The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

Li Xi was very angry.

Long Qi smiled leisurely, and it was a brilliant smile, but Li Xiying didn't think it was funny. She just heard him say, "It's better to nip the problem in the bud than to give people hope. Isn't this a good way to kill two birds with one stone?"

"Kill two birds with one stone?" She was surprised. "Kill what?"

He spoke confidently: "First, you don't have to deal with that Yu anymore, and second, I can satisfy my parents about their expectations of marriage. Although I am only the nephew of the prime minister's wife, I am both civil and military, so I can protect you without any problem. Why can't I be comparable to the son of the governor of Shangzhou?"

At this point, Li Xixiao finally understood his intention and couldn't help but sneer, "You are wrong. I am not the kind of person who would jump into the mud recklessly. If I fall into it, wouldn't I be doomed? I will also reject the son of the governor of Shangzhou without your help. No matter what I do, it will be easier than the current situation, right?"

He heard the word "quagmire" and even though he didn't understand, he finally understood, "So I am the quagmire."

She seemed to see the loneliness in his eyes in a trance, and it disappeared in an instant.

The journey was not far, and it would only take a quarter of an hour to get back home. In fact, there was no need for a carriage, and he left with Amber.

Before leaving, I heard him say: "Protect yourself."

"Of course." I didn't understand what he meant, but I was in a hurry to return home, so I didn't stay.

Long Qi looked at the direction where the figure left and followed her in stealth until she entered the mansion.

He will leave Chang'an early tomorrow morning to visit the village mentioned by the old general Yanqi, so he doesn't know whether the person pretending to be her, Qiao Xian, will pose a threat to her, so he came to remind her.

But if I reveal too much information, she might not believe it.

Even such a subtle reminder is of little use.

As she said... it's unnecessary. There are a group of soldiers in the palace who can naturally guarantee her safety.

After arriving at the palace, Li Xiwei ordered her maid to take Amber to wash and apply medicine.

When everything was ready, Amber stood in front of her obediently.

His eyes were swollen and his face was pale and hungry. Although we hadn't seen each other for a few months, it seemed as if a lifetime had passed and he looked like a completely different person.

After Li Xiying sent all the maids away and closed the door, the room instantly became silent.

Amber was originally the most talkative girl, but now she had a timid look in her eyes, lowered her brows and nodded her head, spoke little, and pinched her fingers without saying a word.

Maybe she didn't know how to say it, or maybe she hesitated and didn't dare to say it.

Li Xiying didn't ask in a hurry, but looked at the drizzle outside the window and said, "Amber, have you ever thought about going back to the villa?" Then he looked at her again, "In fact, sometimes I also think that maybe even I can't go back."

Amber burst into tears instantly. From the time the princess came to Chang'an and then they were separated, she didn't know if she could go back. But now that they were finally reunited, the princess actually said so.

The suffering she had endured during this period could not compare to the disappointment of not being able to return to the villa. She asked with trembling lips, "Princess, can we really not go back?"

Li Xixi did not comment.

Grandpa wanted her to get married and did not allow her to return to Luoyang. Therefore, she could not return to the villa until a prince consort was chosen. Even if she chose a prince consort, she would not be free. The villa would just become a desolate private property, and Grandma Amber and the other maids would become her dowry. She would spend her whole life raising children with someone else, learning how to be a wife, and she could never go back to the beginning.

Li Xiying comforted Hubo, saying, "Too many things have happened in recent days. If you don't look forward, you will lose the fun of life."

Seeing the princess's tender and concerned expression, Amber finally couldn't hold it in any longer. She wiped her tears and said, "Amber belongs to the princess no matter she lives or dies. The princess once said, 'Evil men will suffer the consequences of their own actions, and it is foolish to die for evil men.' Amber always believed what the princess said, and kept lingering on until the day she could see the princess. Amber did it..."

She felt unbearable pain when she thought back to what happened that night.

She said, "On the night I escaped from Taiji Palace, after parting with the princess at the guesthouse, Amber escorted the thieves to the government office. I still remember that they were almost there half an hour after they left. The two thieves broke free from their restraints on the carriage and put a knife on my neck. The guesthouse servant who followed them was killed by them on the road."

She continued with a trembling voice: "They forced me to hand over the princess' bag, and after looting my money, they also humiliated me... They changed their faces in front of me. They originally looked very ugly, but they put on masks with glue on their faces to pretend to be ordinary people. They drove into the Zuiyanlou in the daytime, pointed a dagger at me, ordered a table of dishes, refused to pay the bill, and finally left me there to pay off the debt. Then I entered the kitchen, and those cooks insisted that I was an accomplice of those thieves, saying that I had cheated them of all their belongings..."

At this point, she was already sobbing and couldn't say any more.

Li Xixiao frowned, feeling something was amiss, "You said those two thieves changed their masks?" There was more than one person who knew how to disguise themselves. Last time it was a woman, and this time it was two human traffickers.

Amber nodded.

Li Xi thought for a moment, then returned to the topic, and immediately guessed, "Needless to say, the thief might be in cahoots with those scammers."

Amber opened her eyes wide in shock, not understanding what the princess meant.

"First, the thieves knew you had an owner, so it was impossible to sell you properly. Second, they used you as payment for their meal, but the chefs said the thieves had cheated them of all their money and attributed you to the thieves as an accomplice. If that was really what they said, would the chefs let the thieves eat and drink well and then escape so easily?"

"They must have sold you to the cooks instead of paying for the food. The cooks wanted to have a reason to humiliate you and escape unscathed, so they came up with this method to make you surrender. Even if I find them, they can use this excuse and the government won't punish them severely."

Amber was stunned when she heard this. It was true that there were traces of what the princess had done.

"How could my people let them humiliate them like this and get away with it!" Li Xiqi said angrily, and then called the male servant over and gave him a few instructions. The male servant responded and left.

An hour passed.

The servant came back and reported: "As the princess expected, those people who were convicted of crimes have been released without guilt."

Li Xi frowned, "Did you do what I told you to do?"

The male servant bowed and said, "I followed them to a private house, but couldn't get in, so I sent someone to keep an eye on them. According to the princess' instructions, I asked the owner of the tavern about the origins of those scammers. The owner said that they had been there for more than ten years and were old friends."

"Very good. Keep an eye on the shopkeeper and the cooks today. Tell me if there's any unusual movement or contact with anyone!"

Perhaps, the secret of disguise can be revealed in this way. As for the last time he was attacked by the same disguised person, he will definitely get an answer by following the clues.

It was late at night again, and the shopkeeper and others did not make any unusual movements.

Li Xi couldn't help it, so he put on a nightgown to avoid the lazy patrolling soldiers, and soon arrived at the cooks' residence led by the male servant.

After walking around the house, I actually heard human voices near a wall.

She came here to scout the area and get familiar with the terrain so that she could catch them all at once next time, so she chose to come at night to avoid alerting the enemy.

But unexpectedly, the voice was not made by those old men, but obviously a woman's voice.

But even though I was lying in the corner, I couldn't hear what was said. I could only feel the woman's tone of voice filled with resentment and crying.

After a while, the sound of wooden sticks hitting each other was heard, mostly dull sounds but few loud ones.

The sound lasted for more than ten times before it became quiet again.

This time the man's voice was much louder than the woman's. A man with a rough voice could be clearly heard saying, "This damn thing is quite fierce. Doesn't he know martial arts? How can a woman like you beat a few of us with sticks?"