After lunch, Cheng'an received the gifts carefully prepared by his brothers.

The gifts from other princes were okay, but the outrageous one was Yin'e, who actually gave him a small cannon.

The little guy became more and more naughty as he grew up. Kangxi suspected that Yin'e sent him cannons in the hope that he would blow up the palace.

Meeting his slightly cold gaze, Yin'e hurriedly explained: "This is not a real cannon."

After he finished speaking, he went forward and fiddled with it a few times, then shot a flower out of the muzzle.

"Wow~"

The little guy ran over, picked up the flower, and shouted in surprise.

It turned out that this was just a cannon-shaped toy made by Yin'e. After all, a real cannon could not be made so small.

While Kangxi and the other princes were relieved, the little guy was very interested in the toy cannon. After figuring it out, he started playing with it by himself.

"Ama, catch it~"

The little fellow turned the muzzle of the gun towards him and shot a flower at him.

Kangxi subconsciously reached out to take the flower, and immediately he shot it towards Yinzhi, Yinreng and others.

After giving flowers to the brothers in front of him and seeing that there were no more flowers, the little one immediately said that he wanted to go to the Imperial Garden.

"All the flowers in the Imperial Garden will be destroyed by you sooner or later." Kangxi thought of how he loved picking flowers in the Imperial Garden, so he raised the branch in his hand and tapped him lightly.

"No way, there are so many flowers!"

The little guy probably knew that today was his birthday, so he wouldn't be really angry. After saying that, he took his hand and walked towards the Imperial Garden.

After arriving at the Imperial Garden, with the indulgence of Kangxi, the little guy used a cannon to give a flower to each of his brothers before he was contented and temporarily put down the new toy.

When he stopped playing with cannons, he started running in the imperial garden. Not only did he run by himself, he also pulled Yinqi and the others to run with him.

Kangxi didn't have the energy to follow, so he found a pavilion to sit down and signaled Yinzhi and the others to keep an eye on him.

After a while, Kangxi sat in the pavilion drinking tea, while the little guy pulled his brothers to play the "blind man's" game nearby.

The place outside is big, and it is not as easy to find as indoors. The little guy who rushed to cover his eyes searched around for a long time but couldn't find his brother.

Kangxi took a sip of tea and just put down the teacup in his hand when he saw him walk into the pavilion cautiously and slowly move closer to him.

"Hmm?" The little guy stopped when he touched an empty stone chair, listened for a while with his ear tilted, and then moved towards the position where Kangxi was.

"It's me." Kangxi reminded him when he saw his hand reaching out.

The little guy had already sensed his presence when he approached, but he still opened his arms and hugged him, taking the opportunity to ask in a low voice: "Ama, where is my brother?"

Kangxi looked down at him with amusement and said, "Anyway, there is none in the pavilion."

Hearing that he said the same thing as if he hadn't said anything, the little guy puffed up his cheeks and then said, "I want to drink some water."

Seeing that he opened his mouth towards him like a little ancestor, Kangxi took into account that he was blindfolded, picked up his special sippy cup and fed him a few sips of water, then walked him out of the pavilion to prevent him from falling down the stairs.

Outside the pavilion, the brothers saw that he had touched the wrong place and raised their voices to remind him.

The little guy had sharp ears, so he could immediately move over when he heard any noise, and he finally started to catch people.

After he caught all the princes, he immediately became excited and started the next round, but this time he was not the one touching, but Yin'e, the first one he caught.

When Yin'e was blindfolded, the naughty little guy deliberately wandered in front of him, and only ran away screaming when he reached out to grab him.

So Yin'e didn't look for anyone else and just kept chasing him.

After being chased by him for a few rounds, the little guy sneaked into the pavilion and hid behind Kangxi.

His footsteps were quite obvious when he ran into the pavilion, and Yin'e followed him in soon after.

When the little guy saw that he actually found this place, he subconsciously tugged at his father's clothes in front of him.

Kangxi sensed his little movement, coughed lightly and picked up the teacup in front of him.

There was more than one pavilion nearby, so Yin'e dared to follow the sound and come in. When he heard the emperor's cough, he immediately bowed and apologized and left.

The little guy hiding behind Kangxi saw him leave and covered his mouth and laughed secretly.

