Chapter 885 Innocence

"He slaughtered the Liang Kingdom?"

"Father, it was the capital."

"If a country's capital is wiped out, can that country continue to exist?"

"Yes, there's our Chu Kingdom, and the Qian Kingdom too."

"..." Xie Zhuyang.

The father choked on his son's words, then stubbornly said:

"That's not the same, the Liang Kingdom is just a small country!"

Xie Yu'an stretched lazily, took out an orange from his pocket, and began to peel it.

Xie Zhuyang continued, "A big country can at least be like a centipede that dies but doesn't fall, but the essence of a small country is in its capital. Once it's gone, can that country survive?

"Most importantly, breaking a city and destroying a city are different.

"During the Yingdu incident, Xiong Laosi clearly wanted to start anew, and brought out the things he valued early on.

"As for Shangjing, ha, the Qian people are wealthy. Losing Shangjing will at most stop the court from functioning, but Father estimates that the Jiangnan region of the Qian Kingdom is happy to see it."

"Dad, what are you trying to say?"

"Don't you understand what Dad is trying to say?"

"At least be a little organized, so I can follow along. But you're talking nonsense, do you really expect me to just take it?"

"You're my son. When I'm lying in bed drooling, you'll have to wipe it for me. You can't handle this now?"

"Okay, I'll take it. Dad, are you scared?"

The previously high-spirited Xie Zhuyang suddenly fell silent.

Then,

He nodded silently:

"Yes."

Xie Yu'an brought the peeled orange segments to his father's mouth:

"Dad, open your mouth."

"It'll cause heat!"

"If you don't eat the orange I feed you now, I won't feed you medicine later."

Xie Zhuyang opened his mouth and ate the orange.

Xie Yu'an clapped his hands and said, "Dad, it's normal to be scared."

As he spoke,

Xie Yu'an stretched lazily. In front of him were the majestic Qi Mountains.

"When the late Emperor of Yan was in power, he swallowed the lands of the Three Jins, suppressed the Snow Plains with both force and appeasement, and then fought a national war with our Chu Kingdom, taking Zhennan Pass.

"Before his death, he even crushed the barbarian royal court.

"For the Yan Kingdom, he had already removed the most difficult and painful thorns.

"The successor seems to have been left with a devastated situation, but as long as he can hold on and manage it, the Yan Kingdom will dominate the north of the Xia Dynasty;

"Without major troubles by its side, going south will be smooth sailing.

"So, the most difficult part is that period of time. Even if the flag is shaking violently, as long as it doesn't fall and stands firm, it will stand firm.

"Thinking about it now, it's all fate.

"We put so much effort into it, and even mobilized 20,000 elite troops from our clan. The Qian people also invested heavily, and finally, in the Liang region, they destroyed Li Fusheng's elite Zhenbei Army.

"We thought we had turned the situation around a bit, but who knew that the Prince of Xiping would directly enter Qian and break through Shangjing.

"Dad,

"It's difficult,

"Really difficult.

"Now, our Great Chu and the Qian Kingdom are no longer able to go north to trouble the Yan people. Going up there is just actively seeking death.

"But doing nothing and just waiting, waiting for that tiger to recover, will be like a fierce tiger descending the mountain."

"I know this situation, but what can we do now?"

"There's nothing we can do. We've done our best, so let's leave it to fate. Looking at it now, the new Emperor of Yan really has feelings for the Prince of Xiping;

"Maybe it's another beautiful story like the late Emperor of Yan and the two Princes.

"So,

"It's better to go back and ask the shamans of our Great Chu, and let those Qi refiners of the Qian Kingdom use their powers again. Everyone should focus on making paper effigies behind closed doors, and see if they can curse one of those two, the Emperor or the Prince of Xiping, to death."

"Son, are you serious?"

"Not asking the common people but asking the ghosts and gods, that's probably how it is. Thinking about it now, that Zang Fuzi of the Qian Kingdom back then might not have been doing useless work."

"Son, are you sick?"

"No, Dad, let's just muddle through. Anyway, there are still several years left. In these years, we'll do what we should do, and give Xiong Laosi the respect he deserves.

