I tossed several of them in a row, and they almost all landed safely in my mouth.
"Your Highness, if you are really bored, how about I pretend to be a scholar in a teahouse and tell you a story?" Jing'er looked on with trepidation, afraid that the melon seeds might fall into the princess's throat and cause her to choke, as there had been precedents of this happening before.
Chang Le smacked her lips and shook her head: "Your storytelling is not as interesting as the storyteller's. I want to go out and watch the top scholar ride his horse across the street."
"Princess, you don't really want to see the top scholar crossing the street; you really want to go to the Jiang residence," Jing'er muttered softly, glancing outside the hall.
Aunt Cai hasn't arrived yet, so it seems we won't have to learn the rules today.
Chang Le jumped up from the small couch and patted Jing'er's shoulder hard.
She said casually, "Jing'er knows me best. Go to the entrance of Chang Le Palace and see if that annoying little eunuch is there. If he's not there, come back and report that we need to prepare to leave the palace."
Jing'er was so frightened that she knelt down with a "plop".
"Your Highness, please spare this servant. If Aunt Cai finds out, she'll break my legs."
"What are you afraid of? Aunt Cai has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. When have you ever seen her actually hit anyone?"
After learning about the kidnapping, the Empress Dowager confined Chang Le to her quarters and even sent a eunuch to guard the palace gate, forbidding Chang Le from leaving Chang Le Palace without permission.
These days, Aunt Cai comes to teach her the rules for an hour each time. Chang Le pretends to comply but disobeys, and learns them quite well. As soon as Aunt Cai leaves, she reveals her true colors.
I've been thinking about how to get out of the palace since yesterday.
Upon learning that the top scholar would be parading through the streets on horseback today, she went to plead with her brother, the emperor, yesterday when the eunuch outside the palace was not around. However, the eunuch said that the emperor was too busy to see her.
How could Jing'er disobey her master?
"Your Highness, please wait here. I'll be right back."
She gritted her teeth, turned around, and ran outside.
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