Emperor Kangxi was devastated by the death of his eighteenth elder brother. He called his elder brothers over in the middle of the night, wanting to share the pain of the death of a relative with his sons.

After being called up, the brothers all hurriedly went to the yard of the seventeenth and eighteenth brothers to take an interest.

When the eldest prince was walking towards Emperor Kangxi, he happened to see a little eunuch walking beside the prince in a hurry, and stopped him in a hurry: "Everyone wants to go towards the emperor, but you are the only one who wants to turn back. What are you doing?"

Follow His Royal Highness closely and don’t run around."

The little eunuch slapped Qian'er and said in a hurried and nervous tone: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hasn't gotten up yet. I have to hurry over and call you."

"That's not right. We sent someone to call him just now, why haven't you gotten up yet?" The eldest prince half-squinted his eyes and looked back: "Well, I'll go call him with you." He turned around and planned to go towards him.

Walk to the prince's residence.

The little eunuch hurriedly stopped him.

The eldest prince glanced over coldly.

The little eunuch quickly bowed: "Prince Zhi... Prince Zhi doesn't need to go there. His Royal Highness, he will be fine soon. There is no need to rush him."

"Oh?" The eldest prince sneered: "If he doesn't need to rush him, then what are you going to do? Aren't you going to rush him?"

The little eunuch was speechless for a moment.

The eldest prince said again: "Since the prince does not need you to rush over, you can just follow me. There is no need to make that extra trip." After saying this, he motioned behind him.

Several eunuchs behind him quickly came over, tied the little eunuch's hands behind his back with three strokes, five divided by two, and dragged him to the yard of his two younger brothers.

The little eunuch was so anxious that he couldn't help but beg for mercy, saying that he was not going to call His Highness the Crown Prince, but to get something. Yes, he was taking something, not to wake up the Crown Prince.

The eldest prince ignored the little eunuch and went straight over.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard crying coming from inside.

I'm just crying because there are no arrangements required for a funeral. It's just because the eighteenth brother is young now, only seven or eight years old, so he died underage.

Under such circumstances, his funeral should not be a large one.

Therefore, the eldest prince had a vague feeling that perhaps the eighteenth brother's status in Huang Ama's heart was much higher than he originally thought.

It should be noted that a child who could not even hold a formal funeral suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night, but the emperor was so sad that he called all the princes present. This honor was not unworthy.

It was precisely because of this that when the eldest prince saw the little eunuch beside the prince just now, he felt moved and called him over.

Several elder brothers have already arrived and are surrounding Emperor Kangxi.

Emperor Kangxi's face was solemn, with no trace of sadness or joy.

After the eldest prince bowed and saluted, he withdrew to the side and asked in a low voice next to the fourth elder brother: "Are all the guys here?"

Yinzhen replied softly: "Except for His Royal Highness, everyone is basically here."

"Then...what did Huang Ama say? The eighteenth brother suddenly left, why did he call all of us here?" The eldest prince said: "Even if the little eighteenth is dead, the brothers will keep vigil for the younger brother.

Doesn’t it make sense?”

Yinzhen thought about it and said, "It shouldn't be considered a wake-up call. It's just that Huang Ama felt great pain when he heard that his eighteenth brother was gone, so he called us together."

The eldest prince said thoughtfully: "Oh."

He winked.

The eunuchs waiting around pushed the young eunuch who had just been intercepted halfway to come to Emperor Kangxi.

Emperor Kangxi was feeling pain in his heart when unexpectedly a group of servants came to him and asked impatiently: "What's going on with you guys?"

The leading eunuch was very quick in speaking and doing things. He immediately went to Emperor Kangxi and kowtowed: "Your Majesty. When Prince Zhi came here just now, he saw this little eunuch shrinking back and forth. Prince Zhi felt that this was the case.

Too many things happened on that day, and such weird behavior really made people feel uneasy, so they took this little eunuch over."

Emperor Kangxi felt uncomfortable in his heart and did not bother to say a word. He only looked sideways at the eldest prince.

The eldest prince clasped his fists towards the emperor and said: "I just saw this dog slave walking against the wall, acting suspiciously. When I asked him again, he said he was going to call His Highness the Crown Prince. I remembered that Huang Ama had already sent him

People went everywhere to call us over. My brothers and I have already arrived, and His Highness the Crown Prince must have known about this and came over. There is no doubt that what this little eunuch said must be lies, so we brought him here."

The eldest prince is the only one among the brothers who is older than the prince. As the elder brother, he can take care of the prince's affairs.

Emperor Kangxi called Liang Jiugong: "Did anyone go to the prince's side?"

Liang Jiugong bowed and said: "His Royal Highness, my servant went there in person."

Emperor Kangxi scanned the courtyard again. Although the night was dark, dozens of lamps were lit in the courtyard, illuminating the courtyard brightly.

However, there was no figure of the prince in the courtyard.

Emperor Kangxi: "What about the prince?"

Liang Jiugong said hesitantly: "After the servant passed by, the people around His Highness the Crown Prince only said that they knew and asked the servant to leave first. They would wake up the Crown Prince as soon as possible. The servant knew that Your Majesty still needs the old slave to serve you, so

I came back first and did not wait for His Royal Highness to get up."

