The old lady is reborn

Duke Dingguo saw several guards rudely force the tea to Gong Yan. The wise king didn't care about the distinction between men and women at all. The two or three maids and old women around his daughter were tied up and kicked to their knees.

This daughter is the apple of his eye. He feels heartbroken that she is being treated like this.

He said hurriedly: "I didn't poison you, so where is the antidote?"

The virtuous king did not believe it and just waved his hand. According to previous investigations, when this Duke cheated the ancestral atlas from the Marquis's mansion, didn't he also speak as if it were the truth?

The guard stepped on one of Gong Yan's arms and chopped off his hand with a knife without a moment's hesitation.

Gong Yan fainted from the pain.

At that moment, Duke Dingguo felt as if he was dying too, and he shouted, "Tie her wound, quickly!"

He looked at the wise king with bloodshot eyes: "I will give you whatever you want!!"

After yelling this, he looked at Gong Yan who had fainted from the pain.

However, some of the guards tied up the upper part of their daughter's severed limbs, while others held torches and burned Gong Yan's severed limbs, using this method of adding insult to injury to stop the bleeding.

After waking up, Gong Yan saw his charred and bleeding limbs. He fainted again, not sure whether from fear or pain.

The virtuous prince was in so much pain at this time that he no longer cared about his dignity and curled up like a cooked shrimp.

Hearing Duke Dingguo's roar, he gritted his teeth and said, "Antidote!"

Duke Dingguo didn’t have the antidote, but at this moment all he could think of was to delay time, so he started talking nonsense: “Send someone to Duke Dingguo’s mansion to get it.

There is a brocade box on the shelf of the treasure chest in my study. Inside is a set of six small porcelain bottles, which contain the antidote."

After hearing this, the wise king was so angry that he wanted to kill the father and daughter. There was clearly an antidote, but they had been waiting for so long that he almost lost his life due to the pain.

These two people really won't cry until they see the coffin. They have to cut off a hand before they can get the antidote.

The two guards of the virtuous king turned and left. According to Duke Dingguo's inner calculations, the amount of money needed for the guards to go and get the "antidote" would be quite a lot.

Although with their skills, it would be much more efficient than taking along this burdensome prince who was in so much pain and whose identity could not be easily exposed.

Given the prince's current condition, it's unknown how long it will take him to get down from Yunlan Mountain.

But after all, it would take time for the guards to do this. If he was really poisoned, he couldn't help but hope in his heart that this black-hearted king would die in pain.

Thinking of this, he was still worried about his daughter Gong Yan. Pushing the guards aside, he staggered towards her.

Since the wise king had "learned where the antidote" was, he did not let the guards restrain Duke Dingguo.

Duke Dingguo walked over to his daughter, squatted down, and held her in his arms.

He tried to pick her up while she was unconscious, but failed after two attempts.

No one dared to come and help.

Finally, the Duke could no longer care about anything else and simply knelt on the ground, holding in his arms the apple of his eye.

Gong Qifang looked at it and remembered himself in his dream, kneeling at the gate of the Duke's Mansion while holding his mother's body which was slowly losing its temperature.

That was the cage from which they could not escape, whether alive or dead.

Sure enough, when the knife fell on "his own people", the Duke felt the pain.

After so many years, I thought that my mother and I could finally return to our hometown after wandering for so long.

Deep down she also wanted revenge.

My grandmother is getting very old, and we see her less and less often. My mother hopes to be able to accompany her in her last few years. Fortunately, I was the first to go back and forth frequently and eventually came back to live with her longer.

He wanted to test the wind and take revenge, but he was targeted by people from both governments.

Is this the inevitable fate that has come again? During these days of retreat, she became increasingly anxious between revenge and escape.

In terms of revenge, she seems to be no match for the two governments.

Running for their lives, if their grandmother and cousin's family were being dragged away by others, then her mother and she would be like kites with the kite strings held by others.

If it doesn't work, I'll risk my life to seek revenge... Fortunately, I have the benefactors in my life, the abbot and the lady who protects the country...

Gong Yan woke up, cried loudly, and hugged his father, Duke Dingguo, and cried bitterly.

The father was trying to comfort her in a low and gentle voice. He was a grown man, but he kept his voice low and gentle, and he was very patient and careful in his efforts to comfort her.

Gong Qifang couldn't help staring blankly for a while, and finally lowered his eyes.

I no longer care, so why do I still feel a little envious and melancholy?

This is something he could never get from his father.

When Gong Qifang was a child, she was severely beaten by her father because of something her half-sister said. Her father said that she was a petty and vicious person who dared to hurt others at such a young age.

Shujie said that Gong Qifang wanted to push her into the water. Even her hair was dry, and it was obviously she who was choking repeatedly in the water with her head held down. One of her shoes was lost in the water, and her whole body was soaked and shivering.

She thought her father would make the decision for her, but he told her to shut up.

However, she allowed Gong Qifang's maid to slander her, saying how she secretly approached her sister and how she wanted to push her sister into the water. It was the maid who pushed her to protect her master. She obviously would not fall into the water, but when she failed to harm others, she deliberately framed her and jumped into the water herself.

She listened in shock. It was clearly her half-sister who forbade her to play here. She ignored her half-sister, but did turn around and leave.

The angry concubine sister ordered her servants to drag her into the lotus pond alive, and even shouted that she would drown her in the pond.

All the maids and servants who saw the whole thing did not dare to say a word, and the most powerful master in the mansion only allowed Gong Qifang's maid to speak.

In this way, Gong Qifang, who was still very young, was beaten by his father.

Originally, the father, who might have felt sorry for his concubine sister, forgot about it and carried her away. The concubine sister hugged Duke Dingguo's neck and said, "I'm afraid, will she hurt me again in the future?"

His father came over, kicked him down, ordered people to tie him up, and beat him with bamboo sticks, while comforting Gong Yan: "Why are you afraid of her? Don't be afraid, your father is here!"

"She said she was the legitimate daughter and I was a concubine's daughter, and our statuses were worlds apart."

Duke Dingguo sneered: "What a difference?! I'll let her know what the difference is!"

……

After that incident, little Gong Qifang, covered in scars, hugged her mother and said, "I don't want this father anymore. Is this a mistake? I must have another father.

I want to go find my father, I don’t want this…”

When I was young, I was ignorant and didn’t know how sad such crying made my mother.

Longing for someone who doesn't love you to have a little love for you is more impossible than daydreaming.

But what made her sadder than when she was a child was that she knew clearly in her heart that this person was her father.