The nine princesses of the East Palace

Because of the injury on my arm, I couldn't sleep because of the pain in the middle of the night. When I touched the golden sore medicine that Li Chengyin gave me, I took it out and wiped it off.After rubbing it on, it tingled a bit at first, but it soon became cool, and I felt much more comfortable, and finally I won't be woken up by the pain.

The next day was sunny, but what I heard early in the morning was not good news, but Li Fei's death.Yesterday, father abolished Concubine Li's title and locked her in the abandoned palace. This morning, the maid went to clean the abandoned palace, and found her hanging on the eaves, hanged to death, her body was already stiff, as if she had died last night.

Hari was proud and arrogant, and she didn't seem like someone who could hang herself, but she was indeed hanged from the eaves to die.She was just a useless concubine who had lost her power. She died when she died, and no one cared about the real cause of her death.After this matter was discussed in the palace for half a day, few people mentioned it.

These few days, Xiaoxue has been with me, I just tease it when I have nothing to do, now that it is not here, I feel bored, after thinking about it, I decided to go out of the palace to find Li Chengyin.

It takes two quarters of an hour to ride a horse from the palace to the Anhu Mansion in the Western Territory, when I arrived, it was lunch time, a few guards knew me, and upon seeing me, they took me to find Li Chengyin.

Li Chengyin was not eating, but was writing something in front of the table.When he wrote, he sat upright, and his posture was much better than that of my brothers.

He was busy, and it didn't seem right for me to disturb him like this. I quietly found a seat and sat down, resting my chin with my hands, and looked up and down, probably because my wound hurt last night and I didn't sleep well. I felt so sleepy all of a sudden, I started to doze off, and then I couldn't hold on anymore, so I just lay down on my stomach.

I vaguely felt that someone had put a blanket on me... I was awakened by the smell of food, like the smell of wild pheasant, it was so fragrant, my stomach growled uncontrollably.When I opened my eyes, I realized that I was lying on a soft couch.

I got up and saw Li Chengyin standing in front of the table, cutting something with a knife, I stepped forward and saw that it was a roasted pheasant, so the smell came from here.

"Li Chengyin..." I looked longingly at the fragrant pheasant.

"Are you awake?" Li Cheng Yin glanced at me.

"Yeah." I replied.I was about to say that I was hungry, so I heard him say, "You are really sleepy, Xiaoxue is not as sleepy as you are. I just looked up and saw you lying there, and I thought it was someone's lost pig."

"You're a pig. Didn't I just sleep for a while?"

"It seems to be true. It's only an hour. If you don't wake up, I will starve to death."

It turned out that I had slept for an hour, but, "Have you not had your lunch yet?" I asked.

It was late when I came, and I slept for an hour, and it was already past mealtime.

Li Chengyin said: "I'm afraid that some people won't be able to eat alone, so let's wait."

I couldn't help looking at him, he was methodically removing the meat of the pheasant from the bone, his movements were very fast, and after a while, a plate of thin pheasant slices was ready, and he put it in front of me, "I heard your stomach growling from a long distance away, let's eat."

I smiled at him and stretched out my hand to grab it, but he handed over a pair of chopsticks: "Can't you be like a girl?"

I said, "I grab it with my hands, and it tastes better. Our children in the grasslands all drink alcohol and eat meat."

Li Chengyin said: "It's okay for you to behave like this in front of me, after you go to Central Plains, others will laugh at you if you behave like this again."

I said: "The mouth grows on them, and if they want to laugh, I can't control it." This wild pheasant is really good. I didn't make the chopsticks sharp enough to pick it up, so I just put the chopsticks down and grabbed it with my bare hands.

Li Cheng Yin glanced at me bitterly, but didn't say anything. He sat down and began to eat slowly.

Although we have known him for quite a long time, this is the first time we have sat at the same dining table to eat in such a serious manner. I heard that people in the Central Plains have a lot of rules when eating. Fortunately, there are no dishes this time, otherwise, no matter how delicious the food is, it will be greatly reduced.

However, Li Chengyin seems to be a bit picky eater, he doesn't eat much meat, but eats the vegetarian dishes sent by the guards, so I eat almost all the pheasant meat, I am so full that I don't want to move anymore.

But Li Chengyin said: "After eating, don't sit all the time, or you will become fat like a pig. Let's go, I'll take you to see something."

I followed him with great reluctance, and when he saw me walking slowly, he seemed disgusted, turned around, picked me up and left.

He took me to a woodshed on the west side, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw Xiaoxue standing on a pile of logs and grooming her hair.When it saw us, it pricked up its ears, only glanced at us, and continued to care for its white fur.

There seemed to be other animals in the house, just in the corner, making creaking noises.

"Li Chengyin, what's that voice?" I asked curiously.

"You know if you can see it yourself?" Li Chengyin didn't intend to tell me.

I had no choice but to follow the sound to find it. I saw two small heads protruding from the haystack on the ground. They were two little gerbils. Their eyes were round, black and bright, and they were staring at me. I took a closer look. Only to find that they look exactly the same.

"Li Chengyin, is this the cuter and better-behaved little guy than Xiaoxue you said yesterday?" I asked.

Li Chengyin said: "That's right."

"They look so alike, are they twins?" I stared at the two little gerbils without blinking.

Li Chengyin said: "How would I know?"

I asked again, "Where did you catch them?"

Li Chengyin said: "I saw it by chance on the way to Shuobo."

"Then what are they called? Have you named them?"

Li Chengyin said: "Take it. The fatter one is called Aba, and the thinner one is called Axia."

I began to distinguish between Aba and Asha based on his words, but in my opinion, they all looked the same, and it was impossible to tell who was fatter and who was thinner.

Li Chengyin pointed to the one on the left and said, "This is Aba." Pointing to the one on the right, he said, "That's Axia, can you tell them apart now?"

I shook my head, still not seeing the difference.

Li Cheng Yin said: "You are so stupid, you can't even recognize this. I saw it at a glance."

I simply said: "Why do I have to recognize who is who among them?"

Li Chengyin stared at Aba Axia for a while, and said to me: "Forget it, I can tell the difference, and I don't count on you anymore."

I was used to being hit by him, and I didn't feel angry, I just asked, "Can I take them back to the palace?"

"what ever."

I said: "There is also Xiaoxue, I want to take it away too."

Li Chengyin said: "You are really greedy."

I said: "I just feel that I am very attached to them. When I go to your Central Plains in the future, I will take them with me. You gave them to me, and they are mine. You are not allowed to take any of them casually." Give it to other girls."

Li Cheng Yin curled his lips and said: "I know. You are really... wordy."

I held Aba Asha in my palms with great joy, one in each hand. They were so small and light, as if they had no weight.