The villain prince is three and a half years old

He tried hard to remember and understand, but Xia Jing spoke too fast and the sentences were too rich in meaning. He only half understood them, but the part he understood was enough to surprise him.

Xia Jing stole a glance at his expression, unsurprised. After all, he was reciting Wang Yangming's theory of 'the unity of knowledge and action,' which was impressive enough.

He memorized these sentences when he was soliciting investment from a coal boss in his previous life. There was no other way, the rich people of the previous generation really liked these!

What a pity. After so much effort, the investment was not finalized in the end. The coal boss had an affair and was busy dealing with family conflicts.

Xia Jing had almost forgotten those ancient books and only remembered a few sentences, which were enough to scare Xue Zhaoju.

In Xue Zhaoju's eyes, the Ninth Prince's figure grew taller.

"I am ignorant and may I ask the Ninth Prince..." He wanted to ask about the part he didn't understand.

Xia Jing shook his head and patted Xue Zhaoju's lowered head three times: "Don't ask, experience it, and study things to gain knowledge."

After saying that, he walked away.

If you don't leave now, you'll be exposed!

After returning to the harem, Xia Jing went straight to the Cining Palace.

He entered through the main gate and glanced at eunuch Hu who was on duty nearby.

"Oh, the Ninth Prince is here, please come in, Ninth Prince!" Eunuch Hu bent down and greeted Xia Jing enthusiastically.

Things are different now. The Ninth Prince is now a distinguished guest of the Cining Palace.

Xia Jing patted Eunuch Xiao Hu's leg and said, "Little Hu, watch the door carefully and don't let any unauthorized people in."

Eunuch Xiao Hu's mouth twitched. Over the years, you are the only outsider who dared to barge into the Cining Palace!

Besides, my nickname is Little Tiger, not Little Mustache!

He was furious for a moment, then smiled and said, “The Ninth Prince is right!”

Watching the Ninth Prince enter the Cining Palace, Eunuch Hu sighed.

Who could have expected that the unfavored little prince would become the little ancestor of the Cining Palace.

Doesn't the Empress Dowager like well-behaved, sensible, hardworking, and filial children? Why is she so captivated by the Ninth Prince, who's naughty, skips classes, and is so annoying!

Putting aside other things, the Empress Dowager has been so angry about the Ninth Prince these days. Why hasn't she caught the Ninth Prince and given him a good spanking?

Empress Dowager You herself didn't know, but she probably got used to being angry.

Xia Jing sat down at the dining table. Empress Dowager You asked Yuhe to add bowls and chopsticks, and she personally used water to wipe Xia Jing's hands.

"Grandma, that pinched me!" Xia Jing stood on the stool and pointed at the lion head opposite.

Empress Dowager You stood up, scooped one with a spoon and put it to Xia Jing's mouth.

Yuhe watched from the side. Although she felt it was normal, she was still a little surprised.

If any other imperial maid had dared to stand up on the stool, she would have been smacked on the head by the Empress Dowager! Not to mention ordering the Empress Dowager to pick up food for her and feed it to her!

The Empress Dowager often said that princes and princesses should be independent, but when it came to the Ninth Prince, everything was reversed.

Chapter 126 Father is angry

She also thought that the Queen Mother was not so unprincipled from the beginning. At the beginning, the Ninth Prince often quarreled with the Queen Mother, and then the Ninth Prince ran away, and the Queen Mother sulked in the house.

What happened in the meantime? Yuhe couldn't figure it out.

There's nothing mysterious about this.

No one can live alone. Queen Mother You needs a prince or princess by her side. There was no prince or princess before, only because Queen Mother You scared the other party away. Xia Jing will come back after running away and occupy this position.

In the relationship between Xia Jing and Empress Dowager You, it seems that Empress Dowager You has the upper hand because she is the empress dowager and the Cining Palace is her territory.

But it was Xia Jing who took the initiative. No matter what the relationship is, the active party always has certain advantages and the power to transform the other party.

It’s not that Empress Dowager You has never taken the initiative, for example, with those harsh words and independent education, but this initiative was more of a habit of Empress Dowager You, and her methods were too crude.

