Chapter 37 Surprise "Leaving the palace?" Qi Buchen's eyes lit up...
"Leave the palace?" Qi Buchen's eyes lit up. "You mean leave the palace?"
Yinzhen's lips curled up slightly at her reaction, and he said in a nonchalant tone, "Yes, after class tomorrow in the study room, I won't have to go to the training ground. I will take you out of the palace."
After receiving the affirmation, Qi Buchen first uttered a low "wow" of joy, but then became puzzled: "Why did you suddenly leave the palace? What happened?"
The corners of Yinzhen's mouth, which had been curling up more and more, froze, and he said vaguely, "You'll know tomorrow."
It has been kept secret for so long, how could it be leaked at the last moment?
Qi Buchen was not satisfied with this answer and was about to ask further questions, but Yinzhen turned around hastily as if he was chased by a rabbit, and just said, "My master has something else to do," and ran away.
"Hey..." Qi Buchen watched the man run away and stomped his feet in anger.
But the next moment, she smiled happily again. Although she didn't know why, being able to leave the palace was a blessing. It had been six months since she'd traveled here. Aside from the initial sneak peek at the capital from the sedan chair, she'd spent the rest of her time confined to the small courtyard of the South Third House. Even if she occasionally visited the harem, it was simply a matter of moving from one courtyard to another.
After having fun, he enthusiastically directed people to pack up.
At night, Qi Buchen thought he would be too excited to sleep, but his biological clock had been too well maintained in the past six months, and he fell asleep as soon as his head tilted to the side.
She counted the hours the entire morning, and when it was time for Yinzhen to finish his get out of class, she stood in the yard waiting. The sight of her waiting for her husband made the palace maids secretly laugh in their hearts.
As Yinzhen entered the courtyard, he saw his wife coming to greet him from afar. He couldn't help but laugh: "So impatient?"
Qi Buchen nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
"At least let me change my clothes." Yinzhen said helplessly, with a hint of doting in his voice that he himself didn't even realize.
After changing clothes, Yinzhen took Qi Buchen to Donghua Gate. Outside Donghua Gate, a carriage arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was waiting there.
In the carriage, Qi Buchen and Yinzhen sat opposite each other. Besides them, there were Su Peisheng and Baozhu. The others were in another carriage.
"Can you tell me now?" Qi Buchen asked impatiently, "What are you going to do?"
Is he taking her back to her parents' home? That shouldn't be the case. She didn't go back when she returned home three times. Now, suddenly, nothing happened. Can he let her out of the palace and ask her to go back to her parents' home?
Yinzhen was still reluctant to say: "Don't worry, you will know in a moment."
Being treated perfunctorily, Qi Buchen made an angry expression, but Yinzhen just didn't look at her.
The carriage rode quite smoothly, with barely a sway. At first, it was quiet outside, but gradually, noises began to rise. This made Qi Buchen itch, and she wanted to lift the curtain to take a look outside, but several people in the carriage stopped her. The noise remained low, and even less so, the hawking. Once the carriage clearly turned a corner, the noise gradually faded.
Until the carriage stopped, it became quiet outside again, which made Qi Buchen wonder if he had gone around outside and returned to the gate of the palace.
"arrive."
Su Peisheng and Baozhu went down first, followed by Yinzhen, and finally Qi Buchen got off the carriage with the help of Baozhu's hand.
When she came down, the first thing she saw was a section of wall and a vermilion gate. The gate was wide open, with a row of people standing on each side.
"Greetings to the Fourth Prince and the Fourth Lady." A group of people knelt down to pay their respects.
"This?..." Qi Buchen still didn't quite understand the situation.
Yinzhen stood beside her, lowered his head and smiled at her, saying gently, "Look up."
Qi Buchen looked up as he was told, and saw a plaque with a gold border and a blue background hanging at the top of the gate, with four large golden characters written on it.
The Fourth Prince’s Mansion.
"This?...this? is..." Qi Buchen felt dizzy and made meaningless sounds.
Yinzhen also looked at the plaque, his eyes slightly narrowed, and his tone was somewhat unpredictable: "This? This is our home."
Qi Buchen couldn't help but look at him.
The sunlight shone through from behind him, blurring his face and making it difficult to see clearly.
But at this moment, Qi Buchen seemed to find a little sense of security from the four words "our home".
Her eyes felt slightly sore and she was blinking to relieve the pain. Yinzhen looked at her and smiled when he saw her blinking rapidly. "Don't believe it?"
That smile was bathed in sunshine, a brightness that Qi Buchen had never seen in him before.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Qi Buchen and Yinzhen walked side by side, surrounded by the crowd, and walked in through the main gate. The servants were silent, and the only sound was Yinzhen's introduction as he walked.
"This is the front yard..."
"This is the study,..."
"This is the training ground..."
"Main courtyard,..."
\"garden,......\"
He didn't say much, just a few words and that was it. But there was really no need for him to explain more. The thing was right in front of us, so why not just take a good look at it?
It took Qi Buchen an hour to take a quick look around the entire mansion. Finally, he came to the main courtyard again with satisfaction and went into the house to take a look at the specific decoration.
