After finding her, the Prince of Pingyang and his wife, as was customary, sent people to search for her parents and personally cared for her. The reason was simple: she was the youngest of the lost infants and it was really inappropriate to leave her in Wangyuan Courtyard.
Wangyuan Courtyard was a courtyard specially built by the Prince of Pingyang and his wife to house those infants.
The Prince of Pingyang and his wife were of high status and great influence, so the "missing person notice" in Wangyuan Courtyard was quite useful.
Hope and reunion—these are their wishes for these babies.
Although they are called infants, most of them are actually children who can walk independently; very few are still in swaddling clothes. She is the third one.
The first two children were also personally cared for by Prince Pingyang and his wife, and they were later reunited with their parents. The other children lived together in Wangyuan Courtyard, and were gradually reunited with their parents as well.
Wangyuan Courtyard now only has a few children left, of varying ages, the oldest being twelve and the youngest four.
They had been staying at Wangyuan Courtyard for over a year, but no one had come to claim them. Therefore, they all knew in their hearts that they were not as lucky as their companions.
There are three possibilities: either they weren't lost by accident, but were deliberately abandoned; or their family members have already perished in the war.
The last, slim possibility is that their families have not yet found them.
In any case, they lived in Wangyuan Courtyard. Occasionally, they would help others in the military camp, but no one would let them do heavy work. Knowing what they were thinking, they would often find some easy jobs for them.
When they learned that the King and his wife had found a baby, all the children came running.
Knowing that the Prince of Pingyang and his wife were very busy and unable to take care of the baby all the time, they all rushed to help take care of the baby, and even the youngest four-year-old child joined in the fun.
Yin Yuyao quietly watched these children from her swaddling clothes, their enthusiasm making her feel overwhelmed.
When she first transmigrated into the body of an infant, she was confused because she didn't understand the situation. After a brief encounter, she felt a sense of familiarity. The couple seemed to be people from the book she had been reading, the very people she greatly admired: the Prince of Pingyang and his wife.
Now that she understands the situation, she knows she has transmigrated into a book. She has the soul of a twenty-year-old child, and has become a newborn baby.
Seeing the characters and environment in the book from a baby's perspective was somewhat novel for her, but she wasn't interested in it.
It's really distressing to become an infant who needs to be taken care of in every aspect of life, including eating, drinking, and relieving oneself, and who can't even commit suicide.
The Prince and Princess Pingyang were unaware of these things; they only felt that the baby was excessively well-behaved. She never cried or fussed, never uttered a sound when hungry or thirsty, and did not need any outside companionship. If anyone was present, she would simply observe them quietly with her eyes.
So at the children's request, they agreed to let the children stay with the baby.
The King and Queen Pingyang thought that perhaps the baby would feel better with the company of another child.
But Yin Yuyao only felt that these were all children, noisy and disruptive.
After looking the children over, she turned her head away and stopped looking at them. Unexpectedly, the youngest child started crying, and the oldest child quickly went to comfort him.
"Xiao Pang, what's wrong?"
"Waaaaah... Sister Jiajia, does she not like me? Does she dislike me because I'm fat, just like Father? Waaaaah... Father doesn't want me because I'm fat, and everyone else dislikes me and ignores me..."
"How could that be? Our little Pang is so cute! Babies sleep a lot, she must be tired to be like this. Don't worry, she'll definitely love you!"
In the midst of a chaotic conversation, she realized that the chubby boy thought she didn't like him because of her behavior, and she also gleaned some information from his words.
For example, the chubby boy's father abandoned him because he was fat, and others also disliked him because of his weight.
Hearing the loud crying, Yin Yuyao thought silently for a while before turning her head back to look at the chubby little boy and slowly giving him a smile.
She saw the chubby boy immediately stop crying, sniffle, and stare at her in shock.
"Little Pang, look! She smiled at you! I heard she's never smiled at anyone before, she must like you!"
"Sister Jiajia, I...I saw it! She likes me, hehe...She doesn't mind that I'm fat!..."
Seeing that the chubby boy had stopped crying, and hearing their childish conversation, Yin Yuyao withdrew her smile and sighed inwardly: It's really tiring to coax kids.
But as soon as she stopped smiling, the chubby boy started crying again, making a racket. So she had to keep smiling at him and trying to calm him down.
Despite being an infant, Yin Yuyao had to soothe a toddler. She laughed all day and fell asleep before the Prince of Pingyang and his wife even returned.
When the Prince of Pingyang and his wife returned, it was already midnight. They were surprised to find that the baby had already fallen asleep. Usually, the baby would only pretend to be asleep by closing its eyes after they had to coax it for a long time, but in reality, it would not sleep.
After learning about what had happened during the day, the King and Queen of Pingyang were quite pleased, it seemed that having children with her was indeed effective.
For the next three years, Yin Yuyao spent her days coaxing the little kid and her nights coaxing the Prince of Pingyang and his wife. In her spare time, she also had to coax the soldiers and make them happy.
Seeing how these men, women, and children had become so childish as a result, she felt that she was gradually becoming the most mature and rational person in the entire army camp.
The Prince of Pingyang and his wife never found Yin Yuyao's parents. Of the children from Wangyuan Courtyard, only the eldest, Jiajia, who had just come of age, and the youngest, Xiao Pang, who had just turned seven, remained.
The Prince of Pingyang and his wife considered adopting Yin Yuyao, but they were worried that if her parents or family found her in the future, she would be forced to choose between them, which would cause unnecessary trouble for her family, so they had to give up the idea.
Yin Yuyao was unaware of the thoughts of the Prince and Princess Pingyang. She only knew that her soul was twenty years old, and she was now twenty-three, while the Prince and Princess Pingyang were only thirty-three. She simply could not regard them as elders, so she addressed them as His Highness and General, just like everyone else.
A year later, Yin Yuyao turned four years old, and Wangyuan Courtyard was completely empty. No one had been looking for Jiajia and Xiao Pang, so with the consent of the Prince of Pingyang and his wife, they were adopted by a simple couple.
The couple ran a bookstore. They were honest and law-abiding, and had no children. Because they loved Jiajia and Xiaopang very much, they worked hard for more than half a year to get the two children to accept them.
However, the Prince of Pingyang and his wife would still visit them from time to time, because what others did not know was that Jiajia had been sold to a brothel by her family and only escaped after the brothel fell into ruin.
Xiao Pang's family was too poor and he was too fat. His family thought he was taking away their good fortune and they all disliked him. They abandoned him at the gate of the military camp and he disappeared without a trace.
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