"I'm serious. If you like her, just take the little girl and raise her." Kangxi hadn't seen her have a child that she particularly liked in all these years. It was her blessing that this little girl could please her.

Yu Suisui pinched the back of Kangxi's hand and said, "Your Majesty, please don't make rash decrees. I don't want to raise a child, and that little girl, Nalan Zhu, must stay by my side." She just felt at that moment that she saw her own little kitten.

Kangxi held Yu Sui's hand with his backhand. She still liked to touch him. "If you don't want to keep this one, forget it. The Crown Prince has several princesses. How about I ask the Crown Princess to bring them here for you to have a look. If you like any of them, you can keep them?"

"No. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I didn't want to raise a child when I was young, and I don't want to raise a child even more now. Please let me live a quiet life!" Yu Suisui didn't want to get into trouble.

Kangxi now likes the prince's children. Even though the prince himself has displeased Kangxi, Kangxi still likes those children very much.

Kangxi preferred the prince's eldest son to the legitimate sons born to his elder brothers. Kangxi could never change his partiality in this life.

"Really not going to raise her? I'm afraid that after I'm gone, you'll have no one to accompany you." Kangxi was now also worried about the future. Hesheli had always been alone. When she was young, he should have called an imperial physician to take good care of her. If she had given birth to a child, he would not be afraid that Hesheli would be left alone after he was gone.

Yu Suisui thought, if you die, I will die too, and the infant mortality rate here is uncertain, so it is hard to say who will be with whom. "Oh, Your Majesty, don't worry about these things. We can talk about the future later. Let's just live well now."

Seeing that she was full of resistance to this topic, Kangxi didn't mention it and said, "I'll take you to see something." Then he pulled Yu Suisui back to Fangshu.

When Yu Sui turned 20, she was speechless when she saw the gifts Kangxi had given her. What emperor would grow a field of cucumbers and give them away as gifts?

"How about it? These are all planted by me. The cucumbers in this field are big and straight." Kangxi picked a cucumber from the vine, broke it into two pieces, handed one piece to Yu Suisui and ate the other piece himself.

At this moment, Kangxi was very proud. Only Hesheli could make him worry so much.

Yu Sui was holding half a cucumber in her hand, and she only wanted to curse in her heart. This was really her gift, could she not refuse it? She didn't want to eat cucumbers for three meals a day.

"Why aren't you talking? Stop being so moved and don't cry. I just want to make you happy." Seeing Yu Sui lowering her head and not speaking, Kangxi thought she was too moved.

Yu Suisui really wanted to curse in his heart, but he couldn't argue with the emperor, who had a dysfunctional brain. He pretended to be happy and said, "Your Majesty, I can't finish eating so many cucumbers. Why not pick them and make pickles for the winter?"

How long will it take to eat all the cucumbers in this field? She couldn’t give them away. Kangxi was so petty that he would definitely cause trouble for her if she gave them away.

After hearing this, Kangxi looked at the cucumber field again. There were indeed too many cucumbers. "Pick some that you like. You will get tired of eating these cucumbers every day. I will pick some to give to others as a reward."

Yu Suisui agreed very much, "Then I will pick a row and leave the rest for the emperor." There are so many cucumbers, so she can make some pickles, sauced cucumbers, and marinated cucumbers. She wished that she would never receive such a ridiculous gift again.

Kangxi nodded and asked the prince to pick the cucumbers in his field in a few days. The prince was always causing trouble, so he asked him to come and do some hard labor.

"Don't ask anyone to pick them. I'll ask Yinreng to come pick the cucumbers and then send them to you."

The words that Yu Suisui had stuck in her throat were stuck there. She raised her head and stole a glance at Kangxi's expression. Forget it, it doesn't matter who picks it. Let Kangxi decide for himself.

As long as she is not dragged into the fight between the father and the son, it will be fine. The prince is in his prime and it is only natural for him to do some physical work.

On the second day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was picking cucumbers in the cucumber field under the scorching sun without even a straw hat. He was furious but helpless because his father the Emperor disliked him.

When delivering cucumbers to Yu Suisui, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince felt bitter, "Empress Xi, I want to eat the squirrel fish in your small kitchen." He ate it a lot when he was a child, but he never ate it again when he grew up. Now when he saw Yu Suisui, he couldn't help it.

Yu Suisui:........

After a moment of silence, Yu Suisui said, considering that he had picked so many cucumbers, "I'll ask the kitchen to make them for you. You wait here for a while."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was sitting in the flower hall, waiting for the squirrel mandarin fish. He used to eat it often in Nanyuan, but it had been many years. He and Empress Xi had not eaten at the same table for many years.

Yu Suisui asked the small kitchen to prepare a few simple dishes and gave His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a simple lunch at the table in the flower hall.

Looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince now, she realizes that things have changed. The child she loved when she was little has grown up and is now talented in both civil and military affairs. However, his father is too resilient and his brothers are all capable. He is facing internal and external troubles, and his future outcome is foreseeable.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince might not be unaware of this, as he grew up reading the Zi Shi Jing Ji. Yu Suisui did not even think of reminding him. She just watched in silence as they walked towards the predetermined ending.

Looking at it from another perspective, Kangxi might not have been unaware of this, but how could someone who had enjoyed supreme power give it up and return to being an ordinary person?

These people are all very cunning. She is a person who just wants to eat and wait for death, so she should not worry about these things. After all, this is not her home and country.

Kangxi knew exactly what the Crown Prince had experienced. He knew that Yu Suisui would never stand on the side of the Crown Prince. As for having a meal, Kangxi didn't care.

Two years later, the little granddaughter raised by Concubine Yi has become more and more adorable, with black eyes so watery that they make you feel soft-hearted.

However, due to Concubine Yi's insistence, the little girl was raised by the teacher and aunt hired by Concubine Yi along with the other princesses in the palace. Concubine Yi often brought the little girl over to show off, and Yu Suisui gave away many good things.

In the meantime, the Ninth Lady also sent her daughter to Concubine Yi, but although Concubine Yi liked her, the girl did not look like her, so she did not want to raise her.

Yu Suisui also saw the Ninth Prince come to Concubine Yi and want to take his daughter back. It was not because he missed his daughter, but because the concubine made him annoyed. He came to Concubine Yi and made a scene, asking Concubine Yi to whip him with the small whip that Yu Suisui gave to the little girl.

Concubine Yi had no hope for this son. Sixty percent of the money he earned was given to the Eighth Prince. She, as his mother, gave birth to him and raised him, but he was not as important as a brother born by someone else. Concubine Yi also cried for the Ninth Prince several times.

She also scolded him several times in front of Yu Suishui, saying that he was not as filial as the Fifth Prince who was raised by the Empress Dowager. Concubine Yi beat and scolded him for this son, but she was determined to stick to this path until the end.

Concubine Yi's family were staunch royalists who only supported Kangxi. However, they had a stubborn grandson like the Ninth Prince, which made it difficult for Concubine Yi to stay in the palace over the years.

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