In early April, the peach blossoms in the Imperial Garden bloomed again.
That morning, Cheng'an, Yinreng and Yinzhi returned from admiring the flowers in the Imperial Garden, and they did not forget to bring a peach blossom to Kangxi.
"Ama gives it to you~"
Kangxi was practicing calligraphy at his desk. After finishing the last stroke, he reached out to take the peach blossom, turned around and personally placed it in the vase beside him.
"Ama, what are you writing? Let me see." The little guy stood on tiptoe curiously.
Kangxi directly carried him to the chair and let him watch slowly.
"Welcome...the villa...looking around, there are many...long...after the rain...trees...in front of the wind..." The little fellow lowered his head and read as he read.
Kangxi was somewhat amused to see him reciting his own poem like this: "I am staying in the mountain villa to escape the summer heat. Looking around, I see endless hills and valleys. After the rain, young orioles sing in the dense trees. Before the wind, sparrows dance on the slanting corridors... Who can understand the true fragrance of this?"
This imperial poem was one he had written before for the Mountain Resort, and there was naturally a reason why he thought of it at this time.
"Father is so awesome!" The little guy listened to him carefully and clapped his hands.
When Kangxi saw him reading a poem, he praised it and couldn't help but say, "This poem was written by me."
"Wow, Ama can actually write poetry. Ama is so smart."
"I don't need your praise." Kangxi said this, but a smile still appeared in his eyes unconsciously, and he said, "If you memorize this poem, I will take you out to play, how about that?"
"Where are we going to play? Is it Changchun Garden?"
"Instead of going to Changchun Garden this year, I will take you to the Mountain Resort."
In fact, Kangxi had already decided to go to the Mountain Resort to escape the summer heat this year. Now his subordinates were almost ready and they could set off in a few days.
He suggested having the kid recite poetry purely on a whim.
"What is the Summer Resort?" The little guy's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this place he seemed to have never been to.
Kangxi thought that he had never been to the Mountain Resort, so he decided to take him there this year. Hearing his words, he smiled and said, "You will know when you go there."
Apart from eating, the little guy likes playing the most. He immediately said, "Then, Ama, please teach me to recite poems!"
Seeing that he had to teach himself when asked to recite a poem, Kangxi felt like he was asking for trouble.
"We will stay at the mountain villa to escape the summer heat."
"Yingxun summer resort~"
Next, Kangxi taught the little guy to read one sentence at a time, and he learned very seriously.
"Father, why did you write such a long poem?" After Cheng'an read the entire poem to him, he couldn't help but look up and asked.
When Kangxi saw that he actually complained that the poem he wrote was too long, he thought that he had never seen what a truly long poem was.
"If you don't want to recite it, forget it."
Cheng An heard that he was clearly saying that he didn't need to go to the Mountain Resort, so he immediately reached out and pulled him, saying, "Not long, not long, I want to carry you~"
"Don't make it hard on yourself." Kangxi said deliberately.
The little guy quickly shook his head: "It's not difficult, not difficult at all."
After Kangxi held Qiao's hand for a while, he began to teach him to recite again.
The little guy had a good memory. By lunch time, he was able to recite the entire poem in a drawn-out voice.
"How's Amma?"
Seeing him looking at him expectantly, Kangxi nodded and said, "Not bad."
"Then can I go to the summer resort to play?"
"Can."
As soon as Kangxi finished speaking, the little fellow cheered immediately, and after finishing his meal he kept reciting a poem.
In the afternoon, Kangxi was going to the Imperial Study to handle government affairs. Not long after he left, Yinyou, Yinsi, Yin'er, and Yin'e came over one after another.
When they came over, they heard the little guy reciting a poem and couldn't help but ask another question.
"This is a poem written by my father~" Cheng An told them proudly, and recited it in its entirety with his chest puffed out.
After hearing this, Yin'e immediately said "good".
"Who taught you?" Yinsi asked, touching his little head.
"My father taught me. He said that after I memorized the poem, he would take me to the Summer Resort to play~"
Hearing the little guy's cheerful voice, several princes who had already received the news of going to the Summer Resort couldn't help but look at each other and felt a little amused in their hearts.
