191 Break Away

Hua Zhixuan was managing his expectations regarding His Little Highness' arithmetic capabilities when the messenger eunuch summoning him to attend to the emperor in Tianlu Pavilion arrived.

Ordinarily, he had an infinite patience for his young charge but he'd recently discovered that he'd met his match when it came to guiding this particular member of the imperial family through the activity book Brother Yan had created for the boy, titled 'Elementary Problem Sums'.

Ignoring the eunuch's barely disguised surprise at his enthusiasm, Hua Zhixuan leapt to his feet and shot Captain of the Yulin Army Cui An a quick look.

Captain Cui rose from the low table he'd been hunched over memorising new vocabulary at and gave Hua Zhixuan a long bow.