second House to stay for one night.
It turned out that San Fujin wanted to send someone to pick up Hong Qing when he saw that it was getting late and he hadn't gone back yet. When San Age heard about it, he volunteered.
It can only be said that there are two courtyards between the South Fifth Institute and the South Second Institute, so there was an uproar in the courtyard here before, but it did not alarm the South Second Institute.
The third elder brother only realized something was wrong when he entered the courtyard.
Quiet, too quiet.
He was surprised when he saw that the dining table in the hall was still set but empty.
Seeing a figure in Toji's room, he turned in.
"Eldest brother, ninth brother, are you here to have a feast too?"
The third elder brother asked curiously: "Didn't you say that the fourteenth elder brother only invites younger ones? Why do you still choose others to send posts?"
Brother Jiu waved his hand and said, "We all came here..."
With so many people watching, the matter couldn't be hidden, so the ninth elder brother simply said it, and also said that the younger elder brothers were all in the west room.
After hearing this, the third elder brother glanced at Hong Yu, who had his eyes closed. He was worried about his son and said, "Then let me take a look at Hong Qing first..."
With that said, he turned around and went out to the west.
In the west room, no adults were around, and the little brothers were happy again.
Hongsheng touched his belly, looked at Brother Fifteen and said, "Uncle Fifteen, when are you going to eat again? My nephew is hungry. He didn't even take a few bites just now..."
Along with the sound of talking, there was a bowel movement in his belly.
Hong Qing immediately said: "I'm hungry too..."
"And me, and me..." Hong Shu also responded.
The fifteenth brother has only eaten a few kuai, but is it convenient to pick up food at this time?
He hesitated.
The sixteenth elder brother was also an uncle. When he saw this, he said to the fifteenth elder brother: "Brother, we can't go hungry. Hongyu and Akedun have vomited completely, so they have to eat to cushion themselves."
Brother Fifteen nodded and looked at the person at the door.
He Yuzhu was here, and after listening to the instructions of the ninth elder brother, he helped the fifteenth elder brother here.
Brother Fifteen walked over and said, "Young brothers are all hungry. Let the kitchen heat up some food and bring it to you..."
He Yuzhu glanced at Akedun lying on the kang, and was thinking about how to explain to his fifteenth brother that the fourth master had been asked to arrange for someone to take care of him in the dining room.
The third elder brother had already heard these words at the door and said: "Why are you still dawdling? There are no others around, where are Shoudao and Shoumen? Are you going to let the young masters starve?"
He Yuzhu went out to find Brother Jiu, but it was not easy for him to make the decision.
Brother Jiu thought for a while and said, "Ask Xiaotang to cook the eggs directly. It's faster and doesn't require any manpower."
Things with skin are safer.
He Yuzhu responded and went down.
Brother Jiu looked at Hongxi and didn't know how to arrange it.
This is different from Brother Fourteen.
The fourteenth elder brother is the younger brother and deserves a beating. They treat him as an elder brother with a few scoldings and a kick is not a big deal.
This is a nephew, not just any nephew.
If they hit or scolded someone, it would be considered as bullying.
The eldest brother waved directly to Hong Xi and said: "You can go over there, there is nothing more to ask!"
He couldn't take action, but the anger in his heart did not dissipate.
The eldest brother knows his Hongyu, who has an honest and gentle temperament. He is respectful to his uncle and cousins in the study room, and also takes care of his younger cousins and nephews.
Hongxi's move was calculated and evil.
It's just that he is an uncle, so he doesn't have to deal with his eight-year-old nephew. This debt must not be recorded on the prince.
Hong Xi stood for a quarter of an hour, and her legs were already stiff.
After hearing what the eldest brother said, he nodded and went out.
He understood the anger of Prince Amma. These princes and elder brothers were all ambitious and had evil intentions, otherwise they would not be polite to him at all.
Brother Jiu took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was already the second quarter of the year.
Hong Yu had been placed on the kang, sleeping soundly with his eyes closed.
Brother Jiu leaned over and took a look. He didn't know if the carrot juice had any effect. He felt that the red color on his face had faded a lot.
It was just that it was hot on the kang, and Hong Yu was wearing a full set of clothes. He felt a little uncomfortable and stretched out his hand to pull his collar.
Brother Jiu saw this and said, "Brother, please take Hongyu back and let him have a good rest."
After hearing this, the eldest brother hesitated for a moment, stood up and said, "I'll send him back first."
Ninth Brother sent it out in person and said: "You should have a rest. I'm here. If Brother Four catches Brother Fourteen when he comes back, I will stop him. Otherwise, I'll beat him severely."
The eldest brother didn't comment, he just glanced in the direction of the west room and said: "It's time to start the shift, please arrange for someone to send him back!"
This wave of little brothers all live in the West Garden, which is convenient.
"Uh-huh……"
Brother Jiu responded and saw the door. He wanted to ask if the Tuoyuan Bookstore should arrange for someone to tell the prince the reason. Otherwise, he would just ignore it and don't let Hongxi get to the point.
But thinking about the relationship between the eldest brother and the prince, he swallowed his words again. This was not the right time to ask the eldest brother's opinion.
Because it was still the Chinese New Year, all the people in this place picked up red lanterns and hung them.
Watching the eldest brother go away, the ninth brother turned around and returned to the house.
"Woooo..."
The night wind became stronger, and the empty countryside looked very miserable.
