Chapter 232 (2/2)
The portrait shows a woman dressed in goose yellow gauze, standing under a piece of green banana leaves, with black hair like the top of dark clouds, beautiful eyebrows and eyes. Meng Qianchong's fingers crossed the picture scroll. She is indeed a beauty.
”What do you think?”
Meng Qianzhong randomly shuffled the picture scroll, ”you need to see more pictures. I can't choose one person to enter the palace?”
”At that time, the young ladies will have to choose the bigger ones carefully,” Su Rushuang turned her eyes. ”How many concubines are you going to choose into the palace?”
Meng Qianchong raised his eyes and looked at her. ”The star watcher said that six this year is an auspicious number. I'm going to choose six to enter the palace.”
Su Rushuang's heart was sour when she heard the speech, but she still smiled, ”it's really big. Father Chen will be happy to fly.”
Meng Qianchong glanced at her, ”you always seem to have trouble with him.”
”Only the German imperial concubine will like him. I just can't bear the way he thinks he can say a few words when he grows up with the emperor,” Su Rushuang sneered again and again. ”He is your first loyal minister. Why don't you trust him to stay with me because of Mu Langhua's affair.”
Meng Qianchong's face immediately became gloomy. ”You're going to start again, aren't you?”
The sound of reading in Yunhe Pavilion slowly subsided. Meng Boyi looked at the Taifu's eyes gradually blurred, and then fell on the desk uncontrollably. He immediately jumped into the back hall like a stubborn monkey.
Meng Yanqi, the little prince, was still sleeping. When the nanny saw the figure of the big prince, she quickly sat up and whispered, ”big prince, aren't you reading? How did you come to this place?”
Meng Boyi scratched his head in embarrassment. ”When the Taifu saw that I had finished reciting the book, let me have a rest.”
The nurse said eagerly, ”you can't come here.”
”Why not,” Meng Boyi blinked innocent big eyes. ”Yanqi is my brother. Can't I come to see him as an imperial brother? I haven't seen him since he was born.”
The nurse gently hissed, ”but the German imperial concubine asked her not to let the big prince go to see the little prince.”
”It's no big deal to have a look,” Meng Boyi said with a smile. ”I'll just look at it. It's good if you don't tell the mother imperial concubine.”
The nurse still hesitated. Meng Boyi grumbled impatiently, ”I'm just looking at it. I can't even see my own sister and mother imperial concubine in Yunhe Pavilion all day. It's not easy to have a brother, but I still can't do it. I'm clearly the great prince of Qi, but I'm still so poor.”
The nursing mother looked at him with faint tears at the bottom of her eyes and thought that the child was really poor. At the age of five, she was forced to stay away from her mother's concubine. When she came to the place where she could only study every day, she said in a gentle voice, ”the big prince, slaves and maids can let you see the little prince, but you must not be seen by others. If the German imperial concubine knew, slaves and maids would be punished.”
Meng Boyi smiled and showed two small tiger teeth. ”Thank you, sister. I will be careful.”
The nurse fondly touched his head and lowered the cradle, ”you see, the little prince looks like you when you were a child.”
Meng Boyi stood on tiptoe, put his little head into the cradle and saw a pink baby boy. He couldn't help exclaiming, ”this is Yanqi's brother. He's so small.”
The suckling mother pursed her lips and said with a smile, ”the eldest prince didn't look like this when he was a child. He was as small as a baby.”
Meng Boyi touched his little hand curiously, ”when will my brother grow up?”
The nurse thought for a moment, smiled and asked, ”when will the great prince go out from the cloud crane pavilion?”
Meng Boyi looked embarrassed. ”I don't know. My father came to see me that day. I asked my father this question. He didn't answer me. When he said it was coming.”
The nurse lowered her eyes. ”It turned out that when the big prince went out, the little prince grew up.”
”Really?” Meng Boyi opened his eyes in surprise and said with expectation, ”can I go out with Yanqi's brother?”
The suckling mother was stunned and hesitated: ”the servant is not clear. Maybe the little prince will stay here for a while, but the big prince can rest assured that the little prince can go out soon, and then you two can play together.”
Meng Boyi smiled and said, ”then I'll study hard and teach my brother Yanqi to study in the future. In this way, when the Taifu knows that we have learned the knowledge, he will let us go out quickly.”
Outside the door came the voice of the Taifu scolding. Meng Boyi was surprised and spitted out his tongue naughtily at the nurse. ”Unfortunately, the Taifu has woken up. I have to go back to study.”