My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1850 A little thought

Fengsheng felt that Niguzhu was wrong. He could beat his younger brother, but he shouldn't beat him because he was his younger brother.

But he didn't say anything, just nodded and agreed with Niguzhu's words: "Don't hit your brother."

Niguzhu looked at Akdan again.

Akdan said: "It's not good to hit people, my hands hurt..."

Niguzhu felt a little guilty and touched his chubby little hands.

I don’t know if it hurts to hit someone, but it does hurt your hands when you get hit.

When the Tenth Prince saw this, he asked the Ninth Prince in a low voice, "Did the Ninth Prince beat the child?"

The Ninth Prince glanced at Shushu and said, "Last month, he fell in love with the Seventeenth Princess's small mirror box. He didn't ask for it, but he just grabbed it and wouldn't let it go. It was so embarrassing that he was spanked by your Ninth Sister-in-law."

The tenth elder brother: "..."

Between parents, it really takes a strict one to control the children.

I can't count on Brother Nine anymore.

From now on, the pattern of "strict mother and kind father" is obvious in Beile's Mansion.

After Niguzhu had been intimate with his brother, he was still thinking about the deer park, so he turned to the ninth prince and said, "Father, take your brother to ride the deer..."

After hearing this, Fengsheng and Akdan also turned around and looked at the Ninth Prince with expectation.

The Ninth Prince did not respond immediately, but looked at the Youngest Prince.

Can a child of this age be taken outside to play?

He thought about how when the three Fengsheng siblings were their age, they already loved going out for a walk and would point outside every day, looking forward to going out.

The Ninth Prince said to the Tenth Prince, "The fawns that the Fifth Brother sent are now kept in the garden. I came back early yesterday and took them out to play. I haven't had enough fun with them yet, so I'm still thinking about them."

The Tenth Prince smiled and said, "Then go ahead."

Niguzhu heard this and said with a smile: "Remembering to play, and also remembering to play with my brother..."

The tenth prince praised: "The eldest princess is really sensible, I will leave my younger brother to you."

Niguzhu raised his little chin and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take care of my brother."

The Ninth Prince took the Tenth Prince and the four children to ride on deer.

Only the Tenth Lady was left to accompany Shushu.

The Tenth Lady looked at Shushu's belly and said, "Sister-in-law Nine, is the due date around the Lantern Festival?"

"Um……"

Shushu looked down, hoping it would be after the Lantern Festival, so as to avoid being busy during the New Year.

The Tenth Lady said, "I will take care of the Ninth Sister-in-law when the time comes..."

Shushu did not say that Enie would come to take care of her, but only said: "If the Tenth Master is at home before the government office opens, then my sister-in-law will come over."

If the government issued the seal, the Tenth Lady would definitely not be able to extricate herself because she already had children.

The Tenth Lady nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I'll make a note of it."

Neither of them mentioned Gege Guoluo and her dead child.

The Tenth Lady was an optimistic person by nature and not the kind of person who liked to complain. Although she was troubled for a few days recently, things got better as the relationship between the couple improved.

Shushu wouldn't bring it up on her own initiative.

A sister-in-law like that is so annoying.

Relatives are relatives. No matter how close they are, they are not family members. There needs to be a sense of boundaries.

Shushu then talked about the preparations for the New Year and said to the Tenth Lady, "You don't need to prepare rice cakes and dried meat. I'll ask someone to prepare more when the time comes."

The Tenth Lady said, "Then let's make more cakes and get more milk to make milk cakes, and then give them to Fengsheng and the others as snacks."

When Shushu heard about milk cakes, she thought of the finger biscuits that the Fengsheng brothers used to eat when they were young. She could ask someone to bake some for her, so she wouldn't have to send food to the Prince's Mansion without any for the little prince...

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Deer Park.

The fawn walked very slowly.

Yesterday, the three children took turns riding the two deer, but today, four of them took turns.

