good season

Swallows Arrive

Yan Lai is the eldest granddaughter of the Duke of Wei's family, and she is also the only girl in three generations of the Yan family.

After Yanlai was born, none of the fearless men in the Yan family, including her father and grandfather, dared to speak loudly in front of her. Whenever Yanlai was around, everyone would raise their voices in unison.

Of all the people, Yanlai's favorites were her grandparents, followed by her aunt, while her father and mother were tied for third place.

There's nothing we can do about it; her parents are always so busy.

Her father, Yan Xia, was always a very busy man, busy investigating cases and catching bad guys, always on the go, through thick and thin.

As for her mother, she was even busier than her father.

Her mother was the only female general in the Dayong Dynasty, leading an army of 100,000 and defeating the Dalu army, bringing at least twenty years of peace to the border of Dayong.

After returning to the capital, her mother did not remain idle; she was appointed Vice Minister of War, becoming the only female official among the six ministries.

It's easy to imagine how busy her mother was. She often didn't get off work until very late, by which time Yanlai was already asleep. When she woke up in the morning, her mother had already gone to court. The longest time Yanlai didn't see her parents was a whole month. Her grandmother, Madam Yu, had no choice but to take Yanlai with her and go to the Ministry of Justice to find her father, and then to the Ministry of War to find her mother.

Yanlai loved riding horses since she was a child. When she was little, she rode on her grandfather's shoulders all over the capital and even rode her grandfather to the palace. She often went to the palace, and the emperor liked her very much. He even wanted to adopt her as his goddaughter, but her father did not agree!

Besides her grandparents, Yanlai's favorite person is her aunt.

She liked to go to her aunt's house to play. Her aunt's house had cats, dogs, birds, donkeys, and a little cousin named Xiao Tong.

When Yanlai was five years old, her aunt gave her a pony. With the pony, Yanlai no longer had to ride on her grandfather's shoulders to play. She could ride the pony wherever she wanted. Her grandfather was very disappointed. He complained to his grandmother that his granddaughter didn't want her grandfather anymore after getting the pony.

Once, Yanlai hadn't seen her parents for quite some time. She rode her pony to her aunt's house, but neither her aunt nor her uncle were home. When Yanlai arrived, Xiao Tong was entertaining guests.

Xiao Tong's guest was a crow, and no one knows what the crow said, but Xiao Tong was amused and kept laughing.

After seeing the crow off, Xiao Tong excitedly told Yan Lai, "Cousin, I didn't know people could fly! As long as you wear a wingsuit, you can fly around in the sky! Cousin, let's go fly too, let's fly up into the sky!"

Yanlai: "Who told you that? Was it that crow?"

Xiao Tong's eyes sparkled: "Yes, yes, that's not an ordinary crow, it's the Crow King, my good friend. It used to be a god, a time-traveling god, a wingsuit god, so awesome!"

Yanlai suspected that her little cousin must have been tricked by that crow.

"I don't believe it's a god, it's just a crow!"

Xiao Tong frowned slightly. The Crow King would never lie.

"It is the Great God, the Great God that can fly!"

Yan Lai was even more skeptical: "I don't believe it at all. Humans aren't birds; humans can't fly."

Xiao Tong: "But the Crow King can fly, it's true, it wouldn't lie to me."

Yanlai: "It's so powerful, how did it turn into a crow?"

Xiao Tong: "When it was flying in the sky, it fell down and died, and then it became the Crow King."

Yanlai: "So it died from a fall. I knew people couldn't fly, look, it died from a fall."

Xiao Tong blinked. At three years old, she still didn't quite understand, but her five-year-old cousin had already climbed up the artificial hill and was jumping off from the top. She wanted to try it herself and see if she could turn into a crow!
Yanlai didn't turn into a crow, but she lay in bed for a whole month. During that month, her father and mother stayed at home with her. Her mother sang to her, and her father, along with her uncles, did somersaults for her.

When the Crow King heard that she was injured, he felt very guilty and asked his little cousin to bring her a hat made of all kinds of feathers.

Yanlai felt that although it was a bit of a pity that she didn't become a crow, she was still very happy to have her parents by her side.

Xiao Tong

Xiao Tong has many friends. The birds in the sky are her friends, the fish in the water are her friends, and the dogs on the street are also her friends.

When Xiao Tong was seven years old, the Imperial Academy was restructured, and two special classes were set up to recruit noble ladies under the age of fourteen.

