The nine princesses of the East Palace

I know what Li Chengyin said is correct, but I still feel sad, and I don't feel like eating lunch.

Li Chengyin didn't care if I ate or not, he continued to pick up my bowl, and filled my bowl with two strokes, "Fool, eat even when you're sad, you don't even have the energy to cry if you're not full." .”

"Who said I was going to cry? Our Xizhou girls don't cry." I immediately retorted.

"Then eat more."

"I'm in a bad mood, I don't want to eat." I said.

"Then have a bowl of soup to warm up your body." He was about to serve me some soup, and I didn't want to drink the soup, so I just asked, "Is there any wine? I want to drink."

Li Cheng Yin looked at me, and slowly said: "Drinking on an empty stomach will hurt your health, eat something first, and I'll ask someone to bring it for you." After he finished speaking, he pushed the bowl full of vegetables to me before.

I couldn't find any reason to prevaricate, so I had no choice but to eat a few chopsticks without taste, and then said: "I'm done eating, hurry up and get someone to get the wine."

"Which one do you want to drink?" Li Chengyin asked.

"What's there?" I asked.

Li Chengyin said: "All kinds of fruit wine, by the way, last time Brother Wu came here with wine..."

"Then I'll drink wine," I said.I haven't had a West State wine in ages.

After hearing this, Li Cheng Yin shouted out: "Shi En, go get a jar of wine."

Shi En ordered to go, but the door was knocked open after a while, Shi En got up from the ground, and said with a pale face: "Your Highness, the slave didn't mean to disturb His Highness and the Crown Princess, but... yes..."

Before he finished speaking, a white shadow flashed in, approaching Li Chengyin straight, and then there was the sound of the long sword being unsheathed.

"Come on! Catch the assassin." Before I could think, I shouted.

"Xiao Feng, don't shout." Li Cheng Yin said, "Shi En, you go out and close the door."

Only then did I see clearly that the man in white with the sword on Li Chengyin's neck was the master, and Li Chengyin took out a dagger from nowhere, and aimed at the master's vitals.

"You... what are you doing! Can't you talk properly if you have something to say?" I was so anxious.

Master didn't look at me, but with a sudden force on his hand, he asked Li Chengyin, "Why don't you save me? My adoptive father, and Yan'er, you can obviously save me, why don't you?"

"Master, it's none of Li Chengyin's business, he didn't know that it would happen so suddenly." Seeing that Li Chengyin didn't explain, I hurriedly said.

"Hmph! I don't know, I don't know! Is there something that didn't follow His Highness's plan?" Master said loudly, "No!"

What is Master talking about?I couldn't understand at all, so I could only wink at Li Chengyin desperately: "Please explain quickly!"Stupid not stupid!

Li Chengyin didn't seem to be afraid of the sword on his neck at all, he slowly withdrew the dagger, and said to his master: "My cousin overestimates me, I'm not a god, and I don't have the ability to control everything! I can't save the two who are desperately seeking dead man!"

"You're talking nonsense! How could foster father..."

Li Chengyin said: "Cousin doesn't understand. Over the years, Mr. Chai has only one belief in his heart, that is to overturn the case of the Gu family and the Chen family, to expose Gao Ming's crimes to the world, and to prove his loyalty like today, but one day, He suddenly discovered that the enemy he thought was not an enemy, but a target. The biggest enemy was the person he had always believed in, for whom he was born and died, grew up together, and was closer than his own brother. The status of that person could not be shaken. , and Mr. Chai's loyalty is uncompromising, and he is not allowed to kill the king. Therefore, he has only one way to go, and that person gave him the only way... This situation has changed since the Gu family and the Chen family more than ten years ago. From the moment the family is destroyed, it is already doomed, even if I am the crown prince, it is irreversible."

The master didn't make a sound for a long time, but he finally slowly moved the sword around Li Chengyin's neck, looking a little depressed.

Li Chengyin said: "I have ordered the corpses of Mr. Chai and Chen Yan to be put in coffins. If my cousin has the heart, he can take their father and daughter away."

The master was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Okay."

Li Chengyin said a few more words to Master, but I didn't understand.

Master left and jumped out from the window sill. When he went out, he looked back at me, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.I didn't ask him where he was going in the future, and whether he would come back.

But I think, probably not. For him, going to the capital probably has no good memories, and it is not worth nostalgia.

I guess he'll go back to West State, since that's where he grew up...that's fine.As for me, there is probably no chance to go back.

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It was rainy and cloudy in February, and there was no sun for half a month. Maybe it was because of the bad weather, or maybe it was because there were too many things in the palace, and the Empress Dowager fell ill again.

A 70-year-old man, once he gets sick, will shake the world. The imperial doctors are on call at any time, for fear that if the time is delayed, the illness will lose his head.

As the Crown Princess, I have to serve the Empress Dowager with decoctions and medicines every day, and I also have to deal with the affairs of the East Palace, and all the big and small matters in the palace are also my turn.

Li Chengyin has more things to do, once the emperor gets sick, he has to take care of the whole court affairs, there are unfinished things during the day, and he has to review the memorials at night, for several days in a row, I only sleep at night It's time to see him.

In fact, the emperor was awake, but he couldn't move, he couldn't even speak, only his eyeballs could move.After he woke up, I went to see him once, he lost a lot of weight, the medicine soup was fed by the maid, and he needed to be fed, he couldn't do it himself anymore, Li Chengyin almost had to read those memorials one by one Read it to him.

Half a month has passed like this, the Empress Dowager's condition has improved a bit, but the emperor is still the same, the situation in the court has become much more stable under Li Chengyin's rectification.

This day, as soon as I came out of Shouning Palace, a person suddenly rushed over and knelt down in front of me. I was so startled that I almost hit a tree beside me.

"I beg the crown princess to be merciful, so that the whole family of the little girl will survive."

The voice was trembling, and it sounded familiar, so I said, "You... and raise your head."

The people on the ground slowly raised their heads. When I saw it, I was stunned: "Miss Zhao...why are you..."

Zhao Sese didn't answer, but said again: "I beg the princess to save the little girl's family!"

"Miss Zhao is afraid that she is asking the wrong person. Although I don't know what happened to Miss Zhao's family, but I am a girl, and I only care about the small things in the East Palace. I am afraid that I will be powerless and unable to help you with what Miss Zhao said. .” I’m telling the truth, and I really can’t help her.

I had only walked a few steps, and Zhao Sese said again: "If the princess does not agree to save people, Sese will not be able to kneel for a long time."

I looked back at her and said, "Miss Zhao, why bother? If I say I can't help, then I can't. Even if you kneel until next year, it won't help."

Zhao Sese didn't seem to understand what I said, and said: "The princess only needs to intercede for the Zhao family in front of His Royal Highness, and the Zhao family can save themselves from death."

I laughed angrily, "Not to mention whether it is useful for me to intercede, even if it is useful, why should I say it? I believe Li Chengyin, if the Zhao family is innocent, he will not make things difficult for you. But if the Zhao family If he did something shameful, it's no wonder he is cruel."

"So, the princess is not willing to help?" Zhao Sese suddenly raised her eyes and said in a dark voice.

I said: "My husband is the crown prince, who shoulders heavy responsibilities in the world. I am of one heart and one mind with him. Before state affairs, he is the first. If he says that the Zhao family is guilty, then he is guilty. I will not intervene."

"In this case, the princess should stop blaming the little girl for being rude!" Zhao Sese suddenly stood up from the ground, pulled out the bead hairpin on her head, and stabbed at me.