After more than half a month, Xie Ruling's injuries were completely healed and she could finally get out of bed and walk around.
"Let's just say that it is quite useful to have a little girl like you. Thanks to you being able to change my dressing day and night these days, and you are quite good at work. You wash these clothes yourself. She even puts food in my mouth, she is indeed my good daughter!"
Xie Ruling happily held Chu Xin in her arms, kissing her left and right, and saw that Chu Xin seemed to have grown a lot taller.
Chu Xin snuggled into Xie Ruling's arms enjoying herself, she was really happy to get better.
"I can see that you seem to have something to tell me these days. Tell me what's on your mind. Let me see what's hiding in your heart at such a young age!"
Xie Ruling held Chu Xin and sat on her lap, using her fingers as a comb to comb her hair.
But there aren't many hair accessories, so I can only tie them up with strips of cloth, but it's quite neat and tidy.
"I don't want to stay in the cold palace forever."
Chu Xin bit her lip and spoke her mind.
How could she want someone to live in the cold palace for the rest of her life? It would be fine if she didn't know her life experience, but she did know it. After knowing it, she felt a burst of reluctance burning in her heart!
She is the legitimate princess, and her mother is the queen, so how could she want to spend her whole life in this dirty and messy cold palace?
"You are right, but you are still a princess after all. Even if His Majesty doesn't care about you, the Queen Mother will still care about you. Maybe she will take you out to marry you when you are old. After all, she will give you a destination."
Xie Ruling smiled sarcastically, and suddenly she no longer wanted to comb Chu Xin's hair. When she thought that in a few years, when Chu Xin reached her age, she would be symbolically contacted by the cold palace and marry anyone at will, she always felt... Somewhat uncomfortable.
This is the daughter in her heart, how can she be treated so casually?
"I don't want it. Even if you are willing to take me out, it's just for reputation. Letting me get married at will is just to block Yuyou's mouth, lest people say that Your Majesty is really cruel and lets his biological daughter stay here. Stay in the cold palace for the rest of your life!"
Chu Xin said aggrievedly.
So what if the food and clothing sent to him these days are much better than before, so what if His Majesty said he would be treated like a princess that day, these are all things he deserves, but they have been missing for so many years.
She will never forget the way His Majesty loves Chu Yi. That is the true expression of a father's love for his daughter, instead of casually saying coldly that she will be treated like a princess and asking her not to do anything that will embarrass the royal family. A shameful thing.
Perhaps her default intention to steal the charcoal that day was to bring shame to the royal family, so she restored her status as a princess and gave her more food and clothing.
"She doesn't seem to be a stupid girl, she is quite smart!"
Xie Ruling patted Chu Xin's head with a solemn expression.
If it was okay when I was young, but now as I grow up, it will definitely end like this.
Mu Wan is dead, and there is no one in the Mu family for a long time. No one will come out to stand up for Chu Xin.
Even if Chu Xin is taken out and married at will for the sake of fame, this is considered a good ending. She even has to praise that Her Majesty and the Queen Mother are kind-hearted and do not want to see the princess lingering in the cold palace for the rest of her life.
It's so hypocritical and cruel. When Mu Wan gave birth to the child, His Majesty's people had already come to the cold palace to make it clear that it was to see whether the child was a son or a daughter.
It seems that His Majesty had already had murderous intentions at the beginning. He was able to let his daughter live because he felt that his daughter could not control the power and take revenge!
I haven't seen your Majesty come to take care of it for so many years. Did your Majesty know that he was about to freeze to death and starve to death many times?
How could she fall in love with such a cruel and selfish man when she first entered the palace, and love him to the point of death?
Because of the other person's words or look, I felt so uncomfortable that I couldn't eat or sleep.
Especially when Zheng Yinghuan appeared, she felt really sour in her heart, feeling that her love had been taken away.
Now it seems that kind of hypocritical and selfish love, whoever loves it should have it!
"I don't want to be like this, it's unfair, it's not fair to me at all!"
Chu Xin hugged Xie Ruling's neck and choked with grievance:.
She shouldn't have such a fate, she really doesn't want to live such a life, and doesn't want her life to be just a trip in vain.
Xie Ruling sighed helplessly and wiped Chu Xin's tears with her sleeves.
In fact, what I just said is already the best ending. This is because His Majesty and the Queen Mother are soft-hearted. If they were more ruthless, they could just ignore it and really let Chu Xin live in the cold palace for the rest of his life!
At this moment, the whole person fell silent again. He could only let Chu Xin cry in his arms for a while. No matter how sensible he was on weekdays, he was still just an eight-year-old child.
"Hey! Someone wants to see you!" The little eunuch guarding the cold palace came over and shouted, tightening the money in his sleeves.
"Who!"
Xie Ruling yelled impatiently, "Isn't it really aggrieved to see her daughter crying? Why come here to disturb her with such a blind eye?"
"Concubine Shu, who has been here several times over the years, have you seen her? If not, I will go over and give you a reply!"
