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Kangxi glanced at him and said, "Oh? I saw that there are people hunting deer down there, why don't you ask for it?"

Brother Sixteen said: "It's not because of your status... If you come to ask for it, it's not like begging for someone, but like a bully going to grab it by force. It's very boring. I saw how many people there were in the next afternoon. The guards carried several big deer to the side of the tent, thinking, anyway, Huang Ama and his ministers are still relatives, so it is better to ask Huang Ama."

Kangxi laughed and said: "So you brought the fox here because you wanted to exchange the fox with me for venison, but you don't mean to be a big brother thinking about your little brother?"

Turning to Yinqi again, he said, "Yinqi, are you listening? Don't be foolish, accept your sixteenth brother's love. He was thinking of plotting venison!"

Yinqi also joked: "Yinqi naturally remembers. In the future, when I see Brother Sixteen bring something fun and delicious to Erchen, Erchen will have to think about it. Is Brother Sixteen planning to plot against me again? "

Several people in the tent laughed at Elder Sixteen together, Elder Sixteen covered his face and said, "Oh, I don't have the face to face people this time! Even the slightest bit of trickery was spotted by Huang Ama. Huang Ama doesn't cover up for my son, so how can this son put on airs in front of the 23rd brother in the future!"

After laughing for a while, Kangxi said: "Who is your venison for? Could it be that your daughter-in-law thinks that I don't give you enough, and she can't eat enough?"

Elder Sixteen laughed and said: "How can that be? Every time the emperor bestows something, the girl treats it like a bodhisattva invited back, and just makes an offering, and even the sons and ministers are not allowed to touch it. If it is those gold and jade Objects like Ruyi, fortunately, the food, and the dried meat brought back from Rehe every time, are also placed. The son-in-law told her that this is Huang Ama's kindness, and we will treat it as It’s an ordinary son and daughter-in-law, it’s disrespectful not to eat something given by the father, so she dared to open her mouth. But when she ate it, she was very careful, as if what she was eating was not meat, but the flat peaches of the Queen Mother in the sky.”

The words touched Kangxi's heart, and he said with a smile: "It's not your wife, who else should you come here to please, and ask me for venison?"

This time when Kangxi went to the grassland, the secret concubine also followed, naturally Brother Sixteen would not make a special trip to ask for something for her, so Kangxi didn't ask her either.

Elder Sixteen laughed and said, "I made a bet with Thirteenth Brother, he said he couldn't eat Erchen's venison. Even though Erchen couldn't hunt deer, he didn't want to lose to him. Thinking of asking for a piece from Huang Ama, he will become his son-in-law. When the time comes, send it to Thirteenth Brother, and see what he has to say, we can only admit defeat."

Hearing Brother Thirteen again, Kangxi's expression didn't look like it was when he was still in the hunting ground, he suddenly became gloomy, but he didn't look like he was smiling.

Yin Qi expected that the sixteenth elder brother would talk about the thirteenth elder brother, and when he was joking, his heart was sweating.Taking a sneak peek at Kangxi, he didn't seem to be angry, presumably it was the words he said this afternoon that touched Kangxi's heart.

What happened back then, someone plotted to assassinate Kangxi in the Rehe Palace, it is really not clear which side it is now.The matter involved the abolished prince, no one in the palace dared to mention it, and Yin Qi had only vaguely heard a few words.I only know that the crown prince was abolished in the end, but the one who was really unlucky, and the one who didn't show his face in front of people for more than ten years after that, was Elder Brother Thirteen.

The thirteenth elder brother was reprimanded and banned by Kangxi, saying it was his own fault, rather it was suffering for the deposed prince.Although Kangxi has detested this son since then, he still feels a little guilty in his heart.After all, if it was true, it would be the prince who was reprimanded and imprisoned.What happened at that time, brother thirteen was just a scapegoat.

Looking at Kangxi's expression now, Yinqi only felt that there was something going on this time.Seeing that Kangxi was silent, Elder Sixteen couldn't hold back his smile, so Yinqi boldly said with a smile: "Even if Huang Ama gave Brother Sixteen venison, that's not what Elder Sixteen himself is capable of. Ah. How can Brother Thirteen be convinced?"

Brother Sixteen hurriedly borrowed this sentence and said with a smile: "I made a bet with Brother Thirteen not on whether I could hunt deer, but on whether he could eat my venison. Huang Ama took the deer If the meat is given to me, isn’t it mine?”

Yinqi curled his lips and said, "I don't think so. The thirteenth brother bet with the sixteenth brother, but the bet was on the riding and shooting skills of the sixteenth brother. If the sixteenth brother can't hunt a deer by himself, he won't win."

After thinking for a while, Yinqi said again: "If Sixteenth Brother can't convince Thirteenth Brother of your riding and archery skills, then he won't be convinced. How can Sixteenth Brother say he won?"

