Spring is warm and fragrant

Chapter 209
"Big horse!"

Coming out of the main entrance of the Duke's Mansion, Tangtang turned her head and pointed to the big black horse in front of the carriage to tell her mother.

Lu Mingyu stopped, smiled and asked her daughter, "Where is Malaysia taking us?"

Tangtang looked at her mother, and pointed in one direction with her little hand: "Uncle Huang!"

"Tangtang is so smart!" Lu Mingyu kissed her daughter rewardingly, and handed her daughter to Caisang to hold her first. She got into the carriage, and then took her daughter into her arms.Yesterday, through Chu Xing, Emperor Ming Hui asked her to bring her daughter into the palace to accompany her aunt, and she didn't know whether it was her aunt who missed the two of them, or Emperor Ming Hui himself.

But Lu Mingyu really misses her little cousin, and has been busy with Chu Ying's marriage these days, and she hasn't entered the palace for almost three months.The last time the sixth prince entered the palace, he just rolled back to play, and now he might be able to crawl all over the room.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lu Mingyu carried her daughter directly into the apse of Qianyuan Palace.

Lu Yun was sitting on the couch, coaxing his son.The sixth prince is ten months old, he is white and fat, his small arms and legs are very strong, he is acting like a baby in his mother's arms, pointing to the ground and insisting that his mother hug him to play below.Suddenly seeing Lu Mingyu coming in with Tangtang in his arms, the sixth prince immediately became honest, looked at Lu Mingyu a few times, and then only stared at Tangtang.

"Uncle Biao!" Tangtang's little mouth was so sweet, a child of this age didn't understand things about age and seniority, her mother taught her to call Uncle Biao, the sixth prince, and the little girl obediently called.Moreover, Tangtang didn't meet many children and liked to play with the sixth prince.

"Tangtang is here. Brother Yu went to play with Tangtang." Lu Yun smiled and put his fat son on the couch and let him go.

The sixth prince sat motionless next to his mother, his phoenix eyes were still staring at Tangtang curiously, he had long forgotten that he had seen his niece before.He was a little skeptical, Tangtang liked him so much, he walked over staggeringly, sat down in front of the sixth prince, looked down at the sixth prince, and grinned.

The two children looked at each other for a while, and the sixth prince also smiled.

Lu Jun hugged Tangtang on her lap, and asked the little girl if she missed herself. Here, Lu Mingyu hugged the sixth prince and kissed him. Seeing that the boy had six small deciduous teeth in his mouth, she said in surprise: "Brother Yu is coming out of here." The teeth are so fast, Tangtang only had four teeth when she was this age."

Tangtang knew that mother was talking about her teeth, so she opened her mouth and showed her teeth.When the sixth prince saw her open his mouth, he also opened his mouth foolishly, showing it to Tangtang.Both children have phoenix eyes, so close to each other, they look like siblings at first glance.

"Auntie, where's the emperor?" Lu Mingyu asked her aunt in a low voice after letting the two children play beside her.

Lu Yun smiled: "There are quite a lot of memorials today, he asked us to go to the garden first."

Lu Mingyu nodded: "It's been quite warm these two days."

After staying in the house for a while, the aunt and nephew went down to the ground together. The palace people had already prepared the small wooden cart for the sixth prince to go out and play. Lu Yun put both children in and let the palace people push them. He and his niece walked behind, chatted while walking, and headed towards the imperial garden.

There was a maple forest in the northwest corner of the imperial garden, which was as red as a sea of ​​clouds. The aunt and nephew took Tangtang and the sixth prince to the octagonal pavilion in the forest to enjoy the maple leaves.

In the Qianyuan Palace, Emperor Minghui finished reviewing the memorial and learned that his niece had arrived. He changed into a dark gray round-neck dragon robe and went to the imperial garden to look for Lu Mingyu and his nephew.As soon as he came to the imperial garden, he saw the fourth prince leading two young eunuchs coming from another direction.