After the little guy was happy, he remembered his brothers and immediately said in a baby voice: "Don't worry, brother, when Ama comes back, I will ask him to take you out to play too!"
"Tenth brother can go, Cheng'an doesn't need to tell the emperor anymore." Yin'e reached out and picked him up.
The little guy was even happier when he heard that they were going too: "Did my brother recite a poem too?"
Did we recite the poem?
Yin'e turned to look at Yin'er and the others, asking with his eyes.
In the end, the brothers nodded in unison and coaxed him into saying that he had memorized it.
The princes were very familiar with Kangxi's poems, so they simply recited an imperial poem related to the Mountain Resort.
After hearing this, the little guy immediately applauded them: "Brother, you recited really well~"
"Cheng'an also recites well." Yin'e immediately praised back.
After that day, the little guy started thinking about going out to play.
There are still many things that the emperor needs to prepare for his trip, but the little guy doesn’t need to worry about them. He just needs to wait until the time comes and set off.
However, when the little guy saw the people in the Qianqing Palace start to pack up, he couldn't sit still. He took out his own small box and followed their example.
Kangxi didn't bother to care about him at first, but when he found that he had packed up all the toys he usually played with, he even took down the pillow on the bed, stretched out his hand to pull him to his side and asked, "We're leaving the day after tomorrow, aren't you going to sleep these two days?"
The little guy blinked and quickly put the pillow back on the bed, but turned around and pulled the wooden horse he usually played with over: "Ama, can you take my wooden horse with you?"
This little wooden horse was the one that Yin'e had given him. It was still fun to play with, but for him now, it seemed a little small when he sat on it.
"Didn't your eldest brother give you a pony before? Just take that one."
As soon as Kangxi finished speaking, the little guy immediately let go of the little wooden horse in his hand, came over to lie on his knees, looked up and asked: "Can I ride the horse?"
"Can."
Yinreng was able to ride horses and hunt when he was five years old, so it was certainly no problem for the little guy to learn to ride horses.
"Wow~" Cheng An became even more excited when he said yes.
With a live pony to ride, the little guy no longer thought about the wooden horse, but thought of Yuanyuan in the imperial garden.
"Ama, can I take Yuanyuan with me?"
Kangxi felt that he had a different idea every now and then, and his expression became somewhat helpless.
Although it was not impossible to bring a sheep, Kangxi felt that it was really unnecessary, especially if the sheep could not bear the fatigue of the journey and something happened, the little guy would be the one who suffered.
Thinking of this, Kangxi said, "It would be better to bring the Saker Falcon."
"Okay, then I'll go call Baibai."
The little guy wanted to go out and call Haidongqing immediately after he finished speaking, but Kangxi pulled him back: "Why are you in such a hurry? We are not leaving now."
The little guy whose clothes he grabbed took two steps on the spot and turned around and said, "I'll go tell it first~"
Seeing that he was so excited when he said he wanted to go out and play, Kangxi simply let go of his hand and let him go.
On the morning of April 13, Kangxi finally took the little one from the palace to the Mountain Resort.
The princes who accompanied him included Yinreng, Yinzhi, Yinqi, Yinyou, Yinsi, Yin'e, Yinlu, Yinwei and Yinli. It was quite a big ceremony.
Those who stayed in the capital were Yinzhen, Yinlu, Yinxiang, Yinlu, as well as Yinyi, Yinxi, Yinhu and Yinqi who were still studying in the Shangshufang.
The little guy naturally wanted all his brothers to go together, but when he grew older, he was more able to listen to reason, and Kangxi talked to him nicely, and he stopped making trouble.
When Yinzhen and others escorted him to the gate of the capital, the little guy reluctantly said, "Brother, I will write to you. If there is anything delicious, I will have someone send it back to you."
"Why don't you stay and accompany your Thirteenth Brother?" Yinxiang couldn't help but ask when he saw that he was so reluctant to leave them.
The little guy had been holding onto one of his hands tightly, unwilling to let go, but immediately let go upon hearing these words.
"I...I will miss you!" The little guy grabbed his right hand with his left hand and answered irrelevantly.
Seeing his performance, both Kangxi and the princes couldn't help laughing.
