Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 919 A ​​Little Compassion

How evil can human nature be? There is probably no answer.

As the saying goes, "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs." This means that when natural disasters strike and the people are destitute, the cruelest thing to do is to eat one's own children. I have never heard of anyone eating their own children.

Yet, there was a woman who lived a life of luxury and comfort, yet for those ridiculous thoughts of competing for favor, she attacked her own infant son - extremely cruel, yet extremely naive and stupid, she even thought that she could frame the Imperial Concubine Bian with this act. Did she really think that the Bian family was vegetarian? If the Bian family was so easy to deal with, would the emperor have gone to such trouble to balance it?

It's no more than an ant trying to shake a tree.

In the end, it was just pity for the child.

The child was innocent, helpless, and had offended the Bian family. It was destined that the prince would not grow up... Moreover, he was made into a half-human, half-ghost appearance by his own mother. Although the emperor felt sorry for him, he was really scared to face such a face, so he had to let the imperial physician treat him a little, and ordered Zhang Dexian to send him out of the palace to fend for himself.

Before long, he forgot about his son - he didn't even ask Zhang Dexian where he had abandoned the child. After all, everyone knew that a ghost-like child still in swaddling clothes was just crying and waiting to die.

In the imperial family, a young son who has not yet grown up does not even have a name, so naturally no one will remember him.

If it weren't for the grimace under the brim of his hat, the emperor would have never recognized his son... His shaking hands stopped shaking, and he slowly fell to the edge of the bed, his eyebrows slightly lowered to avoid the other person's face, and said softly, "It's you... You are still alive... You, you have been..." He wanted to ask if you have been living well in these years, but he couldn't ask it when he got to his lips. How could he live well with such a face? Who in the world would accept such a person?
Li Yiwei stood there in a daze, looking at the emperor and then at Lin Yi. He really had no idea how these two people knew each other, and it seemed like they had known each other for a long time.

The imperial doctors breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, fortunately... it seems that it is an old acquaintance of His Majesty.

The old friend had no intention of reminiscing about the past. He just laughed strangely and said, "Want to ask me how I have been these years? Good! Thanks to Your Majesty, I have been very good! Power and money, I have obtained them all. I see those dignitaries in Yanjing who are used to looking down on others, kneeling down to pay homage to me, begging me to cure their hidden illnesses that cannot be spoken of, begging me to give them children so that their status as mothers can be secured by having children. I see them kneeling in front of me with mountains of gold and silver in their hands and licking my boots, and I feel happy!"

“I feel so refreshed!”

When he was excited, he danced with joy and laughed with his face up. His wide sleeves slipped down, revealing a small vermilion jar held tightly in his left hand. The jar looked unremarkable, even a little rough. Ji Wuyan was slightly stunned, and subconsciously looked at Ning Xiuyuan, met his gaze, and nodded almost imperceptibly - there was something strange about the jar.

Lin Yi didn't seem to notice it. He probably really felt that he was very happy during that time. The laughter from his chest, passing through his injured throat, reminded people of fingertips scratching one taut string after another, so harsh that it made the bones in the body tremble. Some people guessed his identity from his words, their faces turned pale, and they retreated repeatedly.

Shangguan Shou and Shen Qian had already retreated to the vicinity of the beaded curtain at Ji Wuyan's suggestion, waiting for an opportunity to evacuate first. He stood there, giving Ji Wuyan frequent glances, but the little girl didn't even look at him... The relieved imperial doctors had obviously forgotten that the other party had initially repeatedly admitted that the emperor's current appearance was due to him, but the emperor had not forgotten.

It was unknown whether he felt that he would not die after knowing the other party's identity, or whether he suddenly felt sentimental when he recalled the past. He leaned against the pillow and sighed, then said, "I... since you have come here, I think you already know about what happened back then, so I will not explain any more. However, I had no choice back then. You should know that someone like you would not live long even if you stayed in the palace... I had no choice but to send you away. I know that no matter who encounters such a thing, they will not be able to let it go. Now that you have vented your anger and made a mistake, let's each take a step back and let this matter go, how about it?"

"Revealed?" Lin Yi sneered, "Your Majesty is so gracious! I thought... Your Majesty would kill all my nine clans!"

Kill the nine clans? Back then, the woman had no powerful maternal clan. Some committed suicide, some were sentenced to death, and there were no more people left. Of the so-called nine clans, only the Li royal family was left... The emperor sneered in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He opened his mouth, then remembered that he didn't even know the other person's name, so he asked, "What's your name now?"

Lin Yi did not answer, but just looked at the emperor, who was weak, with a dark red face and was already at the end of his strength, and was trying hard to play the emotional card with him.

He didn't say anything, and the emperor didn't ask any more questions. It didn't matter to the emperor whether he was called A, B, C, D, or a demon. The emperor still lowered his eyebrows and didn't look at Lin Yi. After a while, he sighed softly, "It's just some misunderstandings... It's okay to talk about the misunderstandings. I'm not such an unreasonable person. You have cured the poison in my body. From now on, whether you want to stay or leave, I will follow your will. If you stay, you will have a luxurious life. If you leave, I will give you enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life. What do you think?"

Li Yiwei stood there, frowning and wanting to speak, but when his eyes met Zhang Dexian's horrified and confused expression, which seemed to want to beat his chest and stamp his feet, he swallowed the words back - things were too weird, and he could only wait and see what would happen.

Lin Yi stopped laughing. He lowered his head and played with the palm-sized jar. After a while, he paused for a moment and murmured, "Misunderstanding? How could it be a misunderstanding? I have been planning and laying out this plan for many years. I want you, the Li royal family, to kill each other and leave no one alive. I want Your Majesty to watch your sons die one after another... How could this plan that I have spent so much effort on be a misunderstanding?"

The emperor was out of breath, his eyes rolled back and he was about to faint from anger. Zhang Dexian was so scared that he patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

Zhang Dexian looked like he was about to cry.

He naturally guessed who the person in front of him was... Back then, it was him who had a little compassion... It was him! With that little bit of compassion that shouldn't have arisen, he couldn't bear to see the little prince's body exposed in the wilderness, so he found a small village and put it in a family's pigpen...