Chapter 132 The Autistic Prince's Tragic Childhood Experience
Shen Yuanwei laughed again.
She stroked her belly and told King Rui gently, "He didn't eat either. He said thank you, uncle. Uncle, please eat by yourself. The baby is not hungry. The baby is very happy just watching the uncle eat."
King Rui blinked and fed the pear into his mouth.
He ate slowly, bite by bite.
The baby is watching him, so he has to eat obediently in front of the baby.
Shen Yuanwei looked at the well-behaved Prince Rui and suddenly called him, "Ayou."
King Rui turned around and looked at her again.
She sighed softly, "Get well soon, and try to open your heart, okay? I can't be with you for much longer. If you still close your heart like this and refuse to contact anyone, who will understand your silent words when I'm gone?"
King Rui looked at her quietly without saying anything.
Shen Yuanwei raised her hand and gently tapped his forehead.
"Speak, you obviously understand, you can talk to us, you are not born autistic, you have been tortured and abused by your father and concubine, you are afraid to speak, you are used to hiding under the table, you have closed your heart, and you are unwilling to open it again..."
A few months ago, the Queen Mother asked her to find out whether Prince Rui's autism was a congenital problem or was caused by torture by the Imperial Concubine and the previous emperor.
After she became more familiar with Prince Rui, she learned from Prince Rui's inner thoughts what kind of life the child had lived under the Imperial Concubine.
Back then, the imperial concubine's biological son died while fleeing. Before she could get over the blow of losing her son, the late emperor made Jiang pregnant. Later, he gave Jiang's child to her to raise. How could she be willing to accept this?
She vented all her resentment on King Rui.
She never told King Rui who his biological mother was. She regarded herself as King Rui's biological mother. When King Rui was full of admiration for her and treated her as his dearest and most beloved mother, she used her identity as his biological mother to abuse the two-year-old child.
She knew what it meant to be heartbroken. If a child was bullied by outsiders, he would still expect his parents to save him. But if he was abused by his own mother, he would only feel despair from the bottom of his heart, because no one could save him...
At that time, whenever the two-year-old Prince Rui cried, the imperial concubine would grab his hair and slap him hard, making him dizzy and his mouth bleeding.
While eating, if Prince Rui's chopsticks accidentally touched the bowl and made a noise, the imperial concubine would snatch his bowl and chopsticks and throw them on the ground, then press his neck and make him lie on the ground like a dog and lick the food.
When Prince Rui complained to the late emperor, the late emperor said a few words to the imperial concubine and left. As soon as the late emperor left, the imperial concubine would ask the nanny to pull out Prince Rui's tongue and poke it with a needle until it bled, saying that this was the result of complaining, this was the result of talking nonsense...
A two-year-old child, who was still naive, had his tongue poked with bloody holes by his "biological mother". No matter how sensible he was, he couldn't stop crying. His tongue hurt so much that he could only cry louder than before...
The imperial concubine disliked his noise, so she had him thrown into the cellar and locked in a small cabinet in the cellar.
He was in a dark world. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't push the cabinet door open. He cried and shouted but no one responded.
When he was just over two years old, he was locked up in a narrow cupboard in a dark cellar by his “biological mother”, and no one could get any help from him no matter how much he cried out.
When he was about to starve to death, he was taken out for dinner by the imperial concubine.
The scalding hot soup burned his injured tongue, and he screamed uncontrollably. Then, the imperial concubine threw him into the cellar, and the maid with red lips stripped him of his clothes and locked him in a closet, where he endured hunger and cold, without seeing the sun...
Day after day, he lived this desperate life.
The more times he was stabbed on the tongue by needles and left bleeding, the more times he was stripped of his clothes and locked in a dark closet, he gradually realized -
If he wanted to survive, he had to keep his mouth shut and not speak or make any noise. As long as he behaved like a dead person, his mother would stop abusing him.
As a result, he, who was unloved and tortured, slowly closed his heart.
He no longer laughs, speaks, or expresses his emotions to others.
Every day he would crawl out of the cellar and eat obediently, then return to the cellar and lock himself in the cupboard, sitting there for the entire day. When he was hungry, he would go out again to eat some food and drink some water…
He lived in such a difficult and numb way, living alone like a ghost who could not stand the light.
Even after he was taken back by his biological mother and brother, he could no longer open his heart.
In his opinion, if his biological mother, the imperial concubine, hated him so much, how could this mother who only appeared when he was five years old not hate him?
If he made any noise, the Queen Mother would be annoyed with him and would torture him like an animal.
Deep down in his heart, he had already decided that he was a person that was not liked by others. He subconsciously told himself that he could not quarrel or make a scene, and that he had to live quietly in order to survive...
Thinking of this, Shen Yuanwei looked at King Rui with eyes full of pity.
She coaxed King Rui gently.
"Ayou, you are different from children with congenital autism. They are physically ill, and their bodies cannot get better if they cannot be cured. But you are different. Your mind is ill. As long as you remove the shackles on your mind, as long as you are willing to open your heart and accept the people around you, you can become a normal person again and you can get better."
King Rui still looked at her quietly, without any response to her words.
Seeing that she stopped talking, King Rui lowered his head and continued to eat his pear.
Shen Yuanwei held her chin with her hand.
"You refuse to talk, refuse to socialize with others, then when I, who understand you, leave, what are you going to do?"
"Ayou, don't you think it's a good feeling when others can understand you and do things according to your instructions? Don't you feel uncomfortable when they often do things that are completely opposite to what you want against your will?"
"You're upset, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be banging your head against the wall so often. Look, you're so upset that you're banging your head against the wall, so why can't you try to express your feelings to them? Is it harder to say a word to them than banging your head against the wall?"
"Ayou, would you please give it a try?"
"Let's try it later. If the food that the Queen Mother brings you contains something you don't like or don't want to eat, don't hide under the table. Be brave and tell her that you don't like it, okay?"
"If someone makes you unhappy or doesn't like you, just tell them, I don't want this, I want that..."
King Rui gnawed the pear silently. He gnawed until only the sour core was left, but he was still concentrating on gnawing.
A voice in his heart said, "I have always been busy and I don't go to see my sister. My sister will see that I am busy and won't talk to me anymore, right?"
“…”
Shen Yuanwei held her forehead and looked at him pretending to be busy, feeling both amused and helpless.
This little rascal.
If he didn't want to listen to her nagging, he wouldn't meet her eyes and pretend to be busy. Why was he so childish?
Shen Yuanwei leaned close to his cheek, "Xie Tianyou, you can say it in your heart, why can't you express it with your mouth? Try to be brave, okay?"
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