121. Full Moon

When leaving Zhangde Palace, the ladies looked at Ye Li with strange expressions, which implied envy and jealousy, as well as fear and schadenfreude. Not to mention that the Great Chu had been founded for more than a hundred years, even in the thousands of years before that, no woman dared to draw her sword in front of the Queen Mother and the Empress in the palace and said that she would kill all the women who wanted to be concubines for her husband. This courage and bravery naturally made these ladies who endured the multitude of wives and concubines at home envious and jealous. Similarly, everyone knew that Princess Dingguo was destined to bear the stigma of a jealous woman.

"Li'er." As soon as Ye Li stepped out of the hall, Madam Xu was already waiting outside.

Ye Li smiled and went to meet her, calling her aunt. Madam Xu looked at her, sighed and shook her head, saying, "You little girl..." Ye Li lowered her head and smiled, "Li'er has embarrassed your aunt."

Madam Xu took her hand and walked out while laughing softly: "How can our Xu family really care about these false names? My aunt is also a woman, how can she not understand women's minds. But as for Prince Ding..." Li'er was really bold and presumptuous in the palace today, but with her status as Princess Dingguo, she could not be charged with any serious crime. The so-called marrying a wife and taking a concubine is a family matter, and as long as Prince Ding is willing to protect her, it will be fine. But if Prince Ding is dissatisfied with her behavior today, Li'er's future life will be difficult. Ye Li blinked her eyes and looked at Madam Xu's worried eyes. She held Madam Xu's arm and leaned against her affectionately, smiling, "Don't worry, aunt. I'll be fine. Aunt, please say good things for Li'er in front of Second Uncle when you go back, lest Second Uncle scolds Li'er again." Madam Xu raised her hand and patted her, smiling softly, "You are too bold, no wonder your uncle wants to teach you a lesson. You scared me a lot in the palace just now." Madam Xu came from a scholarly family. She had never seen anyone wielding a sword in front of her in her life. Just now, she saw Helian Huimin swinging a sword towards Ye Li in the palace. If it weren't for her usual self-cultivation and extreme self-control, she would have screamed out on the spot.

"Li'er knows she was wrong and won't do it again." Ye Li hugged Madam Xu's arm and acted coquettishly.

As soon as I walked out of the palace gate with Madam Xu, I saw the curtain of the carriage of Prince Dingguo's mansion being lifted from the inside. A handsome man in a moon-white long gown stepped out of the carriage with his head lowered, and smiled at Ye Li who was standing at the palace gate, "A Li."

Although the noble ladies passing by could not stop and watch, they also saw Prince Ding smiling and extending his hand to the princess. They did not believe that Prince Ding still did not know what was happening in the palace. It seemed that Prince Ding was really devoted to the princess. Even though Princess Ding made such a domineering and willful declaration in the palace, which almost humiliated Prince Ding, Prince Ding still doted on her as before. Madam Xu pulled Ye Li forward to pay her respects. Mo Xiuyao slightly turned aside and said with a smile: "Madam is A Li's aunt. We are all family, so why bother with courtesy?" Madam Xu smiled and said: "Courtesy cannot be abandoned. Li'er is young and ignorant. I hope Your Majesty will forgive her." Mo Xiuyao smiled and looked at Ye Li and said: "Madam, you worry too much. A Li is fine."

"Why are you here?" Ye Li asked puzzledly.

Mo Xiuyao laughed softly and said, "I heard that my wife drew her sword in Zhangde Palace and shocked everyone with her anger. Isn't your husband worried about your safety?"

Ye Li couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. Was he worried about her comfort and didn't go into the palace to find her, so he waited at the palace gate to put on a show for someone?

Madam Xu watched the two talk and act, with a hint of relief in her eyes. At a glance, she could tell that Prince Ding really didn't care about Li'er's behavior in the palace, and could even say that he was very happy about it. Madam Xu said goodbye to the two with a smile and walked towards the carriage in her mansion with peace of mind.

When the carriage of Prince Ding's Palace also left, the palace gate gradually returned to peace. Not far from the city wall, Yelu Ye and Helian Huimin watched the carriage of Prince Ding's Palace go away in silence. After a long time, Helian Huimin said unwillingly: "Cousin, are we just going to let it go?" Yelu Ye glanced at her with a smile and said, "What can you do if we don't let it go? You can't hook up with Prince Ding, and you can't deal with Prince Ding's Palace. Or do you really want to be a maid in Prince Ding's Palace? Don't forget what Mo Xiuyao did to the eleventh prince. Do you think he is a kind-hearted person?" Thinking of the eleventh prince Yelu Ping who was still so foolish, Helian Huimin couldn't help but shudder. She didn't dare to think about how a normal person could turn into a stupid useless person when he was neither injured nor poisoned, and how much inhuman torture Yelu Ping had suffered in the process. And all this was just because Yelu Ping said something he shouldn't have said at Mo Xiuyao's wedding.

