Dongying insisted that Xiaobao didn't look like Feng Jinyuan. Fendai was a little confused and asked in a low voice, "Really?"
Dongying nodded, "No, not at all."
"Maybe I'm overthinking it." Feng Fendai murmured, and leaned back on the recliner again, looking lazy and a little lonely. Dongying couldn't figure out whether Feng Fendai rekindled her hatred for Feng because Xiaobao looked like Feng Jinyuan, or was she slightly disappointed because she said Xiaobao didn't look like Feng Jinyuan in the end.
Dongying was still kneeling on the ground, looking at Fendai, with a hint of sympathy in her heart. This fourth young lady of the Feng family! She was just too pretentious. In fact, her life should have been good. Although the Feng family was gone, she had an engagement with the fifth prince, and the fifth prince treated her very well. If she was willing to be good, now at the age of fourteen, it would be time for her to arrange her dowry and marriage. But Feng Fendai was too unsatisfied. She always wanted to go further, but she didn't know that with this dissatisfaction, she became less happy and gloomier day by day. When she was young, she could be said to be willful and unruly, but now she was like a woman full of resentment. Even the servants in the mansion would stay away from her as far as possible, and the fifth prince was not willing to approach her anymore.
She was Feng Fendai's personal attendant. To be honest, she had thought of leaving many times. Unfortunately, with her indenture in someone else's hands, where could she go? She was afraid that if she followed such a master, she would be implicated and killed sooner or later. Dongying thought that she should persuade Fendai more. Now that the Sixth Prince was in power, he was a benevolent prince. As long as Fendai stopped instigating and provoking trouble, she would still be able to live a good life in the future.
So Dong Ying mustered up her courage, risking being scolded by the now moody and violent Feng Fendai, and continued, "Miss, the Fifth Prince just came here, stood in the corridor for a while, and then left."
"Yeah." Fendai half-closed her eyes and only said "yeah" without any further response. After a while, she murmured again, "He comes when he wants and leaves when he wants. His legs are on him, I can't control him. But I don't want to see him. Next time he comes, just stop him!"
"Miss!" Dong Ying said, "Miss, if you are unhappy, you can just vent your anger on the servants, but you can't avoid seeing the Fifth Prince! The mansion we live in now was given by the Fifth Prince, so it can be considered... living under someone else's roof! The Fifth Prince treats you well, you can't reject him all at once."
Fendai finally opened her eyes again, looked at Dongying for a while, and then said: "Don't worry, if one day I have nothing, even the fifth prince, I will give you enough silver and return your indentures, so that you can go out and live a good life. I will not let you go to hell with me."
Dong Ying shivered with fear and kowtowed quickly: "That's not what I meant. Please don't think too much, Miss. I just hope that you can be happier."
"Happy?" Fendai sneered, "Aren't people living for wealth and power? Only with these two things can they be truly happy. Look at the Feng Mansion in the past. Feng Jinyuan was already the prime minister, but he still wanted to go one step further and wanted to give Feng Chenyu to a prince who could inherit the throne and then become the father-in-law of the emperor. The Feng Mansion did not realize this ideal, so no one of them was happy, and I did not realize my ideal, so I am not happy either."
What else could Dong Ying say? To be outstanding, to surpass everyone in the Feng family, to be above the rest of the world, this had become an almost perverted obsession in Fendai's heart. It was useless for her to say more, so she could only step aside silently and pray that the Fifth Prince would tolerate Fendai a little longer.
After Yao Xian and Feng Yuheng's diagnosis and treatment, the wound on Emperor Tianwu's body healed day by day. Although that part was not as flexible as before and several nerves had died, it at least did not affect the appearance and normal metabolic function, so it was considered a successful operation.
But Emperor Tianwu himself still had no spirit, he was either in a daze or saying something negative all day long, no matter how Zhang Yuan coaxed and persuaded him, he just couldn't be happy. Fortunately, the Sixth Prince Xuan Tianfeng was supporting the court now, so the old emperor's behavior did not have much impact on the country's destiny.
On this day, Tianwu was finally able to walk. He tried to move a few steps in the inner hall. Although it was still a little painful, it was within the tolerable range and did not hinder him. Zhang Yuan was very happy that his injury had improved so much. He kept praising: "Princess Yu and Doctor Yao are so amazing! They are so amazing!" After that, he jokingly said: "Your Majesty, do you think it is possible to reconnect my treasure?"
Emperor Tianwu was amused by the little eunuch. He raised his hand and patted Zhang Yuan on the head, scolding him with a smile: "What are you thinking? Your thing has been cut off for more than ten or twenty years. If you reattach it, it will be the same as pretending to be a corpse. Don't you feel disgusted when you see it?"
"It's not disgusting to look at your own treasure." Zhang Yuan rubbed his head, feeling happy. The fact that Emperor Tianwu had the strength to slap him meant that the man's spirit had not been completely broken. Although he was depressed, he was not hopeless. He said, "Your Majesty, why don't you give me an order to go to the place where the treasure is kept to take a look? What if there is hope?"
