The Dragon Cub is a Qing Palace Group Pet

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 ...

Chapter 152

Seeing that he was leaning on his back and wanted to carry him for a run, Yinzhi turned around and gently bumped his little head before carrying him on his back and jogging a few steps into the peach blossom forest.

The little guy lay on his back, turned around and saw that Thirteenth Brother couldn't catch up with him, and laughed happily.

Yinreng and others saw his smiling face from behind and they also had smiles in their eyes.

"Brother, are you tired?"

After Yinxiang stopped chasing him, the little guy rested his chin on Yinzhi's shoulder and asked him.

He is now much heavier than when he was a child, and he does feel a little tired after carrying it for a long time, but Yinzhi shook his head and said, "Not tired."

After the little guy rubbed his face affectionately twice, he quickly got off his back and ran to play on the swing.

With so many brothers around, there is no shortage of people to push the swing for him.

The swing swung up high and then fell down, and for a moment the peach blossom forest was filled with the clear laughter of the little ones.

After he had enough fun, the brothers stopped pushing the swing higher and let him sit on it and rock it gently.

The little guy raised his head slightly and looked at the brothers around him. Suddenly he thought of something: "Brother, I have something to say to you~"

"What?" Yin'e asked when he saw that he had something to say but didn't say it directly.

"Brother..." The little guy was about to say something, but suddenly remembered that his father had asked everyone to leave, so he followed suit and said, "Let them all leave before I can talk."

The brothers found it a little funny to see that he was still keeping the secret, but they still signaled the people around them to step back, wanting to hear what he had to say.

After the servants left the peach blossom forest, the little guy asked directly: "Brother, do you want to be the emperor?"

His tone was as casual as asking "What do you want to eat today?", but when the brothers heard this, they almost knelt down in front of him.

"Cheng'an." Yinreng called him, signaling him not to talk nonsense.

Yinzhen also reminded him not to say anything inappropriate.

Yinzhen was a little curious: "Cheng'an, why are you asking this?"

"My father asked me first." The little guy didn't understand why his brothers reacted so strongly.

Although he felt that this was not a topic they could talk about, Yin'e couldn't help but be curious: "So how did you answer?"

"I said I didn't want to."

As soon as the little guy finished speaking, Yinzhi immediately asked, "Why don't you want to?"

"Being an emperor is too tiring. I have to get up so early every day, listen to so many people talking, and review so many memorials. My father is so busy every day, and sometimes he has things to do at night..."

Perhaps because he was raised by Kangxi's side since he was a child, the older he got, the more he felt the hardships of being an emperor.

To be honest, there are relatively few princes who do not want to be emperor, otherwise the previous fight for the throne would not have turned out like that.

Hearing the little guy's slightly naive words, the brothers felt a little complicated.

Seeing that his brothers were silent, Cheng An continued, "Father is too tired, so I want to see if any of my brothers want to be the emperor, so that Father won't have to work so hard~"

After he finished speaking, Yin'e almost stumbled, thinking that he really dared to say anything...

The other princes were not as exaggerated as Yin'e, but their expressions were all hard to describe.

After all, he put it too simply, as if being the emperor was an easy task for anyone.

After a long silence in the peach blossom forest, Yinzhi spoke first: "You didn't tell your father about this, did you?"

When the brothers heard this, they all looked at the little guy.

The little guy nodded and said, "Yes, I told my father to let each of the brothers take charge for a day, so that they won't be tired if they take turns~"

One day for each person?

Take turns?

The brothers looked at each other and thought that he was really bold.

"What did the Emperor say?" What Yinzhen actually wanted to ask was, didn't the Emperor beat you?

"Ama said, why don't you just let them each take the job for a month?"

When the little guy mentioned Kangxi's original words, he also imitated his tone at that time.

"Cheng'an, didn't the emperor beat you at that time?" Yin'e finally asked what everyone else was thinking.

"Ama said he wanted to hit me, but I held his hand to stop him." The little guy said with a hint of pride.

The brothers were speechless for a moment.

After a while of silence in the peach blossom forest, Yinreng took two steps forward, touched his head and said, "Don't say such things casually next time."

"Why?"

