Chapter 69 Registering the Child

However, every time, he failed to refuse.

Moreover, he didn’t know if it was Zhou Huaiyan’s illusion, but he felt that the big cat now seemed to be more sensitive than before.

“Tsk…”

The beautiful prince covered his face.

Unbearable...looking back.

But it was not a solution to continue like this. Ah Fei's belly was getting bigger day by day, and in five months, the baby would be born.

Well, how to register the household registration is a problem.

Zhou Huaiyan stroked the brush in his hand. His brain, which had been dormant for several months, finally started working again.

He was used to touching the forbidden dagger, but it was taken away by the big cat. So he could only use the brush as a substitute.

The handsome prince lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting beautiful shadows like flowers, and he thought of his uncle's last words.

[Huai Yan, live well. If possible, marry and have children.]

[If I have children in the future, I will tell them about the glorious military achievements of the Duke of Wei.]

Zhou Huaiyan once thought that he had no attachment to this world anymore, but when he was about to fall into the abyss, he found that it was not the case.

The reason he chose to stay now was not because of a child, but because someone tried every possible means and risked their own life to hold his hand tightly.

Yes.

Those who deserved their punishment must have a miserable death, but why should I die too?

Now there is no one who can threaten him or interfere with his actions.

His uncle and mother had given so much and sacrificed so much, all for his future to be safe, healthy and well.

Zhou Huaiyan cannot let them down.

He was reading a book and writing words carefully on the paper.

——This is choosing a name for a child.

For the first time, he took the initiative to practice calligraphy. After all, he had to look a little like his father.

Zhou Huaiyan is beginning to learn how to be a father and to take on the responsibilities that he should take on.

As for Ah Fei, the beautiful prince paused for a moment...

Zhou Huaiyan had thought this a long time ago. He wanted to give Ah Fei a suitable identity and keep her by his side.

He usually never goes back on his decision, but when he meets that foreign man, it seems like his bottom line and principles keep giving in.

Retreat again and again.

Even in the end, it cannot be called a bottom line or principle.

However, just as Zhou Huaiyan's plan had just begun, he encountered something unexpected.

That night, Ah Fei did not come, but outside there were sounds of fighting and the sky was lit up red by fire.

On the second day, the young eunuch Dousha came to report to Zhou Huaiyan, saying that the King of Zhenbei had some urgent matters and would come to see His Highness in a few days.

[… Urgent matter? ]

Even though the other party didn't tell him, Zhou Huaiyan could guess that the old emperor was probably up to something again.

"Open the door, Your Highness wants to go take a look!"

If it was before, Zhou Huaiyan believed that Ah Fei could solve it, but now she is pregnant......

"Your Highness, please forgive me."

Dousha knelt outside the cage and kowtowed.

"The King of Zhenbei said that if he lets you go, he will... chop off my head."

After saying that, the other party immediately ran out, not giving him any chance to speak.

Zhou Huaiyan: “….”

At the same time, the entire imperial city was plunged into a bloody cloud.

The eighth prince plotted rebellion and was beheaded by the King of Zhenbei. The second prince was found to have poisoned the emperor and was imprisoned, but he committed suicide before dawn the next day.

When this happened, the court was shaken, and the civil and military officials were terrified. Everyone thought that the King of Zhenbei was so powerful that he not only imprisoned the Ninth Prince in retaliation, but also killed two princes in a row like slaughtering pigs and cattle.

"Now it seems that he has finally developed the intention to usurp the throne."

"Those who are not of my race must have different hearts."

"But now that Duke Wei has passed away, who can still suppress him?"

"Now, among the three princes, only the fourth prince is capable of taking on the important task."

"......"

However, the Fourth Prince, who was highly expected by countless ministers, was standing in front of the door of Huiyue Pavilion.

The handsome young man had a slender figure, standing in the flying snow, like a piece of jade branch.

"Zhou Huailing, requesting an audience."

"......?"

Zhou Huaiyan didn't expect the other party to come to see him, but he still let him in.

The Fourth Prince knew that Zhou Huaiyan was imprisoned, but he had no idea that the King of Zhenbei had actually built a golden cage to imprison him, humiliating him to such an extent.

Zhou Huailing tightly grasped the golden cage, his eyes filled with hidden anger.

"I thought he would treat you well."

Zhou Huaiyan didn't know how to explain it. He could only remain silent for a moment and said,

"Actually... it's not that bad."

