Yangyang responded to her gaze, shrugged his little shoulders, and even blinked, "He cursed my mother like that, and if I donāt beat him up, Iād be embarrassed to call myself a man, right, brother?"
"Right, you must thrash him and thrash him hard!" Lele nodded in agreement, "The best thing about learning martial arts is being able to beat up whoever you want. Should I learn it too?" Saying this, he even touched his chin and began to think.
Upon hearing this, Yangyang spread his hands toward Yang Chuxia, See? Even brother thinks Iām right.
Yang Chuxia was speechless.
"All right, letās not talk about the son anymore; he was simply taking up for you. Not to mention Yangyang, even I wanted to beat those two kids up when I heard about it."
Ye Ziāan simply said, "But the main issue is still Second Young Master Luo and his wife who recklessly spread rumors."
He had only recently heard from Baili Yan that Second Young Master Luoās wife also came from the State Duke Tongās household.
This own wretched deed, yet he had the audacity to claim it was his wife who seduced him. What shamelessness.
So, a few days later, Second Young Master Luo who was strolling outside the house with a walking stick, inexplicably got beaten up again, this time having one of his legs broken off.
"This State Duke Tongās household is really something!" Yang Chuxia shook her head, wondering how such a domineering family could maintain their hundred-year-old enterprise.
"Should we wait a bit before having dinner?" Ye Ziāan asked again.
"The kitchen is already prepared, but if you have something to do, we can wait," she replied.
"Then letās wait a bit longer." Ye Ziāan waved to Lele and Yangyang, "You two come with me; I have something to ask you."
Lele and Yangyang obediently followed him.
Ye Ziāan led them directly to the study he used before, and once there, he had Ye Er and Ye Yi stand guard outside while he closed the door.
"Dad, what do you want to talk to us about?" Lele asked, puzzled.
Ye Ziāan spoke with a hint of seriousness, "Iāve heard people say that the Emperor once took a bunch of titles in the Imperial Study and asked you about your preferences. Is this true?"
"What titles?" Yangyang was somewhat confused.
"Itās about all those words he showed us a few days ago," Lele explained, "With characters like āNingā, āAnā, and āZhuangā on them."
"So it is true?" Ye Ziāan didnāt bother asking Yangyang anymore; he went straight to his eldest son, as the boy should know everything clearly.
"Dad, he did ask us. I saw he listed many characters and circled quite a few with his pen; there was also a āprinceā character at the end. It so happened that day in school, I heard some people discussing how their fathers were going to become princes. Thatās when I knew," he explained.
"What did he mean by asking about your preferences?" Ye Ziāan continued to inquire.
"Dad, there shouldnāt be any problems, right? He just asked which characters he wrote looked the best. In the end, he also asked me which character I liked," the son explained.
"And how did you respond?"
"My brother and I said all the characters he wrote looked good. And I said I liked the character āAnā because itās in your name."
"And that was it?"
"That was it."
Upon hearing this, Ye Ziāan sighed with relief.
"Did something happen, Dad?"
"Nothing much, just remember if anyone asks about this matter, you answer them the same way you did with me today, got it?"
"Got it, Daddy!"
"Hmm, letās go and have dinner."
On the way to the dining hall, Ye Ziāan asked Lele how he had been during those days in the palace, if he had missed home, and such.
"Dad, has that strange sickness in Shandong been cured?" Yangyang asked as they neared the dining hall.
"No!"
"Yikes, thatās really scary."