This was

the first time Xia Fen came to the w.a.n.g residence.

He had

already known he was w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s son a very long time ago, and from the

secret guards at the Xia family he had inquired about w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s past.

But, the Xia family’s secret guards after all were bias towards Xia Ling Mei,

not much could drive a wedge between them, Hei Zi that person was the best at

lying, something which couldn’t be any more decent once it reached his mouth

would become wicked beyond redemption, therefore, at that time Xia Fen really

wanted to meet w.a.n.g Yun Feng. What happened after he met him? Maybe kill him,

or perhaps directly cutting off the other person’s four limbs, tying him by his

mother’s side for his lifetime.

A child’s

thinking was very straightforward, but imminently, expectation and carrying it

out always conflicted, more or less ruining his plans.

After

arriving at Beiding city, Xia Fen met the old matriarch, that seemingly amiable

looking old woman rather jokingly asked him: “Would you follow your father, or

your mother?”

Naturally

he said his mother without the slightest hesitation. As a result, he

legitimately lived with Xia Ling Mei at the Xia residence, right until the

other person was whisked away by w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s crafty scheme.

His mother

was actually deceived away by another man, to Xia Fen, this was simply

extremely shameful and humiliating.

He had

previously stood in front of a copper mirror turning his hip, comparing his

body to that frail old man’s body from his memory. However he looked, Xia Fen’s

delicate body was easy to push over, why would his mother follow after that

thin bamboo pole?

Maybe Kong

Xian was right, a woman’s mind is too complicated, as a man amongst men he was

unable to comprehend = =

What was

even stranger was, the old matriarch still wouldn’t let him go and find his

mother. For this reason, he sneakily hung from the room’s roof beam, to add

some medicine into the old matriarch’s teapot. It couldn’t not be said, this

process was considerably thrilling. Amongst the young generation of the Xia

family there were those with sharp eyes, children outstanding in martial arts,

their excellence did not reek of blood from the battlefields having fought at

the risk of their lives, rather the keenness and cautiousness characteristic of

having tasted the edge of a knife over many years. Xia Fen had learned the art

of commanding, and the majority of what they learned was the technique of

surviving facing life or death situation.

Xia Fen

stayed on that beam for three days, he had over five hundred opportunities. In

the end, if the teacup wasn’t suddenly moved away a little, then after the

medicine had been added the tea had turned cold, or the old woman kindly

offered the hot tea to someone else, furthermore, the always composed young

ladies of the Xia family would unexpectedly knock the teacup over with a

mischievous smile, truly an unfortunate teacup.

His packet

of fine powder of croton seeds was ultimately given to the old Tibetan mastiff

which guarded the courtyard, causing that old dog who had been constipated for

quite a few days to go for several days, finally taken off duty with honour.

In this

respect, the oldest of the Xia family youngsters gathered all the cousins who

knew martial arts, on a dark and quiet night, beat up Xia Fen ruthlessly for a

while. Of course, before they beat him up, they also forced him to drink tea

mixed with half a bag of laxatives, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to

beat him.

For every

grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor, Xia Fen

without any guilt completely resented w.a.n.g Yun Feng.

Xia Fen saw

w.a.n.g Yun Feng;

Xia Fen

entered the w.a.n.g residence;

Xia Fen, anger

rose, and with the power of a thunderbolt falling short of the ears, rolling

onto his head, he kicked w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s lower jaw out of alignment. Moreover,

very refres.h.i.+ngly swung his arms up to punch w.a.n.g Yun Feng twice, beating the

other person up into a panda.

Then, he

lifted both his feet and ran all the way into the rear court, shouting:

“Mother, Fen Er has come to visit you!” - - half a month ago he had already

sussed out the inside and outside of the w.a.n.g residence’s courtyard, just

waiting for today to visit and enter.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was disfigured, he had no choice but to request two days of absence, 

catching the wild leopard with the complete att.i.tude of a biological father.

Apart from studying at the academy, Xia Fen would immediately stay at the w.a.n.g

residence unwilling to leave.

The first

time, no, perhaps the second time, was the day w.a.n.g Yun Feng again started to

fight with Xia Fen over the position by Xia Ling Mei’s side in bed.

