Did her father accompany her to Xiqiu?
Yuan Yao gently brushed the charcoal ash from her hands: "But Father's health is not yet fully recovered, how can we travel?"
Canfeng replied with a smile, "Master sent word that His Highness has been much better these days, and Mr. Aning and Mr. Heyin have also gone."
Her uncle and Uncle Heyin are also going to accompany her and her father to Xiqiu.
That's wonderful!
Yuan Yao jumped up, walked to the basin stand, washed the charcoal ash off her hands, dried them, and said happily, "Canfeng, give me the letter."
The lingering wind, with a smile, delivered the letter.
No sooner had he released the letter than a handful of roasted chestnuts flew toward him again.
Without even blinking, Canfeng took every single roasted chestnut and sat down by the charcoal brazier to peel them.
Po Yue popped a peeled roasted chestnut into her mouth and asked Yuan Yao, "When we go to Nanxi Town, can we bring more luggage?"
“Sure,” Yuan Yao replied while reading the letter.
The letter paper was made of the finest decorative stationery.
The stationery features exquisite gold-stamped floral patterns...
Yuan Yao felt a pang of heartache and muttered softly, "Such beautiful stationery, and now it's all creased. What a waste."
Po Yue: "..."
He pulled out a sweet potato with a charred, wrinkled skin and asked coldly, "Did you hear what I said?"
"I heard you." Yuan Yao looked up and smiled slightly: "These next few days, go to the storeroom and pick out some fabrics you like, and buy some things you want to eat."
Let's go to Nanxi Town in three days.
"Can we bring that many?" Po Yue asked.
“We definitely can’t manage on our own!” Yuan Yao folded up the letter and carefully put it away before saying, “Anyway, you should choose quickly.”
"Once you've chosen, have the Assassin's Guild transport it over first."
Upon hearing this, Po Yue's icy face finally brightened with expression: "I'll go pick one out in a bit."
Yuan Yao smiled and instructed, "Go ahead, and while you're at it, pick out some pretty fabrics so we can make you some new clothes for the New Year."
Pick out Daddy's, Ying's, Uncle's, and Uncle Heyin's!
"Oh, and pack up plenty of flower teas and fruit teas from Qianhua Palace, and also pack up some essential oils."
Canfeng placed a handful of peeled roasted chestnuts on a bone plate and laughed, "Is the princess planning to empty Qianhua Palace?"
Yuan Yao smiled faintly: "Since we won't be coming back to live here much in the future, take everything you need with you."
After laughing, she felt a little sad.
Qianhua Palace is where she grew up.
This place holds all her beautiful memories from childhood to adulthood.
From this day forward, these memories will be sealed away along with Qianhua Palace...
Thinking about it carefully, it's really hard to give up.
Yuan Yao sighed softly.
Seeing this, Canfeng also stopped laughing and comforted her, "If the princess misses Qianhua Palace in the future, it is not impossible for her to come back and visit occasionally."
Yuan Yao nodded: "Mm."
She looked up at the palace gate: "Canfeng, when you came back, had the wind and snow stopped?"
Canfeng replied, "It's stopped."
The snow stopped and the wind died down, so she could go out.
Yuan Yao glanced at Po Yue: "Leave me two roasted sweet potatoes and some roasted chestnuts too, I'm going out in a bit."
Po Yue stuffed a roasted chestnut into her mouth, then, burning her breath from the heat, mumbled, "Since you're out, go buy it yourself."
Yuan Yao raised an eyebrow.
Po Yue: "..."
Po Yue grabbed a handful of boiled chestnuts and threw them into the fire: "I'll roast them for you, okay?"
Yuan Yao smiled faintly: "In that case, grill more for me."
After giving her instructions, she turned and went behind the screen, saying as she went, "Canfeng, go find Aruo and ask her to fetch a sedan chair for me. I need to go to Tongxing Palace."
Tongxing Palace was Jiang Chengyan's sleeping quarters.
Yuan Yao walked around the screen, came to the dressing table, and picked up a powder puff...
Not long after, when she reappeared, her face was pale, her lips were bloodless, and she exuded a sickly aura.
