Dad Wanan

In the morning, the sun is shining brightly.

Ding Chang woke up stretched, opened his eyes, and was really startled by the scene before him.He lifted the quilt, and was about to jump up, to feel whether those luxurious and unreal bed curtains were real, when he suddenly heard someone say: "My lord, you are awake, please let the servant wait for you to undress."

Only then did Ding Chang realize that there were other people in the room, and when he turned his head, there was more than one person.There were three boys of his age, one was holding a basin, the other was holding a towel, and the third was holding a suit of clothes.

"Serve... me?" Ding Chang blinked in confusion.

"Yes, the general ordered some of us to serve the young master." After finishing speaking, the three servants stepped forward and began to fight.

"Huh? Wow, don't peel off my clothes! Oh, it's itchy, hahaha, it's itchy, don't touch me! Hahaha..." Ding Chang rolled into a mess on the bed.The three boys looked at each other and smiled.

It seems that the general is right. When he arranged for them to come here, the general said that they should serve this young master with courtesy.But the general also said that he might not be used to being treated like this, so if that was the case, they didn't have to force him to serve him, they just let him come by himself.

So, a few servants put the things in their hands on the round table, and bowed to Ding Chang, "Young master, please do as you please, and the servant will not disturb you." After speaking, he turned and walked out of the room.

Only then did Ding Chang stop rolling, and looked left and right until he was sure that there would be no more intruders waiting for him, then he jumped out of bed, washed himself casually, then picked up the blue suit of clothes and squinted his eyes for a long time.

beautiful, so beautiful!How much can this be sold on the market?

Ding Chang crumpled his clothes into a ball and put them in his pocket, but it was a pity that a piece would protrude no matter what, which was very conspicuous.In the end, I had to take off the clothes on my body and put on the pants again.

He looked in the bronze mirror and could barely recognize himself.No wonder people say that Buddha depends on gold and people depend on clothes, which is true.

He opened the door and went out, only to find that the servants were still waiting outside the door.

Seeing him leaving the room, the servants immediately rushed up and said, "My lord, please follow the slaves to the central hall for breakfast."

Ding Chang let out an "oh", followed behind them, looked around all the way, and unknowingly came to the central hall.He went to the table and sat down, looking at the table, there were several dishes and a pot of porridge, the breakfast was rather light.

Ding Chang, who was really hungry, was not polite, and immediately started to eat whole.He was so absorbed in eating that he didn't notice that the servants next to him were stunned at first because of the noise he made while eating the porridge, then winked and winked, and finally covered their mouths and snickered.He also didn't notice that two people entered the central hall through the door on the other side.

"Wow, he hasn't eaten for hundreds of years?" Xuanyuanzhao muttered, looking at the kid whose face was almost buried in the bowl with great interest.

Shi Xirong didn't joke with him, and called out "Ding Chang." The two words were neither serious nor cold, neither hot nor cold, but loud and loud.

"Ahem!" Ding Chang was startled, choked on the porridge, and knew that the rice grains sprayed out of his mouth was too ugly, so he covered it with his hands, but his hands were dirty.He wiped vigorously on the hem of his clothes, then stood up and looked at Shi Xirong with lingering fear.

"Ah, ah..." He opened his mouth, as if he had adjusted for a while, and finally shouted: "Father!"

"Pfft!" Xuanyuanzhao burst out laughing every time he heard this address.

Shi Xirong's expression was still indifferent, and he just said, "Tell me your details."

"Ah?" Ding Chang scratched his head, "Then, what does Dad want to know?"

"How did you grow up all these years?"

"These years, I just grew up with my mother, eating, sleeping, playing and playing every day..."

"What happened after your mother passed away?"

"After that, I left my hometown and came to find my father!"

"How have you been these past few years?"

"That's how I lived, searching all the way, seeking life all the way..."

"How to make a living?"

"Uh, this..."

"Are you asking for a living like last night?" Shi Xirong's eyes froze suddenly.

Ding Chang shrank his neck and stuck out his tongue, "Well, that's only recently...and never before..."

"Then do you know who I am?" Shi Xirong asked without warning.

"You..." Ding Chang carefully looked him up and down and shook his head, "I don't know, I only know that you are my father."

"You're mistaken, I don't..."

