The villain prince is three and a half years old

"Come in and push me into the house." Ning Shouxu said.

Ning Yuanzhong pushed the wheelchair into the house.

Nanny Yuan stood up, brushed off the yellow sand on her hands, and her face turned red with embarrassment.

She helped them close the door so that the two brothers could communicate with each other without worry.

Ning Shouxu talked about the dual risks that Ge Hongsheng posed in politics and military affairs, but Ning Yuanzhong said nothing; Ning Shouxu then talked about the fate of their family after the failure, and Ning Yuanzhong gritted his teeth; Ning Shouxu again said that Ge Hongsheng made Concubine Duan have inappropriate thoughts and turned the harem into a quagmire, and Ning Yuanzhong fell silent.

Ning Shouxu finally took out the snow globe and told Ning Yuanzhong that it was a gift from the Ninth Prince. He also talked about the stargazing that night and invited Ning Yuanzhong to go to the Cining Palace tomorrow, along with Ning Zhixing and Xia Jing, and the four brothers would pay their respects to the Queen Mother together.

Ning Yuanzhong spoke and told Ning Shouxu all the news he had heard and inquired about in the past few days.

Chapter 188 It’s broken, I’m isolated

As summer approached, the scorching sun became increasingly intense. Ning Yuanzhong stood barefoot in the fields pulling weeds, sweating profusely.

He threw a blade of grass fiercely into the basket, turned his head to look at Ning Shouxu at the edge of the field, and said bitterly, "Is this what you call honoring the Queen Mother?"

Ning Shouxu fanned himself, "Isn't it to honor the Empress Dowager? We princes won't do this job, but the Empress Dowager will."

"What do you mean by 'we'? Come down here!" Ning Yuanzhong was very angry.

Xia Jing was squatting on the side eating a watermelon. Hearing this, he shrank his neck, quietly retreated, and hid behind Ning Xuenian.

He is in the growing stage and it is not suitable for him to work in the fields.

Ning Shouxu was surprised and lifted the blanket from his legs. "Fifth brother is so heartless that he wants to force a cripple like me to get out of bed?"

Ning Yuanzhong gritted his teeth. Of course he couldn't say anything after Ning Shouxu said this.

But he felt really aggrieved!

That bastard Third Brother had been talking so sweetly yesterday, about the four brothers gathering at the Cining Palace. He'd thought they were really here to experience family happiness, at least as good as the stargazing they'd had that day, but who knew they were actually here to do hard labor?

"Alright, I didn't say anything." Ning Zhixing straightened up and rubbed his waist. "Hurry up, I'm in a hurry to go back and check on the stove!"

"Fourth brother!" Ning Yuanzhong sighed. If Ning Zhixing hadn't been there with him, he would have thrown the basket and run away.

Xia Jing stuck his head out and saw that Ning Yuanzhong's anger had subsided a little. He quickly finished eating the melon in his hand, wiped his mouth, picked up a new melon, and ran to the field.

"Fifth brother, eat it." He handed the watermelon to Ning Yuanzhong.

"No need." Ning Yuanzhong is very proud and won't eat anything given by others.

"This one is sweet." Xia Jing found an excuse for him.

Ning Yuanzhong took it, ate it in two bites, and said indifferently: "It's just okay."

He said this as if he had taken a bite of the watermelon with the sole purpose of judging it.

He threw away the melon peel and patted Xia Jing on the head: "Go stay in the pavilion, don't get tanned like a coal general."

"Meow?" General Coal raised his head. Who called him?

Seeing no response, it lowered its head again, rubbed Ning Xuenian's ankle, and meowed for watermelon. The man was heartless, but only this girl was soft-hearted and willing to share the watermelon with it.

After getting permission to rest, Xia Jing left the field with satisfaction, not forgetting to take another piece of melon to give to Ning Zhixing.

Ning Zhixing took it and patted the boy on the shoulder: "Go to the pavilion to cool down, and think about how to make the glass more transparent."

Both workers gave their permission, and Xia Jing felt confident and sat down in the pavilion with a swagger.

Empress Dowager You was drinking tea and listening to music in the pavilion. When she saw the boy coming, she kicked the basin of ice on the ground towards him.

"Where did you trick another black slave from?" The old lady looked at Ning Yuanzhong in the field.

