Chapter 262 Shut your jinxed mouth
"Li Junping! Hug me!"
Meanwhile, Li Junping had just been called out of the academy. When he saw Jiang Nuanzhi, he breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to ask Jiang Nuanzhi about what happened yesterday when he bumped into Xuan Ting, who was looking at him with a pitiful expression.
Ping'er subconsciously took several steps back, looking at Xuan Ting with a surprised and uncertain expression. But then she saw Xuan Ting stretch out both arms and run towards her, as if he really wanted her to hug him.
Li Junping was stunned and couldn't dodge in time, so he was tightly hugged by Xuan Ting. He tried to push him away twice but couldn't. He just looked at the goosebumps on his body with a speechless expression and said, "Xuan Ting, if you're sick, go see a doctor."
This kid, just the other day he secretly ate the sweet and sour pork in my meal and replaced it with dried radish. He even stole my blanket and wrapped it all over himself in the middle of the night. I complained about him, saying he never smiles and has a stern face that's annoying. I don't know what's wrong with him today.
Xuan Ting cried, tears streaming down his face, and patted Ping'er's back several times with his little hands: "My good brother, we have to part ways now. From now on, I will never steal the meat that Aunt Nuan brought you again, waaaaah. You silly boy, you didn't even notice when I replaced your meat with dried radish. What will you do now? You must eat more, grow taller and stronger, and take good care of your younger siblings, and be filial to Aunt Nuan and Master! I'm leaving the house to you while I'm gone, waaaaah."
Li Junping: "."
He already knew about the dried radish, okay? In fact, everyone in the family knew. So who's the idiot here?
Li Junping was initially quite disgusted, especially seeing the hand that had just wiped his nose now patting his back. This kid, was all that polite behavior he displayed when he first came to his house just an act?
After processing his words, Li Junping frowned: "You're leaving?"
At that moment, she looked at Jiang Nuanzhi beside her questioningly.
Jiang Nuanzhi nodded, then gestured for him to look at the carriage behind him.
Ping'er understood the key point almost instantly. After a while, she awkwardly patted Xuan Ting twice, saying, "Alright, stop crying. When I take the imperial examination, I will go to the capital, and we will meet again."
Xuan Ting coughed several times after being slapped twice by Ping'er, and his crying stopped abruptly. The next second, he looked at him with tears in his eyes: "But... what if you don't pass the county-level exam and can't participate in the imperial examination?"
Ping'er: "."
"Shut your mouth!" These words were practically squeezed out between clenched teeth.
"Yes, yes, I'm a jinx. I'll pray every day that you pass the exam, so that Aunt Nuan, Master, Baozhu, and Xiao Er can all come to Kyoto to find me."
After thinking for a moment, he hesitated and patted Ping'er's shoulder: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. It's okay if you don't pass the exam. I'll come back to find you guys then, sob sob sob." As he said this, he became more and more sad.
Xiao Er and Xiao Baozhu exchanged a glance, and both sighed in unison. Xiao Er finally took his sister's hand and walked over: "Don't worry, we'll try our best to see you too."
Baozhu nodded: "Brother Xuanting, if you really miss us, please write us a letter!"
"Yes, write letters! You must send me letters! Every day!" Xuan Ting's eyes lit up.
"Isn't that a bit too much every day?" Ping'er said.
Xuan Ting's big, dark eyes widened, and his high ponytail trembled three times: "Li Junping! We're about to separate, don't you miss me!"
Ping'er: "."
Jiang Nuanzhi was immediately charmed by the bewildered looks on her little ones' faces.
Looking at the furious Xiao Xuanting, she couldn't help but chuckle. She was certain that this moment would be a dark chapter in his life when he became emperor.
As I watched, I couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.
In the original novel, Xuan Ting and Ping'er were on completely different sides. Xuan Ting doted on his younger sister, who was also the female lead in the original story and Xie Liangchen's future wife. She was the fake princess who was switched at birth.
Xiao Xuanting even harbored secret feelings for the fake princess, and naturally disliked Xiao Er, who was a sycophant to the fake princess. He had little genuine affection for Baozhu, only superficial feelings. In the end, he even hated his sister Baozhu to the core. When Baozhu plotted against the fake princess and suffered the consequences, dying in a dilapidated temple, he passed by without even glancing at her, and didn't even agree when the servants asked if he wanted to collect her body.
The children are getting along quite well now. Even if they follow the same path as in the book in the future, at least they will cherish the friendship they had as children, and things shouldn't turn out as tragically as they did in the original story.
"Nineteen, what do you think they're saying when they're hugging each other?"
Behind him, An Dehai had been following the donkey cart all the way. Now, looking out the window, he seemed somewhat wooden: "What is it that you've been talking about for so long and still haven't finished?"
That little rickety donkey cart had just a dilapidated canopy on top. He saw that His Highness's good face was exposed outside, and his face was red from being exposed to the sun. Yet, His Highness was chatting enthusiastically with that woman and two little kids. Now it was even more exaggerated, with all of them huddled together. If His Highness's face wasn't the same as before, he would have suspected that His Highness had been switched at birth.
Fortunately, these commoners knew their place and didn't make any unreasonable demands of His Highness. If they had, Andehai felt that his Highness would have emptied his house and given everything away.
"Your Highness doesn't know what you're talking about either, but it's probably just some farewell talk, right?" Nineteen scratched his forehead.
"You remember?" An Dehai said with a strange look, "His Majesty once said that His Highness is taciturn and unpredictable. He has an unfathomable personality. Do you think His Majesty would still have made such a comment if he knew that His Highness was like this?"
Nineteen scratched his head blankly again: "I don't know, sir. It's getting late. The men we brought are waiting outside. Do you think we should urge them? If we're any later, we might find them empty-handed and unable to meet up with His Majesty and the others, which would be bad."
An Dehai lay there motionless, his tone carrying a faint sense of death as he said, "You're right, I'll order you to urge them right now."
Nineteen was dumbfounded: "My lord, I... I can't do it, His Highness won't listen to me either."
Andehai continued calmly, "Oh, so Your Highness will listen to me?"
The two remained silent for a long time. Finally, Nineteen got out of the carriage and walked up to him with a stiff upper lip: "Your Highness, it's really getting late. There seem to be people in the academy. If we delay any longer, it might cause trouble."
No matter how reluctant the children were, Xuan Ting finally got into the carriage.
To prevent the previous situation from happening again, as soon as Xuan Ting got into the carriage, An Dehai ordered Nineteen to leave immediately on horseback.
As everyone watched his carriage disappear into the distance, a sense of melancholy washed over them.
"Ah Nuan, he'll be alright, won't he?"
Ping'er couldn't hide her worry as she recalled the many crises that had befallen Xuanting.
(End of this chapter)
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