The smile that Ludwig just managed to smile disappeared instantly when he saw the fat kid's buttocks fall. He frowned, and a look of confusion flashed in his eyes.
"Am I that scary?"
Ludwig squatted down and asked while looking at the little fat boy sitting on the ground.
The little fat boy might have just woken up, so his reaction was a little slow. He stared blankly at the tall man in front of him, and after a while, he began to react.
Luckily, Ivy picked him up in time before he started crying.
"Ningzi."
Queen Ivy, who always had a gentle and kind image, was very popular with Zizi. She lowered her head and asked gently, "Why did you come out of the room? Where is your brother?"
"My brother is sleeping."
Jian Ning, who was held in Ivy's arms, smelled Ivy's scent, and his emotions were gradually calmed down. He stretched out his arms like lotus roots and hugged Ivy: "Auntie, I want my daddy."
"Dad is sleeping too. Let's let him sleep well and I'll sleep with Ningzi, okay?"
As Ivy was talking, she had already taken her son to bed. She glanced at Ludwig who was beside the bed, and then Ludwig understood her intention and brought her a towel.
After Ivy wiped Jane Ning's chubby feet with a hot towel, she held them for a while.
The floor is cold and you will catch a cold if you walk barefoot on it.
Jian Ning obediently let his chubby feet be wiped. After that, he buried his face in Ivy's arms again and said in a soft voice: "Baby, sleep with auntie!"
He wanted to sleep with his pretty aunt.
Maybe it was because his brother and aunt looked a little like each other, or maybe it was for some other reason, but Jian Ning felt very close to the beautiful aunt who was holding him from the first moment he saw her.
This kind of intimacy made Jane Ning feel relaxed.
Jian Ning wants to sleep with his aunt, but he doesn't want to sleep with his bad uncle!
"Aunt."
The little kid sleeping in Ivy's arms, with his butt facing Ludwig, complained to Ivy in a voice that he thought was very quiet, but was actually heard clearly by Ludwig: "Uncle is mean, kid, don't want uncle."
Ivy rubbed his head and promised indulgently: "Okay."
As soon as Ivy agreed, Ludwig raised his eyebrows: "If I don't sleep on the bed, where should I sleep?"
He and his wife have been separated for so many years and now they can finally meet each other. Logically, tonight should be a warm time for them.
Ivy patted the back of the baby in her arms and whispered, "Ludwig, you go sleep with Xiaolin tonight. I will visit you tomorrow morning."
Ludwig: “?”
Ludwig: "Dear, I don't think Cesar would like me to sleep with him."
Ivy didn't say anything, but her eyes swept over.
Next second.
Ludwig stopped bargaining. In his pajamas, he was forced to choose his wife, whom he had reunited with after a long absence, and his son, who was constantly in conflict with him.
As soon as Ludwig left, the little cub in Ivy's arms curved his eyes with joy.
"Auntie, great!"
The little guy figured out that Uncle Lulu would listen to his aunt!
This night.
Ivy held the baby in her arms. Even with her eyes closed in the dark, she couldn't fall asleep.
"Mother."
She heard the little cub mumbling in his dream. How could such a little cub not miss his mother
She lowered her head and left a loving kiss on the little cub's forehead.
Time goes by slowly.
The next day's sunlight leaked in through the window.
The little prince, whose biological clock was on time, was still a little sleepy, but he stubbornly overcame his sleepiness and tried to get up.
His eyelids were heavy, and before opening them, he reached out and touched his side.
A few seconds later.
He felt a big hand, a rough hand with calluses on the palm.
This big hand immediately sounded an alarm in Huo Lin's mind.
The body reacted faster than the brain. In almost a split second, Huo Lin opened his eyes and kicked hard, kicking the owner of the big hand off the bed.
"thump-"
A muffled sound was heard.
Huo Lin knelt on one knee on the bed, looking warily under the bed. In his clear sight, he saw his father in pajamas, looking so embarrassed.
Ludwig had also woken up at this moment. No, he had already woken up when his son touched his hand with his eyes closed.
He knew what Ivy meant by asking him to come and sleep with Cecil.
She wanted to improve the increasingly tense relationship between father and son and make him treat his son with more warmth.
He did so.
When César came towards him in a daze, he almost held his breath, thinking in his mind how to greet César.
