The next day, Cheng'an didn't mention Tail again, but asked Kangxi for Da Ge again.
Kangxi naturally didn't want him to leave the palace, and he didn't think there was anything interesting about Yinzhi, so every time he mentioned it, he would ask him to go to Xian'an Palace or Changchun Palace to play.
Changchun Palace was where his mother, Concubine Chen, lived. According to the palace rules, concubines had relatively few opportunities to spend time with their sons. Even if they could raise their children themselves, they still had to send them to the prince's residence after they turned six years old. If they couldn't raise their children themselves, they wouldn't see them for a long time.
Speaking of which, Concubine Chen was lucky. Kangxi didn't want Cheng'an to leave the palace, so he used her as his mother to divert the little guy's attention.
After Cheng'an was brought to Changchun Palace, he still gave face to his mother, Concubine Chen, allowing himself to be hugged and touched, and even calling people in a baby voice.
Seeing that he was taken care of so well by the Emperor, Concubine Chen felt indescribably satisfied.
She was not an ambitious person. With her current position and her son being favored, she lived a very comfortable life. She had no more requests, but only hoped that her son would grow up safely as his name suggested.
The harem at this time was much more peaceful than in earlier years. On the one hand, the concubines now had grandchildren and their attention was focused on the younger generations; on the other hand, Kangxi rarely entered the harem nowadays, so they could not compete even if they wanted to.
It is precisely because of this that the concubines are now quite bored. When they heard that the favored young prince had come to the harem, they all went to Changchun Palace to visit him.
Who can not like such a delicate and graceful little prince? How popular Cheng'an is in the harem can be seen from the tray of jewelry he brought back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
Not to mention, no one would believe that he could get along harmoniously with so many concubines if he said he was not attracted by the jewelry on their heads.
When Kangxi saw that he brought back so many jewels from a trip to Changchun Palace, he thought it was outrageous.
At first, he thought the little guy had emptied his mother's jewelry box. After asking Liu, he learned that it was a gift from the concubines. Kangxi didn't know what expression to make for a moment.
"You have really become more capable. You never come back empty-handed wherever you go." Kangxi picked up a gold hairpin from the tray, looked at it for a few seconds and threw it back. He didn't understand what a prince like him would do with these.
When Cheng An saw him throwing away his own gold, he quickly picked it up with his little hands and touched it: "An An, da."
"You can't wear it." Kangxi couldn't help but glance at him when he saw him holding the gold hairpin as if it were a treasure.
Cheng An was very happy to have so many golden things, so he didn't listen to him and picked them up to play with them one by one.
After Kangxi had finished playing, he reached out and held him in his arms: "Cheng'an."
His voice was rather serious, and when Cheng An heard it, he immediately put his little hands on his legs, looked up at him obediently.
"You can tell your father if you want anything, but you can't just ask for other people's things."
When he was playing with these jewelries just now, Kangxi asked Liu Cai in detail and learned that he was the one who stared at Liu Guiren's gold hairpin first and then she took it off and gave it to him. Later, when other concubines saw that he liked jewelries, they all took off their own jewelries to tease him, and gave them to him when he said he wanted them.
Although he did not ask for it at first, Kangxi still felt that this habit was not good, so he prepared to have a good talk with him.
"Why?" Cheng An didn't quite understand.
"Since they are wearing them, it means they are the things they like. They are generous to give them to you, but what's the use of you having them? Besides..."
The little guy listened to what his father said, nodded as if he understood, and then asked, "Where's my brother?"
"You can accept anything your brothers offer, but you must remember your brothers when you get good things in the future." It's not a bad thing for brothers to be friendly and respectful to each other. Kangxi was just afraid that he would develop the habit of taking and not giving.
Of course, after seeing what happened on the day of the first birthday celebration, he was not particularly worried about this and just mentioned it casually.
"Yeah." Cheng An nodded and wrote it down.
After the conversation between father and son, Kangxi ordered someone to reward the owners of the jewelry double the amount.
This was actually not a big deal, and the jewelry was indeed given by the concubines to their children when they were playing with them. It was just that Kangxi doted on his youngest son and always considered him more.
