Lanhuadis 23 (bug hunting)
Ning Ren followed the blood line slowly and came to an extremely dark place.
His dreams vanished, and he truly fell into a deep sleep of consciousness.
In the real world, he had been sleeping in the bathtub dripping with blood for three whole days. During these three days, Carlos and the other three took turns to watch over the cub, and the cub's breathing actually gradually stabilized.
Although he still didn't wake up due to weakness, his pulse became steady.
This is the best news!
Grandma Laura, who had been paying close attention to the cub's condition, finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was really worried. If the little prince couldn't hold on, it would be even more difficult for the family to get together.
With the little prince around, the queen's children will have time to get together every year, instead of having the house be so deserted during the Lantern Festival every year.
Carlos slowly took the cub out of the tub.
Xierting: "This method works, why not let Xiaoqi continue to soak?"
"Too much is as bad as too little," Wen Duolin said. "Now that Xiaoqi's condition has stabilized, we just need to carefully manage him."
Nymanson brought a spare bathtub filled with clean water at just the right temperature. Carlos dipped a towel in the water and slowly wiped the blood off Ning Ren's body.
His face did not look very happy. While wiping, he silently pinched the cub's arms, which were already thin and now had even less flesh.
"Brother, let's bring all the good ones home to Xiaoqi and raise them as they can," Dorothea comforted him.
Jia Mimi nodded quickly: "Yeah! I use all my money to buy delicious food for Xiao Qi, and all the toys in my bedroom are his!"
In fact, although their second brother looks very indifferent, he is more delicate and sensitive than anyone else. Perhaps it is because he stuttered and was ridiculed when he was a child, so he has become more and more sensitive to emotions, and his personality has become more and more introverted and indifferent, and he does not often express himself.
He cares a lot about his family and friends, but he hides it very well most of the time. He is also very stubborn and unyielding, making it difficult for people to see his true thoughts.
"It's impossible for Xiao Qi to be locked up at home by us forever."
Carlos stroked the cub's wings, which hadn't yet spread and were still white, and whispered, "When I was little, I stuttered and was laughed at by my peers. What about Xiaoqi?"
He could still use his powerful strength to silence them, but Xiao Qi was different.
"He can't be at home all the time, in our protective bubble."
Xierting sneered. "So, can't we draw the entire Lanhuadis into Xiaoqi's protection circle? You were good at fighting back then, but that was considered training. Xiaoqi's special situation is another matter. We, as brothers and sisters, are at least Seven-Marked Princes. Have we been eating for free all these years?"
"We posted the prince's order, ordering them not to disrespect Xiao Qi."
"That's too strong. It will make our Herbert family seem unreasonable." Wen Duolin pondered for a moment and made a decision in her mind: "But you are right. It's time to prepare a healthy and comfortable social environment for Xiaoqi in the future."
"Carlos, just stay home and look after Xiaoqi. By the way, give me the troop transfer token. Lao Si, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Liu, pack up and follow me to the Third Army."
Jia Mimi pointed at herself in disbelief: "...Can I go too?"
Wen Duolin said calmly: "Didn't you say you've grown up? We won't treat you as a child anymore."
Jamimi yelled excitedly and quickly moved towards the cub's sleeping face, about to give it a kiss, but Carlos slapped her three meters away.
"dirty."
Gamimi: “…”
The boy got up with a look of resentment on his face.
Carlos threw the token to Wendoline without asking what she wanted to do. The eldest sister had always been very reliable among her siblings and had never done anything too out of line.
He slowly bathed the cub and carefully combed its black hair to make sure there wasn't a trace of blood left. Suddenly, he remembered something: "Xiao Liu, by the way, I want to tell you that when you come back from skipping school this time, you don't have to sleep in your own bedroom."
Carmi: "Why? Didn't you say you wouldn't blame me for skipping school this time?"
"I'm not blaming you," Carlos replied calmly. "I took a big piece of your bed and made a little house for Xiaoqi. Now you can't sleep on it. If you don't mind, you can sleep on the floor."
"How can this be possible!"
Jia Mimi angrily said, "Why did you only tear down one piece?! Second brother, you tore down the whole thing! Make a big house for Xiao Qi! My brother! He's my brother, how can he sleep in a small house! Wait, I'm going to tear it down right now!"
He ran towards his room with great vigor and confidence, but the next second, fate had its throat strangled.
Dorothea, with a frown on her face, grabbed Kamimi's collar, hit him on the head, dragged the boy to the ground, and followed the pace of her eldest sister and fourth brother.
