The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

＜ Bhimama and the Princess ＞

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“···your majesty···. I missed you because you didn’t come… Your Majesty…”

The lamplight flickers and illuminates the red partition. From the space beyond the partition, along with footsteps, the sound of dragging clothes could be heard.

Rudy swallowed.

The baby is still sucking Rudy’s finger. I tried to pull it out, but the baby wouldn’t let go.

However, if you apply too much force, it seems to hurt you.

Unable to do this or that, Rudy just swallowed his saliva in a gulp while standing in a small space.

The sound of gurgling and sucking fingers echoed through the lamplight.

‘I am the emperor’s slave… the emperor’s property. The worst doesn’t die.’

However, the opponent is Bima, who says that his mind goes back and forth. I was a little worried that they would recognize the silver necklace.

‘Shouldn’t I have asked what kind of person Bhimama is.’

The closer the footsteps come, the faster my heart beats.

And finally, the woman’s footsteps stopped beyond the partition.

A white hand grabbed the edge of the partition. Her slender fingers appeared white as if they were floating in the dark.

“···your majesty···.”

The thin voice trembled like the wings of a dragonfly and sounded like crying.

A rustling sound was heard, and a woman’s face peered into the partition space.

“…!”

If there are fairies in this world, the woman in front of me is probably one of those beings.

Rudy opened his mouth blankly.

‘pretty.’

The face is so small that it seems that the eyes are about half full.

As if it was strange, Bhimama tilted her head.

“···who···?”

Her blonde hair, puffed like cotton candy, caught the light of the lamp and glistened like gold dust.

Bhimama blinks slowly.

His eyes became hazy, as if he were dreaming.

Bhimama murmured as she closed and opened her eyes several times.

“I think I’ve seen it before… you… who… Your Majesty… Your Majesty…,”

As if waking up from a dream, little by little the eyes became clearer.

And at some point, it seemed that the blue-green eyes swelled up in a round shape.

“… Rico…”

Suddenly Bhimama murmured.

“…Rico…Rico…”

Bhimama stretched her slender wrist into the partition.

It looks like they’re trying to catch him.

However, the hand stopped for a moment in the air and began to tremble slightly.

Tears welled up in her large blue-green eyes and flowed quickly.

“…Rico…Rico…You’re back…my baby…Rico…”

Rico…

Could that be the son of Bhimama who is said to have died?

Bhimama staggered over and knelt down.

Bhimama wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him.

“Baby, Rico, you came back. my baby…”

“Bimama… I am…”

“… No… Rico… Please don’t call me that… Rico’s mother is Nadia… she’s not the Empress Mama… His Majesty told me to do that too… So please don’t call me Bi-Mama… Ma… Rico… my baby… please…”

Perhaps the prince of Bhimama was forbidden to call his mother mother.

I think I saw it in a drama or something that concubines’ children are sometimes treated as children of concubines who were born on a borrowed boat.

He felt sorry for Bhimama who was clinging to his small body.

Bhimama shrugged her shoulders and trembled in fear.

Upon touching it, I could see how thin she was.

It feels like the thin bones are covered with a little skin.

Rudy let out a small sigh.

The chief chamberlain also told her not to deny it if she mistook him for his son, and he couldn’t help it.

Rudy said softly with the baby biting his finger.

“···mother.”

Bhimama hugged Rudi and let go of her throat as if crying.

As if drawn by the sound, the baby also cries.

The small partition was soon filled with the cries of two women.

‘What should I do?’

I am not used to crying babies or crying women.

In the first place, men are not at all close to crying. When fists come, they fight face to face, but when they approach while crying, they want to run away.

‘How long will they cry?’

It felt like I was facing the biggest challenge in this world.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

I changed into clean clothes after a long time, but the shirt was messed up with Bimama’s tears and snot.

As if tired from crying for a long time, Bhimama’s cries gradually became quieter.

It seems that there are no more tears.

With an occasional croak, Bhimama slammed her face against Rudy’s body.

But the baby was still screaming.

I was starting to get a bit worried now.

It’s a big deal if you cry like this and get dehydrated.

Unlike adults, babies don’t seem to stop crying even when their throats get hurt.

Seeing that he didn’t lift Rudy’s finger while crying, beyond surprise, he felt sorry for him.

“…Me… Now, get the princess…”

When Rudi hesitated, Bhimama raised her head and looked at him.

“···princess···?”

Bhimama’s eyebrows rose steeply as she blinked at the baby.

“…Riko…let go…don’t touch that baby…Riko is the son of a noble person…not in a position to touch an unknown child…”

what are you talking about

Rudy opened his eyes wide in surprise, but Bhimama suddenly pulled Rudy.

I wonder where such power could have been in that slender body.

My body swayed so much that the baby I was half holding almost fell off the bed.

Rudy hugged the baby tightly as he hit his forehead on the bed.

As I hurriedly pulled out my finger, it caught in my baby’s tooth.

little bit of blood

It’s not a big deal to be sick, but I broke out in a cold sweat, wondering if the baby had hurt his front teeth.

The baby cries louder and screams.

Bhimama screamed like a scream.

“Blood… blood… Rico! Let go of that child!”

I feel like I’ve gone mad all of a sudden.

Her beautiful face, like a fairy, was distorted, and her white face had a creepy ghost.

“Rico!”

Bhimama ran towards Rudy and the baby.

Rudy lay flat on the floor and tucked the baby under him.

I don’t know what happened.

Seeing that the baby is here, it must have been born by Bhimama, but why does she not recognize her own child?

Bhimama grabbed Rudy’s arm and pulled him frantically.

Long fingernails dig into flesh.

It was hard to see that she was the same person as the woman who seemed to fade away just a moment ago.

