The Empress and the Crown Prince kept glancing at the little palace maid as they drank their tea. To be honest, upon closer inspection, she really did resemble the Tenth Prince/his little uncle, especially the dimples at the corners of her mouth—they were even in the same place!
Silence fell again. The little palace maid didn't know what they were thinking, but she noticed that the Emperor, Empress, and Crown Prince were looking at her differently. She couldn't quite put her finger on it, but it was just strange, like the way her parents had looked at her when they sold her to a slave trader!
[Why did you, Emperor, stuff so many concubines into Old Rong's household? You've made a complete mess of his harem. One framed another, another caused this one to miscarry, and yet another stole that one's child. Before long, a young palace maid had even seen her own mother before being abandoned as if she were a son!]
[How pitiful! How pitiful! She was left out in the alley in the dead of winter; if the night watchman hadn't heard her cries, she probably would have frozen to death that very night!]
The emperor grew increasingly furious with his younger brother. "Is this even a father?! If you're afraid I'll become suspicious and rebel, why don't you just become the eldest son yourself? Why are you mistreating your child?!"
This child was lucky to have encountered a night watchman passing by and was saved from death. What about those who didn't encounter the night watchman? Their fate was predictable: they either froze to death or starved to death!
[Ho ho! Even the son that Prince Rong threw away was picked up by the night watchman...]
The emperor coughs!
The night watchman really did collect them all...
After the night watchman found a baby in that alley for the first time, he sold it for ten taels of silver. Every time he passed through that alley, he would go in to see if any more good fortune would fall from the sky, and sure enough, it happened every year! The night watchman went from a poor, unmarried man to a small-time millionaire!
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