"Third brother tricked me into getting this." Xia Jing picked up a watermelon, cut it in half with a knife, and handed one half to Ning Xuenian.

The two of them sat together, holding spoons and scooping watermelon to eat.

"No wonder," Empress Dowager You said with a smile, "I asked your third brother to weed a few days ago, and he said he wanted to wait. It turns out he was waiting for this guy."

Xia Jing observed two seconds of silence for Ning Yuanzhong. This third brother was so mean.

Fortunately, the pavilion was some distance away from the fields, and Empress Dowager You spoke softly, otherwise Ning Yuanzhong would have heard it and would have been so angry.

Ning Yuanzhong was already very angry. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up straight, and felt a burning pain in his waist.

He grinned, looked at the half-cultivated field that was left, and felt that he couldn't go on like this.

He said to Ning Shouxu, the supervisor, "This matter of honoring the Empress Dowager is the responsibility of all the princes, not just us."

Ning Shouxu smiled and said, "If you can find someone else, then go."

Ning Yuanzhong came out of the fields and walked quickly out of the back garden.

Soon, he arrived with a man named Ning Wenhuan.

Ning Wenhuan looked confused. After Ning Yuanzhong introduced the work content and saw the working environment clearly, he turned around and left.

"Sixth brother has come to show his filial piety to Grandma!" Xia Jing said loudly, "Master Zhang often said that our Daning nation is founded on loyalty and filial piety. Sixth brother practices what he preaches. He is such a good man."

Ning Wenhuan couldn't leave, not because he was given a good guy card, but because that's what Zhang Zanyu said.

He changed into comfortable clothes and went downstairs.

"Another one has been coaxed here." Empress Dowager You was surprised.

In the back garden, there were five princes gathered together, three, four, five, six, and nine, as well as a seventh princess and a coal general.

Apart from the last birthday party, this one was the most lively.

Empress Dowager You was in high spirits. Although she wasn't one for crowds, she felt somewhat relieved to think that the late emperor would be delighted to see so many princes working together.

She asked Yuhe to prepare a bathhouse for the princes to bathe.

There was a bathtub in the Cining Palace, but Empress Dowager You didn't like using it. She preferred a tub with easy water changes, but a tub was too cumbersome to accommodate so many princes.

When the sun reached its zenith, Empress Dowager You asked the princes to come up and rest for a while, and then continue working after the sun had cooled down a bit.

When the scorching sun set in the west, the princes collapsed in the bathtub, closed their eyes and sighed.

Xia Jing sighed, and Ning Shouxu pinched him: "You're just a bystander the whole time, what are you sighing about?"

After the weeding was finished in the afternoon, Ning Shouxu took over the watering work alone. He was also very tired. Only the Ninth Prince was idle the whole time.

Xia Jing replied, "I see my brothers working so hard, and I feel the same way."

Ning Yuanzhong laughed.

"Why did fifth brother bring sixth brother here?" Xia Jing looked at Ning Yuanzhong curiously.

Ning Yuanzhong and Ning Wenhuan probably don't have much of a relationship.

Xia Jing glanced at Ning Wenhuan's character interface.

[Intimacy: 56]

It’s strange, I haven’t checked it for a while, why is it increasing so fast?

Could this increase be related to Ning Yuanzhong?

"Because we are classmates." Ning Yuanzhong patted Ning Wenhuan on the shoulder. Ning Wenhuan turned his face away without refutation.

Xia Jing understood. When he was copying notes for Ning Yuanzhong, he also copied Zhang Zanyu's class, which was exactly what Ning Wenhuan wanted.

"Someone, come and add some more hot water!" Ning Zhixing called the eunuch outside the door.

The princes had no intention of getting up. One reason was that they were tired, and the other was that they thought it would be nice to soak together like this.

They looked at each other and found it interesting. These brothers who rarely saw each other on weekdays and didn't say much even at the Qianqiu Banquet, were now soaking in the bathtub together.

When their eyes passed by Xia Jing, they all paused for a few seconds.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a sudden knock on the door.

"Have the princes finished washing?" a eunuch asked softly.

"What do you, a slave, need to take care of this? Get out!" Ning Yuanzhong was very angry.

"Fifth Prince, please calm down. I dare not interfere, but the Crown Prince is still waiting!" the eunuch said in embarrassment.

Five pairs of squinting eyes opened and looked at each other in confusion.

