Chapter 8: Little Geniuses and Little Fools

The Long family lived in this time and space for seven years, and the dragon earned himself two completely different names. One is a little genius and the other is a little fool.

The reason why he is called a little genius is because from the moment Long Chuan was born, he behaved better than most children.

Let's start with bedwetting. This is something that all babies have experienced, both on this plane and on another plane. However, the dragon legend in this plane does not.

When Long Chuan was still in his infancy, if he needed to pee, Long Chuan would turn his little face red, clench his little fists, and kick his little legs in the air, reminding the people who took care of him at home that it was time to pee. After a few experiences, the people of the Long family quickly discovered this, so they never let the swaddling dragon urinate on the bed or in their clothes.

When Long Chuan grew up a little more and was able to complete this big thing that he had to do every day on his own, he didn't make the mistake of wetting the bed even more.

Let's talk about crying. This is also an experience that every child has experienced. However, there is no dragon legend in this plane.

From birth to the present, Long Chuan has never cried or made trouble once. Even when he was a toddler, once because Long Chuan ran too fast and hit a big bag on his head, Long Chuan never cried or shed a single tear.

Let's talk about obedience. In this regard, according to the words of the Long family themselves, Long Chuan not only behaved better than the vast majority of children, but even better than many adults.

First of all, let's talk about eating and sleeping. In these two things that bothered the adults the most, the dragon family had never been bothered by the dragon family.

After weaning, Long Chuan learned to eat with a spoon and chopsticks on his own for the first time. When it's time to eat, Long Chuan will sit down obediently and eat by himself, neither coaxing nor feeding, and not needing to be chased all over the house and stuffed into his mouth. The only thing that makes the Long family feel puzzled, no matter what meal it is, as long as Long Chuan eats to a certain extent, no matter what you say, he will not eat more. Moreover, the Long family found that the amount of breakfast, lunch and dinner meals in Long Chuan was very different.

At breakfast, Long Chuan can let go of his belly and eat two large bowls. When it comes to lunch, the amount of food in Long Chuan has decreased. Dinner was the least eaten meal for Long Chuan.

At first, the Long family thought it was strange and tried to make Long Chuan eat as much as breakfast for lunch and dinner, but Long Chuan just kept his mouth shut, shook his head desperately, and refused to eat more.

Later, the old man of the Long family tried to follow the method of Long Chuan, and ate according to different amounts during breakfast, lunch and dinner. After a while, these old people found that their bodies seemed to be much more relaxed and comfortable than before, and they couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Nowadays, this method of eating has long been adopted by most people in the Long family.

As for sleeping, in the eyes of the Long family, Long Chuan is not only extremely well-behaved, but when it is time to sleep, he does not need to be coaxed at all, and he is also very regular in terms of the length of sleep.

Before the age of five, Long Chuan slept for six hours every night. After eating lunch and playing for a while, Long Chuan had to sleep for more than an hour.

From the age of five to the present, Long Chuan has to sleep for four hours every night. After lunch, Long Chuan usually sleeps for a while, usually about an hour.

When Ryuchuan sleeps and wakes up, whether it is early in the morning or noon, if there is no other person around, Ryuchuan will quietly get dressed and play quietly.

Let's talk about listening to adults.

From the moment he opened his eyes, Long Chuan seemed to be able to understand the words of adults and understand the expressions of adults. From the faces or glances of the adults, Long Chuan seemed to be able to read their thoughts.

What the adults told the dragon not to do, the dragon never did. Or, at least, in the eyes of the adults of the Long family. What the adults want the dragon to do, the dragon will not hesitate to do, and will try to do it to the satisfaction of the adults.

Finally, let's talk about etiquette.

When Long Chuan hadn't learned to walk yet, when he saw the elders in the family, he would smile at the elders. When Long Chuan learned to walk, every morning, Long Chuan would go to the elders of the family to salute in a proper manner.

Occasionally, when someone outside the Long family, such as relatives of the Long family, or elders like Xia Qiuyu, the lord of the Acropolis of Nancheng, came to visit, Long Chuan would also salute them in a proper manner as long as he was present. As for the children who came with these people and were about the same age as Long Chuan, Long Chuan was also very polite to them.

Because of this, when Long Chuan was a baby, he was called a little genius by the Long family.

When Long Chuan was a little older, some people began to wonder if Long Chuan was a little fool.

The reason why this is so is because the dragon is too quiet.

Quietness is the deepest impression and feeling that the dragon has passed on to everyone.

The quietness of the dragon is manifested in two aspects.

First of all, from his birth to the present, Long Chuan has not spoken a word. Even a word has not been said in the Dragon Legend.

The people of the Long family have tried countless methods, but they can't get Long Chuan to speak. The Long family had to think that there must be something wrong with Long Chuan's body, so he couldn't speak until he was seven years old.

As the acropolis lord of Dongcheng, Long Zheng has a lot of resources in his hands and knows a lot of people from all walks of life. In order to find out the reason why Long Chuan couldn't speak, Long Zheng not only used all the resources at his disposal, but also entrusted a lot of people, including Xia Qiuyu, the lord of the Nancheng Acropolis, to look for doctors and capable people who could solve the problem of Long Chuan's inability to speak.

But all the healers or capable people who came to see the dragon could not find the reason. The vast majority of them, after showing it to Long Chuan, thought that there was nothing wrong with Long Chuan's body itself.

Gradually, the Long family and people outside the Long family began to believe that the problem was not with Long Chuan's body, but with his mind. After all, Ryuden can also giggle when he's happy, even though Ryuden doesn't seem to be so happy when he's really happy.

