Chapter 40
Yinzuo told Kangxi that they also needed a day off, and Kangxi said to Yinzuo: "The court officials have family affairs to deal with and visit relatives and friends on their days off, and you don't have anything to do."
Yinzuo said anxiously, "How could there be no one? My son needs to go to his great-grandmother and grandmother, and also to look for his sisters."
Kangxi was not moved at all. He said, "You can make time to go by yourself. You don't need to set aside a day to go. Your other brothers can do it."
Yinzuo refused to give up and said, "I have to let people rest for a day, right?" He had been going to the study room every day for eight days in a row and wanted to sleep in for a day.
But Kangxi said: "Don't be lazy for even a day."
Yinzuo raised his little head and continued to argue with his father, "Other officials can have rest days, father, you must be fair, you can't treat your son and your officials differently."
Kangxi snorted and thought to himself, you still want fairness from me? Why don’t you ask them whether they want to be my subjects or my sons?
Kangxi lost his patience with the kid who was trying to get angry with him, so he just said one sentence to end the war of words: "Don't talk to me about these nonsense, and don't daydream about the day off."
Yinzuo snorted at his royal father's tyranny.
But he still didn't want to leave, and then change another one. So Yinzuo said to his father again: "It's too early to go to the study room for classes, and my son can't sleep well."
Kangxi glanced at him and said, "You really have a lot of opinions. I asked you to go to the study room to study, not to find fault."
"I haven't even told you that you've been procrastinating until the last minute, but you've fallen into my trap."
Yinzuo whispered, "My son has not missed the teachers' lectures."
Kangxi could hear Yinzuo's whispers clearly. He said, "The original intention was to let you review what you learned yesterday and preview what you will learn today. Which of your brothers is not like this?"
"You are the only one who is taking advantage of the situation. Do I need to issue an order to set a time limit?"
Yinzuo hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, no need!"
Kangxi: "I think it won't be long before you fall behind your eighth brother. Do you feel embarrassed?"
Yinzuo thought about it. Between getting up half an hour earlier and falling behind his eighth brother, he still couldn't get up earlier. Alas, if he got up earlier, he would lose half his life.
Yinzuo and Kangxi complained: "It can't be any earlier, or our son won't grow tall."
But Kangxi didn't listen to him at all, and said to him: "Nonsense, is it me who hasn't grown taller or your elder brother? Or has it delayed your brother the crown prince's growth?"
That's hard to say. Maybe he could have grown taller. Yinzuo sighed and said, "Oh, what if my sons all grow up to be dwarfs? Others will laugh at me."
Kangxi was so angry that he laughed and threw a memorial at him: "Nonsense." One's body and hair are inherited from one's parents, and one's height and appearance are only related to one's parents. Kangxi himself is not short, and his son will not be short either. Seeing this boy making a fuss just to sleep in, he was really angry.
Kangxi waved his hand impatiently and said to Yinzuo, "Go back! Don't stand here and give me a headache."
Yinzuo was disappointed that nothing he said made sense.
When Yinzuo was about to leave, Kangxi stopped him and said, "Wait a moment."
Yinzuo was delighted, but Kangxi did not suddenly come to his senses. Instead, he said, "I am irritated by you. I have not yet settled the score with you for always going to the toilet. Copy three passages each in Manchu and Mongolian that you have learned these days and send them to me at this time tomorrow."
Yinzuo curled his lips and said, "Your Majesty, your punishment is really boring." He has been using this method to punish his elder brother ever since he could remember.
Kangxi was so irritated by this brat: "Copy it six times each." So what if there is no new idea? Even if there is no new idea, it can control these guys.
Yinzuo: "Six times is six times."
Kangxi narrowed his eyes and said, "You kid are not going to use your old copying homework to fool me, are you?" The more Kangxi thought about it, the more likely it was. He said to Liang Jiugong, "Go get the plum-scented paper for this kid."
Yinzuo: "..." Although he had this thought for a moment, he would never admit it. Yinzuo said to Kangxi with a disappointed look on his face: "No way."
"Your Majesty, you are so wary of me and think badly of me. It really makes me sad."
Kangxi was in a dilemma: "Go back, hurry up, I think you still think six times is not enough, and you still have time to waste time here."
Yinzuo left angrily with the plum-scented paper.
The next day after Yinzuo was punished, he still arrived at the study room on time, but the time he spent on the toilet was not that excessive. He also worked overtime to finish the copying, and after handing it in to the Qianqing Palace, he went to the prince.
In the East Palace, holding a cup of hot milk, Yinzuo complained to the crown prince with a wrinkled face: "My wrist hurts from writing."
The prince only said: "He should be punished."
I can't share the same hatred with him at all.
Yinzuo stood up and walked to the prince, who asked, "What are you doing?"
Yinzuo: "Let me see the Crown Prince's hand."
The prince looked at him lazily, but held out his hand. Yinzuo said, "It's not this one, it's the right hand."
The prince had no choice but to put down the teacup and stretched out his right hand in front of his puzzled sixth brother.
Yinzuo took a look at it, and even touched it with his fingers: "Look, it's said that writing too much is not good for the opponent. The prince's hands are covered with calluses."
