Chapter 73: The 73rd Day of Wanting to Die
Some were almost scared to death after hearing what those people said. The Sixth Prince was alive and well. It was said that the Emperor had taken the Sixth Prince out of the palace before, but they had never seen him.
And can you say that here?
Don’t you want to live?
If someone with ulterior motives heard this, it would be like seeking death.
Those people were also shocked, but they couldn't calm down for a while, because how could the Sixth Prince know about cowpox?
Hiss, but he let their children get vaccinated for free and he went to try out the medicine himself, so the Sixth Prince must be a good person.
The word quickly spread among the people that the Sixth Prince was a kind-hearted man who cared about the world.
Anyway, just say good things to the Sixth Prince.
It was the first time for them to get to know a prince so well. They were very curious about him, but more importantly, they wanted to be close to him.
Many ministers were so angry when they saw the emperor doing this that their faces twisted.
The Emperor is blatantly protecting the Sixth Prince.
The prince's faction was somewhat dissatisfied. This was clearly the crown prince's achievement. Why was the emperor so partial? It felt as if the Sixth Prince was being allowed to take advantage of the situation.
Your Majesty is too partial.
But before they could act, they heard news that the cowpox was discovered by the Sixth Prince.
I brought it up when I was in the hospital vomiting blood. Many people were there, but it wasn't reported at the time.
The prince's party was immediately frightened. Fortunately, they did not go to seek justice, otherwise they would have been very embarrassed.
Does the Sixth Prince actually have this ability?
Could it be that he has finally gotten the hang of it?
The spinning machine was also the Sixth Prince’s idea.
Hiss, the Sixth Prince is going to take the upper hand later.
But the Sixth Prince’s health wouldn’t allow it.
Your Majesty, isn't this a futile effort?
Why not give this credit to the prince?
The prince's faction used to be very calm and Buddhist, but as the princes grew older, they became a little anxious.
After all, at the beginning they only had the eldest prince as their enemy, and the emperor had completely different attitudes towards the eldest prince and the crown prince, so no matter how powerful Nalan Mingzhu's faction was, they didn't care.
After all, they understood the political significance of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the Emperor.
But now a Sixth Prince has appeared, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has fallen to the point of working for him. It's simply outrageous.
In fact, they still noticed that Kangxi's attitude had changed and he treated the Sixth Prince too well.
They had discovered this when they attended court before, that several princes were also afraid of the Sixth Prince.
I don’t know what the Sixth Prince did to make the Emperor suddenly be so partial to him.
The art of resurrection?
That’s not right. There are no ghosts in this world.
They have never seen this, so they don't believe it.
But now I have to think about it again.
Lord Suo'e Tuso was called to the study again today. I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also there. I wonder what the Emperor will say to him.
The group was leaderless and could only wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return.
They also noticed that the Crown Prince had become a little cold towards them, and wondered if it was because he had been too busy recently.
Originally, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was too respectful to them, so they were all a little arrogant. Now that they were ignored, they realized that they really couldn't live without His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Because the emperor really attacks indiscriminately.
Everyone in the court was so tortured that they wished they could just bang their heads against each other and die.
We have just investigated the loan issue, and now we have to investigate the shipyard issue.
They had also heard of the shipyard; after all, there was a lot of money to be made there.
The Emperor wouldn't come in person to see how big the ship was, so...
But I didn't expect to hit a wall.
Alas, why did the emperor start to be so petty? He is so stingy.
I heard that the people in the kitchen were also arrested because they embezzled the money for buying eggs and inflated the price.
This shocked everyone. The emperor was so stingy that he even haggled over the cost of an egg?
This is too exaggerated.
That’s not all, now there’s another case of cowpox.
No one knew what would happen next, but now they dared not say anything to disobey the emperor. After all, the emperor had too many backup plans.
It's totally helpless.
Finally, under the leadership of two princes from the Qing Palace, the people finally launched a program to vaccinate against smallpox.
The Imperial Medical College is responsible for all of this.
Start with the surrounding areas first, then ask the local authorities to send people over to learn, and you will be able to do it after learning from them for a round.
Very simple.
Two days later, Yin Zhuo was finally allowed to be released.
There was also Yinzhen who was severely tortured. Although his body was not harmed, his mind was.
A bigger bald man came out leading a smaller bald man, and instantly scared Kangxi, Yinzhen and Yinreng who were waiting at the door.
How come all the hair on Fourteen's head has fallen out? Could it be that cowpox has some side effects?