My shoulder hurts like it’s going to come off.

However, it is impossible to touch Bhimama’s body.

Rudy swayed to and fro as she did, just covering the baby with her body and enduring the time in silence.

No matter how much they suffered, both Bimama and Rudy were exhausted.

Someone hugged Bhimama from behind and shouted.

“princess! calm down. Blood is fine. It’s not Rico. Rico is in a safe place. princess! calm down.”

The hand that had been pulling and shaking Rudy lost little by little, and finally stopped.

“…Isn’t that Rico?”

Bhimama murmurs.

Rudy raised his head slightly and looked at her.

The breathless Bhimama’s chest rises and falls.

Bhimama closed her eyes as if it was strange, then opened them and tilted her head.

“… Rico…”

The woman who was hugging her whispered.

“That child is not Rico-sama, Princess. Rico is in a good place. in a safe place. It doesn’t hurt anymore. No more blood is shed. Rico-sama is fine.”

Bhimama lowered her head helplessly and turned to the woman behind her.

“···nurse···. There is neither Rico nor His Majesty… Lydia is lonely, but no one is there…”

“I am here, Princess. are you okay. One day, I will be able to meet Rico-sama too. Your Majesty… will come again.”

“Is it so?”

“sure. Of course, good days will come.”

“But… who is that child? Why is that baby here?”

“…”

Bhimama looked at Rudy and the baby as if it were strange.

The old woman, the nanny, said as if urging.

“That child is the slave who will serve Mama in the future. This is a child sent by His Majesty the Emperor for Mama.”

“…Your Majesty…”

Bhimama smiled slightly.

However, he immediately looked back at the baby and furrowed his eyebrows.

“Who is that baby?”

“…that baby is a princess. Don’t you remember?”

“princess?”

“yes. Mama gave birth last year.”

“lie!”

Bhimama shouted loudly and glared at the baby.

“I never gave birth to a princess! That kid is fake! The empress… yes, the empress sent it. The empress must have sent me to take me away from Her Majesty. Empress!”

His eyebrows trembled and turned ferocious.

Nanny hugged Bhimama and said in a low voice.

“Son, take the princess out of sight. hurry!”

“…”

Rudy hurriedly picked up the baby in his arms.

A four-year-old’s body is weak.

Rudy, exhausted from being tormented by Bhimama, struggled to get out of the partition, dragging the baby halfway to the floor.

The nanny did not follow Bhimama to see if she was holding it, but her heart was in a hurry.

Bhimama was crying out that the baby had to be kicked out, that the empress had sent it.

It is a large studio, but the interior is divided into several spaces. A temporary wall protruding slightly from the wall was pierced in the form of a large arch.

Rudy hid behind the arched wall.

The baby continues to cry.

‘Please stop crying.’

Sit cross-legged on the floor and hold the baby.

I tried shaking it with my whole body, but there’s no way a four-year-old’s body could properly handle a baby.

The baby cries, making her face red enough to know in the dark whether she is dissatisfied or hungry.

Rudy wanted to cry too.

“Please… stop crying…”

I couldn’t help it, so I put my finger in my mouth, and the crying subsided little by little.

Once again, the baby started sucking his finger.

I barely stopped crying, but this time I felt so pitiful and pitiful.

‘How hungry…’

When Buradov sends someone in a few days, I’ll have to ask for food for the baby.

After a while, the lantern came closer, swaying.

A woman named Nanny.

He looked quite old.

Her gray hair was matted, and her face was covered with fine wrinkles.

The nanny was hunched over, probably not feeling well. The figure with one arm turned behind her back and pressing her waist was an unmistakable grandmother.

The nanny approached with a slight limp and said tiredly.

“I’m sorry. I heard that he was coming, but I was sick and couldn’t stay up.”

The nanny glanced at the baby and sighed.

“No, why did you take off all the princess’s wrappings?”

envelope? Are you talking about whispering?

I thought it was abuse because the baby was tied up, but I don’t know if it’s a little different.

Rudy opened his mouth, being careful not to show anger on his face.

“Did you wrap it up on purpose?”

“I guess you are young and don’t know. All babies are wrapped up like this until they are over a year old.”

one year? Are you crazy, is this woman?

Rudy remembered the swaddle wrapped around the baby a moment ago.

It’s not a whispering concept. After wrapping it tightly with a cloth, it was tied with a string so that not a single finger could move.

Besides, the wrapper was changed every day, and the skin was chapped from feces and urine.

I’ve heard stories about the poor survival rate of babies in the Middle Ages, and I wonder if that’s why.

Didn’t the nanny even say that the baby was tied up for a year?

no. If you entrust your baby to this woman, he will surely die.

Rudy held the baby in one arm and looked at the nurse.

“I heard that Bhimama came from the kingdom of Denver, is it a custom there?”

“It is.”

The nanny put the lamp on the floor and took a deep breath, half lying on her back, as if her back was hurting.

“Where I was, it wasn’t like that. So I was surprised…”

“I see. But you can’t just take off the cover. Haa… it’s the waist…”

“Uh… are you in a lot of pain? From now on, I will take care of the princess.”

“…thank you for that, but can you do it?”

“yes.”

“Haa… I’ll teach you how to tie it with a wrapper.”

“no. Because that’s too hard for me…”

“Then I’ll do it…”

“no. I will learn slowly.”

“···sorry. I’m having such a hard time… It’s too much for me to do it all by myself without a single lady-in-waiting. I will leave the princess to you.”

The nanny lay down to breathe for a while, as if her back was hurting so badly.

And I just raised my head and looked at him.

“I have a lot to tell you in advance.”

The nanny glanced slightly into the inner space and looked back at Rudy.

＜ Be Mama and the Princess ＞ End