"There's no need for the Xie family and the Xiong family to fight anymore. Even if we take that position, we'll probably be recorded in the history books before our butts are even warm. It's not worth it.

"The Qian and Chu Kingdoms survived the era of the late Emperor of Yan and the two Princes of the North and South, so we can just try to survive the next generation.

"If the next generation of the Yan Kingdom is still like this,

"It's fate, it's fate,

"We give up!"

Xie Yu'an hugged his arms and kicked a stone in front of him, but who knew that the stone had taken root and wasn't a slippery stone.

"Ouch... it hurts!"

Xie Zhuyang sighed, walked over, smashed the stone with one punch, and comforted his son, "Dad has smashed the bad stone, my son doesn't hurt, doesn't hurt."

"..." Xie Yu'an.

"..." Xie Zhuyang.

In fact, because his son was so precocious, Xie Zhuyang had not enjoyed much of the feeling of being a father.

At this moment,

Xie Yu'an leaned his head on his father's shoulder, his whole body still slightly sobbing:

"Dad, when I was little, I had a dream. In the dream, I helped you, helped the Xie family, take the Xiong family's throne."

Xie Zhuyang reached out and gently patted his son's back,

Comforting him;

"Son, anything is possible in a dream."

"Then Dad married a woman from the Xiong family. Dad, guess who it was?"

Xie Zhuyang patted his son's back again,

And said with great relief:

"Son, you've worked hard. You didn't forget to find a woman for Dad even in your dream."

"Hehe, and then, that woman actually gave me a younger brother? How she gave birth to him, I can't figure out."

"Um..."

Xie Zhuyang pursed his lips.

In fact, sometimes he had suspected the matter of his son's birth, but his son was too normal, so normal that a slight suspicion or investigation might directly point to him.

Sometimes, Xie Zhuyang would feel melancholy;

What's the point of having a son?

To inherit the family business?

If it's to inherit the family business, one with a d*ck is enough.

To develop the family?

If it's to develop the family, even if he gave birth to a hundred with d*cks, they might not be as powerful as this one son in front of him.

Logically and emotionally, this son was excellent enough. With this one son, he could pretend to be ignorant even if he understood.

But this...

"Then, Dad didn't know why, but he suddenly liked my younger brother and started thinking of ways to change things, just to help my younger brother up, and let me, the older brother, assist him."

"Am I that stupid?" Xie Zhuyang's hand patting his son's back paused slightly.

"It's not whether Dad is that stupid, but that woman, she wanted it, her methods were amazing. Marrying her and having her child, our Xie family, from then on, would be legitimate in Great Chu."

Xie Zhuyang opened his mouth;

"The most important thing is that it doesn't matter if I don't sit on the throne, at most I'm just the head of the Xie family. There's still a big difference between an earth emperor and a real emperor. It should be that after Dad sits on that chair, he doesn't find his son as pleasing to the eye anymore.

"Rather than saying that I was fighting with my younger brother, or that that woman was causing trouble behind the scenes;

"It's better to say,

"That you, Dad, are fighting with me, your son."

"Isn't Dad's, yours? Isn't the old man's, the son's? What's there to fight over?"

"But Dad, people change."

"Dad is already this old, would I still..."

"You've changed, you've really changed, in the dream."

"Okay, okay, in the dream, then what did my son do?"

"There was a palace coup, hehe."

"In your dream, you killed Dad?"

"No, I raised you up, you became the Emperor Emeritus, and you were the Emperor Emeritus for a long time, and you had many younger brothers and sisters."

"Oh, that's good, thank you, son."

"But Dad, why is it so different from the dream now? When I had that dream when I was little, it was really exactly the same as real life."

"After all, it's a dream."

"Yes, after all, it's a dream."

Xie Yu'an suddenly burst into tears:

"But now, I can't even have a dream!"

The father comforted his son for a long time again,

Finally,

His lips trembled,

With a hint of curiosity,

He asked;

"Who was that little b*tch in your dream?"

"Does Dad really want to know?"

"I'm always a little curious. To make me and my son turn against each other, that woman... must be very charming."

"Dad, she's married now."

"So what if she's married? Sometimes it's better if she's married, you kid, you don't understand."

"Dad, it's just a dream."

