Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Due to the heavy rain in Beijing for several days, the greenhouses on the farm began to work and the crops planted began to sprout rapidly.
Su Xi would switch the interface from time to time, help turn the soil, and throw in some 100% effective fertilizers and other items exchanged from the mall.
Changgong Wu was amazed every day at why the crops in the greenhouse grew more amazingly than those in other farms, so he had to ask Lu Huan for some more silver and increase the number of workers he hired from thirteen to twenty-six.
The farm was running smoothly, but Lu Huan was unable to go out for horse riding and archery due to heavy rain. The subjects taught at the Imperial Academy had also been adjusted, and today they were teaching court etiquette.
This course was very boring. Except for the low-key and law-abiding Second Prince, and the princes who had to attend class, the playful and lustful Third Prince and the self-righteous Fifth Prince always skipped this course.
Although the Fifth Prince did not come, Lu Huan, as the Fifth Prince’s study companion, had to come and record the homework in the scroll and give it to the Fifth Prince in due time.
The princes and sons of high-ranking officials who came to class were also sleeping soundly. Anyway, Lu Huan from the Ning Wang Mansion had the notes.
Over the past few days, several scholars at the Imperial Academy had started liking the Fifth Prince’s study companion very much because he was diligent and intelligent and could answer all questions fluently.
But today the situation seemed slightly different.
Several sleeping princes suddenly heard a slap on the podium. The etiquette instructor, Shangguan was pale as he shouted, “Lu Huan, get out of here!”
Su Xi, who was doing homework outside the screen, was also startled. What happened?
She tugged at the cub’s sleeve.
Lu Huan lowered his eyes and glanced at his left sleeve, indicating that everything was fine.
He raised his eyes and looked at the scholar Shangguan on the podium. There was a hint of coldness in his dark eyes, and no expression on his face. He did not refute and walked straight out of Guangye Hall.
It was still raining heavily outside!
Several princes were confused as to what had suddenly happened. One who was awake whispered to the person beside him, “Master Shangguan just said that Lu Huan handed in a blank paper, so he flew into a rage and sent him out in the rain.”
“How is that possible? You and I both copied from him, so Lu Huan couldn’t have handed in a blank paper either. If he had answered, the paper would have been perfect.”
Another person muttered strangely, “The two princes of the Ning Wang Palace who came to the Imperial Academy to study with us were one mediocre and the other stupid. Their third brother, although a bast**d, is incredibly intelligent. Perhaps all the intelligence of the Ning Wang Palace went to this bast**d.”
One of them had figured out something, as his brain was quick. He stretched his neck and whispered to the first two people, “You don’t know, Shangguan Xueshi[1] is the father of Princess Ning——”
“Oh.” The first two people finally reacted.
This turned out to be a family matter.
No wonder since Shangguan Xueshi came in today, he kept staring at Lu Huan who was sitting in the back, as if he wanted to skin him alive.
Although the princes had been happily copying Lu Huan’s homework recently, they couldn’t say anything about this. Who made Lu Huan born into a poor family, and moreover a bast**d?
Sigh. Looking outside again, they saw Lu Huan being driven out alone. The two people who had invited him to the brothel last time felt a little sorry for him.
The eaves outside Guangye Hall are extremely narrow, and no matter how you stand there, half of your body would get wet.
But at this time not a drop of rain fell on Lu Huan.
He looked up and saw a huge leaf inexplicably appear above his head. It was like an umbrella, hanging on the eaves, just blocking all the rain on his head.
Raindrops flowed down the huge leaves, forming a string of beads.
Lu Huan felt a sense of solid warmth in his heart.
He took the giant leaf and explained to the void in a low voice, “Princess Ning returned to her parents’ home a few days ago, and this Shangguan Xuehsi is her father. Don’t lift the leaf, your hands will get tired, and don’t get wet in the rain. Come in with me.”
Lady Ning Wang was always gritting her teeth over the fact that Lu Huan had received the old lady’s attention, and she wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge. For the time being, she couldn’t find a way to target Lu Huan, so she asked her father to come.
Su Xi took the cub’s left hand and gestured, “Oh, I see,” and then she squatted under the leaf too.
But she felt a little depressed. The cub was so well behaved, so why did someone always find ways to bully him? If she hadn’t been online while doing homework today, the cub would definitely have been caught in the rain again.
