The True Winner of the Red Chamber

Chapter 17

The three families of Wang, Jia, and Xue joined forces to do this. Zhen Yingjia wished that she could take the imperial examination tomorrow, and then enter the court as an official. When the three families were liquidated by the emperor, they would slap her face severely.

At noon, Zhen Yingjia accompanied Kang He in the garden, and the two walked slowly along the stone-paved path.

Seeing Kang He's relaxed expression, Zhen Yingjia tentatively said nonchalantly, "Jiangnan is good for this. It is evergreen all year round. At this time in the north...the trees must have withered and turned yellow."

On the surface, Kang He seemed to have relaxed his vigilance, but this was just an appearance, so when he heard Zhen Yingjia's words, he pretended to be thinking, and said, "Our house is always green all year round."

It's really watertight, Zhen Yingjia thought, but then he felt that he had asked a question.Speaking of which, if Kang He is really the prince and lives in the palace, how can there be dead branches and yellow leaves in the imperial garden?

Zhen Yingjia smiled and stopped talking.

The atmosphere was peaceful and peaceful.

Not long after, there was a sound of children playing in the distance.

"Father, father!" Baoyu ran ahead, followed by his two older sisters and a long line of maidservants. Seeing that there were still guests, Baoyu immediately stopped talking and stood upright.

"Father, Uncle Shi."

Zhen Yingjia hugged him in his arms and said, "Are you back?"

Baoyu nodded, "Lin Shibo looks better than last month."

"Aunt Lin has lost weight again." Zhi Lan said, she looked at the youngest Zhi Qi, only to hear Zhi Qi say: "My younger sister has also lost weight."

The two sisters walked by Zhen Yingjia's side, vaguely trying to separate Kang He from his father.

Zhen Yingjia glanced at it from the corner of her eye, feeling a little funny.These days, he gets along very well with his son and daughter, and after finally coming back, he always stays with the guests, and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which makes them very unhappy.

Kang He smiled faintly when he saw this scene, and saw that Baoyu in Zhen Yingjia's arms seemed to stare at him. Kang He deliberately turned cold, only to see Zhen Yingjia's five-year-old son hiding his face in his father's arms .

Very cute, but Kang He felt a little sad when he smiled. He has never lived a normal father-son life since he was a child.

At that time, because the emperor wanted to drive himself to conquer the country, he left the prince to supervise the country. For the reasons of the country's stability, long-term peace and success, and successors, the 13-year-old prince married the princess who was three years older than him, who was Kang He's biological mother.

The 16-year-old princess was born in a famous family and was the eldest daughter. She was a master at home and abroad, but the 13-year-old prince... no matter how talented he was, he really didn't like the dignified princess from the bottom of his heart.

Although Kang He is already 17 years old, and the prince has grown up long ago, the relationship between husband and wife, which ranks second in the world, has not been considered good, and even Kang He is not very popular with the prince.

If this is the case, it's fine, the key point is the prince's concubine Zhao, and there is a concubine Kang Quan who is only half an hour away from Kang He.

It was quite a coincidence that Kang He was born the night before, and Kang Quan was born in the early morning. Although it was only half an hour later, according to the genealogy of the emperor's family, there was a day's difference between the two.

The crown prince liked Kang Quan very much, and under the pretext that Kang He was the son-in-law who wanted to practice early, he gave Kang Quan almost all his care, and even got married, it was Kang Quan who came to the front.

Alas... Kang He sighed, saying that the emperor's grandfather didn't object, presumably it was the emperor's grandmother who persuaded him.

What the imperial grandmother liked most was that she became the prince's son. No matter what the prince said, the imperial grandmother agreed. This time, Kang Quanneng got married before him, and the imperial grandmother must have put in a lot of effort.

But speaking of it, Kang He didn't want to get married so early, because the Crown Prince's status is embarrassing now, and getting married now is just using the title of Princess Concubine as a bargaining chip to ease the prince's predicament.

Second, I don't know why, when he thinks about getting married, Kang He feels something is wrong all over his body. It must be influenced by his parents, Kang He has always thought so.

"Father." Baoyu, who had been secretly looking at Kang He, whispered in Zhen Yingjia's ear, "Your guest is distracted."

Zhen Yingjia turned Baoyu's head around with her hands, and laughed softly, "Don't look."

Kang He regained his strength and sighed: "I have grown up so much, this is the first time I have seen my father and son so close, and it is also the first time I have seen my father hug his son." He had never been hugged by the prince before. Thinking of this, Kang He felt much more at ease.

Baoyu glared at him and said, "Father, I can walk by myself, let me down."

Zhen Yingjia laughed, Baoyu had misunderstood, Kang He definitely didn't mean that Baoyu was so big and asked his father to hug him.But after hugging her for a long time, Baoyu is still unwilling to live in peace, writhing in his arms all the time, it's better to rest.

But in this way, Zhen Yingjia was accompanied by three children, and there was even less room for Kang He to stand.