In fact, his consideration is not unnecessary.
Just as he had said to Cheng'an before, most of the jewellery that the concubines wore were their favourites, so they might have just given them away out of herd mentality at the time. However, when they returned to their own palaces afterwards, some of them felt regretful after thinking about it.
The rewards sent by Kangxi immediately surprised the concubines, whether they regretted it or not.
After the news spread, people in the palace became more aware of the emperor's favor for the young prince.
He has been to Xian'an Palace twice and has seen his fourth brother. He has just been to Changchun Palace. When a new day comes, Cheng'an starts to talk about "Brother Da" again.
When Kangxi heard his words, he said calmly, "The weather is nice today. Let Liu Cai take you to the Imperial Garden to play for a while."
After saying that, he turned around and left as he had something else to do.
Seeing that his father just wouldn't let him go find his eldest brother, Cheng'an became a little upset. He puffed up his face and glared at the other person's back until he could no longer see the person's figure. Then he raised his little hand and slapped his puffed up face.
Seeing that the young master was unhappy, Liu Cai quickly spoke to coax him, "There is a deer in the Imperial Garden, do you want to go take a look, young prince?"
Although Cheng'an had been to the Imperial Garden, he had never been to the Deer Park, so he was attracted by the deer he mentioned.
After the little guy came out of the Qianqing Palace, before he reached the Imperial Garden, he met the Fifth Prince Yinqi on the way.
"elder brother!"
Seeing his brother, Cheng An immediately ran over.
Yinqi came to the palace to visit the empress dowager. He didn't expect to meet him and immediately smiled gently.
"Brother, hug me!" Cheng An ran to him and stretched out his hands.
The little guy looks so well-behaved and cute when he reaches out for a hug, and no one can refuse him.
Yinqi bent down and carefully picked him up. Seeing his little hands consciously wrapped around his neck, he said, "Fifth brother is going to see the Queen Mother. Do you want to go with him?"
Cheng An tilted his head with a puzzled expression.
It’s not his fault that he was confused, but he really hadn’t met the Queen Mother yet.
The main reason was that he was too young before, and Kangxi would not take him out casually. During the Chinese New Year last year, Kangxi wanted to take him to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager was sick again at that time. She was worried that her young grandson would catch the disease, so she directly refused Kangxi.
When Yinqi saw his puzzled expression, he remembered that he had not yet met the Royal Mother.
The Queen Mother hasn't been sick recently, but she's old and not in good spirits. Yinqi is worried about her, so he often goes to the palace to visit her.
"You shouldn't have anything to do, why don't you go with fifth brother?" Yinqi said.
Cheng An nodded: "Yeah."
A moment later, the two brothers arrived at the Queen Mother's palace.
Yinqi grew up beside the Queen Mother, so naturally they had a special bond. When the Queen Mother saw him coming over, she smiled lovingly, "Who is that in your arms?"
Yinqi was very relaxed in front of the Queen Mother. He held the person in his arms, bowed, and walked to her side with a smile: "This is Cheng'an."
After saying that, he lowered his head and coaxed Cheng An, "Cheng An calls me Royal Mama."
"Ma...Ma." Cheng'an looked at the kind-looking empress dowager in front of him and said in a baby voice.
When the Queen Mother learned that Yinqi was holding her grandson, she immediately waved and said, "Good boy, let the Queen Mother take a good look at him."
Upon hearing this, Yinqi gently placed his younger brother in his arms in front of her.
Cheng'an was not afraid of strangers. He looked up and looked into the empress dowager's eyes with his clear round eyes.
The Queen Mother's eyes were already blurry. She looked at him closely for a while before she smiled and praised Yinqi, "This child is even more handsome than your ninth brother when he was a child."
The old man liked such a beautiful and smart child. After letting him sit next to him, he immediately asked someone to bring him some snacks.
"Hello, Mama~" Cheng An saw the snacks, said something sweet to her and then started eating the snacks.
The Queen Mother remembered that he had just celebrated the one-year-old ceremony a few days ago, and seeing that he could speak so well, she couldn't help but praise Yinqi again.
