I don't know how long it took before Du Shichu heard the footsteps of a group of people walking quickly towards here. Apparently the woman holding the child also heard it, and she immediately shrank back to the corner again in fright.
Du Shichu opened his mouth, not knowing how to persuade her. In the end, she just stopped talking and just waited for the emperor and empress to arrive.
Soon the emperor and empress appeared.
"Duanyang, are you okay?" The emperor looked over Du Shichu's body and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that she was fine.
"Your Majesty, I'm fine. It's the others who are in trouble." Du Shichu said quickly. She met the queen again, then took the two of them in, pointing to the mother and son huddled in the corner, and said,
"These are the two mother and son I found. They should have lived here for a long time, but I don't know who they are."
"Your Majesty, this is a concubine who has neglected her duty. She didn't realize that there are still people living in the cold palace." When the queen saw the mother and son who looked like beggars, she immediately apologized to the emperor with an ugly face. She manages the harem, no matter who the mother and son are. , as long as she lives in the harem and she doesn't find out and doesn't arrange it properly, then it's her fault.
"We'll talk about your fault later. Now let's invite the imperial doctor to see them, and then investigate who they are." The emperor suppressed the anger in his heart and said to the queen calmly. In fact, he had already guessed this. The woman should be the late emperor's abandoned concubine, but he didn't know that this abandoned concubine actually had the late emperor's posthumous son.
"Duanyang, you go back first, leave this matter to the queen." The emperor said to Du Shichu again. After all, the concubines and children left by the late emperor were like this, and there was no need for a little girl Du Shichu to get involved. Come in.
Du Shichu had no intention of interfering. Since the emperor and the empress already knew about this matter, she could naturally leave it to the people who took charge of it.
So she left obediently.
"Princess, you are too bold. You dare to go to such a remote and terrifying place. Fortunately, there are living people living there, otherwise you would be frightened..." Zhichun said with lingering fear, "Speaking of which, that mother and son are also real. It’s miserable, living in this cold palace is worse than a beggar, alas!”
"Okay, this kind of thing is none of our business, don't think about it." Du Shichu comforted her, "Now that His Majesty and the Queen know about it, they won't be so miserable in the future, and it can be considered a good thing we have done. "
Zhichun suddenly felt happy: "In that case, Princess, you saved them. Judging from their appearance, if you hadn't found out, they don't know how long they would have survived."
Du Shichu waved his hand: "It's because of their tenacious vitality."
Isn't that tenacious? That woman was really amazing at being able to survive in such an environment. Not only did she survive, she even raised her children.
Du Shichu quickly put the matter behind her. She returned to her residence in the palace and asked someone to fetch water so that she could have a good bath.
When she came out of the bath, she heard the palace maid say that Wu Xiaoran was here.
Wu Xiaoran lived in the palace. The emperor was afraid that he would be abused by his father and stepmother after he returned, so he let him live in the palace with the princes.
After living in the palace for a while, Wu Xiaoran had gained some weight and grown taller. Finally, he no longer looked like a pitiful and abused child like before.
Du Shichu was about to ask him why he came to see him, but suddenly the little lion came out of nowhere and rushed to Wu Xiaoran in an instant. He raised his little head and raised his long, fluffy feather duster-like tail towards him. Wu Xiaoran meowed, not knowing whether he was saying hello to him or blocking the way.
Wu Xiaoran stopped, lowered his head and looked at it intently for a few times, then wanted to go around it, ignore it, and continue walking forward.
However, the little lion seemed to be on a collision course with him. When he got around it, it ran in front of him and stood to stop him, not timidly retreating at all because of the huge difference in size.
Du Shichu only found it a little funny when he saw it, and shouted to the little lion: "Little lion, what are you doing? Wu Xiaoran provoked you?"
The little lion turned around and meowed at Du Shichu for a while, not knowing what he was accusing, and then turned to stare at Wu Xiaoran.
Du Shichu couldn't understand the cat language, so he had to ask Wu Xiaoran: "Wu Xiaoran, did you offend it at some point? It seems to have a strong opinion on you."
Wu Xiaoran lowered his head and looked at the little lion who refused to give way. He simply bent down and picked up the little lion. However, the little lion seemed very angry at Wu Xiaoran's actions. He raised his two little paws and scratched Wu Xiaoran wildly. Wu Xiaoran He caught its paw easily, so the little lion could only meow and curse, looking helpless and furious.
Du Shichu couldn't help but chuckle, knowing that there was something wrong with these two guys.
When Wu Xiaoran walked in front of Du Shichu, he let go of the little lion's hand. The little lion immediately seized the opportunity, quickly leaped out of his arms, and jumped into Du Shichu's arms, probably Knowing that it had the support of its owner, it arrogantly scolded Wu Xiaoran again, so fiercely that it looked like a fox pretending to be a tiger.
Du Shichu smiled and stroked the hair on its neck and scratched its chin. Suddenly, the little ferocious cat became docile, and its screams changed from the ferocious ones at the beginning to soft ones.
Wu Xiaoran glanced at the pampered cat with dissatisfaction and said, "It knows how to eat and play. It can't even catch mice. What's the use of keeping it?"
Du Shichu couldn't help but widen his eyes and laughed: "Xiao Ran, you know that I didn't raise it to catch mice. I raised it as a friend and a child."
Wu Xiaoran didn't know what he was thinking of, and murmured in a low voice: "If you want a friend, there is no need to raise a child..."
"What did you say?" Du Shichu was only focused on playing with the cat and didn't hear what he said clearly.
"Nothing." Wu Xiaoran naturally grabbed the towel Zhichun was using to wipe Du Shichu's hair, and naturally wiped Du Shichu's hair.
Du Shichu was used to being served by others and didn't think there was anything wrong with this. He even praised him: "Xiao Ran, I didn't expect you to be very good at serving others. You wiped my hair gently and made me feel comfortable." .”
"Very comfortable? Then I will wipe it for you from now on." Wu Xiaoran lowered his eyes and said casually.
"How can this work? How can you waste so much time with me, haha..." Du Shichu said with a smile.
Wu Xiaoran did not refute. He gently wiped Du Shichu's thick and smooth long hair with a towel. Smelling the elegant fragrance, he felt as if his hands were caressing rare and precious silk. , directly touching people's hearts.
"By the way, what do you want from me?" Du Shichu suddenly thought of this question.
"It's nothing, I just want to see you." Wu Xiaoran said calmly.