"Father!" Seeing Father who was busy with political affairs all day, the fourth prince ran over in surprise.

He is 13 years old, wearing a jade-colored autumn robe, with delicate features, and is a very handsome young man. Because he is smart since childhood, he is often praised by Mr. Yushufang, and his brows reveal a bit of arrogance.Emperor Minghui didn't like his son's arrogance, and he didn't like the fourth prince's bullying his elder brother and younger brother, but his son ran over excitedly, and Emperor Minghui didn't make a bad face for no reason, and asked with a smile, "Did the fourth prince finish his homework?"

The fourth prince nodded and said happily: "Is the father coming to enjoy the scenery in the imperial garden? Will my son accompany you?"

Considering himself the smartest, coupled with the fact that the young man is light-hearted, the fourth prince is also the one who dares to act like a baby to Emperor Minghui among the current princes. He usually dares to directly ask Emperor Minghui for some small requests.If you don't consider Emperor Minghui's attitude, just judging from the words and deeds of the princes, the fourth prince is like Emperor Minghui's most favored son.

Emperor Minghui looked at Fenglin's direction and agreed.

The fourth prince showed joy, and immediately followed his father, wherever his father went, he would go.

In the octagonal pavilion, the voices of Emperor Huihui and the fourth princes were heard from a distance, Lu Mingyu and Lu Yun stood up and walked out of the pavilion to meet the emperor.The small wooden cart was still in the pavilion, and the two palace servants were watching. Seeing that her mother had gone out, Tangtang stood up curiously and looked out. Seeing the sixth prince, she put her two small arms on the side panel of the cart and looked up. He turned his head and looked out.

The first thing Emperor Minghui saw were the two children, the girl was smart and cute, and the boy was clumsy and quick-eyed, seeing him with a happy face, he called Tangtang from a distance.Tangtang was reminded by his mother just now, and smiled and called the emperor's uncle. The sixth prince can't speak, but he recognized his father, and he called out ahhh.

Emperor Ming Hui suddenly forgot that there was a son beside him, exchanged a few words with Lu Mingyu, strode up the gazebo, pulled the wooden cart in front of him, picked up a child with one hand and put them on his lap, which was extremely rare, especially for Tang Tang and the sixth prince look alike, and Emperor Minghui looks at Tangtang as if she is his little princess.

Tea and pastries were prepared on the stone table, and Lu Yun gently invited the fourth prince to sit down and eat.

The fourth prince came here only to find out that his father came to look for the sixth prince. Seeing how much his father doted on the sixth prince and the imperial concubine, and thinking that his father had not sat in the palace of his mother and concubine in the past two years, the fourth prince felt very uncomfortable , I always feel that the imperial concubine has robbed the favor of the mother and the concubine, and the sixth prince has robbed the father of his love. Obviously, before the sixth prince was born, he had always been the father's favorite son.

Unhappy, the fourth prince sat with his lips pursed for a while, then got up and asked Emperor Ming Hui to resign: "Father, sir, I left homework, I'll go back first, father, you can continue to enjoy the scenery."

Emperor Ming Hui's face was covered by his naughty son, and he hummed absently.

The fourth prince lowered his head and took a few steps back, then turned around. He walked slowly at first, but after leaving the sight of Emperor Minghui and the others, the fourth prince walked faster and faster, with a gloomy face.He thought of overhearing two court ladies whispering a few days ago, saying that the imperial concubine is the only one who favors the harem, and that the father and brother of the mother's family are all high-ranking officials with rich salary and real power, and that the throne will most likely fall to the sixth prince in the future.

The fourth prince does not want to believe it from the bottom of his heart. Although he is young, he always thinks that the smartest prince can be the crown prince, and he is the smartest son of the father. When the father gets old, he must be the emperor. Even his mother and concubine often told him to study hard and behave well in front of his father.

