At the chirping of the chirping bird, the Prime Minister's wife slowly regained consciousness.
A few tears rolled down her cheeks.
Chiu Chiu took the Prime Minister's wife's hand and said, "You heard me, didn't you? Grandfather, Prime Minister—"
Upon hearing the chirping sound, the Grand Tutor and the Prime Minister pushed open the door and entered the room.
The prime minister rushed to his wife's bedside and, seeing her tears, excitedly said, "Madam, Princess Wanguo has come to see you! Princess Wanguo is incredibly capable; she will help us find our daughter!"
The Prime Minister's wife slightly opened her eyes.
The prime minister was overjoyed and took his wife's hand, saying, "My lady, you're awake! You've finally woken up!"
The Prime Minister's wife nodded and took Jiu Jiu's hand.
"You are the Princess of Ten Thousand Kingdoms?"
Chirp: "Yeah!"
The Prime Minister's wife said, "You promised to help me find my daughter, you must help me! But you're so young, what can you possibly do?"
Looking at Qiuqiu's small body, the Prime Minister's wife couldn't help but sigh again.
The Prime Minister comforted her, saying, "Madam, Princess Wanguo is incredibly capable! Look, even the imperial physicians were helpless with you, but as soon as she came to treat you, you woke up! Isn't that the best proof?"
The Prime Minister's wife: "Yes! I believe in Princess Wan! You must, you absolutely must help me!"
Like an adult, Qiuqiu patted the Prime Minister's wife's hand and said, "Don't worry. I definitely will! By the way, do you have any of the things she usually uses?"
The Prime Minister's wife said, "Yes!"
The Prime Minister's wife took a hairpin out of her bosom with trembling hands.
Jiujiu took the hairpin.
The Prime Minister's wife said sadly, "This is the hairpin that Linglong lost that day. Every time I see it, I think of Linglong!"
The Prime Minister patted his wife on the back and said, "Madam, don't be too sad."
Chiu Chiu said, "Great! This hairpin has her scent on it, maybe I can find her through this."
The Prime Minister's wife started crying again. She got out of bed and prepared to kneel down to Qiuqiu.
"Princess of all nations, I kneel before you. You must help me!"
The Grand Tutor said somewhat flusteredly, "You mustn't do that, Lady Chancellor!"
Jiujiu also helped the Prime Minister's wife up.
"No need to kneel, I will do my best!"
The Prime Minister's wife wiped away her tears and said, "Alright, we'll wait for your good news."
"Um!"
After leaving the Prime Minister's residence, the Grand Tutor asked Qiuqiu worriedly, "Do you know, Qiuqiu, the Prime Minister and his family have been searching for their daughter for decades. They've searched the entire country but haven't found her. Can you really do the job?"
Chiu Chiu patted her chest and said, "Don't worry! With Chiu Chiu here, as long as she's alive, I'll find her!"
The Grand Tutor shook his head and said, "Don't give them hope only to disappoint them later. That would be too cruel for them!"
Chirp: "Grandpa doesn't trust me?"
The Grand Tutor looked at Qiuqiu helplessly: It's not that your grandfather doesn't believe in you. It's just that the chances are really slim!
After leaving the Prime Minister's residence and parting ways with the Grand Tutor, Qiuqiu and Xiaofeng plunged into the Divine Pavilion.
Xiao Feng said, "Although there are many treasures in this divine pavilion, which one can lead to the Prime Minister's daughter?"
Chiu Chiu picked up the Memory Mirror and said, "Let the Memory Mirror take a look first! Memory Mirror, check the Prime Minister's wife's memories and see if there is any trace of their daughter!"
The Mirror of Memory nodded and flew and spun in the air.
Soon after, the scene of the Prime Minister's wife losing her daughter on the street appeared.
The Prime Minister's wife was intently watching the lantern display.
Linglong, the daughter who was following beside her, was full of curiosity about everything around her.
She looked around, glancing east and west.
Linglong saw a circus performer, so she let go of her mother's hand and slipped into the crowd.
The Prime Minister's wife was on stage to receive a prize after guessing a riddle correctly when she suddenly realized that her daughter had disappeared. She began to search frantically all over the streets.
Linglong, however, was drugged and gagged by two human traffickers, and quickly lost consciousness.
The human traffickers took Linglong away.
The Prime Minister's wife searched for Linglong like a madwoman.
She cried out in heart-wrenching sobs, "Linglong! My daughter! Where are you? Don't frighten your mother!"
The traffickers put Linglong in their vegetable-selling cart and quickly made their way out of Beijing, never to be seen again.
The Prime Minister's wife searched all night but couldn't find Linglong. She sat on the street and wailed, "Linglong, my daughter, where have you gone? How can I go on living like this?"
As she watched, Qiuqiu felt a lump in her throat and almost burst into tears.
Chirp: "The Prime Minister's wife is so pitiful. If I were lost, my mother would be just as heartbroken. No matter what, we must help her find her daughter!"
Xiao Feng: "It's really so pitiful. Linglong was taken away by human traffickers at such a young age. How helpless she must have felt!"
In the Prime Minister's residence, the Prime Minister's wife was bedridden, barely clinging to life.
Her daughter-in-law, Lian'er, brought a bowl of porridge and fed it to the Prime Minister's wife with a spoon.
Lian'er: "Mother, please eat something. How can you have strength if you don't eat? Here, let me feed you!"
Lian'er used a spoon to feed the Prime Minister's wife porridge spoonful by spoonful.
The Prime Minister's wife was very cooperative, feeding him bite by bite.
She sighed again.
Lian'er asked, "Mother, are you feeling unwell?"
The Prime Minister's wife looked at Lian'er and said, "Lian'er, do you know? If my daughter were still alive, she would be about your age."
Lian'er comforted her, saying, "Mother, I've heard that Princess Wanguo is incredibly powerful; she'll surely find a way to locate my sister!"
The Prime Minister's wife said, "I hope so. If I can't find it, I will die with my eyes wide open in disbelief!"
Lian'er: "Mother, don't be sad. I believe we'll hear news soon!"
Chiu Chiu used her spiritual power to search for Linglong's whereabouts in the Divine Pavilion.
She held her breath, tossed the hairpin into the air, and then enveloped it with her spiritual power.
The aura of the hairpin was slowly released.
Chirp chirp: "Hurry up and find your owner! Her mother is so worried."
The hairpin circled in the air a few times before flying away quickly.
Chiu Chiu opened the divine pavilion's barrier.
The hairpin flew out of the shrine.
Chiu Chiu glanced at Xiao Feng and said, "Let's go, let's follow them!"
Xiao Feng understood immediately and went with Qiu Qiu to chase after the hairpin.
The hairpin flew away, with the chirping phoenix chasing after it.
After circling several streets, the hairpin stopped at the entrance of the Prime Minister's residence.
Xiao Feng and Xiao Qiu looked at each other in bewilderment.
Xiao Feng: "Why did she bring us here?"
Chirp: "Is there a mistake? But that shouldn't be the case. My spiritual power can't be wrong!"
After lingering outside the Prime Minister's residence for a while, the hairpin flew inside.
Chirp: "Let's follow them, Little Phoenix!"
The guards at the gate saw Qiuqiu arrive and hurriedly bowed: "Greetings, Princess of All Nations!"
Chirp: "No thanks, no thanks."
After saying that, Xiao Feng and the others walked towards the Prime Minister's residence.
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