Chapter 263
Chapter 263
"Grandmother, I went there!"
Seeing the delighted expression on his grandmother's face, Gu Shaoyu nodded again, feeling a little smug inside. Grandmother really did like it when he said he had been to the Fulutang Hall.
See, his gamble had paid off.
"Did you see your little sister today?" The Grand Princess asked excitedly.
"I did!" Gu Shaoyu thought of his little sister and felt unhappy. Grandmother liked the little sister, not him.
He didn't like that little sister.
But now, Grandmother would surely like him again.
"Xiao Yu, quickly tell Grandmother, where did you hide the little sister?" At this moment, the Grand Princess only thought of finding Gu Nuonuo, completely forgetting that Gu Shaoyu was just a four-year-old child.
It was impossible for him to have taken a child away by himself.
"Xiao Yu, quickly tell your aunt, where is your sister?" Ruan Jinge also looked at Gu Shaoyu with anticipation.
"Grandmother, younger brother did not go to the Fulutang Hall today." Gu Shaoting said with a look of alarm.
For some reason, he had a bad feeling.
He always felt that his brother claiming to have gone to the Fulutang Hall was not a good thing.
"Brother, I did go." Afraid that his grandmother would dislike him for lying, Gu Shaoyu quickly interrupted his brother, speaking with great certainty.
"Take the Eldest Young Master away." The Grand Princess didn't spare another glance at Gu Shaoting and ordered someone to take him away.
"Grandmother!" Gu Shaoting panicked.
But the Grand Princess didn't give him another look. Gu Shaoting then turned a pleading gaze towards his father nearby.
"Alright, Shaoting, you go back first." Gu Yunfan was currently very displeased, unable to understand why Madam He would teach the two children to lie?
Seeing his father speak like this, Gu Shaoting felt anxious, but no one present would listen to him.
And his own foolish brother, for some reason, insisted he had gone to the Fulutang Hall.
Meanwhile, in the banquet hall, people were coming and going, bustling with activity. Most didn't notice the earlier commotion around the Grand Princess and were unaware of the missing child. Li Zhiwei was sitting together with Lin Ziyi.
"Sister, I'm truly sorry. Last time, my naughty boy heard some news outside and went to the An Prince's mansion to talk nonsense, causing you trouble." Lin Ziyi looked at Li Zhiwei with a face full of apology.
She genuinely felt bad, but her troublesome son never learned his lesson.
Last time he promised well, but this time he messed up again. She heard the An Prince's mansion had given Li Zhiwei quite a hard time because of this misunderstanding.
"Sister Lin, please don't worry about it. That matter is already in the past." Li Zhiwei smiled awkwardly. She truly hadn't taken it to heart, as it wasn't Wei Herui who spread the news.
However, Xu Qingshi had been quite upset about it at the time.
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei looked around, thinking to herself, wasn't it said that Xu Qingshi would attend today on behalf of the An Prince's mansion?
Why hadn't she seen him?
Perhaps he didn't come?
But the old Princess Consort was seriously ill now and probably couldn't come. Moreover, an elderly person being sick would definitely not attend, fearing to pass the illness to the newborn.
Xu Heming seemed very busy lately; she hadn't seen him for several days.
So the only one who could come was Xu Qingshi, right?
Did he not come?
Lady Yao, meanwhile, had searched around the Grand Princess's mansion but couldn't find the children, making her increasingly anxious.
"Miss Li, have you seen the An Prince's heir, the Yongding Marquis's heir, and Yanzhi?" Seeing Li Zhiwei, Lady Yao hurried forward to ask.
"Lady Xie, did Qingshi not come? I haven't seen them." Li Zhiwei shook her head, thinking, that rascal, if he came, why didn't he come say hello?
Who knows where he's off playing wildly.
"Lady Xie, Sister Li has been with me the whole time and indeed hasn't seen the children. Perhaps you should look elsewhere?" Lin Ziyi quickly added.
Hearing this, Lady Yao anxiously looked left and right, making sure no one could hear, then leaned close to their ears and whispered, "I just received some news. The Grand Princess's little granddaughter is missing. With the children now nowhere to be found, I feel uneasy in my heart."
"What?" Lin Ziyi exclaimed, then realizing she was too loud, quickly covered her mouth.
Her heart skipped a beat. The child was just in the Grand Princess's arms earlier, how could she be missing?
But this wasn't a problem she could worry about.
Li Zhiwei was also greatly shocked. The Grand Princess's mansion was heavily guarded. How on earth did the child go missing?
Thinking of Xu Qingshi and the others whose whereabouts were unknown, she couldn't help but start to worry as well.
"Lady Xie, I'll go with you to look for the children." Li Zhiwei quickly stood up, her mind clear that they needed to find the children and leave as soon as possible.
"I'll go with you." Without a second thought, Lin Ziyi stood up to join the search.
At this moment, they all hoped in their hearts that the three children hadn't gotten into any trouble.
But then, remembering they were just children themselves and unlikely to do something like stealing a child, they felt a slight sense of relief.
An Prince's Mansion
Xu Qingshi looked with a complicated expression at Gu Nuonuo sleeping soundly on the bed and asked the other two, "What do we do with her? We can't just keep her here with me forever, right?"
The mere thought of her having pooped in his hands made Xu Qingshi wish he could chop them off.
Yet, in front of Xie Yanzhi and Jiang Yu, he had to maintain a calm facade.
And it hadn't been that long, yet she had already pooped and peed. If she stayed the night, it would be unmanageable.
"You don't think... maybe the Grand Princess doesn't like this granddaughter and secretly had someone abandon her?" Xu Qingshi looked at the sweetly sleeping Gu Nuonuo on the bed, asking somewhat uncertainly.
"But today, we saw the Grand Princess holding her the whole time. It didn't seem like she disliked her. She looked absolutely doting." Xie Yanzhi recalled the scene when he and his mother went to pay respects to the Grand Princess earlier. He didn't get the impression the Grand Princess disliked the child; otherwise, why would she have been holding her?
"Who knows? Some people are all smiles to your face but another story behind your back. Maybe she puts on a show of liking her in front of everyone but has a completely different attitude in private?" Jiang Yu thought of an old nanny in his mansion who always praised him to his mother's face, calling him handsome and sensible, but behind their backs called him an idiot.
"If that's the case, we can't return her? What if the child was abandoned by the Grand Princess? Returning her would mean our rescue was for nothing." Thinking of the dangerous scene earlier, Xu Qingshi suddenly didn't want to return her.
"But if she stays with you, what will she eat?" Jiang Yu looked at such a small child, wondering, can she eat rice?
"I know, I don't think she can eat rice yet." Xie Yanzhi raised his hand and said.
"Then what does she eat?" Xu Qingshi looked at the tiny person, puzzled.