Xiao Tong put on her little schoolbag and happily went to school.

On the first day of class, Xiao Tong pulled a frog out of her schoolbag, scaring several classmates to tears. Xiao Tong was punished by standing in the corner for an hour.

The next day in class, Xiao Tong was listening to the birds gossiping by the window when the teacher saw her and made her stand for two hours as punishment.

On the third day of class, a new teacher arrived. Xiao Tong, with her sharp eyes, noticed a scratch on the teacher's face. The teacher said it was from a cat, but Xiao Tong loudly corrected him: "It wasn't from a cat! Teacher, you're not being honest!"

Xiao Tong was punished by standing for three hours. On the fourth day, Xiao Tong admitted that she had a monkey do her homework as punishment.

Day 5. Standing as punishment.

Day 6. Standing as punishment.

On the seventh day, the supervisor told her to go back and call her parents. Xiao Tong thought for a moment, then slung her schoolbag over her shoulder and turned to leave the Imperial Academy.

An hour later, Xiao Tong brought a donkey.

"His name is Shi Congcong, and he's my maternal uncle."

The supervisor asked, "What uncle? Where are your parents?"

Xiao Tong: "Nothing is more important than my uncle! He's my patriarch!"

监正
Finally, school was over. Xiao Tong slung her backpack over her shoulder and was the first to rush out of the classroom. School was over! She was free!
However, the supervisor stopped them, saying he wanted to make a home visit!

Xiao Tong had no choice but to take the supervisor home. The supervisor rode in a sedan chair, while Xiao Tong rode on Shi Congcong's back, with a group of guards running behind them.

The supervisor sat in the sedan chair, planning how he would complain to the Duke of Huguo and the Princess of Nanyang. He had already prepared his draft in his mind.

The sedan chair stopped, and the supervisor stepped out.

What lay before them was just an ordinary house, not the Duke's mansion at all.

Xiao Tong: "Didn't you say you were going to do a home visit? This is my home."

"Nonsense!"

Just as the supervisor was about to lose his temper, the door opened and a fat old man came out: "Oh my, my precious great-granddaughter is back! You must be exhausted. Look how tired the child is."

"Sir, the Imperial Censor has come for a home visit!"

Home visit?

The old man became very excited; he had never been visited at home before in his entire life.

"Someone, go to Zhuangyuanlou and reserve a table for a banquet. Supervisor, do you have any dietary restrictions?"

The supervisor said, "You're too kind. I've come to talk about Xiao Tong's performance at the Imperial Academy."

Grandfather: "My precious great-granddaughter must be the smartest and cutest student in the Imperial Academy. Director, would you like some mutton? How about we have a whole roasted lamb? We just happen to have ordered one from Zhuangyuanlou."

The supervisor commented on "Xiao Tong's performance".

Grandfather: "Don't worry, I'll definitely criticize her. If you don't like mutton, we'll have roast duck. Someone, come here!"

That day, the supervisor was so full he could barely walk. Touching his round belly, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't used a single word of the prepared speech he had prepared.

After seeing the supervisor off, Xiao Tong sneakily approached the old master and asked, "Grandpa, can you not tell my mother about what happened today?"

The old man snorted coldly: "Tomorrow I'll tell your mother, and she'll teach you a lesson!"

Xiao Tong hugged her grandfather's arm and shook it: "Grandpa, we're the best of friends, the best of friends in the world. Don't tell my mother about what happened today, okay?"

There's a saying that every creature has its nemesis. Xiao Tong was most afraid of her mother. Her mother always had a smile on her face, but she would never show any mercy when it came to disciplining her.

Her father, on the other hand, seemed cold and aloof, but he would never kill her.

Although her grandfather promised to keep it a secret for her, the news of her being punished by standing in the Imperial Academy still reached her mother's ears, and it was the emperor who told her mother.

Xiao Tong got a beating from her mother.

Moreover, it's done in a very novel way.

She was punished by digging up a thousand earthworms.
Xiao Tong was in unbearable pain, wishing she could turn into an earthworm so she could just lie there and wait for someone to dig her up.

After digging up the earthworms, Xiao Tong slung her little schoolbag over her shoulder and went to school again. She sang as she walked, singing the song that the Crow King had taught her:
"The sun shines brightly, the flowers smile at me, the birds say good morning, why are you carrying a bomb? I'm going to bomb the school, the teacher doesn't know, I pull the cord and run, BOOM, the school is blown up."

The End (End of Chapter)