Drive a RV and go farming in ancient times.

Seeing that his disciple was frowning and not speaking, Sun Yu asked with interest, "Do you think there is a problem?"

Xu Huaiyi knew who the murderer of Li Yuan was, but he was conflicted. "To be honest, Master, I think Li Yuan's death has nothing to do with the Third Prince. It is impossible that Marquis Dingyuan ordered someone to do it. He is probably taking the blame for someone else, just like the Second Prince..."

"Do you have evidence?"

"No, I am also relying half on intuition and half on analysis. If Li Yuan really had evidence that the Third Prince was plotting to murder the Emperor's eldest grandson, then the Third Prince would not have had the opportunity to silence him before? Why would he have to wait until Li Yuan ran away before he could go through the trouble of hunting him down? This doesn't make sense..."

After a pause, Xu Huaiyi continued, "Besides, if the Third Prince really wants to silence the witnesses, then killing Li Yuan alone will be useless. Li Yuan knows the evidence, so don't the First Prince's Consort and Marquis Changle know it? Li Yuan is dead now, but Marquis Changle and the First Prince's Consort are fine, aren't they? Moreover, the two of them didn't take any revenge against the Third Prince..."

Sun Yu nodded slowly, "Your analysis does make sense, but others may not think the same way as you do."

Xu Huaiyi asked speechlessly, "So, many people believe that it was the Third Prince who killed Li Yuan?"

Sun Yu smiled and said, "Most people believe it."

"What about the Emperor?"

"The Emperor did not summon the Third Prince, but he found an excuse to reprimand him and put him under house arrest."

Xu Huaiyi's mouth twitched, and he muttered quietly, "The princes are so unlucky. They were stripped of their jobs just now, and were punished to kneel outside the imperial study and copy scriptures. Now, those who are guarding the imperial mausoleum are guarding the imperial mausoleum, those who are beaten are beaten, and those who are scolded are scolded..."

It's too difficult to be the emperor's son.

"Speaking of which, only the Fourth Prince is luckier..."

Sun Yu took over the conversation, "The Fourth Prince was also reprimanded."

"Ah? What's the reason?"

"Several princes made mistakes and were punished, but he, as a brother, was indifferent and didn't even try to save face, which disappointed the emperor."

"..."

This is really a case of finding a pretext to accuse someone of a crime.

Sun Yu looked calm, and his tone remained calm while he spoke these words. "Huai Yi, what do you think of these things?"

Xu Huaiyi scratched his head. "What else can I do? I'm just wondering, who is stirring up trouble and making mischief? There must be a hand behind this, manipulating everything, playing with so many people in his hands, making them chess pieces on his chessboard, and letting them go at will. It's so hateful and so scary. If this person is not found out, will there be peace in the palace and outside the palace in the future?"

He couldn't mention the Prince of Chu's Palace directly, so he could only give a subtle reminder like this.

Sun Yu's expression changed when he heard this, and his eyes showed some deep thought, "Who do you think is behind this?"

Xu Huaiyi said in embarrassment, "How would I know? I haven't even touched the threshold of the imperial court yet. I am completely in the dark about the affairs in the palace. As for the affairs outside the palace, I still need your advice to understand a little. I don't have anyone to investigate, so I can only guess and have no direction."

Sun Yu did not suspect that he was shirking his responsibility. Come to think of it, no matter how smart and capable the apprentice was, his starting point was too low. If he wanted to reach the top, he would have to endure for a few more years. The apprentice was doing well now and was not arrogant. But he, as the master, had become arrogant and dared to ask anything.

"I was wrong. No matter who is behind this, it has nothing to do with you right now. I told you what happened just now just to give you a general understanding of the current situation. Just keep it in mind, don't pay too much attention to it, and don't get involved."

"Yes, master..."

Xu Huaiyi agreed readily, but what he was thinking in his heart was that he had no choice. He had already boarded the pirate ship and had no way out.

The children played until the afternoon, when Xu Huaiyi called them out of the lake. He took them to the shower room for a quick rinse and changed their clothes. He then watched them drink a bowl of preventive medicine. Seeing that they were all in high spirits, he finally felt relieved.

The children didn’t have enough fun, and when they left Hexiangyuan, they were reluctant to leave and looked back every few steps.

Xu Huaiyi was so happy when he saw it, "Summer is still long, you can come and play when you have a holiday."

After hearing this, the children's loss was barely healed. When they returned to the main courtyard, Gu Huanxi prepared some food and drinks. After they were full, they had to leave under the urging of the adults.

Sun Yu carried his son onto the carriage. Even though he came in person, his son still refused to go home with him. He must have been really jealous of his apprentice's charm.

