Chapter 93: Desire to leave the house with a strange son
Chapter Ninety-three: The prince with a heart is leaving the palace (please give me your monthly ticket)
(I am crying and begging for a monthly pass. Let’s take a look. Maybe we can get a monthly pass)
During the funeral a while ago, the crown prince lost a lot of weight. After resting for half a month, his complexion improved a lot.
He was a little surprised when he heard that Dao Chi asked for an audience. After all, after getting along with him for more than a year, he could tell that Dao Chi was not a nosy person. If he came to the house during the holidays, there must be something going on.
He didn't waste any time and directly ordered his chamberlain to bring Dao Chi to the Qiyun Hall.
After the funeral, in addition to going to Fengxiang Palace to pay his respects every day, he would stay here, sorting out some of King Xing's handwritten essays during his lifetime, and also dealing with some affairs in the palace.
I haven't seen him for more than ten days. When a Taoist idiot comes in, he will naturally greet you with a big greeting.
The prince raised his hand in humility and said, "Get up quickly."
After glancing at Dao Chi twice, he felt a little strange and said, "How come you have been resting for half a month and your face has become clearer? Everyone else is suffering from summer, so why is Erlang suffering from autumn?"
Dao Chi stood up, took a long breath, and said: "After leaving the house, I received the letter of death from the master, so I went out of the city to mourn and come back before the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Dao Chi even asked for leave in July, just to visit the old monk in Xishan. The prince certainly remembered this and couldn't help but sigh: "The world is so unpredictable. I thought you guys were having fun on vacation and living happily. I didn't expect you to be worth it."
The pain of bereavement, I’m sorry for you.”
The Taoist Chi said: "Thank you, Your Highness. Apart from the great master and Hutou, there are only two old servants left in Xishan Temple. Hutou doesn't know the world, so I really don't trust him, so I brought him back when I went down the mountain."
The prince didn't think about Dao Chi's plan to spare his "Li Xian Corporal", after all, it happened one at a time. His eyes lit up, with a bit of expectation, and he said, "Did Erlang bring someone here today?"
Dao Chi shook his head and said: "How can I bring people here without His Highness nodding."
The prince stood up from his seat, with a look of joy on his face.
When King Xing was here, the father and son often wore ordinary clothes and went out of the palace. Even though they rarely went out of the city according to the rules, they often went to and from the market. The first two months were busy with funeral arrangements in the palace, so how could the prince have the time or mood to go out?
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Now that he has nothing to do, and knowing that the "stranger boy" he was looking forward to has entered the city, the prince can't help but feel a little moved.
"How about I go out with you and take a look?" the prince asked hesitantly.
Dao Chi was stunned, he really didn't expect the Crown Prince to leave the mansion. He originally thought that if the Crown Prince got the news about the tiger head, he would let him bring people into the mansion as soon as possible.
"My humble abode is humble, but Your Highness is of high status..." Dao Chi hesitated for a moment before replying.
Although he was willing to hug the prince's thick legs, he did not dare to push him out. If the news reached the ears of the princess, where could it fall?
The prince was still torn between whether to leave the palace or not. After seeing Dao Chi's reaction, he wanted to leave the palace for a breath of fresh air. Prince Xing passed away, and the palace suddenly became deserted. During the Mid-Autumn Festival two days ago, a family
Everyone sitting together had red eyes. The little princess couldn't help crying and threw herself into the princess's arms and burst into tears.
The prince did not shed tears in front of his mother and sisters, but his pillow towel was wet when he went to bed at night. The dead are gone, but the living are still there. The prince did not want to feel sad every day, and wanted to cheer up early.
He raised his eyebrows and said: "Is there any place of wealth in Anlu City that can compare with the palace?"
The meaning is obvious. Compared with the palace, it is nothing but a shabby house. Taoist idiots do not need to feel embarrassed because their house is simple and shabby.
Dao Chi smiled bitterly in his heart, what did he care about?
