main hall.
An hour had passed since Feng Changye retired from court. Such a long time was naturally enough for the guards to go to the manor and bring the former prince's daughter to him.
At this moment, the little girl with her hands tied with hemp ropes was escorted by guards into the majestic Tai Chi Hall step by step.
The little girl, who was only eleven years old, had a calmness on her face that was inconsistent with her age.
She straightened her back, stepped over the threshold calmly, and slowly looked up at Feng Changye who was sitting behind the black desk.
Feng Changye was also looking at her.
He only had a vague impression of this little girl.
When the Crown Princess gave birth to this little girl, the Crown Prince had not yet fallen out with the Second Prince, and he, at only twelve years old, was not considered a thorn in the Crown Prince's side. So, he and his brothers prepared gifts and went to the Crown Prince's residence to congratulate him.
As the child's fifth uncle, the nanny pushed the child towards him and asked him to hold him.
Wrapped in a thick swaddling cloth was a red little baby.
The baby seemed uncomfortable staying in the swaddle and kept bouncing his little feet and waving his little arms.
He leaned in closer to take a closer look and was hit in the face by the baby's chubby little fist.
It's soft and doesn't hurt at all.
He felt so surprised at the time that there was such a cute little guy. When he was hit by her little fist, he not only didn't feel any pain, but also felt very comfortable. It was really fun.
Unfortunately, his relationship with the prince is neither close nor distant. Even if he is a little curious about this child, he will not go to the East Palace to see other people's children every day.
Later, when the baby was two years old, he would go to the garden to play with his nanny.
Occasionally, when he went to visit his father, he would see her in the garden.
When the nanny first introduced him as her fifth uncle, she hid behind the nanny out of shyness, only showing half of her eyes to secretly look at him.
The next time she saw him passing by, she would obediently wave her little fists and call him Uncle Five.
When they met for the third time, she would tilt her head and stare at him secretly, then suddenly run over with a giggle, hug his legs, and look up and shout, "Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle"
Later, when they met again, she would unilaterally feel that she was very familiar with him. She would rush over and hold his legs to prevent him from leaving. She would insist on pulling him to catch butterflies and pick flowers together. She would also stick her head forward and let him put the flowers in her hair.
At that time, he thought his niece was very cute and he also wanted to have a cute baby daughter like her.
However, after just ten or so pleasant times together, a battle for the throne broke out between the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, and he was unfortunately regarded as a thorn in the side of the Crown Prince.
From then on, the little girl would turn and run away when she saw him from afar. It must be the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess who taught her that her fifth uncle was a bad guy and she should stay away from him.
And since he was always targeted and bullied by the prince, he would never catch butterflies or pick flowers for the little girl again.
Their relationship as uncle and nephew was severed from that time on.
The next time they met was when the little girl was four years old and he ascended the throne as emperor.
She, her brother, the two children of the second prince, and the baby of the fourth prince all knelt before him, waiting for his decision.
The Queen Mother looked at the children with a deadly gaze and told them that if they did not remove the roots of the problem, there would be endless trouble.
The King of Jin also advised him that he had ascended the throne by stepping on the corpses of the father of these children. These children must hate him. If he didn't kill them, they would kill him in the future.
And he did see hatred in the eyes of a few children who knew a little bit more.
Just when he was about to kill, the little girl suddenly hugged her ignorant brother tightly, looked up and called him, "Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle, if you kill me, please let my brother go. He is still young..."
He stared at the four-year-old girl, as if he was back in that sunny afternoon, when he was standing on the bluestone path and she giggled and rushed over to hug his legs, looking up and calling him, "Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle..."
He finally decided to save the lives of these children.
After all, if they were not born in the royal family, if their father had no rivalry over the throne and did not harm him, then these children would have always been around him, acting like spoiled brats, and being uncle and nephew for life.
They are his relatives. From the moment they were born to the moment they knelt before him, no one had hurt him in the slightest. Why would he hurt them?
As for whether they will be driven by hatred to kill or harm him in the future, we will have to wait and see.
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While Feng Changye was reminiscing about the past, the eleven-year-old girl had already been escorted by the guards to the other side of the table.
He came back to his senses.
The little girl who would hug his legs and act coquettishly in his vague memory has become the strange little girl in front of him.
"The sinner Feng Yushu kowtows to the emperor."
The little girl slowly knelt in the center of the hall, lowered her eyelids, and waited for the almighty emperor to interrogate her for her audacious crime of abusing the noble of the Si family.
However, the first question she heard the emperor ask was not an interrogation.
She heard him say calmly—
"The Left Prime Minister said that the guard who dared to take you to Yanliu Street has fled, fearing his crime. But it doesn't matter. I have ordered a city-wide manhunt, and he will be caught sooner or later."
Hearing this, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she suddenly looked up at the emperor behind the dragon table.
"Then I will hand him over to you for you to deal with."
Hearing this, her eyelids twitched more frequently.
Did he think the guard was guilty?
He also wants to hand over the guard to her for disposal?
But she was just a prisoner he had banished to the manor. Just a criminal who could be bullied by anyone, and yet he actually thought that the guard was guilty of treating her like this?
She pinched her palms, stared into his eyes, and asked, "Didn't the emperor ask the criminal to come here to interrogate him for the vicious crime of torturing the nobleman of the Si family?"
Seeing the emperor's disgusted expression, she said, "What crime have you committed? Even if you were imprisoned by me, you are still my niece. As long as I haven't reduced you to slavery, the blood of the Daning royal family still flows in your bones! That beast from the Si family dared to insult you. Does he think the Daning royal family is extinct?"
"!" Her pupils constricted and her fingers suddenly pinched into her palms.
There was clearly not a word of care or comfort in these words, but they struck her heart.
It turns out that in his eyes, he still recognizes her as his niece?
Between her and the nobleman from the Si family, is he on her side?
She felt a little sad, but also a little funny.
After she was almost insulted, he suddenly acknowledged her as his niece, and he suddenly admitted that she had the blood of the Daning royal family flowing in her bones. But before she got into trouble, did he care about the lives of these children?
The five children in that farm, including her, lived a life where even the servants could bully them at will!
Thinking about what kind of life she had lived these years and the hardships she had endured, she lowered her head and hatred gathered in her eyes again!
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