This wasthe first time Xia Fen came to the w.a.n.g residence.
He hadalready known he was w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s son a very long time ago, and from thesecret guards at the Xia family he had inquired about w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s past.But, the Xia family’s secret guards after all were bias towards Xia Ling Mei,not much could drive a wedge between them, Hei Zi that person was the best atlying, something which couldn’t be any more decent once it reached his mouthwould become wicked beyond redemption, therefore, at that time Xia Fen reallywanted to meet w.a.n.g Yun Feng. What happened after he met him? Maybe kill him,or perhaps directly cutting off the other person’s four limbs, tying him by hismother’s side for his lifetime.
A child’sthinking was very straightforward, but imminently, expectation and carrying itout always conflicted, more or less ruining his plans.
Afterarriving at Beiding city, Xia Fen met the old matriarch, that seemingly amiablelooking old woman rather jokingly asked him: “Would you follow your father, oryour mother?”
Naturallyhe said his mother without the slightest hesitation. As a result, helegitimately lived with Xia Ling Mei at the Xia residence, right until theother person was whisked away by w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s crafty scheme.
His motherwas actually deceived away by another man, to Xia Fen, this was simplyextremely shameful and humiliating.
He hadpreviously stood in front of a copper mirror turning his hip, comparing hisbody to that frail old man’s body from his memory. However he looked, Xia Fen’sdelicate body was easy to push over, why would his mother follow after thatthin bamboo pole?
Maybe KongXian was right, a woman’s mind is too complicated, as a man amongst men he wasunable to comprehend = =
What waseven stranger was, the old matriarch still wouldn’t let him go and find hismother. For this reason, he sneakily hung from the room’s roof beam, to addsome medicine into the old matriarch’s teapot. It couldn’t not be said, thisprocess was considerably thrilling. Amongst the young generation of the Xiafamily there were those with sharp eyes, children outstanding in martial arts,their excellence did not reek of blood from the battlefields having fought atthe risk of their lives, rather the keenness and cautiousness characteristic ofhaving tasted the edge of a knife over many years. Xia Fen had learned the artof commanding, and the majority of what they learned was the technique ofsurviving facing life or death situation.
Xia Fenstayed on that beam for three days, he had over five hundred opportunities. Inthe end, if the teacup wasn’t suddenly moved away a little, then after themedicine had been added the tea had turned cold, or the old woman kindlyoffered the hot tea to someone else, furthermore, the always composed youngladies of the Xia family would unexpectedly knock the teacup over with amischievous smile, truly an unfortunate teacup.
His packetof fine powder of croton seeds was ultimately given to the old Tibetan mastiffwhich guarded the courtyard, causing that old dog who had been constipated forquite a few days to go for several days, finally taken off duty with honour.
In thisrespect, the oldest of the Xia family youngsters gathered all the cousins whoknew martial arts, on a dark and quiet night, beat up Xia Fen ruthlessly for awhile. Of course, before they beat him up, they also forced him to drink teamixed with half a bag of laxatives, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able tobeat him.
For everygrievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor, Xia Fenwithout any guilt completely resented w.a.n.g Yun Feng.
Xia Fen saww.a.n.g Yun Feng;
Xia Fenentered the w.a.n.g residence;
Xia Fen, angerrose, and with the power of a thunderbolt falling short of the ears, rollingonto his head, he kicked w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s lower jaw out of alignment. Moreover,very refreshingly swung his arms up to punch w.a.n.g Yun Feng twice, beating theother person up into a panda.
Then, helifted both his feet and ran all the way into the rear court, shouting:“Mother, Fen Er has come to visit you!” - - half a month ago he had alreadysussed out the inside and outside of the w.a.n.g residence’s courtyard, justwaiting for today to visit and enter.
w.a.n.g YunFeng was disfigured, he had no choice but to request two days of absence,
catching the wild leopard with the complete att.i.tude of a biological father.Apart from studying at the academy, Xia Fen would immediately stay at the w.a.n.gresidence unwilling to leave.
The firsttime, no, perhaps the second time, was the day w.a.n.g Yun Feng again started tofight with Xia Fen over the position by Xia Ling Mei’s side in bed.
