Chapter 187: Chapter 187

Even though the other party was just a little girl, the Eldest Prince found it hard to swallow and unacceptable. He wished he could immediately show this little girl some color, letting her see his might and inviolability.

However, after all, they were already in the palace where there were many people and prying eyes. If he really did that, it wouldn’t be good if word got out.

He couldn’t take action, but he could speak.

He stopped walking, turned around, and threatened Jun Ning, "If you’re unwilling, I definitely won’t show any sibling affection later, and I’ll send you to meet Grandpa Yama as soon as possible."

Normally, if a child heard this, they would be scared to the point of wetting their pants, crying out.

However, Jun Ning remained unmoved upon hearing it, even giving the Eldest Prince a look as if wondering if he had some serious ailment.

Jun Ning couldn’t understand why someone the age of the Eldest Prince had such weird behavior.

Does he really want her to beg him? If she didn’t, he would start causing trouble, scaring children. Like a child himself.

His words weren’t scary, but it was his face, which was fierce from years of fighting on the battlefield, that was quite intimidating.

Jun Ning looked once and didn’t want to look again, so she withdrew her gaze and watched the road under her feet.

The Eldest Prince, seeing her reaction, thought she was too young to understand his words. He pondered his wording and spoke again, "If you don’t kneel and kowtow to me, I’ll have someone kill you."

Wasn’t this simple enough?

Even a child should understand this.

But Jun Ning still didn’t have much of a reaction.

The Eldest Prince was unwilling, so he continued, "If you’re killed, you’ll lose your life, understand?"

Afraid that Jun Ning didn’t understand what it meant to lose her life, the Eldest Prince further explained, "Losing your life means you can no longer stand and walk, speak, eat delicious food, drink warm water, your whole body will become stiff..."

He explained a lot, as if he really regarded Jun Ning as an idiot.

Listening to his words, Jun Ning felt speechless from beginning to end.

Couldn’t the Eldest Prince see her speechlessness?

Why did he seem more excited the more he explained?

Jun Ning’s mouth twitched, seeing that the Eldest Prince was about to explain further, she impatiently replied, "I understand, stop talking."

The Eldest Prince then stopped talking.

He looked at Jun Ning, waiting for her to kneel and kowtow to him.

Since she understood, surely she would kneel and beg him.

However, that was just what the Eldest Prince assumed.

Jun Ning couldn’t be bothered to deal with him; she bypassed the Eldest Prince and walked forward on her own.

This path inside the palace, she had never entered before, only exited twice, and hadn’t remembered how to walk.

Because the palace was so large, and her field of vision so small, it was not easy to remember the way.

But it wasn’t difficult to determine father’s location.

Father usually held court meetings with ministers in the grandest palace and handled memorials in the Imperial Study Room behind it.

Now, she just needed to walk toward the largest palace in the palace. In other words, head due east.

After determining the direction, Jun Ning continued to walk forward.

The Eldest Prince, exasperated, followed along. He had never been ignored before. It made him seem unreasonable, which was uncomfortable.

"Jun Ning, stop for this Prince."

Jun Ning didn’t stop.

"Didn’t you hear? Stop!" The Eldest Prince’s anger flared, "If you don’t stop, this Prince will break your legs..."

Jun Ning laughed and stopped. Lifting her skirt, she extended her leg toward the Eldest Prince, saying, "Eldest Prince, sister lets you hit, but do you dare to?"

So many people coming and going in the palace were watching them.

Surely, the Eldest Prince wouldn’t want the notoriety of killing his siblings!

The Eldest Prince was very fond of his reputation. Moreover, he cherished his life.

Seeing Jun Ning suddenly stop in front of him, and realizing he was too close to her, he quickly stepped back.

From a distance, looking at Jun Ning’s leg, he said, "So many Palace Attendants are watching, I can’t break your legs, but that doesn’t mean Father can’t."

"Father knows you disregarded the plague to enter the palace, he will definitely break your legs."

"Even if Father doesn’t, the Eldest Brother will plead with him to."

The Eldest Prince alarmingly exaggerated a lot.

Jun Ning replied with just one sentence, "Eldest Brother, you’ve been away for a while, perhaps you’re not aware of the palace’s current situation."

"How am I not aware?"

The Eldest Prince disliked when others said this to him, making him feel as though he had been exiled, unfamiliar with the palace, as if it didn’t belong to him, making him seem like an outsider.

Regardless, he caught up with Jun Ning to reason with her.

Whether Jun Ning listened or not, her facial expression remained unchanged.

The two continued , one small, one large, one leading and one following, walking forward. After a quarter hour, they arrived in front of Jinluan Hall.

The court meeting had already ended, so they had no reason to go to Jinluan Hall.

Jun Ning then headed toward Emperor Yongning’s Imperial Study Room.

The Empress Dowager brought handmade clothes for Jun Ning, and green tiger-head shoes for Emperor Yongning to see. She expressed her concern, "During the time the little girl was away from the palace, I finished making clothes and shoes for her, just waiting for her to come back, but why hasn’t she returned yet?"

The Empress Dowager was puzzled, "Didn’t the Crown Prince say she wasn’t infected with the plague? If she’s fine, why can’t she enter the palace?"

Emperor Yongning glanced at the clothes and shoes the Empress Dowager made for Jun Ning and replied casually, "Mother, don’t worry, in a few days, when the medicine to control the plague is found, I’ll find an excuse to bring the little girl back to the palace."

Not only the Empress Dowager missed the little girl, but Emperor Yongning did too.

Moreover, after the little girl caused a stir at the palace gates, everyone said Princess Anle had caught the plague, both the Empress Dowager and Emperor Yongning were frightened, losing their appetite for days.

Although the Crown Prince later entered the palace to explain the situation, saying the little girl wasn’t infected, and the rumor began because they wanted to prevent the Bei Xia envoys who truly had the plague from entering the palace, it was misunderstood. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝓷𝓮𝓽

The Crown Prince also reassured the Empress Dowager and Emperor Yongning.

But how could the Empress Dowager and Emperor Yongning not worry?

They were more worried about the little girl being unsafe outside, accidentally contracting the plague for real.

Both were eager to bring the little girl back to the palace immediately.

However, despite thinking and discussing it for so long, why hadn’t she returned yet?

"Emperor, every time I come to you say this," the Empress Dowager was somewhat displeased, "I suspect you’re just being perfunctory, not taking the matter of bringing her back seriously."

"....." Emperor Yongning felt quite unjustly accused.

He could swear on his chest, he was definitely the person in the world most eager to bring the treasured one back to the palace as soon as possible.