Chapter 94
Yinzuo ran around and hung out with Lord Yang Xilin, and he always talked about things about the building materials and structure of the house. Kangxi had clearly not yet told him about building a mansion outside the palace, so everyone thought he was going to move out of the palace.
But Yinzuo is already fifteen or sixteen years old this year, and his age is almost the same.
The Fifth Prince was curious about how Yinzuo's house was built. He wanted to save time and effort and build it the same as Yinzuo's.
But when he saw the rough composition drawn by Yinzuo and Lord Yang, and heard Yinzuo want this and that, he just gave up. He didn't have as much money as Yinzuo.
The Fifth Prince said to Yinzuo, "Let's build our own houses together." The Fifth Prince said this as a matter of course. He and Yinzuo were brothers, and this time they were leaving the palace together to build a house. They had been unmotivated students in the study room together since they were young, and they got along well with each other.
The eldest brother interrupted and said, "Sixth brother will live next to me. We agreed on it several years ago." The eldest prince also took the rough plan of the house and was looking at it. He was telling Yinzuo about the various fantastic ideas he and Yinzuo had thought of together in the past. At that time, he did not build it because he did not have enough money. Now that Yinzuo had money, it could be realized.
Yinzuo responded to the eldest prince’s suggestion: “Okay, add them all in!” He is now wealthy and powerful.
When the Fifth Prince heard the Eldest Prince say that Yinzuo's house was built next to his, he felt a little scared of his eldest brother and didn't dare to say anything.
But the silent Fourth Prince suddenly spoke at this time. He said, "You should live near me. Mother asked me to take care of my sixth brother." He and Yinzuo were born of the same mother, and the Fourth Prince felt that it was his responsibility.
The Third Prince interrupted, "You are better off with me taking care of him, you don't know how to take care of people." His cold expression was not as pleasing as his. The Third Prince turned to Yin Zuo and said with a smile, "Xiao Liu, how about living across the street from me?"
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and the brothers are sitting together for a rare occasion. He actually talked about where he will build his mansion in the future, and everyone looked at him.
Yinzuo thought to himself, has he become a popular commodity that is being fought over?
Isn’t it?
Even the Seventh Prince, who always kept a low profile and never argued with others, said, "It's time for me to leave the palace. Wherever the Sixth Prince builds, I will build nearby."
The Eighth Prince smiled and said, "And me."
The ninth and tenth princes were still young, but they also joined in the fun and said that they also wanted to live next to the sixth brother.
Wow! Everyone wanted to live with him, and Yinzuo was deeply moved.
Yinzuo was so happy that he couldn't express it in words, but where was his happiness? The Third Prince looked at him with a smile. He had known for a long time that Yinzuo was a playboy. He asked in a provocative tone, "So, where do you want to live, Sixth Brother?"
He also looked at the prince and asked, "Does the prince feel that the food is not to his taste? This sweet-scented osmanthus fish tastes pretty good, why don't you try it?"
Oh, the prince's face is pulled.
Yinzuo: “…”
Yinzuo's smile froze on his face.
Yinzuo had practiced the art of keeping balance for more than ten years, so it was not difficult for him to deal with two people, and he could also handle three people. But now, under the gaze of so many eyes, he decisively kicked the ball to Kangxi.
"I have to listen to my father."
The Third Prince looked down on him: "Slippery."
Yinzuo glared at him and said, "Stop causing trouble!"
Be it Concubine De, Kangxi, or the Crown Prince, none of them wanted Yinzuo to live outside the palace, as they all felt uneasy.
But as Yinzuo said, can he live in the palace forever?
You can stay in the palace for a while longer, but you can build the mansion outside first.
In the end, Yinzuo chose a mansion outside the palace next to the eldest prince. The eldest prince said that it was something they had agreed on several years ago, and Yinzuo wanted to be an honest person. As for the other brothers, who made them late?