The main courtyard was closest to the front yard and garden, and of course, the largest. It was still five rooms wide, but each room was at least half the size of the South Third Hall.
There wasn't much in the room at this moment, and it looked empty.
"Everything else is ready now. We just need to put the things in." Yinzhen stood beside her. "It's up to you to decide how to arrange the backyard."
"No problem!" Qi Buchen almost patted his chest to guarantee it.
Oh my god, a courtyard house, and a super big one? If you want to buy one in modern times, it will cost at least hundreds of millions.
Qi Buchen, who never thought of himself as a money-grubber before, now had eyes that turned into ￥￥, and he almost couldn't help but let out an obscene laugh.
Fortunately, Yinzhen woke her up in time: "It's getting late, it's time to go back to the palace."
They were almost halfway back in the carriage when Qi Buchen finally remembered to ask, "Did you know this a long time ago?"
Yinzhen glanced at her sideways, clearly feeling quite proud but trying to pretend nothing was wrong. "Well, the Emperor sent an order to the Imperial Household Department before the New Year, and the Ministry of Works sent the blueprints after the New Year. I made some changes and told them to build according to the blueprints."
It’s so early!
Qi Buchen couldn't help but bring up the past: "Then I asked you before when you could leave the palace, and you said you didn't know."
Fool me, Senqi!
Yinzhen had completely forgotten about it, but now that she brought it up, he coughed. His mind raced, and he forced himself to make up an excuse: "Well, I really didn't know then. The servants in the Imperial Household Department are always sneaky and cunning."
Ministry of Internal Affairs: “…”
Although we have many flaws, we can't just shirk responsibility. How dare we delay the emperor's orders?
Unfortunately, Qi Buchen was not fooled, but considering the boy's face and the fact that there were other people here, she did not pursue him relentlessly, but just wrinkled her nose and snorted softly.
Yinzhen felt inexplicably guilty. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and told Su Peisheng, "Pour me a cup of tea."
When they were nearing the palace gate, Xie Hanshan's voice came from outside: "Master, the Third Prince is in front."
"Hmm?" Qi Buchen looked at Yinzhen in confusion, "Third brother is leaving the palace today too?"
"Yes, the Third Prince's mansion is together with ours." Yinzhen explained, then raised his voice and ordered, "Keep going."
Qi Buchen originally thought that he would meet the Third Prince in front of the palace gate, but when he got off the carriage, he found that he had already gone far away.
Yinzhen didn't care: "Go back."
From that day on, Yinzhen continued to attend school, while Qi Buchen became busy. Lin Changqing, Xie Hanshan, Yue Ma, and others were dispatched out of the palace one after another, gradually moving her dowry and Yinzhen's personal belongings to the Fourth Prince's residence. Of course, their limited wealth alone wouldn't be enough to support the household goods in the residence. Fortunately, the Imperial Household Department would take care of everything when the princes left the palace to establish their own residences, and Kangxi would also provide 50,000 taels of silver for their settlement.
But don't underestimate fifty thousand taels. After all, the salary of a prince is only ten thousand taels of silver a year.
At that time, one tael of silver could be exchanged for about 1,650 copper coins, and high-quality rice on the market now only sold for one qian of silver per dou. Converted to a catty, that's ten copper coins per catty.
So it can be imagined that with more than 50,000 taels of money being worth something, Kangxi was very generous to his son.
However, after learning all this, Qi Buchen discovered that she had overlooked a problem.
"Now that we're in the palace, all our expenses are covered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. So, after we move out of the palace and build our own residence, will we have to bear all the expenses ourselves?"
"No, the Imperial Household Department will still have daily supplies." Yinzhen denied.
Qi Buchen: "Then will our allotments remain the same as they are now?"
Yinzhen pondered for a while, mainly thinking about whether it was possible for the emperor father to give him a title since he was leaving the palace.
After thinking for a long time, he was still unsure, so he said cautiously, "It should be."
After all, my eldest brother is still only a Beizi even though he has entered the court now. Although he has left the palace and established his own residence, he still has to study in the Shangshufang for a few years.
"That's good." Qi Buchen breathed a sigh of relief. If she were asked to take charge of the eating, drinking, defecating and urinating of the entire mansion all at once, she really wouldn't be able to handle it. Now that there is the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she can relax a little and learn slowly.
As time passed, the Fourth Prince's Mansion became more and more perfect. It was finally completed in late June, just waiting for the owner to move in.
The Imperial Household Department submitted a memorial requesting instructions, and Kangxi asked the Imperial Observatory to choose an auspicious day and then packed up his two sons and threw them out of the palace.
When Qi Buchen got on the carriage at Donghuamen again, he felt refreshed.
Finally, it's finally out! From now on, I can go wherever I want, do whatever I want, without a bunch of bosses looming over my head anymore!
So happy!
After two busy days, Qi Buchen finally put away all the people and things he brought out of the palace. However, he couldn't rest yet because he still had to prepare a housewarming party and invite people to the feast.
Of course, the most important thing is to receive gifts!
Oh, finally some money came in!
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Author's words: Yinzhen: When will my wife stop digging up the past and forget about it?
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