The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1131 - 1131 552 Jiaojiao Falls off the Horse (First Update)

Chapter 1131: 552 Jiaojiao Falls off the Horse? (First Update) Chapter 1131: 552 Jiaojiao Falls off the Horse? (First Update) Huangfu Xian lay on the ground, in a manner he found exceedingly embarrassing, so much so that when little Jingkong slid down from the windowsill to help him, he ruthlessly rejected her.

With great difficulty, he propped himself up using his hands on the armrests and sat back into his wheelchair.

Whether it was from anger or shame, his cheeks were a deep red.

He felt a strange sensation in his heart, like a tide was surging, and he didn’t know what was happening to him.

With her little hands clasped behind her back and tilting her head cutely, Mengmeng asked him, “Big brother, are you shy?”

“I am not!” Huangfu Xian replied, his face flushed red with aggravation.

Mengmeng: “Oh.”

Huangfu Xian: What’s with this disbelieving tone?

Huangfu Xian said coldly, “What are you doing here? Didn’t I tell you to leave?”

That’s not right; the little guy had already left, hadn’t he?

After he’d said such hurtful things, why had he come back?

Mengmeng said honestly, “I did leave, but then I remembered there was something I forgot to tell you.”

Mengmeng was a very organized child; if he planned to do something, he had to do it, or else he wouldn’t have been so troubled every day in the countryside because Gu Yan didn’t follow the lunch plan he had made.

“What is it?” Huangfu Xian asked in a cold tone.

“Your leg.” Mengmeng pointed to his amputated limb, now covered again by a blanket.

Huangfu Xian’s pupils contracted.

His legs were his taboo. No one could touch them, no one could see them, and no one was allowed to mention them.

Huangfu Xian’s aura turned icy cold.

Unaffected, Mengmeng finished her thought: “Jiaojiao has a way to make you stand up again!”

Huangfu Xian’s gaze flickered slightly, for a very brief moment his heart constricted violently, but it was just a moment.

He quickly regained his serene demeanor.

He had heard such claims too many times before. Since his days on the frontier, countless shamans, physicians, and even those who claimed to be divine doctors from certain places had promised to heal him.

Laughably, the naive younger version of himself had believed them.

Without exception, the end result was that they were all just appeasing him.

Finally, he accepted a fact: that his legs were not tree branches that would grow back in spring after breaking off in winter.

He would never have his legs back in this lifetime, let alone the chance to stand.

Mengmeng said earnestly, “Jiaojiao says that as long as you try hard, you can definitely stand up!”

Ha, try hard?

Huangfu Xian laughed coldly.

Even if he could truly stand up, it would surely be only in a dream.

Laughably, disabled for too long, he had even forgotten the sensation of standing up, and even in his dreams, he couldn’t conjure that tangible feeling anymore.

Huangfu Xian didn’t bother to consider whether Mengmeng and this Jiaojiao were just Jianghu swindlers, perhaps simply deceiving a child.

He said indifferently, “Don’t waste your effort, kid.”

I can’t stand up.

Mengmeng asserted confidently, “Jiaojiao said you can, so you can! I’ll bring Jiaojiao to see you next time!”

With that, she flipped over the windowsill and hopped away.

Mengmeng returned to Renshou Palace.

Eunuch Qin had gone to handle errands, and the Empress Dowager Zhuang was alone in the Sleeping Palace. Mengmeng bounded in energetically, took one look at Empress Dowager Zhuang, and exclaimed with her hands on her hips, “Auntie! You cheated again! I’m going to tell Jiaojiao!”

Empress Dowager Zhuang nearly choked on her candied fruit!

Mengmeng walked over and confiscated her candied fruit.

Empress Dowager Zhuang clutched the box of candied fruit tightly, “These are all that I’ve saved over the past few days!”

Mengmeng said sternly, “Jiaojiao said you can’t save them!”

What you didn’t eat before, you also can’t eat later! In any case, you’re only allowed five pieces a day! Auntie, you’ve already had five pieces just now!

Empress Dowager Zhuang adamantly defended her candied fruit; was it easy for her to save up so many?

“Give them to me!” Empress Dowager Zhuang said with a commanding air.

“No!” Mengmeng replied, equally unyielding.

An old and a young each grabbed an end of the box, eyes locked in a battle, as if an invisible struggle unfolded within the Sleeping Palace.

“Empress Dowager, His Majesty has sent some pastries over,” said a young Palace maid at the door.

Empress Dowager Zhuang glared at Mengmeng menacingly, “Let go.”

Mengmeng looked back at her equally menacingly, “I won’t.”

Empress Dowager Zhuang took a deep breath and slowly released her grasp, “Fine, they’re all yours, you can have them all.”

Mengmeng raised an eyebrow, showing a trace of triumphant smile.

“Go and see what pastries they are,” Empress Dowager Zhuang told Mengmeng.

“Oh.” Mengmeng placed the box of candied fruit on the table and ran off to the doorway to check on the pastries.

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