Cheng'an tilted his head and looked at Yinzhen for a while, then suddenly dropped the small ball made of gold thread in his hand and crawled towards him.
Kangxi was still talking on the throne, and Liang Jiugong couldn't move. He found that Kangxi was starting to get up again, so he winked at the eunuch guarding the door.
However, this time Cheng'an did not crawl towards the door, but went straight towards Yinzhen.
It wasn't that he recognized the other person as his fourth brother, but he inexplicably felt that Yinzhen looked very close and was unconsciously attracted to him.
Yinzhen was listening attentively to Kangxi's instructions until he heard the hem of his clothes being pulled and he subconsciously lowered his head.
After Cheng An crawled to his feet, he grabbed the hem of his clothes and tried to stand up. However, the hem of his clothes was soft and difficult to use as leverage. He tried twice but failed.
Seeing him looking at him, Cheng An stopped trying and instead smiled and opened his arms towards him.
Yinzhen's reputation as the Cold-Faced King was not earned for nothing. Normally, some ministers did not dare to get close to him, and even his several brothers in the mansion were quite timid in front of him.
This time he was not afraid of him approaching him and was smiling so happily. Yinzhen thought he was quite brave.
But come to think of it, when it comes to majesty, who can compare to the Emperor? He is so comfortable next to the Emperor, and even treats the imperial study as a place to play, which shows that he is not a timid person.
While Yinzhen was thinking about these things, Cheng'an, who had raised his hand and waited for a while, had lost his patience, so he tried to climb up by himself holding his legs.
The feeling of the soft little body falling on his legs startled Yinzhen so much that his body froze. Then he saw that his body was trembling and he couldn't stand steadily. Without caring about anything else for a moment, he quickly bent down and picked him up.
The way he held the child was not much better than Yin'e's during the baby's baptism ceremony; his movements were careful and a little stiff.
Yinzhen was standing relatively close to the front, blocked by the dragon table. At first, Kangxi didn't notice that Cheng'an had crawled to him. He only reacted when Cheng'an was picked up.
"Why did Cheng'an go to your fourth brother?" The political affairs had just been discussed, and Kangxi's tone became more relaxed after seeing this scene.
"I'm sorry, son." Although he came over on his own, Yinzhen always felt it was inappropriate to hold a child in a place like the imperial study.
"He is your brother, how can it be rude?" Kangxi waved his hand nonchalantly, and found it quite amusing to see the stiff look on his face when he held the child.
This son had a bad temper when he was young. Ever since he was scolded by himself for being "moody", he has become introverted. No matter how difficult the tasks assigned to him are, he can complete them very well. It is rare to see him in this state.
Kangxi smiled slightly, and did not ask him to put Cheng'an down. However, he could not smile the next second, because -
"G...ah...brother..."
Cheng'an had been looking for his brothers recently, and when he heard Kangxi's words, he realized that the person who made him feel so close was his fourth brother, and he waved his hands excitedly.
Hearing him utter the word "brother" from vague to clear, Yinzhen was shocked and an indescribable emotion surged in his heart.
When he was young, Yinzhen always dreamed of becoming an elder brother, so he once tried to control the lawless ninth and tenth brothers in the palace. However, they did not appreciate it, but instead beat the dog he raised and cut its hair.
Thinking that these two brothers were not born from the same mother, Yinzhen started to stay away from them after he got angry. Until his brother Yinzhen, who was born from the same mother, was born, he and Yinzhen also became enemies. This made him doubt for a time that he was probably not suitable to be an older brother.
However, Yinzhen was not the seemingly mature boy who kept everything to himself when he was a child. In addition, he now had a close brother, the Thirteenth Prince, by his side, so he quickly came to his senses and responded lightly, "Yeah."
He could remain calm, but Kangxi could not. After all, the child he had raised for several months could only call "Ama" "Ah ah", but he started calling "brother" without any instruction. Who could stand this?
Kangxi couldn't stand this humiliation anyway, so he immediately stood up and walked down from behind the dragon case: "Good boy Cheng'an, I taught you to call me Emperor Father but you didn't know how to do it, but now I can call you Father very smoothly!"
Upon hearing this, Yinzhen subconsciously lowered his head and looked into his arms. When he met his bright and somewhat intimate smile, he felt a little happy in his heart.
"Father Emperor, Cheng'an is still young..."
After all, he was his younger brother, and a close brother to him. Seeing that Kangxi looked unhappy, Yinzhen opened his mouth to speak for him, but was interrupted before he could finish.
"I'm not talking to you, let him speak himself!" After saying this, Kangxi couldn't help but glare at the person who was still leaning in his brother's arms.
His brother was his biological father, and his royal father was even closer. Upon hearing his slightly annoyed voice, Cheng An immediately turned his head and smiled at him while saying, "Ah...A...Ma..."
This was the clearest cry of his in these days. Kangxi couldn't even keep a straight face when he heard it. He took him back from Yinzhen and said, "Call again."
“Ah…”
"No." Kangxi shook his head.
"Ah...Ah..."
