When a slave is a slave, it is always the master who lets the slave die, and the slave has to die. Even if the master's grace is great, at most it is to let the slave choose a more comfortable way to die. But this filial piety and the empress dowager gave Lingxi a choice before she left.

Lingxi was stunned for a moment, not knowing what filial piety and the Empress Dowager meant.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe saw that Lingxi's ears were all red, and knew that Lingxi was scared in her heart. Lingxi waited for her for five years, and the Empress Dowager Xiaohe wanted to know if Lingxi was really scared, never looking at her face, but at her ears. This is an instinctive human reaction, and blushing may be controllable, but ears can't be faked.

This is a subtle detail that even Lingxi himself doesn't know.

Xiao and the Empress Dowager waited for a while, and when they saw that Lingxi didn't squeak, they said again, "You are still young, although you have been a slave by the side of the mourning family in the past few years, the mourning family has always treated you as a granddaughter." If the mourning family takes you to Fengyang Palace, after a hundred years of mourning, I am afraid that you will have to guard the tomb of the mourning family for the rest of your life. On your loyalty over the years, the mourning family hopes that you can have a good home......"

Lingxi listened to the words of filial piety and the empress dowager, his nose was sour, and tears slipped down the corners of his eyes. She climbed up to the Empress Dowager Cui in a few steps, and choked up vigorously on the corner of the crimson skirt of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe. Lingxi didn't want to be trapped in the palace for the rest of her life, but if she was asked to tell Xiao and the Empress Dowager not to go with her, Lingxi couldn't say it. In the past few years, how Xiao and the Empress Dowager have treated her, Lingxi knows very well in her heart. In addition to being a minion, his food and clothing are better than that of a low-grade master.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe looked at Lingxi and said in a deep voice, "The mourning family has arranged three places for you to go, one, go with the mourning family, and you will live in the palace of Fengyang after a hundred years of mourning. Second, the mourning family chose a good family for you to marry, although you can't be a main room, you can be married and taught children for a lifetime, and you can't live a hard life. Third, the emperor's eldest son, Li Lingyun, once begged you with the mourning family, but at that time, the current emperor had not yet ascended the throne, and the mourning family did not allow him. If you also have the heart to mourn your family, you will be allowed, but in the second half of your life, you will have nothing to do with the palace. ”

Lingxi's heart was unbearable, and he leaned on the lap of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, covering his face with a handkerchief and crying bitterly, "How can the slave and maid be so virtuous, let the Empress Dowager bother so much for the slave and maid." ”

Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager have put three paths in front of Lingxi for Lingxi to choose, but none of these three are what she wants. She just wants to go out of the palace and live a free and easy life, maybe she dreams of traveling all over the famous rivers and mountains of the Dashun Dynasty and tasting the world's delicacies; Maybe they will find an ordinary person to marry, and the couple will live a peaceful and stable life, and they will work hard for firewood, rice, oil and salt, but there will not be too many intrigues.

This is the life she wants to live, a life that can't be more ordinary.

Seeing that Lingxi gradually stopped sobbing, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe asked, "Have you thought about it?" It's okay, say it, no matter which one you choose, the mourners won't blame you, and they won't be angry. ”

Lingxi knelt and retreated a step away, kowtowed three times to Xiao and the Empress Dowager, raised his head and revealed a trace of perseverance in his eyes, "The slave and maid are in the wrong love of the Empress Dowager, and the slave and maid will not choose any of these three places." ”

"Ling'er......" Mama An exclaimed.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe has already made such a thoughtful look at Lingxi's whereabouts, why is Lingxi still so ignorant.

Not only Mama An thought so, but even Qian Weishi, who was not very personal with Lingxi on weekdays, frowned. What a grace this is, not to mention that Lingxi is just a minion, even a princess with a title is afraid that she will not have this treatment.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe was also stunned, and then her heart sank, she looked directly into Lingxi's eyes, and said, "The three places arranged by the mourning family for you are not your heart?" So where do you want to go? ”

Do you want to be an imperial concubine? That really made her hurt in vain, and it was a bit of a loss in the past few years.

"Slave maid," Lingxi hesitated, and his teeth left a row of blood marks on his tender lips, "The slave wants to leave the palace, and the slave wants to go home and live a stable life with the slave's father." ”

"That's it?"

Lingxi nodded solemnly, kowtowed to Xiao and the Empress Dowager, and said, "The slave maid has been waiting in front of the Empress Dowager for more than five years, and I have seen and heard too much over the years. The slave and the maid are stupid, the slave and the maid can't cope with this kind of day, the slave and the maid just want to be a commoner, although the life is hard, but the heart is at ease. ”

"Don't be unreasonable!" Qian Weishi whispered, Lingxi's words had already taken on the flavor of criticizing the harem in disguise.

"It's okay," the Empress Dowager Xiaohe waved her hand at Qian Weishi, changed her posture, and continued, "Since this is what you think, then the mourning family will depend on you." But you have to think clearly, when you leave the palace, you will no longer be the respected Ling'er girl in the Yongshou Palace, and no one outside the palace will respect you. ”

"The slave has figured it out." Lingxi nodded, tears in her eyes, "The slave is reluctant to let the Queen Mother." ”

These are the heartfelt words of Lingxi. After she came to Dashun, she spent the longest time with Xiao and the Empress Dowager, and gradually developed a trace of dependence on Xiao and the Empress Dowager similar to her relatives. This kind of dependence was something she had never had in her previous life.

