Chapter 13 The number one scholar’s father is a charlatan who always wins in gambling!
Si Yuan was thinking about something and walked out directly: "Chang Qing."
Little Changqing, who was showing off his father to Li Changwen, heard Si Yuan's call, turned around happily and rushed towards him, shouting excitedly: "Dad!"
Si Yuan picked up little Chang Qing with one hand, and with a strong arm, he lifted little Chang Qing to sit on his shoulders. He asked with a smile, "Did Chang Qing have fun playing with his brother?"
Little Changqing was mesmerized by the scenery on his tall father's shoulders. He clapped his hands excitedly, "I'm so happy! So tall! Dad, I've become so tall!"
Si Yuan grabbed his waist, stretched out his arms and lifted it up: "It can be higher!" As he said that, he and Xiao Changqing started playing a little game of lifting and flying.
Little Changqing shouted excitedly: "Dad, higher! Faster!"
Si Yuan watched the green color on the progress bar projected in front of him by the system crawling forward at a speed visible to the naked eye, so he became more excited. He threw little Changqing into the air and then caught him. The brave little Changqing screamed in fear at the first throw, which soon turned into an excited cry.
Si Yuan was worried that he would damage his tender little voice, so he only played the game of lifting him up to fly with him for a while and then stopped and carried him back to the bed.
After being held in Si Yuan's arms, the excited little Chang Qing, whose face flushed with excitement, gave Si Yuan a loud kiss without hesitation: "Daddy is so great! Chang Qing loves Daddy the most!"
Si Yuan didn't care at all that there were two bystanders, one big and one small. He hugged Yuxue's cute son and kissed his cute little face twice, saying with a smile: "Dad loves Changqing the most, too!"
Li Jingyuan couldn't help but feel contempt when he saw his third brother, who had always been a playboy, getting along with his son in this way. He was indeed a playboy who didn't know how to educate a child at all, let alone establish his authority as a father in front of the child. Sooner or later, he would turn the child into a playboy like himself.
However, Li Jingyuan didn't have a good relationship with his two brothers, so he just looked down on them in his heart and was too lazy to remind Si Yuan.
But little Li Changwen's ideas are completely different from his father's. Li Changwen is still a child less than five years old. How can he understand so many big principles? He only has an instinctive desire to be close to his parents.
However, the way Li Jingyuan and Tan raised their children was very common among the wealthy families of that era. The father was a strict father, always concerned about his son's homework and criticizing him harshly, and rarely praised him. Although the mother was a kind mother, the children were taken care of by servants such as the wet nurse, the maid, and the servants. She only needed to ask a few questions occasionally and let the servants bring the child to her and tease him for a while, and she would be considered close to the child.
Therefore, Li Changwen's desire for closeness with his parents was never met.
Today, when he saw how his cousin Li Changqing got along with his father, he was so envious that he couldn't control himself and showed obvious admiration.
I really envy Brother Changqing. Brother Changqing’s father is so good to him and says he loves him the most... Why doesn’t my father treat me like this? Doesn’t my father love me as much as Changqing’s father loves Changqing?
Li Changwen's young mind was greatly shocked.
When this thought came to his mind, the progress bar in front of Si Yuan suddenly jumped up a lot.
Si Yuan looked down and saw the confusion and sadness clearly written on Li Changwen's little face, and he guessed what this young male protagonist was thinking.
Tsk, he accidentally achieved the achievement of 'other people's father', and let his cub Xiao Changqing beat the male protagonist in terms of fatherhood at such a young age. He is indeed a genius!
Si Yuan held his son's soft body in his arms, looked at Li Jingyuan with a smile, and said in the tone of an elder brother lecturing his younger brother: "Fourth brother, don't be too strict when raising your child. After all, you are the only child. If you don't love him, who will? If you love him, you have to say it out loud. If you don't say it, you don't love him. Just like I love my son, I tell him every day, son, daddy loves you the most, muah!"
Li Jingyuan's face turned green. He felt disgusted. Who with any dignity would talk about love or not, especially to his own son?
Is it necessary to say such things? What father doesn't love his son? It would be fine if both parties understood each other's thoughts, it would be too undignified to speak it out.
Li Jingyuan said coldly: "Third brother, you are too unruly. If outsiders see this, they will probably laugh at our Li family for being unruly."
Si Yuan said with a smile: "Don't change the subject, Third Brother is teaching you how to get along with your son. Look, your son wants you to say you love him, so please fulfill your son's wish. Don't be shy."
Li Jingyuan looked at his son and saw a look of longing and hope on Li Changwen's face. He was slightly touched, but more of it was anger and shame.
He was annoyed by Si Yuan's teasing, but he couldn't get angry at his brother, so he glared at his son Li Changwen and scolded him, "You don't study hard but think about these nonsense. You have changed your temperament for no reason. You are such a bastard!"
In this era, it is popular to believe that beating is love and scolding is love. Li Jingyuan feels that the harder he scolds his son, the more he is a strict father who loves his son. When his son grows up and becomes sensible, he will understand him.