Seeing that they were all laughing, the little guy stomped his feet lightly and hid in Yinreng's arms, obviously embarrassed.
"Okay, say goodbye to your fourth brother and the others, it's time for us to set off." Yinreng patted his shoulder with a smile.
Cheng An rubbed his arms twice before raising his head and looking at Yin Zhen and the others again: "Brother, you should eat more when I'm not around~"
"Okay, you too." Seeing that he was still thinking about their meals even when he went out to play, Yinzhen replied with a smile.
When the team parked outside the city started moving again, the little guy leaned on the car window and didn't sit still until the figures outside the city gate were out of sight.
"Do you want to sleep for a while?" Kangxi thought about how he slept late last night and woke up very early this morning, so he put his arm around him and asked.
Before leaving, the little guy was excited about going out to play, but now he looks a little depressed, probably because Yinzhen and the others couldn't come with him.
Hearing Kangxi's words, he nodded softly and said, "Yes..."
Kangxi's imperial carriage was much larger than an ordinary carriage, and there was even a soft couch inside for resting. Seeing the little guy nod, he took him in directly.
The little guy kicked off his shoes, lay on the couch, patted the seat next to him and said, "Ama, can you sleep with me?"
Knowing that they were setting off today, the little guy was very noisy last night and Kangxi didn't sleep well either, so when he heard what he said, he simply lay down.
The father and son fell asleep during the whole morning's journey, and when they woke up, the little one, whose emotions came and went quickly, became excited again.
"Ama, let's sleep in the car~"
Seeing that he was still laughing as he spoke, Kangxi raised the corners of his lips slightly, reached out and touched his belly and asked, "Are you hungry?"
"I'm a little hungry. Where are my second brother and the others?" The little guy said as he got up and wanted to find Yinreng and the others.
At this time, the team arrived at a beautiful wilderness area. After asking Kangxi's opinion, they stopped temporarily to prepare lunch.
As soon as the little fellow came out of the imperial carriage, he immediately ran around like a happy bird, with a Saker Falcon following him in the sky.
There were guards everywhere, so Kangxi did not stop him, but his eyes followed him.
"Cheng'an, where are you going?" Yinzhi asked loudly when he saw him running so fast.
When the little guy heard his voice, he turned and ran towards him, holding his hand and said, "Third brother, look, there are flowers over there~"
Maybe children all like to pick flowers and play with grass. The little guy immediately became interested when he saw so many wild flowers on the roadside.
Yinzhi accompanied him and saw him picking one flower here and one flower there. Soon he had a handful of wild flowers in his hand.
Soon, Yinreng and the others also came over. Just watching the little guy picking flowers made them feel better.
"Third brother, can you help me turn this grass into a bug?" After picking a few more flowers, Cheng'an suddenly pulled out a long grass and held it up.
Grass turns into...worms? Make a worm?
Yinzhi subconsciously took the grass from his hand, with an embarrassed expression on his face, and finally said: "Third brother doesn't know how to do it."
"Then can second brother do it?" the little guy asked him.
Yinzhi knew without thinking that Yinreng would definitely not do that, but he felt that he could not be the only brother who could not turn into a bug, so he returned the grass to him and said, "Go ask."
Without Cheng'an asking, Yinreng had already heard their conversation. He glanced at Yinzhi and then said to the little guy who ran in front of him, "Your tenth brother knows how to do it."
Yin'e, who was two steps behind, showed a surprised expression: "Second brother, how did you know I can do this?"
In Yin'e's heart, his second elder brother Yinreng had been very aloof since childhood, and he didn't even look at his younger brothers. Even though his attitude towards him had slightly changed in recent years, he was still surprised, and a little surprised, that Yinreng knew this little thing about him.
Yinreng just thought that if anyone among his brothers could weave grass, it could only be him, so he said it casually, but he didn't expect that he could really do it.
No wonder the Emperor always thinks he is not doing his job properly...
Yinreng was secretly complaining in his heart, but he looked calm on the surface.
Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Yin'e didn't ask any more questions, but stretched out his hand to the little guy and said, "Come here, Cheng'an, Brother Ten will help you edit it."
The reason why he knew this was simply because he learned it from watching people selling straw weaving on the street when he had nothing to do.
