Who knew what Ye QingHuan had imagined, with such a weird smile on his face.
“But since he’s…… that whatever. How come he doesn’t directly use magic on certain things?” Ye QingHuan occasionally would also think about obscure ideas.
The Crown Prince said firmly: “Xiao Yu has his own principles. Don’t force him.”
Ye QingHuan nodded. No matter what. As long as Li Yu was on the Crown Prince’s side and was harmless to the Crown Prince, then it’s fine.
“Then Bao#1 and the rest, as well as Snow Bao. Are they also……” Ye QingHuan asked another rather important and related question.
“No, they’re not.” The Crown Prince said.
Snow Bao was human upon birth. Another reason why the Crown Prince guarded next to Xiao Yu personally in the delivery room was because he was afraid there might be a mishap. He had already prepared to protect Xiao Yu. If something had happened, a lot of the people would have immediately been dealt with.
The Crown Prince was very aware that his daughter wasn’t. As for the sons, although they were all fish when they were born, now they were all human and can’t change into fish. The Crown Prince didn’t want to keep creating side issues. Therefore, he simply said no.
Xiao Yu had once told him that the four Baos needed to be 7 years old before they might turn into a fish again. It was still early. If necessary, they could explain it to Uncle Ye in person when that happened.
Ye QingHuan seemed to have accepted this answer and visibly let out a breath.
“Then how should I interact with him in the future? Are there any restrictions or preferences?” Ye QingHuan asked?
The fact that Li Yu was a fish demon… It was shocking just to think about it. Ye QingHuan didn’t know anything before and just felt Li Yu had a pretty good personality. Now that he knew, he felt even more so that it’s rare for a demon to have such a good personality.
The Crown Prince: “…….no!” Even if there were, I wouldn’t tell you.
“Then would Gale frighten him or something?” Ye QingHuan considered that if Li Yu were afraid, he’d do his best to keep his beloved dog under a leash in the future.
The Crown Prince’s expression was full of “are you stupid.” Ye QingHuan abruptly smacked himself on the head: “Oh right. How can I forget that he plays together with Gale lots. Of course he shouldn’t be afraid.”
That’s definitely true. Li Yu smiled. Gale hasn’t considered him a stranger for a long time. It knew the truth even earlier than its master, Ye QingHuan.
Ye QingHuan had little knowledge and a lot of questions. When he started chattering, he couldn’t be stopped. The Crown Prince had enough of him and decided to drag him out.
“Alright alright. I’ll go myself. Don’t drag me. I know already and I promise you that I’ll never tell anyone else.” Ye QingHuan begged for mercy with a smile.
Of course the Crown Prince knew that Ye-shizi was trustworthy and reliable. Otherwise he wouldn’t have admitted the truth to him.
Ye QingHuan gave a brief farewell. He was just about to leave when the Crown Prince suddenly called to him: “Wait!”
Ye QingHuan turned his head. The Crown Prince used a stern and severe tone that he’s never used before to say: “Remember. He’s me. If you protect him, you’re protecting me.”
“…… Understood, my prince.” Ye QingHuan instantly understood what the Crown Prince meant and also became serious for once. Giving a smile, he cupped his hands and gestured heavily and respectfully to the Crown Prince.
Since he learned the truth, the conflicting and confusing mood that surrounded him has been mostly alleviated. During this period of time, he had desperately suppressed his internal thoughts and feelings so that his wife and parents wouldn’t discover anything. It really gave Ye-shizi quite the stress.
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“Ye QingHuan!” Li Yu knew Ye QingHuan was feeling conflicted and deliberately waved at him. Ye QingHuan’s hands didn’t even shake when he was killing the rebel Lou Lan army. However, right now, his face was choked red. After replying back meekly with a “Biao Sao”, he immediately pressed himself against the wall and scuttled away.
Don’t misunderstand. The lord heir wasn’t being afraid here. He just had important things to do. For example, heading back to re-settling the commoner who saw the fish head human.
