Of course, the most important thing is that he has to practice his peerless martial skills during this period.
After tidying up his room, he also diligently cleaned the yard.
He doesn’t know if this is how the princes live, or only the fourth prince … uh, it looks a lot better than his house. But it really wasn’t even close to where he imagined the princes would live.
There seems to be no one coming to the yard and leaves fall all over the ground. Some flowers and plants were planted in the yard, but they were also very messy. A locust tree with a thick thigh was planted in a corner of the yard alone, and the leaves on the ground are what falls from it.
There are three main rooms, two side room, and a small kitchen. However the people living here are only him and the fourth prince, which is quite deserted. But fortunately, no one is watching him. He is more free to do things, and he can get less scolding and beating. In this way, it suddenly feels like it’s good to be assigned here. His heart is happy, even how he sweeps the floor is more energetic.
After the yard was cleaned, he became curious.
Was the fourth prince really obedient, and honestly keep facing the wall?
On tiptoe, he walked quietly to the door of the fourth prince’s quarter and peaked in through the window. Vaguely, a shadow could be seen kneeling in the corner without moving a muscle.
Tsk! Really obedient! Zhang Ping admired. Several brothers in his family have never been so obedient when punished. When their father, mother or elder brother are not in sight, they would immediately do what they want
Seeing that it was almost dark, and hearing the bell ringing outside, Zhang Ping reminded himself that he should go get his meal. Sure enough, out on the courtyard, the eunuchs who would also go to receive the meal had been instructed by Hongxiu to wait for him.
Zhang Ping has a kind look and well-spoken. The eunuch who went with him was about his age and he had a good impression of him. At first they kept silent, but later they talked and laughed.
Zhang Ping thought that Hongxiu Daren must be very strict with the people in the palace at ordinary times, otherwise the little eunuchs would never make fun of her. Zhang Ping learned from the eunuchs that Hong Xiu hated it most when people said she was fat because she had a round face and had been ridiculed by Shu Fei.
Zhang Ping stayed in the dining hall for dinner in order to strike a good rapport with everyone, while also prying about the fourth prince, intentionally or not.
After eating, Zhang Ping decided to visit his young master.
In the darkness of the house in the middle of winter, he can’t see anything clearly. Zhang Ping slaps his head, damn it, surprisingly he forgot to put on the light for the fourth prince. He rushed back to his quarter to get a candle and knock on the door.
“Your Highness, your slave is here to light your lamp. ”
Even after a while, there was no response from the room.
Zhang Ping didn’t know that the people who lived in this Ruihua Palace never asked permission to enter Huang Fu Jie’s room, and Huang Fu Jie didn’t know how to respond.
Knocking on the door again, Zhang Ping was uneasy in his heart and pushed the door into the room while saying he was impolite.
The dim candlelight reflected a small dark shadow in the corner of the wall. Zhang Ping found the candlestick only to find that there was no candle, so he had no choice but to put down the only candle in his hand and said to the Fourth Prince : “Your Highness, I’m going to fetch some candles. Don’t be afraid. The servant will be back soon. ”
The black shadow did not move.
Zhang Ping had never seen such a strange child, how could he dare to be alone in such a dark room ?
He went to the side room where the sundries are placed, searched for a large handful of candles, he hold them and leave
The candlestick filled with candles lit up the dark room in a flash.
Zhang Ping looked at the fourth prince who was still kneeling in the corner of the wall, he who had been instructed didn’t dare say anything more. Even if he felt that things were strange and that the fourth prince seemed to be a little pitiful, but he had no clue, he could only withdraw silently.
Late at night, Zhang Ping, who had finished his breathing exercises*, in bed and did not sleep very well. One , he is still unfamiliar with the place and second, due to the twitching general pain coming from the lower body from time to time.
As he gently turned over, suddenly, Zhang Ping opened his eyes. There’s someone in the room!
“Who?!”
It’s quiet, the room is unusually quiet.
Zhang Ping pricked up his ears, his senses had always been keen, there was no way he could not sense that there was someone in the room. Sure enough, when he listened intently, a faint breath came from a corner of the room.。
Zhang Ping gets up.
A dark shadow quickly ran to the window, and with both hands climbed to the edge of the window, trying to escape from the window
Zhang Ping moved much faster than he did, the opponent hadn’t even flipped out the window before he caught him in the act.
” Who are you? ” Run to my quarter…….” Before Zhang Ping could finish his sentence, he was already dumbfounded
He said the feeling on his hand was not right. Such a small height, such a thin and weak body
God! This kid is so skinny. It’s all bones.
“Your Highness? “Zhang Ping asked tentatively.
The black shadow turned back.
With the moonlight coming in from the window, what Zhang Ping saw was a face that could frighten people to death in the middle of the night.
Compared to ordinary people the eyebrow bones are more raised, compared to ordinary people the Eyes are deeper, The blood-red birthmarks are scratched from the center of the eyebrow to both cheeks like a herringbone. The face pale, eyes swarthy.
Zhang Ping exhaled a breath. This fourth prince really looked different from normal people.
