Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Yinzhen was stunned and began to...

Yinzhen was stunned and began to coax his brother at a loss.

"Don't cry, don't cry, brother won't tease you anymore."

Yinsi's crying became louder.

Wen Shan was blessed to hear the loud voice of her youngest son as soon as she entered the palace.

Yinsi is really an angel baby. He can eat and sleep well without making any noise, especially he rarely cries. But when Wenshan heard him crying so hard, her first reaction was to be curious about what happened to make him so wronged. Yinzhen

turned to look at her: "Xuan'e mother..."

He didn't expect that he would make his brother cry as soon as he came back.

Wen Shan picked up Yinsi and gently caressed his head. She asked the palace maids what had happened. Feicui suppressed a laugh and said, "The Fourth Prince saw the Eighth Prince sucking his thumb, so he took it out."

Yinzhen nodded, "Mother Xuan, I didn't mean to make my brother cry."

Yinsi, leaning against Wen Shan's neck, had stopped crying, but tears still clung to his eyelashes, making him look pitiful. With his back to Wen Shan, he glared at Yinzhen fiercely.

Yinzhen: "..."

His brother glared at him.

Sad.

Wen Shan, with a mixture of laughter and tears, explained to Yinzhen that it was normal for his brother to suck his thumb at this time, and that he just needed to be careful not to do so for too long. She even showed him Yinsi's pacifier .

Yinzhen had never seen such a young child grow up, so it was normal for him not to understand these things. After coaxing Yinsi into submission, she showed him the dog cage carried by the eunuchs behind him.

"Look, Xuan'e's mother has brought Fuqi back to you."

Fuqi has lost a lot of weight, lying listlessly in the cage, with a lot of tangles on his hair, looking dirty. He doesn't look like he was thrown to the dog house for two days. Wen Shan guessed that he didn't take good care of him when he was in Chengqian Palace.

Fuqi saw Yinzhen crying, and his breath was very weak. Yinzhen was a little anxious and wanted to open the cage to check on him, but was stopped by Wen Shan.

"Fuqi is fine, he just hasn't eaten properly for a long time. Can you give Fuqi a bath and feed him some food later and then come to see him?"

When Wen Shan arrived, the people at the dog house were ready to throw Fuqi aside to fend for himself. If he had gone a few days later, Fuqi might have really starved to death. There was a veterinarian at the dog house, and Wen Shan asked him to check on Fuqi on the spot. Fortunately, he didn't have any external injuries or illness, but he was weak because he hadn't eaten for too long.

Yinzhen looked at Fuqi reluctantly for several times before Wenshan urged him to go back to the room to rest.

Baoquan carried him into the side hall where he had lived before. Wenshan had asked someone to clean it every day since he left, and the furnishings had not been moved at all. Yinzhen's favorite books and toys, Fuqi's dog bed and a few small clothes were still there.

The bedding on the bed was also soft and warm, all of which he had used before.

Yinzhen felt as if he had just gone to the Shangshufang and returned from school in two hours.

The door of the hall was not closed, and Yinzhen vaguely heard the sound of Wenshan directing the palace people to prepare food in the yard, and the warm laughter was the same as usual. The decoction prescribed by the imperial physician to Yinzhen had a calming effect. When he returned to the familiar bedroom, he felt sleepy and fell asleep in a short while.

Wen Shan and Zhenzhu came in tiptoe. Wen Shan was a little worried about Yinzhen's injury, so she came in to check on him while he was asleep. Seeing the purple bruise on his knee, Zhenzhu couldn't help but frowned and said softly, "The Imperial Concubine is too cruel."

The weather was getting hotter, so Wen Shan fanned Yinzhen and pushed his hair aside. Looking at Yinzhen's sleeping appearance, she said with pity, "I wonder if Yinzhen knows that Imperial Concubine Tongjia thought he had killed her child."

It's better not to know, so you can avoid a lot of trouble.

