Chapter 369: Mom, I'm Cold
That night, it snowed heavily all night long.
Mo Junxing was hugged by his mother, but he was still shivering with cold.
The snowflakes that kept drifting in from the window eaves fell on him.
He could not feel the beauty, only waves of coldness.
His limbs were frozen stiff.
"Mom, I'm cold."
He spoke with difficulty.
Every time I spoke a word, I felt like cold air was rushing down my throat.
His mother held him in her arms, rubbing his hands as she spoke.
"It's okay, it will be fine soon."
"Mom will rub it for you, and you won't be cold when you fall asleep."
"Just a good night's sleep and the day will come."
"When it gets light, we'll be warm."
"Um."
He nodded slowly.
"Mother sleeps too."
His mother rubbed his hands, which made them less cold, and soon he fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up the next day, the sun was shining on his body, warm.
He stood up happily and kept shaking his mother beside him.
"Mom, you're right. It's daylight now, warmer, and I'm not cold anymore."
However, his mother's body became cold and stiff, and no matter how long he shook it, there was no movement.
He thought his mother was hungry, so he secretly ran out to find food for her.
However, because his hands and feet were stiff, he was discovered by the eunuchs in the imperial kitchen when he was doing that. They caught him and beat him until his skin was torn.
He still secretly put a small steamed bun in his arms, and thus it was preserved.
He dragged his heavy body and limped back to the cold palace. He wiped the blood off the steamed bun and then handed it to his mother.
"Mom, look, I brought you some steamed buns. Do you think they're delicious?"
"Wait until you finish eating, then you can go to sleep."
However, my mother still closed her eyes, said nothing, and her face turned gray.
He didn't know what was wrong with his mother, so he changed her position.
But my mother still didn't say anything.
"Mom, you really don't want to eat?"
"If you don't want to eat, then I'll eat half, okay? I'm really hungry. When I'm full, I'll go find you something else to eat."
After Mo Junxing finished speaking, seeing that his mother didn't say anything, he broke the bun in half and quickly stuffed it into his mouth.
However, it was too cold and the steamed buns were too hard.
He was soon choked by the steamed bun and couldn't breathe.
He kept patting his chest, but it was still useless.
He could only look at his mother helplessly.
Finally, he fell to the ground with a blue face, and his back hit his mother's raised arm.
His mother's arm was very hard and it hurt his back, but almost instantly, Mo Junxing spat out the steamed bun in his mouth.
He finally got a chance to breathe and lay on the ground gasping for air.
After he recovered, he picked up the steamed bun again and put it into his mouth in small bites.
He was afraid of choking again, so he went to the yard and grabbed a handful of snow and put it in his mouth.
Only after he had swallowed half a steamed bun did he finally stop feeling hungry.
However, he was still afraid that his mother would be hungry, so he tore the other half of the steamed bun into small pieces and put them into his mother's mouth.
But my mother still closed her eyes and didn't open her mouth.
Little Mo Junxing was very troubled.
So in the dark of night, he secretly went to the imperial kitchen again.
I was lucky this time.
The maid from the imperial kitchen was drunk and fell asleep leaning against the wall.
Mo Junxing took the remaining pieces of chicken from the leftovers on her table and ran back quickly.
I even fell on the way because the ground was too slippery.
However, when he returned, his mother still refused to eat.
He still ate half of it, along with the half of the steamed bun he had eaten during the day.
In this way, Mo Junxing would steal all kinds of food for his mother every time, but his mother never ate it once.
And so, the winter passed.
It was not until the eunuch who was cleaning smelled a foul stench that he opened the door of the cold palace.
Then, everyone saw Mo Junxing lying next to the rotten corpse.
It was also at that time that Mo Junxing realized that his mother was dead, that was why she had never spoken to him.
After his mother died, his life was not much better than before, and was even worse.
It was rumored in the palace that he was born with bad luck and had killed his own mother, yet he was able to live with her corpse for several months.
My mother's body was already stinking, but he didn't even know to call for help. He must be a pervert.
Therefore, Mo Junxing will not only be bullied, but also scolded and beaten.
But his father never looked at him or thought of him.
Until one day, he saw a boy who was dressed very exquisitely.
The boy looked a few years older than himself, but he was a "fool" who even needed to be fed by others.
He also needs someone to fan him.
Even when walking, he needs someone to carry or lift him.
Mo Junxing didn't understand at that time, but later he found out that this was the prince.
The queen's only son and the crown prince of Da Qi.
He has been pampered since childhood.
It also made him lawless.
He watched the prince come to the river and insisted that his servants go back to the hall to get something for him.
He didn't know why he got angry and scolded all the servants.
And from that day on, Mo Junxing would observe him quietly.
He knew when the prince would rest, and even knew his temper and what he would do when he got angry.
So, when the prince got angry again, he stood by the lake and kept stamping his feet because of anger.
But because of this, the soil by the river became loose due to days of rain, and his body fell into the river uncontrollably.
The eunuchs and palace maids around him screamed and tried to fish it out.
However, the prince was never found.
At this time, Mo Junxing jumped into the water, found the prince's figure among the water plants, and quietly cut off the water plants wrapped around his legs, and then pulled him out.
After rescuing the man to the shore, Mo Junxing gave the prince first aid at all costs, thus saving the prince's life.
It was also because of this that the prince remembered Mo Junxing's name and trusted Mo Junxing very much.
When the Queen learned that it was Mo Junxing who saved the Crown Prince, she asked his name.
He knelt on the ground, his small body trembling slightly from the cold.
"Your Majesty, I... your son's name is Mo Junxing."
The Queen frowned.
"Is he still a prince?"
The nanny beside her quickly reminded her, "He is the prince born to that foot-washing maid. He stayed with his mother's corpse for three months."
Upon hearing this, the Queen couldn't help but cover her mouth and nose in disgust and waved her hands.
"Since you saved His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I must express my sincere gratitude. If you have free time in the future, please accompany the Crown Prince to study."
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