In the 55th year of Kangxi, the 24th prince was born.
No one knew that inside this little prince's body was actually a dragon cub that had just hatched from its egg.
While still in ...
Cheng'an ate the sweet and delicious cakes fed by his fourteenth brother, and drank the mellow milk fed by his eldest brother. His mood finally improved, and he smiled at his two brothers with a circle of "white beard".
The little guy who had just cried was still pitiful even when he smiled. Yinzhi was unusually careful and considerate at this moment. He took the handkerchief prepared by the servants and gently wiped the milk off his mouth.
After he finished wiping, Yinzhen continued to feed him the cakes in his hand.
Seeing the little guy eating happily, Yin'e suddenly felt a little hungry. When he reached out to take a piece of cake, Yinzhi slapped him on the back of his hand.
"Brother, why did you hit me?"
"Cheng'an is so hungry, and you still have the nerve to snatch his food?" Yinzhi couldn't help but look at Yin'er after he finished speaking, "You've been doing business for so many years in vain, and the money you earned can't even support Cheng'an? Look how thin he is!"
"It's not what you think, brother..."
Before Yinzhen finished explaining, the people below came over with food.
"Cheng'an, eat first and have the cakes later, okay?"
Yinzhen spoke when he saw the food coming up, but the little guy still held his hand tightly, and didn't let go until he finished eating the cake in his hand. Then he nodded obediently, with a little cry in his voice: "Okay..."
"Come here, let big brother feed you." Yinzhi didn't bother to blame Yin'er and the others anymore. He picked up the bowl and started feeding them.
"There are chopsticks~"
Cheng'an saw the chopsticks on the table, said something before opening his mouth to eat the food he fed him.
Yinzhi didn't understand why he was paying attention to the chopsticks, but when he saw him swallow a few bites and then open his mouth again, he quickly picked up another piece of beef with chopsticks and fed it to him.
The beef here is mostly from yak, which is more tender and delicious than ordinary beef.
After the little guy ate it in one bite, his eyes sparkled and he said, "It's so delicious~"
Yin'er and Yin'e also wanted to eat Daqing's food. Seeing him eating so happily, they picked up their bowls and chopsticks and started eating with him.
Yinzhi was busy feeding the little ones and had no time to take care of them. As for Yinzhen, he had a good relationship with Yin'er and Yin'e, so he naturally would not stop them from eating.
"It's really delicious." Yin'e picked up the dishes and put them into the bowl. After finishing half a bowl of rice in a few bites, he sighed.
Yinzhen felt that compared to the capital, the food here was just average. Seeing that the little guy and he were eating so quickly, and even Ninth Brother was not slow, confusion appeared in his eyes.
"Could it be that you flew here from the capital and haven't eaten for several days?" Yinzhen guessed.
Otherwise he really couldn't think of any reason why they would praise these ordinary meals.
"No way, we flew here from the West, the food there is simply not fit for human consumption..." After Yin'e took the time to complain, he immediately picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth, feeling that the food in their Qing Dynasty was indeed more delicious.
Yinzhi was originally concentrating on feeding the little guy. Hearing this, he couldn't help but say, "Yin'e, what nonsense are you talking about? The West is far away. You are not bored. Why go there if you have nothing to do?"
"Who is talking nonsense? It's because Cheng'an wanted to come to find you, but he flew over the head and went directly to the West. Otherwise, do you think I would want to go to that crappy place?" Yin'e said after quickly finishing the remaining food in the bowl.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Yinzhen couldn't help but look at Yinzhen: "Ninth brother?"
"What he said is true." Yinzhen nodded in affirmation, then picked up the bowl of soup and started drinking.
"An An wants to drink soup too~"
Yinzhen was about to ask what was going on when he suddenly heard the little guy's voice and quickly fed him soup.
Great Britain also has soup, of course, but the taste... let's not talk about it.
Cheng'an smelled the fragrant broth in front of him and drank it in big gulps, with a satisfied expression on his little face.
"Drink slowly, there's still a lot." Yinzhen was originally going to feed him soup with a spoon, but the little guy thought the spoon was too slow, so he held his hand and went straight to the bowl to drink it himself.
"Come, have some more meat."