Secondly, the quietness of the dragon is manifested in his behavior.

In the past seven years since his birth, the dragon has not felt like a child at all when he passed it on to the Long family.

As the ruler of Dongcheng, the Long family is extremely large. The Long family's mansion was bigger than a small city that Long Zheng had seen in another time and space. Take the lotus pond that Long Zheng is now squatting next to him, for example, the area of this lotus pond, if it is placed in another time and space where Long Chuan once was, the area can exceed a small and medium-sized reservoir.

And in the Long family, ten generations are in the same house. The blood relatives within five generations alone add up to more than 1,000 people. Coupled with some side branches that are relatively close, among the Long family, there are as many as 10,000 people in the Long family alone. If you add the maids, handymen and others who live in the Long family's mansion, the number of people in the entire Long family's mansion has reached tens of thousands.

There are so many people living in the Long family's mansion, and there are naturally many dolls of the same age as Long Zheng. These dolls, either out of the nature of children or at the behest of the adults in the family, will consciously or unconsciously want to play with the youngest son of Long Zheng, the head of the Long family.

And Long Chuan never wanted to play with these dolls.

At the beginning, because of the orders of the elders in the family, when Long Chuan had to play with these children, most of the time he stayed silently and watched these children play some games that children often played. He himself almost never gets involved.

Seeing that Long Chuan stayed next to him and looked boring, gradually, the elders of Long Chuan's family no longer forced Long Chuan to play with other children. And those children, seeing that Long Chuan was always like a stuffy gourd, slowly stopped coming to play with Long Chuan.

After that, the dragon has become more and more quiet.

In addition to eating and sleeping, at other times, Long Chuan's favorite thing to do is to stay quietly somewhere, quietly staring at something in a daze.

For example, the dragon can face an ant's burrow in the ground and watch the ants crawl around busily, watch the ants move or fight, and watch for an hour.

Long Chuan can crouch on the ground, watch a snail crawl slowly, and watch the snail crawl a long distance.

The dragon can lie on the ground, staring at the bird's nest in the tree next to him, listening to the chirping of the birds for an hour.

Ryuden can stand next to the flowers and watch the bees burrow in and out of the flowers for an hour.

Long Chuan can sit at the table, support his chin with his hands, and look at the mountains in the distance for an hour.

Long Chuan can stay by the lotus pond like now, looking at the lotus flowers of various colors in the lotus pond, looking at the small fish swimming in the water, and watching for an hour.

What the Long family didn't know was that there were some nights when Long Chuan suddenly woke up at night, he would look out of the window and look at the starry sky outside the window, and it would be half a night.

Seven years old, in this time and space, is already the age of enlightenment. In a prominent family like the Long family, like Long Chuan's brothers and sisters, even when they were only five or six years old, Long Zheng had already asked various gentlemen in the mansion to start teaching them some of the simplest enlightenment knowledge or skills.

But because Long Chuan has not yet spoken a word, the Long family has not let any gentleman in the mansion try to teach Long Chuan anything.

Seeing Long Chuan like this, the elders of the Long family saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts. From time to time, the elders of the family would ask Long Chuan in front of him why Long Chuan couldn't speak until now. Even Xia Yuqiu, the lord of the Acropolis of Nancheng, when the Long family visited in the past two years, he no longer pinched and rubbed Long Chuan's face as before, but often sighed in front of Long Chuan's face after touching Long Chuan's face, feeling sorry for him.

Whenever the elders talked about this in front of Long Chuan, Long Chuan just showed a big smile to them, but still didn't say a word.

And in the past two years, the rumor that the owner of the Acropolis of Dongcheng gave birth to a silly boy has gradually spread. Even in the Long family's mansion, some people began to talk in private, saying that Long Chuan was a little fool who could neither speak nor play like other children, but only knew that he was often alone in a daze and stupid.

Not only that, but there was even a child who lived in the Long family's mansion and shouted "fool" to Long Chuan. Although this child was almost killed by the adults in the family in the end, and the side branch of this family was almost expelled directly from the Long family mansion by Long Chuan and other elders in the family, but after the beating, many people inside and outside the Long family had a strange look in their eyes when they watched Long Chuan.

In the eyes of these people, there is distress, pity, pity, sympathy, incomprehension, and schadenfreude.

But all this does not seem to have the slightest impact on the Dragon Legend. The dragon legend is still the quiet dragon legend who likes to watch ants move, likes to watch snails crawl, likes to listen to birds chirping, and likes to watch small fish in the lotus pond.

Moreover, in the past two years, as Long Chuan has grown a little older, Long Chuan has become more and more fond of following the elders of his family to other places in the East City, especially to follow the elders of his family to places where strange medicinal herbs, stones, and materials are traded.

The elders of the family felt uncomfortable because they were worried that Long Chuan would see the strange gaze of people outside the Long family's mansion, and they didn't want to take him out of the mansion, but they didn't know why, when the elders of the family were going to these places, Long Chuan could always know in advance. Once Long Chuan knew, he would stay by the side of these elders, showing a big smile and looking at them. When the elders of the family saw Long Chuan like this, they couldn't bear to refuse him, and under normal circumstances, they had to take him with them.

Fortunately, in Dongcheng, people outside the Long family's mansion did not dare to point fingers at Long Chuan in front of the elders of the Long family. Occasionally, there were some strange glances, and Long Chuan also turned a blind eye.

And every time the elders of the family go to these places, Long Chuan always shows a strong interest, look here, touch there.