"Then you must have just come to the capital not long ago." Xuanyuanzhao interjected suddenly, shaking his fan towards Shi Xirong with a smile, "He is the famous general Chen Yi, Shi Xirong. "

"Shi Xi..."

Ding Chang was still a little dazed, his eyes widened suddenly, and he covered his mouth as if he couldn't bear it.

"You, you are General Shi Xi? General Shi Xi is my father? My father is General Shi Xi? Oh my God, I am so shocked, I am so happy, I am so happy that I am about to pass out..."

With a "bang", Ding Chang fell to the ground.

A few servants hurried up to check, and then told Shi Xirong that the young master seemed to have passed out.

Shi Xirong frowned, and asked the servants to carry him back to the room.

"No—would—right?" For such a turning point, even Xuanyuan Zhao couldn't help but widen his eyes in astonishment, "Just saying your name, he fainted from fright. If you tell him that you are actually Father is today, so he has to be frightened to death."

Shi Xirong didn't answer, but seemed to be deep in thought.

"Speaking of which, you also saw it just now." Xuanyuanzhao changed his mouth and said, "His speech, his behavior... If you send him to that person like this, you will definitely be severely despised."

"Speech and behavior can be adjusted." Shi Xirong said lightly.

"That's right, but the question is who will teach? Who can teach?" Xuanyuanzhao had an unusually profound smile on his lips, "It's impossible to count on that person, he hates teaching people the most. As for those tutors and so on , take a look at what the two little princes have been taught by them? After all, they are ministers, and they dare not even say harsh words to the prince. If there is not a strict "father emperor" in charge, the two princes would have died a long time ago. There will be no law.”

"..."

"By the way, do you still remember that once we talked to him about the Indian country in the east?"

"good."

"In recent years, there have been foreign races passing through the territory of India and invading our borders, which annoys you too much. Although I have thought about taking India down, India's strength is not bad, and in the past few years, the country There is chaos, and the military needs to be adjusted, so we can't be too aggressive. For this reason, the emperor brother once said that if there is a prince who can marry the princess of the Indian country, at least let the Indian country help suppress those alien races in a few years, and wait for our side With the adjustment of our military strength, everything will be much easier. It's a pity that the two princes around me are too young, and it's too early to talk about marriage."

"Um."

Shi Xirong remembered this, but what does it have to do with the current events?

"Shouldn't you..."

"It's not impossible!" Xuanyuanzhao knew that Shi Xirong had already guessed his thoughts, "Isn't he worried that there is no prince to marry? No, one fell from the sky. Look at that Ding Chang... "

"Impossible." Shi Xirong vetoed it on the spot.

He admitted that this idea was good, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with throwing a prince out to get married, but the problem was that this prince didn't look like a prince at all.

Xuanyuanzhao smiled nonchalantly, "So our mission is to make the impossible possible."

"Us?" Shi Xirong raised his eyebrows suspiciously.

"Yes, but to be precise, it's you. Aren't you his 'father'?" Xuanyuanzhao's smile was a little bit of an insult.

The ghost's idea obviously hit him on the head, Shi Xirong snorted coldly, "You know I'm not."

"I know, but he doesn't know, and that person doesn't know yet."

"Isn't that deceiving you?"

"Oh, after you have trained him well, throwing a generous and decent prince in front of him, why would he care about whether he bullies you or not?

"Anyway, it's impossible." Shi Xirong still didn't soften at all, he didn't want to spend time on a son who ran out halfway, let alone a fake one.

"Nothing is impossible," Xuanyuan Zhao was not discouraged, "and this matter is none other than yours. Think to yourself, don't you manage all the thousands of soldiers under your command? You say go east, they No one dares to go west. Now it’s just discipline a fool, it’s just a piece of cake for you, isn’t it?”

"Ridiculous." Shi Xirong turned and left.

Xuanyuanzhao looked at his back with a smile, then turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, and whispered: "Oh, it's already this hour, and I have my own things to do, so Shi Xi, don't blame me for leaving you to fight alone hey!"

Ding Chang pinpointed the time, woke up at noon, rolled over and jumped out of bed.

Going out at this time, ninety-nine out of ten, it's time to have lunch.

The previous breakfast was interrupted, causing his stomach to growl when he was lying on the bed, but he couldn't get up, otherwise he would have a headache if he was caught and questioned again.He has been enduring hunger until now, it should be almost the same!

