"Cheng'an, do you want to go to the prince's house to play?" After school, Yinqi ran to Cheng'an and invited him.

After he finished speaking, Yinxi, Yinhu and others also came over.

The reason why several people were so active in inviting the little guy to the prince's residence was certainly because they liked this younger brother very much, but also partly because of Kangxi's instructions.

No longer having to practice horse riding and archery, the little guy felt better and agreed immediately to his brothers' invitation.

So, under the reflection of the setting sun, the five princes headed towards the prince's residence together.

Yin Qi saw that he was the first brother to be invited, but now Yin Xi and Yin Hu were holding his hands on his left and right, so he couldn't help but move forward and said, "It's time for me to hold your hand."

Yinxi was already ten years old. Seeing him, he wanted to just reach out his hand, but in the end he gave up the seat next to the little guy to him.

Yinqi successfully held his brother's soft little hand and a smile appeared on his face.

After school, the little guy was in a good mood and held the hands of his two brothers and shook them gently.

When he finally arrived at the prince's residence, he found everything interesting.

"Cheng'an, if you have anything you like, I'll give it to you." Yinqi took him to where he lived and said generously.

The little guy touched here and looked there, but didn't want anything that was his.

"Cheng'an, come on, I'll take you to a place." After Yin Yi spoke, Yin Xi, who originally wanted to take his brother to his place, had to give up.

"Is this where you live, Brother Twenty?"

The little guy followed Yin Yi to another residence and saw a swing in the courtyard and a small rockery pond for raising fish. He let out a soft "Wow".

Yin Yi shook his head slightly and asked, "Does Cheng An like it here?"

"like."

As soon as the little guy finished speaking, Yin Yi immediately asked, "Then how about letting you live here?"

Yinqi and the others must have hoped that he would move in to keep them company, and they were all looking at him expectantly.

However, the little guy didn't agree: "No, I want to live with Ama."

"Didn't you say you like it here?" Yin Yi said, touching his head.

"But I like my father more, and the Palace of Heavenly Purity more!"

After the little fellow finished speaking, he looked up and found that the sky had darkened slightly. Without waiting for Yin Yi to continue persuading him, he said, "I want to go back. Father must still be waiting for me."

Yin Yi originally wanted to take him inside to take a look, but when he saw him running out after he finished speaking, he had no choice but to follow him and send him off.

Palace of Heavenly Purity.

When Kangxi saw him coming back, he asked knowingly, "Why did you come back at this hour?"

"My brother and I went to the abode to play for a while." As the little guy spoke, he was already lying on his legs, looking very clingy.

"What do you think of it there?"

The little guy looked up and told him: "There is a swing and fish in the police station~"

Kangxi saw that he liked the place he had prepared for him, so he asked, "Then do you want to stay there for a few days?"

"don't want!"

Kangxi had clearly tried to be as tactful as possible, but he didn't expect the little guy to react so strongly. Not only did he refuse outright, he also held his hand and changed the subject, saying, "Father, let's go have dinner."

"Your brothers all live over there. If you go over there, you'll have company when you go to the Shangshufang every day. Isn't that good?" Seeing that he stood up and was about to pull him to have dinner, Kangxi pulled him back and said.

"My brothers already have partners. I want to stay with my father. I don't want to live there."

In fact, if he wasn’t afraid of making him unhappy, the little guy would have wanted to say that he didn’t want to study.

Kangxi found that he couldn't persuade him, so he said unhappily: "I don't need you to accompany me."

"I want to accompany you, I want to accompany you..." The little guy was a little unhappy when he heard his words. He opened his arms and hugged him and rubbed against him.

Kangxi looked down at him, feeling very helpless, and finally had to take him to have dinner first.

As soon as dinner was over, the little fellow ran off to play with his toys.

Kangxi didn't think anything of it at first, but after a while he suddenly realized that the man had started reading, but not like before, so he called the man to come to him.

After the little guy consolidated what he had learned today under his guidance, he suddenly remembered that his Chinese teacher had asked him to write a page of words and hand it in tomorrow.

