Honghui is reborn in Legend of Zhen Huan, I will protect my mother

At the end of December, the winter snow falls and the new year soon arrives.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Honghui was taken to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to attend a banquet. Since then, he has never been to a place where female relatives gathered.

Sitting in his seat, he ate and drank while watching the show. Yes, the prince's second uncle and eldest uncle were quarreling again.

The Crown Prince's second uncle tried his best to brag about the achievements of Emperor Mafa, and also implied that his eldest uncle had poor literary talent. As for his eldest uncle, he kept holding on to the officials under the Crown Prince's second uncle who had made mistakes. In the end, they even started drinking together, which gave the royal family, clan members and ministers of the previous dynasty a good show.

This good show was finally stopped by Kangxi, who was fed up with it.

"Enough, Yinreng, Yinzhi, drinking too much is harmful to your health, don't get drunk!" Kangxi did not say anything unpleasant, nor did he scold them, probably because they had restrained themselves a lot today, at least they did not really quarrel.

Ah! The good show is over!

There was a hint of disappointment in Honghui's eyes. He sighed slightly and looked around.

Ignore the butterflies flying around the place; ignore the third uncle who is tasting wine in a literary manner and composing poems; he really has the leisure time, forget it; the thirteenth and fourteenth uncles who are drinking one cup after another and seem particularly generous, they are not good-looking either, ignore them as well.

Hey? Why does Uncle Nine look unhappy? He just keeps drinking alone, and Uncle Ten is drinking with him.

His curiosity aroused, he wanted to follow and take a look.

"Father, I'm going to toast Uncle Nine, Uncle Thirteen, and Uncle Fourteen."

Yinzhen took a quick look and then looked away, saying with confidence: "Go ahead, but don't drink!"

I know. He won’t drink it even if you ask him to, Honghui said to himself.

He walked around the back of the seat, passed by the seats of his fifth uncle, seventh uncle and eighth uncle, and arrived at the place he wanted to go.

"Uncle Jiu, your nephew offers you a toast. May you have a good spring, a peaceful summer, a peaceful autumn, a peaceful winter, a bright future, and happiness and peace."

Yinzhen immediately smiled: "This is the first time I see you wearing bright red. You look quite festive! Here, this is your New Year's gift from Uncle Jiu."

He took out a big red purse and handed it over, then filled the glass with wine and drank it all.

After toasting Uncle Nine, Honghui also toasted Uncle Ten with a glass of wine, and then asked softly: "Uncle Ten, what's wrong with Uncle Nine? It's New Year's Day, why is he a little unhappy? Did you run into some trouble?"

Yin'e opened and closed his mouth and looked at his ninth brother hesitantly. His ninth brother didn't want to say it, and he couldn't act on his own.

"I'm fine, thank you for your concern." Yinzhen took over the conversation.

"Your cousin had a minor illness, and Uncle Jiu was a little worried, so it showed on his face. But, he's not serious, and he's well again in the past two days!" In fact, there was another reason behind it.

A few days ago, Dong E complained to him that the eighth sister-in-law was too bullying. She made a lot of nonsense at the full-month banquet of the eldest prince. She also said a lot of things like "A concubine must be strictly disciplined, and a legitimate wife must never indulge her!", "He is just a concubine's eldest son born out of a noble family, but you treat him so highly, won't it make the concubine even more presumptuous?" and so on.

When Dong E complained, she also mentioned the lessons she had received from her eighth sister-in-law in recent years. At the end, she added, "I have told you so many times in the past, but you never took it seriously. You even said that I had to endure it for the sake of my eighth brother. But now, your eighth sister-in-law has severely insulted me and you in front of so many sisters-in-law..." She kept crying as she spoke.

Thinking of this, Yinzhen complained to his Eighth Sister-in-law. Eighth Brother was good in everything, but he was held back by such a domineering and jealous wife! Eighth Brother was also like that. Why did he indulge his Eighth Sister-in-law like this?

The eighth sister-in-law always loved to take on too much and interfere in other people's affairs. She also relied on her status as sister-in-law to scold Dong'e and the tenth brother's wife Borjigit. Yinzhen saw all of her actions.

In the past, he kept quiet for the sake of the starling, but now he couldn't help but feel resentful and even had some unspeakable secret guesses.

Eighth Brother had always been on good terms with him and the Tenth Brother, but this kind of friendship was not the kind of "superior" versus "inferior", but what about Eighth Sister-in-law? Eighth Sister-in-law was superior to Dong E and the Tenth Brother's wife, and had already exceeded that boundary!

Myna hasn't even taken the position yet, and my sister-in-law is already acting so arrogantly. What if I wait until myna takes the position? ...

No, no, Yinzhen shook his head in fear. He was overthinking it. How could Eighth Brother’s attitude towards him and his tenth brother change?

Just by looking at Uncle Jiu's embarrassed look, one can tell that there must be something hidden behind this. However, Honghui did not ask any further questions. Instead, he followed Uncle Jiu's words and replied, "That's good! I haven't seen you for many days, and I didn't know that my cousin had caught a cold! I have been busy with New Year's greetings and meeting guests these days. I will come to visit my cousin in a few days."

After saying this, he didn't stop and walked towards the seats of his Thirteenth Uncle and Fourteenth Uncle.

Unexpectedly, before he could even open his mouth, he was grabbed into the arms of his Fourteenth Uncle.

"What? Is Fourteenth Uncle not as good as your Ninth Uncle? Honghui, tell me, are you closer to Fourteenth Uncle or to Ninth Brother?" Yinzhen said gritting his teeth.

It’s over, Uncle Fourteen is jealous, hurry up and coax him!

"Uncle Fourteen, have you forgotten the kindness Uncle Nine has shown me? Once a teacher, always a father, how can I neglect you? And Uncle Fourteen, you are my uncle, and you took the trouble to come to my house and teach me how to ride and shoot. I am even more grateful to you!

To be honest, although Uncle Nine is also an uncle, he is not as close to me as Uncle Fourteen and Uncle Thirteen, and I don’t often visit Uncle Nine.”

Honghui was telling the truth. He was not afraid that Uncle Nine would be unhappy after hearing about it, because in Uncle Nine's heart, the most important person was Uncle Ten, followed by Uncle Eight, Uncle Five, and then his nephew. Moreover, Uncle Nine and he mostly discussed scientific knowledge, and it was not as close as a heart-to-heart talk.

Yinzhen was very easy to coax. He hummed and hawed and said, "I'm glad you know," and then let it go.

Honghui breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and saw his uncle Thirteen smiling at him meaningfully. He turned his head away and dared not look at him again.

Yinxiang shook his head helplessly and poured himself a cup of wine. His fourteenth brother had finally met his nemesis! A good father will have a good son. If only his eldest brother, who was only born a little over a month ago, was half as smart as Honghui!

As for the envied person himself, he had already returned to his seat and stayed there quietly for an hour.

In the following days, the mansion received countless visiting cards, but only a few were allowed in. However, Honghui did not pay much attention to this matter because he was about to enter the study to study.