The nine princesses of the East Palace

I can't explain to Yong Niang about Xu Niang, otherwise, if word spreads, it will be Xu Niang who suffers, so let's leave it at that.

When I was holding the abacus and racking my brains to calculate the accounts, Xu Niang begged to see me outside, and I asked someone to bring her in. When she saw me, she knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

When she knelt down, I was terrified, and I hurriedly asked someone to help her up. A woman who is pregnant with a child is weak, if she kneels badly, wouldn't my sin be great?

Not only could I not make her kneel, but I also asked Timo to move a chair for her so that she could sit.She looked disturbed and innocent, and she sat down for a while, then got up and knelt down towards me.

"Xu Niang, what are you doing?" I asked.

Xu Niang didn't speak, just knelt on the ground with her head down.I guessed that she had something to say to me alone, so I screened everyone away and asked Yong Niang to close the door of the hall.

I don't like people kneeling back and forth in front of me, so I got up, walked to Xu Niang, raised her hand to help her up, and said, "Okay, there is no one else at the moment, what do you have to say?" , just say it straight.”

"Crown princess, slave... slave..."

"You want to talk about the baby in your womb, right? I know, you don't need to rush to explain." I asked her to sit down.

Xu Niang looked at me, she seemed very surprised, I didn't explain anything, just said, "I heard people say that the first three months of pregnancy are the most dangerous for a woman, so you should stay in the East Palace to raise your baby these few months. Let’s talk about other things later.”

Xu Niang shook her head and said: "My servant thanked the Crown Princess for her sympathy, but this servant is just an outsider, this Eastern Palace servant must not stay any longer, lest it cause criticism and damage the relationship between His Highness and the Crown Princess."

"There is no such thing as bad or bad. If it is really bad, it is the two of us who have problems, so how can we blame the third person?" I said, "As for whether it is controversial or not, everyone knows clearly." In vain, so what if they say it, can it be said that white is black?"

Xu Niang shook her head again and said: "The Crown Princess doesn't know something, women in the palace are the most talkative, gossip sometimes hurts people more than knives. The slaves have been in the palace for many years, although they have no skills, but the harem has seen many things. Few, the Crown Princess is kind and generous, so you can be more careful in the future."

After coming to the Central Plains, apart from Li Chengyin, the Empress Dowager, Yong Niang, Yong Niang and Luo Xi, this is the first time someone has said so many things to me, telling me to beware of others and protect myself...Xu Niang is really a delicate person It's a pity that things went wrong, and her innocence was tainted by others in her prime.

Xu Niang insisted on leaving, but I wanted her to stay... We talked for a long time, and finally, she agreed to stay temporarily.

I was worried that she would go back and think wildly, so I left her for lunch and taught her to play leaf cards. She learned quite quickly and got started right away.

When we were fighting at the poker table, Li Cheng Yin opened the door and walked in.I thought he wouldn't come back at noon, but I was surprised when he walked in swaggeringly.

When Xu Niang saw him, she was so frightened that she quickly put down her cards and knelt down to salute him. I couldn't hold back.

"Get up." Li Chengyin said plainly.

Then Xu Niang stood up, blessed me again, and quickly walked out of the door.

Looking at the cards on the table, I sighed and said, "Why did you scare away my guests as soon as you came back? I haven't seen how fierce you are on weekdays."

Li Chengyin stepped beside me, pulled out a chair and sat down, "Probably no one dares to look at me except you, so they don't understand when I'm in a good mood and when I'm in a bad mood, so they can only respect me."

I propped my chin and said, "I dare to look at you, but I don't know when you are in a good mood and when you are in a bad mood." I am telling the truth, he is moody, and most of the time I don't understand his mood. Think about something.

He looked at me, was silent for a moment, and then said: "You can ask me directly, you don't have to guess everything."

"I know." I said, "I don't have the time to guess what you're thinking. How tiring it is to guess what you're thinking. If you guess wrong, you'll be upset."

"You think clearly."

I patted my chest and said: "Of course, our children on the grassland are like this. Say whatever you want, go straight to the point, don't like to beat around the bush, if you are happy, you are happy, if you are unhappy, you are unhappy."

"is it?"

"Of course it is." I said, "By the way, I did my math again just now and found that I can calculate many accounts. The so-called practice makes perfect. In a few days, maybe I can do it better than you." I used to I hate reading numbers because I don’t know how to count. I didn’t like reading books before because I didn’t know many characters, but now I know more characters, and I’ve learned how to calculate accounts. It seems that staying in the palace is not so boring.

After hearing what I said, Li Chengyin laughed: "I want to be better than me in a few days, it is probably impossible, ten or twenty years later it will be almost the same."

I was so choked that I couldn't speak, how could it take so long?

"What is Xu Niang looking for you again?" Seeing me picking up the cards, Li Chengyin probably remembered the card game I just played with Xu Niang, and asked.

As soon as I mentioned Xu Niang, I felt a little worried and couldn't make up my mind for a while, so I wanted to hear what he thought, so I said: "Xu Niang suddenly passed out today, and the imperial doctor found out that she was more than one month pregnant... "

"This matter has nothing to do with me..." I was interrupted by him before I could finish my sentence.

"Oh, why are you in a hurry! I didn't say it had anything to do with you."

I spoke bluntly, but Li Chengyin was not happy on the contrary, he only heard him say: "Don't you think about it at all?"

"Why should I think so much?" I was inexplicably asked by him.

"I know what you mean. You must want to keep quiet and clarify, and let others acquiesce that the child in Xu Niang's womb is mine..."

"You're right, that's what I thought," I said.I was about to flatter my horse and praise him for being smart, so I heard him categorically say, "No. I don't agree."

"Huh?" He didn't want to...

"I'm not a good person, and I'm not in the mood to help others raise their children. Moreover, if you know that according to what you said, rumors will spread throughout the East Palace and even the entire Imperial Palace, saying that Xu Niang is pregnant with my child, then you don't have to worry about it." ?"

"It's okay!" I said.

Li Chengyin's face immediately turned ugly, he stared at me and said: "Are you a woman? Everyone is spreading rumors that other women are pregnant with my child, but you still don't care about it. If it were someone else, the sky would have turned upside down!"

"It's not true, why should I make a fuss?" I said, "Even if it's true, things have happened, and I can't change anything if I make a fuss about it. Why should I add trouble to myself and make myself more uncomfortable?"

"You..." Now he was so choked that he couldn't speak.

I said again: "If you really fell in love with other girls, I, as a princess who is married, can't make peace with you, but I probably won't like you anymore, and I don't want to sleep with you and eat together." .”