"Why do I have to read and write at night..." Cheng'an couldn't help but mutter to himself while writing.

Kangxi pretended not to hear what he said, considering that he still knew how to conscientiously complete the homework assigned by his master.

After the little guy finished writing and washing up, it was time to rest. Feeling like he hadn't played yet today, he couldn't help but roll over on the bed several times.

The weather was still a bit cold at the moment. Kangxi saw him rolling around on the quilt and directly picked him up and stuffed him into the quilt: "Go to sleep quickly, don't be unable to get up tomorrow."

"But I'm not sleepy yet!" The little guy found that he couldn't even roll over, and couldn't help but puffing up his cheeks slightly.

"If you have the guts, say the same thing tomorrow morning." Kangxi thought about how hard it was to wake him up in the morning these past two days, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch his face, "Go to sleep, you'd better wake up by yourself tomorrow morning."

"Who told you to wake me up before the sun even comes out?" the little guy snorted.

"You should start studying early. It would be a waste to spend all your precious time sleeping."

After Kangxi finished speaking, he didn't want to waste any more time talking to him, and he simply signaled the people waiting beside him to drop the bed curtains and turn off the lights.

After the bed fell into darkness, the little guy had to sleep even if he didn't want to.

He got up early in the morning, so he could actually fall asleep if you asked him to, but he probably still felt like not having any fun today, so he didn't want to sleep.

Kangxi closed his eyes and patted him gently. After waiting for a while, he still felt some movement around him, so he patted him a little harder, as a reminder.

The little guy, who had nothing to play with, even played with his hands, put his hands down and started playing with his face, puffing up and then flattening his cheeks.

The little guy who said he wasn't sleepy at night, couldn't get up in the morning as expected.

Kangxi thought about how he refused to go to bed last night when he was called to do so, and he felt like spanking him.

"Look at which brother is like you..."

In the end, although he couldn't bear to do it, he couldn't help but mutter to the little guy who was crawling from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed.

The bed was too warm, Cheng An didn't want to get up at all, especially when he recalled the scene of going to the Shangshufang to study yesterday morning. He was starting to feel dizzy, so even if he heard his father calling him, he remained unmoved and instead burrowed deeper into the quilt.

Kangxi saw that he had shrunk into the corner at the end of the bed wrapped in a quilt, and said, "If you don't get up, don't eat the gourd chicken at noon."

"Is there any cuckoo chicken for lunch?" The little guy subconsciously poked his head out from under the quilt when he heard the word "eat".

Seeing that he had a reaction when talking about food, Kangxi glanced at him and nodded: "Get up quickly, you can eat gourd chicken when you come back at noon."

The little guy wanted to eat cuckoo chicken, but studying was really tiring, so he hesitated for a moment.

"Your study partner will also enter the palace today, so don't dawdle any longer." After Kangxi said this, he reached out and grabbed him from the corner, and asked someone to change his clothes for him quickly.

"What reading companion?" the little fellow asked after yawning.

"It's the person who studies with you."

A lot of time had already been wasted trying to wake him up, so Kangxi ignored him after he finished speaking.

Everyone in the entire Qianqing Palace started to move, and as soon as the father and son finished cleaning up, they immediately served breakfast.

Kangxi urged him to finish his breakfast quickly and then took him out immediately. On the way to the Shangshufang, he gave him a few more instructions.

The little guy has heard similar words many times in the past two days. Now he leans against him, yawns and nods.

"Ama, look, the sun isn't out yet, why do we have to get up so early?"

"Because I have to attend the morning court, you have to study." After Kangxi said this, he saw that they were already outside the Shangshufang and signaled him to go down quickly.

The little guy hugged him and said, "Ama, I want to be with you."

How old is he still so clingy? It's really...

Kangxi looked at him, shook his head, and carried him away.

When the little guy saw him put himself on the ground, he immediately got on the imperial sedan chair and left, showing an unhappy expression.

"Zhang Ruoai has met the Twenty-Fourth Prince."

