After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 198
Chapter 198
(69.1)
Zhao Zhi raised his eyes, and his cold gaze landed lightly on the little girl’s body.
The little girl had been raised so well by her family that she was a little plump, her cheeks were fleshy, soft and white, and they looked very squishy, her hair was tied into two round buns, and she had a cute and sweet face, but the look on her face was imposing, majestic.
Xiaoman had an unhappy face, as she tilted her neck and stared at the man in front of her. With her black pupils, clean and clear of any impurities, she ordered him very fiercely: “Quickly take me back home!”
She didn’t even get to eat candy, and she ended up being carried to a strange place.
Angry, angry, she was super angry.
Zhao Zhi was amused by her somewhat childish tone, he took two steps forward, and his wide sleeves made of light gauze swayed along with his movements, his light clothing and the indifferent expression on his face added somewhat of a cold feeling of distance. He squatted down and looked at her, asking, “Who is your father?”
Xiaoman opened her eyes, “What is a father? Is it delicious?”
The dense milk fragrance on the little girl’s body entered the tip of the man’s nose, and he frowned slightly, even if she was a two or three-year-old child, it was impossible not to know what a father was.
Zhao Zhi himself did not notice that his patience was exceptionally good at this moment. His voice was flat, and no gentleness nor harshness could be heard as he asked another question: “Then what about your mother?”
“My mother is waiting for me at home! You need to send me back quickly.”
Hearing this commanding tone made people unable to know whether to laugh or to cry.
Zhao Zhi felt that a mother who would lose a child was probably not very reliable, so he squatted down, looked into the eyes of the little girl, and said to her in a flat and straightforward tone: “Your mother has lost you.”
Xiaoman was struggling to get free, and she said, “So you have to send me back.”
Zhao Zhi smiled, “There’s no need for us to send you back, if your mother didn’t deliberately abandon you, she will find you herself.”
Looking at the clothes on the little girl’s body, she didn’t look like she was from a poor family, that couldn’t afford to raise a child. She was wearing gold and silver, was white and tender, he guessed that her mother had just been too careless and did not notice that the child was lost.
Xiaoman pouted in anger, and didn’t treat herself as an outsider at all, as she asked very boldly with confidence that justice was on her side, “Xiaoman is hungry! I want to eat candy!”
Zhao Zhi mocked her, saying that she would have spoiled teeth, and ordered people to cook her porridge.
The people in the kitchen boiled a shrimp porridge, and when it was served, the fragrance was overflowing. Xiao Man was carried to the table, and a maidservant wrapped a bib around her neck.
The little girl looked at the porridge on the table. Being very picky with her mouth, she turned her face away and said: “I don’t want to drink it.”
If it were anyone else, Zhao Zhi would let her go hungry.
“Then what do you want to eat?”
“I want to eat candy.”
“There’s none.”
“Then I don’t want to eat shrimp either.” Xiaoman’s picky eating problem was giving Ming Zhu a headache, and no matter what good words or methods she used, she just couldn’t change her daughter’s bad habit, so she had no choice but to accommodate her.
Zhao Zhi raised his eyebrows. He didn’t eat shrimp either.
He waved his hand and ordered the servants to remove the shrimp porridge, “What else do you not eat besides this?”
Xiaoman counted her fingers very seriously, “I don’t eat mandarin fish, I don’t eat green vegetables, I don’t eat bracken, I don’t eat lettuce, I don’t eat stinking eggs, I don’t…”
Zhao Zhi interrupted her, sighed helplessly, and ordered a servant to go outside to buy a few candies and come back.
The little girl was satisfied after eating candies, and she obediently sat in place without moving.
Hong Ling was already dying from worry, after searching all over the streets, she still couldn’t find the child, and her mind was full of four words: “I’m done for.”
A kind elder woman reminded her, “Go and report it to the authorities! In case someone picked up the child, they will give her back to you. ”
Hong Ling soullessly made her way to the gate of the yamen and reported her case. The people of the yamen told her to go home first and to wait, they would tell her if there was any news.
Hong Ling had lived fearlessly for many years, but now she didn’t have the courage to go home to see Ming Zhu, she didn’t know how to tell her about the news at all.
Ming Zhu cherished her daughter so much, she was the apple of her eyes, and she definitely would not be able to stand the loss of the child.
Hong Ling waited outside until it was almost evening, until she had no other way but to return home. Her eyes looked redder than a rabbit, and she was nervously clenching her hands, with an embarrassed expression.
Ming Zhu had made a pair of knee pads for Wei Chiyu in the afternoon, the spring was cold and chilly, the weather humid and cold, and if one didn’t pay attention, his knees would get hurt from being frozen for too long.
After making the knee pads, she went to the kitchen and specially cooked the girls their favorite soup.
Ming Zhu brought the black chicken yam soup to the table, looked at her with a smiling face and asked, “Where is Xiaoman? She’s asleep?”
Hong Ling gritted her teeth and closed her eyes, as she said to her with great guilt: “Zhu Zhu, I lost Xiaoman.”
Translator : Laura
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