Chapter 44
I am giving you a cold shoulder, but I can't say this directly to His Majesty. Kangxi was already angry and asked, "How many days has it been?"
"Besides, what good things has he done? How dare he be angry with me?"
Liang Jiugong leaned forward and suppressed his smile as he said to Kangxi: "In my opinion, Sixth Prince is acting like a spoiled child to His Majesty."
Kangxi looked at me with a look of "What nonsense are you talking about?" "You told me that brat was acting like a spoiled brat? Is there anyone who acts like a spoiled brat like him?"
Liang Jiugong smiled and said something else: "He was having a little quarrel with His Majesty."
"After all, His Majesty has always been very protective of the Sixth Prince, and this is the first time that the Sixth Prince has been beaten."
Kangxi muttered: "So I didn't beat him enough. It's all because of spoiling him."
Liang Jiugong was happy, knowing that Kangxi was not really angry.
The medical book that Yinzuo left with Kangxi has been read. Liang Jiugong came to Yinzuo personally with the medical book today and told Yinzuo something. From now on, Yinzuo will have a quarter of an hour of tea break at the 9:00 p.m. in the morning.
Yinzuo was surprised: "Really?"
Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "Of course it is true."
Yinzuo then asked, "Is this the only tea break time? Isn't it a bit short? The medical book says that it's best to stand up and walk around after sitting for half an hour."
Liang Jiugong smiled but said nothing.
Yinzuo: "Okay, once is better than nothing."
Liang Jiugong asked with a smile, "Is Sixth Prince's hand healed? Can you let me take a look? Your Majesty is concerned about Sixth Prince. I will report this to Your Majesty when I get back."
Yinzuo's little smile disappeared, he snorted, and muttered, "The Emperor didn't care about me. It hurt so much when he beat me, but the Emperor didn't feel sorry for me at all."
Liang Jiugong said, "How could it be? Sixth Prince, please don't misunderstand His Majesty. I serve His Majesty and know this best. Although His Majesty slapped Sixth Prince's palm, His Majesty himself was also distressed. I even heard His Majesty sigh."
Yinzuo curled his lips, remembering the fierce look on his father's face when he raised the ruler and grabbed his hand, and asked in disbelief, "Really?"
Liang Jiugong: "How dare I, an old servant, lie to Sixth Prince?"
Yinzuo then hesitantly stretched out his left hand to show Liang Jiugong: "It's okay." It was intact as before, without any trace left.
Liang Jiugong smiled and said to Yinzuo: "It's good, it's good, Your Majesty can rest assured."
"Your Majesty has always loved the Sixth Prince. The Sixth Prince's hand has healed, and there is already tea break time, right? Don't be upset with Your Majesty."
Yinzuo groaned: "It's wrong for the emperor to hit people."
Liang Jiugong thought, that's the emperor, he can do whatever he wants, who can say he's wrong? Besides, even if it's someone else's family, there's nothing to say if a father beats his son. But don't say this to the Sixth Prince who has never been beaten since childhood.
Liang Jiugong: "Didn't the Sixth Prince say the wrong thing at that time, and that made His Majesty embarrassed and angry?" But the Sixth Prince was just talking nonsense and he didn't understand it. From this point of view, the Sixth Prince was indeed wronged.
Yinzuo also thought so. He didn't know that his father's butt was not allowed to be talked about. However, considering that there was time for a tea break, he would not be angry with his father. Yinzuo sighed to Liang Jiugong: "Who made him Yinzuo's father?"
The child acted as if he was very tolerant and generous. Liang Jiugong found it funny.
There is a tea break time in the study room in the morning!
Although it was only a small change, it was still incredible. Yinzuo straightened his chest and sat between his brothers. This time he no longer looked like a little pitiful boy crying with snot and tears when he was beaten that day. Instead, he accepted the amazed gazes of his brothers like a hero.
This was what he got in return for being beaten!
Having forgotten the pain after the wound healed, Yinzuo raised his intact hand, looked at it, nodded and said, "It's worth it."
The fifth prince picked up a piece of cake and fed it to Yinzuo's mouth, showing his courtesy to Yinzuo as if he were treating a great contributor. He said, "Thanks to my sixth brother. If my sixth brother had been admitted to school earlier, this matter would have been done earlier."
Compared to the other brothers in the Shangshufang who were studying hard, the Fifth Prince was also a poor student who was forced to study. He got along well with Yinzou. It was a pity that Yinzou entered the Shangshufang late.
After hearing this, Yinzuo hurriedly shook his head. He no longer felt that the study was a good place.
Although the other brothers who were studying hard, they also felt that it was good to have an extra tea break, especially since they had read medical books and knew that it was good to take a break. The eldest prince stroked Yinzuo's head and said, "The emperor really promised you."
