Chapter 163: Surprise! Regarding Yinzhen staying in the Old Summer Palace and being lazy...

As expected, no one jumped out to say anything about Yinzhen's lazy behavior of staying in the Old Summer Palace, and the family was able to spend a relatively cool summer outside the city.

When I woke up that day, it was still dark outside.

"It's raining, and it seems to be quite heavy." Qi Buchen said as he listened to the sounds outside.

"Yeah." Yinzhen turned over in his sleepy state. "I can't get out of bed. I'll sleep a little longer."

Qi Buchen joked: "Hongshi and the others must be very happy."

Yinzhen immediately perked up and sat up. "No, they're just starting to develop a habit. We can't give up halfway." He got out of bed and dressed, not forgetting to tell Qi Buchen, "You can sleep a little longer. It's okay."

Qi Buchen poked his head out of the tent speechlessly: "What can you do with them in this weather?"

"Don't worry about it. I have to do something." Yinzhen was very quick, already dressed and out of the bedroom, and ordered the servants, "Go tell the three princes to get up on time and leave on time."

"Then you better be careful and don't get sick from the rain." Qi Buchen gave this instruction and lay back down. After all, he was not the one who suffered. As for his son, he should exercise well.

She went back to sleep and slept soundly, but the triplets were about to cry. When they woke up in the morning and found it raining heavily outside, they were so happy. However, they were happy for less than three quarters of an hour before a servant came to tell them that they had to go on as usual today.

The triplets really want to ask, Father, are we your biological sons?

When Qi Buchen woke up from his nap, the sky outside had hardly changed, and the rain sounded even heavier.

"Where is the prince?" Qi Buchen yawned and let Lan Hui comb his hair.

Ruixiang said, "The prince took the three princes to Zaoyuan early this morning and hasn't returned yet." She then reported, "Eunuch Lin and Aunt Fuyun just arrived. I said you were still resting and wanted to come and call them, but they said it was nothing serious and wouldn't let me in, so they kept waiting."

Hearing that Fuyun was coming, Qi Buchen immediately perked up, and wondered why Lin Changqing came: "Well, please ask Lin Changqing to go to the warm room and wait, and bring Fuyun in directly."

When Fuyun came in, Qi Buchen had already finished packing. He waved his hand to let Lan Hui and the other two go out, and asked expectantly, "Are you done?"

Fuyun smiled and said, "Okay, I'll follow the drawings you gave me. However, this is my first time making it, so I don't know if it's right. Please take a look. If there's anything wrong, I'll change it."

He opened the bundle he had been holding in his arms, took out a long coat from it and shook it out: "Look, is this it?"

Qi Buchen looked at it over and over again, nodded and praised: "That's what I mean, your craftsmanship is getting better and better. Let me try it first to see the size."

It turned out that Fuyun had a good grasp of her size. Qi Buchen said with satisfaction, "Not bad."

Fuyun blushed when she saw her wearing it, and said hesitantly, "Princess, is it okay for you to wear this?"

No matter how you look at this dress, it doesn't look like a proper person's...

Qi Buchen laughed: "You have also given birth to a child, how come you are still so shameless? Don't worry, I won't wear it out. But you have to clean it up and burn those drawings and other things later."

A piece of clothing is nothing, but these days, it’s better not to mention it.

Fuyun quickly expressed her loyalty: "I wrote down the drawings immediately and burned them. Princess, don't worry, I will never say anything. No... I have never made this dress."

Qi Buchen didn't correct her perception, but only said, "That's not necessary. Who knows, I might ask you to do something different in the future. Just keep it a secret."

Whether it will be done or not depends on whether Yinzhen is satisfied with it.

Fuyun nodded repeatedly to show that she understood. Qi Buchen changed his clothes and found a suitable place to put them. The two talked about the business of the shop for a while. Fuyun looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"If you have something to say, just say it." Qi Buchen directly said, "You are all the elderly people around me, I will help you in any way I can."

Fuyun looked ashamed. "It's not that I'm playing tricks on you, but this matter is not my business. I don't know whether I should tell you. Well, I heard recently that the one from Baohuan's family wants to take someone in."

Logically speaking, this kind of thing is too common and not worth mentioning in front of the princess.

However, as the first maids around the concubine, except Baozhu, the other three all married well. And because the prince always stayed with the concubine, the men in the family never talked about taking in a concubine. Over the years, they have been envied and jealous by others.

And everyone subconsciously believed that as long as the prince stayed with his wife, their men would never take anyone else.

To say she wasn't happy would be a lie. Fuyun had also thought about what would happen if the prince took someone else in one day. Would the men in her family change their attitude?

But she never expected that the prince had not yet taken anyone in, but one of them couldn't help it.

Qi Buchen was silent for a moment: "Did you say why?"

