Breeze

A heavy snowfall started from the new year, and it lasted for more than ten days, intermittently, and there was no day without a few snowflakes.

This is not the year of auspicious snow.In the capital, everyone said that this was God's response to the misery of the world.Didn't you see that the snow never stopped when the empress dowager died.

When Yinqi stepped out of the side door of Fengxian Hall, snowflakes were falling from the sky.He looked up and watched the little white catkins falling obliquely with the wind, he just felt empty and uncomfortable in his heart.

Travelers are just lucky ones in the gap between time and space, how can they really bring blessings to the elders as the so-called Living Buddha said?

If it is true, why did he try hard, but the Queen Mother's death is still completely in accordance with the historical track, without any change?

He stopped, and Zhang Zhenchun, the little eunuch who served him personally, rushed up behind him.Zhang Zhenchun held an off-white cloak in his hand, and said, "Master 23, it's freezing cold, you are sad for the queen mother, and you have to feel sorry for yourself."

Yin Qi gave up his hand and took the cloak.

This cloak was made for him by the Empress Dowager last winter. It was made of the best snow velvet material among weaving tributes. It was light, soft and warm.

The bright red fringe on it is the fiery red fox that Kangxi Jin dedicated to the Queen Mother in the early years and hunted by himself.The queen mother kept it for several years and was not willing to use it, but last year she gave it to Yinqi to make a cloak.Yin Qi looked at the cloak, only feeling a little sore in his eyes.

For more than four years, the empress dowager has treated him the best in the world. He really feels like a grandmother, and he is also sincerely filial to the empress dowager.But now, the empress dowager has been there for nearly two months.

It is already the 57th year of Kangxi. Since the end of last year, the emperor Kangxi was sad and tired because of the death of the empress dowager, and he was sick for more than 30 days.

Yinqi knew that he had swollen feet and couldn't walk; he was also mentally weak and dizzy, so he didn't meet his foreign ministers.But the people around are not all clear about it, and they can't help but whisper in their hearts.

Even the elder brothers who had met Shengyan wondered whether the emperor's lifespan had come.His illness has made people's hearts flutter, and those who are interested have started to dig around again.

Yinqi didn't know much about Qing history, but he also knew that someone would bring the prince out again in early 57, making a joke about establishing a prince.Forget the days when Kangxi was ill, probably these people can't wait any longer, right?

In the past few days, Master Wang Yan, who finally came to Shangshufang, was not at all indifferent at all. When he was giving lectures to their little princes and grandsons, when he talked about the order of hierarchy, he actually spoke impassionedly.He also said some words of etiquette and discipline, but in his words he vaguely regarded Kangxi as someone who was about to die.

Yinqi thought that last year, together with Yushi Chen Jiayou and eight other people, he brought up the matter of establishing the crown prince again in front of Kangxi. At that time, Wang Yan almost lost his life.But now he has such thoughts again, he is really old, and he doesn't know the lesson.

Wang Yan was just dazed by reading, and he recognized the Han family's rule of establishing a heir and an elder, but Kangxi could tolerate him once or twice.But what about others?

In a few days, someone's head will fall to the ground again, but it will be stained with such a clean piece of white snow.

Yinqi suddenly thought of his second elder brother, who was really ill-fated.However, it has been nearly five years since he was born in this world, but he has never seen this elder brother—not to mention the second elder brother, in fact, there are many elder brothers he has never met—he really can't feel any sympathy .

But Yin Qi, who was circled and reprimanded by Kangxi, and who was raised by the Queen Mother since he was a child, could not be seen.Even if they are still outside, only the fifth elder brother Yinqi, whose name is pronounced the same as Yinqi's, is seen more because he was raised by the Queen Mother in the early years.The other elder brothers can only see each other once a year at the family dinner on New Year's Eve in some years.

Thinking about the situation in my heart, what kind of family is this!

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Looking at the cloak in his hand again, Yin Qi couldn't help but feel angry.

He is only a child under the age of five, not to mention young, from a humble background, and his mother's family is weak.It's just that the living Buddha told Kangxi and the Queen Mother himself that he prayed for the greatest blessing in the world, so they should have been relieved a long time ago, right?But actually plotting against him like this, do you really want to drive him into a place of eternal doom?

Before the empress dowager died on the 49th day, the emperor's grandson, who had been raised by her since she was a child, was wearing red and wearing a treasure, an unfilial hat, and Yinqi's was indispensable.There are eyeliners everywhere in the palace, if Yin Qi really put on a cloak at this moment, I am afraid that Kangxi will know it within a short time of incense - no matter whose eyeliner reported the letter, it will never fall to Yinqi Good luck.

