When the three brothers returned to Yonghe Palace, the fourth wife, Ulanara, was chatting with Concubine De. Seeing them come in, she awkwardly held her belly and tried to stand up to greet them, but was pushed back by Concubine De.
"Sit still, those three aren't that precious. You're so pregnant, why are you bothering to sit down and get up? Don't they know they came in on their own and you need to greet them?"
As soon as Yinzuo came in, he heard his mother's words. The three brothers first went forward to pay their respects to Concubine De in a polite manner, and then got up quickly without waiting for Concubine De to call Yinzuo.
"Ah, this person really only feels pain downwards and not upwards. Fourth brother, look at mother. She hasn't even held her grandson yet, but we three sons are already worthless to her. When our nephew is born next year, I guess we three will be yesterday's flowers..."
After hearing what Yinzuo said, Concubine De knew that this brat was acting up again, so she reached out and touched the Fourth Lady's belly, and said to Yinzuo with a smile.
"Yinzuo is right. Mother only cares for those below her and not those above her. When she has a grandson, any good things I get will definitely not belong to you. You can just stay where you want."
Good man, look at what you said, your grandson is nowhere to be found? You are planning to throw your son over the wall.
"That won't do, Mother. Didn't you say before that I was the one you loved the most? Fourth Brother, Fourteenth Brother, why are you so calm? Don't you have any sense of crisis? We are about to fall out of favor."
Over the years, because of Yinzuo's mediation, the attitudes of both Defei and Fourteenth Concubine towards Yinzhen were much better than in history, so at this time, Yinzhen responded to Yinzuo's teasing with a relaxed tone.
"It doesn't matter if we've fallen out of favor. Isn't it my son who's about to take the throne and be favored? Rounding it off, I haven't fallen out of favor, but you and Fourteen have..."
It's over. A decent person like Fourth Brother has turned bad now. It really proves the saying that the world is becoming more and more corrupt and people's hearts are no longer the same.
With the two chatterboxes Yinzuo and Fourteenth, the atmosphere in Yonghe Palace was really lively. Although Yinzhen was not a talkative person, he talked a lot more than usual under the influence of the other two. Defei didn't care how noisy the three of them were. She only stepped forward to suppress the two monkeys when Yinzuo and Fourteenth made too much noise. When the food was ready and served from the kitchen, the mother and son got up and walked towards the dining room.
Yinzuo and his friends had barely eaten anything proper at the Qing Palace family dinner just now, so seeing the hot food made them hungry. Defei didn't have any rules about not talking while eating or sleeping, so Yinzuo picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks, put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it, and then said something to himself.
“May there be abundance every year.”
Seeing his serious expression, everyone couldn't help but laugh at him. Yinzuo knew what they were laughing at, but he didn't care at all. What was wrong with asking for a good omen of abundance for many years? He wanted to be a playboy, so wouldn't that require money? Why hadn't he realized his dream until now? Wasn't it because he didn't have money?
Soon the dumplings that Yinzuo had been looking forward to were cooked and served. Yinzuo was quite active this time. He stood up, took the plate from Chunxiang, took new chopsticks and began to distribute the dumplings to everyone.
"Come on, one for mother, one for me; one for fourth sister-in-law, one for me; one for fourth brother, one for me; one for Yinzuo, one for me; one for Fourteenth, one for me. That's one circle. Let's start from Fourteenth this time. One for Fourteenth, one for me..."
Fourteenth watched as the dumplings on the plate were all put into Yinzuo's plate one by one, and he immediately became angry. He turned around and started complaining to his mother with the plate in his hand.
"Mother, don't you care about Sixth Brother? I only got two of this plate of dumplings, and Sixth Brother's plate is almost full..."
The palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh, and it hurts no matter which side is pinched. What can Concubine De do? She can only try to comfort them.
"Don't worry, Fourteen. The kitchen has made a lot of dumplings. There's enough for you to eat. They must be cooking new dumplings now and will bring them over soon."
Did Fourteen want the dumplings from the kitchen? He wanted the dumplings with the golden pancakes on the plate in his sixth brother's hand. But he turned his head to look at his sixth brother, who was already picking up his chopsticks to start eating. He knew that he couldn't grab the food from his sixth brother's mouth, so he could only nod and pick up his chopsticks to eat the only two dumplings left on his plate.
If it weren't for this, how could it be so? Yinzuo only gave everyone two or three dumplings, and kept about ten for himself. As a result, he had eaten half of them and didn't even find a single golden cake. On the other hand, Fourteenth had only two dumplings, but he ate a golden cake in one bite. The situation changed immediately. Fourteenth, who had been unhappy just now, was now happy, while Yinzuo, who had been complacent just now, suddenly looked gloomy.
"Oh, I got a golden cake too. It seems I'm quite lucky."
Well, now Yinzuo frowned even more tightly. It turned out that he was really a boy who gave away money. Why did he give all those golden cakes to others?
After dinner, the mother and son moved to the flower hall to drink tea, chat and stay up late. Yinzuo obviously had not recovered from the shock of sharing dumplings just now. He raised his hands in front of his eyes and looked at them carefully, and finally shook his head helplessly.
"You know my hands. They've pulled a longbow and subdued wild horses before, but now..."
Yinzhen glanced at Yinzuo, who was already babbling incoherently due to the stimulation, smiled helplessly, took out the gold cake he had eaten, put it on the table and pushed it to Yinzuo.
"Alright, I don't know what your hands are like. Let alone pulling a long bow, it's hard to exceed four strengths. Fourth brother, I'll give you this golden cake. Let's not compete with ourselves."
Haha, you act like you're so great, but we're just the same. I have four strengths, and you only have four and a half. Let's not make fun of each other.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yinzuo got up very early and dressed himself up like a red envelope. He first took Dexi to the Qianqing Palace to pay New Year's greetings to Kangxi and took the big red envelope given by his father. Then he went to his mother to pay New Year's greetings. After that, he followed his mother to Shoukang Palace to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady. Shoukang Palace was Yinzuo's main battlefield during every Lunar New Year. He was already in high spirits before he even arrived at Shoukang Palace.
"Madam, Happy New Year! Your grandson wishes you to raise your head for good fortune, bow your head for happiness, nod your head for happiness, look back for perfection, shake your head for freedom from worry, have auspicious light on your forehead, auspicious energy between your brows, and blessings on your nose. May the new year begin with great luck."
Yinzuo's little words immediately made the old lady smile. She stretched out her hand to call the nanny next to her to come over, and took out a purse that was much larger than the other purses from the tray she was holding and handed it to Yinzuo.
"Good boy, the Royal Mama has received your blessing. The Royal Mama also wishes you peace and prosperity in the new year."
Yinzuo thanked the old lady and turned to look at the concubines sitting below her. He was thick-skinned and good at talking. No matter whether he met someone familiar or unfamiliar, his principle was to praise them. After one round, the tray in Dexi's hand was full.
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