Chapter 889: The beloved cousin escaped from control (15)

It was unknown how long it was before Du Shichu heard the footsteps of a group of people walking quickly towards here. Apparently the woman holding the child also heard it, and she immediately shrank back to the corner in fear.

Du Shichu opened her mouth, not knowing how to persuade her. In the end, she simply stopped talking and just waited for the emperor and empress to arrive.

Soon the emperor and empress appeared.

"Duan Yang, are you okay?" The emperor looked Du Shichu up and down and found that she was fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, I'm fine. It's others who are in trouble." Du Shichu said quickly. She greeted the queen again, then led the two of them in and pointed at the mother and son huddled in the corner.

"These are the mother and son I found. They must have lived here for a long time, but I don't know who they are."

"Your Majesty, this is all my fault. I didn't realize that there was someone living in the cold palace." When the queen saw the mother and son who looked like beggars, she immediately apologized to the emperor with a grim face. The harem was under her management. No matter who the mother and son were, as long as they were alive in the harem, she was wrong if she didn't discover it and didn't properly arrange for them.

"We'll talk about your mistake later. Now let's invite the imperial physician to examine them, and then investigate who they are." The emperor held back his anger and said to the queen calmly. In fact, he had already guessed that this woman should be the late emperor's deposed concubine, but he didn't know that this deposed concubine actually had the late emperor's posthumous child.

"Duan Yang, you go back first. Leave this matter to the empress." The emperor said to Du Shichu again. After all, the concubines and children left by the previous emperor were in this state. There was no need for a little girl like Du Shichu to get involved.

Du Shichu had no intention of interfering. Since the emperor and the empress already knew about it, she could naturally hand the matter over to the person in charge.

So she obediently left.

"Princess, you are too bold to go to such a remote and scary place. Fortunately, there are living people there, otherwise you would be scared..." Zhichun said with lingering fear, "Speaking of which, that mother and son are really miserable. They live in this cold palace, even worse than beggars. Alas!"

"Okay, this matter is none of our business, don't think about it." Du Shichu comforted her, "Now that His Majesty and the Queen know about it, they won't be so miserable in the future, and it can be considered a good thing we did."

Zhichun was suddenly happy: "Come to think of it, it was you, Princess, who saved them. Looking at their appearance, if you hadn't found them, they don't know how long they could have lived."

Du Shichu waved his hand: "It's because they have strong vitality."

Isn’t that tenacious? The woman was really amazing to be able to survive in such an environment. Not only did she survive, she even managed to raise her child.

Du Shichu quickly put the matter behind her. She returned to her residence in the palace and asked someone to fetch some water so that she could take a good bath.

When she came out of the bath, she heard the palace maid say that Wu Xiaoran had arrived.

Wu Xiaoran lived in the palace. The emperor was afraid that he would be abused by his biological father and stepmother after he returned, so he let him live in the palace with the princes.

After living in the palace for a while, Wu Xiaoran had gained some weight and grown taller. He finally no longer looked like the poor, abused kid he did before.

Du Shichu was just about to ask him what he wanted when suddenly the little lion came out from somewhere and rushed in front of Wu Xiaoran. He raised his little head, with his long, fluffy and soft tail like a feather duster standing up high, and meowed at Wu Xiaoran, not knowing whether he was saying hello to him or blocking his way.

Wu Xiaoran stopped, lowered his head and looked at it for a few seconds, then wanted to go around it, ignore it, and continue walking forward.

However, the little lion seemed to be fighting with him. When he avoided it, it jumped in front of him and stood in front of him to stop him, without retreating in fear because of the huge size difference.

Du Shichu just found it a little funny and shouted to the little lion, "Little lion, what are you doing? Did Wu Xiaoran provoke you?"

The little lion turned around and meowed at Du Shichu for a while, no one knew what it was accusing it of. Then it turned around and stared at Wu Xiaoran.

Du Shichu didn't understand cat language, so he had to ask Wu Xiaoran: "Wu Xiaoran, didn't you offend it at some point? It seems to have a lot of complaints about you."

Wu Xiaoran lowered his head and looked at the little lion who refused to give way. He simply bent down and picked up the little lion. However, the little lion seemed very angry at Wu Xiaoran's behavior. It raised its two little paws and started scratching Wu Xiaoran wildly. Wu Xiaoran easily caught its paws, so the little lion had to meow wildly and curse, looking helpless and furious.

Du Shichu couldn't help but chuckle, knowing that there was something wrong between these two guys.

When Wu Xiaoran walked in front of Du Shichu, he loosened his hand around the little lion. The little lion immediately seized the opportunity, quickly jumped from his arms and jumped into Du Shichu's arms. Probably because it knew that it had the support of its master, it started to scold Wu Xiaoran arrogantly again, very fiercely, with an appearance of a fox taking advantage of the power of a tiger.

Du Shichu smiled and stroked the fur on its neck, then scratched its chin. Suddenly, the little fierce cat became docile, and its cry became softer than the fierce one at the beginning.

Wu Xiaoran glanced at the spoiled cat with dissatisfaction and said, "It only knows how to eat and play, but can't even catch mice. What's the point of keeping it?"

Du Shichu couldn't help but open his eyes wide and laughed: "Xiaoran, you know very well that I don't raise it to catch mice. I raise it as a friend and a child."

Wu Xiaoran didn't know what he was thinking about, and muttered in a low voice: "If you want a friend or a child, you don't need to raise it..."

"What did you say?" Du Shichu was so busy petting the cat that he didn't hear clearly what he said.

"Nothing." Wu Xiaoran very naturally snatched the towel that Zhichun was using to wipe Du Shichu's hair, and started to wipe Du Shichu's hair naturally.

Du Shichu was used to being served, and didn't think there was anything wrong with this. He even praised him: "Xiaoran, I didn't expect you to be so good at serving others. You helped me wipe my hair gently, which made me feel very comfortable."

"Is it comfortable? Then I will help you wipe it in the future." Wu Xiaoran said casually with his eyes lowered.

"That won't work. You don't have so much time to waste on me. Haha..." Du Shichu said with a smile.

Wu Xiaoran did not refute. He gently wiped Du Shichu's thick and smooth hair with a towel again and again, smelling the elegant fragrance. He felt as if he was touching rare and precious silk in his hands, and every strand of it was touching his heart.

"By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?" Du Shichu suddenly remembered this question.

"It's nothing, I just want to see you." Wu Xiaoran said lightly.

(End of this chapter)