If you ask Yinzhen what he thinks about his sixth brother asking his Khan Aman for a garden, he will definitely tell you that what the tenth brother said is right. Following the sixth brother will indeed bring glory and wealth.
As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. The news that Yin'er had exchanged Yinzuo's garden for a slap spread across the entire Changchun Garden as quickly as a tornado. Let's put it this way, the news was spread in the morning, and before noon, Yinzuo's Shufengxuan Waterside Pavilion was already crowded with people. It seemed that everyone wanted to come to him to get slapped in exchange for a garden.
"Hey, Sixth Brother, you're finally here. So, have you decided who to start with? It doesn't matter if you haven't decided yet. How about we start with Fifth Brother? Fifth Brother's requirements aren't high. You can just go to Khan Ama and ask for a garden of similar size to Xiaojiu's Caixia Garden. As for the location, Fifth Brother isn't picky either. It's closer than commuting to the capital every day..."
All things are difficult at the beginning. With Yinqi taking the lead, how could the group of people below sit still? They all started to use his sixth brother as a turtle in the wishing well. The wish list was so diverse that Yinzuo's head was buzzing.
"Stop, stop, stop. It's not even dark yet, brothers. Why are you all dreaming? What kind of dishes are we serving today? They'll make you drunk. Do you want to listen to what you just said? Burning a few coins' worth of incense and making wishes for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? What's going on? You can't embarrass yourselves, so you embarrass me. Isn't it easy to want the garden? I'll take you to see Khan Ama right now. Then you can talk face to face, and I won't have to be the middleman to make a profit and slap you. Come on, let's go now?"
Apparently, Yin'er was not the only one who was scared by his father. Look, when he mentioned going to find Kangxi, everyone who was shouting happily just now suddenly fell silent. Yinzuo looked at the waterside pavilion that was as bustling as a vegetable market just now and suddenly became silent because of his words. For a moment, he was a little uncomfortable. No, didn't we say that the old man's majesty had reached this point?
"Sixth brother, you're going too far. Where's the fairness and justice you promised? Where's the equal treatment you promised? It seems like you've got one bowl of whole grains and one bowl of fine rice, right? Let's not talk about Fifth Brother and the others, just me and Ninth Brother. Why is it that while we're both helping you, he gets a garden, while I get nothing?"
Why did he ask such a question? Amidst everyone's puzzled gazes, Yin Zuo stood up, walked over to Yin Xi, who looked aggrieved, and raised his hand to twist his ear, twisting it three times, left and right, until Yin Xi's ear turned red.
"How dare you ask me why? Well, I'll tell you, your ninth brother spent his own money on my affairs, while you spent my money on yours. Let me ask you, how much money have you taken from me in the past six months?"
If Yin Ziyin is not mentioned, he is a real man. But as soon as Yin Ziyin is mentioned, his arrogance is immediately extinguished by three points. It really proves the saying that a man with money is a real man, but a man without money is also hard to be a real man.
As the saying goes, when shooting a man, shoot the horse first; when capturing a thief, capture the leader first. After taming Yinqi and Yin?, who were the most noisy, the others naturally became obedient. But as the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry. Although Yinzuo seemed to have dealt with Yinqi and others very easily just now, just in case, as soon as Yinqi and others left, he immediately asked Dexi to pack up and run to his Khan Aman's Qingxi Book House for refuge.
It has been said before that everything that happens in Changchun Garden will eventually not escape Kangxi's eyes. Yinqi and the others had just come out of Shufengxuan when Yinzuo came to his Qingxi Book House with something. Kangxi is not stupid, so how could he not see his purpose.
"Why, are you afraid of being troubled by your fifth brother and the others, so you plan to move to my place for refuge?"
As the saying goes, only by seeing through the truth but not speaking it out loud can friends continue to be friends. But Yinzuo still has to beg his father for protection, so even if Kangxi threw him a straight ball right from the start, he could only accept it helplessly.
"Father, you're wise. But I didn't hide with you because I was afraid that Fifth Brother and the others would embarrass me. I'm mainly worried about Third Brother. He must be jealous again. If I don't bleed a little, I'm afraid I won't be able to get through this. You know that I've been bleeding a lot recently because of the Japanese affairs. If you are so poor, how can you afford to coax my Third Brother? Father, please have mercy on me and take my son in for today, okay?"
Although Yinzuo spoke softly to Kangxi, his actual actions were not polite to his father at all. He raised his hand and called Wanquan who was waiting on the side, asking him to go out and help Dexi move the things he brought to the side hall. He then walked towards the bed where Kangxi was sitting. When he arrived in front of the bed, he took off his shoes and squeezed onto the bed next to Kangxi.
"Father, it started raining again when I was on my way here, so how about we have a hot pot for dinner?"
Although Yinzuo's words were incoherent and just for fun, Kangxi obviously had no intention of refusing his request. As he said, the family had the means and there was no need to embarrass the child over such a small matter.
Outside, the autumn rain continued for several days before it finally cleared up. During this time, Yinzuo stayed at Qingxi Study, accompanying his father every day to review memorials, play chess (Gobang), and when he had nothing better to do, he would go and play with the fish in his father's tank. If he felt really bored, he could also entertain himself and find something to do to pass the time. If you ask him how he entertained himself, it's easy to answer. Isn't there a group of chefs in his father's imperial kitchen? He just went to make things difficult for them.
"Wanquan, go to the imperial kitchen and tell them that today I want to have a meal under the moonlight over the lotus pond, with flowers in full bloom and wealth in abundance, the icing on the cake, the great roc spreading its wings, and hundreds of birds returning to their nests..."
If Yinzuo was just making things difficult for the chef a few days ago, then he wanted to drive the chef to death by announcing the name of the dish today. It was okay for Wanquan to be confused, after all, he was just a messenger, but when he saw that the imperial chefs were also confused, he knew that this was a big deal.
"Excuse me, Eunuch Wan, has the Prince specified any ingredients for this dish?"
Yinzuo just recited a bunch of idioms casually. As for how to make this dish and what ingredients to use, he hadn't thought about it yet. Since he didn't explain anything, Wanquan naturally didn't know anything when asked about it.
It must be said that the cooking skills of the chefs in the imperial kitchen were truly amazing. The bunch of idioms that Yinzuo casually said were transformed into exquisitely prepared dishes and served on the table at lunch time.
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