Chu Yanyu had been punished by the prince, and Piaoxue had been bathed and wiped several times by Wang Xi and Xiaoluo. The cat's fur was shiny white, and there was no dirt on her body. She no longer smelled anything. The prince also asked the eunuchs from the cat and dog room to come to the mansion to check several times. They all said that the cat was no longer a problem, but the prince still did not allow Li Yu to get close to the cat.

Just because Chu Yanyu had put black dog blood on Piaoxue, although Li Yu emphasized countless times that he was not afraid of Taoist priests or black dog blood, the prince was still worried that the fish would have an accident.

It is very difficult to convince a stubborn person. Li Yu also knew that the prince was doing it for his own good. If it was not black dog blood this time, but other dirt, the prince might not let him touch it.

Got it! Li Yu suddenly had an idea and said, "Can you hold it for me?"

It is said that a husband and wife are one body. Since the old man held it, isn't it the same as him holding it?

The prince: "..."

The prince hesitated for a moment. He had rejected Xiaoyu many times and knew that Xiaoyu had given in. For the sake of safety and Xiaoyu's happiness, this request must be granted.

The prince agreed, and Wang Xi smiled beside him. Then he handed the washed Piaoxue to the prince.

After several torments, Piaoxue had given up resistance. If there was fish, she would eat it, and if there was no fish, she would lie in bed. Suddenly, she was picked up. Piaoxue:?

Then, she was pushed in front of a tall man.

Piaoxue: "Meow!!!"

Piaoxue recognized the man and was about to explode with anger. She screamed desperately.

The prince also disliked Piaoxue, and he stiffened his body to hold the cat up.

Piaoxue opened her mouth to bite, and the prince stabbed her with a glare. Piaoxue was frightened, and recalled the fear of being dominated by the prince. She dared not move at all, and was held by the pair of iron-like hands.

The prince signaled Wang Xi with his eyes, and Wang Xi smiled so hard that his mouth twitched, and handed over a dried fish with shaking hands.

The prince put the dried fish stiffly to Piaoxue's mouth. Piaoxue didn't dare to refuse, and took two bites of it fearfully. For the first time, she felt that the dried fish was not delicious.

"...Feed it." The prince said.

The prince and the cat were disgusted with each other, and put the cat down after completing the task.

Piaoxue immediately picked up the dried fish and hid behind Eunuch Wang.

Li Yu sat in the chair, speechless at the scene.

The prince first went to bathe and changed his clothes from head to toe, then came to hug the fish that was laughing so hard that it might burst at any time.

What's so good about hugging a cat, the prince thought, he still liked hugging a fish more.

Because of Chu Yanyu, Piaoxue temporarily lived in the prince's mansion for a few days and enjoyed a life of luxury. It didn't like to play with rabbits or chase ducks, and often coiled up on the wall, sleeping and basking in the sun.

After all, it was out of tune with the prince's mansion.

A few days later, Piaoxue the cat suddenly disappeared again.

It must have gone to find its owner, Li Yu thought.

Piaoxue didn't know the road before, but now it should have known it.

Li Yu asked Wang Xi to go to the cold palace to check on Piaoxue. Wang Xi went and came back to say that the cat was already with Qiu. It was really strange. Piaoxue was listless in the prince's mansion, but in the cold palace, she ran around excitedly, catching butterflies and mice, full of energy. Even if Qiu was in a bad mood and scolded her, she couldn't drive her away.

Qiu didn't have dried fish, so she often fed Piaoxue with leftovers, but Piaoxue liked the dried fish as much as the dried fish.

Every time Wang Xi went to the cold palace, he would give Piaoxue dried fish, and this time was no exception.

Qiu knew that Wang Xi often came to feed her cats, so she whispered to Wang Xi for a few words. Wang Xi told her that Chu Yanyu had used Piaoxue to frame the Crown Princess, but the Crown Princess did not pursue the matter.

Wang Xi originally hoped that Qiu would be grateful, but Qiu frowned and said coldly: "People like us are unlucky, and the Crown Princess's kindness is really beyond our reach."

This meant that he would not let Eunuch Wang come again.