In fact, Concubine De still wanted Yinzuo to live next to the Fourth Prince, as she still had a grudge against the First Prince. But thinking about it, Yinzuo had lived in the First Prince's house quite a bit, so it was a bit late to say that she had a grudge now.
Seeing Yinzuo was so happy that he wanted to go outside, Concubine De said unhappily, "No wonder your father scolded you. Your mother was also unhappy when she saw it."
Yinzuo: “…”
Oh, he just coaxed the prince, why didn't he learn his lesson? He couldn't act so unloving in front of his mother anymore. Yinzuo hurried to coax his mother again.
"I am just building the mansion first. The Emperor said that I have to finish my lessons in the study before I can move out. Don't worry, mother. It's still early. I will bother you for a long time. If I bother you to the point that you want to drive your son away, you won't be able to leave."
Yinzuo would coax Concubine De twice and Concubine De would be happy. She said angrily, "Mother has never been annoyed with you."
The renovation of Yinzuo's mansion took more than a year and cost a lot of money, but the finished product was worthy of his efforts.
Lord Yang is very talented and has the support of Yinzuo's fat wallet. The house he built has a different view at every step that the Third Prince and his friends will love, and there is even a playground for the younger princes and princesses to play.
The eldest prince said, "I'll ask my eldest princess to come and play with you."
Of course, Yinzuo had met the eldest princess from the eldest prince's family several times. She was shy, but Yinzuo gave her toys and played with her. Now the eldest princess would smile when she saw Yinzuo. Yinzuo even proudly told the eldest prince that his niece liked her sixth uncle more than her father, which made the eldest prince jealous and angry, and said that he only knew how to coax a child.
Yes, yes, he is good at coaxing children. Seeing that the crown prince, the third brother, and the fourth brother are all married, and there will be more and more nieces and nephews in the future, he has specially made a place for them to play. Fortunately, he also sells toys. In the future, there will be more and more nieces and nephews, but he doesn't have to worry about not having enough toys to give away.
Speaking of the eldest princess, the eldest prince said to Yinzuo, "What kind of girl do you want to find? Just give me a rough idea. Can you choose one with a lively temperament, or one with a gentle and demure temperament, or one with a heroic spirit? You can even say that you like big eyes or willow-shaped eyebrows. Let your sister-in-law help you find one."
The fifth prince before Yinzuo was also arranged to be married, but Yinzuo was stuck again.
So Yinzuo is now being urged to get married.
Yinzuo didn't know what kind he liked.
The eldest prince said that Yinzuo didn't have to pick someone he liked so much when marrying a wife, the main thing was that she had to be gentle and virtuous. If he met someone he liked in the future, the worst that could happen was that he could make her his concubine. This was a complete scumbag's statement, but everyone told Yinzuo this.
The eldest prince snorted, "Like? That's because the emperor dotes on you too much. If we dared to try this with the emperor, he would definitely beat us to death."
Yin Zuo smiled and said, "Brother, don't worry about me. This matter is not urgent."
The eldest prince: "I'm afraid you'll delay my seventh brother." The eldest prince said this as he habitually stretched out his hand to block the branches above Yinzuo's head. At this time, several people were visiting Yinzuo's mansion.
The eldest prince looked at his sixth brother with satisfaction. Although he was thin, he was still handsome. Walking among the green leaves and flowers, the young man of sixteen or seventeen was smart and graceful, with a smile on his face. Everyone, from the old ladies like the empress dowager in the palace to the little girls like the eldest princess in his house, liked him very much.
The eldest prince felt that the poem described the man on the street as being as beautiful as jade and the young master as being unparalleled in the world, and if it were used to describe his sixth brother, he would not be able to say that his family was shameless.
Yin Zuo said: "I have told the Emperor that it doesn't matter if my seventh brother and his family get married before me."
The Seventh Prince suddenly popped his head out from behind and said, "Don't delay, don't delay. I'm not in a hurry."
Why are you talking about urging marriage on such a happy day? Yinzuo said to the eldest prince and his friends, "Come with me. I will take you to see some good things."