"Then...what should we do now?" Helian Huimin asked worriedly.

Yeluye said indifferently: "Of course, we are waiting to welcome the princess back to Beirong."

"But I..." Helian Huimin frowned. Yelu Ye said calmly, "Letting you marry into the Dingguo Palace was originally a whim, and the chance of success is less than 30%, and this 30% depends on the Dingguo Princess. Now it seems that there is not even a 50% chance, you should go to Beirong and be the prince's concubine."

Helian Huimin's face changed drastically, and she said in panic: "No... cousin, the prince will kill me, and... what happened in Da Chu will definitely be reported back to Bei Rong, and the prince will not want me..." The prince's concubine... Bei Rong and Da Chu have completely different rules and etiquette. All concubines below the crown princess become the prince's concubines, but they are all slaves of the crown princess. If she is of noble status and noble birth, it would be better. A woman like her who was born a slave is not allowed to have children even if she becomes the prince's concubine, let alone have her own property and freedom. Except when the prince is visiting her, she is no different from an ordinary female slave. Even if she is beaten to death, even Helian Zhen, her adoptive father, can't say anything. Moreover, the prince and Yeluye's party had deep grudges. Women sent to the prince's mansion by Yeluye would usually be sent out in less than half a month. The miserable situation made Helian Huimin tremble in her dreams at midnight. So this time when Yeluye came to Dachu to marry, she tried every means to follow him, and when Yeluye said that he planned to send her to Dingwang Mansion, she agreed without hesitation. Sometimes she even thought that as long as she didn't go back to Beirong, even if she stayed in Dachu as a maid, she would not be afraid of not having a day to make a name for herself. And if she returned to Beirong, she was afraid that the only thing waiting for her was death.

"Don't have any bad ideas. The Helian family has raised you for so many years. It can't be in vain, right?" Glancing at Helian Huimin who was bowing her head and saying nothing, Yelu Ye said calmly, "Don't worry. Not many people have seen you. Princess Ronghua has never seen you either. As for your name, just change it. Anyway, you are not the only goddaughter of your uncle. Since you can't deal with Prince Ding, then just accept your fate and go to the Prince's Mansion. This prince has given you a chance." Helian Huimin shuddered in her heart. She knew Yelu Ye's methods. She trembled and said, "I know."

Yelu Ye looked her over, then nodded with satisfaction and turned away. If Helian Huimin had not been the most qualified woman in her uncle's house, she would not have had to go back alive if the plan failed. However, no matter how smart Helian Huimin was, she was still far from being as smart as Princess Ding. Thinking of the intelligence collected in Chujing these days, Princess Ding was not only of noble birth and good at both literature and martial arts, but it was also said that she led the Black Cloud Cavalry to defend the city in Yongzhou until the reinforcements of Prince Ding arrived, which could be said to be a great contribution. A woman who could arrange a marriage with the Black Cloud Cavalry...

The arranged marriage between Beirong and Prince Dingguo's Mansion came to nothing, but the reputation of Princess Dingguo as a fierce woman spread throughout the capital overnight. The noble ladies in the capital said that no one dared to mess with the woman who dared to hold a dagger and express her intention to enter Prince Dingguo's Mansion in front of the Queen Mother. The more terrifying thing is that Prince Ding was not angry at all about the princess's announcement, and he often accompanied his beloved wife to tour the capital after his official duties. The affectionate look clearly told people that if the woman who insisted on entering the palace to be a concubine was really killed by Princess Ding, His Highness Prince Ding would never make a decision for them. For a while, Prince Ding said that he loved his wife as much as his life, or that he was afraid of the concubine, but no matter what the rumors outside were, it still did not affect the two parties involved in the incident at all. At this time, Ye Li had no time to care about these rumors. When the full moon rose into the night sky, Ye Li's heart, which had been hanging in the air, became even more tense.

Not long after dinner, Mo Xiuyao's face gradually became ugly. Ye Li quickly invited Shen Yang to come over. Shen Yang was silent for a long time and only said one word: endure! The sequelae of using Phoenix Tail Grass have recurred. There is no medicine to cure it, so you can only rely on yourself to get through it.

"Ali, go to the side hall and rest." Looking at Ye Li's stiff face, Mo Xiuyao said softly. It was not good to be angry, and he did not want to be too fierce in front of her, nor did he want to scare her. Ye Li sat beside him calmly and said firmly: "I will accompany you, don't be afraid."