At that time, what is waiting for him to pray?

Who is the instigator of this matter, he really doesn't even want to bother to think about it.

The number of suspects is really too many. If we investigate one by one, Yin Qi is not so capable now.

The left and right are just those brothers and those nephews.Others would not be able to plot against him, that is to say, my own family, that would go to such lengths to plot against a child like him.

Yin Qi became even more discouraged for a while, so he just folded the cloak and handed it to Zhang Zhenchun to hold it.

"In the future, you will also be a little smarter!"

After thinking for a while, Yin Qi just said so.

The person he serves personally is naturally the one he chooses for a long time before he dares to put it by his side.It's just that with his status, he can't be said to be high or low. Those who can help him are either the eyes of various families, or those who have been picked out. How can there be a few clever ones.

Although Zhang Zhenchun was loyal, he was too honest and blunt, almost stupid.Otherwise, he wouldn't have done something like bringing the red fox cloak to Yin Qi today.

Zhang Zhenchun looked at the cloak in his hand, and knew that he really did something wrong today, so he was crying.

Yin Qi thought for a while, the person who prepared things for him today was Gao Hui, the eldest court lady in the outhouse.On the surface, he was born as a servant under the Baoyi banner of the elder brother's family, but who it is actually, I really don't know.

But even though he didn't take it, Zhang Zhenchun didn't remember to check it before going out, so he should have hit him.

Yinqi said: "That's all for today, go back and ask Su Yao to teach you more! I know you are afraid that I will catch cold, but you also have to look at the color of this clothes!"

He was dressed in a dark blue robe, and the hat on his head was also gray and black.He didn't start to grow his head, and the whole head of hair was braided, and the ends of the braids were not tied with yellow silk ribbons used by princes, but tied with white thread.

A small child, well-groomed.The cloak she held in her hand had a dazzling fiery red color, why didn't she make eye contact?

Zhang Zhenchun bowed his head in response.The two of them, the master and the servant, spoke in a low voice, and this place was outside, empty and empty, so they were not afraid of being heard by others.Knowing that Zhang Zhenchun is a strict talker, Yin Qi said in a low voice: "If you still can't learn how to be clever, just wait and go with your master and me to be with the eldest brother!"

Zhang Zhenchun was terrified by these words.He was only in his teens, and his eye circles became red immediately.

Yin Qi ignored him and walked forward.It was snowing today and the road was slippery. If he wanted to get to the Shang Study Room in time, he had to hurry up.

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Get up early in the morning and go to the Great Buddha Hall behind the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and pay your respects to the coffin of the Empress Dowager.After walking such a long way, I went to Fengxian Hall to pray for blessings, and it took more than an hour to go all the way.When he came to Shang's study room, Yin Qi was inevitably a little depressed.

Fortunately, Kangxi no longer has the energy to come over to check shifts, Yin Qi asked his companions He Lian and Qingchun to watch for him, and when the master came to wake him up, he lay down on the table and squinted his eyes.

Yin Qili came early, but not too early.Not many fashionable study rooms are full of people, they are all princes and grandchildren, all related, so there is no reason not to greet each other.

There was an uproar in Shang's study, one said something, another answered, the masters hadn't arrived yet, no one was restraining them, the noise in Shang's study was so loud that it gave people a headache.

Always unable to rest, Yin Qi simply got up.

His seniority is considered high in this Shang study.The older brothers all have errands and have not come to school for a long time.The number is almost complete, and in the entire Shangshufang, only the three elder brothers in rank 21, 22, and [-] need his greetings.

Unexpectedly, today's [-]th elder brother said that he was sick, so Yinqi just walked to the table where Yinxi and Yinhu brothers were sitting together—they were born in one year, only ten days apart, and they have always come in and out together—— They said hello.

Ever since he was born, Yin Qi was said by the Living Buddha from the grassland to bring blessings to the elders.There happened to be a red birthmark on the heart of his right hand, which was exactly the same shape as a piece of blood jade brought by the Queen Mother from the grassland that had never left her body for decades.This can be regarded as an auspicious sign, so before he opened his eyes, he was carried to the queen mother's palace to be raised.

Coincidentally, the queen mother was ill at that time, and within three days after Yin Qi was carried, the queen mother recovered completely, which just confirmed the words of the living Buddha, didn't it just bring blessings to the elders?Since then, the Empress Dowager treats Yin Qi not only on the tip of her heart, but also very fond of her.

