Chapter 39 Chapter 39 Yinxiang's mouth dropped open,

and for a moment, he paused.

Yinsi rubbed his chin, pondering, and then said, "Hmm... or should I call you Prince Yi?"

Stunned, Yinxiang babbled twice.

What was going on?

Could it be that mynah bird was also...

In the eighth year of the Yongzheng reign, Yinxiang, who had passed away from illness in the eighth year of his reign, had just said goodbye to his grief-stricken fourth brother, who stood by his side, when he opened his eyes again and found himself in this state.

He was transported back to the time of his birth.

However, what happened next left him somewhat bewildered. He had not been taken to be raised by Concubine Duan, but rather sent to Xianfu Palace, to be raised by Concubine Xuan.

Looking at Concubine Xuan, who was cradling him and coaxing him with a smile, Yinxiang wondered when Concubine Xuan had been promoted to a noble consort.

Especially after seeing mynah bird as a child in Xianfu Palace, Yinxiang's little mind finally froze.

No, was this still the Kangxi dynasty he knew?

But that wasn't the end of it. That evening, even the

fourth brother showed up at Xianfu Palace. Had the fourth and eighth brothers been raised together in this life by Concubine Xuan?

Oh, now he was also being raised by Concubine Xuan.

Seeing the close intimacy between the fourth and eighth brothers, Yinxiang almost suspected he was dreaming.

And a rather ridiculous nightmare at that.

Yinsi, judging by Yinxiang's reaction, was pretty sure that the Thirteenth Brother had indeed returned.

"Alright, Thirteenth Brother, go back to sleep. I'm going to bed too." Yinsi knew Yinxiang must have a lot to ask him, but after confirming Yinxiang's identity, his malicious intent returned. He deliberately kept Yinxiang in suspense and stood up, ready to leave.

"Wait, don't go!

" Yinxiang kicked the quilt, making the loudest noise he could muster, babbling a few times.

Yinsi slowly tucked him in.

"How could you kick the blanket? What if you catch a cold?" Yinsi said with a smile, "I almost forgot, Thirteenth Brother, you can't talk yet. Save your energy and don't damage your voice."

Then he leisurely walked out.

Only Thirteenth Brother was left, furious and helpless.

Damn Eighth Brother! How detestable!

Yinsi returned to the main hall. Wen Shan was still waiting for him. Seeing him return, she hurriedly asked, "How's it going?"

Yinsi nodded.

Wen Shan didn't know how to react for a moment. Her Xianfu Palace was in such a mess right now.

Fortunately, Yinxiang couldn't do anything except feed and sleep. Besides staying quiet, he was like any other baby, so Yinzhen didn't notice the difference in his younger brother.

He just felt that Thirteenth Brother's attitude towards him and Eighth Brother was completely different. This time, unlike before, Thirteenth Brother preferred to smile at him and be stern with Yinsi.

And Yinsi, however, loved to tease him, not stopping until he made him cry.

"Eighth brother, why are you competing with Thirteenth brother?" Yinzhen looked helplessly at Yinxiang, who was once again so angry at Yinsi that he wanted to kick him, and quickly separated the two.

Yinsi blinked and said, "I like Thirteenth brother and want to play with him."

Unable to resist, Yinxiang glared at him. "Listen, do you think anyone would believe you?"

"But you can't tease him all the time. Wait until Thirteenth brother is a little older before playing with him," Yinzhen said.

Yinxiang: "..."

Oh no, Fourth brother believed it.

A conspiracy, this must be Eighth brother's plot.

Unwilling to accept defeat at the hands of Fourth brother in his previous life, he's trying to break through from the inside in this life, trying to confuse Fourth brother!

How insidious!

Thinking of this, Yinxiang kicked him again in anger, forgetting that he was being held by Yinzhen.

Yinzhen, who was kicked for no apparent reason, was not annoyed. He just patted his head and said, "Thirteenth brother, you are quite strong. It seems that mother raised you well."

"But why do you always like to kick people? This is not what a good child should do." Yinsi added from the side.

"..."

The three brothers were having fun when Wenshan came in with a box.

"It's all here." Wenshan smiled happily. "Yinzhen, Yinsi, come and see what good things mother brought back."

The box looked like it could hold jewelry. The two thought someone had given Wenshan jewelry again, but when they opened it, they found a box of wild grass.

Yinsi took out a few and looked at them from left to right. It was just some wild grass.

Yinzhen couldn't make any sense.

"Mother, what are you going to do with all these wild grasses? Are we going to raise rabbits in Xianfu Palace?" Yinsi asked.

