Chapter 43
Yinzuo cried for a long time before he gradually calmed down under the caress of the prince. The prince took the ointment and applied it to the palm of Yinzuo's hand. Yinzuo looked at his hand, pursed his lips again, and said aggrievedly, "It hurts."
"It's not right, my Emperor."
As Yinzuo spoke, he glanced at Kangxi, and when he saw that Kangxi had no intention of admitting his mistake, he snorted heavily and turned his head away.
Kangxi: "If you hadn't made me angry, why would I hit you?"
Yinzuo said angrily: "It is the Emperor himself who loves to get angry!"
Kangxi: "..." Kangxi was getting angry again, and said to Yinzuo in a panic: "You go back."
Yinzuo didn't want to stay here anymore, but before leaving, he still insisted with a crying voice: "We haven't finished talking about the break yet."
Kangxi looked at him in surprise. This kid actually wanted to continue talking, but he was willing to talk but Kangxi didn't want to listen. He didn't know what else he would say.
Yinzuo also said: "There is also the matter of rest and relaxation."
The little fellow was like a fearless calf. The tears on his eyelashes had not yet dried, but he raised his head to his father as if ready to fight. The prince felt distressed and amused. He touched Yinzuo's head and said, "You go back first."
Yinzuo looked at his father's expressionless and unhappy face, hesitated, lowered his head and said, "Then I will go back first."
When Yinzuo was about to leave, Kangxi winked at Liang Jiugong and said, "Go and see the Sixth Prince off."
Liang Jiugong understood Kangxi's thoughts, so he quickly caught up with the dejected Yinzuo. Yinzuo saw that it was him and said weakly, "What's the matter, Eunuch Liang?"
Liang Jiugong smiled amiably at Yinzuo and said to him, "I have a few words to say to the Sixth Prince."
Yinzuo: "Eunuch Liang, please speak. Yinzuo is listening."
"It's nothing else. It's just that after the Sixth Prince, don't talk about hemorrhoids or people with hemorrhoids casually. Especially don't talk about the Emperor's dragon buttocks." Yinzuo's big eyes were confused. First he wondered why he couldn't talk about hemorrhoids, and then he wondered: "What is a dragon buttocks?" His voice was not small at all.
Liang Jiugong: "Lower your voice, lower your voice, it's the cough and fart of His Majesty that Sixth Prince mentioned today."
Yin Zuo knew what the dragon buttocks Liang Jiugong was talking about, but he asked, "Why can't I tell you?"
How can a child understand the shame of adults' buttocks? The disease of hemorrhoids on the buttocks is considered a secret, so how can one talk about it so openly in public?
Liang Jiugong and Yinzuo explained: "It's not elegant."
Worried that Yinzuo would ask why it was indecent, Liang Jiugong said to Yinzuo, "Anyway, I know that if the Sixth Prince tells others about His Majesty's coughing and farting, the break he wants will be impossible."
Yinzuo: "Yinzuo knows, it's better if Yinzuo doesn't tell anyone else."
"But even if Yinzuo doesn't say it, it seems that the emperor won't agree."
Suddenly remembering that he forgot to bring back his medical books, Yinzuo thought about it and still didn't give up, so he said to Liang Jiugong: "Eunuch Liang, please help me tell my father not to forget to read those medical books. What is written in them is very reasonable."
"When the Emperor has finished examining it, let me know. I will return it to the Imperial Hospital."
Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "Okay, I'll remember this."
After Yinzuo left, the prince said to Kangxi: "Father, my sixth brother is still young and weak, so he can't endure the hardship that much, but I think what he did this time is not completely without merit."
"Although he wanted to sleep more and rest more, he didn't just keep making trouble. He also knew how to find medical books to support his ideas. Compared with other children, he was smart and measured."
Kangxi nodded slightly at the prince's words, which were not wrong.
Seeing that Kangxi did not seem to be too resistant, the prince glanced at the medical book on the imperial desk and said, "Father, what Yinzuo said about the time of the morning arrival in the study, please take a look..."
Kangxi: “No.”
If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. The prince had expected this, and he also thought it was very unlikely. So he said to Kangxi, "Sitting in the study for a whole morning is indeed a bit long. If you combine work and rest and take a break, I think you can be more efficient."
Fortunately, the prince was talking about learning efficiency, not hemorrhoids. Kangxi snorted and said, "I don't believe that kid can sit for a whole morning. I don't know how many times he has to go to the toilet."
However, increasing the tea break time by half a quarter of an hour was a relatively small move, and Kangxi was somewhat relentless on the matter. He only said to the prince, "I'll think about it."
Yinzuo had already reached the prince's residence at this time. When he left, he was full of vigor and ambition, but when he came back, he was deaf and dumb, had accomplished nothing, and was even slapped on the palm of his hand.
The eldest prince and the third prince were already waiting for Yinzuo in his courtyard. They discussed the success rate of Yinzuo's trip for a while, and as soon as Yinzuo came in, they knew the answer.
But although I thought about Yinzuo's failure, I didn't expect that Yinzuo would actually be beaten.
The eldest prince burst into laughter at that time.
"You were beaten, come and see!"
