nashuaworldcup Chapter 362 Uncle, please take me away quickly.
Chapter 362 Uncle, please take me away quickly.
As the saying goes, dragons beget dragons, and phoenixes beget phoenixes. As Yinzhuo's son, Hongxu was destined to be no coward. When he learned that his mother was about to send him to his second uncle for tutoring, the little guy was furious. "Seriously? What kind of father are you? Am I still your favorite child?"
“Father, Hongxu, don’t go to Second Uncle’s. Look, your son is still a baby. A baby can’t be separated from his mother and father for long. Father, I want to stay with you…”
Logically speaking, a cute little dumpling lying on your lap, crying and saying he doesn't want to be separated from his father, would soften anyone's heart. But as the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father. Yinzhuo has learned his lesson. Let him cry. After all, he's a man, and crying isn't a sin.
A one-man show is usually destined to be a waste of time, and Hongxu obviously understood this principle. He lay on Yinzhuo's lap and cried for a while, but when his father ignored him, he snorted and got up from Yinzhuo. He then looked around and changed his target for crying.
"Hamafa, could you please help me persuade my father? I want to stay with him. What if I miss him after I go to my second uncle's? Just think about it, if someone tries to take my father away from you, wouldn't you miss him...?"
To be fair, the little guy knows how to find a point of entry. Just look at how he said he wanted to stay with his father, and Kangxi's attitude immediately softened. You don't have to guess that he was putting himself in the other's shoes. Kangxi even thought the little guy was right. Putting everything else aside, if someone dared to tell him that he had to take Yinzhuo away, he would definitely send him away first.
"Hey, young man, you're quite clever. At such a young age, you've already learned to put yourself in others' shoes and use fallacies. But unfortunately, your plan today is likely to fall through. First, you need to understand one thing: I'm the one who actively requested to be sent away, not someone else who forcibly took you away from me. So, I probably won't be thinking about you anytime soon. Second, you've asked the wrong person. Your grandfather can't make decisions for me. So, as long as your second uncle agrees to take you in, whether you want to or not, you have to go there today, understand?"
Hongxu may be young, but he's not stupid. Yinzhuo's words were so clear, what else could he not understand? In short, it was a forced sale.
"Hmph, Father is really the most annoying. I don't want to be your son anymore... Fourth Uncle, look, my father just praised me for being smart. How about I become your son?"
Yinzhen never expected that as soon as he came in from outside, a son would suddenly appear out of nowhere. To be fair, he quite liked his nephew Hongxu, who looked somewhat like him. If Hongxu insisted on being his son, that wouldn't be a problem.
“That would be great. Come here, Hongxu, call out ‘Father’ for your fourth uncle to hear.”
Regardless of who Hongxu took after first, he definitely inherited Yinzhuo's tendency to follow the crowd. So, upon hearing Yinzhen's words, he didn't hesitate at all, ran to Yinzhen's side, grabbed his fourth uncle's leg, and called out in a clear voice.
"Ama~~"
When Hongxu uttered those resounding words, "Father!" everyone in the Qingxi Study was stunned. Yinzhen was somewhat surprised, Kangxi was taken aback, and Yinzuo was simply furious...
“Hongxu…you really are…outrageous! You want to be your fourth uncle’s son, is that it? Fine, then don’t go to your second uncle’s today. You can go with your new father in a little while. Anyway, we’re both tired of each other. You go be someone else’s son, and your mother and I can practice playing the trumpet again. I’ll tell him stories, take him to fly kites, catch fish in the lake, and we can ride horses together. Let’s be companions in this mortal world, living freely and unrestrained, galloping on horseback, sharing the splendor of life…”
Yinzhuo was getting happier and happier as he thought about it, and in the end he couldn't even sing anymore. Meanwhile, Hongxu was clinging to Yinzhen's leg and feeling more and more aggrieved. In the end, he couldn't hold back his tears and shed them all over his new father's leg.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Logically speaking, with one person crying, another making a scene, and yet another trying to appease them all in the main hall, Kangxi shouldn't have interfered. But for one reason only, he simply couldn't hold back in the moment.
Kangxi's smile was a double-edged sword; Hongxu felt his little heart was wounded even more, so he raised his voice and his crying grew even louder. Yinzhen, who was bending over to comfort him, was so disturbed by his loud cry that his head was buzzing. He simply straightened up and gave up, thinking, "Whatever, my clothes are already covered in snot and tears, so a little more won't matter."
Yinreng made his dazzling appearance amidst this chaos. After seeing the chaotic scene inside Qingxi Study, he even ran outside to double-check that he hadn't gone to the wrong place before straightening his clothes and heading towards the flower hall.
"Father, what's going on today? Fourth brother, what did you do to offend this little guy? Why is he crying like this? And sixth brother, what's wrong with you? The child is crying like this and you don't even pick him up and comfort him. What kind of father are you? Hongxu, come here to your second uncle and let your second uncle take a look at what's wrong?"
Don't be fooled by Hongxu's earlier strong resistance to being sent to his second uncle's place. Right now, his heart is broken like tofu because of his great-grandfather, new father, and old father. As soon as his second uncle called him, he immediately let go of Yinzhen and ran towards Yinreng. Once he got to Yinreng, he immediately used the same trick again, spreading his arms to hug his second uncle and burying his face in his body, speaking in a muffled voice.
"Second Uncle, you've come to take me away, haven't you? My father, fourth uncle, and father are all bad. I don't want to stay with them anymore. Please take me away quickly, okay?"
Good heavens, his change of expression was almost as fast as turning the pages of a book! Yinzhen looked at his own mess, then turned to look at his little nephew who was already clinging to his second brother's neck and acting cute, before finally turning his gaze to Yinzu, who was standing to the side in a daze.
"Sixth Brother, how about it? Surprised? Unexpected?"
Hehe, this is such a pleasant surprise, such an unexpected result. Although the final result seems to be a perfect success, Yinzhuo feels like he has a breath stuck in his throat, unable to get it out or down, which is extremely uncomfortable.
"Second Brother, let's make a deal. You give me this kid first. Look at him, covered in snot and tears. I'll take him to the back to clean him up. Fourth Brother, you're pretty dirty too, why don't you come with us to clean him up? Hongxu is a real handful, harder to handle than a pig. You can help me with that later. If we work together, we'll definitely be able to..."