Chapter 472: Return to the Palace
Miao Yin lay in the tiger's den for nine days and nine nights, the tigress had to lick her wounds three times a day, and Xiaohu gave her fresh peaches and wild fruits three times a day.
On the tenth day, she felt that her body was no longer painful and that her wounds had healed, so she got up and walked back and forth in the cave.
Seeing her stand up suddenly, Xiaohu first looked at her in surprise, then jumped around with joy, and then bit her trouser leg and dragged her out of the hole. After lying for nine days and nine nights, Miaoyin naturally wanted to go out to have a look, but she just walked to the entrance of the cave and felt that her legs were sore. The little tiger saw her resting on the rock, and looked at the big companion with some disappointment.
The tigress seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and hurriedly lay down on the ground, let them (it) climb on their backs, and happily came to the outside of the cave, and had a good time. Since then, she (them) have gone out early and returned late every day, and Miao Yin is hungry to eat wild fruits and thirsty to drink mountain springs. In addition to playing on their own to hunt, big and small tigers also do everything possible to take care of their guests.
Miao Yin plays with them every day, sleeps with them at night, although she is neither hungry nor frozen to death, but this kind of life with fierce beasts is not a human life after all, not to mention the dignified crown prince, even the children of ordinary people, may not be able to bear it. She went from being scared to adapting, and from being fun to disgusted, and even in pain.
She went from wearing silk to wearing rags, and from not hanging an inch to using large branches, leaves, and thatch to keep out the wind and cold.
She went from eating wild fruits, drinking mountain springs, to eating wild birds, wild eggs, eating raw meat, drinking animal blood, eating all the suffering of the world, and tasting the heat and coldness of the world.
Five years have passed in a flash, and in the past five years, she has been looking forward to it every day, thinking about it every night, hoping that her father will send someone to find her to go back, thinking about the intoxicating kiss of the queen mother. She didn't know that they had abandoned her, and she always thought that her parents had brought her into the mountains and forests in order to have more fun with her.
A hope to return to the palace, a yearning to return to her parents, tormented her all the time, and inspired her courage to survive all the time.
However, five years have passed, and she has not seen anyone except birds, animals, ants, snakes and insects.
Maybe it's because of her love for the house and Wu, she has changed from missing her parents to missing anyone she sees. Even if it's India heat. However, in this deep mountain and old forest, it is difficult to see even a corpse, not to mention people.
The disappointment day after day turned into the disappointment month after month, year after year, and she finally despaired after a long time, so desperate that "the heart is like dry well water, and there are no waves all year round". There is a way: the mountains and rivers are doubtful, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. That afternoon, when Miao Yin, who thought that she had no hope of survival, lazily walked out of the tiger's den, the little tiger, which had already become a big tiger, rushed into the hole in a panic.
Miaoyin came out of the hole and looked, only to see a group of people and horses, chasing this side, Miaoyin was really overjoyed, laughing idiotically.
She straightened her unkempt hair and went up to it. Miao Yin's eyes stared at the middle-aged man kneeling in front, feeling very much like his father, King Miaozhuang.
Since abandoning Miaoyin, Queen Bao Yin has been crying and making trouble, scolding King Miaozhuang.
As the saying goes: tiger poison does not eat children. King Miaozhuang also opened Chrysostom by mistake in a fit of anger, Queen Bao Yin made a fuss, she regretted it a little, and sent people into the mountains three times to look for it, but she didn't find it.
After breakfast today, King Miao Zhuang suddenly remembered to go to the suburbs to hunt, just out of the capital about ten miles, then found a tiger, King Miao Zhuang and his entourage rode a horse to chase, she found that the tiger is so strange, you chase fast it runs fast, you run slow, it runs slowly. King Miaozhuang was suspicious, so he tightened the reins and stopped chasing, and the "flying on the grass" just stopped, and the tiger stopped running.
King Miao Zhuang secretly took off the arrow and bow and pulled a full moon, and shot out with a "whoosh", and the tiger cocked its ass and shot right into its anus.
The tiger wanted to turn around and bite the arrow, but as soon as he turned around, the second arrow arrived. Seeing that it had been shot in the left eye, the tiger suddenly opened its bloody mouth, and the arrow flew into the tiger's throat with a "whoosh".
