PFC Chapter 278 Doting
Chapter 278 Doting
The entire Chongde Hall is empty and quiet.
The deserted hall, which was usually clean and tidy, was now cluttered with picked flowers, plants, mud, and koi fish trapped in fish baskets that occasionally flicked their tails.
"Fifth brother, I heard from mother that next month is father's birthday. Many people will come to the palace to celebrate father's birthday. There will even be a dinner party at night. I have never attended one."
The Sixth Prince Qin Mingjun squatted in front of the Fifth Prince Qin Mingzhang with his legs hugged. He held a newly bent twig in one hand and poked at it randomly. He lowered his eyelashes and sighed.
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang paused as he pressed his dirty little hands against a fat spotted koi, then lowered his head and continued to stuff large balls made of flowers plucked from the surrounding area and mud dug up into the fish's opening and closing mouth.
"My mother doesn't like to join in the fun, but she still stops me from joining in." The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang said casually.
In fact, the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang is only five years old this year. When the palace was bustling in previous years, he was still in swaddling clothes and was confined in the Yutang Palace. When he was able to run, jump and go out of the Yutang Palace to play, he unfortunately encountered the death of the empress dowager. The whole palace had to observe mourning for the empress dowager, and there was no room for the princes and princesses to join in the fun.
"In June this year, my grandmother will have completed her 27-month mourning period. October is the Holy Day of Father, and it will definitely be very lively. Fifth brother, what birthday gift have you prepared for Father?"
The sixth prince Qin Mingjun was full of yearning, and his round eyes were full of light as he looked at Qin Mingzhang.
"I don't know. There haven't been any banquets in the palace in the past two years. My mother thought of a few words for me to say in front of my father on his birthday. I was asked to kowtow to him and that was it."
"Is that all? How boring!" The Sixth Prince Qin Mingjun's spirit suddenly wilted.
"But this year it should be very lively and bustling. My mother, who hates going out the most, has been called by the Imperial Concubine Yi to help."
"I wonder what gifts my eldest, third, fourth, eldest, and second sisters will prepare for Your Majesty."
The sixth prince Qin Mingjun put down the small branch in his hand, walked up to the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang, grabbed his arm, and spoke excitedly.
"Your Highness heard from mother that my eldest sister learned a piece of music from her and planned to play it for father at this year's Holy Festival. What's the point of playing the piano? Mother plays a few pieces every day, and father might be tired of it."
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang took the pointed branch, pierced holes in the struggling koi one by one, strung them together, and was laughing happily.
"As for Qin Mingyue, I am almost dying of laughter because of her. She has not even finished memorizing the palace rules and has not even stepped out of the door of the Pepper Room. She deserves it."
The sixth prince Qin Mingjun stuck the branch in his hand into the belly of a koi carp and sprinkled petals of various colors on the fish's body, covering the entire koi carp.
"During the Emperor's feast day, the Second Princess should be able to go out, right? She will. Fifth Brother, why don't you go and ask her how she can please the Emperor?"
Qin Mingjun pouted and was angry, and she looked like she and Qin Mingzhang shared the same hatred for the enemy. She seemed to be even angrier than Qin Mingzhang, who had a conflict with Princess Hengshan.
"Second sister and fifth brother were born on the same day. Fifth brother is a prince, and second sister is just a princess. However, father only showed favor to the whole world in the name of second sister, making all the people in the world grateful to her. Are any of us brothers as favored by father as second sister?"