Sun Yongyan really didn't want to leave, but he had to give face to his father, so he could only regret that he couldn't listen to the story tonight.

His cousins ​​were still talking about the happy afternoon, but gradually they began to admire and envy Xu Huaiyi.

"Uncle Xu is so amazing, he can do everything. I heard that all those things were figured out by Uncle Xu!"

"Uncle Xu can also cook. His dishes are delicious, even better than the chef we hired from the south."

"Xiaoyu is so lucky to have such a father!"

"Yes, yes, Xiaoyu is not Uncle Xu's biological son, but this is better than a biological son, right?"

"Could it be that he is pretending?"

"How is it possible? How can someone pretend to be so kind? Uncle Xu is so attentive to Xiaoyu. Just now when we went to Xiaoyu's room to eat, didn't you notice that all the furnishings in the room were designed for us children? Aunt Gu and Uncle Xu didn't interfere and let Xiaoyu entertain us without any worries. What does this mean? It means that Xiaoyu is the young master of the family and can make the decisions."

"Yeah, we don't have that much power yet."

Someone asked Sun Yongyan, "Fourth brother, does Uncle Xu usually indulge Xiaoyu like this?"

Sun Yongyan is the fourth child in the Sun family. Among those who came this time, the oldest is the eldest son of his third uncle, who is nine years old this year and named Sun Yongqing.

Sun Yongyan smiled reservedly, "It's not indulgence, it's respect. Senior brother never makes decisions for Xiaoyu casually just because he is a child. If there is anything, he will discuss it with Xiaoyu."

"What if there is a disagreement? Who do we listen to in the end?"

"If Senior Brother cannot convince Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu is very persistent, then in the end, Xiaoyu will make the decision herself."

Hearing this, the other children were all shocked, "Really?"

Sun Yongyan nodded. He found it hard to believe at first. After all, the mainstream thinking nowadays was that sons must listen to their fathers, otherwise they would be considered disobedient and unfilial, which was a serious crime. The more prominent and powerful the children were, the more they paid attention to these things, and no one dared to resist.

But he had lived in the Gu family for so long and had witnessed many times the harmonious scenes of Xu Huaiyi and Gu Xiaoyu getting along with each other. The father and son discussed things with each other and were very intimate. To be honest, he was extremely envious at the time.

The other children in the Sun family were also extremely envious.

What a godly father this is!

Sun Yu had been silent until now, but now he had to speak up, "Come on, stop envying Xiaoyu, and think about it, do you have Xiaoyu's brain? Xiaoyu is precocious, he is not an ordinary child, he is very sensible, so your Uncle Xu respects his ideas, because his ideas are often reasonable, so your Uncle Xu will listen. If it were you, when the adults discussed things with you, could you make the right judgment and decision?"

This conversation successfully stumped several children.

Sun Yongyan glanced at his biological father and thought eagerly that he himself was also a precocious and sensible person, so if anything happened in the future, could he also make decisions for himself?

Sun Yu glanced at his son with a half-smile, seeing through his thoughts at a glance, "Are you sure you won't do anything wrong?"

Sun Yongyan whispered, "My senior brother said that we are still young, and as children, we are allowed to make mistakes. As long as we learn from the mistakes afterwards and never make the same mistakes again, we need to keep making mistakes and correct them on the road to growth, so that we can become stronger and stronger. With you as a backup, we have the capital to make mistakes. But if we make mistakes again when we grow up and you are old, it will be too late..."

"Did your senior brother really say that?"

"Um……"

"Does your senior brother usually treat you guys like this?"

"Well, Senior Brother treats Xiaoyu and us equally. He always discusses things with us in advance and never makes decisions on his own, unless he wants to give Xiaoyu a surprise like today."

Sun Yu was speechless for a moment.

Sun Yongyan asked tentatively, "Dad, do you think it's right for Senior Brother to do this?"

Sun Yu glared at him unhappily. Wouldn't this embarrass him? "Go back and ask your grandfather. Dad doesn't know."

Xu Huaiyi didn't know that because of him, three generations of the Sun family had been thinking about education. After he sent everyone away, he talked to Han Jun alone for a while before going back to his room to rest.

Gu Huanxi noticed that he looked a little unhappy, so she asked with concern, "What's wrong? Are you tired?"

Xu Huaiyi leaned against the kang and said gloomily, "I am tired. Guess what those people in the Xu family are up to again?"

Gu Huanxi thought for a moment, "Did you send someone to pick up those kids, which made the Xu family jealous? They were unwilling to give in and wanted to get close to us? Did they use blood ties to kidnap us or use your uncle's family as a weapon?"

