My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1769 Brother Nine Didn’t Understand

"Hunting in Nanyuan..."

The Ninth Prince was not very surprised.

Winter hunting has almost become a routine every year, but I didn’t expect it to be so early this year.

"Why did Khan Ama think of me now?" the Ninth Prince wondered.

What's the point of hunting in this cold weather?
There is no blue armor to be divided either.

It turned out that Wei Zhu came to convey Kangxi's oral instructions, asking the Ninth Prince to prepare and wait for the Sixteenth Prince to go hunting in Nanyuan.

Wei Zhu said: "Maybe the emperor misses Master Jiu?"

"Ha ha……"

The Ninth Prince loves to hear this.

For some unknown reason he had a feeling.

Fragrant in the distance and smelly in the near.

After leaving the Imperial Household Department, he no longer went before the Emperor. It seemed that Khan Ama thought of him more often, and he would also think of him when he was an imperial escort, and he would not forget to give him rewards.

Take the Seventeenth Princess and the Nineteenth Prince for example. There were so many princes in the capital, but they were not entrusted to others to take care of, but only to themselves. This shows trust and respect.

The Ninth Prince said, "I miss you too. It's not that I'm being cautious, that's why I'm on high alert. When you go back later, don't go directly to the Imperial Court. Change your clothes first."

"Save it for me, slave."

Wei Zhu said.

The Ninth Prince stroked his chin and said, "How long will the hunting trip take? I have to ask Fu Jin to prepare more food. The accommodation in Nanyuan is ordinary and the food is not good."

Wei Zhu said: "The emperor ordered people to clean up Changchun Garden, and it is expected that the 18th Empress Dowager will go to Changchun Garden."

As a result, we only stayed in Nanyuan for two days.

There is nothing to hide because the emperor has already given instructions to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Before the emperor's visit, several princes who were avoiding smallpox had to move back to the capital.

The Ninth Prince raised his eyebrows.

Under the circumstances this year, the sons don't need to live next to each other to show their filial piety. Just staying there quietly and not causing trouble is showing filial piety.

The Ninth Prince remembered that the Crown Prince had not returned, and asked curiously, "Is there any news about the Crown Prince? When will he return to the capital?"

Wei Zhu shook his head and said, "I don't know. The prince hasn't submitted a petition to return to the capital yet."

The Ninth Prince said, "The canal is closed, so we can only travel by land. It will be a pain to travel in this winter."

Wei Zhu said: "Master Jiu, don't worry too much. There are several palaces along the river from the capital to Dezhou."

"what?"

The Ninth Prince was surprised to hear this and asked, "How come you didn't know? They all started construction this year?"

The construction of these imperial palaces and gardens was all the work of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Wei Zhu shook his head and said, "Since the emperor's southern tour in the 38th year, the gentry in Jiangnan took the initiative to ask for permission to build a temporary palace. After a few years, it is almost finished this year."

After listening to this, the Ninth Prince seemed to be thinking about something.

Judging from the situation, the emperor will have to continue his southern tour, and it may take more than one or two trips.

Otherwise, the gentry in Jiangnan would not have made such a fuss.

When the Ninth Prince was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he heard Cao Yin mention it and thought it was a big place like Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning, preparing several temporary palaces in preparation for the emperor's second southern tour. He didn't expect that it would be built from Jiangnan to Zhili.

Wow, no wonder people say there are so many wealthy people in Jiangnan, it’s really true.

The Ninth Prince had looked at the accounts of the Construction Department and knew that the cost of building the palace was huge.

Here in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the construction of a temporary palace requires repeated planning. The palaces built by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River as a token of their filial piety are built one next to another.

They are richer than the royal family!
Wei Zhu came here on orders and couldn't stay long. The two talked for a quarter of an hour and then stood up to say goodbye.

The Ninth Prince asked him to wait for a moment, and sent someone to get a box of wolfberries and a box of lilies, saying, "Both of these are nourishing in winter, one improves the eyesight, and the other moisturizes the lungs. They are also convenient to use, and can be directly drunk as tea."

Wei Zhu didn't bother to be polite with him, took it and said, "Then I thank Master Jiu for the reward."

The Ninth Prince waved his hand and said, "What is this? It's not a rare thing, right?"

Wei Zhu smiled and said nothing.

The more ordinary something is, the more thoughtfulness it contains.

He is a man who knows what is good for him, but there are some things he doesn't need to say all the time.

After Wei Zhu left, the Ninth Prince began to count the days.

Today is the eighth day of the winter month, the fifth day of the first nine days, and the eighteen-line hunting season, at the 29th mile.

In 1929, the dog froze to death...

In today's letter, the Ninth Prince complained a lot about being dragged out again in such a cold weather. However, he would look for a female deer by then, as some of the female deer raised on the farm were old and could no longer produce deer milk.