The little guy suddenly heard someone talking next to him. He turned around and saw a strange boy. He looked at him curiously: "Are you talking to me?"

"Little prince, this should be the study companion arranged for you by the emperor." Liu Cai stepped forward and said to him.

The little guy nodded to show that he understood, then looked at his study partner and asked, "Your name is Zhang Ruoai? You are not short, why do you call yourself Zhang Ruoai?"

"I'm not short, I'm talking about mist, the mist of the evening that covers the vast sky of Chu." Zhang Ruoai was quite calm despite her young age. Even when he misunderstood her name, she just explained it slowly and leisurely.

The little guy hadn't read the poem he mentioned yet, but he nodded and said, "I remember it."

Zhang Ruoai was still young, and she was somewhat nervous about entering the palace, a place with many rules, alone. However, when she found that the young prince in front of her seemed to have a good temper and was also good-looking, she couldn't help but relax a little.

Hearing the sound of reading coming from the Shangshufang, he thought of his responsibility as a study partner and reminded, "Twenty-fourth Prince, it's time to go in and study."

The little guy sighed almost imperceptibly, but followed him in.

Yin Yi noticed him come in and came over to teach him what he was supposed to read today. However, because he saw that he had a reading partner, he only taught him once and then returned to his seat.

Zhang Ruoai had finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and when Yin Yi left, he began to read with the little guy.

It was still dark outside, but the sound of reading could be heard in the study room. This atmosphere was very contagious.

But even so, after reading the same article ten times, the little guy didn't want to speak anymore.

This time the master was not there, and his brother was not around either. The little guy read a few more sentences and then rested his face with his hands.

Zhang Ruoai was reading very seriously. After a while, she realized that he was silent, so she leaned closer and whispered, "Twenty-fourth Prince, why don't you read?"

"Why should I read it again if I've memorized it?" Cheng'an's voice was even lower than his, obviously not wanting to attract his brothers' attention.

"But doesn't it mean to read it a hundred and twenty times?"

Zhang Ruoai had been taught the rules of studying in the palace by her father long before she came here. At that time, she even sighed that it was worthy of being in the palace where the study rules were so strict.

"But I don't want to read anymore. I'm so tired..." The little guy said, pursing his lips and looking at him.

Zhang Ruoai doesn't have a younger brother yet, and she felt a little embarrassed when the fair and tender little guy looked at her with his big black eyes.

He thought about it and came up with an idea: "How about I read it out loud and you can listen and read along silently in your mind?"

When the little guy heard his words, his eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly.

So next, one of them read while the other listened. Because the little one had already memorized what was being read, when he heard Zhang Ruoai reading, even if he didn't read silently on purpose, what he read would appear in his mind.

Cheng'an continued to support his little face with his hands, and suddenly felt that it was good to have a study companion.

When it was time for breakfast, the little guy directly pulled Zhang Ruoai over to have breakfast together.

Zhang Ruoai bowed to the other princes and only sat down after seeing that they didn't mind.

"This is my 20th brother, 21st brother, 22nd brother and 23rd brother." The little guy even introduced them without any instruction. After introducing his brothers, he also introduced his study partner. "This is Zhang Ruoai. Not the short one, but the one in the dusk, the mist, the sky, the vastness~"

"Got it. You can enjoy your meal soon." Yin Yi responded with a smile, thinking that except for him, no one else would think much of the dwarf's shortness.

When Zhang Ruoai heard what the little guy said, she thought that he had a good memory and unconsciously relaxed a little.

The little guy had already eaten in the Qianqing Palace before, so he didn't eat much this time. Instead, he chatted with his brother and his new study partner while eating.

With the arrival of the master, the little guy became visibly listless again, and only became lively again during the break, running to the side to play with his brother.

The break was not long, and soon the Chinese master came over. The first thing he did was to ask someone to collect the characters he had arranged yesterday for inspection.

Fortunately, the little guy remembered to finish writing last night, otherwise he would be fine, but he would have implicated the tutor who had just taken office today and had to be spanked.

