"Yes, this is Princess Fuying," Zhuangyou said with a smile as she introduced her to Huaxiao.
The little boy took her tiny hand and shook it, saying in a childish voice, "My name is Niannian!"
Hua Xiao listened to their conversation, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered, "Princess Nian Nian."
Huo Chengche looked at Hua Xiao's thin and pale face, his deep eyes narrowed, picked up the little baby, and walked outside. "Alright, we should go back to the palace."
"Okay." The little dumpling had a new playmate and would have someone to play with when she got back. She happily nestled on her older brother's shoulder and stopped whining about not wanting to go home.
Hua Xiao quickly followed, afraid of being left behind, but she had only taken two steps when she was picked up from behind.
“Come here, let me carry you. His Highness the Crown Prince walks fast, and you are too young to keep up.” Zhuangyou looked at the thin little girl and picked her up without thinking.
Even though Zhuang You was prepared, the moment she picked up the little girl, she froze and her face suddenly turned gloomy and ugly—this child felt even lighter than her own little baby in her arms, almost like a skeleton, and you could feel the bones with just a touch.
Huo Chengche glanced at Zhuang You, who had suddenly fallen silent, and his expression darkened. He summoned a young eunuch and said, "Go to the Jingzhao Prefecture and tell Fu Man that if the Jingzhao Prefect and the Imperial Son-in-Law are in cahoots and have found an excuse to release the man, there is no need to get entangled with him."
The young eunuch was taken aback, but immediately understood Huo Chengche's meaning. He quickly agreed and ran nimbly towards the Jingzhao Prefecture.
The little boy pouted and asked in his childish voice, "Why did you let the bad guys get away?"
The boy lowered his head and gently patted the little dumpling's soft bottom. "Who said that the Crown Prince was going to release him? The Crown Prince just thinks that putting him in the Jingzhao government office is too lenient on him."
Liang Sheng, the Prefect of Jingzhao, is opportunistic, greedy, and indecisive. Even if he wasn't on the side of the Prince Consort of Linhuang, he would have easily downplayed the matter if the Prince Consort had given him a slight hint.
Huo Chengche's deep eyes surged with dark energy, flashing with murderous intent.
The carriage wheels began to turn, and Zhuangyou placed Xiaohuaxiao next to the coachman.
The little baby couldn't sit still inside the carriage; he stuck out his little bottom as if he wanted to climb out and go play with the new girl he had just met.
Huo Chengche looked at the fickle little rascal, scooped up his long arm and pulled his little sweetheart wife back, patting her chubby bottom, "Niannian, be good, go back and play with your sister, otherwise I'll arrange for her to go somewhere else!"
Upon hearing this, the little boy immediately pouted angrily and whimpered in his childish voice, looking utterly wronged.
Zhuangyou rolled her eyes as she listened to the little prince, who was unusually harsh and unpleasant to his little ancestor, all because of a little girl.
The boy looked at the pouty little girl in his arms, his brows furrowing slightly. Holding the soft little girl, he was already thinking that he should get rid of her, otherwise his position in this little rascal's heart would be in danger.
"Your Highness!"
As the carriage approached the street in front of the palace gate, the eunuch Huo Chengche had just sent from the Pear Garden to the Jingzhao Prefecture ran back.
Huo Chengche dropped the wicked glint in his eyes, his expression turning solemn and aloof. He stopped the carriage and asked calmly, "How was it? Was the Prefect of the Capital doing his job well?"
"Your Highness is indeed wise. The prefect was indeed making excuses and giving one reason after another. He wouldn't even file a case. When I arrived, he was already trying to justify releasing the person."
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