Chapter Seventy-Eight: Side Chapter: ng Han Yu
ng Han Yu is a child, is an extrely headache-inducing child, at least this is what his parents think.
It makes sense, if you think about it, should your child lead the children of other families to fight every few days, and show no remorse after fighting, arrogantly walking up to people’s faces to say: “Look how useless such and such is, my one punch sent him to the ground, the people behind didn’t even get the chance to hit him. Just like that, yet he dares to provoke , saying my father is not as formidable as his father?” Speaking up to here, he is still full of spirit in enthusiastically talking, going on to say: “My father has a son like , hence destined to not be a dog, but a wolf!” –– say, how could you not get a headache?
When these words ca out of ng Han Yu’s mouth, he was only seven years old, sounding rather baby-like when he said it at that ti, then when he reached the age of eleven, don’t know how many tis he was beaten by his father in total, these classic and renowned words of his continued, just that they slightly changed from before, bearings also beca much more seasoned.
He would disdainfully slant his eyes, slowly saying: “A tiger cub has no dog father, seeing my bright and valiant bearings, how could you possibly not imagine what my father is like?”
After ng Peng Fei hears this revised version of the classic speech, he fud out of his ears, then takes the big stick beside him, and prepares to show his precious son so good old ‘dear love’. But his wife – Guo Wan Ying – who was stood at the side speaks up, voice soft and tender, yet carries an imposing air that is impossible to ignore, she says: “Should you beat my son silly, then what to do?”
ng Peng Fei glances at the stick that’s approximately an arm thick, finding that his own wife’s words are not unreasonable.
ng Peng Fei is a general, his martial arts are naturally top-notch, but his brain isn’t very calculative. His wife- Guo Wan Ying – may be a fragile woman, but have intensively read books on the history of wars since young, in that delicately small body, it is unsure how much calculative thoughts are hidden inside. This pair of man and woman had unexpectedly produced a spark, and have unexpectedly lived in harmony since. And after their harmonious tis, their precious son – ng Han Yu – was born, one whose body deserves a beating but is overly intelligent – ng Han Yu.
ng Han Yu may deserve so good spanking, but that brain of his truly is unspeakably great. Able to smoothly recite the four books and the five classics, is greatly interested in reading war books and theories, able to speak about war strategies with good reasons –– ng Han Yu is nothing like an eleven-year-old in regards to these matters.
In fact, ng Peng Fei and Guo Wan Ying has another child, three years younger than ng Han Yu, is a delicate and pretty little noble girl, nad ‘Ying Lu’. Guo Wan Ying hopes for her own daughter to be ‘crystal clear like dew’, and not to be absorbed in war and strategies like her, thus losing the interests a girl should have. So she in particularly spent more efforts on her son, even if this son truly renders one unable to laugh, nor cry.
Guo Wan Ying would always persuade her husband like this, “Forget it, forget it, a child that doesn’t deserve a beating cannot be considered to have a childhood, let us endure it for now and it’ll pass by.”
Since his wife has already said this, even though he is angered to the extent of having a body of fried hair, ng Peng Fei can only grit his teeth and swallow it back: “Forget it, forget it, with Han Yu’s mother here, I’ll endure it.” With a turn of an eye, he furiously thinks: ‘Should I catch a day his mother isn’t here, I must give this little rascal a good beating!’
The main character of this – ng Han Yu – hence continued to cause endless trouble, wreaking havoc as he thinks: ‘Where Mother is, I shall be. En en, must never ever be alone with Father.’
And the ng family’s youngest young lady – Ying Lu – watches on with her big water-like eyes, watching the livid looking Father and tender looking Mother, as well as the slyly blinking Brother, feeling extrely confused – ‘Eh, what is wrong with Father, Mother and Brother, are they going to fight?’Thinking up to here, she claps her hands together, very good, she bets Mother will win!
Look at these few people of the ng family, being noisy like flying chickens and jumping dogs every day, but they are just in happiness like that, so happy that it sure makes people jealous.
