Chapter 77
Yinzuo had no idea what the Fourth Prince was thinking. He had two bowls of sweet milk brought over, one for him and one for the Fourth Prince. He didn't like drinking milk before, but now he's used to it.
It tastes better than medicine, right?
Moreover, the palace maids sent by the emperor made the milk have no fishy smell at all. They added red dates, raisins, and dried longans to it, creating many different flavors. It tasted quite good.
The Fourth Prince drank the milk bit by bit without much appetite. He couldn't help but look at Yinzuo who was drinking happily. It seemed that this man always had a happy energy in him.
Yinzuo finished drinking the milk, and the bowl was taken over by the Fourth Prince.
After drinking the hot milk and sitting on the warm bed, Yinzuo began to feel sleepy again. He lazily said to the Fourth Prince: "Now I eat and sleep, sleep and eat, raising me is like raising a pig."
But he didn't gain weight.
A bunch of people racked their brains, and now all the good things were not given to Kangxi or the prince first, but to Yinzuo as long as he could use them.
But the little face didn't get the rosy look that everyone wanted.
The Fourth Prince looked at the drowsy Yinzuo, then turned around and asked the palace maid outside whether Yinzuo was sleeping well or not.
Yinzuo slept too much some time ago, and the imperial physician said that it is good to sleep more, but now he doesn’t need to sleep so much.
The head maid said, "You have already taken a nap at noon. It is best not to sleep now, otherwise you will not be able to sleep well at night. Why not let the Fourth Prince accompany the Sixth Prince and talk."
The Fourth Prince said hello.
When he returned to the inner room, Yinzuo's upper eyelids were almost sticking to his lower eyelids. The Fourth Prince walked in. He opened his eyes and called out vaguely, "Fourth Brother."
The Fourth Prince actually didn’t know what to say.
He thought for a moment and said to Yinzuo, "The little rabbit you folded is pretty good."
Yinzuo perked up a bit: "Do you think it's good? Do you like it?"
The Fourth Prince hummed, and even said, "Why not teach me, I'm a little curious."
Now Yinzuo was no longer sleepy: “Okay, okay.” He was about to get up from the bed. The Fourth Prince thought about it and asked Yinzuo to continue sitting on the bed. He could get the scissors and colored paper he needed.
Yinzuo was very excited about teaching his fourth brother. It was the first time for the fourth prince to play this, but he was serious and methodical, and learned it very well, which did not give Yinzuo the opportunity to laugh at his clumsiness. Yinzuo was a little disappointed.
The fourth prince thought for a moment and asked, "How come you can fold rabbits?"
Yinzuo said: "I learned it from the small vendors outside, but this kind of thing is not easy to sell. No one buys it for a penny." Fortunately, the old man not only sells these paper things, but also other small wooden dolls, cloth tigers and the like.
Fourth Prince: "Doesn't he still need to make money from this? Why is he teaching you?"
Yinzuo: "I am your brother, good-looking and sweet-spoken, so the master likes me."
Fourth Prince: “…”
Yinzuo laughed loudly: "I bought a lot of his things. It's not difficult to make a paper bunny."
The Fourth Prince seemed to see Yinzuo chatting and laughing with peddlers beside a small stall in the capital, and now seeing Yinzuo sitting on the bed folding paper with a smile on his face, the Fourth Prince's eyelashes trembled.
If the Imperial Noble Consort had not harbored any selfish motives and had been able to stop the incident and inform the Emperor of the matter, perhaps Yinzuo would now be happily strolling outside shopping.
The scissors accidentally pierced the tip of his finger, and red blood oozed out. Yin Zuo was shocked and said, "Fourth brother!"
The Fourth Prince had come back to his senses. He was not seriously injured. He said, "It's okay."
"Don't panic, it's just a little skin break, the bleeding will stop in a while."
The Fourth Prince asked Yinzuo to stay on the bed while he went to the outer room with others to deal with it. He came back soon and saw Yinzuo leaning his head to look outside. He stretched out his hand to show him and said, "It's okay."
It was indeed not serious. After pressing for a while, the bleeding almost stopped. Yinzuo breathed a sigh of relief and said to his fourth brother: "Fourth brother, were you distracted just now?"
