A month later, Zheng Shuxian gave birth to her son.
Zheng Shuxian felt her heart soften as she looked at the red-cheeked child that the maidservant carried over.
In the following days, Zheng Shuxian focused all her attention on raising her child. She did not care about the relationship between the Third Prince and Li Ruyi. It was as if she and her child were the only ones left in the world.
However, life was sometimes so difficult.
When the child was three years old, Zheng Shuxian and the child were playing in the Imperial Garden when Li Ruyi stopped them. Zheng Shuxian didn't keep an eye on the child and the child disappeared without a trace. By the time she was found, her child was already dead.
Looking at the wet child with water plants on his body, Zheng Shuxian felt as if her heart had been dug out from her chest.
Zheng Shuxian's eyes were hot, but she could not cry.
Zheng Shuxian looked at Li Ruyi, who was pretending to be sad, and bent down to pick up the child. She walked step by step towards her palace.
Soon, the Third Prince's decree came.
He did not comfort Zheng Shuxian, who had lost her child. Instead, he reprimanded her for not taking good care of the Third Prince and demoted her to a concubine.
Zheng Shuxian did not mind the Third Prince's punishment at all.
Her heart died the moment she lost her child. Now, the only reason she was alive was revenge.
Zheng Shuxian summoned her current Princess Changping to the palace.
After that, the mother and daughter talked for four hours in the palace. When Princess Changping came out again, the court had changed.
The Defender-general of the State, who had always supported the Third Prince, became slippery. Naturally, the people around the Defender-general of the State were the same. This made the Third Prince, who had always relied on the Defender-general of the State, feel helpless.
Then, he began to realize that his confidants were kicked out of the court one by one. As for him, he was helpless because he did not have complete control of the court.
The Third Prince was not yet 30 years old, so he was no match for the Defender-general of the State.
After the Defender-general of the State removed all of the Third Prince's confidants from the court, he was forced to abdicate.
After the Third Prince's abdication, the one who ascended the throne was the Eighth Prince, who was the most cowardly of the eight princes.
After the Eighth Prince ascended the throne, he changed his cowardly style and became tough. It was obvious that he had been hiding his strength.
The Third Prince regretted it, but it was too late.
The first thing the Eighth Prince did after ascending the throne was to visit Zheng Shuxian.
From the Eighth Prince's description, Zheng Shuxian found out that it was the Eighth Prince who took the initiative to find the Defender-general of the State and offered to ascend to the throne. He also told Zheng Shuxian that he had already taken the contraceptive pill and would not have children in this life. After he passed away, he would abdicate and choose one of the Zheng family to be the Emperor.
The reason why he did all this was because Zheng Shuxian had helped him before.
Only then did Zheng Shuxian recall that she had helped a little boy before.
She didn't expect that her casual help would be remembered for so long.
Zheng Shuxian looked at the Eighth Prince, who had repaid her with such a favor, and then thought of the ungrateful Third Prince. Zheng Shuxian suddenly smiled.
It turned out that sometimes, even if you treat someone well, they won't treat you well. First of all, that person is a person.
Zheng Shuxian later went to see the Third Prince.
At this time, the Third Prince had already been put under house arrest by the Eighth Prince. The Third Prince's face was no longer as high-spirited as before. When he saw Zheng Shuxian again, he first scolded her and called her family traitors. Later, he begged and said that as long as Zheng Shuxian was willing to ask the Defender-general of the State to let him ascend to the throne again, he would treat Zheng Shuxian well.
The Third Prince's words made Zheng Shuxian, who had already given up, even more despair.
As a husband, shouldn't treating his wife well be good?
Why did it become a bargaining chip when it came to the Third Prince?
After this meeting, Zheng Shuxian didn't see the Third Prince again.
Zheng Shuxian's body had already begun to deteriorate when her child died. Now that she saw the Third Prince's sorry state, she was like a punctured balloon and quickly weakened.
After a month, Zheng Shuxian closed her eyes.
Zheng Shuxian mistook a wolf for a lover, which delayed her life and caused the death of her child.
Therefore, Zheng Shuxian hoped that Jiujiu would be able to find a good person for her. If possible, she hoped that Jiujiu would take good care of her child for her.
When Jiujiu opened her eyes, she was sitting next to a wonton stall on the street with a bowl of steaming hot wontons in front of her.
The skin of the wonton, which was as thin as paper, was wrapped with pink meat stuffing, decorated with green onions, and sprinkled with sesame oil. It was very tempting.
Jiujiu picked up her chopsticks and picked up a wonton. She put it in her mouth and bit it. The skin was thin and the meat was tender. After drinking a mouthful of soup, it was sweet and fresh. It was really delicious.
Jiujiu ate two bowls of wonton in one go before she was full.
She took out a piece of broken silver from her purse and threw it to the wonton stall owner. Jiujiu turned and walked to the stall where the candy figurines were made.
Jiujiu played as she walked. Soon, her hands were full.
Just as Jiujiu was about to go back, she suddenly heard a child crying for help.
Jiujiu turned around and walked into a small alley at the side. Then, she saw a few people pressing down on a child and beating him up.
The child was protecting his head with both hands. Blood was flowing out from the gaps between his hands. If they continued to beat him, he would definitely die.
Jiujiu quickly shouted, "What are you doing?"
The people who were beating the child immediately looked up. The moment they saw Jiujiu, they said without thinking, "Get lost."
In their eyes, Jiujiu, this little girl, was not a threat at all.
Jiujiu directly returned a kick to the man's' get lost '.
Although Zheng Shuxian acted like she was living a peaceful life in front of the Third Prince, she was still someone from the Great General's Estate. How could she not know martial arts?
She might not be a match for other people, but it was more than enough to beat these people who had never learned martial arts.
Jiujiu skillfully kicked the man directly to the wall.
The rest of the people were beaten to the ground by Jiujiu and could not get up.
Jiujiu snorted coldly, "Get lost."
The previously aggressive crowd immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
After the people who were beating the child left, Jiujiu bent down to help the child up.
The child's clothes were already dirty from the mud. His face was a mixture of blood and mud. Only one of his eyes was left, shining like the stars in the sky.
Jiujiu habitually patted the child's head and said, "Don't be afraid. I'll take you to wash your face."
At this moment, the child was especially obedient to Jiujiu, probably because she had just saved him. When he heard that Jiujiu was going to take him to wash his face, he immediately grabbed Jiujiu's hand and walked out of the alley step by step.
After Jiujiu went out, she happened to meet the servant girl she had found. She took the child to a nearby clothing store and bought him a set of clothes and a bath.
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