Yinqi also thought that his younger brother was smart and nodded in agreement with her.
After the praised little fellow took two bites of the snack, he saw that his brother and mama didn't eat it, so he raised the snack he had gnawed off and said, "Brother, eat it~"
"Brother doesn't want to eat it, Cheng'an can eat it by himself." Seeing that he was going to share some with him, Yinqi smiled.
The little guy was quite sensitive to people's emotions. Although this was his first time meeting the Queen Mother, he could feel her love and kindness for him. In addition, the snacks were given by her, so when he saw his brother didn't eat, he raised his hand to the other side and said, "Ma Ma, eat it~"
"What a good boy." Seeing how sensible he was, the Queen Mother patted his head and then took a piece of dessert and put it in his other hand. "Mammy will eat it later, you eat first."
Seeing that they were not eating, Cheng An continued to eat happily with a piece of dessert in each hand.
Seeing how happily he was eating, the Queen Mother's smile became even kinder. When he finished one piece and started to eat the second piece, she took another piece from the plate and handed it to him.
Liu Cai, who was waiting on the side, saw this scene and looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
It would be easy for him to say this to someone else, but he found it difficult to speak in front of the Queen Mother.
Fortunately, although Yinqi did not visit his younger brother as often as his other brothers, he had heard about some of the rules that the emperor's father had for him, so when the empress dowager was about to give him the fourth piece of dessert, he quickly said, "Empress dowager, the emperor's father only allows Cheng'an to have three pieces of dessert a day."
Maybe all old people are like this. They are close to their grandchildren, and when they see their grandchildren like something, they want to let them eat as much as they can.
"The snacks here are easy to digest, so what's the harm in eating one more piece?" The Queen Mother paused for a moment as she took the snacks, but when she saw that her little grandson was eating so happily, she took another piece for him.
This is true. The Empress Dowager is old, and her diet is quite similar to Cheng'an in some aspects. Both are light and easy to digest.
The little guy can now count as many numbers as his fingers. When he saw another piece of snack appear in front of him after he finished eating three pieces of snack today, surprise instantly appeared in his dark eyes.
At his age, it was impossible to expect him to have self-control. Basically, after making sure that the snack in grandma's hand was for him, he took it and continued to eat.
Seeing him take a big bite, the Queen Mother thought it was cute but also felt that Kangxi was too strict. She couldn't help but say, "Next time you want to eat snacks, come to the Queen Mother."
"Yeah." Cheng'an nodded while biting a snack, and felt that this mama was as good as his mother.
The way the little guy ate was so adorable that the empress dowager, who had no appetite, even ate a piece of snack.
After Cheng'an finished the fourth piece of dessert, although his stomach was full, he was still a little greedy.
Seeing that her little grandson was still staring at the snacks on the table after finishing his meal, the soft-hearted queen mother reached out her hand again.
He was the one who brought the person here, and Yinqi didn't want anything to happen. Otherwise, not only would the Emperor not forgive him, but his fourth brother and the others would also blame him.
"Thank you, Royal Madam." Yinqi took the snacks she had just picked up, and then quickly picked up the plates on the table and asked someone to clear them away.
The little grandson is a treasure, and the grandson raised by oneself is certainly not weed. After the empress dowager scolded him, she finally gave up feeding the little grandson.
After the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren finished their snacks, a notification came from outside the door, saying that Yin'e and others were coming.
"It's really lively here today." The queen mother said with a smile when she heard another grandson coming, and then she quickly let them in.
The four people who came were Yin'e, Yin'er, Yinsi and Yinzhen. After they came in, the hall looked lively.
After the four of them paid their respects to the Queen Mother, they looked at the little guy sitting next to her.
They came to see him in the first place, and when they heard that he was in the Empress Dowager's palace, they simply came to pay their respects.
"Brothers!" Seeing his brothers coming, Cheng An immediately jumped down from his seat to find them.
"Brother Cheng'an!" Yin'e thought of the last time he saw him, he was asleep, so he reached out and hugged him in his arms, cherishing him.
Cheng An was shaken by him and laughed, and imitated his tone while laughing: "An An da brother~"
Hearing his babyish voice, everyone in the hall smiled.
