I Gave Birth to a Cub without Telling the Head Assistant - Chapter 9.2

Chapter 9.2

Ruan Liyun wanted to change the atmosphere, and she suddenly had an idea in her mind and ordered Cuihu to take out a painting. The drawing paper was only the size of two palms. The paper was gradually spread out in front of the three sisters, revealing its content.

It was a picture of winter plum blossoms with immature brushwork.

Snowflakes were flying, and a plum tree grew from the gap between the steep cliffs. The blood-like plums bloomed just right, resting on the branches, proud of the snow and frost, showing their own style.

“This is what Sister Shu painted. She said I must hand over this to her aunts with my own hands. And also, she said that if the two aunts think she is good at painting, they must give her fruit as a reward.”

[Tl:- “Sister Shu” is Ruan Liyun’s little daughter. “Sister Shu” is her nickname.]

All the sorrow, depression, and sadness are diluted a lot by the innocence and cuteness of young children.

Ruan Linglong’s angry look went away quickly, and she told her helpers to get the fruit right away. Ruan Yumei also looked at the painting and said many good things about it.

Ruan Liyun’s expression became gentle when she talked about her daughter. She spoke to her sister using the paintings: “I remember when Sister Shu was born. You visited Feng’s house every day and held her, not wanting to let go.”

“I loved her a lot.” Ruan Linglong replied.

“You love kids a lot, so it’s only natural for you to want to have your own.”

‘If there is no marriage, then where will the child come from?’ “Don’t you need to find a man if you want to have children?” Ruan Linglong asked.

Ruan Liyun didn’t say anything aloud, fearing making Ruan Longling more upset, but she just murmured to herself, “Just because she found one bad fruit, she shouldn’t think all the fruit in the basket is bad.”

Ruan Longling raised her head in confusion, as if she had heard it but also as if she had not heard it. She then murmured thoughtfully, “Find a man…and have a baby…”

The rain in spring was like oil, and it made everything in the world seem to have soaked up the nutrients from the rain, turning vibrant and green.

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Qizhenyuan was a very nice courtyard.

Indoors, there were rock formations and pools that were typical of the Jiangnan region. Far away, many egrets flew in a line over East Lake, making a beautiful sight with the water and sky.

[tl: The region in China known as Jiangnan includes the southern portion of the Yangtze River’s delta as well as the areas just south of the river’s lower reaches.]

Li Zhulin was calmly sitting at the table by the window, making tea and reading letters. He was looking at the beautiful view outside.

He was reading a letter from the government about hiring new employees. It was full of praise for the character and talent of Champion Liu Chengji and asked the Hanlin Academy to compile it for the sixth rank.

Hanlin editors were the noble civil servants who compiled books, wrote histories, and drafted imperial edicts in the Hanlin Academy.

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If this memorial had been delivered a few days earlier, Li Zhulin would have played it accurately.

But at this moment, when he saw the name “Liu Chengji,” the woman in Taowu yesterday who covered her face and cried bitterly appeared in his mind, and his brows subconsciously wrinkled.

“Yunfeng, please send my imperial order to the capital. Scholar Liu Chengji has great talents and is knowledgeable, but he is still young and needs to be tempered. He was immediately assigned to Dayu County in the south of Lingnan and served as the Jiupin County Magistrate.”

“Yes master.”

Others didn’t understand Li Zhulin’s style of doing things, and they would think that Li Zhulin was deliberately cultivating and training Liu Chengji, but Yunfeng had been with Li Zhulin since he was a child, and he knew it all too well.

If Li Zhulin hated someone, he would first lift that person to the top of the clouds and then let him fall off the cliff.

Dayu County, in the south of Lingnan, with its high sky and far water, was surrounded by miasma. It was a place with poor mountains and bad water that was famous in the Qi Dynasty.

The people there were even more notorious for being extremely vicious. Eight out of ten families were bandits.

A top-ranked prodigy, even if he couldn’t enter the Imperial Academy, should at least stay in the capital, but now he has been transferred to a remote place, starting with the humblest official…

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