Chapter 158: Do you want to have some fun? The men in the front yard didn’t…
The men in the front yard were not so worried. No matter what they thought in their hearts, they all smiled and congratulated.
Yinzhen also picked up his wine glass and said simply, "Congratulations."
"Thank you, Fourth Brother." Yinsi didn't seem very happy and asked casually, "Why didn't Fourth Sister-in-law come?"
Yinzhen smiled and said, "She is not feeling well." He felt unwell in his heart.
"You have to take good care of her." After a simple concern, Yinsi went to greet others. After all, they were not very familiar with each other.
Yinxiang came over and said, "Fourth brother, is Fourth Sister-in-law seriously ill? I have a few old ginsengs here. I'll ask Fu Jin to send them to her later."
"No need for the old man, but you can ask your wife to ask your fourth sister-in-law to go out for a walk." Yinzhen said, "She has been bored in the mansion for the past few years. I'm worried that she will become ill."
Yinxiang said with some envy: "Fourth brother, you and your fourth sister-in-law have a really good relationship."
Yinzhen glanced at him and said, "If you want to, you can do it."
"Hehe." Yinxiang scratched his head and stopped talking. Although he also liked Fu Jin very much, he also felt pity for the concubines who gave birth to his children. But he could not be like his fourth brother and stay with Fu Jin alone for so many years.
Yin'e came over at some point and said, "If you're going out to play, take my girl with you. She's not very articulate and doesn't know many people in the capital, so it's hard for her to have fun when we go out."
"Okay, Tenth Brother, no problem, Tenth Brother." Yinxiang agreed readily.
Yinzhen said nothing to Yin'e's approach; he was used to it. He asked, "How's your garden?"
"We are laying the foundation. Those slaves just slack off without someone watching them." Yin'e got angry when he talked about this.
The two of them started talking about building a garden, and Yinxiang was very envious. This time, the emperor distributed the land, and only the brothers before the tenth brother got a share. He and the twelfth and fourteenth brothers could only watch with envy.
The others were all thinking about the three of them getting together.
After Yinsi exchanged a few words with Yinzhi, he found Yin'er and casually asked, "What's wrong with the Tenth Brother recently? Wasn't he most afraid of Fourth Brother's lectures before? Why did he come to me on his own initiative?"
Yinzhen glanced at the trio over there, twirling the wine glass in his hand, and said casually, "Didn't the craftsmen in his garden have a problem a while ago? I guess he's asking Fourth Brother for help. Doesn't Fourth Brother manage a bunch of craftsmen now?"
Yinsi nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile, "Why haven't you come here often these days? Your eighth sister-in-law even said that you are not used to not seeing you for a long time."
Yinzhen smiled and said, "It's Dong E who's always looking for trouble. I really envy you, Eighth Brother. Your Eighth Sister-in-law keeps the house in perfect order. You don't have to worry about anything."
Yinsi paused for a moment before advising, "Ninth brother's wife is also a good person. Don't bury yourself in business all day long. Spend more time with her. Women need company."
"I know, I know." Yinzhen muttered impatiently, "Women are not as fragrant as silver."
"You." Yinsi shook his head helplessly and stood up, saying, "I'll go check on Twelve and Fourteen."
After he left, Yin'er's expression turned cold. He glanced at Yinzhen, then at Yinsi who was leaving, and muttered to himself, "Is this what you wanted?"
Then he laughed at himself and said, "Well, what good am I?"
He tilted his head back and drank three cups of wine.
A month and a half later, Qi Buchen was peeping at the triplets in class when he suddenly heard cheers coming from next door.
He called Sun Liangping over and said, "Go and see what's going on next door that makes people so happy."
It didn't take Sun Liangping long to find out: "It was the Eighth Prince's newly married Lady Zhang who was diagnosed as pregnant."
Qi Buchen was a little stunned, and lost all interest for a moment. He said listlessly: "Go and tell Baozhu to prepare the gift first."
But Qi Buchen waited and waited, but no one came to announce the good news. Thinking that maybe it was because it was not yet three months old and the other party wanted to calm down, Qi Buchen let it go and just asked the servants to remember the date.
At the same time as Zhang was diagnosed with pregnancy, the selection of concubines also began. There was no prince of the right age who needed to choose a wife today. Apart from the fact that Kangxi didn't know whether he would keep anyone, the best option was to be granted entry into the backyard of the married princes.
