Da Ni'er never called her birth mother "mother," but instead respectfully addressed her as "mother."
The dark-skinned girl stood waiting at the city gate of the capital, with Huo Xiaolong and the little girl with her.
"Da Ni'er, is that your birth mother?"
Huo Xiaolong had good eyesight and spotted a woman dressed in grassland attire from a distance. The sheepskin she was wearing was a bit grayish, and she had two children on either side of her, who were eating candied hawthorns.
"Mother," Dani called out, but she was too far away to hear.
You have to queue to get into the city, and the queues are really long now.
Long'er rummaged through her handbag, which contained a lot of odds and ends, and it took her a while to find her Zhenbei King's plaque.
"Here, take this and bring your birth mother back. You don't need to wait in line."
"But it's such a big deal! They spend so much time getting a prince's token just to avoid queuing," Hou Xiangxiang said from the side.
The stories in the novels are all lies. In those stories, a prince uses a waist token to release, arrest, and rescue people. Her sister is also a prince, and he is right next to her. She goes to great lengths to use her waist token to skip the queue.
"What can we do? The line is so long, we're going to have to stand here in the cold wind for ages."
"Mother."
Da Ni'er bowed to her mother.
“Ah Qing.”
The woman gestured to her two children to bow to their elder sister, for this was the queen of the grasslands, and proper etiquette was essential.
"Eldest sister."
"I hope my elder sister is well."
"You'll be alright again?" Dani asked, looking down.
"Yes, that's how people from the Great Yan Dynasty greet each other."
"Look at this hair, it looks like a calf has been licked clean. Has it been several days since you washed it?"
Da Nier didn't communicate much with her birth mother, but perhaps due to blood ties, she was quite close to her two younger brothers.
"Yes, my mother doesn't want to stay in an inn, so we've always stayed outside."
The child spoke haltingly, and upon hearing that his elder sister's family owned a pancake shop, he couldn't help but drool.
Are you hungry?
"I'm holding the hands of two little girls," Da Ni asked.
"A little..."
After saying that, the two children turned around and looked at their mother.
The woman smiled and nodded to them.
Huo Xiaolong and the little girl didn't think it was a big deal. The second sister was the queen of the grassland, and the queen of the grassland had to take charge. Her mother came here this time to find a way to get Yan Tang. If she didn't take charge, who would?
"Mind your own business. I'll listen to you. What does it have to do with me?"
Inside Wang's Pancake Shop, Da Ni'er looked completely self-righteous, which made Huo Xiaolong laugh in exasperation. He had never seen anyone as shameless as Wang Tianci in both his lives.
"You are the King of the Grasslands!"
"I'll listen to you."
"Listen to me, you are also the king of the grasslands."
Da Ni'er's birth mother and Aunt Wang sat in the back kitchen. The woman was somewhat afraid to make a sound. She watched as her elder sister and the two children bickered, and she wolfed down the sesame cakes.
It was scary that the eldest sister got angry and wouldn't feed them. That's how their mother and father punished them on the grassland.
"You're so stubborn. Huo Xiaolong, you sit here and let's talk this out properly."
The Prince of Zhenbei pulled out a stool, sat down, and replied.
"Go ahead and sort it out, let's see how you do it."
"Was it you who made me the grassland king?" Dani'er asked.
"yes."
"Was it you who helped me conquer this grassland?"
Long'er frowned; she felt as if Da Ni'er was setting a trap for her.
"It was you who led the troops to start the fight; it has nothing to do with me." Huo Xiaolong instinctively dodged.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Do you think my second brother is standing there for me to chop up?"
"He can't do it himself!"
Da Ni'er's birth mother was visibly nervous. She felt that her arrival had caused her two good friends to quarrel. She couldn't understand much of the Central Plains language, but she could sense that the two girls were on the verge of war.
Aunt Wang gave her a bowl of wontons and placed a sesame seed cake in her hand.
He spoke in broken grassland dialect
"They fight every day, but it's nothing, they'll be fine in a little while."
Granny Wang knew her daughter's character all too well—the grassland king?
Whose grassland king sleeps all day long, doing nothing but busy work at the pancake shop? Has he been letting Xiao Hadie look after the documents lately?
Because of this, Aunt Wang has hit the child several times, but the child is tough and doesn't care after being hit. He even grins and calls her "Empress" all day long.
It's useless.
Only Huo Xiaolong could cure her.
"You'll listen to me, won't you?" Long'er began to set a trap for Da Ni'er.
"right!"
"You listen to me and resolve this matter."
"..."
These words made Wang Tianci laugh out loud, while Xiaohaijie chimed in with laughter, and Huo Xiaolong also looked at her and laughed.
Da Nier nodded.
"Why are you so playful? Let Aunt Hou handle this. She's a royal merchant now, she'll take care of everything, how could she let us down?"
Upon hearing this, Hou Xiangxiang immediately stopped smiling.
"You already know what to do, so why are you still dumping the work on me?" Huo Xiaolong thought the same thing, but he didn't understand why Da Ni'er kept dumping work on him.
"I'm just training you, what if you're completely lost when you become emperor?"
"Thank you so much, King of the Grasslands."
After all the commotion, only one person was unhappy: Hou Xiangxiang.
In fact, Lady Hou did want to get involved in this matter, which could be considered a win-win-win situation. First, it would increase tax revenue for Huo Xiaolong's Beining County. Buying and selling would generate money everywhere.
Secondly, there's the grassland. Sugar is a rare commodity there, and the children have rarely eaten it, leading a miserable life. Now, everyone can have a taste.
Thirdly, there was Lady Hou. As a royal merchant, her only wish was to make money, to make a lot of money.
"No, my mother just finished her busy work a few days ago. How can you bear to see Pingping without anyone to take care of her?"
Now, the little girl understands Huo Xiaolong's suffering—a heartless tool for raising children.
But she didn't actually keep Hou Pingping for very long. Whenever Lady Hou was not at home, she would take Hou Pingping to the palace for the Empress to look after.
"It's not like you're looking at her. You'd definitely give it to the Empress." Huo Xiaolong looked at the little girl and put his leg on her.
"She is the Empress, not my wet nurse!"
“But she likes it. Look how well Pingping is raised, so plump and healthy.”
"Why don't you give Pingping to me, and I'll take care of her for you?" Da Ni'er felt that as the queen of the grasslands, she should at least help her little sister share the responsibility, so she spoke up.
Hou Xiangxiang removed Huo Xiaolong's leg from her body, and the girl stood up, righteously refusing.
"No need, King of the Grasslands. It's truly terrifying to see you and the King of Zhenbei raising children. What respectable family would teach their child to kill?"
You even taught her how to kill rabbits!
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