Chapter 28 Chapter 28 The brothers talked in the inner hall... The

brothers talked in the inner hall for a while. Wen Shan went outside to get some fresh air. She looked up and saw a nest of birds built on the ginkgo tree in the yard.

"What kind of bird is this? It's so beautiful." Wen Shan saw a bird with long whiskers and a fiery red body flying out of the nest.

Bao Quan said: "It looks like a pine sparrow. This bird is not only red but also green. It is very beautiful, but there are few pure colors like this one. Moreover, this bird is rare in the capital. I have seen it several times in my hometown of Shengjing."

The prince and his men heard the noise and came out. The bird that just flew away should have gone out to find food. There was also an emerald green pine sparrow and several newly hatched chicks in the nest. They were bright red and green and very beautiful.

The third prince was eager to climb the tree and take out the bird's nest: "These birds are exposed to the wind and rain outside, hungry and full, why don't we rescue them and bring them back to the palace to raise them?"

Wen Shan held her forehead, and she was so kind to the family who was free and unintentional.

The prince was also interested in this rare and beautiful bird and nodded in agreement. The servants immediately brought a ladder and wanted to go up and take the bird down, but the third prince insisted on going up himself. Wen Shan tried to persuade him but failed. The third prince rolled up his skirt and climbed up. The prince, Yinzhen and Yinsi were holding the ladder below.

The third prince climbed up carefully. There was a green adult pine sparrow in the bird's nest made of mud and velvet grass, and three young birds were chirping. The adult pine sparrow was surprisingly docile. It just protected the children behind its wings and stared at the uninvited guest vigilantly, without attacking the third prince.

"It's even more beautiful when you look at it up close!" The Third Prince turned his head and shouted to the Crown Prince and the others, stretching out his hand to take the bird down.

The Crown Prince shouted from below to the Third Prince to be careful, and the Third Prince responded and stretched out his hand carefully. Yinsi was small and couldn't do much, so he just leaned on the ladder. He seemed to be working hard, but he was actually slacking off.

Yinzhen was really a little worried. On the one hand, he was worried about the safety of the Third Prince, and on the other hand, he felt that this behavior of climbing a tree to rob a bird's nest was a bit against the natural law of the growth of all things. Why did he have to rob a bird from a tree and keep it? There were so many rare and precious birds in the Bird Bureau.

Yinsi knew that his brother didn't agree with catching the bird when he saw his frowning expression, but the Crown Prince and the Third Prince were both in high spirits. Yinsi was afraid that Yinzhen would spoil the Crown Prince's interest if he spoke frankly, so he secretly pulled Yinzhen's clothes from below.

The Crown Prince looked up and directed the Third Prince, not noticing them.

Yinzhen saw Yinsi shaking his head at him and understood what his brother meant. He pursed his lips and said nothing.

After a while, the third prince finally came down safely, but there was still some dirt on his body. The birds struggled and stepped on his face and left a few claw marks, completely turning into a little cat.

The prince laughed loudly, and Wen Shan also called for someone to wipe the third prince's face, laughing and crying. The third prince himself didn't care at all, holding the birds in his arms and smiling happily.

"Second brother, fourth brother, eighth brother, look, they are so beautiful!"

"They are more beautiful than the most beautiful birds in the Bird Department!"

The prince reached out and touched them twice. He had never raised any pets since he was a child, but he was also very interested in these birds. The young birds seemed to be unable to fly, so the prince didn't want them. He wanted to take the emerald green adult bird back home to raise.

The prince's personal eunuch was smart and went to find a bird cage early in the morning.

Fuqi and Laifu were also a little excited when they saw the little birds. They ran over and circled around them. Yinzhen and Yinsi each held one bird in check for fear that they would pounce on them.

It was troublesome to raise a few young birds and they didn't know if they could survive. The Crown Prince and the Third Prince were both not interested, but the Third Prince didn't dare to argue with the Crown Prince and could only watch the Crown Prince put the adult bird into the cage and take it away.

"Why not put these young birds back into the nest, lure the red bird back and catch it." The Third Prince suggested excitedly.

