Kangxi found it funny when he saw the little guy with a strand of hair sticking up saying he had no money. So, because he was making him laugh, he picked up one of the coins and handed it back to him, saying, "I'll give you one cent."
"Thank you, Father~" Cheng An was quite easily satisfied. He reached out to take it and became happy again.
Kangxi chuckled upon seeing this. He was about to hand the ten cents in his hand to Liang Jiugong, but when he had his hand halfway out, he thought about it and retracted it, then casually put it into his own pocket.
"Ama look!"
While Kangxi was packing the money, the little guy ran back to the stall, holding a clay figure in one hand to show him.
The two clay figures were the ones that the princes had helped him make before, one was him and the other was Kangxi.
"This is me, this is Ama~"
The clay figurine in the little guy's hand was not well made, but one could still tell who it belonged to. Kangxi's eyes fell on the two strands of hair sticking up on the clay figurine's head and he asked, "Did you make it yourself?"
"My brother made it with me!"
After Cheng'an answered, he raised the clay figurine of "Ama", but Kangxi did not take it, but took the little one.
"Father, this is you!" the little guy told him while holding the remaining clay figure in his hand.
Kangxi: "Can't I switch with you?"
"Okay." The little guy nodded, took his hand and walked into the hall with him, still talking about how the brothers helped him make clay figures, "Father, let me tell you..."
Not long after the Lantern Festival, influenced by the capital, local officials followed suit and began to arrest kidnappers within their jurisdiction, which eliminated quite a few troubles.
At the same time, after the weather became a little warmer, Yinzhi and Yinzhen left Beijing again, preparing to completely resolve the issue of Dzungar.
Cheng'an knew that they were leaving again, and naturally felt reluctant to let them go. He even made two little clay figurines of himself and gave them to them, and told them in a baby voice to come back early.
"well……"
After Yinzhi and Yinzhen left, Kangxi often heard the little guy sighing and felt that he was just idle.
"Have you finished writing today?"
"Fourth brother came here this morning..."
When Yinzhen came, he would definitely help the little guy finish writing characters and teach him a few new characters. So when Kangxi heard the first half of the little guy's sentence, he said directly: "Then go swing on the swing."
The afternoon sunshine in spring is pretty good, perfect for swinging.
"I don't want to swing."
Maybe it’s because he swung on the swing more often when the weather was just getting warmer, but now the little guy has no enthusiasm when he hears about swinging.
"Then go make clay figures. Didn't your tenth brother just give you a new stall?" Kangxi said.
Perhaps Yin'e saw that Kangxi did not forbid the little one from making clay figures, and that the little one liked it, so he specially asked a carpenter from the Ministry of Works to build a new stall and also had someone prepare a full set of tools and a lot of clay.
When the little guy heard Kangxi asking him to make clay figures, he seemed a little tempted, but in the end he said, "I don't want to make them."
"Then what do you want to do?" Seeing that he didn't want to do this or that, Kangxi reached out and pinched his cheek.
Cheng An immediately said, "I hope Da Ge and Shisi Ge will come back soon!"
"They just left..." Kangxi looked somewhat helpless, and stretched out his hand to push him onto the Luohan bed, "You should go to sleep for a while."
The little guy got up and looked up and said, "I can't sleep~"
"You just lie down with your eyes closed and you will fall asleep naturally."
After Kangxi finished speaking, he pushed him down again. However, the little guy did not close his eyes. Instead, he kept looking at him with his dark eyes, obviously looking very energetic.
"Forget it. If you don't want to sleep, just get up and go set up the stall outside the door." Kangxi withdrew his hand.
Cheng An moved his little feet through his socks and continued to lie there without getting up: "I won't set up a stall at the door. If I set up a stall at the door, my father will charge me, but my mother won't charge me~"
From what he said, it was obvious that he had set up a stall at the Empress Dowager's place, and Kangxi immediately remembered it.
"So those jewellery you brought back a few days ago were earned from setting up a stall?"
"Yes~"
"You make a few clay figurines and sell them for so much?"