Both of them looked surprised: "Fourteen, what happened to your hair?"
Why are you bald?!
It was an accident that Xiaoliu was bald alone, but now that there was another one, they had to be vigilant.
So the two of them immediately looked up and stared at Kangxi's head.
Kangxi was wearing a yellow hat. When he noticed the two people's gazes, his face changed and he said, "I am not bald!"
These brats are real, don't think he doesn't know what they are thinking of him.
Kangxi went over and touched Fourteenth's head twice, and indeed saw some blue stubble.
"Why do you want to shave your head?"
Kangxi understood the reason and said to Fourteenth in a bad mood.
Yinzhen looked innocent and gave Kangxi a silly smile: "Sixth brother said so smartly, he thinks I am too stupid."
After the devastation he suffered in the past few days, Yinzhen couldn't help but stay away from his sixth brother. He was simply a devil.
He felt that if he continued like this, he would become bald and not grow taller. It was too scary. Can you imagine how it felt to do the questions with your eyes closed?
[What's so good about your hairstyle? It's even worse than being bald. Nowadays, when people talk about the Qing Dynasty, they always complain about their hairstyle. It's so ugly.]
Kangxi felt very touched. Why did people in later generations still dislike his hairstyle?
You should know that Kangxi specially asked foreigners to paint his portrait so that people could see it, but he didn't expect that they all thought his hairstyle was ugly.
But this is a custom they left over from the grassland.
It has been like this since ancient times and is easy to maintain.
If people in later generations don’t understand, they shouldn’t talk nonsense. They all have their roots.
Didn't those Han people also surrender?
I voluntarily shaved my head and returned to the Pure Land.
But Kangxi still felt uncomfortable. Humph, it’s bad enough that he said he had pockmarks, but he even said that his hairstyle was ugly.
Are those people prejudiced against the Qing Dynasty?
But Kangxi's face froze. Thinking of what his useless descendants had done, he couldn't bear to blame them.
Those junk snacks are really useless. They have brought trouble upon him.
Kangxi gritted his teeth.
"Let me see the pimples on your arms."
Kangxi still cares about Xiaoliu.
Yin Zhuo and Yin Zhen both exposed their arms in public. Even the blood scab on Yin Zhen's arm had fallen off, and there was nothing on his arm except a growth at the wound, which made Yin Zhuo envious to death.
He has quite a few on his arms.
He always feels disgusted with himself when he reveals it.
[It's over. Now people in modern times won't call me Ma Zi or Ma Bao, right? I don't want that. Ma Zi should be Emperor Ama, and Ma Bao should be Second Brother.]
Yin Zhuo rolled his eyes, looking at the two small dents on his arm that were left by carelessness, and said hesitantly, "Father Emperor, can you please not let people remember the dents on my arm? It would be so embarrassing if the younger generations saw them."
Kangxi sneered: "I am already in a good mood, and you are still worried?"
Not only did he allow people to write, he also wanted people to write more. He wanted them to be so close to each other as father and son that even the pockmarks would remain on their bodies.
This is the bond between father and son.
Kangxi kept this in mind, and then looked at the two people with heartache: "You have lost weight, both of you have lost weight."
Yin Zhuo pinched his own face, then looked at Fourteenth's rounder face, and looked at Kangxi with a look that asked, "Are you blind?"
[It's true that your mother thinks you're cold, and your grandmother thinks you're hungry. Why is your father acting like an old grandmother? Fourteen is almost as thin as a piglet, and he's still skinny. It's true that studying math makes you fat.]
Yinzhen wanted to defend himself loudly, saying that he was anxious.
The less he could make it, the more he wanted to eat it, and the more he wanted to eat it, the more he wanted to eat it, so he became fatter in just a few days and was no longer the handsome fourteen year old boy.
Yinzhen was extremely sad. His sixth brother still spoke of him like this. He was really heartbroken.
Kangxi asked curiously, "What did you do in there?"
Yinzhen pursed his lips, tears were about to fall, he choked and said: "Sixth brother forced Fourteen to do the test, it's too difficult!"
Fourteenth Prince finally couldn't hold on any longer and couldn't hold on any longer in front of Kangxi.
Yin Zhuo glared: "Didn't you say you knew everything? Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Does Yinzhen dare to say it?
Sixth Brother was in such a state that he could easily explode. He was afraid that he would be broken into pieces by Sixth Brother like the falling apart chair. After all, he didn't dare to fight back.
So Kangxi and his companions heard from the palace servants how much time the two had spent together during these days.
