"What's wrong, Princess? Are you feeling bad?"
Yuexiang keenly sensed that Chu Yi's mood seemed a little low. How could it have become like this in such a short time?
"Yuexiang, you have been with me for so many years and you have watched me grow up. Do you think that when I was a child, I hated Chu Xin and always tried my best to torture him and punish her?"
Chu Yi glanced at the direction of Qixia Courtyard, turned around in boredom, and walked aimlessly in the palace. She only knew that her current mood seemed really chaotic.
Perhaps it was because he had been dealing with things in the house alone for more than half a month and had never seen Xiao Zhi, so he felt that such a life was really boring.
It seems that I also understand the irritability of my mother and the boring fights in the harem, which are just because I am too lonely.
"Yes, the princess does not like Mrs. Side, but Mrs. Side never refuses to submit in front of the princess. Perhaps because of this, the conflicts are getting deeper and deeper."
Yuexiang answered truthfully.
"No, I just think she is too stupid, so stupid!"
Chu Yi shook her head and denied, "She has suffered so many years of hardship in the cold palace since she was born. I just smiled at her, but I stupidly accepted the basket of charcoal fire, and then her mother was beaten. Come on, how could there be such a stupid person?"
Chu Yi smiled as she spoke, "It's okay to be stupid when I was a child, but I am still so stupid when it comes to important matters in my life. I think I can have everything with those feelings. The identity of Madam Side is meant to humiliate her, but she is actually so stupid." If you are willing to endure it, don’t you think such a person is ridiculous?”
Chu Yi boredly picked a flower that was blooming just right. It was summer, and the lotus was about to bloom, right?
He pulled the petals out of boredom and pulled them off one by one.
"It's indeed stupid. She couldn't imagine how different the status of the princess and the concubine was, let alone how easy it was for a man's heart to change. It's like His Highness doesn't care about her at all at this moment."
Yuexiang stood behind Chu Yi and sarcastically watched her tear off the petals and throw them casually on the ground, where they fell into mud.
"So, I have to use my identity to suppress her every time. That time you slapped him in the face so many times was the ultimate humiliation. Don't you believe she doesn't have any regrets in her heart?"
After pulling off the petals one by one, only the dry branches were left. Chu Yi took the branches in his hands and looked left and right. After pulling off the petals, they didn't look good, and threw them on the ground in disgust.
"I always want to laugh at her overestimation and make her admit defeat, but now she always stays in her yard and doesn't come out. It's different from before. It seems like she has really given up?"
Chu Yi couldn't help but look in the direction of Qixiayuan. At this moment, she couldn't tell what kind of feeling she was feeling in her heart. It was like a person who had won someone who wanted to win very much, but it didn't seem like that. happy.
"She gave up. Isn't the princess happy?"
Yue Xiang is a little confused. In her opinion, Chu Yi and Chu Xin have been at odds since childhood. Why do they really want to say these things now?
"Nothing, it's time to go back."
Chu Yi shook her head indifferently and stepped on the petals that were thrown down just now.
Midsummer has come, and it is getting hotter day by day. Chu Xin went out several times and saw that the lotus flowers were blooming outside. Xiao Zhi also came here several times in the past few months, but every time he came here he could only say: After saying a few words, he left in a hurry.
Either go to Fanghuayuan when you come back, or come over and chat with her when you have time. Most of the time, you have to do your own thing.
I received a letter from Da Chu last week. It probably means that everyone is doing well, or maybe the bad things are not written at all.
Chu Xin felt like she was becoming more and more silent. She felt lifeless every day, and she didn't know what to do when she opened her eyes.
Chu Yi's side seemed to be much quieter. After she was beaten last time, it seemed that the disturbance gradually subsided. Fortunately, Qianqian came to talk to her every day.
"Has anything happened in the past few days? I always hear something vaguely."
Chu Xin was playing with the blooming lotus outside. It was already midsummer, and the lotus had fully unfolded. She stretched out her hand to touch the petals, which were so soft.
"Princess Xuan always comes here every two days. Maybe she sees that His Highness has been in good graces in front of His Majesty recently, so she wants to come here to win over the Princess?"
Mingyu said boringly, life has become more and more boring in the past month, it seems that he can only stay in Qixia Courtyard every time, and he feels bored after staying there for a long time.
"Um."
Chu Xin nodded. After watching the lotus, she felt that she was not in the mood anymore. Now that the sun was shining brightly, she still felt a bit stuffy while standing under the shady tree, so she took Mingyu back to the house.
"Mrs. Side, don't you have something to say to His Highness?"
Mingyu spoke with some reluctance. In fact, His Highness has been here several times this month. Every time, Madam Side did not get to the point, as if she was deliberately avoiding something.
"What do you want me to say?"
After sitting down, Mingyu stood next to Chu Xin with a fan, fanning her gently.
