The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

In the blink of an eye, more than half a year had passed, and the village was covered with fine snow, and everything was covered in red and white.

After the first month of the year, the snow begins to melt gradually in February. Although it is spring, it is still colder than winter.

Soon after daybreak, I heard my grandma say that the eunuch had come again to announce the decree.

Li Xiying was still curled up in bed, and before she opened her eyes, she muttered, "Grandma, please answer it for me~"

"That won't work!" Grandma asked the maids to bring the heated clothes to her. Li Xi stood up with half-opened eyes and let them tidy up her clothes. After washing and dressing herself, she went to the front hall.

When she arrived in front of the hall, she looked up at the eunuch holding the imperial edict. Although it was still the tall and thin eunuch who came to announce the imperial edict, he was different from last time. This time he held his head high and was dressed elegantly. A lot of people followed him and saluted her respectfully.

When the eunuch saw her, he smiled and respectfully raised the imperial edict to begin reading it.

Li Xiying walked closer and stretched out a hand. The eunuch was stunned for a moment, but due to the princess's power, he tactfully handed it to her.

"Okay, let's go back and report." She saw that although she brought many people, they had nothing in their hands. It seemed that there was nothing for them to bring to her. She just needed to convey an order and the job would be done.

"Princess, what His Majesty meant..." The eunuch looked embarrassed and gestured for her to read the contents of the imperial edict.

Li Xiqi followed suit and spread out the imperial edict to take a look. "What?" She couldn't even read ten lines at a glance. "My daughter Tang Xing, return to the palace immediately." Those few simple words clearly expressed her grandfather's intention.

After Li Xi closed her eyes, she was taken away by Grandma Ye. Grandma and the other maids were all confused. They didn't know what the imperial edict said and why the princess was so surprised.

Li Xiying was in a complicated mood at the moment, and frowned as she said, "Last year, they mentioned the ceremony of coming of age, but this time they didn't say anything, and just asked me to go to the palace."

She hadn't been back to the palace for many years, and she was not mentally prepared to go back suddenly. She always felt that her grandfather had something to tell her in person.

She thought for a while and asked the eunuch, "In the past, whether it was a festival or a birthday, Grandpa always left me outside the palace and never called me in. Could it be that something happened in the palace these days?"

"This... I don't know what your majesty means." The eunuch lowered his head and did not move a step, and then said: "The carriage has stopped outside the manor, Princess, please follow me quickly, but you must return to the palace before dark."

Why are you so anxious? Could something have really happened?

Li Xi asked, "My grandfather, how is your health?"

The eunuch bent his body, his expression was timid from beginning to end, and he didn't seem to know anything, unlike the capable attendants around my master. He was very well behaved and didn't dare to say a single wrong word: "Your Majesty is in his prime, and the dragon is naturally healthy."

Even so, he still didn't feel relieved, so he asked a slightly smarter maid to go with him, and left Grandma Ye and a dozen or so maids behind to guard the farm.

I thought that once I went there, at most I would just serve my grandfather for a few days and then return to the village.

After packing up a little, he set off with a package of luggage and followed the eunuch's carriage and horse team.

Grandma instructed the maid to take care of everything. Originally, she should have followed this time, but the princess understood that she was old and insisted that the road would be bumpy and asked her to just guard the farm, as she would be back soon anyway.

She had watched Li Xiying grow up since she was a child, and had followed her wherever she went, taking great pains to do so. This was their first separation, and she couldn't help but complain a lot, and she sent her out with red eyes.

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The carriage traveled on the road for a whole day and then slowly stopped at the Daming Palace. She sat in the carriage and rubbed her forehead. She felt dizzy from the bumpy ride.

The maid leaned her head out of the carriage, and was so surprised at what she saw that she was speechless for a long time.

"Tang Xing? Are you feeling unwell?" A woman's voice sounded outside the car at the right time. Li Xixiao opened her eyes and was helped down by the maid.

She knew it was Queen He's voice, so she answered softly, then called out "Queen" and raised her head.

