noffsinger Chapter 236 Destroy it, this blind father is beyond saving.
Chapter 236 Destroy it, this blind father is beyond saving.
You can teach this child, but he really doesn't say a word after every lesson. Several days of frustrating teaching experience shattered Yinzhuo's previous ambition to become a good teacher. How shattered? Let's put it this way, have you ever seen dumpling filling? It's like that.
"Father, could you please give my elder brother and his family an order to take all the children back from me? Look at my dark circles, look at the resentment I feel, look at my haggard face. Anyway, I don't care about my son. You have to find a way to get my elder brother and his family to take the children away today."
What Yinzhuo said was absolutely right. Right now, he was as resentful as Sadako, his eyes were as dark as Nezha's, and his face was as bitter as a gourd. No wonder people say that the education field is not easy to navigate. The teaching profession is really too challenging in terms of mentality.
Kangxi was so dizzy from being swung around by Yinzhuo's arm that he struggled to pull his arm out of Yinzhuo's embrace. Only then did he have a chance to properly look at his son. What he saw shocked him. Good heavens, it turned out that what Yinzhuo had said earlier was not an exaggeration at all. Is taking care of children really that terrible? In such a short time, those little devils had tormented his delicate son like this?
"Liang Jiugong, go and invite Imperial Physician Wang here now, and then send someone to summon Prince Zhi, the Crown Prince, and the others. I want to ask them how these elder brothers have acted as fathers. They don't care about their own children and send them to their younger brothers. What kind of behavior is that?"
If it were Yinzhi who sent someone to invite them, Yinti and the others would make all sorts of excuses. But if it was Kangxi who sent someone to summon them, even if they were extremely busy, they would have to quickly put down what they were doing and come to listen to the reprimand. Yinzhi sat next to Kangxi, drinking the tea that Liang Jiugong handed him, eating the snacks that his father had set on the table, and looking at his four elder brothers standing in a row listening to the reprimand not far away. The feeling in his heart could be summed up in one word—satisfying.
While he was secretly pleased, he also kept his mouth busy, occasionally chiming in with a few words of agreement while Kangxi was reprimanding people. The content of his words was simple, nothing more than a few phrases: "Father is right," "Father is indeed wise," "Father..." Listening to Yinzhuo calling him "Father" so often, it's hard to say what Kangxi was thinking, but Yinti and Yinreng certainly wanted to kill him.
"Little Six, I advise you not to talk right now. What, can't you shut up while eating and drinking?"
As the saying goes, who can tolerate this? Auntie couldn't tolerate it. Her gentle second brother could tolerate it, but her hot-tempered eldest brother couldn't tolerate it either. Look, right in front of his own backer, Yinzhuo got a beating. Upon hearing this, Yinzhuo didn't respond to his eldest brother's words. He put down what he was holding and reached out to hug his father's arm.
“Father, look at my brother! He’s threatening me like this right in front of you! What will happen if he leaves Qingxi Study? I don’t care about the consequences, but you must stand up for me…”
Yinti's mother tongue at this moment was speechless. He frowned as he watched Yinzuo, a grown man, cling to his father's arm and act like a spoiled child. Goosebumps were radiating from his body. No, is this a prince? This is more like the behavior of a little princess. No, Yinzuo, could you be any more pretentious?
Yinzhuo sat next to Kangxi, not far from Yinti and the others. He could see the expression on his elder brother's face clearly. Instead of being ashamed, the other man was proud of it. The more uncomfortable his elder brother felt, the more strained his voice became. The strained his voice became, the uglier Yinti's face became. In the end, not only Kangxi, who was being tormented by Yinzhuo holding his arm, but even Yinreng and the others standing below couldn't help but burst into laughter at the two of them.
"Alright, you little devil, you know your elder brother can't stand this, yet you still tease him. Haven't you made enough of a ruckus? If you have, hurry up and let go of my arm. Yinti, Yinreng, Yinzhi, Yinzhen, you all stop standing around here and hurry up to Shufeng Pavilion to pick up Hongxi and the others. That brat Yinzuo is full of mischief; he's probably tormented those kids quite a bit these past few days."
Although the outcome of this silent power struggle between Yinzhuo and Yinti was still uncertain, Yinzhuo clearly considered himself the victor. He gave his elder brother a smug and defiant look before slowly releasing his grip on Kangxi's arm. Yinti felt utterly powerless. "Alas, destruction is the end for my blind father," he thought, "he's beyond saving..."
Yinzhuo found taking care of the children agonizing, and Hongxi and Hongyu, the children being cared for by Yinzhuo, had also been suffering terribly these past few days. At such a young age, they had endured pain that they shouldn't have to bear at their age. The "120-times-broken-hands-method" was truly living up to its name; in just a few days at the construction site, their little paws were almost broken from being forced to copy lines. So when Hongxi and Hongyu saw their father come to pick them up, their eyes lit up. Yinzhuo, standing to the side, almost couldn't help but ask his classic line—"Do you believe in light?"
Whether Hongxi and the others believed in the light or not seemed to matter much to Yinzhuo at this moment. In any case, as soon as these little ones left, his sky would immediately brighten. Of course, this also applied to Hongxi and the others, because they also felt that the dark clouds that had been hanging over their heads for the past few days had dissipated the moment they stepped out of Enze Garden...
"Dexi, have someone come and tidy up this place. I'm going to Fangfei Garden to check on Hongxu. I've been so busy taking care of Hongxi and the others these past few days that I haven't had a chance to see my dear son. I wonder if he misses his father..."
After seeing off Hongxi, Hongyu, and the others, Yinzhuo's life finally returned to its former tranquility. You see, from the forty-third year until now, he has either been taking care of the children or on his way to take care of the children. Now that everything has finally been resolved satisfactorily, he has no other thoughts at this moment, just two words—rest.
When Yinzhuo said he was going to rest, he truly implemented it. He didn't go out for a stroll until the end of the year when he returned to the capital. You're kidding me, when it's so cold, wouldn't it be better for him to stay at home? With Yintang and Yinzhi at the Ministry of Works, Yinzhuo was very at ease.
The 44th year of Kangxi's reign quietly arrived amidst Yinzhu's pig-raising-style recuperation. The palace festivals were almost always the same every year. Yinzhu's only expectation for the Spring Festival was the Shou Kang Palace on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Moreover, things were different now. Nowadays, father and son were on the same side. After Yinzhu carried Hongxu around the Shou Kang Palace, the harvest could only be described in one sentence: his purses were so numerous that they couldn't fit on two trays.