"Very well, I have invited a tutor to teach Hongshi, but it is not appropriate for him to come to the backyard. Starting tomorrow, Hongshi will live with me in the front yard," Yinzhen said calmly.
Li was completely stunned, not understanding how things had developed like this. In just one month, Hongshi had moved out of her courtyard, and now he was going to move out of the backyard!
Moreover, judging from what Yinzhen said, that teacher is going to live with Hongshi. Does that mean she won't be able to see her son anymore?!
"Your Highness!" Lady Li cried out, stepping forward to grasp Yinzhen's hand and pleading, "So, so you won't allow my son and me to see each other again?!"
“Hongshi needs to study now, but you don’t understand these things. Why do you want to see him again?” Yinzhen glanced at her and patted the letter. “This is the result of the teacher’s test on Hongshi. You can take a look.”
Li didn't understand any of this; she couldn't even read all the characters. So she just kept crying and begging for mercy, refusing to accept the letter.
Yinzhen was truly enraged: "My son, can't I even make decisions for him?" He glanced at the maids and servants standing beside him and roared, "Are they all dead? Can't you see that the concubine is unwell? Quickly help her back to rest!"
Several people quickly responded and stepped forward to pull Li up, but Li refused. She struggled frantically and cried out, "Your Highness, Your Highness, Hongshi is my only son. Please, Your Highness, have pity on me!"
"I'm just sending him to study in the front courtyard, not registering him under someone else's name, what are you making such a fuss about?" Yinzhen was really annoyed. He threw the letter directly at Li Shi, "Take a good look at what kind of child your 'good son' really is!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Su Peisheng and the others quickly followed. As Yinzhen strode out, he instructed, "Clean up a few rooms in the front yard, and move the Third Prince there tomorrow."
"Yes, sir," Su Peisheng quickly replied.
As Yinzhen walked out of Fuluyuan with a dark face, clearly in a fit of rage, all the servants he encountered on the way immediately knelt down and remained silent.
As they walked, Yinzhen grew increasingly agitated.
Li's last words bothered him, but they also saddened him even more.
Honghui and Hongyun, one was the eldest son of the legitimate wife, and the other was a child raised until the age of ten. How could he not love and care for them? There was also Hongfen, who had cried and laughed in his arms. He was not even two years old when he passed away. Such a small child, and he stopped breathing.
He had three sons; he lost all three of them.
As Yinzhen walked, he suddenly staggered. He braced himself against a tree with one hand and clutched his chest with the other, then suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Su Peisheng was so frightened that his voice cracked: "Your Highness! Your Highness!!"
The group was in a state of panic and chaos, but Yinzhen felt much more at ease. He waved his hand, signaling everyone not to get excited, and after calming down for a moment, he headed straight for Dongyou Courtyard.
Qian Shengyan was also startled by the large bloodstain on Yinzhen's chest. She hurriedly sent someone to fetch Doctor Zhou. Yinzhen did not stop her, and Su Peisheng had already sent someone to fetch him.
He walked straight into the main room, sat in the seat of honor, and took a deep breath, as if gathering his strength.
Qian Shengyan didn't dare touch him. She raised her hand and circled him several times, her eyes red with anxiety: "What happened to you, Master? Why is there blood on you?"
"It's nothing, I was just a little anxious." Yinzhen closed his eyes and patted her hand. "I'm planning to prepare a few rooms in the front yard and have Hongshi move out first."
“Great! Then Yuanshou can move there in two years,” Qian Shengyan replied casually.
Upon hearing this, Yinzhen opened his eyes abruptly, looking at Qian Shengyan with a hint of confusion: "You're willing?"
Qian Shengyan was even more puzzled than him: "What's there to be unwilling about?"
"...Aren't you afraid that your son won't be by your side and won't be close to you?" Yinzhen understood the thoughts of these women in the inner quarters. Their son was their lifeline and their only hope for the rest of their lives.
Princes in the palace are raised until they are about ten years old before living in the princes' quarters. After that, they gradually become estranged from their birth mothers. Hongshi is seven years old now. If we say that he is going to move to the front courtyard, Li Shi will cry her heart out. But what does Qian Shengyan say?
She said that in two years, when Yuan Shou is three years old, they will move to the front yard.
Yinzhen frowned slightly, wondering if Qian Shengyan's kindness towards Yuanshou was all an act.
Qian Shengyan didn't understand what he was thinking. Just then, Doctor Zhou arrived and began to take Yinzhen's pulse and examine him.
Anger and frustration leading to long-term emotional distress?
These eight words terrified Qian Shengyan. Her face turned deathly pale, and she even began to reflect on herself. Could it be that she had caused too much trouble in the past six months, leading to the early death of Emperor Yongzheng, who was already short-lived?
If you calculate the time, he has ten years left to ascend the throne, and after that, he will rule for another thirteen years, which means... he has twenty-three years left to live.
……this……
Perhaps because the sadness in Qian Shengyan's eyes was too intense, Yinzhen comforted her instead: "I'm really alright. Didn't Doctor Zhou say that once that mouthful of blood is coughed up, everything will be fine?"
"Master...Master, if there's anything you need to say in the future, can't you talk to me, can't you talk to me?" Qian Shengyan pleaded, truly afraid that he would die before her son grew up. "Doctor Zhou said that you've been holding onto this resentment for a long time...Master, no matter what, your health is the most important thing!"
"I know, don't worry." Yinzhen rarely joked, "We should at least wait until our Yuanshou comes of age."
"Master!"
Even if Qian Shengyan thought the same as him, she couldn't express it. She covered his lips, tears welling up in her eyes: "If that's the case, please don't say it anymore, Your Highness..." Seeing that no one was in the room, she sat directly on Yinzhen's lap, hugged his neck, and whispered in his ear, "I hope to be with Your Highness for a long time. I wish Your Highness could live ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand years."
"Nonsense!" Yinzhen pretended to glare, patted Qian Shengyan on the back, and then softened his voice, "I understand your thoughts. I will take care of myself."
As he spoke, his hands were already busy untying her belt.
Qian Shengyan, both amused and exasperated, pressed down on his hand: "Master, cultivate your character."
"I'm not doing anything," Yinzhen said with dissatisfaction, his hand slipping inside his loosened robe.
As he gently rubbed it, he asked, "Yuan Shou moved out of your courtyard when he was three years old. Aren't you worried?"
"If he follows me, and I'm worried about my own father, what are you worried about..." Qian Shengyan's words were incoherent as he squeezed her lips, her lips almost clenched, "Master~"
"Alright, alright." Yinzhen smiled and lightly pecked her lips, then continued, "Aren't you afraid that he won't be affectionate towards you when he grows up, since he's leaving you so early?"
He had just asked that question, but Qian Shengyan still didn't understand: "He is my son, so why is he not close to me?" She paused, then seemed to understand, and immediately grabbed his wrist to stop him from moving. "Does that mean that since Yuanshou went to the front courtyard, you won't allow him to come back to see me anymore?"
“Not necessarily.” Yinzhen pondered the rules of the Imperial Study in the palace. “After he turns seven, he gets a day off every ten days, and he can come back to see you.”
"What about before you were seven?" Qian Shengyan pressed.
Yinzhen was surprised that she actually sent Yuanshou to the front yard at such a young age. He looked at him with amusement and said, "Until you're seven, you're still a little kid. What will you do if you look for your mother at night?"
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