Chapter 82
The letter that Kangxi wrote to Yinzuo was a bit long-winded, and Yinzuo's reply was even more wordy, writing about his brothers and sisters in the study, and even about the cat raised by his fourth sister.
But Yinzuo didn't say a single bad thing about them in it. Hmm, it seemed that when he was praising his elder brother, he mentioned the fact that his tenth brother skipped classes. It's okay, it's okay, but he didn't skip classes successfully, right? It's harmless.
Yinzuo finally stopped writing with great satisfaction and gave his reply to his brother the Crown Prince, asking the Crown Prince to deliver the letter to his father the Emperor by express horse.
Kangxi received letters from the capital. The letter from the prince was not thin, and the letter from Yinzuo was even thicker.
He read the prince's first, and thought he had finished it, but then he found the next one with a completely different style. Kangxi raised his eyebrows, read to the end, "This kid..." There was a hint of smile in his voice.
As for Yinzuo's long-winded letter about a cat raising its paw to bow, Kangxi also read it carefully. Yinzuo wrote in the letter that today was the twentieth day since the emperor's father left the palace, and he missed him.
When I ate a very sweet melon from the Western Regions at the Crown Prince's place, I thought of my father. The Crown Prince and his son wanted to eat it with his father (the son only took two bites, and the Crown Prince stared at him not to eat more. The son was very obedient and only ate two bites, not a single bite more). The day before yesterday, when I saw a big, round moon, I also thought of my father. My father must have never seen such a round moon, so I wanted to watch it with him. My son thought this was what the ancients called "looking at the moon and thinking of someone". He wanted to take advantage of this feeling of longing to write two poems to express his longing, but unfortunately he couldn't write them after thinking about it again and again, and then he felt sleepy and was sent to bed...
I miss him so much and hope that the emperor will come home soon. I am waiting for him to feed the fish together.
Kangxi's heart was slightly moved and amused when he saw this, and he also suspected that the boy's thoughts were mixed with water. He sometimes chatted with his ministers about family matters, but he had heard his ministers say that when they were on business trips, the children at home were already jumping for joy before they even left the house.
I want him to go back earlier, and what I want more is to allow him to play with the musket when he goes back, right?
Kangxi smiled and put the letter away. When he left the imperial tent, he became the majestic king again. The tenderness he had shown when he received the child's letter just now disappeared in an instant.
Yinzuo was sitting in Concubine De's palace at this time, talking to Concubine De about his fourth brother who was outside: "The Emperor said they encountered hail! The weather has suddenly turned cold, I wonder if my fourth brother will be frozen?"
Defei said, "We know it's cold over there at night, so we've brought enough clothes." This was also what Defei said based on her guess. Before the Fourth Prince set out, she didn't care about the clothes he would bring with him, but she thought that the people serving him would definitely take these into consideration.
Yinzuo nodded, and then started to worry about something else: "Fourth brother is not very good at riding and shooting, but he has a strong personality. I wonder how he is doing outside?"
Defei did not think much about what was happening to the Fourth Prince outside, but touched Yinzuo's head, and once again thought that Yinzuo should have been able to go hunting on horseback outside the Great Wall this time. Defei sighed in her heart. Even though she didn't want to think about it anymore, she couldn't help but think about it.
However, Defei did not say these things, but followed Yinzuo's words and said: "Although your fourth brother is very competitive, he is steady and measured in his actions, so you don't need to worry about him from thousands of miles away."
"Yes, mother is right." Yinzuo agreed, "Fourth brother is a reliable man." Yinzuo no longer told Defei about those people outside, but talked to Defei about his unborn brothers and sisters. The fetal movement had begun to appear, but unfortunately Yinzuo had never caught up with them.
Time flies. Yinzuo said before that he missed Kangxi every day and hoped that Kangxi would come back soon. Now more than two months have passed. Has Kangxi come back?
On the second day after Kangxi came back, he called Yinzuo to have dinner with him. Although Kangxi felt that the content of the letter written by Yinzuo was exaggerated, it had to be said that Kangxi was a loving father at that time.
Kangxi pinched Yinzuo's arm to check whether he had lost weight in the past two months. He also personally picked up some food for him and asked him if he had felt any discomfort in the past two months and whether he slept well at night. He looked at his pulse and the new prescription and asked Yinzuo whether the new medicine tasted better than the previous one.
Liang Jiugong smiled, thinking that for the reserved Emperor, this scene was already disgusting enough.
Yinzuo and Kangxi said: "Father, I miss you so much!"
"The Emperor has been gone for sixty-seven days!"
"My son misses his father more and more every day. If he doesn't come back, my son won't be able to enjoy his meals and will become thinner!"
Yinzuo smiled at Kangxi and said, "But don't worry, Father. I listen to you and know that you love me. I eat well, so I haven't lost weight yet. I've just grown taller!"
Yinzuo said to Kangxi: "During the 67 days when my father was away from the palace, I was very obedient and just waited for him to come back. I did not do anything I should not have done, and I did not miss anything I should have done."
"If you don't believe me, I have the crown prince to testify for my son!"
