Chapter 73
The Crown Prince and the eldest prince were fighting. It couldn't be said that they were fighting, it was the eldest prince who came to challenge the Crown Prince to a duel.
The two □□ punched hard, each one was powerful, and each one was more ruthless than the other.
The eldest prince beat the prince so hard that he bent over, then looked at him and said angrily, "How could he be so good to you!"
"Can you be at peace?"
The prince's eyes were dark and he didn't say anything. After a moment's pause, he raised his fist and went towards the eldest prince again, as if he wanted to vent all the depression that had been accumulated in his heart for some time, or perhaps he felt that the pain in his body at this moment would make him feel more comfortable.
It was at this time that someone from Yinzuo's side who came to look for the prince interrupted the "exchange" between the two.
"Sixth Prince said he missed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and wanted His Royal Highness to come over."
The prince stood there in a daze, feeling soft and bitter in his heart, and also ashamed.
The eldest prince was stunned for a moment, then looked at the prince with a sarcastic look.
The "exchange" between the Crown Prince and the eldest prince did not affect their faces. The Crown Prince did not delay and came to Yinzuo after hearing what the visitor said.
The prince walked into the room in a hurry, smelled the strong smell of medicine, and looked at Yinzuo lying on the bed. He was unable to move for a moment.
It was Yinzuo who spoke first: "Brother Crown Prince, don't stand there like an idiot. Brother Crown Prince, sit next to me."
The young boy's voice still gave people a light and relaxed feeling, but he no longer had the lively and bright vitality of the past. Instead, he gave people a feeling of weakness.
It's so heartbreaking.
The prince walked towards Yinzuo and sat down beside his bed according to the place where Yinzuo tapped his palm.
As soon as the prince sat down, Yinzuo grabbed his hand and said, "Prince brother didn't come the day before yesterday, and he didn't come yesterday. If I don't look for him, he won't come today."
"It's so boring staying in the house all the time."
"I miss my brother the prince, but he doesn't miss me."
The young boy complained slightly to his brother, the prince, but there was a kind of intimacy in his complaints that made people feel soft-hearted.
"No." The prince uttered these two words, his voice slightly hoarse.
The prince pinched Yinzuo's fingers. The boy's hands had not yet fully grown and still retained the soft feeling of a child, but a thin layer of calluses had formed on the fingertips.
But he can no longer ride a horse and shoot arrows...
The prince blinked away the mist in his eyes and then suppressed it again. The heartache and guilt made him feel breathless.
"It's my brother the Crown Prince who is sorry for you." The Crown Prince said with difficulty.
Yinzuo felt melancholy, because he knew that the Crown Prince would be like this.
Seeing the crown prince who didn't dare to look at him, Yinzuo hooked his finger, thought for a moment and shook his hand again: "Don't be like this, crown prince."
"You are my brother. I know that the prince loves me. This matter has nothing to do with the prince."
"Brother Prince, please don't blame yourself like this."
But even if Yinzuo and the prince said this, the prince still felt guilty. As everyone thought, what Soetu did was for him, the prince. How could he be considered completely innocent?
Seeing that his brother the Crown Prince was still breathing heavily, Yinzuo sighed and said, "Crown Prince, you know that Yinzuo likes to see you happy the most."
"If my prince feels bad, Yinzuo will also feel bad." Yinzuo's voice was soft and a little low.
These words made the prince's heart even more uncomfortable, and his eyes almost became moist again.
But even though all kinds of emotions were rising and falling in his heart, the prince took a deep breath slowly and calmed himself. He couldn't let his sick brother worry too much about him.
The prince closed his eyes and, imitating what Yinzuo did when he was a child, lowered his head and pressed his forehead against Yinzuo's. The warm touch finally soothed the gloom of the past few days and the various strong emotions he had just felt, as if a warm breeze had gently blown over him, and briefly calmed him down.
Yinzuo reached out his hand and patted the prince on the back: "Brother Prince, don't feel uncomfortable."
The prince stood up and said, "Yes, brother, I understand. Brother is much better now."
The prince even raised his lower lip to Yinzuo, proving that he was in a much better mood, and then said to him: "Are you bored these days? Then the prince brother will tell you some stories."
Yinzuo was very supportive: "Yes, yes."
The prince only read serious books, but there were many stories in those serious books. Just like those history books also contained many interesting stories. The prince did not need to look at the books when telling stories. He could just flip through them in his mind and come up with them easily.
I deliberately picked out interesting things to tell, and made them sound funny, and Yinzuo really liked listening to them, but he just laughed when he heard the funny parts, and his whole body hurt when he laughed.
The frightened prince immediately shut up and dared not tell him anything.
Seeing that the prince had become cautious again, Yin Zuo said, "I didn't know that the prince could be so humorous and interesting when he lectured. It turns out that he was just perfunctory to me before. The prince's lectures to me before were not so interesting."
After hearing what Yinzuo said, the prince felt itchy and wanted to knock him on the forehead, but in the end he just moved his fingers.