Chengan heard the
After hearing what his brother said, he was willing to raise his head from the soup bowl and eat the meat he fed him.
Because they had to make sure he had a good meal first, Yinzhi and Yinzhen didn't ask any more questions for the time being even though they had many doubts in their minds.
After Yinzhen had eaten and drunk his fill, he saw that they were still feeding him and said, "Cheng'an can't eat anymore."
"Is there any brother like you? No wonder Cheng'an is so hungry." Yinzhi was obviously very dissatisfied with him and Yin'e because of the condition of the little guy.
Yin'e was already full by now, half leaning on the table and feeling a little absent-minded. Upon hearing Yinzhi's words, he immediately said, "It's all because the food in the West is too bad..."
"If you keep feeding Cheng'an, he will be full." Yin'er didn't want to argue with Yin'zhi, so he pointed at the little guy's belly.
These few days outside, the little guy didn't enjoy eating at all and had to be coaxed by Yinzhen before he was willing to eat. It was rare to see him eating with big mouthfuls. If he hadn't seen that his belly was already bulging, Yinzhen would not have stopped him.
Yinzhi and Yinzhen looked down and found that the little guy's stomach was indeed bloated, so they didn't dare to feed him anymore.
"Cheng'an, be good and eat this first. If you are hungry later, you can have some cakes and dried meat." Yinzhen coaxed him softly when he saw the little guy staring at the food on the table with an unsatisfied look.
Cheng An was actually full, but he hadn't eaten well outside these few days, so he was still a little greedy. Hearing this, he stretched out his little finger and said, "Can I have another bite of meat?"
Judging from the soft tone, if he could eat it, he would ask Yinzhi to give him a cow.
But this time, he could only pick the smallest piece of beef to feed the little guy and end the meal.
The little fellow was full and rubbed his belly with a satisfied expression. After Yinzhen wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, he began to rub against him and said, "Fourteenth brother never comes back. An An misses you!"
Hearing his babyish voice, Yinzhen's heart softened. He touched his head and said, "Fourteenth brother misses you too."
"What about big brother?"
Seeing their interaction, Yinzhi felt a little jealous.
The little guy immediately stood up and threw himself into his arms: "An An misses Brother too!"
"That's more like it." Yinzhi held him tightly in his arms, feeling that he was lighter than before he left Beijing, and couldn't help asking, "Has Cheng'an not been eating well recently?"
You have to know that he has been away from the capital for several months. The little guy has obviously grown a little taller, but has become lighter. This is obviously abnormal.
"The food there is so disgusting!" Cheng An looked up and told him.
Yinzhen asked: "Where is that?"
"Big Britain." The little guy said after thinking for a while.
"It's Great Britain." Yinzhen corrected and said to the two people who looked over, "Tenth brother, I was not joking just now. That day..."
As Yinlang started talking about the day they boated on the lake, Yinzhi and Yinzhen realized what they had experienced in those few short days.
"What good things can the West have? No wonder Cheng'an is so thin." After Yinzhi finished speaking, he thought that the source of all this was Yin'e, and turned around and said angrily, "Yin'e, Yin'e, sooner or later you will be defeated by that mouth!"
That was because he was holding the little one in his arms at this moment, otherwise he would definitely let Yin'e see what the "majesty" of a big brother was.
"How would I know it would turn out like this..." Yin'e muttered softly. After all, most people wouldn't really fly just by saying so.
Yinzhen didn't expect that the little guy would suffer because he missed him and went to the West by mistake. He was moved and distressed, but then he suddenly realized another thing: "So you left suddenly, then what about the emperor..."
When Yin'e heard the three words "Emperor Father", he felt a chill on his back and lay down on the table with an expression as if he didn't want to live.
"What's wrong with Tenth Brother?" The little guy nestled in Yinzhi's arms, still holding Yinzhen's hand, but even so he did not ignore his brother who had shared the joys and sorrows with him in the West.
"It's okay, he's just bored." Yinzhi answered him casually, and then said to Yinzhen, "Fourteenth brother, quickly tell someone to rush the message back eight hundred miles away, otherwise the emperor will be in trouble.
Ama doesn’t know how anxious she should be.”
