Chapter 103

The prince has a poor appetite, but Emperor Kangxi has a good appetite.

There will always be some setbacks in the process of a son's growth. After this incident, the prince should have realized that there are many things that he cannot do just because he wants to.

It does not mean that the people under you will obey you obediently just because you sit in a high position. Just like he went through a lot of difficulties from the beginning of his personal rule to gaining the right to speak in the court.

The prince was made the crown prince as soon as he was born, and it was natural for him to take over the position given to him later. Everything was going so smoothly for him.

At this time, Kangxi felt that the crown prince lacked education and training, and was indeed dissatisfied with many aspects of the crown prince, but he never wavered in his belief that the crown prince was his future heir.

However, precisely because he felt that the future heir was too secure in his position and lacked setbacks and trials, his attitude towards the prince was very subtle afterwards, even after he returned to Beijing.

The situation in the capital city became confusing and the Crown Prince found that things were not going as smoothly as before.

This was not just a matter of the Crown Prince and Kangxi being angry and arguing. Kangxi had made up his mind about the Crown Prince's training plan, and it was not something that could be changed by Yinzo's coaxing and persuasion.

Others didn't know what was in Kangxi's mind, and seeing Kangxi's wavering attitude, they couldn't help but feel worried again.

Seeing this chaos, Concubine De didn't want Yinzuo to get involved. She used to be afraid that Yinzuo would study too hard, but now she doesn't say those words anymore. Instead, she wants him to read more books, or tinker with his gadgets more.

Defei also said to Yinzuo: "You have talked about the matter between your father and the crown prince, and you have persuaded him. If you say more, you will be a nagging ghost and annoying."

"No matter what, he is the prince who was raised by your father. There is no such thing as an overnight grudge between father and son. You don't need to worry about it."

Yinzuo: "Okay, I understand, mother, please stop nagging me." He was just a little worried that a rift would develop between father and son over time, but even though he was very worried, there was nothing he could do.

De Fei also said: "You should study hard and finish your studies as soon as possible. If you want to live outside the palace, then live outside the palace."

"Mother will choose someone for you now, and you can move in directly when the time comes."

There is someone looking after the house now, but because the master is not here, there are still many servants missing.

Defei also said that if he wanted to move in, he would definitely need to buy a lot of things, so it was time to start buying them for him now.

Yinzuo said, "Before, mother was reluctant to let her son move out, why do you seem to be eager to drive me away now?"

Concubine De said, "You are already old, it is not a good idea for you to live in the palace all the time."

Living outside can also keep me away from the gossips in the palace.

As the days went by, Yinzuo finally completed the courses in the study and was finally ready to move out of the palace.

The Seventh Prince's residence was also next to Yinzuo's. He showed a happy expression and said, "Sixth Brother and I will still live next door to each other in the future."

The Seventh Prince is now married and has grown into an independent adult. As for his brother Yinzuo, who took good care of him when he was a child, the Seventh Prince feels that if he lives outside the palace, he can now repay his brother Yinzuo.

The Seventh Prince happily told Yinzuo that they could go to his house for dinner when the time came, as he had a chef who could cook light and delicious meals.

Yinzuo said: "You are living well outside the palace."

The Seventh Prince smiled: "Not bad." Mainly because he has grown up. He is no longer the weak prince who was not favored by the emperor when he was a child. Now he has some power of his own. This feeling of growing up is good.

It had already been agreed that Yinzuo would move out of the palace, but Kangxi was still reluctant to let him go.

Other sons also left the palace to set up their own families outside, but none of them made him as worried and reluctant as when Yinzuo left.

Among all his sons, the crown prince, who had no biological mother and was made the heir to the throne by him since childhood, was the one he spent the most energy on. Apart from the crown prince, the one he spent the most time and effort on was Yinzuo.

When facing the crown prince, his attitude is usually serious and he is a strict father, but when it comes to Yinzuo, he is more like an ordinary father than the emperor, experiencing the helplessness of an ordinary kind father raising a child, sometimes getting angry, but sometimes also proud and satisfied, and most of the time very heartwarming.

Kangxi and Liang Jiugong said, "You have grown so big in the blink of an eye. You were only a tiny child before. Every time you see me, you are so happy and clingy."

Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "Now he is also extremely happy every time he sees His Majesty. Didn't the Sixth Prince say that he also wants to take His Majesty to live outside the palace?"

