Since the fire, Feng Changqi's spirit has been in a highly tense state, in response to the saying, once bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope, she has to go to see her child if she has nothing to do on weekdays, that is, when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she has to go to confirm that the child is okay before she can put her mind at ease. Yu had no hope of helping her out, but she couldn't spare time because of her busy military affairs. It took a long time for the situation to get better.

Mrs. Taishou took pity on her and haggard, and specially brought a few capable maids from her side.

Feng Changqi refused at first, and she didn't even look at the few maids standing in the courtyard, so she said to Qingxiu: "You send them all back, and by the way, thank Mrs. Taishou for me, I appreciate her kindness, but although there are not many people who serve here, they are too busy." The little boy is still young, and he is afraid that too many people will scare him. ”

Qingxiu agreed, and was about to take the person away, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw a person taking a step forward and kneeling in front of Feng Changqi.

The sudden movement made Feng Changqi's face full of confusion: "What are you doing here?" Could it be that the expression on her face was so terrible that she could scare people to their knees without saying anything?

Thinking of this, Feng Changqi subconsciously touched his cheek, and his confused gaze swirled back and forth on the person.

It is also strange to say, although the maid knelt on the ground, but there was no sense of humility at all, she was very calm, not like other maids, but whenever Feng Changqi had a little movement, they would be so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe, as if Feng Changqi was some kind of flood beast.

Hearing the maid say: "The slave maid was recruited to the house by Mrs. Taishou in order to serve His Royal Highness, and when she came, Mrs. told her more than once to be careful in everything, not to anger His Highness, and not to be careless, to pay special attention to His Highness's emotional changes, and not to do anything wrong." If His Royal Highness sends the slave and maid back, I am afraid that the lady will blame the slave and maid for not doing well, and will expel the person from the Taishou Mansion....... I beg Your Highness to be merciful, for the sake of the poor slave and maid, let the slave and maid stay. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, I beg you to have mercy on the slave." The other maids knelt down as well.

Qingxiu frowned, revealing a little dissatisfied: "Mrs. Taishou is not the kind of unreasonable character, what are you afraid of?" If you take 10,000 steps back, what can you do if you leave the Taishou Mansion, you are not homeless, can you starve to death outside? How can there be such a request in the world, you are clearly a threat. ”

When a maid heard this, her eyes immediately turned red, tears slid down like pearls, and she said with a melancholy expression: "The beautiful girl has been staying in the house, I don't know the situation outside." In fact, the outside is far from as peaceful as imagined. Due to the frequent wars and soaring food prices, ordinary families with poor family backgrounds are about to run out of food! In some places, there are even tragic scenes of people starving to death! I heard that that place is simply a purgatory on earth, and the legendary Yi Zi eats it, and even appeared in that place! ”

Feng Changqi gasped.

When she started the army, she also imagined for ordinary people that their lives in the war would definitely be too good, but she didn't expect to be so pregnant that she couldn't even afford a full meal! Feng Changqi couldn't believe his ears, his body flickered, and his expression was complicated: "What you said is the truth?" If it's so chaotic out there, why haven't I ever heard of it? There was no movement inside and outside Jiangcheng. ”

If Jiang Cheng really had a mess, Yu Wuwang and Jiang Cheng Taishou would never hide it from her!

The maid shook her head: "Mrs. Taishou often opens warehouses to revitalize grain, and she will also give some restraint to those who really can't eat, so there has been no chaos in the city, but there is no now, and it is difficult to say in the future!" ”

Most of them are from ordinary people's families, and their families are not hungry for the time being, but they can also save money. It is really not good to say that it is a slave and a maidservant, but it is good to have a bite to eat, and it is also good to save some rations for the family and give it to the younger brothers and sisters below. Besides, the Taishou couple have always been benevolent and have never treated their subordinates poorly, so they want to stay here.

"Your Highness, please take in the slaves!"

They have already said this, and their heads are even more thumping and slamming to the ground, no matter how hard-hearted people are, they can't stand it, not to mention that Feng Changqi has always been soft-hearted.

She thought that the war was originally caused by her, how could she watch the people of Meng Liguo suffer and suffer, Feng Changqi nodded slowly: "You just stay." ”

The maids were pardoned, and they kowtowed to the wind and Changqi, and their joy was beyond words! Among them, there is only one person who is different, that is, the maid who begged Feng Changqi to take her in at the beginning, although she did the same action when everyone knelt and kowtowed, the expression on her face was different. Feng Changqi didn't know how to describe her expression for a while, but he had an intuition in his heart, this person was unusual!