After saying that, Liang Jiugong immediately knelt down and said, "This old slave deserves to die, please forgive me!"

Emperor Kangxi could not bear to hear the word "death" now, so he hurriedly waved his hand and motioned to the maid next to him to help Eunuch Liang up.

He pointed at the little eunuch brought by the eldest prince: "Tell me what happened."

The eldest prince hesitated to speak beside him, but Emperor Kangxi raised his finger to stop him from speaking. The eldest prince sighed and stood aside.

The little eunuch was trembling with fear, his whole body was trembling: "Go back, your Majesty. The young eunuch is serving His Highness the Crown Prince. When Eunuch Liang went to call His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness had not gotten up just now. After taking Eunuch Liang's orders, the young eunuch

Tingtai

His Highness needed some ice in his room, so he went to order someone to prepare ice cubes. Before the slave left, His Highness had not gotten up yet. When I saw all the brothers coming, I thought that His Highness might not be awake yet, so I

Hurry back and call again."

Emperor Kangxi's voice deepened: "He hasn't gotten up yet? Didn't Liang Jiugong call him? He clearly knows why I asked him to come here, but he hasn't gotten up yet?!"

Because he was sad and angry, the emperor's power was fully displayed, and Emperor Kangxi's voice was like a loud bell.

The little eunuch was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, forgive me! When Eunuch Liang went, he went to the door of the house and called His Highness the Prince. His Highness also responded, and I just went to get the ice. I, I didn't know that Your Highness was

It’s not that I didn’t really get up, I just looked at the people coming and going without His Highness, thinking that he hadn’t gotten up yet. Your Majesty! I’m not lazy!”

The little eunuch was so frightened that he couldn't speak at all and cried.

In the room, the palace people who looked down at the 18th prince were crying together and burst into tears.

Outside, the little eunuch was crying sadly again.

Emperor Kangxi raised his foot and kicked him impatiently, and then ordered several palace attendants around him: "You all go to the prince's side and call me over!" After thinking about it, he pointed at Liang Jiugong: "You should go too!

Look what’s going on over there, it’s cold at night, and you still need someone to get ice!”

Liang Jiugong responded and took the palace people away.

Emperor Kangxi stood at the door of the house with his hands folded, listening to the cries of the palace people inside, and couldn't help but think of that smart and well-behaved child.

Although the evil-doing slaves have been dealt with, the evil done to Xiao Shiba by those dog slaves cannot be taken back.

Xiao Shiba's life will never come back.

Emperor Kangxi couldn't help but feel sad when he thought about the child he had lost again, and tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes.

The Thirteenth Brother looked at Huang Ama as if he was so sad that he couldn't hold it any longer, so he moved a chair to the side and placed it next to Emperor Kangxi: "Huang Ama, please sit down."

Emperor Kangxi was suddenly startled when he heard the child's voice. He lowered his eyes and looked at his thirteenth elder brother, and said happily: "Good boy." Then he sat down.

The fourteenth elder brother took the thirteenth elder brother and said to Emperor Kangxi: "My younger brother just... encountered such a thing. There was a mess in the house. The seventeenth elder brother is still recuperating. The thirteenth elder brother and I want to go in and take a look.

, please help me."

The fifteenth brother and the sixteenth brother had already gone in just now. They saw that the fourth brother was also outside, so they wanted to stay outside with the fourth brother.

But now it seems like something big is going to happen outside.

The two of them thought that they were not very smart. If they stayed outside, they might be used as shields for others. It was better to stay inside, lest they might arouse the anger of others outside, and then give trouble to the fourth brother.

Cause trouble.

The two of them thought very well, but unfortunately things didn't work out.

"No need." Emperor Kangxi raised his hand and patted his two sons on the shoulders: "Just now your fourth brother said that he wanted to go over and help. But I thought it would be inappropriate for you brothers to go in, so I didn't let the fourth brother go over.

.Since he doesn’t have to go there, you don’t have to either.”

Thinking about it, the fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother are brothers from the same mother as the eighteenth elder brother, so there won't be much problem for them to get in.

The Thirteenth Brother and the Fourteenth Brother exchanged glances. They knew that there was no hope of entering the room, so they simply supported Huang Ama and let Huang Ama sit down.

The two of them withdrew to the fourth brother's side, and after thinking about it, they hid their bodies behind the fourth brother, so as not to be noticed by the eldest prince or his highness, who would trouble them again.

A long time passed.

The cockcrow sounded, the sky was dark, and the belated figure of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appeared in the yard.

Immediately afterwards, the prince's hearty laughter rang out in the yard: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just slept so deeply that I didn't wake up and fell asleep again. I didn't expect you to come together so much. Look at it this way

Come on, it makes me look very lazy."

It just so happens that Si Age Station is located closest to the courtyard gate.

The prince immediately turned to his fourth brother and said, "Fourth brother has been more and more hardworking recently. That's right. If you hadn't gotten up early to 'work', how could the fourth brother and sister be pregnant during the journey?"
To be continued...