Baohuan had originally been in love with Zhou, a guard close to Yinzhen, and Qi Buchen had helped them get together. However, because Yinzhen disliked their illicit relationship, he hadn't given them much importance over the years. Baohuan was fine; at least she managed the flower farm, earning a good income and enjoying some respect among the servants. However, with Qi Buchen's shift away from managing grain production, the flower farm's importance declined. Baohuan was now little more than a shopkeeper, seeing Qi Buchen only twice a year, a worse prospect than Fuyun.

As for Guard Zhou, it was the same as before. Over the years, with Yinzhen's promotion to Prince and the four young masters growing up, the original six guards around Yinzhen had long been expanded and replaced. Except for Jin Bao who was still the chief of the guards, only Guard Zhou remained in his original position. The other four were assigned to the four children respectively, and they were all reserve for future chiefs.

Fuyun was helpless when talking about this: "It is said that it is because Baohuan did not give birth to a son." Baohuan only gave birth to two girls in these years, so Guard Zhou used this reason and made it impossible for people to refuse.

Qi Buchen had no choice. Even someone as high-ranking as Baya had to compromise because of his son, so what about Baohuan?

"Got it. I'll prepare some things later and you can give them to Baohuan for me."

"Yes." Fuyun sighed inwardly, knowing that Fu Jin meant that she was not going to take care of it. But then again, under what name could Fu Jin take care of such a matter?

After Fuyun finished dealing with the matter, Qi Buchen went out to see Lin Changqing: "Is there something going on in Beijing?"

Lin Changqing had no complaints about the princess seeing Fuyun before him, and continued respectfully, "It's nothing serious. The Ulanara Mansion sent an invitation saying that Master Wu Ge has decided to marry his second wife on July 28th, and would like to invite you and me to attend the banquet."

Qi Buchen exhaled, took the post, glanced at it, and put it down casually: "Got it, I will discuss it with you later, is there anything else?"

"There is also some news from the court." Lin Changqing said honestly.

Qi Buchen nodded and said, "I will be back in half an hour. You go down and have a rest. I will ask someone to call you when I come back."

Lin Changqing left, but Qi Buchen began to think about the Ulanara family.

Over the years, she had maintained a distance from the Ulanara family. She was certainly filial to her mother, Jueluo, sending gifts from time to time and visiting in person on festivals and birthdays. She also showed some concern for her younger brother, Wuge, helping him find teachers, asking about his studies, giving him advice on his marriage, and visiting him to congratulate him when he had a child.

But that was all. As for the rest of the Ulanara family, she treated them as ordinary relatives, exchanging gifts during festivals, but nothing else. Often, when she visited the Ulanara family, she wouldn't let Yinzhen accompany her, let alone use Yinzhen's power to seek benefits for her family.

Wu Ge's current job was still done by Yinzhen without her knowledge, but it was done very covertly and not many people noticed.

Because of this incident, there are still quite a few people in the outside world who believe that Prince Yong's favoritism towards his wife is a false appearance, and who knows how many little darlings he has raised behind the scenes. In addition to the little darlings, there are also many people who support the view that Prince Yong is gay and that his true love is a married woman.

After all, what woman wouldn't consider her family? If Princess Yong really favored him, would her family still be in such a shameful state?

Qi Buchen didn't care what they said. Besides Jueluo and Wu Ge, she didn't recognize any of the other so-called relatives. If it weren't for the original owner, she wouldn't have wanted to recognize these two.

The thing is, Wen Xian married into the Tong family, which made many declining families in the capital see the way to success. After that, many people set their sights on Kangxi's other daughters.

Jueluo was one of them. It just so happened that the fifth princess and the thirteenth princess were of similar age, so she wanted the fifth princess to marry the princess.

Qi Buchen didn't look happy at the time. Although it was better for the Thirteenth Princess to stay in the capital than to go to Fu Meng, regardless of whether Kangxi would agree or not, just talking about the Fifth Princess, how could he be so confident that he was worthy of the Thirteenth Princess.

Yes, compared to those dandy boys, five grades was considered good, but he could only compare with them. Jueluo doted on him since he was young. Although Qi Buchen had helped find him a good teacher, after all these years, he still couldn't achieve either literary or martial arts. Fei Yanggu had the title of Yunqiwei, but he couldn't even pass the examination required to inherit the title, and was inherited by Fu Cun in vain. This matter was almost like a joke in the capital, and everyone laughed at it.

After not getting a good reputation with Qi Buchen, Jueluo gave up her dream of choosing a wife for Wu Ge. During this period, she did many common and annoying things before finally deciding on a wife.

Qi Buchen had thought that now that he had a wife and a job, he would have some free time in the future. However, his new wife turned out to be unlucky and died during childbirth. After Wu Ge had only been married for a full year, Jueluo was already arranging for him to find a successor.

Qi Buchen had to help and look for half a month before he decided on a suitable candidate. After six ceremonies for more than half a year, the marriage was finally official.

"Oh, I hope this one is fine and lives a long life."

Qi Buchen really didn't want to face Pu Qixin's mother-in-law again. Sometimes she really couldn't understand why Jueluo behaved quite normally when it came to her daughter, but acted like she had lost her mind when it came to her son.