Li Yu was only messing with Ye-shizi a bit, not planning anything else. After Ye QingHuan left, he marched inside.
“TianChi, I’ve come!” Li Yu said with a smile.
Seeing him, the grave expression on the Crown Prince’s face retreated, only leaving behind a tender love. He didn’t seem surprised why this fish would run here to the study.
“TianChi, I heard your conversation with Ye QingHuan just now.” Li Yu said.
The Crown Prince: ‘…….”
The Crown Prince held Li Yu’s hands: “Sorry. Ye QingHuan already discovered the truth. I really couldn’t conceal it from him.”
Li Yu hastily shook his head: “This is nothing. Ye-shizi is not an outsider either. I was just wondering about what you said to him, that we are fated for 100 lifetimes, this……”
Li Yu originally wanted to ask the Crown Prince how he had thought this up. Unexpectedly, the Crown Prince gave him a sulky glance: “We can’t?”
Li Yu was stabbed in the heart by the loneliness that flashed across the Crown Prince’s eyes and hastily yelled loudly: “We can!”
“Then it’s settled. It’s a promise.” The Crown Prince’s lips curved. Who cares about duping Ye QingHuan. Despite already having four sons and a daughter, the Crown Prince was still constantly worried that this carp demon would abandon him. If they really had this promised fate of 100 lifetimes, would he still have to fear this fish leaving him?
Completely charmed upside down by the hubby, Li Yu didn’t notice at all that he fell right into the trap.
When the husbands interacted alone, as usual, it was full of sickening sweetness.
Li Yu, not very appropriately, sat on the hubby’s legs. Remembering serious business, he said: “TianChi, can I help some women with deceased husbands? Like just… giving them support if they wanted to live new lives?”
This was only the general plan. Li Yu couldn’t really explain precisely how he wanted to carry it out yet because he still didn’t know what these women needed. However, Li Yu hoped to at least create a place where these women can go for help. He also wanted to clearly express a certain attitude to the common people, that there were people in this world who supported widows in starting afresh.
As soon as he said this, the Crown Prince knew who Li Yu was talking about. Thinking for a moment, he said: “You want to help Liang-shi? Her marriage was appointed by father so this won’t be an easy task.”
“I understand. She also didn’t really seem to want my help. What I mean is I want to help women who are like Liang-shi.”
Li Yu actually wanted to make something like an organization of women. If any of these kinds of women needed help, then it would prove them with aid. Liang-shi naturally fell into this group.
Originally he had planned to use words of compassion and reason to persuade the Crown Prince so that the Crown Prince could accept his ideology. However, despite having a stomach full of words on the tip of his tongue, he ended up changing his mind again.
The Crown Prince had previously said to Ye QingHuan: “He’s me.” So in the Crown Prince’s heart, he, Li Yu, was actually this important?
Li Yu’s thoughts rippled in his heart for a while. He was kind of curious just how far the Crown Prince would go for him.
It’s said that the standard method of testing a hubby’s consideration was to act cute and spoiled. Then Li Yu will just sajiao a little bit!
“TianChi, I just wanna help them, can’t we?” Li Yu grabbed the Crown Prince’s arm and swung it tentatively.
Mu TianChi paused briefly and then said with a smile: “Okay.”
It actually worked?
Li Yu said experimentally again: “Then if I tell you why I want to help them, will you listen?”
The Crown Prince: “I will.”
Li Yu was overjoyed and immediately started listing all sorts of inequalities women faced in this ancient time.
To make this era change, the best method was to make people feel sympathy towards these women.
Perhaps it’d be very hard. After all, many people don’t actually share the same experiences as them. However, everyone all had mothers, sisters, and daughters. Like how Snow Bao was his and the Crown Prince’s daughter. By helping these women, perhaps one day, it would also help the women who were closely related to him?
“This does sound rather reasonable.” The Crown Prince said: “How do you want to do it?”