This day, ng Han Yu hears that his father will be accompanying the emperor to participate in so sort of Mount Qi Yun gathering, in a mont of boredom, he cos up with an idea. On the rare day, he doesn’t run off outside, sounding “pi-dian-pi-dian” as he runs to his father’s study room, kicking open the big doors, whilst loudly yelling: “Father, can I co in?”
ng Peng Fei who was sat at the desk twitches the corners of his lips, ‘This damned rascal, the door’s already kicked open so why bother asking ah?’
ng Han Yu is accustod to seeing his father’s angry face, he had only asked to be polite just now, that is his father after all, superficial efforts still need to be done. “Father.” He doesn’t hold back in walking up to the table, taking a snack from the plate and stuffing it into his mouth, “Mm, I heard you will be away in the next few days?”
ng Peng Fei tries his best to not set his eyes on the snacks, putting on a warm and happy smile as he says: “En.” Not angry, he really isn’t angry, although those snacks had been specially made for him by his wife, there are still many more on the plate, so he must be magnanimous, cannot make a fuss over such a little matter with his son.
“Mm, how long will you be away for this ti?” ng Han Yu swallows the snack in his mouth, hand delivering another one from the plate into his mouth and swallows it again.
“Around a month or so.” ng Peng Fei uncontrollably stares at his son’s mouth, ‘Oh grandmother, how is this kid’s throat so big? Swallowing one after another, isn’t he afraid of choking?!’
ng Han Yu does not mind his father’s eyes on him at all, a snack in each hand as he starts engulfing them all, ‘Mm, how could the snacks made by Mother be so delicious?’ Greatly making him want to swallow his tongue down along with them! But he still hasn’t forgotten about the serious matter, chewing as he vaguely asks: “Father’s going away for so long ah, Mother and I, as well as Sister will miss you to death then.”
ng Peng Fei clenches his fist, face slightly turning dark, ‘Damned rascal, should you really think of your father so much, at least leave him a few snacks!’
“Ke-ke-ke”, ng Han Yu finally chokes a little, but after a deep breath, he starts to stuff himself again, “About that Father ah, this ti you leave, can……”
ng Peng Fei could no longer endure it, reaching out smack away his little claws, “Damned rascal stop right now! You’ve almost eaten them all!”
ng Han Yu sheepishly draws back his hand, licking his fingertips as he says: “Ai~, is it not just a few pieces of snacks, Father, why would you care about it so much?”
ng Peng Fei rolls his eyes, “Don’t say you don’t know that your mother only makes these snacks once every six months.”
ng Han Yu sounds a few “hei-hei” laughs, indeed, the snacks his mother makes is certainly delicious, but don’t know why, she only makes it once every six months. He dusts off the crumbs from his hand, intimately nudging against ng Peng Fei’s side, “About that ah, Father, say, you’ll be away for so long this ti ah……”
ng Peng Fei relishes the taste of his wife’s loving snacks, “En?”
“Would there be many fun places along the way ah……?”
“En, the scenery isn’t bad.”
“The scenery is really that nice?”
“Why would I lie to a damned rascal like you?”
“If that’s the case ah……” ng Han Yu claps his hand, “I’ll go get packing then.”
ng Peng Fei’s hand pauses, suspiciously looking at his own son, “Why would you be packing?”
ng Han Yu answers in a matter of fact tone, “Going out ah.”
“Going out where?”
“Mount Qi Yun ah.”
……
ng Peng Fei feels that his son is sotis a really strange individual, “Who said they’ll bring you along?”
ng Han Yu deliberately acts cool as he throws back his sleeves, “Father ah.”
“?” ng Peng Fei twitches his eyes, smiling on surface as he says: “When was this?”
“Just now ah.”
“Who agreed to bring you along just now?”
“Father ah.”
“Get lost you damned rascal, this old man isn’t falling for this trick of yours, want to go to Mount Qi Yun with ? Let tell you, no way!”
ng Han Yu furrows his brows, seriously asking: “Father really isn’t bringing along?”
ng Peng Fei comfortably leans back on the chair, “Not bringing.”
“Really not bringing?”
“Not bringing.”
“Fine then.” ng Han Yu is dejected, “I’ll go find Mother.”
ng Peng Fei is feeling so proud right now, usually, it has always been the damned rascal angering him, today, it’s a rare sight for him to have this damned rascal surrender, refreshing, even winning a battle isn’t this refreshing! “Go then, go then.” Go crying your complaints to your mother, young child.
