My wife is number one in the world

After a moment of silence with a slight frown, Liu Mingzhi suddenly let out a soft sigh.

"Ugh!"

"General, to be honest, I don't think you did anything wrong by arranging a separate banquet for me and my daughter Yue'er."

I'm not saying this to comfort you, General, but because I understand your difficulties.

"Really, I completely understand your difficulties."

As Liu Mingzhi spoke in a slightly melancholic tone, he turned slightly and silently glanced at Zheng Jizhong and his group.

"General, brothers, back in the day, I was once a subject myself!"
Because I myself have served as a subject, I can naturally understand the difficulties of being a subject.

As the saying goes, serving a ruler is like serving a tiger.

For those who serve as subjects, this proverb is not without merit.

General, I must say something unpleasant: regarding your arrangement of a separate banquet, from your perspective, it was wrong of you to arrange this banquet for me and my daughter Yue'er, whether you did it or not.

General, you've arranged a banquet for me alone, but I don't want to accept your kind offer. If so, you've made a mistake.

But if you, General, haven't arranged a separate banquet for me, I would like to enjoy a fine meal and wine here at the military camp in the west of the city. Since you can't provide it, then you have also made a mistake.

You made the arrangements, but I, this young master, don't want to eat it. That's your fault.

Conversely, if you didn't arrange it, and I wanted to eat but couldn't, that's your fault.

So, from your perspective as a subject, General, no matter what, it's ultimately your fault.

That is precisely why I can fully understand your difficulties, General.

It is precisely for this reason that I do not believe that you, General, made a mistake in arranging a separate banquet.

"General, if you take this kind of thing too seriously, you'll never be able to determine who's right and who's wrong."

As soon as Liu Mingzhi finished speaking, a faint smile returned to his face. He then raised his right hand and waved gently to Zheng Jizhong.

"General, I am very pleased to see that you are willing to take on all the responsibilities."

There's no need to continue discussing this topic here; let's leave it at that.

"Let's go, let's hurry to the canteen for lunch."

As soon as Liu Mingzhi finished speaking, he quickened his pace.

Upon seeing this, Zheng Jizhong immediately quickened his pace and raised his hands to gently cup his hands in greeting to Young Master Liu, who was walking ahead.

"Your Majesty is wise, this old minister thanks Your Majesty."

After quickly swallowing the spiced almonds she had already chewed, the little cutie hurriedly moved closer to Young Master Liu.

Immediately, her stunningly beautiful face turned to look at Young Master Liu with curiosity.

"Dear Father, may I ask you a question?"

Hearing his beloved daughter's curious question, Liu Mingzhi could roughly guess what she wanted to ask him without much thought. However, he still smiled and turned to the little cutie, nodding gently.

"Yes, of course."

"My dear daughter, just ask me whatever you have a question!"

Upon hearing this, the little cutie immediately smiled and said sweetly, "Good daddy, it's like this, Yue'er is just a little curious, daddy, how did you know that Uncle Lü secretly went to the dining hall to arrange a banquet for us father and daughter alone?"

The question the old general just asked you, Father, sounded like a perfectly normal question.

Moreover, no matter how you look at his question, not a single word in it is related to Uncle Lü's secret arrangement of the banquet.

"So, dear father, why did you suddenly decide to arrange a separate banquet?"

As soon as the little cutie asked the question with great curiosity, Zheng Jizhong immediately turned his head and glanced at Liu Dashao, who was walking at the front, with a look of curiosity on his face.

The questions that the little cutie is curious about are also the questions that Zheng Jizhong is curious about.

Zheng Jizhong was equally puzzled as to how His Majesty had so quickly come up with the idea that Lü Sanlin had secretly gone to the dining hall to arrange a separate banquet.

Just as Princess said, no matter how you look at it, there wasn't a single word in her question that was related to arranging a separate banquet!

Faced with such a situation, how could he not be curious?
Zhang Yao and his group all turned their curious gazes toward Young Master Liu.

At this moment, the large group of people following behind Young Master Liu were all waiting for his explanation.

Liu Mingzhi smacked his lips lightly twice, turned slightly, and looked at the little cutie walking beside him with a cheerful smile.

"Hahaha, haha~ hahaha."

"My dear daughter, let me ask you, what question did the old general ask me just now?"

When the little cutie heard her father ask her a question, the expression on her beautiful face faltered slightly.

Immediately afterward, she snapped out of her daze.

"Father, the question the old general just asked you was whether the teaching of military strategy to those children should only be implemented in the main camp in the west of the city, or should it be implemented in all camps and locations throughout the army?"

As Liu Mingzhi listened to his beloved daughter's earnest reply, he smiled and nodded gently at his little darling.

"My dear daughter, there's a saying that goes, 'One flower alone does not make spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together make a garden full of spring.'"

The children under the care of the old general and his comrades were like a single flower blooming, while the children under the care of all the soldiers were like a garden full of blooming flowers.

My dear daughter, when the old general was galloping across the battlefield, even I was just a child. As for you, my daughter, you weren't even born yet.
With the old general's life experience of navigating the court for many years, do you think he wouldn't understand the principle that one flower blooming alone does not make spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together make a garden full of spring?

