CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

139 The Letter

SanNiang smiled, she caressed BaiYing’s cheek gently.

“Sweet child, listen to mother, mother just lookout for a while and will come back after this, it won’t be long, Ying’er, just obey and sits well here, don’t come out if it’s not Mother who calls you, you understand that?”

Ying’er’s little hand was still holding his mother’s clothes, very tightly, his eyes welled with tears.

“Mother, no.”

SanNiang finally took out something from her neck, a necklace chain with a pendant in the form of a round plate resembling a coin with detailed engravings on it.

“Here, Ying’er hold it, later when Mother comeback Ying’er will return it to Mother okay?,”

Little BaiYing looked at the pendant of the necklace chain with big eyes, he really liked the necklace that always hung around his mother’s neck because of its very beautiful shape, but, the child frowned, looking at the pendulum that resembled his mother’s coin necklace, and the quite large object now in his fist. Both of which had the same engraved shape, the object which was not really big but in BaiYing’s palm which was quite small at that time makes it look very big.

“Mother, why does it look the same?”

Little BaiYing was about to ask when there was a commotion outside the room, an anxious SanNiang quickly pushed BaiYing under the table and covered him with a cloth.

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“Remember Ying’er don’t be naughty, don’t make a sound, or Mother will be very angry later”

Little BaiYing refrained from crying, he is an obedient child, he will definitely obey his mother’s words, even though he cried when he saw his mother leave him there alone and out of the room.

“Mother”

Shortly after the door was opened, there were the screams of several people.

“There she is!”

Little BaiYing took out the box which was hidden under the wood floor below the table, put the two items in the box, and put it back to the place.

“This is Mother’s, Ying’er will return it later, ems” He wiped his tears, and glanced out from the table, thinking that he would just look for his mother, as well as XiangXiang brother who was still outside.

Before long the little boy was running in the middle of the backyard which was very quiet, no one was there until suddenly several black shadows appeared in front of him startling him.

“Ah!”

Little BaiYing fell down, as a man with a big stature and sharp eyes approached him, the fallen BaiYing tried to crawl away until someone pulled his hand up.

“YingYing let’s go!” it was LuoXiang, who held BaiYing’s small hand and pulled him to run, but another man came to stop him, BaiYing’s eyes widened when he saw the man with a body twice as big as him drew a sword at them. LuoXiang who felt bigger tried to push the man away with his body, but that only made the attackers laugh out loud and easily pushed LuoXiang’s body onto the ground.

“Brukk!”

Even though the twelve-year-old boy’s eyes were glaring at them, but what can he do? when someone came towards him wielding his long sword.

“Sheets!”

LuoXiang’s eyes went wide, fresh blood fell on his face, his breath hitched trying to fight back his fear, but, it wasn’t his blood, someone had already blocked a sword for him, with his small body.

“YingYing!”

Little LuoXiang couldn’t believe what he saw, the people in black were about to attack him again when they heard a loud noise from another direction.

“Kill them!”

The palace guards arrived just in time, insufficient numbers to make the men sprint away quickly.

LuoXiang was still holding back BaiYing’s small body which was still bleeding after the long sword pierced his body, the little boy still managed to smile at him.

“YingYing, stupid, are you doing?”

Little BaiYing smiled, although fresh blood was dripping from his tiny lips, he was still able to smile.

“Br-brother XiangXiang, Y-Your Majesty, Crown Prince” after that little BaiYing fell into LuoXiang’s arms.

“No, Ying Ying!”

LuoXiang’s screams, so loud, could be heard faintly in the battles among the palace guards and the people in black who were trying to escape.

“Ting ting ting”

BaiYing wiped his tears, reading the contents of his father’s letter which brought back some important memories, he looked at the Crown Prince, who stroked his shoulder and kissed his temple.

“Your mother’s true identity, is Princess WahYe, a small country that is very fertile and so rich, which is located next to YueYang, seventy years ago, WahYe’s great palace was completely destroyed in the war led by the previous YueYang Emperor, His Majesty Emperor LuoWang, because of the matchless beauty of the women in that country, many girls had to be the butt of the depraved lust of YueYang’s guards at that time, causing the country to collapse in no time, King WahYe had two daughters, and one son who is now nowhere to be found, and your mother, was the granddaughter of one of the three biological children of King WahYe at that time, because the country that no longer had a foundation made the palace family scattered and it was unknown where they went, but, your mother, since childhood her family lived on the run until finally decided to let go herself from WahYe and become a full citizen of YueYang, that’s why, she is willing to be my wife, and happily being your mother, until one day, someone from her country found her here, Ying’er, remember, you are a citizen of YueYang, no matter what happens as your mother says, Ying’er is a sweet child who will live very happily in the country of YueYang that your mother loves so much.”

