Chapter 115 Extra Chapter: Sky Screen Cinema 21
It has to be the eldest brother, his health bar is thick enough.
With nothing to watch, the princes turned their attention away. To be honest, Yinzhi always complained that Kangxi favored Yinreng. But in reality, compared to the other princes, Yinzhi's treatment was quite good.
If anyone else had said that to Yinzhi, let alone two or three times, one time would have been enough to kill them.
To avoid revealing their ugly jealousy, everyone looked up at the sky intently, pretending to be busy analyzing.
In March of the fourth year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign, Consort Jia of Qixiang Palace was the first to announce good news: she was two months pregnant. Ruyi couldn't help but scold A'Ruo and smash a teacup. After this, Ruyi became even more attentive to the matter of bringing together Su Xin and Wang Qin.
Soon, things took a turn for the better.
Ruyi noticed her period was late and suspected she was pregnant. She immediately and secretly had Suixin summon Jiang Yubin to take her pulse. The diagnosis revealed she was one month pregnant.
"Wait, what are those two looking at?"
Seeing the terrified expressions on Su Xin and Jiang Yubin's faces after Ruyi diagnosed her pulse, Yin was completely baffled. "Does this mean Ruyi can't get pregnant?"
Yinzhen watched as Jiang Yubin repeatedly took Ruyi's pulse, his forehead beaded with sweat, and couldn't help but twitch his lips. Only Ruyi was truly "oblivious to the world"; even those of them who were using Ruyi's perspective knew that Jiang Yubin was a veterinarian, yet Ruyi never doubted him at all.
"Hongli probably doesn't want Ruyi to be pregnant. Su Xin... Jiang Yubin are both his people. Ruyi's pregnancy is indeed strange."
No one could guess that Hongli never touched Ruyi. After all, such a private matter wouldn't be revealed by Tianmu.
Yinzhen frowned. He really disliked the fact that his grandson was born from Ruyi's womb, and couldn't help but worry: "Won't this ruin Hongli's plans?"
Rather than worrying that Hongli would misbehave while watching the play, Yinsi was more inclined to doubt Jiang Yubin's medical skills: "Perhaps Jiang Yubin's medical skills are inadequate, after all, he..."
Before Yinzhi could finish speaking, everyone lowered their heads to suppress their laughter. The idea that Hongli sent a veterinarian to approach Ruyi was hilarious enough that Ruyi didn't recognize him at all and even mistook him for a confidant. It was so funny it was absurd.
Since becoming pregnant, Ruyi has been extremely proud. In order to secure the title of "noble son," Ruyi has summoned the only connections left to her by the Ulanara clan.
"Consort Jia's pregnancy came at an inopportune time..."
"As you command, Master."
Looking at the distant vermilion palace walls, Ruyi said with compassion, "It's not that I don't want her to get pregnant, but it's not possible at this time."
"Before I was married, I often stayed by my great-aunt's side to fulfill my filial duties. My great-aunt was a Buddhist, and I often copied Buddhist scriptures for her. It was during that time that I learned that cinnabar, when heated, would release mercury, and mercury is poisonous..."
"This servant understands."
Sanbao nodded, and Ruyi smiled and said, "Take your time. I don't want Consort Jia dead."
Hearing A'Ruo's commotion, Ruyi frowned in annoyance. "She's just a servant of the Ulanara clan after all. Let A'Ruo be loyal one last time. Everyone knows A'Ruo is unhappy that Consort Jia is pregnant, isn't she?"
"hiss"
Yin gasped in disbelief: "Has Ruyi grown a brain?"
He actually witnessed a real conspiracy! Good heavens, Ruyi actually knew that cinnabar could extract mercury and even tried to frame someone! Did she get pregnant and develop a brain fart?
Emperor Kangxi frowned slightly and looked at the imperial physician. After receiving a positive answer from the physician, he became more wary of the use of cinnabar in the harem.
To be honest, his feelings were quite complicated. He never expected that he would actually learn something from Ruyi.
"Ninth Brother, when do you think Ruyi will be exposed? Shall we take the bet?"
Yin looked at Yin Tang, his heart itching to make a bet.
He never doubted that Ruyi's scheme would be exposed. But when Ruyi showed any intelligence, his enthusiasm for watching the drama unfold increased.
"What's there to bet on?" Yin Tang glanced at Yin, and before he could speak, he continued, "Anyone can see that Hongli wouldn't allow Ruyi to really threaten anyone else. He would have exposed her beforehand. So how do you suggest we bet?"
Yin opened his mouth, realizing it was indeed a bad idea to gamble, and they couldn't calculate it by the day. But as Yin Tang's good younger brother, he could tell from Yin Tang's expression that he had other ideas.
"So, Ninth Brother, what do you want to bet on?"
Yinzhen patted his shoulder with a smile: "Tenth Prince understands me best. Let's bet on who will expose this cinnabar scheme. How about it, interested?"
"Who exposed this..."
Upon hearing this, Yin became even more interested, saying, "This sounds very interesting."
"Of course," Yinzhen said, looking at Yinzhen and Yinsi. "Fourth brother, eighth brother, wanna bet?"
"Me, me, me too!"
Yinzhen eagerly raised his hand, not only wanting to get involved but also to seize the initiative: "I'll bet my heart will betray you!"
"Hey!" Yin said unhappily, "Why did you interrupt me?"
"I don't care, I'll choose Xinxin, Tenth Brother, you can choose someone else!"
Yinzhen's voice grew louder with pride, reaching the ears of Yinzhi in front of him, who asked directly, "Fourteenth Prince, what should we choose?"
Following Yinzhi's words, Kangxi and the others turned their gazes to Yinti. Yinti flinched, betraying Yintang.
“Ninth Brother made a bet with us, saying who would expose the Cinnabar Scheme in the end, and I chose Su Xin first.”
Yinzhi secretly glared at the boy who couldn't keep a secret at all. Without thinking too much, Yinzhi said directly, "Then I choose Jiang Yubin. Imperial physicians are perfect for reporting!"
Yinreng smiled and joined in, saying, "Then I'll choose Consort Jia. She seems as clever as Ruyi. Ruyi might not be able to outsmart her, and it's normal for the victim to accuse her."
With both of his eldest sons involved, what could Kangxi say? "I have chosen Empress Fucha..."
He glared at the astonished crowd. What? The emperor can't be chosen?
After staring at everyone until they all looked away, Kangxi continued with satisfaction, "As the mistress of the harem, you can't just ignore everything, can you?"
With Emperor Kangxi involved, others were eager to join in as well.
"It's normal that I chose Aruo as the one who was framed."
"Does A'Ruo have the brains? I choose Tongjia Shi; she's clearly the smartest."
"Tongjia's presence is so low, not as strong as Gao Xiyue's. It's normal that she doesn't like Ruyi and keeps a close eye on her."
...
The crowd murmured amongst themselves, unable to convince anyone else. In the heat of the moment, they even tore off their thumb rings and jade pendants to use as stakes. This was gambling "by imperial decree," so what was wrong with higher stakes!
Yinzhi looked at Yinzhen, who had remained silent, and asked, "Fourth Brother, who do you think it is?"
Yinzhen slightly curled the corners of his mouth, looking thoughtfully at Ruyi who was busy on the sky screen: "I always feel that, given Hongli's personality, in order to watch the show more exciting, he will choose someone that Ruyi doesn't care about at all to give her a fatal blow."
Yinzhi nodded, pondered for a moment, then smiled and met Yinzhen's gaze: "Then I have someone in mind..."
"Hailan".
The two said the name in unison, looked at each other and smiled, their tacit understanding making Yinzhen roll his eyes.
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