"You can't do that with scissors."
The Fourth Prince nodded: "You are right."
"I was careless just now."
Seeing that his fourth brother was humble and did not refute, Yinzuo raised his eyebrows. Wow, he didn't expect that he could still educate his brother.
Yinzuo said, "Okay, Fourth Brother, stop folding little rabbits. Watch me."
But the Fourth Prince held up one finger and insisted on finishing it. Yinzuo had no way to do anything about him. He was truly a stubborn brother.
After folding the little rabbit, Yinzuo got up to go to the toilet again. He couldn't help but drink too much soup every day, and he just drank a bowl of milk.
He kicked and stomped his shoes back and forth, and all the heat from his body escaped after going out, but who told him not to use the toilet in the house?
He walked quickly in a hurry, and his chest felt uncomfortable again. Yinzuo retreated into the quilt to smooth himself over, and then said after a while: "It's really cold outside."
The Fourth Prince pinched his fingers and suddenly spoke: "I, I want to apologize to you on behalf of the Imperial Concubine."
"Ah?" Yinzuo scratched his head and said, "What's past is past."
Although he felt a little sad when he first found out that so many people didn't want him to be well, but when he thought about it, he didn't have much of a relationship with the Imperial Concubine, so he just let others stand by and watch. Alas.
Besides, the person is gone now, the debt is settled, and there is nothing much to say.
He was a little worried about his fourth brother who was full of worries.
Yinzuo said to the Fourth Prince, "Fourth Brother, don't worry so much. If you are so worried every day, I am worried that you will become an old man."
The Fourth Prince does have a lot on his mind. Things have been happening one after another this winter without a break, and he is in a very awkward situation now.
The Imperial Noble Consort's exposed thoughts also exposed him to the Crown Prince, the eldest prince and other people, making the Crown Prince, the eldest prince and even the Emperor dislike him.
Ever since he was a child, the Imperial Concubine had high expectations of him, but he never imagined that the Imperial Concubine actually wanted him to compete with the Crown Prince and the Eldest Prince.
Now that the arrogant Imperial Noble Consort is gone, the Fourth Prince has fallen into a very embarrassing position.
The Fourth Prince is somewhat confused and uneasy about the future, and feels physically and mentally exhausted.
But looking at Yinzuo who was still trapped in the room, although the Fourth Prince knew that it was useless to say anything and nothing could be done to save the situation, he still felt that he should say sorry to Yinzuo.
Yinzuo reached out his hand to the Fourth Prince, held it, and said to him, "Don't think too much. I've seen people with gray hair at a young age. Don't be like that. I don't want a brother who ages prematurely. It's not good looking."
"Let's not think about the past. Let's look forward and do well in the future."
The Fourth Prince lowered his eyes. He really hoped that nothing that happened this winter had happened, that Yinzuo was still fine, and that the Imperial Concubine was still alive.
But no matter what he thought, he could only look back. The Fourth Prince said, "Well, I understand."
"Yinzuo." The two were talking when the prince suddenly entered the room. His eyes fell on the two people's holding hands. The prince raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing?"
The prince thought, could it be because Yinzuo knew that the fourth brother was his biological brother that he got along better with the fourth brother?
When the Fourth Prince saw that it was the Crown Prince, he stood up and was about to salute him, but the Crown Prince waved his hand to stop him. Mainly because he didn't want Yinzuo to salute, he reached out and held Yinzuo down.
But Yinzuo wanted to get up. He stared at the cage in the prince's other hand and said, "Parrot?!"
“Yinzuo.” This time it was a clear voice, neither from the Crown Prince nor the Fourth Prince. Yinzuo was surprised and said, “Is it calling me?!”
"Hello, Sixth Prince."
Yinzuo's eyes widened, and he happily said to the prince, "Is this parrot going to be given to me, Prince?"
The prince nodded: "Aren't you bored? Let it play with you."
This parrot can say a lot of things, such as "Sixth Prince, good luck" and "Sixth Prince, have a meal". Yinzuo said happily, "Did you teach it to say mine?"
The prince said, "He is quite smart. You can teach him anything you want."
