Chapter 45 Your mother has never had a grudge against anyone

Ji Jinyou saw murderous intent in Concubine Li's fierce and vicious eyes. She was startled and subconsciously took a step back. She hugged the Eighth Princess' legs, hid behind her legs, and poked her little head out to look.

Seeing that the little girl was frightened, the Eighth Princess bent down, picked her up, patted her back, and comforted her silently.

Ji Jinyou was very confused: [Everyone, do my mother and Concubine Li have a grudge? Why does Concubine Li seem to want to eat me? ]

System: [No, your mother has never had a grudge against anyone. However, Concubine Li is not very good-looking, so it is very likely that she is jealous of your mother's appearance and therefore hates her.]

Ji Jinyou still understood the principle that it is a crime to possess a jade, [Then my mother is much more beautiful than Concubine Li, and her heart is also much more beautiful. ]

None of the adults present spoke, and it was not the turn of Ji Jinyou, a three-year-old child, to speak. She hugged the Eighth Princess' neck and watched quietly, wanting to see how the current situation would develop.

Seeing the colorful expressions on Concubine Li's face was truly fascinating, the seven or eight princesses couldn't help but feel a little gloating, hoping that Xiaojiu and Tongtong would say more and piss Concubine Li off to death.

The two men leaned against each other, one holding the little girl, the other touching the little girl's hand, still in silence.

The maids behind them could not hear what Yi Wa Yi Tong said, and were all shocked when they suddenly saw that the maid was actually Concubine Li. Everyone in the palace knew that Concubine Li was under house arrest, but they never thought that she would sneak out disguised as a maid, which was a serious crime of disobeying the emperor's order.

The maidservant beside Concubine Li didn't know what was going on, but she felt that the dead silence was unusual. She didn't dare to look up, and she knelt on the ground, her whole body shaking like a sieve. In the middle of summer, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and in the blink of an eye, beads of sweat rolled all over the ground.

After hearing what the mysterious man said, Concubine Li was shocked and angry. Just imagining the scene of her being with a eunuch made her feel sick and almost vomit.

She wanted to see which bastard dared to slander her like this, and she would definitely skin him alive.

But when she raised her head and looked in the direction of the voice, she did not see the shadow of the bastard, but only the kid born to Rupin.

She quickly looked around, but on the narrow path, not only was there no young man, but even no eunuch. She was shocked and stared more closely at the kid held by the Eighth Princess, trying to find out what was going on from her.

But she stared at it for a long time and couldn't figure out what it was, and she felt dazed and confused.

The shock of this incident completely overshadowed her fear of how she would be punished for running away against the imperial order. She couldn't help but ask, "I wonder what the Ninth Princess just did... just now..."

He was halfway through his words when he couldn't utter a single word.

Concubine Li put her hands on her neck, coughed twice, and then said, "Just now..."

Seeing her stuttering, Ji Jinyou couldn't help but ask in her heart: [Empress Li, is there something wrong with her throat? ]

System: [I don’t know. These small details are usually not included in the character summary.]

Ji Jinyou guessed: [Maybe she ate something that caused her to have a sore throat.]

Hearing this conversation, the seven or eight princesses all burst out laughing.

In such a tense atmosphere, why are the two sisters smiling?

Ji Jinyou was stunned. She tilted her head to look at the Seventh Princess, then tilted her head to the other side to look at the Eighth Princess. She saw that they both pursed their lips with serious expressions. She wondered, did she hear it wrong?

Concubine Li covered her neck and coughed several times to clear her throat, but no matter what, she couldn't say the words she wanted to ask.

She was shocked, and suddenly remembered that Thirteen went back to see him yesterday and was in the same situation as she was now. She immediately understood that Thirteen must have heard something and that was why he was so impulsive and ran to kill people.

But what did Thirteen hear? What made him want to kill the little proton?

Concubine Li's expression changed in an instant, and Ji Jinyou was stunned: [Everyone, what's wrong with Concubine Li? Also, why don't the Seventh and Eighth Sisters say anything? What's the meaning of everyone standing there like this? ]

Seeing that Yi Wa Yi Tong didn't say anything more, the seven or eight princesses looked at each other and nodded.

The Seventh Princess let go of Xiaojiu's chubby hand, took a step forward, bowed according to the rules, and said, "Empress Li, please come with me to Furong Palace."

The Queen is still recuperating, and the Imperial Concubine is in charge today, so we have to go to Furong Palace.

Concubine Li looked at the seventh and eighth princesses, and guessed from their expressions that they both heard those words.

When she thought about those obscene things being heard by them, Li Fei felt ashamed. She wanted to strangle those two little hooves to death and let them laugh at her.

But after all, she is old and reason prevails. Now that things have come to this, she has no choice but to do it.

Even if she ignored them at the moment by relying on her status as an elder, once they went to talk to the Imperial Concubine and the Queen, they would send someone to summon her, and the scene would be even uglier.

She looked down at the maid's clothes on her body, raised her head and said, "Princess, please go back first. I will change my clothes and come back."

The Seventh Princess shrugged nonchalantly. With so many people seeing this, even if Concubine Li changed out of her maid's clothes, it would not be enough to deny it.

Of course, the main reason was that Concubine Li was a concubine and the elder among them. If she insisted on going back to change her clothes, they really had no right to forcibly abduct her and take her away.

Seeing that the Seventh Princess didn't say anything, Concubine Li turned around, held her head high and walked away. Her maid kowtowed to the princesses and quickly got up to chase after her.

