The happy life of the devil and the devil

The child's face was as white as plain paper.

Ling Yucheng didn't make a sound, let the little guy lean on his body, watched the guard bring in the copper basin, and asked him to dip his hands in it.After soaking for a long time, he dipped the goose feathers into the ointment and applied it to his hands carefully.

The light blue ointment exudes a fragrant and cool smell, and once it is applied, the burning pain is much relieved.Ling Yucheng looked at Xiao Shishi's stretched eyebrows calmly, until he wrapped his two little hands into two small white rice dumplings, then touched his head, and said softly: "Is it better?" ?”

"I'm so sad." Yuan Long raised his two small hands and dared not let go. Hearing what Master said, he immediately rushed over, buried his face in Ling Yucheng's front and rubbed back and forth: "Master, I'm so sad..."

"It still hurts?"

"Hmm..." The childish voice was muffled, because it was buried in the skirt of his clothes, so he couldn't hear it very clearly.The little head nodded vigorously, paused, and then shook it back and forth a few times.

Ling Yucheng didn't ask any more questions, but just stroked his back.A young child, lying in his arms is like a ball of cotton, soft and soft, until the whole heart softens involuntarily.Ling Yucheng hugged him for a while, and when the child's tense body slowly relaxed, he asked softly:

"Are you afraid when you punished them just now?"

"...Scared." The little guy trembled slightly, and buried himself deeper into Ling Yucheng's arms. "Master, when I punished them, I was so sad...It was even more sad than being beaten myself..."

For a five-year-old child, making this kind of decision may really be too difficult.Ling Yucheng hugged the little apprentice up and gently rocked him back and forth.I remember that the first time I punished my subordinates was after I became an official... At that time, my 14-year-old self suffered from insomnia for a whole night.

It's not that I don't want him to be happy and live a carefree life like a real child.But it can't be done... Born in the emperor's family, he is destined to either live a mediocre life like King Kang, or fight for his own sky.How much time is left for him to grow?How many years can I protect this little apprentice?

"You've done a good job." He held the child in his arms a little higher, looked him in the eyes, and praised him without hesitation. "The way you stand there, the way you speak, you don't show any fear at all. Master is very happy."

There were also some pale little faces that immediately turned red, and their eyes were shining brightly, almost glowing.It was only after it lit up, it quickly dimmed again, and lay back in Ling Yucheng's arms, murmuring feebly:

"Master, if I behave better... If I don't cause trouble today, right, they won't be beaten?"

Looking at him like this, I really want to hear a "no" from myself.Ling Yucheng sighed secretly, but picked up the little guy, made him sit upright facing him, then stared into his eyes seriously and said:

"They were beaten because of you.—But not because you were bad, but because you did something you shouldn't do. Or, you didn't think about what would happen after you did it. You Whether I can end it, I did it hastily. That's why Master will punish you, and that's why your companions will be punished because of you."

"It's a small matter this time, so it's just a ruler. If there is a big disaster, no matter whether they are here or not, whether they give you advice or not persuade you, it is not enough to settle with twenty rulers... So, in the future, do anything Before you do something, you have to think about it, think about the people around you!"

When he said something, Little Eleven nodded, his little head nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.After listening to Ling Yucheng's lecture, he lowered his head and thought hard for a long time, then suddenly raised his head with bright eyes:

"So it doesn't matter if you're not good?"

"What is obedient? Listen to your lord? Listen to your father?" Ling Yucheng sighed: "You are a prince and a master. In this life, you need to make decisions on your own, far more than obeying orders from others." There are many things...so, the important thing is not to be good and obedient, but to know what to do and what not to do..."

Seeing the crystal clear eyes in front of her eyes become full of confusion, she knew that the child was still young and would not be able to understand for a while, so she stopped talking and did not speak again.

Yuen Long frowned, but he didn't continue to ask for an explanation, but asked a topic that he cared more about: "Then Master, is it right for me to punish them like this today?"

Sure enough, he was interested in this matter.Back then, when I punished my subordinates for the first time, I tossed and turned. What I cared about was whether the punishment was appropriate or not, whether it was fair or not... "Lang'er thinks, is your punishment reasonable?"

"Yes..." After a pause, he whispered again: "But they obviously made some big mistakes, and some made small mistakes...but I can't think of a better way..."

"As long as the punishment is justified, it is the right punishment." Ling Yucheng's tone was soft but firm: "As for them, they made mistakes first, and then they were suppressed by you. As long as you speak the truth, they are right." I don’t think you’ve been punished wrongly.”

The voice was full of certainty, after hearing this, Yuen Long's tense body gradually relaxed.A smile quickly flashed across Ling Yucheng's eyes, and he patted him on the shoulder:

"It's just that tonight, you still have one thing to do, do you know what it is?"

Yuen Long lowered his head slowly, bit his lower lip involuntarily, then stopped his movement immediately, and took a light breath of air.On the pink lips, a few streaks of coagulated blood were extremely glaring.He rubbed against Ling Yucheng's arms, but a big hand pressed against his shoulder, and he raised his head. The master looked at him with a gentle and expectant expression, but he didn't show any connivance.

"Master—"

"Today's business, today's end. How did the master teach you before?"

The little guy's movements were slow, and he pouted while crawling down.Although the master is close to him, he has always been strict with him. Since he has been apprenticed to the master for more than a year, except for the period of illness, he is rarely hugged and patted like today.He just wanted to stay in Master's arms for a while... I'm so tired today...

