When Yinzhen met Kangxi with trepidation, the first thing Kangxi said was,
"I heard you locked up a man who was addicted to opium?"
Yinzhen: "...Is this why you called your son here?"
He felt a little uncomfortable when he suddenly relaxed after feeling uneasy all the way.
Kangxi stopped writing on the memorial and looked up at his troubled son.
"Why do you think I called you here?"
"Of course I thought you asked your son to come and get the silver!"
When Yinzhen heard Kangxi ask him this, he blurted out the answer without thinking.
If the old man was willing to give him the millions of taels of silver directly, would he have to move it bit by bit so carefully?
He wouldn't be frightened when he heard the old man calling him today.
——This old man is so bad!
Yinzhen thought about the comment his second brother once made to the old man. When he first heard it, he thought his second brother was extremely rebellious, but the longer time passed, the more he felt that the comment was appropriate.
Hearing Yin'er's straightforward answer, Kangxi's face immediately darkened.
Black is black, but he has no way to refute it.
Ever since he embezzled Yin'er's money, every time Kangxi saw his son, he felt that he was inferior to him.
"Did you lock up that opium addict?"
He could only change the subject.
The fleeting look of guilt on Kangxi's face was not missed by Yin'er, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.
"Replying to the Emperor, this is indeed true."
Yinzhen didn't want to care about how the old man knew about this matter. It was useless to care about it.
Who made the old man the emperor?
"Take me to see it."
Kangxi finally stated his purpose.
He learned from Yinreng's inner voice that he had seen a drug addict suffer from drug addiction in his previous life, and he was a little curious.
"Okay."
Yinzhen agreed readily. The waiter had been locked up in the woodshed. If the old man wanted to see it, he could let him take a look. As long as he didn't ask him for money, everything could be negotiated.
"Shall we leave now?"
Kangxi looked down at his casual clothes and shook his head.
"Wait for me to change my clothes."
"OK."
Kangxi stood up and walked towards the inner room. Halfway through, he remembered something and turned back to say,
"I don't want anyone else to know what happened today...especially the Crown Prince!"
Yinzhen was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little confused, but he was not stupid enough to ask, so he just nodded in agreement.
"yes."
Only after Kangxi disappeared from his sight did Yinzhen slowly frown.
Why can’t I let my second brother know?
It was my second brother who exposed my excessive opium addiction. There was no reason for the old man to hide this from my second brother.
Yinzhen thought about it for a long time, but even after Kangxi changed his clothes and came out, he still couldn't figure out why he had to hide it from his second brother.
Kangxi was wearing a black cotton suit, which looked very ordinary, but it did not conceal his noble aura.
Yinzhen was speechless.
The carriages could not enter the outer city commercial street, so the old man would have to get off the carriage and walk to his shop. It seemed that it would make no difference whether he changed his clothes or not, with this face on.
Yinzhen thought about it and decided to tell Kangxi the truth.
Kangxi: “…”
The veins on his forehead jumped several times, and he gnashed his teeth.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
If he had known this earlier, why would he bother with this? He could have just asked this bastard to take the person to his house!
"Before you went to change your clothes, you told your son that you wanted to keep it a secret from your second brother."
Yinzhen felt wronged, and he spoke frankly.
Kangxi: “…”
"Go, bring that... drug addict to your house. I'll be waiting there first!"
Yinzhen smacked his lips. It should have been over long ago. He was still wasting his time waiting here.
"Son will be there soon!"
He said goodbye, turned around and immediately rolled his eyes.
Kangxi waited in Lao Jiu's house for more than half an hour before he saw the drug addict who was wrapped like a dumpling.
Although his face was somewhat injured, most of it was exposed. Kangxi carefully observed his condition and asked with a frown,
"Why is he wrapped like this?"
"When his drug addiction kicked in, he was overexerting himself. His bones were as brittle as rice paper. They would break if they touched anything hard."
Yinzhen answered kindly.
Kangxi was surprised.
"Broken?!"
The bones were broken by a simple collision. How can a person be so fragile?
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