The villain prince is three and a half years old

"Master Zhang has a good palate." Emperor Kangning laughed. "This was specially brought by the King of Jing."

"So it's fish from the western border." Zhang Zanyu suddenly realized, "I must try this more often."

In the imperial kitchen, Prince Jing and Xia Jing were also tasting more.

Since they all tasted more, Queen Yin naturally had to taste less.

After hearing the news from the western border, Queen Yin rarely left Kunning Palace and strolled in the imperial garden. She walked across the arch bridge and looked at the winding pond. She searched for a long time but couldn't find her koi.

"Where are my fish?" She called the eunuch from the imperial garden with a gloomy face.

The eunuch didn't know that besides the imperial garden, he had other work to do and couldn't watch over it every day.

"It was alright last time, but it's missing again this time! Check for me!" Queen Yin gritted her teeth. Her mood was already bad, and now it was even worse.

The matter was handed over to the Imperial Household Department and handed over to Xu Zhongde.

Xu Zhongde took a look and rubbed his forehead. Emperor Kangning and Zhang Zanyu finished eating the koi and gave the rest to him as a reward. In other words, he, Eunuch Xu, was also an accomplice. Queen Yin actually let the criminal investigate the criminal!

He had a bad intention: "Go, take charge of this matter."

The eunuch in charge of the imperial seal had a feud with him and had been marginalized by him, so he was overjoyed to get this rare opportunity. How difficult could it be to track down a koi fish in the harem? He issued a military order to Empress Yin, stating that if she couldn't find the answer, she would be beheaded!

Soon, the truth came out and he was so angry that he slapped himself twice.

Chapter 194 The Seventh Koi Princess

The matter of the koi fish eventually came to nothing. After the Imperial Household Department delayed the matter for a few days, Empress Yin realized that something was wrong and stopped asking about it.

Concubine Duan, no, now it should be Concubine Duan, officially went to the imperial mausoleum. Before leaving, Concubine Yun went to see her.

The eunuchs and palace maids in Anming Palace either went elsewhere or followed the fifth prince Ning Yuanzhong to the new palace - Ningcui Zhai.

Ningcui Zhai is located in the corner of the harem, close to Guanlan Zhai. Ning Yuanzhong obtained this palace early on, but he had never lived in it properly before.

The third prince Ning Shouxu was worried about this free labor, so he dragged Ning Zhixing to Ningcuizhai to comfort Ning Yuanzhong and successfully got the boy drunk.

Outside the harem, in the court, Ge Hongsheng and a group of guilty officials were escorted back to the capital and tried by Emperor Kangning. Some were beheaded, while others were exiled. Ge Hongsheng surrendered in time and cooperated with the court to eliminate the stubborn forces in the western border. For his meritorious service, he was not beheaded or exiled, but was stripped of all his official positions and titles, and his property was confiscated.

Officials related to the Ge family and Ge Hongsheng were demoted or resigned, and the Ge family's influence was completely eliminated.

The rest of the Ge family left the capital the day after their property was raided, returning to their ancestral homeland, where the family still had a small fortune. Ge Hongsheng, however, was unable to leave and was placed under house arrest in a small courtyard in the capital.

After punishing the guilty officials, Emperor Kangning rewarded the meritorious officials. The Fifth Prince's merits were concealed. He had not yet entered the court and could not receive the rewards there, but only the rewards from the harem. The protection of the Ge family and the treatment of Concubine Duan were his rewards.

The remaining two great heroes, King Jing received gold, silver, and silk, becoming rich, while Xiao Jida was transferred to a new position and promoted. Xiao Jida became the lieutenant general of Shanyong Pass in the southern border, responsible for the defense of the pass.

He was a third-rank official, and the highest person in charge of a customs office. It could be said that he held great power.

Xiao Jida stayed in the capital for two days before heading south. There was some unrest near Shanyong Pass.

It's not that he was unlucky and encountered problems as soon as he took over, but Emperor Kangning deliberately gave him a difficult task to test him and also to train him.

……

The summer sun was getting hotter and hotter. In the pond of the Imperial Garden, several newly arrived koi fish were twisting their bodies weakly and huddling under the lotus leaves to laze around.

Ning Xuenian picked up a piece of soil and threw it out with force.

