On the second day, Yinzuo asked for leave. It was Kangxi who informed everyone when he went to the study to check the princes' homework. It was to take care of the flower garden for the Empress Dowager as a way of showing filial piety. The emperor also promised it personally, so others could not say much. After all, the Sixth Prince was born with extraordinary talent and intelligence, and this day did not affect his status as an excellent student.
Yinzuo slept until noon before he slowly woke up. He got up, rubbed his eyes with one hand, and stretched.
Shunfeng heard the noise and walked in. He lifted the bed curtain and took a look. Sure enough, it was his master who woke up.
"Sixth Prince, you are awake now. We have to go to Cining Palace early. We have to go back to Chengqian Palace for lunch at noon. If we are late, I am afraid that the Imperial Concubine will wait for a long time."
Yinzuo got off the bed, put his feet on the ground, and let him dress him.
"Okay, got it. By the way, let's have breakfast on the sedan chair. Pick something convenient. We'll set off early."
“Yeah.”
The spring sunshine was bright and warm on people's bodies. Yinzuo huddled in the sedan chair, eating snacks handed to him by the wind while squinting his eyes to enjoy the sunlight.
"Master, we have arrived at the Cining Palace. It's time for us to get off." Shunfeng walked to the side of the sedan chair and gently reminded his master who had fallen asleep.
Yinzuo wiped his saliva in a daze, yawned, and then got down from the sedan chair with the help of Shunfengshunsui.
"It's so comfortable in the sun. Next time, let's put a lounge chair outside our house."
"I'll make a note of that." Shunshui not only agreed, but also asked, "Do you want to buy another swing? The big tree in our yard is quite suitable for a swing."
"Then let's build one, so that everyone can have an extra place to play after school." Yinzuo thought it was a good idea. Anyway, the other brothers all loved to go to his room, but because the room was a little small, it was always crowded.
By the time Yinzuo came out of the flower garden under Shunfengshunshui's repeated urging, two full hours had passed.
"Hurry up! Go to Chengqian Palace! Take the shortcut through Longzong Gate! The Royal Mother must be worried, we must hurry!"
The servant who was carrying the sedan chair said with some embarrassment: "Sixth Prince, the Emperor is superstitious about passing through Longzong Gate, and he won't let anyone pass through it easily!"
"I can even enter the Cining Palace, so why can't I leave Longzong Gate? Just go ahead, and I'll take care of anything that happens!"
When the servants thought about it, it seemed to be true, so they carried the sedan chair and headed straight for Longzong Gate without hesitation.
Coincidentally, this scene was seen by the two managers of Wuyingdian Bookstore who had just come out of Qianqing Gate.
"Who is this prince? How dare he pass through Longzong Gate?"
You know, since the death of the Empress Dowager, they have to take a detour every time they travel between Wuying Hall and Qianqing Palace. After all, the Emperor is superstitious about it.
"It seems to be... the Sixth Prince." One of them answered.
"Is it the Sixth Prince who is known as a child prodigy? He is too arrogant. Not only does he avoid the study room and skip classes, but he also doesn't care about the emperor at all?"
"Let me remind you that the Sixth Prince is the apple of the Emperor's eye. His biological mother is the Emperor's favorite concubine, Consort De, one of the four concubines. In terms of status, he is the most honorable prince besides the Crown Prince. Don't mess with him."
"He is so arrogant at such a young age. He will definitely be a playboy in the future!"
"Okay, stop talking and hurry up. The most important thing is for us to go back and have lunch."
Yinzuo didn't hear the gossip behind him. He hurried back to Chengqian Palace within two quarters of an hour.
However, as soon as they entered the room, they found that the situation was a bit complicated and there were too many people in the main hall.
"Sixth Brother!"
Before Yinzuo could say anything, two little guys rushed up and hugged him from the left and right.
"Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi, why are you here?"
Before the two little ones could answer, the Imperial Concubine and Concubine Yi who were sitting inside became unhappy.
"Yin'er!"
"Yin'e!"
"Come back, both of you!"
As a result of being frightened, the two little ones quickly shrank behind Yinzuo.
She could have had a happy meal and chat with Xiaoliu today, but now everything has been disrupted. The Imperial Concubine was already a little impatient, and now that Yinzuo was dragged into this, she became even more unhappy.
"Xiao Liu, come here, let me take a look, have you lost weight?"
Yinzuo walked over holding one of them in each hand and replied, "I'm fine. I went to the Emperor's place yesterday and had a sumptuous dinner."
Hearing this, the Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi looked at each other.
"Royal Concubine, the Sixth Prince is deeply favored by the Emperor, it must be because he is extremely intelligent. Please tell us how you cultivated the Sixth Prince to become a talented person! Yin'er and Yin'e are two naughty boys who don't want to learn anything. They can't even read the simplest Three Character Classic. Last time the Emperor asked them about it, they couldn't answer a single word. It's so worrying." The Imperial Concubine didn't care about putting on airs anymore, she was really worried.
Yinzuo then realized why the Imperial Concubine and Concubine Yi, who had always been proud of their status, were still entangled in Chengqian Palace. It turned out that they loved their son so much and wanted him to become a successful person.
"What can I do? Didn't I just say it all? He has talent all by himself. When he was young, it was the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince who taught him. I really don't have any credit for it."
