Chapter 77
Regarding Cao Zhen’s secret matter, Yinreng couldn’t ask his third grandfather, so he simply asked Xiaomei directly: Can Azhen’s disease be cured?
[It was supposed to die until he was two years old, but Cao Zhen does not exist. People who died prematurely cannot live without a price.] Yinreng: But this price is too hard.
[The child’s companion should not be Cao Zhen, but someone else. He chose him by accident because of Xiaomei’s influence.] The white tiger scratched his ears with his claws, and the tiger’s whispered trembled, telling Yinreng with deep words.
[Some things are by chance, some things are destined. If a damn person lives, then there will definitely be people who should not die. You can understand it as the wheel of history? Xiaomei gave you an example: if Qin Shihuang should unify the world, it would not be someone else, if Qin Ershi died, it would be even more difficult to save. You were born as the crown prince, and this is destiny.] Logically speaking, the destiny of heaven should be Yinreng was deposed by the crown prince and could not be the emperor. Xiaomei was exhausted, but she saw that he was getting closer and closer to the throne.
This is the incredible thing. Baihu himself can't analyze it. How can it analyze what God in this world is thinking with a system?
When Yinreng heard that Cao Zhen should have lived to be two years old, his face changed so much that he cherished his friends even more, for fear that he would lose his life if something unexpected happened.
Cao Zhen's ribs were broken, and he was inhaling in pain every day. What was even more uncomfortable was that the teeth on his mouth were leaking and his speech was vague. He was a little worried about his image. He got up and looked in the mirror every day, frowning for the growing hair and thrown teeth.
The doctor said that Cao Zhen changed teeth later than ordinary children, and the two front teeth fell off, and they would fall off. In the future, they would grow new ones, which was more troublesome to raise ribs. They could not move around and could only rest. However, the carriage sent by Kangxi to welcome Yinreng back to the palace had arrived.
If the horse is fast, the distance between Zunyi City and the capital can be reached within one day. Kangxi was anxious when he received the news of something wrong with Yinreng. The imperial guards in the capital could not be sent out of the capital, so he sent the Luanyi Guard, who had acted quickly and only followed the emperor's private orders.
Half a day later, the Crown Prince was rescued, and Prince Gong Changning, and the Crown Prince accompanied Cao Zhen to the capital to read the memorial of Cao Zhen's serious injury. In addition, there was also the impeachment written by Soetu, indicating that the rebel was Wu, the daughter of Wu Yingxiong. He used Prince Gong to arrange for the traitor to sneak into Zunyi City. He now suspected that there were still anti-Qing rebels hiding in it near the imperial tomb, and begged the emperor to send someone to investigate the case.
Soetu himself was also injured, but compared to Chang Ning's bloody head and Cao Zhen's body was injured. His broken left arm was just a trivial matter that could be maintained by picking up a piece of wooden board.
Kangxi was furious: "What about Baocheng? How is my Baocheng?"
Soetu wrote only a few strokes on the memorial: His Royal Highness was frightened and was not injured.
Just the word "frightened" is enough to make the old father anxious.
When they went there, Yinreng and the others slowly walked across the city to pay tribute to the queen. When they came back, the emperor sent Luanyiwei to secretly greet him, and within two days he welcomed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the Forbidden City.
The palace maids and eunuchs who followed Yinreng were half damaged, haha, only Echu was still alive, why didn’t Kangxi frighten and thunder furious?
From the time of his ancestors to the present, the civil anti-Qing army has never stopped assassinating the emperor. The late emperor had encountered many assassinations when he was traveling, even Kangxi himself was like this. He thought that he sent Baocheng to the imperial tomb, which was nearest to the capital. There were so many protections, and there should be no problem with Prince Gong's staff. Who would have thought that this problem would appear on Prince Gong?!
Yinreng and Cao Zhen rode back to the capital in a bumpy carriage. The bumpy road almost broke him apart.
He felt sick and wanted to vomit, not to mention Cao Zhen, who had already broken his ribs.
After not shaved his hair for three months, Yinreng's hair could be made into bangs. He was not used to the feeling of hair on his forehead. Every morning, he looked in the mirror and fiddled with bangs. He felt that his hairstyle was becoming more and more like the "Chinese primary school leader"!
I have long been used to being naked on my head, and I feel like I don’t get used to it at all with my bangs. Yinreng and Cao Zhen expressed their thoughts: "Actually, if you look at it for a long time, you will get used to it. The hair on your head is actually quite good. The Han people who fled to Taiwan refused to abide by the rules of Manchu people, will it be because they are not used to our hairstyle? But just because of the hair problem, it will be a bit too much for the two armies to fight to the death. "
The anti-Qing people who kidnapped them were able to confuse Yinreng and Cao Zhen because the two children were shaved with their hair with their eyebrows and hair on their faces for three months. In theory, Cao Zhen could shave his hair, but he and Yinreng "share the joys and sorrows" and waited for the prince to become filial.