"That's it......" Xiaohe Empress Dowager leaned into the low kang and sighed, "Then you will stay in the Yongshou Palace, wait for the mourning family to leave, and let Qian Weishi arrange for you to leave the palace." ”

On the tenth day of the fifth month of the second year of Yong'an, Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager moved to Fengyang Palace, with Mama An, Zhou An, Xiao Xiazi, Zhiqiu Zhiyue and other palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting with her.

Qian Wei Shi and Lingxi stayed in the Yongshou Palace.

Qian Weishi asked Lingxi when he planned to leave, Lingxi raised his eyes and looked at the Wutong Palace, and thought about the Half Moon Pavilion in his heart......

These two places are the most reassuring to her.

Qian Wei Shi saw that Lingxi didn't speak, and sighed, "If you don't leave for the time being, stay and help me." At present, these minions are all newly deployed from the Yeting Palace, and few old people can't hold it down, and I am also old and have limited mental strength. ”

Qian Weishi's words are in line with the meaning of Lingxi, and Lingxi will be blessed, "The slave is not in a hurry to leave the palace, and will definitely help the father-in-law ......"

"What slave is not slave and maid," Qian Weishi stretched out his right hand to support Lingxi's body and said, "Right now, there are only two old people left in this Yongshou Palace, you and I are commensurate." They are all minions, who is nobler than whom......"

In the latter sentence, Qian Weishi said very lightly, so light that Lingxi thought that Qian Weishi had never said this sentence at all.

Xiao and the Empress Dowager moved to Fengyang Palace, which was just a small pebble thrown on the already uneven water for the concubines in the harem, and the other waves were gone. However, she removed a boulder that pressed on Empress Zhu's heart, because Xiao and the Empress Dowager were in the harem for a day, and she would respect Xiao and the Empress Dowager for one day.

In the blink of an eye, in June of the second year of Yong'an, the concubines of the palace were pregnant one after another.

First of all, he was very loved by Emperor Yong'an, and he lived in Penglai Palace. Emperor Yongan was overjoyed when he found out, and the next day he sealed the beauty from the four products. Later, the dance skills are exquisite, and the Xinmei who lives in the drunken Xia Xuan of the Forgotten Palace, although Emperor Yong'an is happy, he has not entered the position of the Xinmei.

For this reason, Xinmei people have been unhappy for a long time. Until Emperor Yong'an allowed her, "If you give birth to an emperor for me, I will make you a concubine of the third grade." "That's it.

In July of the second year of Yong'an, Empress Zhu was pregnant. This is a national joy, Emperor Yong'an is happy, what kind of good things are ordered to be carried into Weiyang Palace, for a time Queen Lin is used to the harem, no one can beat.

Looking at the entire Dashun harem, the quietest is Yongshou Palace, because there are no concubines in Yongshou Palace. And the least quiet is also the Yongshou Palace, because the Yongshou Palace lives the princess of Allure.

Princess Allure is the master who can't stop, and Xiao and the Empress Dowager have a headache with her when she is in the palace. At that time, the princess of Allure would be more or less restrained, and now she is the biggest existence in the Yongshou Palace, and she is becoming more and more unreliable when she tosses.

That is, after demolishing the Yongshou Palace Buddha Hall and the waterfront pavilion of the Wutong Palace, the princess of Allure dismantled the bed in her dormitory, and after two days of beating, the bed was made round. Later, because there was no round bed curtain in the palace, he tossed it back......

Yixue and Xiruo already have a certain degree of resistance to their master's unreliability, and they have long been surprised. During this period, Qian Weishi suffered, and Qian Weishi was the eunuch in charge of Yongshou Palace, so he naturally had to listen to his master in everything. But this listens to the master, and he can't let the master take an axe like the demolition office and repair all the unpleasant places in the palace.

If this is Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, it will be upset, after all, no one dares to be embarrassed if someone supports him. But at the moment, Xiao and the Empress Dowager are not in the palace, and Qian Weishi is afraid that Princess Allure will toss and turn like this, and it is his life that will be put into the end.

Qian Weishi didn't dare to manage this princess who gave him a headache, and he didn't dare to persuade him deeply. After all, Princess Allure is nominally the youngest daughter born to Empress Jingren and the most loved by Emperor Yonghe. How many princesses have been titled before they get married? Since the opening of the entire Dashun Dynasty, there is only such one, and it is still a good product!

At this time, it is time for the spirit rhino to come out.

Lingxi is now immune to the face of Princess Allure, no matter how Princess Allure laughs at her, she can make her face cold, until Princess Allure is furious at her heart and begging for mercy again and again.

On this day, the princess of Allure rarely made a big fuss, and pulled the spirit rhino to repair the flowers with flower scissors in the Wutong Palace. Lingxi was originally happy in her heart, thinking that the princess of Allure could be regarded as quiet. Who knew that the princess of Allure suddenly said to Lingxi, "When will there be a war at the border pass?" I want to go and kiss! ”

Lingxi choked on the mouth of the spit, and after looking left and right and seeing that there was no one around, he begged the princess of Allure, "Youmeng, ancestor, can't you look around when you speak, and then talk about it before you think about it?" ”

Allure dug up her cherry red mouth, and said with a nonchalant face, "I've seen that there is no one around, and besides, my voice is so small, how can anyone hear it?" ”

Indeed, the words of the princess of Allure were extremely low. Although she loves to play and make trouble, she also has a lot of weight.

Princess Allure just said it casually in the deep palace, but she didn't want to pass the border and really started a war.