Chapter 167 Nian Rui "You know you're afraid, yet you still dare to do it!" Yinzhen snorted coldly...
"You know you're afraid, yet you still dare to do it!" Yinzhen snorted. "Next time, think twice before you act. Is it a foolproof plan? Did you think you were so clever when you suggested using military formation drills instead of sparring? Did you anticipate that Hongxi would choose his own men? That he would change the formation mid-sentence? Don't assume everyone will do as you wish. Even though you started it, people's hearts are unpredictable. In the end, things will often turn out differently than you recognize them. Your injuries are a lesson! If you don't reflect and correct your mistakes, this time is just an injury, but next time you could be missing limbs."
"Will you be happy then, seeing your mother unable to sleep day and night and lying in bed sick because of you?"
Honghui was so frightened that his face turned pale: "Son, don't dare!"
Yinzhen had no objection to Qi Buchen teaching his children, but it was wrong to scare people like this.
Pulling Honghui in front of him, Qi Buchen dressed him while saying, "Your father is exaggerating. You kids playing around won't cause you to lose limbs. However, it's always right to think carefully before you act. You should not only consider yourself, but also what the people you're helping will think and choose, and even more so, how your opponents will react to your choices. If you want others to follow your plans, you have to eliminate the possibility of them making other choices as much as possible, forcing them to choose the path you've arranged. Do you understand?"
Honghui nodded obediently: "I understand."
"Also, do you know what the most important point is before doing anything?" After putting on his clothes, Qi Buchen straightened the wrinkles for him.
Honghui shook his head.
Qi Buchen shook his hand and said, "The most important thing is your own safety. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. You must ensure your own safety first before you can help others. Otherwise, you will not even have time to save yourself, let alone do anything else."
"I understand." Honghui nodded, "I'm sorry, mother, I was wrong."
Qi Buchen patted his head and said, "No need to apologize. You didn't do anything wrong. You just didn't think it through. You're young and incapable now. In fact, the most important thing you should do in this kind of situation is to tell your father immediately and ask for his help. It's not shameful. When you are young, you should learn to take advantage of others. What's shameful is that when you grow up, not only are you not grateful, but you regard this experience as a humiliation."
"Ups and downs are inevitable experiences for everyone. If you can remain neither arrogant nor impatient during highs, and neither humble nor overbearing during lows, you are better than most people in the world." Qi Buchen spoke with emotion, his words drifting off. "Although my mother wants you to have a smooth and worry-free life, she also wants to see my son face any difficulties with a smile."
"Mother, I won't let you down." Honghui raised his head, his eyes full of admiration.
After meeting so many cousins in the study and learning about their family situations, he realized how good his own mother was.
No, it’s about how good my own home is.
There were no so-called stepmothers in his own family. His own mother would not nag him every day to surpass his stepbrothers. He did not need to carefully please his own father just to compete with his stepbrothers for favor, and his own younger brother would not scheme against him.
They just ask me to take them out to play and buy them things...
After explaining things to his parents, Honghui returned to his yard and was not surprised to see his triplets appear in his room.
"Brother! Come quickly, we've been waiting for you!" Hongyu slammed the table.
Hongyun shouted: "We will definitely not lose this time!"
"I won't lose!" Hongshi raised his fist symbolically to respond to his third brother.
Honghui smiled, rolled up his sleeves and walked over: "Come, big brother will teach you how to behave today!"
The children had a great time and Yinzhen was in a good mood too.
Qi Buchen felt even more distressed: "You're still laughing. Didn't you see the injuries on Honghui's body? How much strength must have been used! You said they were practicing, so what kind of weapons were they using? They were made of wood, and it must have hurt when they hit him. He's only a child."
Her generous appearance in front of her children did not prevent her from feeling distressed behind their backs.
Yinzhen was helpless: "How can we call it a war if we don't use weapons? Wood is light enough, what else can we use? We can't use stone, can we use iron?"
Qi Buchen stopped talking. At this moment, she only hated herself for not being able to research plastics immediately and provide a batch of plastic weapons to the study.
"Then you see that the child has been injured like this, are you still going to kiss your father?" Qi Buchen couldn't argue and started to make a fuss.
Yinzhen laughed angrily: "If I am not your father, then who is? You are becoming more and more careless with your words."
Seeing Fu Jin glaring at him angrily, his anger subsided: "Okay, I'll find a way, okay?"
