binnovel Chapter 491: Chat
Chapter 491: Chat
"I will be leaving the palace next year. I am really reluctant to leave."
The tenth prince, Qin Mingcheng, was leaning over his desk, peeling a tangerine nonchalantly, his elbow pressing on an open copy of the Water Classic.
"Didn't they say that we should marry a concubine when we reach adulthood? Why haven't we heard mother mention this to us brothers?"
The eleventh prince, Qin Mingcong, was lying on the couch, basking in the sun, spinning two chess pieces, one black and one white, in his hands boredly.
The twins look alike, and even the clothes worn by the Tenth Prince and the Eleventh Prince are only slightly different.
The tenth prince had a green sachet and a jade pendant with the word "琤" engraved on his waist, while the eleventh prince had a blue sachet and a jade pendant with the word "Cong" engraved on it. If we didn't use this to distinguish them, we would have to peel off their clothes and look at the birthmarks on their lower backs to tell them apart.
"Why don't you go and ask, why do you have to ask mother?" The tenth prince Qin Mingzhen carefully peeled off the green-orange-white silk thread and placed it forward along the water veins drawn on the book.
"It has only been a few months since the Queen Mother gave birth to two little girls. My second sister held a 'selection' outside the palace and selected five talented people. My father not only did not scold my second sister for her 'nonsense', but was even happy about it.
Chaoye Ming praised my second sister for her intelligence, but she gave the Queen Mother a handwritten copy of the female ring at the Queen Mother's Thousand Years Banquet. The Queen Mother must be furious. Why bother with such a small matter? It's a good opportunity for us to study more."
"What are you researching?" The tenth prince Qin Mingcheng peeled open the orange peels. A sweet and sour scent spread out, and the juice dripped from his hands with distinct knuckles onto the paper, leaving a yellow spot.
"Please let go of that book 'Water Classic'. Do you also want to follow your second sister's example and set up a school to compile 'Records of Mountains and Rivers'?" The eleventh prince Qin Mingcong sat up and put the chess piece in his hand back into the chess pot. The jade and agate collided with each other, making crisp sounds.
"As for what to study?" He smiled shyly, "I want a dignified, virtuous, and plump prince consort."
"Why bother opening a new school? Doesn't Second Sister already have one? Can't we just play with Second Sister? Even if the prince doesn't have the right to inherit, he is still different from the princess. Why do we need to do something that will cause misunderstanding?
The tenth prince Qin Mingcheng shook his head, put the tangerine in his hand aside, and wiped his fingers carefully with a handkerchief, while continuing: "As for the prince's consort... I want a talented woman with a smart mind and talent, who can be in harmony with me."
"My sixth, seventh and eighth brothers who married new wives last year haven't taken concubines yet. My ninth brother married Jiang Liangyuan before the Crown Princess entered the Eastern Palace. Once the Crown Princess enters the palace, there will probably be some commotion in the Eastern Palace." The eleventh prince Qin Mingcong stood up and stretched.
Shen Ningyue originally planned to give Jiang Yulan a position of Fengyi after the Crown Princess entered the Eastern Palace. Unexpectedly, Jiang Yulan not only won the heart of the Crown Prince, but also became pregnant with the Emperor's grandson before the Crown Princess entered the palace, which also made the Crown Prince ask for the position of Liangdi for her.
The concubines in the Eastern Palace of Dayong were divided into four ranks from high to low: Liangdi, Liangyuan, Zhaoxun and Fengyi. Shen Ningyue did not agree to the prince's request to confer the title of Liangdi on Jiang Yulan, but instead conferred the title of Liangyuan on her, saying that it would not be too late to promote her to a higher rank after Jiang Yulan gave birth to the emperor's grandson.
"Yes, but father probably won't care about these little things. Unless ninth brother can't control the fire in his own backyard or delays government affairs because of it, father will care about it. But why bother himself?" The tenth prince Qin Mingcheng said in a gentle voice.
As the sun warmed and the breeze blew, the pages of the book on the desk rustled.
The eleventh prince Qin Mingcong leaned on the windowsill with his hands, looking at the swaying shadows of the trees outside the window. Suddenly he turned around and asked with interest, "As for the second sister, have you told her, tenth brother?"
The tenth prince Qin Mingcheng gently rubbed his sticky hands and said, "Don't worry, someone come and bring me a basin of warm water."