It was night, in the study room of the two princes' mansion in Liangzhou.
The King of Chu was sitting at his desk, immersed in official business.
"Knock knock knock knock..."
At this time, there was a knock on the door. Then, Wei Mian's voice was heard: "Your Highness."
King Chu said without raising his head: "Come in."
Wei Mian opened the door very gently, and then walked in quietly. He first saluted King Chu, then took out a letter from his arms and handed it to King Chu with both hands.
"Your Highness, a letter from His Highness Tenth."
Upon hearing that it was Zhao Yao's letter, King Chu immediately put down the pen in his hand and took the letter from Wei Mian. When he took the letter over, there was a look of surprise on his face, and then he smiled and said, "Why is the letter so thin this time?" Why did it feel like there were only a few pieces of paper.
Usually, Zhao Yao's letters to the King of Chu were in a thick stack, containing at least twenty or thirty pieces of letter paper. Sometimes one envelope cannot fit, so two or three envelopes are used. This is the first time I have received such a thin letter.
"My servant is also wondering." When Wei Mian got the letter, he saw that it was a letter from His Highness Tenth Highness. He was surprised when he found that the envelope was not bulging. He thought it was not a letter from His Highness Tenth Highness, so he went out of his way to confirm it. , and found that it was indeed a letter from His Royal Highness. However, this time His Highness wrote many fewer letters than before, which is not like His Highness's style.
King Chu opened the letter with a smile and found that there were only five pieces of letter paper inside. His heart sank slightly, why did the tenth brother only write five? Did something happen to the tenth brother?
Worried in his heart, he hurriedly lowered his head to read the letter. I wrote a few words on the first piece of letter paper. The summary is: "Fourth brother, you didn't agree to let me go to Liangzhou to see you. I'm angry!", "Fourth brother, we have only been separated for a few years, and you don't love me anymore." Am I a younger brother? Am I no longer your precious brother?", "Fourth brother, you hurt my heart too much."
After reading the first letter, King Chu's face showed a helpless and doting smile.
"This tenth brother..." He thought something happened to the tenth brother, but he didn't expect that the tenth brother was angry.
The second piece of paper repeated only one sentence: "Fourth brother, I'm angry!"
King Chu smiled in his heart and said: I can see it.
On the third piece of paper, there was a sentence written in huge characters: "Fourth brother, you don't love me anymore!", and behind this sentence was an expression of rolling on the ground and crying.
King Chu said in his heart: The painting looks quite similar.
On the fourth piece of paper, there was still a sentence written in huge characters: "Fourth Brother, you always give up!"
King Chu put his hand on his forehead and said helplessly in his heart: Tenth brother, this is not the way to start chaos and end up giving up.
On the fifth piece of paper, I wrote a sentence very forcefully: "Fourth brother, I want to break up with you for one month!". Below this sentence, there is another line written in normal characters, "Fourth brother, even if you beg me to go to Liangzhou to see you, I will not go to see you. Humph, you can do it for yourself!"
After reading the letter written by Zhao Yao, King Chu couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha..."
Wei Mian, who was standing aside, saw King Chu laughing and asked hurriedly: "Your Highness, what did the Tenth Highness write?"
"Tenth brother is angry and wants to break off our relationship with me." King Chu said, and handed the letter in his hand to Wei Mian to read.
After Wei Mian read it, he burst out laughing: "Your Highness, Your Highness the Tenth Prince is so cute and so fun."
King Chu said in a funny and doting manner: "I can see that my tenth brother is really angry."
"Your Highness, the Tenth Highness wants to break off all relations with you for a month, which shows that he is really angry." Wei Mian sighed in his heart, the Tenth Highness is really interesting. However, thanks to the letter from His Royal Highness, the prince laughed. During this period, something happened. The prince was always in a bad mood. He had a sullen face all day long, which scared everyone.
Neither the princess nor the young highness can make the prince smile, and only the tenth highness can make the prince laugh. The prince's smile just now seemed to have swept away all the gloom of this period of time.
"His Royal Highness has never told you to break off diplomatic relations. This is the first time that His Highness has said that he will break off diplomatic relations with you. It can be seen that His Highness is really angry with you." Wei Mian said, holding up the last piece of paper. "Look at how hard His Highness Tenth used to write this sentence." He was so hard that the ink seeped into his back.
