Chapter 1004: 476 Drama King Baby (two chapters combined)_3 Chapter 1004: 476 Drama King Baby (two chapters combined)_3 “Ah, how convenient.” Liu Yisheng stepped aside, pulling the courtyard door open wider.

A white shadow whooshed out and plunged into Gu Jiao’s arms.

“Um, Xiaoshi.” Gu Jiao hugged the heavy white cat dumpling, “You’ve gotten fatter again.”

Xiaoshi meowed.

It wasn’t fat, not fat at all!

“Why did you come over today?” Liu Yisheng asked.

“I came to find Yuan Tang,” Gu Jiao said.

“Did you hear that cousin, she came for me!”

Accompanied by a hearty voice, Yuan Tang strolled out from the main house, shaking his folding fan.

He stopped in front of Gu Jiao, tapped the white cat’s head with his folding fan, and huffed, “Ungrateful little thing, why don’t I see you this enthusiastic when I come over?”

Xiaoshi buried its head into Gu Jiao’s arms, showing Yuan Tang its big rear end!

Liu Yisheng looked at Yuan Tang with a somewhat cold gaze.

Yuan Tang selectively ignored the deadly look from his cousin and smilingly said to Gu Jiao, “Go ahead, what do you need from this lord? I hope it’s not about romance, otherwise cousin might get jealous. I promised cousin, he’s the only one in my heart.”

Liu Yisheng really wanted to kick this annoying guy out!

“It’s about something serious,” Gu Jiao said.

Yuan Tang appeared relieved, “Should we talk about it here in the courtyard or inside the house?”

The tone of a host.

“Either is fine,” Gu Jiao said.

There were no outsiders in Liu Yisheng’s home, just a mute servant and an elderly nanny, both trustworthy.

The autumn day was clear and refreshing, perfect for basking in the sun in the courtyard.

The group eventually sat down on the stone benches, with Yuan Tang facing Gu Jiao and Liu Yisheng between them.

Liu Yisheng didn’t rush to sit down; he went into his room and came out with a plate of fresh tangerines.

Upon seeing the plump, bright oranges, Yuan Tang’s eyes widened, “Cousin, aren’t you playing favorites! Did you always have such delicious treats? I’ve been here so long and I’ve never seen you bring them out!”

After saying this, his handsome face suddenly looked aggrieved.

He said to Liu Yisheng, “Peel one for me, and I’ll forgive you.”

Liu Yisheng indeed peeled a tangerine but not for him.

“Nanny, here.”

Yuan Tang: …Heartbroken!

Gu Jiao also peeled a tangerine and fed a piece to Xiaoshi. She had never kept a cat and didn’t know if other people’s cats ate tangerines, but Xiaoshi did.

“Hey, didn’t you say you had something to discuss with me? What is it?” Yuan Tang, his heart pricked by his cousin, spoke in a muffled voice.

Gu Jiao said, “Do you know about the large army from your Chen Country marching southwest?”

A vigilant flash passed through Yuan Tang’s eyes, “Why are you asking this?”

Gu Jiao fed another segment of tangerine to the white cat on her lap, “Just tell me if you know.”

Yuan Tang gave Gu Jiao a deep look, fanned himself with the folding fan, and raised an eyebrow, “Although I am here as a hostage, I still have my own sources. There was a soldier mutiny on the border of Chen Country, and my royal uncle has led troops to quell the rebellion.”

Gu Jiao picked off the pith from the tangerine, “Quell the rebellion? What a good excuse.”

In the dream, the large army of Chen Country didn’t march southwest until after the new year. They captured Princess Ning An and the old marquis in February, Gu Chengfeng in March, Gu Changqing led a hundred thousand troops north from the Gu Family in April, the border was still snowing in May, and in June, eighty thousand Gu Family soldiers perished.

Now it was only October.

Indeed, things had moved forward again.

Yuan Tang furrowed his brows, “What do you mean?”

Gu Jiao looked at him with pity and sighed, “It seems you still don’t know.”

His frown deepened, “Don’t know what?”

Gu Jiao averted her gaze, continuing to pick at the tangerine pith, “The two countries are about to go to war, and you as a hostage will soon lose your value.”

Yuan Tang snapped his fan shut, “You’re talking nonsense!”

Both statements were nonsense!

The reason Chen Country sent a prince to Zhan Country as hostage was to demonstrate their determination to surrender and seek peace. If they dared to wage war against Zhan Country again, Zhan Country would surely kill Yuan Tang.

When Lord Xuanping waged war against Chen Country, he first rescued the Prince of An County and then sent his troops.

But Chen Country’s large army had already advanced towards the Zhan Country border, and there was not a stir from Yuan Tang’s side, showing that Chen Country had abandoned him.

Or to be precise, he was abandoned by his royal uncle of Chen Country.

Yuan Tang was ordinarily good-tempered, but now he couldn’t suppress his anger, “Hey, don’t take advantage of our slight acquaintance to spout nonsense here and incite discord between me and my emperor father!”

Gu Jiao shrugged her shoulders, “It has nothing to do with your emperor father. It’s your royal uncle who’s plotting a rebellion; you won’t become the Crown Prince of Chen Country.”