The prince is here?

Xia Jing opened the 3D map and saw that Ning Chunyou had indeed arrived and was in the main hall.

After the frank conversation, the princes put on their clothes. Xia Jing pushed Ning Shouxu out of the bathhouse and into the main hall.

In the main room, Crown Prince Ning Chunyou was drinking tea. He had already drunk two cups of tea.

After hearing about the recent situation in the western border, he went to Anming Palace to look for Ning Yuanzhong. Ning Yuanzhong was not there. He asked around and finally tracked him down to Cining Palace.

The Empress Dowager didn't like him and refused to see him. She went into the inner room and pretended to take a nap. She also took Ning Xuenian and General Coal away, leaving him alone to drink tea.

Fortunately, the eunuchs were respectful enough to tell him that the fifth prince was taking a bath.

Although he was puzzled as to why his fifth brother was bathing in the Cining Palace, Ning Chunyou still waited.

Hearing footsteps at the door, he put down the tea bowl, raised his head, and then opened his mouth in surprise.

The one coming here is not the fifth imperial brother, but five imperial brothers!

"Third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, ninth brother, why are you all here?" The prince was in a daze.

He knew he wasn't well-liked, but he assumed the other princes weren't much better than him. He hadn't expected these five princes to actually gather together! And look at their wet hair. Did they bathe together? This, this, this, this is more than just closeness!

Is he the only one who is alone?

Ning Shouxu and others respectfully paid their respects to Ning Chunyou. The crown prince was the heir to the throne and his status was not the same as that of ordinary princes.

Xia Jing was already familiar with Ning Chunyou. He walked over to the young man and patted his leg: "Why are you here, Prince?"

Ning Chunyou picked him up and placed him on a stool beside him: "I'm here to find my fifth brother."

The casual interaction between the two surprised Ning Shouxu and the others. They had not expected that Xia Jing and the Crown Prince were actually so familiar with each other.

"What's the important matter, Prince?" Ning Yuanzhong stood up and looked at the prince.

"Come talk to me." Ning Chunyou stood up.

"Why don't you come to my place and talk?" Ning Shouxu turned his wheelchair and stood in front of Ning Yuanzhong.

Ning Chunyou was surprised again. He believed Ning Shouxu knew what he was going to say. Was Ning Shouxu going to be Ning Yuanzhong's boss? He looked at Ning Yuanzhong, who nodded.

The six princes then separated, and the crown prince, the third prince, the fifth prince and the ninth prince came to Yanghexuan.

There are no other servants in Yanghexuan except Nanny Yuan. It is peaceful and secluded, and a good place for conversation.

Ning Chunyou originally came to find Ning Yuanzhong, but the person he talked to became Ning Shouxu.

Ning Chunyou mentioned the matter of the western border.

"The fifth prince is in a dangerous situation. If we continue to ignore him, I'm afraid he will bring disaster." Ning Chunyou looked at Ning Shouxu.

"What can the prince do?" Ning Shouxu asked.

"Let the fifth prince write a letter to Marquis Ge, stating the pros and cons and persuading him to correct his mistakes." Ning Chunyou said.

Ning Shouxu sneered: "I thought the Crown Prince had some good ideas, but it turns out he just wanted to sever his ties with his brother."

"What do you mean?" Ning Chunyou frowned.

"Can a few letters make Ge Hongsheng correct his behavior? This letter is not written for Ge Hongsheng to read, it is written for my father and all the officials to read!"

Ning Chunyou's face turned pale: "I didn't think so!"

"But the prince wants to do this." Ning Shouxu stared into his eyes, "If the prince only says this, please go back. We have our own way."

Ning Chunyou opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. This was indeed the only solution he had.

Chapter 189 Go to the Imperial Kitchen to Get Some Snacks

Ning Chunyou left Yanghexuan. To be fair, the method he proposed was the most proper way to handle the situation. Ning Yuanzhong was unable to intervene in the Western Territory, so severing ties was his only option.

Ning Shouxu had previously proposed this option, but Ning Yuanzhong had not agreed. He did not need such a self-sufficient method.

Xia Jing took out a box of puzzle pieces from Ning Shouxu's room to divert Ning Yuanzhong's attention.

It was getting dark when Ning Yuanzhong returned to Anming Palace. As soon as he entered the door, he was stopped by Yaolu.