In the early morning, Qingyan woke up in Yinzhen's arms. Looking at Yinzhen's tired face, she felt a little sad.
Since the start of the campaign, Yinzhen had rarely been able to sleep soundly. He usually slept in the war room, with the twins lying side by side to his left. The family of four was finally able to reunite.
Yinzhen had been thinking that he would definitely take the twins with him on the next expedition.
As Yiken'e grew up, they needed to go out and gain experience, so they didn't have much time to enter the battlefield.
"Mother..." Yiken rubbed her right eye and called out to Qingyan in a soft, sweet voice.
"What's wrong?" Qingyan gently coaxed Yiken'e.
"Mother, has Father returned as well?" While Yiken'e and Hutulifengsheng Zhalafen were sleeping, Yinzhen was still in the study, discussing the next steps with Yitianni and others, so the two children did not see him.
“Of course, look, Father is right next to Mother.” Qingyan stepped aside, allowing Yiken’e to see Yinzhen directly.
"Father, Father, you're finally back!" Yiken happily smeared drool all over his face. Qingyan, seeing this, couldn't help but laugh.
"Yiken'e, stay with your father and sleep a little longer!" Yinzhen opened his eyes and looked at Yiken'e's chubby little body, which was lying next to him.
"Father, you're back. Does that mean I'm no longer an unwanted child?" Yiken asked, feeling wronged.
What?!
As soon as he finished speaking, Yinzhen and Qingyan were both stunned. Who would dare to gossip in front of Yiken'e?
"Who said that?" Qingyan gently coaxed Yiken'e and asked.
“It was Songkelierha’s wet nurse who said that if my father and mother were gone, I would be an unwanted child.” Yiken’e felt extremely wronged. Guoluomafa was very busy and had no time to take care of them.
The twins could only stay in the courtyard. Sometimes, Songkriyirha would quietly come over to sleep with them, which displeased her wet nurse, who said this directly.
“When she spoke, all the nannies were there, and they didn’t refute her!” Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen woke up and, upon hearing the princess’s words, felt indignant and spoke directly to her father and E Ning.
Yinzhen narrowed his eyes. They were making a fuss again. The two children were still young. If they didn't complain, would they really be ignored?
The two children are very cheerful. What will happen to them if the people around them keep saying that?
"No, we must tell my elder brother and sister-in-law about this. Your two nannies heard it too, but they didn't say anything?" Qingyan was protective of her children. She heard that her nannies hadn't said anything when they heard that her children had been talked about.
"Mm." The twins nodded.
Yinzhen got out of bed and summoned Su Peisheng, ordering him to be flogged.
"Little darling, show the children around. Today, we must make Yiken'e establish his authority!" Yinzhen said directly.
After listening to Yinzhen's arrangement, Qingyan asked Suzhu to take the twins to change their clothes.
"Fourth Brother, do twins really need a nanny by their side?" Qingyan looked at herself in the bronze mirror, feeling increasingly annoyed.
The nannies have been causing trouble behind the scenes. Since the birth of the twins, several nannies have been replaced. If anyone tries to bribe the nannies, the problem will be serious.
Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen is a key protected figure, and many young men hope to marry her. If any of these young men are prepared to bribe the nannies, these people will be of great use when Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen chooses her consort in the future.
If Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen has made up his mind about someone, Yinzhen and Qingyan will definitely compromise.
After all, parents can never control their children's thoughts.
“My dear child, Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen is getting older and needs a governess. If the prince consort does anything wrong after the marriage, the governess can help the child,” Yinzhen explained.
"Helping?! Fourth Prince, how many of the nannies among the royal women who get married are good? Many of them are just profiting from it, which is why the royal princesses and their husbands can share a room?" Qingyan remembered that most of those princesses died in despair, and how many of them were ruined by the nannies.
Emperor Kangxi was completely unaware of this and continued to send his daughters away one by one.
“At the very least, the two princesses who were sent to Mongolia for marriage alliances had good governesses!” Yinzhen was speechless upon hearing Qingyan’s statement, and could only resort to talking about the two princesses.
Qingyan pouted. If the two maids beside the princesses were good, they certainly wouldn't have let them remain childless after so many years of marriage. Is there something fishy going on here?
"What about their children?" Qingyan didn't give Yinzhen any chance to retaliate. "They don't have any children. If you think that's how the nanny treats them, then I really have nothing to say."
Qingyan felt that these princesses who were sent to marry foreign rulers had all been raised for more than ten years, and in the end, they were directly betrothed by a decree from Emperor Kangxi.
They didn't know what kind of men they were going to face, but they faced it with strength.
"Don't worry, our daughter will never be in such danger," Yinzhen said directly.
In fact, Yinzhen had also considered that Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen would definitely not fall into that dangerous situation.
"Hmph, who could know!" Qingyan truly didn't want her daughter to end up in that situation.
Every autumn, when he saw the princesses reciting the requirements of the Mongol tribes like statues, he worried about what would happen if his daughter encountered the same situation.
Yinzhen took a breath and pulled Qingyan into his arms to calm her down.
"Fourth Sister, let those nannies leave. I'll let Suzhu stay with Hutu Lifengsheng Zhalafen as her nanny!" Suzhu is the most important person in the family and has been with her for many years, so it's fine to hand her over to my daughter to teach the nannies.
"Hmm!" Yinzhen compromised. Qingyan's words made Yinzhen feel scared. If his daughter had really received such a threat, he would definitely not have given up.
Now he understood Prince Yu's feelings. However, He Xi ultimately did not fall into the hands of the Mongols, and the Empress Dowager's scheme completely failed, even leading to a quarrel with Emperor Kangxi.
The Mongols' plans were put to rest, which naturally made them unhappy, and they continued to sow discord behind the scenes.
"When we go to the courtyard later, let Yiken'e establish his authority. At Yiken'e's age, he should be in charge of his own backyard." Yinzhen remembered that when he was this age, Consort Tong had already put him in charge of his own small courtyard.
Qingyan nodded, preparing to do as Yinzhen had instructed.
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