King Chu naturally saw it. He could imagine how angry the tenth brother would be when he was angry. His eyes were full of smiles: "He also let me take care of myself." Tenth brother, how can I take care of myself?
"Your Highness, you and His Highness Ten have not seen each other for several years. His Highness misses you very much. You also miss His Highness Ten. Why don't you allow His Highness to come to see you?" Wei Mian was puzzled, "Tell the Emperor, The Emperor will definitely agree that the Tenth Highness will come to Liangzhou to see you. If you are worried about the safety of His Highness, you can send someone to pick him up in the capital, or you can just pick him up as a slave."
The King of Chu missed Zhao Yao a lot. After he came to Liangzhou, he was worried about his younger brother Zhao Yao. Although he knew from Dou Le that the tenth brother had been living well in the past few years and nothing had happened, he was still a little worried.
"I don't want my tenth brother to come to Liangzhou to see me, but... a lot of things happened during this period, and I can't take good care of him when he comes. Also, the prince and the king are very afraid of me. If they know that the tenth brother came to Liangzhou to see me, I'm worried that they will hurt the tenth brother." If something happens to the tenth brother on the way to Liangzhou, he will regret it for the rest of his life.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince and the Dai Wang will never dare to hurt His Highness Tenth Highness." Wei Mian said, "Although His Highness Tenth Highness is not favored by the Emperor, His Highness Ten is the Emperor's biological son after all. The Emperor will never allow the Crown Prince and the Dai Wang to harm His Highness Tenth Highness. . Besides, His Highness is just a child and does not pose any threat to the Crown Prince and the acting king. There is no need for them to deal with His Highness because of you."
"Really?" King Chu felt that the prince and the acting king would take action against His Royal Highness.
"Your Highness, you are too worried. If the Crown Prince and the King Dai really hurt His Highness the Tenth Highness, the Emperor will definitely not let them off lightly. Besides, they don't dare to bear the reputation of hurting their younger brother." What Wei Mian said. He said decisively, "Don't worry."
The King of Chu thought for a while and said, "Invite my tenth brother to Liangzhou to play in a while."
"When the time comes, I will go back to the capital to pick up His Highness." Wei Mian said with a smile, "I haven't seen His Highness for several years, and I miss His Highness very much. I haven't seen you in the past few years, and I don't know how much His Highness has grown. Have you grown taller?"
"He wrote in his previous letter not only that he had grown a lot taller, but also that he would be as tall as me in a year or two." King Chu said this, but in fact he missed Zhao Yao as much as Wei Mian did. "He also said that he looks really good now."
"His Royal Highness has been good-looking since he was a child, and he is very cute, especially when he smiles." Wei Mian said with a smile, "I don't know if His Highness has had his right dimple poked out in the past few years."
Hearing Wei Mian talk about poking his dimples, King Chu couldn't help but laugh again: "I forgot to ask him about this."
"When Your Highness is here, your mood will get better involuntarily." The more Wei Mian said, the more he thought of Zhao Yao, "His Royal Highness can always make people happy."
"He has always said that he is my pistachio." When it came to the pistachio, King Chu smiled again. "He said that without him by my side in the past few years, I must rarely smile, and I am getting old. Several years old.”
"His Royal Highness often talks and laughs for ten years."
"Yes, so without him by my side, I am ten years older." King Chu said, "He wrote a letter before saying that if he doesn't come to Liangzhou to see me, I will become a little old man."
"Your Highness, you'd better write to His Highness Tenth as soon as possible and ask for His Highness's forgiveness." Wei Mian helped King Chu with advice, "I feel that His Highness Tenth is very angry this time, so I'm afraid you have to send something to His Highness , otherwise it will be difficult for His Royal Highness to calm down."
Just as King Chu was about to say something, he heard another knock on the door, and then heard the voices of the princess and the young highness.
"come in."
Princess Chu, pregnant with a big belly, walked in holding her son in one hand and carrying a food box in the other.