Strivingfor favour against his son, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was simply so stupid! The emperor whosat in the palace alone ferociously torn to shreds the latest secret report. Asthe emperor, he would no matter what ever admit he himself was actually asuffering friend of w.a.n.g Yun Feng who emphasised with each other.
While XiaFen and w.a.n.g Yun Feng was striving for favour he lived there. Every few days,when he saw w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s injuries were nearly healed, he would again givehim some more. w.a.n.g Yun Feng was deceitful in many ways, after being plottedagainst by his son he would go swaying to Xia Ling Mei, while his nose wasstill bleeding he was also able to bear the hardship with equanimity and have ameal with Xia Ling Mei at the table, Xia Fen’s legs were bouncing so much hecould jump to the roof broke his chair, he just wrinkled his eyebrows withoutsaying anything and sat in his study reading and writing memorials to theemperor, once in a while saying a few words to his colleagues who came tovisit. The weather gradually cooled, He because not very many of his wounds onhis body had healed, he stubbornly didn’t say anything, only sweating henonchalantly worked, Xia Ling Mei had a mind to ignore her son’s troubles, oneafter another she also was unable to ignore w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s trick of injuringhimself to gain the enemy’s confidence, instead compared to usual she lookedafter w.a.n.g Yun Feng even more. Xia Fen hated it so much his teeth itched, everyday he would grab his companions to utter together, next time we’ll change ourway of setting w.a.n.g Yun Feng up, only to cause the w.a.n.g residence so muchruckus no one could rest, actually more than somewhat livelier than theprevious years.
Even likethis, w.a.n.g Yun Feng did not tell Xia Fen off once.
Regardingthis child, w.a.n.g Yun Feng had rarely had so much more patience and sense ofresponsibility. Although inside the w.a.n.g residence he did not lack words andsmiles at Xia Fen, demanding extreme strictness, but once in the presence ofoutsiders, he was a benevolent father, able to forgive all the outrages of hisson. Even if Xia Fen scooped out
His Highness crown prince’s `jewels`, almostcausing the entire w.a.n.g family to be exterminated = =llll
After w.a.n.gYun Feng had taken Xia Fen back home, he began discussing with the clan leaderto allow Xia Fen to change his surname onto the family record. To everyonefamily genealogy, a child’s name was extremely important, putting a child intothe family record required the whole clan to be informed. Even though the w.a.n.gfamily at the Dayan court wasn’t as great as the Xia family, yet they also hada hundred year of prestige. Even if they had prospered as imperial censors, farfamed, making people not too fond of them.
The emperoralso did not tell people of his plans for Xia Fen, apart from w.a.n.g Yun Feng,and only those from the Xia family with some sort of plan for Xia Fen in thefuture. But w.a.n.g Yun Feng a.s.sumed a position which must allow Xia Fen to beentered into the family
records, the Xia family could also not outright object.
To the Xiafamily, they had numerous outstanding youngsters, without Xia Fen alonewouldn’t make a difference. To nurture a talented field commander, too muchmanpower and resources would need to be spent, since Xia Fen wasn’t stableenough, rather than nurturing him until he’s older then for him to change tothe w.a.n.g family side, why not just directly give up on him, again choose a naturally superiorchild, train them with great care, sooner or later they would be able to becomea person like the fifth grandfather of the Xia family. Moreover, to the Xiafamily clan leader, Xia Fen’s `fighting strength` was advantageous anddetrimental, since the w.a.n.g family was willing to take over this problem, onthe face of it the Xia family would no matter what also not go and confrontthis.
In anycase, there was Xia Ling Mei connected by marriage, the w.a.n.g family and the Xiafamily had long ago been tied together on the same rope, although it wasn’t asfar as together in life or death, even at a time of disaster they also wouldn’tbetray the Xia family in exchange for glory and splendour.
w.a.n.g YunFeng was dependable, first he personally went to the Xia family, discussingwith the Xia clan leader about the matter of Xia Fen, after receiving the otherperson’s response, then did he go and see the old matriarch with Xia Fen.Leading the child to kowtow to the Xia family elder one by one.