Previously, when you, my dear daughter, used the way of asking the old general questions to express your views to your father, the old general had already understood from your words the importance of teaching those children the art of war.

Furthermore, given my subsequent statements, if the old general is not mentally unstable, he will naturally realize that this matter is not just a one-sided affair of the western military camp, but rather concerns all camps and regions throughout the entire army. This means that the old general must have already considered it in his mind, and after my daughter and I leave, he will immediately draft a plan to report this matter to your two great-uncles.

My dear daughter, think about it carefully.

Since the old general has already considered this matter in his heart, why does he need to go through the trouble of asking me about it again?

There's only one answer: it's to delay things.

"My dear daughter, why do you think the old general is stalling for time?"

Upon hearing her father's last question, the little girl immediately replied in a sweet voice without hesitation, "Because we need to have lunch. The old general needs to stay here for a while so that Uncle Lü can have enough time to arrange a good banquet for us, father and daughter, alone."

After hearing his beloved daughter's unhesitating reply, Liu Mingzhi immediately nodded with a smile.

"Hehehe, that's right, that's exactly it."

My dear daughter, it's that simple.

As soon as Young Master Liu finished speaking cheerfully, the expressions on the faces of Little Cutie, Zheng Jizhong, and the others involuntarily became strange.

Whether it was Xiao Ke'ai or Zheng Jizhong and his group, they never expected that Young Master Liu could immediately connect so many things with just a simple question.

Before hearing Young Master Liu's answer, they had secretly guessed many reasons, but none of them had considered this one.

The little cutie remained silent for a while with a strange expression. She first glanced at Zheng Jizhong, who was following behind her, by slightly turning her slender waist, and then immediately turned her gaze back to her father.

"Good father, you call this simple?"

"Haha, my good daughter, isn't that simple?" Liu Mingzhi chuckled and asked back softly, hearing his little darling's strange question.

Upon hearing her father's cheerful question, the beautiful girl's expression froze slightly.

"Good father, is this...this...is this simple?"

"My dear daughter, isn't this simple?"

"No, wh-wh-Daddy, is this really that simple?"

"Hey, my dear daughter, isn't this easy?"

The adorable girl parted her cherry lips slightly, took a deep breath, and then turned her slender waist back to look at Zheng Jizhong again.

"General, tell me, is this really that simple?"

Upon hearing Xiao Ke'ai's question, Zheng Jizhong first turned to look at Liu Dashao, who was walking at the front, and then looked at Xiao Ke'ai, who was looking back at him. He then opened his mouth slightly, his face full of confusion.

At this moment, he really wanted to shout at his little darling, "Your Highness, stop listening to His Majesty's nonsense!"

If this were easy, then there would be nothing difficult in this world.

Unfortunately, he could only think these words in his heart; he would never dare to actually say them out loud.

Zheng Jizhong opened his mouth and took a light breath, then raised his hand and gently tugged at the gray beard on his chin.

"Your Highness, um...um..."

Zheng Jizhong pursed his lips, hummed softly a few times as if he wanted to say something but couldn't, then glanced sideways at Young Master Liu's back before nodding emphatically to the little cutie.

“Your Highness, well, His Majesty is right, this matter is indeed quite simple.”

As the little cutie listened to Zheng Jizhong's words, which were initially hesitant but then suddenly became forceful, her luscious cherry lips trembled uncontrollably.

If she hadn't already witnessed Zheng Jizhong's conflicted expression and his incoherent speech at the beginning, she would have actually believed him based on the sudden change in his tone and the forcefulness in his last two sentences.

Unfortunately, there was no "if".

The little cutie knew very well that Zheng Jizhong's answer to her just now was not what he truly felt.

However, he had no choice but to answer that way because of his stinky old man.

It makes sense, considering that my own damned father, the Emperor of the Great Dragon Dynasty, has repeatedly said that this matter is very simple.

Under such circumstances, if Zheng Jizhong were to answer that things were not simple at this time, firstly, it would seem that he was deliberately contradicting his own father, the current emperor, and secondly, it would make them seem very foolish.

Faced with this situation, Zheng Jizhong's only option was to agree with his father's words.

This answer may not be the most correct one, but it is the best one.

At this moment, the little cutie truly understood how right her stinky old man's previous words were.

It must be said that being a subject is indeed quite difficult.

The little cutie gently pursed her luscious cherry lips twice, then turned her smiling eyes back to Young Master Liu.

"Good father, well, I've thought about it carefully, and this matter is indeed very simple."

Liu Mingzhi turned his head with a deep look and gave the little cutie a long look before raising his eyebrows and chuckling happily.

"Hahaha, haha~ hahahahaha."

"My dear daughter, keep it simple, keep it simple!"

Hearing her father's cheerful voice, the little girl's heart couldn't help but tighten slightly.

For some reason, she instinctively felt that her father's cheerful words just now were not as simple as they seemed on the surface.

However, she couldn't quite put her finger on what exactly was unusual about it.

After casually adjusting his sleeves, Liu Mingzhi silently quickened his pace.

Before long, a group led by Young Master Liu entered the bustling dining hall. (End of Chapter)