Chapter 1164: Experience (3)

Seeing that the two brothers were about to quarrel again, Li Jinghua quickly interrupted, “Wenchen’s luggage is already packed. Wenjin, you have to hurry up and prepare if you want to go with him.”

“I don’t have much luggage. I’ll just have to pack two sets of clothes.” Little Bear looked at his Royal Uncle eagerly.

Qi Haoran also looked at his big brother eagerly.

Being stared at by two pairs of big eyes, Qi Xiuyuan couldn’t refuse at all. He glanced at his brother, nodded, and said to Little Bear, “Go find Little Treasure. I’ll talk to your father.”

Qi Xiuyuan had already arranged guards for his son. Now that Little Bear was coming along, there would naturally be more guards.

Qi Xiuyuan took his brother to the Imperial Study.

In the distance, the young concubines could only bite their handkerchiefs and watch the Emperor walk away, their hearts filled with tears. At long last, they had an opportunity to run into the Emperor in the imperial garden. Yet, they were intercepted before they could approach him. Was there still justice in this world?

Little Treasure was reading. When he saw Little Bear appear, the book in his hand almost fell to the ground. “How did you become so skinny?”

Little Bear waved his hand to dismiss the eunuch in the room, then sat down opposite him and sighed. “Don’t mention it. The training in the military camp was intense and we didn’t have enough to eat. That’s why I lost weight so quickly.”

“But didn’t you also starve when you went to war with Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt in the past? You weren’t so skinny back then.”

“That’s different…”

During a war, only when both sides fought would it take a lot of strength. When traveling, he mostly rode on a horse. Even if he was a soldier, it was not difficult for him to travel with his strength and kung fu. As he expended little energy, he would not lose weight so quickly even if he did not have enough to eat. Unlike during military training, which was intense and he never had enough to eat, thus he naturally lost weight drastically.

Little Bear told him the difference and sighed. “In the past, whenever I went to Father’s military camp, I saw him training the soldiers. I thought that this was how things were in the military camp. Who knew that Father deliberately trained his soldiers when I visited? Without enough grains, no one can keep up with the intensity of daily training. For example, in the camp I’m in, it’s already not bad to train every five days.”

Little Treasure sighed. “I thought that Great Qi had already begun to prosper and ensure peace for the people, but now it seems that it’s still very far off. It’s not until the country can let all the armies intensify their training whenever they want, and eat as much dried food as they want, that the country can be considered prosperous and the people strong.”

Little Bear nodded and reached out to grab a piece of snack on his table before stuffing it into his mouth. He finished the plate of snacks in no time.

Little Treasure looked at him pitifully and pushed the other snacks in front of him. He asked, “Why don’t I send someone to go to the imperial kitchen to bring you more food?”

Little Bear shook his head. “I ate my fill at home just now. I’m not hungry now, but whenever I see food, I just have the desire to eat.”

Little Bear lowered his voice and said, “Let me tell you secretly. Don’t tell my parents. I eat a lot. In the past, when I was a soldier in the military camp, I could go all out to snatch food. But now that I’m a lieutenant, I can’t bring myself to snatch food from my subordinates, so I can only eat two bowls of rice a day…”

Two full bowls of rice was the quantity an adult soldier typically ate in the military camp.

However, Little Treasure knew that Little Bear had an enormous appetite. When he was five or six years old, his appetite already surpassed that of an adult. Now, he ate even more than he did back then. Two bowls of rice were barely enough to keep him from starving.

Little Treasure looked at him sympathetically. “You could’ve just given the kitchen some money and didn’t have to starve yourself.”

“It won’t be easy to manage things after this precedent is established in the military.” Little Bear said in distress, “So I thought that it would be best if I became an assistant commander as soon as I entered the camp. That way, I won’t have to eat with the soldiers. When the time comes, I’ll get my family to send me a bucket of rice so that I can eat as much as I want.”

At this point, Little Bear almost drooled.

Little Treasure slammed the table and said ambitiously, “Don’t worry, even if you’re just a mere soldier in the future, I can still let you eat your fill in the army. I’ll make it so for every single soldier of Great Qi!”

Little Bear nodded solemnly. “That’s why I plan to write to my great-uncle and ask him to do more experiments to see if he can produce higher-yielding seeds.”

Little Treasure said, “Aren’t we going to the north to train? When the time comes, we can go there and take a look.”

“Right now, he’s an official in the court, so it’s not difficult to see him. At most, we can just transfer him to the capital.” Little Bear said, “I heard from my great-uncle that it’s cold in the north, and experiments can only be conducted in the experimental fields once a year. However, Jiangnan is different. With its warm climate, we can plant two seasons a year. The experiments will also take a shorter time to conclude.”

“There’s no hurry. Let’s take a look at where we’re going first.” Little Treasure excitedly pulled out the map. Seeing as he had drawn several lines on the map, it was obvious that he had been planning this for some time.

“Royal Father gave me half a year, and we just have to come back before the Chongyang Festival. So, I think it’s fine to take a detour…”

Their heads were together as they planned their training path.

Meanwhile, Qi Xiuyuan and Qi Haoran quickly arranged guards for the two children and chose an auspicious day to pack them up and send them out of the capital.

Other than the brothers, only Fan Zijin, Li Jinghua, and Mu Yangling knew about this. They even hid this matter from the other children, and Qi Xiuyuan did not announce it to the officials in the court. Even though there would definitely be a few people who could guess it, no one should know the exact direction Little Treasure and Little Bear headed.

At the same time, a few teams disguised as Little Bear and Little Treasure left the capital and headed in various directions.

This being Little Treasure and Little Bear’s first long trip away from the adults, the duo was extremely excited.

Previously, when Little Treasure left the capital with his younger brother, he was fearful along the way and had to be wary of people chasing after them. He was not in the mood to look at the scenery on the road at all. Now that he was leaving the capital openly, he was so thrilled that he wished he could get out of the carriage and run about carefreely.

Little Bear was also very excited. Every time he went on a long trip, he would be with his parents. Although he had a high degree of freedom, there were still restrictions. Now that the two mountains pressing down on his head were gone, Little Bear directly lifted the carriage curtain and roared outside.

The guards at the side were so shocked that they almost fell off their horses. The secret guards hiding in the dark almost drew their swords and showed themselves. When they saw the Prince sticking his head out of the carriage window and shouting with his hands by his mouth as though they were loudspeakers, everyone’s hands itched to beat him up.

However, at the thought that this was a little treasonous, everyone could only forcefully look away and suppress the anger in their hearts.

Seeing that Little Bear was shouting happily, Little Treasure pulled him in and occupied his seat. He placed his palm by his mouth and started howling as well.

Looking at the two extremely excited masters, the guards became apprehensive about this trip. Could they really successfully fulfill their mission of keeping these two masters safe until they returned to the capital?

However, when the secret guards thought of their little masters’ great achievements since they were young, sorrow welled up in their hearts, but they also felt a little relieved.

It didn’t matter. They’re just a tad bratty, right? They were already used to it.

However, only they could see the tears in their hearts.

Just like that, the two of them left the capital excitedly and headed west.

That’s right. They had decided to take a detour from Tongchuan Prefecture to the north. For their return trip, they would pass by Shandong. This way, they would have traveled through the north, west and east. Their hearts were filled with bliss at the thought of that.

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