“I’ll go tell Mother what I saw the day before.”
“Oh?” ng Peng Fei raises his brows, “What did you see?”
“The day before, I went finding Father at the army training grounds.”
ng Peng Fei’s smile collapses, “And?”
“I saw Father with Auntie Lin.”
ng Peng Fei gets a bit of a bad feeling, “Then?”
“Auntie Lin hugged Father crying……”
ng Peng Fei frantically stands up, “Han Yu, it isn’t like that between I and your Auntie Lin, you understand that.”
ng Han Yu lets out a lancholic sigh, “I am only a child, how could I understand? I just know that Auntie Lin hugged Father as she sorrowfully cries, saying to Father ‘I’m willing to even be a little concubine!’”
ng Peng Fei’s face looks troubled, that Lin Xuan O, of all the people she could like, she has to like him, could it be that she doesn’t know he will only love his wife in this lifeti?! “ng Han Yu, the person I love will only ever be your mother, Lin Xuan O has no relation to !”
“In fact……” ng Han Yu stretches out his words, earnestly looking at his father as he says: “Father, I know the matter that day was just a misunderstanding.”
“En en.” ng Peng Fei hastily nods, “Misunderstanding, purely a misunderstanding!”
“You know that it is just a misunderstanding yourself.”
“Of course, of course, it is indeed just a misunderstanding!”
“But ah……” ng Han Yu’s tone makes a turn, worriedly saying: “Mother doesn’t know.”
“Eh……” ng Peng Fei thinks of his extrely extrely jealous wife, his sturdy body slightly trembles: when my lady gets jealous, it sure is……
ng Han Yu spots the right timing, face making a change, brightly smiling as he asks: “So, Father, are you bringing along to Mount Qi Yun?”
“Not bringing.”
“What?”
“Eh……”
“I’m going to find Mother.”
“……” Upon hearing this, ng Peng Fei grits his teeth and says: “Bringing!”
“Yoohoo!” ng Han Yu jumps high, excitedly running out, “Ti to get packing!”
Behind him, ng Peng Fei sounds “ge-zhi-ge-zhi” as he grinds his teeth, but not long after, he reveals a wicked smile: bringing this damned rascal along to Mount Qi Yun this ti……perhaps, it’ll be perfect for fixing him up?
Thinking up to here, ng Peng Fei suddenly doesn’t feel gloomy anymore, handso face smiling wickedly, until Guo Wan Ying walks in and gets startled by it.
“Eh, dear husband, what is……going on with you?”
“Nothing nothing.” ng Peng Fei gently embraces her, once again revealing a wicked smile where she cannot see, “Just feel that the weather will be very good in a few days……extrely good, that’s it.”
ng Han Yu, this old man will let you know why the sun is always so……red.
ng Peng Fei is an old fried dough, ng Han Yu is a little fried dough.
This day, old fried dough takes little fried dough along on a trip.
Old fried dough – ng Peng Fei – sets his mind on how to teach little fried dough a lesson, but little fried dough – ng Han Yu – isn’t an idle one either, always able to make old fried dough hit thin air with a flutter and sway, causing him to grit his teeth at the empty touch. Truthfully speaking, ng Peng Fei is rather happy at heart, after all, no matter how slippery little fried dough is, he is still his son, his son is so intelligent, how could he not be happy?
*Cough cough*, alright, although he sotis truly does, really want to beat him.
“Father!” ng Han Yu lightly pushes open the carriage window, sticking his head out to speak to ng Peng Fei: “How long left until we arrive ah?”
ng Peng Fei sits on the horse, back straight, a body of determination, “None of your business.” Voice very formal, but the words coming out of his mouth, not so much.
“……” ng Han Yu finds that his father is indeed immature, such reckless words……could it be that he’s still bothered about him snatching the wheat cake his mother made this morning? “Father, I just ate two wheat cakes this morning.”
ng Peng Fei coldly harrumphs, “Just?” What’s ant by just? His wife had only made ten pieces of cakes in total, alright?!