"Third brother, birds are very smart. They won't come back if they notice human traces." Yinsi said.

He could see that the Fourth Brother was getting more and more dissatisfied, so he simply got ahead of the Third Prince and asked him to give up this crazy idea.

The Third Prince asked in confusion if it was true, and Baoquan on the side echoed that what Yinsi said was true.

The Crown Prince teased the bird in the cage and waved his hand casually, saying, "No need to bother anymore, disturbing Empress Xuan's rest."

The Third Prince had no choice but to give up.

When the time came, the Crown Prince and the Third Prince left with the bird cage, leaving behind three young birds chirping twice. Their mother was locked in the cage and could not fly out no matter how hard she tried. She could only helplessly watch herself getting farther and farther away from her children.

Wen Shan sighed and thought that she might have to take back her previous evaluation of them as "no bad intentions". After all, the princes wanted to get what they wanted immediately and would not sympathize with the suffering of others.

Not to mention a few birds.

Yinzhen had a stern face, but Yinsi was already accustomed to it. There would be more excessive things in the future. Now they are birds, and they will be people in the future.

Wen Shan looked at the three young birds and didn't know what to do. They looked like they had just hatched, fragile and beautiful. Wen Shan had never raised such small birds before and was afraid that they would be killed by accident. If they were put back in the nest, even if the red male bird that had just flown away could raise their children, if the Crown Prince and the Third Prince came again, the whole family would be in trouble.

Wen Shan had no choice but to keep them in Xianfu Palace. Fortunately, these birds were strong enough for Wen Shan to feed.

Fuqi and Laifu were around the bird cage every day. Yinzhen was worried that these birds, which had just grown feathers, would be swallowed by Fuqi. As a result, one day when the maid forgot to close the cage when feeding them, several birds flew out and landed on the table. Fuqi and Laifu found them first. The two dogs and three birds started playing.

After Wen Shan knew about it, she wondered that this was completely against the laws of nature. Don’t dogs like to attack birds?

Yinsi held Laifu and combed his hair and said that Wen Shan was making up a false accusation. Laifu was so well-behaved. Even if these birds were bitten in the future, it must be Fuqi who did it. Fuqi, who was

still having fun with Yinzhen in the yard, had no idea that the blame had been taken in advance.

After raising them for a while, Wen Shan saw that the three birds were lively, beautiful, and friendly. Now they could land on the back of her hand. She thought that if Yinzhen or Yinsi liked them, she could put them in their room to make some noise and look festive.

Yinsi refused without a second thought.

"I hate birds." Yinsi said faintly.

Wen Shan asked in confusion: "Do you think they are noisy?"

Sometimes they are really noisy, especially when she is taking a nap.

Yinsi didn't say anything, just stared at Wen Shan, with resentment in his eyes.

Wen Shan suddenly had an epiphany. How could she have forgotten the famous eagle-killing incident of Yinsi?

When it came to this, Wen Shan curiously leaned over and asked him: "So who killed the two eagles?" In

the 53rd year of Kangxi's reign, Kangxi went out to the frontier and originally asked Yinsi to accompany him. However, it happened to be Wei's death anniversary, so Yinsi went to pay tribute to Wei and could not go with him. Yinsi then sent two falcons to Kangxi as an apology, but he did not expect that what he sent were two dead eagles. Kangxi, who was 61 years old and gradually aging, was already taboo about these things, so he was furious, thinking that Yinsi was cursing deliberately out of resentment. From then on, it was basically declared that Yinsi had no chance of that position at all.

But Yinsi would never send two dead eagles to Kangxi in real name. No matter how you look at it, it seems that some good brother arranged it.

Yinsi acted sad: "Mother, aren't you stabbing your son in the heart?"

Wen Shan was silent, thought for a while and asked cautiously: "Could it be your fourth brother who did it again?"

"That's not the case."

Wen Shan breathed a sigh of relief: "Was it the third elder brother? The fourteenth elder brother?"

Wen Shan guessed the remaining ones and Yinsi just shook his head.

