Wanying saw Qi Qiuli coming from Yongxiang, she didn't even bring any gloves, she held two small cans in her two hands, frozen like two frozen persimmons, and grabbed those two hands. Sure enough, it's really cold like frozen persimmons. was so anxious that he grabbed Qi Qiuli's hand and led her to the fireside to roast her hands.

When Qiuli saw the furnace, it was like seeing the king of Hades, and her eyes shivered with horror, and she pulled out her hands and took a few steps back.

Seeing this, Wanying immediately understood that Qi Qiuli was already very afraid of fire in her heart. also stepped forward, grabbed Qiu Li, took a small jar and put it on the table, and continued to hold Qi Qiuli's hand, trying to warm Qi Qiuli's cold hand with his own hand.

Prince Rong saw that the words of the two of them could not be finished for a while, so he thought to himself. Thinking that He You'an won the battle so quickly, he was so happy in his heart that he couldn't do it, cup after cup.

Qi Qiuli let out a long breath, propped up her head, and suddenly knelt down straight. Seeing this, Wanying hurriedly got up, ignoring the disorganized thoughts in her heart, and hurriedly pulled her up.

"Qiuli, what are you doing here?"

Qi Qiuli endured the tears shaking in her eyes and said: "The prince is also here today, Qiu Li dares to beg the princess and the prince to take Qiu Li out of the palace, Qiu Li is willing to be the princess's maid and serve the princess for the rest of her life." ”

Qiu Li's matter has also been lingering in Wanying's heart for many days, looking at her face with plasters, her heart hurts. She stays in the palace like this, it is already five ways to go, even if the emperor had a little meaning to her before, but now that her face has been ruined, how can the emperor seal a disfigured woman as a concubine? No matter what Qiu Li says, she is also a young lady of the official eunuch's family, and her father is also the official of the sixth grade, after leaving the palace, when she returns to her home, she is still the daughter of the palace. If you find a good husband, you can live a peaceful life. Staying in the palace, her temperament is competitive and competitive, in case Tong Zhaoyi thinks of her one day, according to Tong Zhaoyi's methods, she may want Qiu Li's life. He will also be out of the palace soon. Nothing can be done for her. If you help her out of the palace, it's a hundred.

After making up her mind, Wanying turned around and said to Prince Rong, "Lord, you have to think of a way to get Qiu Li out of the palace." In front of outsiders, Wanying naturally didn't dare to call him Liulang. I didn't even dare to be coquettish, only with a respectful look.

"It's not difficult to get out of the palace, the sick and injured palace people in the palace can be pardoned to leave the palace or return to their hometowns, but I'm afraid it's too late today, and the king of Ming'er will find the head of the pavilion and say it." Prince Rong also claimed to be the king in front of Qiuli, and the two cooperated seamlessly.

"Qiu Li is here to thank the prince for his great kindness, don't have to live, in this life Qiu Li will be a cow and a horse, serving the prince and the princess."

Qi Qiuli said that the princess, Wanying was very embarrassed, but Prince Rong happily accepted all the orders, with a pleasant face, and Wanying looked like she deserved her name.

Prince Rong drank for a long time, and when he saw that Qi Qiuli still didn't mean to get up and leave, he was bored. Even though He You'an's good news can get a few more glasses of light wine, but after drinking too much, he still feels bored, so he simply got up and said: "Today's wine is very happy, it's not early, you can talk for a while, this king will go to the queen mother to say goodbye." ”

Turning her head, she seemed to remember that before Qi Qiuli came in, Wanying had some unspeakable secrets and wanted to say to herself, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Didn't you tell me anything just now?" "Prince Rong used 'you and me' to let Qi Qiuli hear that he didn't want to leave.

Wanying originally wanted to make it clear about He Youan. But now that Qiu Li is here, Wan Ying originally wanted to hide the matter of He You'an's letter, and it just so happens that Qi Qiuli also knows about it, so let's talk about it next time.

"Oh, it's nothing, I also greet the Queen Mother for Wanying."