"Stop making trouble, let's go, let's get down to business."
Carmichael fluttered, "I'll tear it down when I get back!"
“…Tear it down, tear it down, tear it down.”
As soon as Gamimi left, the entire castle became quiet in an instant, and Carlos' ears were saved.
After washing the cub, he wrapped it in cotton cloth. Worried that it would catch a cold, he held it in his palm for a while before putting it on the bed.
Grandma Laura went to the kitchen. The eggshells were eaten up, and the subsequent food for the cubs was also a top priority. She was personally directing the process in the kitchen. She would also have to write a recipe and check each one to see if it was suitable for the cubs.
Niemanson: "Second Prince, what do we do with the heart's blood in the bathtub?"
Only half of the heart's blood has been consumed, and it would be a pity and a waste to just pour out the rest.
"This little bit of blood is definitely not enough to make blood slices for Xiaowu's hot pot," Carlos, adhering to the principle of not wasting, pondered, "How about making freeze-dried snacks for Xiaoliu?"
Niemansen fell silent: "..."
Are you serious, Second Prince?
No matter how clean the blood is, it is still bath water (blood) after all. It is not a good idea to make it into food... In fact, this amount of blood can also be made into blood slices, but it is not resistant to storage and the energy in the blood slices will disappear quickly.
"Forget it, it's a bit disgusting."
Carlos: "Collect it and give some to Xiaoqi for foot soaking every day."
Niemansen breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Highness is wise."
I hope that the little prince won’t hold my feet and chew them wildly by then.
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The other side.
The soldiers of the Third Army have been assembled.
Wendoline selected hundreds of gentle-looking warriors, called on the twenty-five royal guards she brought with her, and went door to door with her younger brothers and sisters to knock on doors.
They were carrying the new type of bomb that Dorothea had just developed.
Xierting said: "Sister, this is a waste. It would be more effective to directly issue the prince's order. It's just a few hundred soldiers, but there is no momentum at all."
Wen Duolin frowned in disapproval and instructed her brother, "The number of warriors isn't important; what's important is showing a sense of affinity. And since we're here to ask them to take good care of Xiao Qi, we should give them a small gift."
Jamimi suddenly realized: "Oh, my father said, win people over with virtue and reason."
Dorothea nodded with a smile, "Yes." She went up and knocked on the door of the first house, Count Beard's castle. "Xiaoliu, study hard."
Xilting fell silent.
He was used to living in Gangshi District, where fists were the rule. Without support from his family, he had to fight for everything on his own.
Giving gifts is pure waste.
Earl Beard trembled as he opened the door and looked at the people standing outside.
At the front, there was one prince with eight patterns and three princes with seven patterns, followed by twenty-five royal guards, and further back were five or six hundred soldiers who gave him strange smiles.
As soon as they entered the castle, the guards here hurriedly went to report to Earl Bird.
Oh my god!
He crawled to the window, thinking the guard was joking.
With Her Highness Wendolyn here, it would be no problem to overthrow any family in Lanhuadis with such a scene!
At this time, Earl Beard wiped the sweat from his forehead and forced a smile, not wanting to look at the new gunpowder in their hands. "Excuse me, Your Highnesses... are you here to give me some important instructions? If it's an offense against one of the ignorant youngsters in your family..."
"It's like this," Wendoline said politely, "My youngest brother was born with a disability and was just rescued from the brink of death."
The news that the youngest prince of the Herbert family might die young had spread far and wide, but unexpectedly he could be saved.
Count Beard: "Congratulations..."
Wen Duolin: "But my little brother is still weak and needs to go out and about in the future. We want to create a good social environment for Xiaoqi."
She held out the gift.
Earl Beard jumped up in fear.
"This is a gift, not expensive, just a token of my appreciation."
She put down the gift, nodded slightly, and left with her people.
The group acted with discretion, gentleness and great courtesy.
Count Bilder: “……???”
A few words drifted from afar on the wind:
"Sis, where are we going next? The closest ones are the Doyle family."
"Let's not go to their family. They stole Xiaoqi, and the second brother and I took revenge on them. We've already become enemies. Even if we come to their house and ask for help in such a friendly way, they may not necessarily do it."
"Ah, what should I do then?"
Xierting curled his lips gloomily: "It doesn't matter. If their juniors bully Xiao Qi, we will bully them."
A group of people walked away in a mighty procession.
Earl Beard's hair was disheveled in the wind.
No, no, so you guys have been coming to give me gifts for most of this day?!
