Cheng'an said he wanted to set off fireworks. He was very excited before he started, but when he got the fire starter and was really ready to light the fireworks, he slowed down.
"Tenth brother, let me show you one first!" After saying that, Yin'e took the fire starter from his hand and ran over quickly to light a firework.
Whoosh—Bang—
As the fireworks rose into the sky, the dark sky suddenly lit up.
"Brother Shi is so awesome~" The little guy looked up and admired his brother's fireworks while clapping for him.
When Yin'e heard what he said, he immediately showed him another one.
"I want to set off fireworks, too. I want to set them off, too!" The little guy felt that setting off fireworks was not that difficult, so he said immediately.
Yinreng took a step forward, took his hand and said, "Second brother will go with you."
"Okay." The little guy said, and reached out to take the fire starter from Yin'e's hand.
Yin'e: "Remember to run away immediately after ordering."
"Got it~"
The little guy held his brother's hand with one hand and held a lighter with the other hand to light the fireworks.
"You didn't light it." Seeing that he wanted to run away just by shaking the fire stick close to him, Yinreng reminded him with a smile, bent down, held his little hand, led him to light the fireworks together, then immediately picked him up and stepped back a few steps.
Whoosh—Bang—
"Brother, look!" When the little guy saw the fireworks he set off rising into the sky, the smile on his face was brighter than the fireworks.
The brothers admired the fireworks he set off and praised him for his skill.
Next, the little guy became more and more courageous. At first, he needed his brother to accompany him, but later he dared to run up and set off fireworks by himself.
As the fireworks continued to shoot up into the sky, half of the dark sky was illuminated, making people feel festive and lively.
“It’s really fun~”
The little guy was so happy that after playing for a while he suddenly turned around and ran towards Kangxi who was not far away.
Kangxi saw him coming, lowered his head slightly, and saw him holding his hand and starting to pull it.
"Come on, Dad, I'll take you to set off the fireworks!" said the little guy while pulling him.
Kangxi saw the bright smile on his face, and after he pulled hard, he finally cooperated and stood up.
The brothers didn't expect that the little guy would pull the emperor over to set off the fireworks. They were more worried than when the little guy was playing by himself just now.
After all, although the little guy is young, he can run quite agilely, while the emperor is old, and it would be a big deal if he gets bumped into something.
"Father, I'll pull you and we'll run together later~" Cheng'an pulled his father to the fireworks and said to him.
Seeing that he was still telling him the truth, Kangxi raised his hand and gently pinched his little face.
“Run, run!”
After the little guy stepped forward to light the fireworks, he immediately pulled Kangxi to run together.
A group of brothers who didn't set off fireworks were running around, ready to lend a hand at any time.
Fortunately, the little guy was quite experienced after playing for a while, and no accidents occurred after the fireworks went up into the sky.
"Dad, look, these are the fireworks we set off. Aren't they very beautiful?" the little guy said, looking up.
After watching the fireworks, Kangxi nodded slightly to him, accompanied him to set off two more times, and then signaled him to go and play with the princes.
Amid the brilliant fireworks, the New Year’s Eve palace banquet came to an end, also announcing the end of the year.
On the first day of the new year, Kangxi woke up at dawn as usual.
But today was different from usual. The first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to reach out and gently push the little guy beside him.
"Cheng'an, Cheng'an wake up."
It was still a little cold at this time. In weather like this, the little guy likes to sleep in the most. He didn't open his eyes when he was called, but turned over and curled up in the quilt to continue sleeping.
Kangxi had guessed that it would not be so easy to wake him up. Seeing that he had buried his face in the quilt, he reached out to pull the quilt down and continued to call him.
After he kept calling her for a while, the little one with a red face finally responded. She rubbed her eyes and asked in a baby voice, "What's wrong, Ama?"
Every morning when he woke up, Kangxi was probably the most patient with him, because the little guy who just woke up looked so well-behaved.
"Have you forgotten what your father said to you last night?" Kangxi said, rubbing his head.