Zhenzhu thought for a while: "When he met the Fourth Prince in the pavilion that day, judging from his expression at that time, he must have known about it."

Wen Shan sighed and instructed Zhenzhu: "Tell everyone in the palace to be careful and not mention this in front of Yinzhen."

...

Kangxi had been in the Cining Palace for a while. The Grand Empress Dowager looked at Kangxi's gloomy face and shook her head: "This is not a big deal. It's just that Tong Jia has bad personal ethics. As for these theories of life and death, which will damage the reputation of the royal family, just find a reason to confine Tong Jia to practice."

"Don't be too harsh on her, she just lost a child. It's inevitable that she will act crazy in grief."

Kangxi looked over: "The Royal Grandmother was quite tolerant of the Imperial Concubine today."

Everyone in the palace knew that the Grand Empress Dowager didn't like Imperial Concubine Tong Jia. It was rare to hear the Grand Empress Dowager excuse Imperial Concubine Tong Jia today.

"It's a pity that the male fetus is already seven months old. Didn't the emperor also plan to make her the empress to comfort her?"

The Empress Dowager sat cross-legged on the couch. The white hair on her temples had slowly climbed up her hair, and the ravines between her eyebrows and eyes were getting deeper and deeper. For the first time, Kangxi felt that the Empress Dowager, who had experienced three dynasties, seemed to be really old.

"My grandson is not only sad for her loss of a son. Tong Guowei made great contributions in quelling the Three Feudatories Rebellion, and the Tong Jia clan should be rewarded. The imperial concubine has been in the palace for many years and has never made any mistakes before. Since Niu Hulu passed away, the harem has been without a master. Tong Jia is indeed the best choice."

Kangxi said slowly. In addition, he had a lot of affection for Imperial Concubine Tong Jia, so this time it was almost certain that she would be made the empress.

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "The Emperor's plan is so appropriate that I naturally have no objection, but I'm afraid that it won't be possible to make him

the empress once this happens." "Then forget it." Kangxi didn't talk about this matter any more, and turned to say, "It has been decided before that the six palaces will be conferred titles at the end of this year, and Tong Jia..."

Kangxi sighed, seeming to be very embarrassed.

"By then, she will be confined to her house for half a year to cultivate her mind, and this matter will be over, and she can be conferred the title

of Imperial Noble Consort." The Empress Dowager said. Kangxi smiled and said, "Then listen to your grandmother."

The Empress Dowager relaxed her muscles and looked at Kangxi and instructed, "Although Huipin has some small thoughts, she should still be rewarded a little, just to save face."

"Grandmother, do you really think that Huipin discovered this?" Kangxi smiled.

The Grand Empress Dowager hummed and leaned forward: "Why is there something else here?"

Kangxi shook his head and said with a smile: "My grandson was just saying it casually."

"It's getting late. I won't disturb you to rest. I'll take my leave first."

"Go." The Grand Empress Dowager gave another instruction: "It's hot recently. Don't try to stay cool." After

Kangxi left, Sumalagu came out from the back of the hall. The Grand Empress Dowager sighed: "Suma, the emperor has really grown up."

"Look at what you said, old ancestor. The emperor will be thirty years old in two years. He has grown up."

"I'm not talking about his body." The Grand Empress Dowager pointed to her head, "I'm talking about this."

Suma smiled but said nothing, thinking that what the old ancestor said was even more unreasonable. The emperor had been in power for many years, captured Oboi and pacified the Three Feudatories. The Qing Dynasty was peaceful and prosperous. Xuanye, who was dragged to the throne by the Grand Empress Dowager, was already a real emperor.

"I understand what you mean. Do you think I'm getting old and confused?" The Empress Dowager laughed for a moment and then sighed: "In the past, even if the emperor didn't come to talk to me, I could almost figure out his thoughts. Today, I feel that I can't guess the emperor's thoughts."