Don’t be afraid… Mo Xiuyao couldn’t help wanting to laugh, but in his heart he seemed to want to cry even more. For eight or nine years, he had been on the verge of death countless times, and countless times he had been in so much pain that he could hardly find a reason to live. No one had ever asked him if he was afraid or not. No matter how powerful Prince Dingguo was, he was just a human being, not to mention that when he was just injured, he was just an eighteen-year-old boy. Of course he was afraid. Every time the cold poison attacked, he was afraid that he would never wake up again, that Prince Dingguo’s Mansion would be destroyed from then on, that his brother’s revenge, his own revenge, and the revenge of tens of thousands of Mo family soldiers would never be avenged. But he couldn’t show his fear in front of anyone, he could only endure it. But now, his A’li, his wife sat beside him and told him not to be afraid…

"Okay, don't be afraid." Holding Ye Li's hand, Mo Xiuyao smiled faintly.

Ye Li was almost unwilling to recall how this day and night had passed. At the beginning, Mo Xiuyao's pain was still bearable, and she sat beside him and talked to distract him. But after midnight, the pain suddenly intensified. Even a tough man like Mo Xiuyao was shaking with pain and couldn't speak a complete sentence. Any painkillers or acupuncture and acupuncture were completely ineffective. Ye Li could only watch him tear the brocade quilt and pull down the brocade curtains on the bed in pain because of the severe pain.

Ye Li couldn't hold back her tears when she saw the usually calm and elegant man's painful and fragile appearance. She had never hated her own powerlessness so much. She vowed to accompany him through such pain, but in fact, she could do nothing except watching him and not letting him hurt himself badly.

In just one short night, Ye Li finally realized what it meant to live a day like a year. When Mo Xiuyao passed out due to the pain for too long, she could only carefully let him lean on her and didn't even dare to touch him. She just hoped that he could have a short rest before the next wave of pain came.

Sure enough, less than half an hour later, Mo Xiuyao woke up here, and what followed was even more severe pain than the previous time. This repeated coma and waking up from pain and then coma continued until the next morning around noon when it gradually subsided.

After noon, when Butler Mo and Shen Yang opened the door, they saw a messy room. The princess was sitting on the floor beside the bed, leaning against the bed with a tired face and sleeping. In front of the princess, the prince rested his head on her lap. Although he was sleeping a little unsteadily, it was obvious that he had fallen asleep. The scars on his body and hands had been treated. Looking at this scene, the two men, who were nearly a hundred years old in total, couldn't help but sigh sadly. Shen Yang waved and left the room with Butler Mo.

Just after a full moon night, Mo Xiuyao lay down on the bed again. This made Ye Li, who was already worried about Mo Xiuyao's health, feel even heavier in her heart.

"Ali, what are you thinking about?" Mo Xiuyao lay on the bed and looked at Ye Li, who was sitting on the side holding a book and lost in thought.

Ye Li raised her head and looked at him, frowning and asked, "Did your body travel thousands of miles to the Northern Army?"

Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "It's always better to have this one night a month than before. If it was like last year, I'm afraid it really wouldn't work. Now my body is no different from that of an ordinary person, so why not?"

Ye Li shook her head. This time she was by Mo Xiuyao's side the entire time. The process was really shocking. Even someone like her who had received professional torture training could not bear such heart-wrenching pain, not to mention that Mo Xiuyao was in poor health. What was even more terrifying was that such pain had to be endured once a month. Just such a psychological shadow was enough to drive a person crazy. Seeing Ye Li's worried and distressed look, Mo Xiuyao smiled faintly, stretched out his hand to pull Ye Li to his side and whispered with a smile: "I once thought that I would never be able to get up in my life. But now look, I'm fine. Even if it hurts once a month, so what? I think it's worth it. A'li, I hope your husband is perfect, only in this way can he be worthy of my A'li..." His slender fingers gently touched Ye Li's beautiful lips, and Mo Xiuyao murmured.

Ye Li turned her head away, not wanting to look at the scars on his hands that had not yet healed, and held back the tears in her eyes and said, "Even if your legs never get better, I won't give up on you." Compared to those so-called young talents and heroes with healthy limbs, Ye Li could confidently say that Mo Xiu Yao was much better than any of them. She never thought that Mo Xiu Yao had to be a certain way to be worthy of her.

"I know, but I hope that A'li has the best." Mo Xiuyao smiled softly.

Ye Li was stunned for a moment, but couldn't help but wet her eyes, "What if you lose control of your habits?"

Mo Xiuyao held her in his arms, "As long as Ah Li wants it, as long as Xiuyao has it, I can give it to you. Even if there is nothing to snatch, I will snatch it from you."