Qin Zhouxing was taken aback, then glanced at his father.
Duke Zhongwu remained silent, a kind smile on his face, like an old monk in deep meditation.
Qin Zhouxing sighed skillfully, thinking that it was just a raccoon dog, and nodded, "Then please ask the little princess to call your chubby Tuantuan over."
"Okay!" The little dumpling obediently agreed, his dimples deepening, and then, in his usual soft, childish voice, he called out, "Fatty, come quick, come free food!"
That sweet, childlike voice seems unable to penetrate these four walls.
Qin Zhouxing smiled helplessly, glancing subconsciously at Zhuang You and Aunt Lin. Unexpectedly, he met Aunt Lin's gaze, which looked at the Lin family's ignorant children.
Seeing that he was looking over, Aunt Lin pouted at Zhuangyou beside her, pointing and complaining about something. The palace servants chatted and shrugged, showing no intention of quickly returning to the palace to hug the cat.
He counted them again carefully, and to his surprise, not a single one was missing!
For some reason, Qin Zhouxing felt a sudden panic.
He subtly nudged his chubby father, who was leisurely watching the show, and asked, "Dad, where did this little princess come from? I remember that the Crown Prince personally brought her in. Could she be the daughter of some favored concubine?"
Girls who died before the age of three did not have a formal age order, and this was no exception in the royal palace.
Although Wenlian is the fifth in the imperial lineage, she is not the fifth princess of Emperor Chongjin. She has many older sisters who died before the age of three, such as the "sixth princess" Yingying that everyone talks about.
In fact, Yingying's birth order of "six" never actually took hold, but she was always called the Sixth Princess while she was alive. People in the harem thought it was unlucky. After the Fifth Princess Wenlian's birth order took hold, all the princesses born after her were called "Little Princess".
So when Qin Zhouxing heard the title "little princess", he assumed it was the little princess born to one of the concubines.
Duke Zhongwu looked at his eldest son, who had finally gotten to the point, and smiled leisurely, saying slowly, "That little princess from Hengchang was just conferred the title of princess yesterday, Princess Fuying."
"Heng... Hengchang?!" Qin Zhouxing's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly pulled Duke Zhongwu aside. "Father, didn't you stay in Hengchang for a while before? Do they really... really raise tigers there?"
If the other party said it was somewhere else, Qin Zhouxing would definitely not believe it and would just think that the other party was bragging. But if the other party said it was Hengchang, Qin Zhouxing broke out in a cold sweat.
Could this little rascal really summon a tiger? He's scared—who wouldn't be afraid of a ferocious tiger so close at hand? And all the little boys are here! What if one of them gets bitten by the tiger?
Duke Zhongwu remained calm and composed, like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, and casually spread his hands, "Anyway, it's already this late, why don't you take a look for yourself and see?"
"Dad! Can't you be a little more reliable?! You're watching a show at a time like this?! I'm going to tell Grandmother later!" Qin Zhouxing growled through gritted teeth.
Meanwhile, his good younger brother Qin Zhouli was not idle either.
Hearing the little boy's adorable voice, Qin Zhouli finally found an opportunity to regain his older brotherly pride and smiled as he said to the little boy:
"Silly Niannian, your voice is so soft that only the people in this courtyard can hear it. No matter how good the civet cat's ears are, it can't hear you even if it's far away in the palace. Your palace servants must have secretly run to the palace to bring it to you to make you happy!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wenlian immediately looked up and retorted, "Brother Zhouli is the silly one! Fatty Tuantuan is so heavy, even a palace maid can't carry him!"
"Who says so! How fat can I get? The palace servants can definitely carry me. If you don't believe me, I'll pick me up and show you in a bit!" Qin Zhouli said confidently.
Xiao Wenlian blinked and then said, "Okay! Let's pinky swear. If Brother Zhouli can't pick me up, then Brother Zhouli is a dog who doesn't keep his word!"
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