Zhiying sighed and asked her in a soft tone as much as possible, "What did Madam Ye ask you to follow?" ”

The maid whispered: "Mrs. Ye asked me to help the princess, and I want to seduce ...... The prince's people will teach and teach the princess ......"

"Did you do that, then?"

"Not yet, not yet ......"

That's it, the Xie family's intentions are so obvious, whether Cui Yi or Bailizan, they definitely don't want to get a few innocent victims, so there is no "person who wants to seduce the prince", and the hands of these maids have not yet been stained with blood.

Zhiying was a little relieved, nodded and said: "You are all forced to do it yourself, if you are sent home, the Xie family will not be able to spare your family, but you can stay in the house, I can't rest assured, so let's do it, you are in the barracks, or in the city, if you meet someone who is worthy of your eyes, you will marry yourself, if you don't want to, go to the account room to receive this month's monthly money, and then you can fall in love wherever you want, to the Xie family I still say that you work in the palace, but from now on, you are all free." ”

A few maids exchanged glances and asked pitifully, "Really?" ”

Zhiying smiled and nodded: "Really." ”

The maids immediately cried with joy, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to thank you: "Thank you, madam!" Thank you, ma'am! Then they all went back to pack their things happily.

Lang Yue was a little uneasy, and asked Zhiying: "Wouldn't it be too risky for Madame to do this?" If one of them goes back to snitch, won't all the work done be wasted? ”

"No," Zhiying stroked Xiao Cui Xian's fluffy little brain melon seeds, and said softly, "No one is born a slave, if it weren't for the compulsion of livelihood and the threat to his family, who would be willing to harm someone who has no grievances with him, not to mention that Mrs. Ye spoke harshly, when selecting these maids, most of them said in front of them that this ugly thing is like this, they are all girls' families, who would like to hear others say that they are ugly?" ”

Lang Yue had no choice but to sigh: "Madam is too tolerant and too kind, so she will be bullied." ”

Zhiying smiled: "Isn't kindness a good thing? But kindness is kindness, I won't let others bully and not fight back, it's not that I don't report it, the time has not come, if I can't bear it, I will make a big plan, since the prince intends to compete with the emperor for the dragon chair, now our number one enemy is the emperor, not the Xie family, and when the prince's great cause is completed, why can't he revenge the Xie family's bullying? ”

Lang Yue lowered her head convincingly: "It's still Mrs. Visionary." ”

A few days later, the royal soldiers who went out to look for the "missing princess" finally found the person back, Cui Yi was not at home, and Zhiying took Xiaoqiu out to pick him up.

Xie Yuchan got off the carriage in a trance, the clothes she was wearing were so tattered that she couldn't see the original shape, wearing a gray-green cloak, Cao Qian stepped forward to report according to the lines arranged in advance: "Madam, I found the princess in a ruined temple three miles outside the city, but I ...... it."

Then, as expected, as soon as Xie Yuchan heard the word Mrs., she instantly burst into flames like a handful of rosin-scented red charcoal, and rushed up screaming to beat someone, regardless of her injuries: "Eldest grandson Zhiying!" You shameless slut! You don't have to die well! ”

Cao Qian happened to be standing between the two, and as soon as he turned around, the elbow that he didn't have time to put down hit the bridge of Xie Yuchan's nose to the peak, and the flower-like princess Wu screamed, and the nosebleed flew out for a long time.

Profit: "......"

Xiaoqiu: "......"

The soldiers stepped forward to help, Xie Yuchan's face was covered with blood, and she stood up in embarrassment, angry and angry: "You! You're all in this together! ”

The three of them thought together, do you know?

Cao Qian ignored her and continued to recite the lines written by Bailizan: "Madam, when the princess was found at the end of the year, the princess was being beaten by several ruffians...... Humiliated, although the last general arrested those people, but the princess was already delirious, and when she caught someone, she beat and scolded, and the last general had no choice but to knock the princess unconscious and bring it back. ”

The two pro-soldiers received the order, and the swords fell in their hands, and Xie Yuchan fainted without humming.

Zhiying let out a regretful sigh in cooperation: "This happened...... Let's help the princess in first, and then invite a doctor to come, this matter must not be publicized, and the face of the Wuwang Mansion must be saved. ”

While speaking, Xie Yong also rushed out when he heard the news, and was startled when he saw his sister's miserable appearance, and hurriedly stepped forward to check: "Yuchan? What's wrong with you, wake up! How so? What's wrong with her? ”

Cao Qian repeated the words again, and Xie Yong's eyes almost fell out: "Impossible!" How could such a thing happen...... You ......"

Zhiying said in a sympathetic tone: "The princess must have suffered a great impact from this misfortune, Gongzi Xie can rest assured, although Yanzhou is remote and desolate, you can always find one or two doctors, and there must be a way to cure the princess's illness." ”

Xie Yong's chest rose and fell, obviously angry, and said, "You! How can you do such a thing to a weak woman who is helpless——! This is despicable! ”

"Gongzi Xie, please don't button your hat indiscriminately," Zhiying looked at him with a smile, "What did I do?" Shouldn't a doctor be asked to treat the princess? ”

"The girl's family is the most important name, you are also a mother, and you also have a daughter! How can you bear to spoil a girl's innocence like this! Xie Yong said angrily.