If it was giving money or giving food, there was no need to discuss specifics with him. The Taizi-fei can make this decision himself.
Therefore, the Crown Prince had a feeling that this shouldn’t be an easy task.
Li Yu blinked his eyes a few times and then threw out an idea first: “Your highness, let’s have an opinion poll!”
“What’s that?” The Crown Prince has never heard of it.
“It’s– Just watch me!” Li Yu created a few questions and made two scrolls. Then he ordered subordinates to copy them numerous times. This so-called questionnaire was now prepared to be distributed outside of the estate.
At the last moment, he also established a rule. Anyone who answered the questionnaire seriously can receive one bronze coin as compensation. Each person can only answer once.
This was undoubtedly giving peasants free money. Li Yu sent Wang Xi to spread the news ahead of time. A long line of people was standing outside already.
There were plenty of peasants who couldn’t read or write and lamented their misfortune. Li Yu let Wang Xi pass on his message: even if you can’t read or write, it’s fine. People from the Crown Prince’s Estate will read the questions for you and record verbal answers as well. You can still obtain money this way.
With this, the line grew larger and larger. There weren’t enough questionnaires to be distributed to everyone. Wang Xi had to make several extra copies so all of the commoners present could get a share.
There were also plenty of illiterate people amongst this group. After seeing the questions, they all shook their heads in unison.
What kind of messed up questions were these?
For example: “What do you think about widows remarrying?” Did this need answering? After being educated for so long, did people not know the basic value of honor and shame?
Many people answered the first scroll without the slightest hesitation. When it came to the second scroll, there was only one line.
“Imagine for a moment that the person, who unfortunately lost their husband, was one of your family members. Please answer the questions on the first scroll again.”
The crowd: “…….”
Although everyone was able to answer the first scroll, the second scroll was, instead, somewhat problematic.
Because people can only receive money after answering the questionnaire seriously, plenty of people took this very seriously. They thought hard, considering this from all angles, thinking about what if it were their own family, what would they do?
In this manner, Li Yu distributed a small amount of wealth in exchange for the commoners’ public opinions.
Li Yu tidied up the questionnaires. In the 200+ participants who answered the two scrolls, 10% of people had extremely negative views and 10% of people were rather accepting. In the remaining 80%, their extremely negative views changed into accepting views after considering from the perspective of their own relatives.
As expected, when things weren’t related to someone personally, they always stood at a moral high ground. However, in actuality, they knew very well internally that widows did not live a good life. If it involved someone related to them, they wouldn’t criticize as harshly.
Li Yu straightened out the result and handed it to the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince read through it very rapidly and praised: “So Xiao Yu wanted to ‘plead for the people’.”
“That’s right.” Li Yu didn’t deny this.
One person only had the strength to help a few people. However, if a suggestion can be put forth to the Emperor and changes could be made from top to bottom, those who benefit won’t just be a select few.
“TianChi, will you help me?” Li Yu asked.
“Yes.” The Crown Prince replied resoundingly.
“Because, ‘I’m you’?” Li Yu asked, half touched and half mischievous.
So this fish heard everything.
The Crown Prince smiled: “Because I will give you everything you want.”
“TianChi–”
The Crown Prince’s promise-like words of romance stunned Li Yu briefly.
He suddenly recalled the main mission that had fallen silent after Princess LangYa’s chaos.
What was “sharing a nation”?
The Crown Prince even said words such as giving him everything he wanted. Should he take a bold step forward then?
“Other than helping these women. There’s actually one more thing that I want……”
The Crown Prince spoiled and pampered him too much. Li Yu gathered his courage and said: “TianChi, this is my…… last trial. If you obtained the throne in the future and I wanted your nation, what would you do?”
Thank You for the chapter (｡’▽’｡)♡
“You mean you wanted our nation?”
Beautiful!
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🤣A communism meme!
It’s actually kyut. ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ
thanks for the chapter!