The sixth brother is so young and can't walk yet, how can he compare with him?
But what if?
The fourth prince's heart is in a mess, whether it's the father's preference for the sixth brother at this time, or the possibility that the sixth brother may rob him of the crown prince in the future, it makes him uncomfortable.

"What, your nephew choked on chestnuts?"

While walking, there was a sudden exclamation from a court lady behind the dense flower bushes not far away.The fourth prince paused, and looked over there suspiciously, can you choke to death by eating chestnuts?
As soon as the thought fell, another court lady choked up and said, "It's all because my sister-in-law didn't take good care of him. Someone next door came to our house to borrow rice. My sister-in-law led her into the house to scoop the rice, and left my niece to watch over my younger brother. My niece is only five years old. I don’t know where the chestnuts came from. I fed them to my nephew. When my sister-in-law and the others came out, my nephew was already stuck...only two years old..."

As he spoke, he burst into tears.

"Hey, don't cry. I heard that the emperor and the imperial concubine are here. Be careful to let the emperor hear and punish us. Let's go over there and talk."

As soon as the words fell, two distant footsteps came from behind the flowers and bushes.

"Your Highness, don't listen to their nonsense. Children are easy to choke when they eat. Your Highness, as long as you eat slowly, you'll be fine." A little eunuch explained with a smile when he saw that the fourth prince was stunned here and refused to leave.

The fourth prince ignored him, and finally looked at the bushes of flowers. He continued to walk towards Yuying Pavilion where the princes lived.

Since the third prince got married and left the palace to open the mansion, Yuying Pavilion now only lives with the fourth prince and the fifth prince who just moved in at the beginning of this year.The fifth prince is five years old this year and has started enlightenment. He just came back from Concubine Shu and was playing in the yard. When he saw the emperor brother, the fifth prince ran over happily, "Fourth brother, where have you been?"

The fourth prince stared at the fifth prince in front of him, thinking that the niece of the court lady who killed his younger brother was only five years old, a hint of sinister quickly flashed across his eyes, then he changed his usual ignorance of the fifth prince's love, squatted down with a smile, Supporting the fifth prince's shoulders, he said, "The fourth brother has gone to the Imperial Garden, what is Xiao Wu playing?"

"I just heard crickets calling, I don't know where to hide."

The fifth prince was innocent and innocent.

"Fourth brother will help you find it." The fourth prince patted him on the shoulder, stood up, and held the fifth prince's chubby hand.

The elder brother who is always studying and practicing martial arts is willing to accompany him to find crickets. The fifth prince is not to mention how satisfied, he led the fourth prince to rummage through the grass in the yard, caught three crickets, his hands were dirty, and then The fourth prince of the central government fought crickets with him.

The fourth prince took him to wash his hands in the room first, and did not let the maids and eunuchs wait on him, so the two brothers stayed in the room.While washing the hands of the fifth prince, the fourth prince said: "Father and the sixth younger brother are at Fenglin, and Mrs. Chu Guogong and Tangtang are also here."

The fifth prince's eyes lit up, "Is Tangtang here?" He likes the little niece of the Chu family.

The fourth prince nodded.

The fifth prince immediately didn't want to play with crickets, and wanted to go to the Imperial Garden to find Tangtang's niece.

The fourth prince said helplessly: "Forget it, the fourth brother will take you there later."

After wiping the fifth prince's hands, the fourth prince suddenly said that he was hungry, and ordered the little eunuch beside him to bring a plate of fried chestnuts. Recently, the chestnuts were newly ripe, and the concubine mother rewarded him a lot.The fifth prince is a glutton, and the concubine and the nurses around him don't allow him to eat too much. Seeing that the fourth brother has food here, he couldn't help swallowing.

The chestnuts were all peeled, and the fourth prince squeezed one for him.

The fifth prince shook his head, stared at the chestnut and said, "My concubine won't let me eat it."

