Chapter 237: Chapter 237

Li Xing’an blinked, not knowing her intention, but he always listened to Li Yuzhu, so he followed and said, "Ah, Third Sister makes sense."

The two of them looked very serious, as if they were being entirely unreasonable.

Li Lixing didn’t dare to make any demands.

He only asked, "Then... do we have a quilt?"

"No, it’s so hot. Aren’t you afraid of getting prickly heat if you use a quilt?" Li Yuzhu said again.

Li Xing’an echoed, "Getting prickly heat makes the whole body itch, scratching hurts, it’s worse than death."

Li Lixing had seen the servants with prickly heat, their necks, backs, and arm creases covered in dense red rashes. They said it was itchy and painful, and they couldn’t sleep well at night.

"Then... then no quilt." Li Lixing quickly said.

Li Yuzhu slightly raised her lips, "Exactly, in this hot weather, why use a quilt."

Li Lixing began to look around the room and then went outside to see the outside of the room.

Li Xing’an pulled Li Yuzhu aside and asked in a low voice, "This is the Little God of Wealth, how can you treat him ?"

Li Yuzhu frowned, "So what if he’s the God of Wealth? Can we indulge him? We’re not his parents! It’s good enough that we give him food to eat and a place to stay, and he’s still picky? What a dream!"

Li Xing’an had first brought Li Lixing to see the room, unaware of everyone’s discussion. Li Yuzhu told him what Prince Luling had said.

"This is just a runaway brat! If we’re too nice to him, he won’t want to go back, and he’ll stay outside. If we force him back, he’ll think the outside is better and sneak out again.

But he’s only ten, what can he do away from home? It’s better to let him suffer a bit, realize the benefits of home, and not run away at will."

Li Xing’an laughed, "Hahaha, so that’s it, dealing with a brat requires tough measures!"

That night, Li Xing’an and the Second Young Master found a few wooden planks in the storeroom, nailed two wooden frames, and placed them in Li Xing’an’s room, and the "bed" was set up.

Li Lixing looked at the "bed" and sighed inwardly.

But having come this far, he couldn’t just run away.

He could only grit his teeth and endure it.

The three sisters of Li Yuzhu each fetched water to take a bath.

The Princely Heir carried hot water and delivered it to Princess Consort Luling.

The two children’s daily lives were always managed by Princess Consort Luling, and she was already busy enough, so the Princely Heir took the initiative to help with some physical chores.

Second Young Master Li Xingsheng was responsible for the bathing water for Prince Luling and his wife.

Li Lixing saw the whole family busy with their own bathing matters and no one cared for him, so he went looking for Li Xing’an.

But he couldn’t find him.

The Second Young Master pushed him to the door of the bathroom, "Wait here; when he comes out, he’ll tell you how to take a bath."

"Can’t you tell me?" Li Lixing asked the Second Young Master, "Asking you is the same."

The Second Young Master smiled slightly and said, "I don’t have time to tell you, I have to take care of my parents’ bath; I have to fetch and deliver bathing water."

"They’re adults, and you still have to take care of them?" Li Lixing widened his eyes, "Can’t they fetch their own bathing water?"

The Second Young Master said solemnly, "Li Lixing, have you heard of the term ’filial piety from the crow’?"

Li Lixing blinked and shook his head, "No."

"Haha, no wonder you’re saying this!" The Second Young Master sneered.

"What do you mean?" Li Lixing was confused.

"I mean, even a bird knows to repay its parents when they’re old, let alone humans?" The Second Young Master glared at Li Lixing, "Am I right?"

Li Lixing refused to give in, shouting, "No! If Mother treats me well, I’ll treat her well. If she doesn’t, why should I be nice to her? She might as well die!"

The Second Young Master squinted, "Did your mother break your leg?"

Li Lixing was stunned, "No, she didn’t."

"Did she sell you?" The Second Young Master asked with a cold face.

"Starved you from childhood? Beaten you daily, forbidding you to eat if you don’t work? Treated you like a cash cow? Took all the money you earned while you starved and had no money? Dressed herself in gold and silver while you wore rags?" The Second Young Master asked again.

Li Lixing, dodging the Second Young Master’s stare, stepped back repeatedly, "No... she didn’t."

"Then tell me, how was she bad to you? I may be limited in experience, but I believe other than these, nothing else can be considered bad." The Second Young Master stood with arms akimbo, leisurely looking at Li Lixing.

Li Lixing pouted, shouting angrily, "She hired two teachers to control me, isn’t that bad enough?"

The Second Young Master suddenly understood, disliking the teachers, it meant not wanting to study?

He crossed his arms and asked again, "Oh? Two teachers? Are they very fierce? Do they hit you for no reason?"

"Extremely fierce, they are the fiercest people I’ve ever met! They hit your hands if you can’t recite books, mine are almost ruined!" Li Lixing looked at his hands, shouting with anger, "It hurt so much I couldn’t hold chopsticks for a day. If it weren’t for the maid feeding me, I would have starved."

"You’re over ten years old and still need a maid to feed you?" The Second Young Master was jealous.

He was once the noble young master of the Prince Mansion, punished by the late Emperor with a plank on his hand; didn’t he still eat by himself when he got home? He was only seven at the time!

This little rascal was just a county magistrate’s son, yet living a more comfortable life than him, and still claimed his family’s abuse?

"My hands hurt, if the maid didn’t feed me, wouldn’t I starve?" Li Lixing looked indignant.

"Li Lixing, letting the maid feed you was your mother’s arrangement, wasn’t it? How can you say she’s not good? What kind of son are you?" The Second Young Master shook his head. Check latest chapters at novel[f]ire.net

"She mocked me then, saying I deserved it! Even said next time she wouldn’t let the maid feed me, shouldn’t I hate her for that?" Li Lixing sneered.

"Alright, alright, you’re quite the talker." The Second Young Master didn’t want to argue with the bratty kid anymore; this child was spoiled and wouldn’t listen to reason.

Li Xing’an finished bathing, came out of the bathroom, and while drying his hair with a dry cloth, said, "Li Lixing, your turn now."

Li Lixing glanced at the bathroom; it was a small empty room, much smaller than a regular room, with a bathtub and a rack for clothes, leaving no extra space.

"Who’s going to help me bathe?" He looked at the two brothers.

"What?" Li Xing’an and Second Young Master Li Xingsheng widened their eyes together.

"I mean, I don’t know how to bathe. You guys have to help me." Li Lixing looked at the brothers.

The Second Young Master rolled his eyes.

Li Xing’an let out a cold laugh, "No, from five years old, we brothers have bathed ourselves. You’re over ten, and you still want others to help you? That’s too much!"

The Princes of the Li Royal Family also started bathing independently at five.

The Emperor had many attendants when bathing, but that was just for the sake of status, merely for show.

Before the Emperor became Emperor, he also bathed independently.

This little rascal from the county magistrate’s family flaunted more than the princes!

The Second Young Master and Li Xing’an, jealous, wanted to give Li Lixing a beating.

Li Xing’an threw an old set of clothes to Li Lixing, while the Second Young Master gave him a pair of slightly smaller old shoes.

"Go bathe yourself!" The two of them no longer paid attention to Li Lixing.