After leaving the room, he didn't see the servants from the morning, so he followed his notes to find the central hall. Sure enough, there was already lunch on the table, which was quite rich, just looking at the dishes made people salivate.

But the more tricky thing is that there is still one person sitting at the table at this time.This person is Shi Xirong, his... father.

He didn't expect to run into him again here, and secretly startled, Ding Chang didn't forget what to do.

"Father." This time he didn't shout.

This person can't shout, although he knew it a little late.

Shi Xirong glanced at him, but didn't respond.

Ding Chang moved to the side of the table, and called again timidly, "Father..."

Shi Xirong still didn't respond.

Ding Chang also stopped barking, pursed his lips, and looked back and forth between Shi Xirong's face and the table.

Just when he was about to "see through his eyes", Shi Xirong finally spoke, and what he said was, "Wipe your mouth."

"what?"

"saliva."

"Uh, oh!" Ding Chang quickly rolled up his sleeves and wiped his mouth desperately.

"Sit." Shi Xirong said coldly, "Eat."

"Oh, thank you." Ding Chang replied awkwardly.This man, he said was his father, but he didn't look friendly at all.Even, standing in front of him, it was like being scrutinized by those sharp eyes, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Having said that, when Ding Chang sat down to eat, the deliciousness made him forget all his scruples.

The scene that Shi Xirong had seen in the morning was being staged before his eyes again at this moment.

Such a prince is simply a disaster for the country.

Shi Xirong watched Ding Chang eating there too fast, unable to imagine what kind of life he lived in the past.But it's amazing, the way he eats it makes people think that it's just Pupu's food, and it seems to become extremely fragrant.If it wasn't for Shi Xirong who had already eaten, he might also feel his appetite boosted at this moment.

Shi Xirong sat at the table for a while, and wanted to ask something, but he felt that it was irrelevant for him to ask or not.Finally he stood up and left the seat.

"Du..." Ding Chang raised his head from the bowl, swallowed the contents of his mouth whole, and then he said clearly: "Father, have you finished eating?"

Shi Xirong still ignored him and walked towards the door.

"Father, where are you going?" Ding Chang asked.

Shi Xirong paused for a while, and finally replied, "Lunch break."

"Lunch break? I'll accompany you!" Ding Chang picked up the gorgeous tablecloth to wipe his mouth, stood up, and trotted after him.

Shi Xirong didn't stop walking, and only glanced at him suspiciously, "Why are you following me?"

"Accompany you!" Ding Chang grinned brightly, with a little bit of subtle flattery.

"No need."

"How can it be? Our father and son have not seen each other for so many years, and we are still very close to each other. We should hurry up and cultivate our relationship!"

Cultivate feelings?Shi Xirong had nothing to say, so he ignored him, opened the door and stepped in.

Inside the door is an ancestral hall, where his mother used to spend several hours every day meditating and chanting sutras.

Mrs. Shi is not a Buddhist, but in her mind, whether it is her husband or her son, leading the army in battle, although it is to defend the family and the country, after all, it has committed many murders.She recited scriptures here to save the souls of those who died under the sword of her husband and son, and to accumulate some virtue for the two of them.

However, a few years ago, General Shi was unfortunately killed in battle.Since then, Mrs. Shi has moved to a Buddhist hall outside the capital to concentrate on reciting Buddha's name.Shi Xirong tried to take her back several times, but all failed, so he had no choice but to let her go.

Lunch break is a habit that Shi Xirong was forced to develop by Mrs. Shi since he was a child, and his lunch break is in this ancestral hall.

It's just that in the past few years, there has been no sound of chanting sutras to accompany others to sleep.

After entering the room, he went straight to the Arhat couch in the center against the wall, lay down on it, and closed his eyes.

I thought that the follower should retreat now, but I didn't expect that the kid not only did not retreat, but even chased after him. He stood in front of the couch and watched for a long time, then suddenly squatted down, and slowly stretched out his hands.

"Huh?" Shi Xirong opened his eyes because of the strange feeling in his legs, but found that Ding Chang was beating his legs with two small fists.

"What are you doing?" he asked, slightly taken aback.

"Pound it for daddy!" Ding Chang said with a smile, "Dad, you often lead troops in battle, it must be very hard, right? Especially when you have to travel long distances, your legs and feet are the most difficult."

"...You don't have to be like this." After all, he was out of good intentions, no matter how abrupt Shi Xirong felt, it was not easy to pick him up and throw him out of the window.