After all, Marquis An and the Crown Prince were enemies, and this relationship could not be repaired. Qiu herself also disliked the Crown Prince. This time Piaoxue was used by Chu Yanyu. In the final analysis, it was the Crown Prince's Mansion's care for Piaoxue that attracted the attention of someone with ulterior motives. Qiu realized this and did not want to get involved with the Crown Prince's Mansion too much.

Wang Xi had to convey Qiu's words, and Li Yu fell silent for a while.

He remembered that Qiu was secretly brought into the mansion and asked them to take care of Piaoxue. At first, when Wang Xi went to feed the cat, Qiu did not stop him. Why did he change now?

Maybe Piaoxue's disappearance made Qiu realize the hostile relationship between them.

...Forget it.

Li Yu just wanted to thank Piaoxue. It's okay to let the prince hold the cat for him. People always have to make choices. If it will affect the prince or make the prince embarrassed, it's not necessary.

"That's great, Piaoxue has gone back." Li Yu said to Wang Xi.

Wang Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Fearing that Li Yu would be unhappy, Wang Xi told some other things to please his master.

"...This time when I went to the cold palace, the old servant also met someone else." Wang Xi said with a smile.

"Who?" Li Yu didn't react for a while.

"It's Chu Gui - well, I have such a poor memory. The Chu people have no status anymore. They are just commoners now. I saw him."

... Is it Chu Yanyu?

Li Yu almost forgot about this person. He has not asked about Chu Yanyu since he was beaten with a stick and sent to the cold palace.

Wang Xi saw that he had no intention of stopping him and continued.

"I can hardly recognize him now, but it's no wonder that he was sent to the cold palace..."

The way to survive in the palace is to pay attention to personal connections and relationships. This is especially true for the cold palace where you can't expect to get out once you enter. For example, the Qiu family still has the Anhou Mansion outside the palace. Although Anhou himself is useless, as long as the name of the Anhou Mansion is there, even if they can't take care of the Qiu family on weekdays, it is better than nothing.

As for those who really had no backing, and who had done something wrong and were abandoned by the emperor, they were destined to be tortured by the eunuchs and maids in the cold palace.

Those who had some money could live a slightly better life, but those who had no money were just trying to get by.

When Chu Yanyu first arrived at the cold palace, he had some valuables on him, but because he had just been beaten and had difficulty moving, he watched helplessly as most of his property was instantly divided up by the jealous palace maids and eunuchs.

These eunuchs and palace maids were like hungry wolves, and they would break even a bracelet into several pieces and take it away. Chu Yanyu was unable to stop them, and she had to treat her injuries. She wanted to see a doctor and take medicine, but after being deceived by strangers several times, she basically had nothing left.

There was a eunuch in the cold palace who knew a little about medicine. He casually checked his pulse, took away his last money, and gave him a few plasters that he often used.

The plaster at least saved his life, but it couldn't save his legs. Because it was delayed for too long, his injured leg was left with sequelae. He walked with a limp, and the scars from the whipping could not fade, but he finally survived.

Chu Yanyu now lives in a house with more than half of the roof collapsed. Every morning when he wakes up, he has nothing to do. The only thing he can do is look at the sky with a pair of empty eyes.

How good it would be if I hadn't exposed the Crown Princess and angered the Crown Prince. How

good it would be if I hadn't entered the palace to be an imperial concubine.

How good it would be if I had followed the Crown Prince at the beginning.

If... I hadn't met the Sixth Prince, how good it would be.

If these things didn't exist, they wouldn't have happened, but imagining these things has become Chu Yanyu's comfort.

The cold palace only provides two meals, which are uniformly distributed by the cold palace steward. Those who have money and backers can get a better share.

But Chu Yanyu spent all his last bit of money on his injuries, and there was not a single piece of valuable food left on his body. Seeing that he had no money left, the steward gave him some leftovers and cold meat. Chu Yanyu ate them like chewing wax, but he had to eat them even so, because if he didn't eat, he would be hungry, hungry all day. After eating one meal, and then another, he could go back to sleep.

On this day, he had just finished a meal when someone suddenly came to see him.

Chu Yanyu was wondering why anyone would think of him. None of his confidants had seen him since he was sent to the cold palace. But thinking about Hong'er, these people would probably not have a good ending. As for the others, he himself was so miserable, why bother to care about others?

