The prince was at a loss and could only yell at the older Yinqi, "Old Five, let Little Six go first. As the elder brother, why are you fighting with Little Nine and Little Ten?"
Yinqi finally grew up and let go of her hand reluctantly.
"Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi! The two of you should quickly let Yinzuo go!"
The two little ones thought they had won, so they let go.
Yinzuo let out a long sigh and felt like he was alive again. He quickly turned around and thanked the prince.
"Thank you, Prince brother."
"The Emperor has arrived!"
In the end, the prince could only smile and nod at him, then turned around and everyone stood up to welcome him.
"Good luck to the Emperor."
"Good luck to your Majesty."
Kangxi walked slowly to the dragon throne and sat down, then he said majestically to everyone in the hall: "Stand up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Thank you, Father Huang."
The banquet officially began on New Year's Eve. Eunuchs came in one after another carrying dishes, and singing and dancing began to perform. Emperor Kangxi was drinking with the concubines in the harem in turn to show his care.
The Grand Empress Dowager still hadn't come, but the Queen Mother was there, and she was smiling at the children below.
Yinqi also followed the adults and served a cup of tea. He said to Yinzuo, "Xiaoliu, I'm sorry. I was wrong and hurt you just now. I apologize. Please don't be angry with me."
Yinzuo smiled generously and picked up the teacup in front of him.
"How could I be angry with you, Fifth Brother? I'm going to the study room with you soon. Please take good care of your younger brother."
"That's easy! I will definitely protect you!"
The third brother in the first row, Yinzhi, also heard it. He turned around and joked, "Old Five, you are the last among our brothers, and you still want to take care of Little Six? Take care of yourself first! Hey! Have you finished the homework left by the teachers? Don't let Little Six go to the study room and see you being scolded."
The eldest prince also laughed and said, "Xiao Liu, your third brother is the best among us in terms of knowledge. If you don't understand something, you should ask your third brother."
Seeing this, Yinzhi and the eldest prince started to flatter each other.
"It's okay, I can still help with the academic aspects. As for riding, archery and martial arts, eldest brother is the best among us brothers." He gave a thumbs up.
"Then I'll have to trouble my eldest brother and third brother to take care of me." Yinzuo didn't mind having too many big brothers.
After thinking for a moment, the prince smiled and said, "Hey! Xiaoliu has the fourth child to take care of him, so it's not your turn. Xiaoliu has always loved to stick to the fourth child since he was born. Everyone knows that."
Yinzhen raised his eyelids, looked over here, and said calmly: "Second brother is right, don't bother everyone to worry about Xiaoliu, I will take good care of him."
Hearing that his brother had also joined in and was speaking so domineeringly, Yinzuo looked at his brother with a bright smile, a face full of happiness and satisfaction. He felt that he was still his brother's most valued younger brother. As for Little Thirteen, he was not as important as himself in his brother's mind!
Everyone else knew that the most important person in Xiaoliu's heart was Lao Si, and they all stopped talking. How could they compare? They were no match at all, so why bother humiliating themselves?
The family dinner lasted a long time, and they had to stay up together tonight. After two hours, Yinzuo drank too much tea and went out to relieve himself. Seeing this, Yinsi bravely followed him.
The concubine's room was right next door, so Yinzuo naturally discovered him.
"Xiao Ba, you drank too much tea, didn't you?"
In fact, Yinsi, who had always been very cautious and didn't drink much water, nodded.
"It's so stuffy inside. It just so happens that the snow has stopped now. Let's go for a walk outside."
"Okay." Yinsi was eager to have more opportunities to spend more time with his dear sixth brother.
It was already night, and Yinzuo, who was in charge of the palace maids in Qianqing Palace, asked for a lamp and took Shunfengshunsui and Yinsi for a walk in the snow, enjoying the strange feeling of stepping on the soft snow.