Cheng An blinked his eyes, trying to wake himself up while thinking back, and finally remembered what he said last night: "I remember, my father said that I would go to the Shangshufang to study today."
The little guy who just woke up looks very cute and his voice is very soft.
"It's good that you remember. Get up quickly." Kangxi thought that in the blink of an eye he would also be old enough to go to school, and the look in his eyes revealed a gentleness that he himself did not notice.
"But I'm sleepy and want to sleep..."
After the little guy finished speaking, he yawned, and a thin mist appeared in his dark eyes, obviously he hadn't gotten enough sleep.
Last night was New Year's Eve, so I inevitably went to bed late. It is normal for the little one to feel sleepy as he already sleeps a lot.
Kangxi hesitated when he thought of this, but considering that this was his first day at school and it would be bad to be late, he said, "Get up first. If you are really sleepy, take a nap after lunch."
"Father, can you please let me sleep a little longer? Please..."
The little guy didn't want to get up, so he turned over and hugged him and his eyes closed automatically after he finished acting coquettishly.
Seeing that he was really still very sleepy, Kangxi finally did not have the heart to pick him up directly. Instead, he decided to get up and pack up before calling him.
However, Kangxi underestimated the little guy's ability to stay in bed. By the time he changed into his dragon robe, it became even more difficult to wake the little guy up who had fallen asleep again.
After all, the weather was still cold, and Kangxi did not dare to lift the quilt directly to prevent the little one from catching a cold. Therefore, in the end, he could do nothing about the little one who was curled up in the quilt.
He still had to go to court, so he didn't have much time to waste on waking the little guy up. In the end, he could only instruct Liu Cai and others to wake him up as soon as possible and send him to the Shangshufang, while he went to the morning court first.
After Kangxi left, Liu Cai and others became the ones who had to worry about it.
It goes without saying that if Kangxi couldn’t even wake up the little guy, how could Liu Cai and the others possibly do it.
So, until Kangxi came back from court, the little guy was still lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
Kangxi stood by the bed, looking at the bulge in the quilt. For some reason he was not surprised at all.
He sighed almost imperceptibly, then sat down on the bed and hugged the little thing in his arms. He pulled the little head out from under the quilt and pinched the little guy's rosy face. "It's already daybreak, why don't you get up?"
"Ama~"
When Cheng'an heard the familiar voice, he called out softly without even opening his eyes, and Kangxi, who was already a little unhappy, didn't want to argue with him anymore.
"You are late on the first day of school. Be careful or your teacher will hit your hands." Kangxi threatened him when he saw that he didn't open his eyes and seemed to be ready to continue sleeping in his arms.
"Don't hit my hand!"
When the little guy heard the words "slap on the hand", he immediately opened his eyes and retorted.
"Then why don't you get dressed and go to the Shangshufang to study." Kangxi said and motioned him to get up quickly.
After a while, the little guy washed up and put on new clothes and shoes. He looked very energetic.
"Come on, follow me to the Shangshufang."
As soon as Kangxi finished speaking, the little guy immediately said, "But I haven't had breakfast yet!"
"Who told you to sleep in? If you dare to do so again tomorrow, you will go hungry."
After Kangxi finished speaking, he ordered someone to bring breakfast up quickly and told him to eat quickly.
The breakfast specially prepared for the little guy in the imperial kitchen was all his favorite food. He ate quite fast, but he couldn't eat impatiently, so it still took quite some time.
Normally, Kangxi didn't feel anything, but today, thinking that he had been studying for so long, he couldn't help but urge him: "Eat quickly."
"Dad, didn't you tell me before that we should chew our food slowly and not eat too fast?" the little guy looked up at him and said.
Seeing that he had stopped to talk, Kangxi picked up the bowl of porridge in front of him and started feeding him.
The little guy was eager for him to feed him, and he opened his mouth wide and started eating with a loud noise.
He had just finished the remaining porridge. Kangxi put down the bowl and wiped his mouth with a handkerchief. Then he let him rinse his mouth with tea and took him out directly.
"Ama, what are you in such a hurry for?"
