NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 87 - II
Over there, Li Yunxi led the people twenty meters out into the darkness.
He suddenly turned around and told Zhang Tong, “Zhang Tong, go tell the second prince.”
Zhang Tong looked confused.
Zhang Tong asked his emperor in astonishment, “Your Majesty, what should I tell the second prince?”
In the darkness, Li Yunxi’s old face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, “Of course, I want him to know how hard his parents have worked.”
Otherwise, how would he know? It wasn’t easy for him to come here. Tomorrow, he wouldn’t have slept enough and still have to do a day’s work!
He ran so hard to see him; how could he not let this bastard know?
Zhang Tong suddenly understood, nodded, and ran back to express His Majesty’s fatherly love.
But halfway through, Zhang Tong felt more and more uncomfortable.
‘Your Majesty, you have changed!’
He was not like this before. He used to be hard-working and never said anything about his efforts. Now he came out to see his son in the middle of the night and even wanted to express his suffering!
However, Zhang Tong was very obedient. He ran back to Li Jiarui’s window and knocked carefully and hastily on the window frame.
Dong dong dong—— and “dong dong dong——”
Li Jiaru was disturbed by the knocking on the window.
He stood up and opened the window in displeasure, saying with a sullen face, “What?” Li Jiarui thought it was Li Yunxi who had returned to teach him something.
But Li Jiarui didn’t expect that only Zhang Tong had come back.
Facing Zhang Tong, Li Jiarui’s face turned even uglier, and he asked impatiently, “Why are you knocking on this prince’s window?! If you have something to say, tell me immediately, and if not, get out!”
Zhang Tong looked at the old clothes on His Highness and the tattered windows with bug holes and decided not to argue with him.
Zhang Tong said, “Your Highness don’t be impatient. His Majesty has been tossing and turning these days. He was busy all morning till evening, then rest at night but woke up again within two quarters of an hour after falling asleep. In the end, he couldn’t hold back and came here. When he returns tomorrow, His Majesty will have to go to court in the morning and won’t be able to rest for another whole day.”
Zhang Tong’s words left Li Jiarui feeling a mix of sweet and sour emotions.
Li Jiarui thought sweetly, ‘That old guy seems to miss me quite a bit! Just say it if you want to see me! He left without saying a word, which made me think I was being disliked.’
With this reply, Li Jiarui felt very comfortable, and it was no wonder that Li Yunxi didn’t take him away. His father had never been so tender.
Li Jiarui said to Zhang Tong, “Don’t light those incense for him. The smell is so strong that he can’t sleep.”
“Okay, I will remember to tell the emperor,” Zhang Tong said with a smile.
However, Li Jiarui rolled his eyes at him and said with disdain for Zhang Tong’s stupidity, “Who asked you to tell him? You should do it secretly!”
Zhang Tong thought, ‘You two are too difficult to handle—one runs away and asks me to come back to deliver messages, and the other asks me to do things without saying anything!’
‘But, Your Highness, that is the emperor. Do I dare to act without telling him? If I really served him so casually, my head would no longer be on my neck.’
Zhang Tong thought that His Highness wasn’t very smart, but he still nodded and agreed with a smile, which made Li Jiarui very satisfied.
Li Jiarui drove Zhang Tong away, fearing that if Zhang Tong stayed too long, Li Yunxi’s time would be wasted.
Zhang Tong ran back in a hurry, panting as he reported to Li Yunxi.
Li Yunxi nodded after hearing this, thinking, “My junior brother is right. Let him know how hard I work as a father, and he will be embarrassed to create burdens for me anymore. Looking at it now, he can barely be considered sensible.”
The pair of children, grandfather and grandson, were also specially chosen by Li Yunxi. He hoped that the little grandson’s filial piety would bring some insights to Li Jiarui. It seemed that the effect was pretty good!
However, environment must also play a role. Li Yunxi felt that this kind of environment had the greatest impact on Li Jiarui’s change, so he insisted on letting Li Jiarui practice here.
Li Yunxi raised his head and looked at the starry sky, thinking that only after enduring hardship could one understand the burden of the master.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the last day before the hunt.
Li Yunxi also made a list of the people he wanted to take out of the capital to hunt, and each family prepared things and manpower.
Most of the things were prepared for the women and shuangers. Then the women and shuangers would go to eat, drink, and see the scenery, just like traveling. It was a beautiful day. If they wanted to hunt, they could also shoot foxes and catch deer freely.
But the men were miserable. How could they not go hunting when they came to hunt? After hunting, they could not still skip the competition. If they lost or simply didn’t catch a rabbit, they would lose face.
Therefore, some ministers who were not good at hunting thought of taking a few people who could hunt with them to save face.
The only real owners of Marquis Zhenyuan’s Mansion that year were Wu Shuangxi and Ning Yongyuan. In name, Ning Yongyuan was still the little marquis, so of course, he wanted to hunt. Such an arrangement also revealed that Li Yunxi was thinking about the soldiers on the frontier and ensuring the stability of supply there.
In previous years, Wu Shuangxi would find a few people in the village who were good at hunting for Ning Yongyuan, to increase his reputation. Ning Yongyuan’s own hunting skills were very average, and he couldn’t stand out based on his true strength.
This year, Wu Shuangxi didn’t want to worry about it. She didn’t care about this and just arranged food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
Old Madam Ning had not been there for many years, and Ning Yongyuan himself had not mentioned it. As a result, there were really not many people around Ning Yongyuan who knew how to hunt.