It was impossible to bring her to live outside the palace, but Kangxi thought that it would be possible to let her stay overnight outside the palace occasionally.

Yinzuo was about to leave the palace, and the imperial physician Liu, who had been treating Yinzuo's health, was going to follow him, and many medicinal herbs were also brought to Yinzuo's mansion.

Among the people serving in the mansions outside the palace, there were people selected by Kangxi, and among the guards there were also people of Kangxi. Kangxi did not hide this fact.

Among the people serving Yinzuo over the years, there were Kangxi's people. After he was poisoned, Kangxi transferred many people here, and later transferred some back, but he also kept many.

When Kangxi told him that there were people he had arranged outside the palace, Yinzuo listened with nodding ears.

Feeling Kangxi's gaze, Yinzuo said a little slower, "Thank you, Father Royal?"

"Why is the Emperor looking at me like that?"

Kangxi asked, "Aren't you worried that the Emperor is watching you?"

If you say this child is stupid, no one would believe it. But this child has always been thoughtful.

Kangxi himself lost his father at an early age. He wanted to be a good father and loved his children as much as he could. Otherwise, he would not have taken the time to personally inquire about their studies one by one besides his busy political affairs.

However, as the sons got married and grew up, it was inevitable that the father would doubt the son, and the son would doubt the father.

But this son looked at him with the same clear and admiring eyes as before.

Kangxi's words stunned Yinzuo for a moment, but he then said nonchalantly: "Just monitor him."

Yinzuo had no secrets that he couldn't tell anyone, so he smiled and said to Kangxi, "The emperor's people must be very capable. Isn't it that the emperor is worried about me outside? Isn't it to protect me?"

Yin Zuo's smile was bright, as if no haze in the world could settle on this face, but the young man frowned again and said, "But they won't tell tales all day long, right?"

"If it's just a small matter like staying up all night and going to the casino, it shouldn't be reported to the Emperor, right?"

"Father, you have to know that your son needs his own private space when he grows up. You should not be too controlling."

When Kangxi heard Yinzuo talking about staying up late and going to the casino, his eyebrows jumped first, but he finally said: "I believe you know your limits. You left the palace, but you were not let go. I can still control you."

Yinzuo smiled and bowed to Kangxi, saying, "Yinzuo will remember this and will not dare to be presumptuous."

When Yinzuo left the palace, the prince sent Yinzuo to the palace gate.

Yinzuo looked at the prince beside him. The prince was a little different now than before. He had lost a lot of his edge and had become more calm.

Yinzuo didn't know whether it was good or bad.

The prince said to Yinzuo, "Take good care of yourself when you are outside." Although they would still live in the same city, the prince felt reluctant to leave, as if he was saying goodbye to him on a long journey.

Yinzuo hugged the prince and said, "Brother Prince, don't worry about me. You have to be well too."

Yinzuo moved into a new house outside. He was the only master in the mansion. In the first few days, his house was visited by friends and relatives every day, and he lived a very happy life.

After finally entertaining all his relatives and friends, he went out to play in the streets and alleys. He also made many new friends under an assumed name. Life outside the palace made Yinzuo live like a fish in water.

As for the past few days, he has taken a troupe home to rehearse a play. He is not very interested in listening to the play, but he is quite interested in rehearsing the play.

Just like that, in the blink of an eye, I had been out of the palace for more than half a month.

Kangxi and his men were quite uncomfortable after Yinzou left the palace.

Normally, Crown Prince Kangxi did not see Yinzuo every day, but he would see him once every two or three days, or every three or five days. Now that there was suddenly one less person in the palace, both of them felt uncomfortable.

When the prince was with Kangxi, he said, "I haven't seen my sixth brother for a few days."

Kangxi wanted to teach this father and son a lesson for his ignorance and to temper his son. The son did learn his lesson and felt that his power was vain and did not want to be controlled by his father. He wanted to seize power himself, but was worried that Kangxi really thought that other sons were more suitable for the position of crown prince than himself.

Anyway, the father and son both have a lot of twists and turns in their minds, but at least there is nothing awkward between them, and they can still talk about some daily matters, especially when talking about Yinzuo, they have more topics to talk about.

At this time, both of them were dissatisfied with Yinzuo for not returning since he left the palace.

