T/N: SURPRISE!!! 

I decided as a thank you for supporting my blog, whether you stumbled across it accidentally, or was following my previous translations, to translate one chapter per day until the end of this novel (which is Chapter 80)

This means the final chapter will be on Sat.u.r.day as a usual update! 

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To be honest,

recently doubt was buried in w.a.n.g Zi Feng’s heart, considering whether he

should ask.

If it was

before, he definitely would say whatever he wanted. A man, open-hearted, what

can he not say, what can he not ask.

Fortunately,

each and every person by his side were men with extensive experience, even his

personal child companions young Bai Shu and young Nu Ju had their own secrets.

Ah, excluding Nu Ju, that youngster was even more stupid than him.

The crown

prince and young princess taught him before, the more secrets someone has the

quicker they grow up, and even more powerful. Therefore, without possible

excuse, w.a.n.g Zi Feng had a secret, moreover he was still pondering whether he

should keep this secret a secret.

He worried

for over ten days over this secret, until the crown prince and young princess

unexpectedly appeared at the w.a.n.g residence, trying in vain to coax him to

leave.

“Why have

you come just now?”

“You think

this young princess didn’t want to come?” The young princess whined loudly, a

bellyful of resentment: “the imperial concubines in the rear court are too

hateful, if they’re not avoiding my playing as if a cow was being tickled, then

they would tease my embroidered mandarin duck is a duck, and say in the future

I won’t be able to find a husband. Humph, who says a woman has to marry! My Lord

father said, as long as I want, I don’t have to marry anyone, if I see a young

man that is talented and handsome, I can just marry that person into the

family.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng did not understand the business between men and women, he only knew the

young princess was the hero amongst the girls at Bailu academy, a strong figure

he had decided was exactly like him. A strong person’s thinking did not need to

be understood by anyone else, they only need to sympathise with others.

The crown

prince was already calmly flipping through the copybook w.a.n.g Zi Feng had

recently transcribed, he couldn’t help admit, there was a lot of power in the

characters written by this young leopard, had the shadow of a not yet mature

excellent penmans.h.i.+p, supposedly someday he would definitely exceed others,

becoming exceedingly imposing.

These last

few days the crown prince had also been shut inside the palace, seized by the

emperor every day to read through the memorials to the emperor to evaluate

them, listen to the court councillors discuss politics, occasionally asking him

for his opinion. Young children did not understand to accept a compromise, and

does not know about the knife above the word endure, as the crown prince he

liked the powerful army and happy to talk idly about important matters. Perhaps

the emperor wanted to start disciplining the crown prince’s temper, the praises

he used to always give the crown prince rarely appeared, in contrast, rather he

began to repeatedly a.n.a.lyse the current state of the country with the crown

prince, the circ.u.mstances of the people and elements of a success or failure of

war, make him confront all the court councillor generals together, victory in

`a battlefield of words in a debate`. The crown prince was totally refuted by

the group of officials, his self-confidence over and over trampled under their

foot, teased by people secretly and examined, bitterly he couldn’t help say.

“Father

emperor is too hateful.” After the crown prince prattled to the two people, he

said this with a sigh.

The young

princess clenched her fists: “That’s right, adults are so hateful.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng thought about his secret, and deeply expressed his agreement: “They are

wolves in sheep’s clothing, moreover they like to lie to people.”

The crown

prince and young princess was interested: “What did Lord w.a.n.g lie to you

about?”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng’s tiny fist banged on the table: “He’s always busy hiding in the house

with mother, saying he’s making a younger brother or sister for me. But it’s

been so many days, I haven’t seen my younger brother or sister come out. He

lied to me.”

“He also

won’t allow me to go find my mother, saying I’ll disturb my mother’s rest. And

force me to learn by heart, saying the more I study, the quicker my younger

brother or sister will come out. Even more make me practice writing characters,

saying the more words I write, later the more clever my younger brother or

sister will be…”

The crown

prince stroked his chin, pondering he said: “When mother gave birth to younger

sister, father never said these things to me.”

The young

princess also puffed out her cheeks thinking about it for a while: “When my

Imperial mother had my younger brother in her belly, Prince father also didn’t

say these things.”

The two

spoke together in chorus: “Lord w.a.n.g is a liar.”

“Right!”

w.a.n.g Zi Feng agreed, thinking about it again: “Then when will my younger

brother or sister be born? How do they get out from my mother’s stomach?”

The young

princess laughed as she raised her hand: “This Prince father has said before,

he said I came out of Imperial mother’s armpit.”

