I saw the three people dancing with joy as if no one else was watching.
Kangxi couldn't help but cough a few times to show his presence and attract the attention of all three people.
Kangxi waved his hand and called Muldenge, Fulana and Baoqing all in front of him.
Three children stood in a row. The oldest was five years old and the youngest was just over three years old.
After Kangxi glanced over, he bent down and picked up five-year-old Muldenge, and asked her gently with a smile:
"Little Dengge, can you tell Eqike (my uncle) that the three of you had a great time playing in the Cining Garden today. Why did you play on the ice of the lotus pond?"
Muldenge seemed to have seen Kangxi often, and she was not afraid. She smiled and stretched out her little arms to wrap around Kangxi's neck.
She looked back at her own Ama and saw Prince Yu smiling gently and nodding to her.
She rolled her black eyes like purple grapes, thought for a while, then suddenly stretched out her little hand, pointed at Bao Qing on the ground and said, "My brother let me play with him!"
"Yes, my brother said that." Four-year-old Ferlana was already hungry after this experience.
He ran forward, sat in the arms of the Empress Dowager, stretched out his little hand, touched one from the plate of yogurt dumplings on the table nearby, put it in his mouth, took a bite, and slurred his mouth.
He echoed what his cousin said.
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"Oh, it was actually Baoqing who suggested it?" Kangxi was a little surprised and turned his attention to the little Baoqing.
No one expected that it was the youngest Bao Qing who proposed to play on the ice.
Concubine Na La was agitated in her heart. She wrapped her fingers around the handkerchief uneasily and looked at Baoqing who was standing alone in the center of the hall with a worried look.
I'm afraid that this honest and stupid kid will say something inappropriate in public.
Baoqing suddenly noticed that everyone's eyes were focused on him. He was a little uneasy and didn't know what was going on.
"Bao Qing, come to Aunt Ukuma."
The Empress Dowager noticed Baoqing's fear, picked up a piece of beef jerky, waved her hand and said to Baoqing.
Seeing the beef jerky in the Queen Mother's hand, Baoqing unconsciously touched his belly. He also felt hungry.
Just like Fulana, she took small steps and ran to the side of the Empress Dowager.
He took the beef jerky handed over by his great-grandmother, put it in his mouth and gnawed on it.
After a while, maybe there was something in my mouth, or maybe I felt that everyone's eyes were harmless.
Baoqing gradually relaxed, chewing beef jerky in his mouth, and said in the same vague voice: "We are playing Ice Jubilee."
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After saying that, he still used his little feet to grab a handful of beef jerky from the plate on the table.
Taking small steps, he stuffed some into the hands of his two sisters and his mother-in-law, Nala.
Then, to everyone's surprise, they turned a corner and came to Qingyan and Yinreng.
Baoqing raised his chin slightly, recalling the manner in which he saw old man Kali giving gifts to people around him outside the palace.
With a look of pride and embarrassment, he said with a hint of trepidation: "You look, strangely, good-looking."
I don’t know where I learned it from. Like a hero who has traveled around the world, he held up his two small fists and cupped his hands towards Qingyan: "Thank you for saving me, your kung fu is so handsome. Master, today,
I’ll treat you to some beef jerky first, and I’ll save you tomorrow too.”
Qingyan looked at the little boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of her. He obviously had a three-headed body, but his words were just a little smoother than what Yinreng said. He also imitated the adults and kept saying "Master"!
He burst out laughing and nodded in agreement.
Yinreng in his arms was still two-headed. He looked at this little boy he didn't know. He was taller and stronger than himself!
As soon as he came over, he made his aunt laugh, and she was instantly unhappy.
He puffed up his white and tender cheeks and shouted angrily to Baoqing: "Ni, bad! Aunt Baocheng, I won't eat your dried meat."
Baoqing obviously didn't understand Yinreng's words. He scratched his head in confusion:
"Little sister, you look good, but you are too small to eat." Isn't this sister a little stammerer?
"Little sister Mei?" Yin Reng burst into tears! He will become a smart and intelligent man like King Erwa in the future!
"Meimei? You, talent, are Meimei's, Gu, are Lan, the child is Lan."
After being bailed out, Yinreng completely put aside his previous emotions. His face turned red and his neck was thick with anger, and he retorted loudly and eagerly.
I also remembered what Khan Amma once said, imitating Kangxi’s teaching style.
He puffed up his little chest, lowered his gaze, and looked down on the world with a look that he thought was extremely domineering, "Gu, I'm a pure man! Pure."
But he was too small. Even if he was held in the arms of Qingyan who was sitting on the stool, his sight could only reach Baoqing's chin.
From the perspective of others, it seemed that his lowered gaze was looking at Bao Qing's belly.
Everyone was amused by this scene. The empress dowager sitting at the top was holding her stomach and burst into tears from laughter.
Seeing everyone laughing and not helping him, Yinreng felt that he had lost and Da Wa was better than him.
