Prince Rui, don't spoil your adopted daughter too much: she will eventually get married

"Ah——" Someone hit Zhai Yun's nose with a stick.

His already weak body was completely exhausted after struggling in the water for most of the day.

A pungent sour feeling came up in my nose, and tears immediately filled my eyes.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, she once again experienced the feeling of being bullied and unable to resist.

His body fell heavily backwards, and his arms were hit by several sticks.

It hurts so much, there's no way to avoid it.

"Stop." With a baby voice shouting, half of Zhai Yun's body that was submerged in the water was fished out.

The person who spoke was the little boy who rescued him.

Fearing of falling into the water, Zhai Yun hugged his neck tightly as if she were grabbing a life-saving straw.

The person holding him had a youthful look on his face. Compared to those people on the shore, the little boy who pulled him out of the water looked as embarrassed as he did.

I was soaked to the skin, even my hair was dripping with water.

Zhai Yun stared at the face blankly, feeling indescribable sadness in her heart. She felt like she hadn't seen him for a very long time.

It's been so long that I almost forgot what he looks like.

The people on the shore were still laughing, "Look, come and see! The Second Prince has become a drowned dog."

"Pfft, dirty and smelly."

Zhai Yun fell into her own memories, remembering the first time she met him, when he was seven years old.

She had no name yet and was a little beggar who was bullied by others.

He and his mother were being hunted, and they stumbled into the dilapidated temple where she was.

The temple was already in ruins and there was no place to hide except behind the stone statue.

In order to protect him, his mother carried him onto the Buddhist altar and let him hide behind a stone statue.

When he hid in, he happened to see Zhai Yun hiding in the stone statue.

The back of the stone statue is broken, which is where Zhai Yun lived, because the dilapidated temple has been occupied by a group of tall beggars, who do not allow Zhai Yun to appear here.

Zhai Yun had nowhere to go, and this was the only place that could shelter her from the wind and rain, so it took her a long time to find this hiding place.

And he found it as soon as he came in.

They hid in the belly of the stone statue and saw through its belly button a group of people in black coming into the temple. They asked his mother about his whereabouts.

His mother refused to tell the truth and was stabbed through the chest with a sword.

If Zhai Yun had not held him tightly and covered his mouth, he would probably have rushed out and died under their swords.

As far as Zhai Yun could remember, she had been alone, wandering around, not knowing what family or home were.

So at that time she didn't understand why he was so sad. She only knew that he couldn't go out, and she would be discovered if he went out.

She was so scared. She was afraid of being beaten and afraid of those vicious people.

Even afraid of this world.

The world has never shown her any kindness.

She was only four years old at that time, and it seemed like she had been abandoned since birth.

She was so young and had to live on the streets, with no food. It seemed like she always wore the same clothes, which were tattered and couldn't even cover her legs.

I often shiver with cold in winter.

She often goes out late at night to look for food in trash cans.

But there were also a lot of beggars at night, and the children they brought with them were the same age as her, all drooling at the trash cans.

She couldn't beat them in snatching food, and sometimes when no one was looking for it, the food would be snatched away by others along the way. If she held on to it tightly and refused to give it to them, they would beat her.

Later, she was beaten so many times that she was afraid of people, so she hid here.

Even if I am hungry, I will sleep soundly for several days without moving.

He cried for a long time, and when the men in black left, they took his mother's body away with them.

Although Zhai Yun was also afraid of him, she had nowhere to go, so she just squatted beside him, tightly holding a small piece of steamed bun that she had found a few days ago.

Seeing that he had stopped crying, Zhai Yun carefully handed him half of her steamed bun and squeezed out with difficulty: "Eat."

She hasn't spoken for a long time, or rather, she doesn't know how to speak, and no one has ever taught her how to speak.

If she hadn't met him, Zhai Yun thought she might never have the chance to speak in her life.

She doesn't need to speak, and even the few words she knows are learned from adults who are taking care of children.

Whenever the adults grabbed the food, they would pass it to the children beside them and say with a gentle smile, "Eat, eat quickly."

She envied those children so much because someone would hand them food, while she had to find it herself.

He looked at Zhai Yun, then looked at the steamed bun in Zhai Yun's hand. The emotion in his eyes was the same as that of people who had seen her before.

She didn’t understand before, but now she understands, it’s disgust.

She was very young at that time, and she would be happy for a long time every time she found food in the trash can, so he thought he would be happy too when he saw food.

She gave him the only thing she had, hoping that he would be happy too.

She waited for a long time but he didn't pick it up. Her stomach started to growl, so she simply took it back and ate it herself.

He slammed the steamed bun away before he could even bite it: "It's already stinky, don't eat it."

Zhai Yun didn't understand what he said. This was food that she had worked so hard to find. Sometimes she couldn't even eat it when she wanted to. How could she not eat it?

Zhai Yun picked it up from the ground and touched her stomach: "It hurts."

Zhai Yun didn't know how to describe the fact that she would feel weak and hungry if she didn't eat. She could only squeeze out the word "pain" with difficulty, and then hugged her stomach and made a painful expression.

It means that if you don’t eat, your stomach will hurt and you will feel very uncomfortable.

Although she expressed it with difficulty, he seemed to understand.

Zhai Yun watched him take out a silk scarf from his arms. When the scarf was opened, inside was a white steamed bun, something Zhai Yun had never imagined.

She had never eaten such white and soft steamed buns, and they tasted sweet in her mouth.

After eating a few bites, she carefully placed the white steamed bun in her tattered clothes, held it in her arms, and was reluctant to eat it anymore.

Later he asked her many questions.

There are family and friends.

Zhai Yun didn't understand at that time and could only shake her head.

He looked at the wounds that could not be covered by her tattered clothes and took her away from the dilapidated temple.

He exchanged the only jade pendant he had left for some silver and bought her a set of clothes that fit her well and had no holes in them.

Take her to the river to bathe.

He was moved when she took off the tattered clothes that barely covered her.

The little body was covered with scars and a thick layer of mud stuck to it.

Zhai Yun remembered that it was her first time taking a bath. She didn’t know how to do it, so he helped her.

She didn't have a name, so he gave her a name, Yun'er.

At that time, Zhai Yun didn't know what a name was, so he explained to her: "No matter who calls you these two words, they are calling you and want to talk to you."

He took her hiding all the way, taught her how to speak, and told her about his mother.