Chapter 70
Although Yinzuo was quite agile in dodging, he was ultimately not able to dodge completely and was caught by his royal father, who spanked him twice on the butt.
Even after being beaten, Yinzuo did not give up and continued to yell at his father: "If my father can listen to music, why can't my prince listen to books?"
Keep talking!
Kangxi continued to chase people away with the Buddhist whisk in his hand: "Asshole!"
Yinzuo hid behind a pillar and asked his father, "Is it possible, father?"
Not a ghost!
"You bastard!"
If you can't do it, then you can't do it. Why are you still so angry? He didn't say anything wrong.
He was hit on the buttocks again. Seeing that his royal father was so angry and would not agree today, Yinzuo stopped being beaten in the hall and ran out.
He limped to the East Palace and told his brother the Crown Prince regretfully that he had not been able to discuss the matter with the Emperor today and that they would go out to play again in a few days.
The prince pulled Yinzuo over and asked: "Are you being beaten again?"
Yinzuo hummed and complained to the crown prince: "The emperor is so cruel."
Looking at the stool, he touched his butt and said, "I won't sit down."
"The Emperor is talking when he wants to talk, but it's not a good habit to start fighting while talking."
The prince was silent, and defended Kangxi: "The emperor usually doesn't hit people."
So what did you say? Why did you get beaten?
The prince looked at Yinzuo's grimacing face and frowned, "It hurts so much."
Yes, it hurts.
After Yinzuo and the prince learned what he said in front of Kangxi, when the prince heard Kangxi say that he was different and that he would be in charge of the world in the future, the prince felt complicated, perhaps feeling a little relieved but also heavy and tired.
But when the prince heard Yinzuo say that his father listened to Concubine Chen playing music, the complicated mood he had just had was instantly shattered by the great shock. Only the corners of his mouth twitched and his expression twisted.
Yinzuo's voice continued, sounding quite innocent: "Then the emperor took the Buddhist whisk that Eunuch Liang was holding and tried to beat me."
"Did I say something wrong?"
"The Emperor is still the Emperor! Even the Emperor can listen to music? Why can't the Crown Prince listen to a book to take a break?"
Yinzuo shook his head and said, "Father, you are strict with others but lenient with yourself."
The prince was speechless for a long while.
Although he was touched that Yinzuo was speaking for him, but... the prince could understand why his father beat this kid.
"Puff." The prince couldn't help laughing. I think his father's expression must have been very good at that time.
Yinzuo tilted his head and pulled at the prince's clothes to see: "Brother Prince, is he smiling?"
"Oh, that's right. Prince, you should be happier."
"Hiss!" Yinzuo twisted his body to look at his brother the Crown Prince's smile and twisted his injured part, causing him pain.
The prince supported Yinzuo, who was twisting his body and looking at him, and said to him, "Don't act weird."
Then he said to Yinzuo: "Don't say those things in front of the emperor in the future, such as "noble man" or the emperor will beat you up if you don't."
"I know, I know." Yinzuo said to the prince, "Anyway, my prince brother, don't work too hard."
“There’s never enough work to do.”
"Brother Crown Prince, you should find more interesting things to do. Listening to books is not enough. How about I play the glass bead game with you? It's fun. Third brother said it was fun after playing it."
The prince rejected Yinzuo's game of playing glass beads and said to Yinzuo, "Well, I understand. I will take a break. Don't worry about it."
"Go back and take the medicine and lie down. Get well soon. You still have to go to class tomorrow. Don't be unable to sit down by then."
Yinzuo looked miserable, he had never thought about this problem.
After being beaten, Yinzuo was back to full strength two days later, but he did not dare to go to his royal father immediately to bring up the matter of listening to storytelling in the palace again.
But Yinzuo did something else. He collected many interesting stories and made a collection of jokes.
For this he even went to find his third brother who had the most books. Although his third brother did peek at the storybooks, they were too long and not what he wanted. What he wanted were short stories that could make him laugh at a glance, saving time and relaxing his mind.
He put a lot of effort into this, because there were few of the serious books they usually read that met his requirements, and his brother, the prince, must have read those serious books.
Yinzuo asked Ahfu to collect short stories that were passed down by word of mouth and then he wrote them down. He also took the trouble to look for them outside. A month passed and he was busy with this matter. He even racked his brains to make up a few of his own. Because he was distracted, he was warned by the master in the study.