"Wait a few days for Brother Crown Prince to tell me something interesting like this again, and then I'll be able to listen."
"Now tell me something interesting first."
The prince said, "Okay, I'll tell you."
The handsome and noble boy's voice was clear, yet slow and gentle, which was very comfortable to listen to. The young boy lying on the hospital bed also listened with his eyes bright. The room with a strong smell of medicine was quietly filled with warmth in the sunset.
The head palace maid added tea to the Crown Prince and tonic soup to the Sixth Prince, then quietly left without disturbing them. She could vaguely hear the young boy complaining that it was just another tonic soup and that he wanted to drink the sour and sweet fruit juice in the East Palace.
Now, no matter what Yinzuo wanted, the prince would want to get it for him even if he didn't have it. However, he still coaxed him to drink the tonic soup. As for fruit juice, he didn't dare to give it to him because the imperial physician said it was not drinkable.
When the prince left, Yinzuo said to him, "Come and see me again tomorrow."
The prince curled his lips slightly, tucked the quilt in for him and said, "Okay."
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The Sixth Prince was poisoned, and the court was in turmoil for half a month. The reign of a powerful minister, Soetu, came to an end, which made countless people sigh.
At the same time, those close to the eldest prince were secretly happy, and as for Concubine Hui in the palace, she was suppressing her joy these days.
Everyone thought that the matter had come to an end with the fall of the Soetu family, but who knew that this was not the case.
Kangxi was not only busy with state affairs, but also had to make time to visit Yinzuo every day. He had not been in the mood to enter the harem for half a month.
But today he went to Concubine Hui's palace, but his bright yellow figure brought wind and rain. Half an hour later, Concubine Hui was confined to the palace, and there was no deadline for her release.
It turns out that although Soetu was the man behind the scenes, he was not the only one.
The old palace maid, who had been neglected and forgotten in the palace for many years, had been bribed by Concubine Hui, which was why she had contact with Soetu at the beginning of the year and why she betrayed Soetu beyond Soetu's expectation.
It not only destroyed Yinzuo, but also broke the prince's arm. It was a plan that killed two birds with one stone.
Of course, Soetu was not wronged at all. If Soetu did not have bad intentions, he would not have been induced to take action with just a little instigation, or even without any instigation.
After Concubine Hui was placed under house arrest, many people in the court who were close to the eldest prince were also dismissed.
The situation inside and outside the palace became tense again.
The competition between the Crown Prince and the Eldest Prince reappeared, except that this time it was the Crown Prince who sought out the Eldest Prince, and the more haggard person became the Eldest Prince.
There were no outsiders around, and the two most distinguished princes fought without any image. The eldest prince fell to the ground and looked at the crown prince and said, "Okay, now you can blame me."
But even if the matter of Concubine Hui was involved, the prince's guilt could not be alleviated. He was silent for a while and said to the eldest prince: "You can't blame him because of your mother's matter."
"Your mother should be punished."
"I just think that the punishment given by the Emperor was too light."
The eldest prince's eyelashes trembled and he had nothing to say.
And the prince continued.
"No matter what happens to your mother in the future, you must not blame him."
“He values us brothers.”
"He'll be sad."
"We are the only ones who feel sorry for Yinzuo."
"He was the one who almost died, he is the one lying in bed now, he is the one who needs to drink medicine, and he is the one who will not be able to ride a horse or draw a bow in the future!"
The prince grabbed the eldest prince by the collar and said, "So that's your mother. You and your son have a deep love for each other, but we are the ones who let him down, do you understand?"
The eldest prince took back his clothes and tried to laugh but couldn't. It was uglier than crying. He said, "He is also my brother."
He himself didn't know how important his younger brother was, but if he had to sacrifice his brother's life in order to trip up the prince, or if he had to sacrifice his brother's life for his own future, he would not choose this option.
That day he ridiculed Soetu for his actions because of the crown prince, and took his anger out on the crown prince, but now the roles have changed and it is his turn. What's more, that person is his own mother.
Mother, mother, you always say that there is no one in the royal family who is not cruel. You said that I am the eldest son and you are arguing about it. So, are you teaching your son a lesson personally?
But my son doesn't want this.
Why did we have to start with him? Why did we have to involve him? It seemed like yesterday that the little kids were playing tricks on him, lying on his back, and playing with him.
He had no intention of making any use of his younger brother. He just wanted a clean place in the palace, a person who was not mixed with any interests, a pure closeness that would make people laugh without worry, and take a rest.
But the purer it is, the easier it is to destroy.
Thinking of those clear and intimate eyes again, how could he face it again?
The usually cheerful eldest prince felt as if his heart was filled with heavy mud.
The prince said to the eldest prince who was still feeling overwhelmed, "Also, Yinzuo told me that day that he didn't want me to feel bad."
"Just keep whatever you have to say to yourself, and don't let him bother to enlighten you."
The eldest prince stood up and said, "I know."
When the eldest prince arrived, Yinzuo felt much heavier than when he faced the crown prince, because this time it was the eldest prince's mother.
