After the birthday celebration, all the princes returned to their seats. Yinzuo was quite quiet today, but his brother Yinzhen was a little uncomfortable.
However, even if Yinzuo himself didn't speak, the third prince Yinzhi and the fifth prince Yinqi would take the initiative to come up to him and chat with him.
From time to time, Yinqi babbled a few Mongolian words that Yinzuo could not understand. Yinzuo could only smile at him. This made Yinqi even more excited. However, a child's energy is limited after all. After not long of making a fuss, he fell asleep.
Snap!
There was a white jade pony on Yinzuo's desk. He looked up at his third brother who placed it in front of him.
"I heard that Xiaoliu got a lot of jade ornaments and pendants on his first birthday. I found these from my own storeroom and give them to you, Xiaoliu, to play with."
This is too expensive. Yinzuo pushed the little jade horse towards his third brother, shook his head and said to him, "No."
The third prince Yinzhi looked depressed and asked him, "Little Six, don't you like this? I'll bring you a better one next time!"
Yinzuo continued to shake his head. How could that be possible? He felt that this was not something he could accept, let alone something more valuable than this.
"Why? I just wanted to give you something. I didn't know your birthday, and even if I knew it, I couldn't enter the palace. So I didn't give you a gift. Are you angry with me?"
"No~" Yinzuo suddenly felt very guilty. His third brother also meant well.
"I don't care. If you don't accept my gift, it means you don't want to play with me! Then I will be angry!" That's right, although he is no longer a three-year-old child, Yinzhi is still unreasonable when he is four years old.
Little Yinzuo sighed, took the little jade horse back, held it in his hands, and thanked his third brother who insisted on being nice to him in a baby voice: "Thank you~"
"Hehe! Xiaoliu, you accepted it! That's great. Then... can you call me brother again?" The third prince Yinzhi blushed a little embarrassedly, but the look he gave Yinzuo was obviously full of expectation.
Yinzhen, who had listened to the entire thing, snorted in his heart. At this moment, he happened to catch a glimpse of a plate of grapes on the table.
Yinzuo was a little hesitant, but his third brother had specially given him such an expensive birthday gift and only made such a small request. Yinzuo felt that it was nothing to call him that, and he was actually his half-brother.
Yinzuo just opened his mouth and wanted to call for help.
Suddenly, the brother in front of him turned around and stuffed something into his mouth. Yinzuo stared at his brother blankly.
After Yinzhen stuffed the food into his mouth, he glanced at the third brother next to him and turned back calmly.
When Yinzhi was glanced at, he just felt that the fourth brother was deliberately making things difficult for him!
"Yinzhen! What are you doing!"
"Is your third brother's eyesight not good? Do you want to ask a royal physician to take a look?" Yinzhen said these two words without even looking at him.
"You! Of course I can see it! I don't need to see any imperial physician!" No child likes imperial physicians. They only prescribe bitter medicine and force people to drink it.
"Then third brother, don't you recognize this thing?" Yinzhen, holding a grape in his hand, finally turned his head and looked at the third brother next to him.
"It's just grapes, who doesn't know it?" Yinzhi replied with a cold snort.
Yinzhen retracted his gaze and said lightly, "Then the third brother asked me what I did just now."
Holding the grapes fed to him by his brother, Yinzuo was very happy, and his eyes curved into crescents due to smiling.
"Third brother~"
The soft word "Third brother" immediately put an end to the Third Prince Yinzhi's argument with the Fourth Prince.
"Yeah!" He agreed happily.
Yinzhen's eyes flashed, and he immediately lowered his eyelids, covering up the gloom in them.
Just as Yinzhi was about to continue to maintain a good relationship with Xiaoliu, a maid appeared beside him.
"Third Prince, Concubine Rong wants you to come over."
"Oh, Xiaoliu, I'll come back to play with you later."
Yinzuo nodded his head when he heard this, and Yinzhi was led away by the maid.
Suddenly, Yinzhen was gently poked twice on the back, and the little guy behind him whispered to him: "Brother~I want more~~"
Never mind. Yinzhen felt that there was no need to get angry with the third child who was only four years old, so he continued to peel grapes patiently for the little guy behind him.
This time he didn't turn around, but just handed the peeled grapes behind him.
Yinzuo leaned his little body forward, let out a roar, and took the grapes from his brother's hand with his mouth, his two little legs still shaking with joy.
Seeing the plate of grapes on Yinzhen's table gradually disappearing, Yinzuo behind him suddenly burped. Yinzhen raised the corners of his lips, his eyes full of smiles.
