Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Chapter 16
Yinyou could hardly believe his eyes. He looked at Sun on the screen, tremblingly took the blood-stained clothes from the man's hand, and put them in his own bag. With tears in his eyes, he looked at the child whose neck was pinched by the man, turned around and walked outside.
Yinyou was only troubled for a moment and then let it go.
He was well-fed by Sun's mother, but compared with her own biological child, it was understandable that Sun chose her own son.
It's just that he doesn't want to be the dead one.
The moment Kangxi appeared in the short video, an unprecedented anger appeared on his face, but he couldn't deal with Sun now.
Once he takes action against Sun or exposes Sun's words, they can see the short video and hear the inner voice, and the system and Fifteen will know.
If the system finds the mastermind by then, it might have turned over a new leaf. It would be difficult to see it again.
So if he wanted to deal with Sun, he had to wait until Fifteen was not around, and then find a reason that he could accept to deal with the person.
Liang Jiugong stood aside and watched the changes in the air pressure on Kangxi's body, and suddenly became a little frightened.
He had spent the longest time with the emperor and felt his preferences the deepest. Now the emperor's anger had reached a critical point. If he was even slightly provoked, he would probably be beaten to death.
So now he must keep himself quiet and reduce his presence.
Sun stood aside, looking down at her toes. There was a struggle on her face. After a long while, she quietly raised her head and looked at Yinyou.
After seeing Yinyu's drooling smile, he closed his eyes slightly, knelt on the ground, and said with infinite sorrow in his voice: "Please save me, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, please save the Fifteenth Prince!"
Yes, save the Fifteenth Prince.
She wanted to save her son, but she also didn't want to give up the Fifteenth Prince. One of these children was her flesh and blood, and the other was the one she had watched grow up since childhood.
Her brain wasn't very good, and she couldn't really think of a solution that would satisfy both parties, but the emperor could definitely think of one!
He is the emperor and the father of the Fifteenth Prince. He must be able to find a way to help her.
Yinyou hugged Kangxi's neck, somewhat unable to believe what Sun said. He saw the process of Sun being threatened in the short video, and also saw Sun holding the bloody clothes.
But he didn't expect that Sun would actually ask Kangxi to save him.
Sun did not give up on him when faced with a choice between the two.
As soon as this thought came into his mind, he immediately became happy.
Kangxi silently looked at Sun, who lay sprawled on the ground. A slight movement moved his heart, and the low pressure around him dissipated. He turned around and sat on the chair with Yinyu in his arms, and asked her, "Tell me clearly, how do you want me to save Fifteen?"
Fifteen is his child, so he naturally wouldn't let anything happen to him. But Sun was able to struggle to save Fifteen even when she was threatened by others.
This shows that Sun is really a trustworthy person and he really has feelings for Fifteen.
Sun was silent for a while, kowtowed to Kangxi, and then told him everything her husband had done and the two choices he gave her when she returned.
At the end of her speech, she looked up at Kangxi with red eyes and said, "I am stupid. I don't want to see my child die, nor do I want the Fifteenth Prince to be hurt because of me. So I beg Your Majesty to save my life."
Kangxi held Yinyu in his arms, picked up the teacup with his fingers, blew on it, took a sip, and asked, "Do you know who ordered your husband to do this?"
He didn't believe that Sun's husband would suddenly want to attack Fifteen.
The two people had little connection except for Sun's child, and had never even met each other. How could such a person use Sun's child to threaten Sun to take action against Fifteen?
Unless there is someone behind the scenes giving instructions.
When System 679 heard this, it immediately started to cry out. He said to Yinyu excitedly, "I know this, I know."
As he spoke, he said to Yinyu happily, "Watch the short video."
Suddenly, a picture appeared in front of her eyes. The person in the picture was Sun's husband. He was wearing coarse clothes and looked at a man wearing a black cloak with his face covered with shining eyes.
The man in the black cloak spoke in a low, slightly hoarse voice and took out a blood-stained piece of clothing that had been given to Sun by her husband.
The blood stains on the dirty clothes were the remnants of smallpox. What they wanted was for Sun to take the clothes with the scabs and mix them with the other clothes she was wearing.
Let Yinyou contract smallpox.
