With Si Chengduan saluting her, Xia Lingge took a few steps forward and took Mrs. Fusi's arm in a slightly affectionate manner, "His Royal Highness the Prince has already chosen a girl to dance on the dance floor. Verena and I thought that the dance might have already happened." I couldn’t attract the prince’s attention, so I wanted to find another way.”
"Another way?"
Mrs. Voss turned her eyes suspiciously and glanced at her and Sicheng, then looked at the surrounding scene and the halo of light scattered around them, and suddenly understood something that made her angry and helpless: "You guys, sometimes I really don't know. Praise you for being smart, or call you stupid.”
She stretched out her fingertips and poked her eldest daughter's forehead with annoyance: "You know that the prince is attracted by other girls, but you don't want to find a way to show more elegant dancing at the ball, but you have to find another way. By doing this, you can see that the prince's attention has been attracted. shadow?"
Xia Lingge touched his forehead and said honestly: "No."
Mrs. Voss kept shaking her feather fan, obviously very angry. She sighed softly and seemed to compromise: "That's all, let me teach you how to win the prince's heart when I get back."
Xia Lingge and Sicheng responded, followed Mrs. Fu Si out of the palace and castle, and got into the carriage.
Gorgeous horse-drawn carriages kept running, the shops on both sides were not completely closed, and orange lights shone through the glass onto the dark asphalt avenue.
Xia Lingge sat upright on the cushions, lifted up the thin curtain of the carriage and looked outside. The thick and tall trees kept receding back. In the darkness, she suddenly noticed a petite figure flashing past.
She was startled and shouted unconsciously: "Stop."
The coachman driving the horse stopped momentarily.
Mrs. Voss opened her slightly closed eyes and asked, "Rias, what happened?"
Xia Lingge was speechless for a moment: "Mother..."
She was quickly organizing her words in her mind, but Si Cheng suddenly bent over and held his stomach with a very painful expression. He even fell off the soft chair and curled up.
"Oh! Verena!"
Mrs. Voss was frightened by this sudden scene, and she knelt down to support Sicheng's body: "Oh! My Verena, what's wrong with you?! Don't scare me, don't scare mother!"
Xia Lingge was also confused for a moment. She held Si Cheng's trembling hand and felt the slender fingertips poking her palm. Then she understood immediately.
"Mother, please guard Verena first, and I will look for a doctor."
Ignoring the calls from behind, Xia Lingge jumped off the carriage and immediately ran in the direction where the petite girl disappeared. It was a remote alley, getting darker and quieter as he walked... There were also messy garbage piled up around him.
She stopped at the corner and used the light from behind to look at the girl standing under the wall. She had a light blue skirt and long blond hair. The girl kept standing on tiptoes trying to climb over the wall in front of her but she still couldn't figure it out.
Cinderella, why is she here?
Xia Lingge looked around. There was nothing but rubbish here. It didn't look like a place where a 'simple princess' should come.
"please."
Cinderella seemed to be in a hurry and kept murmuring to herself: "Hurry up, hurry up! You must get home before them. Damn it, who picked up the wooden box I put here? I am completely I can’t reach it…”
Xia Lingge understood that this road might be a shortcut for her to return to the manor. Turning to look at the opposite side, I found a strange pumpkin decoration placed under the wall of the dessert shop. It looked like a Halloween ghost, but it was covered with a layer of dust and was obviously no longer used.
She ran over in a few steps and stood the pumpkin up. Then she pushed hard, and the pumpkin rolled over. Xia Lingge also hurriedly changed his position to hide himself.
"who?!"
Cinderella turned her head in surprise, but the alley behind was still dark and she couldn't see anything different - except for the pumpkin decoration that rolled to her feet.
She didn't care about anything. She laid the pumpkin flat and stepped on it with her skirt. Then she grabbed the wall with all her strength and climbed up with difficulty.
Xia Lingge turned back.
"Verena! Verena!"
Mrs. Voss half-hugged Si Cheng with a worried look on her face. She raised her eyes from time to time and looked out the car window, hoping that her other daughter would come back soon.
"Mother, Si...Verena."
Xia Lingge jumped on the carriage with a bowl of water. She supported Cheese Cheng and fed him warm water: "I didn't find the doctor, but I found some hot water. How do you feel?"
Sicheng nodded: "Okay, much better."
Mrs. Voss relaxed a little, but her brows were still furrowed: "Oh, my Verena, what's wrong with you?"
Si Cheng blinked his eyes frequently, "I..." He just felt that his senior sister had discovered something and wanted to leave, so he found an excuse for her, but he hadn't figured out what to do next.
"Are you... that?"
Xia Lingge asked him tactfully.
Si Cheng didn't know what she meant by 'that', but seeing the understanding look on Mrs. Fu Si's face, he nodded along with Xia Lingge's meaning: "Well, that, that."
"Oh, Verena, let me tell you what you want to order?" Mrs. Voss held her head and looked extremely headache. "I don't remember such an important thing. Fortunately, I was on my way home. If anything happened to His Highness, Your family will lose all face at the dance."
Sicheng blinked.
Mrs. Voss sat back on the cushions and regained her solemn and elegant appearance. She stretched out her fingertips to tuck her broken hair behind her ears: "I'm afraid you won't be able to attract the prince in your current state, Rias?"
Xia Lingge said: "I can do it, mother."
Mrs. Voss nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, I will help you."
The carriage returned to the manor smoothly.
Mrs. Voss took off the mink coat she was wearing and handed it to the maid, and said loudly: "Ask Cinderella to make some midnight snacks and bring them up. My babies are hungry and need to replenish their strength to face their bright future."
"Yes, ma'am."
The maid stepped back respectfully.
Sicheng had already heard Xia Lingge talk about Cinderella taking a small road back to the manor. Now he saw Mrs. Vos calling Cinderella as soon as she entered the threshold and looked at Xia Lingge with some worry.
Xia Lingge shook her head and stood behind Mrs. Fusi and waited quietly.
after awhile.
Cinderella came to Mrs. Voss with a plate of desserts and several maids. They placed cakes, cookies, salads, bread, as well as wine and freshly squeezed juice on the table.
Mrs. Voss looked at Cinderella, who was still ashen, with a look of satisfaction on her face.
"Okay, my girls, let's start the meal, but..." She only placed vegetable salad and orange juice in front of Xia Lingge, "You can only eat these, Rias."
Xia Lingge had no objection.
"Let me think, Rias."
Mrs. Voss sat down in the upright position, holding a feather fan to partially cover her face: "Do you know that you almost won the prince's favor today."