After all, he was pregnant with the child.

"It's not bad?!!"

The fourth prince suddenly raised his voice, his eyes slightly reddened, revealing a kind of anger that was a result of being unable to make the best of a difficult task.

"Zhou Huaiyan! You are the prince of the Great Zhou!!! You are the last bloodline of Duke Wei!!!"

He grabbed the golden cage so hard that it even made a bang!

"Now, you are locked in a cage like a toy, Zhou Huaiyan! You actually said it's okay?!!"

“........”

The handsome prince seemed to have not expected the other party to be so angry, and showed a slightly surprised look.

After all, he had no close contact with his fourth brother since he was a child. The other party was always cold, reading poetry, devoting himself to studying state governance, and even serving the people wholeheartedly.

It took Zhou Huaiyan more than ten years to confirm that his fourth brother was not a showman like the second prince, but a true gentleman who cared about the world.

So after Zhou Huaiyan confirmed this point, he always felt that it would be a good idea to let his fourth brother Zhou Huailing be the emperor.

The other party would be a good emperor, and he would just be a leisurely prince enjoying a life of wealth and luxury.

So, he looked at Zhou Huailing, thought for a moment, and finally spoke.

"Would you like to make a deal?"

"......?"

Hearing this, Zhou Huailing stood there in a daze.

At this time, Zhou Huaiyan felt that his plan was very good. It not only ensured that he would not be short of money in the future, but also that he would not be busy with a lot of trivial things, and he could also register his child.

"I'll let Ah Fei... ahem, I'll persuade the King of Zhenbei to help you ascend the throne. In exchange, you'll make me a leisurely prince, give me more gold and silver, and then..."

"——Zhou Huaiyan!!!"

The fourth prince was so angry that his handsome face turned red. He tightly grasped the golden cage, as if he wanted to punch his ninth brother who was talking nonsense right away if he didn't have the cage.

"What do you think of the throne?!"

"......chips?"

Zhou Huaiyan no longer needed to pretend. He looked at his furious fourth brother and said,

"Zhou Huailing, I know you. You have been determined to serve your country since you were young. You are both civil and military, and you have made great contributions to the flood control in Jiangnan. You are very famous. Don't you want to be a good emperor?"

He supported his face with one hand. Since he was bored now, Zhou Huaiyan didn't mind chatting with this fourth brother.

"Otherwise, among the princes now, the second prince is very much like Zhou Hongjin, suspicious and hypocritical by nature, but he doesn't have the brains of the other. The eighth prince has no brains at all, and the thirteenth prince is not even fifteen years old. Who do you think can be the emperor except you?"

"...Why?"

The fourth prince held the golden cage tightly and looked at Zhou Huaiyan with complicated eyes.

"Not you?"

"I?"

Zhou Huaiyan was surprised.

"I am a sick and incompetent..."

"Are you still going to pretend with me now?!"

Zhou Huailing had long known that his ninth brother had always been pretending, pretending to be incompetent, pretending to be stupid. When he was a child, the teacher taught him an article, and Zhou Huailing got up early every day and read at night. It took him seven days to memorize it and understand its meaning.

However, Zhou Huaiyan, who was only seven years old at the time, could recite the entire text by heart after just listening to him read it once.

In fact, it is much more than that.

"You had anticipated the flood problem in Jiangnan that year, so you deliberately arranged for Jin Cui to be by my side, right?"

Zhou Huailing did not give the other party a chance to speak.

"Even the water system map, water control talents, water control strategies, how to resettle disaster victims, and how to punish corrupt officials were all arranged by you long ago, right?"

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan said "tsk".

There's no way. Jiangnan is his base camp and all his trump cards are there. Naturally, he won't tolerate anyone doing anything tricky there.

Zhou Huaiyan was also worried that the Fourth Prince might disrupt his plans, so he had no choice but to let Jin Cui go and lead the other party along the path he had laid out.

Now everyone thinks that the annihilation of the alien race was the achievement of King Zhenbei alone, but only the Fourth Prince knows how much role Zhou Huaiyan's layout in Jiangnan played in this unprecedented war.

"During the Battle of the Northern Territory, you were the one who controlled everything behind the scenes, right? The King of Zhenbei may seem brave, but he is far...not as good as you."

In other words, no one in the world can compare to Zhou Huaiyan.

The Fourth Prince once felt a little bit competitive with his overly intelligent younger brother, but the more he got to know him and the more he interacted with him, he realized that he was not even close to him.