"What weeds?" Wen Shan snatched the handful of weeds from Yinsi's hand and glared at him. "If you don't know what they are, put them down. These are wild vegetables!"

"They look no different from weeds," Yinsi muttered softly.

As princes, they had certainly never eaten wild vegetables. They didn't grow in the palace, and the palace maids would pull them out every day during cleaning. But today, Wen Shan happened to find a patch of them in a corner on her way to the Cining Palace.

"This is shepherd's purse. Mother will make dumplings for you later. They're so delicious. This is wild water celery. Hmm, stir-fry it with bacon..." Wen Shan happily explained to them one by one what these wild vegetables were.

Yinxiang, lying in bed, couldn't lie still when he heard Wen Shan and his fourth and eighth brothers talking about wild vegetables. He babbled a little, making some noises. He had never seen wild vegetables before.

"I almost forgot about our little Thirteenth." Wen Shan stepped forward and picked up Yinxiang. Although she knew that this tiny body also housed an adult soul, Wen Shan, having raised Yinsi before, was now calm and accustomed to it.

At least physically, he was a child, so she would raise him as one.

Yinsi showed little interest in the wild vegetables, but Yinzhen listened with great interest as Wen Shan explained which wild vegetables grew where and how to prepare them.

There had been a flood in Hedong a while ago. Although Yinzhen and his companions had not yet attended court, the teachers in the Shangshufang had explained the current events to them. The national treasury allocated a large amount of money, and Kangxi even suspended taxes in Hedong for three years. It took two months of busy disaster relief efforts to finally bring the disaster under control.

He had heard that during disaster years, the victims would forage for wild vegetables for food, so Yinzhen was eager to taste them himself.

After listening to Yinzhen's words, Yinxiang felt a little proud. It turned out that he was still his fourth brother who was devoted to the country, diligent in his work and loved the people! He

was completely incomparable to the one next to him who only talked but did nothing.

After listening, Wenshan was silent for a while and then said: "The wild vegetables eaten by the victims are different from these... Forget it, when you grow up and go out to see for yourself, you will understand."

Yinsi sneezed, and Wenshan hurriedly asked him if he caught a cold, and told him and Yinzhen to put on more clothes as the weather was cold recently.

Yinsi touched his nose and looked at Yinxiang who was well-behaved in Wenshan's arms. Why did he feel that this kid was scolding him behind his back?

Today, there was a wild vegetable banquet in Xianfu Palace. Wenshan made dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse, fried wild celery with bacon, and mixed the rest into a cold dish to make a wild vegetable soup.

Yinzhen and Yinsi originally thought that this was a meal to express gratitude for the hardship of the people's livelihood, but as soon as they took a bite, they knew why Wenshan was so happy at the beginning when she held this box of wild vegetables. It

was indeed fresh and tender with a special fragrance. Wenshan's cooking skills were good. Although they were all home-cooked dishes without any expensive ingredients, they tasted amazing.

Yinxiang could only watch dryly on the side, and couldn't eat even if he wanted to.

Yinsi picked up a chopstick of water celery and looked proudly at Yinxiang who was about to drool. He was dumbfounded, right? He was a person who had experienced it and knew that this period was the most difficult. His mother made so many delicious dishes every day, but he could only look at them but not eat them.

Wenshan saw Yinxiang looking at them eagerly and smiled, touched his little face and said: "Yinxiang can't eat these now, grow up quickly."

Yinzhen liked Yinxiang very much, mainly because he was the only brother who smiled at him but not at Yinsi.

When his eighth brother was young, he didn't like to talk to him. His ninth and tenth brothers liked his eighth brother more. For a time, Yinzhen thought that he was born to be disliked by children. This situation did not improve until Yinxiang came to Xianfu Palace.

There are also brothers who like him!

So now Yinzhen will come to play with Yinxiang for a while every day. Yinxiang must be very close to his fourth brother. In his previous life, he was not familiar with his fourth brother. They gradually came together because of their similar interests after they grew up. So in this life, he actually has the opportunity to get along with his fourth brother when he was young. Even if he has to face an eighth brother who is always in front of him, he can bear it.

As time went by, Yinsi also found pleasure in teasing Yinxiang, who couldn't speak and couldn't resist anything. In front of Wenshan and Yinzhen, he showed that he loved Yinxiang. When they were alone, he would fight with Yinxiang, who no longer pretended to be a baby. Nine out of ten times, Yinsi won with an overwhelming advantage. The remaining time was when Yinxiang was really angry and started crying to attract Wenshan or Yinzhen. Then Yinsi would be scolded.

