I brought five birds to eat and drink with my girlfriends in ancient times

Chapter 118: Zi Yan Ling in the Imperial Palace

"Alas! It seems that there is no way to take out the Purple Flame Feather. Even birds can't fly in, and I can't become invisible. It's impossible for me to enter the imperial study, let alone take out this feather."

Shangguan Yue slumped in the chair dejectedly, muttering to herself.

"Sister Yue'er, what's wrong with you? Don't tell me you like this feather?"

"Well, so what if I like her? Can I steal her out? Even if I want to steal her, I have to be able to get in. Okay, it's getting late, you should hurry back to the palace! Otherwise, your mother will be worried."

After knowing the whereabouts of Zi Yanling, Shangguan Yue was in a bad mood and had no mood to talk to the Ninth Prince.

"Oh, I'll go back right away. Can I come to visit you often?" The Ninth Prince looked at Shangguan Yue with great anticipation.

"Sure, but I may not be at home every day. Are you so idle? At your age, don't you need to read and write, or practice martial arts to keep fit?

Being fat is not necessarily a bad thing, but being too fat is bad for your health and can shorten your life.”

Shangguan Yue thinks being a little chubby is cute, but being too fat will cause health problems in all aspects.

"But I can read and write all the books in the palace, and my mother said..."

"Don't keep telling your mother what to do. Don't you have any opinion of your own? If you keep getting fatter, you probably won't even be able to leave the house. Do you want to spend your whole life lying in bed and being waited on by others?

Don’t your father and mother want you to grow up healthy, get married and have children? Forget it, you won’t understand even if I tell you this now, so go back!"

"I...Okay! I'll go back first then." The Ninth Prince walked out of the Rose Courtyard carrying the food box, looking back every step of the way.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, you are finally back. Are all the food in this food box new? It smells so good even through the food box!

Your Highness...what's wrong with you? Why don't you speak? Are you tired? I'll give you a massage. Or has someone bullied you, Your Highness?"

Seeing the Ninth Prince being silent after returning, Eunuch Wang was very puzzled. Normally, the prince would be very happy when he bought delicious food and would have endless things to say.

He has never been as unhappy as he is today. Did His Highness suffer any injustice when he went in just now? He will never let anyone who dares to bully His Highness go.

"Eunuch Wang, no one is bullying me, please go back to the palace!"

"I understand. Your Highness did not sleep well last night and is tired. So, Your Highness, please have a good sleep in the carriage. I will ask the coachman to drive slower."

"Well, Eunuch Wang, do you think I'm too fat?"

"Not too fat. Your Highness is blessed."

"Eunuch Wang, do you think I'm useless? People in the palace say I'm fat and stupid, don't study hard, and have no martial arts skills. I'm totally useless."

"Your Highness, how can you believe what those slaves say? Your Highness is of royal descent and noble status. I will pull out their tongues when I get back."

"Eunuch Wang, where is the shop on the street that sells game products?"

"Ah? Your Highness just said... Go ask the shops selling game products on the street. I have never bought these, so I don't know."

"Okay, let's go find it now."

Eunuch Wang asked several shop owners and waiters along the way, only to find out that there were not many shops selling such prey products in Yuecheng.

These shops are usually located in alleys and more remote places, because some of the products made from wild animals are air-dried and made into specimens using saltpeter, which can easily scare people.

Except for the few questions the Ninth Prince asked before getting on the carriage, the Ninth Prince did not say another word while sitting in the carriage along the way, and everything was quiet in the carriage.

Eunuch Wang was a little worried, so he lifted the curtain and took a look. The prince was lying on his side, and his face could not be seen. However, the prince was easily fatigued, so he must have fallen asleep.

"Your Highness, I found a shop that sells the products of that game. Would you like to go?"

Eunuch Wang found the corner of the street, and in front of the inner street was a shop selling game products.

The Ninth Prince did not reply, but got out of the carriage and walked towards the shop.

Eunuch Wang felt that the Ninth Prince was very abnormal today. The usually lively and cheerful prince had become much more taciturn.

The Ninth Prince walked into the shop. Apart from the shopkeeper, there were no other customers in the shop.

The walls inside were covered with products shaped like horse heads, dog heads, and sheep heads, and there were even products shaped like ferocious beasts like the black blind tiger.

All the beasts seemed to be staring at them, which made for an eerie feeling.

I walked further inside and finally saw many kinds of bird products, including simulated birds made from the feathers of entire birds, which looked very lifelike.

The ninth prince saw a feather on the tail of an artificial bird that was somewhat similar to the bird feather in his father's imperial study.

There were also several bird products with similar tail feathers, and he didn't know which one to choose.

Forget it, why should I choose? Just have them all.

After paying the silver, the eunuch and the guards put the things on the carriage. The ninth prince was about to get on the carriage, but he looked back at the other prey in the shop and stopped.

Would it be too abrupt to just buy bird feather products? I had to buy something else so that people wouldn't be suspicious.

He went back and bought a deer head and a ferocious wolf. He hollowed out the inside of the wolf's body, used wood to make a frame, sewed up the fur, and placed it on the ground, making it look lifelike.

The Ninth Prince looked into the wolf's deep eyes and felt a little timid, but he still mustered up the courage to carry the wolf products onto the carriage.

After returning to the palace, the Ninth Prince placed all the prey products in the study. Without changing his clothes, he ordered that a little bit of each snack he brought back be put into another food box.

Then he took the food box to the palace of Concubine Xian. At this time, Concubine Xian had finished her lunch, and saw the Ninth Prince coming back with a food box, smiling.

I was very happy. Xiaojiu has become sensible. He said he was going to buy new food and would go early and come back early.

Xiaojiu did everything he was told. His filial piety is commendable. She is very satisfied to have a good son like Xiaojiu in her life.

The Ninth Prince who had returned from Concubine Xian's palace no longer had the smile on his face that he had when facing Concubine Xian, and he remained silent again.

Eunuch Wang, with his old limbs, had been following for most of the day and was exhausted. Seeing that His Highness was smiling just now but now silent, he must be very tired.

Children are like this, laughing, crying, and getting angry the next moment. But today, His Highness seemed to be unhappy for a little longer. Could it be because he has grown taller?

After the Ninth Prince returned to his palace, he went into the study alone and sent everyone away.

He was lying on the desk, staring at the pile of prey products on the floor, his mind flashing with what his sister Yue'er had said today.

She said he was too idle, which meant he was too idle. She said he should read more and write more, but she didn't know that he had no playmates and only kept company with calligraphy and painting since he was a child.

If he didn't understand something, he would ask the Taifu and the Crown Prince for help, but the Taifu sometimes said that he was too naughty and was reading some improper books.

He was not reading any improper books, but books from the library! It was just that the Taifu disdained to read those books. He had read all the books in the study, so he often went to his father's imperial study to read books.

So he was very familiar with the bird feather on his father's desk, but his father didn't let him touch it, so he was very obedient and never touched it.

But today, Sister Yue'er said that she liked that bird feather, and asked him to meet just to find out the bird feather?

She had never been to the palace, let alone her father's imperial study. Her father had never been to the imperial study either, so how could she draw the imperial study?

Was it really a dream? How could I remember something in a dream so clearly?