Chapter 572 Conditioned Reflex
"You are so foolish!" Ulanara was filled with indignation. "You actually killed your own child like this!"
Li was completely stunned when he heard this: "No...I didn't..."
Ulanara then continued, "You didn't? If you hadn't sneaked out, the servants would have taken good care of the Second Prince. How could this have happened? If you hadn't ordered the windows to be closed, how could such a disaster have occurred? The Second Prince is of noble status. How dare you let only a wet nurse serve him? Li, do you know what you are doing? Your crime is simply unforgivable!"
After hearing this, Li's eyes became even more empty: "My crime is unforgivable? I killed my son..."
In a trance, she slowly stood up holding the child.
"Concubine!"
“Stop!”
"don't want!"
The next second, with a bang, Li's body, which was rushing towards the pillar, was knocked away by the warm wine.
Dong Chan burst into tears in the blink of an eye and hugged Li's legs tightly: "Master, how can you be so depressed? It's not your fault, it's not your fault!"
She is also a little scared now. If Concubine Wen had been a little slower, the master and the second prince would both be dead today!
With trembling hands, he tightly hugged Li's thighs and kowtowed to the Fourth Master desperately: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please save the master, please save the master."
Li's entire body seemed to have been pulled out of her soul. She kept muttering while holding the child: "It was mother who harmed you... It was mother who harmed you..."
The Fourth Master finally came closer and knocked Li unconscious with a single blow of his hand.
His face was pale and his lips moved several times. Finally, he picked up Li and the child and turned to leave the yard.
The full moon banquet ended in such a dull manner. The prince and his companions did not stay for long and soon all left. They only left a message, saying that if the Fourth Master's residence needed any help, they could send someone to help.
"Master, what happened to you just now? How dare you step forward to stop them? If there is any mistake, wouldn't the fire burn you?"
On the way back to Qingliang Pavilion with the warm wine, Liusu couldn't help but say.
"Yes, Li is the most vicious person. She has done a lot of harm to us before. What's the point of saving her? How can you be so kind?" Shanzha said with lingering fear.
"Master, if you wanted to save him, you could just tell Da Shao to do it. Why did you rush over by yourself? Your arm must be hurting from all that bumping."
While speaking, Dashao helped Wenjiu massage his right shoulder, and Wenjiu immediately gasped in pain.
"Be gentle, I say, you girls, why are you all so eloquent? I don't know who you learned it from." Wen Jiu said.
"Who else could the master learn this from? Wasn't this all cultivated by you? Such a good full moon banquet was ruined by Concubine Li inexplicably, and you, on the other hand, repaid her with kindness and saved her." Shanzha said.
Wen Jiu: "...I didn't want to save her. Why would I want to save her? She is mean, tyrannical, and cruel. There is no way I would save her!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the three girls beside him all looked towards Wenjiu silently.
"So why did you stop her from hitting the wall?" Liusu said, "If you hadn't stopped her, the prince wouldn't have gone to her yard now..."
"Yes." Hawthorn nodded.
Wenjiu: "...It's just a conditioned reflex."
Seeing everyone's bewildered expressions, Wen Jiu explained, "Even people who were born in the sunshine and raised under the red flag can't help but help an elderly person crossing the street, and want to pull someone out of the river when they see him/her about to jump... It's the same principle..."
Hawthorn: "...I didn't realize you were such a chivalrous woman..."
"Yes," Liusu nodded. "Master, this kind of chivalrous spirit must never be used again next time. I feel something is not right about what happened today. I hope the fire doesn't spread to our courtyard."
"Don't worry, it won't happen again." Wen Jiu said, and couldn't help biting his fingers.
To be honest, she felt a little uncomfortable just now.
Perhaps it was because she had become a mother herself, and she couldn't bear to see the mother and child separated like this. When Li was about to hit the pillar, her heart jumped into her throat, and she subconsciously blocked it.
Perhaps only a mother can understand a mother's thoughts. If something like this happened to her son today, Wen Jiu felt that she might also go crazy.
[Ding~ Detection: The distance between Emperor and his competitor is less than 50 centimeters. HP -10. 1401 days remaining.]
[Ding~ Detecting physical contact between Emperor and competitor, health -10, 1391 days remaining.]
"Master, the Fourth Master has only been here for less than an hour, and we've already lost 100 days of life. At this rate, 20 days will be lost every 10 minutes, and 120 days will be lost per hour. If the Fourth Master holds Li's hand for ten hours, 1,200 days will be gone."
[Also, Master, Li's first child was destined to die. This is the course of history and the laws of this interface. Why do you sympathize with her? If she dies, our progress will be faster. If she causes your mission to fail, the entire interface will cease to exist, not to mention everyone.]
Wenjiu rubbed his shoulders silently. Oh my god, after listening to the girl next to him nagging, now he has to listen to Xiaojin nagging again. This is the truth, but he didn't control his hands at that time. What can she do?
After returning to the house, several maids helped warm the wine and checked her shoulder for damage. Seeing that her shoulder was red from the collision, they began to recite the spell to tighten the headband one after another.
Wen Jiu thought that after staying in the Qing Dynasty for a long time, perhaps one day she would feel that human life was not so important.
Wenjiu had only met the Second Prince once, during her pregnancy. She and the Fourth Master were dining in the front yard, and the nurse came over to pay her respects, carrying the Second Prince. He was a handsome child, though small and thin, and he cried a lot. He resembled Li Shi, a man with a temper.
The child was gone just like that. It seemed like everyone around them, except for Mrs. Li and the Fourth Master, wasn't too surprised. It was like it was just an ordinary thing.
"Master, what's wrong with you? Which of these two pieces of cloth do you think should be used to make clothes for our little prince?"
Wen Jiu came to her senses and saw that the people around her had already cleaned up the surroundings. They smiled and asked her which piece of cloth was suitable for making clothes. Wen Jiu was stunned for a moment in a trance: "... Such a bright red, can it still be worn?"
Nanny Song noticed that Wenjiu was a bit distracted. She offered her a cup of tea and sighed, "My lady, in the palace, it's very common for people to flourish one morning and die the next. You... you have to get used to it."
The Second Prince is gone. He was still young, not yet of age, and there were no funeral rites, so there was no need to be overly cautious about what to wear. Furthermore, the title of Second Prince is no longer his. From now on, our Third Prince will be the Second Prince in this mansion."
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