“Father.” ng Han Yu shakes his head, a face of helplessness, “You sure are petty.”
ng Peng Fei turns his face, evilly glaring at him, “Brat, that was specially made for by your mother.”
ng Han Yu really is speechless this ti, and can only half-heartedly nod, “Right, right, right, that was made for you by Mother, I won’t fight over it with you, fine now?”
ng Peng Fei sounds ‘heng’ from his nose, “At least your tactful.”
“Can you finally tell how long we have left now?”
“Damned rascal, what’re you in a rush for?” ng Peng Fei looks ahead, “There’s at least another two weeks.”
“……” ng Han Yu uncomfortably twists his body, “How could it still be so long, my bones are about to fall apart already!”
ng Peng Fei gloatingly casts him a glance, “Was it not you who insisted on coming along with ?”
“Then how about……” ng Han Yu turns his eyes, “I ride the horse, you sit in the carriage?”
“……” ng Peng Fei twitches his eyes, instantly pushing ng Han Yu’s head back into the carriage, “Sit back into your carriage!”
……
ng Han Yu really dislikes sitting in horse carriages, he had originally expected to valiantly ride a horse like his father, who knew he would instead be sitting in a horse carriage like the delicate ladies –– ah ha, what a joke, should this matter spread to those several rascals on the streets, how could they not make fun of him? This matter must be kept secret, definitely must be kept secret!
So once he arrives at the villa of Mount Qi Yun, ng Han Yu slips out of the carriage, rather bear with the huge sun, than to remain in the horse carriage.
“Brat.” ng Peng Fei’s eyes are sharp, noticing his son’s restlessness within an instant, “You remain vigilant now, this is not Yun Ze, not a place for you to ss around in.”
ng Han Yu stretches his body, “Father, I know, I know to act with propriety.”
A soldier cos forward at this mont, saying the emperor has called for ng Peng Fei, ng Peng Fei could only hastily tell him a few words before leaving, leaving ng Han Yu to stroke his chin, a look of deep thoughts with unknown intentions.
Reality tells ng Peng Fei, ng Han Yu may know what kind of a plaything ‘propriety’ is, but very clearly, ‘propriety’ does not know what ng Han Yu is.
“ng! Han! Yu!” ng Peng Fei darkens his face, eyes filled with fury as he looks at ng Han Yu in the distance, “Co here right now!”
ng Han Yu grinningly says: “Father, what’s wrong with you, why so angry?”
The vein at ng Peng Fei’s temple vaguely twitches, he squeezes the words out through his teeth, “What’s wrong? You’re actually asking what’s wrong?” Whilst saying this, he was approaching ng Han Yu step by step, like a cheetah ready to pounce.
ng Han Yu inspects his left and right, taking a few steps back, “What is Father saying, I don’t understand at all ah.” Eyes chaotically darting around, a bright and clever look.
“You little b*stard!” ng Peng Fei could not hold back anymore, with a few quick strides, he was about to catch him, but it cannot be helped that ng Han Yu’s body was able to dash to the side, accurately eyeing a huge tree as he rapidly climbs up, agility comparable to a cat.
“Father ah.” ng Han Yu plucks a leaf and places it into his mouth ,”On such a hot day, don’t let yourself fire up so much ah.”
ng Peng Fei narrows his eyes, “You damned rascal! Get down right now!”
“Why should I co down?” ng Han Yu chews on the leaf, “Should I co, isn’t that just asking to get hit?”
“So you know you’re asking to get hit too?” ng Peng Fei’s lips twitches, “Should you know, then why would you do all those things?”
ng Han Yu sighs, “Father, I didn’t an to.”
“Didn’t an to? Smashing the large celadon vase gifted by the Yun Mi emperor a day ago, setting fire to a Yun Zhan palace maid’s hair a night ago, tearing the brocade fabric his majesty bestowed into shreds yesterday, knocking three teeth out of a Yun Mi eunuch last night.” ng Peng Fei’s complexion looks worse and worse as he ntions each incident, “Today, you actually dare to kill his majesty’s fishes?!”
Towards all these accusations, ng Han Yu feels very innocent, “I really didn’t an to.”
