Speaking too early is actually a very disadvantaged thing.

Before you open your mouth to speak, the only thing your elders expect from you is to learn to speak quickly. If you like it, just babble and make a few noises and you'll surprise them. Even if they make further excessive demands, you can pretend not to understand and turn around and do what interests you, and the elders are helpless - because you just don't understand!

But once you speak, you will realize how difficult it is for the elders to please.

First of all, you can't play dumb because they'll say, "Don't play dumb, I know you understand." "If you pretend you don't understand, your ass may be dangerous.

Then, they simply don't know how to be satisfied, and no matter how far you go, they will always have an endless stream of follow-up demands. For example: Can you speak? Come, I will teach you to memorize two poems. What, this is learned? Tell me what it means. Ah, that's a good point. Come, I'll teach you what these words look like. Oh...... That's to remember! Then I'll teach you a few more difficult songs......

When Erlang finally learned to say that he didn't remember, the Son of Heaven looked excited and said in a gentle tone, and said, it doesn't matter, we can learn it again.

Jiro: There's still the end!

Looking back, the Son of Heaven said to Xu Si excitedly, "Talented! Sure enough, it's our son! ”

And Erlang deeply felt that it was the easiest thing to do not speak.

In any case, Jiro's life became sad.

The Son of Heaven obviously did not intend to let him go unchecked, and he was very willing to raise his son himself. In view of the fact that he himself is an all-rounder and knows everything, he also has a lot of opinions on how to build his son into an all-rounder, so naturally he can't let Erlang be smart but lazy.

Of course, his intentions are purely aimed at Erlang.

Even if Erlang obviously likes Ruyi more than he likes him, and is more patient and obedient when he is with Ruyi, the Son of Heaven has no interest in teaching Ruyi by the way.

After all, there are many times to meet, even if you pretend to love her, it is quite exhausting, and it is just a matter of occasional effort. Most of the time, he just took Jiro away.

In his heart, Ruyi is certainly of some use, and he needs to make a certain gesture. But in essence, she is not much different from the palace servants in the palace.

Ruyi knew that her father didn't like her, but after a long time, she got used to it, and that's it.

Xu Si taught her very well. She seems to have known from a young age that not everyone would like her, and that wasn't necessarily her fault. She just needs to work hard to do her own thing.

Of course, I will be sad, but I will not be angry. She can tell the difference between Tianzi and Erlang very well.

She also seems to have a stubborn spirit in her heart, even if she is very sad, she will not ask Xu Si in vain, "Why doesn't Daddy like me." "Instead, you'll be quicker to pick yourself up and turn your head to find more things to do.

Unlike Jiro, she is always busy and willing to learn more.

When she was about three years old, Xu Si had already held her on her lap and taught her to read and write. She never gets tired of it, and even takes the initiative to climb on Xu Si's knees with a book in her free time, so that Xu Si can teach her more. She is very smart, and she can almost remember what Xu Si taught her.

And she's happy to share.

Sometimes Erlang gets bored and starts bullying people, so she will spread out the book and say to Erlang seriously, "I'll teach you to read." "Erlang is very face-saving, since she wants to teach and he is really boring, then listen to it.

In the Ciqiu Palace, it is common to see the two sisters and brothers holding a book, listening to each other, and sitting side by side.

Therefore, in Erlang's "talented", he actually has a lot of credit.

When Ruyi was six years old, Xu Si hired a master to teach her fist and foot kung fu. At first, the female master only thought that she had been hired to play with the princess - after all, this was a princess, what did she do when she learned kung fu? Hengzhi can neither bear this hardship, nor does she need to suffer at all.

But after teaching for a month, the female master understood that this was indeed a seedling of martial arts. Not to mention the good physique, he is really patient, willing to be obedient, and able to endure hardships. The female master tried to let her get up early in the morning and take a horse step, so she really got up at dawn and accompanied the female master to take a horse step together. When asked, Ruyi will frankly admit that she is "tired", but if the master does not stop, she can really persist without complaints.

After all, this is a princess, and the female master treats her very gently. When you want her to learn something, you will seduce her first, and seldom admonish her. When there is a need to show off her kung fu, the female master is never stingy, for example, if the wishful kite hangs on the tree carelessly, she will jump like an ape, climb up like a flat ground, and help her take it off with her bare hands.

For fighting, Ruyi is interested in chatting, but she is keen on flying walls. Every few days, you have to try how far your kung fu has progressed, and see if you can climb over the wall and trees.

She jumped up and down with great interest, which also gave Xu Si a headache. But after all, Ruyi was lured by a cat to climb onto the terrace before she was a year old, and Xu Si had no choice but to acquiesce to her nature of liking to explore all the places she knew.

As for the poems, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting that Xu Si is good at, Xu Si will also learn Ruyi when he teaches, and he will not give up halfway if he learns. But whether she likes it from the bottom of her heart, Xu Si can also tell. In fact, from the bottom of his heart, Xu Si is the most reluctant to cultivate Ruyi into another self. These delicate preferences certainly allow her to be a noble and cold canary even if she is locked in a cage, without withering her feathers. But perhaps it was these preferences that turned her into a canary, rather than a bird of the sea fighting the sky and the wind and waves.