I still feel unhappy. Life here is really not good at all. It is worse than when I was a princess in the palace!
"Mingyu, why do you think the princess punished me like this that day? She just wanted to disgrace me and let me know that her identity can always be on my head. I have thought about many things carefully these days. Maybe the good things I once thought were not so good..."
Chu Xin poured a cup of tea and took a sip.
"She and you have been hostile to each other since childhood. Why were you worried about your relationship at the beginning? It was because you were worried about your relationship with the princess! Your Majesty thinks long term and knows that the two of you will be with the same man face to face for a lifetime. You will never see each other when you look up. , Such days will be very difficult!”
Mingyu feels really angry and regretful every time he talks about these things. Why didn't he be more firm and give more advice in the first place?
The fan in my hand gradually became stronger, and I really felt that there was no place to vent all the energy in my body.
…
It has been getting hotter recently, and Chu Shu returned to the palace to stay for a few days. When she walked around the imperial garden, she was blinded by the sun and felt that this period of time was really like a dream.
After getting married, I felt that time really flew by so fast. When I walked to a familiar place, all I could think of was the scene when I was young.
"Sister Shu."
Chu Shu was a little surprised when she heard this familiar voice. She didn't expect to meet her by such a coincidence.
"Why are you here? I know you are also in the palace at this time, but I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. You just suddenly came out for a walk and saw me today. Or do you mean to come to me on purpose?"
Chu Shu turned around and looked at Chu Yan with a smile. Maybe it was because her life had been getting better and better recently, so the resentment in her heart had disappeared. Even when she was dealing with the people she hated most before, she could feel calmer. On the contrary, she felt a little better. of mercy.
Everyone knew about what was going on in the Duke's Mansion. Everyone knew that Chu Yan and his wife were not harmonious, they often quarreled, and they often bullied their husband's concubine.
Because of this, the Queen Mother often punished Chu Yan, but she couldn't change it, so she simply let her go back to the palace to live there. At least she couldn't spread any more scandals.
"When you were a child, you were really weak in front of me, and you would only shed tears when you were wronged. But now you are really different. I didn't expect that you would persist in making things like this."
This was what Chu Shu was really surprised about. She knew that the relationship between Chu Yan and Gu Xiao was just like an illusory bubble that would break one day, but she didn't expect that it would become so embarrassing when it breaks.
She thought that Chu Yan would endure the grievances again, and she would shed tears and cry like she did when she was a child, but she didn't expect that things would turn out like this.
Especially when she often bullies Lian'er, it really makes everyone aware that the Queen Mother has been punished countless times, but she has been punished, but she didn't deserve it.
So this really surprised her. It was an indescribable feeling for such a weak person to be like this.
"Sister seems to be getting happier and happier. She is always smiling and cheerful. She either goes to talk to Concubine Jing or goes to see the Queen Mother. It seems that everyone likes you, but I cannot please you wherever I go. No one wants to get close to me, and even the palace servants who serve me dare to discuss my affairs behind my back. What do you think it feels like for me to live like this?"
Chu Yan looked at the person in front of her with a smile, and then glanced at the Royal Garden, as if she was back when she was a child.
"I remember that you liked me very much when I was a child. When I was bullied and wronged, you would comfort me word by word. And sister Xin'er, she also liked me very much at first, but then you didn't like me anymore. I He has become a redundant person."
As Chu Yan spoke word by word, she looked really haggard.
At first, the Queen Mother only sent people around her to scold her for a few words, but later on, maybe she lost her patience, and she would directly have people come over to punish her.
Either get a few slaps in the face, or kneel for several hours, trying to use these methods to make her surrender and make her be honest.
But she doesn't!
The worst case scenario is to make things even more extreme and put myself to death as a princess who has brought shame to the royal family!
"It's precisely because I got married that I realized how important it is to be in love with my husband. If you drag it out like this, it will only make you uncomfortable. It's better to divorce and go back to the palace to forget about it." Everything in the past is treated as if it never happened."
Chu Shu persuaded her in a good voice. If she had wanted to persuade Chu Yan to live a good life before, she felt that it was not necessary now.
If you can't live with it, just make peace with it. Maybe this is the best way. It's not that the Queen Mother and Her Majesty never had this intention in the past, but Chu Yan refused to agree and always made noise and noise, which would only make things worse. Even uglier.
Later, the number of times increased, and the Queen Mother and Her Majesty simply ignored it. Whenever any news came out, they would order Chu Yan to be punished.
As a bystander, I feel like living such a life is really tiring.
When did Chu Yan become so stubborn? Wouldn't it be better to leave that unhappy place completely and return to the palace?
"I don't!" Chu Yan became tough again, "The Queen Mother and Your Majesty can scold me and punish me, but they can never let me reconcile! I just want to be entangled with Gu Xiao forever! Never in this life. I want to be liberated!”
