After Chuan Shu died, the four apprentices turned black

Chapter 23
Yue Ying understood, it seemed that the "other playmates" he mentioned were referring to these princes and princesses.

She snubbed Nangong just to play with them?

Shaking her head slightly for such a fact in her heart, Yueying's expression remained unchanged and she greeted the two of them:

"Are you catching fish here on such a hot day?"

After reading it carefully this time, I remembered that this prince is the fourth prince Yue Qiyou, who is not two years older than her. The concubine mother is a wife, and she is on good terms with Concubine Wan, so she often hangs out with Yue Xiao, but not too much. Clever, playful, and not valued by the emperor.

"I didn't plan to come, but I met Sister Xiao halfway, so I decided to come again. You came just in time, let's go together..."

His trouser legs and sleeves are rolled up, exposing his skinny and tender arms and legs. His face and skin were slightly reddened by the hot sun, and he was injured. He was holding some fishing tools. He was carrying a lot of things, and his posture was quite big. When he looked into the bucket, he couldn't see two fish.

Halfway through Yue Qiyou's speech, she was stunned when she saw Nangong Yuheng behind her with an unnatural expression.

Yue Xiao spoke sharply, with a disgusted expression on her pretty face:
"Why did you bring him here, didn't you stop playing with him?!"

The maid beside her was holding a beautiful little flower umbrella for her. She was fully dressed and was just a watcher, not going into the water to catch fish.

Yueying quickly grabbed Nangong Yuheng, who was about to leave the stage in embarrassment, and said loudly:

"Why don't you play with him, Nangong is very good at catching fish."

"It's not great." He didn't show any face at all, and tried to break free with a cold voice.

The Fourth Prince poked his neck and shouted:

"What a big shelf, haven't you learned enough lessons last time?"

While talking, he stretched his sleeves pretendingly and clenched his fists to make a deterrent appearance. The eunuch next to him helplessly stopped him, but because he knew the prince's character, he didn't really take it seriously.

Yue Xiao was really taken aback, and quickly grabbed him to shut him up: "Are you stupid, what are you talking about!"

He glanced at Yue Xiao suspiciously, as if he didn't understand what he couldn't say.

"I'll just go." Nangong Yuheng squeezed his fists, took a deep breath, turned his head and was about to leave, his strength was as strong as a cow, and Yueying couldn't hold back at all.

How could she not realize that something was wrong at this time, and shouted to him in a loud voice:

"Don't go!"

Then he immediately turned his head and asked the fourth prince seriously:
"What did you do to him?"

The fourth prince opened his mouth in a daze, and said stupidly:

"Isn't it just that someone taught him a lesson and told him not to pester you anymore... Yue Xiao said it was you who made... ah!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yue Xiao pinched him severely in a hurry, with a flustered expression, and hurriedly explained, "Yue Xiao, listen to me, before he pestered you every day, I think you are too pitiful, and you don't care I was ashamed to speak harshly to him, so I complained to Brother Huang, but he was used to being overbearing and sent people to go directly...I didn’t know about it, so I didn’t tell you because I was afraid you would be angry.”

The more Yueying listened, the more her head became dizzy, and when she saw Nangong Yuheng, she also had an inexplicable and gloomy expression. It seemed that this matter was a big misunderstanding.

After a few people talked about the matter upside down, she finally understood it.

After the birthday banquet three years ago, Yue Xiao and Yue Ying completely formed a relationship. The usually charming princess, Yue Xiao felt neglected in front of the emperor for the first time, so she kept making troubles for Yue Ying.

Most of the methods were crude and straightforward, and Yueying resolved everything simply, and the two of them were not acquainted. The more Yuexiao got in touch with her, the more she liked her, and somehow she became acquainted with her, and even declared that Yueying was her favorite. Good sister.

In the spirit of doing more is worse than doing less, Yueying naturally acquiesced in her relationship with her, and was willing to play with her occasionally, and gradually became acquainted with the fourth prince and others on the way.

Most of the time, they think they are naive, and just perfunctory say that they have to study with Nangong and have no time to play.

That's where things went wrong, Yue Xiao somehow had the wrong idea, thinking that it was because Nan Gong was pestering Yue Ying that she didn't have time to play with them.

The things she admired since she was a child must become her own, even her playmates are no exception. During this time together, she has long regarded Yue Ying as her own property.

She is not stupid, she only instilled these concepts to the fourth prince who also likes to play with Yueying, and the fourth prince has a straight mind, so he would not think too much. Her face was entwined with Yueying's sister and she refused to let go, so the hero rescued the beauty and stepped forward, leading someone to trouble Nangong Yuheng.