After half an hour, Kang He's mood improved a lot. He felt that although his parents were not doing well, if he had his own family in the future, he must treat his children like Zhen Yingjia.

The sun had just begun to set, and the servants came to report that the banquet was ready, and several of them went back to wash up, and when the lights came on, they went to the back garden of Zhen's house.

The dinner was held in the small gazebo.

The five members of Zhen's family sat down at the round table together with Kang He. After drinking for three rounds, Zhen's mother took the children to leave first. Zhen Yingjia ordered new dishes and hot new wine, and took Kang He to the small In the pavilion in the middle of the pond.

The atmosphere is even better.

But for some unknown reason, the two of them had something on their minds today. Facing the reflection of the moon on the pond, they forcibly drank the wine with a taste of loneliness.

The topic was started by Kang He, who was stimulated all day.

"My father and my mother..." Kang He was not too drunk at the moment, knowing that the matter between the prince and his wife could not be brought out, so he deliberately reduced the degree, "I don't want to please me. Father likes it."

Zhen Yingjia will be a little bit above this, that is, the physical reaction has slowed down, but the head is still spinning. Hearing what Kang He said, he went to pour Kang He wine. Who knew that his hands could no longer keep up with his brain. Half of the wine was poured on the table.

Kang He smiled, "You're drunk." After speaking, he went to get his glass again, but he was no better than Zhen Yingjia now, and half of the glass of wine drank on the skirt of his shirt.

Zhen Yingjia laughed twice, and heard Kang He say again: "I never liked my father since I was a child."

Zhen Yingjia nodded and said, "Perhaps your father is looking forward to your progress, so the requirements are a little stricter." But that's not what's going on in his heart.

He understood and associated this sentence in light of the fifth prince's situation.

In the early years, I only heard that the emperor was very good at cultivating the prince. The fifth prince...was born to Concubine Wu. Nothing strange.

However, Zhen Yingjia still expressed deep sympathy for a child longing for his father's love.

He put his arms around Kang He's neck and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be afraid, you've grown up now, and you like yourself."

Apart from breastfeeding, Kang He can count the number of times he has been hugged with one hand since he was a child, not to mention that alcohol has increased his sensory sensitivity by another [-]%. When Zhen Yingjia's bracelet came over, he I felt the hairs all over my body stand on end.

However, this feeling was really good. Kang He vaguely thought of Baoyu rubbing against Zhen Yingjia's arms, with a satisfied expression on his face, so he also rubbed over with the help of alcohol.

It's just that Baoyu is only five years old, so there's nothing wrong with it.Kang He was a grown man, a strong and strong grown man, Zhen Yingjia couldn't sit still after such a rubbing, but fortunately there was a pillar behind him, otherwise he would have to fall into the pond with a stool.

Being so frightened, the little alcohol turned into sweat and drained away.

Zhen Yingjia sobered up immediately.

But seeing that Kang He's eyes were red from drinking, he couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic. It's not easy to be an emperor's son.

He still remembered that the emperor brought the crown prince with him during his southern tour. At that time, the crown prince seemed to be in his early ten years old, and he could speak and act as well as the officials in Jiangnan whose average age was around forty.

"Alas..." Zhen Yingjia sighed, helped Kang He up, and said, "Let's go back to the house and drink."

Kang He was still muttering to himself, "Father likes my younger brother, but not me."

"Youngest son, eldest grandson." Zhen Yingjia comforted, "Every father likes this."

Kang He shook his head, there was still a bit of reason in his heart, which prevented him from telling the whole story.

Zhen Yingjia supported Kang He and walked forward, but Kang He's body smelled of alcohol, so that the little wine that Zhen Yingjia had just left came back.

"My eldest daughter..." Zhen Yingjia sighed, as if exchanging, also a little tentative, and said what worried him most, "Now in the prince's mansion, a child who is less than ten years old is leaving. My home is so far away, and I feel uncomfortable in my heart."

"Don't be afraid!" Kang He followed Zhen Yingjia's example and patted him on the shoulder, "I'll tell you, take good care of your daughter."

Zhen Yingjia smiled again, but thought in her heart: You said that you are not from the emperor's family, so you can talk to the prince.

The two just walked forward with each other supporting each other. Kang He said that he had countless fathers and concubines, and his mother had no way to persuade him, which further confirmed the assumption that he was a member of the emperor's family; The surface is glamorous, but the inside is actually full of crises. I mentioned several servants who visited this year, and the sorrow in the sigh became more and more obvious.

So all the way to the guest room.

Seeing the bed, Kang He relaxed, and so did Zhen Yingjia, and they rolled on it together.

Lying on the bed and relaxing all over, Zhen Yingjia wanted to get up after resting, but she didn't expect that the more she lay down, the more comfortable she would become, and she soon became dazed.

Before he was about to fall asleep, he vaguely heard Kang He say, "This is falling asleep." As the words fell, he felt something scratching his feet.

Zhen Yingjia protested with her eyes closed, but all she could say was an unintelligible murmur.

The two slept until dawn.