It wasn't anything else, but the fact that all the houses here were equipped with new windows, which were completely transparent as if there was nothing inside, and large patches of sunlight shone through the windows at will.
The Third Prince asked curiously, "Is this the new colored glass you made?"
All the beautiful glass products from Yinzuo were made into flowers. People in the capital liked them very much and also spent a lot of money on them.
According to the Third Prince, considering the huge amount of silver that was brought in, it was no wonder that the Emperor favored Yinzuo.
The colored glaze on the window has no color and is not beautiful enough, but it is particularly suitable for making windows. The Third Prince opened and closed the window back and forth.
Yinzuo: "Almost. This colorless thing is called glass. It will be sold in a while. If any of you brothers want to change your windows to this kind, I'll take care of it."
Wow, ever since Xiaoliu started making money, he has become very wealthy.
The Third Prince couldn't help but wonder, "Isn't such a large window a bit too extravagant?"
In fact, the cost has come down, but of course it is still expensive. Nothing that Yinzuo sells is cheap.
The Fifth Prince and Yinzuo said, "Those people outside say that you, Sixth Brother, are the ones who take their money. They will surely be unable to resist replacing windows like these, which will cost them money again."
The Fifth Prince felt emotional. Although his Sixth Brother, like him, did not like to study hard, he could always achieve something no matter what he tried. Take the business that everyone looked down upon, for example. It was estimated that he had helped the Emperor make a lot of money, and his Eleventh Brother and the Crown Prince had also benefited from it.
Well, it's no wonder that such a person was hated by others. After what happened that year, everyone seemed to have calmed down, but since he started to enter the court this year, it seems that there are waves brewing under the calm.
Sixth brother is actually quite comfortable now.
Yinzuo had no idea of the Fifth Prince's feelings and just smiled. The glass was an unexpected gain, but his big ship was already under construction and he didn't have such an urgent desire to make money now.
Yinzuo said to everyone: "I will work hard and study hard from now on, so I won't bother with these things anymore."
The Third Prince laughed: "You sound as if you have repented and reformed yourself. It's because you didn't finish your studies that the Emperor didn't let you live here."
Even the Tenth Prince said, "Sixth Brother, if you have any questions, you can ask me. I can also find the homework I wrote before for you to refer to."
Yinzuo: “…”
This is not a good topic either. Now even his younger brother Xiao Shi can make fun of him about studying.
Everyone was chatting and laughing, and they ordered food from the Xiangshu Pavilion outside. They had a meal here and played until very late. Even the Third Prince, the Fifth Prince and several of his brothers, and even the princesses stayed here for one night.
After receiving his brothers and sisters, Yinzuo called on his friends to entertain Tsebutanharcha and others. These friends he knew back then have grown up now and they often cannot get together now.
Just like today, □□Ji and Ao Ge are missing. □□Ji was sent back to get married, and Ao Ge went back to inherit his father's position.
The friends gathered together and talked about the upcoming Mongolian meeting in Beijing in October, which was an invitation from the court and all Mongolian tribes to visit Beijing.
In the past few years, Kangxi always took people on tours to the frontier areas. In the past two years, he relaxed a bit, but he himself no longer went to the frontier areas. Instead, he invited them to come. Anyway, he has always been sticky.
After inviting this group of friends, Yinzuo also invited his sister, brother-in-law and their children who happened to be in Beijing. When Yinzuo was about to continue inviting his cousins, he was finally called back to the palace by Kangxi.
Yinzuo took a look and saw that his royal father had a rather grim look on his face.
Yinzuo stepped forward and pretended to massage his father's shoulders and back: "Father, who has made you angry again? Wow, could it be that you missed me after not seeing me for two days?"
Yinzuo felt that his royal father often had a bad face towards him, but he could understand it. His royal father was now over 40 years old and he read medical books. Men of this age often got irritated for no reason and family members had to be understanding at this time, just like his father would tolerate him wiping his nose when he was a child, right?
(End of this chapter)
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