Kangxi tilted his head to look at him, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

In the afternoon, Kangxi and his princes played with the little one in the Imperial Garden until sunset, which was a rare moment of leisure.

The little guy didn't sleep in the afternoon. When he finished playing and left the Imperial Garden, he fell asleep on the way.

After Kangxi took him to sit on the imperial sedan chair, the princes dispersed.

At dinner, Kangxi accompanied him to eat longevity noodles, and the little guy’s birthday was over.

That night, when Kangxi saw the little guy staying in his bedroom and not leaving, he was too lazy to drive him away.

After all, he could guess without being told that the little guy would definitely use the excuse that today was his birthday to stay.

After Cheng'an's birthday, the weather became hotter and hotter. In early June, Kangxi took him directly to Changchun Garden to escape the summer heat.

I went to the Mountain Resort last year and didn’t come to Changchun Garden. The little guy missed it a lot and started running around on the day he moved here.

The lotus pond in Changchun Garden is full of blooming lotus flowers, and the scenery is very beautiful. The little ones like to run here during their breaks in school.

In fact, he initially thought that he would not have to study after moving to Changchun Garden, but Kangxi taught him through his actions how naive this idea was.

There is a Wuyizhai in Changchun Garden, which is where Yinreng studied. Now it is just right for him to use.

"well……"

"Why are you sighing?" Yinreng couldn't help but ask when he saw him suddenly sighing in the middle of writing.

“Why do I need to study here…”

Hearing his depressed tone, Yinreng chuckled and said, "If you don't want to write, I'll take you to the lotus pond to paint?"

"Is it okay?" The little guy's eyes lit up.

"Why not?"

After Yinreng finished speaking, the little guy suddenly became happy, put down the pen in his hand, and ran out with him and Zhang Ruoai.

It is summer after all. Although the sun in the morning is not as strong as at noon, the temperature is still quite high. However, it is a little better when we reach the lotus pond.

The little guy held his brother's hand and admired the lotus pond for a while, then pointed to one of the flowers and said, "Look, that flower is so big, brother. I want to draw it~"

"Okay." Yinreng nodded with a smile, and waited for others to bring the drawing table over before painting with him.

The summer breeze is always warm, but the breeze blowing over the water is an exception. It not only brings the coolness of water vapor, but also a faint lotus fragrance.

The little fellow who had been unable to concentrate on writing in Wuyi Zhai now calmed down and started painting. Soon he finished a picture of lotus.

It is said that handwriting reflects the person, and in this little guy's case, the painting also reflects the person. Each lotus petal is round, and the whole lotus painting gives people a lively and pleasing feeling inexplicably.

When Yinreng saw that he had finished the painting, he took out the seal he had given him before and stamped it on the painting, with a smile in his eyes.

"This is a gift from my second brother~" The little guy put away the seal and held up the painting.

Yinreng reached out to take it and casually praised the painting, saying it was very well done.

The little guy who got the compliment laughed immediately, and after laughing, he opened his arms and hugged him, raised his head and blinked his eyes and said: "Second brother, I want to eat an ice bowl~"

At his age, it’s okay for him to have an ice bowl occasionally in the summer.

After Yinreng was held in his arms and rocked gently a few times, he agreed and asked someone to bring up a bowl of ice.

In this kind of weather, it is quite comfortable to sit by the lotus pond, enjoy the breeze and eat an ice bowl. The little guy couldn't help shaking his head while holding the ice bowl and eating.

Seeing him eating so happily, Yinreng couldn't help but ask, "Is it really that delicious?"

The little guy immediately raised the spoon to feed him.

Yinreng couldn't delay and could only open his mouth and take a bite.

After a while, the little guy finished the bowl of ice in his hand and felt that he was not full, so he pestered Yinreng and said that he wanted to eat some more.

Zhang Ruoai, who was eating the ice bowl slowly in small bites, saw this and quickly quickened her pace to finish the bowl in her hand.

Yinreng naturally didn't want the little guy to eat too much ice bowl. After all, he still remembered clearly that he had a stomachache when he was a child because he ate a few bites of ice bowl.

"Second brother, you are the best. Please let me eat a little more~" Maybe because he thought he was easy to talk to, the little guy refused to give up after being rejected.