Yinxiang grew up day by day, and slowly learned to roll over and crawl. Then when he reached the oral stage and liked to bite things, Yinsi gloriously became Yinxiang's teething stick.

Wenshan also made a lot of small toys for Yinxiang to bite and grind his teeth, but as long as Yinsi stretched out his hand to tease him, he would definitely get a big bite attack from Yinxiang. Yinxiang had just grown teeth and it didn't hurt to bite people, so at most he would leave a pool of saliva on Yinsi's hand, so Yinsi didn't get angry and went to tease him every day.

Yinzhen stopped this seemingly childish behavior several times, but he didn't care anymore because the two of them were enjoying it.

Just think of it as the eighth brother and the thirteenth brother cultivating their relationship.

"Yinsi, stop messing with your brother and come over to drink some ice yogurt."

Wenshan came in with two bowls of ice yogurt and saw Yinxiang crawling on the floor covered with a soft blanket. Yinsi also took off his shoes and sat on the floor, teasing him with a toy. When Yinxiang caught him, he would whine and get bitten.

When Yinsi saw that there was food, he threw aside the matter of teasing the thirteenth brother and ran over. He and Wenshan each had a bowl and chatted while eating.

Wen Shan picked up Yinxiang from the blanket, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, weighed him and said: "Little Thirteenth has become heavier again. When will he be able to talk and walk?"

Yinxiang: "Ah--ah--"

Yinsi burst out laughing and said: "Then there is a wait, my brother looks stupid."

Yinxiang's eyes were blazing with anger. This person is spreading rumors about him again!

Wen Shan smiled helplessly and shook her head. Yinxiang stayed in her arms for a while and couldn't sit still. He began to dance and babbled.

"What's wrong?" Wen Shan frowned, thinking that Yinxiang was uncomfortable, but after checking him up and down, there was nothing wrong.

Yinsi quickly finished the bowl of ice cream and tried to have another bowl, but was ruthlessly stopped by Wen Shan, who was afraid that he would have a stomachache at night if he drank too much. Yinsi

looked at Wen Shan's anxious look and tilted his head, saying: "Thirteenth brother is looking for the fourth brother."

Yinxiang heard that someone finally understood what he meant and nodded quickly.

Yinxiang hadn't seen Yinzhen for several days. He didn't wake up when Yinzhen came to have breakfast every morning. He could only see Yinzhen at night when he came back from school. But Yinzhen hadn't come at night recently.

"Your fourth brother has been very busy recently, so mother asked him to go back and rest early and not come again." Wenshan knew that Yinxiang understood what they said, so she patiently explained to him.

Last year, Kangxi sent troops to Yaksa and went to war with Tsarist Russia for the ownership of the land north of Heilongjiang River. This year, Yaksa was conquered again. During the war, several princes including Yinzhen were getting older. So now, in addition to the lectures of the masters in the Shangshufang on weekdays, there is another schedule for Kangxi to personally lead them to familiarize themselves with the current situation in the court.

So Yinzhen couldn't take time to go back to Xianfu Palace for dinner. He always had dinner with several brothers in the Shangshufang, and then went to the Yangxin Palace to listen to government affairs together.

Wen Shan also felt sorry for Yinzhen, and couldn't bear to let him come over to greet her after he came out of the Yangxin Palace in the middle of the night, so she forced Yinzhen to go back to Ganxi Wusuo to rest.

So Yinxiang missed Yinzhen's visit in the morning, and he couldn't see his fourth brother all day.

Yinsi also mocked him about this privately, saying that he was a lazy bug who just slept all day.

Yinxiang was so angry that he gave Yinsi another tooth mark on his arm.

Now it is the 25th year of Kangxi's reign, and the brothers have gradually grown up, especially the eldest brother, who is almost 15 years old this year. He has already decided to get married next year. His wife was chosen by Kangxi himself, Irgen Jueluo, the daughter of Korkun, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Now Yinzhi has also taken an assignment in the Ministry of War and followed him to attend court.

Kangxi was very concerned about the marriage of his eldest son. When arranging the marriage, in addition to Irgen Jueluo as the principal wife, he also arranged Zhang Jia, the daughter of a second-rank general, as a concubine. Suddenly, the eldest prince had two fathers-in-law, one civil and one military, and joined the Ministry of War. He was in high spirits.

Hui Fei was also very satisfied with this marriage. Seeing that Irgen Jueluo and Zhang Jia were settled, she started to arrange to choose another concubine with a good family background for her son, which made Kangxi speechless and ignored her.