"Dad is just curious, my heart is itching. Let's put the big things aside for now, since the situation is not right, as you said earlier, let Xiong Laosi sit in that position first.

"But we can touch glasses for the small things, can't we?

"For example, how about we snatch back a little b*tch first?"

"Dad..."

"What's wrong?"

"Are you really going to snatch her?"

"Hehe, since she's a Chu woman, even if she's a Xiong woman, does Dad still not want her now?"

"But she's also waiting for you?"

"Waiting for me?"

"Yes, she can't wait for you to come to her door."

"Hahaha, what a joke, who is so arrogant? Even Xiong Laosi has to curry favor with us now."

"She can't wait for you to come to her door and complete her mahjong game." (four players needed to start a game)

"..." Xie Zhuyang.

…

"Crown Prince, Young Master, please put on more clothes."

Huang Gonggong carefully accompanied the two young masters, with a coat hanging on each of his arms.

Every day he brings Ji Chuanye with him, and they just finished running on the city wall of Zhennan Pass. Both children were sweating.

Ever since he was with Tiantian, Ji Chuanye has been following Tiantian's schedule every day. Although he can't become as physically strong as his brother, he's really not as weak as before.

As for Huang Gonggong, he was the supervisor of the army when the Prince of Xiping sent troops this time;

He originally went out of Zhennan Pass with the Prince of Xiping, then accompanied the Blind Man in managing the Zhao region, and then was assigned back to Zhennan Pass to supervise logistics.

Although Huang Gonggong had once gone into battle and slashed people, he still preferred this kind of peaceful life in the rear to accumulate qualifications.

Victories at the front have been reported constantly. Huang Gonggong has been happy for a long time. He still wakes up laughing in his dreams. When the Prince returns with his army, he can return to the palace.

After returning to the palace, his status will be transcendent. Even if his rank is not as high as Wei Gonggong and Zhang Gonggong, his status will be truly transcendent. Is there even a need to compare?

No comparison, no comparison.

"Brother, here."

Tiantian took out two cucumbers from an arrow tower, emerald green, still with ice crystals on them.

Ice is not cheap in the summer.

Seeing this, Huang Gonggong licked his lips subconsciously.

The two children each had a cucumber and ate them with great relish.

It's just that these cucumbers weren't that crisp anymore.

"Brother, when do you think we can really go on expeditions with Godfather?"

Tiantian shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Let's wait until we're a little older."

"How long do we have to wait?"

"We can probably do it when we're as old as Da Hu ge (big tiger brother)," Tiantian analyzed.

"Oh."

Ji Chuanye was a little disappointed.

At this moment, Huang Gonggong opened his mouth flatteringly, "Your Highness, you will have to strategize in the palace in the future. Our Great Yan..."

Who knew,

Ji Chuanye shook his head and said, "I don't want to hide in the back. I want to go to the front to kill enemies with Brother Tiantian in the future."

Tiantian reached out and touched the Prince's head, imitating Zheng Fan's gesture,

And said:

"Brother, you have to be sensible."

"Living in the palace like Royal Grandfather and Father is so boring. Father has also held me and sat on the dragon throne. To be honest, it's hard and uncomfortable."

"Is it delicious?"

Tiantian suddenly asked.

Ji Chuanye thought seriously for a moment and said, "I haven't bitten it yet."

"Next time you go home, bite it and tell me what it tastes like."

"It's made of gold, it probably doesn't taste good, right?" Ji Chuanye said.

"Oh."

Tiantian responded with some lingering interest.

"Next time, Brother Tiantian and I will go back to the capital together. I'll take Brother to sit on the dragon throne."

"..." Huang Gonggong.

Tiantian shook his head and said, "No, Dad said that you can come to our place, but I can't go to your place."

"Why? Mother said that when she was little, she loved to visit her friends' houses. When she visited, people would give them delicious food from their houses."

"Dad said that if I go to your house, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back."

"..." Huang Gonggong.

"Why? The palace isn't as fun as the royal mansion."

Tiantian turned his head to look at Ji Chuanye,

And said;

"I don't want to leave Dad."

