Chapter 244 Shameless thing
"We were kicked out when Ze'er was still in her belly. At that time, we didn't even have a single gold coin on us. If it weren't for Nanny Li who stayed with us and sold her jewelry to feed us, we mother and son wouldn't be here today." After Shen Yun finished speaking, she looked at Nanny Li with gratitude in her eyes.
"Empress Dowager, if you hadn't gone out and seen me fleeing from famine and almost dying of starvation and picked me up, I would have starved to death long ago." Nanny Li's eyes were also full of gratitude.
Yan Li finally understood after hearing this, it turned out that Aunt Shen and Nanny Li had a mutual master-servant relationship.
"I've told you to rest and enjoy yourself a long time ago, but you just wouldn't listen." Shen Yun looked at Nanny Li helplessly.
"I'm used to serving the Empress Dowager, and I feel a little overwhelmed when I'm idle for a while. It'll be fine if the Empress Dowager dislikes my clumsiness." Upon hearing this, Nanny Li smiled and shook her head.
Indeed, both the Queen Mother and Xiao Lingze had been letting her rest and enjoy herself for many years, but she could not sit still any longer.
I feel empty inside if I don't personally serve the empress dowager for a day.
"You are destined to work hard." Shen Yun looked helpless when he heard this.
In fact, Nanny Li can be said to be the only servant in the palace who owns her own palace.
However, neither the Queen Mother nor Xiao Lingze treated her as a slave.
"It seems that Nanny Li and Aunt Shen have supported each other for most of their lives and can't live without the other." Yan Li said with a smile.
I really envy the master-servant relationship between them that is more like family affection.
Shen Yun and Nanny Li laughed when they heard this.
Li'er is right.
They have supported each other for most of their lives and can't live without each other.
"Mom..." Xiao Lingze and Xiao Lingjun walked in together.
"Where are my senior brothers?" Not seeing King Zhan and King Xiao, Yan Li asked.
"Isn't it that their third uncle is here? They are going to receive him." Xiao Lingjun looked at Yan Li with amusement.
"Brother, they are not elders of the Mercenary Empire or something like that, why should they be asked to receive the envoys?" Yan Li couldn't help but complain.
"Li'er, you are wrong. They can naturally be considered half-kings of the Mercenary Empire." After Xiao Lingze finished speaking, he looked at Yan Li.
"Each of them is half a king, and the two of them together make one king. Aren't you afraid of being killed by them?" Yan Li looked at Xiao Lingze teasingly.
"If they wanted to kill me, they wouldn't have tried their best to help me find medicine when I was poisoned. Besides, if they are willing to take over the Mercenary Empire, I would be happy to have a leisurely time." Xiao Lingze smiled when he heard this.
Yan Li: ...
It seems that Xiao Lingze sees everything very clearly.
"Ze'er, could it be you?" Shen Yun looked at Xiao Lingze.
"Mother, don't worry. Ever since he drove us mother and son out of the palace, I, Xiao Lingze, only have a mother but no father." After saying this, Xiao Lingze held Shen Yun's hand.
"Ze'er, I'm not against you recognizing your father, I'm just worried that his motives are not pure." Shen Yun raised her head and looked at Xiao Lingze.
"Mother, I know that if I acknowledge him, you will definitely feel uncomfortable. I will not hurt your feelings just to acknowledge a scumbag father. Besides, he has his own family now and we are living well. It is best not to disturb each other. I really don't know what he wants to do?" Xiao Lingze said here with a cold face.
"Ze'er, it's really hard for you." Shen Yun looked at Xiao Lingze with eyes full of heartache.
He had never had his father's protection since he was a child, and had to struggle in the mercenary world to achieve his current status.
"Mom, we are all living well now, aren't we? Everything that happened in the past is over, and our family of four will be fine in the future." Xiao Lingze looked at Shen Yun.
Naturally, the family of four he mentioned included Nanny Li.
Xiao Lingze has treated Nanny Li as a family member since he was a child.
"Okay." Shen Yun nodded.
Nanny Li at the side couldn't help but have tears in her eyes.
How could I be so worthy as to be treated as a family member by the king of an empire?
"Mother, I want to ask you to meet him once to completely stop him from thinking about it and tell him not to bother us again in the future." Xiao Lingze looked at Shen Yun.
If I were to take action against that unfaithful man, I still couldn't do it, at least not before he did something excessive.
"Okay, let's go." Shen Yun sighed and stood up after hearing that.
Yan Li naturally followed him.
He had met the Third Prince once at a palace banquet, but they had never spoken before.
When Shen Yun and the others arrived at the reception room, they saw the Third Prince sitting there.
The once handsome face now shows signs of aging, and his originally black hair has turned a little gray.
On the other hand, Shen Yun, thanks to the beauty pill given by Yan Li, still looked like an eighteen-year-old girl, extremely beautiful.
This made the Third Prince stunned.
If the girl beside him hadn't pulled his sleeve, the Third Prince would not have been able to come back to his senses.
The girl next to him was the daughter of the woman he later married, named Xiao Xuan.
Shen Yun strode to her seat and sat down. Yan Li sat next to her and looked at the Third Prince curiously.
"Dad, who is that girl? Why is she sitting next to Empress Dowager Shen?" Xiao Xuan looked at Yan Li curiously.
Because Xiao Xuan was in poor health, she did not attend any banquets and therefore had not met Yan Li.
The Third Prince was not surprised that Yan Li appeared here, after all, King Zhan and King Xiao were both here.
"She is Yan Li, the junior sister of the King of War." The Third Prince replied.
"She is the junior sister in Prince Zhan's mansion?" Xiao Xuan was a little shocked when she heard that.
"Yes, it's her." The Third Prince nodded.
"Yun'er..."
"Shut up, I am the Queen Mother of the Mercenary Empire, how can you call me that?"
The Third Prince was interrupted by Shen Yun before he could finish his words.
"Yun'er, I know that I wronged you and hurt you. Now I know I was wrong." The Third Prince looked at Shen Yun with guilt in his eyes.
"Third Prince, when you kicked me out of the house, you not only gave me a letter of divorce, but also threw me a broom, humiliating me by saying I was kicked out. What's even worse is that you clearly knew that I was pregnant, but you still forced me to leave all my dowry behind before you could take Nanny Li with you. You don't even want to leave a way out for us mother and daughter." Shen Yun looked at the Third Prince with extremely cold eyes.
“Yun’er, I was so angry and confused at the time that I did that. Now it has been many years, so please don’t hold it against me.” The Third Prince’s eyes were full of sincerity.
"Get lost, you shameless thing. You want to recognize my Ze'er back because you see that he is the king of the mercenary empire. Don't even think about it. Since you said he was not your son, from that moment on, he has nothing to do with you at all." Shen Yun said coldly.
"Aunt Shen..."
"Shut up, who allowed you to call me 'I' like that? Do you have the qualifications to do that? You have no manners." Xiao Xuan just stood up with a smile on her face, but the smile froze immediately.