The Imperial Concubine had been talking in circles with them for the entire morning. At the beginning, she had been deliberately keeping them in suspense, wanting to see them make a fool of themselves. But now that she had time to spend with Xiaoliu, she was too lazy to continue pestering them and simply told them the truth.
"But Yin'er and Yin'e are unwilling to study hard no matter what. I really have no choice. They are almost old enough to enter the upper study room, but they still don't know anything. If the emperor knew that they are still not making any progress, what would I do?"
The anxiety in Concubine Yi's eyes could not be faked.
"What can I do? They are your biological sons. As their mothers, you should take them home and teach them well." The Imperial Concubine was too impatient to teach their sons for them.
"They beat people! And they didn't even give us food!"
"No, no, no!"
"We don't want to go back!"
Yinzhen and Yin'e howled, showing their intention of resistance thoroughly.
Yin Zuo looked at them in embarrassment, and finally said, "Since Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi are so reluctant to go back with the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Concubine Yi, why not let them stay here today? I will help persuade them."
In the end, the Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi had to compromise because the two little devils really didn't want to go back with them and kept pestering Yinzuo and refused to let go.
After the Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi left, the Imperial Concubine realized that it was getting late and quickly ordered, "Hurry up and serve the meal!"
During lunch, the two little guys were quite well-behaved, but that was also because the cooking skills of the small kitchen in Chengqian Palace were excellent and there was basically nothing wrong to find. In addition, the two little guys were really hungry and had been fighting with their respective mothers for several days, and had even resorted to hunger strike to protest.
Yinzuo took advantage of his hand while eating to get this matter out of their mouths. The Imperial Noble Consort who was watching the fun couldn't help laughing. No matter how much the Imperial Noble Consort and the Concubine Yi did, they would have to worry about giving birth to a resentful son in the future.
"I do understand what you two are thinking. I don't like reading when I'm laughing either."
"Really? But mother and the others said that you, Sixth Brother, are amazing. Everyone says you are a child prodigy. Even the Emperor praises you." Yin'er and Yin'e had heard these words countless times, so they didn't quite believe what Yinzuo said.
"That's right, mother said that the one that the masters in the upper study praised the most was you, Sixth Brother!"
"Really, if you can't, you can ask my brother. He was the one who taught me when I was a kid. I also found it boring and didn't want to learn, but my brother said, 'Without learning, you can't broaden your talents, and without ambition, you can't achieve learning.' If you don't study, you won't have more knowledge and talents, and you won't be able to do anything well.
My mother also said that if I didn't study, my brother and mother would be sad and would worry about what I would do in the future and would always be worried about me. My mother would be old and would need my care. If I didn't study, I would only be able to receive a meager salary from the clan in the future, and I wouldn't be able to afford to buy my mother a piece of meat.
You two are still young, and you may not know that in the future your respective mothers will also have to return to the mansion with you to be taken care of."
Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi were indeed touched when they heard this, but they were still young after all, so they were still reluctant.
"But we still have the Emperor, right? Wouldn't it be nice if we could ask him to give us some more rewards?"
"That's right. If it really doesn't work, my mother and the others can eat something else. They don't have to eat meat. Shrimp and fish are also good."
It was hard for Yinzuo to say, as the Emperor would leave them in the future, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being and continue to ask the two of them to concentrate on eating.
"By the way, Xiaoliu, why did you suddenly say you wanted to come back today? Does your royal father know about this?"
"Yesterday was my birthday, but I didn't ask for leave. The Emperor suddenly called me over to have dinner with him and gave me Ukuma's flower garden as a reward. He also agreed to let me take one day off every five days so that I can take care of the flowers and plants in the garden. So I went to the garden this morning and came back."
The Imperial Concubine nodded and said, "So that's how it is. Then from now on, Xiaoliu, you can come back every five days. That's good too. I'll have someone prepare your favorite dishes for you."
"Thank you, Royal Mother." Yinzuo did not refuse. He could see that Royal Mother really liked doing things like this, so he could just give her one more thing to do to pass the time.
"Oh, you may not know this yet? Your mother went into labor a few days ago and gave birth to another brother for you. She didn't want to disturb you two brothers from studying, so she didn't send anyone to tell you. Now that you're back, I'll take you to see her and your fourteenth brother later."
"Fourteenth brother? I, I am a big brother again? Wouldn't Yonghe Palace be very lively? Can mother take care of Yaohua and Thirteenth brother?"
Yinzuo stood up excitedly.
"They are now over one year old and almost two years old. They have a wet nurse to take care of them, so it's not a problem."
Yin'er and Yin'e, who were listening on the side, quickly grabbed one of the sixth brother's arms respectively.
"Sixth brother, Little Fourteen is just a little kid who only knows how to cry. There's nothing special about him! We two can play with you and talk to you. We are much better than him!"
"That's right! Sixth brother, please don't abandon us just because you have a younger brother!"
It had to be said that their worries were justified. After dinner, Yinzuo went straight to Yonghe Palace. As soon as he saw the little Fourteenth Child, he laughed so hard that he completely forgot about the two of them.
This is not a good sign! On the way back, the two racked their brains and came up with a perfect solution.
After hearing what they said, Concubine Gui and Concubine Yi exclaimed, "What? You two want Yinzuo to teach you how to read and write in person before you study hard?"
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Little Fourteen is about to make his debut, but he is too young now and not competitive enough, and can’t even beat Little Nine and Little Ten.
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