Chapter 37 The Xiong Family’s Brotherly Friendship
After Xiong Zhenwei and Lang Qingtian sat silently facing each other by the Yongquan Pool for a while, a young man in a neat uniform walked out from the back hall.
When Xiong Zhenwei saw the young man, a hint of barely perceptible displeasure flashed in his eyes.
Neither of the two great demons stood up to greet them.
Only Lang Qingtian smiled and said to the young man: "Your Highness Long Ming, now that you are here, please sit over here."
Lang Qingtian pointed at another dragon-shaped pillar, indicating that His Highness Long Ming should sit under that pillar.
Although the two great demons did not stand up to greet the demon king's son, His Highness Long Ming was extremely polite to the two great demons.
He first bowed to each of the two big monsters, and then the two big monsters sat on the ground and bowed slightly to return the greeting.
He then sat cross-legged under the coiled dragon pillar, imitating the two great demons, being fully alert, his eyes fixed on the surging water in the spring pool.
Seeing Long Ming sitting upright, even a little nervous, Lang Qingtian chuckled and whispered to him:
"Your Highness, relax. Don't be too nervous. If something happens below, the water in the pool will suddenly calm down. If it keeps rolling like this, it will be fine."
After hearing this, Long Ming nodded towards Lang Qingtian with some gratitude, "Thank you for your advice, Elder Lang. I'll remember it."
Lang Qingtian nodded slightly and said no more.
Xiong Zhenwei looked at Lang Qingtian with dissatisfaction, then stared at the spring water again, and his eyes never moved from then on.
The hall was so quiet that the only sound was the gurgling sound of the spring water.
The three demons sat like this until the next morning, when the Demon King came to the hall again.
The three demons then stood up and saluted the Demon King. After saying a few words, Xiong Zhenwei and Lang Qingtian said goodbye and left.
The only two demons left in the hall were the Demon King and Long Ming and his son.
"Last night was your first shift. Did you find anything?"
The demon king's voice sounded.
"Reporting to my father, this is my first shift, so I can't see anything yet. However, Elder Wolf gave me some pointers, but I can't say that these are my own discoveries."
"Lang Qingtian? Is he still willing to give you guidance?"
The Demon King found it a little strange. The wolf, tiger, and lion tribes had already made it clear that they were neutral between the Crown Prince and Long Ming.
Lang Qingtian has always been cautious, so how could he possibly give Long Ming advice at this sensitive time when Long Ming was taking over the crown prince's duty?
When he gave instructions to Long Ming, did he also represent the attitudes of the tiger and lion tribes?
The demon king sat on a high platform, looking at the second son who looked 70% similar to himself and was determined to replace the prince.
He didn't know where his thoughts had flown to.
Today, Lang Qingtian followed Xiong Zhenwei and left the palace through Xihuamen.
After leaving the palace, Lang Qingtian originally wanted to pull Xiong Zhenwei aside to chat for a while.
Lang Wujing had told him that he knew the eldest brother of the Xiong family had some relationship with Xu Zhenfeng, and he wanted to take this opportunity to get closer to the Xiong clan.
Xiong Zhenwei was very disgusted with Lang Qingtian's advice to Long Ming last night. To him, this was just the wolf clan trying to show goodwill to the demon king's second son who was bent on seizing the throne.
After leaving the palace, he bowed slightly to Lang Qingtian, said nothing, and left without looking back.
"Um, Manager Xiong, I just got off duty. Can you... chat for a few minutes? Why are you in such a hurry?"
Lang Qingtian looked at Xiong Zhenwei's angry back, spat, and whispered, "You're in such a hurry to go home and beat your son. That's right. Such a big thing can't be delayed. If you beat him too late, you'll miss dinner."
Seeing the door of the bear tribe's main hall opposite open and close, Lang Qingtian curled his lips, led his personal soldiers, and walked towards the Donghua Gate with his hands behind his back.
Xiong Zhenwei returned to his yard and saw Xiong Da still kneeling obediently at the door of the main house. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Mrs. Xiong came out and helped her bodyguards remove Xiong Zhenwei's armor. A servant brought out a large pot of barbecue and a jar of wine and placed them in the yard.
Xiong Zhenwei sat on a stone chair and started eating, while Mrs. Xiong poured him wine.
Xiong Zhenwei ate while looking at his silly son.
According to the age classification of the demon clan, Big Bear will be two hundred years old in a dozen days. In the demon clan, two hundred years old is like eighteen years old for humans, which is considered to be an official adult.
Xiong Da's current body shape has been fixed. If he wants to grow taller, it will be impossible unless he has some great opportunity from the destiny of heaven and earth.
For a physical-cultivating demon clan like the bear clan, the size and physical strength of a bear demon determine the upper limit of his strength.
But given Xiong Da's current size and strength, it seems that he has nothing to do with physical cultivation.
As the patriarch of the Bear tribe, Xiong Zhenwei has countless concubines at home, and not only daughters, but also more than a dozen sons.
Although looking at Xiong Da's appearance, his strength is no longer enough, he still has other sons with better talents to take his place.
But Xiong Da is Xiong Zhenwei’s original wife and Mrs. Xiong’s only son.
In Xiong Zhenwei's heart, as long as there is a slight possibility, he still hopes that Xiong Da can inherit his family business.