He laughed again: "Today I heard from Hong Zhou that Thirteenth Brother is very good at riding and archery. Sixteenth Brother, if you want Thirteenth Brother to convince you, I think you have to practice hard. While you are on the grassland, why don’t you run more horses and shoot more arrows? There are also those Mongolian heroes who will give you pointers.”

Elder Sixteen gritted his teeth and said, "You took advantage of someone in the Empress Dowager's Palace to point you out, but you became frightened in front of me!"

Yin Qi smiled and said: "It's not just me. Hong Zhou has hunted a deer, Brother Sixteen, it's not just me!"

Elder Sixteen looked at Hong Zhou and said in surprise, "Hong Zhou? He's not even ten years old yet, so he can hunt deer?"

Yinqi shaved his face with his fingers, and said with a smile: "Isn't it? Even a nephew can hunt deer, or three at a time. Oh, I'm an uncle, but I feel that my face is dull and it's so embarrassing. !"

Elder Sixteen had a gloomy expression on his face, neither angry nor angry, he could only say: "Hong Zhou's riding and shooting is actually so good."

Yin Qi didn't wait for Hong Zhou to speak, and rushed to say: "Brother Sixteen also knows, right? Hong Zhou learned riding and shooting from Brother Thirteen. No wonder it's so good."

When he spoke, he had a face full of jokes, but he didn't really mean it, he only talked around Brother Thirteen, and never left him.Kangxi took a sip of tea, and his complexion gradually returned to normal. He reached out and patted Yinqi on the shoulder, and said, "Come on, you still dare to despise your sixteenth brother!"

Yinqi laughed, moved closer to Kangxi, and said, "Huang Ama doesn't know, brother sixteen can bully people. I still remember that he always pinches me when I just fell asleep. The son's face."

Kangxi was taken aback, Brother Sixteen didn't know when he was talking about it.

Yinqi laughed again and said: "It was the old mother next to the queen mother, and it was Hu mother who told Erchen. Back then when Erchen went to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, he happened to see Hu mother finished picking up the Buddha beans, so he told her about it." A few gossips. She said that when Erchen was a child, all the elder brothers pinched Erchen's face, and Brother Sixteen pinched Erchen the most!"

After hearing this, Kangxi pointed at him and said with a smile: "You are really a perseverant! No one will dare to offend you in the future! Tell me what you don't know, and let you keep it in your heart. Use it to run on your sixteenth brother, you child!"

Yinqi acted coquettishly and foolishly again, and for a while, the tent hall was full of joy and harmony.Kangxi looked at Yinqi, then at sixteenth elder brother, then at Hongzhou, and sighed: "I am the son of heaven, but it is rare to have the fun of an ordinary father in the world. Today I actually laughed so hard, It is also your filial piety."

He beckoned Hongzhou to come to him, patted his head and said, "When Yinzhen was this age, he also looked so tidy. It's just that Yinzhen's temper is calmer than Hongzhou, like a young adult."

Pointing to the sixteenth elder brother again, he said: "Your temperament is similar to that of your deceased sixth brother. He has been eating and playing since he was a child, and he is not good at reading, riding and shooting. He just likes mathematics, astronomy, and playing with clocks and machinery. .Now that you have grown up too... You have done a decent job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and you can't see the mischievous appearance when you were a child."

Standing beside him is Yinqi.Kangxi took his hand, looked up and down, and sighed: "It's just Yinqi, I don't know who he looks like. At such a young age, so smart, I'm afraid it's..."

It has been said since ancient times that the extreme of wisdom will be hurt, and Kangxi probably wanted to say this for a while.But he felt unlucky again, so he stopped talking, and changed his words: "I'm afraid that you will be mean, and you will not get along well with your brothers in the future."

Yinqi lowered his hands to listen to the lesson, Kangxi sighed again, and said: "Yinlu, I know what you mean today. You come to ask for venison, and I will give it to you."

After speaking, he turned to Li Dequan and said, "Decree, the venison and skins given to the capital will also be given to Brother Thirteen."

This is the first time in many years that Kangxi has given such a gift of grace to the thirteenth elder brother's house. The sixteenth elder brother immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "My son thanked Huang Ama! My son thanked you Huang Ama!"

Hearing the vibrato in his voice, Kangxi asked Yinqi to help him up, and saw that his eyes were slightly red.Then he asked, "Why are you suffering?"

Brother Sixteen wiped his eyes, and said: "I just think about Brother Thirteen. He is only in his early thirties now, but his hair is all gray... He also misses Huang Ama every day, with filial piety..."

Kangxi's face darkened again, Brother Sixteen saw it, and immediately dared not speak again.

Yinqi secretly sighed in his heart, Brother Sixteen's acting was too much, and Kangxi was annoyed instead.At this time, Kangxi only liked to see a happy appearance, but he mentioned the white hair of Brother Thirteen.In addition, Kangxi didn't see the white hair of the thirteenth elder brother with his own eyes, so he would only think that it was the sixteenth elder brother showing off.