“This old man doesn’t care whether you ant it or not! Co down right now! This old man shall beat this damned rascal to death!”
ng Han Yu pulls a silly face, “I just wouldn’t co down!”
“Are you coming down?”
“No!” ng Han Yu smiles, not like his father can climb trees anyway, what can he do?
“Very good, very good.” ng Peng Fei paces forward, then directly kicks at the big tree, causing all the leaves to shudder at the shock. He yells out towards the guards outside the courtyard: “Co! Stay on guard under this tree! When Young Master cos down, tie him up and bring him to !”
The guard that had just co over, lowers his head as he responds “yes”, only then does ng Peng Fei smiles with satisfaction, saying to ng Han Yu: “Not coming down? Fine, you stay up there then!”
Having said that, he throws back his sleeves and leaves, leaving behind ng Han Yu to reveal a scheming smile.
‘Father ah, Father, could it be that you don’t know, the majority of guards here gets along very well with ?’
Half a sichen later, ng Han Yu is already situated at the side of a pond, deep within the forest. He lifts his sleeves, revealing two snow-white arms, fingers nimbly putting a bait onto the hook of the fishing rod, he holds the fishing rod, and fiercely throws the fishing line into the pond, then leisurely sits down, muttering: “Ai~, is it not just few fishes that died, what’s there to be making a fuss over? Fine, I’ll catch so myself.”
Fishing has always been an activity that requires patience, ng Han Yu who never had patience since young is considerably patient in this matter, but once he caught the tenth fish, he is no longer calm. He uses his thumb and index finger to pick up the little little little little fish on the hook, eyes practically going cockeyed, gloomily saying: “Where’s your grandfather gone, sending a tiny thing like you to fool ?”
The little little little little fish struggles a few tis, silently expressing its protest.
“Ai~.” ng Han Yu kindly returns it to the water, “Little fish, may I trouble you to tell your grandfather, I don’t want to see you, tell it to personally co find .”
The little little little little fish that had regained its freedom happily sways its body, swimming to sowhere else within a mont.
“Ai~.” ng Han Yu furrows his brows, surrendering to fate as he once again picks up the fishing rod, “Let’s continue.”
A quarter of an hour later, the originally straight fishing rod slowly curves down, and constantly pulls downwards. ng Han Yu widens both his eyes, excitedly thinking: ‘could it be that little little little little fish really went finding its grandfather just now?’ He tries pulling the fishing rod, ha, it’s really still sinking! He becos unbelievably happy, a big fish, this is great!
But you must know, sotis, when too happy, one can very easily beco saddened after the excitent.
For example……if he cannot pull up this fish or sothing.
“Is this a joke?!” ng Han Yu’s face turns red, “So heavy!” He takes a breath, then attempts to gather his milk-powered strength to strongly pull –– but, he still cannot pull it up. In this precise mont, he catches glimpse of a blue figure appearing on his left. Looking carefully, it’s an approximately seven or eight-year-old girl. He didn’t think too much right then, stretching his neck to roar out: “Over there, the one in blue, co to !”
The little girl in blue turns her head to him, seeming to eye him over.
ng Han Yu extends his hand and waves it about, “What are you dilly-dallying for ah, quickly co and help , I’ve caught a huge huge fish, quick quick!”
The little girl in blue finally shows so reaction, slowly pacing towards him.
The fishing rod in hand trembles, ng Han Yu imdiately grabs it with both hands, still loudly yelling, “Co co co, give a hand, it’s about to co up co up.”
When the little girl in blue arrives by his side, ng Han Yu once again yells, “Quickly ah, you……” The rest of the words are stuck in his throat.
The little girl’s facial features cannot be said to be particularly exquisite, can only be considered delicate and pretty, but that fair white face has a lovely touch of pink, making people just want to fiercely pinch it several tis –– *cough cough*, of course, that is if he didn’t see the character on her forehead.
But, such an unfortunate coincidence, he sees it.
And so imdiately bursts into manic laughter, laughing to the point he didn’t even care about the fishing rod anymore, “Hahahahaha, hahahahaha.”
The little girl in blue looks at him, expressionless, beady black eyes showing no feelings.