Xia Jing's tactics were much more sophisticated. Just like the first time he was fed by Empress Dowager You, it was actually Empress Dowager You who handed him the cake, and he took a bite, allowing Empress Dowager You to complete the feeding without making a sound.

Love is a process of domestication. Xia Jing successfully domesticated Queen Mother You and thus gained the old lady's favor.

This love is not deep yet, but in the future, it will just accumulate over time.

Of course, simply asking the other person to change is not domestication. Domestication is about making the other person accept the change, commonly known as giving a stick and then a sweet date.

After eating the lion's head, Xia Jing picked up a chicken leg and handed it to Empress Dowager You.

Empress Dowager You smiled and opened her mouth to bite, but noticed Yuhe's surprised look and glanced at the palace maid.

Yuhe immediately lowered her head and pretended not to see anything.

Queen Mother You bit the chicken leg handed to her by Xia Jing, her eyes narrowed into slits. When Xia Jing first fed her, she was not used to it, but now, she has fully experienced the satisfaction.

This is a completely different feeling from being served by servants.

The grandfather and grandson finished their meal in a sweet mood, cleared the table, and lay on the Luohan bed to drink tea to digest the food.

"Your recent paintings are good." Queen Mother You was half lying lazily.

If you take a photo and post it on the Internet in your previous life, netizens will recognize this posture at a glance - Ge You lying down.

Empress Dowager You learned this posture from Xia Jing, with one old and one young, one on the left and one on the right, lying very wantonly.

"That's right." Xia Jing took a piece of donkey roll and ate it in small bites. He was either hungry or greedy.

"How are grandma's lands?" Xia Jing asked again.

"I'm too lazy to care about it. It's so tiring." Empress Dowager You just said this. Farming is still one of her hobbies.

The two of them chatted casually like this.

The sky outside the window gradually darkened, and the wind was not strong, which felt particularly comfortable on my body.

Emperor Kangning timed it, waiting for the palace curfew to end, and then had Xu Zhongde carry out his wheelchair. He also wanted to go on a night tour.

He can only travel at night. If the concubines see him sitting in the third prince's wheelchair during the day, it will have a bad impact.

A lantern was hung on the handle of the wheelchair, illuminating the memorial in Emperor Kangning's hand. Even when he was traveling at night, he never forgot to do some work.

Occasionally looking up and taking a look at the night scene is a rare enjoyment.

"Your Majesty, it's still a bit cold, let's go back." After walking around for half an hour, Xu Zhongde reminded.

Emperor Kangning stuffed the memorial into the cloth bag next to him and found the wheelchair more and more convenient.

He pulled out a flat wooden box, which contained a pile of puzzle pieces. This was the Yin-Yang fish puzzle he had picked up from Jingyixuan. He had been so busy that he had only finished one corner in the past few days.

Last night he found many new puzzles in his wheelchair. Those had more patterns and were more interesting.

"Go to the Cining Palace." Emperor Kangning said.

"Yes." Xu Zhongde pushed him towards the Cining Palace.

When they approached the Cining Palace, Emperor Kangning got off and walked, and asked two eunuchs to escort the wheelchair back to the Yangxin Palace.

The eunuch on duty at the Cining Palace saw the light from afar and shouted, "Who is it?"

"You're blind!" Xu Zhongde slapped the gatekeeper eunuch on the head.

When the eunuch saw who was coming, he knelt down and apologized, wanting to inform the empress dowager.

"No need to inform." Emperor Kangning put his hands behind his back. "Is the Queen Mother asleep?"

"Your Majesty, not yet," the eunuch replied.

"You continue to keep watch, I will go in by myself."

Emperor Kangning stepped over the threshold of the Cining Palace and walked down the dimly lit road. The lanterns in the corridor could only illuminate the area below, and the stone lanterns on the roadside were empty, with no candles lit.

He frowned: "Why are the lights in the Cining Palace so dim!"

Xu Zhongde hurriedly explained, "It was the Empress Dowager's idea. She said that since few people are around at night, there's no need to waste candlelight."

Emperor Kangning sighed, "The Empress Dowager is still so frugal. When I was little, she taught me that every stitch is hard-earned and should not be wasted."

"The Empress Dowager's words are golden."

