At first, the five-year-old Su Bi didn't know why he was sent away. He thought it was because he was disobedient and his father and mother were angry and sent him away.
He cried and made a fuss in Liu Kingdom, just wanting to go home. But crying and making a fuss would only lead to bullying by the princes and princesses of Liu Kingdom who were older than him.
The guards who protected him had saved him several times, but he had always lived in the palace, and the guards were always unable to do what they could. The princes and princesses would always find opportunities to bully him.
He was buried in the snow and was rescued by guards overnight. He survived after running a high fever for five days.
From then on, he suddenly stopped crying.
Although he was called a proton, the royal family of Ryukyu only gave him superficial respect.
The food he ate was the same as the servants, and sometimes even rotten. The clothes he wore were all coarse linen, and he was not even given a cotton jacket in winter.
He grew up silently and hard in the Ryukyu Palace.
When he reached the age to start school, the King of Ryukyu allowed him to study in the official school with other princes and princesses.
But the princes and princesses thought he was not worthy to sit at the same table with them, so they tore up his books, smashed his desk and chair, and refused to let him enter the school.
The teaching scholars and the King of Ryukyu also turned a blind eye to this and pretended not to know.
But he didn't want to give up. Without books and pens, he took a branch and practiced secretly. Without tables and chairs, he couldn't go into the classroom, so he squatted in a corner outside the classroom and listened secretly.
Fortunately, there were several guards who were really talented and learned, and he would ask them for advice whenever he had time. He was like a sponge, seizing every opportunity to study hard.
He was still laughed at and bullied, but he never cried again.
When he was discovered stealing knowledge and was pushed into the pond again, the guards rescued him and asked him why he was fighting so hard.
It was obvious that if he gave up learning, gave up struggling, pretended to be stupid and ignorant, and flattered his superiors, he could satisfy those people's vanity and suffer less.
The young man trembled his wet and thin body and remained silent for a long time.
In the end, I just answered, "I don't want to die, and I don't want them to be proud. I want to go back alive and ask why."
Later, the king of Ryukyu died, and the entire Ryukyu kingdom fell into civil strife due to the struggle for the throne.
Liu received the news that Dali wanted to take back the prince, and knew that they could not keep Su Bi. They were also worried that Su Bi would inherit the throne after returning to the country and would retaliate against Liu. So they decided to do something drastic and fed him a dream drug on the eve of Su Bi's return.
Ning Xihua couldn't help but clench the teacup in her hand when she heard this, with such force that she wanted to crush the teacup to pieces like those people who bullied Su Bi.
That was Su Bi! The Su Bi who seemed invincible and calm!
She could even think of the little boy, whose heart was full of hope of returning home, but whose light in his eyes was extinguished by repeated torture.
No wonder Princess Jie Lan dared to humiliate him in public like that. It shows how much Su Bi was treated with contempt by them in the Ryukyu Kingdom.
“And then, we just let them go like that?” Ning Xihua clenched her fists, feeling unwilling.
Bai Luoqiu sighed, "Those are the princes and princesses of Liu Kingdom, how can we kill them all?"
Ning Xihua felt helpless. Yes, unless the Kingdom of Liu was destroyed, those who bullied Su Bi could not do anything to them.
"However, that kid returned the humiliation in a different way."
As if he could see that Ning Xihua felt bad for Su Bi, Bai Luoqiu suddenly laughed, "He is the only person like me I have ever seen in my life."
When he brought Su Bi back from Ryukyu, he was only 13 years old. Due to long-term malnutrition, she was thin and small.
At that time, Su Bi was already drunk in her sleep, and endured torture all day long that even adults could hardly endure, but she never said a word, never cried out in pain, and never shed tears.
At that time, he knew that his nephew was not only not abandoned in Ryukyu, but also had an extremely strong character.
He tried every possible means to find Hui Ku to remove the poison for him, but the boy just said thank you to him.
His father was indifferent to him, and he never took the initiative to get close to him, and even never called him uncle again.
He thought he would feel resentment and revenge, but that was not the case. He just distanced himself from them, as if there was no family affection between them anymore.
Later, the chaos in Ryukyu expanded, and the emperor intended to take this opportunity to send troops to Ryukyu. Su Bi took the initiative to find him for the first time and asked to follow him to the expedition to Ryukyu.
Looking at the boy's stubborn and determined eyes, he agreed.
As a result, the prince of Dali, who had just returned, lay bedridden in the capital for more than two years, while his nephew Su Bi followed him to fight in the Western Regions for more than two years.
"That kid really doesn't care about his life."
Bai Luoqiu recalled the scene at that time with a look of emotion on his face.
Su Bi had no awareness of being a crown prince, and didn't care at all about the life he had just saved.
If he didn't know martial arts, he would just kill based on his instincts. If he didn't know strategy, he would just listen to the generals' plans outside the tent every day. He was like an ordinary soldier, rushing to the front line every day, fighting for his life.
In two years, Su Bi had numerous scars on his body, but he also became an excellent general under his deliberate training.
In the end, they were unstoppable and captured seven cities of the Kingdom of Ryukyu in succession, forcing the Kingdom of Ryukyu to surrender and become a vassal state of Dali, paying tribute to Dali every year.
On the day of signing the surrender letter, Su Bi stood on the city wall, looking at the envoys and palace ladies of the Kingdom of Liu who were bowing and kowtowing to the imperial edict of Emperor Shao Yuan. He drank the wine in the pot in one gulp, his eyes clear.
He said to him calmly: "From now on, as long as I am the crown prince of Dali, those people will have to bow to me."
Bai Luoqiu knew that the "those people" he was talking about were the royal family of Liu who had bullied him.
From then on, the Kingdom of Ryukyu and all its royal families had to submit to the King of Dali and the King of Chu.
He completed this revenge in his own way.
Ning Xihua's heart was filled with emotion when she heard this.
She had never thought that Su Bi, who seemed to be a graceful and elegant person, was once a passionate young man who dominated the battlefield.
He had suffered humiliation, but he never complained. The young man just kept his mind on what he wanted and moved forward courageously.
"He is a man of extraordinary talent, both as a general and as a crown prince." Bai Luoqiu sighed.
It only took Su Bi two years to go from knowing nothing to being like a duck in water on the battlefield.
After returning to Beijing, he filled the East Palace with many talented people and taught him how to be a king, and Su Bi did not refuse.
But every staff member who entered the Zhanshi Mansion would report back to him soon after, "The Crown Prince is a genius, and we swear to be loyal to him until death."
Su Bi finally accepted his kindness. Although her relationship with her father remained cold as always, she gradually became sincere to him.
Bai Luoqiu smiled at Ning Xihua, with a hint of relief and a bit of cunning in his smile.
"So, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does have a bad relationship with the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion, but as an uncle, my relationship with my nephew is pretty good."