“Haha, haha,” He runs out of breath from laughing, loosening one hand from the fishing rod to support his waist, speaking disjointedly: “Ah, could it be, could it be you think by writing the word ‘king (王)’ on your own forehead, would make you a tiger? Hahahahaha, I’m dying of laughter, there’s actually soone this stupid, hahahahaha.”
The little girl freezes, calmly walking to the pond side and lowers her head to take a look, then reaches out to get so clean water and cleans the writing from her forehead.
“Hahaha, you’re too funny, hahaha,” ng Han Yu is extrely happy, “Aiyoyoyo, my stomach hurts to death, say, how could you be so funny, hahaha, I’ve heard of others plugging their ears to steal a bell, heard of others gifting money to have people hit them, but have never heard of anyone writing on their own forehead to act like a tiger, hahahahaha.”
The little girl in blue ignores him, passing by him, about to leave.
“Don’t go ah you, hahaha, fine, I won’t laugh at you anymore, is it not just because you want to be a big tiger?” The corners of ng Han Yu’s lips intensely turns up, eyes showing no signs of not laughing, finding that this little girl really is unbelievably fun.
The little girl stops in her steps, stilly looking at him, eyes focused.
The fishing rod slightly sinks down and down in this mont, ng Han Yu hurriedly turns and grabs it with two hands, words still spilling from his mouth, “I’m really not lying to you, I almost thought you were that tiger, oh right, also the most mighty, most formidable big tiger on Mount Qi Yun, co co co, big tiger, give a hand give a hand.”
ng Han Yu was unable to wait for the little girl to hold onto the fishing rod, but had instead waited for his butt to get fiercely booted.
Then, with a “pu-tong”, he falls into the pond.
ng Han Yu blankly stands in the water for a few seconds before pointing at the little girl, angrily saying: “You you you, you actually dare to kick Young Master – I! You audacious one, do you know who my father is? My father is ng Peng Fei! Just you wait, I’ll definitely have my father throw you into the water and have you soak in it for three sichen!”
The little girl remains expressionless, a pair of eyes calmly looking at him, neither happy nor angry.
ng Han Yu gets even more furious upon seeing this, just as he was about to say more, he was held up by the back collar. He gets a bad feeling, then, turning his head back, indeed……
“You shaful brat still dare to be yelling there!” ng Peng Fei holds his son up like holding a radish, cursing and scolding: “You little b*stard, I’ve told you not to run around everywhere, not run around everywhere, yet you still bring trouble, watch how I sort you out once we get back!”
ng Han Yu shivers, his father has captured him with great difficulty, then he…… ““I I I, Father, it’s her, it’s her who kicked down!” He points at the little girl, complaining: “Look, I’m completely soaked through!”
“Soaked your head! Watch how your mother will sort you out later!” ng Peng Fei pushes away his child’s wronged face, turning to say to the little girl: “This young lady, apologies, this damned son of mine has presumably done bad again, I truly am very sorry, very sorry, I’ll teach him a good lesson once I get back.”
Having said that, he one-handedly throws ng Han Yu over his shoulder, taking long strides away. ng Han Yu on his shoulder tries hard to swing his short arms and legs around, flopping around whilst yelling: “Stupid fool, stupid tiger, just you rember, don’t let see you again, if not, I definitely won’t go without teaching you a good lesson, aiyo! Father! Don’t hit my butt! I’ll tell Mother you’re abusing ! Aiyo don’t hit don’t hit ! It’s swelling up, it’s swelling up!”
The little girl does not utter a sound, silently watching the father and son pair walk further and further away, a trace of smile vaguely surfacing on her delicately fair face.
“Father! Stop hitting !” ng Han Yu tries his best to cover his butt, voice piercing his lungs as he shouts: “My butt’s about to split into two!”
ng Peng Fei rolls his eyes, “Your butt is originally split into two anyway.”
ng Han Yu turns blank for a mont, then continues to scream at the top of his lungs, “My butt’s about to split into four!”
“Into four? Let tell you, should you have acted recklessly just now, your butt would’ve beco flower petals!”
“Ey?” ng Han Yu stops screaming, “What about just now?”