Brother Jiu tightened his clothes and entered the house.
The children were all in the west room, and Brother Jiu also walked over.
The third elder brother was sitting, comforting Hong Jin and saying, "Don't worry, your eldest brother is fine. He is like this when he just learned to drink. Just drink a few more times and it will be fine."
Hongjin nodded honestly.
The third uncle is an adult, and naturally whatever the adult says is what he says.
Hongxi was beside him, looking at Akedun.
He had never drank, but after seeing the reactions between Ake Dun and Hong Yu tonight, he felt alert.
Wine is not a good thing!
But after two years, when he is older, he will also try it.
He wanted to try to see if what he said while drunk was intentional or unintentional.
There is a saying in the book about "telling the truth while drunk", but I don't know whether it is true or not.
If this is not true, Aktun is deliberately using alcohol to go crazy.
What happened tonight has nothing to do with me. If Akedun hadn't questioned him, he wouldn't have been interrogated again and again.
Brother Jiu sat next to him, looked at everyone and said, "The eggs will come here in a while. You can go back to the garden to rest your stomach. It's getting late."
The little brothers all nodded honestly.
Only the fifteenth prince and Nersu did not respond.
"Brother Ninth, where are Brother Thirteen and Brother Fourteen?" Brother Fifteen asked.
Nersu was also worried.
He stayed in the palace for a year and lived in the Second Qianxi Institute, next to the Thirteenth Elder Brother, and received a lot of care from the Thirteenth Elder Brother.
At the beginning of this year, when the thirteenth elder brother left the study room, the fourteenth elder brother came to take care of him.
He is also a person who knows good and evil.
The ninth elder brother did not say anything about the fourteenth elder brother's sneaking away, and said: "If you have something to do, don't worry. The fourth elder brother will take someone to pick him up."
Brother Fifteen was relieved.
At this moment, He Yuzhu brought eggs and a plate of fine salt.
There was a basin full of red eggs, twenty or thirty of them.
The 15th and 16th elder brothers called on the younger brothers and broke eggs for everyone.
However, the more the third elder brother thought about it, the more wrong he became. He dragged the ninth elder brother to the east room and said, "No one saw it. How can you be sure that the fourteenth elder brother has returned to the city? Instead of going somewhere else?"
Brother Jiu said: "If you don't go back to the city, where are you going? There are people guarding the garden, and he can't get in!"
Third Brother glanced at the north and said, "Then, will you go to the North Garden?"
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "He went back to the palace directly to plead with Khan Amma, and he might still be able to escape. If he dares to ask the Queen Mother for protection and disturbs the Queen Mother's peace, his crime will be increased!"
The third elder brother said: "For more than thirty miles, even if you enter the city at this time, you will not be able to enter the palace..."
Also, when they travel, they either ride horses or take cars. When walking on their legs, I feel that Brother Fourteen does not have that much perseverance.
After being told by the third elder brother, the ninth elder brother was not sure and said: "Then the fourteenth elder brother didn't return to the city? Did he run away nearby?"
The third elder brother thought for a while and said: "There are value-for-money rooms in Yuma Chang and Yupaddy Field, there are official rooms in Haidian Town, and there are several princes' gardens to the north and south of here. Where can I go without a cat to spend the night?"
Brother Ninth frowned and said, "What do you mean by Third Brother, Brother Fourteen is either running to the imperial court to plead guilty, or is he hiding?"
The third elder brother said: "Just wait for the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother to come back. I think that will probably be the case."
Brother Jiu looked at the window, it was dark.
If he doesn't take the official road back to Beijing, but stays nearby, where can he find it?
At this moment, the eldest brother left and came back.
He has settled Hong Yu, come and take a look.
After hearing the third elder brother's guess, the eldest elder brother was really angry.
Don't be afraid of doing something wrong, but if you don't take responsibility, you'll pass...
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On the official road, the thirteenth prince rode a horse and chased him for twenty miles in one breath.
Judging by the time, the fourteenth elder brother has been away for at least ten miles since he didn't see him at this time.
But after chasing him for twenty miles, there was no sign of anyone. Brother Thirteen could not continue to deceive himself.
He guessed wrong. Brother Fourteen did not return to the city.
It makes people even more worried.
He turned around, but did not ride his horse. Instead, he looked at both sides of the official road to prevent Brother Fourteen from hiding.
However, the Fourteenth Prince is timid and should not dare to stray too far from officialdom.
He held a horn lantern, looked at both sides of the road, and listened carefully to the movement.
The night wind howled.
There was only the chirping of birds, which sounded a bit disturbing.
The sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance.
Thirteenth Age Lema ducked to the side of the road.
"Da da da da" As the sound of horse hooves gradually became heard, the visitor also saw Brother Thirteen.
It was the fourth elder brother who came with two guards and rode over.
"Xu..."
The fourth elder brother reined in his horse and saw clearly the direction of the thirteenth elder brother's horse's head, and then he understood.
The thirteenth brother was worried and said: "Fourth brother, the fourteenth brother has not returned to the city, he should be still near the garden..."
Fourth Brother gritted his teeth and said: "This bastard really deserves a good punishment!"
No matter how angry you are, you still have to find someone first.
Although it is already the beginning of spring, the winter in the capital has not passed yet.
It’s late spring again this year, and the weather in July and September is almost the same as in the twelfth lunar month...
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The next update will be around 12 noon on July 22nd
