Chapter 12
Kangxi asked leisurely, "How can I coax her? How can I coax her?"
A question mark appeared in Yinzuo's eyes again. Why are you still asking him? Yinzuo thought for a moment and said, "Accompany."
Just accompany me.
It's really easy to coax him.
It should be said that there was no need to coax him at all. The little guy sat next to his father and mother, with his father on his left and his mother on his right. The smile on his little face returned. He looked to the left and then to the right, as if he was constantly checking whether his baby was there.
The complexion on the little guy's face was getting better and better, and now it has regained its white and tender complexion, especially his eyes, which were clear and full of dependence and love. Even a figure like Kangxi couldn't help but soften his heart.
Kangxi had forgotten about the sticky saliva he had been smeared with last time. He reached out and touched the little guy's head, saying, "Your mother said that you like to play outside now?"
Yinzuo nodded: "Big."
"There are fish." Yinzuo stretched out his hand and gestured to Kangxi the fish he had seen. There were a lot of them swimming around. It was very interesting. Yinzuo could watch them for most of the day without getting tired of it.
"Water, if you want to touch it, you won't be allowed to." After saying this, Yinzuo looked at Kangxi expectantly. Yinzuo's clever little head still remembered that his mother and others didn't let him drink the sweet porridge before, but after his father spoke, everyone agreed.
Depin was afraid that Kangxi, a father who had never raised a child, would be unreliable, so she hurriedly said, "The water is cold, he will get sick if he plays in it."
Kangxi was not so unreasonable. He said to Yinzuo, "Even the emperor doesn't allow it. You have to drink bitter medicine when you are sick. Or do you dislike eating sweets and prefer bitter medicine?"
Yinzuo hurriedly shook his head and said, "Okay, he would give it a try. If you are not allowed to play, then don't play."
But Yinzuo wanted to play with toys with Kangxi. He now had a lot of toys and wanted to show them to his father.
After Yinzuo's toys were moved out, he said to Kangxi, "Brother, give them to me."
"Sister, give it to me."
She showed the tangram and the little wooden figure to Kangxi, then circled the remaining toys and said, "Give them to me, mother."
Yinzuo's eyes curved, and he said to Kangxi in a baby voice: "I like it!"
Yinzuo wanted to express that he liked these toys, and liked his brothers and sisters and mother who gave him toys. Kangxi did not understand Yinzuo's meaning clearly, but when he listened to it, he felt that as a father, he could no longer stand by and now it was time to give this kid something.
Kangxi said: "Then the emperor father will give you some as well."
Yinzuo didn't want a toy. He didn't have so many small thoughts. But when he heard Kangxi said he wanted to give him a toy, he nodded without hesitation, "Okay!"
Then he asked Kangxi to play his tangram with him, as well as wooden houses and small wooden birds that could flap their wings...
It doesn’t matter if his father doesn’t give him toys, he is happy just playing with him.
Kangxi had never played with toys with children. Maybe it happened once or twice when the crown prince was very young, but it was something that never happened to other princes and princesses. When other princes and princesses saw him, they were not as brave and were more shy and abided by the rules.
But this little son was too indulged by his mother. He became too bold and dared to be angry with him and to cling to him.
An embarrassing incident occurred while Kangxi was playing with the bird. He accidentally plucked one of the wings of the flapping wooden bird with his big hands.
Kangxi was holding the bird's wing with an embarrassed look on his face. Whose craftsman made this? The quality of the product was poor. Kangxi looked at his stunned little son with an embarrassed expression. He was worried that the boy would burst into tears the next moment.
Kids this young are very difficult to deal with and unreasonable.
But what happened next was beyond Kangxi's expectation. The little baby sitting on the blanket was stunned for a while, then his expression changed, but he did not open his mouth to cry loudly, and there were no tears in his eyes. Instead, the little baby sitting opposite Kangxi across from the toy leaned over, stretched out his little hand, patted Kangxi and said, "Don't be sad."
"Here, play with it." Kangxi was given a small wooden frog. It would jump a few times when it was patted. It was also one of Yinzuo's favorite toys.
This surprised and embarrassed Kangxi. He asked curiously, "Aren't you angry that your father broke your little wooden bird?" He even comforted him by saying that he was not sad.