After hearing this, Kangxi looked at his two sons who were having dinner, especially Xiaoliu, and felt extremely impressed.
It was too much torment, but Fourteen could endure it. If it were him, he would have given up long ago.
Isn’t it just tutoring 14 students to do their exercises?
Xiaoliu has too little patience.
It's a bit unbearable.
Yinreng and Yinzhi knew Arabic numerals; Xiaoliu taught them when they were checking accounts at the Ministry of Revenue.
It seems that this is the numerical symbol used in later generations, because Xiaoliu is very familiar with it.
But after seeing what Shi Si had written in the past few days, they were overwhelmed.
What are these strange symbols?
And Xiaoliu can actually make glass.
This really surprised Yinreng. How powerful is Xiaoliu in the future? He knows how to do all these things.
Yinzhen was also stunned.
He swallowed nervously. He wanted to see that world with his own eyes after he died. He wondered if it was as beautiful as Xiaoliu described.
要真是這樣的話，那裏簡直就是仙境。
尹灼不知道他又在不經意的地方震撼到了皇阿瑪和哥哥。
他看着康熙認真的樣子，笑眯眯的道：“皇阿瑪這麽厲害肯定都會做吧？”
康熙傲嬌的哼了一聲：“小意思。”
這些不會是用符號代替了漢字而已，他換算了一下就對上了。
但不得不說小六這方法很簡單，還有那什麽九九乘法表。
他記得在古書上也有記載，具體能追溯到春秋戰國時期，但沒有小六寫的這個順口。
但大差不差，而且小六這個是用阿拉伯符號換算過的，所以看着內容不多。
【呵呵，等下就讓皇阿瑪嘗嘗輔導孩子學習的痛苦，要知道現代人在面臨輔導孩子的時候有的都恨不得把孩子給扔了，不知道皇阿瑪會不會這樣？】
但很快尹灼就想起來了。
【不對，要說輔導孩子學習，康老爺子是熟手啊，他可是親自把二哥給教到十二歲才讓他去尚書房進學的，啧，失算了，十四差點把我氣撅過去，這苦不能我一個人受！】
尹灼還是不甘心。
康熙見他實在是不想放棄，直接道：“等下，朕來批改十四的課業。”
他就不信了，一個個都是他的孩子，十四也差不到哪裏去。
胤礽和胤褆嘴角抽了抽，同情的看了眼已經僵住的十四。
胤祯現在恨不得撅過去的是自己。
算了，聽天由命吧，生死在天，要是把皇阿瑪給氣暈了，他可能見不到明天的太陽了。
尹灼雙眼亮了起來，小腦袋直點：“皇阿瑪放心，十四您還不了解嗎？”
【不知道康老爺子的身體存不存在三高的隐患，別到時候高血壓上來了，那問題就嚴重了。】
康熙皺眉，三高又是什麽？難不成是一種病嗎？
高血壓他也沒聽說過但聽這字面意思也能理解個差不多，看起來挺嚴重的。
他雖然年紀大了，但康熙認為自己的身體素質跟年輕人沒有什麽兩樣，就比如他身體絕對比小六的強壯。
所以，他不怕。
小六都沒有出問題，他也絕對不會的。
門外，尹灼和大哥二哥躲了出來，聽到裏面拍桌子的聲音，腦袋一縮一縮的。
尹灼嘆了一口氣：“看吧，不好好管教小孩的下場，二哥以後弘皙的課業你也要抓緊了，不然拍桌子都沒用。”
【雖然弘皙表現的還不錯，但父子二人也要增進一下關系，但也別把康老爺子對自己的做法用到弘皙身上，畢竟這世上只有一個胤礽，也只有胤礽能夠應付得了康熙了，兩個人絕配。】
胤礽：……
他才不會對弘皙那樣，但看皇阿瑪現在輔導課業的樣子，他幻想了一下要是弘皙是十四這樣的，嘶，不行，他接受不了。
雖然皇阿瑪的做法不可取，但雞娃要趁早。
他得重視一下，弘皙的教育問題了，別到時候都像他十四叔這樣。
到時候自己哭都沒地方哭去。
做阿瑪實在是太難了。
半晌，胤祯跟丢了魂似的出來了。
康熙也差不多。
給胤祯講到題能要了他半條命，比每天跟那些朝臣們打嘴仗都難。
尹灼見到兩個人這幅凄慘樣，不由得後退了一步。
果然，輔導課業是自古以來的難題。
大人講的小孩轉不過來彎，所以一知半解，而小孩他不懂他是真的不會做題啊。
所以還是實踐出真知好了。
康熙看躲得遠遠的小六，哼了一聲：“小六，你作為十四的哥哥，他的學習情況就由你來監督，要是下一次朕檢查他的課業沒有進步，那朕可就要罰你了。”
這話一出，尹灼和胤祯的臉色都變了。
但尹灼面色發白，完全接受不了現實。
而胤祯則幸災樂禍，讓六哥坑他，現在自作自受了吧。
尹灼有些崩潰：“兒臣不行。”
【皇阿瑪看來也拿捏不住十四啊，果然他只對二哥有耐心，從小手把手教到大！為什麽我要一直想這事呢，因為我成檸檬了！我酸的面容扭曲！】
康熙和胤礽：……
小六又犯病了。