Although he was unhappy, he jumped off the ground obediently, and called the guard who had been following him to take the ointment he had just applied, and took him to the wing where the companions lived.I personally watched people wash their hands and apply medicine to them, and chatted with each other a few words, in exchange for their pleasantly surprised and grateful smiles.Yuen Long also gradually became happier, and he bounced back to the bedroom after all eight people were bandaged up.

"Are you back?" In the distance, Diao Dou had already called the second watch, and Ling Yucheng was leaning on the outside reading a book. Seeing him coming back, he put down the book and nodded to him: "Go and take a bath!"

The tub in the cubicle was already filled with hot water.Yuen Long was full of heart and wanted to say a few words to Master, but as soon as he soaked in the bathtub, he felt steaming up, and the steam made his upper and lower eyelids stick together.In a daze, it seemed as if some hands were holding him out of the tub, but he couldn't open his eyes to see.

The night passed very quickly.It seemed as if they were dragged up just by closing their eyes. It was already bright outside. After breakfast, the nine children were carried onto the horses, filed out of the barracks, and arrived at the village where they played lawlessly yesterday.

Yuen Long sat obediently on Ling Yucheng's horse, not looking sideways.Everything in the village is exactly the same as yesterday, pigs humming in the pen, chickens and ducks quacking and running around, the thatched eaves are low, and some houses require people to bow their bodies to get in and out.But yesterday was still a novelty, but now he is not interested in looking at it at all.

Crossing a dirt road, under the big tree in the middle of the village, two large, one small, and three dead cows were lined up in a row.Yuen Long was dismounted by Ling Yucheng, and stood aside, watching the adults in strange black and red clothes step forward to turn over the dead cow. A Xuanjia guard stepped forward and explained: "...It was a child's prank, and it scared the cow. Only to kill..."

The people in strange clothes just listened carefully, nodding repeatedly, the farmers kept wiping away their tears, and the speaking soldier stood upright without turning his eyes to him.No one looked at him from the beginning to the end, but it seemed that everyone was staring at him. Yuen Long's face was "teng", and his cheeks to the roots of his ears burned red.

The people under the big tree dispersed after a while, only the farmers who were wiping their tears stood timidly not far away, not daring to walk or go forward.Ling Yucheng didn't look at them either, and squatted down, staring straight into Yuen Long's eyes:

"You killed these cows, didn't you?"

"Master, I was wrong..."

"The cattle belong to these people." Ling Yucheng pointed to the ragged farmers, "You killed someone else's cattle, what should you do?"

"Apologize……"

"Then go."

Yuen Long's small face was wrinkled as if he had eaten a sour orange, but he didn't dare to disobey him, and obediently stepped forward.The farmers on Zhuangzi had seen such a child in rich clothes solemnly apologizing to them, rubbing their hands together, not even daring to say anything.The eight accompanying readers who were taller than him followed him in a row, step by step, and dared not speak until he had finished speaking. One after another, they also said words of apology.

This should be enough for him to remember!

Ling Yucheng watched silently, and waited for Yuen Long to apologize before taking the children outside the village.Someone had already pulled the oxen and was waiting by the side with a plow. Ling Yucheng asked Yuan Long to stand beside him, pointing to the field and explaining to him:

"The ox is used to pull the plow and plow the ground... There is no ox, and it is very tiring to rely on people to pull it..."

The end of autumn and the beginning of winter are not the time to plow the land, but the entire Zhuangzi is owned by Xuanjiawei. Don't say that the master wants to find someone to plow the land for the children to see, or find someone to change all the acres of land in the village into fish farms. Tang, as a tenant, can only obey orders.The ox is a steer, and the man who plows is an old farmer. It takes only a blink of an eye to plow an acre of land.After plowing back and forth twice, Ling Yucheng let the cow go down and waved to the children:

"Go, plow this field again."

The land assigned to the children was only one cent, two lanes wide, and no more than a hundred paces—nine children swarmed up, those who pulled the plowshares pulled the plowshares, and those who pushed the plowshares pushed the plowshares. I only dragged the plow a few feet, and it was crooked, shallow and deep, and it didn't look like it at all.

Even the guards around him couldn't stand this kind of tragedy.Before He Liu went up to the mountain to become a bandit, he plowed the land anyway, and said in a low voice, "My lord, this plow is too heavy...Even in the village, children under ten years old don't need to pull the plow..."

"That's fine." Ling Yucheng had been waiting for this for a long time, and waved his hand when he heard the words, someone had already brought a small shovel over and distributed them one by one: "Since the plow cannot be pulled, it is the same to turn the ground with a shovel. Do things Be quick, when to finish, when to eat!"

The children who got the new toy were extremely excited, chirping and laughing, digging hard once and for all.But after all, young and weak, how can it be so easy to go through all the land?Not long after, the palms that had just been beaten yesterday became red and swollen again. The sun in the sky was shining hot, but no one even gave them saliva!

Soon no one had the strength to speak.Dou Da's sweat rolled down the corners of his forehead, but Yuen Long didn't dare to stop, he didn't stop, and no one dared to stop even with his companions.The field ridges that can be run in one breath with legs and feet stretched out seem to be ten times longer under the small shovel.

After digging one point at a time, the sweaty and hungry nine children all sat down on the ridge of the field.

"You have just been busy all morning, and you only dug a small part of the land." Calling someone to fetch water for the children to wash their hands again, and applying medicine again, Ling Yucheng stood under the hut built on the ground, watching the children digging in a mess Tianlong.Some guards quickly set up lunch under the hut, but from Yuen Long onwards, all the children were slumped in front of the table, obviously hungry, but they didn't want to eat food in their mouths at all.

"A mu of land is ten. An adult can plow forty mu of land, and with a cow, he can plow a hundred mu. Now you know what a cow is for?"

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