Xu Huaiyi sighed, "I let you guess it all. Yingjie told me before that Xu Huaili made a scene and made the village laugh. I don't know what Third Uncle was thinking, but he was willing to be used by him. My uncle was really mad at me. Fortunately, Village Chief Xu was here and suppressed the situation."

"Is there anything else bothering you?" This alone was not enough to make him depressed.

Xu Huaiyi then told her about Xu Honglian's pregnancy and his cousin Xu Huaihou's marriage.

Gu Huanxi couldn't help but frown after hearing this. After Sun Yu warned the Qiao family, the Qiao family restrained their thoughts and stopped using Xu Honglian. Now it seems that they didn't give up the idea, but changed their strategy. "Being a concubine is completely different from having a child."

To put it bluntly, a concubine is just a thing and can be abandoned at any time. It is completely understandable for the Xu family to not recognize this marriage, but with a child, there will be a blood bond. Xu Huaiyi can be cold to Xu Honglian, but if he treats a child like this, he will definitely be criticized.

Xu Huaiyi said irritably, "If the Qiao family doesn't give up, they will use this child to annoy us in the future. It will be really difficult to deal with them."

Moreover, they couldn't interfere in this matter. After all, what was wrong with the Qiao family taking in concubines to expand the family?

Gu Huanxi rubbed his forehead and said, "There's no rush for this. It will take at least two or three years to raise the baby until it's old enough to go out. But your cousin is getting married, so shouldn't we check it out?"

Xu Huaiyi said, "Before I entered the room just now, I asked Han Jun to help investigate. Xu Huaihou was most likely tricked, but I don't know by whom. I hope it's not the Second Prince..."

The Su family supports the second prince, and Su Zhe has a close relationship with the second prince. He really doesn't want to turn against him now.

Gu Huanxi thought that what you fear is what you will encounter, so she could only remind him, "The house we live in now is also helped by the Second Prince, and you and Su Zhe are in a cooperative relationship, so it's better not to make things awkward."

Xu Huaiyi said "hmm", and afraid that she would worry, he added, "We don't have the capital to have a falling out now. I'm just saying that at most we can keep our distance and have no contact in the future. We won't have a falling out. It's not that bad, and it's not worth it."

"I'm afraid you'll secretly trip me up and take revenge on me." Just like you did with Changle Marquisate and the Yao Family.

"Hehe, no, don't worry..."

"Really not?"

"It's absolutely true. In the current situation, it's better to stay still than to move. It's better to stay calm and grow."

"what happened?"

Xu Huaiyi then told her what Sun Yu had told him, and at the end he said, "You don't need me to make things difficult for you. Those princes will have a hard time in the next few years. The King of Chu and the Emperor Jianxing will not let them live in peace. One is stirring up trouble, and the other is suspicious and suppressing them. How can they have an easy life?"

After hearing this, Gu Huanxi sighed, "As a prince, it's really tragic..."

Xu Huaiyi took over the conversation, "So, we have to hide Xiaoyu for the next few days. We can't let him go back to that kind of place. He schemes all day long and lives like a nobody."

"Um……"

At this moment, Gu Xiaoyu is opening presents in his room. Most of them are given by children. They are varied and include everything. Some are expensive, while others are cheap. But no matter what, they all show the sincere love of the children, unlike the adults who have to measure the value of the gifts.

He looked through them all with great interest, and picked out a few to put on his bookshelf and antique display cabinet for appreciation. For example, the grandson of Village Chief Xu gave him a katydid cage woven with bamboo strips, which he liked very much, and thought of catching two katydids and raising them in the cage at night.

Jiang Yi and Lu Changzhi were accompanying him, with envy in their eyes. One of them smiled and waved a fan and said, "My birthday is in early August. I think the lake was not cold at that time..."

Another one regretted, "I have to wait another half a year, by then the lake will be frozen over."

"There are ways to play with ice. I heard from Uncle Xu that ice skating and skiing are also very interesting."

"really?"

"Of course, I asked it myself, how could it be false?"

"Then can I ask Uncle Xu to help plan and arrange my birthday?"

"I want to, but I'm too embarrassed to open my mouth..." Lu Changzhi looked at Gu Xiaoyu flatteringly, "Xiaoyu, are we good brothers?"

Gu Xiaoyu glanced at him and said "hmm".

"Then can you..."

"No, I can't be the master of Dad."

"Xiao Yu, a good brother should stick by you..."

"If you want me to help you do something, I will do it without hesitation, no matter how hard or tiring it is. But I can't open my mouth to trouble my father. Dad has to worry about so many things every day, it's already very hard. Besides, you have parents and elders above you. If you bypass them and ask Dad to help with the birthday party, it will be taking away their work, and they will feel uncomfortable."

After hearing this, the two could only give up with regret.