He couldn't make anything too complicated, but he had no problem making a simple grasshopper.
The little guy handed the grass in his hand to him. Yin'e felt that the grass was not very good, so he found some cattails nearby and pulled a few of them out.
Seeing that Yin'e really started to weave the story, Yinzhi and the others came over to watch with interest.
"Give."
Yin'e handed over the woven grasshopper, and the little guy immediately exclaimed: "Tenth brother, you are so awesome!"
Hearing his praise, Yin'e continued to braid without stopping. After finishing another one, he handed it to Yinreng and said, "Second brother, this one is for you."
Yinreng looked at the grasshopper in his hand, and after a pause he still reached out to take it: "Well done."
When the little fellow started playing with the flower in one hand and the grasshopper in the other, Yin'e held him close to him and whispered, "Don't tell the Emperor that I made this for you."
"Got it. I won't tell Father." The little guy whispered to him in the same low voice.
When it was time to eat, Cheng'an came back to Kangxi and handed him the flowers. When Kangxi took the flowers, Cheng'an playfully put the grasshopper on the back of his hand and threatened him, "The bug flew into my hand~"
Kangxi would not be frightened by his little trick. He handed the flower to Liang Jiugong and asked him to put it in his pocket. Then he reached out and gently tapped the little guy's head: "Wash your hands."
"Okay~"
It's not that hot now, and it feels nice to sit on a blanket and eat under the shade of a tree outdoors.
In fact, there were tables and chairs in the carriage at the back, but the little guy wanted to eat with his father and brothers, and the table was too small, so they had to lay a blanket instead.
The little guy thought that eating this way was fun. Sometimes he sat next to Kangxi, sometimes next to Yinreng, and sometimes he ran to his other brothers.
"Enjoy your meal." Kangxi said when he saw that he was restless.
"I want to eat some meat." The little guy sat back next to him and opened his mouth, "Ah..."
Seeing that he could eat by himself but still needed to be fed, Kangxi deliberately picked up a piece of vegetables with chopsticks and fed it to him.
After the little guy chewed it for a while and found that it was not meat, he immediately moved to the other side and said, "Brother, I want to eat meat~"
When Yinreng heard what he said, he picked up a piece of fish with the bones removed and fed it to him.
The lazy little guy didn't even pick up the chopsticks himself during the whole meal. He just asked his brothers to feed him a few bites and he was full.
"Third brother, please eat more meat~"
"Seventh Brother, aren't you going to eat anymore? Have some more soup."
"Brother, please eat more~"
Kangxi saw him lying down while talking, and his expression suddenly became serious: "Yin Mi."
The little guy sat up immediately when he heard him calling his name. When he saw that he was still frowning, he stood up and said, "I'll go see if mom has finished her meal!"
This time when they went to the Mountain Resort, the Empress Dowager was too old to go out, but several concubines came, including Concubine Mu.
Seeing that there was no point in him running, Kangxi shook his head and was too lazy to say anything more.
On the other side, Concubine Mu was having dinner with Concubine Yi and Concubine Mi. When she saw the little guy coming over, she immediately put down her bowl and chopsticks and asked, "Why is Cheng'an here?"
"I'm full, come and see my mother."
"Our Cheng'an is still considerate." Concubine Yi said with a smile after wiping her mouth with a handkerchief.
When the little guy heard her words, he immediately said, "Fifth Brother hasn't finished eating yet. He will come after he finishes eating~"
Seeing that he still knew how to speak for his own son, Concubine Yi smiled even more broadly, changed a pair of chopsticks, picked up a piece of tangerine peel rabbit meat and fed it to him.
The little guy who just said he was full saw the meat being delivered to his mouth and ate it up in one gulp.
After eating a few more bites of meat here, the little guy didn't return to Kangxi until they set out again.
On the afternoon of the second day, the team arrived in Huairou and planned to stay there for one night.
Huairou is a good place with beautiful scenery and pleasant views.
Before the sun set, Kangxi took the little one and the princes out for a walk.
The last time Kangxi passed through Huairou on his way to the Mountain Resort, the local rice price was very high due to the disaster in previous years. He even specifically ordered people to open the nearby granary to inquire about the rice price.