After all, there are five or six big monsters in Mrs. Xiong’s family, which is a great help.
If another son had inherited, Mrs. Xiong's family would have not only given their full support, but also not caused any trouble, which would have been considered as a sensible and considerate act on the part of her family.
But no matter how hard he tried to teach Big Bear, he used up all the rare treasures he could find on the Demon Mountain.
Big Bear’s brain is still as stubborn as before, and his body is still as weak as before.
Compared with his dozen or so brothers, they all don't seem like they were born from the same father.
If it weren't for the demon clan's own secret method, Xiong Zhenwei would have suspected that Mrs. Xiong had violated her chastity if he knew that Xiong Da was indeed his own flesh and blood.
While Xiong Zhenwei was still having breakfast, his personal guard came in to report.
"The fourteen young masters heard that the eldest young master had returned, so they came to visit him and are now waiting outside the courtyard."
"Get up, I."
In front of his other sons, Xiong Zhenwei still had to save some face for himself, the eldest son.
Big Xiong stood up nonchalantly and brushed the dust off his knees.
In fact, he only knelt for a short while, less than a cup of tea.
It was after dawn, and his mother thought that Xiong Zhenwei would soon be back from work, so she took him out of bed and made him kneel in front of the main room, waiting for him.
After Xiong Da got up, he walked over to his father, and without waiting for his father to speak, he reached out and grabbed a handful of barbecue from the basin.
While stuffing food into his mouth, he said incoherently, "What are you looking at? Who doesn't know what they are thinking? They just know that you are going to punish me, so they all come to see me get beaten up."
Xiong Zhenwei glared at him and cursed in a low voice: "Can you act like a big brother to me?"
"Go, go, go."
Xiong took a few bites, picked up the wine jar on the table, used the wine to wash down the monster meat in his mouth, and wiped his body with his hands randomly.
More than a dozen majestic and powerful bear monsters have walked in from the gate of the courtyard.
Each of them looks very similar to Xiong Zhenwei, and you can tell at first glance that they are Xiong Zhenwei's sons.
"Big brother is back, and the younger brothers missed him so much."
Xiong Zhenwei's second son, Xiong Hai, took a few quick steps forward, stepped forward and held Xiong Da's hand, with a look of longing in his eyes, and kept shaking Xiong Da's arm.
"Brother, why have you lost weight again?"
"Yeah, life in Sifang City is too hard, and my brother really suffered there."
"If you ask me, it's better to let Big Brother go back to the royal city. It's better to be at home than in a border town."
"What are you yelling about? This is a test given to you by this old man. You have only been in Sifang City for less than two years. Even if you want to return to the Royal City, you have to wait at least a few more years. You have to make some great contributions to our Demon Mountain so that you can return to the Royal City in a majestic and domineering manner."
"What merits are you going to achieve? Now the humans and demons won't attack the Monster Mountain, so where are you going to achieve merits, big brother?"
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A dozen bear monsters surrounded Xiong Da and yelled at him for a long time, then paid their respects to Xiong Zhenwei and Mrs. Xiong.
Xiong Da looked down on his brothers, but he was much shorter and thinner than all of them. He could only look up and squint as he looked at them one by one.
"That's enough. If you keep criticizing me, I'll pick one of you to go to Sifang City in my place."
After Xiong Da finished speaking, his dozen or so brothers all shut up.
Xiong Zhenwei didn't care about his sons' behavior and just continued to eat his breakfast.
It was the second oldest, Xiong Hai, who came out to smooth things over, "Big brother is impatient to listen to your nonsense, so just say less."
"the same as you."
Xiong Da glanced at Xiong Hai and said, "I heard that you have a very good relationship with that kid from Hu Jingjiang's family, right? I blew up his inner elixir a few days ago. Are you unhappy about that?"
"Brother, why are you saying that? No matter how good our relationship is, is it better than that of our brothers? If I were to say that you fought well, I would have chopped off his head long ago if I were in Sifang City. You are too merciful, brother."
"How about you come back to Sifang City with me this time, I'll pull him out, and you chop off his head, and I'll reward you with a reward?"
When Xiong Hai heard this, he immediately shut up.
At this time, Xiong Zhenwei had finished his breakfast. After wiping his mouth, he asked his personal soldiers to clean up the yard.
He ordered his dozen sons to practice in front of him. He wanted to see if his sons were practicing hard.
More than a dozen brothers from the Xiong family began to practice fighting in pairs in this spacious courtyard.
Xiong Da came close to Xiong Zhenwei and looked at his brothers who were shouting and fighting very hard.
He chuckled twice and said to his father:
"Look, old man, they all come here to see me. They obviously want to show off in front of you to show off how good I am as a big brother."
Xiong Zhenwei looked at him helplessly.
"You bastard, even if you can't hold it in and have to say it, why don't you just tell me quietly? Why do you have to say it in front of all your brothers?"
In the yard, the dozen or so bear monsters were fighting each other, it was very lively. After hearing the conversation between the father and son, the fighting momentum suddenly weakened a bit.
Mrs. Xiong sat aside with a calm expression, as if she was watching a show for fun. She took a wine glass, poured herself a glass of wine, and started drinking while watching.