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    Chapter 114 The sick and violent prince 12

    The second child was chopping firewood outside the house. While chopping, he glanced at Lu Yuanju’s leaving figure and muttered, “Actually, I think the little prince is not as bad as the legend says.”

    “Brother Lu made too much fuss about warming the bed. The first time I went to Chongming Hall to compete with that beast for a ball, the little prince saw that I couldn’t compete and even smiled at me to encourage me.

    Besides, the order to send troops to the north of the Great Wall was issued by the dog emperor. Just because the dog emperor used the excuse that the young prince was seriously ill, do we have to bear all our grudges on a sick and weak kid who is younger than us?”

    The third child is also chopping firewood. After all, the prince is weak and the most used thing in the East Palace is hot water.

    Hearing his words, he remained silent.

    Lu Yuanju walked outside the dormitory and heard the sound of things being smashed inside through the door, accompanied by the sound of curses.

    At this moment, you don’t need to guess why His Royal Highness is angry.

    It was nothing more than what happened in the morning.

    Obviously throwing things is not enough to vent his anger, so I have to call him over.

    When Lu Yuanju stepped into the hall, the scolding became clearer and clearer.

    “That bitch Xie Yan actually wants to go to the Ancestral Temple to offer sacrifices!”

    Lu Yuanju listened to a few more sentences and seemed to understand.

    It turned out that the fifth prince proposed in the court that he could take care of the prince’s trip to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors on the grounds that the prince was weak.

    “I’ve endured enough of being alone,” Xie Rong’s eyes turned red, and he caught a glimpse of the man walking in from the corner of his eye, “Ah Chou, you are Gu’s slave, you will share in Gu’s worries, right?”

    Lu Yuanju thought of many ways to share the worries.

    For example, he was directly used as a tool to vent his anger and was beaten by Xie Rong, or he was asked to think of a way to frame him and take revenge on the fifth prince.

    But he never thought that Xie Rong was so bold that he asked him to go directly to the Concubine De’s palace to capture the fifth prince.

    “You said you are the most powerful warrior in Northern Saibei, prove it to me,” Xie Rong sat on the Taishi chair, raised his foot and slowly crushed the pearls rolling on the ground, playing with a jade ring on his pale knuckles, “Either capture him, and I will let him taste the taste of offending me today, or you can crawl out of here for him with one breath left.”

    Lu Yuanju was not stupid enough to suffer for a royal family of the Celestial Kingdom.

    Naturally he chose the first option.

    The palace was heavily guarded, but in Lu Yuanju’s eyes, they were nothing more than a bunch of drunkards.

    In Concubine De’s frightened and angry voice, he tied up the fifth prince, stepped over the fallen guards on the ground, and dragged them back to the East Palace.

    Xie Rong was obviously very happy. He touched his head and said, “Well done, I’ll reward you.”

    Lu Yuanju caught it, looked down and saw that it was a leftover orange.

    He took a bite hesitantly, and the sour and bitter taste instantly made the base of his tongue numb.He couldn’t help but frown.

    Looking up, His Highness the Crown Prince was using a whip to teach the fifth prince who tried to replace him in the morning court.

    “Xie Rong, you dare to treat me like this, aren’t you afraid that your father will be angry?!” the fifth prince said angrily.

    “Gu is not afraid of anything,” Xie Rong folded his whip in half and slapped the fifth prince on the face with a cold smile in his eyes, “Gu only knows that there is no room for sand in Gu’s eyes.”

    “Didn’t you say that Gu was weak and couldn’t bear the hard work of worshiping ancestors in the Taimiao Temple? Then Gu broke your legs and asked you to crawl to the Taimiao Temple to worship ancestors and make you work hard. Gu couldn’t bear it anyway, but you can bear it.”

    Xie Rong turned around, sat back on the Grand Master’s chair, propped up his chin and said, “Break his legs.”

