The uncle in the passenger’s seat, still in a state of shock, got up and took the opportunity to pull the driver, Ningning, out as well. He scooped Ningning into his arms and carefully checked him over from head to toe.
“Ningning, did you hit anything?”
Ningning, who was scared and confused, shook his head dumbly.
He wasn’t hit, but he was a little afraid.
Although the child car given by Huo Lin was a few years old,
it had been personally inspected by a mechanic before Ningning started using
it, and there were no safety issues with the vehicle.
Even if the young child mishandled it and drove it into a
ditch, he wasn’t injured.
An Nuo saw that he was fine, and a heavy burden was lifted
from his heart.
He pulled the child car out of the ditch while holding
Ningning in his arms.
Both the adult and the child’s clothes were dirty, which was
unbearable for the cleanliness-obsessed An Nuo.
The young child also knew that his uncle liked cleanliness.
Even when he rummaged through the trash cans to collect scraps, he wouldn’t let
his uncle intervene.
Now, not only did he make his uncle dirty, but he also made his
uncle hold the little dirty him. The little child sniffed and could hardly lift
his head.
Meanwhile, the person who had suddenly rushed in front of the
car earlier showed no intention of coming to check on them after they fell into
the ditch.
When the person saw An Nuo and the child get out of the car,
the person, who appeared to be around seven or eight years old, turned and ran
away.
“Uncle, put me down!”
The little child struggled and jumped out of his uncle’s
arms, then ran towards the other child who had caused the accident.
“Stop!”
The little child shouted angrily from behind, “Don’t run
away!”
This child didn’t follow the traffic rules, caused Ningning
to crash, and didn’t even apologize. It made Ningning really angry.
The little child had to run every day at kindergarten, so
when he started running after someone, he was like a little bullet, whooshing
away in an instant.
An Nuo couldn’t catch up to him.
“Ningning!”
An Nuo called out “Ningning” from behind, afraid that the
little child would get lost while running.
At this moment, the little child’s stubbornness kicked in,
and he just wanted to catch up to the other child. He ran with his short legs,
putting in a lot of effort. After running two blocks, he finally caught up to
the other.
The older child in front was panting and leaning against the
wall. He turned around and looked at the little tail that couldn’t be shaken
off, no matter what. Gasping for breath, he said intermittently, “You chasing
me is useless. I don’t have money to compensate you.”
The little child also leaned against the wall, looking at the
clothes of the older child in front, knowing that he didn’t have much money.
But since the person caused the accident, regardless of
compensation, they should at least apologize properly.
“I didn’t say you have to compensate. You, you have to
apologize to me.”
The little child educated the older child, who was not far
away and dressed in tattered clothes. He said, “The teacher said that when you
do something wrong, you should say sorry.”
The older child didn’t apologize, only frowned at him and
said, “Don’t follow me anymore. If you continue to follow me, I’ll beat you
up.”
Ningning: “...”
Feeling threatened with a beating, the little child
instinctively turned to look for an adult.
An Nuo’s body had been taken care of by Zhan Xi and Ling Qi
during this period, and his physical condition visibly improved compared to
before.
However, his body had only improved slightly and was not yet
in a very healthy state.
The little child was currently at an age of high energy and
it was quite tiring to keep up with such a lively little child.
An Nuo hadn’t caught up yet for a while.
Without an adult present, the little child felt even more
unprotected. He looked at the older child who threatened to beat him and his
chubby face wrinkled.
“I didn’t mean to make you fall. No, I did it on purpose.”
The older child looked at his pouting face and his slightly
pitiful expression. Suddenly, he spoke again, “To tell you the truth, someone
gave me money to take you away. If it weren’t for the money, I wouldn’t
deliberately bully you.”
The older child’s words made the little child pause.
He was very familiar with this area nearby, so even without
adults around, he dared to come out alone to scavenge for scraps.
But when the older child mentioned taking him away, it scared
him a little.
He took two steps back, clearly becoming cautious of the
older child.
The older child, who was coaxed to give out information,
changed his mind and didn’t want to take him away anymore. He said, “Kid, I’ve
been short on money lately. Don’t follow me. If you keep following me, I might
really lose control and take you away to exchange for money.”
It’s unclear whether this statement was meant to scare him,
but for the little child who was afraid of being abducted, it had a great
effect.
He looked at the older child who was driving him away, took a
few more steps back, and then turned and ran back.
“Uncle!”
While running, the little child shouted “Uncle” and after a
while, he plunged into his uncle’s embrace.
An Nuo picked up the frightened little child and comforted
him, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Uncle is here. What happened? Why are you so
scared?”
“Somebody wanted to take me away.”
The little child held onto his uncle tightly and recounted the
conversation he had with the older child just now, giving all the details.
After hearing it, An Nuo hesitated for a few seconds.
Instead of going to find the older child, he chose to carry
the child and bring him back home.
An Nuo was not in good health, and he had no energy left.
Although he had many questions about the older child they had just encountered,
he didn’t dare to run after the other. It would be like a lamb entering a
tiger’s den.
After all, he and his Ningning didn’t look like they could fight.
“Ningning, let’s talk about what happened when we get back.”
An Nuo carried the child and walked back. When they reached
the overturned car, they both moved it together.
Whether it was An Nuo’s imagination or not, he felt that
Ningning seemed to be even stronger than himself.
After a while of hard work, they managed to get the car out
of the ditch.