Striving

for favour against his son, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was simply so stupid! The emperor who

sat in the palace alone ferociously torn to shreds the latest secret report. As

the emperor, he would no matter what ever admit he himself was actually a

suffering friend of w.a.n.g Yun Feng who emphasised with each other.

While Xia

Fen and w.a.n.g Yun Feng was striving for favour he lived there. Every few days,

when he saw w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s injuries were nearly healed, he would again give

him some more. w.a.n.g Yun Feng was deceitful in many ways, after being plotted

against by his son he would go swaying to Xia Ling Mei, while his nose was

still bleeding he was also able to bear the hards.h.i.+p with equanimity and have a

meal with Xia Ling Mei at the table, Xia Fen’s legs were bouncing so much he

could jump to the roof broke his chair, he just wrinkled his eyebrows without

saying anything and sat in his study reading and writing memorials to the

emperor, once in a while saying a few words to his colleagues who came to

visit. The weather gradually cooled, He because not very many of his wounds on

his body had healed, he stubbornly didn’t say anything, only sweating he

nonchalantly worked, Xia Ling Mei had a mind to ignore her son’s troubles, one

after another she also was unable to ignore w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s trick of injuring

himself to gain the enemy’s confidence, instead compared to usual she looked

after w.a.n.g Yun Feng even more. Xia Fen hated it so much his teeth itched, every

day he would grab his companions to utter together, next time we’ll change our

way of setting w.a.n.g Yun Feng up, only to cause the w.a.n.g residence so much

ruckus no one could rest, actually more than somewhat livelier than the

previous years.

Even like

this, w.a.n.g Yun Feng did not tell Xia Fen off once.

Regarding

this child, w.a.n.g Yun Feng had rarely had so much more patience and sense of

responsibility. Although inside the w.a.n.g residence he did not lack words and

smiles at Xia Fen, demanding extreme strictness, but once in the presence of

outsiders, he was a benevolent father, able to forgive all the outrages of his

son. Even if Xia Fen scooped out 

His Highness crown prince’s `jewels`, almost

causing the entire w.a.n.g family to be exterminated = =llll

After w.a.n.g

Yun Feng had taken Xia Fen back home, he began discussing with the clan leader

to allow Xia Fen to change his surname onto the family record. To everyone

family genealogy, a child’s name was extremely important, putting a child into

the family record required the whole clan to be informed. Even though the w.a.n.g

family at the Dayan court wasn’t as great as the Xia family, yet they also had

a hundred year of prestige. Even if they had prospered as imperial censors, far

famed, making people not too fond of them.

The emperor

also did not tell people of his plans for Xia Fen, apart from w.a.n.g Yun Feng,

and only those from the Xia family with some sort of plan for Xia Fen in the

future. But w.a.n.g Yun Feng a.s.sumed a position which must allow Xia Fen to be

entered into the family 

records, the Xia family could also not outright object.

To the Xia

family, they had numerous outstanding youngsters, without Xia Fen alone

wouldn’t make a difference. To nurture a talented field commander, too much

manpower and resources would need to be spent, since Xia Fen wasn’t stable

enough, rather than nurturing him until he’s older then for him to change to

the w.a.n.g family side, why not just directly give  up on him, again choose a naturally superior

child, train them with great care, sooner or later they would be able to become

a person like the fifth grandfather of the Xia family. Moreover, to the Xia

family clan leader, Xia Fen’s `fighting strength` was advantageous and

detrimental, since the w.a.n.g family was willing to take over this problem, on

the face of it the Xia family would no matter what also not go and confront

this.

In any

case, there was Xia Ling Mei connected by marriage, the w.a.n.g family and the Xia

family had long ago been tied together on the same rope, although it wasn’t as

far as together in life or death, even at a time of disaster they also wouldn’t

betray the Xia family in exchange for glory and splendour.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was dependable, first he personally went to the Xia family, discussing

with the Xia clan leader about the matter of Xia Fen, after receiving the other

person’s response, then did he go and see the old matriarch with Xia Fen.

Leading the child to kowtow to the Xia family elder one by one.

