Chapter 171: Little Prince【04】
After the male protagonist Qi Yuan was recognized back to the Jianping Palace, he thought that the word 'yuan' in his memory when he was a child was because he remembered it wrongly. His name should have the word 'yuan' when he was a child.
It is normal for a child to have a vague memory error before the age of five.
But when Yuan Jia heard Zhou Hongyuan say his name just now, he suddenly had a hunch in his heart... That mysterious and mysterious feeling can't be trusted, but he can't believe it either.
Yuan Jia extracted some words from Zhou Hongyuan's mouth. After analysis and refinement, he found that Zhou Hongyuan was in a bad situation.
Zhou Hongyuan's biological mother passed away early, and the only guarantee left for him before his death was to ask the Marquis of Changning to give him the title of heir in advance.
But the position of the prince has become Zhou Hongyuan's life reminder.
Because the wife of the Marquis of Changning also had two direct sons, she wanted her son to inherit the title of Marquis of Changning, and the first one to get rid of was Zhou Hongyuan.
Mrs. Changning Hou is a kind-hearted and ruthless. Zhou Hongyuan is the prince of Changning Hou’s mansion on the surface. Being favored and being valued is slightly better than that of the younger brother, but the situation is more difficult than that of the younger brother.
Because Mrs. Changning Hou wouldn't be afraid of a few concubines, and she was not afraid that they would compete with her son for the right to inherit the title, but she would be afraid of Zhou Hongyuan, the first-born son.
Yuan Jia asked Zhou Hongyuan what happened the day he was abducted. Zhou Hongyuan was not very old, but he had a good memory, and he still remembered the day when he was abducted.
He was carried by his nanny and went out to look at the lanterns, and saw that the nanny and the servant were gone, then the kidnapper covered his mouth and carried him away, and when he woke up, he appeared in the woodshed.
It was obvious that someone deliberately left him there, waiting for him to be abducted.
Yuan Jia secretly guessed that he might be at ease watching Zhou Hongyuan being carried away by a kidnapper in secret!
The most suspicious person was naturally Zhou Hongyuan's stepmother, otherwise he would never have imagined who else would bribe Zhou Hongyuan's nanny's servant to deal with a five-year-old child in a poor mansion.
Zhou Hongyuan told Yuan Jia everything he remembered. After speaking, he suddenly twisted his fingers and asked in a low voice, "Brother Yuan Jia, tell me, did the nurse deliberately leave me behind?"
Yuan Jia was slightly startled: "You're not stupid."
Zhou Hongyuan had a sad expression on his face, and his eyes were full of water, but he was stubborn and didn't want to cry.
Yuan Jia sighed deeply and patted Zhou Hongyuan on the shoulder, not knowing what to say.
For such a small child, his father doesn't care, and his mother dies and falls into the hands of a wicked stepmother. How can life be better? It could be dead at every turn.
Yuan Jia said: "If you have time in the future, come to my house to play with me. I live in the palace of the eldest princess, or you can find me in the palace of Jianping."
Zhou Hongyuan nodded and smiled through his tears: "Okay, Brother Yuanjia, I'll come to play with you when I'm free!"
The innocent child didn't know that this was Yuan Jia's help, he was just happy that he was invited by a good partner.
This is his first time making friends!
Yuan Jia took Zhou Hongyuan around the long princess mansion, and then took him to his room to play with toys.
After playing until it was getting late, Mrs. Changning Hou sent someone to find Zhou Hongyuan, and Yuan Jia asked Zhou Hongyuan to go back.
Before Zhou Hongyuan left, he reluctantly waved goodbye to Yuan Jia. Yuan Jia said to Mrs. Changning Hou: "In the future, when brother Hongyuan has time, let him come to my house to play."
Mrs. Changning Hou did not dare to neglect Yuan Jia, who was only a child, and quickly replied, "Yes, little prince."
She was a little regretful in her heart, knowing that the little prince wanted a playmate so much, she brought her son too, so as to save Zhou Hongyuan from being cheap.
It's just that she forgot that she didn't bring her son with her before she came because she was worried that the little prince would bully her son in a domineering manner. Now, do you regret it?
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After dark, King Jianping came to the palace of the long princess.
He came to take Princess Xihua back to the Jianping palace to live: "This king has doubled his personal patrols in the palace. The palace is safer. You can take Yuanjia back to the palace."
Princess Xihua was reluctant to go back, and she still suspected King Jianping's concubine Lu Shi.
"Don't worry, my lord, this palace has asked a team of imperial troops to guard the princess' palace from the emperor. It is very safe here."
Yuan Jia, who was sitting next to him eating egg custard, always felt a bit tit-for-tat as he listened to the polite conversation of the original owner's parents.
The two behaved like a model husband and wife to the outside world. As a prince, King Jianping was different from an ordinary concubine, but he was willing to accompany Princess Xihua to live in the princess' mansion for a long time. The princess couple is in love.
But Yuan Jia, who was closest to them, felt that there was a mountain between the two of them. No matter how gentle his expression was when he spoke, and how thoughtful his tone was, it still made people feel alienated.
Seeing Princess Xihua's firm attitude, King Jianping stopped trying to persuade him, and instead asked Yuan Jia, "Yuan Jia, do you want to go back to the palace? Your father raised a new-born foal for you in the stables of the palace. , you can grow up with it."
