"Nanny, nanny, hurry and go take a look, is it them..." the Princess Consort Jing watched the carriage, as if she could already see the people inside.
"Alright, alright, Princess Consort, don’t fret, this old servant will go check immediately," Nanny Liu said as she stepped out of the carriage.
A moment later, Nanny Liu returned, followed by a mother and daughter.
"Princess Consort, it’s Madam Mo with Miss Mo who have come," Nanny Liu’s excited voice reached into the carriage.
Right away, the curtains of the carriage were lifted from the inside, and the excited voice of Princess Consort Jing came from within, "Zi Yan, come, quickly bring Ziqiao in."
"This is the Princess Consort’s carriage, with a status difference, it’s not quite proper for us, mother and daughter, to enter..." Madam Mo seemed hesitant, but in the place unseen by others, the corners of her lips slightly curled up, and her eyes also revealed a hint of a different kind of irony.
"What’s so improper about it? Zi Yan and I are like sisters, and I... even think of Ziqiao as my own daughter. It’s just a carriage after all, meant for people to sit in!" Princess Consort Jing said full of anticipation.
"Fine, then thank you, Princess Consort," Madam Mo’s tone was nonchalant.
Behind her, Nanny Liu frowned slightly.
She always felt that Madam Mo’s expressions and words didn’t show much respect towards the Princess Consort.
However, the Princess Consort had just met the Commandery Princess, mother and daughter who hadn’t seen each other for years were in high spirits, it wasn’t a good time for her to dampen the Princess Consort’s mood.
As soon as Madam Mo and her daughter entered the carriage, Princess Consort Jing’s gaze immediately fell on the girl standing behind her.
The eleven-year-old girl stared with wide eyes, curiously looking at Princess Consort Jing.
However, her appearance made Princess Consort Jing’s heart skip a beat.
She didn’t resemble her, nor did she resemble the Prince, that alone wouldn’t be so bad, but Princess Consort Jing felt more and more that the girl looked... somewhat like Zi Yan when she was young!
If there hadn’t been the contrast with Ye Jiu’s appearance, Princess Consort Jing probably wouldn’t have noticed this at all.
However, with Ye Jiu’s face that so resembled Prince Jing, Princess Consort Jing couldn’t help but have a bit more expectation about whom her child resembled.
And at this moment, she was undoubtedly disappointed.
The carriage traveled along the bustling streets, and inadvertently, Princess Consort Jing lifted the curtain, catching sight of a slightly strange figure.
The small stature indicated youth, but an odd sand hat was perched atop the head, covering the entire head very thoroughly, with two young men following behind, carrying big and small bags, and yet they both looked dotingly at the small figure ahead.
In ordinary circumstances, such an unfamiliar figure shouldn’t have caught Princess Consort Jing’s attention, but the strangeness lay in the fact that the figure’s gait and incidental movements revealed the shadow of their family’s Prince.
Princess Consort Jing was puzzled; a few days ago, a girl resembling their family’s Prince was curiosity enough, and she had almost been duped by it. It was only after going back and asking the Prince that she realized she had been overcautious and read too much into it.
Afterward, Princess Consort Jing had let it go.
Today she came to pick up Zi Yan and the child, yet here was another person whose walk and posture resembled that of her own Prince; it truly was bizarre.
Could it be that her family’s Prince’s appearance and mannerisms were so common?
"What are you looking at, Princess Consort?" asked Madam Mo.
She had thought that, after bringing the child back on purpose, this foolish woman would treat her daughter as her own, as before, holding her close and showing affection.
But reality seemed to differ from what she had expected!