"Actually," Cao Zhen whispered: "They may think that hair is dignity, right? Alas, my family is quite difficult to do. Your Highness, don't look at my grandfather who made Jiangning weaving, and my father became a celebrity in the imperial court, but my family is a Han and a bannerman. The Han people think my father is Manchu, and Manchus think my father is Han, and they are just sandwiched in the middle. As a result, no one on both sides thinks my father is his own."
I have lived in the palace for so long, but didn’t Cao Zhen know his father’s situation? Even he himself felt the taste. Fortunately, he was the prince’s companion and the prince’s support him!
And father, he can only rely on the emperor's favor to be glorious.
"Don't look at me being heartless, I know a lot, my grandmother..." Cao Zhen said to him quietly: "It was the nanny who took care of him when the emperor was a child, and later married his grandfather, so our family was all coated, but my grandfather became a high-ranking official again, with the favor being in my family, and my family was glorious. But in fact, the Han officials from the imperial examination looked down on our family. They thought that my family was not a serious imperial examination promotion, but a charming villain who was a side-minded person. Even if my father was well-educated, they would come to laugh at him at once."
"Have you been ridiculed by others?" Yinreng said with concern.
"I have been stupid since I was a child, and I just laughed at it," Cao Zhen did not feel inferior at all. He laughed: "But I am now studying faster than the eldest brother. If someone laughs at me, the eldest brother will be angry. I am a companion in the study room, with His Royal Highness and the eldest brother support me! Do you think I am lucky or not? So I am not sad at all. Now you don't dislike me, and I am even less sad."
He saw his father Cao Yin's sorrow for a lot, and he was optimistic: I'm like this anyway, so let's get started!
"When your highness shows filial piety, I will shave my hair clean," Cao Zhen was really reluctant to leave the little hair on his head. There were a few small hairs on his head. He always felt that it was not cold anymore and he didn't need to wear a hat all the time.
Yes, Yinreng had to hold a filial piety ceremony when he came back from the imperial tomb, and went to the palace to burn incense and kowtow to Queen Hesheli's spiritual throne, so that he could shave his hair and then change it to the noble prince's clothes.
The emperor was anxious to wait for them to come back, and even the memorials as high as a mountain were unsure of reviewing them.
Until he heard that the prince had arrived at the palace gate, he immediately stood up and asked someone to show his way to pick up his son in person.
When they met, Kangxi almost recognized Yinreng. The child's growth changed day by day. He hadn't seen him for three months. He became taller and thinner, and his words became clear. He thought that the front teeth on his mouth had grown out.
Yinreng's little butt was numb by the carriage. He jumped out of the carriage and saw the emperor waiting for him. He bowed in surprise and shouted in great pride: "Ama Khan, Erchen is back!"
"Follow me to worship your empress," Kangxi quietly relieved himself when he saw that he was unscathed and in good spirits.
The emperor personally held a filial piety ceremony for him, and then greeted someone to shave the miscellaneous hairs on Yinreng's head.
After doing this, Kangxi calmed down and asked Yinreng, the father and son rested in Zhaoren Palace, but hadn't seen each other for three months. Kangxi missed his son, and why didn't Yinreng miss Khan?
The emperor, who was as love as a mountain, touched Yinreng's regained smooth forehead, and kindly felt distressed: "Is Baocheng scared this time?"
"It's very thrilling, but fortunately, there are people who protect me," Yinreng shook his calves and said lowly: "Khan Ama, Azhen is injured because of protecting me."
"I know everything. Soetu's memorial said," Kangxi felt that this was a bit difficult. At that time, it was Cao Yin's son who saved the prince and would have a heavy reward, not to mention that the child still had permanent disability?
"I will compensate Cao Yin, but it's a pity that Cao Zhen is a good child."
"Can you still want Azhen to be a companion?" Yinreng was very nervous: "Ama Khan can't send him away. Azhen is very smart. It would be great if he didn't say anything, otherwise how would Azhen meet people in the future?"
"If you like him, keep it," Kangxi was really scared this time. He was not fully prepared in the future. He could not release Yinreng out of the palace casually. As long as the crown prince is fine, it would not be an exaggeration for others to give him much reward.
"What is the purpose of sending you to the imperial tomb to protect your mother's mourning? I think you have guessed it, right?" Kangxi said in a rare way. He said lightly: "The news that the prince has returned will be spread in the harem. The new mourning of Niu Hulu is in the palace. Although the filial piety period has been resolved in three months, as the prince, you have to give her an incense stick. After all, she is my queen."
Yinreng nodded, and wanted to say something but stopped: "Khan Ama, the emperor saved Wu and caused this result, he..."
"I will completely exile him to guard the imperial tomb," Kangxi said coldly: "No one can enter the capital without an imperial edict. This matter cannot be saved even if the Empress Dowager pleads with him."
"I heard that Wu is Wu Yingxiong's daughter and her mother is a princess," Yinreng twisted uneasyly: "Wu asked Erchen before the moment, would he deserve to be sacrificed for marriage if he was a princess of the Qing Dynasty?"
