I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With

Chapter 973: Disciplining (3) Chapter 973: Disciplining (3) Editor: Atlas Studios By the time he came out with the six children, their faces were pale.

Fan Zijin brought them into the carriage and returned to the residence.

When they had calmed down, he said faintly, “Although it’s not good to be caught by human traffickers, there’s an 80% chance that you can still live.

That’s not the worst that could happen.

Do you know what the worst outcome is?” Both children shook their heads in unison.

“The worst outcome is encountering robbers who kill after snatching your valuables.

Afterwards, they just dump the victims in a mass grave.

Nobody will know how you died.

It might be very difficult to find a person.

But as long as they’re alive, there’s still hope.

But if you’re dead, where would the adults find you?” “A hopeless search is the most tormenting.” Tiger Head sniffed and turned to look at Qi Haoran.

“Thieves, human traffickers and robbers are too despicable.

Daddy, you must arrest them all.” Little Lion said, “Did any of the beggars under the wall have all their money snatched away and can’t return home?

Why don’t we go and help them?

We’ll also search carefully for the children who were sold to brothels that Second Uncle mentioned.

However, what is a brothel?” Fan Zijin and Qi Haoran glared at Little Lion with dark expressions.

Little An nodded as well.

He skipped over Little Lion’s last question and turned to Little Treasure and Little Bear.

“Eldest Cousin, Second Cousin, I think it’s a great idea for charity.

I’m willing to lend you my pocket money.” Tiger Head and Little Lion were even more generous.

“Eldest Cousin, Big Brother, we’ll give you our money.” The Second Prince also stuttered and expressed that he would support their charity.

Fan Zijin glared at them with a dark expression while Qi Haoran’s originally worried expression dissipated.

With a shrug, he said, “Look, I already said that it’s not a problem with the way we discipline the kids.

They’re born dense.

It has nothing to do with me.” Fan Zijin glared at him.

“Didn’t you give birth to them?” Qi Haoran felt wronged.

“It’s not just my sons.

You and Big Brother’s son are also amongst them.” Fan Zijin looked at Little Treasure and Little Bear, who had gathered a lot of donations in a short while, and left in a huff.

Although a disciplining session had been turned into a charity fund-raiser by the children, the children still expressed that they had learnt their lesson and promised not to do it again.

Only then did the anger on the adults’ faces vanish slightly.

Hence, Fan Zijin did not punish them to kneel.

Instead, he punished them to copy lines.

Little Treasure and Little Bear were made to copy the ‘Classic of Filial Piety’ 30 times, while the four younger ones were made to copy 500 words.

Even Qi Wensu, who had just learned how to read, couldn’t escape.

However, the children did not look bitter.

Instead, they heaved a sigh of relief.

They finally did not have to kneel as punishment.

Mu Yangling did not hide the subsequent development of this matter from the children.

She told them how much they had done to cover up Little Treasure and Wensu’s tracks.

First of all, the outside world was still spreading the story of Prince Rong leaving home in anger after quarreling with the Princess Consort.

Previously, Qi Haoran couldn’t let outsiders know that he was picking the boys up.

In addition, after beating up the four children previously, they used that as a cover and spread the word that Prince Rong had quarreled with the Princess Consort over the children.

And that after grounding the children, he went out to clear his head.

Although he brought back two nephews when he was taking a break, the general public subconsciously ignored this point.

Everyone felt that the two boys brought back by Prince Rong were his illegitimate children, and the reason why the couple quarreled was because of these two illegitimate children.

Why would Prince Rong, who dotes on his children so much, quarrel with the Princess Consort over the children?

Everyone thought that Prince Rong didn’t dare to take in a concubine because of the Princess Consort’s might, so it was inevitable that he would have a couple of mistresses outside.

And because he hadn’t taken the proper precautions, he accidentally had an illegitimate child.

The illegitimate child was raised in the capital previously, and for some reason, the Princess Consort found out about this illegitimate child.

When that happened, a war broke out between the couple.

When Mu Yangling heard the rumors, she only felt incredulous that the truth could be forcefully distorted to this extent.

Qi Haoran, on the other hand, was furious.

He swore to Mu Yangling, “I’ve never even touched another woman’s hand in my life.

How would I have two illegitimate children out of nowhere?

How ridiculous!” Instead, Mu Yangling comforted him.

“Rumors stop at wise people.

If we don’t care about this matter, it’ll slowly stop.” “Still, we can’t let them spread rumors!” However, the rumors were out of the couple’s control.

At least until now, many people had tacitly agreed that Little Treasure and the Second Prince were Qi Haoran’s illegitimate children, including the many soldiers in the government office and the navy.

Fan Zijin expressed that if he didn’t know the inside story, he would also believe this rumor.

Secondly, everyone helped Little Treasure and Qi Wensu fake their identities as Qi Shaosheng’s sons.

In order to make it more realistic, Qi Xiuyuan specially asked the Empress to summon Madam Xu, saying that Imperial Noble Consort Wu had been in poor health recently and that it was best for her grandchildren to enter the temple to pray for her and recite scriptures.

Hence, Madam Xu’s two sons (Little Madam Wu’s sons), were sent to the temple.

In order to create the illusion that the Crown Prince had not left the palace, the Emperor even suspended the lectures at the Hanlin Academy and only allowed the Crown Prince’s Junior Tutor, and the other two professors to enter the palace as usual to give lectures.

In other words, three ministers knew the inside story of the Crown Prince not being in the palace.

However, it was unknown how many people in the harem knew the inside story.

Obviously, no matter how many people knew, once bad rumors spread, Little Treasure’s status might be threatened.

In the end, in order to control the Second Prince’s biological mother, Concubine Zhao, Qi Xiuyuan made up some excuse to ground her for a long time.

Even the Empress could no longer meet with her family for the time being.

From this, one could see the impact of this matter.

Mu Yangling looked at the children and said, “Now do you know how much we’ve done to help you clean up your mess?” The children lowered their heads deeply.

Only Tiger Head and the Second Prince looked around blankly.

Little Treasure reflected on himself and said, “Fourth Aunt, I know I was wrong.

In the future, if I want to leave the capital again, I definitely won’t leave on my own.

I will beg Royal Father first.

Even if he doesn’t agree, I can still wait until I become the Emperor before going on a tour of inspectionaEUR|” “Wait a minute, what did you say just now?

Say it again.” Mu Yangling looked at Little Treasure worriedly.

Was this child going to be another Kangxi Emperor?

Little Treasure said, “It’s a good idea to travel after becoming the Emperor.

I can take the chance to observe the officials along the way.” Mu Yangling chuckled and got someone to find a large drawing paper.

“The paper we usually use is too small and not big enough.

We’ll use this.” Mu Yangling got someone to take away everything on the desk and spread the paper on the table.

It was just enough to cover it.

After dipping the brush in ink, Mu Yangling asked, “Do you know why I asked for this piece of paper?” The six children shook their heads.

Mu Yangling gave an angel-like smile.

“I want to roughly calculate the cost of Little Treasure’s tours of inspection after he becomes the Emperor.”