This kid was so audacious that the eldest prince had felt that he was on the verge of being beaten many times, and this time he really got beaten? Did the emperor not tolerate him anymore?
When the unscrupulous eldest prince heard that Yinzuo was beaten, he was eager to watch the fun.
The third prince was also surprised and said, "The Emperor's father actually hit you? What did you do? The Emperor's father actually hit you." Not to mention how much the Emperor's father loved his sixth brother, the Emperor's father had never hit any of his other sons.
Yinzuo's mouth corners twitched downwards, and he was about to cry again. He said aggrievedly: "Big brother, third brother, you don't care about Yinzuo!"
In the face of Yinzuo's accusatory expression, the eldest prince suppressed his laughter and said, "Isn't your eldest brother too surprised?" The eldest prince walked over and asked, "Where did you hit him?"
Yinzuo stretched out his little hand and said aggrievedly, "It hurts."
The child's hands were small, and after being hit a few times, they became red and swollen. Even the ointment could not cover the redness and swelling. On the contrary, the original three points of misery became eight points after being contrasted by the ointment.
The eldest prince had been trying hard to suppress his smile, but this time he really stepped back, frowned and said, "Why are you hitting my hands? How much flesh is there on my hands? There's more flesh on my buttocks. You should hit a child's buttocks when you hit him." His royal father still had too little experience in beating children.
Yinzuo was very resentful: "Big brother."
The Third Prince also frowned slightly and said, "Didn't I tell you that if the Emperor doesn't agree, just come back and don't force it. Why did you get beaten?"
Yinzuo curled his lips and said, "I didn't do anything. It was the Emperor who got angry because he couldn't argue with me."
Yinzuo wanted to pour out everything to his brothers, but he held it back when he thought of Liang Gonggong's instructions. He felt very aggrieved and still didn't understand what was going on. When he was a child, he went to see horses. His elder brother, the crown prince, and his eldest brother taught him not to touch the horse's buttocks, but no one told him that he couldn't even talk about his father's buttocks.
The eldest prince held Yinzuo's hand and observed him for a while before finally saying, "It's not a big problem. Don't touch cold water these days. It will be fine in three to five days." Then he said to Yinzuo, "You've been beaten, so don't say bad things about the emperor again. Be careful that the emperor will punish you again if he finds out."
Yinzuo snorted heavily.
He is now angry with his father who beat his son.
Yinzuo was so angry that the Third Prince thought for a moment and asked, "Were you punished to copy books?" If there was a copy of books, he would help his Sixth Brother copy it all because his Sixth Brother looked so aggrieved.
Yinzuo shook his head: "Maybe the emperor forgot to tell me. I don't know if he will remember and send someone to tell me to copy the book as punishment."
Fortunately, until Yinzuo fell asleep, he did not receive any oral order to punish him by copying books again.
The next day, Yinzuo entered the upper study room, and everyone knew that Yinzuo not only failed to get what he asked for, but also got beaten. Yinzuo lowered his head, feeling ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong.
Fortunately, apart from the eldest prince's laughter yesterday, no one of his brothers laughed at him today.
Kangxi came to the study room again to ask about the princes' progress in study. Kangxi saw Yinzuo looking left and right but not at him. Every time he came into the study room, this kid would smile and look straight at him. Today, it was obvious that he was angry.
In fact, whether it was his previous joyful look when he saw him or his behavior today, it was quite unbecoming of Kangxi to meet the emperor. Kangxi glanced at him and ignored him, continuing his inspection from the crown prince to Yinzuo.
While Kangxi was speaking, his eyes were looking at Yinzuo's left hand, but he could not see what was in the palm of his hand.
Although Yinzuo had been pretending to be lazy, his studies were not bad. Kangxi nodded slightly, and before asking the Eighth Prince, he said to Yinzuo nonchalantly, "You don't have to attend the horse riding and archery classes these two days."
Yinzuo said "oh" and then remembered to add: "Thank you, Father." Yinzuo lowered his eyes and said, "Hmph, he beat someone unreasonably and he was still angry even though he was skipped the riding and archery class.
But I also heard Kangxi say: "The time not for riding and archery lessons should be used to improve Mongolian and Manchu."
Yinzuo raised his eyes suddenly. Is his royal father a heartless devil?
But Kangxi was no longer looking at him at this time, but was asking questions to the Eighth Prince.
After Kangxi left, Yinzuo sat in his seat with a puffy face. Compared with Mongolian and Manchu classes, he preferred outdoor horse riding and archery. What a loss.
The only thing that can comfort people is that Kangxi still did not mention the matter of copying books as punishment today. It should be that Kangxi had completely forgotten about it.
But Yinzuo was still angry.
Yinzuo is no longer a child who would be forgotten after a good night's sleep. Kangxi met Yinzuo several times in the past few days, and he was always angry.
Even when he met Kangxi coming out of the Cining Palace on the road instead of in the study, he just called him "Father Emperor" and left. You know, in the past, according to this kid's personality, as long as it was not a formal and serious occasion, he would definitely chat with Kangxi endlessly.
Kangxi looked at Yinzuo's small back and said to Liang Jiugong in disbelief, "Is this kid still angry with me?"
"Is he turning his back on me?"
(End of this chapter)
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