He also took the initiative to pass some words to Nangong.

It probably means that Yueying hates you very much. If you are a beggar who is not for the charity of the state teacher, you are not worthy of entering the palace, let alone staying by Yueying's side. You were the apprentice of Yueying back then!If it wasn't for Yueying's good temper and gentle personality, she would have driven you away a long time ago. You'd better be sensible and get out of here, and don't get in the way here!

Nangong Yuheng was bullied, and after hearing these words, it was like a thunderbolt, and his three views collapsed. Even if he didn't believe it, he couldn't help but start to doubt it.

It just so happened that during those days, Yueying was tired of dealing with some interpersonal relationships, and she was busy every day and didn't pay much attention to him, so he was sad and sad, and moved out of Concubine Yuan's palace under the pretext of self-support, and returned to Huangyuan, where she lived again under the care of her mother. Under the recommendation of her, she found a job in the dining room, and gradually alienated Yue Ying.

Yueying felt strange at first, and went to him frequently to ask the reason, but Nangong took it all as a charity, and became more and more deliberately alienated, refusing to want to meet her with various reasons, and felt irritated and wronged after too many times, obviously it was you You abandoned me first, why are you pretending to care now...

In this way, Yueying had no other choice, and the two gradually became estranged, almost never seeing each other in the palace for half a year.

Yue Xiao had achieved her goal, she secretly rejoiced, and tried her best to avoid bringing up the topic of Nangong on weekdays. Nangong gradually faded into Yueying's life like the afterglow of the setting sun.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is a very normal thing. Princess Mingchen played well with Nangong in the past only because of the bad situation. Now that she is favored again, why bother to be wrapped up with a kid from a refugee background?

Although Yue Ying felt sad, as time went by, she gradually forgot about her apprentice.

If "Yueying" hadn't entered the memory retrospective and deliberately searched and explored the reason with Nangong as the focus, I am afraid that the two of them would have missed it and no longer overlapped.

Shocked in her heart, she gradually realized that memory recall might not be as simple as she imagined.

Is she being guided in the dark and will inevitably go backtracking to restore the relationship between the two, or is it because of her choice in the backtracking that she accidentally pulled Nangong Yuheng back to her side?
The air is dull, and the four children have their own thoughts and expressions.

Nangong Yuheng's cold voice first broke the silence:

"So, this matter was not arranged by His Highness?"

"How could I arrange such an outrageous thing? If I hate you, do you still need others to tell you? You can't feel it yourself?" Yueying was furious and stared at him.

Although he was being scolded, Nangong Yuheng felt a huge boulder fall to the ground in an instant, making him grinning uncontrollably:
"Your Highness doesn't hate me either, so you don't want to drive me away?"

Yueying shook her head seriously:
"I don't want to, I don't want to at all, I wish you would follow me and call me master every day."

Every time she said a word, Nangong Yuheng's eyes lit up a little bit, and the previous gloomy mood disappeared completely, and the rest was full of rejoicing and fear. Get things done and still have expectations.

God knows how excited he was when he saw Yueying appearing in Huangyuan today, but the previous experience was like a basin of cold water that instantly extinguished his excitement, and he only treated her with a cold and stiff attitude.

But not only did she not mind, she also helped him out and taught those who bullied him severely in the dining room.

After all, he was only a ten-year-old child. After the misunderstanding was resolved, his eye sockets became red with grievance, and his throat became choked with emotion.

"master……"

"You have to remember, I will never abandon you." Yue Ying sighed, walked over to hug him, and patted his back quite maturely.

Looking at the picture of the deep love between master and apprentice in front of her, Yue Xiao's expression turned extremely ugly, she cast a sharp glance at the stunned fourth prince beside her, her slender hands turned pale.

"Didn't you say..." Yue Qiyou was still in confusion, his face full of doubts, "Didn't you say that Seventh Sister hates Nangong Yuheng? What's going on? You lied to me?"

"Lie to you?" Yue Xiao jumped up angrily, "How can I have a brother like you, no wonder my father doesn't like you, Yumu head! Only bad people do good things!"

"Catch your stinky fish, you are worse than fish!"

After letting go of the harsh words, Yue Xiao grabbed her skirt and ran away, both angry and unwilling to face the upcoming questioning from Yue Ying.

Yueying watched her walk away coldly, and cast her eyes on the embarrassing fourth prince:
"Brother Huang, are you being used as a pawn?"

"This month is Xiao!"