Upon seeing this, Wei Mian hurriedly saluted Princess Chu and His Highness, and immediately took the food box from Princess Chu.
King Chu stood up, helped Princess Chu sit down on a chair nearby, and then picked up his son.
"Why are you here?"
The little bun said softly, "Mom said that Daddy is hungry and asked me to bring food to Daddy." He said, pointing to the food box in Wei Mian's hand, "Daddy, eat quickly."
"Okay, daddy, let's eat." King Chu's expression was gentle and his tone was full of doting, "Thank you, little buns, for sending food to daddy."
"You're welcome, Dad."
Wei Mian opened the food box and took out a bowl of soup and two plates of snacks.
The King of Chu sat down with the little bun in his arms, and drank the soup for his son.
As soon as Princess Chu came in, she found that King Chu's eyebrows had stretched a lot, his face had become much prettier, and he seemed to be in a good mood, so she asked: "What were you talking about just now? You look very happy?"
King Chu smiled and said, "We were just talking about the tenth brother."
Wei Mian on the side added: "Princess, the Tenth Highness has come to write."
Princess Chu knew that King Chu and Zhao Yao had a good relationship, and also knew that the two brothers often wrote letters to each other.
She asked curiously: "What did the tenth brother write?"
Wei Mian of the Chu Dynasty glanced at her. Wei Mian understood, and then gave the letter written by Zhao Yao to Princess Chu.
"Princess, you will know when you see it."
Princess Chu couldn't help laughing after reading the letter written by Zhao Yao.
"My lord, what did you do that made the tenth disciple so angry that he wanted to break up with you?"
The little bun sitting in the arms of King Chu looked at his father with a pair of big black eyes and asked: "Dad, why did you make your little uncle angry?" Although the little bun had never met this little uncle Zhao Yao, he had always Everyone knows and remembers Zhao Yao, the little uncle who often gave him fun things.
"My tenth brother wrote to me before and said that he wanted to come to Liangzhou to visit us and asked me to tell my father. I didn't agree, so he got angry." King Chu said helplessly, "I didn't expect that my tenth brother would be so angry. .”
"Dad, why don't you agree to my uncle coming to see us?" Little Baozi looked at King Chu with reproachful eyes, "I want to see my uncle."
"My lord, why don't you agree with the Tenth Highness to come to Liangzhou?"
"A lot of things have happened during this period, and I'm worried that someone will be harmful to my tenth brother."
Princess Chu understood what King Chu meant, frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty is right to be worried."
"After a while, I will be busy and I will send Wei Mian back to the capital to pick up my tenth brother." When King Chu thought of Zhao Yao's angry look, he couldn't help laughing, "I have to ask my tenth brother to come to Liang." Otherwise, the tenth brother may have to break up with me for the rest of his life." Don't look at what the tenth brother said in the letter that he would not come to Liangzhou even if he begged him. In fact, the tenth brother wanted him to beg him to come to Liangzhou.
"I'll send someone back to Beijing with Wei Mian to pick up my tenth brother." Princess Chu said, "I just want to give some things to my mother and my parents."
"That's fine." King Chu said again, "My tenth brother is angry. I'm thinking of giving him something to make him happy. Princess, do you have any suggestions?"
"You can give your tenth brother some delicious and fun things." Princess Chu said, "My lord, let me help you prepare it."
"Okay." Most of the things that were given to Zhao Yao were prepared by Princess Chu.
"By the way, didn't I send some good materials some time ago? Let's also give them to the tenth brother and Concubine Liang." Princess Chu said again, "Why don't we let the embroiderer in the mansion make some clothes for the tenth brother? clothing?"
"It's better to send the materials." King Chu said, "I don't know if the tenth brother has grown taller during this time."
"It's time for the tenth brother to grow taller. Maybe he will grow taller during this period." Princess Chu thought of Zhao Yao's face and chuckled, "We haven't seen each other in the past few years. The tenth brother must be getting taller and taller." Looks good.”
"When he comes, if you praise him for his good looks, he will be very happy, and he will like you as a sister-in-law very much, and he will also say that you are very discerning."