"Your elder brother is halfway through the study."
Yinzuo shook his head and said proudly, "Big brother must also regret not being able to enter the study room with me." He leaned on the Seventh Prince and smiled smugly, and said complacently, "If I can get another beating in exchange for a day off, that would be fine."
The prince glanced at him. Has this kid forgotten who was crying so loudly at that time?
The Seventh Prince hurriedly supported Yinzuo. He was worried that Yinzuo would really think of this and go to trouble the Emperor again, so he said to Yinzuo, "Sixth Brother, this is enough for now. Don't go to the Emperor again."
The eldest prince said to Yinzuo: "You are always pushing your luck. In my opinion, even if you are beaten three more times, the emperor will not agree to let you take a day off."
"If you don't believe me, ask the prince, right?"
The prince also nodded and said to Yinzuo: "Quit while you are ahead."
The eldest prince also said: "If you must go, call me. I want to see what you look like when you are beaten. I have to suggest to the emperor how many times to hit your hands. If you want to hit, hit your butt. You have so much flesh that you can get dozens of hits."
"I heard that you cried in the Qianqing Palace last time. The palace maids and guards outside were frightened by you and even broke a teacup."
"If I get a chance next time, I'll bring my paintbrush and paints and draw a picture of you crying after being beaten as a souvenir."
Yinzuo opened his eyes wide: "Brother!"
The eldest prince, who was very amused by his younger brother's teasing, responded with a smile and added, "Whenever you want to go to the emperor to get beaten, remember to call me."
The whole group of people were amused.
Yinzuo blushed and asked the eldest prince awkwardly: "Is it really that loud? How did you know? Did the whole palace know about it?" As he spoke, he looked at the prince with an inquiring look.
The prince's eyes flashed with laughter, but seeing Yinzuo's face smoking with shame, he couldn't bear to laugh at him. The eldest prince just finished saying, "Yes." The good brother prince said, "Don't listen to his exaggeration, he is lying to you."
Yinzuo was uneasy. He had grown up and needed to save face. He glanced at the Eighth Prince and the Seventh Prince beside him. His brothers were also here. Even if not everyone in the palace knew that he had cried, his two brothers knew it now.
Why did he think of this question only now?
Yinzuo's face turned red, and he no longer leaned on and hugged his seventh brother. He stood up straight, his expression constantly changing.
The prince glared at the troublemaker.
The eldest brother was exposed to the prince's condemning gaze and thought to himself, "You are the only one who can be a good brother?" But seeing that Yinzuo really took it to heart, he felt that he had gone too far and regretted it.
The eldest brother said, "Okay, don't think about it. How would I know about what happened in the Qing Palace? The emperor's people are very tight-lipped. I just made up what I said to tease you." But the palace was silent. It was true that Yinzuo cried too loudly, so not everyone in the palace knew about it, but most of the people in the palace knew about it.
The eldest brother had teased the man too much, so he had to take charge of the situation. He bent down, made his expression serious and sincere, and said to Yinzuo, "Yinzuo is an incredible warrior. He did things that none of us dared to think about or do. I also want to thank Yinzuo."
Yinzuo’s ears twitched. Warrior?
Yinzuo looked into his eldest brother's eyes. His embarrassment gradually turned into embarrassment when the eldest brother suddenly thanked him seriously. Finally, he smiled again: "You're welcome."
Yinzuo tugged at the eldest prince's sleeve: "Warrior?"
The eldest brother nodded solemnly: "Of course!"
This word immediately touched Yinzuo's heart, and even the fact that everyone knew that he was beaten and cried didn't seem so shameful anymore.
The prince drank a sip of tea and expressed his disdain for the eldest prince's teasing and coaxing behavior, while the others also hid their amused smiles. The third prince also agreed and said, "It's not wrong to say that the sixth brother is a warrior." Anyway, before the sixth brother came to the study, didn't he always accept it? He didn't dare to resist the emperor.
Yinzuo was satisfied, and the haze in his heart disappeared. He said to everyone modestly: "It's just so-so."
The Eighth Prince who was standing nearby also found it funny that the Sixth Prince was so amusing and easy to please. However, he couldn't help thinking in his heart that even if he was beaten by the Emperor's father, it was the Emperor's father who beat him personally, so wasn't it a special honor?
If it were someone else, like him, the Emperor would not do this.
His sixth brother didn't know that others were envious of him for what he felt was shameful. The eighth prince knew that in the study room, he and the seventh prince were the least valued by the emperor, so the sixth brother could be willful and playful, but he had to work harder to get into the emperor's eyes in the future.