"Let me hold you." Yinzhen hadn't seen his younger brother since the day of the one-year-old ceremony. Seeing Yin'e holding him tightly, he directly grabbed him into his arms.
The Queen Mother sat at the top and looked at the affectionate scene between the brothers, her smile becoming more kind.
After the brothers took turns holding Cheng'an, Yin'e looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Madam, I have prepared a small gift for Cheng'an. Can I have it with you?"
"What is it? Take it out and let me see it." The Queen Mother said with interest.
After getting permission, Yin'e ordered someone to bring in the things he had brought.
It was a rather large bag, and Yinqi couldn't help but reveal a curious expression when he saw it.
"This is what Cheng'an wanted. I specially asked someone to make it for him." Yin'e took the package and started to unpack it himself.
When Cheng'an heard his name, he came to him curiously and looked at him.
After a while, the bundle was opened, and Yin'e took out a piece of clothing that was a little strange for the time being.
"See if this is the dragon tail you want." After Yin'e took out the clothes, he held the dragon tail on the clothes and shook it in front of Cheng'an.
The last time he saw him fall asleep, he was still muttering about his tail. Yin'e thought that since he didn't have a real tail, it wouldn't be easy to make him a fake one.
At first, he asked someone to make a dragon tail for him, but after it was done, he found that a single tail would fall off easily when tied to the body, so he asked someone to sew the tail onto his pants.
After sewing the tail onto the pants, he discovered again that the tail was not easy to fall off, but the pants were easy to fall off. In the end, he made this jumpsuit with a tail.
When Cheng'an saw the dragon's tail in front of him, he cried out and rushed over to hug it.
I have to say that this dragon tail made by a dozen Jiangnan embroiderers is very delicate, and because of its size, it is even more cute.
Seeing that he liked it, Yin'e smiled and said, "Come, Brother Shi will help you put it on and try it on."
The little fellow opened his hands cooperatively, and soon Yin'e took off his coat with clumsy movements and put on the dragon tail coat in his hand.
The whole set of dragon tail robe is in goose yellow color, and the embroidery is made of gold thread. It looks like a normal robe from the front, but if you look closely, you will find that the whole robe is actually connected to the trousers, but a layer of hem is sewn from the waist to cover the trousers, so it looks quite normal at first glance.
But if you look at it from the back, you will find that there is no hem at all, but a dragon-shaped tail with some faint dragon scales embroidered on the back with gold thread.
After Cheng An put on the clothes, he reached out and touched the tail behind him, feeling extremely excited.
Yin'e, who originally thought that Yin'e had nothing to do, now had to admit that this strange-looking clothes looked quite interesting on the little guy.
"Where did this little dragon come from?" Yinzhen also found it interesting and deliberately reached out to grab his tail.
When Cheng'an discovered this, he immediately covered his tail and ran away.
As he ran, the Queen Mother saw him wearing the dragon tail robe and couldn't help laughing. She pointed at Yin'e and said, "You're so smart."
After Cheng'an ran away from Yinzhen, the more he looked at his tail, the happier he became, and he simply ran around the palace.
Seeing his excited look, Yin'e immediately felt that his efforts were not in vain.
As he ran around the hall with his little tail wagging, the atmosphere suddenly became lively, and every time he ran past, the older brothers couldn't help but reach out to try to grab his tail.
When Yinsi saw his brother screaming in fear, he originally did not participate, but when he saw his cute appearance, he couldn't control his hands.
"ah--"
Seeing that the starling also started to try to grab his tail, Cheng An covered his tail and ran faster.
The others were just sitting on their chairs playing catch, but Yinzhen was even more bored and even stood up and started chasing after them.
The Queen Mother sat at the top and watched the brothers playing. She rarely felt that it was noisy, but instead she had a smile on her face the whole time.
When she saw her little grandson screaming in fear, she finally couldn't help but say, "Cheng'an, come to the Royal Madam, and see which of them dares to catch you."
When Cheng An heard her words, he immediately covered his tail and ran towards her.
Sure enough, when he passed the Empress Dowager, Yinzhen stopped chasing him.
