Chapter 361 The fourth brother is always busy, do you blame him?
Wen Jiu almost blurted out a sentence, luckily he realized it was Emperor Kangxi who asked it.
She immediately smiled and said, "I don't know what the Fourth Master came back for. He just told me to cook less spicy food for Your Majesty."
After hearing this, Emperor Kangxi couldn't help but frown slightly: "Is that all the Fourth Prince said?"
Wen Jiu nodded seriously: "Yes, that's what he said, and then he left in a hurry."
Emperor Kangxi glanced at Wen Jiu again and asked, "Did he eat the food you brought him?"
Wen Jiu said: "The fourth master didn't have time to eat, so he took it away."
Emperor Kangxi's tightly twisted brows were still furrowed. He didn't know who the fourth son inherited his temper from. He actually did such a thankless job. He obviously came back because he was worried about his own health, but he didn't say a word to him.
If others saw it, they would think he was disrespectful to them.
Glancing sideways at the Crown Prince, Emperor Kangxi said, "Your fourth brother is still as impetuous as ever. I wonder what he's going to do."
The prince smiled and said, "Your Majesty is right. My fourth brother is usually like this. He must be worried about you, Your Majesty, so he came back.
Emperor Kangxi glanced at the prince and smiled: "You are right, eat quickly."
Then, his gaze subconsciously turned to Wenjiu. At this moment, he suddenly felt a little sorry for Wenjiu.
It was difficult for the fourth brother to say this. If he really wanted to eat something, could a girl like him stop him?
When I looked at Wenjiu again, I felt that the child was a bit pitiful.
This girl Wen ran eagerly to pick up the fourth brother, but the fourth brother didn't mention Wen girl at all, and was only concerned about his own health. I'm afraid any ordinary woman would feel lost, right?
Unexpectedly, this girl didn't seem disappointed. She was sitting there obediently, propping up her head and looking at the fourth brother from afar, looking silly and happy.
After a while, Emperor Kangxi felt a little annoyed and pinched the melon seeds in front of him and placed them on the oil paper in front of the warm wine, saying, "You should eat more too."
Wen Jiu had never expected that all her efforts to improve Emperor Kangxi's favorability had yielded no results. Just as she was about to give up on the idea, she suddenly noticed that the heart shape on Emperor Kangxi's head had become even darker.
He immediately said politely, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Kangxi didn't say anything, but just continued to eat melon seeds one by one, but some past events unconsciously emerged in his mind.
Just as Wen Jiu was still trying to figure out what was going on, he heard Emperor Kangxi ask, "If the fourth brother is always so busy and has no time to accompany you,...will you blame him?"
Emperor Kangxi's dark eyes, whose emotions were hard to discern, suddenly fell on Wenjiu's face.
Wenjiu blinked twice, and finally nodded: "Of course I will complain."
She wanted to say something high-sounding, but she felt that her experience was too shallow and she might not be able to fool people, so she might as well tell the truth.
Emperor Kangxi was stunned for a moment, frowning as he looked at the wine. He had actually asked this question to many women before, and their answers were all about putting their husbands first and having no regrets. Most of them were similar.
But I didn't expect to hear something different today.
The smile on his face was gone, and his brows were furrowed: "Then what will you do?"
"What should we do?" Wen Jiu blinked, "Your Majesty, the Fourth Master is busy with serious matters, not cheating, drinking, gambling, or whoring. Because the Fourth Master is getting busier and busier, the people in our mansion can live a stable and prosperous life. Even if we blame him, we will still make him some delicious food to nourish his body."
Emperor Kangxi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously repeated what Wen Jiu had said: "Even if I blame him... I still have to make him something delicious?"
Suddenly, Emperor Kangxi remembered that midsummer of that year when he returned from several busy months and headed straight for Chengqian Palace.
He promised his cousin that he would be back in a few days, and also said that he would eat braised beef with her when he returned.
He remembered that as soon as he entered the door that day, he was suddenly hit by a stuffy heat, and the smell of medicine in the room made him frown immediately.
It was only later that I learned that my cousin had been ill for more than three months. During the most thrilling time, even the Empress Dowager was alarmed and stayed with her talking for several days.
But she didn't know at the time that her body was already in tatters. She only remembered that she was in such a hurry that she didn't even bother to put on her shoes. She ran out to greet him and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has been away for many days and has been tired. You haven't eaten yet. Go and prepare your favorite stewed beef."
That day, Emperor Kangxi was called away before he finished eating the stewed beef. At that time, he always felt that he would have plenty of time to dine with her in the future. He was even thinking about the important event of establishing diplomatic relations with Russia at that time. He was so worried that he didn't realize how weak she had become.
Of course, he didn't know that not long after, the little cousin who followed him all day when he was a child left him.
So much so that every time he ate stewed beef, he always felt the bitterness mixed with the taste of medicine, but he couldn't help eating this dish again and again.
He had three queens in his life.
In fact, the first two were not his ideal partners.
As a young couple, Hesheli was a good woman who accompanied him through the most difficult times. She gave birth to two sons for him. The eldest son died young, and the second son, Baocheng, is now the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty.
During the time when she passed away, Emperor Kangxi was in grief. She was not the person he wanted to marry, but she was his first wife, the wife with whom he had shared hardships for many years.
The second empress, Niuhulu, was a modest, polite, and wise woman. The Emperor Kangxi, unable to bear the loss of a empress, made her his empress. She certainly wasn't his ideal, but she handled matters with care, always reassuring Kangxi. However, she passed away soon after.
The palace maids dared not speak, but he knew. Everyone thought that it was his bad luck that brought bad luck to the empress, and Emperor Kangxi also blamed himself for it.
So even if he wanted to make his cousin his queen, he restrained himself.
My cousin had grown up with him since she was little. When she was seven or eight years old, she always liked to follow him. She would often trot after him and say, "Cousin, can I marry you? If I become your wife, we can never be apart!"
Emperor Kangxi always scolded with a stern face when he was young, but he didn't know whether he was moved or not.
In fact, he hasn't even sorted out his thoughts yet. He remembers the goose yellow color among the plum blossoms, and the plum fragrance on the handkerchief dropped by his cousin.
However, he still chose Hesheli as his queen in the end. Over the years, he also remembered the pair of warm hands that Hesheli held on his hands every time he was in trouble.
He still remembered the look of Niuhulu with lowered eyebrows and a faint smile.
He couldn't figure out who he had more affection for, but he knew that the person he owed the most was his cousin.
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