She felt a little distressed, but when she saw the baby under the eaves, with his head slightly tilted up, looking at the heavy rain, his chubby face did not seem to show any sadness, but looked leisurely and peaceful instead.
Lu Huan had been caught in countless rains in the past fifteen years, such that it seemed absurd and ridiculous to say it out loud. However, the rain he was caught in today made him feel happy.
He felt the ghost still beside him, who seemed to be upset because he had been bullied, and did not hold his hand. So he whispered, “Don’t worry, I have my own way. I will tell you when I get back.”
There was no way out. Su Xi outside the screen switched the interface to Guangye Hall. Seeing the old man Shangguan Xueshi still talking seriously about etiquette on the podium, she felt furious. No matter what the cub could do, she would teach the old man a lesson first.
Just as Shangguan Xueshi was about to teach the next part of the content, his eyebrows suddenly moved and he felt something above his head make a “creaking” sound.
He subconsciously raised his head, but his pupils suddenly shrank. He saw that the tiles above his head were shaking, perhaps due to the heavy rain for several days or something. In any case, as luck would have it, the beam above his head suddenly could not bear the weight of the tiles.
“Bang!” The glazed tiles fell down suddenly with a crackling sound. He was almost scared to death. He screamed and dodged to the side, but he tripped and fell. He couldn’t avoid it in time and got a bump on the head.
After the tiles fell, the heavy rain outside suddenly came down, washing away the tile dust on his body in an instant, and soaking him like a drowned chicken.
He was nearly knocked unconscious.
Now, the drowsy princes in Guangye Hall could no longer sleep and stared at the scene in front of them in amazement.
Someone hurriedly shouted, “Quickly call the imperial physician! Shangguan Xueshi has fainted!”
Guangye Hall was in chaos. Lu Huan was still standing outside. Even if he hadn’t gone in, he knew what was going on. He tried hard to suppress his laughter, but it was still hard to hold back, and his eyes and eyebrows were shining.
He had long been accustomed to these difficulties and did not feel humiliated. Instead, he had already thought of other ways to eliminate future troubles.
But she seemed to feel particularly sorry and angry for him every time, and she immediately wanted to take revenge on him.
Now that he thought about it, the incident in which the two servants in Ning Wang mansion claimed that the kitchen was haunted, and Lu Wenxiu inexplicably pushed the old lady into the stream, were probably all incidents in which she taught those people a lesson for him.
Lu Huan felt a little warm in his heart, and couldn’t help but ask in a low voice: “Are you on my left or right?”
Su Xi outside the screen dealt with the old man who bullied the cub and then switched the screen to outside Guangye Hall. Seeing the cub asking her this, she casually pulled the cub’s left hand.
Then the cub moved the huge leaf from his right hand to his left hand, and pushed it to the left, as if the two of them were really standing under the umbrella.
She:”……”
Poor baby, he doesn’t know that his old mother is not under the umbrella.
The baby looked to the left, as if staring at a non-existent person in the void.
Somehow, as if feeling too close, his earlobes gradually turned a bit red.
So he tensed his expression, quietly moved his feet, and stood a little to the right. Then he held his head high and chest out, trying his best to make himself look more handsome from the side.
Su Xi: “…”
As a result, the cub accidentally got half of his sleeve wet in the rain, but he didn’t care.
Su Xi was a little worried. During the previous question and answer session, she accidentally misled the cub and made him think that she was a ghost accompanying him.
Initially, Su Xi didn’t think it was a big deal. After all, she had always been by his side, both on and off the screen, no different from a ghost or god.
But until recently, Su Xi quietly discovered that the cub had started reading some books on divination and spiritualism, as if he was trying to find a way to take her place…
When Su Xi saw it, she was shocked.
He was happy now because he still had hope in his heart, thinking that one day she would appear in front of him.
But if one day he found out that this was simply impossible, would all his desires be shattered?
Su Xi was a little uneasy but tried not to think about it for the time being, as there were more important things to do.
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[1] “Xueshi” (學士) most commonly refers to a highly regarded official or scholar within the imperial Chinese system, particularly those associated with the Hanlin Academy, a prestigious body responsible for drafting documents and serving as scholarly advisors.