Coming here again at this time, he couldn't help but care about the price of rice.
Grain store.
The shop assistants saw that they were well-dressed and had a good temperament. Even though they thought they were not the customers who would come to buy food in person, they were still very friendly: "To answer this gentleman, white rice is one ounce and two cents per stone."
The little guy knew what white rice was and how much one tael of silver was worth, but when he heard the word "one dan", he became confused: "Ah, what is one dan?"
Kangxi pointed to the rice bucket in the store and said, "That's a bucket. Ten buckets of rice equals one shi."
The little guy looked in the direction of his hand and ran straight into the store to take a look.
"And what is this?"
After the kid finished speaking, the clerk in the grain store spoke first: "This is a liter of rice. Ten liters of rice is one dou."
"Father, brother, come and look, there are rice liters here. Ten liters of rice equals one dou~" the little guy turned around immediately after hearing what the waiter said.
Kangxi thought it would be a good idea to let him know more about this common sense, so he asked, "Do you want to buy a stone of rice?"
"Yes." Cheng An nodded, and said as he touched his purse, "I have money, I'll buy rice for my father and brother!"
The little guy used to like gold the most, but since he found that silver was more convenient to buy things, he started to put some change in his purse.
"Father, is this enough?" He took out all the silver and a few gold melon seeds from his purse and asked.
Kangxi naturally did not have to worry about not having rice to eat on the road when he was traveling. Seeing that he had taken out so much money, he took out one or two or three coins from him and said, "It's enough to buy one stone."
After giving the money to the waiter, Kangxi saw that the little guy was interested, so he let him pack the rice himself.
The rice measure and rice bucket were both made of wood. Yinreng was afraid that he couldn't lift them, so he stepped forward and said, "Second brother will help you."
Yinreng came behind the little fellow and helped him to fill the rice measure with rice and pour it into the rice bucket.
"One liter, two liters..." The little guy was quite serious and counted as he poured.
After pouring ten liters of rice, the rice bucket was just full.
"Wow, it really is ten liters per bucket~"
After experiencing it personally, the little one felt it more intuitively.
The other brothers were not idle either. They took the grain bag and helped him pour in a measured bucket of rice.
The little guy thought of what his father said: ten dou of rice is equal to one dan, and looked up and said: "Second brother still has nine dou~"
Not to mention him, this was also the first time for Yinreng to buy rice by himself. It felt really interesting, so he continued to help him prepare it.
When filling the third bucket, a lot of rice was spilled on the ground. The little guy cried "Ouch" and quickly squatted down to pick it up.
When the waiter saw the rice spilled, he was thinking of cleaning it up after they left. He didn't expect that this young master, who looked obviously spoiled, would actually pick it up. He was surprised, but at the same time, he had a good impression of him.
"It's okay, no need to pick them up." The waiter said when he saw that he was having trouble picking up the grains one by one.
The little guy mistakenly thought that he was saying that the rice he dropped was not needed, so he looked up and said, "Don't waste it!"
Kangxi attached great importance to farming and opened a lot of fields in Changchun Garden. When he was free, he would take the little guy there to see the land. He also took him and the brothers to harvest wheat in person.
Perhaps because he understands the time and energy it takes for crops to mature, the little guy has always been commendable in not wasting food.
The owner of the grain store had been busy counting accounts behind the counter, but now he couldn't help but look up and praise Kangxi, saying that he was a good parent.
When Kangxi heard this, he did not show it on his face, but he was very happy in his heart.
Finally, the brothers accompanied the little guy to pick up all the rice grains on the ground and continued to pack the rice.
"Father, are we going to eat this rice tonight?" the little guy asked after filling another bucket of rice.
Kangxi: "If you want to eat, we can eat in the evening."
"Okay, then I'll have an extra bowl of rice tonight~"
The little guy usually eats very little rice and vegetables, and his favorite thing is meat. It was rare that he took the initiative to ask for an extra bowl of rice, so Kangxi immediately felt that the purchase of the rice was not in vain.
Cheng An hadn't noticed it when he was filling it up one bushel at a time, but when he had finished filling up a whole bushel of rice, he immediately opened his eyes and said, "That's a lot!"
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