"No need?" Ding Chang blinked, "Oh, I see, Dad's legs are fine, right? Then I'll change to another place."

After speaking, he stood up, moved to the position above Shi Xirong's head, bent down, and rubbed his shoulders.

In all fairness, Ding Chang's fingering is not bad.However, for Shi Xirong, even being pointed at by a few swords is more comfortable than those little fingers moving around on his body.

"I said no need." He waved his hand, "I'm in good health, and you don't need to worry about anything."

"Oh!" Ding Chang finally withdrew his hand, and after a while, he touched the top of Shi Xirong's head again, "Then I will rub Daddy's head, there are many acupuncture points on the head, it is the most comfortable to rub, and it can also help sleep! "

"..."

For the first time, Shi Xirong felt that his patience was being pushed to the limit.

However, he really couldn't do it at a teenage boy.

"Ding Chang." He said patiently, "You haven't eaten a few mouthfuls of lunch yet, isn't it uncomfortable to be hungry? Go!"

Ding Chang smiled nonchalantly, and continued to knead his hands, "Father, don't be polite to me! Also, don't call me so unfamiliar, just call me "Chang'er" just like your mother. "

"..." Chang'er?He couldn't scream even after breaking his tongue, "I'm not being polite to you. Also, you misunderstood, I'm not you..."

"By the way, Dad." Ding Chang suddenly cut off the conversation and asked in a low voice. "Those people last night, did you lock them up? Or, have they been sent to the government?"

Shi Xirong was taken aback for a moment, his face darkened, "You don't need to ask."

"How could I ignore it? Those people are Chang'er's friends..."

"Friend? So what?"

"If Dad, your friend is arrested because of something, you will ignore it and don't care?"

"As long as they did something wrong, they should be held accountable for their actions, no one is an exception."

"You..." Ding Chang gritted his teeth, straightened up and walked back to the couch, staring straight into Shi Xirong's eyes, and said word by word: "Then why didn't you imprison me too?"

"Do you think I won't?" Shi Xirong replied indifferently, and then waved his hands, "End of this, don't pester me about those people anymore."

"you……"

Ding Chang's eyes sparkled, as if something was about to burst out of his eyes.

But in an instant, his eyes dimmed again, he looked at Shi Xirong mournfully, finally turned around, and left the ancestral hall with a dragging pace.

Shi Xirong looked at his stiff back, feeling inexplicable.

In addition, he also felt a little heavy in his chest.

Just now, did he count as bullying the small?

Speaking of which, he has always treated the little soldiers in the army like this. If he can be merciful, he will be merciful, and if he can't be merciful, he will be merciless. But at that time, he didn't feel so guilty...

guilt?

He pressed his forehead and sighed silently.

In the evening, it gradually slanted westward.

In the front hall of the General's Mansion, Shi Xirong and Xuanyuanzhao were sitting on benches facing each other. One was sipping tea silently, the other was shaking a fan with a smile. The hall was quiet for a long time.

Until two people came in from the front hall, they first bowed to Xuanyuanzhao, then walked in front of Shi Xirong, and reported the situation of their trip.

"My lord, what he did today is no different from what he did a few days ago. Before his subordinates came back, he still did not leave Jinlin Villa."

"En." Shi Xirong nodded, "You have worked hard, let's go down!"

"Yes."

After the two left, Xuanyuanzhao looked at Shi Xirong with a smile, and then opened the conversation, "Now you should tell me the truth? I haven't visited for a few days, and I came here today to see our little prince. But told me that he was not there, and still refused to say where he went, this is very unfair to me, isn’t it? At the beginning, we found him together.”

Shi Xirong put his right hand on the armrest of the chair, his fingertips moved slowly as if he was kneading something, and said calmly: "I can tell you that these days, he sleeps until noon every day, after getting up, eats After dinner, I will go for a walk in the backyard.”

"Walking?"

"Walking, take some items from the storage by the way."

"Take it?" Xuanyuanzhao raised his eyebrows, "The warehouse you mentioned should be the storage warehouse of your Shi family that is usually not allowed to enter, right?"

"good."

"You allowed him in there?"

"I do not have."

"That is to say..." Xuanyuan Zhao's expression became more and more serious, and he suddenly smiled, "Haha, I understand, he didn't invite himself in! You didn't stop him?"

