Chapter 1230 Terrible Survival Rate

Chengde Mountain Resort.

Su Mingzhe opened his eyes, looked at the blue sky, feeling relaxed and happy, and slowly closed his eyes.

It is now the forty-third year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the beginning of June.

In May, Kangxi brought civil and military ministers and adult princes to Chengde, and went out of the pass to hunt with the princes of the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Later, I got interested and ran all the way to the northwest yesterday.

As a capable minister among the princes, the fourth prince Yinzhen was ordered to stay in the Chengde Palace.

This day.

Some people dragged the Fourth Prince out to hunt.

After playing for a long time, everyone ate venison and drank deer blood, and they all felt bloated in their stomachs.

The others went out to find women and have fun.

The Fourth Prince Yinzhen, who had always been cautious, did not agree to play with everyone, but instead prepared to secretly find a woman to relieve his sexual desire.

Who could have thought that Su Mingzhe, this useless guy, would take advantage of this opportunity to replace him.

Su Mingzhe, who was absorbing the memories of the Fourth Prince Yinzhen, suddenly heard footsteps running towards him, and jumped onto the horse's back with a somersault.

"Fourth Master, it's the servant Li Dequan!"

Seeing Su Mingzhe's agile movements, the visitor secretly praised him and then quickly introduced himself.

Li Dequan was one of the senior eunuchs around Kangxi. He was considered to be a relatively well-behaved person and had a good relationship with the fourth prince Yinzhen.

Su Mingzhe accepted Yinzhen's memory, laughed out loud, jumped off the horse again, clasped his fists and said with a smile:

"So it's the Third Eunuch, but what does the Emperor want?"

"It is indeed His Majesty's order."

Seeing that Su Mingzhe was the only one around, Li Dequan straightened his back, coughed lightly, and then spoke:

"The emperor has given his will!"

After hearing this, Su Mingzhe immediately bowed and accepted the order.

Li Dequan read the contents of the imperial edict. It turned out that there was a continuous heavy rain in the capital, and the crown prince requested Kangxi to transfer the fourth prince back to the capital to help him with disaster relief.

The current crown prince has not made any serious mistakes, and his position as crown prince is relatively stable.

The Fourth Prince Yinzhen was a die-hard member of the Prince's Party, so it was only natural for the Prince to ask for permission to allow Su Mingzhe to go back to help with disaster relief.

Su Mingzhe immediately accepted the order.

The next day.

Su Mingzhe and Longkodo, who was also staying in the Chengde Palace, said goodbye.

Longkodo was the younger brother of Kangxi's third empress, Empress Xiaoyiren.

Empress Xiaoyi Ren had no children, so she raised the fourth prince Yinzhen by her side and treated him as her own son.

Because of this relationship, the Fourth Prince and Longkodo had a close relationship on weekdays and often called each other "uncle and nephew."

Today, Longkodo is the deputy commander of the vanguard battalion.

Su Mingzhe was leaving, but Longkodo had no choice but to stay behind.

When returning to Beijing, Su Mingzhe was in a hurry and rode at full speed all the way.

When he felt the braids on his back swinging back and forth, he began to feel irritated:

"When I ascend the throne and become emperor, the first thing I will do is cut off this braid!"

"drive!"

Chengde is not far from the capital, only about 500 miles away.

We rested for one night in Miyun County.

At noon the next day, Su Mingzhe entered the capital and arrived at the gate of the palace.

Although Su Mingzhe is a prince, he still has to go through the procedures if he wants to enter the palace.

After he produced the imperial edict and handed it over to the chief guard and the chief eunuch for inspection, he was allowed in. When Kangxi went out on a tour to escape the summer heat, the capital was handed over to the crown prince to supervise the country.

The fourth prince Yinzhen was a die-hard member of the prince's party, so after Su Mingzhe entered the palace, he was able to go smoothly all the way to the Prince's Eastern Palace.

