Yao Ji ordered someone to call Xiao Liu'er. Xiao Liu'er was born with a small baby and was a half-aged child, and she became a eunuch. She dripped in tears when she saw her, and knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly: I beg the Crown Princess to be kind, I beg the Crown Princess to be kind, don't chase the slave away, I will do my best to serve the Crown Princess and the Crown Princess.
Yao Ji couldn't do it either. Shu Zhan said he wanted to chase people, so he had to chase them.
She said softly: Don’t cry, slowly, listen to me.You can't stay in the East Palace anymore, so I'll have someone place you in Kanghua Palace as a job.
This Kanghua Palace is where the princes lived before leaving the palace and opened their palace. They worked there, which was both leisurely and abundant, and there were many people in the palace who wanted to go.
Before Xiao Liu'er could thank you, Yao Ji said again: There is only one thing I want to ask you, why did the prince chase you away?
I, I don’t know... Maybe because I was afraid that Yao Ji would get angry, Xiao Liuer hurriedly explained, I really don’t know. The prince was fine before this morning. I served the prince for breakfast, and the prince said he wanted to go to the garden to play ball... He racked his brains to recall, as if he suddenly thought of something, and was shocked, and gave the prince a grasshopper.
Grass grasshopper?
Yes... I was probably a little embarrassed. Xiao Liu'er had a grasshopper that I liked very much. It fell into the water and threw it away. I picked up the grass leaves and weaved it again.
In fact, in addition to grass grasshoppers, there are also grass crickets, grass goldfish, grass rabbits... a full box, all hidden under Xiao Liu'er's pillow.
I heard that... the prince's Qianqiu is coming... He lowered his head, as if he understood that such a presumptuous act was the reason for causing trouble for him. The princess forgives his crime, and I am a lowly person and should not be more arrogant.
Yao Ji felt something was wrong. Did Shu Zhan really think that a eunuch should not show his kindness to him, so he got angry and wanted to drive Xiao Liuer out?
No matter whether the four-year-old child does not have such a strict concept of hierarchy, even if he is not stupid, subconsciously, Yao Ji thinks that this is not the reason.
Xiao Liu'er, she softened her voice, tell me why I should give the prince grasshopper?You don't want to please him, right?
Slave, Slave... Xiao Liu'er's head was lying on the ground, maybe because she was afraid, or maybe something else. His voice trembled, and even his body began to tremble. Slave didn't dare to say it.
But in the end, he still said sharp and trembling words, as if sobbing: Before I entered the palace, I had a younger brother, and I... would always play with him.
It was dusk that day, and the wind suddenly blew.
Yao Ji walked out of the hall with her cloak. In the silhouette under the sunset, the eaves of the majestic pavilion and towering towers of the East Palace seemed to have been melted, dragging out the twilight that was about to be silent in the dimness.
The boy stood under the ginkgo tree, floating and a leaf fell down.
He held a grass grasshopper in his hand, as if he had been playing with it for a long time. When he heard someone coming, the grasshopper was thrown to the ground without any nostalgia.
Your Highness, Yao Ji didn't care about his indifference when he turned around and left, and followed him on his own. His Highness's Qianqiu is coming soon. What birthday ceremony does His Highness want?
Shu Zhan ignored her and quickly walked forward.
If you don’t like the birthday ceremony, what is your wish? If I can do it, I will do my best to help you achieve it.
There will be a banquet in the palace on Qianqiu Festival, and I believe your highness will be able to meet his uncle and aunt.
Are you annoyed? Shu Zhan stopped suddenly. He turned around, his face full of impatient words. I don’t want a birthday gift and I have no wish. Don’t bother me. He was cold and like a willful and annoying child. I hate birthdays.
Why do you hate birthdays?Even the most ignorant child will like a happy and carefree birthday.
On the Qianqiu Festival, Yao Ji was in the back hall and just took a look through the screen.
Shu Zhan sat on the magnificent throne, accepting the congratulations and prayers offered to him by the royal officials. There was nothing beside him, only the cold air that could not be touched.
She returned to the back hall and found a small box in the dazzling array of birthday gifts.
That was sent in by Mrs. Fang. Although the prince, the son-in-law, and ordinary people, cannot be generalized, the Fang family still prepared the birthday gifts of both the man and the woman as usual.
The man's birthday gift was presented before Qianqiu Festival, while the woman's birthday gift was presented to her when she entered the palace on the day of the banquet.
A whole set of ten thousand words of birthday celebrations was embroidered by several women in the Fang family for more than a month. Thinking of how much effort the family had spent, Yao Ji was a little helpless: Mom, why bother with this? The prince doesn’t care about these things.
Even so, etiquette cannot be lost. Thinking of my daughter's future unpredictable marriage life, I cannot say something in front of the third person. Mrs. Fang turned her head and said, by the way, this box was sent in by the prince's wet nurse.
