When Liang Sheng heard Xuan Di suddenly speak, he couldn't help but glance at the young man. Just now, Xuan Di had come in half a step behind Huo Chengche, and he thought he was Huo Chengche's guard. But after being hit by the little tiger, he couldn't care less about that now.
Upon closer inspection, Liang Sheng was secretly startled—this was no ordinary guard! Sitting next to the Crown Prince, he showed no sign of being inferior. Most importantly, he found that the Duke of Zhongwu felt somewhat like a subordinate next to him.
Liang Sheng's eyelids twitched, and he quickly averted his gaze, pretending not to have noticed anything, and hurriedly replied, "Oh, this young master has excellent hearing. After all, not everyone who abducts a child is a human trafficker..."
As he spoke, Liang Sheng couldn't help but look up and glance at Huo Chengche.
Huo Chengche immediately understood what he meant, and turned to Xuandi to say, "The consort of Princess Linhuang."
Xuandi was present at the time, but Liang Sheng was unaware of it, while Huo Chengche knew very well.
Liang Sheng was even more shocked when he saw Huo Chengche's "intimate" actions - His Highness the Crown Prince is the eldest son of the Empress Dowager, and he has always been aloof and indifferent. He probably doesn't even get close to his own brothers.
Of course, at this time, rumors had not yet spread in the palace, so Liang Sheng did not think in that direction.
A few days later, when Liang Sheng heard the rumors and thought about what had happened today, he suddenly understood and revealed a kind yet eerie smile.
However, before that, Liang Sheng was so frightened that he knelt down—this time, it was Xuan Di who frightened him.
Xuan Di nodded after hearing Huo Chengche's words. When he looked up, he met two surprised eyes. He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "Why does Lord Liang look like he's meeting me for the first time today? We met yesterday, in that small courtyard that was mostly demolished by the war zone. Have you forgotten, Lord Liang?"
Upon hearing this, Duke Zhongwu immediately glared twice in a fawning manner and said, "This is the fifth son of the Prince of Hengchang, Xuandi."
Xuandi, the fifth son of the Prince of Hengchang?
Why does this name sound so familiar?
Liang Sheng blinked in surprise, deep in thought.
It's no wonder Liang Sheng didn't remember Xuan Di. He was so frightened yesterday that he almost lost his mind. He was surrounded by the yamen runners and was trembling all the time. He had no mind to listen to what the little prince was saying, since it wasn't anything nice.
"Lord Liang should have seen the tiger that Princess Fuying brought yesterday; that is the war tiger raised by the Fifth Young Master."
A tiger... a really, really big tiger?!
So, that big tiger was his pet?!
"Thump—"
Liang Sheng's face was ashen, and he bowed down immediately, showing how frightened he was yesterday. No wonder he was so scared when he saw the tiger cub with its baby teeth not yet fully grown.
Xuan Di: ...
“Lord Liang, there’s no need for you to bow so deeply to me. Please get up,” Xuan Di said coolly, glancing at Liang Sheng who had suddenly offered him a New Year’s greeting.
The people in this capital city are all so strange; not one of them is normal.
Duke Zhongwu: Hehe, you people from Hengchang, we're all the same.
"So you mean it's not that human traffickers are rampant, the traffickers haven't changed, it's still the same few people, but now there's another force that kidnaps children, and they're even more unscrupulous than the traffickers, which is why it seems like human traffickers are rampant?"
Ignoring Liang Sheng's sudden relapse, Huo Chengche went straight to ask him what was wrong.
Liang Sheng wiped away his cold sweat and scrambled to his feet, nodding hastily. "Exactly! And Your Highness, please consider this carefully. Even if I am not afraid of the Princess's powerful household, I, a mere Prefect of the Capital, am truly insignificant and powerless against the Princess and her consort..."
Indeed, Huo Chengche glanced at Liang Sheng but did not criticize him further.
Xuandi somehow acquired a folding fan, suddenly opened it with a "whoosh," and immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Then let me and Niannian handle the interesting task of catching human traffickers. Your Highness, would you like to join us?" Xuandi raised an eyebrow at his younger sister, whose eyes were filled with images of little tigers.
Upon seeing the look in his older brother's eyes, the little dumpling, without even understanding what was being told, immediately exclaimed happily, "Okay!"
The soft, sweet little voice was extremely excited.
Huo Chengche's eyelids twitched, his intuition telling him that Xuandi was definitely up to something again.
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