So Xu Si sometimes thinks that Ruyi may not really be interested in these things - after all, she has been full of curiosity about unsolved things since she was a child, and if you ask her to come to learn, she will come with great interest - she doesn't like it, maybe just because she is influenced by herself, and she also feels that these things are coarse and don't need to be studied.

Xu Sijue felt that this was not bad.

Since that family banquet, Ruyi has also left an impression in the hearts of his brothers and sisters. Although Princess Miaofa Miaoyin still treats her closely, she is also very courteous. And the eldest prince was very kind to her. Even though he no longer lives in the palace, and he has no contact with the Autumn Palace, he does not forget to share with Ruyi whenever he encounters interesting things outside. Either the letter is exchanged, or the thing is sent directly with the letter. He was very open-minded.

Supposedly they weren't supposed to be so close.

Although Erlang is still very young, the battle for the storage position in the court has quietly begun. In Xu Si's opinion, although the eldest prince has a gentle and compassionate temperament, he is not an indifferent person, and he has a clear concern for the position of the crown prince. And Ruyi is Erlang's sister, and she doesn't have the friendship that Princess Miaofa Miaoyin grew up with him. It is unusual for him to treat his half-sister like a passer-by, but to Ruyi differently.

Xu Si had doubts, but he didn't secretly figure it out, but asked Ruyi in person, "When did you get so close to your big brother?" ”

Ruyi is different from Erlang, she is not only active, but also very talkative. She knew everything with Xu Si, and she talked about her friendship with the eldest prince from beginning to end, in great detail, and endlessly.

Xu Si: ...... Raised a little chatterbox.

After listening to Xu Siyi, he felt that this seemed to be just an ordinary friendship of a child, and there was no need to guard against it as a great enemy. also only smiled and admonished Ruyi, "There are indeed countless interesting things in the four corners of the world, but the things that others are accustomed to do do do not mean that you can all try them." For example, if you are Gu Gong and march to Jiaozhou, and the local officials and people treat you with a feast of insects, it is naturally good for you to dare to try it as usual. But in another case, if you want to taste all the insects, isn't that a foodie hunting? ”

Ruyi thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case - for example, it was common for ancient people to live in caves and wilderness, and Ru Mao drank blood, should she also try it?

She nodded in response, "I still have to distinguish whether this thing is good or bad or not bad, if it is not good or bad, then what can be done under what circumstances, and what can not be done in the situation, right?" ”

Xu Si touched her head and said with a smile, "That's right." ”

The things sent by the eldest prince will be shared with Erlang by Ruyi - whenever there are rare things, she will always keep half of them for Erlang.

On the contrary, Jiro will not remember her. He seems to be born with a preference for occupancy, even if he turns his head and throws it after occupying it, he will never let others take it if it is his. However, if he wanted to, he would give it to her casually, and he never cared about her.

Regarding Erlang's domineering nature, Xu Si also tried to correct it. But not all children are as obedient as Ruyi and use their intelligence to draw inferences. There are also disobedient children like Erlang in this world, who are good at using their intelligence to perfunctory people. This child is silent, but he has his own ideas, which can be guided and irreversibly blocked. Xu Si often has a sense of powerlessness that he has repeatedly taught.

And as the Son of Heaven took Erlang with him more and more to teach him personally, Xu Si's corrections became a drop in the bucket. The qualities in Erlang's nature that worry Xu Si are precisely the qualities that reassure the Son of Heaven. The father and son almost hit it off, and with a little on-demand from the Son of Heaven, Erlang was able to understand it.

When Xu Si was very annoyed, he also argued with the Son of Heaven, "He is already very stubborn and self-serving, you still have to teach him how to disobey the yang and the yin, won't he grow up to be a loner in the future?" ”

But the Son of Heaven didn't take it to heart, and only smiled, "He has the world in his heart, not just for himself." I'm not teaching him how to disobey the yang and the yin, but teaching others to be sophisticated. How did he grow up to be alone? Don't you like him very much? ”

In the eyes of the Son of Heaven, Xu Si's teachings can certainly teach Erlang to be a gentle gentleman, but what he wants is not a gentle gentleman - the great prince Vimo is already very polite, benevolent and upright, and there are few Chinese scholars who do not like him. But for example, today's chronic disease is difficult to get rid of, the family controls the way of electing officials, and the corpse is vegetarian and wise, but the roots are deep and leafy, and it is difficult to shake. What can a benevolent prince accomplish in such a situation? The rule of the emperor has always been a mixture of overlords, and only the high-ranking families will like the king who has been educated by virtue and politics. What the Son of Heaven wants is a scheming and spicy prince.

Xu Si could neither convince the Son of Heaven nor deal with his son. It's also heartbreaking.