Yuan Jia glanced at Eldest Princess Xihua and saw that she looked unhappy, and said, "Father, I want to live with my mother, can the pony be raised here with my mother?"
King Jianping: "..."
Princess Xihua couldn't help laughing, she felt that her son was born by herself, and she was caring with her.
King Jianping couldn't get his wish, but he didn't care about his five-year-old son, so he agreed: "Then the king will send someone to bring your foal."
King Jianping himself also stayed in the eldest princess' mansion, and only returned to Jianping's mansion every few minutes to handle official business and visit his concubines and concubines.
Every time Yuan Jia left King Jianping, he would leave a mark of consciousness on his body.
It has been more than a month since he has traveled through this world, and he has successfully introduced Qi into his body, and he can use his consciousness for a longer time.
The brand of consciousness is like a hidden camera, although it is time-sensitive, it will not be discovered by others.
So Yuan Jia knew the whereabouts of Jianping Wang Pingping clearly.
King Jianping's private power is really no small matter, no wonder the emperor is so afraid of him, a king with a different surname who has some military power in his hands, which emperor can be at peace in his heart?
Yuan Jia also met the original owner's younger brother and younger sister through King Jianping.
He originally thought that King Jianping's attitude towards the original owner, the heir, was relatively indifferent and not intimate. It was because of the identity of Princess Xihua that he rejected the identity of the original owner, the heir.
Even because of this, Yuan Jia still doubts whether there is King Jianping's handwriting behind the abduction of the original owner.
Although tigers are poisonous and do not eat their sons, people are not tigers. People are really vicious, so what if they are their own sons?
However, through the imprint of his spiritual consciousness, he found that King Jianping's attitude when he visited the other pair of children was even more indifferent than his own, his own son. The serious look of the deputy official.
The original owner's concubine Xie Ying and concubine Xie Rong were very afraid of King Jianping's father. Seeing him was like a mouse seeing a cat.
In comparison, the original owner was quite bold. At most, compared to the way he got along with Princess Xihua, he was not close enough to King Jianping.
It seems that King Jianping has such a strict father attitude towards his children and does not know how to be a loving father.
Moreover, after monitoring King Jianping for more than a month, he found that he was indeed doing his best to covertly investigate the abduction of the original owner, so he temporarily dispelled the suspicion of King Jianping and took back the brand of consciousness.
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Yuan Jia took the wet towel handed over by the maid, wiped his face, and instructed, "Today I will send someone to Changning Hou's mansion to ask Changning Hou Shizi to come to the mansion to play with me."
He remembered that he hadn't seen Zhou Hongyuan for several months, worried that the child would have an accident in the fire pit in the Marquis of Changning, so he sent someone to bring him over.
In the eyes of others, the little prince was just looking for a playmate.
"Yes, little prince!"
After Yuan Jia washed up, she went to have breakfast with Princess Xihua.
After breakfast, Yuan Jia asked, "Mother, have you found my jade pendant?"
Princess Xihua shook her head slightly and said, "If such a small thing is hidden, especially if it's so easy to find? The only clue you told your mother is a steward with the surname mù, and you don't know which mù steward's surname is. , it is very laborious to check."
Yuan Jia didn't want to reveal that he was awake the whole time when he was locked in the firewood house, but it was too difficult for him to intervene in the investigation of the truth as a child, so he could only use Princess Xihua to investigate.
So he half-truthed to tell Princess Xihua about the existence of Director Mu.
He only said that he had a little sense of the outside world during the coma, and vaguely heard someone call "mù steward", but he didn't know which mù character was the surname of the mù steward.
He said that his jade pendant might have been taken away by the steward Mu. When Princess Xihua sent someone to investigate, it was natural to investigate in this area, but unfortunately, no results have been found.
Yuan Jia doesn't hold out much hope now. Most of the steward Mu used a fake name and a fake identity when he contacted the traffickers.
It's a pity that he is a child now, otherwise he will directly draw the appearance of Director Mu, and it will be much easier to check.
Yuan Jia, who was confined to the backyard by his identity as a child, secretly looked forward to growing up quickly, and he really didn't want to dress like a child in the future.
When Princess Xihua saw that Yuan Jia had finished eating, she urged him to hurry up to play and eat.
Yuan Jia, who didn't want to go out to play, sat on the stool and turned to ask the maid next to him, "When will brother Hongyuan come?"
The maid hurriedly went out to inquire about the situation, and waited for a long time before coming back to report: "Little Prince, Zhou Shizi is ill, and I can't come to the house to play with you for the time being."
"What? Brother Hongyuan is sick?" Yuan Jia jumped off the stool, "I want to see him."
Princess Xihua quickly stopped her and said, "Jia'er, you can't go. Who knows what disease Zhou Hongyuan has. What if you get infected?"
Princess Xihua doesn't care about Zhou Hongyuan's life or death. In her opinion, Zhou Hongyuan is a playmate who makes her son happy, but she can't let Zhou Hongyuan spread the disease to her precious son.
Yuan Jia refused to obey, and insisted on going. He showed the original owner's domineering and harassing energy, acting coquettishly and acting cutely, so that Princess Xihua had to let go, "You can go, but you can't. Enter the house to see Zhou Hongyuan, at most ask twice outside the house through the door, and then come back immediately!"