Bai Tuantuan quickly explained, but Chen Luo and Bai Han interpreted it as Bai Tuantuan being considerate and not wanting them to offend the prince.
The two elderly people outwardly went along with Bai Tuantuan, but inwardly they became even more determined.
Bai Tuantuan glanced at the two of them strangely, then looked at the Emperor not far away, lifted her skirt and ran over: "Uncle, what's wrong with my two grandfathers? What happened to them?"
The Emperor smiled and gently patted Bai Tuantuan's head, saying slowly, "It's alright, they were just worried about you."
"Because I slept for too long?" Bai Tuantuan tilted her head. "I was just too tired! There was no other reason."
"It's not because of the Third Prince."
Looking at Bai Tuantuan's earnest face, the Emperor's expression was complicated: "You don't blame the Third Prince?"
“It was strange before,” Bai Tuantuan said very seriously, “but after listening to the Third Prince’s explanation, I felt that arguing with him would be disrespectful to one’s own intelligence.”
emperor:???
"Uncle, I was worried that the Third Prince and the Empress's methods would affect the Crown Prince. After all, we have seen what the Crown Prince has done. He is deeply loved by the people and by you. If he becomes the future emperor, it will be a blessing for the people and for the Sheng Ning Kingdom."
But if it's the Third Prince... then I think our Sheng Ning Kingdom is doomed.
"Tuantuan?" Ning Chengzhu was taken aback upon hearing this. "Tuantuan, don't talk nonsense."
The Emperor waved his hand, saying, "I love hearing the girl speak the truth. Let her continue."
Bai Tuantuan was not intimidated and continued, "Uncle, as you know, Ning Nanxiao and I are on the side of the Crown Prince, so we were very afraid that you would have hope for the Third Prince. But now, I am not afraid anymore. With the Third Prince's brains, even if he gets your decree of succession, he will not be able to hold onto Sheng Ning Kingdom for long. For the sake of the people, Ning Nanxiao and I will naturally help the Crown Prince take back that position."
The Emperor raised an eyebrow: "Tuantuan, you really have some nerve, daring to say such things to me?"
Bai Tuantuan smiled gently, her face radiating confidence: "Because you are a wise ruler! I believe you won't punish me for telling the truth, Uncle. Besides, you know that what I said is true."
"Uncle, there's something I've never understood. Since you've already decided that he'll be the Crown Prince, why did you still give the Third Prince and the Empress hope?"
Do you want them to kill each other?
"Of course not!" The Emperor frowned slightly. "How could I let them kill each other? When have I ever given them hope?"
Bai Tuantuan blinked her big eyes and looked at the Emperor.
The Emperor felt a moment of embarrassment, coughed twice, and said, "That's true sometimes. The Third Prince's ideas are good, and he completes the tasks well. What's wrong with me praising him a couple of times?"
"Praise is fine, but don't say anything ambiguous! Why don't you see the Second Prince having those kinds of thoughts? Can't you praise the Third Prince the same way you praise the Second Prince?"
“That’s right!” Mu Yangzhi couldn’t help but chime in, “Dad, sometimes when you praise the third son, I can tell something’s off.”
The Emperor glared at Mu Yangzhi: "Do you have the right to speak?"
Mu Yang looked pitifully at Ning Chengzhu: "Uncle Chengzhu, look at my dad, he only knows how to scold me! Why doesn't he scold Tuantuan! Is it possible that Tuantuan is his biological child and I was adopted?"
Ning Chengzhu stroked his beard, looked at Mu Yangzhi's rather dim-witted appearance, and said with a sigh, "Second Prince, you'd better not speak."
Mu Yangzhi secretly glanced at the Emperor, and seeing that he was glaring at him, he quickly shut his mouth.
Bai Tuantuan tugged at the Emperor's sleeve: "Your Majesty, for the sake of Sheng Ning Kingdom, you must think this over carefully."
"You wouldn't want to see rivers of blood, would you?"
The Emperor narrowed his eyes: "Tuantuan, are you threatening me?"
"How could I dare! What happens to Sheng Ning Kingdom is ultimately none of my business, and you know my identity."
Bai Tuantuan shrugged: "I do all this just for the people."
"Of course, if one day the Crown Prince becomes tyrannical, I will lead people to bring him down."
Bai Tuantuan's sweet voice was filled with seriousness.
The Emperor naturally knew Bai Tuantuan and Ning Nanxiao's identities, and also knew that the two of them were only in this world for one lifetime.
"Alright, you're so young, stop nagging." The Emperor waved his hand. "Go eat."
"Uncle, so, there was truly a moment when you considered passing the throne to the Third Prince?"
The Emperor was silent for a moment, then nodded: "After all, the suggestions he made averted a disaster."
Bai Tuantuan seemed to understand something, and slowly said, "I understand, but it's really not because the Third Prince has the ability."
The Emperor looked at Bai Tuantuan with a puzzled expression, but Bai Tuantuan shook her head: "Your Majesty, just wait and see. I'm afraid it won't be long before the Third Prince will surprise you again."
Seeing Bai Tuantuan's mysterious appearance piqued the Emperor's curiosity.
However, since Bai Tuantuan didn't say anything, the Emperor could only keep quiet.
When everyone sat down to eat, Ning Nanxiao finally arrived, his hair still damp from his bath.
"I'm late." Ning Nanxiao's hair was loose and casual, held in place only by a jade hairpin.
His gaze fell on Bai Tuantuan's face, and their eyes met. Bai Tuantuan blushed and lowered her head.
"Come on, come on, let's eat!" Ning Chengzhu swallowed hard, unable to resist any longer. "These dishes were all contributed by Tuantuan, they look delicious!"
Bai Tuantuan looked up, took a deep breath, and suppressed the inexplicable emotions in her heart: "After all, the Second Prince was injured because of me, so I added something, everyone..."
Before Bai Tuantuan could finish speaking, everyone had already quickly started putting food into their own bowls.
Bai Tuantuan: ……
Ning Nanxiao chuckled softly, "Eat quickly."
As she spoke, she picked up a chicken leg and placed it in Bai Tuantuan's bowl.
Bai Tuantuan visibly panicked: "No, no, I'm not hungry, give it to the Second Prince!"
As he spoke, he placed the chicken leg into Mu Yangzhi's bowl.
Mu Yangzhi was extremely grateful: "Tuantuan still cares about me the most! I'm still a patient! They actually tried to take my food from me! That's just too much!"
As he spoke, Mu Yangzhi took out the medicine bottle that Bai Tuantuan had just given him. The strong medicinal aroma made Chen Luo quickly look over and ask, "What is this?"
Mu Yangzhi drank it all in one gulp!
"Delicious!"
Chen Luo quickly snatched it, smelled it, and asked, "Spiritual water?"
Mu Yangzhi swallowed hard, noticing the looks on everyone's faces. "I'm a patient, Tuantuan gave it to me!"
Bai Tuantuan couldn't help but twitch her lips as she looked at Mu Yangzhi being surrounded and attacked: "Let him be so smug, now he knows he's in for it!"
“There are only three bottles of Tuantuan’s spiritual water in a hundred years, and you actually got one for yourself?” Chen Luo frowned and looked at Bai Tuantuan with disapproval.
Bai Tuantuan quickly said, "It's been diluted with water, just three drops, the rest is all water!"
Mu Yangzhi was about to speak when Bai Tuantuan glared at him.
Mu Yangzhi could only shut his mouth.
I felt a little giddy inside. Where was the spiritual water?!
He even bathed in the sacred water!
Who knows, maybe the Emperor drank his bathwater, hahaha!
Thinking of this, Mu Yangzhi chuckled...
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