Immediately Kangxi's face darkened, and everyone was worried again.Yinqi didn't dare to speak at this time, and drew Kangxi's attention to himself, standing with his hands down, as if he was a wooden man.

After a while, I heard Kangxi say: "Forget it, it's getting dark, you go back. I'm tired too, Li Dequan, serve dinner."

The sixteenth elder brother took the lead, and the three of them bowed and took their leave. Before going out, Yinqi only saw Kangxi's eyes were heavy, looking at this side, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

He felt that there was something hidden in Kangxi's eyes, and he also felt that Kangxi was looking at him specially.Yin Qi thought about it for a while, and when he spoke today, he really seemed to be very close to Elder Sixteen.And even though he didn't specifically say good things about Brother Thirteen, he was the first one to mention Brother Thirteen.Even if Kangxi didn't think about it at the time, thinking about it now, he would know that when he attracted Hongzhou to talk about the thirteenth elder brother, he actually paved the way for the sixteenth elder brother.

I'm afraid that Kangxi felt that he was working with the sixteenth elder brother, making peace with each other.That would be really unfair.

Thinking about it now, the sentence that Kangxi didn't say at that time, if he really wanted to say that his wisdom would be hurt, I'm afraid it didn't mean what Yinqi thought - it was a warning to Yinqi not to play smart .

While thinking about it, Yin Qi only felt cold sweat dripping down.

~~~~~~~

After leaving the tent hall, the sky is already full of red clouds, which is a beautiful sight to look at.

Brother Sixteen stood with his hands behind his back, looked at the sky for a while, then turned his head and smiled at Yin Qi and Hong Zhou: "It's time to eat now, why don't you two follow and go to my place to have a makeshift meal?"

Yinqi laughed hurriedly: "Following Sixteenth Brother is naturally what Yin prayed for. It's okay, Sixteenth Brother is too polite."

The sixteenth elder brother laughed, reached out and touched Yin Qi's head, and said: "Brother 23 has always been a talker, and a few words of your brother made me very happy. Well, I just got a good wine fish today. , I’ll give you a taste first.”

He looked at the lack of fear and trepidation just now in the tent, as if the person who said the wrong thing just now was not him at all.Even if he concealed it well, he should be a little nervous or apprehensive if he made a slip of the tongue in front of Kangxi and made Kangxi look down.But Yin Qi looked at Elder Sixteen at this time, but he didn't care at all, and laughed freely.

Yin Qi suddenly understood something in his heart.Elder Sixteen, I am afraid that he does not want to assist Fourth Elder wholeheartedly, right?

Counting it, it can be said that in the whole court, there is only the thirteenth elder brother who is truly devoted to the fourth elder brother.Brother Sixteen naturally has his own selfishness.

For a while, I thought, if the thirteenth elder brother is in his early years, the sixteenth elder brother is naturally not as important as the thirteenth elder brother in front of the fourth elder brother.In order to make the fourth elder brother still unable to leave him, and still have to reuse himself, he has to make plans.

Just like today, if Elder Sixteen hadn't said the last sentence, Kangxi would naturally not be as depressed as before, and he must have kept his food.At the banquet, if Yin Qi said a few more good things about the thirteenth elder brother, and Hongzhou said a few more words about the thirteenth elder brother's recent situation, Kangxi might not be tempted and wanted to bring up the thirteenth elder brother.

When the sixteenth elder brother said this, Kangxi was annoyed.Neither Yin Qi nor Hong Zhou dared to say a word of Elder Brother Thirteen again.Kangxi also annoyed the two of them because of this, and he is not afraid that they will dare to speak good words for Brother Thirteen again in the future.

Thinking about it this way, what Kangxi said just now is not bad at all.Brother Sixteen, it's really a good plan.

Seeing Brother Sixteen smiling, Yin Qi really raised his spirits and said with a smile: "Brother Sixteen really loves his younger brother! How did Brother Sixteen know that Yin Qi eats fish best?" ?”

The sixteenth elder brother pretended to be profound, pondered for a while, and said: "Do you really want to know?"

Yin Qi nodded again and again, and said: "Could it be that Brother Sixteen can pinch and count?"

The sixteenth brother giggled and said, "It's not that I can pinch and count. Yinqi, you'll know when you go back and look in the mirror—is there any cat in this world who doesn't eat fish?"

Yin Qi tilted his head to look at Elder Sixteen, and finally called out after a while: "Brother Sixteen! You said I'm a cat!"

Brother Sixteen laughed loudly and said, "I didn't say that!"

Yin Qi pursed his lips, pretending to be angry.

Hong Zhou also laughed, but Yin Qi didn't dare to show his temper to Elder Sixteen, so he went up and pinched Hong Zhou's arm, and shouted, "Don't laugh! Don't laugh!"

Hongzhou hurriedly begged for mercy, and Yinqi let him go.

Seeing his still crooked brows and eyes, Yin Qi only thought, does Hong Zhou know what Elder Sixteen is thinking?