nucmednet Chapter 1137: The Dog Out of the Gate
Chapter 1137: The Dog Out of the Gate
Some things cannot be resolved simply by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his sister giving in.
At dusk, when Empress Changsun brought Princess Changle and Princess Lanling to Zongzheng Temple to lead the people, the three little girls who were playing hopscotch in the courtyard suddenly rushed to the door happily, "Mother!"
"Queen!"
"You three little girls are quite brave." Empress Changsun looked at her lively daughters, and her originally worried heart instantly calmed down.
However, when she looked past her daughter and towards His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was standing silently in the middle of the courtyard...
Empress Changsun's originally calm expression suddenly became stern: "Chengqian, you are becoming more and more like the crown prince!"
"Mother..." Just from his mother's few words, Li Chengqian had already judged that she already knew everything that happened in Taiji Hall, so he felt mixed emotions at the moment. However, after a short silence, he whispered, "I have already realized my mistake..."
"I hope you really know your mistake." Empress Changsun pursed her lips when she heard this. In this situation, she couldn't teach her son a lesson directly: "Sizi, Baoer, Yushu, you should follow Changle and Lanling back to Ganlu Palace first."
"Thank you, Queen." Dugu Bao'er was lively and ran to Empress Changsun happily, grabbed her wrist and shook it gently: "Queen, you are the best."
"You..." Hearing this, Empress Changsun reached out and gently stroked Dugu Baoer's head, saying softly, "You are such an honest child..."
"Sizi, let's go back to the palace." Princess Changle saw that her mother seemed to have something to say to her eldest brother alone, so she took Sizi's hand, glanced at the King of Yan and the King of Liang who were standing like minions, and then she said, "Mother...are we leaving now?"
"You'er and Yin'er will go back with me." Empress Changsun sighed silently in the letter after hearing this, and then said with a stern face: "As for Cheng Qian, you stay here and reflect on yourself!"
"Only..." After Empress Zhangsun finished speaking, Crown Prince Li Chengqian took the lead in expressing his opinion: "Don't worry, mother. I will reflect on my mistakes."
"..." Li You and Li Yin saw this and hurriedly said, "Mother... we know we are wrong..."
Whether you know you are wrong or not, it’s just talk for show.
But what Empress Changsun said next was not just a polite remark: "Cheng Qian, you are the eldest brother, and your younger brothers are not yet adults. Why can't you set an example for them? Previously... the words you said in Taiji Hall not only made your father sad, but also your mother - could it be that your father will harm you again?"
"..."Faced with his mother's questioning that hit his heart directly, Li Chengqian had no words to say. After hesitating for a few times, finally... this young yet no longer young prince still lowered his head, choosing to use silence to prove that he would swallow the bitter fruit alone...
After a while.
When Empress Changsun took her children away, leaving the Crown Prince alone to reflect in the Zongzheng Temple, a dark shadow took advantage of the time when Li Chengqian was about to enter the house, crossed the wall and came to this small courtyard.
"Hey, hey, hey, you tyrant Miaozi, it's time for dinner!" When King Chu appeared in the courtyard in the guise of a black-clad warrior, holding a food box and standing in front of Li Chengqian, the expression on the latter's face was truly brilliant.
"You are... Kuandi's man?" After saying this, Li Chengqian confirmed the other party's identity without waiting for the other party to answer, so he was a little angry at the moment: "Who told you to talk to me like this?!"
"Are you going to eat or not?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu rolled his eyes upon hearing this. "That idiot emperor has just issued an order not to allow the people from the Zongzheng Temple to bring you dinner. So, you plan to be hungry and sulk tonight, right?"
“Forget it, forget it…” Perhaps influenced by King Chu, most of the princes and princesses in the palace would not worry about their stomachs even if they encountered many troubles: “It has come to this… Let’s serve the meal…”
"Hey... Prince, you are quite ostentatious." King Chu rolled his eyes when he heard this, then walked to the stone table in the courtyard and put down the food box: "Eat it if you want! If you don't, I'll beat you!"
It's my bad luck to have a brother like you who is so stupid.
"..." The Crown Prince, who had already made up his mind to complain to his brother, decided to hold back his anger for the time being and fill his stomach first.
So Li Chengqian limped to the stone table, sat down, and opened the food box.
Then he froze in place.
Because there were only two dishes in the lunch box, one was his favorite lamb in a basin, and the other was chicken tofu pudding. (Note 1)
And this delicious dish of chicken tofu... was the delicacy that his maid had painstakingly prepared for him in that bizarre dream...after he was demoted to Yushan.
……
At this moment, Li Chengqian truly felt as if he was in another world.
"Eat it, it will taste better if it cools down. You idiot king, stop wasting food." Just as Li Chengqian was in a daze, King Chu handed the spoon to him while cursing.
"Patta..." The next moment, the spoon fell on the stone table, making a crisp sound.
"Kuan... Brother Kuan?" Li Chengqian suddenly understood everything - in this world, who else could speak to him in this tone except Brother Kuan?
But... why did the other party...
"You silly brother, you are smart for once." King Chu said as he picked up the spoon from the table, wiped it on his arm, and then put it into the bowl of chicken tofu soup: "Do you feel like you have just woken up from a big dream, and then feel that 'so many people have let this prince down'?"
“Brother Kuan…how could this be…” Li Chengqian was a little confused now.
"What do you mean, how could it be?" Li Kuan glared at Li Chengqian angrily. "Look at you, you don't have the ability to stir up trouble, but you can do whatever you want to do to get yourself beaten up. Why do you want to provoke that tyrant? What? Do you think you can piss him off to death? This is an achievement that I didn't even achieve back then. My god, how can you think you can do it?"
"..." Li Chengqian's mind was a little confused now. First of all, he was puzzled as to why Kuandi transformed into the black-clad assassin in front of him. Secondly, he was curious about how Kuandi knew about his changes.
"Okay, stop thinking about that stupid brain of yours." The King of Chu was about to go to Qunu City to kill everyone, so Chang'an had to restore peace immediately to avoid distracting him: "Brother, you have seen my secret now, so you can relax. No one can do anything to you under my protection, not even a tyrant.
So, don't commit suicide.
Second, you are too ashamed to ask me how I found that you are different from before - the way you looked at people before was clear and stupid, but now... ah... it's like a fucking dog out of a brooding cage -"
“——Brother Kuan…” His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also a man who cared about his reputation: “It was a tiger that had just been released from the cage… not… not a local dog…”
"You are still a fierce tiger..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu thought for a moment, then tilted his head: "Ha~te!"