Chapter 100
Traveling by boat was much more comfortable than a bumpy carriage, but it became boring after a long time. When Yinzuo was almost tired of eating fish, he finally stopped and went ashore.
Yin Zuo couldn't help but say, "It's still better to have this down-to-earth feeling."
The eldest prince who was standing next to Yinzuo said, "That's not what you said before."
Hey, Yinzuo said to the eldest brother, "Did you come here last time, brother?"
The eldest prince shook his head, saying that the emperor did not always go to the same place during his southern tour.
After Yinzuo followed Kangxi ashore, Kangxi quickly began to meet with local officials of all ranks and listen to their reports on affairs. He was quite busy.
As for Yinzuo, he went to rest, so that he would not get sick or cause trouble, and then go out to play. Yinzuo had been strolling outside for a few days, and Kangxi and his men had also been busy inspecting outside for a few days.
Comparing the two, Yinzuo felt embarrassed.
Although I feel a little embarrassed, but I'm glad that he doesn't hold us back.
Kangxi also said the same thing, because he did not get sick or have a fever during this visit, and he even rewarded the imperial physician Liu.
When Yinzuo came back from a leisurely stroll outside, he saw the eldest prince who had also returned. His clothes and shoes were covered in mud. Then he saw the same on the crown prince and the eighth prince.
Yin Zuo asked curiously, "Where did you go? Did you fall into a mud pit together?"
Yinzuo was clean, and Ah Fu and the others behind him were still carrying a lot of things in their hands. The eldest prince said, "Let's go to see the river bank."
"Oh, my Royal Father, you have worked hard." Yin Zuo felt guilty for a moment: "Should I go with you too?"
The eldest prince hurriedly said, "You'd better not go. The riverbank is muddy and bumpy. You have thin arms and legs. Be careful not to fall again." The eldest prince lifted his muddy robe.
The prince said, "After going out for inspection, the emperor always asks us to write a memorial of our feelings and submit it to him."
The prince's words were like a stranglehold on Yinzuo's lifeblood, and Yinzuo immediately shut up.
The eldest prince glanced at the prince with some annoyance in his eyes. What he said was not as effective as what the second prince said, and he lost to the second prince again.
When Yinzuo woke up the next day, the others had already gone out. Yinzuo felt a little sympathetic. It was bad enough that they had to go out for inspection, but they also had to write something when they came back, and he didn't want to write.
But if he didn't have to write anything, he actually wanted to go and see what the Emperor and others were paying attention to and busy with.
Just do what you want to do, so today Yinzuo did not go to the bustling city streets, but went to the embankment of the Huaihe River. He also knew that they went to the nearby mountain today to see the terrain of the water.
Yinzuo found a house in a nearby farm to rest and eat. Ah Fu was still muttering in dissatisfaction, worried that Yinzuo would not be able to get used to the food in the farm.
Yinzuo said: "Borrow someone's kitchen and cook a bowl of fish soup."
Ah Fu said, "You still need to take medicine."
Yinzuo: “I know, I know.” However, Doctor Liu made some pills, which made it convenient to take medicine when you are away from home.
Yinzuo came out today dressed like a scholar, and Ahfu was also good at dealing with people, so it was not difficult to borrow someone's kitchen.
Yinzuo also chatted with others, talking about the emperor's visit to this place. The farmer said: "Yes, many nobles have come here during this period, and many students like you have also come."
"But farmers like us dare not go out. We must not offend the nobles. We cannot afford to offend them."
Seeing that Yinzuo was young and frail, and looked very likable when he smiled, the farmer was kind enough to tell Yinzuo to be more cautious and go back after watching the fun.
"It has nothing to do with us."
But the farmer said, "I went to see it that day, but there were too many people."
Yin Zuo smiled and said, "Didn't you say it's irrelevant? Why do you still want to go and see it?"
The farmer also laughed: "I still want to take a look." Even if he only saw the imperial sedan chair, it would be a topic of conversation that he could brag about until he was old.
Yinzuo squatted down and picked the peanuts from the peanut seedlings with the farmer. The farmer hurriedly said, "I can do it myself. I can do it myself."
Yinzuo said, "It's okay, I'll help you and it will be quicker."
The farmer saw that Yinzuo was really determined to work, and he didn't seem to be disgusted at all even though his beautiful white and slender hands were covered in mud. He just worked slowly. Although he didn't look like a worker, he brought them closer, and the farmer couldn't help but grin.
Yinzuo continued chatting with the farmer, "It's not irrelevant. The emperor came here to manage the river. When the river doesn't burst its banks, we can live a peaceful life."
The farmer sighed, "I wish. My family didn't live here before. We moved here from the past. The farmland was flooded, and the terrain here is higher."
The farmer could not help but complain: "The dam is always being repaired, which makes the officials happy, but we still have to serve, and once it rains heavily, we dare not sleep, because it will still burst."
Yinzuo asked, "Didn't it become a hired labor service? Didn't it pay me money?"
The farmer said, "You have read too much, right? They say they are hired, but they only pay a little, not even enough to support your health. You won't be happy to go."
The farmer was still puzzled and asked: "You don't know?"
Yinzuo smiled embarrassedly: "My father-in-law is right. I have read so much that I have become stupid. I don't pay attention to these things on weekdays. How much money do you give me?"
The farmer said, "I only give you one ounce every two months, but the work is exhausting and hurtful."
Yinzuo frowned. He remembered that it was not this number, so he said to the farmer, "I seem to have heard it somewhere before, but it doesn't seem to be this number."