BaiYing widened his eyes, seeing LuoXiang with wide eyes that were tearing up from crying earlier.

“Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the country of WahYe?” he asked,

LuoXiang thought he seemed to have heard of it before, looking at BaiYing with furrowed brows.

“Seems to”

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Soon after that.

LuoXiang sat on his chair in the back garden of Hua mansion, looking straight at BaiYing’s small farm where the boy played with some cute bunnies, picked them up, and put them on his lap. The young man didn’t mind sitting on the grass regardless of what he was wearing, his fine white silk luxurious clothes would be dirty or not. As if nothing had happened, even though the child had a lot of thoughts in his head.

“Hehehehe you guys are so cute, so fat, you must have eaten too much and forgot to exercise, ich” Some small white bunnies around in his hand, lifted him and kissed it passionately.

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Towards dark, it’s time to return to the palace.

LuoXiang took BaiYing’s hand and led him to the exit of the Hua family’s mansion, once a while, He still often looked back at the house he had lived in all his life, now, all the shadows of the good and bad memories in that house, seem to be fading away. In the future, he would also forget about everything, his father’s funny face, with round cheeks when he laughed, his first mother’s fierce face as she chased him around the garden with her signature rattan, the shrill voice of his sister BaiYen who was angry because BaiYing often spilled her powder and asked the child to make it again.

“Brat! Come here!”

BaiYing held back his tears, all of that, he would forget, their faces would disappear with time, the memories won’t able to last for long. He lowered his head to look at his palms, where there were now two items he was holding tightly, one, was a necklace with a round pendant, and the other, a command plaque, which also has the same engraved logo as his mother’s pendulum.

LuoXiang took BaiYing’s hand and boarded the golden carriage that was waiting for them, eventually, BaiYing would leave his house, one day, he would return there, even though there would be no one waiting for him, he would still come back.

The journey back to the palace. In order not to attract the attention of many people, the Crown Prince’s carriage was deliberately not too flashy, and BeiYau and several of his men wore commoner’s clothes rather than palace guards.

LuoXiang still looked at BaiYing’s face, which was looking down at the two objects in his hands.

The Crown Prince grabbed the order plaque in BaiYing’s hand, he pursed his lips, there was a bit of relief because it turned out that the Level one order plaque that healer Ou saw before, its true belonged to the highest-ranking official of the palace, although at first glance it looked like Yue Yang’s due to the almost identical national emblems, however, it wasn’t YueYang’s, that is to say, the person behind the murder of his biological mother and BaiYing’s biological mother was someone else unrelated to YueYang Palace, however, this was a new and more complicated matter, otherwise, they might be facing some people who seemed to want to put up a fight with YueYang, but, who is that person? Even taking their own Princess’s life to launch their scheme, and now, those people probably haven’t thought about BaiYing’s true identity.

LuoXiang grabbed BaiYing’s hand. Stroking his head.

“What are you thinking of?”

BaiYing held his breath for a moment, looking at the necklace in his hand, and the plaque in LuoXiang’s hand.

“Just before the incident, that night, was the first day of snowing, Ying’er thought would go out to enjoy it with brother XiangXiang even though it was past bedtime, that’s when, servant, saw several people who entered through the gate, somehow their looks and faces, but in my memory, they were as tall as giants, and, one of them, had a snake in his hand, that’s when Ying’er ran into the house and hid behind the building where the battle was taking place.”

BaiYing grabbed the plaque in LuoXiang’s hand.

“Servant, remember what happened that night, when, those people attacked the house suddenly, some palace guards managed to paralyze some of which might be their heads, when they thought it was all over, apparently those people came back, this plaque, was on the ground not far from the body of the attacker, I picked it up when Mother suddenly came and carried me away, those people, really came to chase Mother, they were very scary, ran after with long swords that lifted high, while in Mother’s arms, I saw clearly how they very easily cut down the palace and house guards who were trying to dissuade them from pursuing, red blood flew here and there, bodies that had been running excitedly suddenly lay like that above the ground.”

BaiYing saw LuoXiang’s face which was very close to his.

“Your Majesty, servant, is a citizen of WahYe, er, where is that country located? Why do those people chase Mother all the way to this house? And, what, they realized something when they came back and took out my family? What are they looking for after ten years have passed?”

LuoXiang saw BaiYing’s eyes who saw him for a while, he stroked the young man’s hair who looked very indecisive.

“I don’t know Ying, but whatever it is, we will try to find out together, until then, don’t think about it too much, everything will be fine”

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