The little child picked up the scattered waste and put it
back into the bag. With chubby hands, he wiped the seat clean and then motioned
for his uncle to sit down again.
The young child’s car zoomed away.
Before long, the little child brought his uncle back home.
When they returned, Zhan Xi and Ling Qi happened to be
absent.
“Uncle, come!”
The little child parked the car in the parking space his
father had made for him, then pulled his uncle out of the car and said, “I’ll
give Uncle a bath!”
An Nuo’s cleanliness obsession had reached its limit by now.
He found clean clothes for himself and the little child, then took the young
child into the bathroom.
The uncle and nephew were washing in the bathroom, unaware
that a huge crisis had enveloped them.
***
In today’s court trial.
Cole, in front of everyone, revealed a shocking revelation:
“Queen Ai Wei has awakened; she is in the palace. Ludwig
clearly knows how Queen Ai Wei woke up, but he refuses to make this secret
public!”
“Will you continue to trust and worship such a selfish
emperor?!”
Although some of the things Cole revealed had surfaced
before, they were quickly suppressed in a short period of time. Some people had
a vague impression of it, but the impression didn’t last long. Now, being
reminded again, the previously overlooked memory became more profound.
Cole’s revelation, whether he was going mad or he knew his
death was near and wanted to trouble Ludwig, had implicated Ludwig. He also
brought up the chubby child who was thought of as the emperor’s illegitimate
son before.
“That chubby child from the Imperial Military University
affiliated kindergarten’s junior class is the child who awakened Queen Ai Wei!
The empire still has many people with depleted mental power; they all deserve a
chance to live!”
Wearing a prison uniform outfit, Cole stood tall with a
straight posture.
He seemed to be giving a speech, revealing the secrets hidden
by the imperial family and the little child. Just as he was about to solemnly
announce the name of the child as the grand finale, a bullet with exceptional
accuracy struck his temple.
Cole fell to the ground immediately, his body collapsing
heavily. His eyes remained wide open, fixed on the direction from which the
shot came.
In the darkness.
General Mans, who had just arrived, held a black gun tightly
in his lowered right hand.
He concealed himself in the darkness, but his gaze met
Cole’s.
In that instant, the chaotic environment around them seemed
to vanish like a scene from a film, the footsteps and crowd moving back and forth
like NPCs in a silent movie.
Mans calmly and quietly observed the fallen man.
There was no trace of emotion in his eyes, as if the man he
had just killed had no blood relation to him whatsoever.
In fact, many years ago, he should have done this.
After so many years of delay, it was only at this moment that
he could finally fire this shot in the name of carrying out the orders of His
Majesty the Emperor.
Ling Qi and Zhan Xi, who had also come here, witnessed
everything that had happened in the courtroom. As soon as Cole uttered his
first sentence, Zhan Xi’s face turned pale, and he rushed forward.
But with security guards present in the courtroom, even if
Cole was spouting nonsense, Zhan Xi couldn’t just kill him.
Cole’s nonsense had gone on until now, and someone finally
killed him. Seeing him fall, Zhan Xi’s anxious heart finally eased slightly.
He still wanted to approach and check if Cole was truly dead.
If he wasn’t completely dead, he wouldn’t mind delivering a few more stabs.
“Zhan Xi, Zhan Xi!”
Ling Qi’s expression was grim as he grabbed Zhan Xi’s arm and
whispered, “Look over there. Someone is recording! There’s not just one person
recording.”
The scene was currently in chaos, and there were indeed quite
a few opportunistic individuals recording videos.
Ling Qi quickly came up with a countermeasure in the shortest
possible time: “Hurry and contact Ludwig, have him seal off this place
completely, then inspect each star device one by one. Oh, and immediately block
the signal here to prevent anyone from releasing the video.”
It must be said that Ling Qi’s mind was working very fast.
However, even though his mind was working quickly, dealing
with such an unexpected situation still required time. Even a slight time
difference, existing only for a short while, would be enough to allow the
incident to spread.
The courtroom was sealed off, the signal was blocked, and
everyone was being inspected one by one.
Mans did not get involved in the aftermath.
He was the emperor’s best general and the most elite assassin
by his side. Now that he had completed his mission, the emperor’s other trusted
aides would handle the rest.
Due to the unexpected situation in the courtroom, Zhan Xi and
Ling Qi couldn’t leave for a while.
After thinking for a moment, they called Huo Lin and asked
him to pick up the little child and An Nuo: “Xiao Lin, have Ningning and An Nuo
sleep in the palace tonight.”
Huo Lin responded with an “Mm” without asking for the reason
and went directly to pick them up.
***
When the little child saw his brother coming to pick him up,
he was still naked, not yet out of the bathtub. He always took a long time to
bathe, not because he loved cleanliness so much, but because he loved playing
in the bath.
If you put a few toy ducks in the bathtub, he could play with
them for a very long time.
“Uncle.”
Huo Lin looked at An Nuo, who was already dressed, and took
over the task of bathing the little child: “Let me bathe Ningning, you pack up
your things. Uncle Zhan said I should bring you both to the palace.”
Upon hearing this, An Nuo paused for a moment: “Why are we
going to the palace for no reason? Is it to have a meal?”
Although the little child loved Ling Qi’s cooking, he still
had to go to the palace now and then to eat the dishes made by the palace chef.
He never forgot his uncle when eating delicious food, so naturally, he would
also bring An Nuo with him when going to the palace.