The farmer slapped his thigh and said, "Those bastards must have taken advantage of it."
But after the farmer said this, he was not too indignant, because he felt that it was normal to be embezzled. He also said to Yinzuo: "Boy, let's talk about it among ourselves, but don't tell the officials."
Yin Zuo: "I know. We the people do not fight against the officials."
The farmer said, "Yes." Then he said to Yinzuo, "Study hard, you can become an official in the future."
Yinzuo: "Then I will be a good official."
The farmer laughed again: "Good official, good."
Yinzuo helped to pile the clean peanut seedlings to the side and said, "If you don't want to work on the dam, can't you just not go? Can you just not earn that money?"
Farmer: "No, if you don't want to go, you have to pay them."
Yinzuo: “That’s it.”
The farmer was quite contented, and said to Yinzuo: "My father didn't have any money at that time. If he didn't want to serve in the army, he would have to pay much more than now."
“It’s pretty good now.”
Yinzuo smiled, but his smile was a little heavy. He came out today with no intention of finding out any news, because he felt that his royal father and the others could not find out any news they wanted to find out, and they did not need him.
But after hearing this, even though the farmer smiled contentedly, he was not happy at all.
After leaving the farmer's house, Ah Fu who followed him asked, "Master, should we go back?"
Yinzuo: "No, let's go climb the mountain and look for my elder brother and the others."
He also wanted to climb up and look at the water, as he hadn't climbed a mountain in many years.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they saw the guards on duty, but Yinzuo was naturally allowed to pass.
Yinzuo was not in a hurry to go on his way. He walked slowly and was quite self-aware and did not plan to climb to the highest point. From the mountainside, he overlooked the wide river, which was sparkling in the sunlight and looked very beautiful.
It's just that the river surface that looks calm and harmless now often turns into a man-eating monster during the summer flood season.
Yinzuo knew that his royal father had been committed to river management many years ago, but unfortunately, he had not achieved the results his royal father wanted until now.
Yinzuo turned his eyes away from the water and stopped thinking about it for the time being. Instead, he reached out to play with the pine cones above his head. Ah Fu shouted beside him, "Master, let me do it. Prince, do you want to eat pine nuts? I'll buy some when I get back."
It's not that I want to eat pine nuts, I just can't help it.
Yinzuo said: "I didn't see my elder brother and the others either."
But it didn't matter if he didn't see her. He didn't climb up anymore. He just rested here and then went down.
"Sixth Brother!" A surprised voice came, and a figure soon came to the front. The Eighth Prince asked, "Why is Sixth Brother here?"
The Eighth Prince who came over was not as dirty as yesterday, but not as neat either. Yinzuo looked at him with a smile and said, "Eighth Brother looks more handsome when he works like this than when he was spotless in the capital."
The Eighth Prince brushed his clothes and asked again, "Sixth Brother, is coming over?"
Yinzuo: "I came here to play and was about to leave. Why are you the only one here?"
Eighth Prince: "Brother Crown Prince, we came separately, not together."
"Shall I go down with Sixth Brother?"
Yinzuo: "No, don't you still need to write a petition to the Emperor? I'm just here to have fun, don't let me interfere with your business."
Eighth Prince: "I'm fine here too. I was just going down the mountain."
Well, after walking down the mountain for a short distance, the Eighth Prince turned his head and looked at Yinzuo and said, "Sixth Brother, how about I carry you on my back?"
This younger brother doesn't act like a younger brother, he is always very considerate, but Yinzuo always feels that he wants to turn over and become an older brother, but he is not Xiaojiu or Xiaoshi, how can that work? Yinzuo shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, it's not tiring to go down the mountain, I can do it myself."
Who said going down the mountain isn’t tiring? The road down the mountain is very bumpy.
The Eighth Prince shook his head in amusement and said to Yinzuo, "Then Sixth Brother, sit here and rest for a while. Wait for me."
The Eighth Prince pressed Yinzuo against a rock, turned around and quickly walked up the mountain again. Yinzuo shouted, "Where are you going?"
But no answer was forthcoming.
After resting for a while, they waited for the Eighth Prince to come with the Eldest Prince.
Before the eldest prince came close, a loud and smiling voice arrived: "You are too embarrassed to let your eighth brother carry you, then I, your eldest brother, will do it."
Yinzuo gritted his teeth and said, "No need."
The Eighth Prince looked at the First Prince helplessly: "Why did you have to say it out loud, Big Brother?"
The eldest prince laughed again, and his laughter made the birds in the forest flap their wings and fly around.
Yinzuo turned around and left angrily.
After letting Yinzuo walk for a while, the eldest prince jumped in front of Yinzuo, bent down, and said, "Come on up. It's not like you didn't carry me on your back when you were a child."
Yinzuo's eyes could not help but drift towards the Eighth Prince, who quickly walked to the front and said, "I can't see."
Yinzuo: “…”
I feel like I have no face at all as a brother.
But Yinzuo finally jumped onto his elder brother's back.
The Eighth Prince, who was walking in front, felt amused again. His Sixth Brother always liked to care about his elder brother's self-esteem in some strange ways.
But although this Sixth Brother is older, he has a childish mentality as he was raised by someone else. If they walk out together, people would probably misunderstand that he is the eldest brother, right?
After getting down the mountain, they met the prince. The prince first asked how Yinzuo went up the mountain, and then learned that Yinzuo was carried down the mountain by the eldest prince. He nodded, as if it was a matter of course.
(End of this chapter)
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