Sending off Prince Rong, Wanying and Qiu Li gossiped around the stove, the sisters didn't see each other for a few days, three glasses of hot wine, maybe they were drunk, Wanying said that she wanted to lie down, Qiu Li got up to leave, Wanying didn't know if she was drunk, or she really thought that the two of them would be separated from each other soon after, and she emotionally grabbed her and said: "It's not easy to walk on the snowy road outside today, so you can live here in Wanying, let's sleep in Wanying's bed together?" ”

"Isn't that right?" Qi Qiuli is self-aware.

"What's wrong, we're all women. Could it be that you are a man? I'm a woman anyway. ”

At this point, Qi Qiuli tearfully agreed. Each of them had a quilt, but Wanying was naturally afraid of the cold, so she simply jumped into Qiuli's quilt. Qiuli went down to blow out the lamp, and Wanying said no, there wasn't much left anyway, let it burn out by itself.

Originally, Wanying was still lazy, but after lying down on the bed, the drunkenness of the thin wine had passed, but she was full of light, and her spirit was not good. Qiu Li didn't feel a little sleepy either.

"Don't worry, after leaving the palace, Wanying will ask the family to send you back to Taiyuan." Wanying said.

"I said, I won't leave, from now on, I, Qi Qiuli, will be your slave, I will serve you and the prince for the rest of my life, and repay you for saving your life."

Wanying didn't want Qi Qiuli to ruin her stable life in order to repay her kindness, and objected: "Taiyuan is your home, if you don't go back, what should your relatives at home do if they worry about you?" ”

Qiuli turned around, probably suppressing the wound on her face, and she couldn't help but let out an "oops". I had to turn around again, and my eyes were like beaded curtains with broken threads, and I couldn't stop crying.

"Are you alright? Does it still hurt? Wanying also cried distressedly.

"The pain in the face can't be worth the pain in the heart, Qiuli hurts here." She pounded her chest hard with her hand.

For a woman, face is more precious than life. Qiu Li fell to this point, how can it not hurt? Wan Ying pressed her hand on the spot she had beaten, hoping to soothe her pain.

Qiu Li's tears became even more fierce, and she whimpered and said, "Taiyuan has no relatives for a long time...... I...... Actually, it's not a young lady who judges adults? ”

Wanying was so shocked that she almost sat up from the bed, impersonation is a big crime to kill her head. Especially the show girl, it is a matter of whether the royal blood is pure or not, if it is a foreign family or a royal family that will never marry, it will be a big crime to exterminate the nine clans.

"I'm scared of you, my surname is Qi but my name is not Qiu Li, Qiu Li is the only daughter of the eldest lady of my uncle's family, and my uncle and aunt are reluctant to let their only daughter enter the palace, so I am replaced."

"Then your parents are willing to let you enter the palace?" Wan Ying unintentionally said such a question.

Qi Qiuli cried and let out a desperate sneer: "My father died when I was nine years old, and I have been living at my uncle's house along with my three younger siblings. ”

"Where's your mother?"

"I died in childbirth."

"What about your brother and sister?"

"My father's chord is considered half-sibling. Only one of my younger brothers is my compatriot. She stopped, and the candle faltered as if it were about to burn out, and finally went out. The room is completely dark.

In the boundless darkness, Qiu Li's voice was as empty as a ghost: "My life is like I came to pay off my debts, I was born to suffer. My mother died when I was four years old, and my father died when I was nine years old. After a year of relying on my stepmother, my stepmother said that my brother had killed my father, and she was afraid that she would be killed if she stayed in the Qi family, so she left her younger brothers and sisters to remarry. Uncle took pity on my father, who died young, and also took pity on the four of us. The eldest lady in the main room is worried about the family business that her father has purchased. Uncle really took us in. But the uncle's aunt is a Hedong lion. Either beating or scolding all day long, even if I don't want to enter the palace, my aunt can't tolerate us, it's better to enter the palace for her daughter, maybe for this sake, I can treat my younger brothers and sisters better. ”

Wanying understood why she was reluctant to go back to Taiyuan; also understands that she was beaten before, broke her teeth and swallowed it into her stomach, and she had to force her face to laugh; I understand why she has always been ambitious to climb up. It turned out that she was for herself, and not for herself! If it were her, she would probably want to climb up wholeheartedly. It turns out that her seemingly cheerful and strong interior also has these unspeakable pains.

