Emperor of the Red Chamber

Chapter 60 The cold-faced king and the general king
In the study.

Yuan Qingbai is studying and practicing calligraphy.

Youshi sat aside and could read or do acupuncture. When Yuan Qingbai needed service, she would serve him.

Soon, Lingxue walked in after finishing dinner.

Lingxue glanced at Youshi, who smiled sweetly and said: "Girl, please go back to your room and rest. I will serve the Third Master here and I will call you over when the Third Master is about to go to bed."

Lingxue understood, turned and left.

After an hour like this, at midnight, Yuan Qingbai was about to go to bed. He was used to going to bed early and getting up early, not to mention having sex tonight.

After another half hour, Youshi, who was nestling in Yuan Qingbai's arms in the gauze tent, couldn't help but ask: "Is the third master going to be the minister in charge of the bodyguard?"

Yuan Qingbai did not tell his female family members that he was going to be the minister of bodyguard.

Yuan Qingbai turned to look at Youshi, who lowered his head and said, "I'm just curious. If Third Master thinks I shouldn't ask about this, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'll admit my mistake to Third Master."

Yuan Qingbai smiled slightly: "How did you know that I was going to be the minister in charge of the bodyguard?"

Youshi's eyes shone brightly: "I heard what the maids said, is it true?"

Yuan Qingbai nodded.

Youshi couldn't help being happy.

She had also heard that the minister in charge of the bodyguard was a first-class military attache.

This is nothing. As the third master of her family, being a first-grade military attache is nothing.

The key is that this official is in charge of the emperor's personal soldiers and protects the emperor.

And her third master is still so young.

Moreover, this incident also made her feel more and more that the third prince would succeed to the throne, and her third master would be the next emperor.

She was so proud that she couldn't help but stretched out her hands and hugged her third master, and her eyes seemed to be rippling again.

She knew that the third master would marry the girl from the Jia family next year. In the future, the third master would have other people in his house, and there should be quite a few of them.

She really wanted to cherish the time she had now.

Now she is the only person in the third master's room. Although Qin Keqing is in name, she is not in fact.

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One day in November.

The third prince, the ninth prince, and Yuan Qingbai stood together outside the main gate of Dangchun Garden.

Today is a cloudy day, the sky is extremely gloomy, and it is also a cold winter day. The blowing cold wind makes the scene in front of the third prince, ninth prince, and Yuan Qingbai look grim.

In fact, the third prince's current mood was also somewhat gloomy.

Because he knew that the person he was waiting to greet at this time would not want him to be the emperor, and might even cause trouble, even though that person was his half-brother.

Even though his father had decided on the Zen position and even made many arrangements, the third prince was still a little worried that his brother's return and troubles would affect the Zen position.

Because this younger brother was a great general with great military exploits, he already held a lot of weight in the heart of his father.

Otherwise, the old father would not have specifically asked his third prince to take his ninth brother and son Qing Bai to the gate of the palace to welcome the return of the twelfth prince, the great general Wang.

In addition to being a little worried, the third prince also felt helpless.

He and the twelfth prince were clearly brothers from Concubine Yi, but they were at odds with each other. Before the twelfth prince became the general, he became close to the princes and could be considered a member of the princes.

There is certainly a reason for this. Although the third prince was born to Concubine Yi, he was raised by a noble concubine at that time after his birth.

Because according to the rules of the Zhou royal family at that time, Concubine Yi's status was so low that she was not qualified to raise her own children.

The concubine who raised the third prince was later canonized as the third queen by Emperor Jing'an. However, the queen died the day after the canonization, when the third prince was twelve years old.

The twelfth prince was personally raised by Concubine Yi. He had been close to the seventh and eleventh princes since he was a child.

The third prince and the twelfth prince are also quite different in age, and their personalities are even more different.

The character of the twelfth prince is somewhat similar to that of the ninth prince.

Because the twelfth prince was personally raised by Concubine Yi and was Concubine Yi's youngest son, Concubine Yi favored him.

In comparison, the mother-son relationship between Concubine Yi and the third prince is much worse.

However, Concubine Yi fell in love with her grandson Qing Bai. With Qing Bai's help, the mother-son relationship between Concubine Yi and the third prince had become better in the past three years. This was one of the reasons why the third prince loved his son Qing Bai.

The Ninth Prince, whose personality is somewhat similar to that of the Twelfth Prince, naturally has a reason why he and the Third Prince have a close brotherly relationship.

The Ninth Prince has followed the Third Prince since he was a child. The Third Prince sometimes teaches the Ninth Prince like a father. Because the Ninth Prince's biological mother was born in a humble birth, he was often bullied. The Third Prince is very good to him and protects him.

Life is about fate.

The Ninth Prince and the Twelfth Prince had somewhat similar personalities. One had great respect for the Third Prince, but the other, as a younger brother, regarded the Third Prince as a rival or even an enemy.

The third prince actually did not want to become a rival or even an enemy with his younger brother, the twelfth prince, but he had no choice but to do so. It seemed that this kind of thing was already destined by fate.

At this time, the third prince, who was in a somewhat gloomy mood, was following his father's wishes, taking his ninth brother and son Qing Bai, waiting to welcome the return of the twelfth prince.

He looked up at the extremely gloomy sky, and carefully felt the cold wind blowing on his face. He judged that it would probably rain soon, and a winter rain was coming.

At this moment, a group of people appeared in the distance. Because the distance was still far away, and the third prince was short-sighted, he couldn't see clearly without his glasses, but he knew that it was his brother who had returned.

Although the twelfth prince is a general king, he is not very tall, and his physical and martial arts skills are not as good as those of the ninth prince.

At the moment, the twelfth prince is wearing the armor of the mighty and domineering general king, riding on an extraordinary horse, surrounded by many guards.

The Twelve Prince's eyes were not bad. He could clearly see the Third Prince and the Ninth Prince standing outside the gate of Dangchun Garden Palace from a distance. His eyebrows couldn't help but frown, and his face seemed to change like the winter sky. Generally gloomy.

Because he had been paying attention to the situation in the capital, he knew that the third prince had the greatest chance of succeeding, and he was impatient, so he returned to the capital on the pretext of discussing the war in the west with his old father.

He had also learned about the assassination of the third prince by the eleventh prince, and even learned about the recent adjustments to the defense of Shenjing City, and judged that the old father really regarded the third prince as the heir apparent.

Therefore, when he returned to Dangchun Garden today, he was already in a bad mood due to anxiety and worry.

Now that he saw that it was not the fifth prince and the seventh prince who greeted him, but the third prince and the ninth prince who he regarded as his rivals and enemies, he felt even more unhappy.

In the midst of his displeasure, he rode his magnificent horse and came not far away from the third prince. Sitting high on the horse, his gloomy face turned stern and he gave the third prince a sharp blow. Eyes.

However, the third prince is short-sighted and cannot see clearly...

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