Who brings soldiers with them when giving gifts?! Who gives bombs as gifts?! Those seven-striped princes lined up in a row, and the royal guards behind them—a threat, right? Absolutely a threat, right?!
Who doesn’t know about the grand event a few days ago when the entire Lanhuadis Doctors rushed to your house?
Just tell them that your elders and children are the apple of your Herbert family's eye and that we are not allowed to provoke them. What's so difficult about that?! Wouldn't it be better to just issue a prince's order?
Even if they didn't say it, these dukes and earls wouldn't dare to provoke the young prince who was in poor health.
I have to do this!
Earl Beard roared wildly in his heart.
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Ning Ren was awakened by hunger again.
He smelled a faint aroma of vegetable porridge.
The cub finally opened his eyes, moved himself a little, rested his chin on the edge of the crib, and let out a weak cry.
Ning Ren was stunned when he heard this voice.
well?
Was his volume this low before?!
Hunger is a big deal. He didn't know where he was now, but he couldn't help but think of the last time he was hungry with Xilting, so he quickly cried out a few more times, praying that he could find a more reliable person among his brothers and sisters this time.
"Here you are, little one. Are you hungry?"
The moment he heard Carlos' voice, Ning Ren's heart sank back into his stomach.
Oh yeah! It's my second brother!
Carlos: "You can eat other delicious food in the future. Today, Grandma Laura prepared salty vegetable porridge with eggshell powder for seasoning. How about you try it?"
The vegetable porridge was thick, and he was worried that the cub had just woken up and had no strength to drink it with a straw, so he used a spoon to feed it.
But he only fed it two spoonfuls, and the cub slowly sat up, put its mouth on the edge of the small bowl, held it in its hand and began to drink.
Carlos was slightly startled, but he didn't fight with him for it. He waited until the cub finished drinking and burped before taking the small bowl from his hand and putting it aside.
Cub: "Ah."
Carlos: "Yeah, my second brother is here."
Ning Ren decided not to spread his wings, and besides, he couldn't fly.
But when he thought about the efforts his brothers and sisters had made during this period to help him successfully spread his wings, he always felt guilty.
He is a selfish and timid child.
The cub hung his head and gestured with his fingers to his brother in front of him. He pointed at the sky, pointed at his wings, then shook his head, made an X with his hands, and acted like he was trembling.
Carlos: "Don't want to fly, can't fly, scared?"
The cub nodded, its ears red, its head almost hanging down to its belly, feeling extremely ashamed and guilty.
Carlos's eyes were gentle as he held the cub in his left palm. "Before you spread your wings, did something happen that your brothers and sisters didn't know about? Xiaoqi cried so hard in his sleep. What's wrong? Talk to your second brother."
His voice was soft and gentle.
It’s actually okay when no one asks, but once someone cares, the sadness bursts out.
The cub sitting in his palm felt a sore nose, and then big tears fell down. He hugged Carlos' fingers and cried loudly, venting all the suppressed emotions in the dream.
The cub was talking, but no one could understand what he was saying.
I can only feel uncontrollable sadness.
It was precisely because no one around him could understand that Ning Ren dared to say everything he wanted to say.
Carlos didn't expect that his words would make his brother cry again. He hurriedly tried to calm the crying cub, fearing that he would burst into tears if he couldn't catch his breath.
He comforted her, "It's okay. It doesn't matter if you can't fly. Your fifth sister can make all kinds of gadgets. Ask her to make you something that can take you flying."
"No one else will say anything..."
After all, the eldest sister has already taken Xiaoliu and the others out. Although I don’t know what methods they have, whatever the eldest sister wants to do can always be done properly.
This time, Carlos really couldn't understand what the cub was doing, so he could only think of other ways to divert its attention.
"The bird you stole committed suicide and turned into an egg. We've been keeping it in a cage. I heard it just hatched yesterday and has been trying to escape."
"Xiao Qi, do you want to go with your second brother to kill that bird in a couple of days to vent your anger?"
Ning Ren continued crying, but when he realized what his second brother had just said, the crying stopped abruptly.
The cub looked up confusedly, its eyes were dull but very beautiful, watery and adorable.
The plot that my second brother described seemed a little familiar.
Ning Ren sniffed and tried hard to dig out a bunch of memory fragments from somewhere in the corner of his brain that had turned into a mess from crying.
The cackling laughter of the Guhuo Bird when it stole him at the Guangyu Banquet appeared in his mind again after ninety years.
“…”
Ning Ren thought dully, could it be the bird that stole him this time? ! !
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