"If I go back to Taiyuan like this, how will my younger brothers and sisters live? What if you are really swept away? There is no longer a board left at home, so why should I take my younger siblings to ask for food? It's better not to go back, even if I die in the capital, they think that I can be better to my younger brothers and sisters in the palace for their daughter. Anyway, they won't ask me if I'm dead or alive. I'm not reluctant to die, I'm not willing to give up my own brother, the brother of a mother's fellow brother, he is older, he can support himself, I can close my eyes when I die, if I don't go to the underworld, my father and mother asked, what can I say? When my father was dying, he took my hand and said, 'My stepmother is an unreliable woman, and my younger brothers and sisters can only rely on me' I am only nine years old, what can I do? I'm not afraid of death, my debts have not been paid off, how dare I die? ”

Wanying cried even more violently than Qi Qiuli, held Qi Qiuli's hand tightly in the quilt, and asked with tears in her eyes: "You told Wanying this, aren't you afraid that Wanying will tell this matter?" ”

"You don't, you don't even see that, and I won't tell you. If you wanted to harm me, what did you do to save me in the first place? The great kindness of you and Prince Rong, I keep it in my heart, and I will definitely repay you for being a cow and a horse knot and a grass ring. ”

Wanying was originally soft-hearted and couldn't listen to others say sad things. Qi Qiuli is so heartfelt and reasonable, how can she refuse her thousands of miles away? Let her stay in the palace is also a dead end, and there is no way to send her back to Taiyuan, why does God abuse the hard-working Qi Qiuli like this, no matter how bad Shuntianfu is, it is more than enough to feed her for a lifetime, let her live in her own home, at least give her a way, let her father and mother point out a marriage in the future, or let the prince point out a marriage, and pick up her younger brothers and sisters, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? It can also be regarded as the fulfillment of the friendship between the two.

"You just recognize Wanying as a friend, don't talk about being a cow or a horse, you don't want to go back to Taiyuan, it's better to stay by Wanying's side. Although the master's mansion is not big, it can accommodate Wanying, and it can accommodate you. ”

If she was so moved, she would have been moved by Wan Ying a long time ago, Qi Qiuli didn't answer Wan Ying's words, and said to herself: "You know that I entered the palace and wanted to get ahead wholeheartedly, when I was in Dongzhao Palace, the housekeepers and grandmothers always bullied me when they saw that I was young, and I always persuaded myself, which woman in Ziwei Divine Palace didn't boil out?" I endured the first day of junior high school, and I was able to pass the fifteenth. But the palace is much more bitter than the family. She was choked up. But he still said: "The emperor just praised me for being quite good-looking, so she was determined to treat me, and I was still thinking about how to get close to the emperor, and they had already planned to get rid of me as soon as possible." I really didn't dare to think that if I took a step further, it would not be as simple as sticking my face to the copper stove, but that I fell into the furnace as a whole person, what a ruthless scheme, and she was not afraid that something would happen in her palace and dirty her reputation. ”

"If she is afraid, she will not do it, and you will be sure that you will stumble, and you can still frame her." Wanying said with grievances when she heard this.

"The crime of framing a concubine can lead to death, and maybe it will also affect Taiyuan's family, she expected that I had some concerns, so she decided to eat me."

"Forget these things when you leave the palace, Wanying knows that you are in pain, but you will not be happy in your life with them, Daddy has a few good doctors, Wanying will find the best scar removal medicine, we are still young, take care of it, maybe it will disappear in a few years?"

"That's it, I have no face, only this life is left."

Wan Ying knew that she was too sad and desperate to say such a thing, and the blow of disfigurement might remain in her heart for the rest of her life with the scar, which was a knot that Wan Ying could untie. can only slowly soothe the pain in her heart as time passes.