I am a cat in the palace

"I like Mr. Wei." During dinner, Rourou chatted with Mrs. Chen while eating.

Yongshan Palace doesn't have as many rules as other palaces, and Rourou loves to talk when eating, although the etiquette officer always reminds him, Madam Chen is not so strict in private, and she is happy to give him a little pampering.

"What kind of person is Mr. Wei?" After all, Mrs. Chen is only a foster mother, and she can't follow the imperial study, so she is also curious about this Mr. Wei who has many legends.

"Uh..." Rourou was asked so that she didn't know how to describe it, "Tall, always smiling, not fierce at all."

Mrs. Chen smiled: "Just because the master is not fierce, so you like it?"

Rourou nodded hesitantly, then shook his head, probably because he didn't know how to express his specific feelings.

Mrs. Chen then asked again: "It's the first time I met you today. Of course, Master will not be fierce, but if His Highness is disobedient in the future, Master will definitely be fierce. Then you don't like Master?"

This time, Rourou immediately shook his head: "No, I still like Master. The masters of the second brother and the fourth brother also went today, but only the master held my hand. The masters of the second brother and the fourth brother They didn't even hold their hands." Speaking of the master holding his hand in the morning, Rourou seemed to recall the feeling when Wei Yin held his hand, "Master's hand is much warmer than Father Emperor's. Not too old. He has been holding my hand all the time, unlike the masters of the second and fourth brothers. I saw the fourth brother almost fell down once, but his master didn't pay attention."

Rourou is a child, and a child's feelings of kindness or malice towards a person are often the most genuine and direct.But I think: if this Wei Yin is not a person with a pure and kind heart, then he is a person with great scheming, and my intuition tells me that he is more likely to belong to the latter.

I was in a daze, but Rourou suddenly picked up a piece of fish with the bones removed from his bowl and put it on my plate, "Daxian, you also like Mr. Wei, right?"

Mrs. Chen turned her head to look at me with a smile when she heard the words, "Did Immortal secretly follow you to the Imperial Study Room today?"

ah?Zhen Meow's face froze, and she quickly buried her head in eating the fish.In other words, I'm just meowing, what is Mr. Wei?I don't know?Why should I like him?

"Daxian, you are not allowed to sweep your tail randomly when you are eating. You can see that your tail has fallen into the soup."

Meow!So hot!

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From the next day, Rourou will formally begin her life of going to the Imperial Study every day to study.

The Imperial Study Room sounds like just a house, but it is actually the place where the emperor used to handle official business. It is a large palace complex, including two side halls, a main hall and an apse. There are three gardens in the front and back of the main hall and the apse, and there is even a lotus pond covering an area of ​​tens of acres between the apse and the main hall. .The two side halls are mainly used for ministers to meet and store some confidential documents. The main hall is the emperor's study, office and resting place, and the rear hall is now assigned to the princes as study rooms.

There are five entrances and seven rooms in the main hall of the back hall, and a side hall on the left and right sides, with more than a dozen palace rooms, large and small.Thinking about it, the heirs of the previous emperors were still prosperous, but when it came to the current emperor, it was always difficult for the heirs of the emperor.A few years ago, only the second prince entered the entire apse, and most of the more than a dozen palaces were left unoccupied. Now, with great difficulty, two more princes entered the school together, and the empty palace finally became more popular. .

Flesh wants to go to school, Mrs. Chen and Fulin don't worry much about other things. The only thing they worry about is that the three princes will live together under the same roof for a long time. Whether it is the second prince or the fourth prince, they are not good matches. They are worried that flesh and blood will suffer. After all, in this palace, once a prince without the protection of a powerful mother enters the sight of the powerful, danger will follow.The eldest son of the emperor who died suddenly at the age of eight, the concubine Zhen who had always had a stable pregnancy, died suddenly of dystocia, and the reason why the emperor had no new heirs except the eldest son outside the palace for nearly ten years since he ascended the throne. I know it well.

That night, Mrs. Chen couldn't feel at ease. She lay down for a while and got up again. When she opened the door, she saw that Fulin was still awake, sitting at the stone table in the yard in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

"You can't sleep either?" Mrs. Chen walked behind Fulin and patted him on the shoulder, and Fulin came back to herself as if waking up from a dream.

"Ma'am, why are you still up so late?"

"I can't sleep. I'm tossing and turning. I feel bad. I'm going to start school tomorrow, but our Highness doesn't even have a reading companion..." Madam Chen's eyes turned red as she spoke.

According to the rules of Daxia, the prince can choose to study with officials' children of the fourth grade or above in the palace, and each person can accompany no more than four people.It is said to be accompanying reading, but it is actually a means for the emperor to win over important officials, and it is also an important way for the princes to initially establish their own power and win over trusted officials and staff.

