"Mom~" Yumeng rushed forward and hugged Zhao Jiaqi, calling out in a spoiled tone!
With her bump, Zhao Jiaqi had to take two steps back before she could stop. She smiled and gently ruffled Yumeng's tied-up bun, "Come, let Mom take a good look. Has my daughter become uglier or prettier!"
Yumeng, who was determined to lead troops and defend her home and country, didn't care about such things. She replied with a mature tone, "Mom, if a future husband only cares about that superficial beauty, then marrying such a person will only lead to me being abandoned eventually. Such a shallow man is not worthy of your daughter!"
Zhao Jiaqi and Fan Zehao exchanged glances from a distance. They hadn't expected their daughter to speak with such insight after this trip!
To have said such words!
"Oh?" she exclaimed in surprise and asked, "Then tell me, what kind of man would be worthy of you?"
Speaking of this, Yumeng's brow furrowed. After pondering for a moment, her attention directly pointed to her own father!
"My future husband must be like Father, doting on me, and able to keep me in check. Most importantly, he must be a great hero, not shallow, and only have me as his wife for this lifetime!"
Yumeng jutted out her neck. This should be right, shouldn't it? Father is exactly this kind of person. Finding someone like Father shouldn't be that difficult, right?
These words amused Fan Zehao, and he laughed heartily, "In silly Yumeng's eyes, I'm a great hero? Shouldn't I just be a loving father?"
From beginning to end, Fan Zehao had always positioned himself as a loving father. When it came to his daughter's requests, he always indulged her. He never forced his daughter to study needlework, the Four Books and Five Classics, or even books on female virtues that regulated a woman's conduct. In his eyes, his daughter was hard-won and not meant to be tormented by others!
Life was so short. As long as she didn't do anything outrageous and as long as she wished for it, he would find a way to fulfill it!
He never knew that in her eyes, he was actually a great hero. This was the first time he had heard such high praise from his children!
Yumeng chuckled sheepishly, "A loving father and a great hero are not contradictory. Anyway, I'll find a husband like Father. If I can't find one, I'll be a tomboy for life and always be Father's precious baby!"
Zhao Jiaqi was so amused that she didn't know what to say. She poked Yumeng's forehead, "You wish!"
Father's precious baby would always be herself. When would it be Yumeng's turn?
Besides, what was good about being a single woman for life? Yin and yang would be out of balance, and if her temper flared up again, tsk tsk!
Yaoyao and Sensen watched their mother and elder sister with smiles. Yaoyao said, "Big sister, if no one wants you, we'll support you when you're old!"
Sensen smacked his lips and thought this was feasible. However, he didn't want to share a courtyard with his elder sister. With her temper and martial arts skills, if he slightly displeased her, he might get beaten so badly that his mother wouldn't recognize him.
He wanted to live a few more years and didn't want to die of anger or be beaten to death!
With his elder brother's words, he went along with it, "I'll pay for a large mansion for Big Sister, with countless servants, and Brother and I will support Big Sister until she passes. As long as Big Sister has any requests, we will definitely fulfill them all!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao Jiaqi's heart skipped a beat!
She subtly glanced at her second son, then at her elder son, who was standing there with a righteous look. She had a slight inkling of what was going on!
She patted Yumeng's shoulder, "You're still so young. You can only think about marriage when you're eighteen. You have a long way to go!"
Yumeng felt that this was the end of the discussion. She still had five or six years before she could get married!
After Zhao Jiaqi finished speaking, she sat down on the grand tutor's chair.
Her two sons then got up and respectfully greeted her, no longer as mischievous as before. This way of behaving made her feel a bit unaccustomed.
"Get up!"
The two children rose as she spoke and sat back down on their chairs, waiting for their parents to inquire.
However, what they received was an instruction to go to their grandparents' courtyard and pay their respects to the elders.
Sensen's prepared remarks went unused, and he was very disappointed. Compared to Yaoyao, he felt it made sense.
Yaoyao cupped his hands towards his parents and then towards his master, Ling Weifeng, "This child will take his leave."
Then, he looked at Yumeng and smiled, "Sister, shall we go pay our respects to Grandma and Grandpa together?"
Yumeng nodded, "Okay!"
Sensen also got up. After saying it reluctantly, he followed his elder brother and sister out.
As the three children left one after another, Zhao Jiaqi's joyful smile gradually faded, replaced by a faint smile that was still polite.
Ling Weifeng had come along this time, partly to personally hand over the child to her and partly to settle the profits from the past few months.
"Wangfei, here is a bank draft for thirty-seven thousand taels, which is fifty percent of the net profit from our Logistics Escort Agency. Please accept it, Wangfei."
Su Ya, standing behind her, stepped forward to receive the brocade box containing the bank draft and then returned to Zhao Jiaqi's side.
"The Logistics Escort Agency is a major trend for the future. It includes transit stations that can quickly deliver goods. Its prospects are considerable. I believe it will make you, the Alliance Leader of the Martial World, a lot of money!"
Ling Weifeng laughed heartily, waved his hand, and said, "To be frank, my greatest wish is for worthy individuals in the martial world to have a stable life, and I don't wish for them to be constantly fighting."
He then sighed, "Where there is the martial world, there is conflict. I can only slowly persuade them. I hope such days will not be too far off."
Fan Zehao listened for a while and found his idea incomprehensible, and he didn't believe it would come true.
He said, "The martial world is like a military camp. A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. In the martial world, everyone wants to be the Alliance Leader to unite the jianghu. However, the role of the Alliance Leader is to maintain balance among the various sects. As long as you, the Alliance Leader, act uprightly, and mete out punishments and rewards fairly and impartially, the martial world will not be in chaos, and you, the Alliance Leader, will be admired!"
The fact that a seemingly uncultured and unsophisticated person could utter such words genuinely surprised Ling Weifeng!
Not only him, but even Zhao Jiaqi, his wife of many years, was astonished!
Her husband's words were truly insightful!
Ling Weifeng was suddenly enlightened, as if a divine revelation had struck him. He immediately understood that instead of changing everyone else, it was much easier to change oneself.
He was so excited that he rose from his chair and bowed deeply to Fan Zehao, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your reminder. It has enlightened me greatly!"
"You're too kind. I'm merely an objective observer. You are deeply entangled and unable to extricate yourself. What you lacked was just a point of guidance from an outsider."
Ling Weifeng truly admired this man. No wonder Yumeng said he was like a great hero. A person who was wise yet appeared foolish was indeed worthy of that title!