In the first ten years, the other party could play with the entire capital city at will, and in the next three years, he could use a game of chess to completely eliminate the threat of foreign races that had troubled the Great Zhou for a hundred years.

He is good at planning and strategizing, his wisdom is almost magical, and no one can match him.

Zhou Huailing had always thought that the first thing the other party would do after returning to Beijing was to claim the throne. In fact, he had realized this long before he discovered that the reason why the flood in Jiangnan was handled so smoothly was all thanks to Zhou Huaiyan's layout.

The future emperor of the Great Zhou will only be Zhou Huaiyan.

Because only that extremely talented young man can lead the Great Zhou to glory.

But the development of the matter was far beyond his expectations. Zhou Huaiyan was imprisoned by the King of Zhenbei, and was even imprisoned like a plaything.

At first, he thought this was another of Zhou Huaiyan's schemes. After all, everyone knew about the relationship between Zhenbei King Yunfei and the other party.

But now the Second Prince and the Eighth Prince have died suddenly one after another, and no one in the imperial city can stop the King of Zhenbei.

But Zhou Huaiyan was still imprisoned.

That's why the Fourth Prince came to see him in such a hurry today, wanting to find out what went wrong.

"Zhou Huaiyan, you can do anything easily. You are the smartest and most capable one among us. But why are you willing to give up and fall to this point?!"

Zhou Huaiyan didn't expect that the other party would have such a big filter for him. He always thought that this fourth brother hated him.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I didn't like being an emperor from the beginning. I didn't want to be forced to review memorials every day, I didn't want to sleep with women one by one every night, and I didn't want to talk nonsense with a bunch of old antiques every day!"

The pretty little prince twisted a piece of red bean cake and spoke lazily,

"Your Highness, I just want to sleep until noon every morning, play with cats and dogs in the afternoon, drink and have fun at night, spend money easily, and have a fortune of millions."

“........”

The fourth prince was shocked.

He had never heard of such...such a vulgar and short-sighted life goal.

“You…you…”

Zhou Huailing pointed at him, his fingers trembling, his pupils trembling

At this moment, the Fourth Prince looked very much like the teachers who had been angered to death by Zhou Huaiyan.

"Zhou Huaiyan! You! You obviously have a lot of skills, why......"

"Who said that if you have the ability, you have to do more work?"

Zhou Huaiyan was surprised. He felt that it was just right for a man like him who was so upright and devoted to the people to be the emperor. Although he might not be able to make the country very powerful, he would definitely be a king who could maintain the status quo.

"I am lazy by nature."

Zhou Huailing: “….”

This younger brother is really going to piss him off to death!

Since he was a child, Zhou Huaiyan has never lost in an argument among his brothers, and now... of course it is still the same.

The handsome prince was defeated by the big cat in everything except his ability to speak nonsense.

So in the end, the fourth prince Zhou Huailing waved his sleeves and left angrily.

Ah, Zhou Huaiyan is happy.

Sure enough, when people are bored, they will be happy after having a quarrel.

At night, Zhou Huaiyan, who was leaning on the bed reading a book, finally waited for Ah Fei to come. She came over on her knees and suddenly took out a box that looked very familiar.

When Zhou Huaiyan saw the square object, his eyelids began to twitch.

【This...can't be....】

Knock.

Ah Fei opened the box and took out the cleanly washed... jade seal.

"Master, Ah Fei has brought what you want."

Zhou Huaiyan: “…????”

Sluggishjpg.

Wait, no, when did he say he wanted this thing? ! ! ! !

However, when the handsome prince was shocked, the big cat climbed up his bent knees.

"Are you surprised?"

He took Zhou Huaiyan's hand and kissed the soft flesh on the inside of the beautiful prince's wrist.

"So now, shouldn't the master reward Ah Fei?"

Zhou Huaiyan was still shocked: "......."

Surprise...Scare...

The moist and warm touch slid from the wrist bone to the palm, and then his hand was guided to fall on a familiar place.

The man pressed his cheek against his earlobe.

"How about the reward start from touching Ah Fei?"

“.......”

The author has something to say:

Yan Bao, who is registering his child’s household registration: Let’s make him a prince.

Ah Fei, who is registering her child: Yanyan, let's go! Become the emperor!

The Fourth Prince: Oh, he said something inappropriate on the surface, but then he turned around and took the imperial seal!!!