Chapter 940 The Overbearing Dragon (First Update)
The first time Xiao Yiyi encountered someone who wanted to give her a hard candied hawthorn, she didn't even have any teeth yet!
When Princess Xinyang and Yu Jin returned to their room from the flower room, Xiao Yiyi was being held in the arms of the young man in black, her little hands holding a string of shiny candied hawthorns, which she was licking noisily.
The wet nurse stood trembling to the side, not daring to utter a sound.
She didn't know this person, but she couldn't win against him.
Yu Jin was taken aback when she saw the suddenly appearing young man: "Chang Jing?"
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"My lord! My lord!"
Inside the Marquis of Xuanping's training room, Xiao Ji was leading Guan Qing in practicing horse stance when Steward Liu rushed over in a hurry.
"What is it?" Xiao Ji glanced at him.
Steward Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said breathlessly with a laugh, "Chang Jing is back! He's with the princess!"
He said "come back," not "come."
In everyone's heart, Chang Jing had long been regarded as a member of the Marquis's mansion.
Shangguan Qingchao looked over at his father, Chang Jing, that little expert in black robes?
Xiao Ji appeared calm, but his next words revealed his urgency. He told his son, "You practice your horse stance first. There's still half an hour left today, so don't slack off. I'm going over there. You keep an eye on him!"
Steward Liu hurriedly replied, "Yes, Your Excellency!"
Xiao Ji turned and left.
Shangguan Qing immediately stopped his posture and stood up calmly.
Manager Liu sighed helplessly. Wasn't it a waste to ask him to watch over the young master? How could he possibly compete with this little sesame seed dumpling?
Xiao Ji went to the princess's residence.
As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he belatedly realized that something was wrong. Chang Jing had returned and should have come to the Marquis's residence first, so why did he go to the Princess's residence instead?
"Could it be that this kid still has feelings for Qin Fengwan?"
Chang Jing was drawn to the princess's residence by Xiao Yiyi's crying, but Chang Jing's concern for Princess Xinyang was not fake.
Princess Xinyang disliked Xiao Ji, but not Chang Jing. Once, when Chang Jing was injured, he passed by a house on Zhuque Street and was seen by Princess Xinyang. She called him into the house and had his wounds bandaged.
Since then, he often passed by there injured, and after getting bandaged up, he would occasionally freeload a meal before returning to the Marquis's residence.
Xiao Ji was completely unaware of this.
Chang Jing had no mother, only seven older sisters. He felt the strength of a mother in Princess Xinyang, and he liked her very much.
When Xiao Ji entered the house, Xiao Yiyi's mother had already taken away her candied hawthorn, washed her little hands, and she was lying obediently in the cradle.
Chang Jing sat at the table eating plain noodles. He was hungry and ate with gusto.
That's not the point. The point is that there were several delicate small dishes in front of him, all of which were his favorite flavors.
There are two possibilities: one, he asked for it himself; two, the princess's residence prepared it for him.
If it's the first case, he doesn't consider himself an outsider. If it's the second case, he really isn't an outsider; the princess's residence knows his preferences perfectly well!
Xiao Ji suddenly felt that his status in the family was being challenged.
"You two chat, I have something else to attend to." When Princess Xinyang saw him arrive, she took Yu Jin to the flower room to continue tending to the newly purchased peonies.
The thunder had stopped, the sky was dark and heavy, and it looked like it was about to rain.
Xiao Ji glanced at his little girl, who was having a great time playing by herself, and then sat down opposite Chang Jing.
It's been more than half a year since I last saw Chang Jing. He's grown taller, and his brows are full of heroic spirit. He's still as young as ever.
"You ran away from home again?" Xiao Ji asked indifferently.
Chang Jing finished eating the noodles in his mouth before replying, "No. Not this time."
Xiao Ji observed him. He hadn't paid attention to him before, but today, upon closer inspection, he realized that his eating manners were quite good.
It's obvious that he's been restrained by Qin Fengwan.
After finishing his noodles, Chang Jing drank all the broth and put the bowl and chopsticks away neatly.
Xiao Ji's feelings became even more complicated.
"I came to find you," Chang Jing said, getting back to the point. "I thought you were dead, so I brought people out to collect your body."
Xiao Ji choked and gasped: Thank you.
Chang Jing continued, "After we arrived at the border of Yan, we heard that you returned alive."
Xiao Ji said calmly, "And then your father agreed to let you come all this way to see me?"
Chang Jing said, "No, he doesn't agree. I can't leave the ice field."
Xiao Ji looked at him amusedly: "Then why did you just say you didn't run away from home? What's going on here?"
Chang Jing said earnestly, "I told my father that you are my future father-in-law and that you have betrothed your daughter to me. He agreed to let me bring people to propose marriage."
"Where would I get a daughter for you—" Xiao Ji scoffed halfway through his sentence, then his gaze suddenly shifted to Xiao Yiyi, who was happily playing with her little feet in the cradle.
He jumped up, grabbed the stool he had just been sitting on, and shouted, "You dare to lay a finger on my daughter!"
Chang Jing darted to the door and explained, "I didn't know you actually had a daughter! I just said it casually!"