At noon, the little guy still had to go back to the study to have lunch. Compared to his listless appearance during class, he was much more energetic after the master left. He stood up and rushed out.

Yin Yi looked at the little guy's back, shook his head, and asked someone to prepare lunch for Zhang Ruoai.

In fact, no one would dare to forget Zhang Ruoai's lunch without his order, but Yin Yi had to take better care of her for the sake of the little guy.

Palace of Heavenly Purity.

"Ama, is the cuckoo chicken ready?"

Before the little guy entered the house, his voice had already reached Kangxi's ears.

"You only know how to eat." Kangxi said unhappily.

"Who said that? I still know Ama." The little guy said, rushed to him and hugged him, "Ama, I miss you so much~"

"It's only been half a day since we last met. What's there to miss?" Kangxi said and then asked about his study in the morning.

The little fellow thought that he had listened to the book instead of reading it that morning, and felt a little guilty, so he looked around and said, "Father, the reading partner you found for me is called Zhang Ruoai, and Ai is the same as Ai in the poem Dusk is Heavy and Vast."

It is natural that Kangxi would not not know the name of the person chosen by him personally, but when he heard that he also knew "The dusk mist is heavy and the sky is vast", he could not help but laugh.

"Then do you know where this poem comes from?"

"I don't know." The little guy shook his head.

Kangxi told him, chatted with him about the poem for a while, and then took him to have lunch.

The freshly made gourd chicken is golden in color and full of fragrance.

The little guy ate the cuckoo chicken with crispy skin and tender meat, and the mental fatigue caused by reading in the morning was soothed.

"Eat slowly." Kangxi reminded him when he saw that his cheeks were puffed up from eating.

The little guy nodded, and after swallowing the meat at the corner of his mouth, he picked up another chicken leg and put it in his bowl: "Ama, you eat too."

In the afternoon, it’s called the Shooting Palace.

When Cheng'an was standing in front of the target shooting arrows, Zhang Ruoai stood beside him watching and occasionally handed him an arrow.

"Why don't you shoot arrows?" the little guy said, and without waiting for his answer, he continued, "Don't you know how? I'll teach you!"

Apparently, the little guy was a little bored with archery practice and wanted to find something to do.

It’s not that Zhang Ruoai can’t shoot arrows, but compared to studying, he is not that good at riding and shooting.

However, when he heard the little guy's words, his first reaction was to refuse. After all, he was here to be a study companion, so there was no reason for him to teach him.

The little guy didn't care and insisted on giving him the bow and arrow in his hand, and started teaching him in the same tone as his brothers had used to teach him.

Zhang Ruoai couldn't refuse, so she could only passively shoot at the target under his instruction.

"It's okay, you will definitely hit the target next time." The little guy comforted him considerately when he saw that his arrow missed.

Master Wu had just gone to Yinqi's place to give instructions. When he discovered the situation here, he was quite amused.

There was no shortage of targets and bows and arrows in the archery hall. Seeing that the young prince insisted on teaching his companions archery, Master Wu could only let them shoot together and he would teach them personally.

With a martial arts master standing nearby and watching, the little guy had no choice but to continue practicing.

After shooting a few more arrows, he turned around and asked, "Ai'ai, would you like some snacks?"

When Zhang Ruoai heard him call her "Ai'ai" for the first time, her face turned red. She was obviously embarrassed to be called that, so she politely refused. However, he simply didn't listen, so she could only accept it passively.

"Are you hungry, little brother?"

The little guy was not used to him always calling him the Twenty-Fourth Prince, and originally asked him to call him by his name, but Zhang Ruoai felt that it was unreasonable, so he changed his name to "Little Prince" like Liu Cai and the others.

Cheng'an wasn't really hungry, he just wanted to take a break and have some pastries.

After he took the lead, everyone soon put down their bows and arrows and took a rest while eating snacks.

The tutor did not live in the palace. When the sun set, Zhang Ruoai said goodbye to the little one and prepared to leave the palace.

Zhang Mansion.

