Chapter 1414: 1409: Chu Heng Can Hear Little Ginseng's Words

Chapter 1414: Chapter 1409: Chu Heng Can Hear Little Ginseng’s Words

Zhuo Junli knew he could not escape.

When Chu Yihan learned that Chu Heng had been ambushed and killed on his way back, and that it was Leng Shuqing who wanted to harm him, he flew into a rage. He immediately threw Leng Shuqing into prison and also locked Zhuo Junli in the imperial prison. Even Mo Qi, who had escorted him back, was captured and severely reprimanded.

Mo Qi was punished with a round of beatings, and the political affairs in Zhuo Junli’s hands were temporarily taken over by Lu Mian. There were also some arrangements that kept Chu Yihan busy in the imperial study until late into the night.

Chu Heng had been in his arms the whole time until Chu Yihan heard his stomach growling.

Chu Yihan felt his forehead, “Hungry? Go back and join your mother for a meal first.”

“Isn’t Father coming along?” Chu Heng asked sweetly.

His father had been angry all afternoon and hadn’t even eaten.

“I still have work to do; you go on ahead,” Chu Yihan said, looking down. He intended to kiss him, but with several ministers still in the imperial study, he only touched Chu Heng’s forehead before letting him out.

When Chu Heng came out, he happened upon Mo Qi being beaten and looked at him with sympathy. Then he ran straight into Lu Mian.

Lu Mian had been so busy he hadn’t had a sip of tea all afternoon.

“Crown Prince,” Lu Mian greeted, bowing with his hands clasped in front of him.

Chu Heng propped up his little face, “Lord Lu, do you have a grudge against Lord Zhuo?”

On the surface, Lu Mian was calm, but inside, he was shaken, “Your Highness jests; as a humble official, I serve in the royal court alongside Lord Zhuo, where could any grudge arise?”

“Oh,” Chu Heng said, no longer pursuing the topic, and turned to leave with the palace attendants.

A thin layer of sweat seeped onto the palms of Lu Mian’s clasped hands.

He was just a three-year-old child; why would he suddenly ask him such a question?

Did he understand something, or did he notice something?

Shaking his head, Lu Mian dismissed the thought as impossible. The boy was only three, and no matter how talented, he couldn’t be so intelligent and have the thinking of an adult.

In reality, Chu Heng understood all too well that Lu Mian simply wanted to bring down Lord Zhuo.

Lord Zhuo had been locked up.

And ever since his father returned to the palace, people had been indirectly asking him if he wanted to go play with the emperor or if he wished to see his father.

Didn’t they think he knew whether he wanted to see his father or not?

He really didn’t want to, his father was quite fierce.

But for his sister’s sake, he had to make the trip.

It just so happened that his father learned about the danger he had narrowly escaped before.

It wasn’t that he was pretending to be innocent, but with Shan Bao by his side, even picking up a leaf for Imperial Consort Leng, he wouldn’t be hurt.

But as for Imperial Consort Leng…

“Ah!” Chu Heng shook his head wryly as he walked towards the Fengqi Palace, sighing lowly, “Adults are so complex! They always like to get themselves thrown into prison!”

Chu Xi, who had stayed in Fengqi Palace for the meal, waited for Chu Heng to bring back news for her, and he whispered into her ear, “Great uncle has returned, but Father said he is not in good health, so he will enter the palace after a few days, and sister might have to wait as well.”

“Why would daddy be unwell?!” Chu Xi became anxious all at once.

“Father didn’t say,” Chu Heng pouted. There were many things his father thought he did not understand and would not tell him.

But he guessed, “The battlefield is very dangerous, uncle must be injured, but they are adults, they’ll take care of themselves. Sister just needs to listen obediently like me.”

Anyway, they couldn’t worry too much.

Mainly because their young bodies limited them, no matter how intelligent their minds were, there was little they could do. It’d be better to eat more and grow up quickly.

“Su Yingxue, your son is unnaturally smart!”

After whispering to Chu Xi, Chu Heng suddenly heard such a voice in his head.

He didn’t know where the voice came from, but after he heard it, his mother entered the room, muttering to herself as she walked.

Su Yingxue glared at Little Ginseng, “You’re the one who’s abnormal! Heng’er is just a bright and adorable child!”

“Which normal kid thinks about such things? Your son is definitely not normal!”

“Say that again! I’ll pluck your whiskers and make soup for my son to drink!”

“Lalala!”

Chu Heng couldn’t help but circle around Su Yingxue, looking left and right, “Mother, are you hiding someone on you?”

“Why would Mother have someone on her?” Su Yingxue returned him to his original spot.

Chu Heng pouted, confused, as he clearly heard his mother talking to someone.

And it was the voice of a mischievous little girl!

“Hey, little brat!”

Chu Heng’s ears twitched, and he heard the infantile voice again.

“Do you know me?”

“Wow, you can really hear my voice? Amazing! No wonder you’re so smart!”

“Where are you? Inside Mother’s body?” Chu Heng murmured with his small mouth.

Little Ginseng fell silent. It needed to continue its cultivation, while also keeping an eye on how Chu Heng was growing up, being too smart for his own good!

What three-year-old child was as thoughtful as he?

And why was he the only one at that age who could hear its voice?

Leng Shuqing was arrested, Zhuo Junli was imprisoned, and the news of the Leng family’s assassination attempt on the Crown Prince spread throughout Jiang Du City, causing a stir in the court and the capital.

Originally saddened by something that had happened to Mo Qi at a temple outside the city, Leng Muling hurried back to the Prime Minister’s Estate as soon as she learned of the crisis at home.

Previously banished, she had been strictly forbidden by Leng Yi to return home, but now seeing her back, Leng Yi didn’t hold it against her.

Leng Muling came to Leng Yi’s side, supporting him, “Grandpa, don’t be too upset. Getting angry hurts the body. Uncle is like the descended Wenqu Star. With him here, everything will be alright! Our Leng family will be fine!”

Leng Yi’s old eyes were red with emotion, “If it were something else, I would worry less. Your uncle alone can manage anything well, but this time your sister… she actually attempted to assassinate the Crown Prince! The emperor only imprisoned the two of them instead of executing the entire Leng family, which is already showing great face to our family!”

Had it not been for his long service through three reigns, and the Leng family’s generations of loyalty to the Imperial family, they might have been annihilated long ago!

“Your father is not reliable. The Leng family… might be finished.” Leng Yi stood in the yard, looking up at the bleak cold rain falling from the sky, feeling an extreme sorrow.

All his life he valued family honor and glory; he had been careful and diligent for decades in the royal court, never daring to be negligent, but in the end… the great Leng family was ruined by his own granddaughter!

“Grandpa, don’t be like this. I will… I will request an audience with the empress, to plead for her to forgive our family!” Seeing her grandfather like this, Leng Muling was also heartbroken, and thinking she had no official position, she could only rely on pleading for mercy.

“That’s not appropriate!” Yun Sijin, dressed in a dark blue long dress, came in slowly.

Having been the Prime Minister’s wife for a long time, her demeanor had become extremely distinguished. Now standing in front of Leng Muling, she even had the authority of a mistress of the house. She took Leng Muling’s hand, “If you were a mother, and your child was the victim of a plot, would you accept the plea of a culprit’s family member?”

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