"Because if you say that again, the emperor will attack you next time, and no one can stop him." Yinreng said.

This was not a topic they could talk about, so the brothers tacitly shifted the topic back to the peach blossom forest.

Yinzhi also proposed to teach the little ones to paint here.

The little guy liked painting very much and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Myna, sit on the swing and don't move. I'll finish the painting soon..."

After the servants brought the drawing table over, the little guy started to paint with Yinzhi, and even insisted that his brother sit on the swing to paint for him. Finally, the good-tempered Yinsi sat down and cooperated with him.

While he was painting Yinsi, Yinzhi next to him was painting him, and the picture he painted showed the little guy having fun and laughing with his mouth open.

After the little guy finished the painting, Yinsi was quite satisfied with his painting of himself. After all, compared with his barely-there ability to draw a human figure when he was a child, his current painting was already pretty good.

However, after seeing Yinzhi's painting, the little guy was very dissatisfied: "Third brother, why don't you help me draw the teeth?"

"You don't have any teeth here."

"I don't care, I want my teeth!"

Yinzhi had specially wanted to draw a picture of him with his teeth missing as a souvenir. Hearing what he said, he picked up another piece of paper and said, "Okay, okay, I'll draw you one with teeth."

After enjoying the peach blossoms, it is April. The little ones and brothers should study or do their work.

When the weather got warmer, the little guy was not so fond of sleeping in. However, even if he got up early, he did not go to study. Instead, he would either pester Kangxi to turn into a little golden dragon and go to court with him, or he would run off to accompany the empress dowager and his mother.

Every time the little guy went to visit the Empress Dowager and his mother, he would first go to the Imperial Garden to pick a few peach blossoms, which made them very happy.

"Father, Grandma said you also loved eating cakes when you were a child..."

That night, the little fellow who had successfully stayed in Kangxi's bedroom again lay on the bed and said.

Kangxi was leaning against the head of the bed reading a book. When he heard this, a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

Ever since the little fellow started to change his teeth, he not only used this as an excuse to act spoiled and naughty in front of him, but also made the empress dowager very distressed. Not only did she tell him about the incident of Kangxi's changing teeth to comfort him, but now she would occasionally tell him about Kangxi's childhood.

"If you keep talking, go back to the next room and sleep." Seeing that he knew it but still insisted on telling him, Kangxi said unhappily.

The little guy immediately covered his mouth to indicate that he would not say anything more, but soon he could not lie still any longer and sat up, saying next to him, "Ama, I want to read a book too."

Kangxi was reading Zizhi Tongjian and didn't think he would be interested, but when he saw that he insisted on coming over, he put the book down and read with him.

Sure enough, after a while, the little guy leaned his head on him, and then his eyelids slowly drooped.

Kangxi looked down at him, shook his head, put the book down, hugged him and lay down to sleep.

After the peach blossoms in the imperial garden withered, the Dragon Boat Festival soon arrived.

"Ama, I want to eat zongzi!"

When Kangxi heard him shouting in his ear that he wanted to eat zongzi early in the morning, he reached out and pushed his little head away from him.

"Ama~"

Maybe it's because he spends less time with him after reading, the little guy becomes particularly clingy when he gets up in the morning and before going to bed at night. Now, as soon as he is pushed away, he immediately sticks back to him like a little sticky bag.

"If you want to eat zongzi, why don't you get up quickly?" Kangxi put his arm around him and helped him sit up.

The little guy hugged him tightly one last time before letting go and preparing to get up.

After getting dressed and washing, the father and son sat at the table to prepare for breakfast.

“The rice dumplings smell so good~”

There were many kinds of breakfast on the table, but the little guy could only see the plate of small and exquisite rice dumplings.

As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for the palace maid to come forward to help, he reached out and picked up two dumplings, put them in the bowl, then lowered his head and began to peel them carefully.

Originally, the palace only made sweet rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival every year, but because he wanted to eat meat rice dumplings at the Mountain Resort last year, they started making salty rice dumplings as well this year.

The little guy picked up one sweet and one salty. After peeling them all, he looked up and asked, "Ama, do you want sweet or salty?"

"Salty." Kangxi didn't bother to be polite and took the salty rice dumpling from his hand.