"Many things in my childhood were taught to me by the Empress Dowager. When I was little, I had no manners when eating. I would eat half of the cake in my mouth and half of it would fall onto the mat. I was even beaten for that."

"The Empress Dowager has given you great care."

"That's right. When I was young, only the Queen Mother was willing to teach me this way. The other concubines of the previous emperor... humph, they were only polite on the surface."

"It is precisely because of this that His Majesty was able to accomplish such a great feat."

"That's right. When I was little, I also complained about why I had to follow so many rules. I couldn't eat happily, and I couldn't play happily. Why couldn't the Queen Mother hold me in her arms like a mother in an ordinary family, and play with me. Only when I grew up did I understand the Queen Mother's painstaking efforts."

The eaves of the bedroom were looming in the dark night. Emperor Kangning was filled with emotion. He quickened his pace, pushed open the door of the palace, and lifted the bead curtain.

His pace became faster and faster, the pent-up emotions in his heart became stronger and stronger, and the figure of Queen Mother You finally came into his sight.

He leaned forward: "My Queen Mother, may you be well. I..."

Emperor Kangning stopped talking before he finished speaking.

He looked in astonishment at the stern, strict and harsh queen mother lying on Luohan's bed. She was holding the ninth prince in her arms and smilingly pinching a piece of cake and feeding it to the boy.

The Luohan bed was half covered with pastry crumbs, and some had fallen on the ground.

The hands of Empress Dowager You and the mouth of the Ninth Prince were frozen, just like Emperor Kangning's.

Xu Zhongde was guarding the door. He realized something was wrong, looked inside, and his eyes widened.

Both sides were embarrassed.

Empress Dowager You put the snacks back on the plate. Xia Jing stood up and sat next to Empress Dowager You to pay his respects to Emperor Kangning.

Help, how come I met this cheap father for two consecutive nights!

Fortunately, last time I had my third brother by my side, and this time I have Empress Dowager You by my side.

Come to think of it, Emperor Kang Ning seemed to have just said last night that if he saw them again at night, they would be dead.

Xia Jing raised his head and glanced at Emperor Kangning.

Emperor Kangning frowned and looked at him sideways with a stern gaze. "You're dead!"

Xia Jing leaned closer to Empress Dowager You. "It's none of my business. It was the Empress Dowager who forced me to stay."

Emperor Kangning narrowed his eyes. Nonsense! How could I not know the Empress Dowager? She, she... I really can't figure her out!

"Your Majesty!" Empress Dowager You said sternly, "Pay attention to your dignity. You are such a grown man, yet you still scare a child!"

As she spoke, she sat forward and stood in front of Xia Jing.

Emperor Kangning thought about his childhood when he was bullied by his elder brother. He cried and went to the empress dowager to complain. The empress dowager did not move and told him to bear his own revenge.

How come this guy can hide behind you!

Emperor Kangning was a little annoyed.

"Yuhe!" Empress Dowager You changed the subject. "You silly girl, hurry up and serve tea to the Emperor!"

A few people changed seats and sat on the armchairs to drink tea.

Xia Jing kept his head down the whole time. The tea was really delicious.

Emperor Kang Ning stared at him, trying to find out how this kid was better than himself when he was a child.

Empress Dowager You had no choice but to find a topic to talk about: "Your Majesty, why did you come here so late at night?"

I can only come here when I have important matters, but he can come here casually?

Emperor Kangning drank a sip of tea, suppressed his emotions, and looked at Xu Zhongde.

Xu Zhongde took out the flat wooden box and presented it with both hands.

"This is a little toy I found and wanted to give it to my mother to pass the time." Emperor Kangning introduced.

Queen Mother You opened the wooden box, and Xia Jing glanced at it secretly and blinked.

Isn’t this the Yin-Yang fish puzzle piece I was missing!

He felt a little gnawing. Not only did this thief Kangningdi not leave empty-handed, he even took my things and gave them away!

Empress Dowager You took it and asked how to play it, and Emperor Kangning demonstrated it himself.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Empress Dowager You closed the flat wooden box. "However, my eyesight is not good, and I can't put together such a delicate thing. It would be a waste of Your Majesty's painstaking efforts to leave it in the Cining Palace."

She handed the flat wooden box to Xia Jing: "This one should be given to the Ninth Prince!"