Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Mother Su had been very pleased with Su Xi recently.
Although her daughter Su Xi had good grades before, she was not the type to study hard. Instead, she would watch TV series until late every day after school.
But recently, she didn’t know what was wrong with Su Xi. After school every day, she no longer went out shopping or sat on the sofa watching TV. Instead, as soon as she came back with her schoolbag, she rushed into the room, opened her homework book and started doing her homework.
In the first few days, Mother Su was worried that Su Xi was playing games with the door closed, so she pushed the door open several times to check on her while delivering milk.
But every time she pushed the door open, she found Su Xi really was writing the test paper seriously…! Although she was puzzled, she couldn’t help but feel relieved.
In addition, although Su Xi had fallen behind in her studies for a while due to a fracture, she still ranked among the top three in the class in the last exam. So after Mother Su came back from the parent-teacher meeting, she kept smiling and even gave Su Xi some extra pocket money.
After Mother Su closed the door, Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief and took the test paper off the screen of her mobile phone.
The phone screen was still on, stuck on the game interface.
The kid in the room was standing up and relighting the candle that was about to burn out, completely unaware of what was happening outside the screen.
She had to say, when Su Xi played this game, she felt that the cub gave her great motivation.
His diligence was far beyond Su Xi’s reach. Su Xi felt embarrassed to just complete her homework every day, so she bought some extracurricular reference books to do.
In addition, it was also a very pleasant thing for Su Xi to study hard with her son through a screen, one in a firewood house in the spring rain, and the other in a bright and clean apartment room.
…It’s like having someone fighting alongside me, so I’m not so anxious about the college entrance examination in the future.
A few days after General Yun was reinstated, he invited Lu Huan to the General’s Mansion through Yun Xiupang, saying that he and Yun Xiupang were classmates and hoped that Lu Huan could celebrate Yun Xiupang’s birthday.
Lu Huan had left some clues in the letter to Yun Xiupang.
Yun Xiupang was a simple boy without much brains, but since General Yun was able to climb to the position of a first-rank official, he was not a simple-minded person and must have been able to make some connections.
So that day, after school at the Imperial Academy, Lu Huan packed up his books and went to his house with Yun Xiupang.
——These were all within his and Su Xi’s expectations.
However, Su Xi sadly discovered that she did not have enough points, and she could not unlock the Taiwei Mansion of Yun Taiwei, so she could only watch the cub go alone.
Su Xi really wanted to go with them to see what the Taiwei Mansion looked like.
This entire game was no different from the real world. The scenery of Yan State was picturesque. When she switched the interface to Yunzhou a few days ago, she was amazed by the towering mountains and hills that looked like a fairyland, as well as the well-built flying pavilions and painted roofs. So she wandered around and visited every corner before coming back to finish her business.
…If the cub regains his status as a prince and has free time, she would really like to take him on a trip.
However, although she could not go, the system quickly popped up a general picture of what was happening in the Taiwei Mansion.
General Yun believed that the protagonist, only fifteen, couldn’t possibly have orchestrated all this, manipulating everyone, including himself, a veteran of decades. Suspecting someone behind the protagonist’s back, he subjected him to numerous challenges and tests. However, the protagonist answered all of his questions fluently. This quickly impressed General Yun, who began to harbor subtle thoughts about promoting him.
Su Xi felt very proud off the screen. The group of young people from Imperial Academy should be the smartest among the children of aristocratic families in the capital, but in her opinion, they were all inferior to the cub.
What’s more, the cub was younger than most of them.
General Yun and the Prime Minister had always been enemies, deeply conflicted political rivals. The Prime Minister was complicit in his demotion for dereliction of duty. However, the Prime Minister was the Emperor’s father-in-law, second only to the Emperor and above all others, and was no paper tiger to be easily brought down. Although General Yun had been reinstated, his feud with the Prime Minister’s Office remained. Even if a superficial peace was maintained for the time being, the conflict between the two offices would inevitably intensify.
He turned this into a euphemistic story, portraying himself and the prime minister as two subordinates vying for power in a remote county, hoping to hear the protagonist’s solution.
Su Xi thought that the fact that he gave him this test showed that General Yun already took the cub seriously.
The protagonist’s response was that while Subordinate A was currently at a disadvantage, this could also be his advantage. Subordinate B was currently enjoying a period of prosperity, but this was also his disadvantage. After all, Subordinate B’s achievements were so great that they threatened the lord, and no lord was not afraid of losing their position. Subordinate A might use this opportunity to hint to the lord, “Rumors are circulating that Subordinate B has made many contributions. Since the county is small, it’s inevitable that Subordinate B will become arrogant and rebellious. It’s better to find some way to restrain him. In addition to the county wife, marry another concubine to be favored, thereby weakening Subordinate B’s status as ‘father-in-law.'” In this way, the game between Subordinates A and B becomes a three-way game, distracting Subordinate B’s attention. Once the third person is promoted to the position, creating a rift between Subordinate B and the county magistrate, Subordinate A can rest and recuperate, waiting for the opportunity.
Su Xi outside the screen: “……!”
She felt like she was reading a history book, but after reading the text carefully, she could understand the cub’s plan.
