Hearing the noise at the entrance, the guards didn’t have time to think too much before rushing in and joining forces to pin Gu Jinze down.
“Quick, bring the rope! The Third Imperial Grandson is having an episode again!”
With his hands and feet pinned, Gu Jinze struggled while shouting at the top of his lungs, “Let go of me quickly, this young master needs to go to the latrine!”
His eyes were bloodshot and his face was full of mania, which made the guards even more convinced that he was having an episode.
It seemed the Third Imperial Grandson’s illness was even more severe than before; they would have to be even more attentive from now on.
Fortunately, no one was injured… Wait, where was the Young County Princess?
The Young County Princess had run into the courtyard in a hurry just now, so why was there no sign of her now?
Thinking that the Young County Princess might have already been hurt by the Third Imperial Grandson, the expressions of all the guards changed in unison.
“What are you doing?” Just as the guards were thinking of sending someone to search for the Young County Princess, Gu Yanzhao’s displeased voice sounded from behind them.
“Reporting to Your Highness, the Third Imperial Grandson had an episode and charged toward the latrine. It was your subordinates’ dereliction of duty in guarding him, please punish us, Your Highness…”
Gu Jinze’s small face was flushed crimson, and his voice cracked from shouting: “You’re the ones having an episode! This young master was going to use the toilet!”
What did they mean he had an episode and charged toward the latrine?
Having held it in all day, he was about to burst!
He was going to relieve himself… not charging into the latrine to eat filth!
For such a disgusting thing, let alone now when his mind was clear, even when he had an episode, he would absolutely never do such a thing!
Gu Yanzhao waved his hand: “Release him, all of you step back!”
The moment Gu Jinze gained his freedom, he couldn’t wait to rush out. Just as he was about to charge into the latrine, his footsteps abruptly ground to a halt.
With a face full of despair, he looked mournfully up at the sky.
It was over!
All over!
He had lost face completely in front of his Royal Father and younger sister…
Coincidentally at this moment, Tangtang ran out from the room. Seeing Gu Jinze frozen on the spot, she couldn’t help but ask in confusion, “Third Brother, why are you standing there like a silly fool?”
Could it be that the air by the latrine was good? Third Brother liked it?
The little girl scratched her head; although she didn’t understand, she respected Third Brother’s weird quirk.
…
In the dead of night, the entire Eastern Palace was shrouded in darkness, while the candlelight in the side hall of Deyin Hall emitted a faint glow.
Tangtang sat at the table, propping her chin with both hands, staring vacantly at the incense burner in front of her. Yaya stood on the table, alertly sizing up the surroundings.
“Tangbao, just throw this kind of harmful thing out…” Yaya let out a yawn, shuffled closer to Tangtang’s arm, and rested its small head on it.
Tangtang sighed and said in a milky voice, “I always feel like it shouldn’t be thrown out… but I haven’t found anything wrong with it either…”
This was an ordinary incense burner through and through. She had also checked the unburnt incense inside, which was just a type of incense that could cause Gu worms to go wild.
The Gu worm on Eldest Brother had already been removed, but her intuition told her that if she threw the incense burner away, she would regret it.
Yaya’s eyes blinked: “Then let’s keep it for now. It’s late at night, you should go to sleep…”
Tangbao was still growing, so what if she couldn’t grow tall if she stayed up late too much?
The little girl retracted her gaze and pulled out an ancient book from her pouch: “I’m not sleepy right now, I’ll sleep in a bit…”
She still had no clue about Mother’s illness. Although Mother had woken up, she was also an eye of the formation. If a way to break it wasn’t found, Mother would still fall into a deep sleep in a few days.
Thinking of this, the little girl’s mood turned somewhat heavy, and she opened the ancient book to read carefully.
However, Tangbao was only three years old right now and only recognized a few simple characters. Just looking at the very first sentence, her pretty eyebrows knitted together.
“Yaya, do you recognize this character?” Tangbao raised her head, pointing at the first character to ask Yaya.