The little guy didn’t have to study on the Dragon Boat Festival. After breakfast, he ran to the Empress Dowager’s palace.

The Queen Mother was old, and she could not eat food like rice dumplings, which were sticky and difficult to digest. She could only take a small bite at most.

So when the little guy came over, he saw the barely touched rice dumplings on her table.

"Can I have one, Mama?"

At breakfast, Kangxi supervised him and he only ate two, but when he saw the rice dumplings, he wanted to eat more.

The Queen Mother was reluctant to refuse him, so she personally picked up a rice dumpling and handed it to him.

Seeing the little guy eating sweetly, Concubine Mu, who was called over by the Queen Mother, smiled.

The little guy is quite loyal and never gets tired of eating something he likes.

Fortunately, he still remembered that there was a rice dumpling feast at noon. Plus, he was afraid that Kangxi would say something to him if he knew about it, so he didn't dare take advantage of the empress dowager's favor and eat as many rice dumplings as he wanted in Ningshou Palace.

However, even so, he was still scolded by Kangxi during the rice dumpling banquet at noon.

"Eating so many zongzi, aren't you afraid of your teeth sticking to it?"

Although the little guy was already used to his teeth changing, he was still a little unhappy when he heard that his teeth would be stuck off. He immediately ran to his brothers with the uneaten rice dumplings in his hand.

"Liang Jiugong, you go and watch over him. Don't let him eat any more after he finishes what he has in his hand." Kangxi ordered.

“Yeah.”

After Kangxi spoke, the princes naturally did not dare to give the little guy more food, and could only coax him into shooting zongzi for fun.

"I can't eat after being shot..."

The little guy puffed up his cheeks.

Yinreng looked at his belly which was as big as his cheeks and coaxed him, "Would you like to cum for me to eat?"

The little guy became more interested after hearing this, and started shooting zongzi with a special small horn bow.

"Cheng'an, Brother Shi doesn't want to eat sweet rice dumplings anymore, give me a meat rice dumpling."

"Okay~"

The little fellow agreed very well, but when he shot an arrow, he hit a date dumpling.

"Oops! Wrong shot!"

"It's okay, let the myna eat this." Yinsi said as he picked up the rice dumpling.

Then the little guy shot a few more arrows, but none of them hit the rice dumplings, so Yinzhi, Yinreng, Yinzhi and others all ate the rice dumplings shot by the little guy, but Yin'e was left with empty hands.

"Are you deliberately not wanting to give me zongzi?"

The little guy didn't mean it, but he couldn't help laughing when he heard him ask that.

“You still dare to laugh…” Yin’e stretched out his hands and kneaded his little face.

The little guy whose face was pinched quickly assured: "Don't worry, Brother Shi, I will definitely hit the target this time!"

Yin'e waited and waited until everyone else had eaten the rice dumplings he shot, and then he finally got the meat rice dumpling he shot.

"It's really not easy to eat a zongzi." Yin'e sighed while holding the zongzi in his hand, and peeled off the zongzi leaves himself.

After the dark green leaves are peeled off, the rice dumplings inside are revealed, which are dyed slightly yellow by the gravy and exude a salty and fresh aroma.

"Brother Shi, is it delicious?" the little guy asked, standing on tiptoe and looking at the rice dumpling in his hand.

Yin'e knew what he meant. After hesitating for two seconds, he quickly put the zongzi to his mouth and then quickly took it back.

The little guy reacted quickly. Before he could withdraw his hand, he had already bit off the tip of a zongzi and started eating it with his hand covering his mouth.

The brothers saw the two's sneaky actions, and then saw the little guy smiling like a cat stealing fish with his eyes curved, with a hint of smile in his eyes, but they didn't point it out.

This year's dragon boat race was held at Taiye Lake. The scene was obviously more lively than that at the Mountain Resort. The Empress Dowager, concubines, princes and ministers all came to watch.

This time, the little guy still pulled his brothers to participate, and the brothers asked Kangxi for permission before taking him on the dragon boat.

Cheng'an played the drums last year, but this year he insisted on rowing the boat himself.

The princes couldn't do anything about him, so they finally had to let Yinzhi take him along.

"Brother, you have to keep an eye on him." Yinzhi said worriedly.