Yinzhen didn't want to pull his hand out of the little guy's arms, but he didn't dare to delay in passing the message to Kangxi. After all, he knew what kind of chaos the capital would be in because the little guy was missing.
"Cheng'an, Brother Fourteen will come back to accompany you later."
"Come back soon!" When the little guy saw him get up, he reluctantly let go of his hand.
In fact, Yinzhen did not leave the tent. He just got up and went to the desk to write a letter himself, and then sent someone to send the letter back to the capital as soon as possible.
By the time the guards took the letter out, the sky was already covered with red clouds, and soon it began to darken outside.
It was so hard to see his two brothers, but the little guy refused to get down from the ground since he entered the tent. He was either clinging to one man's arms or that man's arms. Yinzhen felt a little jealous when he saw this, because after all, when they were in Great Britain, the little guy was the one who stuck to him the most.
Just now, Yinzhi and Yinzhen were concentrating on feeding the little one and did not eat with them. Of course, it was because it was still early and they were not hungry yet.
It was after dark that they started to eat.
"Brother Da, is it delicious?" The little guy's stomach was not completely full yet, but he felt greedy again when he saw them eating.
"Didn't you eat it just now?" Yinzhi said this, and then picked up a piece of meat and fed it to him.
Yinzhen was sitting next to him drinking tea. Seeing this, he said, "He has already eaten. Don't feed him anymore."
"Look at his thin face. If he doesn't eat more when he goes back, the emperor will be heartbroken." Yinzhi said.
After swallowing the meat in his mouth, the little guy said, "An An misses Ama."
"Be good, you've finally come here, take a rest for two days before going back. Your fourteenth brother has already sent the message to the Emperor, he will be relieved to know that you are here." Yinzhi said.
It’s not close from here to the capital, and Yinzhen also thinks it won’t be too late to go back after he has recovered his strength. After all, the journey is quite tiring.
As for letting him fly back, just thinking about the fact that he accidentally flew to the West before made Yinzhen and the others feel scared, and they don't want to let him take risks again.
Maybe it was because of the presence of his two older brothers whom he finally met, the little guy was calmed down after saying "Ama" a few times.
Yinzhi and Yinzhen couldn't help but feel distressed when they saw his thin face, and they fed him a few more mouthfuls of meat while eating, hoping to make up for the loss.
"You don't know, not only is the food in Great Britain bad, but the streets are not as clean as those in Beijing..."
After Yinzhi and his friends finished their dinner, Yin'e couldn't help but complain to them about his days in Great Britain.
What Yin'e didn't know was that it was already planned when he went there. If it was a century earlier, he would have seen what real uncleanness was, and he might have run the risk of "good things" being splashed out of the window while walking on the street.
"That's all your own fault. It's just a pity that our Cheng'an has to suffer with you." Even though he had a good relationship with him, Yinzhen couldn't help but say a few words to him.
When the little fellow heard the word "bitter", he looked up and said, "Brother, take me to drink the medicine!"
"Why would I take you to drink medicine?" Yinzhi couldn't help but touch his forehead when he heard this, then turned to look at Yinzhen, "Did he get sick outside before?"
"No, he was talking about coffee, not medicine." Yinzhen said helplessly.
Cheng An seemed to recall the bitter taste, and frowned as he said, "It's bitter!"
"Just don't drink it next time." Yinzhi touched his head when he heard him tell him in a baby voice.
After the brothers gathered around the table and chatted for a while, it was already late.
Before in Great Britain, everything was inconvenient, even washing and brushing one's teeth was very perfunctory.
They had talked about almost everything they needed to talk about, and Yinzhen suggested giving the little guy a good bath and letting him rest.
There was no shortage of servants here, but the little guy was very clingy, and Yinzhi and the others felt sorry for him, so they simply rolled up their sleeves and prepared to help him wash.
"You guys have to be careful, he loves playing in the water so much that after you wash him, you'll get wet yourself."
Finally back in the Qing Dynasty, Yin'e relaxed
The people who came later also became lazy. Seeing them busy preparing to bathe the little one, they lay on the couch in the tent and said.
When they arrived, the people below had already prepared clean clothes and hot water, so now everything was ready.
The weather was not particularly cold, but Yinzhen still had someone light a brazier and place it nearby before giving the little guy a bath.