It was not a big deal to raise my head, but there was a sense of decay all around. The palaces of all sizes in the distance were reduced to ruins, as if they had been burned not long ago, and the black miasma had not yet faded.

She looked around and frowned. There was a huge gap between the magnificent Daming Palace in her mind and the dilapidated scene before her.

What happened in recent years?

Has the battlefield been moved to the emperor's home?

At this moment, she really wanted to find someone to ask for clarification. The eunuchs looked more like zombies than each other, as if they had just passed through the gates of hell and were wandering in the human world, with a look of despair on their faces.

The queen in front of her was extremely thin, far from the plump one she had imagined.

"What exactly happened in the palace? Why don't I know anything about it?" Li Xiying didn't bother to say anything polite and grabbed a eunuch and asked. He was terrified and shook his head desperately, thinking he had made a mistake.

"Princess, please don't kill me. I know I was wrong! Princess, please don't kill me. I know I was wrong!"

Amber, who was standing beside her, was also dumbfounded when she saw this. She didn't know why the eunuch reacted so strongly. The princess was not a terrifying person, so what was there to be afraid of?

Li Xiying knew that this man was a frightened bird. It must be because of the lessons learned from the previous incident that he was so afraid that his head might fall to the ground at any time.

Did the court change so quickly? As the emperor, my father must have suffered a lot.

"Don't make things difficult for them. Let me tell you what happened in the past few years. You can go to my bedroom and take a rest first." The queen said slowly.

After the eunuch led everyone to retreat, the maids beside them followed Li Xiying closely, carrying their master's packages.

Fortunately, many palaces in the harem, including the queen's bedroom, were intact and not damaged. When they arrived at the palace, the queen still did not show much emotion on her face, and everything went on naturally.

Only after she sat down at the table with Li Xiying and dismissed the people around her, even Amber was waiting outside the door, did she speak: "His Majesty has allowed you to live in a manor in Luoyang and has not cared about you for several years. Can you be so unloving to him? His Majesty has suffered a lot in these years, and your brothers and sisters have also suffered a lot. Only you are lucky. You are outside the palace and have no worries. How enviable."

The queen's eyes were dull for a moment, then she forgot what the emperor had told her and told her everything she knew.

The power of the imperial court has been gradually weakened in recent years. The most troublesome thing is not only the dictatorship of the eunuchs, but also the competition among several princes, who are secretly expanding their power and doing many shameless things.

One of the princes was named Zhu Wen, who joined forces with the prime minister to completely eliminate the eunuchs' power.

Another vassal king, Li Maozhen, emerged and staged a drama of holding the emperor hostage to control the princes.

But he happened to meet Zhu Wen, a ruthless character.

When two tigers fight, one of them gets hurt! During this period, Zhu Wen besieged Fengxiang. There was a heavy snow in winter, and the city ran out of ammunition and food. Countless people froze to death or starved to death.

Li Maozhen was alone in the city and could not defend it. In order to survive, he had to hand over the kidnapped emperor and negotiate peace with Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen was not eager to save his lord. He immediately went into a blood-thirsty state and killed almost all the eunuchs in the city, leaving only some of those with low positions who were not a threat.

That year, the emperor, empress, princesses and princes were almost starved to death. Even more unfortunate was that the empress's own daughter, Princess Pingyuan, was forced to marry humiliatingly to Li Maozhen's son.

But it is not known whether she was lucky or not, but less than a month after her marriage, Princess Pingyuan returned to Chang'an and was brought to the Queen by Zhu Wen.

Although Zhu Wen is now professing his loyalty to the emperor, he is secretly eyeing the situation with a fierce eye, and his power is growing stronger and stronger. I am afraid that it has already reached an uncontrollable point...

The queen smiled and wiped the tears from her cheeks. "Last year was your coming-of-age ceremony. His Majesty found a way to send you a golden hairpin even if he could only eat soybeans to fill his stomach. He kept everything from you. Fortunately, you have made it through now. He called you back to the palace less than half a month after returning to enjoy the family life."