Just when Yinreng was at a loss as to what to do with him, he suddenly saw Yinzhen passing by not far away, and immediately shouted, "Fourth brother!"

Yinzhen turned around and saw them, then walked over to them. After greeting them, his eyes fell on the little guy who was still holding Yinreng.

“Fourth brother!”

As soon as the little guy finished calling people, Yinreng said directly: "If you want to eat another ice bowl, don't ask me, ask your fourth brother."

Yinzhen understood the hidden meaning in his words and glanced at the empty bowl beside him.

"Fourth brother, can I have a little ice bowl?" The little guy looked at his fourth brother's slightly serious face and asked tentatively.

Yinzhen naturally refused without hesitation: "No."

"Okay..." The little guy showed a disappointed expression, but didn't continue to pester.

Seeing this, Yinreng couldn't help but wonder if he was too nice to him on weekdays, and couldn't help but pinch his little face.

But Yinzhen saw his disappointed look after he refused, so he couldn't help but change the subject and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"My second brother and I are here to draw." The little guy said, and picked up the painting he had just drawn to show him.

After looking at the painting, Yinzhen praised it a few times, and only left with peace of mind when he saw that he was smiling again.

The little guy likes to come to the lotus pond not only because the lotus flowers are beautiful, but also because he wants to eat lotus pods.

After the lotus flowers withered, he finally got to eat the lotus pods as he wished. He also gave the lotus pods that he had asked the Saker Falcon to pick for him to people everywhere.

The lotus seeds can be eaten directly after peeling them, or used to cook porridge, lotus seed and white fungus soup, or made into pastries. They are all delicious.

After the little guy had eaten enough lotus seeds, Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching and there were moon cakes and crabs to eat.

That afternoon, Kangxi returned from Danningju, and his first reaction was still to ask the little guy.

"In reply to Your Majesty, the young prince is in the tea room."

"Why is he going to the tea room?" Kangxi didn't think he would be interested in tea. After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the tea room without waiting for anyone to answer.

"Little brother, you can't do this..."

As soon as Kangxi reached the door of the tea room, he heard Liu Cai's dissuasive voice and immediately quickened his pace.

When he walked in, he saw the little guy squatting in front of a stove where water was boiling, with a look of anticipation on his face.

“What is this doing?”

As soon as Kangxi finished speaking, Liu Cai and others immediately turned around and saluted. The little guy looked at the copper kettle on the stove guiltily before standing up and running towards him.

"Ama~"

Kangxi looked down at the little guy who was smiling at him, and took two steps towards the stove, wanting to see what he was doing.

"Dad, are you tired? Go back and have a rest!" The little guy quickly grabbed his hand and tried to pull him out.

It would be strange that Kangxi would follow him because of his attempt to cover up his guilt.

Kangxi glanced at him and took two steps forward. When he looked down, he saw a crab in the open copper pot.

It was a copper kettle specially used for boiling hot water. It was quite large, so big that a crab could fit into the opening on the top of the kettle.

Kangxi just felt that there was something wrong with the smell in the tea room. He seemed to have another scent mixed in with the tea. Only now did he realize that it was the smell of crab.

"Did you throw the crab in?" He turned to look at the little guy who was still holding his hand.

Seeing that he had been discovered, Cheng'an nodded honestly.

It turned out that on his way back in the afternoon, the little guy saw someone transporting crabs that had just been tributed to the capital to the imperial kitchen. He curiously leaned over to take a look and successfully got a crab.

The person who transported the crabs knew that he was favored, so seeing that he was interested, he let him take a crab to play with. However, he would have thought about how to eat the crab after returning to Qingxi Book House, and he cleverly thought of the stove in the tea room to cook the crab.

After hearing the whole story, Kangxi didn't know what to say to him.

"Why didn't you tell me that you wanted to eat crabs?" Kangxi finally couldn't help but tapped him gently.

The little guy covered his forehead and said, "Didn't my father say that crabs are cold in nature and we can't eat too much..."

“It’s not like you can’t eat more.”

When Kangxi thought about the fact that he actually went to the tea room to cook crabs for himself, he felt both angry and amused.

