Seeing him like this, Suqiu was silent for a moment.
Then she quickly laughed, patted Xiao Yuanzi on the shoulder and said to him, "How can there be no difference? Let me ask you, do you prefer swords, spears, swords and halberds or eyebrow painting and powder?"
Xiao Yuanzi was stunned. "Swords, spears, swords, and halberds."
Su Qiu said, "That's it! Aren't swords, spears, and halberds just things men like? But we women like to draw our eyebrows, put on powder, and dress ourselves up beautifully!"
She comforted Xiao Yuanzi, "Don't feel inferior. As the Empress said, your physical disability was caused by injuries sustained by others, but your masculinity was innate from the womb. It's a gift from God! No matter how badly your body is hurt, it won't affect your masculinity. You must always believe that you are an upright man. You are no different from others. You are just a man who has been hurt!"
She pointed at his body and praised him, "Especially look at all the wounds on your body. These are all the signs of your bravery! Even healthy men might not be as brave as you. You are a hero who saved the emperor. Everyone in our palace, including the civil and military officials, respects you, Eunuch Yuan!"
Xiao Yuanzi's eyes became warm when he heard this.
It turns out that the Queen had also told Suqiu all this in private?
Your Majesty, what you said is very good. Suqiu also said it very well.
It made him feel like his spine straightened up all of a sudden!
He looked at Suqiu with red eyes and said, "Thank you, and thank the Queen for me, you are all good people!"
Su Qiu smiled, "You are a good person, the emperor is a good person, we are all good people, so we are a family!"
Xiao Yuanzi also laughed.
Yes, the Emperor and the Empress are a family. He and Suqiu are the Emperor and Empress’s eunuchs and maids-in-waiting. They are also a family and are happy.
He announced that Suqiu would be his sister from now on!
He will protect his sister for the rest of his life!
"..." On the side, Feng Yushu silently looked up at the palace maid and the eunuch.
She couldn't help but ask herself in her heart, is it really true that she has no sense of existence at all?
If they both treated her as a living person, they wouldn't leave her and go say sweet words to her, right?
In their eyes, is she a wooden person?
Perhaps her resentment was too strong, Xiao Yuanzi and Suqiu looked at her at the same time.
Then Xiao Yuanzi bowed his hands and apologized, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."
After saying that, he continued to cut the clothes on his abdomen, and with a few strokes he cut a hole in the scarred area of his abdomen.
Throwing away the cloth, he continued to bend down and cut the left leg near the knee.
After finishing the haircut, he stood up and looked at Feng Yushu.
"If I were not wearing any clothes, you would see tiny scars all over my body, but I dare not offend you, so I will only show you a few fatal scars. It is not a big deal if you do not want to see the other minor scars."
He pointed to his abdomen and ribs.
There was a cut there, as long as a palm.
The scar is still curled outward and looks shocking.
"I am missing a rib here."
"When I fell off the cliff, my ribs were broken and my internal organs were injured. The imperial physician has already declared me dead."
"But the Emperor refused to give up and told them to save me. So they decided to try their luck and cut open my flesh and removed the broken ribs."
"Then the imperial physician used an embroidery needle and thread to sew my wound shut. He then applied the imperial palace's special healing medicine and left it to fate."
"I was in a coma for half a month, had a high fever several times and nearly died. My wounds also fester and stink several times. Everyone thought I would not survive. Fortunately, I finally made it through and woke up."
"But even if I woke up, it would take me a full year to recover from my injuries before I could get out of bed and walk."
He stroked the place where the rib was missing, stroked the scar, and looked up into Feng Yushu's eyes.
"You see, this is because my life is worthless. The imperial physician dared to cut open my flesh and sew me up with an embroidery needle... If it was the emperor who was injured at that time, which imperial physician would dare to cut his flesh and use his flesh as embroidery cloth?"
He smiled, "The only reason I can survive is because of my humble fate. If it were the emperor, he would really..."
He shook his head, not daring to continue.
But even if he didn't say it, Feng Yushu knew it.
She stared blankly at Xiao Yuanzi's injury, and her already red eyes became even redder.
Looking at the rolled-up scar, the sunken area where a rib was missing, and then listening to Xiao Yuanzi's description, she seemed to have witnessed how the eunuch, who was only a teenager back then, struggled to crawl back from the gates of hell...
Cutting a living person, pricking and sewing with an embroidery needle, the very thought of this scene was terrifying to her!
My back is chilled!
Such a terrible injury should have been left on Uncle Wu.
It was my father who forced my fifth uncle to jump off the cliff, which is why my fifth uncle and this father-in-law suffered this disaster.
Compared to the hard life they had lived in the village in recent years, when their fifth uncle was only fourteen years old and was forced to jump off a cliff by his own brother, he was truly in hell and unable to escape, right?
After showing the injury on his abdomen, Xiao Yuanzi pointed to his knee.
His knees were covered with scars, and there was a circle of new flesh on his calves below his knees. It was the new flesh that grew after the injury and was slightly more protruding than other places.
"Look here! When I jumped off the cliff, my leg was broken. I spent six months recuperating, and the imperial physician repeatedly set the bone several times before it was finally healed to this state."
He sighed softly, "If this injury were to fall on the emperor, he would become a cripple like me, and there would be no way he could sit on the throne."
Feng Yushu looked at the legs and tears fell.
After all, she was only an eleven-year-old girl, and although she was filled with hatred, she could not remain indifferent to such cruel harm.
When he escaped from the cliff and saw Eunuch Yuan's wounds festering and stinking, and he had a high fever and was on the verge of death several times, how much hatred must Fifth Uncle have felt?
Because those injuries should have stayed on him.
He was the one who could best empathize with the pain and misery that Eunuch Yuan was feeling at that time.
So, that's why he hates his father so much and wants to kill him, right?
Seeing Feng Yushu crying, Xiao Yuanzi asked, "Do you want to see other scars on my body?"
Feng Yushu shook her head desperately, tears streaming down her face.
Seeing that she stopped looking, Xiao Yuanzi took the cloak from Suqiu and put it on himself to cover the two shocking scars.
He gathered his cloak and looked at Feng Yushu, speaking softly.
"Perhaps you don't remember, but before your father harmed the Emperor, you loved to cling to him. As soon as you saw him, you would open your arms and shout, 'Fifth Uncle, hug me!' "Fifth Uncle helped Shu'er catch butterflies, and Fifth Uncle helped Shu'er pick flowers..."
Feng Yushu stared at Xiao Yuanzi in a daze.
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