Chapter 372

Chapter 372

Three children and a concubine named Liu stood in a row.

King Zhao first asked someone to invite King Lie to the side, but King Lie was very reluctant.

He wanted to stay and watch the fun.

"Hey, brother, I am not an outsider, I won't delay your work."

"no"

King Zhao never had the habit of teaching the women in his palace a lesson in front of outsiders.

"Fourth brother, please wait a moment."

Only after King Lie left did King Zhao look coldly at the people in front of him.

He first looked at Concubine Liu, very puzzled: "Why are you hanging out with kids?"

Concubine Liu felt a burning pain on her face when she was looked at by him.

She didn't know how things turned out like this.

She had planned everything well, and she was already so close to the study.

But who knew that in actual operation, it would go so inexplicably off track.

Eat, eat, eat. It’s just that big pot. What’s delicious to eat?

"Your Majesty, I originally wanted to get closer to the children.

It’s all my fault that I’m useless. The sisters in the mansion look down on me, so I can only come to build good relationships with the young masters.”

As Concubine Liu spoke, she covered her face with a handkerchief and began to sob.

"My Lord, are you also going to dislike me? I have always been an unpopular person since I was young..."

When King Zhao saw Concubine Liu crying, he immediately felt heartbroken.

I was just about to go up and hug her to comfort her.

The one who was faster than him was the child. Ruirui's clear and crisp childish voice sounded enthusiastically: "Don't cry, Concubine, we can play with you."

Three pairs of childish eyes looked at Concubine Liu with concern, as if to say, so your life is so miserable?

Ruirui clenched her fists and finally made up her mind: "When we become sworn brothers, you can be our youngest sister!"

Concubine Liu: "..."

King Zhao: “…”

What the hell?

younger sister?

"Puchi" someone couldn't help laughing.

Several people at the scene looked in the direction of the sound and saw a person hanging on the wall. The servants below shouted anxiously, "Prince, Prince Lie, please come down quickly!"

King Lie held onto the wall with one hand, and waved his other arm at him: "Don't worry, I won't fall down."

Servant: "..."

Who cares about this?

It’s okay if you fall, but please don’t laugh at our prince’s joke!

After being seen, King Lie simply stopped hiding.

He jumped down the wall confidently and asked, "Why sisters? According to age, you are the younger ones!"

Ruirui disagreed with this.

If we count by age, he is still the youngest, so why do they need to become sworn brothers?

His eyes widened as he refuted in all seriousness: "Uncle, we are going to become sworn brothers. Concubine Liu is the last one to join in. Of course, she is my younger sister!"

After thinking for a while, Ruirui said seriously: "If the emperor's uncle also wants to be sworn brothers with us, then he can be our younger brother.

Father, if you want to come in, you have to see... um"

Ruirui was biased after all: "If you come in together, you can be the emperor's uncle's brother."

King Lie was not convinced: "Why should he be the elder brother? I came in first, I want to be the elder brother!"

"But, but," Ruirui was extremely entangled: "But father has a better relationship with us."

"How come the relationship has improved?" King Lie was dissatisfied.

"We slept together!"

King Lie did not hesitate: "I can too... Wait a minute, what did you just say?"

His mind suddenly cleared up.

He looked at King Zhao in surprise, as if he was looking at a living beast.

King Zhao could no longer bear it: "What's that look in your eyes? What's wrong with me taking a nap with the child when we were at the imperial farm?"

"Oh oh" King Lie nodded quickly, he was overthinking it.

Ruirui didn't know why these two strange adults reacted so strongly, and he actively invited them.

"Uncle, after we become sworn brothers, we will all be real brothers. Then I will sleep with you."

King Lie: ...Thank you.

The topic at the scene became more and more off-topic. Concubine Liu watched helplessly as Prince Zhao, who had just been angry with her, focused his attention on the little brat and Prince Lie.

Is it that the insect poison is no longer effective?

She secretly activated the poisonous insect in her body, and King Zhao finally saw her.

Her eyes were full of love: "Xue'er, how are you now?"

Concubine Liu glanced at Prince Lie without leaving a trace, coughed twice very weakly, and then looked at Prince Zhao: "My lord, I am fine, you don't have to worry about it, the affairs of the young masters are more important."

King Zhao did not hesitate: "Those guys are making trouble every day, don't bother with them."