Yinzuo looked at Kangxi in confusion, and pushed the little frog to Kangxi: "Play with it, there are a lot of toys!" It turned out that the little baby was coaxing Kangxi to say that there were still many toys and he should not be sad.
Liang Jiugong, the chief eunuch who followed Kangxi, was amused. When his master and the Sixth Prince were together, something funny would always happen. Of course, he didn't dare to laugh. No one in the room dared to laugh. They just pretended not to see or hear anything.
However, Kangxi, who was being coaxed as a child, was not embarrassed this time. Instead, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He said to Yinzuo: "I will fix it for you, Father."
This aroused Yinzuo's interest. His big eyes flashed and he crawled a little closer to Kangxi.
Kangxi thought that the little wooden bird would be fixed if the wings were inserted. The atmosphere was just right and Kangxi was willing to coax his son more. He used his big hands, which were used to review memorials and draw bows, to fix it. The wings of the little bird would not move. Finally, in Yinzuo's expectant and admiring eyes, he said, "Let's play with the frog first. Your Majesty, go back and fix it and I'll send it to you tomorrow."
The embarrassment that was supposed to come finally came.
Kangxi should not have been so soft-hearted and boastful just now. Look, this is not the end, right?
But adults would be embarrassed, innocent children would not have so many messy thoughts. It was just that Yinzuo's focus was quite biased. He raised his little face, looked at Kangxi and said, "Come tomorrow?"
"Ama is coming?"
Kangxi's eyes softened in an instant. This kind of childish intimacy, which was devoid of any desire for rights, fame or wealth, could soften even the hardest heart.
Kangxi: "Well, the emperor will come tomorrow."
Yinzuo then laughed so hard that neither his eyes nor his teeth were visible.
Kangxi also spent half an hour playing with Yinzuo, playing with little frogs, little wooden houses, and jigsaw puzzles.
On that day, the Imperial Household Department received two orders in succession. One was from the Eastern Palace, saying that they wanted to make some toys for a child as old as the Sixth Prince. Just after sending the people from the Eastern Palace away and sitting down, while still wondering how the Eastern Palace was related to the Sixth Prince, they received another order, also to make toys for the Sixth Prince. This time it was someone close to the Emperor who came over and said so.
Well, let's think about what new toys to make first. Both masters want to give them to the Sixth Prince, so don't give him too much. And the people in the Imperial Household Department also have an idea in their minds. It seems that the Sixth Prince is quite favored by the Emperor and the Crown Prince.
The order to make toys for Yinzuo was sent to the Imperial Household Department before Kangxi left Depin. After Kangxi returned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, he said to Liang Jiugong: "Bring the broken wooden bird here, I will take a look at it."
Well, you can’t fix it no matter how hard you try.
So the people in the Imperial Household Department are very busy today. Look, someone has come from the Emperor's place again. The old eunuch in the Imperial Household Department hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "General Manager Liang, why are you here in person?"
Liang Jiugong: "Let's see if it can be fixed?"
Of course it is possible, the old eunuch said, "Yes."
Liang Jiugong nodded: "This needs to be done as soon as possible. I'll have someone come to get it tomorrow."
The old eunuch hurriedly said, "It's easy to fix. If you have time, just sit here and have a cup of tea."
Liang Jiugong: “…” Only he himself knew the subtle awkwardness in it, as if the emperor was so incompetent, but the emperor was not a carpenter, right?
Liang Jiugong: "...Okay, I'll wait here."
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Yinzuo had a very happy day today. He should be happy every day, but today he was even happier because he got to see his busy brother and father.
However, Yinzuo also had doubts in his heart.
I'm busy during the day, so why can't I see him at night? Even if I'm busy, I still need to eat and sleep. Yinzuo, who has grown up a few days, has more things to think about.
In Yinzuo's inexplicable cognition, the family should live together, and one cannot always be away from home even if he is busy. He should go home to eat and sleep.
But fourth sister, crown prince brother and father did not live together, and he also knew that other brothers lived in other houses outside. Yinzuo thought about it and his clever brain figured out one thing: it was not that everyone did not go home, but that their house was too big.
Yinzuo was not wrong in this matter, but apart from the emperor, no one dared to call the palace his home.
(End of this chapter)
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