Yinzhen actually noticed that Honghui's explanation just now was a little vague. He also didn't believe that Hongxi would dare to be cruel to anyone. If he guessed correctly, most of Honghui's injuries were probably caused by blocking for others.
He was more pleased than dissatisfied with this. A kind child was better than a cruel one, and better than Hongxi...
Thinking of Hongxi, Yinzhen frowned again. Honghui felt that Hongxi became what he is now because he was taken advantage of by everyone during that period, but he felt that it might be more than that. Thinking of the prince whipping the ministers, Yinzhen's expression gradually darkened.
After staying at home for a day, Honghui returned to the huge imperial palace. As soon as he entered the palace, all his relaxed and carefree demeanor disappeared, and he became a dignified and steady prince.
Li Xing suddenly whispered, "Master, Prince Hongqing is behind us."
Honghui stopped, turned around and smiled. When Hongqing approached, he bowed and said, "Cousin."
"It's Honghui." Hongqing put his hands behind his back and walked without stopping, "Why are you here so early?"
Honghui placed his hands at his sides and walked forward with an unwavering smile: "I'm not very familiar with the lessons that the Grand Tutor will check tomorrow, so I'm here to review them early."
Hong Qing laughed: "You are really hardworking." After saying that, he quickened his pace and left without waiting for Hong Hui to reply.
Honghui still maintained his original pace and did not mind Hongqing's departure.
Li Xing said, "Master, I see something is wrong with Prince Hongqing's walking posture."
"Yeah." Honghui glanced at the departing figure, "Don't worry about him."
After entering the South Third Building, Honghui took a quick look around and murmured, "They're all back."
The next day, everything went on as usual, but when it came to the afternoon martial arts class, everyone found that Hongyu was not there.
Hongxi asked Wuanda: "Where is Hongyu? They are short of people, how can we fight them?"
Wu An Da said, "The Emperor has summoned Prince Hong Yu. Today we will not be conducting military formation drills, but will continue with two-on-two sparring."
The emperor's grandchildren were in an uproar. Everyone had witnessed Hongyu's recent suffering, either openly or secretly. Now that the emperor had suddenly summoned him, did he know something? Did Hongyu complain to someone?
Hongxi's face suddenly turned gloomy, and he was absent-minded during the sparring. Hongsheng was in the same group with him, and seeing this, they only sparred with each other in a disjointed manner. The two of them seemed to be in harmony.
Honghui and Hongxu live together. Hongxu is young and loves to eat. He is a little fat boy just like his father when he was a child.
"Brother Hui, let's just have a show." Hongxu always speaks in a gangster-like manner.
Every time Honghui heard him address him, his face turned black: "Call me cousin."
Hongxu looked innocent: "There are so many cousins here, they all have to answer if I call them."
"You can't call me Brother Hui!" Honghui glared at him, muttering to himself, Uncle Shi doesn't talk like that, who did Hongxu learn this from?
Hongxu curled his lips: "Okay, then it's okay to call me Big Brother Honghui."
Honghui reluctantly accepted.
Hongxu said irritably again: "Brother Hui, let me tell you, the few times I went back, there were always so many people at home, and they kept touching me, which was so annoying. There were also a bunch of girls, chattering and making so much noise, they were even more annoying than my sister."
"That group of people always like to ask which girls I like as my wife. They all look so ugly and their noises are so annoying. Who would want them as my wife? It's not like I think my life is too comfortable..."
Hongxu muttered about his troubles, and Honghui listened with one ear and out the other, humming from time to time to show that he was listening, but his eyes were always fixed on the entrance to the training ground.
But until the end of the military examination, Hongyu still did not come back.
When they returned to their residence and sent someone to inquire, they heard that Hongyu had left the palace directly after meeting Kangxi, and no one knew where he had gone.
Hongyu returned to the former Prince of Zhi's Mansion and met his imprisoned father.
"Father." With this call, Hongyu burst into tears.
Yinzhen said with a cold face: "A man sheds blood but not tears. Why are you crying? Wipe away your tears."
Hongyu wiped his tears with both arms, but the more he wiped, the more tears came.
Yinzhen didn't say anything, just looked at him coldly.
It took a long time for Hongyu to calm down and stop crying.
"Why are you crying?" Yinzhen knocked on the table. "Your brothers will be imprisoned in this mansion for the rest of their lives, and they haven't cried yet. How can you cry?"