A clod of earth hit the lotus leaf with a thud, and the koi scattered and fled. One of them escaped to the shore. The girl knelt down and reached out to catch it. As her fingertips touched the red scales, she was slapped hard by the tail.

The water splashed, the koi disappeared in the pool, and the girl's bangs were soaked.

"Hmm!" Ning Xuenian put her hands on her hips and glared at the pool water hungrily.

Xia Jing took out a handkerchief and wiped her face dry. "How did this fish offend you? Why are you fighting with it?"

Honeysuckle stood behind the boy, a complex expression on her face. Others might not know, but she knew full well that the two batches of koi fish that disappeared from the imperial garden had gone to the Ninth Prince!

Ning Xuenian said aggrievedly, "Before, that fish would swim towards me and kiss my hand when it saw me. Now it's all too mean!"

Xia Jing thought, the ones that weren't bad were all caught by King Jing and thrown into the pot in the imperial kitchen, so wouldn't only the bad ones be left?

Putting away the handkerchief and tidying up her bangs, Xia Jing let the girl play on her own for a while. He had other things to do.

The imperial court had just sent people to take over the western border, and the task of pacifying the western border was finally completed.

You successfully expelled Ge Hongsheng, eliminated the reactionary forces in the western border, and preserved the foundation of the Ning Dynasty.

【Task evaluation: A】

Please choose one of the three rewards below.

[1. Dried shrimp tube]

【2. Wish Paper Crane】

【3. Treasure Map (Random)】

There are treasure maps and wish paper cranes again.

The only thing that was somewhat new was the dried shrimp tube.

[Shrimp Dried Tube: A small bamboo tube three fingers thick filled with dried shrimp. It can be used to feed fish. Fish that eat the dried shrimp will follow the feeder. Dried shrimp is refillable.]

Among the many props the Ninth Prince had seen before and after, this small dried shrimp tube was the most unique one - it looked useless and was actually useless.

Xia Jing recalled the game information. If he remembered correctly, this small dried shrimp tube should be a reward for a festival mini-game in the game.

Since it's a mini-game reward, it's normal that it's not very practical.

Speaking of which, I've never seen a game festival before. In the game, players can only participate in palace festivals after they turn five.

Summer has a little panel. Where's my holiday?

The panel remained silent.

Back to the mission reward, Xia Jing wondered whether to get the wish paper crane or the treasure map.

The rewards for these two things are quite random.

He heard the sound of water again and looked up. It was Ning Xuenian chasing the red carp. She had already run to the edge of the imperial garden.

Xia Jing had reason to suspect that the reward arrangement of this system was intentional.

Forget it, there is nothing I want now. The treasures and props that appear randomly will probably just gather dust.

He clicked option one.

Ning Xuenian chased the red carp to the edge of the pond. The red carp swung its tail, flipped over, and swam back.

The girl squatted on the ground, breathing heavily and wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"Come on," Xia Jing pulled her up, "let's make some fish food."

"There's this trick too, Brother Jing is so smart!" The girl thought he was going to use fish food to lure the koi, and followed happily.

They came to Ningcui Zhai. The word Ningcui comes from bamboo. There is a small bamboo forest behind Ningcui Zhai.

Xia Jing took the saw and worked with Ning Xuenian to saw off a bamboo. They processed it in the yard, made it into a bamboo tube, and then went to the imperial kitchen to ask for shrimp.

There were no sea shrimps in the imperial kitchen, but there were river shrimps, and they were dried.

Upon hearing that the Ninth Prince and the Seventh Princess wanted it, the eunuch from the imperial kitchen immediately presented them with a large bag.

Xia Jing took a handful, put it into the bamboo tube, shook it gently, and extracted the reward.

A faint light flashed on the bamboo tube, which meant the extraction was successful.

Back in the Imperial Garden, Xia Jing pinched a handful of dried shrimps and put them in Ning Xuenian's hand. Ning Xuenian pinched three more pieces and threw them into the pond. After a while, several koi fish gathered around, and two of them grabbed the dried shrimps.

"It's attracted here!" The girl was delighted and was about to throw the shrimp chips again.

Before she could make a move, the two koi fish swam to her side and swam in her shadow.

The girl opened her eyes wide: "They are swimming over here!"

After throwing all the dried shrimps into the pond, she clapped her hands and pulled Xia Jing to the edge of the pond to look.

