Huo Chengche withdrew his gaze and replied, "Of course, the wolf's evil deeds quickly alerted the hunters. The hunters came, drove away the wolf, rescued the babies, and taught the babies how to deal with the wolf."
"Wow! Uncle Hunter is amazing! What about that cowardly teacher?" the little boy asked.
Jia Wen immediately broke out in a cold sweat, trembling with fear and unease.
Huo Chengche did not answer immediately this time. He gently patted the little boy's back and pretended to think.
Seeing her older brother, the prince, deep in thought, the little dumpling immediately nestled quietly in his arms, obediently waiting for him to remember. Her bright, dark eyes blinked as she looked at him, clearly waiting to hear the ending of the story.
Huo Chengche looked at his adorable little darling and rewarded her by gently pinching her nose. "When we get back, your Crown Prince brother will have the kitchen make some candy for you."
"Yay!" The little dumpling immediately smiled and dimpled, then snuggled into the arms of the prince, rubbing his soft little face against the boy's neck.
The young man was in a great mood after his little wife threw herself into his arms. He curled his thin lips into a smile. Jia Wen, who had originally planned to wait a while, looked much more pleasing to the eye now, so he decided to be merciful and let him go ahead with the plan.
"Those who are not fit to be teachers should, of course, resign from their positions and let other teachers teach the babies," Huo Chengche said slowly, ending the story.
The little dumpling listened to the ending with satisfaction, and said in a sweet, childish voice, "Oh, I see." Then he tilted his little head seriously, seemingly thinking about something adorable.
Huo Chengche looked down at his little dumpling, whose dimples were soft and round, and whose eyebrows were curved. He clearly liked the ending of the story.
Jia Wen was sweating profusely, and the breath he had been holding in had suddenly risen to his throat. Only after hearing Huo Chengche's words did he finally relax.
Resign? Resign, resign! That's good, that's great! Resigning is so much better than... so much better...
Jia Wen's face was deathly pale. Clearly, these two short stories had terrified him. He collapsed to the ground, wiping away cold sweat, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
Huo Chengche glanced at Jia Wen, a cool smile curving his thin lips, and asked in a languid voice, "Which of these two stories does Magistrate Jia prefer?"
Which would you prefer: execution of your entire family or resigning from your official post and returning to your hometown?
Without a second thought, Jia Wen immediately replied, "I resign! Your Highness, I will... I will draft a memorial and submit it to the court. It is because I am cowardly and afraid of trouble that I allowed evil people to plunder children and bully the people..."
At this point, Jia Wen glanced at Tong Youlin and suddenly realized who Huo Chengche was trying to protect by telling this second story.
"Yes, yes! The villagers in Deshan Village, it was I who instructed them to hide in the mountains! I feared their power and helped them commit evil, which is why I declared them to be ruthless bandits and unruly people!"
Jia Wen wisely understood the implication in Huo Chengche's story and excluded all the villagers from Deshan Village.
Huo Chengche looked at Jia Wen's disheveled appearance with tears streaming down his face, snorted coldly, and waved his hand, "Since Magistrate Jia knows what to do, then do it."
"Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty, I'll go right away!" Jia Wen, feeling as if he had been granted a pardon, scrambled away with his yamen runners. Although he stumbled and rolled a couple of times every few steps, he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
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