Now, there is no need to say hello.
"Father, why are you here?" Huo Lin frowned and looked at him. There was no joy in his eyes that his father had noticed this.
Ludwig stood up and looked at his son. His face was also not good: "Can't I be here?"
"cannot."
Huo Lin continued to frown, unhappily reminding his father: "This is my room, father, you can't enter without my permission. And where is Ningzi?"
In his plan, the beautiful morning should be when he wakes up from a good sleep and reaches out to touch the soft baby beside him. The baby who always drinks milk powder smells good, and he will bend down to smell the baby, and then wake up completely.
Now this beautiful morning has been ruined by my father.
The father and son looked at each other, and there was no sign of tenderness between them.
Finally, it was Ludwig who put on his coat and said calmly, "He ran to my room and slept with Ivy."
When Huo Lin heard that he was looking for his mother, his expression immediately relaxed.
Not long.
Ivy also woke up and came to see Huo Lin. She asked her child softly, "Xiao Lin, how did you sleep last night?"
Huo Lin thought about it and replied truthfully: "I didn't sleep well."
Ivy: “?”
Ivy was a little surprised: "Why didn't you sleep well?"
Didn’t Ludwig say something to ease the relationship between father and son when he was accompanying his child to sleep
Huo Lin thought about waking up early in the morning and seeing his father sleeping next to him, and felt that his heart was still hurt. He frowned and said, "Father came to sleep in my bed without my permission."
Ivy: “…”
Ivy looked at her son's face, then recalled her husband's appearance. She was more and more puzzled as to how the father and son had been getting along all these years.
Ivy didn't show her confusion.
She chatted with Huo Lin for a while. Although she had only been raising the cubs for a short time, she seemed to be born to be a good mother.
She will listen to the child patiently. During the conversation, she will not directly deny or ask the child to do anything. She will stand in the child's perspective and understand the child's thoughts.
Huo Lin felt from the bottom of his heart that he and his mother got along very happily.
The mother and son did not talk for too long. They went to see the little cub who was still sleeping in the bedroom. As for the emperor who got up early in the morning, he still had a lot of government affairs to deal with.
When the two of them went over, Jane Ning had just woken up.
Huo Lin originally wanted to dress him, but his mother was there, so she didn't let him do it: "Xiao Lin, do you have any plans for today?"
Due to Ningzai's arrival, Ivy has already agreed with Ludwig that they can play together for the next three days and Huo Lin doesn't have to attend classes anymore.
"I want to take Ningzi to kindergarten."
Huo Lin has been thinking about Ning Zai's enrollment. Taking advantage of Ning Zai's visit, he wants to take Ning Zai to the kindergarten in person: "I have always been the one who helps Ning Zai with his studies. He will definitely be able to pass the kindergarten entrance exam."
Ivy hasn't been back to Baiwu Star for several years. As for the kindergarten affiliated with the Imperial Military Academy that Huo Lin mentioned, she is not sure who the principal is.
"The director is Hardy."
Huo Lin said the name of the headmaster: "Mom, he has set very strict admission requirements."
Ivy thought about the name and slowly formed an impression: "Xiao Lin, if you want to deal with Hardy, maybe you can bring Mance with you."
"Isn't Mans on White Mist Star recently? Hardy worked with Mans a long time ago."
Huo Lin refused Ivy's words without even thinking about it.
Mans didn't like cubs, so asking him to accompany him to kindergarten didn't sound like a good choice. Moreover, he wasn't familiar with Ningzi, so he might not be willing to help Ningzi with his schooling.
The two were talking, and Ningzai, who had just been dressed, spoke slowly: "Zazizi doesn't want to go to kindergarten."
Ivy: “…”
Huo Lin: “…”
School hasn't even started yet, why are you already feeling tired of studying
Huo Lin usually indulges the little guy, but when it comes to crucial matters, he is never vague: "No, no one can skip school."
Since its establishment, the empire has always required every citizen to receive complete compulsory education.
Illiteracy was not tolerated in the empire.
The Imperial Military Academy refers to a university, but at the same time, it also has affiliated kindergartens, affiliated primary schools, and affiliated middle schools.
In order for their children to be successfully admitted to the Imperial Military Academy in the future, parents usually let their children start classes in the affiliated academy in advance.