Chang Jing left Zhao Kingdom with Xiao Ji. Neither of them knew that Princess Xinyang was pregnant. Moreover, in ancient times, it was not the information age, so the good news of Princess Xinyang giving birth to a daughter could not reach Dark Night Island.
Chang Jing was simply looking for a strong excuse to fool his father and seven older sisters.
Xiao Ji didn't care; he was angry, extremely angry!
He grabbed a stool and chased Chang Jing through half of the mansion.
Fifteen minutes later, the two, one big and one small, stood in the garden, panting, maintaining a distance of about ten steps.
Xiao Ji had a back injury and couldn't keep up, while Chang Jing was already bruised and battered.
Xiao Ji glared at him, panting, threw down the stool, and turned back to his study.
Chang Jing pouted in grievance and followed after them with a limp.
Xiao Ji had barely settled into his study when he got up and went to the princess's residence. He picked up little Yiyi from her cradle and said with utmost seriousness, "You can only get married when you're eighty, do you hear me?"
Xiao Yiyi: "???"
Xiao Heng had just gone to have his measurements taken. The court was going to make him a junior official's robe. Only after everything was ready would he officially go to court to receive his investiture.
As soon as he returned to the manor, he heard about Chang Jing's return and how Xiao Ji had chased and beaten him. Gu Jiao happened to be free at the time, so he went to the Marquis's manor with her, where they ran into Xiao Ji, who was coming from the Princess's manor.
“Father,” Xiao Heng greeted, “I heard Chang Jing has returned.”
His father misses Chang Jing and must be very happy right now.
But his father, instead of responding favorably, coldly snorted, "Hmph!"
Xiao Heng: What kind of reaction is this?
"Is he angry with me?" Xiao Heng asked Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao said, "I think he's angry with Chang Jing."
"Why?" Xiao Heng asked, puzzled. He had just returned from outside and was unaware of the specific details.
Gu Jiao pointed to the loads of lavish gifts in the courtyard: "Those are your sister's betrothal gifts."
Xiao Heng: "???"
Chang Jing was joking, but Chang Kun took it seriously. He not only let Chang Jing return to Zhao Kingdom, but also sent Uncle Li, who had watched Chang Jing grow up, to visit with generous betrothal gifts to show his sincerity.
This was truly an enormous blunder.
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They've already beaten and scolded him; now it's time to get down to business.
The four of them sat down in the study.
Chang Jing sat on the other side of Gu Jiao, using Gu Jiao to shield himself from Xiao Ji's murderous gaze.
Xiao Ji was still angry and didn't want to talk to him at all.
It was Xiao Heng who spoke.
He asked, "Chang Jing, did you run into General Xuanyuan and Liao Chen on your way back?"
Chang Jing asked in confusion, "Why did I run into them?"
Xiao Heng said, "They went to find the Sword Pavilion by water. They set off last month, and you just happened to come from that direction."
Sword Pavilion's lair is also on an island, not far from Dark Night Island.
Chang Jing shook his head: "I traveled by land and didn't run into them."
Because they were carrying a large amount of valuable betrothal gifts, they were worried that the boxes would get damp if they traveled by water, so they chose the official road.
Chang Jing pondered, "Are they going to the Sword Pavilion to avenge the Shadow Clan from back then? If so, they might have made a wasted trip."
"How so?" Xiao Heng asked.
Chang Jing said, "The Sword Pavilion has already been destroyed."
Xiao Ji raised his eyes and gave him an impatient look: "Who told you that?"
Chang Jing said solemnly, "I didn't hear it from anyone, I saw it with my own eyes. After the spring, my father took me to destroy the Sword Pavilion, the real Sword Pavilion."
Sword Pavilion thought it was well hidden, but in fact, Dark Night Island had already discovered its exact location. However, Chang Kun was not an ambitious person. If Sword Pavilion didn't attack him, he wouldn't provoke it either.
Xiao Ji frowned: "Why did your father go to destroy the Sword Pavilion?"
Chang Jing said aggrievedly, "Isn't it all because of you? My father thought you died in the Ice Plains, so to make me feel better, he agreed to go and destroy your enemy—the Sword Pavilion."
Strictly speaking, Jianlu was not an enemy of Marquis Xuanping, but Jianlu had repeatedly attacked the Xuanyuan family, Shangguan Qing, and Gu Jiao, so Marquis Xuanping really wanted to destroy them.
“Go on,” Xiao Ji said.
Chang Jing continued, "When our Dark Night Sect members arrived at Sword Pavilion Island, they found it littered with corpses, with not a single survivor. Someone had wiped out the Sword Pavilion Sect before us. The weather wasn't hot, so the bodies weren't badly decomposed. According to Uncle Li, they were probably killed about three days ago."
Gu Jiao grunted, "Who is so powerful?"
It's not surprising that Jianlu acts arrogantly and makes enemies, but what kind of enemy could wipe out the entire Jianlu?
Chang Jing said, "The wounds on those people are all the same. My father and Uncle Li both believe that they died by the same person's sword."
Gu Jiao's eyes widened: "You mean, one person... wiped out the entire Sword Pavilion?"
Xiao Ji and Xiao Heng fell silent.
A name flashed through the minds of both father and son at the same time.
Xiao Heng narrowed his eyes and said, "Long Yi."
Ryuichi: Hehehe!
(End of this chapter)
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