Huan Yue took Chang Zihan's hand and led her to the back hall for dinner.

I don't know what the little girl's hands were like before, but when she was kidnapped by the Pei family, she probably didn't do much work and ate well.

The Pei family wants to control them; they don't intend to kill them yet.

Therefore, Chang Tzu-han's chubby hands and baby-faced features make her even more endearing.

Her hair was neatly combed into two buns, adorned with two small pink flowers; her clothes were also pink, made of fine fabric, and looked very delicate.

Although I'm not a pampered princess, I haven't suffered that much hardship either.

Children's grievances tend to accumulate over time.

Now, Chang Zihan looked around, extremely curious!

There's not much to see at Chengen Hall, but the main hall itself is amazing enough!

The palace maids and Lady He said, "This is the Empress's bedroom, but she doesn't usually live here; she lives in the back."

He Shuiying felt she dared not stay in this palace, wondering what would happen next.

A cool breeze blows as you walk along the corridor.

Four large, lush trees came into view!

"Wow, it's huge!" Chang Zihan didn't know what to say.

Looking back, walking from the entrance to the back is like walking from one end of the village to the other.

"The house in the back?" Chang Ziyan asked in a low voice.

They're so far away! The houses in the back are quite nice too! I thought his sister lived in a woodshed or something around the corner.

Huan Yue led the mother and her two children to Jixian Pavilion, telling Di Baose not to worry about her.

Chang Zihan held her sister's hand and looked at the pomegranates displayed on the side, thinking they were beautiful!

Huan Yue and He Shi said, "Let's have our meal here. The side room isn't as open as the outside one."

He Shuiying quickly replied, "It's fine."

Chang Ziyan's mouth watered as she looked at the delicious food on the table.

Di Baose laughed loudly: "That belongs to the Empress! She can eat a whole cow by herself."

Huan Yue said, "I was probably born in the year of the famine."

He Shuiying said, "No. That year, Baishi Village had a bumper harvest, and her father even said that he had raised me well, and that the child was blessed."

The maidservant said, "I was hungry at the Pei residence."

He Shuiying almost burst into tears again.

Someone told her that her daughter was living the life of a pampered young lady in the Pei family.

Do you think she's stupid?

Given Chang Ziyu's character, how could the Pei family allow their daughter to live a good life? They don't know how to mistreat her, or perhaps they genuinely don't know.

Looking at the Empress now, He Shuiying felt she was still thin, having only been in the Eastern Palace for two months: "Are you feeling better now?"

The maid said, "The imperial physician treated him for two months, and said he still needs to rest. He bumped his head when he was pushed, and it won't heal for a while."

He Shuiying wiped away her tears and murmured, "It's all my fault."

Di Baose, who had no taboos, asked, "Then do you still remember?"

Huan Yue didn't stop her, but said, "Eat, talk while you eat. It's all in the past, it's good to talk about it now."

He Shuiying was very grateful!

Her daughter did not look down on her just because she became the Crown Princess.

Chang Ziyu always looked down on her.

My daughter isn't faking it. Although we don't have any feelings for each other since we've never spent time together, she's a good person.

No wonder so many people say that the Empress is kind-hearted.

He Shuiying watched her children eat, so as not to make them craving food or look even worse.

Although Chang Ziyan was tempted by the large table of delicious food, she didn't cry or make a fuss. Not everyone would make a fuss, and they had been bullied before.

But her own sister is the Crown Princess, so what if someone goes against her?

In short, it seems that Chang Ziyan was well-mannered and ate well under the service of the eunuchs.

Chang Zihan secretly watched Di Liangdi and tried to imitate her delicate way of eating.

Di Baose found it amusing and gestured for the little girl to look at her older sister.

Chang Zihan glanced at it, then blinked her bright eyes and smiled.

He Shuiying felt a pang of sadness. Her daughter was wolfing down her food; she wondered how the Pei family had managed to starve her.

After the Empress ate two catties of beef, He Shuiying felt it would be difficult to sympathize with her.

Chang Ziyan probably knew that most of the food at this large table belonged to his older sister, but he ate well and enjoyed it all!

Chang Zihan ate with great relish.

The little maid also found it adorable; her smug expression was strikingly similar to that of the Empress.

He Shuiying looked at her eldest daughter and then at her youngest daughter, feeling much more cheerful. She continued, "Although my child was premature, she is well cared for."

Huan Yue nodded, wondering if it was fate.

He Shuiying put down her chopsticks, her heart growing even darker: "Someone led me into a room and asked if I wanted to induce labor. Others asked if I wanted to leave the mother and keep the child. Some said that killing was forbidden in the holy land of Chan Sect. Still others said that I should support a prostitute. In a daze, I quickly gave birth to the child."

Mrs. Sun sighed, "Thank God, otherwise I don't know how much suffering we would have endured."

Zhu Jin said, "Qian was pregnant for ten months and couldn't bear to part with her daughter, so she looked down on the village woman. She and Li just couldn't get along."

Otherwise, if He Shi and Feng Ming are killed, what will the Pei family be busy with?

Is there another way to directly defy fate and change one's destiny?

Zichan Mountain is very effective, but not everyone knows how to do it.

The atmosphere wasn't that bad.

He Shuiying continued, "I was still conscious after giving birth, although I wasn't very clear-headed in the confusion. I saw my baby, and there was a birthmark on the left side."

This area on the chest.

The little palace maid blinked, and no one would dare to tell anyone, but there was definitely a birthmark.

He Shuiying wasn't trying to claim kinship. She continued, "A woman came to see me. She looked so vicious, like she wanted to devour me. Then she found me awake, and one of her daughters-in-law warned me to shut up if I didn't want my whole family to die a violent death. The next day, my eldest sister fell off the mountain and died."

He Shuiying lowered her head, looking very sad: "My eldest sister has always been the best to me since I was little. Later, Chang Ziyu was never like a daughter of the Chang family. Her grandmother fell into the river and it took several days to pull her out from downstream."

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