Chapter 100: Madness
My father always said that I had a stubborn temper, much like when he was young, and said that he seemed to be very old now, but I see him now, and it is not much different from the digital photo of his so-called youth, except that now he wears a crown and has a mighty beard. I only know that if there is anything I want to know, I will try my best to figure it out, which is probably what my father thinks I am very similar to him, he always said that when he was young, he always tried to get his hands on something he liked.
"In the end, I got the most important thing I wanted, and I couldn't get anything else. When he said that, his expression was like a teacher's smile sometimes, and it felt very warm, and my father was not like a teacher, he didn't smile often.
Speaking of stubbornness, since the teacher can't answer me, I'll ask my father. And I avoided the word "kill", I knew that if the teacher didn't answer me, my father might not answer, and I wanted to know what happened to my father about the "strongest man" by asking "the strongest man", and I would know what "killed" meant.
When I ran to my father's side, there was also an uncle in a dark red suit, who was always there, standing in a shadowy corner that was not noticed, and did not speak, just stood. Everyone always called him "Hound Dog" behind his back, and respectfully called him "Ten Thousand Slaughter" in front of him. I don't know why a person can have two ways to call me before and after, but I am different, they all call me "Her Royal Highness Princess".
I thought I was very smart, and I didn't ask what I meant by "killing" anymore, I just asked my father who was the strongest man in the empire, and was he it? My father was very happy to hear this, and laughed very rarely, and at the same time picked me up, put me on his lap, stroked his beard, and said to me, that is for sure, he is the strongest man in the empire.
I asked, who was the strongest man in the empire before he became the strongest man in the empire? Did you two compete? Did you defeat him? What happened to him in the end?
The smile on my father's face immediately froze, as if he was taking an electronic photo, his eyes looking at me, but the focus was not on me, as if he was looking at a more distant place.
It was a long time before I shook his arm that my father came to his senses. He didn't answer me either, just told me to go out and play first. I find it very boring, adults always let children learn hard to understand more truths, but when it comes to critical times, they are always reluctant to answer children's questions. I pursed my lips and walked out angrily. As I was about to step through the gate, I heard the "mass slaughter" inside speak, who had never spoken.
"The princess probably heard something. He said this at the time, and his tone was as cold as the cold wind of winter, which kept freezing people to the bone marrow.
The next day, when I got up, the old maid who took care of my daily life was gone, and she was replaced by a younger and more beautiful maid. However, I don't like her at all, she doesn't tell me a lot of stories about her home planet, Earth, and she behaves in a proper manner, as if she is very afraid of me.
Later, when I eavesdropped on the conversations of the ladies in the palace, I learned that the old maids were imprisoned in a place called the "dungeon". I know there, I have been to that place once with my third brother and the annoying Zheng Kai, through a tunnel that no one knows. All I remember was that the place was dark and damp, and many places were mossy and dirty, and it wasn't fun at all.
This time, I entered the tunnel again by myself, and went to the dark and damp "dungeon". I walked alone in the tunnels with the night pearl light my father had given me, hearing only the sound of ticking water and the squeaky teeth grinding of many mice. I'm so scared, if it weren't for Zheng Kai's suggestion that the third brother not take me with me last time, I wouldn't have gone with me!
Luckily, I finally got to the "dungeon", and the guards outside didn't notice me. The doors, windows and walls of each room here are made of alloy, and there are large gaps between them. The people who live there are so lazy, they lie motionless in broad daylight, even lazier than my puppy.
I finally found the old maid. Fortunately, she didn't get lazy, but she looked like there were a lot more wrinkles on her face, and her hair turned all white, as if she had aged more than ten years all of a sudden. She sat on a bed, her face turned sideways, looking out at the world through the tiny window in the room, stunned.
"Kahi, Kahi!" I called out to her twice. I forgot to mention, the old maid, her name is Kahi. I don't know if that's her first name or last name, but that's what I hear people call her.
Kahi turned his head suddenly, his eyes wide, the whites of his eyes were very white, and the way he looked at me made me feel a little strange, I was scared, and involuntarily took a few steps back, and then plucked up the courage to ask.
"Kahi, Kahi, why are you here, why don't you take care of me anymore, dress me, comb my hair, tell me good stories?"
Suddenly Cassy stood up, pulling and shaking the alloy pillars that were the walls so hard that I could see the bruises in her weak hands. I only heard her shouting frantically: "It's you, it's all because of you, you scumbag, like your cruel father and vicious mother, it's because of you that I will be locked up here, life is better than death......"
I was stunned by Kahi's sudden madness, and although she had always seemed a little nervous, she had been very nice to me and had never spoken to me like this. I sat down on the ground in fright, I don't know how I was sent back to the palace by the guards, and all I heard was Cahi's crazy screech before leaving.
My father didn't blame me too much, probably because I became seriously ill after I came back. The night I came back, I was sick, feverish, and sometimes I seemed to feel very cold, as if I was in the same situation as my teacher, my father, and the adults of the "mass massacre".
"It's you...... Cheap ...... Brutal Father...... The vicious mother ...... "Kash's voice kept echoing in my ears endlessly, echoing, and I was dizzy to hear it, but I just couldn't sleep.
I don't know why Cashi said that at the time, could it be that I did something wrong?
A month later, I was finally cured. When I snuck myself into the dungeon again, Kash was no longer there. Since then, I have never seen Cahi again, and no one in the royal court has ever mentioned Cahi, as if she never existed.
The teacher still taught me, my father was still busy with things, and the "hound" still stood in the shadow behind my father and didn't say a word. And as I grew up day by day, I finally understood the teacher's words back then, "When you grow up, you will know", I know the meaning of "kill", that is, to let a person disappear in this world, and from then on, no matter who lives it, there will never be this person again, just like this person has never really lived. Kashy was "killed", mercilessly "killed" by the strongest man in the empire, and his daughter.
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One night, I had a dream. In my dream, I felt like I was small, still like a baby, lying in a stroller. I couldn't open my eyes, but I could feel a person standing next to the stroller, it should be a woman, because I could smell the fat powder on her body, strange and familiar, it felt good.