Yinzhi held the little guy in front of him and said, "Do you need to tell me?"

Since the little guy didn't play the drums, Yin'e simply took over the position.

When the drum sounded, the little guy held the oars and rowed hard, which made Yinzhi laugh.

"Brother, row quickly!"

When Yinzhi heard his urging, he continued to hug him with one hand and held the oar with the other hand to row the boat together with him.

The risk of falling into the water while rowing a dragon boat is quite high, so the brothers can’t help but be distracted by watching the little guy, and as a result, they are slowly overtaken by other dragon boats.

"Brother, row faster!" Cheng'an saw a dragon boat passing by and was so anxious that he wanted to stand up and row.

The brothers didn't care so much about winning or losing. Instead, when they saw him trying to stand up, they reminded him to sit down.

When the little guy was pressed back into Yinzhi's arms and sat down, another dragon boat passed them from behind.

In the stands, Kangxi found that he didn't feel much about them falling behind, and his attention was more on the little guy.

As for the Queen Mother and the concubines, they started chatting as they watched.

"This Yinzhi can't even row a dragon boat properly." Concubine Hui spoke of her own son with disdain.

Rong Fei nodded in agreement: "My son is the same. He seems to be quite strong on weekdays, but he is so far behind when he is rowing a dragon boat with Cheng An."

"Will Cheng'an cry if he loses later?" Concubine Yi did not mention her two sons, but was a little worried.

The little guy didn't cry because he lost the rowing game, but he really didn't want to lose.

It’s not that he has a strong desire to win, but he doesn’t want his brothers to lose with him.

Seeing that two dragon boats were getting farther and farther away from them, the little guy couldn't help but let go of the oars.

"Are you tired? If you are, take a rest." Yinreng, who was sitting next to him, saw his actions and asked with concern.

The little guy shook his head, and the next second a golden light flashed on his body, and he turned into a dragon and flew into the sky.

When the brothers looked up subconsciously, they saw a golden dragon in the sky flying into the water, pushing the dragon boat forward rapidly from behind with its claws.

"this……"

The brothers found that they didn't have to keep rowing the dragon boats and the boats were running very fast, and they all had expressions of confusion on their faces.

They were fine, but the people on the dragon boat behind were really shocked when they saw this scene. The oars in the hands of several people fell directly into the water.

It is a rare scene that while rowing a dragon boat, a real dragon appears.

The dragon boat in the front was still trying hard because it didn't see this scene. However, when the little guy pushed the dragon boat and quickly passed them, the people on the two dragon boats were stunned.

In the stands, Kangxi obviously didn't expect the little guy to do this. He couldn't help but shake his head slightly, thinking that it was just dragon boat racing, why did he do such a thing.

The concubines immediately became lively, and Concubine Yi even joked to Concubine Mu: "This is not dragon boat racing, it's clearly the dragon rowing the boat."

After she finished speaking, not only Concubine Mu, but even the Queen Mother started laughing.

It's all dragon boat racing, it would be strange if the little guys lost.

After the dragon boat race, Cheng An changed back to normal and asked his brothers for praise: "Brothers, am I awesome?"

"Great." Yin'e nodded in admiration.

Yinreng laughed and rubbed his head and said, "Do you really want to win?"

"I don't want my brother to lose with me." The little guy opened his arms and hugged him.

Yinzhen originally wanted to say that it was just for fun and he didn't need to do this, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped talking.

Yinqi, Yinyou and others couldn't help but rub his head, with smiles on their faces.

When the kid returned to the stands, Kangxi tapped his forehead and said, "It's just a dragon boat race, is it necessary to be so serious?"

"I'm so small and not as strong as others, so I'm the one who turns into a dragon~" the little guy said confidently.

It wasn't a big deal, Kangxi just pinched his little face and said nothing more.

Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, it was Cheng'an's birthday. Compared to last year, he was obviously happier this year because all the brothers were present.

Kangxi knew that he liked to go out and play, so he took a morning off to accompany him out of the palace.