The man in black cloak gave Mr. Sun one hundred taels of gold as a deposit in advance, and another four hundred taels of gold after the deal was done.
You have to know that in this era when the annual income was only a few taels of silver, five hundred taels of gold could almost make Sun's husband's family the richest in the local area. If they spent it frugally, they might not have to worry about food and drink for several lifetimes.
It is no wonder that Sun's husband was willing to abandon Sun, abandon him and Sun's son, and force Sun to take action against Yinyou.
The person who was doing business with Mr. Sun was hiding in the darkness, and because of the short time, his face was completely invisible.
After watching the video, Yinyu complained to the 679 system with some dissatisfaction: "After half a day, I'm only worth 500 taels of gold?"
He had seen it in TV dramas before, where hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were counted, but why was it only 500 taels of gold that came to him? The person who attacked him was really despicable.
When System 679 heard this, the entire system fell silent. After a long while, he said to Yinyu, "Host, five hundred taels of gold is not a small amount. Your cheap second brother's annual salary may not even be five hundred taels of gold."
"Your stepbrothers receive even less salary. If your father hadn't given them some subsidies from time to time, and if the Ministry of Internal Affairs hadn't given them all the things in their houses, your stepbrothers might not have been able to support their families."
"Five hundred taels of gold is enough for an ordinary family to eat and drink for several lifetimes."
After listening to the system's words, Yinyou nodded and said, "I know, I just think my life could be worth more."
Although he didn't have much idea about gold and silver, five hundred taels of gold was worth a lot of money in modern times, and he was not stupid.
In his heart, he must be worth at least one thousand taels of gold.
Thinking of this, he asked System 679, "Who is this person, and why is he targeting me? What did I do to him?"
He suddenly shuddered as he spoke, then analyzed to System 679, "Why do I feel like this person is similar to Manager Liang? His voice is rough, but if you listen carefully, it seems to be intentional. His figure is hidden by the cloak, but you can also see that there is nothing underneath the cloak."
After hearing Yinyu's analysis, System 679 nodded and said, "The host is right. I guess it's someone from the palace, but it shouldn't be Liang Jiugong, right? Liang Jiugong is very busy. He's been taking care of you and your adopted father lately. How can he have time to leave the palace?"
"Besides, Liang Jiugong is the chief eunuch. If he dares to leave the palace without permission, he will be dead if he is discovered."
Yinyu listened to the 679 system's analysis and said silently, "Is it possible that I'm talking about someone in the palace, a eunuch like Liang Zongguan?"
After these words came out, System 679 and Kangxi were silent. They really hadn't thought about it in this direction. When Yinyu mentioned Liang Jiugong, they thought it was impossible. Liang Jiugong didn't have the time.
Kangxi even calculated in his mind that there was still a short video to play. As long as this short video was played fifteen times, he would know who the murderer was.
System 679 was silent for a moment, then asked Yinyu weakly, "There's another short video to play. Play it now. Do you know who the murderer is?"
Yin Yu was silent for a moment, then shook his head at the 679 system. "No need. Now that my cheap father knows what Mr. Sun has done, I can just ask him to investigate directly. Why waste a short video of me?"
As he spoke, his little hand quietly reached out to the plate beside him, grabbed a piece of dessert, secretly glanced at Kangxi who didn't notice him, and started to nibble on it in small bites.
When Kangxi heard this, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. This kid really doesn't have a good brain. Wouldn't it be better to find the person who murdered you? Why do you care that the short video you can watch today is gone?
What’s more important, life or short videos?
But no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't just pull Yinyou and shout it out.
System 679 has already provided quite a few clues, plus what Sun knows and the five hundred taels of gold, it will be very easy to investigate.
If he wants to watch short videos, let him watch them.
Thinking of this, Kangxi reached out and rubbed Yinyu's head helplessly. He turned to Sun and nodded slightly, saying, "Sun, considering your loyalty to Fifteen, I will not pursue this matter this time. You take Liang Jiugong to find your husband and ask him to explain everything clearly. After the explanation is clear and the person behind the scenes is found, I will give you a merit and appoint you as a female official. You will be responsible for Fifteen's food, clothing, housing and transportation. As for your son, he can also be a treasure to Fifteen."
