Chapter 326 I threw up
Qiuqiu's life in the Eastern Palace was not very pleasant; she spent most of her time listening to the Crown Prince's lectures.
She leaned against the wall, one foot fidgeting restlessly. A sharp glare from the Crown Prince silenced her immediately.
Why should a little baby like her be punished by standing in the corner?!
Chirp was puffed up with anger. When she got angry, she would swell up, and when she swelled up, she would look shorter. Eventually, she would slowly shrink... and finally slide down to the ground.
The prince squatted down in front of her and poked her soft cheek: "Do you know you're being punished by standing?"
Chiu Chiu pointed to her feet and said bluntly, "Tired~"
The prince rolled his eyes at her and returned to her exactly what Qiuqiu had said to him: "You're at the age where you should be striving, how dare you say you're tired!"
Fu Ning glanced guiltily at Qiu Qiu, and quickly slipped away just as the sulking little dumpling was about to expose her.
She never expected that Qiuqiu would go to wake up her brother at the hour of Yin to come up with a solution!
In the end, it was Chiu Chiu, who was cruelly abandoned, who shouldered everything!
Qiuqiu grabbed the prince's collar and asked again, "Save...your sister?"
The prince took a deep breath. Although he knew what Qiuqiu wanted to express, he still thought it was quite impolite to talk to others like that; it sounded like he was cursing.
He flicked Qiuqiu's forehead, his voice brimming with confidence: "Originally, I only had a 30% chance of success, but thanks to Xiaofuxing's intervention, I'm now 80% confident."
Chuchu exclaimed with absolute confidence: "Good luck, me!"
Who could be more fortunate than me!
[That Turkic woman is no good. I need to warn my brother, the Crown Prince, to be careful around her! After all, she'll conspire with the Third Prince to kill him! How exactly...?]
[Hiss! That doesn't sound very honorable!]
Crown Prince: I'm getting more and more interested in how I die!
Chuchu earnestly asked him, "Do you want a wife?"
[Hehe, if you have a wife, you can't covet other people's wives!]
The crown prince asked in confusion, "What exactly do you mean by 'wife' that you talk about all the time?"
Chuchu shouted very loudly: "Wife!"
The prince wondered again: Whose wife should I be eyeing?
[It's all the Nyonya's fault, The Cunning Crown Prince fell in love with me before he ascended the throne, The Crown Prince was killed after falling in love with me]
[This is all stepmother literature!]
The Crown Prince mastered the Su family's unique skill without any instruction—manually muting Qiuqiu's microphone!
"Shut up!"
What utter nonsense!
Next time I see Marquis Wenyang, I must ask him what he's been teaching Qiuqiu at home. How come such a young child has such strange ideas in his head?
Stepmother literature?
He shouldn't be so desperate as to eat anything like that.
This third son never liked studying when he was young, and now that he's grown up, all he knows are these underhanded tricks.
"Chirp, you must study hard, or you'll end up like my third brother."
That's some really dirty swearing!
The Crown Prince shook his head helplessly. It seemed that his third brother was truly unlikable!
The Crown Prince couldn't remember when he began to suspect the Third Prince. Perhaps it started when Fu Ning was hostile towards him, or when Marquis Wen Yang kept trying to trick him, or when the Imperial Cat led him to discover that his Third Prince was secretly colluding with a eunuch in the Eastern Palace to poison him.
All signs led him to believe that his younger brother, whom he had raised since childhood, truly wanted him dead.
Thinking about the drugs that the Third Prince had given him that could drive people mad, he felt even more that the things Qiuqiu had in mind might actually come true.
The Third Prince was already impatient; what could be better than exposing the Crown Prince's scandal in front of the Turkic envoy to put him to death?
"You can stay in the East Palace for the next few days. In three days, I will invite you to watch a good show."
Having lost both his wife and his army, Lady Queyu secretly resumed his contact with the Third Prince. They thought they were being discreet, but none of this escaped the Crown Prince's notice.
