The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, gently stroked Duofu, who had stopped barking. Duofu's eyes were drooping as if he didn't want to close, and faint whimpering sounds could be heard coming from his mouth.
Her voice was full of grievance, and a few cold glints flashed in the eyes of the Fourth Prince, Yinzhen. He would not let any of the dogs he raised get away with hurting them.
Slowly, she reached out and gently closed Duofu's eyes, stroking the uninjured areas as if to lull a child to sleep.
Not long after, he heard the sound of even breathing coming from his arms, and the Fourth Prince Yinzhen's face turned completely cold.
His eyes were filled with madness, and he must have inherited the kind of filthiness from Consort De, Uya, who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
However, the Fourth Prince Yinzhen did not dislike it. In this harem, where would a blank sheet of paper exist? If it did, it would have been torn to shreds long ago.
Looking down at Duofu, who was already asleep and trembling in his arms, he felt a surge of anger in his heart that hadn't dissipated and was constantly suppressed.
Fourth Prince Yinzhen thought of his mother's dying instructions and looked at the current situation. He hadn't even fallen out of favor yet, and his ninth and tenth brothers dared to trample on him.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, gave a silent, cold laugh. The palace certainly needed favor, regardless of how it was obtained.
Looking at Duofu, who was sleeping restlessly in his arms, the Fourth Prince Yinzhen felt a tightness in his heart, especially now that he couldn't afford to lose his father's favor.
We must seize the opportunity while Father still has pity on him.
Otherwise, as time goes on and the Emperor has more and more sons and daughters, he, as a son without a mother, will have even less of a place in the Emperor's heart.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, took a piece of clothing that smelled of himself, carefully rolled up Duofu, and gently placed him on the soft bed.
As he walked out, he told the eunuchs who were serving him to keep a close watch on Duofu and to come find him if there was any disturbance.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, went to the mourning hall in Chengqian Palace, even though Empress Tong's coffin had already been buried.
The burial site was not arranged according to Empress Tong's last wishes.
Emperor Kangxi did not allow the empresses he appointed to be buried in places other than his imperial mausoleum.
Especially his beloved little cousin, now that she's dead, feels like she's become an indelible mark on his heart.
He didn't realize how good his cousin was when she was alive, but after she died, he immediately felt that he still cared about her.
Except for the fact that she was not allowed to give birth to a son with her bloodline.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, also petitioned Emperor Kangxi according to his mother's last wish, but his requests were rejected and had no effect.
Emperor Kangxi suppressed the matter with a single sentence.
That's how the ancestral laws are.
There was no empress, and she was not buried in the emperor's mausoleum.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, knelt in the Hall of Mental Cultivation for an entire afternoon, but it had no effect. In the end, he fainted from kneeling and was carried back to the Chengqian Palace by Emperor Kangxi, who only told him to stay there and observe mourning for his mother.
Don't let him worry about anything else.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, knew that once his father, the Emperor, made up his mind about anything...
They are generally not easy to change.
Especially now, he wants to change the jade tablet and transfer it to the Empress Dowager's name.
Father Emperor would definitely not allow it, given his favoritism towards his second brother, the Crown Prince.
Everyone in the entire court and palace knew about it.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, felt that only by taking a risky gamble, coupled with his mother's arrangements in the court and harem, and the fact that his father still had affection for him, was there even the slightest possibility of success.
Otherwise, as a prince who doesn't receive much favor, he would have no chance of changing his father's mind.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, became increasingly determined as he walked into the mourning hall, where his wet nurse was keeping watch.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, stepped forward and respectfully called out "Nanny." When the Nanny saw that the Fourth Prince had returned, she showed no expression and continued to kneel there, burning paper money for Empress Tong.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, did not mind her attitude. He still needed the help of the people in Chengqian Palace, especially the wet nurse left by his mother, the Empress Dowager.
She was not only a powerful ally in his harem, but also the person he had the best contact with in the previous dynasty, the Tong family.
The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, knelt silently on the other side, glancing at the words on the memorial tablet, his eyes showing no change in emotion.
"Granny, let's do it now, otherwise Father Emperor will forget about the Prince after a while."
"If you want to change it then, it will be harder than climbing to heaven."
"Today, Ninth Brother and Tenth Brother injured Master Duofu, so I will use this as a breakthrough."
The wet nurse raised her head and looked at the Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, with a complicated expression. She had mixed feelings about the child raised by the Empress.
To be honest, the feelings are quite complicated. It's impossible to say I don't care, after all, I've been living in Chengqian Palace for over ten years.
It's impossible to say she cared deeply; in this palace, Empress Tong was the only one she cared about the most.
Her emotions followed the Empress's every change; if the Empress liked her, she naturally liked her; if the Empress didn't like her, she didn't like her either.
The Empress herself, when it came to raising the Fourth Prince, initially adopted one while pregnant, since she couldn't conceive anyway, to consolidate her position.
Although they were not lacking in affection, raising a child in the palace meant that they were never too lonely in the deep inner palace.
Even if the Emperor dotes on his Empress, he can't come every day. If he comes more than ten times a month, that's already considered a lot.
Moreover, the Empress was not the only favored concubine in the harem; she was just one of the Emperor's many favored concubines.
However, the meaning is slightly different when it comes to simply having the title of cousin.
The Emperor only showed affection to his Empress, nothing more.
The Empress herself had always longed for the Emperor's love, but where in the harem could such a thing be found?
Later, I kept thinking that since I couldn't win the Emperor's love, I should give him a son or daughter so that a child could keep me company.
Who would have thought of that?
My poor empress.
He doesn't even have a biological child.
You can only adopt one child.
Uya appeared around that time, and she happened to be pregnant.
The Empress needed a child, so she brought the Fourth Prince back.
The child my mother raised for over ten years, absolutely cannot…
The wet nurse nodded. She also very much hoped that the Fourth Prince could be included in her mistress's imperial genealogy, so that her mistress wouldn't be left without a male heir.
"Young master, what are your plans, and how can this old servant assist you?"
The wet nurse felt that it was better to do this sooner rather than later, otherwise, after the Empress passed away, the Emperor might not know how much affection he still had.
We must get this done as soon as possible to fulfill the Empress's last wish.
Thinking back to the last time, when the Emperor refused to allow the burial site, and she, a mere servant, had no right to do so, the wet nurse felt a deep resentment in her heart.
Even though his own empress has passed away, the emperor is unwilling to grant his poor empress's wishes.
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