"Sixth Prince, be good. Let's stop crying. I will carry you to take a bath and change clothes right away." Nanny Cheng felt really sorry for this little kid whom she had watched grow up.
"Yes, Sixth Prince, how could the Empress and Fourth Prince dislike you? You are the one they love the most, right? Fourth Prince?" Lianxin took a step aside, revealing a certain cold-faced young prince standing behind him.
Yinzhen looked very calm on the surface, but he was actually a little helpless inside. He hated to see women and children crying the most.
"Well, I don't dislike you." After a while, seeing that Yinzuo was still crying, he added another word stiffly.
"good."
Yinzuo's tears finally stopped, but his little body was still twitching and he couldn't calm down.
With tears in his eyes, Yinzuo said softly in a sobbing voice: "Brother, accompany me~"
"Sixth Prince, do you want Fourth Prince to accompany you to take a bath?" Nanny Cheng asked again uncertainly.
"Hmm~" Yinzuo nodded, his eyes still fixed on his brother.
"Forget it, I'll go with you." Yinzhen thought: As long as he stops crying, it will be fine.
In the smoke, one could vaguely see a fair and tender little Yinzuo sitting in a small bathtub that was only as high as an adult's calf. He was holding a small handkerchief in his hand and was carefully folding it into a small square.
There was a man sitting not far from the bathtub. It was his beloved brother Yinzhen.
"Brother~ look~" Yinzuo felt that his little handkerchief was folded very well. He didn't like to tidy up, and his brother had told him so many times before. Occasionally, when he tidied up his wardrobe, he would get great encouragement and praise from his brother, so he subconsciously handed it to his now shrunken brother to see.
"Yeah." Yinzhen responded, and seeing that the little guy was still looking at him with dissatisfaction, he uttered two words with difficulty: "Very good."
Yinzuo was immediately overjoyed.
"Brother~"
Yinzhen felt that his ears were about to get calluses from hearing his brother say this so many times today.
"Um."
"Hold hands~" Yinzuo still remembered the scene where his brother avoided him just now, so he had to let his brother get close to him again, otherwise he still felt uneasy, afraid that his brother really hated him.
Seeing the Fourth Prince's hesitation, Lianxin and Nanny Cheng wished they could take the Sixth Prince's hand instead of him. The Sixth Prince was so cute, begging the Fourth Prince to hold his hand pitifully, why didn't the Fourth Prince hold his hand right away! Especially Lianxin, her eyes were almost bleeding with jealousy.
If the Sixth Prince ever acted like this towards her, Lian Xin felt that she could give him her life! Take it, take it!
Yinzhen sighed in his heart, but finally gave in. He got up from the chair and walked to the little guy's bathtub, holding his outstretched chubby hand.
Yinzuo wanted to play with water again, but his other hand was holding the handkerchief he had just folded. He was reluctant to throw the handkerchief away as his brother had just praised him for folding it well. So Yinzuo thought about it and suddenly had an idea. He put the handkerchief on his head. The handkerchief was warm and felt very comfortable on his head.
Lianxin felt that she was about to tremble with love because of Sixth Prince. With a small scarf on his head, Sixth Prince's face looked even smaller, and when he smiled, his facial features became even more delicate.
His pink little face is embedded with a pair of black and clear eyes. His smile is so innocent that people can't help but laugh with him.
The corners of Yinzhen's mouth showed relaxation. He subconsciously pinched the little guy's hand. It was quite strong, with a lot of soft flesh. It was amazing. He still remembered the first time he saw the little guy, he was so thin, as if a gust of wind could blow him away. Later, he fell seriously ill and his health had not been good. Now that he has grown to one year old, he has finally gained weight. It is good to be fatter.
He thought of the little guy's bold attitude when eating, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. The look he gave Yinzuo was filled with a warmth that he himself didn't know about.
Bang!
The warmth was extinguished by someone's bath water. Yinzhen quickly closed his eyes, feeling that his entire face was taken care of. He pursed his lips tightly. No matter what, the bath water could not flow into his mouth. This was his last insistence.
Yinzuo liked playing with water, and he liked watching the water splash up and then fall back down, so he used his hands and feet to hit the surface of the water in the bathtub. Nanny Cheng and Lianxin were both experienced people, and they turned their backs to him and covered their faces tightly the second before he was about to do something naughty.
So the only victim present was Yinzhen, who was closest to him.
Yinzuo was having a lot of fun. He was so immersed in the fun that he did not stop immediately. He continued to play with his head down, smiling, and did not notice that his brother beside him had been drenched by his bath water.
Once, twice, three times, Yinzhen, who had been attacked by the bath water three times, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He growled in a low voice: "Yinzuo!"
"Ah ha?" Yinzuo stopped when he heard his brother's voice. He tilted his head and looked in his brother's direction. What he saw was terrible. His brother was soaked all over, and he looked very angry, glaring at him with gritted teeth.