"I want to see if he broke in there purely by accident, or if he did it on purpose."

"Going for several days in a row must be intentional! Then what did he get out of it?"

"Gold, silver, treasures, silk and satin, he will take whatever is worth the money."

"He's really a greedy kid. He's not satisfied even after taking it for a few days? However, if you move all the belongings in your house by yourself, you can't finish moving them in a year or so." Xuanyuan continued to make sarcastic remarks about him. , but this is indeed true.

Although Shi Xirong didn't collect money, after all, he was a famous general in his family, and in his generation, he was even more prestigious.The rewards received from the emperor are sometimes pushed with carts.

"Go on, what did he do with those belongings after he took them?"

"He took it all to Jinlin Villa."

"Oh, there!"

Jinlin Villa used to be one of the most prosperous manors in the capital.A few years ago, the third prince rebelled, and a group of rebels who conspired with him were hidden in Jinlin Villa.Shi Xirong led the troops there, those people resisted to the death, and in the end, they were all executed by Shi Xirong on the spot.

After that, most of the things in the villa were moved out, and the villa has been empty.Although some people said that it would be rebuilt, because the internal strife had just subsided and the external strife continued, no one had the energy to take care of it.So the villa began to be desolate, and the style and appearance of the year have been lost.

I don't know when it started, but it gradually became a gathering place for refugees.Those homeless people lived there.

"According to this, he was once one of those refugees?" Xuanyuan Zhao pondered: "He took those belongings there, could it be that he wanted to dig a hole in the ground and hide them in case of emergency? But he should understand that this is not the case. Need, obviously there is a rich "father" like you. Or, he is just afraid of poverty and suffering, and he always has to hide some private money to feel at ease?"

"He didn't hide it." Shi Xirong shook his head slowly, "He distributed all those things to the people there."

"You said..." Xuanyuan Zhao was stunned, speechless for a long time, then suddenly laughed and patted his fan, "Okay, okay! Shi Xi, just based on his actions, you can still say with certainty that he will be able to do so in half a year or a year." Years later, is it absolutely impossible for him to become a prince who will glorify the country, a prince who is supported by all people?"

Shi Xirong was silent.

In the past few days, he had sent someone to follow Ding Chang secretly. He received such a report every day, and he was also thinking every day, what kind of person is that seemingly careless, talkative and brainless fool?

At the beginning, he only thought that the sooner he could send people to the emperor, the sooner he would get out of trouble. However, at the end of the day, he began to hesitate.

That kid is still a piece of uncut jade, he still doesn't understand too much, if he is hastily sent to the palace, the palace yard is deep, it is very likely that this piece of uncut jade will be destroyed.

In that case, the loss would be too great.

"How? Now, you should think about my proposal carefully?" Xuanyuan Zhao also knew that those things would not have no effect on Shi Xirong, so he struck while the iron was hot, "Just keep him by your side for the time being. ’ to discipline him.”

Shi Xirong frowned, "Why don't you tell him directly, in fact, that person is his father?"

"That's different. If you tell him, then you are just a master who may or may not want to. But if you don't tell him, you can control him justifiably, and you can control everything. He can be controlled by you, and he can be willing. You can also see that he is very rebellious and has his own ideas, which cannot be controlled by just anyone. Besides, even if you tell him that his father is the emperor, how can you guarantee that he will not be angry after hearing this? Will turn around and run?

It's hard to mess around in the palace, and the current emperor is a cruel heart who doesn't even show mercy to his own brothers. Common people know these things.A person who has abandoned their mother and child for so many years, ruthlessly killing his brother, do you think he can bear it for a while?And if you tell him again that you disciplined him in order to marry him to a foreign country in the future, he won't go far.In short, if you want things to go smoothly, you can only take care of his affairs as a "father". After a year, you can definitely make him a top talent who makes my eyes shine. "

"One year?" He obviously didn't think about this matter before, but at this moment, Shi Xirong only noticed this time, he shook his head, "It's too long, not to mention there are many border wars, I don't have that much time to spend on him. "

"Then nine months?" Xuanyuanzhao bargained.

"Too long."

"Then how long do you think is appropriate?"

"Up to three months."

"That's too short, half a year."

"Three months."

"Half a year."

"Three months."

"Half a year."

"..."

"Half a year, deal!" Xuanyuanzhao slammed his fist on the table, confirming the deal.