Kangxi ignored him for the time being, and only after he took him to sit on the imperial sedan chair did he poke his forehead and said, "How dare you say that? Today is the day you go to study, but you are not in a hurry at all."
"Why is there such a rush to study? The books won't run away." Cheng An rubbed his forehead and glanced at him with a look of confusion.
Kangxi said angrily: "The gourd chicken will not run away, why are you in such a hurry to eat?"
"If you don't eat the cuckoo chicken quickly, it will get cold, and it won't taste as good when it's cold."
Kangxi was too lazy to say more to him, so he held him in front of him and said, "Go to the Shangshufang and study hard. If any teacher tells me that you are not serious..."
He didn't finish the rest of his words, but they contained a warning.
"I understand." The little guy met his serious expression and nodded obediently.
When the father and son arrived at the study, the class had already started.
After Kangxi came over, everyone in the Shangshufang saluted him together.
The little guy was no stranger to the Shangshufang. As soon as he came over, he smiled at his brothers.
"No need for formalities." Kangxi said, and after giving a few instructions to the Manchu master, he left.
After Kangxi left, the Manchu teacher gestured for the little guy to sit at the desk in the middle of the first row and then continued the class.
The little guy sat seriously in the study room. He felt quite fresh and couldn't help looking around.
He looked at Master Manwen, then turned to look at his brothers who were sitting there. When he turned around again, he suddenly saw a familiar face outside the window and immediately smiled.
Kangxi came out of the room and did not go back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity immediately because he wanted to see how he was doing. Seeing that he was not listening to the class carefully and was looking around, he glanced at him with a serious expression.
The little guy noticed that he was unhappy, so he quickly turned his head back and put on a serious look.
Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese are not unfamiliar to Cheng'an. His brothers have been consciously teaching him since he was two or three years old, especially Mongolian. Since he often uses it to communicate with the empress dowager, he speaks it very fluently.
Reading is a very boring thing. The little guy listened attentively for a while and couldn't help but turn his head to look towards the window.
When he found that Kangxi had left through the window, he looked obviously disappointed.
Reading is not fun at all...
After a while, the little guy became a little restless, but when he thought of the emperor's instructions and saw that his master was reading the contents of the book very seriously, he finally did not move around.
The morning classes basically consisted of reading a lot, either with the teacher leading the reading, or reading by myself with a book in hand. In short, I read over and over again until I felt dizzy.
The little guy finally waited until Master Manwen left, but he didn't even have the energy to turn around and play with his brother, and just lay down on the desk.
However, the four of Yin Yi immediately stood up and surrounded him, asking with concern, "What happened to Cheng An?"
"Studying is not fun at all." The little guy looked up and said to his brother.
Yin Yi reached out and rubbed his head, reminding him: "Don't say this in front of the Emperor."
Nine-year-old Yinqi agreed with the little guy's words, but after three years he had realized that it was impossible not to study, so he could only open his arms and hug his only brother and comfort him: "It's okay, you have your twenty-third brother to accompany you, you will get used to it."
The little guy hugged his brother with his backhand, looked up and blinked his eyes and asked: "Can I not study?"
"If it were possible, your twenty-third brother would have stopped studying long ago." Yinhu said.
Yin Qi really didn't like studying, but he was still unhappy to hear him say that in front of his brother, "Twenty-second brother, you are the same!"
Yin Yi is already sixteen years old, and he continues to study in the Shangshufang because he has not yet received an assignment. Compared with Yin Qi and the others, he is obviously much more mature. Seeing that the little guy doesn't want to study, he pulls him in front of him and talks to him and coaxes him.
"Everyone needs to study. My eldest brother and his friends also studied in the Shangshufang, which is why they are so powerful now..."
Yin Yi had just finished coaxing the little guy when Master Hanwen came over again, so everyone quickly returned to their respective places.
As soon as Master Hanwen came in, he noticed the little guy sitting in the front row and couldn't help but look at him more.
The little guy was polite. When he noticed his gaze, he immediately smiled back.