Huo Lin looked at the neatly dressed little cub and reached out to pick him up. No matter what, this cub had to at least take the entrance exam today!
During breakfast, His Majesty the Emperor, who had been handling government affairs in the study for a long time, also came to the dining table.
As soon as he came over, the kid, who was eating breakfast well, obviously didn't eat as happily as before. The meat in his mouth fell directly into his rice bag without him even biting it.
"What is that on his neck? It's ugly."
Ludwig, who didn't recognize Fandoudou, blurted out that when he was with Cesar before, Cesar had never used this.
As soon as he finished speaking, the kid, who was holding a round spoon and had rice on his chubby face, looked over angrily. "Kid, it looks good!"
The kid who has cared about beauty and ugliness since childhood can't stand hearing people say the word "ugly".
Ludwig raised an eyebrow and looked at his chubby face.
under the table.
His calf was suddenly kicked with such force that only his Ivy could have kicked him.
After being kicked, Ludwig immediately changed his words without changing his expression: "Well, white and fat ones are very beautiful."
"not fat!"
The fat kid, who had just finished a large plate of meat, continued to correct Ludwig: "Kid, you're too skinny!"
Early in the morning.
Ludwig and a little fat kid who was not even as tall as his calf kept chatting until the end of the meal. Maybe because they talked too much, although the conversation was not pleasant, the little fat kid started crying because it was obvious that he would never see him again.
After dinner.
After digesting her food a little, Jane Ning got into the car with her brother, and the car drove straight to the kindergarten affiliated with the Imperial Military Academy.
On the way, Huo Lin told Jian Xi about the content of the upcoming assessment: "Ningzai, Uncle Zhan said that you run very fast. When you take the physical test later, you have to run faster, understand?"
Before Huo Lin entered school, he was the strongest among children of the same age in terms of both physical fitness and mental strength.
Whether he went to the Imperial Military Primary School or the Federal School, he didn't have to worry about whether he could be admitted.
Ning Zai, sitting on his brother's lap, looked depressed. He didn't want to be locked up in the kindergarten at all. He wanted to go home and grow vegetables.
soon.
The car arrived at the destination.
Huo Lin picked him up from the car and took him to the kindergarten.
The kindergarten and the primary school are next to each other, but when Huo Lin passed by the primary school gate, it was school time and he didn't see any students active inside.
"Ningzi, look, this is the teaching building where I go to school. If you go to kindergarten, you can see me every day."
As soon as these words came out, Ning Zai, who was not interested at first, pricked up his ears instantly. He looked in the direction Huo Lin pointed to him and saw the grandly built primary school.
"Baby wants to see his brother!"
"Then do well in your exam today." Huo Lin coaxed him: "Do well in your exam so you can see me every day."
After passing the primary school gate, they arrived at the kindergarten gate in a few minutes.
Behind the two of them, there were guards who were responsible for protecting them, but the guards kept a good distance, neither too far nor too close, so as not to make the little prince feel pressured, nor to let the little prince out of their sight.
There was also a row of guards standing at the entrance of the kindergarten.
The little cubs who can go to this kindergarten are not ordinary cubs. In order to protect their safety, the guns held by the guards at the door are fully loaded with bullets.
"Hello, please open the door for me. I'm here to see Director Hardy."
Although Huo Lin does not attend classes in this kindergarten, he is still qualified to enter here due to his status.
Huo Lin and Jian Ning were allowed to enter, but the guards behind him were stopped.
"Auburn, you guys wait for us outside, I'll be out later."
"yes."
After entering, Huo Lin stopped holding Ning Zai. He put Ning Zai on the ground and asked him to lead him. "Zi Zai, remember, you can't cry today."
If Ningzai starts crying during the assessment, Principal Hardy will definitely not agree to his admission.
Huo Lin has repeated these precautions several times.
Ningzai remembered everything, rubbed his ears, and said in a cute voice: "Brother, I remembered everything."
"Well, let's go see Director Hardy now."
Principal Hardy is the head of the kindergarten, but he doesn't look like someone who can attract children to get close to him. He served in the military for many years, and after retiring, he came to the school and served as the head of the kindergarten for many years.
He has an old-fashioned personality, so other children don't like him very much, and most parents are afraid of him.
He was sitting in the office reading a book when Huo Lin knocked on the door.
