Harem Daily Life

The twins were too noisy, and Tao Yanyan was worried that they would disturb He Linzhang from reviewing memorials, so he only stayed for a while and then took the children back.

"Mother, mother, we want to go see the fish." Yunuo took Tao Yanyan's hand and wanted to go to the carp pond in the imperial garden.

Tao Yanyan was frightened by the heat and was too lazy to go over. He just asked Shuang'er to take Yunuo to take a look and come back early after that.

Yu Cheng frowned and said, "Then the Queen Mother wants to go back to Changle Palace, and Nuo'er wants to go see the koi. Who should I escort?"

Looking at his serious thinking, Tao Yanyan was speechless.

"The Queen Mother is an adult, and Qingfeng and the others are escorting her. Otherwise, Yucheng will escort my sister."

Yu Cheng nodded: "Alright, let's do it this way. Qingfeng, you guys have to protect the Queen Mother and don't get separated."

Qingfeng responded with a smile, and everyone was amused by the Fourth Prince.

The two groups separated at a fork in the road. With Shuang'er there, Tao Yanyan was not worried at all.

But unexpectedly, when Shuang'er and the others came back with the two children, they were all covered in mud and water. The two children looked like they had rolled in a mud pond, and there was not a single spot on their bodies that was clean.

Tao Yanyan's blood pressure soared instantly. He imagined the scene of two disobedient twins breaking free from the palace servants and rolling into the mud.

The two little guys might even order everyone not to stop them and let them have fun.

Shuang'er is very skilled in martial arts, but she cannot defeat the twins and can only fish out one at a time.

Tao Yanyan took a deep breath and said, "Tell me, what have you been doing?"

It’s so dirty, I really can’t keep it!

Shuang'er, also covered in mud, reported, "Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Princess ran into the First Prince by the fish pond. The First Prince teased them, saying... that the Empress's position was stolen, and that if it weren't for Your Majesty's scheming, the two young masters wouldn't have been legitimate children. The two young masters were too young to understand this, but we servants couldn't stand it, so we wanted to take them away. But to our surprise, the First Prince went crazy and grabbed the mud from the fish pond and smeared it on the two young masters..."

Tao Yanyan frowned and looked at the two children. "Well, it's impossible for them to be completely dirty. And you, you're all covered in mud and water too."

Shuang'er coughed lightly and glanced at the two young masters. "The two young masters felt they had been wronged and were determined to seek revenge, so they also used mud to smear the eldest prince. Later, both sides lost some restraint and fought... fought each other."

Tao Yanyan: "...You guys are fighting in a group? Using mud?"

"My eldest brother made the first move. I have already counted the time in my mind, but he still didn't stop. I had no choice but to fight back!" Yu Cheng felt that he handled the situation properly and there was nothing wrong with it.

Tao Yanyan closed his eyes and forced a wry smile. "Baby, you have to be polite before you use force. Warn him verbally not to offend you again. Just counting in your head won't work. He won't hear you."

Yu Cheng frowned and pointed at the dirty Yunuo beside him: "Sister, I'm warning you."

Tao Yanyan looked at Yunuo again. Yunuo raised his little face and said softly, "Well, I warned you. I said, if you smeared my brother Shanxia, I will smear him twice as much. So I kept my word and smeared him six times. Fortunately, Aunt Shuang'er helped me hold him down, otherwise I wouldn't be able to smear him."

Tao Yanyan was speechless: "Shuang'er, you..."

Shuang'er quickly said, "I was so angry that I not only held him down, but also punched the eldest prince."

Tao Yanyan: “…”

Seeing them all dirty but looking a little proud as if they had won a battle, Tao Yanyan was too lazy to scold them.

"Go down and wash it quickly, wash it several times. You are not allowed to eat dinner if you don't wash it thoroughly."

Qingfeng and the others hurriedly took the two children downstairs, and Shuang'er and the others went to clean up on their own.

It was originally thought that both parties were at fault in this matter and no one would speak out. However, unexpectedly, in the evening, news came from Yongxing Palace that the eldest prince was beaten by people from Changle Palace and the imperial physician was called in.

"Your Majesty, I wonder what the eldest prince is up to. Is he trying to make a big fuss?" Mingyue couldn't understand. "The eldest prince bullying the legitimate fourth prince. Normally, no one would dare spread any news."

Tao Yanyan sneered, "You said it yourself. Not daring to spread the news is what most people do. But the eldest prince is no ordinary person. Tell Chang Tai to keep an eye on him and see what he's up to."

The eldest prince's injury not only alarmed the empress dowager, but also the emperor.

Hearing that people from Changle Palace had injured people around the eldest prince, the Queen Mother sent Eunuch Qin to inquire about the matter. Tao Yanyan then called all the people involved in the fight to his side, and the two twins also recounted what had happened.

"Big brother, make the first move. I can't just stand there and let him smear mud on me. That's not my style." Yu Cheng stuck out his belly, looking like he was the best and begging for praise.

"I even helped my brother fight back. I was pretty good too." Yunuo blinked his eyes and pulled Eunuch Qin: "Eunuch Qin, tell me, am I really useful? I'm not just a little loser who only knows how to eat."

He Xiaobao, who came to join in the fun and only knew how to eat, said: "Ah, ah ah ah..."

Knowing how to eat is a skill, okay? The Empress Dowager loves to praise me the most for my eating habits. You don’t understand.

Eunuch Qin had a general understanding of what had happened. It was indeed the eldest prince who had made the mistake first, but Shuang'er was accused of using force to control the eldest prince during the fight, which was an act of insubordination, so she was taken away by Eunuch Qin.

Tao Yanyan was worried, so he asked Mingyue and Xianglan to look after the children, and he followed with Qingfeng.

After the Queen Mother heard Eunuch Qin's report of what had happened, she glared at the eldest prince, who lay unable to get up from the couch, and said angrily, "You are your father's eldest son. Aside from the eldest princess, you are the oldest. I think your age has been wasted, and what you say is foolish."

The Queen Mother was also very angry with the eldest prince and did not care about his face at all.

"Empress Tao possesses both talent and virtue, making her worthy of being the mother of the state. To question her is to question your father, the Emperor, and this is disrespectful and unfilial. The twins are only two years and six months old, so much younger than you, yet you were the first to bully them. This shows a lack of protection for younger siblings and a lack of responsibility as an older brother. Moreover, they are both legitimate children, and their status is higher than yours. What you did today truly disappoints me."

After saying this, the Queen Mother glanced at Shuang'er and then at Tao Yanyan.

"Empress Tao, although you, as a servant, are eager to protect your master, the eldest prince is the master after all. If she attacks the master, it would be a violation of her authority. I will give her ten strokes of the cane as a warning to others."

Tao Yanyan wanted to step forward to stop them, but was stopped by Eunuch Qin: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has already made amends for Miss Shuang'er's protection of the two young masters. Please don't stop them. Let me take them away and punish them."

Eunuch Qin gave Tao Yanyan a look, and Tao Yanyan had no choice but to let the man be taken away.