Datang: Longevity for Thousands of Years, Exposed by Xiao Sizi

Chapter 29 Dad, I’m sorry, it’s my descendants who are incompetent!

[Oh, Dad~, let’s not talk about this. Before coming here, Uncle Ying Zheng and the others told Yaoyao to talk about good things, hehe! Dad, Yaoyao doesn’t miss you, you continue to be busy! Come back when you want to, Yaoyao is always here! ]

[Yes, yes, Dad~, I’ll tell you secretly, Uncle Ying Zheng said that he will prepare a letter for you in his own grave in the future, and it’s only for you. He didn’t let Yaoyao tell anyone else, saying that Yaoyao is very good at keeping secrets, so he told Yaoyao. When you find out in the future, don’t say it was Yaoyao who said it, hum! Anyway, Yaoyao didn’t say it! ]

[By the way, what does a cemetery mean? Yaoyao asked Uncle Ying Zheng, and he said it was a very far place, but he didn't tell Yaoyao the specific place. Humph! If only Dad were here, he could explain it to Yaoyao! ]

[Ah, Dad, it has taken me so long to write! It feels like it took me several times longer than Uncle Ying Zheng and the others. Oh no~ When I go back later, my eldest and second brothers will say that Yaoyao is not good, which will waste everyone's time.]

[Bad guys~, all bad guys! When we go back later, I won't stand with my big brother and the others. Yaoyao will stand next to Uncle Ying Zheng. That way, they definitely won't dare to say anything bad about Yaoyao! ]

[Dad~, Yaoyao won’t talk anymore, and won’t write anymore. Writing is so tiring. Hum~ Yaoyao wouldn’t use the brush unless I wrote to you. Or the spear weapon that General Zhang mentioned is more suitable for Yaoyao. Anyway….I won’t talk anymore. Take care of yourself and remember to come back early~! ]

……

This is the fourth bamboo slip.

It is also the end.

After reading it, Li Junxian and others couldn't calm down for a long time.

Through these clumsy but expectant words, they can vaguely see that seven or eight hundred years ago, a pink and tender little girl stood here and wrote this bamboo slip with full of expectation, her eyes full of light, and she also hoped to see the immortal old senior in the future.

She was so... expectant.

But the little girl never knew what Ying Zheng and others meant by the long journey.

She thought she would be able to see her old senior again in the future, but little did she know...they had already parted forever.

Li Junxian and others could not imagine how devastated the little girl who wrote this bamboo slip would be when she grew up and learned that she had seen the old senior for the last time when she was a child. And how... sad she would be.

This bamboo slip from seven or eight hundred years ago also made Li Junxian and others realize that time is precious.

You may think that when you meet someone, it is just an ordinary meeting, but you don’t realize that it may be the last time you two see each other in this life.

And through this,

The bamboo slips written with emotion,

Li Junxian could also vaguely feel that the little girl from seven or eight hundred years ago was standing right in front of him.

Except that we couldn't see her, she was so...lifelike.

perhaps,

This is also the charm of history.

When you see the words and things left behind by our predecessors, you can feel the happiness or sadness of that era.

It’s as if the whole person is in that era.

"This little girl...she..."

Li Junxian opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

But when the words came to my lips, I didn't know what to say.

So does everyone else.

An atmosphere called "heavy" spread around everyone.

They all lowered their heads, their hearts filled with melancholy.

Meng Xing took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, shall I... open the next bamboo slip?"

Li Junxian and others nodded sadly.

Seeing this, Meng Xing slowly opened the fifth bamboo slip.

[Dad, it's me, the eldest brother Qin Wenyu. I was really naughty just now. In such a grand occasion, I actually ran to His Majesty and jumped up and down.]

[It's only because your majesty dotes on her, otherwise our family would be so embarrassed. ]

[Huh... Dad, you're gone. Now the burden of our Qin family falls on me alone.]

[When you first left, I didn’t realize anything, but after you’ve been gone for a long time, I’ve completely felt the pressure.]

[Perhaps it is because your glory is too great, they are all looking forward to my future, Your Majesty, General Meng, His Royal Highness Fusu, Prime Minister... Too many people are looking forward to me, thinking that I am the next you. ]

[Their expectations, the Qin family's expectations... Many people think that I am the next you, but I am so scared. I am really scared of disappointing their expectations. And I know that I am not as good as you. I... I am destined to disappoint their expectations.]

[Just half a year ago, the Prime Minister gave me a task, and I failed. He thought it would be easy for me to complete it, because you did the same thing back then, but I failed completely. That day, I also saw disappointment in the Prime Minister's eyes.]

[It was also that day that the Prime Minister knew that I was not you after all. The Prime Minister’s disappointment that day was actually a relief for me. However… there are still many people who think that I will be you. I am under a lot of pressure now, really a lot. Their expectations… this pressure almost makes me breathless.]

[You once told me a story about a prime minister in the Three Kingdoms period named Zhuge Liang. His son Zhuge Zhan was also expected to be great, but he disappointed many people and he felt like a waste.]

[When I was young, I didn’t understand, because although Zhuge Zhan was not as good as Zhuge Liang, many of the things he did were enough to prove that he was a hero, and in the end he lived up to the trust of Shu Han. Even though the war was lost, he did not surrender, but died on the battlefield.]

[He is very strong! I thought so when I was a child, but Zhuge Zhan himself did not think so. He was always pessimistic and melancholy, thinking that he was a waste. I did not understand him when I was a child, but now... I can understand his situation. ]

[I feel like, maybe... I will become like him, carrying the expectations of so many people. I... I really don't deserve it. If I were a girl, I could be like my little sister, without worries.]

[Huh… Dad, I’m sorry. I’m afraid that the Qin family lineage cannot be carried forward in my hands. I can only try my best to maintain the status quo and wait for a capable descendant of the next generation of the Qin family to emerge and entrust the Qin family to him.]

[I...I am destined to be the failure and stain of our Qin family. Dad, I'm sorry. It's my...incompetence.]

The bamboo slips end here.

This bamboo slip,

Li Junxian and others felt how self-pitying and painful the protagonist who wrote this bamboo slip was.

"Ah, maybe... this is the pressure from our ancestors who were too brilliant."

Meng Xing sighed.

Li Junxian also sighed: "Yes, but he has this intention, I feel very good."

"After all, some descendants not only fail to protect their ancestors' foundation, but even ruin it."

Meng Xing nodded but didn't answer.

Instead, he took out the next bamboo slip.

With a heavy heart, I slowly opened it.

(End of this chapter)