He turned around and looked at Qingyan aggrievedly with watery auspicious eyes, pointed at Baoqing who was half a meter away from him, and began to complain: "Dawa, bad, Baocheng, no, I like him."
Qingyan, who had been amused by the human cub just now, was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Baoqing seriously.
Isn't it?
Upon closer inspection, the shape of the small golden crown that bound Baoqing's hair was indeed similar to the shape of the gourd he once drew on rice paper for Yinreng.
Moreover, Baoqing's new clothes happened to be red.
In addition, he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a strong and small body that is far beyond his peers. He looks very strong. He just matches the character of the powerful big boy in the Calabash Brothers that he told about!
"It turns out that you are not, little sister."
Knowing that he had made a mistake, Baoqing rubbed his head in embarrassment.
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Concubine Nala held the beef jerky handed over by her son tightly in her hands and looked at Baoqing nervously, fearing that he and the prince would start a fight in public.
He quickly shouted to Baoqing: "Baoqing, be good, come to E Niang quickly."
Hearing his mother's voice, Baoqing didn't want to deal with this little brother who couldn't even understand what he was saying.
I left a sentence: "Yes, little brother, I don't know how to eat beef jerky. It's useless to look at my belly."
As soon as he turned his head, he ran to E Niang on the opposite side.
Kangxi was secretly worried that when Baoqing returned to the palace, the two children would be at odds.
Now that I saw them meeting for the first time and actually getting along well, I feel a lot more comfortable.
After laughing, he frowned even deeper.
These children, all so young, have never seen the Ice Jubilee Competition.
When his adopted daughter Fulana was one month old, he carried her from Prince Gong's Mansion to the palace and gave her to the Queen Mother to raise. The other two, one grew up in Prince Yu's Mansion, and the other was fostered in the home of the Minister of the Interior since she was a baby.
It stands to reason that most people have never even been to the street, so where did they know about Bingxi?
Moreover, this winter has just begun and there have been several heavy snowfalls in succession, making the weather extremely cold.
The ice on the lotus pond is not thin. Even the ice on the edge is as thick as the length of an adult man's little finger. If an adult steps on the ice, it will be fine as long as he does not jump hard and continuously.
What's more, the lotus pond is built in the shape of a "bowl". The deeper you go in, the deeper the water in the center of the pond will be and the thicker the ice will be. How come the ice on the edge is not broken?
How could such a young child fall into the big hole in the middle of the pool?
Kangxi knew in his heart that there must be something hidden inside, but for a moment he couldn't figure out what was hidden inside.
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"Brother Baoqing said that his slave told him that he could play Ice Jubilee on the ice. It was very fun, so we went to play on the ice."
Muldenge, who was in Kangxi's arms, was eating the beef jerky that Baoqing had stuffed in his mouth. While chewing it, he thought about something and turned to Kangxi, clapped his hands and added.
When Kangxi heard what his eldest niece said, thousands of conspiracy theories flashed through his mind, and he looked at Baoqing.
Baoqing apparently remembered something after his cousin reminded him.
He looked like he was having a hard time remembering: "There was a little eunuch, yes, Baoqing said, it's more fun on the ice than on the ground."
"Then Baoqing remembers whether it is outside the palace or inside the palace, according to the little eunuch?"
If it was the Galli family outside the palace, it would be easy to identify this suspicious little eunuch. After all, the maids and eunuchs who came in and out of the minister's house basically had to get a sign from the palace before they could be let out by the guards. Kangxi rubbed the big eunuch
The jade ring on his thumb calculated.
Qingyan, who grew up in the apocalypse, faced all the dangers of daily survival from zombies and mutated animals and plants. It can be said that she has not experienced any major conspiracies.
If she hadn't been stopped by the palace maid on the road, she would have thought it was an accident.
She looked down at the little prince in her arms and touched his soft belly. She felt that something was wrong when she jumped into the lotus pond, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong for the moment.
Who would have known that Bao Qing's words in the next second would open up Qingyan's thoughts.
"At the old man's house in Gali, someone told Baoqing that Bingxi is fun."
Kangxi turned to look at Baoqing and encouraged him to continue.
The memory of young children is really poor. Baoqing rubbed his little head and thought for a long time before saying with confusion and uncertainty:
"In the garden, someone told Baoqing that the water had no taste, but the ice in the pool was salty, fun and delicious. Baoqing and his sister had never seen salty ice and wanted to try it.
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"Salty?" Qingyan's heart skipped a beat, and she finally knew something was wrong.
When she was in the last days, the open water outside had a salty taste due to pollution, and when she jumped into the water from the gap in the ice in the middle of the pool to save Bao Qing, she also tasted the salty taste in her mouth.
She didn't think much about it at that time, but now she realizes that this is the Qing Dynasty where the environment was excellent hundreds of years ago, not the end of the world!