"What are you dogs doing standing here? Go down and save my eldest brother! If anything happens to him, all of you dogs will be buried with him!" The Fujin roared like a lioness, her eyes red, trying to rush into the water to save the eldest prince. Fortunately, Li Mama held her back tightly.
In fact, three people had already gone into the water, taking turns holding their breath and diving in to search for the eldest prince. However, because they had been in the water for a long time, they still hadn't found any trace of him.
Li's heart was pounding wildly. She had heard Que'er's report before coming here. Although things did not go as she had expected, the final result was the same as she had imagined.
Seeing the Third Prince sitting blankly on the grass, sobbing, she walked up to him, suddenly grabbed his shoulder, and shouted sternly, "Tell me quickly, how did the First Prince fall into the water?"
The Third Prince was already so disoriented from crying that his nose and tears were all over his face. When Li Shi scolded him like this, he was even more frightened and at a loss. He thought that it was because of him that the First Prince had suddenly fallen into the lake and his life was in danger.
"Stop crying, what's the use of crying now? Tell your mother quickly, how did the eldest prince fall into the water?" Li suppressed her secret joy, but pretended to be extremely sad and terrified.
"He fell in. My brother was sliding down that spot when, for some reason, the skateboard suddenly seemed to fall apart, and he tumbled forward and rolled into the lake," the Third Prince said, sobbing uncontrollably.
"It's out! It's out!!"
Suddenly someone shouted this, and Li Shi abandoned the Third Prince and rushed to the lakeside, where she saw that the First Prince had already been dragged ashore by several servants.
His face was deathly pale, his stomach was visibly bulging, and he was completely soaked.
The princess almost collapsed, and she could only stand up by being supported by Li Mama and Xia He.
The eldest prince was carried to the grassy bank and laid out. A servant pressed on his stomach, hoping to squeeze out some water.
When Lady Wu, Lady Song, and Lady Wang saw the eldest prince in such a miserable state, even though they didn't necessarily like him that much, they couldn't help but shed tears.
A living child was gone in an instant.
"Hui'er, Hui'er~~~~" The Fujin broke free from Granny Li, climbed onto the eldest prince, and kept calling his name.
Lady Li saw that the eldest prince's wife was like a mother wolf who had lost her cubs, staring blankly at him and calling his name incoherently. But the eldest prince could no longer open his eyes, and people who liked him or hated him stood there, grieving for his death, whether sincerely or feigningly.
"Madam, the First Prince... he's gone. You—" Seeing Madam's near-collapse, Granny Li could only suppress her own immense grief and offer words of comfort.
"No, he's not dead! He's clearly asleep, asleep!" the Fujin shouted hoarsely.
At this moment, the Fujin had lost her former dignity and gentleness. Her tears had ruined her makeup, making her look ten years older in an instant. Li looked down at her face and felt a slight pity, but as soon as she thought about how the Fujin and her son had stood in her way for almost ten years, preventing her from obtaining the position she dreamed of, that pity disappeared.
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