Po Yue, with her sharp eyes, asked, "You took medicine again?"
"Makeup," Yuan Yao replied simply, walking to the charcoal brazier. "Are the sweet potatoes and roasted chestnuts ready?"
Po Yue patted the food box next to her: "It's all here."
Yuan Yao smiled faintly and pulled her cloak up: "Let's go, come with me to Tongxing Palace."
Po Yue disappeared into the shadows, Jing'er stayed behind at Qianhua Palace, A Ruo carried a food box, Can Feng accompanied her, and Yuan Yao went out together.
After the snow stopped, a few gusts of wind blew by, and the sky became clear.
The palace road was covered with a thick layer of snow.
On the way from Qianhua Palace to Tongxing Palace, many palace servants were shoveling snow.
Large piles of snow, pure white and pristine, were piled up beneath the bright red palace walls.
Three or four young eunuchs, with brooms scattered on the ground, were making snowballs and throwing them at one of the eunuchs. After the snowballs hit the eunuchs, they laughed very happily.
At this moment, a sharp-eyed eunuch holding a broom spotted Yuan Yao's sedan chair. He threw down the broom, his knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground, trembling as he said, "Greetings to the Princess! Princess, please spare my life!"
After speaking, he immediately reprimanded the eunuchs, ordering them to kneel down and beg for mercy.
The beaten eunuch raised his head and cautiously glanced at Yuan Yao.
The young eunuch was fair-skinned and refined, but his nose was red from the cold, and there were several red marks on his face from being slapped.
He exuded a childlike innocence, coupled with an air of coldness.
Yuan Yao was stunned when she met those dark, gleaming eyes.
Those eyes were clear and bright, with a hint of stubbornness.
"Insolence!" the head eunuch beside him scolded, "Hurry up and pay your respects to the princess!"
The young eunuch then imitated the senior eunuch, raising his hand and respectfully bowing: "This servant greets the Princess."
Yuan Yao coughed lightly a few times, covering her mouth, to stop the sedan chair temporarily. She then asked the young eunuch, "What's your name?"
The head eunuch beside him quickly replied, "Princess, these children just entered the palace a few days ago and don't know the rules."
Today, they are playing in the snow, which is also because the servants failed to restrain them in time.
"If the princess wants to punish someone, punish the servants; they are still young..."
As he spoke, the head eunuch kowtowed twice on the snow with a loud "thump, thump".
Yuan Yao: "..."
She coughed and said in a hoarse voice, "Get up and answer."
The head eunuch, trembling with fear, got up from the ground.
Seeing this, Yuan Yao glanced at the young eunuchs and said, "Considering your youth and childlike nature, it's normal for you to like playing."
However, it's not good to throw snowballs filled with icicles at people.
If someone is killed by the falling object, it will be considered a murder case and could result in being beaten to death.
The eunuchs were so frightened they almost cried, and kept kowtowing.
Yuan Yao touched her forehead with her fingertips: "Stop crying, everyone."
The head eunuch turned his head and glared at the junior eunuchs a few times. The junior eunuchs then covered their mouths and looked at Yuan Yao in fear.
Yuan Yao pointed to the little eunuch who was being hit by a snowball and asked, "Canfeng, when Father entered the palace, was he about the same age as him?"
Canfeng paused for a moment, then nodded: "When His Highness entered the palace, he was thirteen years old (by the traditional Chinese age reckoning)."
Yuan Yao remained silent.
Just as the head eunuch was about to break out in a cold sweat, Yuan Yao looked at the junior eunuch and asked, "What's your name? Why did you come to the palace?"
The young eunuch bowed respectfully, his voice devoid of emotion: "Your Highness, this servant is Kong Qing. My family was in the medicinal herb business, but because we were implicated in the late Emperor's poisoning, our entire family was exiled."
"This servant was chosen to serve as a palace attendant because of his good looks."
Yuan Yao was stunned.
This life trajectory... how similar it is to my father's!
However, Father's situation was even worse. Back then, the Yuan family was wronged and wiped out...
After a long while, Yuan Yao came to her senses and looked at Kong Qing: "Do you want to seek justice for your family and take revenge?"
Is there hatred in your heart?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com