Seeing that he was still nodding, Kangxi reached out his hand to knock him, but the little guy grabbed his hand and explained in a baby voice: "It's not that I sold it at a high price, it's the mamas who said that An An's kneading is good, so it's worth that price!"
Given his skill in making clay figurines, Kangxi felt that if he were to set up a stall in the capital, he would probably not even have enough to eat.
But when Kangxi heard that he was not the one who wanted to exchange the clay figurines for jewelry, he did not say anything to him, but said: "Then I will not charge you for setting up the stall today."
"Really?"
Obviously, the little guy could set up a stall anywhere in the imperial palace, especially in the Empress Dowager's palace, where a lot of people came to support him. But maybe Kangxi wanted to charge him before, but now he doesn't, so he suddenly lost interest.
"When did I lie to you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the little guy opened his arms and said, "Ama, pick me up~"
"You're so grown up, but you still need to be held." Kangxi said this, but his movements of holding him were not slow.
After the Chinese New Year, the little guy grew a little taller, but his face still had a little fat, and he looked fair, tender and delicate.
As soon as Kangxi picked him up, he couldn't help but pat his little butt and said, "If you push harder, I won't be able to hold you anymore."
"I'm not heavy~" the little guy retorted subconsciously, climbed down from the bed and put on his shoes by himself.
Kangxi chuckled and watched him put on his shoes and run out. The smile on his face gradually faded.
"Dad, why haven't you come yet?" The little guy ran halfway and found that he was not keeping up, so he immediately turned around and pulled him back.
When he ran over, Kangxi smiled again, stood up and was passively pulled out by him.
After the clay figurine stall in the Qianqing Palace reopened, perhaps because Kangxi was also there, the palace maids and eunuchs who came to act as customers were obviously very reserved.
Kangxi rarely had time to play with his son, so he simply signaled Liang Jiugong to call Yinreng over.
After a while, Yinreng brought his sons over to support the little guy, and the stall suddenly became lively.
"Nephew, what kind of clay figurine do you want to buy?" the little guy asked immediately when he saw another customer coming.
When Honghuang heard what he said, he shook his head and said, "I don't have any money."
There was no need for money in the palace, so Honghuang naturally wouldn't carry any money with him.
"It doesn't matter, your father is rich~"
When Yinreng heard this, he looked at the little guy and asked, "Are you willing to take money from my second brother?"
When the little guy was asked this question, he immediately shook his head and said, "I'm not willing to do that. Then I won't charge you."
"Since you don't want money, then make me a Saker Falcon first." Kangxi said when he saw that he immediately refused to take money when asked by Yinreng.
In Cheng'an's heart, his father is very rich. After all, it can be seen from his private warehouse filled with good things.
Kangxi saw him looking at him with wide eyes, raised his hand and tapped him gently: "Why, you are reluctant to accept your second brother's money, but willing to accept your father's money?"
"No, I was just thinking about how to pinch the Saker Falcon." The little guy immediately retorted.
Yinreng reminded: "Baibai is the Saker Falcon."
"Oh, that's right!" The little guy remembered after being reminded by him, and immediately looked up and shouted to the sky.
After a while, a pure white Saker Falcon flew down from the sky, looking even more handsome than last year.
"Bai Bai, stand still. I want to make one for you and give it to Ama~"
After the Saker Falcon fell down, the little guy spoke to it in a baby voice before starting to pinch it.
Kangxi and Yinreng wanted to see if he could figure it out, so they just watched quietly without disturbing him.
It was the first time for the little guy to sculpt a bird. Even though there was a ready-made Saker Falcon that he could imitate, it was still not that easy for him.
He finally managed to carve out the rough outline of the Saker Falcon, but before he could even feel happy, the head part suddenly broke off.
"oops--"
Cheng'an frowned and shouted, then quickly reached out to lift up the head and pinch it back again. However, just as he pinched the head part again and started pinching the bird's claws for a while, the head part fell off again.
Next, the little guy started to pinch both ends, but when he pinched the head, the claws fell off, and when he pinched the claws, the head fell off again. After repeating this several times, he puffed up his cheeks and said, "This mud is not obedient at all!"
Kangxi couldn't help but chuckle when he saw his angry expression.
