The Fourth Master's Dog

No matter how reluctant Liang Jiugong was, he still gritted his teeth and walked in to report.

"Your Majesty, someone just came to Yonghe Palace to tell us that the Thirteenth Prince has a high fever and would like to ask Your Majesty to go and see him."

Kangxi put down his brush and rubbed his eyebrows. For a moment, he couldn’t remember who the Thirteenth Prince was.

Liang Jiugong below said that it was Concubine Zhang Jia who lived in a side hall of Yonghe Palace and had just given birth to the Thirteenth Prince a few months ago, who was a little older than the Fourteenth Prince.

Kangxi then recalled that the weak woman in his impression was gentle and kind like a girl from the south of the Yangtze River, had no temper, and was like a bullied little white rabbit.

There were a lot of concubines like this in his harem. There was nothing special about them that made him remember them. They were weak and submissive. After eating this kind of food for a long time, Kangxi naturally didn't feel anything.

Kangxi's tone was a little tired, his eyes narrowed.

"Why did the Thirteenth Prince have a fever? He is only a few months old. How are the people taking care of him?"

Kangxi tried hard to find the Thirteenth Prince's shadow in his memory, but he found no shadow.

Kangxi opened his eyes, expressed his surprise, and asked Liang Jiugong in a puzzled tone.

"Have I never met the Thirteenth Prince? How come I don't have any impression of him at all?"

Liang Jiugong thought about it carefully and realized that he had never seen such a thing. The Yonghe Palace didn't hold a big ceremony for the Thirteenth Prince's full moon. When the news came, the Emperor just asked him to prepare a random gift and send it over, and the matter was thrown aside.

Whenever I went to Yonghe Palace to see the Fourteenth Prince, I never saw the Thirteenth Prince.

Empress Defei has always said that the Thirteenth Prince is in poor health and cannot stand the wind, so he has been recuperating.

His Majesty did not force to bring him out to have a look, as he had no impression of him in the first place, and with the lively and lovely Fourteenth Prince in front of him, he naturally had no desire to look at the weak Thirteenth Prince.

It would be better to not meet at the beginning to avoid being sad if the baby dies.

Kangxi mostly had this mentality when dealing with those unfavored concubines. Even the children born to Queen Tong, Kangxi was unwilling to have much contact with them.

What's more, Kangxi had no desire to look at this unfavored concubine.

Kangxi felt a little uncomfortable after getting Liang Jiugong's accurate answer. He thought about how Concubine De had been behaving recently. She was so cruel even to the Fourth Prince.

What's more, this was not the Thirteenth Prince she gave birth to. If she didn't go this time, Kangxi would probably hear the news of the Thirteenth Prince's premature death the next morning.

Defei would definitely not take good care of a prince born to a concubine. Kangxi sighed, stood up, waved his sleeves, raised his legs and strode out.

After receiving the imperial edict, Liang Jiugong hurriedly followed, ordered people to bring the imperial sedan chair, and led a group of people to Yonghe Palace.

Defei of Yonghe Palace received the news early and had been waiting at the palace gate. Although she was under house arrest and not allowed to leave the palace, she was waiting at the gate when the Emperor arrived. The guards standing guard nearby all lowered their heads and dared not make any move.

Defei Uya saw from afar a yellow sedan chair slowly approaching, and her eyes immediately lit up.

She hurriedly checked to see if her clothes and jewelry were in order. Aunt Wuya beside her nodded quickly and said that everything was fine.

The Empress's outfit today is very beautiful, elegant and refined, especially the jade hairpin in her hair, which makes the Empress look even more gentle and virtuous.

Defei Uya was very satisfied after hearing this. She was dressed particularly elegantly today, not only because Empress Tong had just passed away not long ago, but also because the Emperor always praised her for wearing elegant clothes. She looked like a chrysanthemum in the autumn wind, elegant and unpretentious, pure and unworldly, unlike other women in the harem.

The moon-white cheongsam worn by Concubine Defei Uya was recently made. She wore it for the first time today. She had a perfect and gentle smile on her face and her eyes were full of affection.

When Concubine Defei Uya saw Kangxi getting out of the sedan chair, she hurried forward to salute. The angle of her salute was just right, revealing her jade-white neck, showing her gentleness.

Defei Uya was very skillful in pleasing Emperor Kangxi, otherwise she would not have ascended to the position of concubine in just a few years.

Kangxi was a very stingy emperor, especially when it came to the status of women in the harem. There were a large number of official girls in the harem who had no names or status.

It can be seen that Concubine De Uya was indeed very skilled in this regard.

I just don't know how he treated the Fourth Prince Yinzhen. He seemed to have lost his head and kept making stupid moves.

Kangxi looked at the woman who was bending down to greet him, and the sight of her white neck still made him dazed.

After all, he had doted on this woman for a period of time. If he didn't really like her, he wouldn't have gone to the trouble of turning her from a lowly palace maid into the concubine of the lord of the palace.

Kangxi looked at the already shaky Concubine Defei Uya, and his anger subsided a little. He reached out his hand to support her.

"Okay, get up."

Kangxi casually glanced at Concubine De, Uya, who had already stood up, and ignored her.

He flicked his sleeves and strode into the main hall of Yonghe Palace, sitting down on the chair next to him. Although the anger in his eyes had diminished a lot, he still looked sharply at the Defei Uya who walked in from behind.

Defei Uya hurriedly took the tea handed over by the palace maid next to her and served it to Kangxi with affection.

"Your Majesty has not come to my Yonghe Palace for a long time. The Fourteenth Prince misses you."

Defei Uya mentioned herself and the Fourteenth Prince and did not talk about any other unnecessary topics. She knew that the Emperor was angry and she had to find a way to help him calm down. She immediately changed the subject and talked about the Thirteenth Prince who had a fever.

Defei Uya shed a few fake tears from the corners of her eyes. She wiped her tears with her socks, looking full of sympathy.

"Thirteenth Prince, the imperial physician has just examined him. I don't know which servant was not attentive enough to let Thirteenth Prince catch a cold. That's why the young Thirteenth Prince has a high fever. Your Majesty has not seen how pitiful Thirteenth Prince is. His whole little face is flushed red."

"Your Majesty, please go and see Little Thirteen later. Although he is not my child, I still love and care for him in Yonghe Palace."

"Little Fourteen has been too noisy recently, and my heart is on him, so it's inevitable that I can't take care of other things."

"If I have done anything wrong in other matters, Your Majesty, please tell me directly. Since I gave birth to the Fourteenth Prince, I feel that my brain has become much duller and I can't take care of many things."

After Concubine Defei Uya finished speaking, she raised her tearful face and looked at Kangxi pitifully, with bloodshot eyes, as if she really wanted to be bullied.