Chapter 79
After Yinzuo was able to walk around, there was no need for Concubine De to visit him all the time. He could go to Concubine De to pay his respects at his leisure time.
As a result, there were always times when the Fourth Prince would come to Concubine De's place, and when they all got together, Yinzuo realized that something was not right between his mother and his Fourth Prince.
It's been quite some time since Fourth Brother 'came back', but why is it that the relationship between Mother and Fourth Brother is still so awkward and strange that one can tell at a glance?
There were only a few polite exchanges of greetings between Concubine De and the Fourth Prince, and then Concubine De continued to ask Yinzuo what he had eaten yesterday and how much he had eaten. She also asked Yinzuo if he felt cold now that the charcoal basin had been removed, and she even grabbed Yinzuo's hand to test the temperature.
While responding to his mother's words, Yinzuo looked at his fourth brother who was sitting quietly beside him.
Defei also noticed Yinzuo's gaze, so she stopped nagging at Yinzuo and said to the Fourth Prince, "You've been studying hard in the study room all day, eat more snacks."
The Fourth Prince said in a cold voice: "It's not hard, thank you, mother." He took a piece of cake in his hand and ate it slowly.
Concubine De smiled and said, "Before, Yinzuo always complained to mother how tired he was. You are all growing up now, so prepare some dried meat or something to fill your stomach when you are hungry."
"After school, if you want to eat, you can ask someone to send food over. Just tell the imperial kitchen. It's okay. Everyone does this. My mother is in charge of palace affairs now, so it's convenient."
Such casual conversations had never been exchanged between the two of them before. The Fourth Prince knew why Concubine De acted like this today and was willing to cooperate.
The Fourth Prince said, "Okay, I understand. Sometimes I feel hungry before going to bed. When I feel hungry again, I will ask someone to go to the imperial kitchen."
Concubine De: "Yes, don't hold it in. Just tell me if you need anything."
Concubine De and the Fourth Prince tacitly understood each other and acted like a decent mother and son in front of Yinzuo.
Yinzuo looked at this, then looked at that, thinking that he must have been wrong just now. Although his mother and fourth brother still did not seem to be very close, it was okay. Things like this always require time to slowly develop feelings.
Yinzuo found time to ask Concubine De in private: "Mother, how is your relationship with Fourth Brother?"
De Fei said, "Didn't you see it? It's fine. Go, go, don't worry."
Oops, you think he is too talkative again.
The fifth princess said to Yinzuo: "I feel that my fourth brother and mother are weird."
“It feels strangely cold.”
Yinzuo was still optimistic and said, "It will get better slowly in the future. Mother and Fourth Brother didn't see each other much before, so they must be a little reserved."
Yinzuo and the fifth princess said, "Don't be afraid of our fourth brother's cold face. I tell you, the fourth brother is not good at talking, and he can't hit people anyway, so it's best to pester him. So in the future, if you want something or want to do something, just pester the fourth brother."
"He is our brother."
The Fifth Princess listened to Yin Zuo's bad advice and said hesitantly, "I think Fourth Brother will be very scary when he gets angry."
Yinzuo said: "You were fooled by his appearance."
The Fifth Princess: "But I don't need to ask Fourth Brother for anything, nor do I need Fourth Brother to do anything for me."
That's true.
But being so distant and dry all the time is not conducive to cultivating feelings. My sister and mother need to spend more time with fourth brother.
Yinzuo thought for a while and said, "Shangsi Festival is almost here. Why not let Fourth Brother take you out for an outing?" Shangsi Festival is not very popular nowadays, but there are still people who want to take advantage of the festival and have some fun. Yinzuo is one of them. Unfortunately, he can't go out for fun this year.
When the fifth princess heard that they were going out to play, she said happily, "Okay, okay." But she was worried about whether her fourth brother would agree.
Yinzuo: "What are you afraid of? He won't hit you whether he deserves it or not."
Moreover, Yinzuo felt that his fourth brother should go out and relax. He always felt that he had been very depressed since the Imperial Noble Consort passed away.
The fifth princess thought that her sixth brother was right, but the fifth princess Yang Yinzuo said: "Sixth brother, please tell my fourth brother for me."
Yinzuo refused: "It's you who's going out to play, not me."
"That's your brother, just like me. What are you afraid of? Just talk to him."
So after paying his respects to Concubine De once again, the Fourth Prince was caught up by the Fifth Princess who was running from behind before he could walk out.
The Fifth Princess' eyes were quite similar to Yin Zuo's, and she smiled at the Fourth Prince in a somewhat flattering way: "Fourth Brother, can you take me out to play?"
"It's the Shangsi Festival, I want to go out for an outing."
Seeing that her fourth brother didn't say anything, the fifth princess felt nervous, but she thought that her sixth brother wouldn't hit her anyway, so she encouraged herself.
"I haven't been out of the palace to play yet. Sixth brother said a long time ago that he would take me out to play when I turned six."
"Sixth Brother, it's not easy to take me there now."
"Sixth brother told me to find fourth brother. Fourth brother is also my brother." The fifth princess spoke more and more smoothly: "Well? Fourth brother, take me there. Sixth brother always envied me. I have wanted to go for a long time, fourth brother?" The fifth princess shook the fourth prince's sleeve as she spoke.
The Fourth Prince is not familiar with this sister, so it is difficult for him to refuse now that she is begging him.
Especially when he heard the Fifth Princess say that Yinzuo was going to take her out to play, the Fourth Prince's eyelashes flickered.
