Chapter 388 The Seventh Prince Learns Their Identity
Little Mianmian, holding Du Wanchun's hand, interjected, "Mother, will we come back again?"
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "Of course I'll come back."
Little Mianmian asked with a puzzled look, "Why?"
Du Wanchun looked up into the distance and said, "Because this is also your home, isn't it?"
Little Mianmian's eyes sparkled as she listened.
Madam Wei assumed she was referring to the Zhou family mansion in the capital and replied with a smile, "Now that you've all moved here, you can study with your older brothers and sisters again."
Little Mianmian clapped her hands excitedly, "That's wonderful!"
Besides her two older brothers, Xiao Mianmian was also close to the two children from the Wei family and Xiao Qing'er.
Now that Xiao Qing'er has returned to Bei Di, the two children of the Wei family are also going back to the capital.
She would really find it much more boring.
Du Wanchun gently patted Xiao Mianmian's head. "When you grow up, they will all come back."
Little Mianmian was still young at the time and did not understand her mother's meaning, but more than ten years later, when she saw Xiao Qing'er again, she instantly understood.
Meanwhile, inside the palace.
The seventh prince was entrusted by the emperor to search for the empress and his three brothers.
Because he could no longer quite remember what the four of them looked like, he specially asked the painter to find a portrait of the Empress from the past.
He looked closely and noticed that the Empress resembled Manager Du, whom he had met that day, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
After the seventh prince saw the portrait of the empress, he asked the eunuch beside the emperor for the child painting that the painter had painted last time.
The picture shows three children; the older one is his elder brother, His Highness the Crown Prince.
The two younger ones are his second and third older brothers.
The seventh prince looked at the child in the painting and, for some reason, the more he looked, the more familiar the child seemed.
He held the portrait up in his hand and examined it carefully again against the light coming through the window.
At this moment, a young eunuch walked up behind him.
The young eunuch put down his teacup, looked up, and saw the portrait in the Seventh Prince's hand. He raised his eyebrows, pointed at the portrait, and said, "Your Highness, Your Highness, we have seen the person in this painting before!"
The seventh prince turned to look at him and said, "You're talking nonsense. When my brothers were young, you hadn't even entered the palace yet."
The young eunuch stammered, "No, not before, but a few days ago."
The Seventh Prince frowned. "You're talking nonsense again. These are clearly portraits of my eldest and second brothers when they were young. When did they become 'from a few days ago'?"
The young eunuch's face turned red with anxiety. "Your Highness, no, Your Highness."
The seventh prince took the painting, turned around, and went into the house. "I know you're anxious because you're afraid I won't be able to find the person, but you can't just say things like that."
The little eunuch was even more anxious now. He gritted his teeth and blurted out everything he wanted to say in one breath, "No, Your Highness, it's the three children I saw at the restaurant a few days ago while watching fireworks. They look very much like the people in the portrait."
The seventh prince paused, looked at the portrait in his hand, frowned and said, "You're telling me you're not lying. The three children that day were all girls, but the three children in this portrait are all boys."
The young eunuch thought for a moment, then quickly took out paper and pen from the table, drew the girl's hairstyle, cut it out, and placed it on the boy's head in the portrait. "Your Highness, take a look at it like this."
The seventh prince looked closely and found that the child in the portrait really did look like the little girl he had seen that day.
As he looked, he said, "The smaller girl doesn't look much like him, but the bigger one looks exactly like His Highness."
The seventh prince looked closely and found that it was indeed true.
He wasn't particularly bright as a child, but at this moment it seemed like he had a sudden epiphany and understood.
"Could it be that the three children we saw that day were actually my eldest and second eldest brothers' children?"
The young eunuch nodded. "Maybe it's true. They say daughters look like their fathers."
The seventh prince immediately put down the portrait and ordered the eunuch, "Quickly, prepare my horse, I'm going to the Zhou family!"
"Yes, Your Highness."
The young eunuch hurriedly went to prepare the horses.
The Seventh Prince arrived at the Zhou residence in a carriage. Just as Manager Bo was about to enter, he called out to him, "Wait, is Madam Du inside?"
Manager Bo turned around, bowed to him, and replied, "Manager Du has already left the capital."
"They left the capital?" the Seventh Prince exclaimed in surprise. "Where did they go?"
Seeing his flustered appearance, Manager Bo was filled with doubt and remained silent for a long time.
The seventh prince was getting impatient. "Tell me quickly, where did they go?"
At this moment, before Manager Bo could speak, the little eunuch behind him stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, this servant remembers that Manager Du is from Cheng'an County. She should have gone to Cheng'an County."
Upon hearing this, the Seventh Prince immediately got back into the carriage. "Quick! They shouldn't have gone far. Let's go after them!"
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