Female officials were divided into several ranks. Sun came from outside the palace and could only be a Fengyi. However, as a Fengyi, she would be able to help manage the palace in the future and in a disguised way allow Yinyu to provide for her in her old age.
In other words, from then on, he was labeled as Yinwei, and would rise and fall with him.
Upon hearing this, Sun suddenly sobbed, then choked up and kowtowed to Kangxi, saying, "Yes, I will definitely protect the Fifteenth Prince and help Chief Steward Liang catch the person behind this."
Kangxi nodded slightly and glanced at Liang Jiugong.
Liang Jiugong bowed slightly and walked outside with Sun, who had gotten up from the ground.
After the others had gone far away, Kangxi turned around and looked at him, and said helplessly: "You kid, you really make me worry."
He said that the child was a worry, but the coldness in his eyes almost overflowed, and people could clearly see the strong sense of oppression of being an emperor.
After all, Yinyou was unable to follow Kangxi to the Imperial Study that day. He also watched a funny short video and then fell asleep contentedly.
In the blink of an eye, a few days passed and it was October. Sun's investigation had not yet produced any results, so she naturally could not come to take care of Yinyou.
As for Kangxi, he seemed to be getting busy too.
Yinyou would eat and sleep every day, then watch a short video and play with the toys Kangxi gave him.
That day, when Yinyou opened his eyes, he saw Yinreng sitting on a chair with a book in his hand.
There was a hint of darkness in the room, and the faint light from the sky shone through the window onto his face, making him look a little gloomy.
Yinreng turned around when he heard the noise. Yinyu had crawled out from under the quilt. He put down the book in his hand, stood up from the chair, walked over, reached out and pulled the quilt to wrap the man up, and said with a chuckle, "Fifteen is awake?"
Today's opportunity to get close to Fifteen was the result of him defeating his eldest brother, Xiao Si and others.
He was very curious about his younger brother. He wanted to know about his conversation with the 679 system, as well as the short video in which he could see the images and hear the sounds. Most importantly, he wanted to know who would be the winner in the end.
Both he and Yinzhen were unlucky guys, so who became the emperor in the end?
Yinyu had never been held in Yinreng's arms like this before. He looked up, his black glass-like eyes flashing as he stared at the person before him. After a long while, he stretched out his small hand and gently touched his somewhat cold face, baring his teeth and revealing a brilliant smile: "Guoguo."
As soon as he said that, the smile on Yinyu's face became forced, and he felt a little crazy inside. He was clearly calling him brother, so how did it become Guoguo?!
Why is it Guoguo!
System 679 listened to Yinyu's awkward words and couldn't help but laugh at him, saying, "You shouted it clearly."
Yin Yu said to the 679 system unhappily: "Why do you care? I'm still young. When I grow up, I will definitely speak clearly."
It was clear that he had a quarrel with the 679 system.
System 679 directly retorted, "That's not necessarily true. I've looked up information on your situation. Some people's vocal cords don't develop well. Even if they grow up and speak faster, I'm afraid it's unclear. It can only be better than you are now."
“So some children can’t speak clearly at the age of five or six.”
When Yinyu heard this, he immediately became anxious. His soft words were filled with urgency: "I can't be like this! I was very clear when I argued with you!"
Yinreng listened to the childish conversation between Yiren and Yitong at such a close distance, with a smile on his lips. He really didn't expect that these two could actually bicker like children.
This is much easier to deceive.
Thinking of this, he reached out and rubbed Yinyu's head, and said to him: "Father has something to do, and Sun can't come back, so let me come and see Fifteen first."
"Second brother knows that Fifteen likes to eat egg custard, so he specially asked the best chef in the imperial kitchen to make it. Fifteen will try it later to see how it tastes."
When Yinyou heard this, he immediately perked up. He hadn't eaten egg custard for a few days. The weather was a bit cold during this period. He ate too much once and had some indigestion and stomach discomfort. The imperial physician only allowed him to drink goat's milk.
This led to Kangxi directly stopping his favorite food, egg custard.
Several days have passed, and Kangxi has not mentioned giving him more egg custard. Maybe he forgot that his son is still relying on egg custard to survive?
