As a sensible brother, his mother never beat him when he was in the cold palace, and his father never beat him after he was released from the cold palace. This was the first time he was kicked so undignifiedly, and in front of others. He might as well be beaten with a stick, at least it would not be embarrassing.
Without looking at Zhou Zeyun, Zhou Beichen waved his hand, and Deshun understood again. After taking all the palace maids away, he also considerately closed the door for them.
As Zhou Beichen watched, he felt more and more that this man still needed to be persuaded from time to time before he would work for him wholeheartedly. It seemed that he would have to check Deshun's wallet from time to time in the future.
As soon as the person left, the hall suddenly became quiet.
"Get up!"
Zhou Beichen only said one sentence as usual. Zhou Zeyun pursed his lips but did not stand up. He also had dignity.
Zhou Beichen then turned his gaze to Zhou Zeyun, who was still kneeling on the ground and seemed very aggrieved. He raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile.
"Get up. Didn't you say that your sister was injured some time ago and asked me to hit you if I wanted to? Why, I just gave you a light kick and you got angry with me? Or, do you hold a grudge against me?"
Zhou Zeyun's face turned red and his heart tightened. He remained kneeling. If he didn't stand up, his father would talk nonsense and kick him, neither lightly nor heavily. That was clearly a heavy kick and he was still in pain.
"I am not angry. Father is the sovereign and I am the subject. How dare I be angry with you? I dare not bear any grudge against you."
They said that the relationship between ruler and subject should be one, but in private, every time Zhou Zeyun saw the intimacy between his sister and father, he would be lying if he said he was not envious.
However, ever since coming out of the cold palace, Zhou Zeyun understood that there are some things that cannot be resolved just by thinking about them. His sister is a princess, and it is okay for him to be pampered by his father, but he is a prince... He and his sister were destined to be different from the moment they came out of the cold palace.
This...
Zhou Beichen lowered his head, quickly looked at his son, and said in a cold and hard tone.
"Since you are not angry with me, nor do you bear any grudge against me, then get up quickly. I haven't settled the score with you yet. One kick is not enough. At the very least, you have to..."
"Ten feet."
Zhou Beichen thought for a moment and then said this.
Over there, Zhou Zeyun, who was kneeling, was extremely depressed. He straightened his back, raised his head and looked at him stubbornly.
"I would rather be beaten with a stick than be kicked by you."
"Oh!"
Quite courageous, Zhou Beichen sneered, "The board is heavy, you can't bear it, get up quickly."
Zhou Zeyun still didn't stand up, with his head lowered, resisting his father's violence weakly.
Zhou Beichen laughed in anger, "Okay, great, today, you have to go against me, right? I thought you were a sensible and well-behaved child..."
No matter what Zhou Beichen said, Zhou Zeyun just kept her head down and said nothing, which made Zhou Beichen mad to death.
Just when he was feeling annoyed, a warm and soft voice of "Daddy" suddenly came into his ears. Zhou Beichen was stunned for a moment and his tone was not very good.
"What's wrong with you? Don't even think about pleading for mercy for him. Otherwise, I'll beat you up too. One by one, two by two, none of them will make me worry less. Your good brother is even more difficult to manage than you."
After saying that, he ignored Zhou Zhaonuan.
The little guy had no choice but to bury his face in his chest and kept talking in a flattering tone.
"Daddy, brother is still... still young and ignorant. Please don't bother with brother. If daddy is really angry, I can take the beating for brother. Daddy, beat Nuannuan, kick me too. It's just a few spankings, Nuannuan won't feel ashamed."
Zhou Beichen: “…”
"You're quite open-minded."
This made me feel a little confused for a moment. Zhou Beichen subconsciously felt that the genders of his two children might have changed.
Zhou Beichen tapped the forehead of the little man in his arms, "Alright, stop being so slick. Zhou Zeyun, get up, or I'll push the two of you out and beat you up together."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Zeyun frowned and immediately stopped working. She stood up and looked at him seriously.
"Father, no, you can hit me and kick me, but you must never hit my sister."
Zhou Beichen faked a smile and walked up to him. Just as he was about to kick him, Nuannuan immediately grabbed his collar and looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Daddy, stop. Brother has already been kicked."
It has to be said that Zhou Beichen was very angry at the moment, but no matter how angry he was, it seemed that he couldn't vent his anger when it came to Zhou Zhaonuan.
His face turned blue, then green, then green, then purple, and then gradually turned back to normal color. Zhou Beichen said helplessly as he tapped Zhou Zhaonuan's forehead very hard.
"I won't kick anymore."
After saying that, he thought about it and actually smiled. He squatted down and held Zhou Zeyun in his arms.
Said angrily.
"Look at you, you're still a prince after all. It's just a few kicks on the butt. What's so embarrassing about that? And you're saying you'd rather get a beating? In my opinion, you're worse than your sister."
Upon hearing this at first, Zhou Zhaonuan didn't think it was a big deal. She shook her head in Zhou Beichen's arms and looked at the ceiling. But Zhou Zeyun lowered his head slightly. He didn't want others to see his slightly red face.
Then I heard Zhou Beichen's faint voice.
"Hanhan, Father really doesn't mean to humiliate you today. If I really wanted to humiliate you, I would have to use very crude means. You are really overthinking it."
Zhou Zeyun looked up with a look of surprise, and Zhou Beichen smiled.
"You, you are really smart when you are smart, and really stupid when you are stupid. I only have you as my son, and you are my eldest son. In the future, you will most likely inherit your father's business. Since ancient times, a ruler should consider the people."
Zhou Zeyun agreed with his father's idea and nodded, but still pouted and refuted.
"But today, my sister and I sent people to follow him because we were thinking about the common people."
His expression darkened, and Zhou Beichen suddenly spoke in a serious tone.
"But ask yourself, since ancient times, which emperor would use himself as bait? If an emperor can't even protect his own safety, how can he protect the people of the world? Nuannuan is fine. Now she has me as her father to protect her, and in the future she will have you as her brother to protect her. But what about you? A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Do you understand?"
Zhou Zeyun was stumped by these questions, his face turning red like a cooked shrimp. His mother once said that if he liked his father's position and had great ambitions, his mother would hope that he would inherit it. But if he didn't like it, neither his mother nor his father would force him.
During the days since he left the cold palace, Zhou Zeyun saw his father killing corrupt officials and benefiting the people. He felt that he liked that position and was willing to fight for it.
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