Two days before the tide-watching event, Yin and Qingyan got up early and took the children to the villa. Behind the dike for tide-watching, there were several tall pine peaks where the royal palace and the princes' villas were built.
After the family of four arrived safely at the villa, the two children were immediately let out for a stroll. Yin and Qingyan watched the twins run into the courtyard with smiles on their faces. In Yin's arms, they held Hafeng'a, and the little guy watched the twins' figures disappear into the distance, making "ah ah ah" sounds at Qingyan.
"You brat, you never know how to speak when something happens." Qingyan had heard Hafeng call people, and could even use simple purple jade to express his meaning.
Once back with them, Hafenga never did that again, which made Yin very frustrated and made Kangxi very proud.
"Little darling, no wonder Father Emperor likes him so much, he's such a little devil!" Yin was also helpless. His wife had mentioned their youngest son, but the little guy wasn't scared at all. He just snuggled into his arms and didn't want to pay any attention to Qingyan.
Qingyan watched as his son played with the rope behind Yin's braid in Yin's arms, drooling directly onto the collar of Yin's brocade court robe, but Yin didn't seem to care at all.
"Let's go to the back garden first. Those two little guys must be in the back garden!" Yin said helplessly.
Qingyan followed Yin to the back, and before they even entered the garden, they heard the sound of arguing. Yin frowned, wondering who dared to yell at the young masters.
"You two little brats, where did you come from? Is this a place for you to enter?" A maid in her early twenties stood with her hands on her hips, addressing the twins.
After Yin and Qingyan entered the garden, they asked Su Peisheng to find the steward. The twins, needing to use the restroom, immediately put on the clothes they had worn the day before, which were all made of cotton.
Aside from the jade pendant at her waist, Yiken had no other items that symbolized her status, and Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen wore only a headdress made of velvet flowers, with nothing else of value.
The maidservant spoke louder and louder, completely unaware of the doorway, and the favors she had made were still not returned.
"Ah Hun, who is this person? I don't know her. Why do we need a maid to make decisions in our household?" Hutu Lifengsheng Zhalafen looked at the maid in front of her and found it very strange.
"Don't you know that the Fourth Prince is coming soon? You servants' children are no longer allowed to come in!" The maid said, as if she were in the right.
Seeing that the twins weren't moving at all, Yin simply sat down in a corridor. Behind them, the head steward was summoned by Su Peisheng. The head steward immediately knelt on the ground. This was his niece, yet she was ordering the little bamboo shoots around like that. He, as the person in charge, had really gone too far.
"Truly lacking in manners!" Yiken clapped his hands, and two men in black appeared instantly. The servant girl froze, as if struck by a pressure point, and dared not utter a word. "I was wondering what kind of audacity she was, but she's just a coward. Don't judge a person's rank by their clothes. This is the first lesson I'm teaching you!"
"Master, the Fourth Prince and his wife have arrived!" The two men in black were specially given to Yiken'e by Kangxi. These two had already acknowledged Yiken'e as their master, so they could disregard even Kangxi's orders.
"Yes!" Yin replied directly.
The head steward, kneeling before Yin and Qingyan, felt a chill run through his body. These two were indeed no good; his niece was doomed.
"This servant greets the masters; it is this servant's fault for not disciplining them properly!" The steward's back was already drenched in cold sweat.
Su Peisheng felt a little regretful. The steward was a loyal man who had managed the villa for so many years without ever embezzling money. Who would have thought that his own family members would be so disappointing?
"Who is that maid to your household?" Qingyan noticed, and the head steward admitted his mistake as soon as the topic of punishment came up.
"My niece has been taking care of the garden ever since she came here. Today, the young masters came, and I failed to inform her properly, which is why this problem occurred!" The steward only wanted his niece to be lightly punished, so he took on most of the responsibility.
Yin and Qingyan walked straight over, and the maidservant's face flushed slightly when she saw Yin's appearance.
"Fourth Brother, you really are in the wrong. Didn't you see? They're already preparing to teach your son a lesson!" Qingyan said nonchalantly, laughing heartily.
The twins did not disappoint them. When their parents were not around, they did not panic at all. On the contrary, they handled the situation very well and allowed the maid to vent her anger.
"Mother, who is this person? Standing in our courtyard and speaking so rudely?" Yiken'e took a sip of the tea that Sulan brought her, feeling somewhat displeased.
This person has no manners at all. As soon as his father arrived, he kept staring at him as if his father were incredibly handsome.
"Young Master Yiken, this is my niece. She has only been in the villa for a short time!" The steward knelt on the ground, increasingly annoyed with his niece. She had been unruly since childhood and had often abused her status to do whatever she wanted.
"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Looking at the steward's expression, Yin worried that he might not have been wrong. This maid might have been taking advantage of the reputation of the Fourth Prince's residence to meddle in other people's business.
When the servant heard Yin's question, her heart skipped a beat. Hadn't the steward already dealt with everything she had done back then?
"Bayan, go and investigate personally, and find out the whole story!" Yin said directly.
Bayan accepted the order and left, while the steward's face turned ashen.
Before Yin and the others arrived, someone informed the chief steward that Yin and Qingyan had two head guards, Erlu and Bayan. Bayan was in charge of investigating the mistakes of his subordinates and had never failed.
"Now, if you tell the truth, I might spare you this time. But if you dare to tell a single lie, just wait and see." Qingyan looked at the steward and was secretly surprised. He was just a small steward, yet he dared to take on so much responsibility.
"It's my fault for not disciplining him properly, please punish me, Your Highness!" A serious expression appeared on Yin's face. If he hadn't been disciplined properly, there must have been a problem.
"Speak, what exactly happened?" Yin was getting annoyed by the steward's dawdling.
The steward dared not hide it any longer and directly told her what his niece had done: she had used her power to take in a lot of servants, some of whom were lazy and didn't work at all, yet they still received salaries.
"Taking a salary without working?!" Qingyan glared angrily at the steward. "Heh, it seems that Master still needs to keep an eye on the affairs of the villa, lest all the money we've worked so hard to earn goes to these rats!"
This servant was a little indignant. Everyone knows that the Fourth Princess Consort is rich and powerful, so why is she being so stingy?
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