"Holy crap, Second Prince, isn't your hangover soup bitter?" The First Prince asked incredulously as he watched the Crown Prince drink a bowl of hangover soup like it was wine.

"It's not bitter, it's sweet!" the Crown Prince said with a smile as he looked at He Xue.

"I think you're drunk!" The eldest prince didn't believe the crown prince's words at all!

After hearing what the eldest prince said, Xue realized why the crown prince was acting strangely: he must be drunk and talking nonsense.

However, the Crown Prince's gaze was a little too intense, making He Xue feel uncomfortable.

"Big brother, you guys eat first! I'm going back! I'll come back for the quilt tomorrow!" After saying that, He Xue lowered her head and left Fengxian Hall.

Seeing He Xue flee as if running away, the Crown Prince felt a pang of regret. Had he frightened He Xue? If he had known this, he would never have said anything.

After leaving Fengxian Hall, He Xue calmed down. She realized that the Crown Prince must have been drunk and said those things. He might not even remember what he said tomorrow, so she didn't need to take it to heart.

If the Crown Prince knew what He Xue was thinking at this moment, he really hoped that He Xue would take it to heart!

When He Xue returned to Chengqian Palace, she saw Consort Tongjia sitting in the main hall.

"Aunt, why are you up?" He Xue asked as she approached Consort Tongjia.

"Where have you been?" Consort Tongjia asked. She knew when He Xue left Chengqian Palace, and she had asked Xia Bing to find out where He Xue had gone.

She wouldn't feel at ease until she saw He Xue return, so she kept waiting for He Xue.

Seeing the way Consort Tongjia looked at Xuejian, one could tell that Consort Tongjia already knew everything. "Aunt, you know everything?"

"What do you think?" Consort Tongjia asked in return.

"Hehe! Nothing can be hidden from Auntie!" Xue said ingratiatingly, "The Crown Prince and the others got drunk and were punished by their Uncle Emperor to kneel in the Fengxian Hall."

I went and brought them some blankets and some hangover soup!

"How do you know that they were punished?" Consort Tongjia asked.

"It was Eunuch Liang who came specifically to tell me this!"

Consort Tongjia nodded. There must be something Kangxi meant in this. Kangxi punished the four princes and then regretted it, which is why he sent Liang Jiugong to find He Xue.

Consort Tongjia was somewhat dissatisfied with Emperor Kangxi. Since she regretted it, why didn't she just not punish him? Why bother He Xue so much in the middle of the night?

"Alright, Auntie understands. You go and rest! Auntie will handle the rest!" said Consort Tongjia.

"Um... Aunt, I added Coptis chinensis to the hangover soup!" He Xue said, not daring to look at Consort Tongjia.

"You!" Consort Tongjia smiled and pointed at He Xue, "It's alright, it'll teach them a lesson!"

He Xuejian, seeing that Consort Tongjia had not punished her, went to rest with peace of mind.

Thanks to He Xue's help, the four of them didn't have too bad a night.

While Emperor Kangxi was attending the morning court session, Consort Tongjia sent someone to take the cotton quilt back to Chengqian Palace.

After the morning court session, Emperor Kangxi ordered his four sons, including the Crown Prince, to be brought to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The four princes knelt before Emperor Kangxi.

It wasn't until Kangxi had finished reviewing all the memorials that he looked at the four people kneeling below.

"Weren't you quite talkative last night? Why aren't you saying anything today?" Kangxi asked irritably.

"Father, your son knows he was wrong!" the four princes said in unison.

"Baoqing, what did you say about me yesterday?" Kangxi asked.

The eldest prince was so frightened he almost fell to the ground.

"Oh, right, I just remembered, Yinzhi, what did you say I was?" Kangxi then looked at the Third Prince.

The Third Prince looked at Kangxi with trepidation.

The eldest prince's words made Emperor Kangxi, the crown prince, and the other two emperors wish they could poison him to make him mute.