Chapter 101: Good things come to those who wait Qi Buchen blushed, listening to the two of you...

Qi Buchen blushed as he listened to the two maids talking in a serious and vague manner about the marriage consummation, and at the end he was given a booklet.

"Please take a closer look before my brother comes back."

The two maids were probably very embarrassed and turned to leave. However, before they were about to leave, Nanny Yue turned back and said, "By the way, Baozhu and the others are not young anymore. I wonder what Fu Jin's plans are?"

This is a serious matter. Qi Buchen thought to himself, "I'll think about it again."

After the two left, Qi Buchen opened the mysterious booklet and looked through it. To be honest, he was a little disappointed. After all, it was a simple drawing with a brush, and the visual effect was just so-so.

Roll it up and put it somewhere secret. She probably won’t open it again.

Not long after the coming-of-age ceremony, the Imperial Household Department sent another red card with several dates marked on it.

Qi Buchen was confused: "What is this?"

"Ahem." Nanny Yue cleared her throat and said calmly, "These are the recent auspicious days."

"What do you want this for?" Qi Buchen still didn't understand.

"Ahem." Nanny Yue's throat felt particularly itchy today. "Wait until Prince comes back..."

Qi Buchen saw the shy expressions of Baozhu and others out of the corner of his eye and understood.

She had no choice but to throw the post away as if it were hot, and whispered shyly, "Let's talk about it when I come back..."

She waited until the second day of June, when Yinzhen returned without her knowing anything.

Qi Buchen was surprised and then delighted: "Didn't they say it would arrive on the seventh day?"

"The Emperor's carriage will arrive on the seventh day of the first lunar month. We will come back first and then go to welcome him together," Yinzhen explained.

I get it, it’s easier to build momentum with more people.

"Are you exhausted?" Qi Buchen said distressedly. Kangxi's carriage was moving at a marching pace, and Yinzhen and his men had to return five days early. One could imagine how rushed they were on the road. "Hurry up and eat something and get a good night's sleep."

After not seeing each other for half a year, Yinzhen seemed to have grown a lot, and his voice seemed to have ended. He bent over, and his breath brushed Qi Buchen's ear as he spoke: "After not seeing each other for so long, doesn't Fu Jin miss me?"

Qi Buchen knew what he wanted. She felt soft in her heart and wanted to know what he wanted. How could she not want to know what he wanted? But this time, because he was going to the war, no one was allowed to communicate with him except Kangxi, so she couldn't even send a letter home.

Yinzhen waited for Fu Jin's action. He knew that Fu Jin would definitely hug him, just like the last time she came back after a long absence. But this time it seemed that the wait was a little longer?

Yinzhen was just wondering whether to give another hint when he suddenly felt a warm touch on his cheek, which disappeared immediately.

"think."

Fu Jin's soft voice was so close that Yinzhen couldn't help but hold his breath. By the time his brain realized what that touch was, his face had already turned red and hot, and his thoughts were in a mess.

"Go wash up quickly!" Qi Buchen felt a little shy to take the initiative to approach Yinzhen in front of the servants, and pushed Yinzhen coquettishly.

It was just a light push, but Yinzhen was actually pushed and staggered.

Qi Buchen instinctively went to help: "Hey!"

Fortunately, Yinzhen stood firm. He stared at Qi Buchen with fiery eyes, and with the corners of his mouth raised high, he grabbed Qi Buchen's outstretched hand, pulled him into his arms, and rubbed his lips against his ear: "I missed you too."

Qi Buchen got goose bumps from being rubbed by him. He was afraid that he would lose control and do something in broad daylight, so he quickly pushed him away: "You smell so bad!"

Yinzhen was in a good mood and didn't care. He just smiled and said, "Wait." Then he turned around and went to take a shower.

Although Yinzhen really wanted to do something, he felt so comfortable taking a bath that he fell asleep in the bathtub and had to be carried to the bed by servants.

He slept for nearly ten hours, and when he woke up again, he felt hungry.

After a big meal, he thought of what happened before going to bed and ran to find Fu Jin. He never expected to be told: "Fu Jin went to the Fifth Prince's house to help."

Yinzhen then remembered that the fifth brother's wedding was in these few days, which was one of the reasons why they rushed back this time.

Thinking that the fifth son not only took up his beloved wife's time, but also had his wedding night before him, Yinzhen felt a little unhappy. He returned to the front yard and called Su Peisheng: "The wife's coming-of-age ceremony has passed, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no plans?"

Su Peisheng came back with him and was only more tired than him. He was still trying to understand the situation in the mansion over the past six months. How could he have known about this? He had never expected that the first thing his master cared about after returning was this.

"I'll go ask right away!" Su Peisheng quickly went to do his work and returned soon with a note. "The Imperial Household Department said that they sent an auspicious date to your residence after your wife's coming-of-age ceremony, but you haven't responded yet, so the matter has been suppressed."

Yinzhen understood instantly that it was because he was not there and Fu Jin was too embarrassed to get involved in this matter.

"Give it to me." Yinzhen opened it and started reading.

The nearest auspicious day is Yinqi's wedding day. Although Yinzhen is very anxious, he and his wife must go to the fifth brother's house that day. If they hold the wedding consummation ceremony in the remaining time, it would be too unfair to his wife.