Finally, the little guy got to eat crabs before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they were so delicious that his eyes curved.

However, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet a few days later, the brothers teased him about this matter a lot.

"Cheng'an, it's a good thing you didn't use a teapot to cook dumplings."

"Why?" the little guy asked curiously.

"Because the dumplings are cooked in a teapot, there is stuff but no way to pour it out." Yin'e laughed.

"Okay, tenth brother, stop teasing him." After saying this, Yinsi fed the little guy the crab meat he had just opened.

After Cheng An ate it in one gulp, he no longer cared about whether it was a dumpling or not.

"Are crabs so delicious?" Yinzhen couldn't help laughing when he saw him shaking his head while eating.

The little guy nodded repeatedly and said, "It's delicious, Brother Jiu, you should eat it too~"

Kangxi was still watching from above. The princes did not dare to give him too much crab, so they quickly picked up other dishes to coax him to eat.

Fortunately, there were few dishes at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that the little guy didn't like. His brothers fed him one bite at a time, so he didn't just focus on eating crabs.

"Brother, can I have another crab leg?"

Yinreng touched his belly and coaxed him, "There will be mooncakes later, save some space for them later."

"That's right!" The little guy thought of mooncakes and immediately stopped asking to eat crabs. Instead, he started playing with the crab claws.

Wherever he is, there is always excitement. Amidst laughter and joy, everyone admires the moon and eats moon cakes.

After the big mooncakes specially made by the imperial chef were cut, the little one rushed to divide the mooncakes among his father and brothers.

"One for my father and one for my elder brother..."

Kangxi and his princes cooperated to take the mooncakes he handed over, with smiles of varying depths on their faces.

After dividing the mooncakes, the little guy picked up his piece and took a big bite, looking very satisfied.

“The mooncakes are so delicious~”

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather gradually began to turn cooler.

The little guy is not that afraid of the cold and sometimes runs on the ground in his socks.

But there is a kind of cold that is called "Ama feels you are cold". Every time Kangxi saw it, he would scold him and tell him that if he did this again, he would let him go back to his own bedroom to sleep.

Yes, Kangxi specially prepared a bedroom for the little guy in his Qingxi Study, but he was unwilling to live there at all.

Kangxi had no choice but to decide in his heart to keep him for one last year and let him live on his own next year no matter what.

That night, the father and son did not rest immediately after going to bed. One was reading a book, and the other was playing with a nine-ring puzzle in his hand.

Compared to when he could only watch his brothers solve the puzzles when he was little, the little guy can now solve all the nine rings by himself.

Neither the father nor the son spoke. The only sounds on the bed were the crisp sound of the little guy untying the nine rings and the subtle sound of Kangxi occasionally turning the pages of a book.

Until a moment later, a few coughs broke the relatively quiet atmosphere.

"Father, what's wrong with you?" When the little guy heard that it was Father who was coughing, he immediately dropped the half-solved Nine Rings in his hand and came to him.

Kangxi waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, then took the tea handed to him by Liang Jiugong and took two sips.

The warm tea moistened his throat and he stopped coughing. However, he suddenly felt a little tired, so he simply lay down with the little guy.

"Are you really okay, Dad?" After the little guy lay down obediently, he reached out and patted his chest.

Kangxi felt his caring and shook his head slightly, saying, "It's okay, go to sleep." Then he reached out and patted him gently.

After the room fell into darkness, both father and son soon fell asleep.

midnight.

“Ahem…”

The little guy, who was originally sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up when he heard the cough. When he felt that his father's body was even hotter than his own, he immediately sat up.

At the same time, the man on night watch also heard the noise and came to the bedside and called out inquiringly.

"Call the imperial physician here!"

The little guy didn't like seeing the imperial physician, but when he felt that his father seemed sick, he knew that he had to call the imperial physician over.

Hearing his order, the night watchman was startled and ran out quickly.

After a while, the entire Qingxi Book House became bright again, and the imperial physician rushed over immediately.

Kangxi had already woken up when the bed curtains were hung, but he felt very uncomfortable.

"Ama!" When the little guy saw him open his eyes, he immediately lay down beside him.

"Cough cough..." After Kangxi coughed twice, he forced himself to cheer up and told Liang Jiugong to take him away first.