“Do you know who that little girl just now, is?”
“Hey, how am I supposed to know who she is?” ng Han Yu doesn’t think much of it, “From the looks of it, presumably a fool.”
Having just said that, his head receives a fierce knock by his father. “Father!” ng Han Yu really gets teary-eyed this ti, “Why did you hit again?”
“I’m hitting you for your lack of knowledge! What fool? That is Yun Mi’s Fifth Princess!”
“Ah?”
“Ah my butt! You damned brat, causing trouble for everywhere you go, I must beat you to death today!”
“Ey? Father, don’t ah, I didn’t know ah, don’t hit ah!”
“Didn’t know? I’ll beat you until you know today!”
“Father you’re taking revenge!”
ng Peng Fei wickedly laughs, “Yes I’m taking revenge, what of it?”
ng Han Yu, you best pray for yourself.
……
ng Peng Fei did not hold back at all this ti, directly beating ng Han Yu to lie in bed for five days and five nights, just like that, when sitting in the horse carriage upon returning, his butt was still vaguely stinging –– you all know, a young child’s mory is extrely good, and very easily hold grudges –– ng Han Yu is of no exception.
ng Han Yu had long engraved the mory of the little girl in blue into his brain, hundreds and thousands of tis, heng, Yun Mi’s Fifth Princess? What’s so great about that? To actually dare to kick him into the water, actually causing him to get captured by his father, actually causing him to get beaten to the point of not being able to get out of bed for so long!
Thinking up to here, he touches his own butt, secretly making up his mind, the next ti he sees this Fifth Princess or whatever, he will definitely get a good revenge, let her know that he – ng Han Yu – is not one to ss with!
After returning from Mount Qi Yun, the struggle between ng Peng Fei and ng Han Yu still continues, the ng Estate is still filled with laughter and shouting just like before, but on a certain night, when ng Han Yu returns ho after having enough fun, what he faced was an empty ng Estate, in ruins.
ng Han Yu originally didn’t think much of it, but once he sees the broken objects along his path, he becos aware that sothing’s not right. He runs all the way to his parents’ bedroom, finally, frantically running into his sister’s bedroom, then sees……his sister’s wet nurse, eyes opened in resentnt as she lies on the ground, brown coloured clothing covered in blood.
In that mont, ng Han Yu’s breathing halts, slowly covering his mouth with his hands, preventing the exclamation from escaping his lips. He slowly approaches the corpse, lips slightly trembling……
Why did the wet nurse die?
Where have Father, Mother and Ying Lu gone?
Where have the people of the estate gone?
When he was out, what had happened in the estate?
Who is to tell him, exactly what went on?
ng Han Yu squats down, shaking hands prepared to shut the wet nurse’s eyes, but sensitively finds that the wet nurse’s eyes were set dead onto a box. A thought flashes past his brain, quickly getting up and running to the box, he furiously opens it!
He sees his always smiling younger sister, currently curled up inside, eyes tightly shut, face pale. He reaches out touch her face, so cold.
“Ying Lu, Ying Lu.” ng Han Yu quietly speaks up, “It’s Brother, Ying Lu, wake up.”
Ying Lu’s eyes remains shut, deeply quiet as though sleeping.
“Ying Lu, don’t scare Brother, open your eyes, alright?” ng Han Yu’s voice carries fear, slightly shaky, “It’s Brother ah.”
Just as he reached out to carry Ying Lu out of the box, he hears the sound of footsteps coming towards them. His eyes appear startled, imdiately closing the box, and swiftly hiding into a cabinet at the side. He looks through the gap to see soone enter the room, the burly figure very familiar looking.
His hands clenches tightly, it’s……Lieutenant ng? Is he not battling at the borders?
Lieutenant ng looks around the completely ssed up room, furrowing his thick brows as he deeply says: “General……have I co too late?” He looks at the wet nurse on the ground, and suddenly walks towards the box, frightening ng Han Yu to almost cry out loud. Lieutenant ng walks up to the box and stops, thinking for a mont, he reaches out to open it, but did not expect soone to jump out from the cabinet at the side, fiercely kicking at his leg, “Not allowed to open!”
