amaotonovel Chapter 447 Don't take on a job you're not qualified for.
Chapter 447 Don't take on a job you're not qualified for.
"Sixth Brother is right. Hongqing is indeed a brat who needs to be taught a lesson. Now that he's about to become Father's son, he still doesn't know how to behave properly. Since you have nothing else to do, why don't you let him stay with me for a while and help me discipline that rascal?"
Yinzhi's suggestion was met with Yinzuo's immediate reaction of shaking his head in refusal. What a joke! He had already sent his own son out to be trained by others. How could he possibly be qualified to take on such a difficult task?
"Third brother, don't joke with your younger brother like that. What do you mean I have nothing to do? Let me tell you, I'm busy all day long. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I work from dawn till dusk. How could I have time to help you teach your children?"
The phrase "working from dawn till dusk" just sounds so out of place coming from your mouth. Let's be honest, you're over thirty years old, and apart from when you were studying in the Imperial Academy, when have you ever worked from dusk till night? You're asleep before the moon has gone to sleep, and you're still asleep before the sun has risen. And yet you still have the nerve to say you're busy?
Faced with the indescribable expressions of Yinti, Yinreng, and Yinzhi, Yinzuo said he didn't care. "My skin is thick enough to withstand your strange scrutiny." To be fair, Yinti and the others really couldn't do anything about Yinzuo's stubbornness. After staring at him for a while, they took the initiative to change the subject.
"Xiao Liu, you've been living in the garden for about half a month now, how long do you plan to stay? Ever since Father came back, he's been busy. He's not young anymore, and this can't go on. We've tried to persuade him several times, but it hasn't worked. Why don't you go back and talk to him?"
Concern for their elderly father was one aspect, but the main reason was that they had been working tirelessly from dawn till dusk for nearly half a month, and Yinti and the others were almost exhausted. They tried to persuade their father, but he wouldn't listen. They were sure that their precious son wouldn't listen to them.
If Yinti and the others had given any other reason, Yinzuo would have ignored it. But when they mentioned Kangxi's health, Yinzuo was easily swayed. Just as Yinti and the others said, Kangxi is indeed not young now. Although he looks quite healthy now, he can't withstand this kind of abuse.
Worried about his father's health, Yinzhuo didn't delay at all. He had just seen Yinti and the others off when he immediately sent Dexi to pack his things and rushed towards the Forbidden City.
Just as Yinti and the others had said, it was almost dark when Yinzuo arrived. Kangxi was still working on a pile of memorials in his study. When he heard the noise and looked up to see Yinzuo standing at the door of the study, Kangxi was obviously stunned for a moment. After a few breaths, he got up, walked around from behind the desk, and pulled Yinzuo to sit down next to the desk.
"Didn't you move to your Enze Garden? Why are you here now? Did something happen to you, or did someone bully you? Your eldest brother, second brother, or third brother, it's alright. Tell your father, and I'll take care of him for you."
Well, judging from his appearance, even though he's busy, he's still very observant and attentive. His father probably already knew that Yinti and the others went to his place during the day.
"Look at what you're saying, Father. With you protecting our son, even if my elder brother and the others had the guts of a bear and the gall of a leopard, they wouldn't dare to bully me. I only came back because I heard that you've been working from dawn till dusk every day since you came back, only sleeping less than three hours a day. I was worried that your body couldn't take it, so I came back."
Now that Yinzhuo had returned, he naturally wouldn't allow Kangxi to behave the same way as before. Without waiting for Kangxi's consent, he pulled him up from the chair and walked out of the study. When he saw Liang Jiugong standing at the door of the study, he didn't forget to give him a word of advice.
"Eunuch Liang, you can send that stack of memorials from the study to my fourth brother or my second brother later. In any case, we can't let it appear in the study again. By the way, has dinner been delivered from the Imperial Kitchen yet? If not, send someone to urge them. I haven't eaten anything on the way here, and I'm really hungry right now."
Yinzhuo's words always carried weight in the Qianqing Palace. The moment he finished speaking, Liang Jiugong immediately responded with a smile. You ask if Liang Jiugong wasn't afraid of angering and punishing Kangxi? Ha! Doesn't he have any sense at all? Didn't you see that Kangxi remained silent after Yinzhuo finished speaking? What did that mean? Not uttering a word of objection meant he tacitly agreed that he hadn't heard it?
Liang Jiugong was quite efficient. Yinzhuo had just helped Kangxi to the dining hall to sit and chat for a while when the imperial kitchen brought over dinner. Even if the emperor was dining alone, the scale of the meal was still enormous. Even though Kangxi had ordered everything to be simple, the table was still piled high with food.
Seeing a bowl of mushroom and chicken soup on the table, Yinzhuo didn't ask anyone else to help. He got up, went over, took a spoon, ladled a bowl for his father, and handed it to him. Then he turned around, ladled a bowl for himself, and carried it back to the seat next to Kangxi.
"Father, I don't know if you've ever heard the saying, 'Drink soup before meals, and you'll stay healthy in old age.' I'm telling you that's just nonsense. Drinking soup before meals really does have many benefits. It can help prevent food from irritating the digestive tract, stimulate the secretion of gastric acid to aid digestion, and at the same time increase satiety, reducing the intake of high-calorie foods..."
When dining in private, Yinzhuo and his father never followed the rule of not speaking while eating. Yinzhuo transformed into a little science expert and explained to his father in detail the benefits of drinking soup before eating. Only after Kangxi had finished a bowl of chicken soup did Yinzhuo pick up his chopsticks and get up to personally serve Kangxi his food.
It was rare for his son to be so considerate, so Kangxi was naturally happy to enjoy his son's filial piety. The father and son ate a meal together in a very loving and filial manner. In contrast to the harmonious atmosphere in the Qianqing Palace, Yinzhen, who had received a large stack of memorials as night approached, was not in a good mood. It turned out that his troublesome younger brother was only concerned about his father and did not care about his life or death at all. With such a large stack of memorials, he was destined to work late into the night again.
Although Yinzhuo was supervising him, Kangxi was, after all, the emperor. There were countless major and minor events happening in such a large country every day. Ignoring the unimportant ones, he only picked out the major events concerning the country and the people. Every day, several stacks of memorials were sent to the desk in the Qianqing Palace.
It is said that one should do one's duty as a monk. Even though Emperor Kangxi has been lazy in his administration in recent years, he still has to deal with the things that need to be done. He is getting old now, and the weather has just turned cold when he started coughing.
“Father, tell me honestly, are you annoyed with your son? If so, I’ll leave the palace right now with my wife and children and get as far away from you as possible, and I promise I won’t be in your way anymore…”