Five days later, it was time for Yinzuo to take leave, but the emperor summoned him again.
Yinzuo walked into the bedroom with ease and saw a half-read book on the table. He picked it up and flipped through a few pages. He never thought that it was a book of miscellaneous notes, which was quite interesting, so he continued reading.
"If you like it, take it back and read it."
A voice suddenly came from behind, Yinzuo turned his head immediately and complained with a pout.
"Father Emperor, you are finally back. I am waiting for you to be hungry even if you are not."
"Then serve the meal and talk while we eat." Kangxi smiled and gave an order behind him.
Eunuchs carrying all kinds of imperial dishes came in one after another. It only took them a moment to turn around and wash their hands for all the dishes to be served.
"Hurry up and sit down and eat. Didn't you just say you were hungry?" Kangxi, who had already taken his seat, pointed to the seat next to him and said to Yinzuo.
Yinzuo hurried over, picked up the chopsticks and started eating without any hesitation.
Seeing that he was eating happily, Kangxi, who was standing by, also had a big appetite and ate a lot. He only slowed down his eating when he felt 70% full.
"Yinzuo, I asked you to come here today not only to have dinner with me, but also to have something else for you to do."
Yinzuo swallowed the pork ribs in his mouth, raised his head and looked at the emperor with doubt and asked: "No problem, emperor, just say it."
"I haven't even told you what it is, and you agreed to it so easily? What if you can't complete it?" Kangxi asked him deliberately.
"Father Emperor, you are so smart, how could you ask me to do something that I can't do at all? Even if it is a little difficult for me to do, I can always try my best first!"
"You, Xiaoliu, are always so clever. I won't keep you in suspense. The Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi came to me today and asked you to help teach Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi to read and write. These two children are naughty and only listen to you. What do you think? If you don't want to teach them, that's fine. Just tell me the truth."
Yinzuo smiled and replied, "What's the big deal? Since I spent more than a month with them after the vaccination last time, Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi have often come to play with me. I am willing to teach them. Since the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Concubine Yi have come to you, Father Emperor, to ask for permission, I will teach them on my day off. This will allow them to get used to it step by step."
"It's up to you, but don't overwork yourself." After giving Xiaoliu this instruction, Kangxi personally picked up a piece of his favorite pork ribs for him.
Although he did not dine with the child very often, his preferences could be seen at a glance. Somehow, Kangxi really took such a small matter to heart.
"Thank you, Father Huang. The spareribs here are more delicious than those elsewhere~"
"Like? Then I will summon you to come and have meals with me from time to time." Kangxi said this casually.
Yinzuo didn't take it seriously. He just responded casually and continued to eat. However, the new eunuch on duty beside him widened his eyes.
Fortunately, Yinzuo happened to have a day off the next day. He went to the Cining Palace early in the morning to tend to the flowers and plants. When he came out, he went to the Yongshou Palace and the Yiku Palace in the west six palaces to pick up Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi.
Both the Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi were very kind to Yinzuo. When they heard that Yinzuo was coming to take the two children to Chengqian Palace to learn to read and write, they let him go without saying much.
On the way, Yin'er and Yin'e were very happy.
"Sixth brother! Fortunately you came to pick us up. You don't know how much we have suffered recently!" Yinzhen was the first to complain.
"What's wrong? The Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi obviously love you two so much, how could they bear to let you two suffer?" Yinzuo asked puzzled.
"It's all because of studying." Yin'e added with a sad face.
"The Emperor was just angry for a moment and scolded you. I was scolded a lot when I was a kid, but now I am fine. So, how about we learn a little bit from him and shine in front of the Emperor next time to surprise him?"
Yin'er and Yin'e looked at each other, both with wrinkled faces, not looking very willing.
After arriving at Chengqian Palace, Yinzuo took out the paintings he had drawn previously. He had searched for them overnight after he returned from having dinner with the Emperor.
"Picture cards? Sixth brother, do you want to play picture cards with us? We haven't played them for a long time!" Yin'e was extremely excited. He was the first to touch the piles of picture cards on the table, and he seemed to be impatient to start.
"Then let's divide it quickly and start!" Yinzhen himself was itching to do it and couldn't help rolling up his sleeves.
"Don't worry, I've come up with a new way to play today, it's more interesting, do you want to try it?"
"Okay, okay! Sixth brother, what you come up with will definitely be interesting!" Yin'e applauded mindlessly.
"Here, there are pairs of identical pictures. Let's use a pen to draw small grids of the same size and arranged neatly on paper, and then randomly push new pictures into the blank grids. The identical pictures that can be connected can be eliminated. Each person can only turn over the cards within the specified time to eliminate them. Pay attention, each person has to describe the remaining cards that have not been turned over ten times. This is a punishment."
Yinzuo was setting a trap for his younger brothers. The patterns on the pictures were originally expressions and were not easy to distinguish, so he deliberately named them with different characters. In this way, several sets of pictures were mixed together, which was just right for his younger brothers to play Candy Crush while learning to read.