"What's your name?"

The maid who was questioned was stunned, as if she didn't expect that she would be targeted by Feng Changqi in the crowd, she was stunned for a moment, knowing that Qingxiu couldn't look past it, and whispered a reminder, and she suddenly came back to her senses: "If you go back to Your Highness, the slave's name is A-Ning." ”

Feng Changqi narrowed her eyes slightly, she didn't know why, but she had an intuition that told her that this person couldn't be trusted: "Why were you scared when I asked you just now?" ”

A Ning half frowned, and her delicate face showed a little panic: "The slave maid has a poor family, and she has never seen a big person after living for so many years, and when she suddenly saw His Highness today, she was really scared....... For fear that if he accidentally did something wrong, he would anger His Highness and call for a folding ....... Fang Cai was purely in a momentary panic, and hoped that His Highness would forgive his sins! ”

Is it really just because I'm scared?

Others may believe her words because of her expression, but Feng Changqi will never believe it, but she didn't show it on her face, just smiled and said softly: "Actually, you don't have to be so frightened, I'm not the kind of beast that can't move at every turn, I think I have a good temper, as long as you don't make big mistakes, I will never embarrass you." By the way, you should all know this person next to me, her name is Qingxiu, she is my personal maid, you can ask her if you don't understand anything in the future. I don't have any requirements for you to come here, I just want you to remember that you don't enter the little boy's room at will. ”

The fire last time didn't hurt the child, but it burned Feng Changqi's heart, she didn't want something like this to happen again, so she simply isolated all those people, so that no one would hurt her child!

When the maids expressed their understanding, Feng Changqi asked Qingxiu to wait for them to settle down, and she herself turned back to the room to take care of the children. A moment before leaving, she lowered her voice and instructed Qingxiu: "Go see me as soon as you are done with these things, I have something to tell you." ”

Qingxiu nodded again and again.

By the time she had set up all the woken maids and explained the rules to them one by one, half an hour had passed, and when Qingxiu hurriedly pushed the room open, her eyes reflected the appearance of Feng Changqi sitting by the window with his chin propped up. She half-lowered her eyes, her expression was thoughtful, and she didn't know what she was thinking, she didn't even notice Qingxiu entering the door, and it wasn't until Qingxiu opened her mouth to speak that she suddenly came back to her senses.

"Your Highness, this tea seems to be cold, the slave and maid go and change-"

"Nope." Feng Changqi took Qingxiu's hand, patted the position next to him again, and said with a smile, "We haven't sat down to chat for a long time, Qingxiu, don't be busy first, talk to me first, don't worry about this tea, and no one will drink it." ”

Qingxiu froze in place, looking nervous: "The slave doesn't dare." ”

"What's not to dare? Isn't it now that you're in the palace and don't need to follow so many rules? It's just the two of us at the moment, and no one sees the restraint, so don't care about those etiquette, sit down first. ”

Feng Changqi insisted on letting Qingxiu sit in her position, Qingxiu couldn't help it, so she could only comply, but she was still a little uneasy in her heart: "Your Highness, isn't there anything to worry about?" "In the past, when Feng Changqi was alone in a trance, there was only one possibility, and that was that there was something in his heart, recalling what the maid said about the external situation just now, Qingxiu's guess in her heart was a little firmer.

"Your Highness must have something on your heart!"

She was right, Feng Changqi did have something troublesome in her heart at this time, and it was precisely because of the words in the mouths of the maids just now that it was triggered, and she was in a trance, thinking about this matter: "Qingxiu, did I do something wrong?" Feng Changqi asked with a confused expression.

Qingxiu's heartbeat skipped a beat, and she wrinkled her brows and asked, "Why did Your Highness say this?" ”

Feng Changqi lowered her face, her delicate face was covered by shadows, and her eyes that had always been bright became dim, like a falling star gradually extinguishing, she said melancholy: "When I heard them talk about things outside just now, I have been thinking about this question, whether I have done something wrong. The war started because of me, if I didn't want to regain that position, how could Meng Liguo be mired in war now? I'm not very good at governing the country, and I don't care about the throne, so many people because of the occasional thing, I really don't want to go to this heart......... If only I hadn't chosen to start a military in the first place. ”

If you don't have troops, but give up that throne, there will be no war in Meng Liguo now, right? Wouldn't so many people die because of this?

The more Feng Changqi thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart.

It felt like she was stuck in quicksand, and she desperately tried to struggle, but she couldn't break free, and could only watch herself sink deeper and deeper into self-blame.