After Escaping Famine, Three-Year-Old Fu Bao Became Everyone’s Favorite

During the famine, a sack of grain was traded for a little girl. Everyone thought the family had lost their minds.

But ever since they adopted little Qingtian, it was as if their lives had be...

Chapter 617 Thank you, Brother Emperor, on behalf of Qingtian

Since the emperor said so, Prince Rui naturally would not be polite.

"Then I, your humble servant, would like to thank you, Your Majesty, on behalf of Qingtian.

"Please, Eunuch Wang, help me find a few people and some empty boxes!"

Seeing his brother's greedy look, as if he wanted to empty the warehouse, the emperor was both angry and amused.

"Okay, now that the kids are here, you should get some work done!"

When Prince Rui heard the emperor say this, his heart skipped a beat.

Is the emperor going to assign me a task?

But before he could figure out how to politely decline, he heard the emperor continue, "Do you really have to wait for me to come up with a name for your own daughter?"

Yes, Prince Rui just remembered this important matter.

Since Qingtian wants to trace his ancestral roots and be included in the imperial genealogy, he can no longer use the name Qingtian casually.

"This is a big deal. I have to go back and look through the ancient books and come up with a good name for Qingtian."

Prince Rui only had this one child, and he went through so much hardship to get her back. He really wanted to give everything he had to his daughter.

The name is even more important, and you must choose a word with good meaning.

Thinking of this, Prince Rui became more and more restless, and went straight to the warehouse with a few eunuchs.

Although Prince Rui doesn't know what toys children generally like, he knows what goods are!

Anything made of precious materials, exquisite workmanship, or tribute from the West would not escape his eyes.

Even though it was the emperor who had spoken, Wang Wei felt a little distressed as he was standing beside him.

I saw Prince Rui continue to walk back after looking at several warehouses outside.

Wang Wei quickly said, "Your Highness, the last warehouse is filled with worthless items. Some of them were given by the Emperor as rewards to his ministers, and the rest of the items are also stored there."

Upon hearing this, Prince Rui joked with him, "Could it be that you are hiding some treasure that you don't want me to see?"

Wang Wei could only smile and say, "Your Highness, you are joking. The Emperor has already told you to pick whatever you want. How could this old servant possibly keep anything to himself?"

"If you don't believe me, go in and take a look. They are really just ordinary items."

In fact, how could something that could be delivered to the palace and then stored in the warehouse be an ordinary item?

Any one of them can be sold for a lot of money if you put it outside.

But compared with the things Prince Rui just selected, the last item in the warehouse is indeed not very valuable.

As soon as Prince Rui entered the house and smelled the dust in the house, he began to back off.

It's obvious that no one has been in this warehouse for a long time, let alone cleaned. There is definitely nothing valuable in it.

But just as he turned around to go out, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a flat wooden box on the shelf out of the corner of his eye.

Prince Rui strode forward and pulled out the wooden box.

There was already a thick layer of dust on the wooden box.

Seeing this, Wang Wei hurriedly said, "These people are really bad. I don't know how long it has been since they cleaned this place. It's all my fault for not disciplining them properly."

Prince Rui didn't care about it at all. He blew away the dust on the surface and then opened the lid of the box.

There were several white tangram pieces of various shapes in the box.

There is a faint colorful halo flashing under the light.

Prince Rui's eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly said to Wang Wei, "Hurry up and ask someone to check to see who this reward was given to before."

While Wang Wei asked his men to find the evidence, he looked at the toy in Prince Rui's hand.

This wooden box is made of red sandalwood, and the tangram puzzle inside was polished by craftsmen from giant sea shells. Therefore, it feels cool and smooth to the touch, its color is crystal white, and it reflects different halos as the light changes.

It is not easy to make this thing. The main difficulty lies in finding a deep-sea shell that can be polished into the size of a whole tangram puzzle.

He vaguely remembered that this should be a tribute from a small country on the southern coast.

There were originally two boxes. The emperor gave one box to the minister as a reward and kept one box in the palace for the children in Concubine Qi's mansion to play with.

It’s a pity that the child was not saved in the end, so the box of tangrams was placed in this warehouse, gradually forgotten, and covered with dust for who knows how many years.

Although Wang Wei didn't know why Prince Rui was so fond of the tangram, seeing how he couldn't let it go, he finally didn't tell him about the past.

Soon, the eunuch found the records of that year.

"In reply to Your Highness, the Emperor once gifted a set of this tangram puzzle to Lord Wen Zonglin, the Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong..."

Before the eunuch finished speaking, Prince Rui laughed happily and said, "Haha, that's right, this is it!"

After he closed the lid of the wooden box, he didn't mind the dirt and put the box in his arms and walked out.

"Okay, I'm leaving now. Remember to pack up the things I've chosen and send them to my house."

Before he could finish his words, the man had already walked a long way away.

Wang Wei and the eunuch looked at each other in confusion. They really couldn't understand why he had chosen so many valuable things and took away a tangram puzzle as if it were a treasure?

In fact, when Prince Rui saw it for the first time, he felt that the wooden box looked somewhat familiar.

After opening it and finding that it was a tangram, he immediately understood.

Isn’t this the jigsaw puzzle that Qin Hexuan gave to Qingtian before!

It turned out that it was a reward from the emperor to Wen Zonglin, and then given to Qin Hexuan through Wen Zonglin.

Prince Rui was a careful person and had noticed before that Qingtian was unhappy because he broke the jigsaw puzzle Qin Hexuan gave him.

Although it was to save lives at the time, the child still felt very distressed afterwards.

He even went to Qin Hexuan to ask for the remaining pieces of the tangram, wondering if he could buy another one, find someone to repair it, or find someone to make another set of the same one.

However, after changing several subordinates, he still couldn't get any news that satisfied him.

I was about to give up, but who would have thought that after searching high and low for something, I would finally find it without any effort.

Who would have thought that the exact same set was actually in the palace storeroom!

Prince Rui sat in the carriage on his way home and took out the wooden box from his arms. The more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month. If it is sunny tomorrow I will go home.

When the time comes, if I give this to her as a gift, she will definitely be very happy, right?

Prince Rui happily returned home with the jigsaw puzzle. When he got off the car, he happened to meet Princess Rui who had just returned home.

Prince Rui went to meet his wife and personally helped her out of the car. Seeing the servants carrying boxes inside, he asked casually, "Has Madam gone out to buy anything for Qingtian? I found a good thing for Qingtian today. She will definitely..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard his wife say, "Master Ye is going out to get mountain goods. Qingtian was worried that his old shoes wouldn't keep him warm, so she bought him two pairs of shoes.

"Luckily, your feet are the same size as his, so I quickly sent two pairs to the child."

Upon hearing this, Prince Rui's hand, which had already reached into his chest to grasp the wooden box, stopped instantly.