"It's even more clingy than before." The girl noticed a change in the koi. Before, the koi would only follow people to get food, and would leave if they didn't get any food or if they did get some.

Now, even after eating the shrimp chips, these koi fish still follow Ning Xuenian.

The girl ran beside the pond, and the koi fish chased after her. The four colors of red, green, gold and ink were faintly visible under her white skirt.

Xia Jing waved his hand, asking Rendong to keep an eye on the Seventh Princess. His own attention was completely focused on the newly popped-up panel.

【Festival module has been loaded】

Wow, it turns out you have to use your holiday mini-game rewards to get the holiday module!

Chapter 195 These dried shrimps are poisonous!

After closing the module loading interface, the calendar interface popped up in front of Xia Jing again.

There is currently only one mark on the calendar, and that is the birthday of the Ninth Prince.

The festivals in "Prince Training Plan" are not fixed. The festival will be unlocked according to the plot triggered.

There are dozens of festivals in the game, and each festival will only be triggered once, ensuring that players can enjoy different gameplay every time.

As for the method of triggering the holiday plot - it is too random, there seems to be some kind of dynamic algorithm. Before Xia Jing traveled through time, the player forum had not yet developed a stable method to trigger a specific holiday.

After closing the calendar interface, Xia Jing walked to the pond and looked at the girl and the koi.

The girl squatted on the ground to rest, and four koi fish lay on the water with their stomachs turned up.

"...?"

"What happened?" Xia Jing looked at Ning Xuenian in surprise.

Are dried shrimps poisonous?

If the koi's mouths had not been opening and closing, Xia Jing would have thought that they had been killed by the girl.

"I don't know." Ning Xuenian looked innocent.

"Master, the Seventh Princess has been running away until now." Honeysuckle whispered the girl's crime.

Two cups of tea had passed since the feeding. Ning Xuenian, a martial artist, could bear it, but these koi were lazy. The high speed of swimming for two cups of tea made them turn over on their stomachs.

Xia Jing poked the fish's belly, and the koi turned over to avoid it, but after swimming twice, it gave up struggling and lay on its back again.

Looking at Ning Xuenian again, her forehead was soaked and her bangs were stuck to her cheeks.

Children of this age really don’t feel tired at all when playing.

"Go back and take a shower." Xia Jing patted the girl's head.

The girl left the koi fish reluctantly.

After sending her back to Yonghua Palace, Xia Jing unexpectedly met Ning Sisi. The Sixth Princess came to play with the Seventh Princess, but didn't see anyone and was about to leave.

Ning Xuenian grabbed Ning Sisi and asked the Sixth Princess to accompany her in the bath.

After leaving Yonghua Palace, Xia Jing went to Cining Palace.

The matter in the western border has been settled, and it is time to start the process of adopting the eighth princess.

Empress Dowager You was in the pavilion in the back garden, supervising Ning Yuanzhong's work, while Sun Jingzhu was beside her, playing the piano to entertain her.

Xia Jing sat at the stone table and opened a watermelon with his bare hands, first breaking it into two halves, and then breaking one half into two pieces.

He gave one piece to Empress Dowager You, placed one piece in front of himself, and handed the remaining half to Sun Jingzhu.

"Thank you, Ninth Prince. I'll just take a small piece." Sun Jingzhu refused half of it and took the piece in front of Xia Jing.

"Why don't you give me the other half?" Queen Mother You said dissatisfiedly, "Is she more important than me?"

As their relationship became closer, the old lady became less reserved in her words, and this time, she exposed her jealousy nakedly.

Xia Jing was holding half a watermelon. He had just scooped a spoonful and was about to put it into his mouth when he heard the words and handed the watermelon and the spoon to Empress Dowager You.

Queen Mother You took it, nodded with satisfaction, quickly finished the piece in her hand, and scooped up half a watermelon.

Xia Jing patted his empty hands, stood up and muttered, "Give half to Sister Sun, she will return half, and give half to Grandma. I don't have anything to eat."

Yuhe and Sun Jingzhu raised their hands to cover their lips, trying hard to hold back their laughter.

Empress Dowager You glanced at the boy and said, "Do you think I can't see through your little tricks? If you want to pretend to be generous, then don't eat."

Despite saying that, she still handed the watermelon to Xia Jing.

Xia Jing took it, sat back on the stone bench, and said sweetly, "Grandma is so nice."