“Ah, this

crown prince hung on Empress mother’s waist for ten months, naturally having

grown I fell to the ground.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng was even more furious, incessantly pounding on the table: “My father said

I made my way out from the sole of mother’s feet.”

“Lord w.a.n.g

is so bad!” The two other felt indignant at the injustice, however you think of

it, armpit and waist were better than the sole of one’s feet!

“Such a bad

daddy, don’t pay any attention to him, we’ll go out and play.” The young

princess started to steer the well-behaved child.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng almost immediately threw the writing brush: “Let’s go, I know a dog’s

entrance, we can climb out.”

The crown prince

like an explosive chestnut hit him on the head: “We’ll climb the walls!”

The young

princess shook her head: “My Prince father said, climbing walls is a skill.”

Regardless

if it’s a skill that is very troublesome, the three brats acted together outside

of the imperial palace’s forbidden guards, they swung their way out.

Truthfully

they’ve played many times outside the palace, they already long ago knew the

things they ought to see or do. Only they kept on thinking about that lion from

that day, in the end they exhausted all their ideas to get their hands on it.

The crown prince even deliberately sent people to ask, Zhuang Hei Zi said that

unusual animal had already been escorted out at an earlier time, in any case it

was someone else’s goods, sending it off as soon as possible to report back for

money, there was no reason to keep it all along.

However,

there were always all sorts of novel things in the hired bodyguards office,

every few days the three children would go look around once, despising and

sneering, then dribbling drool they would agree to come again next time. Over

time, the people at the hired bodyguards office knew the second manager had

three little friends, seeing them they no longer stopped them. Only it was very

strange, every time they went to find Zhuang Hei Zi, the bossy young woman of

that hired bodyguards office manager Lady Luo Luo would always follow by their

side, extremely tense yet could not be chased away with abuse.

A month

pa.s.sed in this free and unfettered manner, at the beginning of February Bailu

academy once again started, the students one by one rushed over from all

directions of Dayan.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng always worried that w.a.n.g Zi Feng would be teased by others because he was

no good at studying, every day after school he would wait for him to come back

and personally teach him. The contents that the teacher taught that day, w.a.n.g

Zi Feng did not care whether he understood it or not, w.a.n.g Yun Feng broke down

the important things to explain to him one more time. The difference was, there

was plenty of word-by-word reading and plenty of quoting chapters and verses

with the lectures at the academy, different from lecturing. w.a.n.g Zi Feng was

only interested in fighting and war, he did not like hearing about those bookish

scholars. w.a.n.g Yun Feng cleverly changed those cla.s.sical stories, changing them

to stories about generals in barracks, or use the matters of Jianghu heroes to

guide, and actually changed those bookish stories to glint and flash of cold

steel and unfolding on a magnificent scale. Then understand the content of the

textbook via comprehensive study, allowing w.a.n.g Zi Feng to deduce many things

from one case, it was rather effective.

It had to

be said, even though w.a.n.g Zi Feng was very obsessed with his younger brother or

sister, he felt w.a.n.g Yun Feng lied to him, but with regard to studying, w.a.n.g

Yun Feng was even more reliable compared to those teachers, and made him admire

him even more, thinking that his father as a scholar without the stress to

truss a chicken, was really amazing knowing so many stories about battles.

Truthfully, what he didn’t know, many of the stories were revised by w.a.n.g Yun

Feng.

Ah, such a

kind-hearted lie!

April, the

weather was gradually becoming delightful.

Xia Ling

Mei took off her spring clothes, every day she started to have people support

her to walk around a couple of times in the courtyard. Her tummy was soon seven

months old, in the winter she still couldn’t feel it, switching over to thin

clothes in the early summer then did she notice her stomach was fairly big. The

physician afraid that she would suffer giving birth, repeatedly urged her to

move around a few laps every day, it would be good for her body.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng left the residence too early every day to go to morning court, in the

morning he would finish looking over the doc.u.ments with his colleagues at the

office, after drinking tea and chatted, he would hurriedly rush home to eat

lunch. Then taking advantage of not having a break before lunch, he would

support Xia Ling Mei to walk round twice in the courtyard, in the afternoon he

would again go to the office, at night he would pick up his son from the

academy to return home, the father and son gather, study and write

in the study, after testing his knowledge they would wait for dinner, finally

one on either side they went on a walk with Xia Ling Mei.

