Outsiders also have golden fingers

Chapter 241 One life for another

As soon as the words were spoken, Xiaojun seemed to have the courage and his expression became firm:
"Mom, I will stay in this courtyard and won't go anywhere! It's not safe outside. My uncle has been kidnapped."

After listening to Lu Liangdi's words, her mother sent someone to fetch her uncle and grandmother, but her uncle was kidnapped on the way.

But his mother became furious and slapped him to the ground:

"You unfilial son, dare to disobey me!"

He raised his head with tears streaming down his face, looking at the mother who gave birth to him and raised him with pain, despair and great disappointment. He knew that he had to go.

But he didn't want to die at all. He deeply felt that life would be much better when he grew up.

During the day, he had various classes and practices, and even ate in the front yard with the teachers and guards. At night, it was too late after practicing the exercises, and he didn't see his mother very often anymore, so he didn't want to die!
"Mom, I don't want to die. I can trade my life for my sister's life, but I don't want to trade my life for my uncle's life!"

Just now he heard someone telling his mother that if he wanted his uncle to survive, he should send him there, one life for another.

He had refused to beg for mercy from his mother for several years, but now he was begging for mercy at all costs because he didn't want to die, he wanted to live.

I want to grow up with my sister, I want to learn a lot of things, learn great skills, be a useful person, and provide for my nanny in the future.

The angry mother became even more ferocious and terrifying. She picked up the feather duster and slapped him all over his face.

Grandma Zhu was getting older and sicker, and eventually she couldn't walk anymore. Carrying her around would only slow her down, so she stayed at the last place where she stayed to recuperate, so no one was trying to protect her anymore.

He curled up on the ground and covered his face with his arms, sobbing silently without resisting at all. This was what his wet nurse had taught him.

He protected his face because he was the emperor's eldest grandson, and his dignity and face were of the utmost importance.

Failure to resist is because resistance is ineffective and will lead to double punishment.

"Mom! Don't hit my brother! Don't hit my brother!"

A sharp cry came from his sister Mingzhu. He raised his head and wanted her to leave. He didn't want her to see his miserable condition, which would scare her.

But his sister threw herself on him, her soft little body tightly protecting him, crying:

"Mom, do you want to hit my brother? It will hurt him!"

Tears fell on his neck, warm and moist.

My mother was furious: "Are you all dead? Take the princess away quickly!"

Because they also cared about canonization, he and his younger brother were called the emperor's grandson according to their ranking, and his sisters were called the princess.

He endured the pain, carefully helped his sister to stand up, and said while wiping her tears:

"Don't pull my sister hard, you'll scare her. I'll go, I'll freshen up and change my clothes!"

I comforted my sister a few more words and told her to eat well and sleep well, not to run around alone, and to read more books when she grows up.

He vaguely understood in his heart that he might never see his sister again.

He took off the tawny jade pendant with the dragon pattern from his waist and stuffed it into her small purse for snacks. There was a hidden word "jun" on it, which was a symbol of his status. From now on, he would accompany his sister on his behalf.

Both father's children have children, and so does the younger sister. The boy has topaz with a dragon pattern, and the girl has ruby ​​with a phoenix pattern.

He went back to the house, carefully put on the sapphire lock with "black dragon and red fish head meeting head", cleaned up and followed the visitor calmly.

When he was about to leave the hospital, he looked back and saw his mother holding her sister standing in the yard looking at him.

The look in his eyes was something he had never seen before, very complex and strange.The younger sister seemed to feel something and cried out to her brother not to leave. She cried and struggled to get down.

He glanced at his sister's cute little face with nostalgia, turned and left, and his sister cried louder.

He wiped the tears from his face. After this delay, it was already dusk.

He was brought in front of his grandfather. His thin, fleshless face looked at him sternly. He coughed a few times from time to time and said in a hoarse voice:
"If you're to blame, it's your father. You're paying off his debt!"

He looked at him without saying a word, and the old man became angry and said: "He Sheng, take him down quickly and be quick with your hands and feet!"

He Sheng came in, looked at him with an unclear expression, and came to pull him away.

The old man sneered: "If you don't give him anything to eat, let him go with an empty stomach. He will suffer the same fate as my beloved wife and son!"

He Sheng hesitated, then responded and took him to the empty and dark backyard, into a room with a weak candlelight.

There was a young eunuch inside. He knew that his name was Xiao Yuanzi, he was fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was He Sheng's second apprentice. He looked at him with sympathy and unbearability, and his whole body seemed to be trembling.

There was a plate of small and exquisite snacks on the table, exuding a light frankincense, and a cup of steaming tea, which was a little dark in color.

"Master, do you really want it? My legs are weak and I can't stop shaking since just now! I've only swatted a few flies and mosquitoes since I was a kid, but this is..."

He Sheng was very particular about accepting disciples. The eldest disciple was smart and capable and supported the family, while the younger disciple was kind, soft-hearted, considerate and filial, so I didn't think it was strange.

"What can I do about the emperor's order and the medicine given by the Lu family? If I don't do it, you, me, your senior brother and ancestor, all won't survive!
If I don't do it, someone else will. Anyway, the emperor's eldest grandson cannot escape today. His father is not here and his mother is not protecting him. What can others do?
You don’t know how cruel he is, not even letting me eat and letting him go with an empty stomach! "

"Ah? Is this still his biological grandfather?" Xiao Yuanzi shivered more and more. How could the emperor's eldest grandson be more pitiful than his servant?
He Sheng sighed deeply and looked at Xiaojun with great pity:

"Don't be afraid, the emperor's eldest grandson. This plate of snacks is freshly made and tastes very good. Eat it quickly. We just had dinner not long ago. You won't be able to eat any more."

Xiaojun didn't understand at the time, but later he learned that people have certain things to do before they die, and they cannot leave on an empty stomach, otherwise they will starve to death.

Even a death row prisoner was given a bowl of rice before his death. In his grandfather's eyes, he was not as good as a death row prisoner.

He nodded obediently, quickly finished his snack, and looked at the master and apprentice calmly.

He Sheng picked up the tea cup with a guilty and sad expression: "The great emperor must be thirsty after eating the snacks. Let's drink this cup of tea."

Little Yuanzi groaned, wrapped his arms around the tea, and burst into tears: "The grandson of the emperor is only six years old."

"There is no time to delay!"

Xiaojun understood something, and walked over:

"You two father-in-laws, don't be embarrassed. I don't blame you. If you have the opportunity in the future, please look after Princess Mingzhu."

Xiao Yuanzi cried harder and harder.

He Sheng sighed, walked out of the room, looked around, closed the door and lowered his voice:

"To tell you the truth, I changed the Lu family's medicine!

What's in this is the fake death medicine given by your master, the secret medicine that the late prince gave him back then!

There is only one pill. It was given to the emperor when he was the King of Qin County and he was only about five years old. It was used to save his life when he fled from the capital. Even the emperor did not know the existence of this medicine.

I thought I wouldn't need it in the future, so I replaced it privately. Although I couldn't keep the emperor's eldest grandson safe, it still gave him a way to survive. Maybe the emperor's eldest grandson would have a good life and survive. "

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