    Several eunuchs did not dare to disobey his words and stepped forward with long sticks in hand.

    The only sounds in the dormitory were the screams of the fifth prince.

    However, only half a quarter of an hour later, the screams stopped and the fifth prince fainted.

    “Your Highness…”

    Xie Rong said coldly: “If you are not afraid of being alone, what are you afraid of? Continue.”

    Today in the court, the officials respected him as the prince, but when talking about political affairs, they ignored him.

    He has never been angry with cowardice, and he has never killed a chicken to scare the monkeys to show this group of people. I really think that Xie Rong is a good-natured person who accepts everything.

    An hour later, the fifth prince’s leg was a bloody mess.

    The sound of chaotic footsteps came from outside the palace, and then there was the sound of the palace door being knocked open.

    Xie Rong didn’t even raise his eyelids, “Why is Father here?”

    “You traitor!” the emperor was furious, “How dare you be so cruel that you don’t even let your own brother go?”

    “Your Majesty!” the queen said dissatisfied, “all the ministers and concubines in the court today heard it. It was the fifth prince who acted presumptuously. The prince is already weak. If he suffers from a heart disease because of this, who should he talk to for explanation?”

    “Concubine De, is this how you usually instigate the fifth prince to offend the prince?”

    The crying concubine stopped and looked at the emperor, “Your Majesty… Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for me!”

    “Queen, look at him like this, does he look like a prince? If he dares to kill his brother today, he may kill his father tomorrow!” The emperor’s anger was still there, “I am doing this for his own good. If I don’t teach him a lesson, I don’t know how arrogant he will be in the future!”

    “What do you want, Your Majesty?” the queen said coldly.

    “In my opinion, it is better to take back his crown prince’s golden seal first and let him spend three months behind closed doors in the East Palace. After three months, if he can-”

    “Could it be that Your Majesty drank too much at Concubine De’s house today and became confused,” the Queen interrupted, “The Fifth Prince made rude remarks. When the Prince taught him a lesson, he was just being mean. Why should he close the door and dwell on his mistakes?”

    “Queen, you…” The emperor’s face darkened.

    The queen looked dignified, walked to Xie Rong’s side, patted Xie Rong’s shoulder in a comforting manner, and hung a peace charm engraved with the word “Xue” on her waist. “Since my sister De Fei is also here, I will plead guilty and apologize to my son on behalf of your fifth prince. This matter will be considered resolved.”

    “Your Majesty…” Concubine De cried.

    “That’s all, just listen to the queen.” The emperor waved his sleeves and left.

    Concubine De apologized bitterly, helped the unconscious fifth prince and left.

    The queen waved away everyone and then sighed.

    “The queen mother also thinks I’m wrong?” Xie Rong’s eyes were filled with anger, “They all want to take my place.”

    “The position of the crown prince, even if the queen mother and uncle risk their lives, they will keep it for you.” The queen lowered her eyes and looked at his dull expression. No matter how harsh she felt in her heart, she was reluctant to say it out. She just touched his head and said softly, “Get some rest early. Your health is the most important thing.”

    The queen left.

    Xie Rong was still sitting on the Grand Master’s chair. Lu Yuanju brought a basin of hot water as usual and knelt on the ground to wash his feet. Suddenly he heard him laugh.

    “Actually, I just called you here because I wanted to take it out on you.”

    Lu Yuanju pinched his toes with his hand.

    “If you had your legs broken, why would you be lurking next to me to avenge Saibei?” Xie Rong joked casually.

    A chill ran down Lu Yuanju’s spine. At this moment, he realized something in hindsight.

    Xie Rong broke the leg of the fifth prince, and the monkey who killed the chicken to scare the monkey was not the courtier, not the other princes.

    But he has been watching everything with a cold eye.

    Under Xie Rong’s indifferent and playful inspection, Lu Yuanju lowered his head and kissed his snow-white instep with great obedience, “I don’t dare.”

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