After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 197
~End of chapter 196
Hong Ling turned around and fled, but couldn’t stop the curiosity in her heart, so then she turned back and found a location where she wouldn’t be discovered to take a peek.
“I just pretended not to know anything, but I did see it. ”
“Ah” Ming Zhu lowered her head and looked at her daughter’s little face, gently pinching her fleshy cheeks, while trying to avoid Hong Ling’s pressing questions.
Wei Chiyu was very good to her as always, and his meticulous thoughtfulness always reminded her of the past, when the two were about to get married. She was so happy back then, that now she almost wanted to cry whenever she thought about it.
Ming Zhu felt as if she was slowly starting to fall for him again.
Chapter 197
(68.5)
Back then, although Wei Chiyu didn’t have any money, he was really good to her, he would spend all the money he had for her, and he never forced her to do things she didn’t want to do.
He didn’t easily make any promises, but as long as he made one, he would definitely keep his words.
He even wrote a wedding book for him and her in advance, with exquisite handwriting, and beautiful printing. He brought the wedding book to show it to her and held her in his arms while promising her that he would only be good to her for the rest of his life.
Wei Chiyu was a shy and introverted person, and it was rare for him to say such things in front of her.
“The man is unmarried, and the woman is unmarried, you two hurry up and get things done, so that Xiaoman can have a father.”
“What are you in a hurry for?
“I’m afraid that people will gossip about you, none of our neighbors has tight lips.”
“Let them say whatever they want. ”
Getting married was such a major life event, how could it be a child’s play?
Ming Zhu continued to tease the little girl in her arms, and Hong Ling looked at her, resenting her idleness. Angered by her, Hong Ling ran out to buy chicken legs to eat.
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The little girl seemed to have grown up in the blink of an eye.
Xiaoman was a very gentle girl, but her being this gentle was limited to when she was in front of Ming Zhu, she had another look in front of other people, she didn’t give others any attention, didn’t hug them, and would turn her butt and leave at any slight displeasure.
Ming Zhu foolishly thought that her daughter had inherited her good temper.
When Xiaoman was two years old, the courtyard was not big enough for her to run around, and when she was tired of running, she ran with her little, short legs in front of her mother, stretched out her fleshy little arms, and said with a childish voice: “Mom, hug me.”
Ming Zhu couldn’t free her hands to hug her, and just patted her little head, “You go play with sister Hong Ling first.”
Xiaoman was not happy, and repeated: “Mom, Xiaoman wants a hug.”
Ming Zhu was almost about to compromise, when Hong Ling came out of nowhere and picked her up, “Sister will take you out to buy candy to eat.”
Hong Ling carried her to the street, where they could see streets vendors buying sugar paintings everywhere on the street, but Xiaoman didn’t like to eat sugar paintings, she was picky with her food, and the candies she liked to eat were all very expensive.
Hong Ling walked for a while, and when her arms started to feel very sore, she put Xiaoman on the ground, took her hand and kept on walking forward. Finally, they reached the stall that was salling candies that Xiaoman loved to eat.
When it was time to pay, Hong Ling found that the price had increased again.
Hong Ling immediately became angry, “Your business is too black-hearted!”
The street vendor was also a spicy and shrewish man, relying on the fact that the candies he made were delicious, he disregarded everyone, “If you want to buy, you can buy, if it is too expensive for you, you can leave.”
If you can’t afford it, then scram.
How could Hong Ling stand this kind of insult, was she short of money?! She put her hands on her waist and started quarreling with the stall owner, and quarreled so loudly, she attracted the side glances of everyone around.
Halfway through the quarrel, Hong Ling realized that something was wrong. When she looked down, she saw that the child was gone!
Hong Ling’s face immediately turned pale, “Where is my child?”
The people who were watching the exciting quarrel did not pay attention, and asked back: “You lost your child ah?”
“Aiya, go report to the authorities! Losing a child is no small matter.”
“Yes, yes, go quickly ah.”
Hong Ling’s legs turned soft, and her heart was in fluster, and she almost couldn’t walk anymore, as she began to look for the child all over the street in a state of panic.
Xiao Man was pushed out by the crowd, and when she looked up, she could no longer see sister Hong Ling, but she didn’t cry, and just kept standing quietly in place where she was lost, staying still.
A carriage didn’t pay attention and almost hit the little girl in the middle of the road.
Xiaoman, frightened by the neighing of the horse, sat on the ground on her butt.
The carriage driver hurriedly came down, looked at the jade-like delicate little ball, and did not dare to reach out his hand to touch her. No matter what questions he asked her, the little girl just looked at him without answering.
The carriage driver had no choice but to take her back with him to his master’s courtyard.
Zhao Zhi had come to Yangzhou at this time of the year to light an altar-lamp in the temple. The fact that there was an extra two-year-old girl in the courtyard, was no big matter.
His subordinate couldn’t make a decision, so he could only carry the little girl in front of him, “Your Highness, this child is lost, what do you think we should do?”
Zhao Zhi’s cold eyes swept over the child in his arms, without looking closely, “Let the people of the yamen go inquire which family has lost a child.”
Xiaoman hated others to hold her the most, so she twisted her small body, and said to him with a particularly fierce tone as she clenched her teeth: “You’re not allowed to hold me! Put me down!”
Her dark eyes were round and imposing, and they were particularly spirited.
Translator : Laura
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