allonlinenovel Chapter 354
Chapter 354
"Now you know fear? Why aren't you hurrying up and handing everything over?" Huo Yunzhi looked at Cheng Qingli with a smug face.Her eyes were full of triumph.
"Pfft!" Cheng Qingli couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha—"
Hearing this, the onlookers also couldn't help but laugh.
"I say, Madam, can't you tell who's the boss here?" Liu San also couldn't help but clutch his stomach, pointing at Huo Yunzhi in mockery.
Beside her, Fangcao felt so ashamed she couldn't even lift her head, but she didn't dare say a word of dissent.
After all, once these people finished mocking the Secondary Consort of Lanhuai, they wouldn't have to see her again.
But she was different. When she returned, she would have to suffer the Secondary Consort's punishment.
Even if the Princess Consort disliked the Secondary Consort of Lanhuai, she wouldn't punish the Secondary Consort over a lowly maid like her.
"Exactly! Who do you think Miss Cheng is? She is the Empress's own biological sister!"
"Prince Lanhuai is merely an idle prince. The Cheng family not only produced an Empress, but Lord Cheng is also the Grand Preceptor."
"Haha, who knows where this Secondary Consort country bumpkin came from, spouting such nonsense here."
As the crowd chimed in one after another, Huo Yunzhi's face turned livid.
She had never imagined that her actions today would make her look like nothing more than a clown in the eyes of these people.
"Secondary Consort, the Prince asks you to return immediately." At this moment, a servant from Prince Lanhuai's estate rushed to Huo Yunzhi's side and said.
Huo Yunzhi wanted to say more, but the servant firmly added, "The Prince said if you don't return right now, he will send you to reunite with your sisters and brothers!" The servant's expression was quite grim as he spoke.
He thought to himself that this Secondary Consort of Lanhuai truly didn't know what was good for her.
She only knew how to stir up trouble all day. If he hadn't gone out on an errand just now and happened to hear people gossiping, he wouldn't have known that the Secondary Consort was bold enough to come to the Jubao Pavilion.
Now, hearing the murmurs of the bystanders, the servant only felt that this Secondary Consort of Lanhuai had no sense of propriety.
"Secondary Consort, let's hurry back. This is Changsheng, who serves by the Prince's side." Fangcao, afraid that Huo Yunzhi didn't recognize the servant, quickly explained. After all, Changsheng was Prince Lanhuai's capable right-hand man.
In Prince Lanhuai's estate, even the Princess Consort had to give him some face.
How could a lowly maid like Fangcao dare to be presumptuous?
Huo Yunzhi wanted to exchange a few more words with Cheng Qingli, but she was, after all, a member of Prince Lanhuai's household and still needed to give Prince Lanhuai some face.
Prince Lanhuai's Estate
Meanwhile, Zhou Zuo was leading a chubby little boy before Prince Lanhuai.
"Your Highness, guess who this is?" Zhou Zuo asked, looking at Prince Lanhuai with a fawning expression.
"Who?" Prince Lanhuai, sipping his tea, lifted his eyelids to glance at Zhou Zuo before lowering his head to continue drinking his tea.
Just now, Changsheng had sent someone with a message saying that idiot Huo Yunzhi was actually gambling with people at Jubao Pavilion.
He was furious, thinking that she was ultimately an unpresentable merchant's daughter to actually sit at a gambling table with a bunch of men.
At this time, Prince Lanhuai still didn't know that Huo Yunzhi had already gambled away everything Huo Yunxuan had left for him.
"Your Highness, this chubby boy is the Heir of Prince An," Zhou Zuo said with excitement.
The bound chubby boy wriggled in displeasure, but since his mouth was gagged, he could only let out muffled whimpers.
"Oh?" Prince Lanhuai scrutinized the chubby boy, unable to tell if this person looked like Prince An or not.
"Is he really the Heir of Prince An?" Prince Lanhuai hadn't seen Xu Qingshi normally and didn't remember if Xu Qingshi was truly the chubby boy before him.
"Naturally, he is," Zhou Zuo replied with a smile. He thought to himself that, regardless, the Heir of Prince An was missing now, so whether this was him or not didn't really matter.
Besides, his Prince merely wanted to use this to blackmail Prince An. Upon hearing news of his son, Prince An would surely lose his composure.
"You handled this beautifully. Take him away for now. I need to think carefully about how to make that dog Xu Heming submit to me." Prince Lanhuai's mood improved a bit, though the gaze he cast upon the chubby boy was cold and sinister.
Xu Heming had blocked his path so many times; it was finally time for him to turn the tables.
Prince An's Estate
Xu Qingshi quietly peeked his head out, and after confirming that Li Zhiwei had left, he carefully patted his chest and walked out.
"Heir, what are you looking at?" Moyu asked in confusion, mimicking Xu Qingshi's earlier posture.
"It's nothing, Moyu. Let's go!" Xu Qingshi grabbed his stone and headed out.
Seeing Xu Qingshi's posture, Moyu thought to himself, the Heir doesn't look like he's going to find Li Zhiwei, does he?
He looked at the brocade box in his own hands, then at the stone Xu Qingshi was holding like a treasure.
Moyu had a bad premonition in his heart. Could the Heir be heading to the Zhou family?
The Zhou family had treated the Heir like that, yet the Heir still cared about them?
But now, the Emperor had already banished the Zhou family from the capital.
How was he supposed to explain this to the Heir?
"Heir—" Moyu called out, standing frozen in place as he looked at Xu Qingshi.
"Moyu, why are you so slow? Hurry up, we still have many places to go later!" Xu Qingshi looked at Moyu with some dissatisfaction, thinking to himself that Moyu shouldn't be named Moyu, but rather Moji.
Moyu had no choice but to reluctantly follow behind Xu Qingshi, still pondering how he could persuade his little master so that he wouldn't be too heartbroken.
However, Xu Qingshi excitedly brought his beloved stone and arrived at the Grand Princess's Estate.
Because the Grand Princess's Estate was only two streets away from Prince An's Estate, Xu Qingshi and Moyu arrived just by walking.
Seeing the main gates of the Grand Princess's Estate, Moyu was stunned.
"Heir, you're going to the Grand Princess's Estate?" Moyu asked uncertainly.
"I'm already here, and you just noticed?" Xu Qingshi looked at Moyu as if he were looking at a fool, wondering if he should apply to his father for a smarter servant.
Otherwise, wouldn't Moyu's intelligence rub off on him?
"Heir, what are you doing at the Grand Princess's Estate?" Moyu asked, truly not understanding. Especially since the box in his hands was filled with red and green gemstones—could it be that the Heir wanted to gift them to the Grand Princess?
"Go knock on the door." Xu Qingshi sighed again, looking at the utterly clueless Moyu.
"Oh! This subordinate will go right away!" Moyu hurried forward to knock on the door.
"Who are you looking for?" the gatekeeper of the Grand Princess's Estate asked in confusion, looking at the young child before him.
He thought to himself, could they be here for the Second Young Master?
But he hadn't heard that the Second Young Master was expecting guests today.
Especially after the incident with the First Young Madam, the two young masters rarely went out.
Today, a friend actually came to visit?
The servant asked anyway, "Which family's young master are you? Please allow me to go and report to the Grand Princess."