Except for the Eighth Prince, all the other princes already had sons, so the concubines of this year were somewhat uninterested and got along very harmoniously. Those with slightly higher status were very indifferent and just waited to leave the palace.
In recent years, because there was no queen and the empress dowager did not care about the affairs, Kangxi lost interest in arranging marriages for members of the royal family and just let them marry on their own.
Just as the final review and selection were over and the palace was about to issue an edict, Baya suddenly entered the palace and found Concubine Liang.
No one knew what the two talked about, but after the concubines were sent home, in addition to assigning one or two princesses to each of the princes who had mothers, Kangxi also officially issued an edict to assign a concubine to Yinsi, Niuhuru.
This was really eye-catching.
Everyone knew that if Baya had not asked for it, even if the palace gave the bride, it would only be given to one or two princesses of low status, instead of directly granting her a concubine as it is now - there was no mention of a concubine, probably because the Eighth Prince was only a Beile, and according to the rules he could not have a concubine.
"What does she want?"
Many people can't figure it out.
Qi Buchen couldn't figure it out at first, but later he vaguely guessed that it was probably because Zhang was pregnant.
Although Baya didn't want other women to be involved with Yinsi, the matter was already done, and Baya would probably settle for the second best. As long as Yinsi only had her in his heart and had no feelings for other women, she could still deceive herself, and Zhang was nothing.
But Zhang was pregnant! Even if Yinsi didn't care about Zhang, he couldn't help but care about the child in her belly. However, this care in Baya's eyes would only stimulate her. If she valued the child today, would she value Zhang even more because of the child tomorrow?
After all, Zhang is the mother of his only child!
In just over half a month, Baya could no longer tolerate Yinsi's ambiguous attention to Zhang.
Only, only! Baya could tolerate everything, but she could not tolerate another woman having only Yinsi.
Isn’t it just a child? If Zhang can give birth, other women can give birth too! If there are many children, will there still be only one?
She is the only one for Yinsi!
The ceremony of Yinsi taking in a concubine was grand, because at the same time, Baya also gave him another concubine, Mao.
This means that he is getting two colors in one day.
This time Qi Buchen had to come to the house. Baya, wearing a bright red cheongsam embroidered with gold peonies, stood at the second door to welcome the guests. She was as graceful and elegant as a fairy concubine, with a bright and dazzling smile on her face. People who didn't know the situation would think that today was her wedding day.
Oh, according to the concept at that time, today is indeed Baya’s wedding day.
Is there a new baby coming into the family? Haha.
Compared to her, Qi Buchen's smile seemed a little forced: "Congratulations."
"Thank you, fourth sister-in-law. Please come in." Baya was very polite and graceful today.
Qi Buchen entered the inner courtyard. Not many people came. After all, she was the closest and the others were far away. Fortunately, she didn't have to wait long and people came one after another.
Everyone was not in high spirits during the whole process. The Fifth Lady even secretly said to Qi Buchen, "Fourth sister-in-law, you must be well."
Qi Buchen was at a loss for words. Is this the Qing Dynasty version of "As long as you two are still together, I still believe in love"?
The bustle in Yinsi's mansion did not end there. Although there were no more happy events or banquets for guests, there was still an endless stream of people visiting the door every day, which made the Prince Yong's Mansion, which was just across the wall, look desolate and deserted.
"It's so lively next door, do you want to join in the fun too?" Ever since Yinsi took in a concubine, Qi Buchen would often ask Yinzhen some sour questions.
Yinzhen pinched his temples with a headache and held her in his arms: "My dear princess, can you please forgive me? I didn't offend you, why are you taking it out on me? Those three brats are enough to make me busy, I don't need any more, dear."
Qi Buchen grabbed the buttons on his chest and muttered, "I'm just afraid that you'll regret it."
"No regrets, no regrets." Yinzhen sighed to the sky, "I won't regret it even if you kill me, okay?"
Qi Buchen was amused by his hopeless look, and after reflecting on whether he had gone too far, he kissed him on the chin to appease him: "Okay, okay, I'm sorry, it was my fault."
Before Yinzhen could enjoy it any longer, she suddenly withdrew and said, "You're stabbing me to death."
"Isn't your attitude too perfunctory?" Yinzhen was speechless, then touched his chin, "I shaved it clean enough, where is the prick?"