"But this wall..."

"Let them repair the wall themselves. It has nothing to do with Xue'er."

Prince Lie was amazed. This woman was truly powerful. With just a few words, she could make the third son change so much. She was much better than that useless Concubine Li.

Or was it some kind of destiny to be a phoenix? Although he didn't believe it, he also felt that it was a waste to give such a woman to the third son.

Wait until he reaches that position, and then bring the person over.

Concubine Liu held her forehead with one hand and said with a headache: "Maybe I got a cold from the wind. I feel a little uncomfortable. It would be better if I could find a place to rest."

King Zhao did not hesitate at all: "I will have someone clean up your room right away, you can take a rest first"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

When King Zhao personally sent Concubine Liu to the room and came out again, King Lie and the three children were already gathered around the newly built stove and had boiled water.

Ruirui's face was tense, and her eyes were full of seriousness: "When the water boils, we should put the ingredients in and eat."

The other two children didn't understand this and had no objections at all, so they just listened to him.

King Lie, now an adult, does know a little about it, but he was born into a noble family and only has a vague understanding of cooking.

"By the way, where are the ingredients?"

Ingredients……

They didn't think of this, but it didn't bother Ruirui.

He looked around, and finally cast his eyes on the corner of the wall on the ground and the treetops in the yard. His eyes lit up: "Got it!"

King Lie: ...Why do I have a bad feeling?

Ruirui pulled out some messy grass. They all grew from the ground and were almost like vegetables. They shouldn't be unpalatable.

He then instructed King Lie to pick two leaves, and then carefully took out a small paper bag from his arms.

He said confidently: "This is the seasoning. They say that this seasoning tastes good when dipped on the soles of shoes!"

The second son exclaimed: "How amazing!"

The Third Young Master was too timid to speak because there were other people around, but he nodded immediately to show his agreement.

King Lie: ...What's so great about this?

He looked away with difficulty: "You were right before, you have a better relationship with your father, and you should give him the good things first, I won't use them." He couldn't afford to enjoy them.

Ruirui was very hospitable. He didn't even wash the grass before putting all the fodder into the pot. His method was so simple and rough that it was unbearable to watch.

"Don't worry, uncle. If it's not enough, we can make more. It's not a big deal."

Is this a troublesome question?

King Lie quickly changed the subject and gave himself first aid: "Why do you want to use wine?"

This was a good question. Ruirui didn't need to answer. The second son Xuan'er said first: "We want to become sworn brothers!"

Ruirui then explained: "We must drink wine to swear brotherhood, but we don't have any.

We met a kind maid who told us that there was good wine in our father's storehouse, so we came here."

He was a little embarrassed: "We know that stealing our father's wine is wrong, but this is such a big deal, we can't waste time.

When the grapes are ripe, we will make lots of wine together and return it to our father."

Prince Lie immediately sensed something was wrong: "A kind-hearted maidservant sister?"

At the same time, King Zhao also stopped and said only two words: "Go check!"

Eunuch Shi immediately responded respectfully.

"Why do you suddenly want to become sworn brothers?"

King Zhao asked the three children, but his eyes fell directly on Ruirui.

This kid loves to talk.

Ruirui blinked her eyes and said in a clear childish voice: "I just suddenly thought of it!"

King Zhao didn't believe it. If no one mentioned it, a child of that age might not even know what sworn brotherhood was.

"Father, I heard this from my mother. Have you forgotten? That day when Concubine Liu and you drank the boy's urine of my brothers at night,

My mother and my two brothers’ mothers said they wanted to become sworn sisters. Later, when I went back home, I asked my mother what sworn sisters were, and she told me the story as a bedtime story.

Ruirui thought carefully and told all the information she knew.

King Zhao frowned: "Your mother still tells you bedtime stories?"

Ruirui nodded in confusion: "Yeah?"

The child laughed happily and said in a sweet voice: "My mother often tells me bedtime stories. She has told me many, many stories."

"Do you talk about it every day?"

"Not every day, but when my mother is in a good mood she will tell me."

But if he wants to make his mother happy, isn't that simple?

Ruirui thought this in her heart, but did not say it out loud.

The other two children present were very envious: "Wow! Your mother can also tell you stories!"

"of course"

Ruirui invited them generously: "Do you want to listen? If so, let me ask mom first if you can come and listen with me!"