Even this one couldn't be guessed, who was the master who did it?

"Could it be your father?" Wen Shan touched her chin and had a lot of ideas. Could it be that Kangxi deliberately played a trick on Yinsi?

It really felt like something he could do.

Yinsi sighed: "None of them."

"Ah?" Wen Shan was confused. Yinsi was absolutely alive and kicking when he sent it over, but it just happened that something went wrong when he got in front of Kangxi?

Yinsi looked up at the sky with despair.

"Mother, do you really have to make me admit that I am so unlucky that it shakes the heavens and the earth and makes the gods and ghosts weep?"

"…"

"So, it's really a coincidence?" Wen Shan asked tentatively.

Yinsi kept his face blank and didn't say anything

. Of course, he also investigated such a big thing later, but no matter how he investigated, the conclusion he came to was that no one deliberately tampered with it,

it was just that the two falcons were sick due to the unfamiliar environment. Wen Shan felt that he was a little miserable and a little funny. How unlucky he must be!

Wen Shan thought of the incident that Yinsi had told her before, that the eldest prince was stupid enough to want to kill the prince.

It seemed that Yinsi had done nothing but was brought to the stage and scolded by Kangxi for no reason.

So Yinsi was on the path of an unlucky guy? These things were the helplessness and desolation of time and fate for Yinsi in his previous life, but now Yinsi felt a little speechless when he mentioned these things.

Wen Shan was also amused by his stinky and somewhat embarrassed expression.

"Mother, I saw you laugh!" Yinsi put his hands on his hips and complained.

"My dear son, you are so pitiful. Mother will make you your favorite boiled pork slices tonight." Wenshan immediately adjusted to a loving mother state and hurried away.

If she stayed any longer, she was really afraid that she would laugh out loud.

So Yinsi could only eat two more bowls of rice at dinner with tears in his eyes.

At the end of the month, on the 19th day of the next month, the imperial concubine went into labor. After a full day and night, she gave birth to a princess.

Wenshan and Yinsi knew that this princess also died early. Even Kangxi's heart sank after he went to see her. The little princess was the same as the seventh daughter of the emperor who died a few months ago. She was as thin as a cat and cried very weakly. It was obvious that she had a deficiency.

After the diagnosis, the imperial physician felt a chill behind his back. The two princesses born in the palace were born with deficiencies. Seeing that the eighth daughter also had the sign of early death, the entire imperial hospital felt that their heads were already in their hands. If the two princesses could not survive, the emperor's thunderous wrath could wipe out their entire family.

But even though the entire Imperial Hospital tried their best, the Eighth Princess could not be saved after all. She died before

she was one month old. The Imperial Noble Consort, who had lost a son and a daughter, was completely devastated. The strong smell of medicine in Chengqian Palace filled several streets. Kangxi had just welcomed two little princes and was not happy for long when another daughter died. He fell ill due to the great joy and sorrow, and caught a cold in the middle of summer. The

entire harem suddenly became solemn from the joyous atmosphere of last month.

When Kangxi was sick, the concubines had to take turns to take care of him. The Imperial Noble Consort was sicker than Kangxi after losing her daughter. Not long after she came out of confinement, she had to take care of the Tenth Prince. Counting down, it was Wenshan's turn, so Wenshan was ranked first, followed by Huifei and Rongfei, and then the next ones were ranked according to their ranks.

Kangxi's illness was not serious, he just had a cough and occasionally had a fever at night. Although the morning court was suspended for a few days, he still had to approve memorials. Wen Shan went to serve him and served him medicine, and occasionally chatted with Kangxi.

Kangxi put on his coat and read the memorials for a while, then started coughing again. Wen Shan brought the medicine to him: "Your Majesty, take a rest first, and drink the medicine."

Kangxi drank the medicine and said with some emotion: "The last time I fell ill was when I contracted smallpox. It has been more than 20 years."

"Bang!"

The tray in Wen Shan's hand fell to the ground.

Her heart suddenly beat violently. How could she forget about this.

Yinzhen and Yinsi have not been vaccinated yet!