Because the eldest prince teased Yinzuo too much today, he took good care of Yinzuo during the afternoon horse riding and archery class. Although they were talking about horse riding and archery class, they learned more than just horse riding and archery, including swords, spears, and halberds. Oh, the above mentioned are the eldest prince, the crown prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince. Yinzuo rode his pony for a stroll and played with a small wooden sword. The bow and arrow were also pocket-sized like toys.
What's the point of those little wooden swords and bows and arrows? They are not satisfying at all. Yinzuo has always been envious of the majestic swords and bows and arrows of the eldest prince and his friends, but the eldest prince treats them as treasures and doesn't let him play with them.
But today is different, he is allowed to touch everything.
Yinzuo's eyes lit up and he grinned, "Thank you, big brother!"
"I know, don't touch the blade."
“You know, be careful.”
He raised the long sword with both hands, which was shining with cold light. Wow, he was excited. He had accomplished it!
The eldest prince watched intently and saw that Yinzuo could only lift the knife half a foot off the ground, and was shaky and unsteady. With a thud, it fell to the ground again, almost hitting his own feet.
He even offered the eldest prince a rapier to look at, but the boy kept shouting, "Didn't eldest brother say that a good sword should be able to cut hair? Can yours do that? Let's give it a try." Yinzuo asked the eldest prince to hold the sword, then he turned his head, pulled out the hair behind him and was about to try.
He was still studying how to blow away the hair, and he got very close to the sword and blew on it. The eldest prince's eyebrows jumped when he saw it, and he regretted it. What did he do in the morning to tease him?
The eldest prince said, "Move back a little." It looked intimidating, as if he was afraid that if the boy moved any further forward, he would fall into the rapier. His precious sword was very sharp.
But after Yinzuo tried again and again, and observed again and again, he shook his head at the eldest prince with a look of disappointment, saying that his precious sword was not good, which made the eldest prince very angry. And after that, the □□ was even taller than Yinzuo. Yinzuo wanted to show off his gun, but he was not allowed to show off his gun.
As for the eldest prince's precious bow and arrow, although it was also large, Yinzuo could lift it. And the bow and arrow could not hurt anyone. At most, Yinzuo's face turned red from holding it in, and he could only pull it a little, and the arrow shot out twisted and fluttered to the ground.
Kangxi arrived just as Yinzuo was playing with the eldest prince's various weapons. When Yinzuo saw Kangxi, although he was no longer angry with him, he was still awkward. When Kangxi approached him, he just pretended to pull the bow hard and didn't look at him.
Kangxi stared at the top of his head for a while, then reached out to help the boy pull the bow and adjust the direction of the arrow. With the cooperation of the two, the arrow hit the bull's eye.
This time, Yinzuo turned his head and looked at Kangxi who was standing beside him: "Father Emperor."
Kangxi hummed and said, "Take out your own bow and arrow, let me see it."
Yinzuo followed his instructions and shot well with his small bow and arrow, but Kangxi said, "There is still a lot of practice to be done. Don't aim too high."
Then he helped Yinzuo to correct his posture and demonstrated with the small bow and arrow that he held, which was not very suitable for him. Every arrow hit the bull's eye. Kangxi and Yinzuo said, "You have to be proficient enough to hit the bull's eye without having to aim carefully. Then you can practice archery on horseback."
Although Kangxi was overbearing, unreasonable and had many shortcomings, he was very capable. Even a toy-like bow and arrow looked very different in his hands.
Yinzuo nodded: "Father, I will practice hard."
At this point, the beating incident finally came to an end. Kangxi also breathed a sigh of relief. Kangxi also reflected on it later. Although the child deserved to be beaten, the child did not mean it, so it was normal for the child to feel wronged.
If not for this, Kangxi would not have coaxed him.
In any case, this matter was over. When Yinzuo met Kangxi again, he would walk with Kangxi for a while and talk about the birds flying back in the spring, the dog of the fourth princess, and the fifth princess who only wanted to eat meat and not vegetables.
The study room was finally calm and peaceful, but two months later, Kangxi called Yinzuo over and told him that he was falling behind in his studies.
"Look, now you really can't compare to your eighth brother, right? From now on, you will be the last one in the study room. How about that? Do you regret it now?"
Yinzuo sighed and said to his father, "Father, I have figured it out. An elder brother does not have to be better than his younger brother to be an elder brother."
"It's OK that my eighth brother is smarter, more diligent, and more capable than my son. It's not like my eighth brother will disown me as his brother."
"It's okay, Father Emperor. Yinzuo doesn't feel ashamed anymore." Yinzuo became more and more relaxed as he spoke. He waved his little hand and didn't care at all that he had become the youngest in the upper study.
Kangxi: “…” You spent all this time thinking and this is all you figured out?
(End of this chapter)
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