The door is open.
Ningzai, who was pushed in front of Huo Lin, raised his chubby face and, as his brother instructed, politely waved his hand to the headmaster.
"Uncle, hello!"
Ningzai, who had been trained in pronunciation by his brother, pronounced the greeting very standardly. Although his soft and baby voice was accurate, it still sounded like he was being cute.
Director Hardy looked down at the idiot and said calmly, "No."
Huo Lin: “?”
Huo Lin's voice sank: "You haven't tested him yet."
Hadi's eyes were still on Ningzi, and his tone was still cold: "The Imperial Military Kindergarten does not accept such a delicate little cub. Your Highness, you can take him to the Sunflower Kindergarten on Songhua Road. I think it will be a good place for him."
Huo Lin: “…”
Huo Lin's face tightened: "I think he is more suitable here."
His Ningzai looks very spoiled. No, his personality is indeed very spoiled, but Ningzai's abilities are not inferior to those of other children in this kindergarten.
Zhan Xi and the other people on the desolate planet are all true star pirates.
When they were raising Ning, they had already considered whether Ning would be bullied in the future. But there was nothing they could do, their child looked like a good kid.
In order to prevent the kids from being bullied, they began to teach them how to defend themselves, intentionally or unintentionally, when they just learned to walk.
They not only taught the cubs the ability to defend themselves, but also taught them some skills that other cubs would never be able to learn.
Kill insects.
What their desolate planet lacks the least is disgusting bugs that have not given up and are still trying to crawl onto their territory.
Huo Lin stated firmly that his child would definitely be suitable for this place. Just as they were standing face to face, the door was pushed open without warning.
The person who walked in was General Mance.
As soon as he came in, Hardy's face darkened: "Mance, you are always so rude."
General Mans was wearing a military uniform, with his silver hair tied behind his back. He seemed to be busy with something before coming. The moment he entered the door, Huo Lin smelled the scent of blood from him.
"Hardy, you're always so strict with the cubs."
General Mans had a cold expression on his face. He looked at Ning Zai who was rejected by Hadi, and a rare surprise flashed across his eyes: "Poor little thing, didn't you have enough food?"
Ningzai was stunned by the question.
He patted his belly and answered seriously: "I'm full!"
His little belly is always full and he rarely gets hungry.
Hearing this, Mans was even more surprised: "Then how come you haven't grown taller in two years?"
Ningzai finally understood that he was talking about him being short, and immediately pulled up his chubby face and said unhappily, "Zizi, I'm not short!"
Mance seemed to curl the corner of his lip.
He did not continue to talk about the height of the little cub, but spoke to Hardy: "Hadi, when you recruit students, you can't always judge them by appearance. Although this chubby little cub doesn't even seem to be able to run exercises. But maybe, he has some special talents?"
Hardy looked like he was talking nonsense.
Mans was still making suggestions: "The meeting between the Federal Marshal and His Majesty the Emperor will continue for a few more days. Didn't his cubs hold a fighting competition when they were temporarily staying here? I heard that he beat up a lot of our cubs."
"Look, this kid is so chubby, let him deal with the arrogant yellow-haired kid. If he can successfully deal with the yellow-haired kid, you can give him a place in school."
As Mans spoke, he picked up the chubby little cub.
This time, Hardy looked at Mance as if he were a madman. "What are you talking about? The kid you're holding looks like he'll burst into tears if he's even slightly frightened."
The little boy, who had indeed been frightened and cried by the Emperor, lowered his head dejectedly when he heard the director's words.
But even though his little head was drooping, the cub still whispered unconvinced: "Cubs know how to fight."
He's a great fighter.
Mans felt the heavy weight in his hand, and he changed his hand to carry the weight. The hand that had just carried the cub was injured today, so it was not suitable for carrying a weight again.
"Hadi, people have to be brave enough to try."
Mance's insistence made Hardy feel like he had seen a ghost, but he finally relented: "I will take him over, and if he gets scared, I will take him down immediately."
"Um."
After this matter was finalized, Mans shook the cub in his hand and whispered, "Little fat cub, behave well."
Huo Lin was watching from the side and almost couldn't help but snatch the baby away.
He looked at Mans and guessed that Mans's arrival might be arranged by his mother.
(End of this chapter)