After Bai Wanyi finished speaking, he glanced at Haitang who was waiting at the door, sneered, and left quickly.
Haitang blinked, smiled, and saluted Lu Yan who had chased after her: "Congratulations, my Lord, you have a new person by your side."
Lu Yan's face was gloomy. He couldn't stay at home any longer. He grabbed a cloak and ran out with a gloomy look on his face.
Chu Yun was not happy to learn that she had been promoted to concubine, but she did not show it on her face. She only asked to live in the same courtyard with Jia Yue: "There is not enough room in the mansion. I will not cause any trouble to Madam. Madam, take care of yourself in the future."
Chu Yun kowtowed to Bai Wanyi politely, then carried his bag and went to the new yard.
"Lord Lu went out to get drunk again." Zigui finished talking about the trivial matters of the Lu family and sighed, "Fortunately, the young lady got divorced. Life is so good now."
Qin Wan laughed and scolded her, "You can't leave the palace. It's not like before when you can do whatever you want. Don't you feel bored?"
Zigui shook his head: "Zhenzhen and Taoyao are so envious of me for being able to follow you, young lady. Hehe."
As the two were talking, a young palace maid came in and announced, "The Sixth Princess, the Seventh Princess, the Eighth Princess, and the Ninth Princess wish to see you."
Qin Wan was surprised. Although she did not pursue the matter after the last incident, the seven princesses were punished and they calmed down.
A few days later, the Seventh Princess dragged the reluctant Sixth Princess to Qin Wan to apologize.
The Seventh Princess brought a share register and some fine fabrics. She didn't mince words and said directly, "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry. It was us sisters who were playful and wanted to test your ability to manage palace affairs, so we caused such a mess. Please don't take it personally."
Qin Wan smiled at the Sixth Princess, then said to the Seventh Princess in a serious tone, "You want to test me, which is human nature, and I understand, but you shouldn't joke with human life. Diarrhea is nothing for ordinary people, but those palace servants work hard all year round, and some have hidden illnesses that are not noticeable on a daily basis. Once diarrhea occurs, other symptoms will be triggered, and the person will die."
"Poisoning is against the will of Heaven. And if your father finds out and investigates this matter, how will you cope?"
The Seventh Princess turned pale and sincerely admitted her fault: "We were inconsiderate. Sister-in-law was so kind and didn't hold it against us. We are very grateful."
The Sixth Princess kept her head down and her lips pursed in silence. The Seventh Princess kicked her in anger, "Say something! You were the one who came up with this idea! Now that I'm here to apologize, I should apologize myself. Why are you acting like this?"
The Sixth Princess' tears immediately fell, and she looked aggrieved and pitiful.
The Seventh Princess was puzzled. "When I pulled you over here, you didn't feel wronged or refuse, but now you're crying. If you don't want to apologize, why did you come? You might as well not have come!"
The Sixth Princess stared at the Seventh Princess with tears in her eyes and said, "You have a good mother and a good brother, why are you showing off?"
This answer was completely irrelevant. The Seventh Princess pointed at her nose in disbelief and asked back, "What did I brag about? When did I ever brag? I just asked you to apologize, why are you bringing up something else?"
The Sixth Princess didn't care what she said and hiccuped bitterly, "You were punished, but you received gifts from your brothers these past few days. Look at the hairpin on your head. It was given to you by your eldest brother, wasn't it? The clothes you're wearing were made by your sister-in-law, weren't they? And those bracelets on your hands were given to you by your mother, weren't they?"
"But I got nothing! Although I wasn't punished, I was scolded. I would rather they punished me or beat me than scolded me!"
The Seventh Princess was confused: "Are you happy to be punished and beaten? Are you okay? Or are you sick and confused? I was scolded too, but I didn't cry."
"And how could being punished be a good thing? You have no idea how cruel my mother was. She beat me with a feather duster and then made me copy scriptures in the yard in the freezing cold. My back ached for days."
She pointed at the Eighth and Ninth Princesses and said, "Eighth and Ninth Sisters, are you still in pain?"
The two were still younger and couldn't stand the pain any more. They nodded in unison when they heard this: "After we got back, my mother spanked me a few more times."
The Eighth Princess spread out her palm for Qin Wan to see: "Sister-in-law, look, Mother hits my left hand specifically because she's afraid that hitting my right palm would delay my copying of the sutras."
Qin Wan leaned over and took a look. Isn't that right? Even after a few days, there were still some bruises on the palm of her hand, which showed that she had been disciplined very hard.
She hurriedly asked someone to bring some ointment and apply it to her.
The Sixth Princess looked at the attentive and considerate Qin Wan and cried even louder: "You are all so kind, why is my brother not good? Only my mother is not good!"
The Sixth Princess was crying her heart out. Qin Wan, the Seventh Princess and the others looked at each other, but they didn't know what to say. They could only wait for her to finish crying.
Seeing that she had stopped sobbing, Qin Wan asked Jixiang Ruyi to bring hot water to wash her face. She also asked someone to bring some fine facial cream and wiped her face with her own hands: "Wipe it well. I'm worried that the wind will make your face chapped when you go out later."
The Sixth Princess looked into Qin Wan's eyes, who was so close to her. The tenderness in her eyes was not fake. She was sixteen years old, not a child anymore, and could distinguish between truth and falsehood, good and bad.
This made her feel even more aggrieved, her eyes turned red, and tears were about to fall.
Qin Wan quickly covered her face with a handkerchief and said, "Don't cry anymore. If you keep crying, the sky will burst."
"puff."
The Sixth Princess was amused by her. She took the handkerchief and rubbed the corners of her eyes to wipe away her tears. Her mood became depressed again: "It would be great if she was the Crown Princess's sister-in-law."
Qin Wan couldn't help laughing: "I saw through your trick and got you scolded, and you still think I'm good?"
The Sixth Princess nodded vigorously. "I used to think my brother was good to me, but these days I've been thinking that there seems to be something wrong with this kindness. I'm thinking about how good my eldest brother is to my seventh sister."
She looked at the Seventh Princess and asked, "Seventh Sister, do you remember when we were little, I hid a rag doll for you?"
The Seventh Princess certainly remembered: "That was my first doll. Although it was a little ugly, it was bought for me by my eldest brother when he first left the palace. Later, my eldest brother gave me many dolls, and I still think about that doll."
The Sixth Princess' eyes were almost overflowing with envy. "When I was little, I didn't know why I insisted on having your ugly doll, but now I understand. I was just jealous of you. I was jealous that you had such a good brother. Whenever he saw a piece of straw rope outside, he would bring it back to you to show you. My brother, on the other hand, would only touch my head, hug me, and say he loved me very much. But his love was so empty."
"He and Mother would care about me, asking if I was doing well in my studies, if I had received praise from my teacher, and if I had received praise from my father. But no one asked me if I was cold, hungry, happy, or if I had been bullied..."
"Now my mother wants to take my..."
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