Yinsi, who was about to enter school with Yinzuo, said timidly, "By the way, I would like to trouble Sixth Brother to take care of me in the future. After all, I am not very familiar with the other brothers."
Yinzuo smiled and said to him, "No problem, don't be afraid. My brothers are all very good. My eldest brother is very righteous. The prince brother is kind and easy to get along with. Although my third brother is harsh in his words, he is also very warm-hearted. As for my brother, although he is cold and doesn't like to talk, he is very reliable and knows how to take care of people!
And the fifth brother, I grew up with him and often played with him. He is a carefree person who doesn't get angry easily and is very honest. As for Yinyou, I haven't had much contact with him. He doesn't like to talk much, so I don't think he has a bad temper."
Yinsi was not particularly happy to hear his sixth brother speak so highly of the other brothers. He could not help but wonder if his sixth brother would not notice him at all or treat him so well when he was living with so many brothers day and night.
"Then...what about me? Do you think I'm okay, Sixth Brother?" Yinsi mustered up his courage and stared at his Sixth Brother with nervousness and anticipation.
Yinzuo squatted on the ground and made a snowball with his hands. The crunching sound of the snow made him ignore the subtle noise coming from behind him.
He said as he rolled his eyes, "You? Xiaoba, you are also very good. You are so cute, and you are very well-behaved and obedient."
Yinsi, who was leaning sideways, caught a glimpse of an indigo-colored hem of clothing. He pretended not to know and continued to ask, "Then, when we were playing hide-and-seek together in Changchun Garden last time, Sixth Brother, do you remember what you said to me?"
"I remember!" His brother was very angry at that time, how could Yinzuo not remember it.
"I said you are my most beloved Yinsi~my most precious Xiaoba~"
"What about fourth brother? Everyone says that you, sixth brother, like fourth brother the most, so what is he to you?" Yinsi didn't ask intentionally, he really wanted to know what the difference was between him and fourth brother.
"Brother? Brother is brother! He is my biological brother~" Yinzuo said in a light tone.
"Yinzuo."
Yinzuo heard a familiar voice calling him from behind and immediately turned around.
He stood up in surprise, ran towards the indigo figure behind him, then hugged his neck, hooked his legs around his waist, and hung on the man like a sloth.
"Brother! Why are you out too?"
The person who came was Yinzhen, who had listened to the entire conversation between Yinzuo and Yinsi.
Yinzhen held Yinzuo's hips to prevent him from falling off him, but his eyes were on Yinsi not far away.
"Seeing that you haven't come back for a long time, I was worried that you might fall because the road was slippery outside, so I came out to check. I didn't expect to see you and Yinsi had made an appointment to play in the snow together."
"We met by chance. It was too stuffy inside and I drank too much tea, so I came out to relieve myself. When I saw that the snow had stopped, I took a lantern and went out for a walk."
"Really? You didn't mean it?" Yinzhen retracted his gaze, turned around and walked back while holding Yinzuo.
Yinzuo was worried that his brother had misunderstood him again and was angry with him, so he explained anxiously.
"It's really not! Brother, if you don't believe me, you can ask Yinsi!"
Yinzuo just realized that his brother had been walking with him for some distance, and he quickly waved to Yinsi.
"Yinsi, hurry up and follow us! We should go back."
Yinsi himself had a dim look in his eyes, and his sixth brother also followed his fourth brother in calling himself Yinsi instead of Xiaoba. With his fourth brother around, his sixth brother always completely ignored his existence, and he was unwilling to accept this.
So he forced himself into a fragile smile and quickly chased after him.
"Sixth brother, wait for me!"
Upon hearing this, Yinzhen continued to take big steps, with no intention of waiting for Yinsi at all.
When they reached the palace gate, Yinzhen gently said to the little guy in his arms: "Don't say that to him again."
"Which sentence?"
"Think for yourself."
After saying this, Yinzhen let him go.
"Could it be the phrase 'My most beloved Yinsi, my most precious Xiaoba'?"