Yinzuo immediately became scared. He shrank to the edge of the bathtub, then cautiously poked his head out, peeping at his brother with his two big eyes guiltily.
"Fourth...Fourth Prince, hurry up, help him take off his wet clothes first, don't let him catch a cold!"
"Send someone to Chengqian Palace to get a set of clean clothes for the Fourth Prince!"
"How about you take a bath, Fourth Prince? We don't have any extra bathtubs here, so why don't you squeeze in with Sixth Prince?"
Yinzhen suppressed his anger and said coldly: "No need."
Rather than taking a shower, he wanted to rinse his mouth first, because the bath water on his face flowed into his mouth when he opened his mouth to speak just now, and he now felt uncomfortable all over.
When Yinzhen's wet nurse, Madam Xie, came in, she saw her Fourth Prince in such a miserable state and felt distressed. Then, when she saw the Sixth Prince curled up in the bathtub, she thought that the Sixth Prince had bullied the Fourth Prince.
"Please tell Concubine De that I am taking the Fourth Prince back to Chengqian Palace. I will tell Concubine Gui in detail about what happened today. Goodbye!"
Nanny Xie's tone was very bad. She came from a farming family and had a hot temper. She was also extremely protective of her master. She wrapped the Fourth Prince in her cloak, picked him up, and turned around and left.
After Yinzhen ascended the throne, he posthumously conferred her the title of "Lady Gongqin", wrote an obituary for her personally, and repaired her tomb separately. This shows how good this Madam Xie was to Yinzhen, otherwise she would never have let the cold-hearted Yinzhen do all these for her.
On the way back, Yinzhen, who was held by Aunt Xie, said to her: "Aunt Xie, don't tell your mother about this. Yinzuo is still young and ignorant. He didn't mean it."
Nanny Xie rarely heard the Fourth Prince, whom she had watched grow up, speak so many words in one breath. He was silent most of the time, but the Fourth Prince was smart since he was young, and as a servant serving the young master, she naturally had to put the master's wishes first.
"Yes, I won't say anything, but Fourth Prince, I have something to say. Although Sixth Prince is your biological brother, you don't have to put yourself in a difficult position for him and Concubine De. Concubine Gui loves you."
Nanny Xie saw everything. The Fourth Prince was not close to his biological mother. Although the Imperial Concubine was only his adoptive mother, she was really good to the Fourth Prince.
"Yeah." Yinzhen didn't explain any further.
With such a big thing happening in Yonghe Palace, it was natural that Concubine De had to be reported first. Lianxin handed over the job of helping Nanny Cheng to take care of the Sixth Prince to other people, and hurried to find her own queen.
"What!"
After hearing what Lianxin said, Depin, who was sitting in front of the dressing mirror, stood up suddenly.
"You just said that Xiaoliu got his brother all wet?"
"Yes, the Fourth Prince's wet nurse came in and saw what was happening. She was very angry and took the Fourth Prince back to Chengqian Palace. Before she left, she said... she also said..."
"What else do you have to say? Go ahead and say it." Depin was a little anxious. Her relationship with her eldest son was not very good to begin with, and she was very worried that the child would no longer be close to her.
"She also said that she would inform the imperial concubine of what happened today." Lianxin's voice became smaller and smaller. After she finished speaking, she secretly glanced at her queen's face.
Depin closed her eyes and slowly sat back.
If the imperial concubine knew about this, she would probably think too much and might not allow me to meet Xiao Si privately in the future.
"Go prepare a generous gift and ask someone to come in and help me dress up. I will go to Chengqian Palace in person."
"yes!"
On the other side, Yinzuo, who knew he had made a mistake, became a timid little quail, not daring to speak. After being helped by Nanny Cheng to change into clean clothes, he was brought to his mother.
"Uh... Mother~" Yinzuo felt extremely guilty and did not dare to step forward. He just stood in the corner, looking down and scratching his hands.
Seeing her youngest son's panic-stricken look, Depin couldn't bear to scold him after all.
"Okay, come to my mother."
Yinzuo moved slowly, walked forward and hugged his mother's legs.
"…Wrong~"
Depin squatted down, holding her youngest son's arms, and said to him gently and patiently: "It's good that you know you are wrong. Mother will take you to Chengqian Palace to apologize to your brother. Don't do this again in the future. Do you understand?"
Yinzuo was also having a lot of fun. He was used to playing with water whenever he took a bath. He didn't expect that he would get his brother wet and that his brother would be so angry.
"Hmm~" Yinzuo nodded.
Depin touched her youngest son's head, picked him up, and said softly, "Let's go."
The author has something to say:
Xiaoliu was so panicked that he bit his handkerchief and cried, "My brother is angry with me, oooo..."
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