When Lieutenant ng hears this familiar voice, he abruptly stops his counterattack motion, calling out in surprise: “Han Yu!”
Who knew ng Han Yu would look at him with alertness and resentnt? Spreading open his arms to guard the box behind him.
Lieutenant ng ignores his alertness, single-handedly lifting him into his arm, “Han Yu, you’re still here, that’s great!”
ng Han Yu uses all his efforts to struggle, throwing out his fist and kicking his legs, “You let go of !”
“Han Yu, you must calm down!” Lieutenant ng seizes both his hands, “I know you’ll find it very difficult for you to accept such a huge issue happening to the ng Estate, but you must calm down.”
Only then does ng Han Yu stops, raising his head to look at Liuetenant ng, slowly asking: “Uncle ng, please tell , exactly what happened to the ng Estate?”
Lieutenant ng is slightly surprised, but tells him the truth, “His majesty had made a decree this morning……saying General is in cahoots with the enemy, betraying the nation, the entire household is to be arrested, and beheaded in three days.”
ng Han Yu appears to have been struck by lightning upon hearing this, “His majesty……made the decree? Father in cahoots with the enemy, betraying the nation?” He hooks up the corners of his lips and forces a smile, “Uncle ng, you’re joking with , right? How could Father possibly be in cahoots with the enemy and betray the nation? Father is Yun Ze’s most formidable general, no?” And also his majesty, his majesty who has always been full of smiles, his majesty who pampers more so than Father, how could he possibly set a decree to arrest and behead the entire household?
Lieutenant ng just solemnly nods, “Han Yu, we all know your father is innocent, but with evil ministers in power right now, the empress covering the sky with one hand, nevermind evidence, whether the imperial decree was even personally set by his majesty or not, is unknown……”
ng Han Yu grabs Lieutenant ng’s wrist, “Then let us go find his majesty, let us go and clear Father and Mother from the accusations, let us go and rescue them!”
“Han Yu, you need to calm down!” Lieutenant ng grabs his shoulders, “The palace is currently searching everywhere for you and your sister, we need to find sowhere to hide first!”
“We need to save Father and Mother!”
“The most important matter right now is to protect you and your sister!”
“Then……” His eyes turns red, “What about Father and Mother?”
Lieutenant ng sighs, “We’ll……have to make a long-range plan.”
ng Han Yu and ng Ying Lu were hidden away in a safe place by Lieutenant ng, but the so-called long-range planning to save the family……Lieutenant ng knows, there is practically no hope. So three days later, after disguising themselves, Lieutenant ng takes ng Han Yu to appear amongst the crowd, quietly watching the scaffolding in the distance.
ng Han Yu sees his always valiant father currently kneeling on the ground with his back straight, the white prisoner clothing covered with dried blood, raggedly exposing each and every whip, and burn mark on his skin, his persevering face full of unyielding attitude, but when he ets eyes with his mother, there would be traces of tenderness. His mother is still as beautiful as ever, just that her face is pale, fragile as though the wind can blow her down, his mother’s eyes contains no fear, only containing faint satire, when she ets eyes with his father, it would beco so tender and loving.
These are his parents, the parents that had always pampered him, and loved him.
Amongst the crowd, so people would occasionally curse at the officials and executioners on the scaffolding, but those people’s faces are still so stiff, the voice reading the imperial decree is so cold and rigid, not carrying the slightest of feelings.
“Han Yu, don’t look.” Lieutenant ng reaches out to cover ng Han Yu’s eyes, but he just pushes it away with determination, coldly watching his father and mother on the scaffolding.
He sees, sees his father’s and mother’s eyes that remained calm all along, his father and mother smiles at one another, he sees them vaguely reveal their sorrows, he sees……
A scene of red.
Lieutenant ng worriedly looks at ng Han Yu, but sees him with a calm face, eyes unblinking, gaze set dead onto the red blood on the scaffolding.
The youngster in this mont, is no longer that mischievous and trouble-making ng Han Yu he is familiar with.
Nor is there anybody called ng Han Yu in this world anymore.
Many years later he and her had t again, she is still her, and he, had long not been the original him anymore.
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