Thinking of this, he sighed to the 679 system: "Cheap Second Brother is still the best. He gave me egg custard as soon as he came."
System 679 responded with a childish, mechanical voice, "Be careful not to overeat. Your stomach will feel uncomfortable again."
Yinreng listened to the words of "One Person, One Commander" and took advantage of this time to hurriedly dress Yinyu. After dressing him, he washed him up. Then he chuckled and took the egg custard handed to him by the palace maid. He scooped a mouthful with a spoon, blew it cool slowly, and then put it to Yinyu's mouth.
Yinyu looked at the egg custard next to his mouth, took a sip, and said to himself, "It would be better if I eat less."
He was so uncomfortable drinking goat's milk that his stomach was full of water every day. But now that the egg custard was right in front of him, he couldn't give it up.
Yinreng held the bowl and fed Yinyu half a bowl, then stopped. With a look of reluctance in his eyes, he said, "Father said that the fifteenth day has accumulated food and can't eat so much, so for now you can only eat this and drink half a bowl of goat's milk."
As he said this, he placed the egg custard on the table, turned around and brought half a bowl of goat's milk and placed it in front of Yinyou.
Yinyou looked at the egg custard reluctantly and started eating it resignedly.
During the meal, Kangxi did not return. Yinreng took a heavy fur cloak for Yinyu, opened the window a little, looked at the gloomy sky outside, and said with a smile: "Let's see on the fifteenth day. I don't know whether it will rain or snow later."
Yinyu looked down at Yinreng, pinched his face, and asked the 679 system in his mind: "Is my cheap second brother asking me whether it will rain or snow?"
"Isn't he a bit stupid? It's October, it's bound to rain or snow."
System 679 nodded in agreement, then continued to Yinyu, "It's just that the weather has become really cold. Every autumn rain brings a chill, and the temperature is almost below zero degrees Celsius now. If it rains today, it might turn to snow halfway through."
Yin Yu listened to System 679's words and couldn't help but smile in his heart: "It's good to have snow. Then we can build snowmen, have snowball fights, and even ice skate."
His favorite thing in his previous life was snow.
When System 679 heard what Yinyu said, it immediately said, "Can you go out? You can't even run now, and you still want to go out and build a snowman. If you fall into the snow, you will become a snowman."
When Yinyou heard what the 679 system said, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he wanted to beat him up.
When Yinreng heard these words, the words of one person unifying the world, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He really asked in vain. It seemed that he had to change the way he asked.
As he was thinking, the rain outside was falling from the sky mixed with ice particles, and a gust of wind blew, making people feel the chill.
Yinreng casually took an apple and placed it in Yinyu's hand, chuckling softly, he said, "This is an apple I asked someone to find specifically for you. Try it and see if it tastes good."
Yinyu looked at the apple next to his mouth, stretched out his little fleshy hand to take it, held it in both hands and started to bite it. After taking a few bites, he noticed that Yinreng's eyes were shining as he looked at him eating the apple.
There is a kind of eager desire.
He hesitated for a moment, then placed the apple next to Yinreng's mouth and said to him in a baby voice, "Guoguo."
After saying that, he sighed to System 679 in his heart, "Is my cheap second brother really that poor? This apple has made him so greedy. How much did he spend on this apple for me?"
The cheap second brother was so eager for the apple that he felt it would be a sin to eat it.
Yinreng looked at the drool-covered apple on the edge, and listened to Yinyu's words. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said to him calmly: "Eat it on the 15th, and Second Brother won't eat it."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh: "Originally, my second brother was planning to look for your fourth brother today, but he has something to do and I'm afraid he can't come out."
System 679 didn't respond to Yinyu's question, but instead shouted at him, "Host, your cheap fourth brother isn't unable to come because of something. He's kneeling at the entrance to the main hall of Yonghe Palace as punishment."
As soon as he finished speaking, a screen suddenly appeared in front of Yinyu's eyes.
Yinzhen was found kneeling in Yonghe Palace, his face pale and wet. Rain mixed with snow particles hit him, making him stagger. A voice could be faintly heard from inside: "Heartless ungrateful wolf! Let him kneel and die outside! He actually turned to outsiders. I want to see if his fifteenth brother can come to save him!"
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