bayedsolid Chapter 399 Tour of the Eastern Palace
Chapter 399 Tour of the Eastern Palace
"Mother, are we going to see the Crown Prince now?"
"Hmm, do you want to see him?"
Miaomiao: "...I was thinking about it."
There is very little information available about the Crown Prince.
Most of them were sickly.
After all, they are brothers born of the same mother, so they should see each other more often.
Every meeting is one less chance to see each other.
They arrived at the East Palace.
Even outside the hall, one could faintly smell the aroma of Chinese herbal medicine.
It seems like it's been soaking in medicine pots all year round.
As soon as the princess entered the palace, a little boy ran towards them and fell into her arms.
"Auntie... Auntie..."
The little one called out to Auntie in a soft, sweet voice.
She was about three years old, with fair skin and very pretty. She snuggled in the princess's arms like a kitten.
Miaomiao was startled by the sudden appearance of the little dumpling and stood there dumbfounded, watching.
The child seemed to sense her gaze and turned to stare straight at her.
"Miaomiao, this is your cousin Fu Yu, the son of the Crown Prince," Princess Yuqing introduced to her daughter.
Miaomiao nodded.
The crown prince raised his son very well; he was fair-skinned and chubby, with small, lotus-root-like hands, looking like a little meatball.
It's comparable to when she was her age.
Miao Miao looked around, "Where's his mother?"
Only a large group of maids and nannies accompanied him; the Crown Princess was not seen.
"Mommy has turned into a star in the sky," the child said innocently, his eyes wide.
Miao Miao understood immediately.
The little guy is a child without a mother.
Children without mothers are the most pitiful.
“Yu’er is usually taken care of by his maternal grandmother, who brings him over every day to visit his father,” Princess Yuqing explained to her daughter.
When the antidote was brought back, it was still too late.
They couldn't save the Crown Princess.
The Empress Dowager forbade the palace servants from saying that the Crown Princess had died in front of the children, and only said that his mother had turned into a star.
The Crown Princess died without her child by her side, and they searched for her for a while afterward.
You'll get used to it gradually.
At first, they would talk to the stars in the sky.
Later, when he saw that his mother didn't respond, he stopped talking.
After hearing this, Miao Miao felt a lump in her throat.
With a sick father and a dead mother, being the crown prince doesn't seem like a good thing.
"Mother, may I hold him?"
Princess Yuqing placed her nephew in front of her daughter, pointed at Miaomiao, and said, "Call her 'elder sister'."
Little Fu Yu called out in a childish voice, "Sister..."
After calling out, he stretched out his small, lotus-root-like hand, wanting to take her hand; his little hand was soft and cuddly.
They weren't shy at all.
Miao Miao had never interacted with children her age and didn't know how to approach them.
Some are at a loss.
She let the little boy pull her into the house, her little tuft of hair swaying back and forth, she was so cute.
The further into the hall you go, the stronger the smell of medicine becomes.
The little guy even pinched his nose and said to Miaomiao, "Daddy's medicine smells bad."
All of this made Miaomiao laugh.
This kid is quite interesting; even though his dad is in such a state, he still complains.
The indoor lighting was somewhat dim.
I could vaguely see a person dressed in white lying on the couch.
That must be the Crown Prince's maternal uncle.
Take a closer look.
startled.
The man was so thin he was just skin and bones, like a matchstick.
His face was pale, and his eyes were sunken; he looked a bit frightening.
Is this her uncle, the Crown Prince?
It seems those poisons have really hurt him badly; it will be very difficult for him to recover.
The Crown Prince opened his eyes and saw that it was his elder sister. He forced himself to sit up and weakly called out, "Royal Sister..."
"How come you've lost weight again after just a few days? You must not have been eating properly." Princess Yuqing's eyes reddened.
Seeing her younger brother like this, she felt incredibly sad.
I wish I could tear Prince Chen to pieces.
"Your Majesty, please don't be like this. The children are all here. This little girl is..." The Crown Prince's gaze fell on Miao Miao.
The little girl was like the sun, shining with golden light that made people squint and felt warm all over.
It felt as if a warm current was flowing through his entire body.
Upon closer inspection, his pupils dilated instantly.
"She's yours..."
"Yes." Princess Yuqing nodded.
"She's yours and that guy's..."
Miao Miao watched the two siblings talk and felt really tired. They didn't say the whole thing, only half of what they were saying.
But both of them seemed to know a lot.
What's with all this talk? People in the palace are all guessing what's going on. No wonder they get sick.
The little one in the princess's mother's arms blinked, staring blankly as her father and aunt talked.
It was as if he could understand.
After talking for a while, the Crown Prince placed his son's hand in hers. "Miaomiao, please take good care of your little brother for your uncle and play with him more often, okay?"
Miao Miao nodded obediently.
I felt a little uneasy; it felt like I was being entrusted with someone's orphanage.
"Uncle, you need to get better soon so you can take care of my younger brother. I'm still a child and can't take care of him."
The little girl's words amused the prince. "You see, your uncle must be delirious from illness. You're still just a child."
The little boy saw his father, aunt, and sister all smiling, and he smiled foolishly along with them.
Looking at the food that hadn't been eaten much, Miao Miao said very seriously, "Uncle, if you can't eat rice, you can eat some millet porridge. Cook millet into porridge and eat the layer of porridge oil on top. It's very nourishing and has the effect of nourishing yin and stomach. It's especially suitable for sick people."
At that time, millet was considered a coarse grain, and it was eaten by ordinary people.
Under normal circumstances, millet would not appear on the dining tables of nobles in the palace.
But it really is a good thing.
Especially for someone like the Crown Prince, who has a weak spleen and stomach and is recovering from a long illness.
That's the best fit.
Drinking millet porridge during this period is better than drinking ginseng chicken soup.
The crown prince had long lost his appetite; now it didn't matter what he ate, so he didn't take it seriously and just smiled and gave a few perfunctory replies.
Princess Yuqing, however, believed it without a doubt.
Don't let my young age and lack of formal education fool you; my daughter knows a lot.
She instructed the palace maids to cook millet for the prince every day, as Miao Miao had said.
The crown prince listened to the advice and nodded in agreement.
Before she left, the Crown Prince gave her many more gifts.
Just left the East Palace.
Then Eunuch Yu arrived.
Miao Miao remembered that this was the eunuch who ran errands for the emperor and often came to Prince Jing's residence to deliver imperial edicts.
"Your Highness, the Emperor wishes to see you, as well as Miss Jiang Wu."
Miaomiao: ...
I felt a little flustered and nervous.
I didn't have much of a concept of the old emperor before, but after hearing those words in the Empress's maternal grandmother's palace...
Suddenly, some vivid images came to mind.
I'm a little scared.
Princess Yuqing originally wanted Xier to take Miaomiao out of the palace first, and then she would go to see her father, the Emperor.
I never expected that I wouldn't be able to leave.
Her feelings were somewhat complicated at that moment.
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