Chapter 722 - Daily Life of Adorable Kids
"Little Mantou, Little Guozi, Maternal Uncle has come to see you guys--eh? What are you guys doing?" When Yu Fan walked through the garden and passed by the lotus pond, he saw two tiny little fellows squatting beside the pond. He felt alarmed in his heart.
Little Mantou, who had big eyes that were similar to his mother's, looked at him with his round eyes and showed a cute smile, "Uncle Shitou, we're teaching the little chick to swim."
Little Guozi, who was beside him, narrowed her slender phoenix eyes and said with a look of disdain, "Second Brother is so stupid! I already told you that little chicks can't swim--it's little ducklings that can!"
"They don't know how, so they need us to teach them ah! Won't they know after they learn?" Little Mantou, who was holding a furry little chick, seemed like he wanted to throw the little chick into the water. The pitiful little chick was trembling in his hands, as if it had foreseen its fate.
Little Guozi rolled her eyes cutely and replied in a sharp voice, "Do you know how? You don't even know how to swim, so how are you going to teach the little chick? If you want to teach the little chick to swim, you need to first learn it yourself!"
Yu Fan thought that his nephew and niece looked extremely adorable. Why were they so cute? Especially his little niece, when she reasoned in such a serious manner, she looked exactly like his second sister when she was a child. However, there didn't seem to be much logic in her reasoning. Even if Little Mantou learned how to swim, he still wouldn't be able to teach a little chick how to swim.
"Zhu Yunxiao! Did you steal a little chick from the east side courtyard again?!" Zhu Yunxuan, the Heir of Imperial Prince Xu, had returned from outside. He was already nine years old, and he looked exactly like his lord father when he didn't smile.
The east side courtyard used to be a huge garden, but it was later transformed into a rural scenery. There was a uniquely shaped thatched pavilion, a house with earthen walls and a thatched roof, as well as a fishing pond with rippling waves. There was also a lush green vegetable garden and a wheat field with a promising harvest. The reason Imperial Prince Xu did this was because Princess Consort Xu had expressed, "I'm really afraid that our children will neither do physical labor nor be able to distinguish the five grains." Hence, he plowed down the garden and planted wheat. Although two of the three children of Imperial Prince Xu's Household were only four years old, they all participated in the field work. But, of course, the two younger ones tended to cause trouble more often than not.
In order to cultivate the children's compassion, a chicken coop was built next to the vegetable garden. A group of chicks were hatched for the children to raise. They were supposedly responsible for raising them, but, in actuality, they just needed to use some time every day to feed them a handful of grains and some water. There were servants in charge of cleaning the chicken coop.
Today, when Zhu Yunxuan came back from horse racing at the racetracks, he went to the chicken coop to feed millets to the little chicks. However, he found that one was missing. Due to the fact that his younger brother had done something similar in the past, he charged directly to the lotus pond. Sure enough, he found the missing chick in his younger brother's hands.
"Didn't I tell you already? Little chicks can't swim! If you throw it in, you'll just end up killing it. Did you forget about Little Black Mouth? Didn't it drown because of you?" Zhu Yunxuan was about to cry because of his younger brother's stupidity.
"But..." Little Mantou pouted and still wanted to say something.
"No buts! Now, this instant, take Little Ball back immediately!! In the future, you're not allowed to catch the little chicks to play again! Do you hear me?" Zhu Yunxuan stated each word clearly, and his plump lips were pursed into a line.
