"I can't answer you for now. My mother is good to me. I don't want to leave my mother, but I also can't bear to leave you. Why can't you go back with me when you are in the palace?" Xiao Ling said in a very embarrassed tone.
"Daddy can't leave the palace and has to work here. In addition, daddy is weak and may not live long. Xiaoling should go back and think it over carefully. But don't tell your mother about your meeting with daddy tonight, otherwise
Daddy will never see you again." Wang Xiulin threatened.
"Dad, why are you dying soon? Do you have some kind of disease that makes you afraid of being seen by your mother?" Xiao Ling regarded her threat as the reason for being like this due to illness.
Wang Xiulin rolled his eyes at him. His mother, Yan Ruocheng, was not stupid, so why was she so stupid to give birth to a son? She made it so clear, and it still confused what she meant. Forget it, let's just be wrong.
"Yes, I have to stay in the palace while working and seeing a doctor because I am sick, so you must keep this matter a secret. If you don't keep it a secret, I would rather die than let anyone see it." Wang Xiulin made his words simpler again.
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"Daddy, I understand. I don't want you to die." Xiaoling finally understood, hugging her neck tightly and sobbing.
It was Wang Xiulin's first time to hold a little fur baby. It was tender and soft to the touch, and warm when she held it. She didn't have a good impression of the baby at all, and since he was Yan Ruocheng's son, she felt even more hatred.
Now she doesn't feel as disgusted with this little furry child as she imagined.
"Okay, you're hungry too. Eat before you cry slowly. The drumsticks are getting cold too." Wang Xiulin carried him to the table and sat down, picking up the drumsticks to coax him.
"Hmm, um... Eat your fill first..." Xiaoling took the chicken leg and ate it slowly.
There was already some numbing powder on the chicken legs, and after Xiaoling finished eating, she gradually fell asleep.
"Come here." Wang Xiulin called to his personal maid.
"Your Majesty, are you sending him back?" the maid came out from somewhere in the darkness and asked.
"Yes, just send him back to your house and don't let anyone discover you." Wang Xiulin warned.
"I understand." The maid went over and slowly brought Xiao Ling over.
"Be careful, it might be windy at night, so cover him with a cloak." Wang Xiulin glanced at the floating leaves outside the window and added.
"Yes." The personal maid took Xiao Ling away.
Wang Xiulin walked back to the inner hall alone and changed his clothes back into his original women's clothes.
"Cough, cough..."
There were a few indistinct coughing sounds faintly heard from the window. The sounds were very subtle, and even those with poor ears might not be able to hear them.
But Wang Xiulin was a person with very good ears. She deliberately pretended not to know. After changing her clothes, she quietly walked around the screen, climbed through the window on the other side and jumped out as quickly as possible.
The eleventh prince Huang Fanyi should not have been eavesdropping here. Everything was a coincidence.
It was his fault that he hadn't returned to the palace for too long. He didn't know the way, so he came here by mistake. He also saw Wang Xiulin sneaking out, disguised as a man. And he heard what she said to the child.
lie.
He had been standing for too long, and the night wind had caused his stridor to break out. He was trying hard not to cough loudly. He was almost gasping for air and couldn't breathe, so he stood holding on to the wall.
"What are you doing here?" Wang Xiulin saw his back supporting the wall and guessed who it was. Why was it this man? She was uneasy and called him.
Huang Fan'er heard her voice and knew that she had discovered him. Finally, he no longer had to hold back and could relax and cough.
"Cough! Cough cough cough! Cough cough...!" He coughed hard, still holding on to the wall, bending over and lowering his head, coughing non-stop.
"You? What's wrong with you?" Seeing that he seemed to be working very hard, Wang Xiulin walked over worriedly and asked.
Huang Fan'er ignored her and hurriedly found the pills on his body to take. Because his hands were shaking from coughing, he couldn't hold the pill bottle steady and fell to the ground.
Upon seeing this, Wang Xiulin kicked his medicine bottle away, pinned him against the wall, and asked, "You haven't answered me yet, what are you doing?"
"Medicine...cough cough cough!" Huang Fan'er was struggling feebly as she held her down, and sweat broke out from his forehead. Suddenly his eyes went white, and he fell down.
"Hey!" Wang Xiulin was so frightened that he hugged him quickly, used his feet to retrieve the medicine bottle that he had just kicked away, and quickly poured out a few pills and stuffed them into his mouth.
Because it was stuffed too hard, it made him cough and choke.
This time, Huang Fan'er was really choked by her and his face turned pale.
"Hey! Hey, hey... you're not out of breath, are you? Breath... breath? Let me help you breathe!" Wang Xiulin was so frightened by him that he blew air into his mouth with his own mouth.
After blowing hard, the pill she had successfully stuck in his throat was really blown in.
"Are you okay?" Wang Xiulin helped him soothe his back.
Huang Fan'er wiped his mouth and said awkwardly: "Sister-in-law, I didn't mean to peek just now."
