After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 244
Chapter 244
(87.2)
Siamese emissaries were coming to pay tribute today, with dozens of fully-loaded carriages.
Zhao Zhi, with a lack of interest, swept a few glances at the tribute, and noticed a small white cat, with blue eyes. It was very beautiful.
However, because of the long journey, the little kitten was already half dead.
Zhao Zhi had someone take the white kitten out of the cage and carefully looked at it for a few moments.
A palace eunuch whispered, “Your Highness, this cat contracted a disease on the road and won’t live for long. If you like cats, this servant will have someone……”
Zhao Zhi withdrew his gaze and interrupted him, “Nurse it back to health and send it to the crown prince’s residence in a few days.”
The eunuch could only accept this bitter chore.
Zhao Zhi felt that Ming Zhu would definitely like these cute-looking pets, and blue-eyed white cats were really rare.
After about half a month, under the careful care of the Imperial Administration Department, the cat that almost didn’t make it was cured of its disease.
Zhao Zhi brought the cat back to the residence and ordered the servants to put in a cage and deliver it to Ming Zhu.
The kitten was not too active, it was quiet and well-behaved, nesting in the cage, squinting its eyes comfortably in the sun.
Ming Zhu really liked it at first glance, she reached out a hand, wanting to touch it but then not daring to touch it.
The intendant Lin laughed and said to her, “Crown princess, if you like it, you can keep it.”
When the kitten had basked enough in the sun, it stretched out its paw, and yawned. The narrowed pupils of the kitten gradually opened round. The water blue pupils were like clear, rounded glazed stones, incredibly beautiful.
The more Ming Zhu looked at it, the more she liked it.
When she was a child, she loved to come into contact with small animals, and before her mother passed away, she also raised a cat and a dog in the yard.
But later, Ming Ru said she was afraid of dogs, so the matriarch gave that little blond dog to one of the servants in the residence. She heard that the servant beat the dog to death with a stick after drinking.
And the cat that she had raised was also given to someone else by Ming Ru, who used a random excuse.
Ming Zhu didn’t want the things Zhao Zhi gave her, but this cat was poking at her heart. She really found it hard to resist, but she still said, “I don’t like it, you guys give it to someone else to raise.”
The intendant Lin found himself in a difficult situation, “This cat is a tribute, other people are not qualified to keep it, if you don’t like it, then we can only to throw it back to the palace and leave it there to fend for itself.”
Ming Zhu couldn’t bear to see such a beautiful kitten become a feral cat, she pretended to be very indifferent to it, “Then leave it here, I’ll raise it.”
The intendant Lin knew she was soft-hearted, being old and cunning, his smile bent his eyes, “The crown princess is truly kind-hearted.”
The little white cat had been well taken care of, its fur was fluffy and soft, very smooth to the touch.
As soon as the intendant Lin left her presence, Ming Zhu held the kitten in her arms in a hurry, and couldn’t help but rub his little paws.
She carried the kitten to Xiaoman’s room, the little girl had just woken up from her nap, there was confusion in her eyes, and when she saw her mother, she reached out for a hug.
Ming Zhu placed the kitten on the soft cushion, and with her free hand, she helped her daughter get dressed and picked her up from the bed.
Seeing the plump little kitten, Xiaoman was not even a little bit frightened, and very bravely grabbed the kitten’s ears.
Ming Zhu gently pried open her fingertips, “Don’t tug on the kitten’s ears, he will hurt too.”
Xiaoman looked at her, seemingly confused. Probably feeling that the kitten was not fun, not very interesting, Xiaoman laid on Ming Zhu, saying she wanted to eat cake.
Ming Zhu asked the little maid to bring a few pastries with low sugar and fed her a few pieces, “Are you still hungry?”
The young girl quietly nestled in her arms, “I’m hungry, hungry, I still want sugar candy.”
Ming Zhu looked at her teeth and frowned, “You can’t eat candies anymore, if you eat more, your teeth will be gnawed away by moths.”
Xiaoman buried her face, “Mom is eating in secret.”
Ming Zhu was slightly embarrassed, her daughter’s love of sweets followed after hers, she wanted to eat candy every day, even if it hurt her teeth.
After Ming Zhu forbid her to eat candy, she also couldn’t eat it herself. But sometimes she couldn’t help it, so she hid behind her daughter’s back to secretly eat candy. Her cheeks heated up, not expecting to be embarrassed by her daughter who had seen her secretly eating candy.
Ming Zhu put Xiaoman on the soft cushion and changed the topic, “Xiaoman, you play with the kitten for a while, okay?”
The little girl tugged her fingers, “I don’t like the kitten.”
The little white kitten seemed to be a little afraid of her, it was originally lying on the cushion, but then all of a sudden it raised its tail, wanting to escape.
The little girl grabbed its tail with her pair of plump little hands.
The kitten let out a few meows.
Xiaoman found it very annoying, and let go of it. Tilting her round little face, she looked at her mother and said, “The kitten is so noisy.”
Ming Zhu thought that her daughter would also like cute little animals like these, but it turned out that she had gotten ahead of herself.
She asked the maid to carry the white kitten back, while she herself accompanied Xiaoman to play a game for half an hour.
Translator : Laura
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