Su Yaoqi was chosen to be the companion of the eldest prince for some reason. When he walked out of the Ganqing Palace, his mind was still blank. He turned to look at Empress Su and asked her, "Aunt, why did the eldest prince choose me?"

Queen Su smiled and explained to the boy, "Because you are excellent enough."

Excellent enough?

It's just because his surname is Su?

Su Yaoqi didn't understand the right and wrong in the palace, but he still vaguely smelled the scent of intrigue.

When he returned to the Duke's Mansion, the father immediately took him over and asked, "Did you see the emperor?"

“See it.”

"Where is the eldest prince?"

“See you too.”

Seeing that his son was not in high spirits, the Duke frowned, "Are you being beaten by frost?"

Su Yaoqi thought about it and looked up at his father, "Didn't you always want me to get involved in the family's affairs?"

The Duke's eyes glared, "When did I let you get involved?"

Su Yaoqi murmured in a low voice, "If you didn't get involved, please let me go and read to the eldest prince?"

"That's the eldest prince's keen eyes and has carefully selected and looked at you from the 300 students of the Imperial College."

"He took a fancy to someone named Su at first sight, and his eyes were lame, right?" Su Yaoqi retorted.

The Duke of the State was so angry that his face changed, "What's wrong with the surname Su? Are you the descendant of the Su family? You have the good intention to say it?"

Su Yaoqi straightened his chest and was confident, "I'm different from you!"

The Duke of the State: "...Come, bring my whip. - Little bastard, don't run away if you have any habit, get me back!"

Su Yaoqi, who had already escaped, stood on the veranda and curled his lips, "Only a fool would go back and get beaten."

After a while, the Duke of the State couldn't really do anything about this son who grew up eating simple rice.

After all, it is not easy to raise a child outside the dyeing vat in the Su family.

——

The day before he entered the palace to study, Su Yaoqi went to the Imperial College in the early morning. He didn't go in and waited outside the gate.

When Song Yuanbao came, he saw him and asked why he was stuck like a wooden stake.

Su Yaoqiu said, "I will not go to school in the Imperial College in the future."

Song Yuanbao pretended not to know, "Do you want to drop out of school?"

"No, go to Shangshu Room." Su Yaoqi said: "Learn to the eldest prince."

Song Yuanbao said "Oh", "That's pretty good."

The gentleman in the Shangshu Room is one level higher than the Imperial College Supervisor, and the teaching quality needs no need to be said.

Being able to read for the prince is probably a beautiful job that many students dream of.

"I originally invited you to the pleasure boat party that day, but I didn't go there. Wouldn't you be angry with me, right?"

Su Yaoqi looked at the little boy standing in front of him. He was obviously not taller than him and younger than him, but often the two of them stood together, and he always felt that he was the child.

Song Yuanbao looked indifferent, "I didn't go to achieve it, and I had no more pieces of meat. Am I such a stingy person?"

After hearing what he said, Su Yaoqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good if you don't get angry."

He came here early, just to tell Song Hao about the news that he was going to read to the eldest prince in person. Su Yaoqi had not been waiting for a long time and got on the carriage and headed straight towards the imperial city.

When I arrived at Shangshu Room, it happened that the time of Mao was right, and the teacher had already started classes.

In such a huge Shangshu room, only one prince Zhao Xi sat in it.

Su Yaoqi couldn't interrupt his teacher's lecture and walked silently to the eldest prince and sat down.

Zhao Xi glanced at Su Yaoqi, with no expression on his face. He quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to focus on the book.

Until the end of get out of class at noon, the eldest prince never said a word to him, even if it was a whisper.

Su Yaoqi was introverted at heart. Seeing that the eldest prince ignored him, he was a little helpless and wondered how to open this.

When the husband went out, Zhao Xi closed the book and turned slightly. He looked at Su Yaoqi for the second time. This time he was no longer silent. "Every day, the morning reading starts at Yin hour, the class starts at Mao hour, the get out of class ends at noon, and the afternoon learns riding and shooting. Don't make mistakes another day."

"Yin...Yin time?" Su Yaoqi opened his mouth wide in shock: "The chicken hasn't even crowed yet!"

Is this a companion reading? Is this a person who is here to be a cow and a horse for others?

Obviously, the fourth young master of the Su family, who grew up in a honeypot, did not understand the hardships of being a prince.

The prince he was the kind of pride who could make the common people tremble. He never thought that they would get up before dawn in the middle of the night to go to Shangshu's room for morning reading. After morning reading, class was then at noon and went to Shanglinyuan to learn riding and archery in the afternoon.