Kangxi snorted and said, "He is having a great time playing outside every day, and now he can't think of anything else."

"I made friends with all kinds of people outside. He was curious about how people made tofu and how people made paper."

"Now we have called the troupe back again."

"Wait for him to think of us? We can wait."

The prince glanced at Kangxi's cold face, smiled, and said, "Why don't we see when Sixth Brother can remember us?"

It hasn’t been long, right? Haven’t they come here after rehearsing the play?

I went to see Concubine De first.

Defei pulled Yinzuo over and complained, "I only heard your fourth brother say that you are fine. He only answered one question when I asked him, and he never said more than two words."

"Tell me, can my mother be assured?"

"Is there anyone who leaves the palace and only comes back once a month?!"

Yinzuo begged for mercy: "Mother, can you see what's wrong with me?"

"Mother, don't you know me? I'm not like others who only report good news and not bad news. Since Fourth Brother told you that I'm doing well, then I must be doing well."

"Mother, can you see if I have grown taller? Can you see if I look better?"

Yinzuo helped Concubine De sit down and said, "It's just that we just started living outside. Isn't this new? It will definitely not happen again in the future."

Yinzuo happily told Concubine De about the fun he had outside every day, which was so much fun that it was overwhelming. Although he could leave the palace before, how could it be as fun as living outside the palace now?

For example, he followed people for five or six days to see how tofu was made, and he also tried to make porcelain himself. He also learned how the paper he used in daily life was made, and he watched how opera singers painted their facial makeup.

Even though Concubine De was very kind to her son, she was still speechless when she heard him talking about these things with great interest. No prince was interested in these things. What was the point of understanding how beans became tofu? Her son was always interested in strange things.

Yinzuo said to Concubine De: "When the time comes, I will make a large plum vase for you myself."

Although she thought her son's hobbies were strange, Concubine De happily said, "Okay."

And then, then don't pursue the fact that your son was like a bird out of a cage and flew into the sky as soon as he left the palace.

It has always been easy for Concubine De to pass this test. Yinzuo hesitated outside Kangxi's palace. He also knew that he was overwhelmed by the fun outside the palace this time, which was not a good thing.

Oh, I should have made some porcelain and brought it back earlier. No matter how good or bad it is, I can get away with it now.

Yinzuo walked back and forth outside the palace gate twice, feeling that today would not be an easy day. He scratched his head, thinking that he still had to show some sincerity.

Kangxi was waiting for someone inside with a stern face, but no one showed up: "Leave again?"

Went to the imperial kitchen.

After Yinzuo entered the imperial kitchen, he told the others to do what they were supposed to do and just left the imperial chef to him.

Yinzuo planned to cook for Kangxi to get away with it. This was the first time he cooked by himself. Wouldn’t his father taste it? As long as he tasted it and ate it, wouldn’t he be forgiven no matter how big the matter was?

So Yinzuo and the imperial chef each occupied a stove, and he learned as the imperial chef did. Yinzuo raised his eyebrows proudly and followed suit. Although it was his first time cooking, he was not far behind and would not let his royal father down.

Kangxi, who was waiting for someone, heard the report and said, "Why would he need to cook?"

Kangxi could understand Yinzuo's little thoughts without even using his brain. He sneered and said, "He knows he has done something wrong."

Every time I did something I felt guilty about, I would pinch my shoulders and pound my back, trying to please and get away with it.

But this time it seems that he is really guilty and ruthless, and his methods have been upgraded.

Kangxi did not wait for Yinzuo to come with the meal, but waited for the prince instead.

The prince explained embarrassedly: "Sixth brother said he cooked the food himself and asked me to come to the emperor's place to eat together." Kangxi: "..."

Oh, I'm not trying to please him alone.

Yes, yes, if not, after getting out of Kangxi's place, he would still have to go through his brother the Crown Prince. It would be better for them to go together, which would be more efficient. Besides, if they go through one by one, they would have to endure two rounds of sarcasm, but if they go together, maybe his soft-hearted brother the Crown Prince would be able to help him speak.

Yinzuo now has enough experience.

Yinzuo was busy as a whirlwind. After serving the dishes, he divided a portion of them and asked someone to send them to his mother.

Well, so, it’s not about pleasing one person alone, nor two people, but about treating everyone equally.

It’s efficient!

(End of this chapter)