"You peeped. No, I should say you peeped and eavesdropped. You are really brave." Wang Xiulin said calmly.
"You, what are you going to do with me?" Huang Fan'er also knew that he had heard things he shouldn't have heard. For a ruthless character like Wang Xiulin, he would definitely not be able to escape.
"What to do with you? I haven't thought of it yet. I'll tell you when I think of it. If you say anything about what happened tonight, it will be like harming me. I have no grievances against you, and you don't want me to
There is something going on in the palace, so you can't tell it. Besides, plus what happened last time, you have to keep these two things a secret until the end." Wang Xiulin reminded.
Huang Fan'er only nodded and said, "I will keep it a secret."
"Can you get up?" Wang Xiulin stood up first and then asked him.
At this time, Huang Fan'er had a little thought in his mind. He shook his head deliberately and said in embarrassment: "After the stridor attack, my legs are numb now and I can't stand up for a while."
"You are really weak." Wang Xiulin helplessly stretched out his hand to help him up.
He just said that his legs were numb, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stood up, his legs were really numb. He was unable to stand steadily and leaned towards Wang Xiulin. This made Wang Xiulin hug his waist like this for the second time.
"Feel sorry!"
"Hey, let's go in and have a seat."
Wang Xiulin simply helped him into the hall to have a rest so that he could not stand still. Huang Fanyi also nodded, indicating his agreement.
So, she helped him in and let him sit on the chair.
"Drink some water and calm down your breathing." Wang Xiulin poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him.
"Thank you, Mrs. Huang." Huang Fan'er politely took the cup and took a sip.
"I would like to ask you, why are you following me? Are you keeping a close eye on me because of what happened last time?" Wang Xiulin said very calmly.
Huang Fan'er almost choked after hearing this, and explained wittily: "It's just a coincidence. I just haven't been back to the palace for a long time, and I misremembered the way, so I came here. I also found something wrong with the emperor's wife, so I was worried.
Come along and see what's going on."
"Worried about me? Why are you worried? You and I are just confused, so you shouldn't be worried, right?" Wang Xiulin asked to the end.
Huang Fan'er asked back: "Why does the emperor's sister-in-law want to ask clearly? I'm just passing by here. At most, I want to see what's wrong and eavesdrop out of curiosity. The worry is just out of curiosity, and it's not an important matter at all."
"Nothing." Wang Xiulin turned to look at the moonlight outside the window.
"Sister-in-law, is the child just now the Holy Emperor's flesh and blood?" Huang Fan'er asked speculatively.
"You know too much. Be careful, I will kill you and silence you." Wang Xiulin said unhappily.
"Sister-in-law, you can't do that," Huang Fan'er said confidently.
"Huh, I just want you to be of use to your adoptive father. If you hinder me from doing things, I will still kill you. Don't think that I will be very kind," Wang Xiulin threatened him.
Huang Fan'er shook his head and said with a chuckle: "Hey, the emperor's sister-in-law doesn't know how to do that. It's not a kindness, but it's not a ruthlessness either." Because since she told the maid to cover the child with a cloak, she was afraid that
He caught a cold, and from this small detail, we could see that she was actually not a bad-hearted person, but she was just twisted to compete for favor.
"Humph, you can say that for sure. You don't understand me." Wang Xiulin smiled, stood up and left.
"You haven't answered my question yet?" Huang Fan'er looked at her walking back and said to himself. He thought in his mind: That child should be the son named Yan Ruochen, who is Huang Chen.
Ling and she already have flesh and blood. This child will be the prince.
Xiaoling had been returned to the mansion safely and soundly asleep in the guest room. A servant discovered him and hurriedly informed Yan Ruocheng.
"Xiao Ling! Xiao Ling! Xiao Ling..." Yan Ruocheng rushed in, holding him worriedly to check, nothing happened, everything was normal.
"Ruocheng, what happened to Xiaoling?" Huang Fengmo also came later.
"It's okay, I may have been hit by some numbing powder, and I'm still sleeping soundly." Yan Ruocheng picked up Xiaoling and said.
"Who on earth captured him and sent him back in the middle of the night? What is the purpose?" Huang Fengmo said in confusion.
"Your Highness, don't worry about who did it. It's already very late now and we have to rest. Let's leave the matter to tomorrow and discuss it slowly." Yan Ruocheng relaxed and felt very tired now.
Just go back to your room and sleep immediately.
"Okay, let's talk slowly tomorrow." Huang Fengmo also nodded and asked his servants to push him back to his room.
That night, Xiaoling slept very soundly. He was able to see his long-awaited biological father. After his wish came true, he slept very soundly and felt at ease.
Yan Ruocheng lay back on the bed, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he was so tired that he slowly fell asleep. He hugged Xiaoling tightly, for fear of being captured again.
In the early morning of the next day, Xiaoling rubbed her sleepy eyes and saw that she had come back and was lying on the bed again. With a blank look on her face, she blinked and thought that her meeting with her biological father last night was just a sweet dream.