Hongyu lowered his head and said nothing.
"I didn't raise you so high in the beginning just to let you cry outside. Remember that." Yinzhen waved his hand to send them away, "Go see your third and fourth sisters."
Hongyu saw his two sisters who were waiting for him in the backyard. They hugged him and cried inconsolably, but Hongyu could not cry anymore. He even patted his two sisters and said with a smile: "Sisters, don't cry. I am fine in the palace."
After staying in the mansion for a day, Hongyu returned to the palace in a low-key manner.
Although Kangxi never showed up or said anything from beginning to end, Hongxi and others became much more restrained since that day, and there was finally a little harmony in the study.
"Greetings, Princess." Nian Su said with a look of surprise, "I didn't expect you to come."
Qi Buchen smiled and said, "Your Highness has something to do today and cannot come. I would like to apologize to Lord Nian."
"I dare not." Nian Su smiled humbly, "I will put the prince's affairs first. Please come this way."
Nian Su personally took Qi Buchen to the inner courtyard and acted as a tour guide along the way, explaining the scenery everywhere in the mansion with all her heart.
I went straight into the main courtyard and met other members of the Nian family and the guests who had arrived early.
Nian Su invited Qi Buchen to take a seat, and then began to introduce them: "This is my mother-in-law, this is my sister-in-law, and these are my two sisters-in-law."
Qi Buchen greeted them one by one, and waved to the last two little girls, saying, "They are really lovely. Come here and let me take a closer look."
"What's your name and how old are you?" Qi Buchen asked with a smile.
The older-looking girl, dressed in a turquoise-blue dress, timidly replied, "My name is Nian Rui, and I'm twelve years old."
Although Nian Rui is young, she has already shown her beauty. She has a soft and moist oval face, a delicate and straight nose under her willow-shaped eyebrows and dark eyes, and a mouth that is tightly pursed, giving her a graceful and delicate demeanor.
"Your servant, Nianrong, is seven years old this year."
Compared with Nian Rui, seven-year-old Nian Rong looks childish, with eyebrows and eyes not delicate enough. It seems that she will have an ordinary appearance when she grows up.
Qi Buchen had an idea in her mind. The Noble Concubine Nian in history must be Nian Rui without a doubt. At the same time, she felt a little disgusted. Nian Rui was about the same age as Honghui, and nearly twenty years younger than the historical Yongzheng. How did the historical Yongzheng really fall in love with her?
"Since this is our first meeting, consider this a gift." Qi Buchen took off two bracelets from his wrist and handed them to the two.
In fact, all of this had been prepared long ago. When Qi Buchen went out normally, he would not wear four or five bracelets on his wrist.
Nian Rui and Nian Rong received their mother's permission and bowed together, "Thank you, Princess."
Then the two of them withdrew. Nian Su went to entertain others, and Qi Buchen was accompanied by the old lady Nian and the eldest lady Nian.
But as they chatted, Qi Buchen felt that there was something wrong with the old lady's words. No matter what she said, she always brought it up with Nian Rui.
Speaking of shops.
"Every time the new styles from the Princess's Clothing Shop are put on the shelves, they are sold out. My daughter Rui'er loves them, but she can never get them. So she always goes to other people's houses to borrow them and then comes back to imitate them. Look, this handkerchief of mine was made by Rui'er using the needlework from your shop. Does it look like the original?"
Speaking of painting.
"Do you like Western paintings, too? We've collected a few, so you can take a look and see if there's anything you like. I don't understand them, but Rui'er likes them. She's even learning to paint. Her father even hired a foreign woman to teach her. The woman said Rui'er has a good talent and can paint quite well now."
Later I just let it go.
"Do you like tea? Why not let Rui'er make tea for you? She likes to tinker with it when she's free. Earlier, she insisted that I find someone to teach her the art of tea-making. It takes a long time to drink a cup of tea, but the process is quite pleasant to watch."
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Wow, after all this talk, Nian Rui is simply a talented woman who can play the piano, chess, calligraphy, paint, cook wine and make tea, and is good at everything. I don’t know how she learned so many things at the age of only twelve.
Qi Buchen saw from the corner of his eye that Madam Nian had complained to her mother-in-law several times, but it was useless. Madam Nian was still talking excitedly, leaving Madam Nian with an increasingly embarrassed expression.
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