The little guy didn't expect that his father would take him out to play without him telling him. After getting on the carriage, he kept hugging him and said, "Father, you are so nice~"

He doesn't have to study on his birthday today, but Yinxi and the others still have to study. As for the other princes, they all have their own things to do, so they will have to wait until noon to go to the palace to have lunch with the little guy and give him a gift.

Of course, the main reason was that Kangxi didn't want to bring a large group of people out, otherwise the princes would still be able to squeeze out space, especially Yin'e who was relatively idle.

In the end, apart from Kangxi, only Yinzhi and Yinreng were lucky enough to come out with them.

"Ama, I brought money. Tell me what you want and I'll buy it for you~"

When the carriage drove onto the street, the little fellow heard the shouting coming from outside, patted the purse on his waist and said to Kangxi.

"How much money is in your pocket?" Kangxi asked casually.

The little fellow immediately opened his purse to show him what was inside. It was quite rich, with a few golden melon seeds, as well as small change and copper coins.

The corners of Kangxi's lips rose unconsciously, and after taking him out of the car, although he was not very interested in the things sold on the street, he still unceremoniously picked up a brush washer and asked him to pay for it.

"Don't we have one at home?" The little guy thought it was too expensive when he saw that a pen washer cost two golden melon seeds.

It's not that he was reluctant to spend money on his father, but when he thought about how many copper coins he could exchange for one gold melon seed and how many candied haws he could buy, he always felt that it was not worth it.

"Didn't you tell me what you wanted, and now you can't bear to give it up?" Kangxi looked down at him.

"I'm willing to do that! If you want it, I'll buy it for you."

After the little guy finished speaking, he generously took out two golden melon seeds and handed them to the boss.

The boss found the father and son interesting, took their money, and gave them a brush with a smile.

Seeing this, Yinzhi also wanted the little guy to spend money for him, but after being glanced at by Kangxi, he immediately shut up and paid for it himself.

After that, Kangxi didn't let him buy anything for himself anymore. Instead, the little guy bought a lot of small gadgets, some of which he was interested in, and some of which he said he wanted to buy back to give to the Empress Dowager and others.

Of course, when he goes out to play, candied haws is definitely something he must buy.

Yinreng thought that he lost his first tooth because of eating candied haws, but he still wanted to eat them now, and he couldn't help laughing, especially when he saw him trying hard to bite the candied haws with his back teeth.

After the father and his two sons finished shopping on the street, it was already late and the little guy's bulging wallet was deflated.

"It's time to go back."

After Kangxi finished speaking, the little guy looked at the busy streets and was reluctant to leave, so he looked up and said, "Father, can we eat outside?"

"Your third and fourth brothers will come to the palace at noon. Are you sure you want to eat outside?"

The little guy then remembered that his other brothers would have lunch with him, and immediately changed his mind and said, "Then let's go back quickly~"

Palace of Heavenly Purity.

When Kangxi returned with the little one and Yinzhi and Yinreng, the other princes were already waiting at the door.

"Brother~"

Cheng'an saw his brothers coming over and ran up happily.

Thinking that today was his birthday, the princes couldn't help but reach out and touch his head after paying their respects to Kangxi.

Every year on the little guy's birthday, it seemed to have become a habit for Kangxi and the princes to get together and have meals with him, and the atmosphere seemed very relaxed.

After we entered and sat down, all the dishes on the table were the little ones' favorites.

"Cheers, Ama~"

Cheng'an saw so many delicious foods and happily raised the soup bowl beside him.

Because it was his birthday, there was no wine prepared on the table. When Kangxi saw his actions, he could only pick up the soup bowl and clink it with his.

The little guy gulped down two mouthfuls of soup, then pulled his brothers to clink their cups together. Suddenly, a chicken drumstick appeared in the empty bowl in front of him.

When the little guy found out that the chicken leg was picked up by his father for him, he immediately looked up and smiled at him.

Seeing that he was smiling foolishly, Kangxi rubbed his head and signaled him to eat quickly.

The little guy's front teeth haven't been fully replaced yet, but he is now able to eat with his back teeth skillfully. He picked up the chicken leg and started to eat it with relish.

Yinreng, who was sitting next to him, saw how happily he was eating and reached out to pick up a chicken wing for him.

"Second brother, you should eat quickly too~" the little guy said, and urged his father and other brothers to eat more.