The little eunuch rubbed his hands. If it weren't for the fact that he was given so much money, he wouldn't be willing to come out of his room to deliver the message!
"Of course I want to see her, just ask her to come over!"
Xie Ruling rolled her eyes and replied. She noticed the bulging sleeves of the little eunuch. She must have collected a lot of money, right?
If I had known that these eunuchs were so pretentious, when I was a concubine, I would have dealt with these slaves who flattered others and suppressed others!
"Okay, okay, you go in first and wipe all the tears on your face. If I see you and still cry when I come in, don't blame me for trying to deal with you."
Xie Ruling touched Chu Xin's face, hugged her and placed her on the ground, then gently pushed his body to let him in, then closed the door.
"Sister Ru Ling is finally willing to see me. She has been here so many times in the past, but she has never been willing to see me."
Xie Churou wore a furry cloak around her body and smiled at Xie Ruling, followed by two slaves serving her closely.
"You have come so many times, and you have been insisting on coming to see me in the past two years. If I refuse every time, wouldn't I be too ignorant?"
Xie Ruling stared at the furry cloak on Xie Churou for a long time. When she was a noble concubine, she had used all the good things. She once had the most precious purple fox cloak, which was really warm when wrapped around her body.
It's a pity that she has been in the cold palace for almost eight years, and she is actually a little envious when she looks at this furry cloak.
When it's so cold, how warm it would be if you had such a cloak around you!
"After I heard that my sister was injured, I wanted to come over right then and there to have a look, but I thought that my sister has always been arrogant and wouldn't want me to see you injured, so I delayed coming here until now. I'm really embarrassed. "
Xie Churou turned around and asked the two people behind her to step back, while she stood up and walked up the steps with the hem of her skirt in front of Xie Ruling.
"It doesn't matter, I won't argue with you about this." Xie Ruling smiled and shook her head.
It had been so many years, and she was not the same Xie Ruling who had just entered the palace. No matter how fierce her temper was, she would gradually calm down.
"Let me tell you the truth, it's my aunt's intention every time I come here."
Xie Churou took off her cloak, wrapped it around Xie Ruling, and then sat next to her with a solemn look on her face. After all, she couldn't help but persuade her.
"You and I are both women of the Xie family after all. How can my aunt bear to see you in the cold palace all your life? Look at how you look now. Do you look like the pampered noble concubine you once were? You have such a tone. You’ve been gambling for long enough, is it time to call it quits?”
Xie Churou lowered her voice, but the urgency in her tone could still be heard. She stretched out her hand and wrapped all the cloak around Xie Ruling's body.
The weather is still so cold and the clothes are so thin. Have you been able to survive like this day by day for these years?
If it were Xie Ruling in the past, she would definitely have said with disdain that she was unwilling to go out and would die in the cold palace if she died. However, thinking about how aggrieved Chu Xin was in her arms just now, she really didn't say anything. Not coming out.
"Where's Princess Xin'er?" Xie Churou glanced into the room.
"Auntie also knows that you are raising Princess Xin'er now. She is going out anyway, so you can take this opportunity to take her out with you. Auntie said that you are a princess, and you can raise her if you want. , The life in the cold palace is really difficult, even I can’t bear to look at it!”
Xie Ruling listened quietly and did not refute, so she acquiesced to these words.
She could stay in the cold palace for the rest of her life because of despair, but Chu Xin couldn't!
"Um."
Xie Ruling responded and nodded slightly.
"You really figured it out?"
Xie Churou said happily, reaching out to squeeze Xie Ruling's hand, only to realize that the other person's hand had become so rough.
"Look at your own hands. You really shouldn't live such a life. For the sake of my aunt still taking care of us, come out as soon as you can. While my aunt still has the strength to protect us, No one knows what will happen in the future!”
"Churou, I really understand what you said. I know what you said is right, but if I want to go out, I can't go out like this."
Xie Ruling wrapped the cloak tightly around her body and felt that it was so warm, blocking out all the cold wind outside.
"I like that child Xin'er. Maybe I will never have a biological child of my own in this life. I already regard her as my daughter. I know that it is impossible to go back to the original scenery this time, but I I still want to try my best, not just for me, but also for my heart!”
Xie Ruling knew that her clan girl was gentle and kind-hearted, so she was willing to reveal some of her innermost thoughts.
When she was eighteen years old, as soon as she entered the palace, she immediately won His Majesty's favor and was immediately made a noble concubine. However, in less than half a year, she entered the cold palace in despair. It has been eight years now.
Her appearance has long been no longer what it used to be. The hard life in the cold palace over the years has withered a lot, but she knows that her appearance is never necessarily the most powerful weapon.
"Then what do you want?" Xie Churou asked doubtfully.
"You just said that my hands have become so rough. I can't go out with this appearance. Please give me some maintenance items so that I can cover up the haggardness on my body. "
Xie Ruling lowered her head and smiled bitterly.
