CHAPTER 150: CHAPTER 145: ENCOURAGING LEARNING (SECOND UPDATE)

"I refuse!" Lu Yanqing directly rejected, "Whatever Dad can do, Grandmother can also do, and whatever Dad can’t do, Grandmother can still do."

"But what if one day in the future, your Grandmother is no longer around?"

The voice of the Eldest Princess came from outside, startling Lu Yanqing so much that he nearly fell off the bed.

"Ah Yin." Lu Xingzhou looked at her.

The Eldest Princess’s gaze fell directly on Lu Yanqing, and only after the maid brought over a stool did she sit down.

"Yanqing, answer your mother’s question."

Lu Yanqing dared not look at the Eldest Princess, his eyes flickering as he turned his head away, but stubbornly said, "Mother is talking nonsense. Grandmother will never be gone!"

"Then tell me, is it your Grandmother who can protect you for a lifetime, or your mother?"

Lu Yanqing closed his eyes, pretending to sleep, clearly not intending to respond to his mother.

Seeing this, the Eldest Princess softened her tone, "I admit, your Grandmother indeed has great capabilities and power, a lot of things she can give you, I as your mother cannot. But have you ever thought? You can enjoy her love because she is still alive. When someday she is gone, all the things you have done might be brought up one by one by the Imperial Censorate, and the sharp words of the officials are well-known, I’m sure I don’t need to emphasize it to you.

By then, who will protect you? If you end up in court, can you call your Grandmother up from the ground to support you, or can you guarantee that your Emperor Uncle won’t succumb to the pressure of the ministers and actually do something to you?"

Lu Yanqing didn’t want to listen, so he pulled the quilt over his head.

The Eldest Princess was not angry and continued, "Before the age of ten, my Yanqing was a well-behaved child, you listened well to everything I said. But later, you slowly learned to lie, you lied to me, saying you wanted to enter the palace to accompany Prince Zhao Xu, to study with him in the Study Room.

Actually, you went to Shou’an Palace, to your Grandmother’s place. I didn’t stop you then because I thought the grudges between adults shouldn’t involve a child like you. However wrong your Grandmother might be, at least she wouldn’t harm a child, but I never expected..."

Lu Yanqing irritatingly pulled off the quilt, glaring at the Eldest Princess, "Don’t you speak about Grandmother!"

"Fine, I won’t speak about your Grandmother, just about you."

"Then I still don’t want to hear!"

"I will speak, whether you listen or not is up to you."

Lu Xingzhou rarely saw her speak so much in a day, fearing she might be thirsty, he got up to pour a cup of water and handed it over.

The Eldest Princess took it, had a sip, then put it down, looking at Lu Yanqing again, "When you bully others, perhaps you never thought that maybe in the future someone might bully you in the same way."

"That’s impossible!" Lu Yanqing said, "Grandmother says I am the biggest, no one dares to provoke me."

"You are the biggest, but what about Zhao Xu? He will soon be made Crown Prince, and in the future, he will be the ruler of this world. Do you mean to say you think the Great Chu can change its surname to Lu, or that you don’t take the Crown Prince and the Emperor seriously?"

These words were already treacherous.

Lu Xingzhou waved to dismiss all the servants, closed the door, and reminded the Eldest Princess, "Ah Yin, be careful of eavesdroppers."

The Eldest Princess remained composed, not the least afraid, "The Emperor can command the world, govern all the people, while you, who your Grandmother named as ’the boss’, rely solely on bullying others to find superiority.

Without your Grandmother, aside from the people in our residence, who outside would you be able to command to help you? Next time you see your Grandmother, just tell her you’re not the boss anymore, or if you still want to be, ask her to give you some real power."

Lu Yanqing didn’t understand, "What power?"

The Eldest Princess smiled faintly, "Casually bullying others is not power, it’s lacking virtue and sense. A single word making the people kneel in submission, a single command sending millions of troops to the battlefield, that is real power.

These, your Grandmother cannot give you, can she? But she can give them to her son, your uncle. She can even take back 200,000 military powers from your father to strengthen your uncle’s position.

So, do you still dare say your Grandmother is the best for you? What’s so good about her? If today, you can say a few valid things in front of me and your father, I won’t stop you from doing whatever you want in the future."

No one has ever spoken these words to Lu Yanqing before, so he was a bit dumbfounded listening, and he looked at Lu Xingzhou with noticeably less confidence, "Dad, did Grandmother really take back 200,000 military powers from you?"

Lu Xingzhou nodded with a smile, "Yes, because I wanted to marry your mother."

Lu Yanqing looked at the Eldest Princess with complex emotions.

The Eldest Princess said, "The reason you were born safely into this world is that your father exchanged 200,000 military powers for it. You should think carefully, is your father’s sacrifice for you greater, or are the small benefits your Grandmother gives you greater? In the future, should you listen to your father and behave well, or do you want to continue being spoiled by your Grandmother, going around bullying people?"

Lu Yanqing pressed his lips tightly, unable to speak for a moment.

The following words from the Eldest Princess were very serious, "Anywhere you go in the future, don’t forget, your surname is Lu, not Zhao. The Zhao family can easily kill the Lu family as if squashing ants, but the Lu family cannot do anything to the Zhao family. This is the difference between ruler and subject, no matter how favored you are, you are still a subject, you cannot surpass your uncle or your cousin Zhao Xu.

Your father made such a huge sacrifice for you, do you think he would harm you?"

"No, he won’t." Lu Yanqing said sheepishly.

"Since you know your father won’t harm you, you should listen well in the future. The Imperial College’s courses, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, I’ll find a Contribute Scholar from a respectable background to guide you, and you must not bully others with your power, do you understand?"

"But Grandmother just sent a message asking me to go to her..."

"You’re not going!" The Eldest Princess dismissed for him, "Go to the Imperial College and focus on your studies, I will handle your Grandmother on your behalf."