"Actually, I don't want to either." Ji Chuanye shook his head. "Father isn't as good to me as Godfather. Father is so busy. Every time I see him in the palace, it's just a quick meeting, and then he goes back to being busy.

"People below all say that Father is very busy with a myriad of affairs, and I used to believe it. But after seeing Godfather, I felt like Father was lying to me."

"But you still have to go back."

"I'm not going back."

"If you don't go back, Huang Gonggong will catch you and take you back."

"..." Huang Gonggong.

Ji Chuanye looked at Huang Gonggong,

Huang Gonggong's face immediately bloomed like a chrysanthemum, and he said:

"Your Highness, this servant wouldn't dare, this servant wouldn't dare."

Ji Chuanye didn't make things difficult for Huang Gonggong, but continued to talk to himself:

"Actually, I don't miss my dad that much, I mainly miss my mother. Mother must miss me too."

"What about your younger brothers and sisters?"

"They're too young, I don't like playing with them."

"Then that's easy, let's bring your mother over and we can all live in the royal mansion together."

"That's right, good idea!"

"..." Huang Gonggong.

Huang Gonggong's clothes were already soaked with cold sweat, but he still had to force himself to keep his expression from changing.

He was actually very scared,

Even if the Prince is still young, it doesn't matter...

But when the Prince grows up in the future, suddenly wakes up from a nap and remembers today's events, remembers the words he said today, and then thinks of himself standing next to him and listening, then...

Fortunately, the two children changed the topic again.

Tiantian shook the half-eaten cucumber and said:

"I'm so worried that Dad will finish fighting all the battles, then when I grow up, there will be no battles to fight."

In the Great Yan of this era, whether in the civilian population or in wealthy families, children are keen on playing war games.

"Brother Tiantian, don't worry. When we grow up, if there are no battles to fight, I'll play war with you, Brother."

"Thump!"

Huang Gonggong finally couldn't bear this "innocence" and knelt on the ground.

The two children looked at Huang Gonggong,

Huang Gonggong smiled extremely reluctantly and said, "You two masters, this servant remembers that there are still some things to do below. The Prince is about to return in triumph, and this servant has to go and see how the preparations are going below.

"This servant takes his leave, this servant takes his leave."

Huang Gonggong almost crawled away from the city wall. As soon as he reached the bottom, he saw a group of people squeezed together, and when they saw him coming, they immediately reported:

"Gonggong, it's bad, it's bad."

"Something terrible has happened, Gonggong."

"What's going on?"

"The imperial gift is gone, it's gone!"

Imperial gift?

Huang Gonggong immediately realized what it was, and then thought of the two frozen cucumbers that Tiantian had taken out earlier and shared with the Prince.

Immediately, he waved his hand carelessly and said;

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, go and get busy, this old one knows."

The imperial gift was originally given by the Emperor to the triumphant Prince;

Now that the two sons have eaten one each, what does that matter?

Huang Gonggong returned to his residence, first took off his clothes, wiped his body, and then put on a new set of clothes.

These two young masters are really difficult to serve. If he had known, he should have insisted on staying on the front line in the first place. Alas, being scared like this every day, how much life will be lost.

At this time,

The two children, having finished their cucumbers, climbed to the top of the sentry tower, panting, with a group of guards protecting them from a distance.

Ji Chuanye was a little scared, but Tiantian was fearless.

"Brother Tiantian, it's so high, I'm scared."

"Close your eyes, hug Brother, and you won't be scared."

"Oh."

Ji Chuanye hugged Tiantian's waist.

Tiantian tried to walk towards the edge, and the Prince followed closely behind him, hugging him.

All the surrounding guards were almost frightened out of their minds. Someone immediately went down to prepare for rescue, and someone directly climbed up the walls of the tower.

"Brother, open your eyes, look!"

The Prince opened his eyes, and from this highest point in Zhennan Pass, he saw black clouds slowly approaching from the south. It was the triumphant army!

"Brother, in the future, it will be me who returns from battle."

"Then... then I will be here, standing tall, waiting for Brother."

"Hehe, good."

"I'll also bring Brother's favorite food."

"Um, my favorite food?"

"I'll steal Father's dragon throne and give it to Brother to eat."

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There will be more tonight, a little bit, hold on tight everyone!

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