Chapter 244
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The Fifth Prince was crying when his stomach started to growl. Then he remembered that he had only eaten half of a bun yesterday, and he did not have time to finish the rest before he ran into Cheng Zhao.
"Where are my buns?" the fifth prince asked him.
Cheng Zhao: "?"
The fifth prince wiped his tears and said, "Forget it, you must have thrown it away. I know you are very angry because I ran away from home, but can you wait until I have eaten my fill before punishing me?"
He pointed at the palace maids, eunuchs and maids standing below and said, "As for them, I sneaked away by myself. Don't make things difficult for them."
"When did I make things difficult for them? When did I say I would punish you?" Cheng Zhao thought of those buns, which seemed to have been given to the servants casually. He really hadn't thought about how they would deal with those buns. Maybe they shared them and ate them. He was so busy with all sorts of things that he really didn't care about a few buns. Only the Fifth Prince, a foodie, would miss the buns from last night. "You want to eat buns, ask the Imperial Kitchen to make some for you now."
"Why don't you punish me for sitting by my bed so early in the morning and scaring them like this." The Fifth Prince looked at the people below who were standing there with fear on their faces, and guessed that they had been frightened by Cheng Zhao many times before he woke up.
"I just want to ask them why you ran away from home. What are you dissatisfied with me for?" Cheng Zhao thought it would be better to ask the Fifth Prince himself than to ask his subordinates. "They said you ran away because you were afraid of marriage. Is that true?"
The fifth prince's eyes widened when he heard this, "Fear of marriage? How am I afraid of marriage?"
"Why is that?" Cheng Zhao looked at him. Seeing him hesitating, he must have not wanted others to hear his true thoughts. He waved his hand and asked others to leave first.
Cheng Zhao waited until everyone had left and closed the door, "Now that they've all left, you can talk now."
As he spoke, he brought over the snacks on the table beside him, "I baked them before you woke up. They're still hot. Eat them while we talk."
The Fifth Prince originally felt very aggrieved, thinking that he was going to question him, but now that he saw him handing him the snacks, his mood finally improved.
"I'm not afraid of marriage. I just don't want to be the queen. It's too hard to be a queen. I can't even get enough food to eat." The fifth prince complained aggrievedly while stuffing a delicate dessert into his mouth.
"You can't eat enough in the palace? So you go out to beg for food?" Cheng Zhao asked him.
The fifth prince thought about yesterday's experience. He never wanted to experience such a life again in his life. He secretly glanced at Cheng Zhao, "I know how dangerous the outside world is. Now you are driving me away. I don't want to leave. It's better to eat half full than to beg for food."
"So many dishes are delivered to you every day, and there are always snacks and desserts, but you can only eat half full." Cheng Zhao looked at his small body and thought to himself, could it be that his stomach is a bottomless pit?
"I can eat as much as I want and naturally get full, but when I'm full I'll get fat and you won't like me anymore..." The Fifth Prince's voice got lower and lower as he spoke. Cheng Zhao didn't like him in the first place, and he said that he wouldn't like him if I got fat. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
"Who told you that I won't like you anymore if you gain weight?" Cheng Zhao asked him.
"That's right, experience." The fifth prince took out the notebooks and said, "Look at what these notebooks say."
Cheng Zhao frowned, "He's not very motivated in his studies, but he's very positive when he sees these."
After Cheng Zhao finished speaking, he took away all the notebooks in his hands and said, "Confiscate them."
The Fifth Prince: "Ah?? I didn't take them out for you to confiscate. Wait a minute, I haven't read those books yet!"
"You are not allowed to read these useless books. Also, even if you become 200 pounds, you must be the queen. If you dare to leave the palace without saying a word again, I will lock you in the house and not let you step out of the door again." Cheng Zhao's eyes were gloomy, and he didn't seem to be joking with him.
The fifth prince was so frightened that he trembled. It turned out that even if he didn't like me, he had to make me stay by his side and give birth to a purified child to consolidate the throne. It turned out that what he loved most was power, and others could only come second.
And the second one is Qiao Ayun, so where would I rank?
"Forget it. Giving birth to a child for you is better than being sold to the mountains to give birth to a child." The fifth prince sighed.
"What is sold in the mountains?" Cheng Zhao asked him.
The fifth prince told about his experience yesterday, "There are not only thieves on the train, but also human traffickers at the train station entrance, factories only hire relatives, and there are beggars on the roadside. The world outside is too dark."
Cheng Zhao: "I will ask someone to investigate. We will add more people to patrol the train and the area near the train station. We will also investigate the factory. You should have a good rest and don't forget to go to class tomorrow."
"I almost died outside, and I still have to go to class?" The fifth prince lay on the bed aggrieved, wanting to cry.
Cheng Zhao told him not to forget to finish his homework and left.
The Fifth Prince was so angry that he ate up all the snacks on the plate. When he put the plate down, he saw the suitcase on the bedside and his lost purse on the table.
"What's going on? We found it so quickly?" The fifth prince excitedly jumped off the bed and looked at his suitcase to see if there was anything missing.
When the nanny saw him jump out of bed, she hurried over to help him up, "You are still sick, don't move."
"This suitcase..." The Fifth Prince pointed at the suitcase and asked her, "Did the Emperor help me find it?"
"The emperor came back not long after leaving the palace the day before yesterday. He said that you were sick and he was worried about you, so he wanted to come back to be with you. But he found that you were missing. He asked us, but we didn't know when you left. The emperor was very angry on his behalf and asked people to look for you everywhere. Finally, he found the registration place where you bought your train ticket..." The nanny told him the whole story.
The fifth prince's eyes widened when he heard this. "He said that I'm not going hunting because I'm sick?"
The hunting trip had been arranged long ago. He lied on the morning of the hunting trip, saying that he was sick and would not go. He thought Cheng Zhao would ignore him. Unexpectedly, Cheng Zhao canceled the hunting trip that had been planned for him.
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