At the end of December last year, Wan Liuhe gave birth to the twelfth prince. Because Kangxi didn't like this woman very much and her family background was very mediocre, Kangxi didn't ask anyone to take the child away after she gave birth. Instead, he placed the child in a side hall of Ningshou Palace and asked her to raise him herself.
When the concubines saw Kangxi's attitude, they probably realized that both Wan Liuha and the twelfth prince were unpopular, so no one was willing to go to the trouble of adopting the twelfth prince.
Wan Liuha was quite smart. After all, she was favored by Emperor Kangxi only once when she was 26 years old. If it weren't for that accident, she would probably have died in this palace without a chance to stand out.
Therefore, after giving birth to the twelfth prince, Wan Liuhe did not develop any ambitions. She stayed in Ningshou Palace and rarely came out to see people.
It was not until today when Kangxi heard the name of Thirteenth Son in Yinreng's inner voice that he remembered this little unknown son.
Then he thought of Twelve, who seemed to have no name yet, and he had given Eleven, who was only a few months older than Twelve, a name when he was one month old.
But Kangxi did not think there was anything wrong with his partiality. If he, an emperor, could not do things according to his own preferences, then what was the point of being an emperor.
He can be partial to his own children, but he won't allow others to mistreat his children.
As the sedan chair swayed along the palace road, no one knew that Kangxi was getting obsessed with Yinreng's thoughts.
Be ambitious if you want to. What's the point of being a child that no one loves?
Xiao Si, Xiao Ba, and Xiao Shi San.
His son Xuchi only lived to the age of twelve, so the thirteenth child should be born someday in the future. Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered Zhang Jia who lived in a side hall of Yonghe Palace.
She should be giving birth in a few months. Could she be Xiao Shisan's biological mother?
Kangxi thought about it and felt that there would be plenty of time to verify the matter in the future. The most important thing at the moment was to find out why no one loved Xiao Si and Xiao Ba.
After returning to the Qianqing Palace, Kangxi sent Yinreng directly back to the Yuqing Palace.
Yinreng was kicked out before he even sat down, and he was speechless.
"Look, look, I said that pleading for Xiaowu and the others would only lead to trouble. This old man is too petty."
Yinreng curled his lips and bowed.
"Son, take your leave."
Kangxi took a deep breath, resisted the urge to bring him back and beat him up, and turned his head expressionlessly to look at Liang Jiugong.
"Go check Yinzhen and Yinsi's daily expenses for food, clothing, and other expenses."
Liang Jiugong glanced at Kangxi's face cautiously and was immediately frightened.
The Emperor's mood these past two days has been even more changeable than the weather in June. If this continues, Eunuch Liang feels that even if he hasn't committed any crime and is dragged away and beaten to death, he will be driven crazy by the Emperor's sudden anger.
“Yeah.”
Liang Jiugong responded quickly, then hurried downstairs to make arrangements.
He didn't understand why it was the Fifth Prince and the Seventh Prince who had displeased His Majesty today, but His Majesty asked him to check the food, clothing and other expenses of the Fourth Prince and the Eighth Prince. Could it be that he discovered something wrong with the two young masters in the Shangshufang?
Liang Jiugong thought back to the entire process in the Shangshufang this afternoon. He hadn't even noticed any of the details, and still couldn't figure out why the Emperor wanted to check the food, clothing, and other expenses of the Fourth and Eighth Princes.
Liang Jiugong felt like he was doomed.
As a personal eunuch, he couldn't even guess his master's intentions. What if he said something wrong one day...
Liang Jiugong felt a chill down his spine.
On the other side, after Yinreng left the Qianqing Palace, he saw that the sun was no longer scorching, and he no longer had the desire to go back to the palace to sleep.
He didn’t have enough to eat at noon, so although he wasn’t hungry now, he just felt a little empty. Yinreng thought about it and decided to go to the imperial kitchen to find something to eat.
In fact, he had rarely been to the imperial kitchen in his previous life. In order to hide the fact that he was a time traveler and deal with the mess in the court, he had already consumed all his energy.
He had no free time to wander around the Forbidden City. If he were to say where he was most familiar with the palaces besides the Yuqing Palace and the Qianqing Palace, it would probably be the palaces near Donghua Gate, as it was the gate closest to the six ministries.
Whenever he had work to do, he would pass through there.
However, although he had never been in there, he knew its exact location.
The imperial kitchen is very close to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, just outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation to the south of the Gate of Heavenly Purity.
Yinreng walked briskly and strolled to the imperial kitchen.
When he was about five meters away from the imperial kitchen, Yinreng smelled the fragrance of pastries, mixed with a hint of the rotten smell of泔水. It was not very obvious, and others probably would not be able to smell it.
But after he was reborn in his previous life, he found that his five senses had become much sharper, and he still had this buff in this life, so he could naturally distinguish it.
There were no eunuchs guarding the door of the imperial kitchen. After all, those who came here to deliver meals were not masters of high status. If they were, the kitchen would have eunuchs who would deliver the meals themselves.
Seeing that the prince was about to turn into the kitchen, He Zhuer was so frightened that his face turned pale and he hurriedly stopped him.
"Is the prince going to the kitchen?"
Yinreng nodded without comment, and He Zhuer suddenly became anxious.
"Master, I can't go!"
Yinreng was puzzled.
"Why can't I go?"
"A gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, sir. If you go in there, I won't have enough heads to chop off."
He Zhuer was so anxious that he almost cried.
Yinreng was stunned, having forgotten about this.
In his previous life, he had tinkered with the small kitchen a few times, but he was never able to get into the door. There were so many palace maids and eunuchs in Yuqing Palace that he naturally couldn't do it himself.
He almost forgot what he had asked the kitchenette to do.
This time he was in the imperial kitchen, where people were coming and going, and nothing could be hidden. As a prince, no matter what he did in the imperial kitchen, it would give those pedantic scholars in the court something to talk about, and it would also implicate the few people who followed him today.
Thinking of this, Yinreng hesitated.
He was not afraid of being impeached, but he was afraid of implicating He Zhuer and the others.
In fact, the personal eunuchs who could be sent to him all had clean family backgrounds and had no connection with the major bannerman families. He Zhuer was naturally no exception.
Moreover, Kangxi was a person with a strong desire for control, so the eunuchs and palace maids serving Yinreng were replaced every two months. If they did a good job during their term, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would arrange a job that was lucrative and easy for them after the term ended. If they did not do a good job or made any mistakes, they would be directly dragged out and beaten, or turned into menial servants, and spend the rest of their lives in torture.
In his previous life, Yinreng was sick for two months when He Zhuer served him, so his fate was naturally not good. Later, when he recovered, he specially asked someone to check on He Zhuer's whereabouts. He learned that he had been demoted to the Xinzheku, and was tortured to death a few days later because he offended the chief eunuch at that time.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