His mother was also a famous ugly daughter-in-law, but she’s got at least five features, the top face is flatter, it was the exact opposite of the face shape of this fourth prince. That can’t be helped, that’s what happened when his mother was born and refused to come out and was clamped out.。
For this reason, his mother suffered a lot in half her life, and when she married his father, she was hindered by his grandparents because of her ugly appearance. Good thing his dad really likes his Mom.
Zhang Ping let go. The fourth prince, Huangfu Jie, immediately climbed out of the window.
Zhang Ping scratched his head, would he take a beating? And why does His Royal Highness Fourth come to his house?
Looking around with the candle lit, there seemed to be nothing missing. Ah! Zhang Ping stared at the tabletop as he remembered that he had brought back some of the leftover steamed buns with him. When he was still growing, he would be easily hungry at night, he would take a bite before going to sleep.
But now half of the steamed bun that he bit is gone.
Er, the prince stole a slave’s food? No one could believe it.
The kid was probably starving, So thin…how could a prince be as thin as a skeleton?
And I hear he’s nine years old, right? Why does he look so small? He remembered his fifth brother being that tall when he was five or six. If we pull his family’s fifth son to this fourth prince, Surely no one would believe that the Fourth Prince was older than his brother.
Should he check on him? Zhang Ping hesitated.
And does he need to report this to Hongxiu daren?
Standing still for a while, unable to make a judgement, Zhang Ping finally chose to go back to bed. At the same time, he decided not to report the matter.
The next day, Zhang Ping got up early.
First thing after getting in the morning he brings some water, and then fire up the long-unused stove to boil the water, luckily there’s firewood left. Then he went to get his breakfast and took his share with the fourth prince. He thought was going to see some kind of delicacy, The results are just ordinary. But it definitely looks better than what he eats.。
By the time everything was ready, the drums of the Wu Geng* happened to sound. It was time for the imperial concubines, including the Emperor, to rise.
He prepared a face towel, hot water, and carried the copper basin to the outside of the Fourth Prince’s quarter, Zhang Ping stood at the door and called out softly; “Your Highness, it’s time to rise.”
There was a noise in the room.
Zhang Ping had already learned that His Highness, the Fourth Highness, must attend classes at the Imperial Academy at Chen Shi* every day. Before that, he had an hour and a half to wash and dine.
Zhang Ping was about to call out again when the door opened in front of him.
His fourth Royal Highness had already put on clothes, trousers, shoes, and socks, and seems ready to go out.
“Your Highness, where are you going?
Huang Fu Jie glanced at him strangely, and it seemed as if he had just now discovered the copper basin he was holding in his hand. It’s mid-morning spring, it’s still a little cold, The copper pots that were steaming looked tempting. he was afraid that the eunuch would give him an initial show of strength- scalding him with hot water, So he decided to go to the water tank himself and see if there was any water, If so, get some water to dab.
Zhang Ping, who had followed behind Huang Fu Jie, found out that His Highness, the Fourth Prince, washed his face with a spoonful of water himself, still cold water, he could not help but widen his eyes.
“Isn’t he cold? He picked it out of the well early in the morning, it’s no different from ice water, even he can’t stand it.
Even Zhang Ping couldn’t care less about making mistakes, leaving aside the identity of the fourth prince, this was a kid. He’s been taking care of their younger brothers since his eldest sister was married, he has never let his brothers wash their faces in the cold.
He put his hands on the stone table in the courtyard and rushed to take the gourd ladle from Huangfu Jie’s hands. Zhang Ping forcefully picked up the fourth prince and carried the man back to his room, making him sit down on a stool. He went back to bring the hot water again, really, the water in the basin was so cold. Luckily, he had some left on the stove.
Zhang Ping refilled the water, brought it into the house, and brought in the lunch box as well.
After doing this, Zhang Ping was worried about the fourth prince getting angry at first, but seeing that he seemed quite well-behaved and even a bit scared, he also put his heart down. At the same time, he does’t know why he feels a little weird about it.
Why does he feel that this fourth Prince is not as naughty and ugly as Hongxiu or other people say?
Huangfu Jie hasn’t dared to move around since Zhang Ping took the gourd, he didn’t understand why this eunuch had to be so fierce. Will he not even let him wash his face with cold water in the future? Or does he have to blanch him with hot water to make him tribute the food that belongs to him as before?
Will he hit him?
He looked much bigger and taller than he was, not as tall as the adult Gaoxin, but also menacing enough for him. His fist must have hurt more than his brothers’ fists, right?
Last night, he went to steal his steamed bun. Surely he’ll report to Hong Xiu and his mother. At that time, he didn’t know how long he would be hungry.
Huang Fu Jie sat on a stool with his legs hanging in the air, his eyes tightly closed, waiting for the pain to come.
It was hot. At first, it scared him, but later, it felt very comfortable. The hot towel rubbed on his face.
While scrubbing the little prince’s face, Zhang Ping thought to himself that this prince’s face did not seem to have been seriously washed. He sniffed, as if there was a smell in the hair too. He thought to give him a good wash in the afternoon when he comes back from class.
Wash his face and hands, loosen his hair, and help him to comb again. The hair was probably done by himself, but it was a child’s hand after all. It’s okay to look at it from a distance, but it would be a mess from a near distance.
As soon as the comb went in, Zhang Ping regretted it. He should have been washed first. What a mess it’s become! And there is lice.
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