Chapter 134: The Little Princess of the Capital

“Come and see! The Great Uncle’s mansion is trafficking children! Even though they have their own, they still abduct others! And they’re supposed to be royal relatives! This is outrageous!”

Someone started wailing and slapping their thigh.

The commoners loved a good show. With this cry, even more people gathered at the gates.

The Great Uncle was at a loss for words, utterly unsure of how to explain the situation.

At this moment, he cursed those two women a hundred times over!

What a mess they’d made of things.

Could he even save face for the Great Uncle’s mansion anymore?

Just then, Concubine Hui, who had just left the palace, happened to be passing by with the Third Prince. Seeing the crowd from a distance, her curiosity got the better of her, and she approached to see what was happening.

When she heard that the Great Uncle’s mansion was involved in child trafficking, she couldn’t help but laugh.

This… the Great Uncle’s mansion, of all places, involved in such a thing?

But then, through a gap in the crowd, she spotted a small figure.

Wait a minute!

Isn’t that… the Tenth Princess?

At that moment, Ah Bao was being thoroughly pampered by the Great Uncle, who was offering her a plate of snacks and a large gold chain. As he spoke, he carefully placed the chain around her neck, “Tenth Princess, you see, the Ninth Prince doesn’t talk much, and I can’t communicate with him. But you two seem close. How about you talk to him and take this group of children away? Would that be okay?”

A group of middle-aged women crowded the entrance.

But inside the main hall, the kids refused to leave.

Caught between a rock and a hard place, the Great Uncle felt like crying.

Ah Bao picked up a piece of roasted sweet potato and began nibbling on it.

Around her neck, the Great Uncle had placed another gold chain.

He was convinced that the children would listen to Ah Bao; she was smarter than all of them.

Ah Bao sat on the steps, swinging her little legs, “No, no… I have mine, but they…”

She pointed to the other children in the hall.

The Great Uncle immediately understood. “The Tenth Princess is right. You have yours, so they should have theirs too. I get it!”

Soon enough, the Great Uncle ordered two more plates of gold chains from the treasury.

Ah Bao beamed with delight.

[This Great Uncle’s mansion is truly extravagant. Look at those gold chains, brought out by the plateful.]

Each child now had a gold chain around their neck.

Bursting into laughter.

Only the Great Uncle was crying like a waterfall.

But the real reason for his tears was yet to come…

“Master, master, something terrible has happened!”

The Great Uncle jumped up in anger, “If you say something terrible has happened one more time, I’ll have your head!”

Couldn’t they use different words? This phrase was really giving him the creeps.

“The gate, we can barely hold it! There are too many people,” the steward cried out.

Tears welled up in the Great Uncle’s eyes as he looked at Ah Bao.

Ah Bao waved her little hand calmly and whispered something to the group of kids. The next thing you know, the children were happily heading out.

Concubine Hui and the Third Prince were standing by the street and witnessed something extraordinary.

They saw a little tycoon, dressed like a scholar’s servant but draped in gold chains, holding two large gold ingots—practically glowing with wealth.

The Third Prince rubbed his eyes, laughing with his eyes squinting, “Mother, look! It’s little sister! Wow, she’s so cute!”

Concubine Hui glared at the Third Prince, “Shut up!”

“Mother, why do you seem unhappy? And how did little sister end up at the Great Uncle’s mansion?”

Concubine Hui was about to explode with anger.

What was Ah Bao made of? How come nothing could stop her?

Ah Bao was leading a group of little followers. As they reached the gate, their families spotted them and burst into tears.

These were their lost children!

The front of the Great Uncle’s mansion, which was usually serene, turned into a place of wailing and crying, like a small purgatory.

The noise made the Great Uncle’s head buzz.

“How did they know the children were at my mansion?” the Great Uncle whispered to the steward.

The steward was just as confused.

Di Rongjing, standing nearby, quietly lowered his head. No one knew that his little sister, Ah Bao, was like a lucky charm—full of surprises.

Before she was taken away by those two people, she had already arranged everything for her younger siblings, ensuring they were taken care of.

She even planned for how they would recover from the effects of the drug and instructed them to follow the little black dog to the Great Uncle’s mansion.

The abducted children had practically become honored guests at the Great Uncle’s mansion—lavished with food, drinks, and even given gold chains.

Unable to get an answer, the Great Uncle could only resign himself to his bad luck.

Finally, the Great Uncle turned his gaze to Ah Bao, who was happily bidding farewell to her little friends as they returned to their mothers’ arms.

The parents, afraid that their children might go missing again, held them tightly, some sobbing uncontrollably.

“They won’t go missing again. The gold chains have signals on them. Anyone who tries to steal these children will fall into a pit of manure.”

“Go home now and share this good fortune with other children in the capital.”

From that day on, Ah Bao became the big sister of all the kids in the capital.

Di Rongjing stared in shock at the tiny Ah Bao.

Sister, you’re amazing!

The crying at the Great Uncle’s gate gradually ceased, and the crowd slowly dispersed.

A carriage stopped quietly, and a man and a woman stepped down.

It was Concubine De and the Emperor.

When Concubine De saw Ah Bao dressed in gold and silver, like a little god of wealth, her urgent feelings suddenly froze.

She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

The Great Uncle had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Emperor. He almost fainted on the spot, feeling as though he had been caught in the act, “Your Majesty? Concubine De?”

The Emperor rarely visited the Great Uncle’s mansion.

“I came to find Ah Bao,” the Emperor said, stepping toward Ah Bao. Seeing that she was well-fed and happy, he was instantly relieved. “Ah Bao, weren’t you taken out of the palace by your seventh brother? How did you end up at the Great Uncle’s mansion?”

Ah Bao understood.

“Mother must have told Father that I went out of the palace with my seventh brother, but actually, I was kidnapped.”

The Emperor: ???

Who would dare kidnap his precious daughter!

Ah Bao glanced at the Great Uncle.

That one look scared the Great Uncle half to death.

The whole business of buying children—he couldn’t let that slip out. If word got out, not only would he lose face, but he’d also be breaking the law.

The Emperor noticed something was off, but he kept his composure and didn’t ask.

“Look at that, how adorable the little princess is. I haven’t seen her in two months, and this time, I specifically invited the Tenth Princess to come to the mansion for a visit. Your Majesty, why don’t you all come inside and have a seat?” the Great Uncle said, forcing a smile to brush off the situation.

“The Great Uncle is quite clever. Of course, he wouldn’t dare let Father find out he bought children.”

The Emperor’s arm stiffened slightly as he held Ah Bao.

The Great Uncle bought children?

Meanwhile, Concubine Hui and the Third Prince quietly peeked out from the roadside.

Concubine Hui twisted the silk handkerchief in her hands, her eyes almost blazing with anger!

She never imagined that the Tenth Princess would be so lucky. Even after being kidnapped from the palace, she ended up being sold to the Great Uncle’s mansion.

And now, the Emperor and Concubine De had arrived.

Just look at the Great Uncle’s fawning expression—Ah Bao had practically become the apple of the Great Uncle’s eye.