The fourth prince went to Songtao Pavilion to visit the sick, and accompanied the second prince to have a light and tasteless nourishing dinner. The second prince was bored with his illness and refused to let him go, and the fourth prince almost stayed overnight. After finally saying goodbye and leaving, the result...

  Extreme joy begets sorrow.

  The second prince is delighted, he has recovered from his illness.

  Unfortunately, it was the fourth prince who got up early with a heavy head and hoarse voice - he was ill.

  Qiu Yan whispered: "The second prince passed his illness to our fourth prince, and he got better." The implication was that she felt sorry for the fourth prince.

  The fourth prince fell ill and naturally didn't have to go to Chongwen Pavilion for school anymore.

  It's said that the princes' studies were quite bitter and hard. Modern students still have winter and summer vacations, and there are only two major exams a year. The princes didn't have it easy at all - no winter or summer breaks, just a few days off during Chinese New Year. They'd go to school as soon as the sky was light, sometimes returning home for lunch, but other times having additional subjects in the Six Arts that would keep them there all day. Usually, they had exams every ten days, every month, and every year, plus countless homework assignments - writing characters, reciting books, composing poetry, writing essays... The Second Prince was a troublemaker, and even the doctoral tutors at Chongwen Academy didn't dare to argue with him. The Fourth Prince, on the other hand, was a goody-goody, following all the rules and regulations...

  The fourth prince himself was optimistic: "It's a blessing to occasionally get a little sick. It just so happens that I wanted to skip homework for the next few days, and this illness has helped me out."

  ……

  Speechless at the tide of life.

  Students feign illness to skip class, ancient and modern are just the same. But others pretend to be ill, their bodies are strong and they eat well, skipping school is stealing a leisurely half-day, but the Fourth Prince is really sick! The leisure time was also stolen, but it was all spent on the sickbed.

  The fourth prince was seriously ill, and he stopped reading and writing. He had someone move his bamboo bed to the window and spent the whole day from morning till night gazing at the maple leaves in the garden, indeed a picture of leisure.

  Alright...

  Even the most mature person has childish moments sometimes.

  I have escaped from school in my previous life, and I deeply understand that feeling.

  Happiness is like stealing and cheating, every minute and second feels so fast. On the one hand, I am enjoying it, on the other hand, there is a faint sense of unease.

  What if others find out and the matter is exposed?

  What if you didn't go to school but learned something important and interesting anyway?

  While worrying about this, I'm anxious to make the most of this fleeting time.

  The second prince came, bringing a pile of food and drink. The tenth princess also came, arriving empty-handed, but after eating a meal at Huaye House that didn't count, she left with quite a few things she thought were interesting.

  Then the third prince also came.

  He brought a set of books and a chess set.

  The gift is mediocre and it's also not suitable for visiting a sick person.

  But...Chao Sheng always felt that this was a bit too little in terms of human feelings, and it wasn't as sincere as the cricket cage brought by the Second Prince. The autumn crickets didn't have many days left, so they chirped with extra effort, as if to grasp the last moments of time to enjoy themselves thoroughly. The Second Prince carefully instructed a bunch of things, saying that if fed well, these crickets could make it through the winter.

  However, the fourth prince was completely uninterested in this, and the cricket along with its cage were taken away by the tenth princess.

  What a pity.

  At the rate that tenth princess is going, that frog will probably die in two days and won't have a chance to experience winter.

  The third prince sat for a while, and Chao Sheng found that he was also trying his best to find topics, but every topic could not be said for a few sentences, and there was a feeling of being unable to continue.

  There is a kind of person who lives in their own world, drawing a deep and distant boundary between themselves and others.

  Perhaps the third prince was trying his best to express goodwill and concern, but in the end he still took his leave quickly.

  The fourth prince pointed at the book and said: "Bring it over and let me take a look."

  Chao Sheng handed over the book box.

  The carvings on the book box are exquisite, and the books inside must be very valuable too.

  The fourth prince just opened the box and took a look, then handed it over to Chao Sheng: "Received Bing Four."

  Chao Sheng responded with a sound, found the bookshelf marked with the word "third", and put the book on the fourth grid.

  This shows that the fourth prince dislikes this set of books.

  People always like to put their favorite books in a place where they can easily pick them up, so that they can read them conveniently. Putting them at the back of the bookshelf means they don't want to read them.

  Qiu Yan entered with the medicine, and Chao Sheng keenly noticed that the Fourth Prince's eyebrows also furrowed slightly.

  Although very slight and brief ——

  Huh, so the fourth prince is also afraid of taking medicine?

  But Chūsen handed the medicine to the Fourth Prince, who took it with great relish and downed it in one gulp. Chōei hastily brought over a cup of fragrant tea and a mouth-rinsing bowl.

  On TV, people often use honey to send medicine. In fact, from a medical point of view, not all medicines are suitable for this type of matching. Some will affect the properties of the medicine, and some will even conflict with it.

  Watching the Fourth Prince take his medicine so efficiently, Chao Sheng couldn't help but doubt his own judgment from earlier.

  Maybe I misunderstood myself.

  Qiu Quan was putting away the medicine bowl while laughing and asking: "Your Highness, how can you drink it so quickly, aren't you afraid of burning yourself?"

  The fourth prince didn't even lift his head and lazily said, "Drinking it early is bitter, drinking it late is also bitter. It's better to drink it hot, once the tongue gets numb, you won't feel the bitterness anymore."

  Qiu Yan suppressed a smile and said: "I thought that Your Highness has grown up a few years now, and is no longer afraid of good medicine being bitter to the mouth."

  Chao Sheng was curious and asked Qiū Yàn: "Your Highness is very afraid of taking medicine?"

  It's really scary, how can you drink it all in one breath without changing your face?

  Qiu Yan said in a low voice: "I heard that Your Highness was actually premature... and has been in poor health since childhood, often taking medicine."

  "It's true, can't see it at all."

  "As the years went by, Your Highness's body also gradually recovered." Qiu Yan said in a low voice: "I heard that when White Sister was talking about it earlier, your mother, Cheng Mei Ren, used every method to coax you into taking medicine, but you refused to take it... Later, after Cheng Mei Ren passed away, you suddenly became more stable and never had trouble taking medicine again..."

  "Is it Cheng Meiren?"

  Qiu Yan said, "I haven't seen her either, I've only heard that she was the most beautiful of the six palaces when she was alive. The young master's eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth all resemble hers. It's really a pity that beauty is short-lived, she fell ill during childbirth and never fully recovered, lingering for several years before passing away."

  The fourth prince was also an orphan.

  When there is a mother by their side, children are usually more spoiled because they know someone loves them, protects them and can rely on them, so they are bold and carefree.

  Lost his mother, was forced to grow up.

  Nor does he know how much pain and struggle he has gone through in this process.

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  Woke up at 6 am, entered the valley at 7 am. It was so cold on the mountain that I had to wear a down jacket, but by noon it was so hot that I could only wear a T-shirt. Carrying a big bag of clothes and food, I felt like an idiot.

  In Jiuzhaigou, the hotel arranged by the travel agency has no internet access. This is the only internet cafe I could find after running several kilometers... sweating! The previous chapter was written yesterday.

  Jiuzhaigou is really beautiful, can't upload photos now, will put them on ** after I get back for everyone to see.