The Seventh Princess looked at Ji Jinyou and asked, "Xiaojiu, now that this has happened, I'm afraid we have to go to Furong Palace first, and then go to see the little prince of Yao Kingdom later, okay?"

Seeing that Xue Yili had nothing to worry about, Ji Jinyou wanted to see how Concubine Li would handle the matter, so he nodded his head and said, "Okay."

The Seventh Princess thought that Little Nine would be here soon and she wouldn't be able to say those words, so she winked at the Eighth Princess.

The Eighth Princess understood and pushed the little girl in her arms into the Seventh Princess's arms: "Seventh Sister, then you take Xiaojiu and walk slowly. I will go back and report to Mother first."

The Seventh Princess: "Go ahead. Xiaojiu and I will be here soon."

The eighth princess left in a hurry with her personal maid. Although they did not run, their feet were so fast that they disappeared in a flash.

Ji Jinyou knew that the Seventh Princess was not in good health, so she struggled to get off the ground: "Seventh sister is too tired, Youyou walk by yourself."

The Seventh Princess knew her own abilities and did not try to show off. She put the little girl on the ground, held her hand and walked forward, also heading towards Hibiscus Palace.

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The Eighth Princess rushed to Hibiscus Palace and started calling out before she even entered the palace: "Mother, Mother."

As soon as she heard the Eighth Princess' excited voice, the Royal Concubine knew that Little Eight had heard something from Little Nine.

"It's been so restless day after day." She sighed, put down the things in her hands, waved her hand to send the palace maid away, stood up and sat on the couch waiting.

As soon as the Eighth Princess entered the room, she spoke first: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

The eighth princess was so excited that she recounted the story of Concubine Li sneaking out disguised as a palace maid, and repeated everything Tong Tong had said verbatim.

The noble concubine frowned when she heard this, but she was not frowning because of Concubine Li's matter, but because of the Eighth Princess's excited look.

She scolded in a low voice: "Look at you, what a person you are. No matter how bad Concubine Li is, she is still your elder. As a junior, even if you hear that your elder has done something wrong, you should not be so gloating."

The Eighth Princess was dissatisfied: "Mother, don't you think it's funny when you hear those things?"

The Royal Concubine glared at her: "Even if you think it's ridiculous, you shouldn't show it so much. You're giving others a handle. You haven't even left the palace yet. If this gets out, your reputation will be ruined. Which man would dare to marry you?"

The Eighth Princess didn't take it seriously: "No one dares to take me, so I don't want it. Anyway, Seventh Sister doesn't want to find a consort, so it's just right for me to keep her company. I will stay in the palace with my mother and my mother for the rest of my life."

The Royal Concubine's face turned cold and she said in a serious tone: "What nonsense are you talking about."

Seeing that the Royal Concubine was really angry, the Eighth Princess quickly shut up and dared not say anything more.

The Imperial Concubine looked at her daughter who had grown up in such a pampered state, sighed, took her hand, and said earnestly, "Xiao Ba, your mother and I will take care of the dirty things in the harem. You little ones should just treat it as a joke and don't get involved. Do you understand?"

Knowing that her mother was doing this for her own good, the Eighth Princess nodded, hugged the Royal Concubine's arm, and said obediently, "Mother, we didn't mean to get involved, we just wanted to see the excitement."

Royal Concubine: "It's okay to watch the excitement, but next time you hear something like this, even if you want to laugh, you should do it behind closed doors and not show it as obviously as you did today."

The Eighth Princess replied obediently: "I'll remember it."

The Royal Concubine was worried and warned, "You and your Seventh Sister should learn from Xiaojiu. Xiaojiu is very young, but she has so many important things on her mind. But she is always calm and steady, eating and sleeping as usual. She is never as startled as you. Anyone with a discerning eye can guess what is going on in your mind. It is easy to deal with you."

The Eighth Princess held onto the Royal Consort's arm and swung it, saying coquettishly, "I know. I really know."

"Don't learn your sixth brother's tricks." The Imperial Concubine raised her hand to pat her arm, but did not slap it away. She could not help laughing.

The Royal Concubine said again: "Go find Xiaoqi and Xiaojiu. You two can play with Xiaojiu in the yard later. Some words are not good for you little girls to hear."

"Okay, then I'll take my leave first." The eighth princess replied and turned to walk out.

The Imperial Concubine thought of what Concubine Li and Concubine Jing had said and sneered, "How despicable."

Back then, she competed with Concubine Rou for the position of Royal Noble Concubine. She plotted against Concubine Rou to have an affair with her cousin. That was because Concubine Rou had caused her to miscarry a child first, and she wanted to avenge the child she had no chance to see, so she took such a ruthless action.

Furthermore, before Concubine Rou entered the palace, she did have feelings for her cousin. At that time, she had someone pretending to be Concubine Rou send a letter to her cousin, and also intercepted the letter from her cousin to Concubine Rou. With the instigation of the two, the two of them fell into the trap, and his cousin actually risked his life to disguise himself as a eunuch and enter the palace to see Concubine Rou.

She knew that she was not a good person and was quite sinister and vicious, but it was only because Concubine Rou and her cousin had something fishy going on that gave her the opportunity to accomplish her goal. If one of them had been honest and upright, that thing would not have been accomplished.

But if she asked herself, she had never thought of linking Concubine Rou with a eunuch.

This Concubine Li is so good, tut tut, she feels inferior to her.

Not long after the Eighth Princess left, Hong Yu came in and reported, "Your Majesty, Concubine Li is here, kneeling outside, saying she is here to apologize."

The Royal Concubine's face darkened. "Let her in."