HCB Chapter 109: 57 years
Chapter 109: 57 years
Tong Jia looked up in the direction of the Eighth Lady's gaze. Seeing her master looking at her, she no longer cared about other things. A blush appeared on her face. She nodded in the direction of Marhun and then looked at the Eighth Lady. "Hui Shu, you still dare to tease Ekechu. You must be spoiled by the Eighth Prince. Seeing you like this, Ekechu is relieved."
It was as if any discord between them did not exist at all, as if the two of them were very close.
They each sat behind their own masters. Little Pomegranate Yinlu ran to the side of the Fourth Master, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered in Yinzhen's ear for a long time. Behind him, the Fourth Lady lowered her eyes and tried hard to suppress the upturned corners of her mouth. Fortunately, she maintained her elegance.
The fourth master's eyes unconsciously glanced at Yinlu, raised his hand and touched Yinlu's little head, "Fourth brother knows, tomorrow I will take you to the prince's residence to find your ninth brother and ninth sister-in-law to ask for the soft meat jerky you want."
"Hehe..." Yinlu ran away quickly and sat next to the Fifteenth Prince. He was very well-behaved and smiled at Wen Yao with relief.
[Little traitor!] Wen Yao looked at the chubby Yinlu. He would become less and less cute as he grew older. He was the cutest at this time and when he was younger. As expected, they are still brothers. [Little ungrateful wolf, little pomegranate, just wait and see if I will give you a small steak.]
Yinzhen glanced in the direction of the sixteenth brother Yinlu. Yinlu's smile seemed to be worthless. The sixteenth brother had been following his wife around everywhere for a while, but he finally found a playmate other than the fifteenth brother. What a little traitor?
Did the little guy just go to the fourth brother's place?
Yinzhen turned around and looked at his wife, who looked innocent. Hey... innocent? He didn't believe it. Yinzhen approached Wen Yao and asked, "What did you say to Sixteen? What did he say to Fourth Brother?"
Wen Yao smiled and leaned over to Yinzhen's ear, "I told Fourth Sister-in-law that you really like Fourth Brother chatting with you with a smile, but Sixteen heard it and told Fourth Brother about it, that little traitor."
"You are the traitor!" Yinzhen gritted his teeth. He likes the fourth brother? Pah! Yinzhen looked in the direction of his fourth brother and turned his head quickly. He didn't want to look. Wait, the fourth brother seemed to have smiled just now!
Yinzhen suddenly and decisively turned around again to look in Yinzhen's direction. Although it was not obvious, he was definitely smiling, "!!!!" Horrified!
Yin? poked Yin'er, "Ninth Brother," whispered in Yin'er's ear, "Did the Fourth Brother smile? It's so weird to smile at us. He must have some bad intentions."
Wen Yao:......
The little action here was drowned out by the crowd of guests. Soon the birthday banquet began. There was no first wife beside Yinzhi, but he asked the nanny to bring the eldest prince from the mansion over. Yinzhi's eldest son Hongyu was born on September 30, the 35th year of Kangxi. He was a few months away from turning four years old. He was five months older than the seventeenth prince Yinli, but looked thinner than Yinli.
[Knowing that Hongyu was in poor health, I didn't expect him to be so thin. I remember that it was recorded that after the first wife died because she couldn't bear the four daughters and one son, Yinzhi married a second wife. However, the four daughters and one son born by the first wife, Irgen Jueluo, were all buried by Yinzhi. The princesses seemed to have gone to see their mothers early. Hongyu seemed to have died in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi. I remember that he was about twenty-three years old.]
Yinzhi was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't hold Hongyu steadily. Fortunately, Hongyu held his father tightly in his arms. Hongyu looked cautiously, "Ah...Father, Hongyu can walk by himself." Hongyu's eyes were filled with admiration and attachment, as well as a hint of cautious uneasiness.
Yinzhi came back to his senses from Hongyu's gaze and looked at his well-behaved eldest son in his arms. This was his eldest son whom he had been thinking about all the time. For him, he lost his wife who had been devoted to him. Now, would he have to endure the loss of this son in the future?
Yinzhi looked at Hongyu's eyes and found a hint of uneasiness in him, as if he had heard Nanny Shi Yan say that Hongyu thought he had killed his wife and that she was blaming him.
Yinzhi seemed to be clear-headed at this moment. He did not blame Hongyu. What did this have to do with Hongyu? It was always his own problem. Yinzhi hugged Hongyu tightly and said, "Father can hold Hongyu, but when Hongyu grows up, Father won't be able to hold him anymore. Then, can Hongyu hold Father?"
Tears welled up in Yinzhi's eyes, but he tried not to let them fall. He thought it would look awkward to cry in front of so many people.
Since he knew that Hongyu was in poor health and would die young, he would definitely take good care of Hongyu's health. He didn't care about whether he would have a successor wife or not. He just wanted his Hongyu to live well and see him off to the end of his life!
Could it be that the second wife he married later had a legitimate son and he neglected Hongyu, or was there something fishy going on on the part of the second wife?
But Crown Prince Yinreng, the Third Prince Yinzhi, the Fourth Prince Yinzhen, and the Eighth Prince Yinsi all noticed one thing: it was the 57th year of Kangxi's reign!
Therefore, the Emperor could remain on the throne for at least fifty-seven years!
The prince looked at the wine glass in his hand. He hoped that his father would be alive, but at the same time... his father would be on the throne for at least fifty-seven years. What business would he have to have? When he succeeded to the throne, how many years could he be emperor?
The third prince Yinzhi had complicated thoughts. There were still about twenty years left, and it would be good for them if the emperor was still alive, but...what was there to fight for?
Yinzhi was reluctant to give up, but if he didn't give up, when he heard that there were still so many years to go, Yinzhi felt that he would have to be cautious for so many years, how depressing!
The Fourth Prince Yinzhen was the first to look in the direction of the Crown Prince. Seeing the Crown Prince's deep thought, Yinzhen became a little depressed. He lowered his eyes to hide the worry in his eyes, as well as a hint of hope and speculation.
The eighth prince Yinsi's mood improved. The longer the emperor stayed in power, the better it would be for him. He would not know the outcome until the very end, so he was looking forward to it.
Wen Yao kept watching the expression on Hongyu's face change from nervousness to happiness. [Come to think of it, it seems that the princes born to the second wife also died young, and the surviving children of Yinzhi seemed to be all born to concubines.] Wen Yao couldn't remember clearly, but she seemed to remember someone saying that being Yinzhi's wife was also hard, so she just took a general look.
Yinzhi's previous guess collapsed in an instant. The princes born to his second wife...? None of them survived?
Then why should he marry a second wife? He will have to endure the pain of losing his son again, and will also have to harm a good girl. It would be better not to marry!
Yinzhi hugged Hongyu tighter. His heart felt like a volcano that was about to erupt. He put his cheek on Hongyu's shoulder and smelled the milky fragrance on Hongyu's body. Only then did he suppress the erupting volcano and calm down a little.
But when she heard Hongyu's stomach growling, she became angry again and looked at the nurse who was holding Hongyu, "What's going on? Hongyu is hungry, don't you know how to give him something to eat?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I... I didn't know that the eldest prince was hungry," the wet nurse knelt down hurriedly and lowered her head quickly. If she had known, she would have fed him more milk before bringing him back.