Yinzhen was already past the age where he needed fatherly love, so he didn't have any thoughts when he saw this scene. He just suddenly felt that the Emperor was quite easy to coax, and Cheng'an's few calls of "Ama" made him smile again.
"Ama is harder to learn than brother." After hearing his son calling "Ama", Kangxi was satisfied but also looked away.
Yinzhen didn't show it on his face, but he was a little confused in his heart, but he could only say, "Your Majesty is right."
"Cheng'an learns things very quickly..." Kangxi spoke of this topic in a rather eloquent manner.
After hearing all about Cheng'an's daily life, Yinzhen felt that his younger brother was indeed very well-behaved and it was no wonder that the emperor doted on him so much.
He couldn't help but look towards Kangxi's arms, and saw the little guy also looking at him, his dark eyes full of crystal smiles.
Such an innocent smile was so contagious that Yinzhen couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips for a moment.
Only after Kangxi stopped talking did Yinzhen bow and take his leave.
After Kangxi was satisfied with his sharing, he nodded to signal them that they could leave.
“Brother…brother…”
However, when Cheng'an saw his brother was about to leave, he immediately fluttered in Kangxi's arms and reached out to pull him.
When Yinzhen heard the voice, he looked up and saw his anxious look, and couldn't help but stop.
"This kid is really close to you!" Kangxi was used to Cheng'an sticking to him instead of anyone else, so when he saw him sticking to someone else, his tone was a little jealous.
However, he will have to summon other ministers later, so it would be nice to have someone to help keep an eye on Cheng'an.
So after a while, Yinzhen carried Cheng'an from the imperial study to the side hall next to it.
Yinzhen had never interacted with his son like this when he was at home. Now he looked down at the baby sitting obediently on his lap and felt a little helpless for a moment.
Compared to him, Cheng'an, who finally found a brother, was quite happy. He was laughing the whole time and babbling.
However, for Yinzhen, apart from the word "brother", he could not understand anything else he said.
Although he was quite well behaved, it was not a good idea for him to just sit there and do nothing, so Yinzhen asked the eunuch next to him to bring him some books.
After the book was brought, Yinzhen put the baby in his arms on the soft couch and said, "Confucius said: Learn and practice it from time to time..."
Cheng'an listened with blinking eyes. Although he didn't understand why Yinzhen always read things he couldn't understand like the emperor, he acted very supportive and clapped his hands every time Yinzhen paused.
Seeing his reaction, Yinzhen thought that he was quite studious, so he continued reading.
He kept reciting and reciting, and Cheng'an, whose hands were a little tired from clapping, spread out his arms and began to lift up his little feet.
Yinzhen, who was used to reading by himself for a while, would then applaud a few times. When he found that the applause had disappeared, he turned around and saw a pair of small feet making clacking sounds.
Perhaps he didn't like the feeling of being restrained, so when he wasn't paying attention, Cheng'an liked to take off his shoes and socks. Now his socks were still on, but his tiger-head shoes had fallen to the side. Fortunately, the temperature in the hall was just right, so he didn't get cold.
When Yinzhen saw this scene, he suddenly wanted to laugh, so he really raised his lips and said, "Let's stop reading here today." After saying that, he put the book aside.
Cheng'an, who was lying on the couch, tilted his head and looked at him for a while, then rolled over and crawled to his side.
He hadn't seen how he crawled from the blanket to his front before, so now Yinzhen thought he was quite agile.
Cheng An crawled to his side and grabbed the braid behind him.
What attracted him was certainly not Yinzhen's braid, but the tassel tied on the braid.
He used very light force and did not pull, but Yinzhen was still not used to letting him play with the braid, so he untied the jade pendant from his waist and waved it in front of him.
The jade pendant worn by Prince Yong is naturally no ordinary item. It exudes a lustrous luster under the indoor light.
Cheng An, whose attention was diverted, immediately put down his braid and tried to grab the jade pendant, but he couldn't reach it.
With nothing else to do, Yinzhen simply shook the jade pendant up and down to play with him.
After Cheng An tried several times but failed to grab the jade pendant, he simply withdrew his hand and lay on his legs, tilting his head back and calling in a baby voice: "Aiya...Brother..."
Seeing that he was so impatient, Yinzhen shook his head and put the jade pendant in his hand.
He didn't stay in the side hall for too long. After Kangxi summoned a group of ministers, he came personally to pick up Cheng'an.
It was a rare occasion that his son finally learned to call "Ama", so Kangxi planned to take him back to the Qianqing Palace to deal with memorials while hearing him call him a few more times.
Although the time in the side hall was quite boring, when he really had the chance to leave, Yinzhen looked at the baby who called him "brother" in a baby voice and inexplicably felt that time had passed too quickly.
Although he thought so, he did not slow down his pace until he heard the voice of "Brother" coming from behind again, and then he stopped subconsciously.
However, after looking back, Yinzhen continued to walk out.
Cheng An didn't stop talking until he couldn't even see his back. Kangxi saw some unhappiness in his expression and couldn't help pinching his soft face: "You heartless boy!"
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