But Li Jingyuan didn't expect that the child didn't understand these things at all. He only knew that other people's fathers could love and care for their sons and say they loved them all the time, but his own father only scolded and yelled at him. Naturally, he had an idea - my father doesn't love me.
When a child realizes that his father doesn't love him, he knows that he has no right to be willful. So when Li Changwen faces Li Jingyuan's scolding, he can only lower his head and endure it silently. But he can still hear the gentle voice of his third uncle comforting his brother Changqing: "Don't be afraid, Changqing. Dad loves you the most. He will never scold you like your fourth uncle, let alone hit you..."
Li Changwen felt envious and aggrieved, his eyes were red, but he lowered his head so no one could see.
Only Si Yuan guessed Li Changwen's psychological activities by looking at the progress bar that jumped forward a lot.
Si Yuan put little Chang Qing on his shoulder, raised his hand to support little Chang Qing's soft back, and interrupted Li Jingyuan's son training with a smile: "Fourth brother, if you want to educate your son, wait until you get home to educate him. Today is mother's birthday party, don't spoil the fun."
Li Jingyuan then stopped talking with an unpleasant look on his face.
Li Changwen, who had been scolded severely, secretly looked up and glanced at Si Yuan and Xiao Changqing. He looked at Xiao Changqing, who was sitting on Si Yuan's shoulder and looking down at him with an ignorant and worried look, with envy. He also looked at Si Yuan with admiration.
If only his father was his third uncle...
Si Yuan looked at the progress bar that started to move forward again and decided to make another effort. He said to Li Jingyuan, "Little Changqing just invited your little Changwen to visit our home. Don't rush to leave after the birthday banquet. Come stay at my house for a day."
Li Jingyuan felt that Si Yuan's invitation was just a weasel's attempt to pay New Year's greetings to a chicken with ulterior motives, and he immediately refused: "My wife and I will return home after the birthday banquet..."
Si Yuan interrupted his refusal: "Even if you are in a hurry to return, you can't rush right now, right? As a father, I can't let my child down, so no matter what, you must bring little Changwen to my house to play with little Changqing for a while, otherwise I will go to my eldest brother to complain."
Si Yuan spoke confidently about his intention to file a complaint.
Li Jingyuan was completely choked and speechless.
When a person with dignity meets a shameless person, the one with dignity will lose no matter how you look at it.
Li Jingyuan also knew that Si Yuan was being unreasonable, but if Si Yuan really went to Li Chengyuan to complain, they were brothers from the same mother. Even if Si Yuan's reasons for complaining were weird and unreasonable, it was inevitable that Li Chengyuan would take the opportunity to get angry and deliberately block his resources.
Li Jingyuan knew clearly that Li Chengyuan was very unhappy with his use of the personal connections of the Jingyuan Marquis' Mansion. After all, these personal connections were the intangible assets of the Jingyuan Marquis' Mansion and belonged to Li Chengyuan, the eldest son who inherited the title. However, they were taken away by him, a bastard. Naturally, Li Jingyuan had many complaints against him, so how could he let go of the opportunity?
In order to avoid such trouble, Li Jingyuan gritted his teeth and accepted it: "Okay, after the birthday banquet, I will bring Chang Wen to your house as a guest."
After Si Yuan achieved his goal, he said with a smile: "Wouldn't it be better if you were so straightforward earlier? Why do you have to threaten me before you agree?"
Li Jingyuan said nothing with a cold face, "You know you are threatening me, kid."
He silently made a note of Li Siyuan in the little notebook in his heart.
Although Li Changwen was a little worried that his father's tone of voice when talking to his third uncle seemed to be wrong, he still understood that his father agreed to take him to brother Changqing's house to play. Thinking back to the amusement park at his third uncle's house that brother Changqing had described before, he was full of expectations.
But what Li Changwen didn't expect was that as soon as Si Yuan and little Chang Qing left the small garden, his father Li Jingyuan shouted at him: "Kneel down!"
Li Changwen subconsciously knelt on the ground, looking at his father with a blank expression.
His father had never punished him to kneel before, because he had been hardworking and serious since he was young, and he was very intelligent and a fast learner. His father would at most scold him verbally, and this was the first time he made him kneel down.
Li Jingyuan became even angrier when he saw Li Changwen's confused expression. He didn't think it was wrong to help outsiders cheat his own father? What a beast!
Li Jingyuan casually broke off a branch from a nearby tree and hit Li Changwen with it, scolding him angrily as he hit him: "Do you know you are wrong?"
Li Changwen didn't understand where he had gone wrong. He knelt there, silently enduring the pain in his body, and asked in a low voice: "Father, I don't know where I went wrong. Please tell me clearly."
Li Jingyuan paused and spanked his son harder: "You don't even know where you went wrong? You deserve a beating!"
Should he tell his son directly, "You shouldn't envy your third uncle and cousin for being so close"?
Even if this was what Li Jingyuan was thinking, he couldn't say it clearly, especially to his own son.
Li Jingyuan felt an indescribable shame and anger in his heart. The envious look his son Li Changwen showed when he looked at Si Yuan and his son today deeply hurt his heart.
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