Dao Chi knew the prince's temper and disliked disobedience the most, so he stopped being verbose. He just prayed that the prince would remember to go to the princess to inform him. As for reminding him, he didn't need to.
The Crown Prince already regarded him and Lu Bing as little ones and took care of them more; if he acted like he was mature and reminded the Crown Prince of this and that, he would definitely be the first to be rejected.
Fortunately, the prince was extremely filial. Even if he wanted to leave the palace, he did not forget about the princess. He said to Dao Chi: "Go and find Lu Bing. Go and say something to your mother and concubine. I'll see you at the gate of the palace in two-quarters of an hour."
Dao Chi agreed and left Qiyun Hall to look for Lu Bing.
When he walked outside the courtyard of the Lu family, he heard the faint cry of children inside, and Dao Chi couldn't help but hesitate. However, the prince asked him to find Lu Bing because he wanted to take Lu Bing out of the house, so he didn't want to delay too much.
Thinking of this, he raised his hand and knocked on the door.
The crying in the yard gradually stopped, the door opened with a "squeak", and Lu Bing came out to open the door with red eyes.
Seeing Dao Chi, Lu Bing blinked and said, "Why are you here, second brother?" As he spoke, he opened the door and let Dao Chi go into the yard.
Dao Chi didn't move his feet and said: "Hutou has entered the city and is now at my house. Your Highness wants to go over and have a look, so he sent me to call you."
Lu Bing had been looking forward to it ever since he heard Wang Qi mention the tiger's head. He originally thought he would have to wait until September when his companions were on vacation, but he didn't expect the news to come now.
"Going to the second brother's house?" Lu Bing was happy at first, and then hesitantly said: "Your Highness is leaving the palace, where is the princess?"
The Taoist Chi said: "His Royal Highness went to the princess in person to report the matter, and asked us to gather at the gate of the palace in two quarters of an hour."
Lu Bing really laughed this time, and dragged Dao Chi into the courtyard, saying: "Last time I was patrolling the city in Beicheng, I wanted to go to my second brother's house, but I was afraid that I would be presumptuous, so I resisted. This time I got involved with His Highness.
Light, you can finally get your wish, how can you go empty-handed?"
The small courtyard of the Fan family is located in the southwest of the palace. It is a small triple courtyard with three rooms in the north and two rooms in the east and west. Although Fan is a fifth-grade imperial concubine, because she lives in the palace, she only brings an old nanny with her.
She went to the palace to help her take care of several children. There were also two young girls arranged by the palace to sweep the yard.
After Lu Bingtong finished speaking, he raised his voice to the main room: "Mother, the second brother Wang is here."
Mrs. Fan pulled out the curtain, invited Dao Chi to come in and sit down, and gave him some dried fruits to eat.
Although Fan spoke warmly, his face was a little stiff, and there were occasional sobs in the back room.
Dao Chi sat uncomfortably and said: "Master's wife, Your Highness sent me to call Dalang. We should go over now."
However, Lu Bing walked up to Mrs. Fan and said, "Mother, Your Highness is taking the child to pick up Brother Hutou from Brother Wang's house. It is difficult for the child to go empty-handed. Mother will prepare the gift box for the child."
Mrs. Fan had heard her son recite the tiger's head several times, and knew that he was a brave young man recommended by Wang Qi who would enter the palace in a few days.
Now that she heard her son's words, she didn't pay much attention to her, but the words "Go to the second brother Wang's house" made her change her face: "Your Highness is leaving the house?"
Lu Bing said: "Mom, don't worry, Your Highness has gone to report to the princess."
Mrs. Fan breathed a sigh of relief and asked a few questions. She knew that the prince had decided to leave the palace at the last moment, and there was inevitably a hint of disapproval on his face.
But the prince was not here, and there was no point in talking to the two younger ones, so she didn't say anything.