Qi Buchen had argued with Yinzhen about the beard issue. It was like this: at that time, men after the age of twenty were used to growing beards, and Yinzhen was no exception. But Qi Buchen really couldn't stand a twenty-year-old boy with a beard. No, it should be said that she didn't like men with beards. No matter how she looked at them, she couldn't get used to them.
Yinzhen didn't take it seriously at first and turned a deaf ear to Qi Buchen's advice not to grow a beard. He even insisted that a beard was a man's charm.
Well, you are charming, Qi Buchen said I won't play with you anymore. It's not that she was deliberately playing tricks, but she just couldn't bring herself to eat that beard.
Yinzhen discovered that since he grew a beard, his wife's kisses became less and less frequent and more and more perfunctory. That was fine, but in bed, his wife also began to talk about other things and make excuses. Occasionally, when they could go on, his wife would close her eyes tightly and would not open them to look at him no matter what he did.
Such obvious disdain made Yinzhen so angry that he went into a cold war with his wife for several days. Although his wife came to coax him in the end, she used tears to make him promise not to grow a beard in the future.
Because Fu Jin said she had a phobia of beards!
What kind of disease is this? Yinzhen said, "I have little education, so don't lie to me."
However, Fu Jin confidently gave him a bunch of examples such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, mysophobia, claustrophobia, and deep-water phobia to prove the existence of beard phobia.
What's even more outrageous is that Fu Jin actually found a patient with similar symptoms in real life.
Although Fu Jin is the only one who suffers from beard phobia at present, for the sake of his future happy life, he dare not disbelieve it.
Now, after a long time, Yinzhen has gotten used to it, and shaving is one of the new items in his morning routine.
It’s not that no one has gossiped about it, but Yinzhen is not the kind of person who would indulge others. On the contrary, the more others gossip about it, the more he insists on it.
Now others are forced to get used to it.
Thinking about the past, Yinzhen rubbed his chin against Qi Buchen's face: "Do you want to get it pierced or not? Hmm, do you want to get it pierced or not?"
Qi Buchen smiled and dodged: "No more pricking, no more pricking, hey, please stop rubbing."
"You're hiding even though I didn't stab you. I think you're being hypocritical."
The couple was arguing so much that their breathing became heavy. There was no need to say what else they should do, right?
Although their daily lives seem easy and happy, they are actually facing many hardships in the outside world.
Kangxi still did not stop his tours, but in the past two years, he usually only brought Yinzhen and the crown prince, the older princes, with him, and the rest were younger ones such as those who were thirteen or fifteen years old.
In addition, during this year, when Kangxi went on tour, he would order the older princes who stayed in the capital to take charge of government affairs. Most of the time, Yinzhi, Yinzhen, and Yinsi were together.
Qi Buchen also guessed privately that Kangxi's arrangement was probably for checks and balances, bringing the core figures of the two major parties to keep under his side, and then leaving people from all parties in the capital. Yinzhi was closer to the prince and could be considered the prince's party, Yinsi was a complete Yinzhi party, and Yinzhen, who was prudent and self-protective, could be considered a neutral party.
The same goes for ministers, from all parties.
When Kangxi returned from the frontier again, the gardens of all the princes had been built. Everyone did the same thing and submitted a memorial to invite Kangxi to visit.
Kangxi accepted Yinzhen's invitation.
Qi Buchen was stunned: "What does this mean, Father Emperor?" This was not like the last time when he secretly went to the manor with the empress dowager.
At this time, choosing among these princes is no less than an important decision in the eyes of those who are interested.
"Don't think too much." Yinzhen touched her head and comforted her, "It is precisely because I don't represent anything that the emperor chose me. It's okay, just prepare well."
Qi Buchen could only rack her brains to prepare, from small things like the pattern on the chair that Kangxi would sit on that day to big things like the menu for that day's meal. She didn't know how many times she had to overturn the plan before she decided on the final version.
"Don't let it happen again." She said, collapsing in Yinzhen's arms.
Yinzhen snorted and laughed: "Other wives are eager for their husbands to receive the emperor more often, but you are the one who pushes them away."
"Others are others. I just want to be with you." Qi Buchen rubbed his head in his arms. "I don't want to regret asking my husband to seek a title when I suddenly see the willows on the street."
Yinzhen laughed and patted her butt: "You're misusing allusions! They were talking about my husband serving in the frontier army for many years. I miss him so much after being away for so long. Why should I be stationed at the frontier?"
Qi Buchen continued to rub: "Anyway, the meaning is almost the same."
She even disturbed Yinzhen's breathing.
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