"Ama!" Seeing that he was still smiling, the little guy called him unhappily, his cheeks puffed up like puffs.
Kangxi reached out and poked his little face: "Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not rushing you."
"Second brother will help you." Yinreng said as he sat down next to the little guy and started to pinch him together.
Hongxi was a little surprised to see that his father could do this, but then he became interested.
"Hongyang, if you want to play, big brother will accompany you." Perhaps because he was embarrassed to say that he wanted to play, Hongxi pulled his younger brother as an excuse and took a piece of mud to play with him.
Honghuang really wanted to play, so he didn't deny it.
After a while, with the help of Yinreng, the little guy finally made a Saker Falcon. It's amazing that when compared with Baibai, they really look similar.
"Ama gives it to you~"
Just as Kangxi was about to take it, the little guy stretched out his other hand and smiled at him, saying, "Ten cents each!"
The Saker Falcon was sculpted by the former crown prince and the most favored young prince today. The price of one is ten cents, which is really down to earth.
However, Kangxi saw that he had said he didn't want money but now wanted it, so he slapped his palm and said, "Do you want me to slap you ten times?"
The little fellow immediately retracted his hand that had been slapped, held up the "Saker Falcon" and came close to him and said coquettishly: "I was just joking with my father~"
Kangxi saw that he was happy now, unlike before when he was sighing dejectedly in the palace, so he didn't bother with him anymore.
After playing in the mud outside for a while, Kangxi saw that it was almost time for the little guy to have a snack, so he took him back to the palace.
After the little guy washed his hands, the palace maid had already brought him some snacks.
"Father eats, second brother eats~"
"My nephew is for you!"
"My little nephew, this is delicious~"
Kangxi found that he took a piece of snack and stuffed a piece into this person and that person, but didn't eat much himself. When the person sat back next to him, he personally took a piece of snack and put it to his mouth.
"Dad, let's each have half~" the little guy said, breaking off half and eating it in small bites.
Kangxi just thought that he was not hungry yet and didn't think much about it.
However, when it was time for dinner, Kangxi found that he didn't eat much, and he immediately became confused.
"You didn't have much snack in the afternoon, so why did you only have that much for dinner?"
Cheng An glanced at the meat on the table, patted his belly and said, "I'm full~"
The little guy's whole body was soft, and even when he hadn't eaten, he could feel that his belly was round, so Kangxi reached out and touched it, but didn't find anything wrong.
"Would you like another bowl of soup?" Kangxi said, and seeing that he looked a little hesitant, he brought the bowl of soup directly to his mouth.
The soup is all water...
The little guy thought to himself and started drinking with a gulp.
After watching him finish the soup, Kangxi didn't ask him to eat anything else.
The next day, the little guy ate much less than usual from breakfast to lunch, which finally attracted the attention of Kangxi, who immediately ordered someone to call the imperial physician.
"Father, I don't want to see the imperial physician..."
The little guy had always been in good health and had only seen the imperial physician a few times, but he had a deep memory of the black and bitter medicine prescribed by the imperial physician, so as soon as he saw the imperial physician coming, he immediately hid behind Kangxi.
"Just a look. If you're fine, I won't let you take medicine." Kangxi said as he reached out to pull him out.
"So if something happens, you have to take medicine?"
After the little guy grasped the key point, he stretched out his hands and hugged him tightly from behind.
Kangxi was worried about his health. Seeing him playing tricks like this, he couldn't help but become serious: "Yin Mi!"
"Medicine tastes bitter, I don't want to take it..."
When Cheng'an saw him calling his name, he walked around from behind him and hugged him again.
"You don't necessarily have to take medicine. Let the imperial physician take a look first. Be obedient." As he started to act coquettishly, Kangxi's attitude softened again. He hugged him and coaxed him for a few words before signaling the imperial physician to come forward and take his pulse.
It was clearly just a pulse check, but the little guy buried his face in Kangxi's arms, as if he could avoid taking the medicine that way.
Kangxi looked down and saw his appearance, then reached out and touched the back of his head soothingly.
After a while, the imperial physician took the baby's pulse and said that the little guy was in very good health and there was nothing wrong with him.