Xia Fen didnot know the reason why w.a.n.g Yun Feng made him do it, but faintly felt that ifhis head touch the floor, he would shatter the umbilical cord with the Xiafamily, similar to losing a bit of his unbridled advantage. He couldn’t saywhat it was, his wild leopard intuition was very accurate, since childhood hegrew up by General Xia’s side, naturally he received the Xia family’sprotection, even though he had entered Bailu academy, announcing his familyname as `Xia`. In this Beiding city, the Xia family was the empress’s parents’family, they were the emperor’s relatives, simply with a greater status andconfidence than normal, apart from making the Xia family members have animpressive reputation on the outside they also acted and spoke cautiously. XiaFen’s wild nature was difficult to get rid of, giving the Xia family troublerepeatedly, even the crown prince, seeing that his surname was Xia, only gavehim special treatment because of it, even being beaten up he refused to bebothered by it. But once Xia Fen becomes a child of the w.a.n.g family, thatprotection of the Xia family will be ruined, a mistake, would even cause thew.a.n.g family misunderstanding. Equally, going out in the future, others willonly take into consideration the w.a.n.g family’s reputation, and would not likebefore nod and bow their heads afraid of the Xia family’s power.
Before hishead touched the floor, Xia Fen had already run.
This time,only then did w.a.n.g Yun Feng really become very angry. He even sent the w.a.n.gfamily’s secret guards, surrounding Xia Fen in the entire city.
Who wouldhave known this time, the worn out child would be like a mud fish in the mud,slipping and sliding away, his short little legs were definitely seen, movingcloser to capture him, not even able to catch the corner of his clothes. Healso didn’t go to the academy, the Xia family also naturally didn’t know wherehe was.
Xia LingMei heard the housekeeper talk about this, she was also slightly anxious in herheart. w.a.n.g Yun Feng had brought Xia Fen back too easily, the w.a.n.g clan leaderalso spoke too nicely, the Xia family also agreed far too quickly, everythingwas going according to plan, instead it made her worry a little.
Thisinfluential family, any one thing was linked in countless ways to othermatters. On paper Xia Fen was Xia Ling Mei’s adopted son, but in a momentadopted son became biological son, even more w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s first son, thisitself touched upon the distribution of power in the w.a.n.g family. Xia Ling Meiremembered the issue with Wu Shi, the second branch of the family wouldn’tallow w.a.n.g Yun Feng to smoothly and rightly gain a six years old son of hisfirst wife, if this was so, the order of the other family branch’s childrenwould drop down a position. In this w.a.n.g family the difference between thet.i.tle of oldest young master and the second young master was only one word, thedifference however in treatment and position in the family was as big as nightand day. If Xia Ling Mei recalls correctly, the eldest son of the secondbranch’s first wife ought to be eight years old, because the first branch neverhad a son, that child was regarded as the w.a.n.g family’s raised as the eldestson of the first wife, the glory and pampering was more than normal.
Right nowwhat she was most worried about was, Xia Fen had unexpectedly disappeared justlike that. The w.a.n.g family, Xia family, there wasn’t even a trace in the entireBeiding city.
Xia LingMei for a split second lost her mind. She dispatched the secret guards by herside, rather like throwing a net to look everywhere, even the guards at thecity gate were questioned by the secret guards.
The quietand imposing imperial city was like a large dragon, with a red gilded bodysilently gazing at the people in the Beiding city.
AutumnOctober, the river water violently surged up the embankment, submerging a greatnumber of fertile lands, numerous victims of disaster.
At the sametime, there were complaints presented to the emperor of imperial censor w.a.n.gusing his status for personal reasons, using public office to avenge privatewrongs, accepting bribes, slandering officials memorial to the emperor was alsopet.i.tioned to the emperor’s defence table. In the same month, one after theother accounts books of the flood damage incessantly flew into the imperialcity, and in the imperial court, one by one the court chancellors targeted w.a.n.gYun Feng, each of the disaster-stricken cities and towns were places w.a.n.g YunFeng had investigated corrupt officials, of course w.a.n.g Yun Feng had beenunable to make the officials accept bribes, making false counter chargesagainst numerous officials devoted to their country in court, furthermoreprivately annexed the twice a year springtime allocated funds by the imperialcourt, thus causing the embankments to not be filled in, disaster into danger.
Numerousmouths unhurriedly, jabbing into someone’s backbone.