"It's not me." Chu Yeli denied, "We are the same people, aren't we? Xiaojiu, you are the only one who cares about me. Apart from you, I don't want anything else."
Chu Li laughed:
"I used to think so too, that we were the same kind of people, but reality tells me that we are not the same kind of people."
"After returning to the palace, you quickly won over power and your methods were very skillful. How could you have been so thorough without prior preparation? What you wanted was power."
And getting rid of the regent and pleasing the emperor is the best way to please him.
It seems that the emperor already respects and trusts him very much.
Chu Yeli's eyes darkened: "Xiao Jiu, we are on the same path. Please believe me, I have my own difficulties, but I will never harm you."
“I don’t know who to trust or what to do.”
Chu Li shook his head, took several steps back, and said mockingly:
"I can't see through all of you, and I don't like this place. Everyone will stab me in the back. Those smiling, flattering, and fawning faces actually hide knives. I hate this place."
She is too naive.
This magnificent palace is really breathtaking.
So dirty.
"Fifth Brother, I don't mean to blame you. It is your freedom to pursue what you want."
It was her fault.
She shouldn't trust anyone.
She doesn't fit in here and doesn't want to stay here.
"Xiao Jiu!"
Chu Yeli rolled his wheelchair, watching Chu Li's limping but fast-running back, but he couldn't catch up with him.
"Xiao Jiu!"
Stop calling her that.
What should she be asked to do?
She does not fight or compete, but has become a chess piece that everyone can touch. Now, she has a very clear understanding of herself.
"Ninth brother!"
"Don't bother me."
"Ninth brother, it's me!" On the long street, Chu Aotian ran over breathlessly, carrying something on two wheels.
"Eighth Brother, what are you holding?"
Chu Aotian wiped the sweat off his head and said, "Do you think I'm really going out to play these days when I run outside every day? I actually bought you an improved version of the super wheelchair on West Street!"
"What super wheelchair?"
"Look."
Chu Aotian placed the thing connected by two wheels on the ground, but there was no stool at the connection between the two wheels.
"Eighth Brother, why is there no place to sit in this wheelchair?"
"Don't worry, let me tell you slowly." Chu Aotian explained, "This is not about sitting on your buttocks, but about putting your injured legs on it."
As he fiddled with it, he said:
"Put your legs on it, and the wheels will replace your feet and roll very fast. Then put your hands on the ground, and the wheels will roll as fast as your hands can crawl. You may even be able to run very fast. Isn't it amazing?"
“Isn’t it much better than a traditional wheelchair?”
Chu Li:? ?
so?
Is she a dog?
Climb with two hands in front and roll with two wheels behind.
"Ninth brother, try it now."
"...No, I can now walk slowly with the help of my legs. Thank you for your concern, Eighth Brother."
"Why are you being so polite to me? I made this super wheelchair especially for you. Oh, you may not know how to use it, so I'll show you how."
Chu Aotian rolled up his sleeves, put his legs on the wheelchair, bent down, and supported himself on the ground with his hands.
climb!
He crawled on the ground with his hands, and the two wheelchairs rolled away. He flew forward quickly.
Climb, climb, climb!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
"Ninth brother, look how fast I can climb!"
“Isn’t this super wheelchair amazing?”
"If you ride it, you won't have to worry about your legs and feet being weak. It only takes one steamed bun to climb from the east gate to the west gate for ten kilometers."
Chu Li opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself: "..."
She was originally in a very heavy mood.
Gou Ba also had a jaw-dropping expression: "Master, this..."
"Let's go quickly."
It was now the end of the court session, and the ministers had to walk along the long street. Chu Li hurried away, and the ministers came out in groups of three or two, and saw the eighth prince crawling on the ground in a twisted manner.
If it is a child riding a scooter, it is easy to understand.
But he was crawling on all fours.
Like a dog...
When the ministers saw this, they all opened their eyes wide, but dared not say anything. They could only pretend that they had not seen it and walked by as if nothing else. But in their hearts, they all shook their heads:
Alas, the foolish son of the landlord.
Fortunately, I was reborn into a royal family. If I were born into an ordinary family, I would have been thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves.
Shoukang Palace.
When Chu Li arrived, the empress dowager was reciting scriptures. He waited for half an hour, and only after the old lady finished reading the scriptures did she slowly stand up.
Chu Li went over to help her.
The Queen Mother smiled from ear to ear:
"We are grandparents, one is old and the other is disabled. The way we support each other is indescribably funny."
This is true for the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled.
Chu Li smiled and said, "Grandmother is not old at all. She looks so energetic. She could live to be 120 years old!"
"This kid is talking nonsense. Wouldn't that make me look like an old monster?"
The empress dowager sat down with a smile on her face. As an elderly person, she loved having these little kids come around and sit on her lap with laughter.
He asked the nanny to prepare Chu Li's favorite pastries and milk tea.
Chu Li massaged her shoulders and told her some funny stories, which made the queen mother laugh so hard that she couldn't stop smiling.
When the atmosphere was almost set, she spoke casually:
"The Regent has returned to the capital. Does the Empress Dowager know?"
The Queen Mother was slightly surprised: "Child, are you here to test me?"
She knew about the Prince Regent's imprisonment early this morning.
"My grandson doesn't dare, but the regent came back to the capital because of me. Now that he is in prison, my grandson feels uneasy."
The Queen Mother patted the back of her hand:
"You are a good child. Your uncle, who is as hard-hearted as you are, really loves you. You are right to worry about him, but the emperor has his own plans for doing this. For the sake of the laws of the Great Chu and the peace of the country, the emperor has no choice but to do this."
"But the emperor's uncle didn't do anything he shouldn't have done."
"He disobeyed the order and secretly returned to the capital, which was something he shouldn't have done."
"But……"
"Xiao Jiu, you are simple-minded and can be easily used by the Regent. If you think he is innocent this time, he will use you as a cover to do something illegal next time. In the future, it will be too late."
Chu Li looked at her in amazement.
Even the Empress Dowager believed that the Regent must be severely punished.
She suddenly asked, "Father and Uncle are brothers from the same mother. Doesn't he trust his own brother?"
The Queen Mother said in a deep voice: "Yes, but as a king, he cares about the country and the people. For the sake of the country, he has to deal with his own brother. The emperor is the one who suffers the most, isn't he?"
Chu Li was a little confused.
How can you say that?
Could it be that causing Chu Di to have no offspring was also for the sake of the country?
But back then, he was obviously young and harmless, so wasn't he innocent?
Isn't what the Queen Mother said too far-fetched?
"If the uncle has ill intentions, it is reasonable to punish him. However, if he had not been in charge of the southern border over the years, the southern barbarians would have invaded Da Chu and seized cities and territories. He is clearly not wrong."
How could the Queen Mother not know what Chu Li meant?
Born in a royal family, many things are not determined by who is right or wrong or what is reasonable.
Reason often doesn't make sense.
"Xiaojiu, you just need to know that everything your father did was for the country and the people."
"But everything the emperor's uncle did was for the country and the people. Isn't this too unfair?"
"For the sake of the Great Chu, it is not unfair to wrong him."
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