My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1849 Teaching (rolling for monthly tickets)

In Ning'an Hall, Niguzhu was holding Huijie'er and showing her his baby.

"This is a food box, this is a wine pot, this is a teapot..."

The treasure cabinet on the kang in the west room is filled with Niguzhu's little gadgets.

Small items for playing house, mini versions of various small ornaments, and corresponding thumb-sized porcelain figures.

There are also tangrams, nine-ring puzzles, Mongolian chess, Western building blocks, and checkers made of glass beads.

There are also several Western kaleidoscopes.

There is also a rabbit girl wearing clothes, and next to her are two sets of clothes that can be replaced, as well as corresponding shoes and socks.

Huijie had seen some of the toys before, but for some, it was her first time seeing them.

"nice……"

Hui Jie'er was stuffed with a Western kaleidoscope by Niguzhu. After seeing it, she praised it sincerely.

The colors inside are brilliant, and the flowers are of styles I have never seen before.

She also had a kaleidoscope, given by her great-aunt, but the patterns on it were not as good as this one.

"Play together……"

Niguzhu smiled happily. He stretched out his fat arm towards Duobao Pavilion and said, "Let's play together..."

Hui Jie'er and her stepmother had been to the Prince's Mansion several times and had met Niguzhu. She knew that she was a lively little princess who was friendly to others.

Seeing that although she didn't remember her, she was still willing to be close to her, Hui Jie'er also breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Bo sat on the edge of the kang, watching Niguzhu clinging to Huijie like a little tail.

Maybe all kids are like this, they like to play with older kids.

Children still need friends.

After showing off the little gadgets in the house, Niguzhu thought of the Deer Garden and looked at the lady of the house.

"Mama, Lu...Lu...Ama, Ama..."

Mrs. Bo said, "Your father is very busy and can't accompany you to ride the deer every day."

After hearing this, Niguzhu's face became more conflicted.

After a while, she asked, "He An Da... Where's Zhou An Da?"

He was smart enough to know that children cannot ride deer alone and need to be supervised by an adult.

The only men she could see in the inner palace, apart from the Ninth Prince and her two brothers, were a few eunuchs.

Seeing that she was looking at him eagerly, Lady Bo did not refuse immediately and said, "Then ask someone to ask your father if they are free."

"Uh-huh……"

Niguzhu responded and looked at the nanny beside the lady.

After hearing the lady's instructions, the nanny went to the main courtyard to inquire.

When they walked onto the road, they saw Bai Guo and Sun coming over.

It turned out that there were guests coming to the main courtyard.

The Tenth Prince and his family of three came over.

Sun stood up and said goodbye, and Shushu asked Baiguo to send the person to Ning'an Hall.

In the main room, everyone is happy.

The little brother is in his teens and is at the stage where he is learning to speak.

His skin is extremely white, and his hair and eye color are like the Tenth Lady, and his facial features are like the Tenth Prince.

Sitting next to the Tenth Lady, she was not afraid of strangers and called people in a baby voice.

"Amu, Amu..."

Shushu held his little hand, with pink nails, what a delicate little prince.

"This child is so well raised..."

Shushu praised sincerely.

Before the smallpox epidemic, the Tenth Lady often brought her son over; after the epidemic, people did not visit each other frequently. The sisters-in-law had not been seen for two months, and the little prince could not remember anyone, but he still seemed not afraid of strangers.

The Tenth Lady couldn't take her eyes off her son. After hearing what Shushu said, she said, "Thanks to my sister-in-law for teaching me."

Shu Shu refused to take credit for it, saying, "These are just trivial matters, they don't count."

The main reason is that the Tenth Prince and his wife are both in good health, with abundant energy and blood, and they are still young, so this child is naturally stronger than other children.

He was breastfed for half a year, which was unique among the emperor's grandchildren.

The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince sat nearby, listening to their two sisters-in-law talking.

The Tenth Prince thought of the women he had just met and asked the Ninth Prince, "Cao Shun usually seems sensible, and his wife also seems to be polite, so why did he come into the mansion at this time?"

The ninth prince said that he wanted Cao Shun's daughter to be Niguzhu's companion.

The Tenth Prince asked about the age of the Cao family girl and said, "She is neither too old nor too young, just the right age for her to accompany Niguzhu for a few years."

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "Yes, Fengsheng and Akdan can keep each other company, so there is no need to rush to arrange for Haha Zhuzi. As for my nephew, you should have an idea of ​​how to choose someone. You have to pick the right one. Haha Zhuzi can stay for a few years, and the nanny who teaches Chinese should also be arranged."

The little prince's current nanny is a member of the Tenth Lady's dowry and does not speak Mandarin.

The little prince now speaks Mongolian haltingly, but he learned it earlier than Mandarin and Chinese.

The Tenth Prince nodded and said, "I plan to let Liu Jixiang follow you and teach you Mandarin."

That was one of his Hahazhuzi eunuchs, who was in the same group as the Wang Changshou brothers and was the most trusted person by the Tenth Prince.

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "This is a good choice..."

The young prince was raised in the inner house, with eunuchs around him to check and balance the nurse and to prevent the nurse from secretly fooling around and controlling the young master.

The Ninth Prince has Lady Bo and Nanny Qi looking after him, which intimidates the wet nurse, so he has more staff than the Tenth Prince.

Haha, Zhuzi eunuch is someone you can use for a lifetime.

The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince were princes. When they were young, they didn't have to worry about anything themselves. The Qianqing Palace assigned them the eunuchs An Da and Ha Ha Zhuzi.