The fair and tender little guy is even more adorable when he smiles. Facing his smile, the serious-looking Master Han Wen's expression remains unchanged, but there is a hint of fondness in his eyes.
As a teacher, the best way to express love is to try to teach him more things. So in the Chinese class, the little guy received the most attention from the teacher.
You know, when Cheng'an was a child, he fell asleep by listening to his father and brothers reading "zhihuzheya" books. Now, it was quite good that he did not fall asleep while listening to the Chinese teacher reading, not to mention that he had to follow along.
Fortunately, he has a good memory. Regardless of the meaning, at least he can remember the general content after the master teaches him once.
On the other hand, Kangxi was rarely distracted when handling government affairs, and he couldn't help but think about the little guy's situation in the Shangshufang.
I don't know if he studied seriously...
Kangxi thought about how he could not sit still for long when asked to read or write on weekdays, and was a little worried that he would run out of the Shangshufang in the middle of reading.
It shouldn't be that bold.
Kangxi remembered what he had told him when he sent him to the Shangshufang, and shook his head to dismiss the idea.
Near noon, Kangxi could not resist any more and came to the Shangshufang again, under the pretext of testing the brothers' homework. In fact, he was still worried about the little ones who were on their first day of school.
Kangxi had come to the Shangshufang to test the princes at this time before, so no one was very surprised by his arrival, but Yinqi and others couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
The little guy's eyes lit up when he saw him, and he immediately rushed over and hugged him.
"Stand up straight." Kangxi felt that he had already started studying and could no longer act like a child and do whatever he wanted, so his tone was more serious.
The little guy hugged him hard again before retreating, but then he took his hand and shook it gently, saying: "Ama, I miss you so much~"
Never mind. Today is his first day of school after all, so he needs to adapt slowly.
Kangxi originally wanted to pull his hand away, but after hearing his soft voice, he finally softened his heart. He ignored him holding his hand and looked at Master Hanwen.
Master Hanwen had long heard how favored this young prince was, but he was still a little surprised to see the father and son getting along like ordinary father and son, or even closer.
He had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but his expression didn't change as he told Kangxi about the brothers' recent study situation one by one. At the end, he praised the little guy, saying that he had a very good memory.
Kangxi didn't expect that the little guy who had been becoming more and more disobedient recently could receive praise from his master, and his mood immediately improved.
However, despite his good mood, he still continued to test the brothers one by one.
After all, Yinyi was older in the Shangshufang, so he answered the questions raised by Kangxi very well.
Although Kangxi did not show it on his face, he was quite satisfied with his son in his heart. He thought that he could take on an assignment and set up his own government outside the palace.
He then tested Yinxi, Yinhu and Yinqi. The performance of the first two was okay, but Kangxi was not so satisfied with the answers of the latter.
It was the little fellow’s first day of school, so Kangxi didn’t need to test him yet.
However, when he saw that Ama had forgotten about him after asking his brothers, he took the initiative to say, "And me, Ama, you haven't asked me yet!"
Kangxi had never seen anyone who would voluntarily ask to be tested, so he looked down at him and said, "Then read the Thousand Character Classic once."
“The sky and earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast and ancient…” The little fellow recited it fluently while shaking his head.
The Chinese teacher thought that he read the Thousand Character Classic very well and couldn't help but nod slightly.
"Not bad." When Kangxi saw that he had finished reading, he looked at him expectantly. After praising him casually, he gave the princes a few words of scolding as usual.
When Kangxi was about to leave the Shangshufang, he saw the little guy beside him following him as a matter of course.
Kangxi looked down at him, thinking that it was almost time for lunch, and finally said nothing and took him away.
"Ama, I'm so tired!"
As soon as he got on the imperial carriage, the little guy threw himself into Kangxi's arms and leaned on him like a boneless person.
Perhaps Yinyi's reminder was useful, as he did not dare to say directly that studying was tiring or whether he could stop studying.
"What's so tiring about sitting and studying?" Kangxi thought he was just trying to act like a spoiled child, so he patted his little butt and asked, "Did you study well this morning?"