Hui Fei was still a little unconvinced. She had already taken into account the face of Irgen Jueluo and Zhang Jia and did not arrange a few concubines for Yinzhen before the wedding. It was just to arrange another concubine. Which prince's backyard was not like this.

Seeing that the eldest prince had found a good marriage, Concubine Ping was a little restless. The crown prince was only three years younger than the eldest prince, so it was reasonable to start making arrangements now. However, Kangxi had always kept the matter to himself and never expressed his intention to choose a daughter as the crown princess.

Instead, it was the Hesheli family who sent a message to Concubine Ping to be patient and not to attract too much attention in the recent period of time. It was best to keep quiet.

After Soetu experienced this dismissal and returned to the officialdom, he also tasted a little of Kangxi's intention. The Hesheli family supported the crown prince and Kangxi was happy to see it happen, but he could not manipulate the crown prince. The crown prince's greatest reliance would always be the emperor.

So Soetu chose to be quiet for a while at this time to see the effect.

None of this concerned Wenshan. She would occasionally listen to Zhenzhu and the others discussing the latest happenings in the palace. If she caught her eye, she would go to Yinsi and share the intricacies and gossip. The rest of the time, she would tend to the fish, visit the two elders in the Cining Palace, carry Yinxiang to visit Concubine Min, and walk the dog in the Imperial Garden, searching for any wild vegetables that might have escaped. Not long after,

Tsarist Russia formally sent envoys to sue for peace. The two-year Battle of Yalu River was finally drawing to a close. All that remained was to negotiate the demarcation of the border and sign the infamous Treaty of Nerchinsk.

Yinzhen could finally breathe a sigh of relief, no longer having to attend court so late every day, and he resumed his evening meal at Xianfu Palace.

Yinxiang finally met his fourth brother whom he had been thinking about day and night. Yinsi also chose to temporarily cease fighting with Yinxiang for the sake of Yinzhen.

Yinxiang sat in Yinzhen's arms, and Yinsi also clung to Yinzhen. Yinzhen, surrounded by his two younger brothers, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"How are you two getting along recently?"

Yinsi replied without hesitation: "Very well, Thirteenth Brother likes me very much now."

Yinxiang: "..."

Eighth brother is bullying him because he can't speak!

When he can speak, I will definitely expose his true face!

Yinxiang had become malicious after being teased by Yinsi so many times. He deliberately hid the fact that he had several small teeth that had grown out. When Yinsi teased him again, he almost made Yinsi cry with a bite.

Yinxiang hummed twice. Now you know how powerful he is.

Yinsi went to complain to Yinzhen and Wenshan. Wenshan tapped his forehead and laughed, saying that he deserved it for provoking Yinxiang. Yinzhen, however, held Yinsi's arm and looked at it carefully for a while to make sure that there was no skin breakage but just some redness and swelling. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and asked someone to get medicine to apply to Yinsi.

Yinxiang tilted his head to the side. Even though he had been here for so long, he was still not used to the deep brotherly love between his fourth brother and eighth brother.

According to the eighth brother's boasting, he was brought to Xianfu Palace not long after he was born. At that time, his fourth brother was already there, so it can almost be said that Yinzhen brought Yinsi up single-handedly, so they naturally had a good relationship.

Of course, Yinsi had another sentence after that.

"Just like the eight-brother has brought you up now, my good brother."

"..."

Yinxiang is straightforward, chivalrous and righteous, but he can never win over others verbally, not to mention Yinsi, who is always eloquent. The most important thing is that he can't speak now, so he can only swallow his anger and secretly curse him in his heart. After Yinzhen applied medicine to Yinsi, he touched Yinxiang's head and said: "Don't bite your eight-brother in the future. He didn't mean to bully you."

Yinxiang felt aggrieved. Well, since the fourth brother said so.

And the eight-brother...it seems that he is just teasing him. After

Yinzhen finished speaking, he looked at Yinsi again and said with a stern face: "And you, don't tease your thirteenth brother anymore."

Yinsi immediately agreed and pestered Yinzhen to say that he hadn't been here for a long time and wanted to play chess together.

Yinxiang also wanted to follow, so it became Yinzhen and Yinsi sitting opposite each other to play chess, and Yinxiang crawled around beside him to exercise his mobility.

Speaking of Go, unlike the stereotypes of Yinsi's intelligence and Yinzhen's honesty and indifference, Yinzhen plays better than Yinsi.

Yinzhen can almost calculate ten steps with one move, and his overall view and control are very good. Although Yinsi will silently calculate in his mind, he is always one step behind Yinzhen. In the past few years, he could still beat Yinzhen with his decades of experience, but now he has become more and more tired. In the end, he had to admit that his fourth brother might be a Go genius.

