The young eunuch's face flushed with anxiety, and he began to stutter.
"The child brought by the Prince of Zhennan is lost."
What?
Hearing this, Luo Lan's heart suddenly rose to her throat. She and Leng Yu looked at each other and asked anxiously,
"How could he be lost? Wasn't he fine this morning?"
The young eunuch kept waving his hands and mumbling:
"No... I don't know. He was indeed fine when the Prince of Zhennan brought him here. Then he said he was going to the toilet and never came back. The eunuch who accompanied him has been arrested. Now the Prince of Zhennan is looking for him everywhere like a madman. The palace is in chaos. General Liu ordered me to meet you two at the city gate. Go and take a look."
Hearing this, Leng Yu and Luo Lan did not dare to delay and quickly walked towards Baohe Hall.
At this time in Baohe Hall, Leng Zian clenched his fists, his eyes were red, and the flesh on his face was trembling because of his anger.
His voice suddenly became extremely sharp, and he kept shouting loudly.
"If you don't hand him over today, I will overturn this palace."
Duosheng, who was standing beside him, kept whispering, "Your Highness, please calm down. The young master must have gone out to play somewhere. He might be back soon."
"Hmph! My son is a sensible man. He wouldn't go out to play alone. He must have been captured by someone with ulterior motives. The palace is so big, wouldn't it be easy to hide someone? In my opinion, someone must have done this on purpose. Your Majesty, my son got lost in your palace. You must give me an explanation."
At this time, the emperor's face looked very ugly. In the imperial palace of Daning Kingdom, an eight-year-old child was lost while going to the toilet. It would be really embarrassing if this matter were to be spread.
At this time, Huang Shixiong turned his face to the side, snorted lightly, with a look of disdain in his eyes, and then said:
"Who knows if this is a trick you pulled? We still don't know whether the son is real or not, and now he's suddenly missing. It's really strange to tell anyone about this."
"What did you say?"
Leng Zian suddenly pointed at Huang Shixiong angrily, his face distorted with anger. He could not hide the rage in his heart, and shouted in a cold voice with trembling lips,
"Huang Shixiong, how dare you slander me? Do you think I picked up a child on the street to fool the emperor? This is outrageous. He is my own son, and now he is lost in this palace. Everyone present here is responsible for this matter."
Hearing this, Huang Shixiong stood up, frowned, glared back and roared:
"Hmph! What else can you do besides yelling here? You said he was your son? Are you playing us like monkeys? You must have used some tricks to deliberately lose him before we could confirm his identity, and now you come here looking for him. Your tricks are really clumsy."
As soon as he said this, Leng Zian was completely enraged. He suddenly raised his foot and kicked over the table in front of him. The porcelain fell to the ground and scattered all over the floor. The crackling sound stunned Luo Lan and Leng Yu, who had just hurried in from the door.
The emperor, who was sitting in the main hall, looked at this scene with a pale face, eyes wide open, and a violent and hateful look in his eyes.
Suddenly, he slammed the table and roared angrily,
"You are arguing in front of me, are you treating me, the emperor, as nothing? This is really unreasonable."
Hearing this, Huang Shixiong's expression tightened. Liu Dechang hurriedly stood up to smooth things over. He stood up and clasped his fists and said:
"Your Majesty, the child brought by the Prince of Zhennan was suddenly lost. It's no wonder he's worried, but this matter is indeed a bit strange. I think it's better to find the child first, and discuss the rest later."
At this moment, the emperor looked up and saw Leng Yu and Luo Lan. He waved to them and said:
"It's a good thing you're here. You're familiar with that kid named Xiaozhi. In your opinion, what happened to him suddenly disappearing?"
this……
Luo Lanzhen felt helpless. It was because she knew Xiaozhi that she was sure that Xiaozhi would not disappear out of thin air for no reason. He was not a playful child, so he might be in danger now.
Thinking of this, she stepped forward with a solemn look on her face, bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, General Liu was right just now. The most important thing now is to find the child so that we can know the truth. Even if Leng Yu and I know something about him, we still have no idea why he suddenly disappeared."
Hearing this, Leng Zian suddenly sighed heavily and instructed Duosheng behind him:
"Hurry and go outside the palace to call in the people from the Yunnan Palace. Send out signal flares to notify the officers and soldiers outside the city to come in and search for the young master together."
Hearing this, Luo Lan and Leng Yu both gasped. They knew that if the Prince of Zhennan forced the officers and soldiers stationed outside the city to enter the city, he would be accused of treason, and the consequences would be disastrous.
When the emperor heard his words, his expression suddenly turned cold. He suddenly clenched his fists, raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly.
"Prince of Zhennan, what are you going to do? Without my permission, how dare you allow your troops to enter the city? Are you planning a rebellion? I knew that your men from the Yunnan Palace were stationed outside the city, and I didn't punish you. This was already a mercy from me. How dare you be so ungrateful?"
Hearing this, the Prince of Zhennan waved his arms fearlessly and shouted,
"The son I finally got just disappeared out of thin air. How can I not be anxious? I ordered my men to look for him. Is that wrong?"
"Do you think there's no one in my palace? Do you think I'll let your people into the palace? You really don't know etiquette."
"Hmph! Etiquette? I've kept my promise and haven't set foot in the capital for twenty years. This year, I wanted to go to the capital to see you, my long-lost brother, but I didn't expect you to treat me so coldly. You knew I was coming to the capital but didn't see me. You even made me live in Prince Yu's mansion. Now you've lost my son, and you're saying I don't know etiquette? Do you even know etiquette?"
"Hmph! I am the monarch, and you are my subject. You have no right to contradict my monarch. If you dare to say anything more, I will strip you of your title of Barbarian King."
"You dare? If you dare to touch a hair on my head, the tens of thousands of troops from the Yunnan Palace will destroy your palace inside and out..."
“…”
The two men became increasingly tense as they talked, and it looked like they were about to come to blows.
The people present looked around, not knowing how to interrupt, and no one dared to interrupt.
After a quarrel, the emperor suddenly waved his arms and yelled at the people outside the house.
"Someone, come! Tie up the Prince of Zhennan for me."
The veins on the emperor's face were bulging, and the wrinkles on his face were particularly obvious at this moment.
Seeing this, Leng Zian also roared at the people guarding the door, "Who dares to touch me? I dare to make him have his head chopped off."
Seeing the tense atmosphere at the scene, Liu Dechang tried to dissuade them again.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Prince Zhennan, please calm down too. Twenty years ago, you quarreled over a single sentence and didn't see each other for twenty years. Now, are you going to quarrel until everything falls apart before you stop?"
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