"Brother Da, Brother Jiu, Brother Shisi, please wash An An~"
The little guy didn't seem to be embarrassed at all. He sat in the basin and looked at his brothers standing next to him, smiling happily.
"Who washed you outside these two days?" Yinzhen asked knowingly.
"It's Brother Nine and Brother Ten~"
Seeing the little guy playing with water while answering, Yinzhi deliberately grabbed his little hand to stop him from moving.
"I don't want to play anymore!" Cheng An struggled to get free but was not in a hurry. Instead, he chuckled and made promises while laughing.
Yinzhi lifted his little hand and washed his arm, then couldn't help pinching it: "This little hand is like a tender lotus root."
"Lotus root is delicious~" the little guy immediately responded when he heard the word lotus root.
Seeing that he only knew how to eat, Yinzhi lowered his head and approached his hand, deliberately threatening him: "Then give me a bite and see if it tastes good."
“No, no…” The little fellow cried out, shaking his hands and splashing the water in the basin.
On the couch not far away, Yin'e saw them being splashed with water in the face and laughed as if he was watching the fun.
"Brother, don't scare him." Yinzhen wiped the water off his face.
"Brother Fourteen, save me! Brother Da is going to bite An An!"
The little guy took advantage of the moment when Yinzhi let go of his hand and immediately got up and pounced on Yinzhen.
Yinzhen caught the wet little guy and half of his body was wet.
"Stop making trouble and wash yourself properly." Yinzhen saw that the little guy was making trouble on purpose and said with a stern face.
Cheng'an was used to being controlled by him these days, so when he heard his words, he immediately sat back in the basin obediently.
Among the three people, Yinzhen was the most experienced. He finished washing him in no time and even untied his hair to wash it.
After bathing, the little guy put on clean pajamas and was placed on the couch. Yinzhen wiped his hair in an unskilled manner.
The little girl's hair is black and soft, and because it is often braided, it has some small curls when it is let down.
He probably thought it was interesting, and after his hair was half dry, he shook his head and played with it.
While he was drying his hair, Yinzhen and Yinzhi, who were already wet after bathing him, went down to bathe first.
After returning from the bath, Yinzhen said, "You all go and rest. I'll take care of Cheng'an."
"Cheng An should sleep with me at night."
He never had this opportunity when he was in the capital, and Yinzhi didn't want to miss it now.
When Yinzhen heard that he wanted to snatch the baby from him, he immediately took the little guy into his arms and said, "Don't bother me, big brother. I can take good care of him."
After saying that, he carried the little guy directly to the bed behind the screen.
"Why do you want to sleep again?"
Cheng An couldn't help but tilt his head and said after being put on the bed.
To him, it felt like he had just woken up from a nap and flew over here, and had to go back to sleep not long after eating.
"If Cheng'an isn't sleepy, just play on the bed for a while." After Yinzhen said this, he thought about it and thought that there was nothing he could give him to play with, so he simply asked someone to bring chess sets over.
Yinzhi still didn't give up. He followed and tried to lure the little guy into his tent.
While they were sitting by the bed playing with the little one, Yin'er and Yin'e went downstairs to take a bath. After the bath, they did not go back to the tent arranged for them, but came back here.
"Brother Nine, Brother Ten, look, An An won~"
When the little guy saw them, he came over and sat down beside the bed, squinting his eyes to share his victory.
"Cheng'an is really awesome." Yin'e praised immediately.
Yinzhen saw that the little guy became more lively after coming back, and smiled and praised him.
Four people together
After playing with the little guy for a while, Yinzhen touched the little guy's head and saw that his hair was dry. He looked up and said, "Why don't you go to rest?"
"I won't leave. I'll sleep here with you tonight." Yin'e said without any hesitation.
Yinzhen: "I have been sleeping with Cheng'an these past few nights. I'm afraid he won't get used to it if I'm not around."
The implication was that he wasn't planning to leave either.
"Cheng'an has come here with great difficulty, I have to accompany him." Yinzhi saw that it would be impossible to take the little guy out of the tent unless he forced it, so he decided to endure it for his sake and squeeze in with Yinzhen.
It's not like there's no place to sleep. Why are a bunch of grown men squeezing into one tent?