When it comes to the emperor's grandson, they have to worry about him themselves.

The Ninth Prince said, "There has always been a shortage of eunuchs in the palace, but not enough. So, do the eunuchs in the prince's mansion have to be arranged by themselves?"

The eunuch quotas in their palaces and beile's palaces are not full, so they can increase the number of eunuchs.

When recruiting eunuchs for the palace, the Ministry of Rites would report to them and keep records of them. They would then be handed over to the old eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs's Department of Ceremonies and the Department of Accounting to verify their bodies before being assigned to various places.

However, the recruitment time is not fixed. Recruitment is only done when the palace is really short of people.

This person is recruiting eunuchs, and the other party will lose his family line and grandchildren because of this. Isn't this a bit of a loss of virtue?
The Tenth Prince said, "We recruited them ourselves. If we want to wait for the palace to assign us personnel, we have to wait until there are eunuchs from other provinces who sign up or are over 20 years old when the palace recruits eunuchs. Then we will assign them to the princes' mansions. However, we also have to exchange eunuchs under 20 years old from the princes' mansions to serve in the palace."

In that case, it would be equivalent to replacing one for another, which was not suitable for a mansion like theirs that was short-staffed.

The Ninth Prince frowned and said, "How can a 20-year-old Ding Nan support his family? And he is willing to sacrifice himself to become a eunuch. He must be a lazy and scoundrel. How can we use him?"

But young eunuchs cannot make their own decisions and are often tricked into having their bodies castrated by their family members and fellow villagers, which is also very unbearable.

The Ninth Prince thought about it, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's not recruit them ourselves. Let's just use the boys first!"

The concepts of ghosts and gods are vague and illusory, so it is better to have more awe of them.

Before the little boy got his hair cut off, he could enter and leave the inner house without any problem.

The Tenth Prince said, "The palace hasn't recruited young eunuchs for many years, so it will probably be soon. Although the court prohibits private eunuch castration, poor families with many males also hope to have an extra income. When there are many people who sign up, there will be an excess, and not all of them are old."

The palace recruits eunuchs, and you can receive a sum of silver if you sign up; after castration, you can also receive one or two taels of silver per month to support your health; once you enter the palace and are assigned a job, you will receive two taels of silver per month.

For a poor family with many sons, being a eunuch is a rare and unseen job.

If there is a eunuch in the family, there will basically be a fixed income.

If he is lucky, this eunuch will become a managing eunuch in the palace. He can save a lot of money that year, and it will be no problem for his family outside the palace to buy land and houses.

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "Okay, then wait, when the time comes, buying a few eunuchs who can't enter the palace will also be a good deed."

Everyone in the room was talking when there was a noise at the door.

It turned out that Sun had already taken Hui Jie'er away. Niguzhu heard Baiguo talking to Mrs. Bo and knew that his younger brother had arrived, so he came to find him.

Mrs. Bo dressed her up and asked Baiguo to bring her over.

"Uncle Ten, Aunt Ten...Brother..."

Before the Niguzhu people came in, they started shouting at the top of their lungs.

After hearing this, the Tenth Prince stood up and went to the door.

Before the Ninth Prince could move, the Tenth Prince had already walked over and held Niguzhu in his arms.

Just now, the ninth brother was hugging the little prince and laughing. He didn’t understand what was going on. Wasn’t he just remembering his childhood?
He hugged his eldest niece and thought of his ninth brother when he was a child.

It’s just a “larger version” of my childhood.

If my ninth brother gets fat, he will look like the eldest princess, right?
Her face is round, which makes her eyes look much smaller.

"Higher, higher..."

Niguzhu giggled and was not only not afraid of heights, but also became more and more happy.

The Tenth Prince lifted her up and placed her on his shoulders.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Niguzhu smiled even more happily.

The little prince tilted his head and looked at Niguzhu with great curiosity.

When Niguzhu saw his brother looking at him, he remembered why he came and said, "Uncle Shi, put me down. I want to play with my brother..."

The Tenth Prince responded, picked her up and placed her next to the Youngest Prince.

"I'm the older sister. We played the tumbler together before..."

Niguzhu held the little prince's hand and talked to him.

"Sister...buzz..."

The little prince followed suit.

Niguzhu immediately reached out and hugged the little prince in his arms, and proudly said to everyone: "Brother, remember me..."

The little prince let Niguzhu hold him, grinning and showing his little milk teeth. He was a good-tempered child.

The Tenth Lady was standing nearby and asked in surprise, "It's been two months since we last met, and the eldest princess still remembers her brother?"

Shu Shu said: "I remember, she always talked about it, and our grandfather also liked to talk to her about his brother."

In fact, this is a misunderstanding.

The Ninth Prince wanted to tell Niguzhu about the baby in Shushu's belly, and told Niguzhu that she would be a big sister, and her little brother could play with her in the future.

When Niguzhu heard "sister" and "brother", the one he remembered was the brother next door.

It’s been almost two months since I last saw you, but I still remember you clearly.

The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince were close, and they wished that the children of the two families would be close as well, so they ordered He Yuzhu, "Go and fetch the First Prince and the Second Prince..."

He Yuzhu agreed and went to the back room to pick someone up.

When the four children were together, all the actions were done by Niguzhu alone.

"You must respect your elder brother, your second brother and me..."

She taught the little prince like a little adult, saying: "We were born earlier, so we age faster. We must respect..."

Then she reminded Fengsheng and Akdan: "My younger brother is young and can't beat us. We have to give in to him..."