Su Malagu was stunned: "Grandma, what do you mean?"

"He never thought of making Tong Jia the empress. He is just putting bait here to fish!"

"Those who have ambitions for the position of empress and crown prince in the harem and the previous dynasty have all emerged."

The Empress Dowager said leisurely: "He probably knows everything about the thoughts of Huipin, Ping Guiren, Hesheli family, and Niuhulu family."

Su Malagu thought about it and understood the key points. The Empress Dowager said with relief: "Okay, the emperor is like this, and I can give an explanation to the ancestors of the Aixinjueluo family."

Yinzhen slept until noon and woke up. The injury on his knee looked serious. After applying medicine, he could actually walk on the ground, but he limped and it was not very convenient.

Baoquan wanted to continue carrying him, but Yinzhen refused. He wanted to walk by himself.

Wen Shan asked the imperial physician that there was no bone injury and it was okay to walk before allowing him to get up and walk.

For lunch, Wen Shan personally cooked a lot of dishes that Yinzhen liked. The bowl in front of Yinzhen was filled with dishes that Wen Shan picked for him.

"Eat more, you've lost so much weight." Wen Shan looked at Yinzhen lovingly.

Yinzhen nodded obediently and buried his head in eating.

Seeing Yinsi on the side, he was so happy that he stretched his little feet and uttered twice. Wen Shan picked him up and straightened his tiger-head hat. Yinzhen looked at him while eating, and after a while, he said: "My brother has grown a lot."

He had been away for more than two months, and his brother was almost half the size of before.

"Yes, my brother is almost five months old and can already turn over." Wen Shan said with a smile.

In the afternoon, when Yinzhen and Wen Shan were making kites on the couch, they really felt how powerful Yinsi's turning over was.

The weather has been much better recently. Wen Shan originally wanted to fulfill her promise to take Yinzhen out to fly a kite, but Yinzhen was silent for a long time before telling her that the previous kite was burned by Concubine Tong Jia. Wen Shan smiled and said it was okay, and took him to make a kite on the couch again.

After Yinsi learned to roll over, he didn't like to stay in the rocking bed anymore, so Wenshan put him on the couch, which was covered with a thick mattress so that he wouldn't bump into anything.

Yinzhen was making a kite seriously when he suddenly felt someone touch his leg. He looked down and saw that Yinsi had rubbed against him at some point and was kicking him with his calves.

"..."

Yinsi didn't have much strength to kick him and it didn't hurt. It was soft and comfortable.

Yinzhen put down the half-made kite in his hand and tried to pick Yinsi up. Yinsi's eyes widened and he struggled with his hands and feet. Wenshan looked at him with amusement: "Yinsi, don't move. Be careful that your brother won't hold you steady and you'll fall."

There was no safety hazard for the two brothers to play on the couch now, so Wenshan just went along with them. Besides, Yinzhen was always very sensible.

Yinzhen used all his strength to pick up Yinsi and put him on his lap, hugging him: "Brother, let me help you make a kite."

"How about making a kite for a puppy for you? When you grow up, I'll take you to fly it."

Yinsi had no desire to live. If the ninth and tenth brothers knew that they were held in the arms of the fourth brother to make a kite together, they would definitely laugh to death. It

was too magical.

In the end, Kangxi acted decisively. Although he did not explicitly punish Concubine Tongjia, Concubine Tongjia asked to practice in seclusion and pray for the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi agreed and handed over all matters in the harem to Niuhuru temporarily. Yinzhen was also raised by Concubine Xuan, and then he rewarded Huipin and the eldest prince. This matter was perfunctory.

The fall of Concubine Tongjia and Niuhuru's official becoming the actual master of the harem was a dramatic change in the harem for other concubines, and for Wenshan, what gave her a headache recently was that Yinsi began to grow teeth and wanted to bite everything he saw.

The most serious injuries were to Yinzhen's hands and arms.