Just when the little guy showed a smug expression to his brothers, he suddenly found that his tail was still caught by someone. He looked in the direction of the hand on his tail and found that it was - Mama!
The Queen Mother didn't really want to do that, but when she saw him running towards her with his tail covered, she reached out her hand unconsciously.
"Hahaha……"
Seeing that he was still caught, Yinzhen laughed so hard that his stomach hurt a little.
The other princes didn't laugh out loud like him, but they all couldn't suppress the smiles on their faces.
"Ma?" Cheng An showed a slightly aggrieved expression.
The Queen Mother quickly released her hand and said, "Mammy just wanted to see if your tail had been pulled down by your brothers."
Perhaps because her expression was sincere and she loosened her grip quickly, the little guy finally believed her and shook his tail with his two little hands and said, "No."
Seeing that he was so easy to coax, Yinzhen waved his hand and said, "I think your tail is about to fall off. Come here and let me help you take a look."
The little guy ran over subconsciously, but was stopped by Yin'e halfway and hugged to him: "Don't go, have you forgotten that he wanted to grab your tail just now?"
"Tenth brother, you just caught him!" Yinzhen said unhappily.
Yin'e said with a bit of pride in his tone: "This is a gift from me to him."
Hearing this, Cheng An also remembered that this was a gift from his tenth brother, so he put his arm around his neck and said, "Hello, brother~"
"It's enough to know that Tenth Brother treats you well." Yin'e rubbed his face with his chin happily.
After all, the Empress Dowager was old, and the princes did not dare to stay with her for too long. When they saw that she looked a little tired, they all said goodbye.
Before they left, the Queen Mother looked at her little grandson a few more times and asked someone to bring out a gift for him before letting them go.
After coming out of the Empress Dowager's Palace, Cheng'an was still excited and ran in the front alone.
As the little guy in the jumpsuit starts running, his tail starts to swing left and right. He looks so cute from behind.
Not to mention Yinsi and the others, even the eunuchs and maids in the palace couldn't help but take a few more glances at the little prince when they saw him passing by.
"Tenth brother, how did you think of making this for him?" Yinzhen couldn't help asking as he looked at the lively little figure in front of him.
When Yin'e saw him asking, he smiled and told him the last time he was summoned into the palace by Kangxi.
Yinzhen knew about this on the same day. After all, he was the one who helped find those Jiangnan embroiderers. However, he didn't take it seriously until the clothes were worn by Cheng'an.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that this piece of clothing was quite suitable for children to wear, and perhaps someone could make some similar ones and open a shop to sell them.
"You think you're a dragon and you need a tail?" Yinzhen found it a little funny, but at the same time he was confused, "If you didn't say that, who else would tell him such a lie?"
"No, Yinzhen, what do you mean by that?" Yin'e felt unhappy because he felt that his words implied that he was the only one who was so boring.
Yinzhen immediately waved his hand to deny: "I don't mean that at all."
"Brother~"
While the two were talking, Cheng'an turned around and ran over. Yin'e immediately had no time to pay attention to Yinzhen, but bent down and picked up the little guy who ran to him.
"Stop running, your head is sweating." Yin'e noticed this immediately after he picked the person up.
Although it's not June yet, the weather has already started to get a little hot.
After Yinsi wiped the little guy's face with a handkerchief, he said, "This clothing is a bit thick, we should go back and change it for him."
In order to support the tail at the back, the material would be easily deformed if it was too thin, so the material here was a little thick. Even if it was still breathable, Cheng An would still feel hot if he ran around wearing it.
After Yin'e nodded, he remembered that his ninth brother seemed to have a fan, so he said, "Ninth brother, bring your fan to Cheng'an."
The fan on Yinzhen's body is an antique fan that he recently acquired. He usually plays with it and has rarely used it for fanning himself.
After hearing Yin'e's words, Yin'er gave him a sidelong glance but still took out the fan.
Yinsi reached out to take it, opened the fan and gently fanned Cheng'an.
Feeling the breeze blowing towards him, Cheng An felt a little comfortable and smiled at his brother with his eyes curved.
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