The Crown Prince chose a good spot. Everyone only knew that they were standing together, but no one knew whether they spoke or what they said.
Since Yinzhi was in the wrong for striking first, and things had already come to this, he should immediately go and apologize.
Yinzhi walked away from the scene without realizing this.
After the Eighth Prince left, Yinzhi told Hezhuo what the Crown Prince had said behind his back. Hezhuo was also very angry after hearing it. Before he could say anything, Yinzhi slapped his forehead and said, "Oh no, that bastard has tricked me again."
I finally realized it.
Sure enough, when Yinzhi arrived, the princes were all coming out of the Qianqing Palace, giving him a look that said, "Good luck to you." Yinzhi went inside and smashed a teacup at his feet, yelling, "You unfilial son!"
Yinzhi immediately knelt down, but he wasn't stupid enough to kneel on the broken porcelain shards. He shifted his position, looked up at his father, and found that Yinreng, that shameless fellow, was even more disheveled than when he was fighting, looking miserable, and enjoying his father's application of ointment.
Yinzhi glared at the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince didn't even glance at him.
Seeing how much his father doted on the Crown Prince, he felt a pang of heartache, while completely ignoring him. It was a fatherly love he could only dream of, and he felt both angry and wronged. His eyes reddened, and a few tears welled up in the corners.
As the second most favored prince after the Crown Prince, Yinzhi was probably the prince who knew best the extent of Kangxi's doting on the Crown Prince.
It seemed that only in front of the Crown Prince was he a loving father who shed his imperial identity. He personally raised the Crown Prince in the Qianqing Palace. When the Crown Prince contracted smallpox, the Emperor devoted himself to caring for him and accompanying him through the critical period of his illness. He even issued an edict to send all the memorials from various ministries and government offices to the Grand Secretariat. This lasted for more than ten days.
In the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1679), the Kangxi Emperor specially ordered the renovation of the Mingfengci Hall, located between the Zhaigong Palace and Fengxian Hall on the east side of the Forbidden City. It was renamed Yuqing Palace and used as the Eastern Palace for Crown Prince Yinreng. Afterwards, the furnishings and expenses of Yuqing Palace were comparable to those of Qianqing Palace.
Where was he then? He was in the home of an official, rarely seeing his father, the Emperor, even once a year. Later, when he was eight, he was brought back. Seeing the deep affection between the father and son every day, he often felt like an outsider. That's why Yinzhi always wanted to be on par with the Crown Prince, wanting his father to stop and look back at this son who had fallen behind them. But he never did, never received such care from his father.
When Crown Prince Yinreng fell slightly ill, Emperor Kangxi was so anxious that he could neither sit nor lie down and could not eat or sleep.
Leaving aside distant examples, let's talk about recent ones. During this western expedition, the Crown Prince reported, "I have always been attached to my father's side and it is a habit. My father has ordered that I send him some old clothes so that he can remember me by seeing them."
Yinzhi knelt there for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, lost in thought, feeling somewhat disheartened, as if he would never receive such affection from his father, the Emperor.
However, on second thought, in July of this year, on the eve of the Battle of Ulan Butong, the Emperor fell ill on his way to the border and ordered the Crown Prince and the Third Prince to rush to meet him.
For some reason, after arriving, the Emperor ordered the Crown Prince to return to the capital first. This made Yinzhi quite gloating at the time.
When Kangxi saw that his eldest son was lost in thought, he sighed and said nothing, telling him to kneel in the Fengxian Hall.
Emperor Kangxi already knew the cause of the matter. He was somewhat moved and understanding of his son Yinzhi's deep love for his son. On the contrary, the Crown Prince's actions were inferior. He cursed his nephew and looked down on his niece, which seemed rather cold-hearted.
However, on the surface, they still had to protect the crown prince.
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