Xia Fen did

not know the reason why w.a.n.g Yun Feng made him do it, but faintly felt that if

his head touch the floor, he would shatter the umbilical cord with the Xia

family, similar to losing a bit of his unbridled advantage. He couldn’t say

what it was, his wild leopard intuition was very accurate, since childhood he

grew up by General Xia’s side, naturally he received the Xia family’s

protection, even though he had entered Bailu academy, announcing his family

name as `Xia`. In this Beiding city, the Xia family was the empress’s parents’

family, they were the emperor’s relatives, simply with a greater status and

confidence than normal, apart from making the Xia family members have an

impressive reputation on the outside they also acted and spoke cautiously. Xia

Fen’s wild nature was difficult to get rid of, giving the Xia family trouble

repeatedly, even the crown prince, seeing that his surname was Xia, only gave

him special treatment because of it, even being beaten up he refused to be

bothered by it. But once Xia Fen becomes a child of the w.a.n.g family, that

protection of the Xia family will be ruined, a mistake, would even cause the

w.a.n.g family misunderstanding. Equally, going out in the future, others will

only take into consideration the w.a.n.g family’s reputation, and would not like

before nod and bow their heads afraid of the Xia family’s power.

Before his

head touched the floor, Xia Fen had already run.

This time,

only then did w.a.n.g Yun Feng really become very angry. He even sent the w.a.n.g

family’s secret guards, surrounding Xia Fen in the entire city.

Who would

have known this time, the worn out child would be like a mud fish in the mud,

slipping and sliding away, his short little legs were definitely seen, moving

closer to capture him, not even able to catch the corner of his clothes. He

also didn’t go to the academy, the Xia family also naturally didn’t know where

he was.

Xia Ling

Mei heard the housekeeper talk about this, she was also slightly anxious in her

heart. w.a.n.g Yun Feng had brought Xia Fen back too easily, the w.a.n.g clan leader

also spoke too nicely, the Xia family also agreed far too quickly, everything

was going according to plan, instead it made her worry a little.

This

influential family, any one thing was linked in countless ways to other

matters. On paper Xia Fen was Xia Ling Mei’s adopted son, but in a moment

adopted son became biological son, even more w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s first son, this

itself touched upon the distribution of power in the w.a.n.g family. Xia Ling Mei

remembered the issue with Wu s.h.i.+, the second branch of the family wouldn’t

allow w.a.n.g Yun Feng to smoothly and rightly gain a six years old son of his

first wife, if this was so, the order of the other family branch’s children

would drop down a position. In this w.a.n.g family the difference between the

t.i.tle of oldest young master and the second young master was only one word, the

difference however in treatment and position in the family was as big as night

and day. If Xia Ling Mei recalls correctly, the eldest son of the second

branch’s first wife ought to be eight years old, because the first branch never

had a son, that child was regarded as the w.a.n.g family’s raised as the eldest

son of the first wife, the glory and pampering was more than normal.

Right now

what she was most worried about was, Xia Fen had unexpectedly disappeared just

like that. The w.a.n.g family, Xia family, there wasn’t even a trace in the entire

Beiding city.

Xia Ling

Mei for a split second lost her mind. She dispatched the secret guards by her

side, rather like throwing a net to look everywhere, even the guards at the

city gate were questioned by the secret guards.

The quiet

and imposing imperial city was like a large dragon, with a red gilded body

silently gazing at the people in the Beiding city.

Autumn

October, the river water violently surged up the embankment, submerging a great

number of fertile lands, numerous victims of disaster.

At the same

time, there were complaints presented to the emperor of imperial censor w.a.n.g

using his status for personal reasons, using public office to avenge private

wrongs, accepting bribes, slandering officials memorial to the emperor was also

pet.i.tioned to the emperor’s defence table. In the same month, one after the

other accounts books of the flood damage incessantly flew into the imperial

city, and in the imperial court, one by one the court chancellors targeted w.a.n.g

Yun Feng, each of the disaster-stricken cities and towns were places w.a.n.g Yun

Feng had investigated corrupt officials, of course w.a.n.g Yun Feng had been

unable to make the officials accept bribes, making false counter charges

against numerous officials devoted to their country in court, furthermore

privately annexed the twice a year springtime allocated funds by the imperial

court, thus causing the embankments to not be filled in, disaster into danger.

Numerous

mouths unhurriedly, jabbing into someone’s backbone.