Change two female deer, the one with more deer milk can continue to make deer milk cake.

You can give it to your kids as a snack, or melt it and apply it on Shushu's face. It's more delicate than milk cake.

But Khan Ama remembered him, so his self-isolation was almost over.

He went to Haidian thirteen days ago, and in two days, it will be half a month.

He planned to go back to the main courtyard when the time came, but he was a little unsure, so he asked Shushu.

In the main courtyard, Shushu's spirit has recovered.

She was half lying down, reading the letter from the Ninth Prince.

She had no problem with the lady, they were both familiar with each other.

A few small ones can be immune to cowpox when revaccinated, but what about human smallpox?
Shushu knew and should be relieved.

But just in case.

After much hesitation, she picked up her pen and wrote a reply, reminding the Ninth Prince to take a bath the next day or the day after tomorrow.

Needless to say, the clothes on his body had long been burned.

Even if there are a few stains on your hair, it should be enough to wash it off if you bathe three times in half a month.

Shushu reminded herself not to be confused.

The severity of cowpox has long been proved by later generations, so don't be complacent and worry about nothing.

If the Ninth Prince, the head of the family, is treated poorly because of his children, the father-in-law and mother-in-law in the palace will not go easy on him.

When the Ninth Prince received the reply, he felt very happy when he saw that Shushu mentioned that she missed him and was looking forward to his return to the main courtyard.

He also misses Fujin.

If he hadn't been worried about his three children, he would have wanted to return to the main courtyard long ago.

Thinking in this way, the Ninth Prince felt that three children were a bit redundant.

Grow up quickly and let them go, don't stand between him and the concubine and get in the way.

When the emperor prepares to march, he will naturally not just inform the Ninth Prince.

However, no one else was notified so early, and it was not the eunuchs in front of the emperor who went, but the guards who delivered the message.

Except for the fifth prince and the twelfth prince, all other adult princes received a message that the emperor would go hunting in Nanyuan.

The eldest prince lost interest in hunting and did not make any preparations.

When he came to the Third Prince, he was a little worried that his hands were not used to it, so he asked people to set up the target and pull the bow a hundred times every day.

This time, the Eighth Prince and the Thirteenth Prince are here, and he doesn’t want to fall behind his two younger brothers.

At worst, they have to be evenly matched.

The Fourth Prince has resumed his duties at the Ministry of Revenue, which is busiest at the end of the year.

He doesn't want to join the hunt!
This is different from traveling with the imperial escort. When traveling with the imperial escort, the emperor would not ask all the princes to practice archery. But this time when going hunting, everyone has to participate.

The Fourth Prince had no choice but to get up half an hour earlier and shoot arrows by lamplight.

There is no way to improve the bow force, but the accuracy cannot be too bad.

Otherwise, the emperor's father would let the brothers hold the flag and go hunting. When they were hunting after the encirclement, they would not have any accuracy and would be embarrassed and cowardly.

The Seventh Prince is usually quiet, but he is very strong-willed.

However, he attached great importance to riding and shooting, and practiced it every day, so he did not need to sharpen his spear before the battle.

The Eighth Prince was very excited.

He did not neglect his riding and archery skills, but he also knew that there were many stronger ones among his brothers.

You may not be able to stand out.

If I could buy two good bows, my results might be even better.

Speaking of good bows, Prince An’s Mansion has quite a few.

These were all presented as gifts by outsiders when Prince An was still alive in his early years.

When it came to the generation of Prince An's brothers, they had all been studying since childhood, and none of them was good at riding or shooting, so all the good bows were put into the warehouse.

Among the dowry of the Eighth Lady was a fine bow.

Thinking this, the Eighth Prince went to the west wing.

The Tenth Prince, like the Eldest Prince, had no interest in hunting. He just came over in person to inquire about the matter when he knew that the Emperor had sent someone to the Ninth Prince's Mansion.

The Ninth Prince said, "It's because Khan couldn't bear to see me idle that he thought of picking me up..."

The Tenth Prince calculated in his mind and said, "Big Brother, Third Brother, Fourth Brother, Seventh Brother, that guy, Ninth Brother and I, plus Thirteen, there are exactly eight people, so we should be the ones to hold the banner."

"Haha, that Fourteenth Prince must be so angry that he's become a toad. He's been looking forward to taking charge of the banner for years, but in the end, it never happened once..." The Ninth Prince felt gloating.

The Tenth Prince looked at the Ninth Prince smiling brightly and smiled too.

Ninth brother still doesn’t understand.

There is no fifth brother this time.

The fifth brother's household affairs annoyed Khan Ama.

If the fifth brother can be absent once, he can be absent a second time.

If this happens more often, the ninth brother will be able to replace the fifth brother and stand at the forefront of the Yikun Palace lineage...

(End of this chapter)