Chapter 14: The Prince and the Monk
Early morning on December 31.
Several main roads and streets in the imperial capital have already been lit up.
All the people in the imperial capital know that there will be a grand celebration in the palace tonight.
According to the tradition of the Dyin Empire, every New Year's Eve, there will be a grand banquet in the imperial palace, which is held by the emperor and attended by real noble ministers and royal families.
And just last night, two decrees came out of the palace.
First, the Flying Tiger Legion entered the city to assist in defense. The other is that all parents and children must attend the banquet.
Early in the morning, Zhao Jianfei went out of the city, personally brought the 10,000 Flying Tiger Legion into the city, handed over the rest of the work to the deputy, and returned to the mansion.
In the courtyard, Hua Xia Jiu was waiting for the maids, and he was a little helpless to eat too early. Sent everyone out, and left everyone in the house, frowning and pondering.
After three years of deduction and calculation, he finally came up with a way to combine the five True Yuan Lakes into one when he turned into a pill, which could make them reach the size of 10,000 mu. Although this method is not 100% certain, there is also confidence in all directions. What is missing now is a place for him to turn into pills.
Every time he thinks of this, Hua Xia Jiu feels helpless, and he can't wait to grow up now.
In addition, there is another thing that makes him a little embarrassed, and he doesn't know how to solve it.
Not far from his own mansion, there was a more luxurious and spacious mansion, which Hua Xia Jiu knew was the younger brother of the Emperor of the Dayin Empire, the only prince in the empire.
Seven days ago, a monk of great strength came to the prince's palace. In the past three years, this person has entered the prince's palace every year to stay for a period of time, and has concealed his cultivation in an extremely subtle way.
Because there were very few monks in the imperial capital, except for the occasional entry and exit of the national teacher, there were often no monks for a long time. Therefore, as long as a monk appears, Hua Xia Jiu will focus on him, on the one hand, he wants to take the opportunity to learn about the situation in the cultivation realm of the True Fan Great World, and on the other hand, it is also for his own safety, in case a real master discovers his existence.
Therefore, what this monk in the middle of the out-of-body period and the prince said and did, Huaxia Jiu was very clear. Including what might happen tonight.
Although Hua Xia Jiu didn't care about mundane things, he also knew that according to the practice of the past six years, his father would take his mother to the year-end celebration banquet tonight. Therefore, he was a little worried about the safety of his parents. Come to think of it, only by following your parents can you ensure your parents' absolute safety. But in the past six years, his image of being an idiot and a waste has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he has not even said a word in front of people so far. In this case, he wants to attend the banquet with his parents, and it will be difficult to achieve his goal unless he casts a spell and forcibly changes his father's mind.
However, casting spells on his parents and younger brother to forcibly change their minds, although there is no harm to them, even for their safety. Hua Xia Jiu was unwilling to do this.
Just when he was a little impatient to prepare to quietly hide his figure and follow his parents to the banquet, his personal maid Qiu Xiang knocked on the door and said that the general had summoned him.
As long as Hua Xia Jiu is willing, he can easily master the big and small things in the entire imperial capital, but he generally never pays attention to the mundane things. Therefore, he did not know that there was a decree in the palace that all the children of the family must participate.
Therefore, when the general wanted to summon him, Hua Xia Jiu was a little surprised and confused. Because he hadn't seen his father for half a year, except for his mother and his younger brother who came to visit him regularly. And General Zhao has never summoned his eldest son.
Zhao Jianfei looked at his eldest son with a calm expression, and stepped into the house steadily, his expression was full of complicated emotion, and even there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.
When he first saw his son three years ago, he was amazed at the perfection of his countenance, and at the calm with which the great landslide had collapsed before his eyes.
Now three years have passed, his eldest son is six years old, his appearance is even more perfect, beautiful to the extreme, and his skin is like crystal white jade, without the slightest flaw. It seems that the whole person does not belong to the world.
Moreover, he saw clearly just now that this kid had a calm face before entering the door, and even seemed a little indifferent. It wasn't until he entered the door and saw the lady next to him that a trace of softness and warmth appeared on his face.
Zhao Jianfei was used to his eldest son's indifference to him, and he didn't care about it. It's just that the thought of taking this kid with me tonight will inevitably bear some strange stares, and even be secretly laughed at in my heart, and I feel a little unswerving.
"Brother!" Three-year-old Zhao Xuan had a tiger head, but his body was already comparable to the body of an ordinary four or five-year-old child, and when he saw his brother coming in, he shouted, let go of his mother's calf, and ran towards Huaxia Jiu, whose calf was not slow, but extremely stable.
Seeing this, a trace of warmth appeared in Hua Xia Jiu's heart, first respectfully saluted his parents, and then held his younger brother who ran over and rubbed his younger brother's head. The latter showed a look of extreme dependence on intimacy.
Since Hua Xia Jiu hugged his younger brother once in his mother's bedroom two years ago, the latter has shown great affection to Hua Xia Jiu, and he wants to play with his brother whenever he has time. Even in the past six months, after learning to walk and recognize the road, every two or three days, he will run to Huaxia Jiu to play. No one, including the general's wife, could stop him from changing his mind.
The general's wife felt very relieved and warm when she saw the brothers getting along so harmoniously. Even the great general, who thought that he might be ridiculed at tonight's banquet, was a little relieved when he saw this, but he watched his six-year-old eldest son rub his three-year-old second son like an elder, and while he felt funny, he always felt a little nondescript. On the contrary, it seems that the general's wife is not the first time to see her, not only is it not strange to see it, but she feels that the two children are very cute.
In fact, this kid looks normal except that he can't speak and can't practice martial arts, why did the national teacher say that he was an idiot back then?
Zhao Jianfei looked at Hua Xia Jiu, sighed, and said, "Chen'er, tonight you go to the palace with your father to attend the imperial year-end celebration banquet." This is your first time attending a banquet, and you'll have the butler teach you some etiquette later. You have to study hard, and don't be ashamed of your father when the time comes. β
When Hua Xia Jiu heard this, he was a little surprised in his heart, but his eyes lit up, and the matter he was worrying about was solved so easily. He didn't think much about why his father was bringing him to tonight's feast, because it didn't mean anything to him.
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