The little prince was very brave and not afraid. He even used his fingers to touch the deer's ears.

When the deer's ears moved, the little prince laughed and lowered his head to bite the deer's ears.

The tenth prince was supporting his son from behind. Seeing this, he also laughed and quickly pulled him back, saying, "This is not food, so don't be afraid of getting a mouthful of hair stuck on it."

Niguzhu was no longer thinking about riding the deer, but started to worry about his younger brother.

"You can't eat it, and you can't touch it. Your fingers will freeze..."

After hearing this, the Tenth Prince pulled his son's hand back and stuffed it back into his sleeve.

Fengsheng happened to get off the deer. Seeing this, he stepped forward, took off his small cotton hand muffler, handed it to the Tenth Prince, and said, "Uncle Ten, give it to your younger brother..."

The Tenth Prince said, "No, my brother's sleeves are long and they cover my hands."

Feng Sheng said, "But my brother wants to touch the deer's ears."

This is because of what the little prince did just now.

Seeing that he was giving it sincerely, the Tenth Prince accepted it and said, "Then Uncle Tenth will thank you on behalf of my brother."

Feng Sheng smiled and said, "I am the eldest brother, it is my duty to take care of my younger brother."

After hearing this, the Tenth Prince looked at the Ninth Prince with some disapproval.

Although the eldest son has to bear more responsibilities and needs to be taught well, it is too early to teach him.

It hurts people.

The Ninth Prince also heard it and looked at Fengsheng, not knowing how to explain it.

When he told Fengsheng about taking care of his younger brother, he was referring to the little one in Shushu's belly.

But for Fengsheng, the younger prince is also his younger brother and he should be taken care of, which is not wrong.

Maybe this is the first come first served, the inherent impression.

In the eyes of Fengsheng and his sister, they have no impression of the younger brother in Shushu's belly. When they mention the younger brother, they are referring to the little brother from the neighboring house.

Seeing that his brother was wearing the baffle, Niguzhu felt relieved and looked towards the east.

"Ama, Ama, why is the flute not playing?"

Niguzhu came over and pulled the Ninth Prince, pointing to the east, and said with some confusion.

The Ninth Prince couldn't help but laugh and said, "It was just a coincidence yesterday. It's still so loud. Doesn't that mean I'm your musician? Do you dare to think about it?"

"It's Lao Xiang..."

Niguzhu disagreed with his statement.

The Tenth Prince listened and glanced to the east.

Over there is the Eighth Prince's Mansion. There is a corridor between the two mansions. How can the sound be transmitted over here?

"Brother Jiu, what's going on?"

Since it concerns the Eighth Prince's Mansion, the Tenth Prince thinks more about it.

The Ninth Prince lowered his voice and said, "That's where the Eighth Lady is 'resting'. She must be playing the flute to kill time. The eldest princess heard it a few times, so she made a note of it."

He didn't like the Eighth Lady, but when he thought about the crying he heard that year, he felt a little sad.

"If Prince An were still here, it would be a different situation..."

The Ninth Prince whispered, "Now that you have lost your backer, you should know your place..."

Even they, the princes, had to learn to lower their eyebrows and bend their waists, let alone Guo Luoluo, a servant girl.

The Tenth Prince also lowered his voice and said, "It's mainly because the Eighth Prince is unreliable. He looks kind but is cruel at heart. If it were someone else, they would either control her or coax her, and they would never let her fall into this situation today."

She was born an orphan, and even though she had the support of Prince An's Mansion, there was still a layer of separation between them.

All we can say is that "the upper beam is crooked and the lower beam is crooked". If other concubines' mothers were mothers-in-law, they would also feel some pity for the Eighth Lady because of her life experience.

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "That's true. You can't think about it carefully. If you think about it carefully, who is he good to? He seems to be a good guy to outsiders, but we don't see how he respects his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, nor how he loves his wife. It seems that he can only be good to outsiders, but not to his family members!"