Yinzuo said this to Kangxi in a resounding voice, and then smiled brightly at Kangxi and said, "So, you see, what did you say before you left, Father Huang, about playing with firearms?"
Kangxi listened to Yinzuo's bright and lively voice with a smile. After more than two months of separation, he really missed this kid chattering in his ear. At this moment, he didn't think he was noisy.
Kangxi was in a good mood at the moment and did not intend to expose him. For example, the boy mentioned in the letter that he had developed a habit of staying up late since he did not have to get up early to study. He did not sleep at night and did not get up in the morning. The prince knew about it and ordered the servants to let Yinzuo lie down in bed at a certain time. Another example was that Yinzuo suddenly liked to eat food with garlic juice and garlic paste. It was not that he thought the taste was strong or indecent, but the imperial physician did not recommend eating spicy and stimulating things. For example...
Anyway, he is not very obedient.
When they met again after a short separation, Kangxi, with a kind fatherly heart, nodded readily in the expectant eyes of Yinzuo, fulfilling his previous promise and allowing him to tinker with the musket.
Yinzuo was extremely happy and ran to the Eastern Palace to thank the Crown Prince.
Yinzuo had no idea what the prince had written afterwards. He sat next to the prince and said, "Thanks to my brother, the prince, for speaking well of me!"
"Brother Crown Prince is the best brother!"
As Yinzuo's good brother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gladly accepted the compliment with a smile, and even put on gentle good brother mode, fanning himself and Yinzuo with a fan.
The weather is hot now, so the East Palace uses an ice basin. However, when Yinzuo came over, the ice basin had been moved away. Yinzuo walked all the way to the East Palace and felt a little hot.
After praising the prince, he took the fan from the prince in a fawning manner and said, "Let me fan you, brother prince."
The prince asked, "Why not go out of the palace to enjoy the cool air?"
Yinzuo nodded. His mother's belly was getting bigger and bigger. It was not convenient for her to move out of the palace, so she stayed in the palace. Although it made no difference whether he was there or not, he also wanted to stay in the palace with her.
Yinzuo tugged at his clothes and said, "It would be better if we could wear less clothes."
Yinzuo's clothes were made of thin and breathable material, but he still felt that they were not enough and were too tight. He had seen people working outside in the sun, wearing shorts, with their trouser legs rolled up and their sleeves rolled up to their upper arms, and some were even shirtless.
Yinzuo gestured to the prince and he felt that he could change his long gown into a short style, and the trouser legs and sleeves could be cut down in half, which would be cooler and save fabric.
The prince listened to Yinzuo's wild and unrestrained nonsense with a smile. When Yinzuo finished speaking, he smiled leisurely and said, "Why don't you wear the skirts that the Hu women wear when they dance? It will be cooler."
Yinzuo: “…”
The prince is such a joker. No matter how hot or stuffy it is, he cannot wear a skirt.
Fortunately, the hot time had mostly passed, and when the weather turned from hot to cool, Concubine De finally gave birth.
Yinzuo felt that his younger brother or sister really knew how to choose a comfortable time to be born, and he only thought about it for a moment, and now he was waiting anxiously outside the palace.
Thinking about what he had learned about the dangers women might encounter during childbirth, and even about the deaths caused by dystocia, Yinzuo could not sit still and paced back and forth anxiously outside.
Hasn't it been born yet? I've been waiting for a long, long time.
The fifth princess has been coaxed and taken to another palace to play. When Concubine De gave birth to the fifth princess, Yinzuo was coaxed to another place for fear of scaring him. But now that he has grown up, it is not appropriate to treat him like this.
Yinzuo said to the maids in Yonghe Palace: "Don't worry about me. I'm not here to cause trouble. Just take care of your mother."
When the Fourth Prince came over, Yinzuo's palms were already covered in sweat.
Yinzuo held the Fourth Prince's hand tightly, and said as he looked at the palace door, "Fourth Brother, I'm a little scared."
Defei also had experience in childbirth, so she did not cry out loudly, which made people anxious when no sound could be heard outside the palace. But now, perhaps at the critical moment of childbirth, a few suppressed but unsuppressed sounds came out, and they sounded very painful.
The Fourth Prince also frowned when he heard this. He felt uncomfortable with Yinzuo's sweaty yet cool hands, but he had no intention of feeling the hand at this moment. He pursed his lips, stood there straight, and thought a lot for a while.
Thinking that he was also born by Concubine De, even though the mother-son relationship was shallow later, she still had a grace of giving birth to him. If he had been raised by her all the time, would she have loved him as much as she loved Yinzuo? I wondered if they would always be a pair of mother and son who were polite but not close enough...
But after thinking so much, all the chaotic thoughts finally turned into just hoping that Concubine De would give birth safely and quickly.
When Yinzuo was almost anxious enough to tear open the window, a baby was finally born, and both mother and child were safe, which made Yinzuo grin when he heard it.
The baby couldn't be brought out to be seen by Yinzuo, but Yinzuo knew that this one was his younger brother. It didn't matter if he couldn't show it today, he would be able to see it some other time.
