Chapter 92 Genius has nothing to do with the world of ordinary people...
For Hu Youan, this was not her first time attending the welcoming banquet held in the palace, so she was relaxed throughout the whole process. Coming to the palace was no different from going home.
Until Princess Chaoyang appeared.
During the Chinese New Year, Hu Youan had seen this princess, but at that time, she was still too young, being held in someone's arms, a tiny ball, and it was impossible to see what she looked like.
Now that he saw Wang Ji running and jumping with his own eyes, Hu Youan felt inexplicably excited.
Time passed so quickly. The king, who was still a child at the beginning, even had a child now. She also changed from an unknown slave in the harem to the great general today, with a reputation spread far and wide, known to everyone in the world.
"What are you standing there for? Hug Chaoyang. Ever since she knew you were going back to Jingchang, she's been asking the general to hug her all the time."
"I dare not. Princess Wang is a precious lady, and my hands are rough. What will happen if I drop her?"
Hu Youan's face flushed red as she spoke, and it was obvious that she was very shy. She said that her hands were rough, but in fact she didn't dare to reach out to hug.
"Chaoyang won't move. General, hold me. I won't fall!"
Chaoyang's face was also flushed. She was not shy, but excited. She was excited that the person who only appeared in dreams and stories was now standing in front of her, at a loss like the young man who knew nothing before.
"Princess Wang is very clever. The general can wield a hammer weighing dozens of kilograms with great vigor on the battlefield, so how can he not be able to hug you? Reach out quickly, you are about to get angry."
Gui Yang, who was sitting in the front row, started to joke. He and Hu Youan had worked together for several years and they had some friendship, so he spoke in a more intimate manner than others.
Hu Youan looked at the king again. Shen Zhiwei was leaning on his chin and looking at her and Chaoyang with a smile in his eyes. He seemed to be in a very good mood.
Hu Youan understood that the king was tacitly approving and agreeing, and the king also wanted her to hug Princess Wang.
Then hug me.
Hu Youan actually held a lot of children in his arms. After the city was broken, many children were scattered all over the city. Some were left behind by adults who fled as they thought the children were in the way. Others were left alone by adults who met with accidents.
There were also children who were orphans and beggars and could not escape from the soldiers, so they simply squatted in one place and waited to die.
Those children were lucky to meet Jingchang's soldiers. Jingchang's soldiers would not burn, kill or loot everywhere. Instead, they would take the children away and send them to the rear, each to an orphanage in a nearby city. The court would fund their upbringing and send them to school in the future. They would learn whatever they could and eventually acquire a skill to support themselves.
Most of those children were terrified and uneasy. When they were held by Hu Youan, some would cry and some would be so scared that they dared not breathe.
When Hu Youan held the child, she would try to relax as much as possible so that the child would not feel uncomfortable in her arms. Now she used the same method when holding Wang Ji.
Chaoyang originally thought that the general's embrace would be as cold as her armor, but unexpectedly it was very gentle and warm, and that kind of hardness gave her an indescribable sense of security.
Throughout the entire welcoming banquet, Chaoyang did not come out of Hu Youan's arms. Hu Youan had to hold her whenever he sat.
Shen Zhiwei felt quite helpless. Her daughter seemed to like Hu Youan very much. So was her daughter obsessed with looks at such a young age? Yanxia, Wen Tao, Gui Yang and Hu Youan, these people were all one in a million good-looking.
Fortunately, she is not bad looking, otherwise her daughter would probably dislike her mother for being ugly.
Shen Zhiwei pretended to cry on purpose to compete for Hu Youan's favor, but then she thought better of it. Hu Youan was a stubborn person. Her daughter was easy to coax, but Hu Youan was not.
After the crowd dispersed, Chaoyang had to get down from Hu Youan's arms.
She was almost asleep. As soon as she left the warm embrace, her eyelids drooped and she looked like she was crying. Shen Zhiwei quickly asked the wet nurse to come forward and take Chaoyang away.
No matter how well-behaved a child is, there will inevitably be times when he or she cries. A crying child is really a headache. Shen Zhiwei couldn't stand it anyway. She had no problem communicating with Chaoyang in his normal state, but she couldn't say a word to Chaoyang in his demon child state.
"Your Majesty, is Princess Wang feeling unwell?"
Hu Youan felt very distressed when he saw Wang Ji being carried away with a sad face.
Shen Zhiwei shook her head and gestured to Hu Youan, signaling her not to speak. After Wang Ji and the wet nurse completely disappeared from her sight, she spoke again, "They're fussing about sleep. Children don't know when to be sleepy. Once they're sleepy, they feel uncomfortable, so they tend to cry and fuss. Just coax them to sleep. You're not young anymore. Have you considered starting a family in a few years, after the war has subsided?"
Shen Zhiwei was not urging her to get married. She mainly wanted Hu Youan's genes to be passed on. Hu Youan was born with great strength, and there was only one woman like her in a million. Now in the military camp, there was only one Chiwei who could barely be compared with her. It would be a pity not to pass on such good genes.
If it were in the past, Hu Youan would definitely not be willing to do so. At that time, she was focused on building her career and had no extra time to think about romantic things.
Now, she was a little hesitant.
Maybe she could give it a try. It would be great if she could give birth to a daughter like Wang Ji.
