I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Chapter 128 The Past of Emperor Xia

Every year when the moon is full, families celebrate reunion, and the sounds of firecrackers and laughter fill the air. But I alone raise my cup to invite the bright moon, whispering secrets to the moon in the sky.

I used to love resting my little head on my mother's lap and listening to her tell the story of Chang'e jumping to the moon. After she finished, I would laugh out loud, thinking it was just a trick to fool children?

Countless times he had looked up at the sky but found no trace of the Moon Goddess Chang'e. However, after the heartbreaking separation from Xia Rong's mother, he desperately wished that the Moon Palace truly existed in the sky. His beloved woman had left him on the Mid-Autumn Festival, a time for family reunions.

His most beloved daughter, Xia Rong, was born on that full moon night. Xia Xue Rong was the name his most beloved woman had chosen for their daughter long ago, meaning that her birth would melt the snow in her father's heart.

Yes! That time, I carried Xia Rong's mother home from the street, and not long after, she gave birth to a lovely daughter and passed away.

As a result, I became an alcoholic and depressed person. Not only that, but my temper also became extremely volatile. Whenever someone upset me, I would do everything I could to torment that person.

The only thing I can do to instantly calm myself down when I'm furious is because I don't want my precious daughter to see me lose my temper. I always want to show her my best side, and I always want to save the best things I find for her.

Perhaps! I felt great pity for her, having lost her mother at birth! Or perhaps it was because her features resembled her mother's. After her birth, I planned to bring her back to my humble abode.

But the day after she returned to the Xia residence with Xia Rong, she was secretly poisoned. Still an infant, she drank poisoned soup, and immediately began vomiting uncontrollably! Her whole body burned with fever.

Her pitiful appearance really terrified me! I immediately carried her to find a doctor, not even bothering to spend time finding out who had poisoned Rong'er's soup.

After seeing the doctor, he prescribed some fever-reducing medicine! It turned out that someone had poured a bucket of ice water on this poor little girl while she was away from home yesterday.

Seeing how indifferent I was to Xia Rong, the snobbish maids also became less interested in matters concerning Xia Rong.

Seeing Xia Rong in her wet clothes, I was too lazy to change her into a clean and refreshing outfit. It wasn't until the next day, when I was really worried about Xia Rong at the Xia residence, that I abandoned my official duties and went back to the Xia residence.

Otherwise, he feared he would never see his favorite daughter again! From then on, he often kept Xia Rong by his side. He originally planned to bring Xia Rong to live in the small wooden house he had built for her mother when she was a teenager.

But fate is often unkind. On a dark and stormy night, a group of ruthless thugs secretly broke into the Xia residence and kidnapped Xia Rong, who was still an infant.

As Xia Rong disappeared from my life, my temper became increasingly volatile! I would often fly into a rage at the servants who served me.

Therefore, whenever the servants in the Xia household saw me there, they would keep their distance from me, afraid that they might do something wrong and incur my wrath.

Actually, I hate this side of myself! I've been trying to control my emotions. But then I think, I can't even protect the woman I love most and the daughter I cherish most! What right do I have to control my emotions?

For a period after that, I spent my days drowning my sorrows in alcohol! I was no different from Mu Long lying in front of me. Actually, seeing Mu Long like this, I didn't feel any disgust for him. On the contrary, I admired him from the bottom of my heart!

Because he loves his precious daughter more than he loves himself! He would change himself for Rong'er's most trivial preferences. He would rack his brains to make Rong'er happy.

He had secretly sneaked into the Yang residence to observe Mu Long's every move, and saw that Mu Long's room was filled with everything related to Xia Rong. Seeing Mu Long sitting on a recliner under the starry sky, holding a kitten named Xiao Furong, patiently coaxing the little kitten to sleep, he couldn't help but think of his own past.

During the time Xia Rong was missing, besides searching for my daughter day and night, I also loved to hold a kitten named Black Egg in my arms and gently soothe it.

Not only that, he often brings this kitten to his bed and sleeps with it. His purpose is to keep out women who want to climb into his bed.

To be honest, I really hate these women from the bottom of my heart! These women were brought into the Xia family by my own mother so that our Xia family line would not end.

To keep these tacky girls out of my room, I took a dozen or so of the hundred kittens I had impulsively bought and kept them in my room.

I used to worry about those hundreds of kittens! It wasn't because I didn't have the money to support so many kittens. It was because cats, especially during the spring, meow incessantly at night to reproduce. Two or three cats meowing together in heat was already incredibly annoying!

And there are hundreds of cats! I didn't know what to do with them. One winter, we encountered a once-in-a-century rat infestation. Those pointed-mouthed, monkey-faced creatures roamed the streets and alleys all day long. They always loved to steal food from the people.

Because there were too many rats! Many people's hard-earned food was eaten up by the rats! That year, a severe famine began to occur in our area.

Of course, nearly half of my hundred cats died in this famine. I couldn't bear to watch countless cats die before my eyes. So I ordered someone to catch a lot of rats for the kittens to eat, and they actually ate them with great relish. Watching them eat the rats, I suddenly had an idea.

That meant releasing all fifty of my only kittens. I originally thought they would come back to me once they were well-fed.

But to my surprise, just a few days later, news spread that more than a dozen kittens had mysteriously died on the street. I suspected that these dead kittens were all my pets, so I dropped what I was doing and rushed there. By then, I had already learned from a mysterious man in black that my favorite daughter had been adopted by the kind-hearted Yuqin.