"Then when the tenth brother comes, I will praise the tenth brother properly." Princess Chu only met Zhao Yao after she got married to the King of Chu. Before they left the capital, Zhao Yao often went to Prince Chu's Mansion, and Princess Chu became familiar with Zhao Yao. She likes her younger brother Zhao Yao very much, he is lively, cute and fun. "Your Majesty, how are tenth brothers doing during this time?"
"Very good, nothing happened."
Princess Chu knew that King Chu had always been thinking about Zhao Yao who was far away in the capital, "That's good."
While King Chu was having midnight snack, he told Princess Chu and Xiao Baozi about Zhao Yao.
The little bun listened very carefully, his eyes shining brightly.
The person he most likes to see is his little uncle, and he has been waiting for his little uncle to come and play with him. Now, the little uncle is really coming to play with him.
"Dad, when uncle comes, I can give my room to him, and I can sleep with him."
"Okay, when your uncle comes, let him sleep with you." King Chu touched his son's little head and said, "Your uncle will be very happy."
"Dad, when will the little uncle come?"
"A few more months."
"It will take so long. Can uncle come tomorrow? I want to see uncle tomorrow." Little Baozi said with a puffed face.
"My uncle is in the capital. He is far away from us. He won't be able to arrive tomorrow..." King Chu patiently asked his son why it would take several months for his uncle to arrive.
After hearing this, Xiaobaozi was a little disappointed, but more expectant.
Seeing that it was getting late, King Chu asked Princess Chu to take Little Baozi back to the room to rest, while he had to continue handling official duties.
Princess Chu knew that King Chu had many things going on during this period, so she did not wait to disturb him for long. Before leaving, he told King Chu to rest early.
After Princess Chu left with her son, King Chu's face immediately became serious and asked Wei Mian about other things.
At this time, Zhao Yao, who was far away in the capital, sneezed several times in a row.
"Your Highness, you won't catch a cold, right?" Tong Xi said nervously, "I will ask the kitchen to make ginger soup for you."
"No, I'm fine, I didn't catch a cold." Zhao Yao pouted and said, "It must be the fourth brother who is talking about me. I don't know if the fourth brother realizes his mistake."
"Your Highness, you have written a letter to sever ties with His Highness the King of Chu. Your Highness the King of Chu must have realized that you were wrong." Tongxi thought that His Highness the King of Chu would find it funny when he received the letter from His Highness, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu will definitely realize that he was wrong. I will write a letter to apologize to you, and maybe even give you something to make you happy."
Zhao Yao snorted arrogantly: "Don't think that if you write an apology letter to me, I will forgive him! And don't think that if you give me something, I won't be angry! I'm very angry this time, and I can't just cajole him away." .”
"Your Highness, if His Highness the King of Chu really begs you to go to Liangzhou, are you really not going?"
"No, I said Fourth Brother begged me, but I won't go either." Of course, if Fourth Sister-in-law and Little Baozi invite him to Liangzhou, he will definitely go. He quickly thought of what the emperor had said before, and his face immediately fell. "My father does not agree with me going to Liangzhou." His stinky father refused to let him leave the capital and go to other places.
"His Royal Highness the King of Chu begged the Emperor, but the Emperor did not agree?"
"I don't agree. My father said that I am too young and won't let me travel far away." Zhao Yao became angry when he mentioned this matter. "I am already eleven years old. How can I be a child? Besides, my father When he was eleven years old, he followed Grandpa Huang and others to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Why should you say that I am a child at eleven years old?"
"Your Highness, if the emperor does not agree, then you really will not be able to go to Liangzhou."
"My stinky father won't let me go, so I will go secretly." Zhao Yao said rebelliously, "I have already thought about it. After Mr. Meng leaves, I will ask my second uncle to help me get rid of the people sent by my father." Follow my secret guards, and then I will leave the capital without anyone noticing."
The colleague was surprised: "Your Highness, are you planning to run away?"
Zhao Yao nodded and said, "That's what I planned."
"Your Highness, if it weren't for this slave to attack you, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to escape."
"Why?" Zhao Yao said with a puzzled face, "With the help of my second uncle, I will definitely succeed."