But what kind of child to give birth to is like opening a blind box, it all depends on luck. Hu Youan thought about it and realized that she had always been lucky in her life. Although her family was broken up, she followed the king and finally got the title of general, becoming the first female general. Her name will definitely be recorded in history. With such luck, she is definitely the most powerful one.
So if she wants a child, she shouldn't give birth to a bastard.
"The world is not settled yet, so there's no rush to start a family. Didn't the king start a family too?"
The position of Wang Fu is still vacant.
Shen Zhiwei shrugged, spread his hands, and said very shamelessly: "But I have a daughter."
It is enough to have a child who can inherit the throne. The king's wife and harem are useless and only bring trouble to Chen Zhiwei.
Hu Youan didn't quite agree with this point of view. It was not a big deal that the harem had no master. Empress Dowager An had not been in charge for a long time. Shen Zhiwei kept Empress Dowager An in the harem like she was raising a pet. There were countless palaces in the harem, but they were empty. When he went out at night, he could only meet palace maids, and there was not a single real master.
Hu Youan still remembers his childhood when the late king was still alive and the harem was much more lively than it is now.
Of course, that kind of excitement is not a happy thing for many people.
Seeing that Hu Youan seemed to want to persuade her, Shen Zhiwei waved her hand. The wind from her palm ruffled her hair, and her hair floated freely in the air. She said, "After all, I am a woman. Men are very restless. If I enter the harem, I am afraid there will be no peace in the harem."
Hu Youan disagrees with this.
"Your Majesty is the richest man in the world and is the legitimate Son of Heaven. No matter how those people mess with you, you are still the Son of Heaven. Can they really shake your position?"
Without the bloodline of an emperor, it is absolutely impossible to ascend to the throne of the emperor at present.
Nowadays, no one shouts out the phrase "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?" to break the aristocracy's absolute monopoly on the ruling class.
"Who knows? You can know a person's face but not his heart." Shen Zhiwei didn't want to gamble on what people's hearts were like. Loyalty and love were part of people's hearts. People's hearts could change from day to day, and being trapped by them was not a good thing.
Hu Youan opened his mouth, but seeing Shen Zhiwei's determination, he said nothing more. Just as the king said, since he already had Wang Ji, other things could be put aside.
At this moment, almost everyone had left, and Shen Zhiwei did not force Hu Youan to stay. Hu Youan had traveled a long way back, and Shen Zhiwei planned to give her three to five days off to let her have a good rest.
So when Chaoyang woke up at night and looked for Hu Youan, Shen Zhiwei stopped her from making trouble and told her a different bedtime story.
The protagonist of this bedtime story is Wen Tao. Chaoyang's reaction is indifferent. He did not make a fuss about going to find the tutor like he did after listening to Hu Youan's story before.
Shen Zhiwei thought to herself that the child's fear of the teacher seemed to be ingrained in their bones. Even though Wen Tao hadn't formally taught Chaoyang yet, Chaoyang was already afraid of her.
Shen Zhiwei had no intention of alleviating Chaoyang's fear of Wen Tao. Students should respect their teachers. If a child has no stability and no one can control him, then what will happen? Moreover, if one has no respect for the teacher, he will not be able to properly learn the knowledge taught by the teacher. Shen Zhiwei did not want to raise a hopeless illiterate who has no fear of knowledge.
With Wen Tao's matter keeping the child's attention, Hu Youan actually had a good rest for a few days.
Hu Youan was a person who could not sit still. As soon as the holiday was over, he immediately started to attend court.
In fact, she had nothing to do in court. The morning court was all about government affairs. When there was no war, the generals had to take care of trivial matters. Those trivial matters were handled at the bottom and would not be brought up at the morning court. Therefore, after attending court a few times, Hu Youan felt bored.
She almost wanted to go back to the border. She had been staying there for too long and had nothing to do every day, which made her feel really uncomfortable.
Shen Zhiwei saw that Hu Youan was bored, so he simply took her to the Imperial College and asked her to be the Imperial College's martial arts master during her stay in Jingchang, teaching those students who studied all day long.
In this era, it is impossible to be a scholar who is weak and cannot even tie a chicken, because riding and shooting are all included in the six arts of a gentleman. Moreover, the outside world is too chaotic, and the current scholars advocate traveling for study. If you don’t have some skills, you may be beaten up before you go out for less than a mile.
Originally, the martial arts master of the Imperial College was a part-time official of the Ministry of War. Now with Hu Youan, he can finally temporarily quit his part-time job and devote himself to his main job.
The workload has been reduced by at least half!
Of course, after I stopped my part-time job, I had more regular work to do, so it was impossible to get off work early, but at least I didn’t have to run back and forth between two places every day.
Hu Youan looked at his former martial arts master's "saved" expression and felt a sinking feeling in his heart. Are the students of the Imperial College really difficult to teach?
She has to be careful. She is a general. If she can't even teach a few students well, and the news gets out, won't her reputation as the principal of a professional school be ruined?
She has personally taught dozens of outstanding students. It is impossible for her to be cheated by a few weaklings, right?
A genius like Hu Youan doesn't really understand the world of ordinary people, because the students in her professional school are all geniuses who have passed many tests and been selected. So she doesn't know that some people have outrageous talents in martial arts.
The students of the Imperial College are definitely the best in literature, but as for martial arts, that’s a question mark.
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