Rebirth: My Life as Daddy's Favorite in the Great Qing

A benevolent, all-around best debater and "chicken-raising" professional father; a master of palace intrigue and "white lotus" drama queen mother; a difficult, petty elder brother who ...

Chapter 21 Time Flies, Five Years

After returning to the palace, he first went to the Cining Palace to see the Empress Dowager and chatted with her, then he went to the Shoukang Palace to show his face to the Empress Dowager. After returning to the Qianqing Palace, he was not idle either. He had been away for so long, and when he came back, there was a pile of wrinkles waiting for him to review.

Of course, he was not the only one who was suffering. The Crown Prince who was drafted by Kangxi was the one who was really miserable. While other princes were feeling the mother's love in their mother's palaces, he had to be dragged here by his old father to deal with the piles of memorials. Although he didn't have a mother to feel the mother's love, he was tired after the journey, and it was better to rest in Yuqing Palace than to work as a laborer in Qianqing Palace.

Time flies, and the seasons change. It is summer again. This year is the fifth summer that Yinzuo has spent in the Qing Dynasty.

A lot of things happened during these five years. First of all, our sixth prince Yinzuo grew from a six-year-old child when he first came to the Qing Dynasty to a ten-year-old boy now. Secondly, in the 26th year of Kangxi's reign, the legendary woman who had experienced the Chongde, Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties, the outstanding politician, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, withdrew from the stage of history forever. In the 27th year of Kangxi's reign, the last dragon in the nine dragon battles for the throne, Yinzuo's annoying younger brother, the future general Wang Yinzhen, was born. As for the name of the fourteenth son, Yinzuo said he was powerless to complain. I really don't know what father Kangxi was thinking. If the two sons have the same name, then when the two are together, he still calls the other by the first name. How can he tell them apart?

It was already June of the 28th year of the Kangxi reign, and Yinzuo knew that within a month another major event would occur in the palace. Historically, Yinzhen's adoptive mother, Kangxi's last empress, Tong Jia, had died in July of this year.