Yaya was completely bewildered, its tiny, mung-bean-sized eyes filled with the exact same confusion as Tangbao.
It was just a bird, how could it recognize characters!
Besides, Tangtang’s master never said a bird needed to be literate!
Tangtang let out a heavy sigh, helplessly closed the ancient book, and lay on the table listlessly.
At this hour, Mother and Father must have already fallen asleep, and she didn’t want to wake them up.
Her small hand moved unconsciously, but accidentally bumped into the incense burner next to it.
With a “thud”, the incense burner rolled onto the floor with a muffled sound, spilling incense ash all over the ground.
Tangtang was startled, hastily jumped down from the chair, walked over to the incense burner, crouched down, and picked it up.
Yaya also fluttered its wings and landed on Tangtang’s shoulder. Tilting its head, it suddenly spoke: “Tangtang, this incense burner seems to have broken open at the bottom!”
Strange!
Wasn’t this incense burner made of iron? Why was it so fragile against a drop?
Hearing it say this, Tangtang hurriedly turned the incense burner upside down, and sure enough, a crack had opened at the bottom of the incense burner.
The two little ones looked at each other. Tangtang pursed her lips and pried open the bottom plate of the incense burner.
In the next moment, a yellow talisman inscribed with a birth date and eight characters floated onto the ground.
Yaya’s eyes widened round, chirping out: “Another bad talisman!”
Tangtang picked up the yellow talisman. Peculiar patterns were drawn on it, and besides the birth date and eight characters, there was also a name.
Tangtang stared at the characters on it, racking her brain without being able to tell how these few characters were read.
Before she could clean up the mess on the floor, she clutched the yellow talisman and ran out with pitter-patter footsteps.
Tonight it was Chunxia’s turn to keep watch. Sitting under the corridor dozing off, she was abruptly startled awake by the sound of footsteps.
“Young County Princess, why haven’t you slept yet?” She clearly remembered that the Young County Princess had already gone to bed, so why did she come out again?
Tangtang didn’t have time to explain. She grabbed Chunxia’s sleeve and said anxiously, “Sister Chunxia, take me to find Father and Mother quickly!”
Father and Mother were sure to recognize the characters she didn’t know!
Furthermore, she had a hunch that the name written on this yellow talisman was related to Mother!
Ask her why?
Because Mother was called Crown Princess! It was also a three-character name!
Seeing her anxious face, Chunxia didn’t dare to delay either. Picking up Tangtang, she walked toward the main hall.
In the silent night, there were only Chunxia’s hurried footsteps.
Seeing Chunxia’s figure from afar, Cuiyu’s heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly went up to meet her: “Chunxia, why did you run out instead of keeping watch over the little master? Is the little master uncomf…”
Seeing the Young County Princess in her arms, Cuiyu’s words stopped abruptly as she gasped: “Young County Princess, what happened to you?”
Tangtang reached out her small hand toward her: “Sister Cuiyu, I want to find Father and Mother, I have a very important matter!”
Cuiyu was stunned for a second, then immediately took the Young County Princess into her arms, her voice extremely gentle: “Did the little master have a nightmare? This servant will take you inside right now.”
Yun Jishu was already a light sleeper; hearing the commotion outside at this moment, she also opened her eyes: “Cuiyu, what happened?”
“In reply to Your Highness, the Young County Princess wants to find you and His Highness!”
Yun Jishu slowly sat up, put on an outer robe, and walked to the doorway: “Bring my sweet darling in quickly!”
In the middle of the night like this, her sweet darling must be scared.
She glared at Gu Yanzhao, who had also gotten up, and said in annoyance, “Go sleep on the daybed, I’ll comfort my sweet darling!”
Gu Yanzhao: …
Good heavens, why did Ashu get angry?
He clearly didn’t do anything at all!
The moment Tangtang saw her mother, she couldn’t wait to hand over the yellow talisman clutched in her hand: “Mother! Take a look quickly, is your name written on this!”