Unfortunately, he was still one step short because he felt that Qiuqiu knew more than him!
Tonight's palace banquet is the day when Lady Queyu will publicly propose to Princess Jingning. The Crown Prince, busy all day to ensure everything goes smoothly, returned to the palace. From afar, he saw Qiuqiu and Funing huddled together, each holding a cat, leisurely basking in the sun.
"You two seem so carefree. I don't know why I'm so tired every day."
Chiu Chiu glanced at him, then laboriously lifted the cat up: "Meow, slurp."
"What did the cat say to you?" The prince squeezed between the two children with difficulty, only feeling more relaxed when he was close to them. He put his arm around one of them and said with some envy, "I didn't have it as easy as you two when I was a child."
He was Emperor Jingming's first child and the eldest son of the legitimate wife, and from birth, he was the crown prince on whom all hopes were placed. His life was destined to be anything but easy.
He took the cat from Qiuqiu, hugged it, and stroked its fur a couple of times. "What else do you know?"
Chuchu: "Huh?"
"Don't play dumb. I know the fat cat in the palace will pass on information to you. Tell me, which concubine did my third brother choose for me tonight?"
"You bastard, don't you hear me..."
"Shh!" The Crown Prince interrupted Qiuqiu, "If you don't tell me, I'll send Yan Jiamu back to the Queyu clan."
"You wouldn't want your handsome guy to be bullied, would you?"
Chiu Chiu is conflicted: [Is he threatening me? Should I pretend to agree? But Little Fatty Orange didn't mention any particular empress; it just talked about stealing a big chicken leg and being chased around three times by the little eunuch!]
Fu Ning reached past the Crown Prince and grabbed Qiu Qiu's chubby little hand, "Liar him!"
Crown Prince: I can really hear you!
Chiu Chiu's little face turned red, but... she had never lied to anyone!
"Hehe, listen..."
"I don't want to hear it!"
Why is he so hard to please?
The Crown Prince was furious, but she wouldn't even try to coax him. All his efforts to fend for her off by blocking the people sent by the Queyu clan to cause her trouble were in vain.
The Crown Prince is angry and tells Qiuqiu to guess for herself.
Chiu Chiu didn't want to guess; she wanted to take Fu Ning with her to steal that super delicious chicken leg that Little Fatty Orange had mentioned.
Unfortunately, before he could even step out of the yard, Liang Shi dragged him back, along with the chubby little orange cat who was foaming at the mouth.
Liang Shi: "Your Highness, something terrible has happened! The imperial cat has become like this after eating chicken!"
The chubby little orange cat lay weakly in the guard's arms, with food scraps around its mouth, looking like it was about to die.
Chiu Chiu and Fu Ning immediately rushed over, anxiously standing on tiptoe to see what was wrong with the little chubby orange.
Chirp: "Meow, orange?"
Fu Ning: "Doctor!"
Crown Prince: "Please summon the imperial physicians and the people from the Imperial Animal Garden to come and take a look. Also, what did you say the imperial cat ate just now?"
Did Qiuqiu mention that this fat cat stole the chicken leg from the imperial kitchen?
Could it be that today's story isn't about stepmother literature but poisoning?
Liang Shi answered truthfully: "When I saw the Imperial Cat, it was just about to eat a chicken leg that it had picked up from somewhere. It had only taken one bite when it was beaten up by a big black cat. Don't worry, I've come over and the Imperial Cat has vomited it up. The poisoning is not serious."
Chiu Chiu froze: "It...is going to die?"
Liang Shi sympathized with the imperial cat: "It wasn't poisoned to death... it was beaten until it vomited, and it was covered in external injuries!"
Summer's competition is here, time to start losing weight and working out my arms and back! I'll stop competing for now because I twisted my shoulder!
I strained my shoulder and scapula, and I need to go to a rehabilitation center for physical therapy after get off work. Updates will be a little late for a while, sob sob...
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