Chapter 888: The beloved cousin escaped from control (14)

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of them, Du Shichu had to move slowly towards them, carefully, not wanting to scare them, but the woman was still startled. She suddenly raised her head and bared her teeth at Du Shichu fiercely, making a hissing sound from her mouth, like a vigilant and defensive mother animal intimidating a natural enemy that posed a threat to herself and her children, and she had to bluff even though she was afraid inside.

"Don't be afraid, I won't go over." Du Shichu quickly raised his hands and softened his voice. The woman then stopped threatening her and looked down at the child in her arms.

At this time, the child was probably tired of crying and stopped crying. He only made faint sobbing sounds occasionally, and his thin hands and feet moved slightly from time to time, indicating that he was still alive.

Du Shichu was at a loss for a moment, for she was afraid of scaring the mother and son, but she couldn't just ignore it, so she had to find a place to sit down and try to dispel the woman's vigilance first.

She looked around the dark little hall carefully and found a mat made of broken grass in the corner and a thin quilt that was so dirty and torn that its original color could not be seen. It was obviously the "bed" for the mother and son, but the quilt had not been washed for who knows how long and gave off an unpleasant smell.

And beside the bed, there was a broken bowl, either with a corner missing or one side broken. These broken bowls were dirty and seemed to have never been washed. There were even several flies flying around on them.

When Du Shichu saw this, his face turned very ugly. Could it be that this is how the mother and son survived?

The woman still looked at Du Shichu warily. Her eyes, which were prominent because of her thinness, showed through her messy hair. She stared at Du Shichu without blinking.

Du Shichu pretended to take out the two steamed buns she had placed in his arms, but in fact he took them out from the space, and said to the woman, "Here, do you want some?"

The woman did not take it immediately. Although she could not help licking her dry lips and staring at the steamed bun, she still did not let down her guard.

Du Shichu had no choice but to wrap the two buns with his handkerchief and put them not far in front of her, saying, "I won't go over, you take them yourself."

The woman looked at her warily again, and then looked at the two tempting steamed buns greedily. Finally, she couldn't resist her hunger, so she held the child in one hand, quickly picked up the two steamed buns with the other hand, and then began to eat them ravenously. Because there was no water and she ate too quickly, she choked several times, and each time she had to cough hard to swallow the steamed bun crumbs in her throat.

After finishing one, she did not eat the remaining one. Instead, she carefully tore the bun into small pieces and stuffed them into the mouth of the child in her arms. The child ate very slowly, but the woman was very patient.

Du Shichu waited until they both finished eating the steamed buns before he asked the woman, "Do you still remember who you are?"

The woman ignored her completely. Du Shichu rubbed her forehead, knowing that there was no way to get her to reveal her origins. She glanced at the mother and son, so she had to stand up, walk out the door, find Zhichun who was still unconscious, and unblock her acupuncture points, so that she woke up.

"Princess! What happened to me?" Zhichun asked Du Shichu in confusion as soon as she woke up.

"It's okay. I found a mother and son here. You go out and ask to see His Majesty. Please invite His Majesty over. I'll wait here." Du Shichu instructed Zhichun.

"What mother and child?" Zhichun was confused. She suddenly remembered the crying of the child and turned pale with fear. "Princess, you mean there is really someone here? Not that what?"

"It's a living person, probably the deposed concubine and her child who were banished to the cold palace by the late emperor. This matter needs to be handled by Your Majesty and the Queen. Now that we have discovered it, we have to report it to them." Du Shichu explained.

The mother and son had obviously been forgotten, and were almost starving to death in the cold palace, living worse than a beggar. It was a scandal at the level of the imperial palace secrets. After all, letting the concubine of the previous emperor live like this, didn't it prove that the emperor was unkind? Even if this concubine was an abandoned concubine who was banished to the cold palace, she couldn't be treated like this.

"Princess, can you stay here by yourself? Will it be dangerous?" Zhichun was worried about her safety.

"No, go quickly." Du Shichu urged her. Zhichun had no choice but to grit her teeth and ran out quickly. Fortunately, Du Shichu told her that there were living people living in the cold palace, otherwise she would have been so frightened that her legs would go weak and she would not have been able to leave.

After asking Zhichun to find someone, Du Shichu returned to the small hall. The mother and child had been moved to another place, and the child had been put on the ground. Only then could Du Shichu see his appearance clearly.

He was very thin, but his head was unusually large. Compared with his skinny body, the size was very disproportionate, like a ball on top of a matchstick.

Du Shichu glanced at the unconscious deposed concubine and saw that she was catching lice on her body with her head down and not paying attention to her. Du Shichu then quietly walked towards the child.

As we got closer, the child's appearance became even more shocking.

He was awake, but he didn't cry or move. When his big black and white eyes saw Du Shichu, he looked at her slowly, and only blinked after a long time, as if he was a little slow to react.

"Can you speak?" Du Shichu asked him in a low voice.

"...ah..." The child made a hoarse voice and looked at her with his big eyes without blinking.

"How old are you?" Du Shichu asked again.

This time the child made no sound, but just stared at her.

Du Shichu put the little lion in his arms down, and the child's eyes immediately moved from Du Shichu's face to the little lion. It was obvious that he was very curious about the little lion.

"Meow meow..." The little lion walked over, sniffed the smell of the child, suddenly sneezed, then turned around with a look of disgust and quickly threw himself into Du Shichu's arms.

Du Shichu couldn't help but laugh at its behavior. He stroked its back and said, "Why, are you looking down on me?"

The little lion patted her knee with his paw.

The child was still staring at the little lion. Du Shichu wanted to ask him if he wanted to touch the little lion, but then he thought, what if his immunity was too low and he was not suitable for more contact with animals? So he swallowed the words.

At this time, the woman finally finished the lice catching game and turned her attention back to the child. She noticed that Du Shichu was too close to the child, and immediately turned into a vigilant mother beast. She crawled over to pick up the child, and then bared her teeth at Du Shichu to threaten and intimidate him.

Du Shichu quickly said: "I won't hurt you, don't be afraid!"

As she spoke, she took several steps back to show that she was no threat to them. Only then did the woman lower her guard slightly.

(End of this chapter)