"What's the matter? You don't want to serve me anymore?" Emperor Tianwu looked at the little eunuch and frowned. "You want to take the baby back so urgently, do you want to abandon me and leave the palace or what?"
"No! Oh, I'm just teasing you! It's been almost 20 years since I cut that thing off. I don't want it anymore, I don't want it anymore." He waved his hand and said it casually. But in fact, who doesn't want his treasure as a man? But if you have a treasure, you can no longer serve in the palace. If you want to accompany the old emperor, you definitely can't have that thing. After weighing it this way, he felt that between the treasure and the old emperor, he still valued the old emperor more. So he said again: "If you have to choose between the two, I will choose you, don't worry!"
"Hmph!" Emperor Tianwu rolled his eyes at the little eunuch. "When you're happy, you keep saying 'you' to me'. When you're unhappy, you keep saying 'you' to me'. I've been scolded by you a lot when you've been around me. If I could really take that thing back from you, you'd better get out of here as soon as possible!" He said, and subconsciously wiped his face again. His expression became even more desolate, and then he sighed: "Alas! If even you leave, I really won't have much to live for."
"Pooh, pooh, pooh! What is the emperor talking about?" Zhang Yuan was anxious. "Where can I go? I am a member of the palace in life and a ghost of the palace in death. Didn't we agree that I would follow the emperor wherever he goes? It's all my fault for talking too much. I mentioned taking the treasure. Not to mention that I can't take it, even if I can, I don't want it. I'll tell the people who are guarding the palace treasure to ruin it. It's completely ruined! Come on, let's change the subject."
Emperor Tianwu was amused. This dead eunuch was quite persistent. But it was good this way. He was really afraid that Xiao Yuanzi would leave quietly like Concubine Yun. Although he knew where she was, he would still feel sad. "Let's change the subject..." The old emperor thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Ask someone to carry me to the death row to take a look! I heard that Lao Ba and Liu are imprisoned there, I want to go and take a look."
Zhang Yuan was not very happy to let Emperor Tianwu go to the death row, but he was always curious about what those two people were like in the death row. In addition, Emperor Tianwu added later: "They have harmed me to this extent. I must know whether the sins they have suffered are worth the sins I have suffered. If Ming'er and Ah Heng are too kind, then I will add more fuel to the fire."
Zhang Yuan thought that going there would also help him relieve his anger, so he nodded, went outside to call for a jade sedan chair, and carried Emperor Tianwu to the death row. ℃≡℃≡℃≡Pavilion℃≡
The death row in the palace has always been sparsely populated, because not everyone is qualified to be imprisoned here. Generally speaking, the prisoners are either royal relatives or concubines in the palace, and such people rarely commit serious crimes. Therefore, guarding the death row is a very lonely job. The guards often cannot guard a prisoner for many years, and the death row has become an empty cell, but in the past six months or so, it has ushered in unprecedented bustle.
The Eighth Prince went in and out twice, and when he went in the second time, he brought Concubine Yuan with him. In addition, the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu arranged such a good show. Every day, just listening to the Eighth Prince's wailing, people also felt that this death row had a little more life. Not to mention Liu, in order to have a better life in the prison, she used all her tricks to seduce the guards. Every guard was seduced by her, and some were even grabbed by the arms with great force and their big hands were forced into their chests.
However, the guards were still firm in their stance, knowing who they could sleep with and who they couldn't. Although Liu had fallen to such a state, she was still the emperor's woman after all. How many of them dared to sleep with the emperor's woman? Even if the emperor didn't want her, it was not allowed. Not to mention that Liu had been locked up in the death row for so many days, she had lost her former beauty, was smelly, ragged, and her hair was stained with her own excrement, which made people nauseous at the sight of her. Who would still want to be seduced?
This was the scene that Emperor Tianwu saw when he arrived. He even had to look very carefully to recognize that the crazy woman was the former Concubine Yuan.
In the cell opposite Liu, the naked Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo had his lower body completely rotten, all the way to the thighs, but the itchiness had not subsided and was spreading. He was almost driven crazy by the days when he couldn't scratch with his hands or feet, and he was just wailing unconsciously all day long, and he didn't even know that Emperor Tianwu had come.
But he didn't know, but Liu knew. The woman rushed forward and hit the prison door with her whole body. She stretched out her arms and tried to grab Emperor Tianwu. Unfortunately, she was too far away and couldn't catch anything. She shouted loudly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, please forgive me! I really know I was wrong! All this was the idea of the Eighth Prince, he ordered me to do it! Your Majesty!"
She cried loudly, putting all the blame on Xuan Tianmo. Emperor Tianwu looked at the two with disgust in his eyes, but at the same time he was also proud. Especially when he saw Xuan Tianmo being tied up, he was so happy that he said to Zhang Yuan: "Laojiu and Ah Heng are really geniuses! They can come up with such a trick, I admire them!"
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