Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times

On the other side, Liu Fang sat and listened to the maid in charge talking about this and that.

If Jing Xingzhi hadn’t said he wasn’t familiar with her, he would have been convinced by the maid in charge. It seemed like there was a lot of friendship between the two families.

The maid in charge also knew what she was doing. Seeing that Liu Fang was pregnant, she sat for a while and then left, leaving behind a lot of items.

Liu Fang asked someone to take a look at it, and then asked the steward about it. He found that the items were all novel and valuable, and the intention to make friends was obvious.

When Jing Xingzhi came to pick him up, Liu Fang laughed at him, “Did she come here for anything else? Look at these things; it could be sold for a few thousand taels!”

Jing Xingzhi said, “That’s the crown prince’s style. Everyone is on good terms with each other; don’t worry about it. When I get back, I will bring the fourth prince to meet you; be good.”

“Okay, but I am more curious about the second prince.”

Jing Xingzhi did talk about the bad things but not everything. He only said that he bullied others. So, Liu Fang couldn’t help but laugh when he thought about the second prince, who was unlucky enough to go farming.

Jing Xingzhi thought that Liu Fang was really curious about the second prince. He smiled and interjected, “I heard that the second prince returned from an outing a few days ago.”

“What a coincidence.” Jing Xingzhi couldn’t wait, wanting to see if labour could change people.

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Jing Xing’s wish came true, and the opportunity arrived soon.

The next day was washing-up day.

An old friend, Zhang Tong, came and wanted to bring Jing Xingzhi into the palace. As for Liu Fang, he thoughtfully rewarded him with something, saying it would be better to wait until he gave birth before going to the palace.

Jing Xingzhi followed Zhang Tong and went to Kaiyang Palace by a familiar route.

Li Yunxi dropped the rules again, treating this junior fellow apprentice as a messenger, and asked about Fang Qichen’s affairs.

After he finished asking, Li Yunxi looked at Jing Xingzhi excitedly, “Xingzhi, your labour education was really effective!”

“I had never seen Jiarui so sensible. Now he knew how to honour his mother and think about me when he came back. Your method was really good!” Li Yunxi looked excited.

Jing Xingzhi was even more curious about how the naughty child had been. ‘Let me take a look!’

Jing Xingzhi said curiously, “I wondered how the Second Highness was doing lately, it makes people curious.”

Hearing this, Li Yunxi raised his hand to a eunuch in the palace, “Go and call His Highness over and tell him that his junior uncle is here.”

Zhang Tong trembled when he heard this and wanted to bury his head in his collar. He was thankful that it was not him who was called.

After His Highness returned, the person had indeed changed a lot. But news had spread among the young eunuchs that His Highness and the person who had made him suffer hardships were bitter enemies, and they often heard him cursed others.

As a result, the Holy Emperor had actually asked the Second Highness to come and see Young Master Jing?!

Were they really not going to start a fight?!

Zhang Tong thought, and silently shrank to the side, trying to give himself a sense of security.

Jing Xingzhi sat and waited to see the evolved version of his second nephew.

If the evolved version didn’t work, then he could upgrade it to the third version! ‘Children, our bloody military camp needed you!’

With a physique like the second eldest nephew, he would be a good candidate to be a soldier. The more Jing Xingzhi thought about it, the more reliable he felt.

After a while, Li Jiarui, who was holding back his anger, appeared.

Li Jiarui had been very happy when he first heard his father call him, but later he heard Jing Xingzhi’s name!

Fuck!

Li Jiarui felt very angry, so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

Thinking that he had suffered so much because of Jing Xingzhi, Li Jiarui couldn’t help but feel furious.

“I have met my father.” Li Jiarui bowed stiffly, without saying a word about Jing Xingzhi.

Jing Xingzhi smiled warmly and didn’t seem to mind at all.

Li Jiarui secretly glared at him and cursed in his mind, ‘scheming man!’

However, Li Yunxi’s seat was just like the teacher’s throne, high up, allowing him to see clearly below.

So, Li Jiarui was unlucky again.

Li Yunxi scolded him, “You don’t call your junior uncle, but you still glare at your elders. What do you mean? I think you haven’t suffered enough and you don’t follow any rules at all!”

All of a sudden, all the hard work was wasted. Li Yunxi, a domineering person, immediately forgot all the praise he had just given to Li Jiarui. He only remembered that this traitor was so unruly in front of him!

Li Jiarui felt angry and aggrieved.

He suppressed his sadness, looked at Jing Xingzhi, and shouted, “Hello, junior uncle.”

But what he was thinking in his heart was, ‘I will let you be good and deceive my father for now! But this prince will kill you sooner or later.’

Jing Xingzhi still smiled and said, “Jiarui seems to have lost a lot of weight. He must have suffered a lot. Although he hasn’t made much progress, it is still hard work.”

‘What do you mean I haven’t made much progress?! What the hell do you know?!’

Li Jiarui couldn’t help but retort, “That’s all thanks to you, junior uncle. I’ll keep it in my heart.”

Li Jiarui deliberately calmed his expression this time, but he couldn’t hide the slight sarcasm in his tone.

Li Yunxi saw it and understood immediately.

After the second prince returned to the palace, he had been acting with his own father. Li Yunxi thought he was doing better, but in fact, he was hiding his temper. He still didn’t know where he was wrong.

If Li Jiarui knew that he was wrong and how wrong he was, how could he blame his junior uncle, the person who corrected him?

Li Yunxi’s guess was partly correct. After several months of hard work, Li Jiarui understood the difficulties of the common people.

But in his heart, he still didn’t feel that this difficulty had anything to do with him. He only felt that he had been deliberately abused.

Why should he, a prince, suffer like this?!

Why did he have to pick manure and sweep the pigpen?

If this was not torture; then what was it?!

What Li Yunxi expected was under the influence of the grandfather and grandson, Li Jiarui would understand the meaning of family affection.

He wanted him to be filial to his concubine mother, and make his filial piety to Li Yunxi genuine.

But the most important thing, Li Yunxi’s purpose of calling Li Jiarui there—he wanted to show off his good and sensible son in front of Jing Xingzhi.

As a result, Li Jiarui was not cooperative at all and simply slapped Li Yunxi in the face.

Li Yunxi disagreed and drove him away angrily, “I don’t think you want to stay here either, so go back to your concubine mother!”

Li Yunxi drove Li Jiarui away and covered his forehead with a headache, “He hasn’t made any progress at all. I’m so angry.”

Jing Xingzhi couldn’t bear it anymore and lowered his head without saying anything. ‘If you catch a naughty kid and bully him, it wouldn’t be much fun if you bullied him too much.’

Last time, Jing Xingzhi had been angry with the naughty kid because of Ning Yongyuan’s incident, but after so long, his anger had almost subsided.

But Li Yunxi felt that Jing Xingzhi was a good father. He couldn’t help but learn from his experience and asked, “Junior brother, besides labour training, do you have any other tips?”

Li Yunxi felt that labour training was more or less useful. Even if Li Jiarui was pretending, he had grown his brain, which was a good thing.

Looking at Li Yunxi’s longing eyes, Jing Xingzhi choked for a moment.

‘Excuse me… aren’t you his biological father?’

“Tell me!” Li Yunxi asked domineeringly.

‘Okay, okay, I have one more.’

Jing Xingzhi explained, “I heard that many of the Zhong family’s soldiers in the past had grown up and were now guarding their respective sides. Why don’t we let the Second Highness go to the border to have a look, try the life of ordinary soldiers, and also see… our ancestors?”

‘This was not my initiative; it was you who forced me to say it, Second Senior Brother!’