Yinzhen narrowed his eyes, looked at him deeply, and walked in first.
"Hey! Brother, I know I was wrong, don't be angry! The person I love most is definitely you, brother!"
Yinzuo realized that the situation was not good, and chased after him while shouting. Just at this time, the singing and dancing ended, and the last words he had just spoken echoed in the hall.
Everyone stared at him. Yinzuo was so embarrassed that he wished he could dig a hole in the ground and shove himself in it.
Kangxi, who was sitting at the top, waved at him and said, "Xiao Liu, come here and repeat what you just said in front of me."
Yinzuo slowly moved in front of his father, lowered his head and picked at his fingers, not daring to see anyone, as he was too embarrassed.
"Xiao Liu, weren't you shouting quite loudly just now? Why are you silent now that you are in front of me? Hmm? Are you feeling guilty?"
Yin Zuo suddenly remembered that he seemed to have said something similar to the Emperor before...
"No! Father Huang, you are Xiaoliu's favorite father, and brother is Xiaoliu's favorite brother. There is no conflict between the two at all~ hehe~"
"Really? But I just want to know, who is more important to you, me or your brother?"
The atmosphere was a little tense for a moment. If he told the truth, the emperor would definitely be unhappy. If he lied, Yinzuo would feel uncomfortable. His eyes rolled and he suddenly had an idea and thought of a way.
"Father Emperor, you are so brave, so smart, so you must know who is the most important person in my heart, right?"
Under the cover of the imperial desk, Yinzuo pulled his father's dragon robe gently, obviously acting coquettishly.
"Hmph, you are the only one who is trying to be clever." Kangxi was in a good mood and did not continue to ask questions. In his heart, he naturally thought that Xiaoliu would think that he, the emperor, was the most important.
Only then did Yinzuo breathe a sigh of relief.
This man was so happy and had drunk a lot of wine that Kangxi insisted on holding him, letting him sit in his arms and feeding him.
"When you were little, you loved me feeding you the most."
Yinzuo did not have the courage to expose him. He remembered very clearly that the Emperor's father did not know how to feed anyone and he had to compete with his mother to feed him. The first time he was fed pineapple rice, the mouthful was so big that it almost broke his mouth.
"Come, open your mouth." Kangxi scooped a large spoonful of food and handed it to Yinzuo, as if he had returned to Yinzuo's childhood.
What could Yinzuo do since he had his own father? He couldn’t change him, so he could only open his mouth as wide as he could and put the food into his mouth. His cheeks immediately became puffy.
The slightly intoxicated Kangxi poked his son's cheek and said with a smile: "I wanted to say it before. You just grew two front teeth at that time. You looked like a squirrel hiding food in winter."
Yinzuo looked at the emperor angrily and wanted to show his two front teeth. Unexpectedly, in the excitement, his lower teeth knocked against his upper front teeth. With a clang, one of the teeth fell into the plate in front of him.
Even the drunk Kangxi was awakened by the unexpected noise.
Yinzuo stared blankly at the bloody front teeth on the plate which had been in his mouth just a second ago.
Kangxi quickly shouted, "Liang Jiugong! Go get the imperial physician! Bring me another clean handkerchief!"
Everyone in the hall looked over here, and everyone could clearly see that Yinzuo was missing a front tooth.
The fearless Yin'e couldn't help laughing and said, "Sixth brother's front teeth fell out! How funny!"
“Woo!”
Yinzuo immediately covered his mouth with tears in his eyes. He was laughed at by his brother! And so many people saw how ugly he looked!
"Yinzuo, don't move! There's still blood!"
"What! Still bleeding?"
"Has the doctor arrived?"
There were cries, laughter, and shouts mixed together, and the hall was in chaos.
Coincidentally, at this moment, the bell rang, and the eunuch outside the palace announced loudly: "New Year is coming!"
We have never celebrated the New Year so lively.
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