EBE Chapter 307 What's the difference between putting a mouse and a cat together?
Chapter 307 What's the difference between putting a mouse and a cat together?
Chapter 307 What's the difference between putting a mouse and a cat together?
If you asked Yinzhuo to describe his life on the ship, he would definitely give you five words—fulfilling yet boring. You must be very curious about how he put these two contrasting words together. Actually, it's quite simple. It was fulfilling because he was never short of company. Kangxi was a given, and Yinzhuo lived next door to him. The father and son ate and slept together, seeing each other all the time. His brothers, Yinti and Yinreng, would also find time to come over every day to chat and pass the time. Yinzhuo's room was always full of guests. You can imagine how fulfilling his life was.
As for why it was boring, it was because since boarding the ship, Yinzhuo's days had been like the TV series at the beginning, a monotonous and uneventful cycle. In the morning, he would have breakfast with his father, then be coerced into drinking his medicine and go back to lie down for a nap until noon. After lunch, if the weather was nice, he would be helped outside to enjoy the breeze. Then it would be time for his brothers to visit him. They would sit together and chat about all sorts of things until it was almost dark outside. Kangxi loved the lively atmosphere and would invite everyone to stay for a meal, but if they found it annoying, he would send them away. In any case, that was about the end of the day. After dinner, there would naturally be another tug-of-war over drinking medicine. Most of the time, the day would end with Yinzhuo being forced to drink medicine by his father pinching his nose. I ask you, wouldn't you find it a little boring if you lived like this every day? Yinzhuo certainly did.
Although it is said that it takes about a hundred days to recover from a broken bone, with a highly skilled physician like Wang Taiyi helping him recuperate, Yinzhuo's chest injury appeared to have almost healed on the surface in just over a month. Imagine what a monkey would look like if you kept it in a cage for more than a month and then released it. After Yinzhuo regained his freedom of movement, he was almost the same. Even though his chest still ached slightly, he could still hold his chest and rock the boat around. His energetic jumping around made his father, Emperor Kangxi, frown deeply.
“Yinzuo, can you calm down and come over to rest for a while? Have you forgotten what Physician Wang said a few days ago? Although your chest wound doesn't look serious on the surface, it doesn't mean it's completely healed. If you keep messing around and reopen the wound, you'll be in big trouble. Listen to me and come sit over here. How about I call the thirteenth and fourteenth princes to play with you? Liang Jiugong, go to the back and call the thirteenth and fourteenth princes over…”
After hearing Kangxi's words, Liang Jiugong had only one thought in his mind—"My Emperor, you're really going all out to please the Sixth Prince by putting the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Princes aside. Rather than saying you're calling the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Princes over to keep the Sixth Prince company, you're just calling them over to let the Sixth Prince play with you. Putting the three of them together is no different from putting a mouse in the care of a cat."
Is there a difference? Actually, there is. After all, the mouse isn't the cat's biological offspring, while the thirteenth and fourteenth are still inextricably linked to Yinzhuo by blood. Although Yinzhuo likes to tease and fool the fourteenth, he considers himself fairly upright, at least making sure he dies clearly and decisively, unlike a cat teasing a mouse, catching and releasing it repeatedly... Well, that doesn't seem right either. He seems to enjoy teasing the fourteenth like that too. Um... Liang Jiugong is right, at least the fourteenth is practically a little pet to Yinzhuo.
Liang Jiugong was quick to leave and quick to return. He's back with those two idiots, the thirteenth and fourteenth, and even brought along Tieguai Li—Yinzhi. It seems Yinzuo's transmigrator aura is all focused on his life points! His recovery ability is far superior to his third brother's. Look, they were both injured on the same day. Yinzuo was shot through the chest with an arrow, while Yinzhi's thigh and arm were slashed and bleeding profusely. Even now, Yinzuo is still running around on the ground, making his father helpless, while Yinzhi is still hopping around on his crutch, defiantly clinging to his cripples.
"Now your third brother, thirteenth brother, and fourteenth brother are all here. Now that you have someone to play with, can we have some peace and quiet? Thirteenth brother, go and help your sixth brother over to me. Be careful not to touch the injury on his arm..."
That's why they say Kangxi is the father! He truly understood Yinzhi's temperament and character. If the Fourteenth Prince had gone to help Yinzhi, the two would have had quite a bit to deal with. The Fourteenth Prince might have angered Yinzhi and gotten a beating from his Sixth Brother. But the Thirteenth Prince was different. First, Yinzhi had a great fondness for the chivalrous and reckless Thirteenth Prince from his previous life, and this bias made him like the Thirteenth Prince from a young age. Second, the Thirteenth Prince was sensible from childhood. Although he always hung out with the Fourteenth Prince and was led astray by him to do a lot of bad things, he was sweet-talking and not stubborn. He knew his mistakes and could correct them, which was a great virtue. The Fourteenth Prince, a stubborn mule, deserved to be beaten. Look, the Thirteenth Prince just coaxed his Sixth Brother into coming back with a smile after only a few words.
"Judging from what Father said, Sixth Brother has been wandering around for a while now. He must have had enough exercise for the day. Sixth Brother is still injured, so he can't overexert himself. I heard this morning during my patrol that Father had someone go ashore and buy a lot of things. I guess that's what Eunuch Wan brought back earlier. Sixth Brother, let's go take a look. I wonder what they brought back this time..."
It's no secret that Yinzhuo has a penchant for food; everyone knows it. See, he was easily swayed by a few words from the thirteenth prince. Actually, you can't really blame Yinzhuo. After all, this era is different from modern times. Back then, the world was a village; now, a city is practically a world unto itself. In modern times, if Yinzhuo wanted something, he could just search online and have it delivered to his door in three days. Now? You want it? Sure, you can have it, but first you have to send someone to find a chef from the local area. Just look at him—such a favored prince—and he still hasn't achieved lychee freedom. In short, nowadays, not only are carriages slow, but everything is slow…
With Yinzhi and his two sworn brothers around, there was never a moment of peace. The rare harmonious and pleasant time for the father and sons was broken by Yinzhi's cane. When Yinzhi saw his fourteenth brother fiddling with Yinzhi's cane, he inexplicably thought of a skit he had seen before. At this moment, his mouth was faster than his brain, and the lines came out of his mouth as soon as he opened his mouth.
"It's turned, it's turned, it's turned..."
Fourteen was trying to transform himself into Iron-Crutch Li by tucking his cane under his arm, when he heard his sixth brother's shout and subconsciously turned towards him. Only when he saw his sixth brother's bright smile did he realize that he had probably been led astray by his sixth brother again.
"Sixth Brother, what are you yelling about? Why did you turn? There's a huge open space in front of me, why would I need to turn? And you know what I'm doing before you yell at me to turn, that scared me half to death..."