The two children were indeed very happy after hearing this.

"Okay, okay!"

Ruirui patted his chest proudly and said, "These are all trivial matters. Once we become sworn brothers, I will be your eldest brother, and my mother will be our mother from now on!"

The two kids immediately shouted, "Big Brother!"

"Big brother!"

Ruirui held her little head high, completely satisfied.

He finally became the big brother.

King Zhao came to his senses and immediately stopped them: "No!"

“You can’t go”

Why can't you go?

Facing three pairs of eyes, King Zhao thought for a moment: "You should go back to your respective courtyards at night, otherwise your mother will be lonely. As for Ruirui——"

He began to persuade her: "I remember that you like your elder brother very much, don't you? You even like to sleep with him, how about you live with him in the future?"

Ji was just too good to this kid. He gave him a place to live, told him bedtime stories, and took him out to play every day.

King Zhao had never heard any ghost bedtime stories.

Ruirui didn't know why his father suddenly said this. He thought about it seriously and said, "I'm still young. I have to live with my mother!"

He also used the words that King Zhao had just said, "If I live with my elder brother, my mother will be lonely!"

His mother once told him that he was still young and didn't need to live apart from her so soon. When he grew up, he would naturally have more time to live alone.

Ruirui remembers it all clearly.

King Zhao did not comment on this. How could Ji Shi be alone? Didn't he still have him?

He wanted to say something else, but King Lie reminded him, "Aren't we talking about the sworn brotherhood and the maid? And your love of drinking boy's urine? Why did you mention where this boy lives?

Besides, he is so young, not even two years old. If he doesn’t live with his mother, who will he live with?

You asked a child to take care of a child, can he do it?"

Not to mention, the child is very likely his own.

Let his child take care of another child? Dream on!

King Zhao said nothing more, but he kept thinking in his heart that it would be better to get this kid out of Guihua Courtyard as soon as possible.

and also……

King Zhao cleared his name: "I don't like drinking boy's urine. First tell me where you met that maid!"

Ruirui quickly shook her head, with a look of vigilance: "Why are you asking this? We don't know."

Who believes this?

King Zhao asked again in a deep voice: "You really don't know?"

Ruirui was still hesitating, but the second master was afraid and said, "The maid sister won't let me say it."

"Oh?"

Xuan'er has already said it, so Ruirui doesn't need to hide it anymore: "The maid said that if her story is told, she will die, so it can't be told, and no one can tell it."

King Zhao's eyes flashed: "If you don't tell her the truth, she will die without anyone to protect her."

From the child, King Zhao heard the location where the maid appeared and her general appearance.

It turned out that when the children were running around and playing, they didn't like the maids following them to get too close, as that would interfere with their whispers.

The servants were used to it, but who would have thought that a flaw would be discovered due to such negligence.

The little ones were discussing the sworn brotherhood seriously. Ruirui mentioned that their mother said they needed wine and drinks before they could become sworn brothers, but they didn't have any, so they thought of using water instead.

The maid happened to appear and told them that there was good wine in the prince's storehouse, and that they would inherit those things after the prince died, so what was wrong with taking them and using them early?

Wine must be consumed when swearing brotherhood, otherwise it would not be authentic.

The children were ignorant and thought that what was said was very true. After Rui Rui finished talking, he looked up and asked his father with great expectation.

"Father, is what she said true? When you die, can I inherit my mother's property? I want to live in the same yard with her and have bedtime stories with her every day."

The second son spoke up boldly, "Father, I also want to inherit my mother's concubine. I also want to inherit Uncle Lie, who was able to jump off the wall just now. How amazing!"

King Zhao had a dark face and sneered. In the expectant eyes of the children, he said very coldly: "No."

"I will send someone to take you back now."

He turned his gaze and looked at the culprit: "I will talk to your mother in person."

How can a child be so spoiled?

Listening to bedtime stories is just a bad habit!

Ruirui blinked innocently. He didn't do anything. He just wanted to be the big brother.

"Father, my mother is not at home. She has gone to the main courtyard. Please look for her next time!"

Just now when he sent someone to get the pot, Sister Ruyi told him that his mother was not in the yard, otherwise he would have invited his mother to come and have dinner together.

What was Ji doing in the princess's yard?

King Zhao was puzzled as to why Ji often went to the princess' place.