"Only punishment? What about reward?" Yin'er was smarter than Yin'e, and he caught the loophole in Sixth Brother's words just now.
"Reward? I put a lot of effort into coming up with a new game, and I spent several nights drawing so many pictures myself. Xiaojiu, you still want a reward from me? I didn't even charge you any money and let you play for free!"
Yin'e thought about it and felt that what Sixth Brother said made sense.
"Brother Nine, Brother Six is right! Could it be that you are afraid because you think you will lose?"
"I..." Yinzhen didn't want to admit that he was indeed a little scared. He would have to use a brush to describe these pictures, and his hands would hurt.
"How about this, I'll play a trial game with you two first, and then we'll officially start calculating the punishment in the second game, how about that?" Yinzuo's original intention was to make the two of them learn some words, not to tease or punish them.
Yin'er and Yin'e were very competitive and playful by nature, so as expected, they agreed without much hesitation in the end.
The result of the first game was naturally that Yinzuo won a great victory, and Yin'er and Yin'e hurried forward to ask him for advice.
"Sixth brother! How did you memorize them so quickly? They all have two dots for eyes and a line for mouths. They are too hard to recognize!"
Originally, I thought the expressions in the pictures were lively and cute, but at first glance, they were really hard to distinguish. Both Yinzhen and Yin'e encountered this difficulty.
"I don't just rely on the little figures drawn on top to distinguish them. Look, I've given them different names below. It'll be much easier to distinguish them as long as you remember their names!"
"Then Sixth brother, please teach us how to get to know each other first!" Yin'e took the bait first.
"No problem, I'll teach you one by one." Yinzuo smiled kindly.
Although Yinzhen felt that something was not right, for the sake of victory, he could not help but come closer to listen.
There was an hourglass on the table that could measure quarters of an hour, and the game officially began.
While they were playing, the two little ones became more and more addicted. Even after lunch, they continued to pester Yinzuo. In the end, each of them lost many times. Yinzuo finally thought that if he really asked them to copy the remaining pictures, they would probably have to write at least a hundred big characters, and he was afraid that they would resist.
"Alright, alright, let's stop here today. I still have to go check on the newly born Little Fourteen, Yaohua, and Little Thirteen. Besides, I think the punishments you have accumulated now are a bit too much.
How about this, in the morning, since you two are not very familiar with it, it will not be counted as a punishment, only in the afternoon. Each of you just need to copy the words on the remaining cards, and you don’t need to draw them, which is a bit too difficult for you two. The words on them are a bit small, so I specially prepared some model words for you. "
Since Yinzuo cared so much about them, the two little ones had nothing to say. They could only hold the model characters written by Yinzuo for them and go back reluctantly.
But on the way back, Yin'e couldn't help but say to Yin'e, "In the past, Qionghua and Fourth Brother were the most important to Sixth Brother. Now that Yaohua and Little Fourteen have been added, Sixth Brother has less and less time to spend with the two of us."
"Qionghua and Yaohua are fine, they are girls, I don't like Fourth Brother even more, and Little Fourteen! Aren't they just relying on the fact that they are Sixth Brother's brothers? What's so rare about them? Fourth Brother is cold and doesn't like to talk, and he certainly won't make Sixth Brother happy. Little Fourteen just cries all day long, which is even more annoying!"
"That's right. I don't know why Sixth Brother must like them so much."
However, although they were angry, the two little guys got together after returning and practiced writing model characters very seriously, which scared the Imperial Concubine and Concubine Yi.
"Is the Sixth Prince really so powerful? He actually subdued these two little devils? Did I see it right?" The Imperial Concubine whispered to Concubine Yi behind the curtain.
Concubine Yi said, "I have been standing here for a while, watching it for real! Yin'er and Yin'e are indeed practicing calligraphy. It seems that they have learned a lot of new characters today. There is no doubt about it!"
"I didn't expect this. It's good this way. Let them learn more from the Sixth Prince and absorb some of the wisdom of the child prodigy!" The imperial concubine had a satisfied smile on her face.
Yin'er and Yin'e were holding their breath, thinking that in five days, they would win back in front of their sixth brother to prove that they were more capable than the crying little fourteenth child. So they were particularly serious. Not only did they write the characters obediently, they even went to ask the Imperial Concubine and the Concubine Yi for advice respectively, asking them to give advice on whether they read them correctly and wrote them well.
It has to be said that after the two of them focused all their attention on their son, the entire harem became much calmer, and they didn't even care about competing for favor.
Or perhaps they each gradually understood in their hearts that the emperor was not a loyal person. New people came into the palace every year, and each of them was like a flower bud, charming and lovely. No matter how well they took care of themselves, they were not as young as others. It would be better for them to train their sons well and earn themselves a comfortable old age in the future.
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