Chapter 79: Chapter 36 Obvious at a glance

yīmùliǎorán Obvious at a glance

"Yes"

"No!"

"Alright"

There were multiple reactions from the 9th prince's suggestion. The first was from then hidden Xun BingBing within Murong LiWang's clothing, but her agreement was inaudible to mere mortals, like Xue ShiMin. The latter two were HeiYing's and Murong LiWang herself.

HeiYing's face turned darker as he leapt down to the ground and heard that his young master had already agreed. How can young master be allowed to leave with the 9th prince? The General would be foaming when he caught the wind of this.

"How about this lowly subordinate replace young master to train the 9th prince, following the 9th prince to Sheng Kingdom?" HeiYing suggested humbly, trying to get his young master to have a change of ideas.

"HeiYing, I just showed the first stance and the first stance is the easiest. You can't be arrogant and think that you already mastered it," Murong LiWang looked up at HeiYing disapprovingly, while the 9th prince felt a little sheepish and embarrassed that the deputy could memorized the moves just by watching his master once.

"Then how about this subordinate draw down the moves so the 9th prince can practice while he's in Sheng kingdom?"

ZhenBao and HeXun standing not far from the 9th prince had black lines forming on their foreheads. Stop showing off already! First, the deputy revealed that he has astute memory to remember all the moves the heir just shown, then now he's telling them that he can also pen it down in drawing.

What else can he do? Wield elemental magic like those tales told of the said cultivator practitioners? And this heir! He's too scary for a nine year old! Is the General also someone incredible?

The two subordinates of the 9th prince had bad foreboding thinking about the General, the heir and this captain.

"How can you teach him the second and third stance? The first one is just the basic moves to warm up," Murong LiWang put her hands on her waist, imitating YuQin when she was being exasperated with Murong LiWang.

"Then how about I stay back and copy down all the stances to become a manual for the 9th prince for him to practice?" HeiYing hopefully asked.

"In anyways, let's ask the General for his thoughts and decision," HeiYing threw the hardball back. There's a thin hope the young master would decide to stay back and he himself, can stay back too without going to Sheng kingdom with the 9th prince. He should just let General to deter his own child from leaving,

That hope of HeiYing's was dashed completely and he was more incredulous that the General Murong had agreed to it.

What happened to the same father this told him to watch the 9th prince and make sure the heir doesn't interact much with the 9th prince? So much for the imagined 'foaming', can you at least display more displeasure to let your child traveling with the royal prince?

In actuality, HeiYing had known that his young little master was born of a girl, made to disguise herself as the male sole heir of the general's. He had always looked at her like his younger sister, almost replacing her as his unborn sister who died in his mother's womb.

The time when the General had assigned him as a bodyguard to the heir, and upon the first meeting, HeiYing had already saw and knew the jade like beautiful and adorable toddler was a girl. Slowly when Murong LiWang grow up, the child was more than his young master or replacement of his younger sister, but HeiYing truly believe he was meant to protect this precious child.

So right now, how could he let the 9th prince the opportunity to get close to Murong LiWang? HeiYing was not blind and he was perceptive enough to know the 9th prince's curiosity about his young master.

The little demon his young master recently kept as a pet, he could overlook as it was a female and did not have any malicious intent. HeiYing did not find that his ability to see demons was anything extraordinary as he had grown up with it and the occasional demons and spirits he met, did not bring any harm to him or the people around him.

His motto for these otherworldly beings was - if they do not bother him then he does not bother them.

Other than those mysterious people few months ago, who came and watched his young master saving the 9th prince. HeiYing could feel their presence and he had already assigned more shadow guards around the young master just in case. However, since they came to Peace Swallow Town, HeiYing did not notice any supernatural actions until the appearance of this small demon.

"Just deliver the prince to the borders of Sheng and return immediately after that. It should take you about total of 2 weeks on the road. If you don't return by then..." General Murong spoke sternly to Murong LiWang.

"Yes of course. Won't disappoint! Will be here before father return from capital. This child leave first!" the heir bobbed her head and agreed excitedly and ran out of the general's courtyard back to hers.

One can head the flurry footsteps running and the child's voice, "YuQin! YuQin...we have to pack," happily to tell YuQin to prepare for a trip to Sheng.

HeiYing stayed back and looked at the General smiling fondly at sight of his child being happy, while he waited for the General to explain.

"I just received a decree from the Emperor to return for Spring Fair and celebrate together with the royal family, and receive the rewards for the success of Peace Swallow Town. All the banquet, dancers, entertaining, matchmaking... it's best LiEr is not there to gain any attention from back palace." The General raised one of his brows, giving HeiYing the you-see-why-I'm-doing-this look, while walking to his table and pouring himself the peach blossom wine.

The peach blossom wine was brought by LiEr when she came in with her request to travel with the 9th prince, one of the wine flasks that her father knew LiEr had buried and kept. Bringing one flask out was like a sweetener to coax the General, a bribe that as a father naturally took and agree to the child's wishes.

General Murong XieChu smelt the fragrance of the wine, "try this one." His daughter only make the best and this was her treasured wine. He poured a cup for HeiYing, which the latter used both hands to accept.

"I can only prolong and delay the inevitable," Murong XieChu sighed and sipped the wine, signaling for HeiYing to do so too.

HeiYing replied with thanking the General, his young master's creations, were usually shared amongst the close knit subordinates in the family, and as a leader of the Shadow guards, he usually drink very little, sampling the sweet, fresh taste.

"I will protect the young master and make sure to make others keep their distance," HeiYing ascertained the General. What else could he say, the General had decided and HeiYing agreed one prince and one rich brat were better than the whole palace residents.

Far from the Peace Swallow town, two richly dressed nobles were enjoying their wine, seated at an outdoor wooden pavilion. The lighted candles at corners of the pavilion swayed with cool winds and under the crescent moon, it created a poetic night for the young men to get tipsy together with fine wine and beauties at their side.

"Brother, are you sure you defying mother's wishes to return to capital?" The 7th prince, Xue ShiHan, asked his eldest brother, 4th prince, Xue ShiGuang, while holding his cup for the beauty next to him, pouring him more wine delicately.

It had been weeks they had came to their maternal residence, the Old General XiJi's manor. At first, it was to celebrate their maternal grandfather's birthday but they had extended their stay. Their maternal family was prestigious. Even though their grandfather had already retired, their maternal first uncle, XiJi KuYe, had significant accomplishments, and was also one of the 4 generals of Xue Kingdom.

XiJi KuYe's legitimate main wife children were similar ages with their royal cousins. The son was witty and the daughter was pretty and demure. XiJi MiNa was just to 4th Xue ShiGuang's liking and the informal surroundings had given the two cousins opportunity to interact and learn about each other interests.

"The capital's women bore me, and mother has been pestering me to get a main wife soon. She refuse to let me keep all my women, wanting me to keep up with farce of a upright prince," 4th Xue ShiGuang did not bother to remove his face from the giggling beauty's neck he was busy snuggling. "Just let these beauties accompany this prince for more days."

"4th prince..." the beauty next to the 4th princess crooned sweetly, "Are you staying for us sisters or the beauteous and chaste cousin." She swooped you the 4th prince's thigh and her hands straying higher towards his belt.

The 4th prince raised his heavy lidded lust clouded eyes from the other woman and grabbed the other's naughty hands towards his chest, "All beauties I want..." the 4th prince went on kissing her hands, earning more female flirtatious beckoning laughter.

Both the 7th prince and their cousin followed in the laughter but 7th prince's mirth was more towards his brother than the teasing beauty ploys.

You can take all the beauties you want, while this king will take the kingdom.