Yinqi is the second generation, so he naturally knows how to please the old lady.In the past few years, of course, only the one who has become more and more favored, even Kangxi, although he doesn't necessarily treat him sincerely, every time we meet, he is much warmer to this youngest son in conversation.

So even though he is the younger brother, Yinxi and Yinhu really dare not accept Yinqi's gift.Yinqi just bent down, and Yinxi supported him with both hands, and said with a smile: "Brother 23, you don't need to be so polite. It's better to review your homework a few times before the masters come. Your Chinese is a little lacking, don't worry about it." If you are caught by the master again, you will be punished for copying books again."

This was taught by his elder brother, Yinqi lowered his hand, nodded in agreement, and returned to his table.When you open a book, you don't know what it is, but you just get distracted by reading it.

He was a Han Chinese in his previous life, so there is nothing lacking in Chinese.It's just because I grew up in the Empress Dowager's Palace all my life, and what I heard and said was in Mongolian and Manchu. Now I'm in the Shang's study, and suddenly I can read Chinese very well, which makes people suspicious.

The mind is at a loss, a chaos.This is getting up too early and taking too much energy.After all, at a young age, I don't have enough energy right now.Yinqi only watched the masters of Man and Han come in one by one, bowed to the princes and grandchildren, received the ceremony again, and then began to inquire about yesterday's homework one by one.

The national language is Mongolian, and Yinqi naturally answers fluently.When asked about Chinese, Yinqi only entered school, and he still studied the Three-Character Classic, just to recognize characters.Although I didn't work hard last night and this morning, I was able to give a rough idea. The Chinese master was very satisfied. He nodded and began to ask Yinqi's nephews.

None of the emperor's grandsons in Shangshu's room is simple.To be selected by Kangxi to be raised in the palace, apart from his unusual background, he is also smart in stature, and everyone is fine.Yin Qi only felt that it was a good thing that Hong Xi was no longer in the Shang Study Room, otherwise, just dealing with him alone would make people rack their brains.

According to his age, he asked about Hongchun, the eldest son of the fourteenth elder brother, not long after. Yin Qi didn't care to listen to him say something with a twist and a deep meaning to misinterpret the sage's words, so he turned his head and talked to He Lian.

He Lian is also impatient.He is the nephew of the thirteenth elder brother Fujin Zhaojia's natal family. In recent years, the fourteenth elder brother has been the most popular, but the thirteenth elder brother has disappeared. The two brothers who went hand in hand back then are so different now, how can we not make people sigh.He is the brother-in-law of the thirteenth brother, so naturally he has never been used to the publicity of the sons of the fourteenth brother's family.

When Yinqi talked to him, he curled his lips and directed the conversation to Hongchun, saying: "Look at that virtue! His father is going to fight Junggar before he is sure, but he looks like a general who won the victory." It's still heading!"

Hong Chun did speak a little too much, and was too proud.There was a faint hint in the words that in the future, the Shang Study Room would count their brothers as respected.

Not to mention that He Lian was not convinced, how many of those in Shang's study who could hear Hong Chun's implication could be peaceful?Even the oldest in Shangshufang, the deepest mansion in the city, and Prince Jian's son Yongqian, who has always been on good terms with Hongchun, has a rather unsightly expression.

At this time, it is obvious that Hongchun is not clever, anyway, we have to wait until the fourteenth elder brother really leaves.Yin Qi remembered that he did not inherit the title of king in the future, but Hong Ming, who was sitting next to him at the moment, was made the son of the prince, and later became the king of the county.

Yin Qi didn't want to care about the faces of others.He only thought about living a safe life for himself, but at this moment he regretted talking to He Lian, which caused him to complain about Hong Chun.

At that moment, Yinqi only pretended not to understand what Hongchun said, but whispered to He Lian: "Whatever. If Fourteenth Brother really led troops out, it would be his honor, and we can't stop him." No? His father is capable, and it is reasonable for him to be proud of being a son. Anyway, you follow me, so you don’t have to be angry with him. on your head."

He Lian snorted and was about to say something else when Qingchun coughed.

It's not that He Lian doesn't know the importance, otherwise Kangxi wouldn't be able to choose him as Yinqi's companion.He is already 12 years old, and he knows what to say and what not to say.But I couldn't see it for a while, so I said a few more words.At this time, when Qingchun coughed, he lowered his eyes and looked at the book.