"Yes." The little guy nodded in his arms.
"What did the master teach you?"
The little fellow with a good memory directly read to him the book that his master had read before.
"That's right. You can have half a gourd chicken at noon."
Compared with the previous time in the Shangshufang, Kangxi's praise this time was more serious.
The little guy, who was a little listless, immediately became energetic when he heard that there would be cuckoo chicken for lunch.
"Really? Ama you are so nice!"
"As long as you study hard, Dad will have someone prepare whatever you want to eat." Kangxi knew him well and knew that if he didn't give him some rewards, this little guy would definitely not be able to persist.
After all, today is the little guy's first day of reading. Kangxi and the teachers are not very strict with him, so it is a little boring. But the little guy has not yet experienced the hardship of getting up before dawn to read a hundred and twenty times.
So when the little guy heard Kangxi's promise, he immediately nodded happily and agreed: "I will definitely study hard~"
"So good."
Kangxi patted his head with satisfaction, thinking that he had to go to the Yushe Palace to learn riding and archery in the afternoon, so he immediately ordered someone to serve him meal as soon as he returned to the Qianqing Palace.
As expected, lunch included gourd chicken and many other dishes that the little ones liked, such as squirrel mandarin fish and lipu taro.
“It’s delicious~”
The little guy took a bite of cuckoo chicken, a bite of fish, and a bite of lipu taro, and he was eating happily.
Seeing how happily he ate, Kangxi felt better and fed him some soup while he ate.
While eating, Kangxi was still thinking in his mind that he would let him continue to live with him for half a month, and then let him move to the prince's residence after he got used to studying in the Shangshufang.
He had wanted to prepare a separate residence for the little guy before, but the little guy refused every time he mentioned it. At the end of last year, he simply ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to renovate the prince's residence and clean up the best courtyard. He thought that with Yinqi and the others there to keep him company, he should be able to coax the little guy to move there when the time comes.
As for the candidate for study companion, he should be chosen as soon as possible.
Kangxi thought that if he was disobedient in the Shangshufang, he would not really beat him, so he decided not to pick him anymore and to find a study partner for him as soon as possible.
Cheng'an had no idea what he was thinking and was still happily eating the cuckoo chicken.
After lunch, the little guy, who was full and satisfied, sat on the bed and started playing contentedly.
"Are you going to the Yushe Hall by yourself or should I send you there?" Kangxi asked after he sat down and rested for a while.
Having spent the entire morning in the Shangshufang, the little guy now just wants to stay in the Qianqing Palace and play.
But he had just promised his father that he would study hard, so he looked up and said, "But I haven't slept yet!"
Kangxi didn’t think there was anything wrong with his afternoon nap before, but now it gave him a headache.
"Then go to sleep."
Finally, Kangxi decided to let him take a short rest before going to the Sunshot Palace, so that he would not be exhausted in the afternoon.
The little guy wasn't actually sleepy, but he would rather sleep than go to the shooting hall right now, so he lay down obediently.
Kangxi had someone bring a quilt to cover him and then sat beside him to read a book, obviously preparing to wake him up himself later.
Inside the bed, the little guy curled up in the quilt had his eyes closed, but he was not asleep. He was secretly playing with his little hands in the quilt.
Kangxi hadn't finished reading a page of the book when he suddenly noticed the quilt seemed to move slightly. He immediately took the book and gently slapped it on the quilt: "If you don't want to sleep, get up."
When the little guy saw that he was discovered, he quickly put his hands down and fell asleep after a while.
Normally, he could take a nap for most of the afternoon without anyone waking him up, but today that was obviously not possible.
In less than two quarters of an hour, Kangxi put down his book and woke him up personally.
"Ama..." The little guy, who was a little sleepy, rubbed his eyes and called him.
"It's time to go to the shooting hall."
After Kangxi finished speaking, he saw that he was not fully awake yet, so he had someone wipe his face, wrapped him in a cloak and carried him directly onto the imperial sedan chair.
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