The sobbing cry of the boy in the back room started again, mixed with the soft whisper of the girl. Dao Chi stood up hurriedly and said: "It's almost time, I'm afraid Your Highness will be impatient if you wait any longer."
Mrs. Fan nodded and said to Lu Bing: "You are going with His Highness this time. You will probably come back after a formality. It is not a visit. I will help you prepare the gift box next time you go alone."
Lu Bing saw that Fan was not energetic, so he nodded honestly and followed the Taoist idiot out.
After leaving the yard, his little face drooped.
Dao Chi said softly: "Is it Brother Wei who is crying? What's going on? It makes you feel uncomfortable too?"
Lu Bing stretched out his left hand and said with some grievance: "I went to greet the princess in the morning, and the second brother broke the princess's anus. Not only did my mother spank the second brother, she also said that I didn't take good care of the second brother, so she spanked me twenty times.
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His left hand had been in his sleeve just now, but now it was exposed. The palm of his hand was red and shiny, and swollen like a small steamed bun.
Dao Chi looked at it and not only took a breath of air: "What kind of flower is so expensive? It made Master's wife so angry that she beat all your brothers?"
"These are the two black chrysanthemums that the prince picked during his lifetime. The princess loves them the most." Lu Bingyue said, becoming less and less confident.
He was indeed in trouble.
The chrysanthemums are not yet in bloom, but the pots full of green leaves are so attractive to children.
Lu Bing's younger brother Lu Wei is five years old this year. He is a bit naughty, but he is not a disobedient child.
Dao Chi has long noticed that the Lu family's status in the palace is very delicate. The prince and the prince attach great importance to the Fan family. It is said that the two young princesses and the eldest lady of the Lu family are also close friends, but they have never heard of the princess's closeness to the Fan family.
Things like that. The Lu family are very cautious in everything they do, and there is no intention of being arrogant and domineering because of the prince's respect.
The male master in the palace is gone. The princess and Fan are the biological mother of the prince and the wet nurse. Their relationship is a bit delicate.
Seeing that Dao Chi didn't answer, Lu Bing said with a mournful face: "I really didn't know that those two pots of chrysanthemums were the princess' favorite chrysanthemums. I happened to change the pots today, and a bunch of flowers and plants were mixed together, and there were chirping insects. My second brother
He was led over and stepped on."
This sentence really proves the "smartness" here.
But this is the internal affairs of the royal palace, so Taoist idiots can just listen to it.
It's probably the people below who are doing the trick. As a princess, if you really want to beat the Fan family, you don't have to go to such trouble. But I don't know whether it is the Fan family or the princess who is scheming.
Dao Chi said: "Whether it is intentional or not, a mistake is a mistake, and Master's punishment is right. You are also used by His Highness, and you act more and more casually. Master's discipline for you is always for your own good."
Lu Bing raised his "pig's trotter hand" and gritted his teeth and said, "I'm in so much pain. Instead of saying a word of comfort, my second brother came to teach me."
While talking, the two of them arrived at the south gate of the palace. Lu Bing had already retracted his left hand and his face remained calm as usual.
While waiting for a cup of tea, I saw the prince wearing plain clothes and bringing two young eunuchs, Huang Jin and Lu Fang, coming over.
Even though the prince was traveling in a light carriage, there were still seventy or eighty ceremonial guards following behind the carriage.
This is too conspicuous.
When the prince saw this, he couldn't help but frown, and gave a few instructions before summoning someone. Then the guards dispersed, and even so, there were still about twenty people left on the left and right of the carriage.
The prince took Dao Chi and Lu Bing into the carriage, and said helplessly: "I wanted to take this opportunity to go out for a while, but my mother and concubine told me to pick him up and return immediately."
Hearing the word "take", the Taoist idiot said: "Your Highness, Hutou is not familiar with the world, so he must first teach you the rules..."
The prince said: "There is no rush to learn the rules. Guhui will teach you slowly..."