At present, the four accompanying reading places around the second prince are full. The two are the children of the queen's natal family Wei Guogong's mansion, and the other two are the son of Xuanwuhou and the grandson of Lu Chaozhong.As for the fourth prince, it is said that Concubine Duangui has appointed two companions, one is the grandnephew of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the other is the youngest son of General Wuwei.Only Rourou will formally enter school tomorrow, but he doesn't even have a companion.

When mentioning this matter, Mrs. Chen couldn't help complaining about the old emperor: "I really don't know how the emperor thinks about it. Even if your highness's name is determined early, if you have to go out of Beijing in the future, you don't have to win over the courtiers. This companion should point out a thing or two." Yes, wouldn’t it be boring to study alone? Besides, even if His Highness leaves Beijing for the fief in the future, he must have a few trustworthy people around him.”

"Your Highness is still young. The prince just came out of Beijing when he was 16 years old. The days are still long. The emperor must have other considerations about accompanying him. Besides, His Highness already has a master. I think that Mr. Wei will think about His Highness." Fulin sat on the side and answered Mrs. Chen casually, but his expression was still thoughtful.

"That Mr. Wei, look..." Mrs. Chen frowned and looked at Fulin.

After a moment of silence, Fulin shook his head, "I don't know, I can't see through."

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On the second day, the white belly was only exposed, and the fleshy body left the Yongshan Palace, and walked to the imperial study room with the morning dew.I walked on the palace wall and followed him all the way.Today is Rourou's first day at school, and I always want to follow her to have a look.

At this point, the emperor was in the early court, so there was no need for Rourou to go to the front hall to pay his respects. Going directly through the west corner door of the Imperial Study Room was the apse where the princes studied.

"Your Highness." At the edge of the west corner door, Fulin suddenly caught up with the first two steps, gently held Rourou, and tidied his clothes up and down again, and then let go after seeing that there was nothing wrong with him, mouth Li also kept telling: "Your Highness must remember to salute when he sees the master later."

Rourou immediately patted his small chest, "Uncle Fu, don't worry, I will definitely remember it."

I lay down on the wall and yawned. After falling asleep last night, I went out for a walk and felt a little sleepy when the sun came out.

Not far from the West Corner Gate is the apse. The entire apse has a main hall and two side halls. In the past, when there were many princes, there were only two or three princes in the main hall and side halls, but now there are only three princes in the whole palace. The house is very adequate.After all, the second prince is the eldest son, and he started school several years earlier, so the main hall was assigned to the second prince as a matter of course, and the east and west side halls were assigned to Rourou and the fourth prince respectively this time.

When Rou Rou entered the West Corner Gate, the two young eunuchs guarding the gate looked at each other and at the sky, obviously showing surprise.

Fulin followed closely behind Rourou every step of the way, and as soon as he entered the west corner gate, he found a young man in plain sleeves and a blue shirt standing under the porch of the East Palace Hall.He couldn't help but whispered in surprise: "Mr. Wei is here already?" There is still half an hour before the time stipulated in the palace for the princes to start school, and he came here because he couldn't hold back the excitement. It was early, but I didn't expect that Mr. Wei would come earlier than Rourou.

That Mr. Wei was originally looking up at the exquisite color pictures depicted on the beams in the corridor, but when Rourou and his party stepped into the west corner door, he seemed to feel something, and immediately turned his head to look this way, and saw the little Rourou Behind the small figure, a little surprise appeared on his face, and then a gentle smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that Mr. Wei had arrived first, Rourou's face suddenly collapsed, and he turned his head to look at Fulin with some grievances. There was only one sentence in his little eyes - look!He also said it was too early to leave, and Mr. Wei has already arrived.

Fulin was a little speechless, turned his head to look at the quiet main hall and the west side hall, there were not even the palace servants who served the pen and ink on the two sides.

"Morning, Mr. Wei." Rourou trotted all the way to Mr. Wei, and greeted him while bowing.Fulin chased after Rourou's butt and stretched out his hand hesitantly. This cautious old guy was always a little overly worried about Rourou's words and deeds.

Wei Yin smiled and stretched out his hand to touch Rourou's head, "Morning, Your Highness King Zhen."

I looked at that guy's hand and felt displeased, this guy!That fleshy head that you can touch?Move your paws away!Only I can touch that little head!Rourou was also obviously stunned, and subconsciously raised his head to look at Wei Yin's hand on his head, but he didn't show any sign of disgust, suddenly his eyes widened, and after a while, he even grinned.

Ouch!I'm a good boy, this little face was so bright that it almost blinded me, so I didn't step on any of my jumping paws, and fell face-down into the grass at the root of the wall with a "boom".