Chapter 335: Auntie Long, what are you doing in the Imperial City?
Ye residence, East Courtyard.
Ye Hongxue looked at the two little babies sitting quietly by the tea table, drinking Beast Milk like two obedient angels, and couldn't understand why they had been so rude in front of the Empress, almost as if they were deliberately seeking death.
"Auntie Ye, why do you keep staring at us like that?"
After taking a sip of Beast Milk, Chu Xin looked at Ye Hongxue and asked in confusion.
Ye Hongxue shook her head and admonished, "You two little ones, you cannot be so disrespectful next time you meet the Empress, understand?"
"Oh!"
Chu Xin and Chu Chen nodded in unison, like two well-behaved babies.
Ye Hongxue rubbed her forehead and after a few more words of admonition, she turned and left.
Chu Xin and Chu Chen watched her figure until she vanished from sight; then Chu Chen turned to Chu Xin and said, "Sister, that method isn't working either; the Empress doesn't even get angry."
"That's not true, she definitely got angry."
Chu Xin shook her head, her face full of certainty, "I saw her grinding her teeth; Dad always grinds his teeth when he's angry."
"That seems right,"
Chu Chen recalled it carefully, and it was true, his big round eyes filled with confusion, "But if the Empress was angry, why didn't she throw us into the Heavenly Prison?"
"I don't know."
Chu Xin shook her head, thought for a while, and then said, "Maybe her level of anger hasn't reached the point of putting us in the Heavenly Prison? We need to make her even angrier."
Chu Chen quickly asked, "How can we make the Empress even angrier? The Empress seems to have more patience than Dad."
Chu Xin scratched her head and muttered, "It looks like we'll have to stick to the plan we originally made, spanking the Empress."
Chu Chen took another sip of Beast Milk and said with a hint of regret, "If only we had spanked the Empress when we met her today, maybe by now we'd be in the Heavenly Prison, maybe we'd have already seen Mom and rescued her."
"Not today."
Chu Xin shook her head and wiped the milk stains from her mouth, her voice milky as she said, "Didn't you see how scared Auntie Ye was when we deliberately angered the Empress? Next time we can't include Auntie Ye. Otherwise, what if the Empress really gets angry and Auntie Ye gets dragged into it? We can be thrown into the Heavenly Prison, and after rescuing Mom, we could escape using your Breaking Sky Ring. But we certainly can't take Auntie Ye back to the village; Mom would get angry."
"Oh!"
Chu Chen nodded, half-comprehending, and muttered, "It seems very complicated, never mind, I'll just follow Sister's plan—whatever Sister says, I'll do."
It was much harder than fighting; he decisively chose to yield, just following his sister's lead and too lazy to think about anything else.
Chu Xin rolled her eyes and said disapprovingly, "Brother is really dumb, plotting takes a lot of brain power, when we get back you have to grill meat for me ten times a day, no, twenty."
"Alright, no problem."
Chu Chen nodded without hesitation, knowing that grilling meat was much simpler than these problems.
"Ai Chirou, Ai Kaorou, someone is looking for you."
Just then, Ye Hongxue walked in with a woman, and as she finished speaking, she seemed to recall something, particularly admonishing, "This is the Second Princess of Jiuzhou, the only princess, you must not be rude."
Formerly, Long Yurou was the Princess of Lanzhou, but after becoming Empress, she no longer held the title of princess.
However, no sooner had she finished speaking than she saw the two little babies jump off their seats, swooshing past her left and right, and hurl toward the Second Princess.
"Don't be rude."
Ye Hongxue was startled and hastily tried to stop them, but it was too late, the two little ones had already plunged into the Second Princess's arms.
Done for!
Ye Hongxue held her forehead, although she had only met the Second Princess of Jiuzhou a few times, she had heard that the princess was indifferent by nature and a bit of a clean freak, making her difficult to get along with.
Surrounded by two unfamiliar little toddlers, the Second Princess must have been about to burst with anger.
"Aunt Long, why are you here?"
"Yes, yes, Aunt Long, weren't you in Lanzhou? How did you come to the Imperial City?"
But the next moment, the words of the two mischievous children made Ye Hongxun instantly dumbfounded.
They actually called the Second Princess Aunt Long? And they did so affectionately.
"I have always been in the Imperial City," she replied.
Long Yufei stroked the little heads of the two toddlers with a cold voice.
A doppelgänger could cultivate independently and share all experiences and emotions with the original body.
The doppelgänger had already transmitted all her experiences with the two toddlers to the original body.
However, the doppelgänger's worries were also clear to the original body, who hesitated about whether to reveal the children's identities to her sister at that time.
In the end, she decided to wait until after the grand competition of Heavenly Pride concludes in the two states. If the little ones' identities were revealed, Long Yusheng might use that to threaten her sister, which would be troublesome.
Ye Hongxue's mouth fell open in disbelief.
Though she still did not smile and her voice remained cold, she did not avoid the toddlers and even appeared affectionate. Was this still the indifferent and fastidious Second Princess?
"Your Highness, do you know them?" she asked curiously.
Long Yufei nodded and explained, "I have a doppelgänger that went to Lanzhou to assume the role of State Governor. I met them along the way, and under their protection, I successfully took over as the State Governor of Lanzhou."
"I see."
Ye Hongxue suddenly realized. So the two toddlers had known the Second Princess back in Lanzhou. However, these toddlers probably did not know the real identity of the Second Princess.
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"Aunt Long, when did you become the Second Princess of Jiuzhou?"
Chu Xin tilted her little head, asking out of curiosity. She did not understand what being the Second Princess of Jiuzhou meant; she thought it was just a slightly long title.
Long Yufei stroked her little head, saying, "I am the sister of the Empress, so naturally, I am the Second Princess of Jiuzhou."
"Ah? The Empress is Aunt Long's sister?"
Chu Chen exclaimed in surprise, and he couldn't help but glance at Chu Xin. Chu Xin was also surprised; they had just deliberately annoyed the Empress, who turned out to be Aunt Long's sister. No wonder she looked so much like Aunt Long.
"Yes!"
Long Yufei nodded, and for the first time, a faint smile appeared on her face, which astounded Ye Hongxue.
It was said that this Second Princess had never smiled before, although her doppelgängers were quite fond of smiling.
"I heard that you two upset my sister quite a bit?"
Long Yufei's smile vanished in an instant, and she quickly returned to her indifferent demeanor, asking coldly.
Chu Xin scratched her head and muttered, "I didn't know she was Aunt Long's sister."
At the same time, she was also wondering, it was going to be troublesome now that they knew the Empress was Aunt Long's sister.
Long Yufei glanced at Chu Xin and said, "I came here to ask you two little ones for a favor."
"What favor?" Chu Chen asked, curious.
Chu Xin's round eyes shifted as she asked, "The Empress also asked us for a favor. Since the Empress is Aunt Long's sister, is the favor you need the same as the Empress's favor?"