Even he himself didn't know how to face his elder brother.
Of course he resented Concubine Hui, but because of his elder brother, Yinzuo wanted to sigh again.
Yinzuo saw the dark circles under his elder brother's eyes, and saw that his elder brother no longer had that cheerful and cheerful demeanor, but was instead weighed down by something heavy, and just one look at him made one's mood become depressed as well.
"Yinzuo."
Yinzuo was able to sit up now. He wanted to get up. The eldest prince saw his steps and wanted to move forward, but then he paused and asked, "Can I come in?"
Yinzuo really sighed this time, "Brother, come in."
The eldest prince came in and easily helped Yinzuo sit up.
After helping the man, he said to Yinzuo: "Actually, I don't have the face to see you."
Yinzuo called him "big brother".
The eldest prince said, "Listen to me."
"My mother and I are sorry for you. I owe you."
"You can hate and complain, you have the right to do so, and you should do so. You don't have to be so sensible."
"You don't have to forgive us."
Yinzuo grabbed the eldest prince's clothes and turned to look at him. He always felt that his eldest brother, who was saying all these things, must have thought about it many times in his heart.
And the eldest brother who calls himself a man and a hero is holding on.
"I owe you something. I can promise to repay you with anything. Maybe you won't need it, but it's what I owe you."
"As for the rest, I don't know how to make up for it."
"Besides, I still want to be your big brother."
"Do you still recognize me as your big brother?"
Yinzuo looked at his elder brother, whose fists were hanging at his side and whose veins were exposed. His elder brother did not look at him, but his whole body was tense, as if he was awaiting judgment.
After all these things happened, Yinzuo didn't know what to say.
He was silent for a while, then said, "Well, you are my eldest brother."
Since he didn't know what to say, he didn't say more on these matters, but stretched out his hand to his eldest brother and said, "If you want to go to the toilet, you should either drink medicine or tonic soup every day when you wake up. Don't stay in the house."
The eldest prince held the person steadily and easily.
He came back feeling refreshed and instructed the eldest prince to set up the chessboard and start playing chess, and even insisted that the eldest prince give him three pieces.
What happened has happened, and it is impossible to pretend that nothing happened, but the eldest prince said that he still wanted to be his elder brother, and Yinzuo did not want the two of them to become estranged, so they both tried their best, and their friendship was not broken after all.
The Fourth Prince finished his homework first, and then went to Yinzuo, wondering if he was awake now. During this period, the Imperial Concubine was sick again, and the Sixth Prince was poisoned, so the Fourth Prince's already cold face became even colder.
When the Fourth Prince arrived, Yinzuo had just woken up, but the Fourth Prince was not a very active person. He just handed Yinzuo a hot handkerchief, then thought for a while and told Yinzuo some things that happened in the study.
It has been more than half a month since Yinzuo was poisoned. At that time, Yinzuo was lying in the Imperial Hospital with almost no movement of his chest. But now, he finally wakes up for longer and longer periods of time, so people no longer have to worry about hearing the bad news in the middle of the night one day.
But he has not been able to get out of bed until now, and his face is still pale. The person who loves to run outside and eat all kinds of delicious food now has to lie in bed and drink bitter medicine every day, which makes people feel uncomfortable every time they see him.
That’s right. No matter how many times Yinzuo drank the medicine, his face became distorted with bitterness and he lost all desire to live.
Yinzuo said with a bitter face: "Can't you add more licorice to the medicine? It's too bitter."
The Fourth Prince was not good at coaxing people, but after listening to Yin Zuo's complaints, he said silently: "...The imperial physician must have his own considerations, which may affect the efficacy of the medicine."
"Drink your medicine well, I'll find you something delicious later."
Yinzuo just complained a little, wiped his mouth, and asked the Fourth Prince to tell him more about the study.
Actually, there is nothing much to say. Ever since Yinzuo left the study, the room has become much quieter with one less person in it.
And everyone was in a bad mood.
Moreover, because the poisoning of Yinzuo implicated the Crown Prince and the eldest prince, the other brothers, such as the third and seventh princes, were all on good terms with Yinzuo, and they had some estrangement and resentment towards the Crown Prince and the eldest prince, and he also...
Therefore, there seemed to be a lingering layer of haze in the study.
When the Fourth Prince was leaving Yinzuo's room, he ran into Concubine De who came to visit her son.
Concubines in the harem were not supposed to come here, but Yinzuo was in a special situation, and when he saw her, the Fourth Prince just bowed and said, "Greetings, De'er Niang."
And Concubine De also replied: "Good morning, Fourth Prince."
Then one person goes in and one person goes out, that's all.
The people walking inside walked hurriedly, their faces showing only worry for their sons inside, while the people walking out walked steadily, with no waves in their hearts.
The Fourth Prince looked at the sky, thinking about the Imperial Noble Consort who was also ill and had not yet recovered. He frowned slightly and thought that there was still time, so he decided to go and see the Imperial Noble Concubine.
(End of this chapter)
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