Du Shichu looked at the four or five little carrot heads in front of him and collapsed a little. These were all the emperor's children. The emperor asked them to accompany Du Shichu so that she would not be so bored, but Du Shichu suspected that the emperor wanted to Let yourself help him take care of the kids.
"Sister Du, Qi'er also wants a cricket." A chubby little man with three heads looked longingly at the grass blades flying in Du Shichu's hands and said expectantly.
Little Fatty is the emperor's youngest son Wu Qi. He is just over three years old this year. He is chubby, handsome, cute and goofy.
"Sixth brother, it's not your turn yet, Sister Du wants to make me a rabbit first!" said a little girl about seven years old, who was the emperor's fifth princess.
In order to prevent the siblings from quarreling, Du Shichu quickly said: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, we have everything, chess will wait for now."
"Okay." The sixth prince said, biting his fingers in frustration.
The fifth princess came close to Du Shichu, stared at her fast-moving fingers carefully, and said in amazement: "Sister Du, you are so amazing, you can make up so many things."
"It's so so, it's actually not difficult. Do you want to learn?" Du Shichu asked her.
"Okay, I want to learn." The fifth princess said, grabbing two long grass leaves from the flowerbed next to her.
Du Shichu quickly made up a praying mantis for the third prince, then grabbed two more blades of grass and said to the fifth princess: "Come, follow me and make up the grass rabbit you want."
The fifth princess nodded repeatedly, and several other princes and princesses also came over curiously. Those who liked to take action also followed suit, while those who did not like to take action simply watched from the sidelines, showing off to their companions what Du Shichu had made up for them. Small animals.
Fortunately, the fifth princess's hands were not stupid. Du Shichu spent some effort and finally taught her to knit a straw rabbit. Although the straw rabbit was crooked, she was still very happy and shouted to Du Shichu : "Sister, I really made it up! I learned it, haha..."
She is really a cheerful little princess who loves to laugh. Her laughter scares the birds in the tree and makes them run away.
Wu Qi hadn't gotten the grass cricket he wanted yet. He had been waiting for a long time. When he saw that Du Shichu had finally made a grass rabbit for his sister, he finally couldn't help but stretched out his chubby little hand and said: "Sister, is it my turn?"
His big, round black eyes looked at Du Shichu eagerly. Du Shichu's heart softened at the sight of him, and he quickly said: "It's your turn, my sister will make you the most powerful cricket now." !”
Wu Qi suddenly laughed happily, with two deep dimples exposed on his chubby cheeks. He smiled so sweetly, and happily said to Du Shichu: "Thank you, sister!"
Du Shichu couldn't help but pinch his little face. Wu Qi grinned and even gave his little chubby face to her hand. He was so well-behaved that Du Shichu was even amused by him.
A quarter of an hour later, the cricket Wu Qi wanted was finally made up. Du Shichu handed it to him. He pinched it carefully, his dark eyes widened, and he looked at the grass cricket with great fondness.
"Okay, go play with your brothers and sisters and fight with them to see whose little animal is more ferocious and powerful." Wu Qi was sent away by Du Shichu.
Du Shichu, who finally finished coaxing the children, breathed a sigh of relief. Although the palace was lively, it was quite tiring to play with the children. Fortunately, the children in the palace were taught by their mothers to be very sensible and would not make trouble or make trouble unreasonably. He was willful, so Du Shichu could tolerate it.
Just as she stood up and stretched quietly, she suddenly noticed a gaze staring closely at her. She suddenly looked in the direction of her gaze and saw a little boy about ten years old standing. In the corner of the flower garden not far away, if you don't pay attention, you may miss him.
Seeing Du Shichu looking over, the little boy immediately retracted his gaze, lowering his head and staring at the uppers of his shoes, as if he wanted to hide his body in the nearby flowers that were taller than him.
Du Shichu was a little confused. She had lived in the palace several times, but she had never seen this little boy before. Could it be that the emperor didn't like his son?
However, this emperor does not look like someone who would treat his son harshly. Just look at these lively and cute princes and princesses and you will know that if he is really not a good father, his children will not be so lively.
"Fifth princess, who is that young master over there? I've never seen him before." Du Shichu grabbed the fifth princess, gestured to the little boy beside the flower garden, and asked.
The fifth princess looked there and said immediately: "That's cousin Ran, the son of the sixth uncle. The sixth uncle didn't like cousin Ran, and he and his aunt sixth emperor abused him. His father found out, and the father was very angry. After scolding Uncle Sixth Emperor and Aunt Sixth Emperor, he took cousin Ran to live in the palace..."
The fifth princess told everything about the little boy without Du Shichu asking.
Du Shichu was a little confused after hearing this, but she quickly understood and asked, "Isn't your Sixth Emperor's aunt your cousin Ran's biological mother?"
"Yes, cousin Ran's biological mother and concubine died when he was two years old. Now this Sixth Emperor's Aunt is the later one. Alas! When the Emperor's grandmother and father scolded the Sixth Emperor's uncle, they both said that Cousin Ran was pitiful. If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, it's true." The fifth princess sighed.
The sixth uncle mentioned by the fifth princess is the emperor's half-brother, that is, the biological son of the queen mother. Both the emperor and the queen mother dote on him. After all, the two biggest people in the world are his blood relatives. How can he not be favored?
But probably because he was overly pampered, this uncle of the Sixth Emperor was a bit out of character. He was basically a dandy who failed at anything. Basically, he was the kind of person who failed to succeed but failed to succeed. Therefore, even if the emperor initially I wanted to reuse him, but after he screwed up a few things, I never dared to use him again.
But I didn't expect that he couldn't handle his official business well, and he couldn't handle his own private affairs well. He actually allowed his later wife to abuse his son. This was really a blow. If the emperor hadn't discovered the abused nephew, maybe this Poor Ran Shizi died without knowing when.
Du Shichu looked at him pitifully. Although this person had parents, he was not as good as her, who had no father or mother.
Feeling sympathetic, Du Shichu waved to him and said, "Hey, come here, I'll make up a little animal for you, what do you want?"
The fifth princess quickly said: "Sister Du, my cousin is a little afraid of people, he won't come over."
The Prince Ran did not refuse. After being greeted by Du Shichu, he paused and then slowly moved over. The fifth princess opened her eyes in surprise: "Cousin Ran will pay attention to you! He doesn't even care. He is so considerate that he doesn’t even want to say more..."
The little boy who was over ten years old was not even taller than Du Shichu's ears. Du Shichu was obviously only two years older than him at this time, but he was thin, pale, and looked stunted and unhealthy. He was really pitiful. As the prince's nephew, he was abused like this.
