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"Hurry up and pack up, we'll be taking a batch of things out of the palace soon."

"Master, your servants have packed everything. Shall we set off now?"

"Yes, the sooner the better. We should make a round trip before it gets dark."

"Yes, this servant understands."

"..."

Yin Yi waved his hand, and seeing that he had dismissed all the palace servants around him, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He calmly looked around, constantly encouraging himself, "Just hang in there a little longer. In a few days, my family will be able to leave the palace safely, and we won't have to be afraid of anything anymore."

Time flies. In early March of this year, the Emperor, taking advantage of the war against the Dzungars in the thirty-fifth year, bestowed titles upon all of his adult sons.

With a title, one no longer needs to live in the palace.

The Imperial Household Department acquired a plot of land in the capital, and several beautiful and grand mansions sprang up, including the Prince's Mansion, which Yin Yi had his eye on.

That's right. Of the adult princes, apart from the eldest prince Yinqi, who was granted the title of Prince of the Second Rank by Emperor Kangxi, the rest were all Beile.

However, compared to the eldest prince Yinti, Yinyi had one advantage: his mother's rank had not been lowered.

Unlike Consort Hui, or rather, Consort Hui, who had been reduced from a consort to a concubine and had become a complete joke in the harem.

Thinking of this, Yin Yi couldn't help but sigh that time is a wonderful thing; many things that were not apparent before are now completely exposed.

For example, the competition between the eldest prince and the crown prince.

The two were no longer content with just the court and the harem; they even went so far as to win over and threaten many princes, dragging both adults and minors into this battle for the throne.

Apart from Yinyi and Yinlu forming their own faction, and excluding the few young princes who were born in recent years and were still unaware of the world, all the remaining princes stood behind these two, making the Imperial Study a chaotic mess.

However, none of this matters to Yinyi and Yinlu anymore, because they have both started their own families and haven't been to the Imperial Study for many years, so it doesn't affect them.

One by one, boxes filled with items were carried out of the princes' quarters by palace servants.

A horse-drawn carriage was parked at the entrance, and the box was carried up and secured tightly.

Instead of resting in the backyard, Yin Yi stood at the door and watched.

Seeing this, the palace servants who wanted to secretly rest perked up and performed well, hoping to earn more reward money that day.

"Father, Father, Father"

A small round ball ran over from not far away.

The round ball is chubby and cute, especially its soft and plump body, which makes people feel tender.

Yinyi bent down and opened his hands to his son who was running towards him. "Honghao, what brings you here?"

This child was born in the early part of the thirty-third year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign. Although he was not particularly fortunate in terms of birth time, it was because the others were even less fortunate.

Honghao thus firmly secured the title of the first legitimate son of Kangxi's grandchildren and has lived peacefully to this day.

Long before leaving the palace, Yin Yi and Shu Mulu had already discussed where Hong Hao would go, which was to move to the front yard of the mansion a year in advance to live with him.

Yinyi was able to use this time when he wasn't busy to teach Honghao his early education.

At the end of the thirty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign, Lady Shumulu gave birth to her youngest son, Hongqing. Taking care of two children was quite a burden, so she quickly agreed to Yinyi's idea and handed Honghao over to Yinyi.

“Father, son, come help your father.”

Despite being raised to be a small, round ball, Honghao is surprisingly agile.

Even when swaying left and right, they can still maintain their center of gravity.

He clasped his small hands together and spoke in a measured tone, which made Yin Yi's heart soften even more.

His son is adorable and well-behaved, which is wonderful.

Honghao claimed he was helping his father, but in reality, he was just bored in the backyard and Shumulu couldn't control him, so he had to send him to find Yinyi.

"Alright, Honghao, keep an eye on them for your father. Make sure to load these boxes onto the carriage properly. When we leave the palace later, your father will take Honghao with him."

The thought that Honghao had never left the palace in his entire life made Yinyi, as his father, feel a pang of anxiety.

Sigh, no matter what, he should pay more attention to the children before the court falls into chaos in the next two years.

According to his mother, children are very sensitive. If you don't spend enough time with them on a regular basis, it will be difficult to get close to them later.

Yin Yi has not forgotten how he grew up, and now that he is a father, he definitely wants to give his child the best of everything.

When Honghao learned that he could leave the palace with his father, he was overjoyed and danced with delight.

His chubby face beamed with joy, but in Yin Yi's eyes, it just meant his eldest son was so cute and the best kid.

The father and son were talking back and forth, and whether they could understand each other or not, they seemed to be having a good conversation from the outside.

Soon, all the boxes that had been carried out were loaded onto the carriages.

The palace servants, who had been busy all day, happily ran to the backyard to receive their rewards, while Yin Yi, along with Hong Hao, boarded the first carriage and, with a large amount of luggage, left the palace in a grand procession.

People like Yin Yi have become increasingly common among the princes recently.

Everyone has been holding back for a long time, and who doesn't want to leave this cage and be free to fly like a bird in the sky and leap like a fish in the sea?

Yin Yi was relatively slow; it took him about half a year after being granted a title to take any action. The other princes, such as the eldest prince Yin Ti, had disappeared with their families as soon as their titles were granted. Even Emperor Kangxi didn't know how Yin Ti could build his mansion so quickly.

In any case, Yinti moved out of the palace without stopping, without even saying goodbye, leaving the princes living in the princes' quarters completely bewildered, and they all sighed in their hearts that their eldest brother was very good at hiding his thoughts.

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