The prince's hands, which were pampered, were slender and beautiful like falling pearls, but thin calluses could indeed be seen on them.
The prince didn't care: "What's the big deal? If you mind, you can take medicine to remove it."
"It's not just about writing, it's also about practicing archery."
The prince held Yinzuo's small tender paw again and said, "You will grow up in the future, you can't be so intolerant of hardship anymore." The wrist he lifted was also limp. Thinking that holding the pen with his wrist suspended must have really made the child suffer, the prince said, "Are you really tired?"
Yinzuo nodded.
The prince massaged him, asked someone to bring a hot towel soaked in warm water, and asked, "Do you feel better?"
Yinzuo: "A little bit."
The prince said to Yinzuo again: "Don't always think about being lazy in the future. You will get used to it gradually. The emperor will not like us to be lazy and slack."
That is to say, Kangxi would not allow any dandy habits, or even not being a dandy, but just being a lack of ambition. He wanted to train each of his sons to be outstanding figures.
Then the prince told Yinzuo about how their royal father once vomited blood while studying late into the night, which made Yinzuo's eyes widen.
Their emperor is such a cruel person!
Yinzuo was shocked and said, "I don't want to vomit blood!"
The prince snorted and looked at Yinzuo with contempt: "With your lazy nature, you think too much."
Yin Zuo: "Then I don't want my brother, the crown prince, to study until he vomits blood."
The prince rubbed Yinzuo's head carelessly and said, "Don't worry, don't worry about it." Then the prince turned to Yinzuo and said, "Is Mongolian literature not good? I'll show you."
Yinzuo: “…” Even if you don’t talk about studying, you’re still a good brother.
But in the end, the prince still forced him to take some Mongolian language lessons.
Yinzuo held his head and sighed heavily. The prince asked: "What's wrong?"
Yin Zuo: "My head is heavy, filled with too much knowledge."
The prince sorted the books on the table and said, "Stop acting weird. Go back if you have nothing else to do."
Yin Zuo: "I want to sit with my brother the Crown Prince for a while longer, please don't chase me away, my brother the Crown Prince."
The prince raised his eyelids and glanced at him without saying anything. His men had already picked up another book and were flipping through it.
Yinzuo didn't care. He lay down opposite the prince's desk and chatted with his brother, the prince: "When are we not in the study room? My elder brother said that it will be ready when we leave the palace to build a mansion."
The prince said: "Since your elder brother has not yet left the palace to build a mansion, I know it is too early for you."
But even if it takes a long time to wait, Yinzuo is full of anticipation. He said: "By then, we will also have a day off every ten days. I can sleep in whenever I want and play however I want."
As Yinzuo thought about it, his eyes suddenly lit up: "If I don't work as an official, I don't have to wait for the day off. I can live outside the palace and do whatever I want." Yinzuo became more and more excited as he spoke, and he wished he was old enough to leave the palace and build his own house.
The prince simply said to him: "You can't not be an official." How could he not be an official? When his brothers grow up, each of them will want to have as much power as possible.
The prince glanced at Yinzuo and couldn't imagine what the child in front of him would look like when he grew up. A trace of disappointment flashed through his heart.
Yinzuo said, "Why is it impossible not to be an official?"
The prince did not say anything else to Yinzuo, but just said: "The emperor father does not allow it. The emperor father cannot raise you as a son for nothing."
The prince also said: "I remember someone once vowed to the emperor when he was a child that he would help the emperor when he grew up. I heard it more than once."
"You've only been in the study for a few days, and you're going to change your mind."
Yinzuo: “…” He did say this. When he was a child, he was too confident in what he said. He had no idea that things would change so suddenly.
Yin Zuo: "Can this be considered as a child's words without restraint?"
The prince rolled his eyes at him and said, "You will have to support your family when you grow up. Where will you get the salary if you don't serve as an official and do nothing?" Although the salary would not be enough for the prince to spend in the future.
Yinzuo moved on the bench: "Doesn't the emperor give me a monthly allowance? I don't eat much, and I don't spend much."
The prince was also very patient. He talked to Yinzuo for half a day about an impossible thing in the future. It was the only time he had the leisure to talk to Yinzuo for so long.
He said to Yinzuo leisurely: "I don't know how much you will spend when you grow up, but I know that if you want to be a freeloader and have no future, the emperor will break your legs."
The prince said to Yin Zuo: "I remember that you used to be very fond of studying. Why do you always want to be lazy now?"
Yinzuo did not find any fault with himself, he said to the prince: "So it is the study room that has the problem, if you can get up later, you can have some tea, chat and play in the middle, and then arrange some rest."
The prince gave Yinzuo four words: "Wishful thinking."
Just two days ago, Yinzuo received the four words "daydreaming" from Kangxi, and now he received the four words "wishful thinking" from Kangxi's beloved prince. This father and son really have a tacit understanding.
Yinzuo left the East Palace in a huff.
Can't you dream in the daytime? What's wrong with wishful thinking? That's because he dares to think, and if he dares to think, he dares to do it, and if he dares to do it, he may succeed! Humph!
(End of this chapter)
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