One day

w.a.n.g Zi Feng could no longer bear it and asked his mother, whether he really

was born from the sole of her foot, hearing this Xia Ling Mei poked her son’s

head and laughed for a very long time. w.a.n.g Zi Feng sold out his father without

the slightest hesitation, at that time Xia Ling Mei was just sitting on the

couch underneath the willow tree, a green plum in her mouth, her son had just

finished speaking, Xia Ling Mei from who knows where took out a long whip,

beating w.a.n.g Yun Feng up.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng now all year round was swaying by the side of the fierce woman, he had

long ago perfected the skill of being as lithe as a swallow, usually it’s very hard

for him to learn. Xia Ling Mei thrashed twice her whip, lacking in strength,

and not daring to harm the unborn child, both times the whip didn’t go wide,

pointing her finger at w.a.n.g Yun Feng: “You stand still, allow me to thrash you

for a bit before we speak again.”

The grand

and stern faced Imperial censor w.a.n.g stared blankly for a long time, struggling

between whether to be a slave to the wife or not be a slave to the wife for a

long while, finally he said to his son who was taking joy in calamity and

delight in his disaster: “Fen Er, dad is wrong. You weren’t born from the sole

of your mother’s foot, you were drawn out from her coral whip.”

“w.a.n.g----

Yun---- Feng!” The tigress showed her complete power, unable to move, unable to

run, unable to scold, simply throwing her arm, she pulled w.a.n.g Zi Feng to

return to the house with her: “From today on, you can be with your son born

from the coral whip!”

It wasn’t

enough just returning home, at the same time she called out to Hei Zi: “Keep a

watch on this house, don’t allow anyone from the w.a.n.g family to enter, for each

one which comes give them a kick for me, if a pair arrives beat them both up.”

That night,

Juan Shu and Xiao Bai helped w.a.n.g Yun Feng climb in over the wall, to fail

eventually.

The second

night, Xiao Bai lead Hei Zi away, Juan Shu sneakily opened the courtyard door

to let w.a.n.g Yun Feng in, who knew the lock had been changed, still failing

eventually.

The third

night, the old housekeeper led the attack, saying he needed to report the

account to the mistress, w.a.n.g Yun Feng changed into a disguise by Juan Shu

attempted to follow, he was personally caught by w.a.n.g Zi Feng, expelled far

away from the house, again failing eventually.

The forth

night, w.a.n.g Zi Feng was practicing martial arts to one side, Xia Ling Mei was

drinking warm tea in the pavilion, biting on some pastries, hearing her son

ask: “Mother, where did I actually come from?”

“Of course

you were born from your mother’s stomach ah!”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng was doubtful, putting his weapons he hugged his mother’s stomach and

listened for a very long time, finally muttering: “Younger brother or sister

why have you still not come out, if you won’t come out still, watermelons will

be ripe.”

Xia Ling

Mei stroked the top of her son’s hair, ai, guessing that when the child was

born, watermelons maybe just ripe.

Unknowingly,

it was soon Qingming.

Most large

influential families moved around all year round, away from the main family for

hundreds of thousands li, therefore when they settled down

they would build an ancestral hall. The w.a.n.g clan leader had at an earlier time

in March left to travel thousands of li

with the older generation to the distant ancestral tomb, the females and

younger generation also accompanied them. There were too many men who were

officials or were studying, and would gather together at the ancestral hall to

offer sacrifice at Qingming.

Xia Ling

Mei was getting bigger, and several days ago w.a.n.g Zi Feng had taken w.a.n.g Zi

Feng to offer sacrifice, the court was on a break during Qingming, the officials

had five days vacation, Bailu academy also stopped its lessons. Just by chance

the crown prince and the young princess came from the academy, just in time to

see w.a.n.g Zi Feng just finish a beautiful fight, head high, chest out like a

general returning victorious he strode over.

The crown

prince laughed asking: “You stirred up trouble again?”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng said: “When did I, they were the ones who bullied me. Precisely when the

teacher was repeating a lesson, the speed of my recitation was not as good as

theirs, they talked about it continuously from morning to afternoon, and

thought of a poem to make fun of me. If I don’t beat them up, they would still

treat me as a soft shrimp.”

The crown

prince laughed haha evilly, not speaking again. The three of them bringing with

them a large group of bodyguards and companions wondered about unhurried to the

w.a.n.g residence, there was non helping it, the crown prince and the young

princess were not willing to return to the palace well-behaved to be tormented by

the emperor and empress and imperial concubines in turn, therefore in the end

they agreed by chance to first go and play for a bit at the w.a.n.g residence,

causing so much disturbance to the point of impossibility before being driven

away by w.a.n.g Yun Feng.

A lot of people

wandered about the main street today, most wearing white clothing, following

behind them servants carrying pigs and goats, obviously returning to offer

sacrifice to their ancestors, and amongst these people, these three brats again

by chance met Zhuang Hei Zi.