Holding Yingshang smiled neatly: "When Mrs. Ye framed me as a traitor, forced me to leave the prince, and even bribed the coachman to kill me and humiliate me, why didn't she think that I was also an innocent girl?" Xie Gongzi's words can be taken back and told her first. ”

Xie Yong was stunned on the spot, Zhiying turned around and left: "Xiaoqiu, order someone to clean up the small courtyard in the north of the palace, the princess is frightened, it is better to recuperate for a while, without the permission of the prince, no one is allowed to disturb the princess to recuperate." Xiaoqiu agreed, and glanced at Xie Yong, who was stunned, with contempt.

Although Zhiying had instructed "no noise", Princess Wu Xie was captured and humiliated by the Liukou, and the whole person went crazy after coming back gradually spread, and the news spread to Xuanzhou, Xie Xiao wrote a letter to question Cui Yi, Cui Yi didn't look at it, and threw it directly to Bailizan to go back, touched his hungry stomach, and went home to eat.

Zhiying has been very busy recently, getting up earlier than him, sleeping later than him, except for accompanying him during meal time, he is almost not in the house, Cui Yi was left out in the cold, and he was very unhappy.

It's the same today, when Cui Yi returned to the palace, there were four or five dishes on the table, and Zhiying sat at the table with a handstove on his lap and waited for him, looking at a book in his hand, if he hadn't coughed, Zhiying wouldn't have noticed him coming back at all.

"What are you looking at?" Cui Yi hooked his toes, dragged the embroidered stool out, sat down next to her, and stretched out his head to look at the book in her hand.

Zhiying closed the book with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just the geography of Yanzhou, let's eat." ”

Cui Yi snorted with a very stinky expression, took the bowl handed by the maid, and picked fat and thin on the dishes on the table for a while, with no appetite: "Why are the recent dishes not looking good day by day?" Call the cook. ”

"It has nothing to do with the cook," Zhiying gave him a bowl of soup, "Yanzhou is sparsely populated, food is scarce, and it is located in the north, it is extremely difficult to raise pigs, most of the meat that the people usually eat is transported from Xuanzhou to sell, and it was originally only 100 yuan a catty, but today it suddenly rose to 800 yuan a catty, which is enough for half a month's meat money in the palace. ”

Cui Yi was surprised: "Thank you...... The letter did come. ”

Zhiying took a bite of food and asked, "What does the letter say?" ”

Cui Yi's face flushed, and he said, "I haven't read it, all things like letters have been handed over to Mr. to deal with." If you can't afford meat, what will you eat later? ”

"No, I've got everything planned, let's eat first." Zhiying didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and the coarse tea and light rice were still delicious, but Cui Yi was in a complicated mood, and he had no appetite after eating a few bites, the chopsticks slowed down, Zhiying looked up at him, and asked with a smile: "Without meat, won't the prince eat?" ”

Cui Yi simply put down his chopsticks, sighed and stroked her cheek: "It's really wronged to let you follow me to this kind of place to suffer and suffer." ”

After leaving the capital for a few months, Zhiying's originally smooth skin was blown a lot rough by the cold wind in the north, and her cheeks were not as round and beautiful as before, and Xiao Cui Xian had not been weaned, so she had to eat night food every night, and she couldn't sleep well.

Zhiying didn't mind much, his little finger smoothed his sideburns behind his ears, and said: "Where does the prince say, they all say that marrying a chicken and marrying a dog is a dog, can the prince still suffer hardships and sin, and I can't eat and drink spicy food alone?" Let's eat, I'm going to go outside the city when I'm done. ”

Cui Yi asked strangely: "What are you doing outside the city?" ”

"Seeing that spring is about to begin, we have to reclaim all the abandoned farmland outside the city," Zhiying grabbed a scrambled egg with chopsticks and fed it to his mouth, Cui Yi opened his mouth and ate it, "The 8,000 soldiers who came with him were all from Xiying, and they had experience in cultivating land when they were in the capital. The first year will be a little harder, but it will get better slowly. ”

Cui Yi chewed the egg in his mouth, a bitterness in his throat, and said, "Can't you ask someone else to go?" It would be nice to find someone who knows how to farm, how can you, as a princess, go to the fields in person. ”

Zhiying smiled helplessly and said, "Who do you call?" Sir is busy reading the folds for you every day and replying to letters, but there are not enough people, so I, the princess, have to roll up my sleeves myself. Pick up the bowl and eat it yourself, are you younger than Xian'er, and I want to feed you before you eat - after eating later, I will first go to see the land outside the city, where it can be planted and where it cannot be planted, and then I will tell General Cao to assign tasks, the valleys we brought from the capital are the best, and the quantity is not much, and it cannot be wasted. ”

Speaking of grain seeds, Cui Yi remembered that when he was in Xuanzhou Xie's house, he was angry about her bringing grain seeds instead of grain, gold and silver, in fact, after thinking about it carefully, grain can only be managed for a moment and a half, and only by sowing grain seeds can it be inexhaustible, and the practice of holding a profit is actually correct.

It's just that he was angry at the time, and he spread his anger on her indiscriminately, without considering her feelings at all. During the time when Zhiying just disappeared, Cui Yi couldn't sleep almost every night, and her head was full of the expression she forbearance when she was scolded by herself, and she beat her head with remorse.

"Hold profit."

"Huh?" Zhiying concentrated on eating.

Cui Yi swallowed his saliva and said sincerely: "I was angry with you when I was in Xuanzhou, I was wrong, I'm sorry." ”

Zhiying smiled and put vegetables in his bowl: "When is it?" I've forgotten, let's eat. ”

Cui Yi had mixed tastes in his heart, nodded "um", picked up the bowl and ate it in a big gulp.