Wet nurse?
Only then did Yao Ji realize that Shu Zhan’s wet nurse begged to the Fang family and asked them to send the birthday gift to the East Palace.
Seeing his daughter's face full of surprise, Mrs. Fang said: Not to mention you, I felt incredible when I heard about it. Even if this wet nurse who had breastfeeded the prince was not an old Fengjun at home like the Madam Fengsheng, how could she fall to the point where she could not even reach the path of the Eastern Palace.After asking, I found out that Mrs. Lu was driven out of the palace when the prince was ten years old.
After she left the palace, her life was not good, but fortunately, the Kong family still helped her from time to time.She is a kind person and has always cared about the prince. However, after so many years of requests, the Eastern Palace has never paid attention to it. She prepares a birthday gift for the prince every year. In the past, she asked the Confucius family to send it in, but this year she asked her to come down to our house.
As he said that, Mrs. Fang opened the box: I have looked carefully. It was some clothes, shoes and socks. I haven't seen each other for so many years. I don't know if the prince is wearing it. Whether the prince likes it or not, I at least tell the prince that it is the old lady's wish.
She spread the clothes and handed them to Yao Ji. Compared to the exquisite and gorgeous materials in the palace, the clothes were made of ordinary cotton cloth, but the stitches were as fine as weave. When she held them in her hand, she could feel her gentle heart.
Somehow, Yao Ji thought of the grasshopper that was thrown on the ground by Shu Zhan.She folded her clothes and put them carefully back into the box: My mother, can you tell me about that old lady?
Mrs. Fang was stunned. Although she thought her daughter’s request was strange, she still recalled it carefully: ...The old lady didn’t talk much, and I chatted with her. Nine out of ten sentences were talking about the prince...
That was an old time eleven years ago. Speaking of which, Shu Zhan’s life journey was not complicated.
He was born in the Qian Mansion that is now renamed Jingfu Palace. At that time, because Emperor Yuanguang was still the King of Jin, he was still the King of Jin's Mansion.
He was the first child of Emperor Yuanguang and was born. When he was born, even the late emperor was alarmed and personally gave him the name Zhan.
However, Emperor Yuanguang did not like Shu Zhan, nor did he like the woman who gave birth to children for him, his wife, Empress Xianyi.
In the year Shu Zhan was born, Emperor Yuanguang almost couldn't wait to welcome his lifelong love, cousin Li, into the door.
Since then, the princess, who was not favored, was completely neglected. In that palace, the princess' courtyard seemed to have become an isolated place, with liveliness, laughter, joy... nothing to do with them.
Yao Ji couldn't do it either. Shu Zhan said he wanted to chase people, so he had to chase them.
She said softly: Don’t cry, slowly, listen to me.You can't stay in the East Palace anymore, so I'll have someone place you in Kanghua Palace as a job.
This Kanghua Palace is where the princes lived before leaving the palace and opened their palace. They worked there, which was both leisurely and abundant, and there were many people in the palace who wanted to go.
Before Xiao Liu'er could thank you, Yao Ji said again: There is only one thing I want to ask you, why did the prince chase you away?
I, I don’t know... Maybe because I was afraid that Yao Ji would get angry, Xiao Liuer hurriedly explained, I really don’t know. The prince was fine before this morning. I served the prince for breakfast, and the prince said he wanted to go to the garden to play ball... He racked his brains to recall, as if he suddenly thought of something, and was shocked, and gave the prince a grasshopper.
Grass grasshopper?
Yes... I was probably a little embarrassed. Xiao Liu'er had a grasshopper that I liked very much. It fell into the water and threw it away. I picked up the grass leaves and weaved it again.
In fact, in addition to grass grasshoppers, there are also grass crickets, grass goldfish, grass rabbits... a full box, all hidden under Xiao Liu'er's pillow.
I heard that... the prince's Qianqiu is coming... He lowered his head, as if he understood that such a presumptuous act was the reason for causing trouble for him. The princess forgives his crime, and I am a lowly person and should not be more arrogant.
Yao Ji felt something was wrong. Did Shu Zhan really think that a eunuch should not show his kindness to him, so he got angry and wanted to drive Xiao Liuer out?
No matter whether the four-year-old child does not have such a strict concept of hierarchy, even if he is not stupid, subconsciously, Yao Ji thinks that this is not the reason.
Xiao Liu'er, she softened her voice, tell me why I should give the prince grasshopper?You don't want to please him, right?
Slave, Slave... Xiao Liu'er's head was lying on the ground, maybe because she was afraid, or maybe something else. His voice trembled, and even his body began to tremble. Slave didn't dare to say it.
But in the end, he still said sharp and trembling words, as if sobbing: Before I entered the palace, I had a younger brother, and I... would always play with him.
It was dusk that day, and the wind suddenly blew.