King Miao Zhuang was about to shoot the third arrow, but the tiger turned around and ran, looking back in a panic as he ran.
King Miaozhuang shouted: "Chase!" He was the first to rush forward.
They chased them from the three poles of the sun to the head of the red sun, and then they chased into a deep mountain and old forest, and as soon as they entered the woods, the tiger disappeared.
King Miaozhuang and his entourage searched for half an hour, but found nothing.
They were about to return the way they came, when they suddenly spotted an arrow. King Miao Zhuang picked it up and saw that it was one of the two arrows he had just shot.
They walked a hundred and ten feet forward and found another one at the exit of the woods. The strange thing is that there is no trace of blood on the two arrows, and the king of Miaozhuang is still wondering, and he hears a tiger roar like a sawing yellow bucket in the distance, and follows the sound to chase it, and sure enough, he found the tiger, and he turned around in three steps, turned around, took two steps, and stopped into the cave, and at the same time walked out of the cave a little boy of about eight or nine years old.
He was unkempt, with a thatched cloak draped over his shoulders, and an animal skin around his waist, and he was very handsome, though indecently dressed.
The slender figure, the delicate eyebrows and eyes, if it weren't for the long hair and grass coat animal skin, just looking at the appearance, he didn't look like a wild child lost in the mountains and forests at all, but like a Taoist boy with a pure heart and few desires and no food in the world.
King Miao Zhuang felt that this child, who looked like a Taoist child, seemed to have seen it somewhere, and he couldn't remember it for a while.
When she was in doubt, the child had already come to her, and after she looked King Miaozhuang up and down, she knelt down with a "plop".
Only then did King Miaozhuang discover the beauty mole between her eyebrows. She looks exactly the same as the eldest imperial aunt Miaoqing and the second imperial aunt Miaoyuan, and King Miaozhuang's heart tightened: "Could it be that she is the abandoned mute prince Miaoyin?" No, Miaoyin was only four years old when she was abandoned, she had no rice and no money, how could she live until now?!" The wild child seemed to have guessed the mind of King Miaozhuang, and immediately said, "Ah...... Yes...... Ahh
The "ah, ah" one after another, like a sharp arrow, shot into the heart of King Miaozhuang, I saw him roll the saddle and dismount, shouting: "Emperor Miaoyin!" He hugged the "little Taoist boy" tightly in his arms.
On the night that Miao Yin was brought back to the palace, the queen specially ordered the imperial chef to cook a few good dishes for her son, who had escaped death.
Miao Yin was eaten three times and five by two. After eating, he was still swallowing saliva, licking his lips, and sucking his fingers, as if he could still eat a basket and a rice tank.
The queen knew that she was full of stomach and eyes, and she was still hungry when she had eaten enough, and she didn't dare to let her eat more, but secretly wiped her tears.
On the third day, which happened to be the ninth birthday of the mute prince, King Miaozhuang, under the control of a sense of guilt, decided to have a banquet for civil and military officials.
According to the old rules: the son's birthday is the mother's bitter day, and the filial son should not eat or drink all day.
But Miao Yin, who has just returned from the wilderness, eats three meals a day and eats three meals a day, and drinks tea with a big scoop and a big bowl, if she doesn't eat or drink for a day, not only can't she do it, but she can't bear it. Therefore, King Miao Zhuang decided to replace fasting by worshipping his parents for the grace of birth and nurturing first, and then going to the feast together.
Not to mention how many congratulatory gifts were given by civil and military officials, nor how rich the royal banquet was. But he said that after the dumb prince was led to his parents by the two sisters, he didn't wait for the sister to gesture, so he "pounced" and knelt on the ground to pay respects. The faces of King and Queen Xi Miaozhuang turned into flowers.
The civil and military officials also praised in unison: "The prince is so smart!" Miaoqing and Miaoyuan had just helped Miaoyin up, and when King Miaozhuang was about to announce his entry into the table, Miaoyin suddenly "Oops!" With a scream, he clutched his head tightly in both hands and squatted on the ground without moving.