jdhmnovel Chapter 1042: No Flying, No Sounding
Chapter 1042: No Flying, No Sounding
"Your Highness, what are you talking about..." When Gangzi heard that his master actually took the initiative to bring this up, he immediately... became even more pleased: "As a servant of the Dou family, I have worked hard for the master and planned for him, and I worry about my duties day and night. This is my duty..."
"You are getting more and more outrageous." His Royal Highness the King of Chu felt that Gangzi was now almost catching up with Xie Gong in terms of abstraction: "So... Gangzi, tell me, is this change good or bad?"
"It's hard to say." Yuan Tiangang frowned when he heard this: "After all, there is Your Highness the Prince of Chu, the greatest and only one in history-"
"Shua!" Just when Gangzi was talking excitedly, Li Chunfeng, who had been following behind them quietly, suddenly stepped forward and hit his senior brother on the head with his whisk: "Senior brother, stop talking..."
"Hahaha, Chunfeng, well done!" Upon seeing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu immediately gave him a thumbs up and said, "This king needs a good retainer like you."
"Your Highness, thank you for your compliment, but I will definitely work hard to make your compliment well-deserved in the distant future." After Li Chunfeng finished speaking, he bowed solemnly to His Royal Highness the King of Chu.
“Chunfeng, there’s no need to do this.” Upon seeing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu took a few steps back, hugged the other’s shoulders, and then said softly: “The art of fate is illusory. It’s not that I don’t believe it, but I don’t intend to pursue it.
As the saying goes, "Heaven has its own laws, it does not exist for the sake of Yao, nor does it perish for the sake of Jie." Everything has its own laws of operation. The world will not always be peaceful because of a wise king like me, nor will it always be in chaos because of a tyrant like my father. Therefore..." (Note 1)
"Your Highness, please don't be so 'so'..." As a retainer of the Dou family who had little contact with His Highness the Prince of Chu, Li Chunfeng now had a style of "being independent from the world" among the retainers of the Dou family. So even though he knew that His Highness the Prince of Chu was playing with abstraction, but... this was a bit too abstract: "I'll tell you the truth - Your Majesty is truly an emperor who will be remembered for thousands of years..."
"What about me?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu raised his eyebrows and continued to ask.
“It’s hard for me to say…” Li Chunfeng ignored the warning from his senior brother Yuan Tiangang and the majesty that suddenly emanated from Zhang Zhenxuan, and continued calmly: “After all, there is no record of a wise king like your Highness in history books…”
"Is that so..." After hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was silent for a while, and then said, "Does that mean that there has never been a wise king like me?"
"I only acknowledge the four words 'unprecedented'..." As a high-ranking Taoist, Li Chunfeng has his professional ethics and moral bottom line.
“That’s fine.” His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu said nonchalantly, “Well, I’m a prince, and my father is the emperor—in this competition, he’s better than me.
But at the same time, this king is unprecedented, while that tyrant king has existed before. This means that this king has defeated him in a different way.
In other words, I am on par with my father.
Therefore, my father is the greatest emperor of all time, which means I am the greatest emperor of all time."
I have to say that His Royal Highness the King of Chu is a genius.
"..." At this moment, not to mention that Li Chunfeng was too lazy to speak, even Zhang Zhenxuan, who had originally intended to increase the intensity of Li Chunfeng's words and make him change to a gentler one, felt...
Forget it, he and His Highness have always been of the same mind.
"Great! Great!" Only Yuan Tiangang was amazed at the amazing wisdom of His Royal Highness the King of Chu: "Your Highness, you are worthy of this!"
“Is that so?” His Royal Highness the King of Chu looked at the thumbs up from Yuan Tiangang and said with great pride, “I have always been criticized by the world, but do you know that there is a kind of bird that does not fly or sing for three years, just like… just like when I first came to Chang’an, it was ‘although it did not fly or sing’, but——” (Note 2)
"Your Highness, you know how to find allusions." Although His Highness the King of Chu's voice was not loud, his retainers all knew what kind of person he was. So people like Wang Xuance followed behind the King of Chu early on, ready to remind this old man not to indulge himself too much.
But it must be said that Wang Xuance's tolerance for the King of Chu was basically the same as Zhang Zhenxuan's, so even if His Royal Highness the King of Chu used two inequalities between "the wise king of Chu" and "the greatest emperor in history" to finally come up with an abstract equation, he could still tolerate it.
But when the King of Chu brought up the story of the previous King of Chu, King Zhuang of Chu, intending to highlight his own extraordinaryness.
Wang Xuance knew that this old man probably did not understand what happened to King Zhuang of Chu, so he decided to step forward and stop him from continuing to "teach others a lesson."
After all, this thing... is very metaphysical. It would be so embarrassing if it turns out to be a prophecy.
"Xuan Ce, I know what you are afraid of." His Royal Highness the King of Chu looked at his brothers and sisters who had already boarded the carriage in the distance. He smiled and continued, "But I believe that I will educate excellent children in the future. And with you around, I don't have to worry about 'death of the tyrant', so don't be too nervous. Relax a little. It's hard for people who are always tense to be happy."
"Your Highness..." Although Wang Xuance has always known that his Highness is wise and decisive, and can be called a wise leader, he is always used to subconsciously regard him as a simple and honest boss who occasionally brings some fun to everyone. Therefore, at this moment, his mood is extremely complicated: "Actually... you are really suitable..."
"What do you mean?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu raised his eyebrows. "You want to take a nap with me, and then I can't bear to wake you up, so I cut off my sleeves? Xuan Ce, you are very dangerous..."
"……"Everyone knows the story of "Longyang Duanxiu", but when His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu uses it to ridicule himself and others so easily, then... it's very telling.
"What's the matter? What does it mean that you don't say anything?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu was still holding Li Chunfeng's shoulders. Although Li Chunfeng showed no signs of struggle at this time, it did not mean that the King of Chu would let him go: "Chunfeng...why don't you say something?"
"Ahem..." What could Li Chunfeng say?
He thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness... Xuan Ce said you are suitable... but not that kind of suitable..."
"Which one is appropriate?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "It's not that kind of appropriate, right?"
"That's the right one, my Lord!" Seeing his fellow apprentice in trouble, Gangzi, as his senior brother, immediately stepped forward and said, "I just checked my conscience and still think you are the most suitable!"
"Thank you!" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu glared at the other person unhappily, and then said: "In fact, it may not be the most suitable... Look over there--" When His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu said this, he saw Zhinu sitting on the shaft of the carriage and waving at him, so he raised his head and pointed at this stinky brother with his chin: "Among my brothers, except for my eldest brother, Zhinu... is the one that makes me most at ease and the most worried..."