"I won't leave, I want to stay with Ama!"

The little guy refused to leave, and Kangxi didn't have the energy to take care of him. In the end, he could only ask someone to put a cloak on him and stop him from sitting on the quilt in his pajamas.

As long as he is not allowed to leave, the little guy will be very well behaved. He wraps himself in a thick cloak and sits beside him worriedly.

The imperial physician came quickly, and after taking Kangxi's pulse, he immediately wrote out a prescription and asked someone to prepare the medicine.

When the medicine was brought up, the little fellow wanted to frown when he smelled the smell. When the people below helped Kangxi sit up and served him to drink the medicine, he patted his back and coaxed him, "Good boy, you won't feel uncomfortable after drinking the medicine..."

Kangxi was feeling quite uncomfortable at first, but when he heard his coaxing tone, a smile appeared on his lips.

After drinking the medicine, Kangxi lay down again and fell asleep again soon.

Liang Jiugong originally wanted to send the little guy to the next door to prevent him from being infected with the disease.

The little guy usually sticks to Kangxi very much, and now that he is sick he is even more unwilling to leave. He even refuses to sleep, and stays by Kangxi's side, touching his forehead from time to time.

Fortunately, after taking the medicine, Kangxi no longer had a fever in the middle of the night, but he would cough from time to time.

When the little guy heard him cough, he immediately reached out and patted his chest, and coaxed him softly: "It's okay, it's okay, Ama, sleep well..."

Perhaps he was used to it, as Kangxi woke up automatically at the morning court the next day.

After the fever subsided, his headache wasn't as severe, but he still felt a little dizzy and his body was a little weak.

"Dad, you're awake. Are you still feeling uncomfortable?" When the little guy saw him open his eyes, he immediately reached out and touched his forehead and then his face.

Kangxi saw him sitting next to him in his cloak, and frowned slightly: "You didn't sleep?"

"I'm worried about Father, I can't sleep..." The little guy thought about how his body was hot and he looked a little unconscious last night, and he couldn't help but lie gently in his arms.

Kangxi wanted to say something to him, but in the end he couldn't bear it. Thinking that he would definitely not be able to attend court today, he hugged him into the quilt and said, "Hurry up and sleep for a while."

The little guy lay next to him and fell asleep in a short while, but he was not very soundly asleep and kept calling out "Ama" from time to time.

Kangxi originally wanted to have someone take him away while he was sleeping to prevent him from passing the disease to him, but this made it difficult to do so.

After dawn, the little guy woke up. He didn't even have time to eat his breakfast and started to feed Kangxi with porridge.

Kangxi did not reject his son's filial piety. He reluctantly finished a bowl of porridge, and after the little guy finished his breakfast, he signaled him to go back to study.

The little guy immediately shook his head and said, "I want to accompany my father."

"I don't need your company. Don't be lazy and don't study."

When the little fellow heard what he said, he stood up and ran out to get a copy of the Analects and returned to the bed, holding up the book and saying, "I'm not lazy, I'll accompany my father while I read."

It feels good to have someone by your side when you are sick. Seeing that he was unwilling to leave, Kangxi did not try to drive him away.

Outside Qingxi Book House, the princes who received the news had been here for a while. After Liang Jiugong stepped forward and spoke to Kangxi, Kangxi motioned for them to come in.

The disease came like a mountain falling. After one night, although Kangxi no longer had a fever, he looked very pale and in very bad spirits. This was why the little guy refused to leave.

After the brothers came in and paid their respects, they all had worried expressions on their faces.

At this moment, the people below brought in the freshly boiled medicine.

When the little guy saw the medicine, he immediately put down the book in his hand and said, "Give it to me."

Perhaps he thought that Kangxi would get better immediately after drinking the medicine, so he took the medicine actively and wanted to feed it himself.

The little guy usually likes to feed his father and brother. This time he feeds the medicine very well, and even coaxes him while feeding: "Father, drink another sip, don't be afraid of the bitterness, you will be fine after drinking it..."

Kangxi was not him, so how could he be afraid of drinking medicine? However, when he saw him feeding himself the medicine little by little with a spoon, and after taking a few sips, he couldn't help but take the bowl and drink it all in one gulp.