The baby was born safely, but Yinzuo still had a lot of things to do. He still went to Yonghe Palace every day. It was not until Defei was out of confinement and the baby grew white and plump that the imperial physician said that the baby was growing well. Only then did Yinzuo finally feel relieved.
The Fourth Prince often came to Yonghe Palace during this period. Seeing that the baby was growing well, he felt relieved. Problems could easily occur within a month. The little princess born by the Imperial Noble Concubine died within a month, and the Imperial Noble Concubine's health had not been as good as before since then. It would be much safer after the baby is one month old.
As time went by, although Yinzuo had a lot of fun teasing his brother, his father the emperor was in the palace and he also needed to go to the study every day, so he did not dare to be too presumptuous.
As for the musket, he has been dismantling and reassembling it during this period, and his life every day is very colorful.
At this moment, he was sitting in Kangxi's palace, chatting with Kangxi. Ever since he stopped nagging Yinzuo about his studies, the relationship between Kangxi and Yinzuo, father and son, became more and more harmonious, even to the point of being affectionate.
As they were talking, Yinzuo, who had become more and more talkative with Kangxi, remembered something he had been thinking about during the day, so he opened his mouth and told Kangxi about it.
"Father, when I was accompanying my fourteenth brother today, I was thinking, when your sons grow up, will you share the titles with them?"
"The emperor's uncles all have titles."
"We have fourteen brothers now, and haven't we all arranged marriages for our eldest brother? In the future, we will have his son."
"Will there not be enough to share? And if too much is shared, it will become worthless."
"Father Emperor, I feel that we have enough brothers and sisters now. What do you think? You see, you haven't been able to visit my fourteenth brother many times. I also feel that I can't take care of so many brothers and sisters."
In the past, Yinzuo liked his large family of brothers and sisters very much, but now he feels that there are too many of them. For example, he can no longer visit Little Thirteen and Little Twelve often.
So, "Father, I think it's best not to have so many children."
quiet.
Extremely quiet.
Then there was a loud "pop" sound.
This is Kangxi banging the table.
The expression on Kangxi's face, which was so kind just now, made Yinzuo think that this was the prelude to a beating. Yinzuo also reacted very quickly and stood up.
Yinzuo took several steps back.
Kangxi calmed his breathing, this little bastard, but no matter how calm he was, his face was burning with anger, and the kind face he had always put on since Yinzuo was poisoned disappeared without a trace.
Kangxi calmed down again and again, but finally roared: "Aisin-Gioro Yinzuo!"
When Yinzuo heard this, he thought, isn't this the behavior of his father and brother, the crown prince, when they were angry? Yinzuo hurriedly said, "Father, calm down, calm down!"
Yinzuo felt unsafe, and took two steps back, saying to Kangxi: "Father, I was just talking to you and your son. If you think what I said is wrong, just don't accept it. You must stay calm!"
"Think about Emperor Taizong of Tang and Wei Zheng, and think about how a prime minister can hold a boat in his stomach."
"Son, don't you just tell me what you want to say?"
Yinzuo glanced at his royal father's expression, which showed no sign of relief. He thought, he shouldn't be that angry, right? His royal father was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe.
Liang Jiugong sighed inwardly. Even the most harmonious and beautiful world will always have some disturbances. Look, the father and son who were so affectionate just now started to bang the table.
Yinzuo poked Liang Jiugong and said, "Eunuch Liang, please help persuade him. Don't let the emperor get too angry."
Liang Jiugong thought that His Majesty was not angry but embarrassed. If Sixth Prince disappeared now, His Majesty would feel better.
Kangxi finally spoke. He angrily said, "Aisin-Gioro Yinzuo, you think too much. Who said that I would give you titles? When the time comes, I will let you go out and build your own palace!"
"Well, even if there is no distinction between titles, there are still too many brothers and sisters." Yinzuo said.
Kangxi had just recovered a little, but now he was about to faint from anger again: "More children, more blessings, what do you know, you little brat?!"
Kangxi's roar made Yinzuo hide behind Eunuch Liang and snatched the Buddhist whisk from him. He didn't want his royal father to beat him with the whisk again.
But the next moment he suddenly remembered that the Emperor would not beat him now, so he returned the Buddhist whisk to Eunuch Liang.
But didn’t he just whisper what he was thinking?
Isn’t it?
Kangxi was so angry that he yelled at him, "Get lost!"
Yin Zuo said, "Okay, son, get out. I don't understand. Father, I just said it casually. Please don't be too angry. I'll get out now."
After Yinzuo left, Kangxi panted and asked Liang Jiugong angrily: "Tell me! Will that little bastard become more and more lawless in the future because I don't punish him? Tell me, tell me how to punish him in the future?"
It's not that there is no other way.
For example, he was not allowed to leave the palace to visit his friends, he was not allowed to play with muskets, and he was not allowed to watch his fourteenth brother play.
But Kangxi thought after hearing this: "The imperial physician said that we should try to make him happy and not let him feel depressed."
Oh, we can’t hit or scold him, we can’t make him copy books as punishment, and now we can’t even make him unhappy. If Your Majesty says so, there is nothing we can do.
If a punishment doesn’t make people unhappy, can it still be called a punishment?
(End of this chapter)
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