It’s nothing more than stirring up trouble and then taking advantage of the situation to fish!
As the saying goes, if you want to gain power in the east, you must first attack the west. The emperor was always thinking about how to control his ministers. He must have been afraid that his father-in-law would become too powerful and threaten his authority. So by receiving beauties to the palace, it would seem that he was trying to disperse the favor of the queen in the harem, but in fact he was cultivating another father-n-law and dispersing the power of the prime minister’s father-in-law.
Once the situation becomes muddy and the three powers stand in a stalemate, there will be an opportunity. This was better than General Yun being beaten unilaterally now.
General Yun was delighted by the protagonist’s answer. He found it incredible that the protagonist, while so young, could possess such wisdom. That night, he summoned his youngest son, Yun Xiupang, hoping that since he and the protagonist were classmates, he would spend more time together.
Su Xi thought, as expected, even if the previous side quest was not completed, Yun Xiupang would still become the cub’s friend.
However, it would be a good thing if the cub could really make his first friend.
….
After this episode, the next day, an imperial edict arrived at Ning Wang’s mansion!
She didn’t know what General Yun said to the Emperor when he entered the palace.
It may also be that he just mentioned it casually. After all, General Yun had just made great contributions, and it was not a big deal for the emperor to satisfy his suggestions.
Moreover, the position of Deputy Director of the Ministry of War was of the fifth rank, which was not considered a high-ranking official position, let alone a lucrative one. It was originally held by princes and nobles.
In addition, the emperor had some impression of the cub who won the first place in the last hunting at Qiuyan Mountain, so he issued the imperial edict.
But – this was a huge matter for the Ning Wang Mansion, which had been in decline for a long time!
You have to know how long it had been since Ning Wang’s Mansion received an imperial edict!
Ever since Ning Wang was sent to a remote area, only women, children, the elderly and the young were left in Ning Wang’s mansion, and things were getting worse day by day in the capital.
The old lady had been anxious to send her grandsons to the imperial court over the years for this very reason. She was afraid that the Ning Wang Mansion would completely wither away before she died.
But she never expected that, just few days after entering the Imperial Academy, her bast**d grandson, would be recommended and promoted from a ninth-rank companion reader to a fifth-rank military official!
Although he was of the fifth rank and did not even have to attend court and was only a minor official for the time being, this move gave the old lady hope.
The old lady’s excitement was naturally revealed, but in the Ning Palace these days, Ning Wang’s wife and the two brothers Lu Yu’an and Lu Wenxiu were like wilted eggplants, too depressed to raise their heads.
After all, Princess Ning’s family, the Shangguan Mansion had collapsed, which meant that Princess Ning no longer had anyone to rely on.
She had always been inferior in front of the old lady, and now she was even more afraid to see her and had to keep a low profile.
There was a sad event and a happy event in the Ning Wang Mansion, and everyone in the Ning Wang Mansion was talking about it.
….
Su Xi was so excited and she’d been waiting for the imperial edict to arrive. She felt like she’d seen with her own eyes how her son, thanks to her homework help, had risen from the bottom of the kindergarten class to the head of the group. Now he could start collecting homework! How could she as his mother not be happy?!
After the imperial edict arrived, the cub was rewarded with some more things, as well as many things that the old lady asked the nanny to send.
These rewards had already filled up half of the room and several boxes. If his wealth was included in his family fortune, it was far more than what the two legitimate sons had.
Lu Huan didn’t take it seriously, but when he turned around, he heard the subtle sound of pearl necklaces and other jewels being plucked in the box behind him, and he couldn’t help but smile slightly.
…She has always been interested in these shiny things.
In the State of Yan, most officials who entered the court were in their twenties, and the earliest were no more than seventeen years old, young men from aristocratic families.
It was quite rare for someone to become an official in the imperial court at the age of fifteen and be promoted to the fifth rank.
However, since he was only a minor official of the fifth rank, he didn’t attract much attention in the capital. It was just that everyone in Ning Wang’s mansion was in a state of mixed emotions, and the students at the Imperial Academy were quietly discussing it.
….
After the imperial decree was issued and he had dinner with the old lady, Lu Huan returned to Chaiyuan and began to pack his luggage.
Officials of the fifth rank must move to the Ministry of War.
Since he was a child, Lu Huan often imagined how he would be able to leave Ning Wang’s Mansion one day.
Now, he was finally leaving this place.
He stood under the eaves, feeling as if he had escaped from the quagmire that had trapped him for years, and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the vast sky. The moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and the sky was high and the earth was far away.
Although leaving Ning Wang’s Mansion was his long-cherished wish, he was very reluctant to leave this Chaiyuan.
There were traces of her everywhere in this Chaiyuan, including the leaning bamboo forest that she had straightened, the tidy kitchen, the bright yellow rabbit lamp under the eaves, and the repaired door and roof – all these were the reasons why Lu Huan was reluctant to move to the Jingyuan given to him by the old lady.
He didn’t have much luggage, and all he wanted to take with him was related to her: the charcoal brazier, the lantern, clothes, boots, and the notes that he had carefully collected from people who had passed by him.
He took down the lantern and put all the things in a box, intending to take them with him to the Ministry of War to take up his post.
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