When Yinzhen heard what they said, his face turned a little dark.
However, except for the little guy, everyone present was older than him, so he couldn't force them to leave, so he could only say, "This bed can't accommodate everyone. It will be the same if you accompany Cheng An tomorrow."
After saying this, he lowered his head and asked the little ones if they were sleepy, wanting to use the excuse that the little ones wanted to sleep as an excuse to let them go by themselves.
However, the little guy was in good spirits and shook his head and said, "I'm not sleepy~"
"Why not just let Yin'e sleep on the couch?" Yinzhi said.
Yinzhen's bed was not small, so it was no problem for five people to sleep sideways on it, but it was a bit crowded. If Yin'e was driven away, the space would be very spacious.
Yin'e was immediately unhappy: "Why?"
Yinzhi didn't answer, he just raised his hand and clenched his fist, making a sound.
"Just sleep on the couch!" Knowing that he had long wanted to punish him, Yin'e immediately compromised.
After the discussion, it was really late, so Yinzhen had the chessboard taken away and started to coax the little guy to sleep.
With so many brothers around, the little guy couldn't sleep at all. He climbed around like his brothers were a mountain, and Yinzhen and the others indulged him.
Yin'e, who was already lying on the couch, felt a little desolate as he listened to the noise coming from the bed.
However, he didn't know that something even more miserable was yet to come.
After the little guy was tired from playing, he fell asleep between his brothers unknowingly. Perhaps because he had a good meal back in Daqing and had so many brothers to keep him company, he slept well tonight.
When he woke up the next day, only Yinzhen and Yinzhen were in the tent.
As for Yin'e, he was taken out by Yinzhi to practice Bu Ku early in the morning.
In terms of playing Buku Yin'e, there was no way he could beat Yinzhi. He was knocked down countless times by him. When he came back and saw the little guy woke up, he immediately hugged him and complained: "Cheng'an, your elder brother bullied me..."
"Brother Da can't bully Brother Ten!" The little guy immediately hugged him and said to Yinzhi.
Yinzhi felt better after teaching him a lesson. Seeing that he still dared to complain, he pinched his wrist and glanced at him, and said to the little guy, "Don't listen to his nonsense. Big brother didn't bully him. He just played Buku with him for a while."
The little guy knew what Buku was. He nodded and patted Yin'e's shoulder and said in a baby voice, "Brother Da is playing with you~"
Yin'e wanted to say that he didn't want to play this game, but under Yinzhi's cold gaze, he could only nod and say, "Tenth brother knows."
The other side.
Yinreng met a guard who was delivering news to the capital at an inn on the way. After learning from him that the little guy was in Tibet, he finally felt relieved.
Then he continued to rush towards Tibet, while the guards rode at full speed to the capital.
The 800-li express speed is usually only used for urgent military information, but this time it was used directly to make Kangxi worry less for a few days.
When Yinreng was almost reaching Tibet, the guards finally arrived at Changchun Garden with the letter.
Kangxi has not been eating or sleeping well these days. He often dreams of the little guy at night, and the air pressure around him is getting lower day by day.
For this reason, all civil and military officials have been acting with caution recently, and the atmosphere in the court has been improved.
There was no way. They had previously thought that the emperor had become softer-hearted as he grew older, and was not as strict with officials, especially those with some experience, as he was when he was young, so they gradually relaxed in some aspects.
But recently, as several officials involved in corruption and bribery were severely punished,
No one wants to follow in their footsteps.
"Your Majesty, someone from Tibet has sent a message!"
Liang Jiugong also watched the little guy grow up, and his worry about him was no less than Kangxi's, so when he heard that there was finally news, his tone unconsciously rose.
"Let someone in!"
After Kangxi let the people in, he didn't even bother with the formalities. When he learned that the little guy was indeed in Tibet, he finally felt relieved.
"This brat, wait till I come back and see how I deal with him!"
After making sure that everyone was alright, Kangxi said something before he felt like opening the letter sent back by the guard.
Yinzhen explained everything clearly in the letter. When Kangxi saw that the little guy did not fly directly to Tibet but accidentally flew to Great Britain, his pupils suddenly contracted slightly. Even when he saw that he successfully flew to Tibet again later, he still felt a little scared.