He was also a little annoyed, but compared to being used as a weapon by her, he was more unhappy because he was insulted in front of her servants.

Immediately, his expression changed again, with a guilty conscience:

"Seventh sister, you're not angry with me, right? I didn't think so much at the time, I just wanted to vent my anger on you..."

"Brother Huang, let's have some snacks in the future." Yueying was speechless, holding back for a long time before she said helplessly, "Even the relatives around me are not completely trustworthy."

"Indeed, you are right, Seventh Sister, you are smarter than me, you must teach me more in the future." He nodded repeatedly, with a simple face, a foolish look that everyone can bully.

Yueying can't get angry with him, but that doesn't mean Nangong can let the past go.

"How did Brother Huang bully Nangong back then?"

"Uh... just..." He scratched his head, "Pushed a few times, kicked a few times, cursed a few words..."

The more he spoke, the more confident he became, and the more he spoke, the lower his voice became. Nangong Yuheng seemed to be evoked by some bad memory, his eyes became more gloomy, his fists were unconsciously clenched slightly, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and he looked like a small doormat. look.

Yueying knew that she had pushed and kicked a few times. It was easy to say, but it must have been a tough move at the time. Fortunately, Nangong is not very capable and tempered now. Otherwise, would the fourth prince be able to fish by the river without incident? Just can't say.

"Brother Huang, give him a gift and an apology. If Nangong forgives you, this matter will be overturned. I will talk about it again on Yuexiao's side. If you don't forgive me, you can only think of a way. This is my fault." Dear apprentice, I am the first to refuse to accept being wronged!"

She took a step back, allowing the two to look directly at each other.

Nangong looked at him coldly, the fourth prince held his breath and didn't hold back his words for a long while.

"...I can't apologize, but I can apologize!"

After all, he still couldn't hold back his face, and said awkwardly:
"You can tell me what you want, and I will pay you for it."

Half-grown children are most concerned about face, and he even spoke a little more arrogantly, using it to give his shattered self-esteem a last shot.

In his eyes, even if Nangong Yuheng is Yueying's apprentice, he is just a pheasant climbing a high branch. Even if he did something wrong, there is no reason for the prince to apologize to the untouchables.

"No need to apologize," Nangong Yuheng sneered, seeing the surprise on the fourth prince's face, he blocked him back immediately in the next second, "I'll push you a few times, kick you a few times, and scold you a few words, Even if it's evened."

"What?!" The fourth prince's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Bold, our highness is golden and jade leaves, how can you allow you to punch and kick, how decent!" The old eunuch next to him also rushed out to protect the fourth prince, for fear that this wild boy would punch his highness a few times in the next second, then How can I stand it.

They are afraid that they will be dispatched by the wife stick, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Yueying couldn't help laughing, marveling at Nangong's boldness, how could this guy let others bully him in a muffled voice in the dining room, but now he dared to punch and kick the fourth prince.

Nangong looked at her with a straight face:
"Didn't Your Highness support me?"

Good guy, it turned out that with her backing, he wasn't afraid to capsize her.

"Seventh sister, are you really watching him beat me?" The fourth prince looked at her with shock, fear, anger and pleading for help, and many other emotions, like a poor dog in the water under the old eunuch's arms.

No matter how stupid the fourth prince was, he couldn't let others bully him, so she sighed and came out to mediate.

"How about this, today you are just 'fighting', don't worry, it's not a real fight," Yue Ying comforted the fourth prince with her eyes, "Aren't you fishing for fish, who can catch more, if the emperor loses, would you like to bet or admit defeat?" It is time to apologize, this is a man who can bend and stretch, if Nangong loses, then Brother Huang doesn't need to apologize, just make an apology."

The fourth prince thought carefully for a moment, nodded slightly, and agreed with difficulty: "Okay, I will listen to you."

"Nangong, what do you think?"

"Listen to the master." He agreed without hesitation.

He hadn't planned to really fight the fourth prince. After all, if he really got into trouble, it would not end well. Now is the best solution, not to mention that he didn't think he would lose to the fourth prince.

He grew up by the river.

So under the scorching sun, the two let go of their hands and feet and started fishing.

Here the fourth prince is still holding a fishing net and gesticulating on the shore, while Nangong Yuheng has already taken off his shirt, revealing his thin body, and jumped into the water with a plop, like a flexible mermaid, swaying in the water swim up.

After a while, he poked his head out of the water with a fat fish in his arms.

The fat fish fluttered its tail, throwing out crystal water droplets, and he also shook his head, shining brightly in the sun.

(End of this chapter)