After this incident, Mingzhu completely gave up on Yinzhi.

He is now considering secretly surrendering to the Third Prince. The most important problem now is to find a suitable bond to tie him to the Third Prince's chariot.

But Mingzhu was a little troubled about choosing the person to be this link.

After all, there is still some time before the Third Prince returns to Beijing, so he can still make some further plans.

No matter how turbulent the outside world was, Yinreng hid in Wuyi Zhai, which seemed to indicate that he was unmoved.

This made those who wanted to make fun of Yinreng a little disappointed.

But there are also some people who think that Yinreng was just holding on.

Marcy is one of them.

With the help of this favorable situation, he has now established a connection with Yinsi and is just waiting for Yinsi to enter the court next year so that he can show his talents with him.

Not long after Yinzhi left Beijing, Kangxi held court in Qingxi Study as usual.

Seeing that the matter had been discussed almost to the end, Soetu gave a look to the Minister of Rites Shamuha. Shamuha understood and took the initiative to step forward when Kangxi asked if there was anything else.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has drawn up the rules for the Crown Prince's marriage ceremony, and they still need Your Majesty's review."

Shamuha bowed respectfully and handed over the memorial in his hand.

In fact, there was nothing fishy between him and Soetu, but Shamuha was not willing to postpone the prince's wedding ceremony. Although Soetu's ideas were inconsistent with his, their goals were the same.

So when Soetu found him, he readily agreed.

Upon hearing this, Kangxi frowned and glanced at everyone standing in the hall.

Everyone looked calm, as if they had not heard what Shamuha said.

Kangxi pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice,

"Present it."

It was not a good idea to keep dragging it on like this. He was still a little angry with Yinreng, but he did not want others to think that Yinreng had no place in his heart at all.

Liang Jiugong stepped forward and took the memorial. Kangxi took it, opened it and glanced at it.

After seeing the items listed above, I still felt a little dissatisfied, so I opened my mouth.

"There are only three months left until the Fourth Prince's wedding. The Ministry of Rites still needs to finalize the Fourth Prince's wedding regulations first. As for the Crown Prince... marrying or marrying is a major matter, so you still need to consider it."

This means...

It seems that he is still not satisfied.

Shamuha was feeling irritated.

But I can only agree with frustration,

“Yeah.”

It has been more than a year since the Emperor issued the decree to grant the Crown Prince and the Guwalgiya family a marriage. It took him more than half a year just to prepare the gift list for Naji and Nazheng.

Who can bear it?

Suo Etu was also a little disappointed.

The prince is not a lustful person, and there is only one princess in the backyard who teaches people.

The wedding date was postponed again and again, which meant that the arrival of the young master of Yuqing Palace was also postponed.

Although the eldest prince has no legitimate son yet, the third and fourth princes are still a threat.

If they gave birth to a legitimate grandson earlier, wouldn't the emperor favor them more?

The fact that the crown prince was the legitimate heir rather than the eldest son had always been a source of worry for him.

Now, the young master of Yuqing Palace may not be able to stay in power for long, and Soetu is depressed.

The old fox in the court couldn't help but feel nervous after hearing what Kangxi said.

The emperor attaches so much importance to the prince's wedding, it is obvious that he does not completely ignore the prince.

Then his intention of promoting the other princes is worth further investigation.

Coming out of Qingxi Bookstore, Tong Guowei's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death.

His guess came true, but he didn't feel relieved at all.

The emperor still has the prince in his heart, but the fight between the two of them has a wide impact, involving many princes, and the relationship between the two will definitely be damaged.

What is the emperor's intention in doing this?

Tong Guowei prided himself on understanding Kangxi and his ability to guess Kangxi's thoughts very accurately, but at this moment his mind was in a mess and he had no idea what Kangxi was trying to do.

The prince now... has no son!

That evening, when the sun was not so scorching, Yinzhen came out of Shuchun Garden and rode a carriage straight to Wuyi Zhai.

Yinreng was sitting in the yard eating ice cream. When he saw him come in, he called out to him.

"Xiao Si'er, come and sit down!"

Yinzhen paused, then walked to the chair next to Yinreng as if nothing had happened and sat down.

Yinreng ordered the palace maid to serve him a bowl of iced double-skin milk, garnished with some crushed peanuts, raisins and fruit leather.

"Try it! This is something my second brother made himself. It's not available anywhere else!"

Yinzhen scooped up a piece of double-skin milk with a small spoon and shook it before putting it in his mouth.

It looked like tofu, but once he put it in his mouth and felt the milky aroma bursting out from it, Yinzhen was a little surprised.

"Made of milk?"

"Well, milk, egg whites, and sugar, to be exact."

Yinreng put the empty bowl aside and sighed with satisfaction.

“It would be nice if every day was truly free and easy…”

Yinzhen ignored it and pretended he didn't hear it.

Although my second brother is a little lazy, he has never been perfunctory in doing the tasks assigned to him by the emperor.

Everything is done beautifully, and others can't find any fault with it.

What Yinzhen didn't know was that this was the typical characteristic of cattle and horses in later generations—

He says every day that he doesn't want to do this anymore, but when his performance is checked, guess what, he has full attendance every month.

"I told you that you don't have to come to me every two days. It's so tiring."

Yinzhen didn't answer and concentrated on chewing the dried fruit in his mouth.

Yinreng could only laugh and scold,

"Pretending not to hear, huh?"

"Fourth Brother, you have the heart, but Second Brother really doesn't need you to show your loyalty. Just do your job well and spend more time with the Emperor. That will be more useful than coming to me."

Yinzhen paused, turned his head and looked at Yinreng who was lying in a state of disgrace.

"Third brother has second thoughts."

Although it was unkind to talk about people behind their backs, Yinzhen still wanted to remind his second brother.

He didn't want to wait until his third brother really made his stance clear and stood against his second brother, which would have hurt his second brother.

Yinreng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

He waved his hand to let the palace servants who were waiting beside him leave, and then said,

"From the beginning to the end, I didn't care about you, the eldest brother, or my other brothers competing with me for the throne. Maybe in your eyes, the throne represents supreme power, but to me, it is actually a shackle."

Yinzhen was stunned.

His face was full of confusion.

"There's a saying that goes, 'Whoever wears the crown must bear its weight.' I've been crowned Crown Prince for nearly twenty years. Ever since I can remember, I've faced nothing but doubt, speculation, covetousness, and malice..."