"Your Highness, my second uncle can help you get rid of the secret guard, but if you don't return to the palace for several days, the emperor will definitely find out that you have escaped, and the emperor will definitely send someone to catch you." Tongxi analyzed, " With the means and abilities of the secret guards, they should be able to find you soon and capture you, and the emperor will definitely be so angry that he will beat you up."
(⊙o⊙)…
He didn't expect this.
Zhao Yao lay on the table dejectedly, and said with some despair: "So, I can't escape?"
"Yes, you'd better not think about it." Tongxi said, "It's getting late. Your Highness, you'd better take a shower and go to sleep."
"Father's secret guards are really annoying." Zhao Yao knew that as long as he left the palace, the secret guards would follow him. Although he had never seen the four secret guards since the assassination by Imperial Concubine Ying in the Taoist Temple, he knew that the four secret guards must have been with him in the past few years.
"Your Highness, the emperor sent secret guards to follow you to protect you."
"But with them here, I can't escape." Zhao Yao curled his lips unhappily and said, "I still want to run out of the capital and go to many places to play."
Tong Xi was very considerate and did not expose Zhao Yao's small thoughts of wanting to go to Liangzhou, "Your Highness, if you really want to go out for fun, you'd better be obedient and ask the emperor for permission, otherwise you won't be able to go anywhere."
"Please ask Father, haha..." Zhao Yao sneered, "I might as well ask God."
"Your Highness, you are going to listen to Mr. Meng's lecture tomorrow. You'd better go to bed quickly."
Zhao Yao stood up and stretched.
"You have to go to bed early, otherwise you will get up early tomorrow and you will definitely feel sleepy while listening to the class."
"Your Highness, my servant will prepare a pot of strong tea for you tomorrow morning. Take a few sips of strong tea when you are sleepy."
"Okay, you prepare it for me." Zhao Yao said again, "You go to Yu Hai later and ask him to prepare more food for me tomorrow morning. I want to eat more so as not to be hungry while listening to the class." Most of the time, Zhao Yao had breakfast and dinner with the eighth prince every day.
"My slave will be there soon."
Zhao Yao said nothing more, turned around and went to the ear room to take a bath.
When he came out from the bath, he crawled into bed and went to sleep. While he was sleeping soundly, he felt something nuzzling his face and calling his name in his ear.
Zhao Yao opened his eyes in a daze and saw a sea turtle lying on his chest, with a pair of small round eyes staring at him.
He was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing, and raised his hand to touch Hai Dongqing's head.
"Xiaoqing, why are you here?" Xiaoqing is the Haidongqing he gave to the eighth prince. "Did something happen to Myna?"
Xiao Qing said: [Someone wrote to the Eighth Prince, his name is Ji Bochang. 】
Zhao Yao got up, sat on the bedside, and asked with confusion: "What did Ji Bochang write?"
Xiao Qing was illiterate and could only tell Zhao Yao what he heard.
[The Eighth Prince said the matter was done successfully. 】
"The thing was done successfully, what happened?"
[The Eighth Prince and Yu Hai did not say anything. ] Xiaoqing tilted her head and continued: [The Eighth Prince and Yu Hai are very happy. 】
"Is there anything else?" Zhao Yao asked, "Did Brother Bah mention anything about the Southern Wei Dynasty?"
Xiaoqing said: [No. 】
"What did Bago ask Uwe to do?" Zhao Yao muttered, "What Bago asked Uwe to do must not be a trivial matter."
[I didn’t say, I don’t know. 】Xiao Qing is very smart. As long as the eighth prince tells Yu Hai, he can probably remember it and then tell Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao kissed Xiao Qing's head and said with a smile: "I don't know if it's okay. Bago and the others will definitely mention it later. Tell me when you hear it."
Xiaoqing nodded and said: [Okay. 】
Zhao Yao yawned: "I'm so sleepy. I want to continue sleeping. You can go find Xiao Jin and play by yourself." Xiao Jin was the golden eagle given to Zhao Yao by Liang Run.
Xiao Qing rubbed Zhao Yao's little face with his little head, and then flew away to find Xiao Jin to play with. It and Xiao Jin like to catch things at night.
Zhao Yao lay back on the bed again, opened his mouth and yawned again, muttering: "What is Bago doing again?"
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(End of chapter)
