"It doesn't matter, though. I just don't want to hear you ask these boring and childish questions anymore."
"By the way, which courtyard is Aunt Cheng in? Just tell me and I can go there myself."
The coldness in Jiang Yi's eyes was very obvious.
Gu An didn't expect the truth of the matter to be like this, but when he saw Jiang Yi's cold look, he couldn't help but feel very regretful.
"Over at Bingzhu Residence, Concubine Cheng has been acting a bit strange lately. I'm afraid she might hurt Your Majesty. I'd better take Your Majesty there."
Jiang Yi doesn't care.
But her distant attitude towards him made Gu An a little unbearable.
After a while, Gu An finally said, "I didn't know the inside story. I apologize for what I did just now."
Jiang Yi raised a smile, "It's okay."
Gu An couldn't help but be distracted, and he couldn't help but think of the time when Jiang Yi had just entered the mansion.
At that time, he didn't know her identity. He just saw a beautiful figure from afar and felt it was beautiful.
She looked back and smiled at him.
Her smile was pure and innocent, which made him deeply amazed.
He couldn't resist this beauty.
"Does Your Majesty like the Emperor?" Gu An asked.
"Of course I like you." Jiang Yi felt that Gu An's question could easily give her the illusion that he liked her, so she turned her head to look at him again.
There was a deep desire on the boy's face.
She added, "The Emperor's majestic appearance is unforgettable to me. I don't just like him, I love him to the bone."
Gu An was stunned for a moment.
Jiang Yi was already walking forward quickly.
Gu An hesitated for a moment, but still followed. What he had just said about Aunt Cheng having a strange temper recently was not false.
Although Jiang Yi had palace maids waiting for him, what if there was danger?
Soon, Jiang Yi arrived at Bingzhuju.
No one had lived here before and it had fallen into disrepair. In addition, Cheng had first had a fierce quarrel with Marquis Wu'an, and was then demoted to a concubine. Even her daughter, Gu Niaoniao, who entered the palace as a concubine, was demoted to a dresser. No one in the mansion took Cheng seriously.
The only people who stayed with Cheng were the old people living beside her, but because Cheng had a strange temper since she came in and got angry at everyone she saw, even these old people had some complaints about Cheng.
When Jiang Yi came to Cheng, Cheng was in the middle of a temper tantrum.
Because the food the old nanny brought her was not to her liking - it was just a small bowl of porridge and a pile of vegetables, which was very bland, but in her current condition, it was good enough to be able to eat.
Cheng threw the bowl to the ground and kept cursing, sometimes cursing Wu'an Hou and sometimes cursing Jiang Yi.
She was so engrossed in cursing that she didn't even notice when Jiang Yi came to her.
Jiang Yi just stood there looking at her quietly.
It wasn't until Cheng reacted and looked at her with deep shock.
Cheng didn't quite recognize Jiang Yi.
Jiang Yi had always been submissive and obedient. In Cheng's eyes, this daughter was dispensable. Later, this daughter became a chess piece for her to pave the way for Gu Niaoniao.
Therefore, Cheng never took Jiang Yi seriously.
She knew that Jiang Yi was very beautiful, even without makeup every day, but she didn't expect that her daughter could be so stunning.
Wrapped in lavender palace makeup, she looked so elegant and noble that she actually felt a little ashamed of herself.
When Cheng thought about her situation these days, she felt regret from the bottom of her heart. If she had known that Jiang Yi had such a fortune, she would have brought Jiang Yi with her when she arrived at the Marquis' Mansion, and she would never have ended up in such a situation now.
Once Niao Niao's affair was exposed, and now she was demoted to a robed man, she would be under the care of the empress dowager, and it would be even more difficult for her to regain her power in the future.
But Jiang Yi...
Cheng's mind was slightly moved, but she was afraid of being humiliated by Jiang Yi. After all, she knew how harsh she had been on her daughter.
Now that she has ended up like this, she doesn't believe that Jiang Yi hadn't fanned the flames in front of the emperor.
Just when Cheng was hesitating, Jiang Yi extended an olive branch to her.
"How could the Marquis' Mansion feed my mother such a meal..." She said with a hint of regret, "How can a human being eat this?"
Cheng immediately climbed up the pole, "Xiaoyi, mother has a hard life. Everyone in the mansion bullies me. They are nothing."
"Xiaoyi, I can't say that mother treated you very well, but she also never treated you unfairly. We are mother and daughter, and we are relatives who are connected by bones and tendons. You have to make the decision for mother."
Cheng knelt down before Jiang Yi and begged him.
Jiang Yi said with a gentle look, "Mother, tell me in detail how they bullied you."
Cheng listed them one by one, "First, that old scoundrel, Marquis Wu'an, beat me up as soon as he came back from the palace. Look, I still have wounds on my body."
She opened it and showed it to Jiang Yi, trying to arouse Jiang Yi's sympathy.
"Then there are the servants in the mansion. They look down on me. Not only do they give me food I can't eat, they also spit in it..."
Cheng explained them one by one.
Jiang Yi was feeling a little sleepy when she heard a familiar sound of footsteps. She caught a glimpse of the emperor from the corner of her eye, looked at Cheng with a hint of mockery, and whispered, "Mother, you are so naive as to think that I will really vent my anger on your behalf."
Under Cheng's astonished gaze, Jiang Yi suddenly staggered and fell to the ground.
Then she asked Cheng: "Why did you push me?"
Gu An, who witnessed the whole situation, looked at Jiang Yi in surprise. He thought Jiang Yi really felt sorry for Cheng Shi just now, and he never expected Jiang Yi to do this.
He looked at Jiang Yi lying on the ground. The girl's eyes were filled with a hint of weakness and helplessness. She was completely different from the Jiang Yi he had imagined. She had her own little schemes and was never weak.
But Gu An felt that Jiang Yi was even more bewitching.
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