But the next auspicious day was twenty days later. Yinzhen felt it was too late, but he couldn't just pick a day at random. In the end, he had no choice but to set a date twenty days later.

Let Su Peisheng go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ask those people to prepare well for him. He will not let anything go if there is any mistake.

Yinzhen then called his confidants who stayed in the mansion and began to understand the many affairs in the capital over the past six months.

Yinqi's wedding was very urgent. In fact, the Imperial Household Department and the Ministry of Rites had been preparing for many things for the wedding for several months. The main anxious one was the groom. He only came back a few days before the wedding, and took a good rest for most of the day. The rest of the time was used to cooperate with the requirements of all parties.

After several busy days, they finally finished the wedding before Kangxi returned to Beijing. Then they hurriedly got up from their comfortable place and rushed to a place dozens of miles outside the city to wait for the emperor to come.

Qi Buchen did not have to suffer this kind of torture. She stayed in the mansion obediently and listened to the servants coming to report in waves how amazing the emperor's carriage returning to the capital was. The princes, nobles, civil and military officials knelt all the way outside the city, and the people lined the streets inside the city and knelt to welcome him, holding incense. Kangxi's prestige reached its peak for a while.

On this day, Yinzhen did not return until before curfew, but Qi Buchen could not wait and went to bed.

When she woke up the next day, Yinzhen had already gone to court to hold a grand ceremony and reward people according to their merits.

After being busy for several days, Yinzhen finally had some free time.

"What are you busy with next?" Qi Buchen and Yinzhen were leaning on the couch in the small study, one on the left and one on the right, reading and chatting casually.

Yinzhen said in a leisurely tone: "I don't know yet, let's see how the emperor arranges it."

Qi Buchen asked curiously, "Then where would you like to go?"

Yinzhen pinched the corner of the book and thought: "I think I should go to the Ministry of Works. I'm just getting started in water conservancy and want to learn more."

Qi Buchen admired his spirit of always learning. She felt that she had never seen Yinzhen dislike studying. "I'm a little curious, don't you find studying annoying? Is there ever a time when you don't want to study or read? Don't you want to slack off or play around?"

"What are you playing?" Yinzhen said with a smile on his face.

Qi Buchen tilted her head, trying to think of what the dandies of the time liked to do. "Like listening to operas, playing dice, fighting crickets, uh... and..." She couldn't mention visiting brothels, so what else was there? "Cockfighting, dog racing, bird cages?" That was all she could think of. Thinking about it this way, the dandies didn't have many entertainment activities.

Yinzhen put down the book, propped up his chin and thought, "I don't like listening to operas, it's boring; playing dice, I've played it since I was seven or eight years old, and the emperor even hired someone to teach us how to cheat; cricket fighting... Old Ten used to love this, but I'm not very interested; as for dogs, I'd really like to raise one, I'll take you to the kennel in a few days, and we can pick out a few to raise; as for birds, I'd rather raise hawks, this time I went out and saw some Mongolians raising very good hawks, but unfortunately I haven't found a good hawk breeder, I need to look around a bit more..."

From what I heard, Yinzhen's only interest was in raising pets.

Qi Buchen didn’t like it much before, mainly because she was lazy and didn’t want to serve an ancestor, but now that she doesn’t have to support it herself, she can still accept it.

"Okay, which kennel are we going to? When are we going?" Qi Buchen asked excitedly.

"When?" Yinzhen leaned forward and said with a smile, "After I move back to the main courtyard."

Qi Buchen blushed instantly. Since this man set a date with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, although he did not make any physical advances, he became more and more presumptuous in his words, which made Qi Buchen, an adult, often unable to cope with it and felt deeply ashamed.

"Want to move back? But it's not that easy."

She was just being tough, but who knew that she would suddenly turn into a bad-mouthed woman. Just two days before the wedding consummation date, Concubine Ping suddenly passed away.

Even though Concubine Ping has always been a nobody in the harem, she is still a concubine after all, so princes and their wives like Qi Buchen still have to abstain from desires for a few days to show their respect.

As a result, the wedding consummation date has to be postponed, and the next auspicious day will be in July.

After finishing Concubine Ping's funeral, Yinzhen looked at his wife with some grief and anger, gnashing his teeth and saying, "You should talk less these days."

Qi Buchen pulled his mouth to indicate that he would shut up obediently.

Unfortunately, it seemed as if God did not want Yinzhen to achieve his wish smoothly. In mid-July, the eleventh prince Yinzhen died of a sudden illness.

Concubine Yi almost collapsed when her twelve-year-old son suddenly passed away. Even Kangxi, who was accustomed to the pain of losing a son, shed a few tears when he heard about it.

Yinzhen didn't say anything this time and took the initiative to ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to postpone the date. After all, he was his biological brother. Although as an older brother he didn't need to observe mourning for him, it was still sad at this time.

After all, Yinzhen was only an underage prince, and his death affected only a few people. However, a few days later, Concubine Chen in the palace was found to be pregnant, and congratulations were heard again in the harem.

Only when the newly married five wives were diagnosed with pregnancy pulses did Yinzhen finally have his wedding night.

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Author's words: Yinzhen: Full of twists and turns? My fists are hard!