I didn't hear that the fourth brother was so good at playing Go in the previous life.

Of course, he and the fourth brother didn't have much chance to sit down and play Go together in the previous life.

"Hey, wait a minute, I don't want to play this anymore." Yinsi relied on his young age to start cheating and wanted to regret his move.

Yinzhen took a sip of the special milk tea that Wenshan made for them and said, "This is only once."

The milk tea that people usually drink in the palace is salty. Wenshan couldn't get used to it, so she made sweet milk tea by herself. Recently, she has been struggling in the small kitchen for pearls and puddings, dreaming of making a cup of milk tea filled with small ingredients.

Sweet milk tea is really a bit "heretical", so Wenshan made it secretly, and didn't dare to let others taste it, so it went into the stomachs of Yinzhen and Yinsi.

The two of them accepted sweet milk tea well. After all, they were all children, and Yinzhen and Yinsi also liked sweet food.

Yinxiang raised his little head and watched them play chess, and his mouth opened in shock.

Myna actually cheated and regretted his move, and the fourth brother indulged him?

Although the fourth brother said it was only this time, looking at myna's skilled and unconcerned look, it was clear that it was definitely not the first time he cheated, and there might be another time. Yinxiang has been here for so long,

but he still feels a little confused and unreal.

Fourth Brother and Eighth Brother were completely different from their previous lives.

While Fourth Brother still often lectured with a stern face and followed the rules, he was infinitely gentler than in his previous life. Unlike his previous coldness and loneliness, Fourth Brother was now clearly surrounded by love and care, so he smiled more often and was no longer so unkind. Yinxiang even encountered Fourth Brother and Empress Xuan being coquettish on several occasions.

It was almost like a dream.

Speaking of Eighth Brother, if Eighth Brother hadn't recognized him, he would never have suspected that this Eighth Brother, who was constantly pestering Fourth Brother and Empress Xuan, playing coquettishly and even regretting his moves and cheating, was also a member of his previous life. Eighth Brother had

also become... much more lively.

Yinxiang couldn't help but wonder how Eighth Brother had adapted so quickly. He absolutely couldn't act coquettishly or playfully now. He might look like a child, but he wasn't really a child.

The two played for a while and Yinsi fell into a disadvantage again. He frowned and looked up at Yinzhen. Yinzhen twisted the chess piece and said, "I said it only once."

Yinsi didn't want to admit that he lost, especially in front of the Thirteenth Brother. The Thirteenth Brother knew that he was a man who lived a second life, but now he couldn't beat the eight-year-old Fourth Brother. It was embarrassing, too embarrassing.

"Fourth Brother, Mother seemed to call you just now."

Yinsi threw the chess piece and didn't plan to play. Yinzhen also understood his little thoughts and was too lazy to expose him. It happened that he was a little curious about what Mother was busy doing in the small kitchen for so long, so he said: "Then let's seal this game first."

Then Yinzhen went out.

As soon as Yinsi saw Yinzhen go out, he accidentally overturned the chessboard.

"Oh, it was careless. Forget it. No need to collect it."

Yinsi waved his hand at the eunuch who was about to collect the chessboard. The eunuch retreated with a hiss.

Yinxiang cast a contemptuous look from the side.

He often played chess with his fourth brother and knew that his fourth brother was very talented in chess, so he thought it was normal that his eighth brother could not beat his fourth brother, but he still showed a little disdainful look. It's shameful

that an adult can't beat a child!

Yinsi understood what he meant and stepped forward to pinch his face.

The Thirteenth Brother was proficient in martial arts in his previous life. Although he was a baby now, he was not much worse. He and Yinsi soon got into a fight.

Until Wenshan and Yinzhen came in, Yinxiang was still lying on Yinsi, trying to resist the tyranny of his eighth brother.

"Yinsi, why are you quarreling with your brother again?"

Wenshan held her forehead helplessly.

The mental age of these two people is about eighty years old, but they look like ordinary children.

Yinxiang was still a little reserved around Wenshan, and immediately dismounted from Yinsi when she entered.

Yinsi dusted off his clothes and climbed to his feet, a youthful smile on his face.

"It's okay, I'm just playing with my Thirteenth Brother."

"We'll play later. Come over and eat first," Wenshan waved at him.

Yinsi sighed and quickly went to take up a favorable position.

Not long into the meal, Zhenzhu suddenly rushed in.

"Master, news just came from the courtyard outside the palace that the Sixth Prince did not survive the smallpox vaccination and has just passed away."