康熙覺得有些開心，因為小六竟然嫉妒他手把手教胤礽的事要是小六願意，他現在也可以手把手教他。
但小六這性子完全坐不住啊，他也不是沒教過，收效甚微。
而且還是給自己找罪受，康熙想到之前的情況，直接當做什麽都沒發生。
算了，他什麽都沒聽過。
到時候小六還真的能把他給氣撅過去。
尹灼酸了一會兒，也嫌棄康熙了呢。
【算了，康熙那種填鴨式學習，不适合我，只适合二哥，我到時候再被噎死了。】
于是，康熙和尹灼都後退一步，各放彼此一條生路。
十四見目光不在自己身上了，也松了一口氣，不是讓他學習就行。
他現在太脆弱了。
而且膽戰心驚的，因為他把六哥逼瘋就算了，竟然還把皇阿瑪逼瘋了。
胤祯這個時候覺得自己特別的厲害，特別的牛。
他不管，這件事一定要寫到史書上去，他要後輩們好好看看他的成就。
胤祯驕傲的挺着小胸脯。
但看了看自己的各自，又一次厭惡起自己的年齡，為什麽他不跟六哥的年齡換換。
他現在就想長大，這樣就不用再遭受學習之苦了。
胤褆見他們一直在說話，也想起來了自己過來的目的：“小六，你給的那什麽肥皂香皂，大哥給你研究出來了。”
尹灼連忙道：“什麽樣的？快給弟弟看看。”
康熙也好奇，這事他丢給胤褆辦的，沒想到直接就成了。
尹灼看到形狀漂亮還帶着花香的香皂，第一次震驚到古人的智慧。
別的不說，這一點就通實在是太省事了。
胤褆聽到小六的心聲也是十分自豪的，小六給他安排的事他做的很好。
尹灼珍惜的把肥皂給放了回去。
“既然這樣，大哥就找人多做一下吧，到時候我們自己賣，等到胤禩和胤禟能出海了，讓他們帶着賣到洋人那去。”
胤褆算是發現了，小六對賺洋人的錢情有獨鐘。
看來洋人實在是可恨啊。
竟然敢燒皇家的園子，坑大清的白銀。
這一次可不會讓他們這麽輕松的就鑽了空子。
康熙也是心中一沉，這洋人都快成小六的心結了。
之後，尹灼拿了兩塊香皂，帶着胤祯去了永和宮。
德妃見到他們兩個一下子就把兩個人摟到了懷裏，眼淚直流：“你們兩個怎麽那麽大膽？知道額娘這幾天是怎麽過的嗎？”
都快擔心死她了。
聽到他們兩個人出來了，都迫不及待的想去跟康熙搶人了，好在等到了。
尹灼老老實實的把情況給額娘說了一下，看着他這麽擔心自己跟十四也是十分動容。
“額娘，我們沒事了。”
德妃擦了擦眼淚：“額娘只有你們這些孩子，你們要是出事了，額娘也不活了。”
德妃實在是害怕了。
尤其是這幾天，惠妃宜妃他們還讓人過來送禮安慰她，她氣的牙癢癢。
一個個都是來看他笑話的。
好在她的十四跟小六命大。
來了半晌，德妃這才注意到十四的腦袋光了，她震驚不已：“你的小辮子呢？”
“六哥抓住了兒臣的小辮子，所以兒臣就失去了辮子。”
胤祯直接來了一句順口溜。
把德妃給聽愣了，她轉頭對尹灼道：“你要十四的辮子做什麽？”
尹灼一臉冤枉：“額娘，兒臣是什麽人你還不了解嗎？兒臣怎麽可能是那種人，是十四他羨慕兒臣聰明絕頂，所以把自己的辮子給剪了。攔都攔不住。”
【額娘什麽審美啊，那辮子醜死了，皇阿瑪都沒說什麽，不用那麽在意，而且額娘天天梳個旗頭不累嗎？我都看花看膩了。】
德妃剛想說什麽，就被尹灼給打斷了：“額娘這是大哥找人做的香皂，您沐浴的時候可以用，去污留香，兒臣特意讓人給帶的。”
尹灼眨了眨眼。
德妃還能說什麽，只能感動的手下。
胤祯見額娘不追求小辮子的事了，也松了一口氣。
這是他第一次這麽大膽，但還是覺得很刺激。
胤祯也似模似樣的送上自己的東西。
臨走之前，德妃拉着二人仔細的叮囑了一番，讓他們千萬不要再做什麽危險的事了，不然她這個做額娘的心神不安，飯都吃不下了。
尹灼只能應了。
額娘也是一片愛子之心，他也不能說傷她的心的話。
一出了永和宮，胤祯和尹灼就兩看生厭。
兩個人呆在幾天，真是呆的夠夠的了，分別的時候連話都不想說了，随意擺擺手，尹灼就把自己扔到了床上。
雖然還是同樣的位置，但感覺就是不一樣了。
尹灼嘆了一口氣，他還是比較想知道如何讓糧食增産，如何為老百姓減負。
門外的康熙，把小六的心聲一個字不差的聽到了耳朵裏。
原本打算進去的他，還是選擇離開了。
原本他是打算過來找小六，讓他同自己一起回乾清宮睡覺的。
但現在他覺得沒必要了。
小六比他想的還要善良。
Kangxi walked outside the gate of the prince's residence, looked up at the starry sky, and blinked: "I hope everything will be as Xiaoliu wishes."
Yin Zhuo didn't know that Kangxi had just been outside his door, and the palace maids were kept in the dark, not letting anyone in to disturb Yin Zhuo who was in deep thought.
Yin Zhuo fell asleep while thinking.
A lot of ideas popped up in his mind, and he needed to think about them one by one.
This cheat code isn't very easy to use. It requires him to use his brain. Can't it be printed out directly for him?
But the conditions were limited, so Yin Zhuo could only do it slowly.
As a result, the next day, when he woke up, he received a happy news.