Finally, he produced a palm-sized but not thin booklet, which contained the short highlights he had carefully selected.
Yinzuo ran to the East Palace, took out the booklet, and said mysteriously, "A gift for my brother, the crown prince."
The prince opened the booklet and on the first page it was written: "Prince brother, smile happily every day - your brother Yinzuo." There was also an exaggerated smiling face with the mouth raised into a semicircle and the eyes curved into thin crescents.
The prince took a look and said, "The handwriting has improved."
Yinzuo smiled happily.
The prince continued to flip backwards -
A scholar wanted to make things difficult for a monk, so he asked the monk, “Master, how do you write the word ‘bald’ in ‘bald donkey’?” The monk replied, “The word ‘xiu’ in ‘xiucai’ is written with the buttocks slightly bent and turned around.”[1]
The prince read it with a strange look on his face and wanted to ask what was written on it, but he immediately understood Yinzuo's intention.
The prince looked up and saw Yinzuo looking at him with his eyes wide open. The prince curled his lips upwards under Yinzuo's gaze and said, "Where did you hear that? It's quite interesting."
The prince, who was fifteen years old this year, was becoming more and more handsome, and his temperament was becoming more and more noble. A smile at this moment softened the increasingly strong pressure on his body. The smile on his handsome face was like the sun shining slowly after the snow.
Yinzuo saw the prince smile, clapped his hands and said, "It's great that my prince will be happy after seeing this."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked at Yinzuo and his eyes moved slightly. The crown prince's black eyes, which were becoming more and more difficult to see through, showed a soft look when facing the younger brother he had watched grow up. He raised his hand and covered Yinzuo's head.
The prince wanted to say something, but his throat was blocked for a moment. He withdrew his hand, put his fingers on the booklet and wanted to continue turning the pages, but was blocked by Yinzuo.
“One page a day.”
"Well, maybe one page at a time."
"Anyway, it's just to let the prince take a break and have a laugh. You can't finish it all at once."
"But I will write to you after you have finished reading it."
Yinzuo then said that he had collected all these from books and from other people's oral accounts, and that crosstalk performers also knew a lot. He also gave silver to the crosstalk performers, asking them to write more jokes, and he would keep them.
"It's very short. When you're tired, you can just take a glance at it and relax. It doesn't take any time."
"But the most important thing is that you don't get too tired."
The prince held the booklet in his hand, and felt as if his heart was filled with something. He liked this gift very much.
The prince really wanted to continue flipping through the booklet.
The prince touched Yinzuo's head again and said to him, "I understand, you little nagging boy. I won't be too tired in the future. Don't worry about me all the time."
The other princes in the palace all have mothers, but the crown prince does not. He has a royal father, but the royal father is the royal father of many people, and as he grows older, the royal father treats him more sternly.
Sometimes I feel lucky to have such a younger brother.
Otherwise, without such a talkative and chattering brother, I would feel a little lonely in this palace.
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After Kangxi finished talking to the prince about business, he did not let him go, but said, "Yinzuo gave you a booklet? What's it called? A collection of jokes?"
The prince raised his lips slightly and replied to Kangxi: "Well, yes, it's quite interesting."
Kangxi tapped his fingers and looked at his crown prince son, but his crown prince son was not very understanding.
Kangxi could only say: "Did he bring it? I want to see what he has come up with."
The prince actually brought it with him. The booklet was only as big as the palm of his hand and was easy to carry.
Kangxi took it and turned one page, two pages, three pages, and said with some disdain: "Is this all you wrote?"
"Everyday I am not doing my job properly."
The prince looked at his royal father suspiciously. Why did he feel that his royal father was sour?
The prince smiled, and he poured more vinegar on his sour father, saying, "It's OK. I think it's quite interesting."
"Sixth brother said it doesn't take time, just taking a look can make you happy and relax your mind."
"Just like what Sixth Brother said, when I feel tired from handling affairs, I just take a look at it and I don't feel tired anymore."
"I'm in a good mood every day."
Kangxi stared at the booklet, which had handwriting from his sixth son. The handwriting was not very good, but very neat and clean. When he turned to a certain page, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.