"Then why has he eaten much less than usual in the past two days?" Kangxi frowned.
Upon hearing this, the imperial physician took his pulse again and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with his spleen and stomach, and then gave the same answer as before.
After all, the little guy is still young. The imperial physician means to observe him for two more days and make some appetizers for him to try first. If he still has no appetite, then consider prescribing medicine.
After making sure that the little guy was fine, Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief. He signaled the imperial physician to leave, patted the person still buried in his arms and said, "The imperial physician has left."
The little guy looked up quietly, and only sat up straight when he found that the imperial physician was really not there.
At this moment, someone outside came with a message saying that Yinreng, Yinsi, Yinlu, Yin'e and Yinyu wanted to see him.
Yinreng was already in the palace, and the others were just entering the palace to visit Cheng'an. On the way, they heard the news that the imperial physician was coming from the Qianqing Palace, so they hurried over.
After Kangxi let them in, the little guy immediately looked up and said, "Brother, my father asked me to see the imperial physician!"
The princes were still wondering why the imperial physician came, but now there was no need to guess and they just started to show concern after paying their respects.
"Father Emperor, what happened to Cheng'an?"
Yinreng's tone was full of concern, and although the others didn't say anything, they all had worry in their eyes.
Although the imperial physician said he was fine, Kangxi was still somewhat worried when he thought about his obvious poor appetite in the past two days.
Seeing Yinreng asking, he told him about the little guy's situation over the past two days.
Yin'e thought that the little guy's appetite was better than his own, and he found it a little unbelievable. He forgot that he was in front of Kangxi and asked directly: "Does Cheng'an want to eat gourd chicken, Yuanxiao, candied haws, donkey rolls, peach cakes..."
The little guy, who hadn't eaten much at noon, obviously swallowed his saliva when he heard him announce the food.
Upon seeing this, Yin'e couldn't help but look at his royal father.
"Do you want to eat what your tenth brother mentioned?" Kangxi asked with his head down.
The little guy nodded subconsciously, then shook his head. However, when he thought of so many delicious foods, he couldn't help but nodded again.
"Do you want to eat or not?" Kangxi was confused when he saw him nodding and shaking his head.
"I...I'll just eat a little bit."
Cheng'an hesitated for a while, then stretched out his finger and gestured.
Putting aside other things, gourd chicken is his favorite. Seeing that he clearly wanted to eat it but only asked to eat a little bit, Yinreng and the others began to feel that something was wrong.
"Didn't Cheng'an say that he had to eat more to gain weight? Why is he only eating a little now?" Yinreng asked softly.
When the little guy heard what he said, he immediately shook his head and said, "I can't grow any more fat!"
From the tone of voice, it was clear that someone had said something to him.
Kangxi immediately looked at Yin'e.
"Your Majesty, please be aware that I have not been to the palace in the past few days!" Yin'e said hurriedly.
Kangxi retracted his gaze and looked at the little guy again: "Why can't you grow more flesh?"
"Because if I gain more weight, I will be heavier and my mother won't be able to hold me."
Hearing Cheng'an's baby voice explaining the reason, Yinreng and the others subconsciously looked towards Kangxi, and immediately discovered that there seemed to be more white hair in his braids than last year. Thinking of the little guy's innocent words, they were indescribable feeling in their hearts for a moment.
When Kangxi heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then he realized that when he held him yesterday, he felt that his physical strength was not as good as before, and he did sigh casually.
Recalling that the little guy had refused to eat even his favorite snacks since yesterday afternoon, Kangxi felt a little complicated.
Compared with other emperors who pursued immortality, Kangxi was much more sober. He knew that birth, aging, sickness and death were common occurrences in the world, and even the emperor was no exception.
At this moment, Kangxi suddenly felt a little regretful, regretting why this youngest son, whom he loved so much, was not born a few years earlier.
"Ama?" Seeing that Ama suddenly stopped talking, the little guy tilted his head and looked at him, his black eyes as clear as a lake.
"Didn't you say before that you would carry your father on your back when you grow up? If you don't eat more and grow up quickly, how can you carry me on your back?" Kangxi said, touching his head.
That was what the little guy said himself when he was trying to be naughty and asked Kangxi to carry him on his back.
