The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

Li Xiying opened the door and saw Shanluo let down his guard and smiled. She also smiled and said, "Let's go."

Shan Luo nodded vigorously and followed Li Xiying back to the corridor.

She could leave at any time now, but she had to think carefully. After all, she was penniless and had to take care of her finances, and she had Shanluo with her, so she had to think carefully before doing anything.

The room looked the same as it did at noon, except that there was one more thing on the table, covered by a piece of brocade cloth.

Looking at Shanluo again, she was standing aside with her head down and her hands folded, not looking away. Li Xixiao narrowed her eyes, looking at her, as if she had suddenly had a little maidservant around her to serve her.

Although she was used to being served, Shanluo was not her maid after all, and she had not owed her any favor, nor could she afford to pay her. They just had to get along with each other as equals.

She pulled Shanluo to the table and wanted to talk to her, but when she sat down, she saw that her face was covered with tears.

It turned out that she was standing there with her head down and not moving, crying.

She said softly, "Are you homesick?"

Shanluo saw Li Xiying looking at her from the corner of her eye, wiped the tears from her face and said, "Madam, you said that my grandmother mistook you for someone else before she died. Did she say anything to you? There is no one around to ask you to tell me."

It turns out that she has been bothered by this. She held back and didn't say anything yesterday, but now she must not be able to bear it anymore.

"Okay, I'll tell you everything from beginning to end." Li Xiying said.

She lowered her eyes, intending to tell her everything that happened in her house that day in detail.

After she was separated from her maid and came to Anyifang, it happened to rain, so she took shelter under the eaves of her house; then her grandmother pulled her into the house, with tears in her eyes, and checked her injuries and applied medicine. She was in a trance, as if one of her eyes was blind.

After saying this, she said with emotion: "I don't know what you have been through before. When she saw me, it was like seeing you. She was surprised and happy."

"She applied medicine to you? She always applied medicine to me after my grandfather beat me. I didn't go home for a few days, and she must have been very worried and mistook you for me. My grandmother lost one eye because of me..." She lowered her head, "If it wasn't for my grandmother protecting me, she wouldn't have accidentally injured her eye."

Shanluo covered his heart and tears fell like rain.

If she had been more careful while washing clothes and not lost a piece, she would not have been beaten, and her grandmother would not have been accidentally injured in the eye by my grandfather while protecting her.

Li Xiying saw that she was heartbroken and didn't know whether to continue.

She was in tears, but she still looked up and continued to listen.

She continued, "After she had done all this, she took something out of her pocket and gave it to me, telling me not to leave it in the house, but to take it and find a family to work as a maid. But before she could finish her words, your grandfather came back, and your grandmother was in a state of panic, so she quickly hid me in a closet... Who knew that your grandfather would curse her when he came back, insisting that she had let the girl she had just bought run away... During the argument between the two, your grandfather did such a stupid thing. Later, of course, your grandfather was arrested by the yamen runners and imprisoned to await trial."

After saying this, Shanluo was already sobbing uncontrollably, tightly clutching her grandmother's belongings in her hands, and shouting the word "grandmother" with a choked throat.

Li Xiying comforted her, "The dead cannot be resurrected. The best way for the living to show her that they live up to her expectations is to live up to her expectations. After all, your safety was what she cared about the most when she was alive."

Shan Luo stroked the jade in her hand, wrapped it up and put it close to her body, wiped her tears and nodded.

"Then my grandfather..."

"Your grandfather killed someone, and it was his own mother. Killing someone means paying with one's life, and killing one's mother is a heavier sin, so there will naturally be no good outcome." Li Xiying said angrily, his evil deeds were still fresh in his mind. "According to Tang law, he should have been beheaded immediately and displayed to the public. I believe he has already been punished."

A hundred deaths for his sins would not be enough.

After crying for a while, she took a long time to calm down.

My wife is right. The dead cannot be resurrected. The best way for the living to repay her is to live up to her expectations. After all, she was the person she cared about the most when she was alive.

Shan Luo also saw the covered object on the table and pointed at it, "Madam, is this for you?"

Of course, there is no one else living in Langfang.

Li Xiying lifted the corner of her clothes and took a look.

It was a dress in peach color.

Shan Luo stared at Li Xi's white hands with sparkling eyes, raised them to look at them, then put them down, and then looked at her skirt, which was also stained with dust. "It's the skirt. Madam, your skin is white, and this pink color makes your skin look even more beautiful."

If possible, it is a good opportunity to wash and bathe, and it will be more comfortable to put it on.

Li Xiying was just wondering who sent it?

There were only a handful of people she knew in this mansion. Could this be a gift from Yi to express her gratitude for saving her life?

"Madam, there is a piece of paper inside your clothes." Shan Luo pulled out a jute paper and handed it to Li Xiying. There were only two or three lines of small words within her sight, but the expression on her face changed from confusion to surprise and then to puzzlement.

"My lady, what's wrong? What's written on it? Although Shanluo could see the words on it, she had never read a book, so naturally she didn't recognize any of them.

"Cui Silang invited me to play chess..." After saying that, she tucked the paper back and covered the cloth again, as if it had never been opened.

"Cui Silang?" After looking at Li Xiying's actions, he stopped asking questions.

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Inside the house, Li Zhen frowned as he listened to the secret guards reporting the whereabouts of Princess Tang Xing.

When he saw Long Qi picking up the portrait before, in order not to alert the enemy, he sent people to investigate secretly and learned that he was the nephew of Prime Minister Cui Yin. When he was guessing that Xi Qi would be hidden by Cui Yin's nephew, he heard that someone saw her in Anyifang.

The hidden guard reported: "I heard that the princess was sold to a brothel, and after she escaped, she was kidnapped by a young boy in the neighborhood... and forced to marry her."

I still remember that when a passerby in the neighborhood saw the princess in the portrait, her eyes widened and she said, "I've seen her before. She's a good person!"

"What do you mean?" the hidden guard asked at that time.

The old lady shook her head and began to recount the tragic fate of Cong Shanluo: "You don't know how pitiful that young lady was. She finally escaped from the brothel, but was kidnapped by Zhang Er to be his wife. Alas~..."

"Is what you say true?"

The hidden guard did not listen out of context. It was because the old lady did not explain herself clearly, and even when she tried to explain it clearly, she would not listen to him.

"Of course, who among the neighbors here doesn't know? Or the lady who looks exactly like the one in the portrait you showed me just now, she also asked me about Shanluo's whereabouts. Isn't it... Hey, I haven't finished yet!"... The old lady shook her head, not knowing how much she had heard, and then she walked away muttering.

"What! A brothel? A young boy?" Li Zhen slammed the table and stood up. "Why don't you rescue him?" He became more and more furious.

"I deserve to die." With the idea of ​​informing Li Chen as soon as possible and not daring to act without orders, he immediately rushed to Li Chen's house.

"Who sold her to the brothel?" Li Zhen took his sword and narrowed his eyes. How could his niece be defiled by others!

The hidden guard was sweating profusely, "I... don't know."

The emperor was holding a court meeting at this time, and the affairs in the palace were in a mess, so this matter had to be put on hold for the time being. He wanted to resolve it immediately, bring his niece back and then tell his brother about it.