Prince Consort

Chapter 53 Extra Story: Cause and Effect

Mu Tusu knew that he was not born of his mother and concubine, but in the cold winter when he was seven years old.I still remember that Concubine Hui brought the third prince who was as old as him to the palace. It was the first time he saw the third prince who was often mentioned by his father.He has too cold eyes, indifferent to anything.After getting along for only one day, Mu Tusu didn't like him.

"You don't need to stay with me anymore, you don't like me, you just want to leave." The third prince still said to him with a pair of cold eyes.

Before the father and Concubine Hui went to the study, the father had asked him to stay with the third prince for a good life.Since he was a child, Mu Tusu didn't dare to disobey his father, but he also didn't want to "take care of" the third prince who was so indifferent and colder than this winter.Since the third prince himself said that he is not needed to accompany him, he is naturally happy to be at leisure.

Just wandering outside the door of the study, he accidentally heard the conversation between his father and concubine Hui.

"Brother, is there any hope of Shu Xuan succeeding to the throne?" Concubine Hui asked Prince Gong who was standing beside the desk writing.

Prince Gong said: "Of course, my own son, of course I will do my best to help him ascend the throne. Tu Su is smart, courageous, and extremely filial. I asked him to use his life to help the third prince. He dare not say no." Character."

"Sister-in-law knows that her only son is not born to her, does her real son already belong to the Third Prince?"

"Don't let the princess know. We deliberately chose the time when your sister-in-law was giving birth, and let you give birth at the same time, and then replaced my son with my younger sister's son. I wanted to tell your sister-in-law that the child died, but your sister-in-law is weak. Afraid that she couldn't take it anymore, I had to bring my son here. Tu Su is a smart and filial man, he listened to me very much, and let him help my son in the future."

"Don't worry, elder brother. I will treat Shu Xuan as my own. My sister has a weak stomach, can't give birth to dragon children, and is old and decrepit. She is afraid that she will lose her favor, so she asks elder brother for help."

Standing outside the door, Mu Tusu listened to their conversation with tears in his eyes.He is just a bastard brought in from outside, born for the third prince to inherit the great line, and to comfort the princess, that's all he has.

From then on, Mu Tusu seldom got close to Prince Gong, and his temperament gradually became less lively.Occasionally looking at himself in the mirror, he felt more and more similar to the third prince, especially those indifferent eyes.

In the winter when he was 16 years old, Mu Tusu followed his princess to Baima Temple in Sucheng to worship Buddha. He felt that the temple was boring and bored.He was walking alone in the mountains, but unfortunately encountered an avalanche and was buried in thick snowdrifts.When he woke up, the first thing he saw was a smiling face flushed with cold.She blinked her overly enthusiastic eyes and smiled at him.How long has it been since he saw such passionate eyes?All around him are indifferent eyes, watching everything with cold eyes, as if everything has nothing to do with him.

A pair of hands that were purple with cold held two steaming steamed buns and presented them in front of him.

"Eat." The little girl was still looking at him enthusiastically.She wants to be nice to him.

In such a cold winter, at that moment, he couldn't feel the cold.He stiffly took the hot bun wrapped in a handkerchief, picked it up slowly, and the curl of hot air gently brushed over his cold face, warming his heart.He looked up again, and there was still a warm smile on his face.

"Miss, Madam is urging you." Someone called her in the distance.His future wife?There was a sweetness in his heart.

She got up and ran towards the person who called her without saying much to him.The bells on her double-horned bun resounded through the entire mountain, as if awakening his long-sleeping emotions, intense and continuous.He looked at the carriage to which she was running.A woman got out of the carriage.He remembered that warm smiling face, and also remembered the appearance of the woman waiting for her lovingly.

He looked down at the still warm bun in his hand, and his gaze caught sight of the handkerchief that wrapped the bun. On the handkerchief was embroidered a large gold-rimmed peony, exactly the same as his mother's concubine's true love.There is a beautiful word "white" on the corner of the handkerchief.

Every year, he comes to Suzhou City with the princess to worship Buddha. The drunkard's intention is not to drink, he often haunts the mountains, looking forward to seeing her again.But year after year, they never met again.

(End of this chapter)