The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1241 - 1241 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch)_2

Chapter 1241: 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch)_2 Chapter 1241: 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch)_2 Xuanping Marquis always believed that a tiger father would not have a dog for a son; as a tiger, his son must also be a tiger!

That horse stood taller than a man, and sadly, when Little Xiao Hen rode a horse for the first time, he was jostled to the point of questioning his life, crying loudly!

It was Princess Xinyang who arrived just in time to rescue Little Xiao Hen from the horse, and since then, Little Xiao Hen never dared to ride again.

“When did you learn to ride a horse? Was it during those years you spent among the common people?” Xuanping Marquis asked.

This was the first time the father and son formally brought up those years, Xuanping Marquis had asked before, but Xiao Hen had never given him a response.

Tonight, he responded, “Mm, I learned with Eldest Brother.”

Xuanping Marquis said, “Your elder brother…”

As he spoke, he paused.

Xiao Hen spoke in a low voice, “His name is Xiao Su.”

Xuanping Marquis frowned, “Doesn’t he have the surname Cheng? Called… Cheng… Dog-Egg or something?”

“Dog-Egg is his nickname,” Xiao Hen said, “Eldest Brother changed his surname.”

It was Chen Yunniang who had changed it; after Cheng Su’s father died, the Cheng family came to take him away to be raised by his uncle’s family, as his uncle had no sons.

Chen Yunniang couldn’t bear it, and Cheng Su was unwilling to leave his mother, so the clan cut off relations with them.

As the horse continued along, Xuanping Marquis suddenly spoke, “About the things of the past… I’m sorry.”

Xuanping Marquis was an ancestor with a thick skin, but that did not mean he could speak his mind about anything and everything.

There was a stubborn side to his character, but it wasn’t triggered by ordinary matters.

Xiao Hen didn’t ask him whether ‘the things of the past’ referred to the year of his birth or the year Xiao Liulang ran into trouble.

Some window paper needed to be pierced, but some did not; it was better if both sides understood without spelling it out.

Xuanping Marquis said, “Hold on tight, I’m going to speed up, don’t fall off in a bit.”

“I won’t—ah—”

Xiao Hen’s words were cut short mid-sentence as Xuanping Marquis suddenly squeezed the horse’s flanks, and the horse, understanding, sped off rapidly forward.

Xiao Hen was thrown backward suddenly, nearly tossed off, and he instinctively hugged Xuanping Marquis around the midsection.

In a place Xiao Hen couldn’t see, Xuanping Marquis lifted an eyebrow in a smile!

“Wait.” His smile suddenly disappeared as he tugged the reins, and the horse cleverly came to a stop.

“What’s wrong?” Xiao Hen asked.

“Did you hear that?” Xuanping Marquis asked, frowning.

“Hear what—.” Xiao Hen’s voice abruptly stopped. “It sounds like a baby crying.”

Xuanping Marquis turned to look, “In that village!”

Wasn’t the village supposed to be evacuated?

He hadn’t heard any crying when he rushed over just now.

“There is a child.” Xuanping Marquis listened again for a while, confirming he hadn’t misheard, “You go first.”

He dismounted.

He himself didn’t take natural disasters to heart when he made his own way along the Official Road, but when it came to his son, he believed in the power of natural disasters again.

“It’s faster by horse!” Xiao Hen said.

“Is there time?” Xuanping Marquis asked.

“If we find him quickly, there is,” Xiao Hen said.

“Alright, sit tight.” Xuanping Marquis’s eyes became steely as he pulled the reins tightly, changing direction, and galloped toward the village below.

Who would have expected that when the two entered the village, the crying stopped.

Xiao Hen said earnestly, “That child must have cried himself tired, crying for a while and then stopping for a while. I heard nothing when I passed by the village just before.”

Xuanping Marquis got off the horse.

The father and son searched from house to house, and when Xuanping Marquis reached the eighteenth household’s bedroom, Xiao Hen called out loudly from the Backyard well, “It’s here!”

Xuanping Marquis hurried to the Backyard.

This was a dry well, covered with a well cap, but it was not sealed and could be turned over; the child must have climbed onto the well cap, flipped it over, and fallen down.

The well cap had blocked most of the rainwater, but some had still run into the dry well.

Xiao Hen fetched an oil-paper umbrella from the house to cover the well, and Xuanping Marquis moved the well cap aside; he planned to go down the well to rescue the child but realized the mouth was too narrow for him to fit with his stature.

Xiao Hen still had a youthful frame, tall and slender, so he could just manage to squeeze through.

“I’ll go down,” Xiao Hen said

Xuanping Marquis took a rope from the saddle, tying one end around his son’s waist and the other around his own midsection.

Xiao Hen started to speak, “Your waist injury…”

“Get down,” Xuanping Marquis said.

The child’s cries and breaths were already very weak; no one knew how long he had been at the bottom of the well, especially after falling from such a height.

Xiao Hen moved his gaze away from his midsection and turned to sit on the edge of the well; but just as he swung one leg in, a cat’s cry suddenly came from the bottom of the well.

Xiao Hen’s hairs stood on end!

Xuanping Marquis’s expression grew serious. He looked steadily at his son, “Ahen.”

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