Ever since he suffered a great loss last time and lost the company of his brother Yinzuo, the Fourteenth Little Prince has become exceptionally well-behaved for a while, especially in front of Emperor Kangxi and Concubine De, he acts coquettishly and makes people laugh, not to mention how good he is at pleasing others.
And now, on his birthday, he finally got the chance to get close to Yinzuo again, and that day happened to be Yinzuo's day off.
"Brother, play with me!" Little Fourteenth Boy Yinzhen piled all his toys around him and asked Yinzuo to play with him with a smile.
"Okay, you are the little birthday boy and the oldest today, so whatever you say is what it is. Which one do you want to play with?" Yinzuo sat patiently beside him and played with him.
On the other side, Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi, counting the days on their fingers, came to Chengqian Palace to find Yinzuo, but found nothing.
"Sixth brother is not here? Where did he go?" Xiao Shi asked.
The maid of Chengqian Palace replied, "In reply to the Tenth Prince, the Sixth Prince has gone to celebrate the Fourteenth Prince's birthday. He asked me to inform the two princes that I am afraid I cannot accompany you today. Please come back in five days."
"It's that Fourteen again! A crybaby who likes to bite people. He's the most annoying one!" Yin Eke still remembered the last time he was bitten by him.
"What should we do? Should we go back now?" Yinzhen asked.
"No! Wouldn't Sixth Brother be monopolized by him if that happens? Where will our faces be if people tell others about it? People will think we are afraid of Fourteenth!" Yin'e was unwilling to accept this.
"You don't want to meet him again, do you? Don't get bitten again." Yinzhen thought about it and still felt scared. He was the one who almost got bitten.
"What? Are you scared? He is only one year old! I was bitten by him last time because I wasn't paying attention. If you are scared, I will go by myself!" Yin'e had made up his mind to go there himself. After saying that, he headed towards Yonghe Palace without looking back.
"No! Hey! Are you really planning to go?" Yinzhen shouted at his back, stomped his feet, and had no choice but to chase after him.
When they arrived, Yinzuo was holding Little Fourteen and playing with the birthday gift that Yinzuo gave him - a very brightly colored ancient version of the "Magic Cube".
"Sixth Brother!"
Yinzuo raised his head and looked in surprise at the two children standing five steps away.
"Xiaojiu, Xiaoshi? Why are you two here? Didn't the maid tell you that I would be accompanying Xiaoshisi to celebrate his birthday today?"
"As I said, we both came here to congratulate him!" Yinzhen made up an excuse.
"Brother! I don't know! Teach me!" Little Fourteen held up the Rubik's Cube with mixed colored blocks, trying hard to attract his brother's attention again.
"Okay, brother will teach you right away." Yinzuo twisted it a few times to help him restore one of the sides to the same color, and then handed the Rubik's Cube back to Little Fourteen.
He then said to the other two kids who were still standing there, "By the way, why don't you go back first and we can play together next time."
"Sixth brother, what is that?" Yin'e's attention was attracted by the new thing in Fourteen's hand that he had never seen before.
"This is a Rubik's Cube. It's the birthday gift I gave to Little Fourteen today." Yinzuo replied with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Shisi hid the Rubik's Cube behind him and looked at the two bad guys opposite vigilantly. He still remembered that it was the two of them who snatched his brother from him last time!
"Fourteen! No way!"
"If you don't want to give it to me, then don't give it to me! I'm asking Sixth Brother for it, not you!" Although Yin'e is several years older than Fourteenth, their mentalities... are quite similar.
"Brother, I won't give it to you! Humph!" Little Fourteen hugged Yinzuo's waist and raised his little chin proudly, looking extremely domineering.
"You still come! The Emperor has already told us to let Sixth Brother play with us! Why are you so proud?" Yinzhen chimed in.
"Brother, mine! Mine! Mine!" Important things need to be said many times. Anyway, Little Fourteen kept shouting at the other side, just like a little beast that has entered a combat state, baring his teeth, ready to pounce on the other side and take a bite at any time.
