Tong Cheng'er nodded, looked at Yinzhen, and felt a sense of disorientation. She asked in a hoarse voice, "What time is it?"
Yinzhen: "It's almost noon."
Tong Cheng'er was immediately startled; it was almost noon, and she had slept for so long.
Why didn't you go to serve Father Emperor today?
During the time they were on the ship, Prince Yinzhen and the other princes were always waiting in front of Emperor Kangxi.
"I need to rest for a while."
Tong Cheng'er glanced at him; he looked very energetic, much more so than her, and didn't seem to need any rest.
"What exactly happened to you yesterday?"
Yesterday was an emergency, and she didn't know the specifics of the situation, only that he had gone drinking with the Crown Prince and the others.
As a result, he was drugged with aphrodisiacs and returned unconscious.
Now that she thinks about it, Tong Cheng'er can't help but feel a little scared. People are always greedy. She didn't care when she didn't have any delusions, but now that she has his wholehearted devotion, she thinks that it would be great if this wholehearted devotion could last for a lifetime.
Tong Cheng'er felt only fortunate that even though he was drugged yesterday, he was still able to come back to her for relief. Otherwise, if he had really been out there with some unknown woman to relieve his stress, she didn't know if the two of them could have gone back to how they were before.
After all, people are always greedy, and even the finest jade cannot withstand the slightest flaw.
When Yinzhen was asked this question, he thought of what had happened yesterday. His eyes darkened. He had been careless last night. He thought that the Crown Prince still had some gentlemanly qualities left, but who knew that he would become so unscrupulous.
Yinzhen: "Yesterday, the Crown Prince invited me to dinner, along with other brothers. There were many people, so I couldn't refuse. When I got there, I found that the Crown Prince had ordered a lot of women to serve me in the private room. I refused, so the Crown Prince made me drink a penalty drink. The wine was on the table, and others had also drunk it. I was careless and didn't notice. I drank the wine that was spiked, and then I passed out."
Tong Cheng'er was furious upon hearing this: "The Crown Prince is really going too far. How can a prince resort to such despicable methods? Isn't he afraid of being laughed at?"
Yinzhen said calmly, "As long as he doesn't admit it, there are plenty of people who will take the blame for him."
Tong Cheng'er became even more indignant upon hearing this.
"I don't know how he became the crown prince."
How did he become the crown prince?
He was born into a good family and received good upbringing, but his psychological resilience was somewhat weak. This one weakness was enough to bring him to his doom.
"Don't be angry, it's not worth getting angry about. Putting aside everything else, what the Crown Prince did this time was indeed a bit too much. Even if Father Emperor doesn't embarrass the Crown Prince, he will still give him a warning and will probably have to appease us as well."
Tong Cheng'er was still furious. Why? The Crown Prince did such a thing, and Kangxi covered it up for him. If you ask Tong Cheng'er, the Crown Prince is unworthy of his position and should be deposed as soon as possible.
Besides, who needs Kangxi's appeasement?
Yinzhen added, "I was drugged last night. The imperial physician said that the drug was too strong, which is why I fainted. I will have to trouble Cheng'er to stay in my room and take care of me for the next two days."
Tong Cheng'er looked at him carefully, but couldn't see anything wrong with him.
"Okay, I'll definitely stay in the room and take good care of Li these next couple of days."
As for how to take care of him, that's hard to say.
It can make someone comfortable, or it can drive them "crazy".
While the two were talking inside the house, Kangxi already knew everything that had happened the previous night.
They learned that the Crown Prince had deliberately drugged Yinzhen and made him stay overnight outside, and that the Crown Prince did not care about his younger brother after Yinzhen fell into a coma and even tried to cover it up.
Emperor Kangxi was very dissatisfied with the Crown Prince's performance.
The fact that the Crown Prince drugged Yinzhen was already quite unexpected for Kangxi. Yinzhen's situation was special, and if the woman arranged by the Crown Prince were to get close to Yinzhen, who was in a coma at the time, Kangxi did not know what would happen.
After all, Yinzhen is prone to fainting whenever he gets close to a woman.
Emperor Kangxi already felt great pity for Yinzhen's strange illness, but the Crown Prince insisted on reopening Yinzhen's wounds. Even though the Crown Prince did not know the seriousness of the matter, Emperor Kangxi did not care about that; he only cared about the outcome.
As a result, Yinzhen fell into a coma because of the Crown Prince's actions.
Unfortunately, the Crown Prince did not repent for what he did, and showed no remorse afterward. He even sent someone to reprimand the imperial physician.
For a moment, Kangxi really had the urge to depose the crown prince. The crown prince did not consider blood ties in his actions, and Kangxi felt that the crown prince was too ruthless.
Is such a person suitable to be an emperor?
Kangxi couldn't help but ask himself a question.
Yinzhen had not done anything excessive to the Crown Prince. He had done his job well, which was his duty. If the Crown Prince held a grudge against Yinzhen because of this, it would be wrong.
With such a magnanimous heart, does the Crown Prince intend to kill all the more capable ministers after he inherits the throne?
Emperor Kangxi belatedly realized what was happening and broke out in a cold sweat.
When did the Crown Prince become like this?
Furthermore, the Crown Prince still had the heart to enjoy himself while he was suffering from malaria. Did the Crown Prince still care about his father, the Emperor?
When the Crown Prince was a child, he contracted smallpox, and Emperor Kangxi personally took care of him, watching over him day and night without ever taking off his clothes. The Crown Prince disregarded such a deep affection.
This made Kangxi feel that the Crown Prince was too cold-blooded.
Emperors cannot act impulsively, but they also cannot be cold-blooded!
In the past, Emperor Kangxi felt that the Crown Prince did things without considering the importance of things, especially regarding the previous Crown Princess. Kangxi felt that the Crown Prince was too sentimental. But now it seems that he was not sentimental at all.
The Crown Prince considered the former Crown Princess as his possession and Yinzhen as an outsider. When choosing between possession and outsider, he naturally protected his possession.
Having figured all this out, Kangxi couldn't help but feel somewhat dejected, after all, the crown prince was someone he had personally raised.
The heir he had painstakingly groomed was now being told that the Crown Prince was a cold-blooded man who didn't even care about his father, the Emperor. Kangxi found this hard to accept.
Some say that being reluctant to part with a person or an object may not be because you still like them, but because you can't let go of the effort and energy you've invested in them; what you can't bear to part with is your own contribution.
Emperor Kangxi had devoted a great deal of energy to the Crown Prince, and even though he was utterly disappointed in him, it was not so easy to simply let go of him all at once.
Emperor Kangxi stared blankly at the files on the table, and couldn't help but ask Liang Jiugong, "Do you think I have a problem with the Crown Prince's upbringing?"
That's why the crown prince developed a cold-blooded nature that disregarded family ties.
Upon hearing this, Liang Jiugong's heart trembled. Since it concerned the Crown Prince, he dared not say more, only saying, "The Crown Prince does not yet understand your good intentions, but he will understand in a few years."
"In a few more years, I don't know how many more years I have left to live."
Having suffered from malaria and nearly lost his life, Emperor Kangxi had a brush with death, making him understand the fragility of life all the more, knowing that one could never meet with an accident and lose his life.
Emperor Kangxi was worried about the Crown Prince's condition.
Upon hearing this, Liang Jiugong quickly replied, "Your Majesty is blessed with boundless fortune; the days ahead are long!"
After hearing this, Kangxi said nothing more.
A person's fortune is as vast as the heavens. How can a person compare to the heavens? Since ancient times, those who have ambitions higher than the heavens have had lives as fragile as paper.
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