Throughout the year, except for one day on holidays on major festivals, classes have to be followed in this pattern.

If you want to know what benefits are, because it is hot in the middle of summer, you only have morning classes and can rest in the afternoon.

In the Imperial College, morning reading is all voluntary for students, and the formal class time is the right time for Mao. Young masters like Su Yaoqi have enough sleep time every day, and it is incredible for him to crow the rooster.

Zhao Xi started to come to Shangshu Room at the age of six. He has been accustomed to going to bed late and getting up early for almost seven years.

People who don’t know the truth envied him for being in the royal family. In fact, sleeping in is a luxury for him.

Every holiday, as long as he is not named to participate in activities such as sacrifices, he would rather not go anywhere and stay in his own bedroom and sleep all day.

...

Seeing Su Yaoqi reacting like this, Zhao Xi smiled and said nothing. She stood up and walked out, returned to the bedroom and started lunch.

I went to Shanglinyuan Horse Farm in the afternoon, but Su Yaoqi was still accompanied.

Zhao Xi held the mount with one hand, carried a quiver on his back, and in the same hand, he held a heavy black gold bow. Seeing that Su Yaoqi was standing still, he asked him, "Can't ride a horse?"

Su Yaoqi shook his head twice. He could ride a horse, but his riding skills were not very good.

"Can't shoot arrows?" Zhao Xi asked again.

Su Yaoqi nodded embarrassedly.

Their family is a scholarly family. Except for Uncle Qi, few people touch weapons, bows, arrows and other things.

Zhao Xi knew it, "Since that's the case, don't get on the horse. Stay down below to help me run errands and pick up prey."

"Okay." Su Yaoqi agreed very readily.

After Zhao Xi finished speaking, he turned over with a beautiful and neat movement and adjusted his sitting posture.

Su Yaoqi raised his head and looked at him, and couldn't help asking, "The Wujin bow is so heavy, why don't Your Highness change the lighter bow?"

Zhao Xi seemed to smile, "How can I practice arm strength if I don't feel heavy?"

Su Yaoqi found himself speechless.

When he passed by, Zhao Xi had already galloped towards the forest.

Su Yaoqi rushed to trot and followed.

Following the sound of horse hooves, he picked up a lot of prey along the way. Then he found that the prey was alive, and Zhao Xi did not penetrate them with one arrow.

At first, Su Yaoqi thought that His Highness's archery skills were not good, but gradually, he realized that it was not the case.

Those prey either had one foot nailed to the tree by an arrow, or had blood trauma from the skin on their bodies...

In short, there is one thing in common - it can't escape.

During the intermission, Su Yaoqi took the opportunity to ask Zhao Xi, "Why didn't Your Highness shoot the prey?"

Zhao Xi asked without answering, "What do you think?"

Su Yaoqi said truthfully: "I think that Your Highness is protecting these animals with kindness."

Zhao Xi: "...It's about half of the reason!"

"What is that other half?"

"It was the same as an arrow shot out, and the same prey was obtained. Young Master Su thought that if the prey was alive or dead, which archery technique was higher?"

Su Yaoqi instantly understood, and the shock in his heart was beyond words.

He is eighteen, the young prince in front of him is thirteen years old.

The other party completely subverted his understanding of the word "prince" with his amazing perseverance in reading and riding and shooting skills.

It wasn't what he thought was smooth sailing.

It's not as he imagined as he can.

The prince has to read more books than he has learned and more complicated things.

I got up earlier than him, went to bed later than him, and even practiced riding and shooting, I had to constantly challenge my limits.

At the age of thirteen, those young and tender shoulders already bear something far beyond this age.

Compared with Zhao Xiyi, Su Yaoqi suddenly felt that he was useless when he was raised by a child.

Zhao Xi took a break for a while and the master who taught riding and shooting came. The master watched the riding and shooting game just now, and felt that something was wrong, so he guided him a few words.

Su Yaoqi sat on the lawn, turned his head, and saw Zhao Xi's side face.

Against the light, the young prince looked particularly serious when facing the guidance of his master. His serious attitude of studying made Su Yaoqi feel ashamed again.

——

Su Yaoqi fell off the horse's back after half a month of reading.

This period of time was stimulated by Zhao Xi. He insisted on getting on the horse himself that day, but after the horse entered the forest, he couldn't control it. He struggled a few times, and fell down with a bleeding hole on his forehead and broke his arm.

When the man was sent back to the Duke's Mansion, the Duke's eyes turned dark and he almost fainted.
Chapter completed!