Upon hearing this, Duke Zhongwu's eyelids twitched, and he quickly stepped forward to stop him.
However, it was too late; a little radish head immediately responded excitedly:
"Yes, yes!"
"I agree! Playing with a tiger sounds so cool!"
...
"Yay!" The little dumpling clapped and cheered happily, seeing how popular his chubby tiger was.
Qin Zhouxing's eyes twitched as he listened to these little brats already planning what kind of trouble they would cause with the tiger in the future. He whispered to Duke Zhongwu, "Father... wouldn't you call this causing trouble?"
Duke Zhongwu felt a chill in his heart. Sensing something was wrong, he swallowed hard and patted his eldest son's shoulder. "Xing'er! You've grown up. It's everyone's responsibility to protect the country. The stability of our capital these days depends entirely on you."
Qin Zhouxing: ? ? ?
This looks like they're leaving a mess behind and then trying to slip away!
"But I can't keep an eye on a big tiger either!" Qin Zhouxing grabbed the Duke of Zhongwu, who was trying to slip away, and said through gritted teeth, "Father, you can't do this! It's clearly because you were only focused on watching the show and didn't stop him at all that things have turned out like this!"
The Duke of Zhongwu, looking guilty, immediately adopted his fatherly authority, "Nonsense! Your father..."
"What good deed has Duke Zhongwu done this time?"
The boy's cool voice came from behind the two of them.
The imposing aura that Duke Zhongwu had just mustered instantly deflated, his whole body stiffened, and when he turned around, he had a fawning smile on his face, "Your Highness, aren't you...aren't you with your maternal grandmother?"
Qin Zhouxing quickly bowed.
Huo Chengche glanced coldly at the smirking Duke Zhongwu, then looked at the big tiger, a half-smile on his face, "Duke Zhongwu, what brings Zhanyu here?"
Duke Zhongwu broke out in a cold sweat and gave an embarrassed smile, "This, this... is... this is what the children want to see..."
"Brother Crown Prince!"
A soft, sweet, baby voice came from afar, directly interrupting the Duke Zhongwu's stammering words.
Huo Chengche watched as the little bundle of joy rushed towards him, then squatted down, steadily caught his little chubby girl, picked her up, and playfully pinched her little nose. "Didn't Niannian promise Crown Prince Brother to send Fatty Tuantuan back?"
The little boy hugged Huo Chengche's neck and explained in a childish voice, "Because they don't believe that Pang Tuantuan is a tiger, they insist that it is a raccoon, and they want Nian Nian to call Pang Tuantuan over to see it."
As she spoke, the little boy glanced at the chubby uncle with his bright black eyes, pointed with his little finger, and said in his tender voice, "It was the chubby uncle who promised!"
"No, no, no! No, I didn't!" Upon hearing this, Duke Zhongwu immediately waved his hands vigorously to explain.
"Oh?" Huo Chengche's expression changed from gentle and refined towards the little boy to cold and imposing towards the Duke of Zhongwu.
He glanced at Qin Zhouxing indifferently.
Qin Zhouxing immediately bowed, "Your Highness, I can testify that the little princess is right, Father did indeed tacitly approve!"
Duke Zhongwu glared at Qin Zhouxing and muttered angrily, "You little brat, how can you be so disrespectful to your father?!"
Qin Zhouxing comforted him in a low voice, "Father, for the sake of our descendants, you have to sacrifice yourself and take charge of this. Whether our family survives or not depends on you!"
Upon hearing these familiar words, Duke Zhongwu felt a lump in his throat.
Immediately afterward, the little boy excitedly said, "Oh, right, Crown Prince, I just asked Brother Zhouli and the others, and they said that Niannian can bring Pang Tuantuan to play with them in the future! They can help Pang Tuantuan get accepted by the people in the capital as soon as possible!"
Huo Chengche raised an eyebrow, glanced at the unusually excited little boys, and asked casually, "Oh? Did the older boys say how they're going to help?"
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