Yin'e and Yin'er both retreated several steps quickly and timidly.
"Don't come over here! I, I'm not afraid of you!" Yin'e swallowed nervously, his legs trembling.
"That's right! There are two of us, so we are not afraid of you! If you bite us, we will bite back!" Although Yinzhen was also unsure, he did not lose his momentum.
"Awooo!" Little Fourteen made a fierce expression towards them and began to demonstrate.
"Alright, alright! Calm down, we are all brothers, so stop fighting each other. I will give each of you one of these Rubik's Cubes in a while, on your birthdays, okay?"
Yinzhen and Yin'e were satisfied, but the Fourteenth Prince was not happy.
"No! No! Mine! Mine!" Little Fourteen's domineering temperament became more and more obvious.
"Little Fourteen, be obedient. Their birthday is not until the end of the year, and you've had almost a year to play with them. What are you dissatisfied with? Be good~"
In order to comfort the little fourteenth child in his arms, Yinzuo also kissed him.
After receiving a kiss from his brother, Little Fourteen finally calmed down and stopped making trouble.
"More, kiss!"
Little Fourteen became more and more aggressive, and in front of Yin'er and Yin'e, he put the other side of his face close to Yinzuo's mouth.
Yinzuo looked at him with amusement and could only give him another kiss.
"Sixth brother has never kissed either of us!" Yinzhen muttered sourly.
"That's right! Sixth brother, I want a kiss too!" Yin'e doesn't care about face, he just wants to be real.
Seeing this, Xiao Shisi deliberately yawned and rubbed his eyes.
"Brother, I'm sleepy~"
Yinzuo, who wanted to say a few words to Yinlu and Yin'e, could only lower his head and look at the little fourteenth child in his arms.
"Then I'll carry you to the bed, okay?"
Little Fourteen had to sleep when he was sleepy, otherwise he would cry loudly, and Yinzuo was afraid that he would make a fuss.
"Okay." Little Fourteen nodded and stretched out his arms for his brother to hug him.
Yinzuo held him in his arms and walked towards the bed.
Little Fourteen, with his head resting on Yinzuo's shoulder, gave Yin'er and Yin'e a nasty smile, and deliberately stuck out his tongue at them, made faces, and mocked them to the utmost.
"You! You actually!" Yin'e's face turned red with anger.
Yinzuo felt something was wrong, turned around and looked at Yin'e and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, Sixth Brother, I'm not talking about you." Yin'e was afraid that Sixth Brother would misunderstand, so he quickly waved his hand.
Yinzuo gave him a soothing smile, then turned around, put the little guy in his arms on the bed, and covered him with a quilt.
"Go to sleep."
Xiao Shisi could only pretend to close his eyes.
Yinzuo looked at his constantly moving eyes and rapidly trembling eyelids, and knew at a glance that he was pretending to sleep.
"Little Fourteen is not behaving well~ Didn't you just say you were sleepy?"
Xiao Shisi opened his eyes and found an excuse for himself.
"Brother, pat."
Anyway, he just didn't want his brother to leave now to accompany those two bad guys.
"Okay, then go to bed quickly." Yinzuo patted little Fourteen gently like his mother used to coax him to sleep when he was a child.
Just when he thought that Little Fourteen had fallen asleep and was about to get up and go out to say a few words to Little Nine and Little Ten who were still waiting outside, his sleeve was pulled again.
"Little Fourteen! Why aren't you sleeping yet? Brother is going to be angry!"
"Brother, tell me a story, please~" Little Fourteen was also used to acting like a spoiled child, and he knew very well that Yinzuo would fall for his tricks.
Yinzuo sighed and had to sit back down, continuing the story he had told him last time when he was trying to coax him to sleep.
When he finally came out, Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi were nowhere to be seen.
"Where are the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince?" he asked a palace maid standing next to him.
"In reply to Sixth Prince, the two princes have just returned to the palace, and the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Concubine Yi have sent people to pick them up."