Although he didn't know who the other person was, it was considered a favor to remember him at this time. Chu Yanyu straightened his coarse cloth clothes and walked out of the house. A loud and crisp slap came towards him, making Chu Yanyu stagger.

"You bastard, how dare you hurt my cat!" Qiu's eyebrows were raised and she cursed.

Chu Yanyu's head was buzzing, like a swarm of bees flying by.

Slowly, the sound became smaller and smaller. He could only see Qiu's lips opening and closing, but he couldn't hear what she was cursing.

Next to it, a snow-white cat squatted on the ground, licking its paws boredly.

Qiu mumbled something, took out a bottle from his sleeve, and threw the contents to Chu Yanyu...

"Master, I'm done."

Wang Xi finished telling the interesting stories of the cold palace in a vivid voice and waited for Li Yu's instructions.

"Eunuch Wang, are you saying that Qiu beat Chu Yanyu?"

Li Yu was confused. How did Qiu find Chu Yanyu? Is this a fight between the villains?

No matter what, Concubine Liangliang is mighty! Chu Yanyu is powerless and should not be able to beat Qiu...

Li Yu secretly hoped that Concubine Liangliang could teach Concubine Chu a lesson. It was really disgusting to hide dog blood on a cat!"My lord, Qiu not only beat him, but also brought a small gift for Chu Yanyu." Wang Xi smiled mysteriously.

Don't get me wrong, Qiu didn't splash any potion, but a bottle of dog blood, giving Chu Yanyu a taste of his own medicine.

If Chu Yanyu can get dog blood, why can't Qiu?

The beating Chu Yanyu received was a punishment from the emperor and the prince, and this bottle of dog blood belonged to Qiu, so they can't be confused.

Chu Yanyu was immediately splashed with stench, and even those people in the cold palace who hadn't taken a bath for many days would go around him when they saw him.

There was no condition for bathing in the cold palace, and Chu Yanyu was going crazy. He could only fetch well water and flush vigorously, but after flushing several times, the smell still lingered.

"...I heard that the cold palace now calls him a walking dog blood jar." Wang Xi said.

Li Yu: “…………”

Li Yu wanted to laugh but felt it was too abrupt, so he could only cough a few times.

As for Chu Yanyu, he originally planned to keep his distance from her. Whoever made this person do something bad first, this would probably be the end of hurting others and himself…

And there is no need to think that he stole the prince.

He discovered as early as when he was a fish that the prince did not like Chu Yanyu.

The prince likes him, and he also likes the prince, and will not let the prince down. Chu Lucha should just stay where she is comfortable!

Li Yu asked Wang Xi not to report the news of Chu Yanyu anymore. A person’s time is limited. Instead of spending it on irrelevant people, it is better to think more about his old son.

His old son, the prince, was gradually getting on the right track in the Ministry of Rites and was not as busy as at the beginning. Perhaps the emperor could not bear to see the prince idle away, so the Ministry of Rites quickly assigned him to the Ministry of Revenue. The prince always had endless things to do, but whenever he had time, he would immediately return to the mansion to accompany Li Yu.

As for the children, they often went between the study and the prince's mansion, and recently they began to learn to use chopsticks.

Li Yu was bored during her pregnancy, so she wanted to find something safe and interesting to do.

"Eunuch Wang, what do you think about me making love meals for the children and the prince?"

The babies had to go to the study every day, and Li Yu combined using chopsticks with studying, so he thought of making love bento for the children.

The prince had made it before, so he was familiar with it!

Li Yu was eager to give the children and their father a surprise.

The children didn't like to eat cucumbers, and he said that being picky was a bad habit. Why not just make cucumber slapping that even the children's father would praise!

Wang Xi: ! !

Wang Xi was lucky enough to taste the cooking of the Crown Princess once. The taste was indescribable. Thanks to the Crown Prince who made the whole palace unanimous, the Crown Princess had no idea how bad his dishes were...

Originally, this incident had passed for a long time. Wang Xi thought that the Crown Princess was of noble status and was pregnant, so she would not think of it again. But who knew that he not only remembered it, but also wanted to cook it right away!

The Crown Princess wanted to cook for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the young master. Who could stop this? He had to inform His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as soon as possible!