The prince, who was having fun among a group of beauties, saw Su Mingzhe coming back and waved and said with a smile:
"My fourth brother is here. Come and take a look at these skinny Yangzhou horses sent by the Salt Inspector."

When Su Mingzhe heard the prince's call, he looked up and saw twelve beauties in the hall. Each of them had fair skin, delicate features, and were truly stunning beauties... Ugh!
"My Lord, did you ask the Emperor to send me here to provide disaster relief?"

As Su Mingzhe walked along, he found that the road was indeed quite muddy, but he did not see any disaster victims.

"Just leave the disaster relief work to the people below!"

Seeing his fourth brother so diligent in his royal duties, the prince could not help but sneer:
"Fourth brother, I heard that you stayed alone in Chengde Palace, and I was afraid that you would be too lonely, so I asked the emperor for permission to let you come back! Oh, there is one more thing. My sister-in-law sent someone to find the imperial physician a few days ago. It seems that Honghui is sick. You should go home and take a look!"

"Thank you for your care, Prince!"

When Su Mingzhe heard the prince's heartwarming words, his stern face softened slightly.

"By the way, before you leave, pick two beauties!"

As the prince said this, he pulled Su Mingzhe into the pile of beauties and let him choose.

Su Mingzhe had no choice but to pick two virgins at random.

The prince was generous and immediately gave the reward to Su Mingzhe, and then let Su Mingzhe go home to rest.

He brought the two beauties back to Prince Zhen's mansion.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the principal wife Ulanara Rouze and the concubine Nian Shilan coming to greet him with several women and children.

"Wan'er and Lan'er, these two women were given to me by the prince."

Without waiting for the two women to ask, Su Mingzhe took the initiative to introduce the identities of the two women behind him.

The first wife and the second wife looked at each other and said with a smile on their faces:
"No need to explain, Shiro. We sisters are not jealous."

"I always have to tell you."

Su Mingzhe knew that the original Yinzhen had a harmonious relationship with his wives and concubines at home, but he still explained everything clearly according to his original temper.

At this time, concubine Li was holding her four-month-old son, and asked her ten-year-old daughter and five-year-old son to greet Su Mingzhe.

The Fourth Prince Yinzhen had quite a few wives and concubines. In addition to his principal wife and concubine, he also had six registered concubines.

Among these eight women, the legitimate wife gave birth to the eldest son, who is Honghui, the sick person mentioned by the prince just now.

The concubine, Mrs. Song, gave birth to the eldest daughter, but she died shortly after birth.

In addition, concubine Li followed the Fourth Prince Yinzhen for nine years and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, two of whom died young. Now there are two sons and one daughter.

It has to be said that the infant mortality rate in ancient times was too high.

As a Beile, he had seven children, but only four survived.

However, among these four children, one was seriously ill and another looked very sick.

If they are not treated, two of these four children may not live to adulthood.

After meeting with his family, Su Mingzhe suggested going to visit his sick eldest son.

Before the first wife Rouze could speak, a beautiful woman beside her smiled and said:
"My Lord, you just came back from outside and you look exhausted. You should take a shower and change your clothes first before visiting Honghui."

Su Mingzhe followed his memory and recognized the woman as the illegitimate sister of the first wife Rouze - Ulanara Yixiu.

Because Yixiu was born out of wedlock, she could only marry a royal relative of equal status.

They were married for three years and their first child died.

Her husband also died of the epidemic at the end of last year.

When Yixiu's husband died, the elders in his family asked Yixiu to follow the old tradition: either remarry another man in the clan or return to her parents' home with her dowry.

Yixiu naturally looked down on that group of poor people and finally chose to return to her parents' home.

Rouze and Yixiu's father, Fei Yanggu, had passed away long ago.

Yixiu returned home and couldn't stand her sister-in-law's contempt, so she came to her sister Rouze for help.

Su Mingzhe remembered her identity as his sister-in-law, thought about it, and nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)