Looking at William in front of him, hands behind his back, with a determined light shining in the black-and-white clarity of his eyes, and earnestly expressing his intent to overthrow the royal family, the chubby Pri Minister felt as if ten thousand alpacas were galloping through his mind in succession.
*Did I hear sothing wrong?* The Duke of Lionheart was about to marry the Princess, yet his brother was claiming he was going to overthrow the royal family and beco the king himself?!
After a few seconds of silent bewildernt, the chubby Pri Minister, his facial muscles sowhat stiff, raised his head in disbelief, looking at Leon who awkwardly shielded his face with his hand, and with twitching lips, he confird,
"What did your brother... what did your brother just say he plans for the future?"
"I plan to overthrow the royal family, beco the king myself, then fight from west to east, unifying the whole world."
After repeating his dream, William pulled out a folded notebook from his chest pocket, opened it, and handed it to the chubby Pri Minister, whose eyes were full of bewildernt, then with a serious expression, he began to sell his grand plan for world unification.
"Father-in-law, after we overthrow the royal family and unite the Kingdom, we can ally with the coal region's great nobles of Heisen, cut off their coal supply to the Northern Kingdom... ambush... use reparations to buy seafood from the Kingdom of Saio, form an alliance with the Thousand Sails Mariti Country... seize the mines of the Kingdom of Thunderstorm... exchange technology with the Crolock Kingdom... suppress the Kingdom of Morna... hitch the war chariot... join forces to destroy the Kingdom of Orleson... annex the grain-producing region..."
"..."
*Am I still not awake?*
Looking at the notebook with curled edges, filled with childish writing of the "Pan-Continent Unification Plan," countless question marks and exclamation points vied to clash into the chubby Pri Minister's forehead, swirling like a tornado, nearly blending his thoughts into a frenzy.
If you said it was stupid... this plan didn't seem like sothing a child could devise. Even though the knowledge was rely common sense, to think of harnessing these resources was already quite remarkable.
But if you said it was clever... coming up with such an outrageous plan and inviting the Pri Minister to help overthrow the royal family directly broke all ties with the word intelligence!
*How is this child both smart and foolish?*
...
"Well... children tend to like fantasizing about things that are beyond reach; it can't be taken seriously."
Seeing the chubby Pri Minister in visible distress, the muscles on either side of his chubby, round face began twitching uncontrollably, Leon hurriedly pulled back his brother, who still wanted to say sothing, and awkwardly explained,
"Besides, William, he's... um... especially lively usually, and loves to joke, haha."
"Oh... that's how it is... haha."
The two hypocritical adults laughed twice at each other. After sitting in speechless silence for a while, the chubby Pri Minister stiffly raised his arm, glanced at his watch, and then hurriedly spoke,
"Oh, it's already that ti. I'm sorry, but I have an appointnt with the Royal Capital Comrce Association soon..."
"Oh, oh, please go ahead."
Hearing that, Leon imdiately breathed a sigh of relief, quickly stood up, and moved aside, making way for the exit. The chubby Pri Minister quickly fled as if avoiding the plague, pulling along his wife and daughter, leaving the passage without even a single superfluous farewell.
"William, look at the trouble you've caused!"
Seeing the Pri Minister's family leave, Anna, who had been holding back for a long ti, imdiately reached out and pinched her brother's ear, gritting her teeth,
"You... you really made
furious! Today, I have to..."
"Let it go, let it go, we'll discuss it when we get back."
Seeing the unusual flush rising on his sister's fair face, and her breathing becoming quite rapid, Leon, concerned for her health, imdiately reached out to hold her, softly urging,
"Don't worry, these are just things kids say; no one will take it seriously."
"Right, right!"
lanie chid in quickly from the side,
"We're kids, so... kids say the darnedest things! Sister Anna, you can't hit us just because we said sothing silly. If you need to hit soone, make sure you hit the right person, and don't include !"
"Your case isn't small either!"
Unable to resist reaching over to pinch lanie's baby chick-like cheek, Leon comforted the fuming Anna on one side and scolded sternly on the other,
"Tell , last ti you misbehaved because the teacher was no good; now that the unqualified teacher has been replaced, why weren't you studying properly and instead copied from soone else's exam paper?"
"Well... I just couldn't help it..."
Seeing his usually supportive big brother uncharitably giving him a hard ti, lanie's eyes began to roll around, instinctively wanting to pull a little trick to slide through.
But noticing Leon's serious deanor, although he was not blaming her, his seriousness was hard to ignore. She hesitated a bit, and finally abandoned her trickery, honestly confessing,
"William and I started school later than others, and there was so much to morize. I really couldn't keep up, and for subjects like religion, history, and geography, I really don't get them. I'm worried that if my grades are too low, Sister Anna would be disappointed... I... I was wrong..."
*Strange, this ti she didn't pull a trick?*
Originally prepared to sharply expose lanie's lie when she continued her trickery, ready to educate her on how mischief is allowed but not at the cost of neglecting studies, Leon was slightly taken aback.
However, even if she admitted her mistake honestly, there were still things that needed to be addressed.
"Recognizing the mistake isn't what's important, what's important is not making the sa mistake next ti."
Ruffling her little head, Leon said,
"You can love being lazy, and like pulling little tricks, but you can't really be good at nothing. Those critical monts where everything can turn to the worst outco if you falter just once, you'll regret it for a lifeti.
The last ti your sister Anna was hospitalized, I almost lost her, and you too; that feeling of being surrounded by despair, I hope you never have to feel it for the rest of your life."
"And you, William."
By this point, Leon turned his head, looking at his brother who was rubbing his ear, and gently advised,
"Big brother isn't laughing at your dreams. Everyone has things in their heart that might seem unrealistic to others; that's nothing to laugh about, especially since you've put effort into your dream, which deserves praise.
But rember, before you have the ability to realize your dream, don't casually talk about it, certainly don't let others know. If you can't achieve it yet, quietly gather strength, then push things on track before those opposing you can react. Only people like this can truly accomplish things.
So if what you want is to truly realize your dream, and not just people to hear you talk about it, then don't talk about your dreams with unrelated people, just quietly work on it, right?"
"I rember."
After listening earnestly to Leon's long speech, William, as if gaining so insight, nodded his little head and then curiously asked,
"So what is your dream? Have you realized it yet?"
"My dream?"
At that, Leon thought for a mont, then smiled and replied,
"I have two dreams: one is for you all to live better lives, which I'd say is barely accomplished!
As for the other dream... it's a bit early to ntion it now. To truly achieve it, I probably need to keep gathering strength, until I beco stronger than everyone!"
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