I was given the contraceptive soup and became the emperor's white moonlight

"Are you completely well?" Su Minglang looked Nan Xing up and down with concern: "You really scared me, Nan Xing."

"I know I was wrong, Your Majesty. Thank you for your concern." Nan Xing lowered her head a little embarrassedly. She didn't dare to look at Su Minglang's expression, and naturally missed the pity in her eyes.

"I will not mention the past anymore, Nanxing. Everyone has their own past. Maybe it's something you want others to know, or maybe it's something you don't want others to know."

"This is your freedom, and I am willing to respect you." Su Minglang paused, sorted out his thoughts, and then continued: "I have always believed in not employing people if you doubt them, and do not doubt people if you employ them."

"I will not doubt you because of your secret, and I will not..."

"Your Majesty!" Nan Xing raised her head abruptly, staring at him stubbornly with her red eyes, "I didn't mean to hide it from you, but, but..."

Nan Xing seemed to have thought of something difficult to talk about. She was stuck in place, shaking and trembling. "It's just that even I am trying my best to escape from the past and don't want to face it."

"What are you afraid of, Nanxing?" Su Minglang gently placed his hand on her shoulder. "Face it instead of running away from it. Only in this way can you get rid of it completely."

"I, I don't know, Master..." Nan Xing squatted down uncomfortably and hugged herself tightly, "I'm afraid, afraid that I will eventually become like them in my memory, so I'm worried, I'm afraid, I can't do anything."

"No!" Su Minglang's hand on her shoulder suddenly tightened, causing Nanxing to groan in pain. "I'm watching you, Nanxing. We are all watching you, Nanxing. You definitely haven't grown up to be a bad person. Don't worry, don't worry."

"..." Nan Xing's shaking body gradually calmed down under Su Minglang's comfort. After experiencing a great emotional fluctuation, she was panting slightly and her voice became weaker. "Master, do you know about the flood in Qinchuan a few years ago?"

"I've heard a little about it." Su Minglang nodded slightly. She tried hard to search her mind for all the news about the flood disaster in the two worlds, but based on her memory, there was not much news about the natural disaster. Or perhaps the natural disaster was just something that people living in the capital heard of by chance, nothing more.

"Did you come to the capital because of the natural disaster?" Su Minglang asked tentatively in a lowered voice. After all, she was not used to doing such things as poking people in the sore spot.

"Yes, that's true, but now I am also very grateful for that natural disaster." Nan Xing smiled bitterly twice, looking into the distance, and she fell into memories without knowing when.

"Although my mother is not a wealthy person, she is from a well-off family. Her family is considered a noble family in the local area. Although I am a daughter of a concubine, I should have a better marriage."

"My father was born into a hunter family, a nameless family in the mountains, living on the income from hunting. But it was this poor boy who saved my grandfather who was lost in the woods. My grandfather was grateful for his life-saving grace and agreed to marry him. It would have been fine if he had become a live-in son-in-law, but my grandfather was afraid of bringing disgrace to my father's family, so he insisted on marrying his daughter."

"My stepmother naturally didn't want her daughter to marry such a poor boy, so she used filial piety to pressure my mother and forced her to marry my father. Fortunately, although my father was poor at that time, he was still responsible." Nanxing frowned, and suddenly smiled with relief, "But people will change."

"My mother passed away early and left no son for my father. My father used the dowry my mother brought to marry another wife, and she also dutifully gave birth to children for my father."

"Maybe God couldn't bear it anymore and sent down a natural disaster. All the gold, silver and jade were washed away by a flood. But without the money, the family's livelihood would be in jeopardy."

"People were dying of starvation and disease every day, and soon someone came to buy me. My father and stepmother sold me without saying a word, just to buy some food for their precious son."

"Nanxing..." Su Minglang thought for a moment and then spoke to stop her: "If you don't want to mention it, then don't say it anymore. I said, I won't do that because of you..."

"It's okay, Master. I've let it go now. I don't feel anything even if I say it out loud. Just let me finish!" Nan Xing smiled and said, "I've kept these words in my heart for many years. Today I can finally get them out."

Seeing this, Su Minglang didn't say anything more. Nanxing looked at her gratefully, and the bitterness at the corners of her mouth faded a little.

"On the day my mother passed away, she grabbed my father's hand and asked him to swear that he would take good care of me for the rest of his life. I didn't know why before, but now I think that she probably knew that her husband, whom she lived with day and night, was not as responsible as he appeared to be."

"My mother was such an excellent person!" Nan Xing could no longer piece together the image of her mother in her mind, "But fate betrayed her, time and time again."

"After being sold, I came to the capital. Those with outstanding looks were sold to brothels, and the remaining skinny ones like us were kept for a short time because they found a good and profitable business."

"Palace maids can get a lot of money when they enter the palace. Many poor families will send their daughters to the palace in exchange for some money to settle down and have a place to eat. They were attracted by the money, so they packed us up and sent us all to the palace."

"The lucky ones can stay, and after entering the palace, they have to hand over a large portion of their monthly salary. The unlucky ones cannot stay, and will be treated as abandoned children and sold to ordinary families as domestic slaves. They will be slaves for their entire lives, or even for generations."

"Sending people into the palace? You're so bold!" Su Minglang's expression restrained. When the palace maids and eunuchs entered the palace, it was not only necessary to check their physical conditions, but also their household registration, for fear that someone with ulterior motives would sneak in. But now, this kind of transaction was actually being carried out quietly under the imperial city, and it had even been going on for a long time.

"Is there no one resisting? After all, if this matter is exposed, they will definitely be in trouble!"

"Because they seemed to be attached to a powerful person, they threatened us that if we said something we shouldn't, our parents and relatives would suffer. Most of them didn't want to implicate their families even if they were sold, and the rest knew that they were not capable enough to compete with them, so no one resisted."

"Nanxing, everything is fine. I am here, we are here."