"But what if I grow up and my father can't hold me?"
"You are already grown up, why do you still need your father to hold you? Look at your brothers, they all walk by themselves when they grow up."
I never saw you hug me when I was a kid...
When Yin'e heard this, he couldn't help but complain in his heart, but he didn't have any negative emotions. After all, when it comes down to it, the other brothers are the same.
"I just want Daddy to hug me~" the little guy said and then hugged him tightly with his backhand, rubbing his head in his arms.
Kangxi was feeling the softest towards him at this moment, he just patted his back and said: "You are so grown up but still act like a spoiled child, your second brother and the others are still watching."
"I want my second brother to hold me later. I want my eighth brother, ninth brother, tenth brother and twelfth brother to hold me too!" The little guy was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he raised his head and said.
The rubbing he did just now caused the slightly longer strand of hair on top of his head to stand up again.
When Yinreng and the others heard his words and saw the strand of hair, smiles appeared on their faces unconsciously. If he had not been in Kangxi's arms, they would have reached out to hug him.
Seeing this, Kangxi patted his little butt twice and said, "Do you still want to eat the gourd chicken?"
For a little one who loves to eat but can only hold back on eating for a snack and three meals, gourd chicken is simply too tempting.
The little guy hesitated for a while, then remembered that he had indeed promised his father that he would be carried on his back. He thought it would be a good idea to eat more and grow up quickly, so that even if his father could not hold him, he could still hold his father.
“I want to eat!”
When Kangxi saw that he had swallowed his saliva after he finished speaking, he smiled and waved his hand, asking Liang Jiugong to order the imperial kitchen to make gourd chicken for him.
After a while, the hot gourd chicken was served, exuding fragrance.
It was almost time for the little guy to have a snack, not to mention that he hadn't eaten enough at noon. When he smelled the fragrance, he almost fell down in front of the gourd chicken.
No matter how much the little guy liked eating gourd chicken in the past, he had never been so greedy. Kangxi thought that such a noble prince could still starve himself in the palace. He felt both amused and distressed, so he personally picked up a chicken leg and put it to his mouth.
Cheng An took a bite and it was so delicious that his eyes curved and his whole body was filled with a sense of pleasure.
"Father, you eat. Brother will eat as well..." He did not forget to greet them while eating.
Seeing that he was eating so hard that he couldn't speak clearly but was still thinking about them, Yinreng felt distressed: "Second brother knows, you eat first."
After eating a chicken leg and a chicken wing, the little guy's eating speed finally slowed down, and Yinreng brought a bowl of soup to his mouth at the right time.
The little guy lowered his head and gulped down a few mouthfuls of soup, then looked up and said, "Brothers, eat~"
While he was speaking, he picked up a chicken wing with chopsticks and put it to Kangxi's mouth.
It was obviously impossible to let the little guy eat the whole gourd chicken by himself, so the brothers left the other chicken leg for him and picked up chopsticks to eat it.
"I'm so full~" It was the first time for Cheng An to eat two chicken legs and a chicken wing when eating gourd chicken. Now he touched his stomach with a very satisfied expression on his face.
The little guy's full and satisfied look was so adorable that after Yinreng wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, he couldn't help but reach out to smooth the sticky hair on his head.
"If you dare to deliberately not eat enough next time, I will let you starve." Kangxi said fiercely, and when Yinreng withdrew his hand, he also touched the little guy's hair twice.
"Don't be hungry. I feel uncomfortable when I'm hungry. I want to eat a lot and grow up quickly so I can hug my father~"
It would have been fine if he just carried him on his back, but when Kangxi heard him say he wanted to hug him, he poked his forehead in annoyance.
After knowing the reason why the little guy's appetite had decreased, Kangxi and Yinreng were relieved.
After this day, the princes, whether present or absent, were touched and became more diligent in paying their respects to Kangxi and spoke a little more, instead of just paying their respects dryly and leaving as before.
Kangxi didn't seem to react to this, but one night he said to the little guy: "Your brothers have been talking more and more nonsense recently..."
"Then I'll tell my brothers to stop talking nonsense?"
“No need.”
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