Yinzuo nodded and had to give up. Yes, there was an incident in Yonghe Palace last time. It was normal for the two queens to worry about the ninth and tenth little ones. It would be better for them to go back, so that the three little ones would not glare at each other and want to fight. He was stuck in the middle and felt really embarrassed.
Just at this moment, Su Peisheng came in.
"Eunuch Su? Why are you here?" Yinzuo asked.
"I am here on the orders of the Fourth Prince to deliver a birthday gift to the Fourteenth Prince."
"Xiao Shisi is asleep now, just leave it on the table."
“Yeah.”
Su Peisheng put his things down and said to Concubine De, "My Lady Concubine De, I will go back first. The Fourth Prince was practicing horseback archery and got injured. I have to go back and serve him."
"Are you sprained? Have you asked the imperial physician to check it out? Is it serious?" Before Concubine De could even open her mouth, Yinzuo asked first.
"The imperial physician has examined me and said that I should apply medicine properly and should not exert any strength recently, so I have to hurry back to serve you."
Only then did Concubine De feel relieved.
"I have a few bottles of excellent medicinal wine here. Take them back and rub them on the Fourth Prince."
"Thank you, my lady!"
Su Peisheng took the medicine, turned around and walked out, but after a while, Yinzuo followed him.
"Eunuch Su! I'll go back with you! I've just told Mother, has Fourth Brother returned to the South Third Residence?"
"Sixth Prince, I just lied to the Empress Defei. The Fourth Prince was injured, but he did not make it public, nor did he ask for a doctor. The Fourth Prince did not want to make the Empress worry, so he told me to say this."
"What? How is that possible? Does that mean that fourth brother is still on the training ground?" Yinzuo asked anxiously.
"Yes." Su Peisheng lowered his eyes, revealing no extra expression, and looked worried.
"Then let's hurry back! Tell them I'm not feeling well! Let's ask the imperial physician to come and take a look. And while we're at it, Eunuch Su, go and call my fourth brother back. That way, the imperial physician can take a look at my fourth brother without getting caught."
Su Peisheng's heart tightened, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Sixth Prince, this may not be appropriate. If you pretend to be unwell, Concubine De will definitely know, and I'm afraid the Imperial Concubine will also be worried. Wouldn't that go against the original intention of the Fourth Prince to conceal the injury?
"Sixth Prince, don't worry. Fourth Prince's injury is not serious. He was injured while practicing archery. This happens all the time. It would be ridiculous to mobilize so many people."
Yinzuo thought about it and said softly, "That's right, let's go to the training ground first to check on Fourth Brother's situation."
When he arrived at the training ground, the class had just ended. He walked quickly to his brother, pulled his left arm and pressed it, then pulled his right arm and pressed it, but he did not find any clues on his brother's face.
"Brother, which arm did you strain?"
Yinzhen glanced at Su Peisheng, and the master and servant exchanged glances.
"It's my right hand that's pulling the bowstring. It's okay, just a little painful. It's bearable." Yinzhen said in a light tone, as if he didn't take the matter to heart.
"Brother just doesn't take care of his body! Come back with me!" Yinzuo angrily held his left hand and walked back.
Yinzhen looked at Yinzuo, who had been hit harder than him, and curled the corners of his lips slightly.
Su Peisheng, who was following behind him, felt his master's inner joy and was also in a good mood with a smile on his face.
The more lively one poked Su Peisheng's arm and asked in a low voice: "Brother Su, the Fourth Prince is injured, why are you still laughing? Aren't you afraid of being scolded by the master?"
Even Shunfeng glanced at Su Peisheng and felt that he was indeed a little abnormal.
"If the master is happy, the servant will naturally be happy too." Su Peisheng smiled mysteriously.
Shunshui was still confused and didn't understand what it meant.
Instead, Shunfeng raised his head and stared at the Fourth Prince's back for a long time before lowering his head in thought.
The Fourth Prince's steps today seem to be lighter than usual?
When Yinzuo turned around, he happened to notice the corners of Yinzhen's lips curled up.
He said angrily: "Brother, how can you still laugh? You are injured!"
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