The fourth prince did not expect that a child like him would know how to avoid taboos, but he still said: "Just eat one, eat slowly, it's fine."

After all, the fifth prince was still greedy, couldn't resist the temptation, took the chestnuts and put them in his mouth, chewed them really slowly, and then swallowed them smoothly.The fourth prince smiled and asked him: "Is it delicious?"

The Fifth Prince nodded his head beautifully.

The fourth prince asked him to pack a few more and save them for the journey.The fifth prince hesitated for a moment, then carefully picked up two chestnuts and put them into his small pouch, thinking that he would secretly eat them in the evening when the mother was not paying attention.After putting it on, the fourth prince wiped his hands again, and then led the fifth prince to the imperial garden.

In the octagonal pavilion, Tangtang didn't want to be hugged by the emperor's uncle, so he turned around in the pavilion, and went outside to pick up red maple leaves.The sixth prince would not leave yet, seeing his little friend leaving, the boy anxiously stretched out his hand towards Tangtang, Emperor Minghui smiled and carried his son to pick maple leaves outside.

Tangtang was envious of the maple leaves on the tree, and threw herself on Emperor Minghui's lap, coquettishly wanting to hug her.

Emperor Minghui could hold the two children together, but that way he couldn't pick the maple leaves, and he didn't want Lu Mingyu or Lu Yun to do it for him, so he took out the wooden cart, and he personally pushed the two children away, picking the maple leaves with one hand.Seeing him having fun with the children, Lu Yun dragged his niece to sit in the gazebo again and talk.

"Does Ah Nuan have it again?" Lu Yun asked in a low voice.

Lu Mingyu looked at her in surprise: "Why did aunt say that?"

Lu Yun looked at her stomach and laughed, "I think you should be more careful than usual when hugging Tangtang and the others."

The aunt was as careful as a hair, Lu Mingyu looked at the daughter in the forest who was laughing from time to time, her eyes were soft like water, and she said softly: "I can't say for sure, but the menstruation is almost half a month late, I will ask the doctor to take the pulse at the end of the month. "

Lu Yun didn't know that her niece was so injured that she almost couldn't get pregnant again, but she was sincerely happy for her niece when she learned that her niece might be pregnant again.The heirs of the Duke's Mansion are weak, and the niece's child will inherit the title. The sooner a son is born, the niece can feel at ease sooner.

The aunt and nephew had a lively conversation about their children. Over there, the fourth prince led the fifth prince. The fifth prince saw Lu Mingyu and the two first, and walked towards the octagonal pavilion without even thinking about it. The father left.

Lu Mingyu saw it, and thought about the fourth prince's usual demeanor, she guessed that the fourth prince wanted to get close to the emperor.However, the fourth prince was only thirteen. When Lu Mingyu was 13 years old, he felt that he was an adult, but now he looked at the fourth prince as a child's mother, and felt that the fourth prince was just a child.There is nothing wrong with a child wanting to attract his father's attention.

Lu Yun didn't want to disturb the two princes getting close to Emperor Minghui, so she continued to sit with Lu Mingyu in the pavilion.

"Father, the fifth brother heard that Tangtang is coming, so he insisted on bringing him to play with Tangtang." When he came to Emperor Minghui, the fourth prince explained first, while the fifth prince's big eyes had already fallen on Tangtang. .

Emperor Ming Hui knew that the fifth prince liked Tangtang, so he stopped the wooden cart so that the fifth prince could go and tease his little niece.

The fifth prince walked up to the wooden cart, holding the wooden cart with his small hands, talking to Tangtang.

Tangtang could play with anyone, and showed the maple leaf in his hand to the Fifth Prince.

The sixth prince also crawled over and sat here cross-legged, watching Tangtang play with the fifth prince.

The fourth prince took advantage of Emperor Minghui looking up for the redder maple leaves, quickly reached out and stuffed a chestnut kernel into the sixth prince's chubby hand.

(End of this chapter)