Chapter 492 Extra Shang Yang [4]

His wild and beastly behavior really scared me.

At first, when I saw that he was motionless, I just looked at him from a distance, not daring to breathe.

Gradually, I saw him lying motionless on the ground, and I began to feel scared. I thought he might be dead. If he was found tomorrow, I would not be able to explain myself...

So I plucked up the courage to walk up to him, squatted down, shook his shoulders, and called him softly.

He didn't respond. I looked closely and saw a big bump on his head, which looked very funny. The skin on his finger joints was also scratched and bleeding.

I took some incense ash and applied it to his wounds, and tore off a corner of my coat to bandage him.

I didn't feel any sympathy for him at that time. I just felt that if anything happened to him, I would be unlucky too.

So I just sat beside him and watched over him for most of the night.

He woke up at daybreak.

He looked at me, then at the still locked door, and asked in surprise:

【Why are you here? 】

[I was delivering tribute last night. I saw the prince coming to offer sacrifices but I didn’t dare to disturb him, so I hid myself.] I answered truthfully.

I thought that since I took care of him all night, even if he didn't thank me, at least he wouldn't make things difficult for me.

But who would have thought that when I tried to help him get up, he pushed me away and asked me inhumanely:

Why don't you wake me up?

I fell heavily on the ground and my tailbone hurt so much that tears came out.

The next moment, the palace servant on duty opened the palace door and he ran away.

I lay on the ground, rubbing my buttocks while watching his hurriedly running back, curling my lips and cursing in my heart:

This annoying guy, I shouldn’t care about his life or death, I hope he will die!

I originally thought that this matter would just pass, but I didn't expect Jiang Muye to be such a petty-minded person!

The next day when he returned to Zhuyin Palace, he happened to meet me who was sorting dead leaves in the courtyard.

I saluted him respectfully, but he was like a blind man. Not only did he ignore me, he even deliberately bumped into my shoulder when he passed by me!

Luckily I was prepared this time, otherwise I would have to suffer again...

From that day on, I rarely saw him coming out of his room.

At the same time, my daily meals became increasingly insufficient to satisfy my hunger.

There are some non-greasy side dishes and two steamed buns at the beginning, so I can always eat enough.

But gradually, the side dish became a small plate of dried radish cubes, the steamed bread was gone, and the only meal a day was a small bowl of watery white porridge.

Not only that,

The attitudes of the palace maids serving in the Zhuyin Palace towards me became worse, and even the aunt in charge began to become impatient with me.

I told her that I had been hungry and dizzy recently, and she responded to me uncharacteristically in a bad mood:

[It’s good enough to have something to eat, why be picky? 】

I secretly speculated that Jiang Muye must have told them something in private, deliberately asking them to embarrass me.

After thinking about it, I felt that he was repaying kindness with enmity, which made me hate him even more.

But what if I hate it?

I entered the Zhuyin Palace and became a slave. As long as the master gave me food and life, I still belonged to him. What right did I have to hate him?

If they hadn't rescued me that day, I would have been dead by the time the Qi army attacked the main city.

For a period of time afterwards, I could only drink a little porridge every day, and I could only have a steamed bun every three to five days, let alone any vegetables to mix with the food.

If you are hungry for a long time, you will naturally have no energy to work.

One day when I was picking up firewood in the woodshed, I suddenly felt a darkness in front of my eyes and passed out from hunger.

Maybe I was so hungry that I could smell the fragrance of chicken even in my dreams.

The smell made me even hungrier. I opened my eyes with difficulty and found myself lying on the warm couch in Jiang Muye's room.

And he was sitting next to me, holding a chicken drumstick in his hand, swinging it back and forth in front of me...

I was startled and was about to ask him what happened.

But as soon as I opened my mouth, he ruthlessly stuffed the chicken leg into my mouth:

【Don't talk, eat first. 】

The oil from the chicken skin exploded in my mouth. I was so hungry that I didn't care about hating him. I grabbed the chicken leg from his hand and started to wolf it down.

It was only later that I learned from Jiang Muye that

It turns out that he has never asked anyone to treat me harshly. Not only has my food become worse, but almost all the people in the palace have had to tighten their belts.

The aunt in charge was not bad to me. The one steamed bun I could get every three to five days was originally her own. She had given me all her best things.

The reason why this happened was because Zhu Yin and Qi Chao signed an unequal treaty.

Zhu Yin agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and tens of thousands of shi of grain as taxes to Qi Dynasty every year, and let Prince Zhu Yin go to Qi Dynasty as a hostage. Only then did Qi Dynasty stop its attacks and temporarily withdraw its troops.

I had a long-awaited full meal, and then heard Jiang Muye say to me:

[The person who locked us in the Candle Dragon Hall that night was my brother. I was supposed to go to Qichao as a hostage, but my brother took my place...]

He was so sad when he said this. I didn't know how to persuade him. I could only give him half of the chicken leg and then say in a gentle voice like my mother used to comfort me:

【It's okay, everything will be fine. 】

But things in the world always go against one's wishes.

On New Year's Eve of that year, the eldest prince was sent back.

Qi Chao said that he had died of a sudden serious illness, and during the New Year's Eve banquet when the whole family was having a happy time, his body was sent back and he was reunited with his family.