The Fourth Prince's face remained stern the entire time, but he finally hummed.
The fifth princess smiled like a sunflower and immediately betrayed Yinzuo.
"It's just like what Sixth Brother said. Fourth Brother just has a cold face, but he's actually the easiest to deal with."
Fourth Prince: “…”
This sister is a bit like my sixth brother.
The fifth princess smiled and said to the fourth prince, "Then we have a deal, fourth brother." After saying that, she ran back happily.
Since he had promised the Fifth Princess, he had to do it. The Fourth Prince had been thinking about how to tell the Emperor about this.
He didn't know that before he even took a step, someone had already asked for a ride with him.
After listening to Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi's words, Yinzuo asked, "How did you know that Fourth Brother was going to leave the palace? Wasn't it not decided yet? Are you so well-informed?"
The Tenth Prince was a sturdy kid with a chubby face. He was eating big mouthfuls of the snacks at Yinzuo's place. He felt that the snacks at his Sixth Brother's place were softer, fresher and more delicious than those at his place.
The Tenth Prince hadn't swallowed the snack in his mouth yet when he said, "We haven't decided yet to tell you in advance. Once Fourth Brother and the Emperor have finished talking, won't there be nothing for us to do?"
The Ninth Prince was equally unrestrained with Yinzuo. He did not eat snacks without any image like the Tenth Prince. Instead, he was teasing the parrot and teaching it to say "Fortune and prosperity". He turned to Yinzuo and said, "I heard from the Fourth Sister that the Fourth Brother wants to take the Fifth Sister out to play."
"It doesn't matter if you take one, or two or three, just take us with you."
"Sixth brother, we are getting stupid from studying every day, and we want to go out for some fresh air."
The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince were different from their older brothers. Neither of them was the type of person who could endure hardships and love to study. Like Yinzuo, they always wanted to be lazy.
When Yinzuo was doing well before, they could play with him or go out of the palace occasionally.
But ever since Yinzuo got into trouble, even the two of them had quietly retreated and behaved themselves, and have remained silent until now.
Yinzuo said: "Then you go and talk to Fourth Brother."
Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi didn't want to see the Fourth Prince's dark face, and they speculated that the Fourth Prince would most likely drive them out, so he would not agree to their request.
But it's different for the sick Sixth Brother. The possibility of success is much greater than if they were to talk on their own. Although Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi are young, they have a lot of little thoughts.
Yinzuo often flatters others, but when he is the one on the receiving end, he realizes how much of a headache it is and cannot stand these two people arguing with each other.
Yinzuo said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll talk to Fourth Brother." In fact, if these two could have so much to say to Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother would be less depressed.
So now Yinzuo sat next to the Fourth Prince again.
After Yinzuo came in and sat down, the fourth prince closed the window and found a blanket for Yinzuo to cover his legs. Yinzuo took it with a smile, so it was said that although his fourth brother had a cold face, he was actually quite thoughtful.
Moreover, the Fourth Prince poured a cup of hot tea, handed it to Yinzuo, and said to him: "It's not for drinking, but for warming your hands."
It was still a little chilly in the spring evening. Yinzuo held a warm cup in his hand, looked at the ink marks on his fourth brother's desk and said, "Is fourth brother doing his homework? Am I disturbing fourth brother? Fourth brother, please do your homework first. I don't have much to do. I can just sit and play by myself. When fourth brother is done, I will chat with him for a while."
The Fourth Prince shook his head and said, "No, today's homework has already been completed. I am just reading some books and taking some notes."
Yinzuo nodded, not surprised at all.
Then Yinzuo and the Fourth Prince talked about what Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi had asked them to do: "Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi both want to go out with you, why don't you take them with you this time?"
"Uh, and my sixth sister wants to go too."
"They said that they will definitely listen to you when they are outside and will definitely not cause any trouble for you."
The Fourth Prince didn't want to. He had never asked to leave the palace, and he still didn't know how to tell their Royal Father. Now he had to take a string with him?
Yin Zuo said, "If you bring your fifth sister alone, you still have to coax her to play, but if you bring your sixth sister along, it will be different. The two little girls will have more to talk about together."
"As for Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi, you don't have to worry about them. They are both very tough."
The fourth prince believed his lies, wouldn't he have to keep one eye on this and the other on that? The four brothers and sisters were chattering and running around, it was enough to make me feel overwhelmed just thinking about it.
Yinzuo stood up, poured tea for his fourth brother, and said to him attentively: "I have promised Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi to come and talk to fourth brother, fourth brother, please agree, otherwise I will lose face in front of Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi."
The Fourth Prince pursed his lips and said, "I'll go talk to them."
But will Yinzuo stop here?
Yinzuo said, "At that time, I told Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi to come to you directly."
"As a result, both of them thought that I was close to Fourth Brother, so I begged Fourth Brother to agree, and that's why they asked me to come."
Yinzuo sighed pretentiously: "It seems that Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi have overestimated me, and the fourth brother thinks the same of me."
Fourth Prince: “…”
Seeing that his fourth brother was silent, Yinzuo suppressed the triumphant smile on his face and whispered, "They will definitely listen to fourth brother. Will fourth brother take them with him just this once?"
After a long while, the Fourth Prince hummed.
Yinzuo couldn't suppress the smile on his lips. He thought, little brat, when he pestered his father the emperor and his brother the crown prince, they always succeeded. Don't they have any skills?
(End of this chapter)
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