Yao Ji walked out of the hall with her cloak. In the silhouette under the sunset, the eaves of the majestic pavilion and towering towers of the East Palace seemed to have been melted, dragging out the twilight that was about to be silent in the dimness.
The boy stood under the ginkgo tree, floating and a leaf fell down.
He held a grass grasshopper in his hand, as if he had been playing with it for a long time. When he heard someone coming, the grasshopper was thrown to the ground without any nostalgia.
Your Highness, Yao Ji didn't care about his indifference when he turned around and left, and followed him on his own. His Highness's Qianqiu is coming soon. What birthday ceremony does His Highness want?
Shu Zhan ignored her and quickly walked forward.
If you don’t like the birthday ceremony, what is your wish? If I can do it, I will do my best to help you achieve it.
There will be a banquet in the palace on Qianqiu Festival, and I believe your highness will be able to meet his uncle and aunt.
Are you annoyed? Shu Zhan stopped suddenly. He turned around, his face full of impatient words. I don’t want a birthday gift and I have no wish. Don’t bother me. He was cold and like a willful and annoying child. I hate birthdays.
Why do you hate birthdays?Even the most ignorant child will like a happy and carefree birthday.
On the Qianqiu Festival, Yao Ji was in the back hall and just took a look through the screen.
Shu Zhan sat on the magnificent throne, accepting the congratulations and prayers offered to him by the royal officials. There was nothing beside him, only the cold air that could not be touched.
She returned to the back hall and found a small box in the dazzling array of birthday gifts.
That was sent in by Mrs. Fang. Although the prince, the son-in-law, and ordinary people, cannot be generalized, the Fang family still prepared the birthday gifts of both the man and the woman as usual.
The man's birthday gift was presented before Qianqiu Festival, while the woman's birthday gift was presented to her when she entered the palace on the day of the banquet.
A whole set of ten thousand words of birthday celebrations was embroidered by several women in the Fang family for more than a month. Thinking of how much effort the family had spent, Yao Ji was a little helpless: Mom, why bother with this? The prince doesn’t care about these things.
Even so, etiquette cannot be lost. Thinking of my daughter's future unpredictable marriage life, I cannot say something in front of the third person. Mrs. Fang turned her head and said, by the way, this box was sent in by the prince's wet nurse.
Wet nurse?
Only then did Yao Ji realize that Shu Zhan’s wet nurse begged to the Fang family and asked them to send the birthday gift to the East Palace.
Seeing his daughter's face full of surprise, Mrs. Fang said: Not to mention you, I felt incredible when I heard about it. Even if this wet nurse who had breastfeeded the prince was not an old Fengjun at home like the Madam Fengsheng, how could she fall to the point where she could not even reach the path of the Eastern Palace.After asking, I found out that Mrs. Lu was driven out of the palace when the prince was ten years old.
After she left the palace, her life was not good, but fortunately, the Kong family still helped her from time to time.She is a kind person and has always cared about the prince. However, after so many years of requests, the Eastern Palace has never paid attention to it. She prepares a birthday gift for the prince every year. In the past, she asked the Confucius family to send it in, but this year she asked her to come down to our house.
As he said that, Mrs. Fang opened the box: I have looked carefully. It was some clothes, shoes and socks. I haven't seen each other for so many years. I don't know if the prince is wearing it. Whether the prince likes it or not, I at least tell the prince that it is the old lady's wish.
She spread the clothes and handed them to Yao Ji. Compared to the exquisite and gorgeous materials in the palace, the clothes were made of ordinary cotton cloth, but the stitches were as fine as weave. When she held them in her hand, she could feel her gentle heart.
Somehow, Yao Ji thought of the grasshopper that was thrown on the ground by Shu Zhan.She folded her clothes and put them carefully back into the box: My mother, can you tell me about that old lady?
Mrs. Fang was stunned. Although she thought her daughter’s request was strange, she still recalled it carefully: ...The old lady didn’t talk much, and I chatted with her. Nine out of ten sentences were talking about the prince...
That was an old time eleven years ago. Speaking of which, Shu Zhan’s life journey was not complicated.
He was born in the Qian Mansion that is now renamed Jingfu Palace. At that time, because Emperor Yuanguang was still the King of Jin, he was still the King of Jin's Mansion.
He was the first child of Emperor Yuanguang and was born. When he was born, even the late emperor was alarmed and personally gave him the name Zhan.
However, Emperor Yuanguang did not like Shu Zhan, nor did he like the woman who gave birth to children for him, his wife, Empress Xianyi.
In the year Shu Zhan was born, Emperor Yuanguang almost couldn't wait to welcome his lifelong love, cousin Li, into the door.
Since then, the princess, who was not favored, was completely neglected. In that palace, the princess' courtyard seemed to have become an isolated place, with liveliness, laughter, joy... nothing to do with them.