It seems like it took a month to tinker with it. The so-called jokes in it are strange, but most of them are really amusing.
but!
But isn’t it tiring for him to be the emperor?
Don’t you just need to laugh and relax every day?
Kangxi continued to flip through the pages. Isn’t he looking at it now?
As Kangxi was flipping through the pages, the crown prince suddenly said, "Father, Yinzuo said to read one page a day."
Kangxi raised his eyelids to look at him and asked, "Are you so obedient?"
Then he continued to flip through the pages: "That was for you. This is not a gift for me."
You know it's not for you? The prince couldn't help but look forward, feeling a little anxious. He hadn't even seen the gift his sixth brother had given him.
Although he was curious, he held back and didn't turn back.
His royal father flipped it over to the back in a short while, just like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit, and laughed from time to time, which made the prince itchy and anxious.
After Kangxi finished reading the booklet, his expression changed again, as if there was nothing significant in it, and he returned the booklet to the prince without any care.
Under the prince's resentful gaze, Kangxi coughed and said, "I just took a look. I didn't steal anything from you, and you didn't lose anything."
"Look at you, you're so stingy."
"How about I tell you what happened next?"
The prince said hurriedly: "No, I will take my time to read it myself."
Kangxi watched the prince put away the booklet and said to him, "If you want to shoulder the responsibility of the world, you will inevitably be a little tired."
The prince said, "I know."
Kangxi: "But as your sixth brother said, you don't have to be so tense, you should take a break."
"You still have me, the Imperial Father." He ascended the throne at a young age, and without a father, he had to take care of everything by himself. Although he was strict with the prince, the prince still had him, the Imperial Father, so he didn't need to push him so hard.
Kangxi placed his hand on the prince's shoulder and said to him, "Don't be impatient."
"I will teach you."
Kangxi also noticed the impetuousness and anxiety of the prince. He treated him sternly and coldly, then softened his attitude and finally said, "My Yinreng has been smart and studious since he was young. He has never been complacent. He has been doing well since he followed me to learn politics. I am quite satisfied with him."
"Continue later."
That kid Yinzuo said he didn't praise people. Let's let him stand here and see why he didn't praise people anymore? Didn't he praise people when he should have?
After praising his son, Kangxi still felt a little awkward.
But he also thought, although he had high expectations for the prince, after all, he still had the emperor as his father, right? There was no need to rush the prince to grow up. Even if the prince was immature in politics, didn't he still have plenty of time to teach him?
The prince is very strict with himself, so he doesn't need to put too much pressure on a child like this. That kid Yinzuo keeps nagging him every day, as if he, as the emperor, enjoys playing and is enslaving his son without a break?
Thinking of this, Kangxi's face darkened again.
Kangxi said to the prince, "I have agreed to your going out with Xiaoliu to listen to books. Tell that boy not to come to see me during this period. I don't want to see him."
Ever since Kangxi started praising him, the prince stared at Kangxi in surprise. So the emperor was quite satisfied with him?
The prince's heartbeat began to increase and his head felt a little dizzy.
Until he heard Kangxi say in a bad mood that he wanted to leave the palace to listen to storytelling, the prince thought that Yinzuo would not go to the emperor and his son to talk about Chen Guiren or something like that again. It shouldn't be the case, but the emperor would probably feel embarrassed when he saw Yinzuo mention storytelling now.
The prince suppressed his smile and said to Kangxi, "I understand. Thank you, Father."
"Wow! Did the Emperor agree? When I went to see the Emperor yesterday, he gave me a cold look. Why did he change his mind again?" Yinzuo said happily to the prince.
The prince's eyes were full of stars, and he nodded at Yinzuo: "Didn't you get beaten? How dare you talk to the emperor about listening to the book?"
"Oh, if we don't talk about it, then there will be nothing. Can't we go out now?" Yinzuo looked at his brother the Crown Prince happily and said, "Crown Prince, you are so happy today."
"I like that Prince Brother is so happy."
"I think we should go out and have some fun. It's really nice to see you so happy today, Prince."
Although there were reasons for going out to play, Yinzuo did not know that the most important thing was that the prince was praised. The tension that had accumulated over time finally felt noticeably relieved. Listening to Yinzuo's excited voice, the prince's smile overflowed from his eyes to the corners of his lips and eyebrows.
(End of this chapter)
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