The Tenth Prince said, "Yes, fortunately his wife got involved. His fake face was seen through by everyone. Everyone knows who he is. If he wants to fool people anymore, he can only fool outsiders..."

The brothers were talking to each other. Besides the nanny, He Yuzhu and others were busy around the young masters.

The young masters were so precious. He Yuzhu, Wang Changshou and others were busy and sweating, and they looked at their masters with resentment.

These two fathers have no idea how to raise children.

The Ninth and Tenth Princes were completely unaware.

The Tenth Prince sneered, "Others have taken their turn in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and have started to sit in the Ministry. They have no power to supervise, but they have the responsibility to supervise. But when it comes to him, he is going backwards and has retreated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he has not even got a chief steward."

After hearing this, the Ninth Prince felt a little worried.

"I heard that Maska has arthritis and is not feeling well. I wonder if he will be delayed in his duties after the New Year. If he doesn't recover, the position of the chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be vacant. Will it be given to Old Eight?"

The Ninth Prince was asking Cao Shun to instigate Sun Wencheng to set up a cashmere mill in Hangzhou, but he didn't expect that the credit would eventually go to the Eighth Prince.

The Tenth Prince said, "Even if he really dies, he is not as good as the Ninth Prince. Didn't they add a new Minister of Administration? The power of the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department is not as great as before."

The Ninth Prince whispered, "His power is reduced, but the filial piety is not reduced. He still gets three festivals and two birthdays. Isn't that a bargain for him?"

The tenth elder brother: "..."

It was indeed the style of his ninth brother. What he was worried about was not that the eighth brother would become too powerful, but that the eighth brother would have the opportunity to make money.

Seeing that the eighth brother was living a good life, not only the ninth brother felt sad, but the tenth brother also felt sad.

"Don't worry, Brother Nine. Khan Ama probably won't let him be made the chief steward. There is no limit to the number of chief stewards in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At most, there are three or five. If they wanted to make him die before, they wouldn't just make him the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs..."

The Tenth Prince thought about it carefully and said.

The Ninth Prince thought about it and felt relieved.

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The study room of the Eighth Prince's Mansion.

The Eighth Prince was meeting the guard Fu Cheng who had just returned from visiting the patient.

"How is your uncle's condition? Have you called the imperial physician? What did the imperial physician say?"

The Eighth Prince knew that Maska was seriously ill and wanted to visit him in person, but after hesitating for a long time, he sent Fu Cheng away.

When a nephew visits his uncle, no one can find fault with him.

If it was the Eighth Prince, it would be a bit eye-catching.

Fu Cheng looked worried and said, "The imperial physician said that it was the cold poison accumulated in my body when I went to war. Acupuncture to remove the poison now will not be very effective. We can only wait for the weather to warm up."

After hearing this, the Eighth Prince also expressed his concern: "Then we can only hope that Master Ma's condition will improve after the New Year."

Fu Cheng said: "Uncle is already fifty-five this year, and he has a chronic illness, so he shouldn't work hard."

The Qing Dynasty had a retirement age for civil servants, but that included officials under the ministries and agencies, excluding the imperial court officials and the lesser nine ministers.

For military officers above the rank of admiral, there is no age limit, but for officers below the rank of lieutenant general, they must retire at the age of 60.

In addition to being the General Manager of the Imperial Household Department, Maska also held the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Bordered White Banner Mongolian Army. He was a first-rank military officer with no age limit for retirement.

The Eighth Prince did not respond to Fu Cheng's words.

The Fu Cha family is part of his banner, so naturally the more high-ranking officials they have, the better.

The three Fu Cha brothers now not only hold high positions, but are also close to the emperor, which is unique among the nobles.

I didn't notice it before, but now I think about it, it seems that with the decline of the Tong family and the Hesheli family, the Fucha family has become the family that Khan Ama relies on the most...

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Hey everyone, please help me, did the little brother have a nickname? I have no recollection of it and can't find it in the documents.