Mrs. Zhang was waiting in the lobby worriedly, and when she saw her son come back, she immediately went forward to show her concern.

"My son is fine."

No one knows a child better than his mother. Mrs. Zhang knew from the expression and tone of her son's voice that he had not suffered any injustice, and she immediately felt relieved.

After dinner, Zhang Tingyu called his son to the study and asked him about his situation in the palace that day.

After Zhang Ruoai answered truthfully, Zhang Tingyu was somewhat surprised to find that Zhang Ruoai had a very good opinion of the young prince.

Because of his age, the little prince didn't have many opportunities to show up in public, but everyone in the court knew how favored he was. Not to mention that the emperor still kept him in his own palace, even the other princes were particularly concerned about him.

In fact, if someone had not seen the little prince transform into a dragon with their own eyes and knew that he had an extraordinary origin, the censor would have reported him long ago.

After all, whether he still lives in the Palace of Heavenly Purity or he does not shave his head, it is somewhat against etiquette.

Let's not talk about these for now. In short, in Zhang Tingyu's heart, he subconsciously felt that this little prince who was doted on by everyone in the palace should be more spoiled, so he was somewhat worried that his son would be wronged as his companion. Unexpectedly, he heard a completely different image from his son's mouth.

"Father?" Zhang Ruoai couldn't help but call out softly when she saw that he suddenly stopped talking.

Zhang Tingyu came back to his senses, gave him a few brief instructions, and then motioned for him to go down and rest.

In the next few days, the little guy was a bit troublesome to get up in the morning, which required Kangxi to spend a lot of effort. However, his performance in the Shangshufang was quite good. He did not have the problem of being unable to sit still or not paying attention in class.

Of course, this also depends on having a good-tempered and patient study partner by his side who reminds him from time to time, and who will draw pictures to comfort him when he gets tired of reading.

Just when Kangxi felt that he had gradually adapted to the life of studying and began to consider how to get him to move out, this morning -

"Cheng An wake up."

Kangxi has become accustomed to the first thing he does when he wakes up is to call him, and he reaches out to pat the little guy beside him before his eyes are fully open.

“Wuwuwu…”

Kangxi knew that it was difficult for him to get up, and he didn't expect to wake him up with just one call, but he never expected that he would suddenly burst into tears as soon as he finished speaking.

He quickly got up and sat up, and saw that the little guy was crying with his eyes closed. His eyelids had started to turn red and tears began to flow from the corners of his eyes.

"What's wrong? Father is here, tell him if you have anything." Kangxi shook him worriedly, wondering if he was having a nightmare.

"Wow, wow, I don't want to study..."

If the little guy really has a nightmare, he must be reading in the dream.

Kangxi didn't expect this to be the reason. After a moment of hesitation, he wiped his tears and said, "You were fine a few days ago, why don't you want to study again?"

"Wuwuwu... I just don't want to... I don't want to study..."

Kangxi was troubled by his crying and could only coax him, "Okay, stop crying. Get up and study. I will have someone make you gourd chicken at noon."

However, this time the gourd chicken didn't work. The little guy even cried and said he didn't want to eat the gourd chicken anymore.

"Can I allow you to eat a whole gourd chicken?" Kangxi continued to coax.

"Wow, wow, wow, I don't want to eat..."

Seeing that he still couldn't coax her, Kangxi got angry and said, "Who else is like you? You need someone to coax you to study. If you don't get up and study, I will be rude to you!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." Liang Jiugong could tell that the emperor was really angry, so he stepped forward to help comfort him, "Little prince, please get up quickly. I have prepared your favorite golden silk rolls for breakfast."

The little guy was already crying sadly, and when he saw that his father was still mean to him, his crying suddenly turned into loud crying.

“Wow…”

The reason why he cried like this was partly because he was too tired from studying these days, and he found out that he had to study again today and had no time to rest.

Another part of the reason is that the little guy has been spending a lot of time studying recently. He feels that he has less time to spend with his father, and almost no time to spend with his second brother, mama, and mother. The more he thinks about it, the more uncomfortable he feels.