"Mr. Wu died in front of you?" Kangxi frowned, and his displeasure was even more serious. Soetu was unable to protect the prince at all.
Baocheng was arrested, but I don’t know how many grievances he suffered outside. How scared he was at that time!
Kangxi said coldly: "Which prince in the Qing Dynasty? The marriage of the princes is not a marriage?"
"But if you are not lucky, do you marry into Mongolia and marry a gang, or marry a traitor?" Yinreng pointed at the opponent. He could only ask this question while he was face to face with Khan Ama in private.
Yinreng really wants to know the answer.
Khan Ama is now treasured by him, so he shouldn't be angry about his offensive problems.
"That is their responsibility," the emperor said honestly, not avoiding the indifference in his words: "Even if the favored princess is the one who should be married, she cannot escape. Who told you that it is not a good thing to marry Mongolia? Our Manchu princess can take power when she goes to Mongolia! As for marrying a traitor, Princess Heshuo Kechun is indeed not lucky, she is implicated."
Kangxi sympathized with her, but this did not prevent him from putting her under house arrest and killing her child who was born as a traitor.
"Preserve the success, those who accomplish great things do not care about the trivial matters. At that time, the marriage was because the court was still weak and needed to appease Wu Sangui. Now it is also because of the situation. Do you think she is a victim of the interests of the court, but you don't know that if the Empress Dowager and the late emperor did not do that, they would not have the foundation of today's court."
Kangxi was very pleased to see that Yinreng's expression was no longer unimaginable, but was thoughtful.
"On a trip, Baocheng has grown a lot."
He is no longer the ignorant and innocent appearance he used to be, with more wisdom and consideration, and he leans on the ideal appearance of the crown prince in his mind.
The father and son had a meal together, and there seemed to be endless topics between them. The three-month separation aroused Kangxi's full of fatherly love, and his beloved son was almost injured, making him want to tie Yinreng to his belt. This time, he left Yinreng directly in Zhaoren Palace.
He also taught Yinreng some considerations when he was an emperor, told him "what is a trade-off" and "what is a gain or loss", and also told him his decision to use thunder to execute the nine tribes of Wu Sangui, as well as his anger at Prince Gong's unclear mind.
"He is the prince of the Qing Dynasty, and then others," Kangxi criticized Prince Gong: "Heroes are short of love and are short of energy, and they cannot do great things, and they are not decisive enough. The temporary kindness of women will cause great trouble. Baocheng knows now? I shouldn't have allowed him to take Wu away at the beginning."
Yinreng used to quietly muttering about the humanity of the emperor in his heart, but now he has received the imperial education from Kangxi. He rationally knew that Khan Ama was right to do this, but he felt a little nervous.
In the evening, Yinreng drank apple juice and wrote and painted in the diary. He quietly went to see Kangxi and cleverly raised his ears: "The story of the mood is for privacy. This is not a diary for the Grand Master and Khan Ama. You can't peek at it."
Kangxi was reading a book. He glanced at him and said indifferently: "I am so bored that I can peek at your mood record? It was an accident before, so I don't want to read it!"
"Khan Ama, a gentleman's word is as good as hell, you can agree."
The son was guarding against him as if he was guarding against thieves, which made Kangxi feel a little secretly unhappy. Seeing that Yinreng was not writing ink at all, he knew that he was afraid that he was writing shameful things with alum water.
He still remembers the incident of the three princes making a big fuss in the study! He is now thinking about his son and just settled the score with him before meeting him.
The more Yinreng was guarding against him, Kangxi felt like a kitten was tickling. They talked about such sensitive topics today and taught him a lot of emperor ways. He really wanted to know what Baocheng would understand.
When writing, the apple juice has a faint fragrance, which smells particularly good. Yinreng started writing: Khan Ama said that the princess’ responsibility is marriage, and this tragedy will happen this time. I thought the root cause was probably because the Qing Dynasty was weak and the troubles were mixed.
If the Qing Dynasty could be so strong that it would not require a princess and the princesses would marry, wouldn’t such a tragedy happen again?
After Yinreng finished writing it, he placed it in a small accompanying box where he put it in his "diary". He would bring the box wherever he lived, and some interesting things would be added to it from time to time.
Kangxi saw Yinreng squatting behind the screen, with his treasure box placed there. Under the candlelight, the child was lying in the box with his round butt sticking out his round butt and fiddling with something.
The emperor was both angry and funny: How old is this child, he started to have his own little secret. He even prepared the treasure chest and was equipped with a lock. I don’t know who was a spoiled?
After putting down the diary, Yinreng accidentally caught a glimpse of the veil he had packed in the small box with him, and he hurriedly took it out.
"Baocheng, the time is up, it's time for you to go to bed."
Yinreng replied loudly: "I understand! Khan Ama, I have always cared about you when I go out. This is the gift I brought to you on my way back. Do you like it?"
Chapter completed!