After waiting for a long time and seeing his brother still not passing grapes to him, Yinzuo stretched out his little hand and gently poked his brother's back.
"elder brother?"
Yinzhen did not turn around, but just turned slightly and answered him: "No more."
Yinzuo pouted and thought, okay, he was full anyway.
People tend to feel sleepy after a full meal. After a while, Yinzuo fell asleep on the table. Nanny Cheng quickly held him in her arms. However, there was no need for the Sixth Prince to show up again. It didn't matter if he fell asleep, after all, the older Fifth Prince was already asleep.
Yinzhen didn't hear any movement behind him for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help but look back, only to find that the little guy had closed his eyes and fell asleep in Nanny Cheng's arms. Yinzhen laughed. Yes, if he wasn't asleep, how could the little guy be so peaceful.
After a while, the imperial concubine saw that the children had fallen asleep, so she suggested to the emperor that they go back to rest first.
Before Yinzuo left, Yinzhen stuffed the clay puppy he had been making all night into Yinzuo's hands.
"...Brother~" Yinzuo, who was in his sleep, suddenly called softly.
Yinzhen's eyes were gentle and he responded softly.
"Um."
Yinzuo seemed to have heard his brother's voice and clenched the clay puppy in his hand.
"I will take the Sixth Prince back to Yonghe Palace first." Nanny Cheng knelt and bowed.
"It's dark outside. Mammy, ask someone to light an extra lantern in front of you so you can be careful on the road."
"Yes, Fourth Prince, don't worry."
Perhaps only Nanny Cheng and Nanny Xie knew that the Fourth Prince was also very concerned about the Sixth Prince in private. However, for some reason, they deliberately gave him a cold face when the Sixth Prince was awake.
They didn't know that Yinzhen was naturally doing this to establish his authority as an elder brother.
When Yinzuo woke up the next day, he found that he had a clay puppy in his hand that he had never seen before, but he clearly remembered that his third brother gave him a white jade puppy. Could it be that he remembered it wrong?
No way, he is only a little over one year old, how can his memory be so bad?
Nanny Cheng came in and found that the Sixth Prince had woken up. She walked up to him with a smile. Seeing that he had been staring at the clay puppy in his hand, she smiled and said, "Sixth Prince, do you like this clay puppy very much? He insisted on holding it before going to bed last night. I tried several times but couldn't get it out of your hand."
Yinzuo looked up and found that Nanny Cheng didn't seem surprised to see the clay puppy. Could it be that he really remembered it wrong?
"Third brother?" He tried again.
"Sixth Prince, are you asking about the white jade puppy that Third Prince gave you? I put it away, and you want to play with it now?"
Yinzuo breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it seemed that there was no problem with his memory. His third brother did give him a white jade puppy.
He shook his little head, indicating that he didn't want to play now.
"this?"
"This was given to you by the Fourth Prince. You were asleep at that time, so you didn't know about it."
Yinzuo's eyes sparkled, and he said in surprise, "Brother!"
It turns out that my brother still loves me! Last night, he not only fed me sweet grapes, but also gave me a clay puppy~
The puppy is so cute!
Seeing that the Sixth Prince was so fond of such a worthless little mud toy, Madam Cheng was puzzled. Wouldn't the white jade puppy be more exquisite? Why was the Sixth Prince's preference so unpredictable?
Even when he was eating, he would hold on to the clay puppy that his brother had given him.
Seeing that he was absent-minded while eating, Depin said to him, "Little Six, can you play with this later? Let Madam Cheng hold it for you first, and let's eat our meal properly, okay?"
Yinzuo shook his head quickly and hid the clay puppy in his hand behind him.
"No~"
Depin was a little surprised. Yinzuo was usually very well behaved, especially when eating, he was most focused. Why was he so disobedient today for such an inconspicuous little clay sculpture?
"Xiao Liu, why are you not listening? Mother just wants you to eat first, not to stop you from playing."
"No...my brother...gave it to me!"
Depin, who was originally a little angry, suddenly understood why Xiaoliu kept holding on to it.
"Then mother has already told Xiaoliu that this is a gift from your brother. Mother can let you keep it, but you can't play with it while eating. You have to eat your meal properly before playing, otherwise mother will forcibly confiscate it. What do you think?"
Yinzuo naturally didn't want his mother to confiscate the new toys his brother gave him.
He nodded reluctantly and agreed.
"Open your mouth."
“Ah~”
“Ouch!”
Seeing that the little guy had returned to his previous state of eating seriously, Depin smiled. It seemed that the two children had a good relationship in private, and the fourth child was not as cold to the sixth child as rumored outside.
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