All the hair on Da Mi's body stood up. It was afraid even when facing someone who was a hundred times bigger than it.
However, in order to protect its little master, it rushed forward fearlessly.
Its fur was blown up, making it look a lot bigger, like a fluffy ball of fur.
However, the princes in front of it didn't even take the little prince Xiao Ping seriously, so how could they be afraid of it?
In their eyes, this cat was as weak as an ant, just like Emperor Xiao Ping.
"Where did this weird thing come from?" a prince said with disgust.
"I've seen this cat. It often plays with Old Sixteen."
He was the emperor's sixteenth son. They didn't even want to remember his name and just called him Old Sixteen.
The prince sneered, and a vicious idea emerged in his mind.
He reached out to grab the cat's tail, but was scratched in the palm of his hand by Big Mi's claw.
"Hiss - beast!" The prince threw Da Mi to the ground. Da Mi howled, spitted blood from his mouth, and fell to the ground.
The prince was still not satisfied. He looked at Emperor Xiao Ping who was lying on the ground unable to move. With a vicious look on his face, he grabbed Da Mi's tail, picked up the seriously injured Da Mi, and shook it in front of Emperor Xiao Ping's eyes for a few times.
"You ignorant beast, I'll show you what happens if you offend me!" He sneered, swung Da Mi around a few times, and then let go, throwing Da Mi into the lake next to him.
With a "splash", Da Mi was drowned in the cold lake water without even having the time to take a last look at his owner.
"Da Mi——" Emperor Xiao Ping looked at the disappearing little figure, his heart broken with pain, his body shaking.
He struggled to get up, and could no longer see or hear the scenes around him or the curses and ridicules in his ears.
The only thing in his mind was Da Mi. He jumped into the lake desperately to look for Da Mi.
No, nothing at all—
He sank underwater and tried hard to open his eyes, but he couldn't see even a hair of Dami. The water was icy and heavy, so he slowly closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw his mother crying beside the bed.
"Mom, where is Da Mi?" His voice was hoarse and not as clear as before.
When his mother saw him wake up, she stopped crying and was surprised and delighted. "Son, you finally woke up. I thought you couldn't make it and would leave me alone..."
Her eyes turned red again and tears seeped from the corners of her eyes.
"Mom, where's Da Mi?" He was extremely anxious. He grabbed his mother's hand and kept repeating, "Mom, where's Da Mi? Where's Da Mi?"
His mother held his little hand and said, "You're almost dead, why are you still thinking about that cat? You're in this predicament because, firstly, you didn't listen to me and acted too aggressively outside, not knowing how to keep a low profile. Secondly, it's because of that cat. If you hadn't jumped into the lake to find it, how could you have caught typhoid fever and faced death?"
"Remember my words from now on. Don't try to show off again. Listen to me. If you can recite something, just say you can't. And write your handwriting poorly. When the teacher tests you, make sure you make more mistakes. Also, stay away from the prince and his men. Don't offend them again. I'm afraid if you do it again, your life will be in jeopardy."
This time, Emperor Xiao Ping understood and comprehended his mother's words.
His innocent eyes were stained with despair. "Mother, Da Mi is dead, right? If I don't listen to you, you and I will end up like Da Mi, right?"
The mother looked sad and said, "Good child, don't stand out and don't ask for anything. We have to save our lives, so this is the only way."
He lowered his head and said, "I'll remember this, kid."
His carefree and unbridled pride seemed to have gone with Da Mi.
After he recovered from his illness, he went to the study again. His intelligence and quickness had completely disappeared. He became taciturn and had no desires. He could no longer answer the teacher's questions. He just sat in the last corner of the study every day, staring blankly at the bluestone floor under his feet.
Later, he learned that when he sank into the lake that day, the prince and his men saw that something was wrong and ran away. It was Xiao Dezi who was tending to the flowers and plants by the lake who saved him.
Xiao Dezi was a young eunuch with no backing and no master, so Emperor Xiao Ping asked for him and kept him by his side.
The queen is a vengeful person. The prince was scratched by her cat. How could she let them go?
Later, the queen caught my mother making a minor mistake and beat her with twenty sticks. My mother was seriously injured and had to lie in bed for two months before she dared to get out and walk.
From then on, he became even less talkative. Like his mother, he kept his true feelings hidden in layers and lived quietly in the Lanxin Pavilion, as if there was no prince like him in the palace.
The memory finished playing, and the light on the entire screen converged into a bright white dot and disappeared in the center of the screen.
Su Wanti's face was covered with tears, and her fists were clenched tightly, making a creaking sound.
She was born in the end times, a world with serious pollution, energy depletion, and scarce resources. There was not enough food for people to eat, let alone raise pets.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, there was a food shortage and small domestic animals were quickly eaten up by humans. Later, all edible wild animals were also eaten up by humans.
Later, keeping pets became a privilege of the powerful and wealthy. Ordinary people could never see cats, dogs, guinea pigs, parrots, snakes, and lizards, which were once kept as pets.
What ordinary people can see are horrible rats, mutated cockroaches and some weird-looking mutant animals that have mutated after being affected by nuclear radiation. These animals only attack humans and eat them as food. Humans avoid them and will never tame them or keep them as pets.
It was the first time that Su Wanti saw normal animals after she traveled to this small world.
It turns out that normal little animals are so cute.
On the farm, she lived alone in a small courtyard, which was often visited by some furry uninvited guests.
They are all kittens and puppies raised by nearby farmers.
Su Wanti still remembers the feeling when she first touched a kitten. It was furry and warm. The kitten was very affectionate. It even raised its little head, squinted its eyes, and purred at her.
At that moment, Su Wanti felt very happy.
So, although she had never met Da Mi, she could still empathize with the young Emperor Xiao Ping.
"92, what happened to those princes later?" Her eyes were red and her voice was filled with anger.
In the struggle for the throne, several princes were killed or wounded. The crown prince was deposed, the tenth and fourteenth princes were executed for coup d'etat, and the seventh and ninth princes were exiled to the border for forming a clique for personal gain, never to return to the capital for the rest of their lives.
After hearing about the tragic end of these people, Su Wanti's anger dissipated a little.
Fortunately, these princes with bad character did not sit on the throne.
She didn't believe that a prince who had no sympathy for the weak animals around him could feel love for the people of the world whom he could not see.
It seems that this experience had an extremely serious negative impact on Emperor Xiao Ping, and his personality was changed because of it.
Su Wanti frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "92, find me a cat that looks like Da Mi. I'm useful."
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