Yinzuo played with the parrot for a long time before he finally didn't have to ask the prince to carry the birdcage for him anymore. However, he was still very excited and kept glancing at the parrot.
The prince raised his lips, glanced at the sullen Fourth Prince, and concluded that there was nothing to worry about. Even the thick-skinned eldest prince was nothing, let alone the fourth prince?
He must be the first among his brothers in Yinzuo's heart.
Otherwise, how come he was the only one who had the collection of jokes that Yinzuo had spent a month to make, while the other brothers didn't have it? Even the emperor was jealous of this.
The prince saw two paper bunnies nearby and asked about them, then said, "Did you two fold them?"
"Is it easy to fold?"
Seeing that his brother, the crown prince, was also interested, Yinzuo thought for a moment and said, "Your brother, please don't break it. Fourth brother hurt his hand when he used scissors."
The Crown Prince glanced at the Fourth Prince, and that look made the Fourth Prince silent for a moment. He felt that the Crown Prince had the attitude of a winner at the moment.
It was as if he was trying to snatch the prince's younger brother, and now he lost.
The prince indeed thought so. Being born of the same mother was nothing. He was the one who played with the child in the East Palace when the child fell down while walking. There was no mention of the fourth child at that time.
The prince picked up the little rabbit that Yinzuo had broken and said, "Give this to me."
Of course, Yinzuo would not be stingy with the prince, and said, "Brother Prince, if you want it, just take it."
"Fourth brother and Crown Prince, please have dinner with me here." Yinzuo now eats small meals frequently, but there are many food restrictions during the medication period. However, the chef's skills are good, so it's not bad.
The Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince both agreed.
When it was time to eat, Yinzuo didn't want to sit on the bed to eat.
After putting on his clothes and getting out of bed, the prince looked at the shoes on Yinzuo's feet and praised him: "These shoes are nice. They look quite comfortable on you."
At this time, the three of them were already sitting at the dinner table. Yinzuo proudly shook his feet towards the prince and said proudly, "My mother made this for me."
After he said that, he suddenly realized something was wrong. He looked at the Fourth Prince and said, "I always lie in bed, so it's more convenient to put on shoes like this, so mother made such shoes. But they are indeed comfortable to wear indoors. If Fourth Prince wants them, I'll ask mother to make you two pairs too?"
Yinzuo was worried that the Fourth Prince would think that his mother favored him more, but his concern was unnecessary. The Fourth Prince would not think too much about it. The relationship between him and Concubine De was far from that level. There was no question of favoring anyone. It was just that the relationship between him and Concubine De was forced to be that of mother and son.
So the Fourth Prince didn't think about it at first. Yinzuo's words made him stunned for a moment, and then his eyes softened. Although he didn't need it, Yinzuo's care still made him feel a little warm in his heart.
The Fourth Prince said, "I know, I don't need shoes like that."
The prince picked up a piece of food with chopsticks for Yinzuo and said, "Eat quickly, before it gets cold." Why do you worry so much every day?
The prince was confused. Yinzuo had been spoiled by his mother and father since he was a child. Shouldn't he be lawless and heartless? But in the end, he didn't behave like a spoiled child at all.
"Oh." Yinzuo was eating and asked the prince: "What should we feed the parrot? Have you given it a name?"
The prince said, "You can give it a name. As for what it eats, don't birds eat grains and fruits?"
Yin Zuo: "Brother Crown Prince, don't you know anything at all?"
Prince: “…”
The prince really didn't know. He asked his subordinates to find the parrot, and then he tried to teach it a few sentences. Seeing that it was indeed smart and funny, he brought it to Yinzuo. It was not like he fed the parrot himself.
Yin Zuo said nonsense again: "Brother Crown Prince, do you have no interesting stories to tell? So you brought a talking parrot to deal with it? Then you don't have to bother telling me stories yourself?"
Prince: “…”
This little guy has no conscience.
The prince said, "Okay, I will take the parrot away later."
Yin Zuo hurriedly said with a playful smile: "No, I just said the wrong thing. It is obvious that since the prince gave me a parrot, he should also tell me interesting stories, right?"
The Fourth Prince felt a little envious as he watched the two of them chatting and joking, unable to say a word.
(End of this chapter)
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