It turned out that the news of his recovery and isolation with Fourteenth had spread yesterday, so when it was getting dark, everyone spontaneously gave him things at the palace gate.
What's even more outrageous is that some people burned incense for him, saying that he was a person who came down from heaven to benefit the people.
So burning incense is to pray for him.
Yin Zhuo was stunned. It would be fine if you were just sending gifts, but what was the meaning of burning incense at Donghuamen?
Yin Zhuo was suddenly at a loss for words, finding it both funny and ridiculous.
This was also the first time Kangxi encountered this.
The gifts everyone gave were not expensive, but that was the gate of the imperial palace after all, and people were not allowed to be presumptuous. But because everyone had good intentions, the Nine-Gate Commander reported the matter to Kangxi.
He arrested those people first, after all, he didn't know what their real intention was.
What could Kangxi do but envy Xiaoliu.
He had been emperor for so many years, but no one came to give him some food and drink.
As a result, Xiaoliu, at such a young age, actually enjoyed it.
"Why?"
Kangxi wondered, were those people so brave?
And burning incense is weird.
Xiaoliu is a living person.
Kangxi felt unwell.
Yin Zhuo felt the same way. As a modern man, although he was not superstitious, he did understand a little bit. It was a bit absurd to burn incense for a living person.
Yin Zhuo thought of something and went to find Kangxi immediately.
I plan to tell him my thoughts.
Kangxi also sent someone to look for Xiaoliu.
Yin Zhuo asked, "Did you arrest those people, Father Emperor?"
Kangxi knew he was going to ask this, so he explained, "The Nine-Gate Commander caught him."
It has nothing to do with him.
Yin Zhuo nodded to show that he understood, then he stood there somewhat at a loss.
Kangxi felt a little distressed when he saw his frail body: "If you have anything to say, please tell me."
Yin Zhuo sighed inwardly.
[You know, my second brother is a staunch atheist, so my father, who raised my second brother, certainly doesn't have any religious beliefs. But I do mind it a little bit. Why should others burn incense for me? It will shorten my life. I don't have long to live, and if you curse me, won't I have no future? ]
Kangxi said quickly: "Don't worry, Xiaoliu, I will have someone check it out."
Yin Zhuo clenched his fist and said, "I believe in you, Father."