Yinreng took Tana out of Tong Wanyan's arms and lifted her onto his lap.
The little chubby boy is so heavy and loves to move around, we mustn't crush his heart and soul.
Holding Tana in his arms, Yinreng placed a piece of milk cake in her hand and smiled at the Empress Dowager, saying, "Grandma, it's just fate playing tricks on us that allowed Xiao Yan to enter the Eastern Palace. Thinking about it, I'm actually quite glad."
The Empress Dowager was dumbfounded; her grandson was truly shameless.
The Empress Dowager said, "You dare to say that."
Tong Wanyan echoed her husband's sentiments, saying, "What you say is true. There is no man in the world who can compare to you. You are handsome and talented. It's not easy to find a husband like you without some twist of fate."
Yinreng couldn't hide his seriousness as he laughed, and Tana's chubby little hands, covered in crumbs of milk cake, patted his face.
"Father, Mother praised you, you should smile," said the little devil, Tana.
Yinreng laughed along, his face beaming with pleasure.
The Empress Dowager waved the handkerchief in her hand, covering her mouth as if trying not to laugh.
The servants standing in the room, all close confidants, couldn't help but lower their heads and suppress their laughter.
Yinreng and Tong Wanyan, the couple, didn't feel embarrassed at all.
They were just telling the truth; they naturally wanted to say what was good about their own people that no one else knew.
It's so nice to let others see how happy you are and share in their joy.
As a junior, Tong Wanyan dutifully entertained her elders with colorful clothes, making the Empress Dowager laugh continuously and feel happy.
Meanwhile, at the Duke of Tong's residence, Orondai was telling his wife about his grievances about the scheming Crown Prince stealing his credit.
His big, simple-minded appearance drew a barrage of sarcastic remarks from Tong Guogang and was ignored by Tong Fujin.
With a beloved little daughter, a silly son in his thirties doesn't matter.
Having nowhere else to turn for help, Orondai finally sought solace from his wife, weeping pitifully for comfort.
Father and Mother are unreliable; only the Princess Consort is truly considerate.
After taking a day off, Yinreng immediately started working non-stop with Yinzhen the next day, busy with water conservancy and agricultural affairs.
When Emperor Kangxi first proposed water conservancy and land reclamation, some stubborn and outdated officials submitted a joint memorial rejecting the proposal.
He said, "If the flood damage is not eliminated, then the fields are no longer our fields, so what is the point of managing them?"
Kangxi was waiting for this very sentence, and he proudly showed them the water conservancy map made by Yinreng.
Yinreng once again gained momentum and praise in the court.
Emperor Kangxi was an emperor willing to make sweeping reforms to improve people's livelihoods. He immediately established the Yingtian Water Conservancy Bureau and divided the rivers in Zhili into four bureaus for management.
Afterwards, Yinreng and Yinzhen personally visited the site several times to provide guidance, repairing rivers and creating farmland, reclaiming thousands of miles of wasteland, and recruiting people to cultivate it. In addition, Yinreng also hired farmers from the south who were skilled in rice cultivation to come and teach them.
Spending so much time in the fields, Yinreng and Yinzhen inevitably got tanned.
Yinti listened to Kangxi's proud and elaborate praise of the Crown Prince every day, and he complained to outsiders that Yinreng was just a peasant prince. From planting potatoes and corn a few years ago to now working in farmland, he was always focused on grain, showing no elegance of a scholar or nobility of a royal.
Yinqi spoke out, and Kangxi quickly received the news.
Emperor Kangxi, whose heart was full of praise for the Crown Prince, immediately summoned Yinti to the palace and berated him severely.
He was accused of being ambitious, arrogant, and easily angered, and was scolded as if he were a sick chick.
When Yinreng found out, he just smiled and said nothing.
At some point, he stopped being afraid of or wary of Yinti, and stopped competing with him in everything.
To his surprise, his humility towards Yinqi made Kangxi love and cherish him even more.
Kangxi had long since forgotten the idea of using Suo'etu, Mingzhu, and Yinti as whetstones for the crown prince.
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