Chapter 263: Not Knowing How to Be Lucky
Concubine Bai smiled and said, "You are really good at showing off. Even at this time, you are still pretending that nothing happened."
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Xiao Xixi had no choice but to sigh.
"If you think that thinking this way will make you feel better, then just think of me as being stubborn."
Concubine Bai: "..."
She said those words deliberately to annoy Concubine Xiao.
Unexpectedly, this concubine Xiao actually turned around and disgusted her.
She said with an unpleasant expression, "Concubine Jing and Concubine Duan were both women personally assigned to His Royal Highness by the Emperor. Their status in the East Palace is extraordinary. His Royal Highness will definitely love them very much. Let's see how you can be so proud then! "
After saying this, she flicked her silk handkerchief and turned away.
…
After Xiao Xixi returned to Qingge Palace, she asked the palace maids to help her remove her makeup and wash up.
Normally, when the palace maids served her, they would chat with her with a smile, but tonight no one dared to speak.
Everyone was very careful, fearing that they might say something wrong and anger Concubine Xiao.
Xiao Xixi yawned.
Seeing that she was sleepy, the palace maids quickened their work, undid her hair bun, and brought her some hot water.
Xiao Xixi took a comfortable hot bath, then crawled into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Baoqin was originally worried that Concubine Xiao would be too sad to sleep, but now it seems that she was thinking too much.
But it’s better this way, be more open-minded and you won’t get hurt.
Baoqin sighed silently, quietly left the bedroom and closed the door gently.
Xiao Xixi was sleeping soundly when she suddenly felt she couldn't breathe.
She was suffocated awake.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the prince sitting beside the bed, pinching her nose.
She quickly pushed the prince's hand away, sat up, and breathed deeply.
Luo Qinghan looked at her expressionlessly.
"You can still sleep?"
After her breathing became stable again, Xiao Xixi said, "I am not sick and I am not in any trouble, so why can't I sleep?"
After hearing this, Luo Qinghan laughed at himself.
"That's right, you don't take me seriously at all. You don't care about me, so you can sleep well."
Xiao Xixi noticed that something was wrong with his mood.
She leaned over and stared at the prince's handsome face.
"Your Highness, who has offended you again?"
Luo Qinghan pushed her away, stood up and walked out.
Today is the first day that Concubine Jing and Concubine Duan enter the palace. Logically, he should be with them, but whenever he sees them, he will think of what his father said.
He didn't even want to touch them.
He quietly left the Linde Palace alone. Facing the dark night, he didn't know where to go. In the end, he could only follow his heart and came to the Qingge Palace.
He thought Xiao Xixi would understand him, but he didn't expect that she slept like a pig and didn't care about the affairs of Concubine Jing and Duan Liangdi at all.
He was being too sentimental again.
As Luo Qinghan took a step forward, he found someone grabbing his sleeve.
He looked down and found that it was Xiao Xixi who was holding him.
Xiao Xixi looked up at him and said, "Your Highness, would you like to have some midnight snack?"
Luo Qinghan said coldly: "I'm not hungry."
"It's okay if you're not hungry, just eat a few bites."
Xiao Xixi let go of his sleeve, then jumped up and casually grabbed his coat and put it on.
She put on her shoes and pulled the prince out.
The palace maids and eunuchs on night duty had been awakened, but none of them dared to say a word. When they saw the Crown Prince and Concubine Xiao coming out, they knelt down in haste and saluted.
Xiao Xixi asked the prince to go to the backyard first, and she went into the small kitchen.
She rolled up her sleeves, took out a piece of lotus root from the small kitchen, cut it into slices, mixed it with sugar, smashed a plate of cucumbers, and then took out two chicken legs and two chicken wings from the pot of braised food.
After hesitating for a while, she opened the jar of wine and scooped out a pot of osmanthus wine.
She carried the food into the backyard.
At this time, the chickens, ducks, pigs and geese have all fallen asleep. The yard is very quiet, and occasionally you can hear the slight sound of the vegetables being blown by the night breeze.
Luo Qinghan stood beside the pigsty, staring at the two big fat pigs in a daze.
Xiao Xixi placed the food on the small table in the corridor and asked the prince to come and sit down.
Luo Qinghan walked to the corridor, sat down cross-legged, and asked casually: "Is the sow you raised pregnant?"
Xiao Xixi was very surprised: "How did your highness know that?"
"The sow's belly is a little big."
"Your Highness is very observant."
There was a low table between the two of them, with some simple food and drinks on it.
Xiao Xixi picked up the wine glass: "I toast you a glass!"
"I thought you would take this opportunity to congratulate me on the birth of my beautiful lady."
Xiao Xixi blinked her eyes: "If you need my congratulations, I can satisfy your wishes. I congratulate you on your happy birth..."
Luo Qinghan interrupted her coldly: "Shut up."
Xiao Xixi shut up obediently.
Luo Qinghan took a look at the wine in the glass. The wine was slightly yellowish and had a faint scent of osmanthus.
Under a bright moon, two people drink together.
The taste of osmanthus wine is a bit sweet and there is no smell of alcohol.
Xiao Xixi drank with the side dishes, while Luo Qinghan simply didn't eat a single bite of the food and drank one cup after another.
Soon the pot of wine was finished.
Xiao Xixi's cheeks flushed slightly and she looked a little tipsy.
Luo Qinghan still had that expressionless look on his face, as if this little bit of wine was nothing to him.
But what he said was shocking.
"Sometimes I feel like I am no different from these pigs."
Xiao Xixi blinked her misty almond eyes, wondering why the prince started talking nonsense? Was he drunk?
If it were any other time, Luo Qinghan would definitely not say such words, but he felt so uncomfortable today, coupled with the effect of alcohol, he couldn't help but blurt out the words that were suppressed in his heart.
"They tell me to marry whomever I want, and I have to marry whomever they want me to marry. They tell me to have children, and I have to have children."
"You raise pigs for meat, and they raise orphans for power. Aren't they both doing it to satisfy their own selfish desires? What's the difference?"
Xiao Xixi said dryly: "After hearing what you said, I will never dare to kill pigs and eat meat again."
Luo Qinghan smiled and said, "It's better to kill him. He will die happily and avoid suffering in life."
Xiao Xixi was frightened when she heard this and felt like she was half sober.
"Your Highness, are you not going to let it go?"
Luo Qinghan did not answer.
His silent attitude made Xiao Xixi even more nervous.
She tried to persuade him, "Your Highness, why don't you think from another perspective? Although Concubine Jing and Duan Liang Di were forced upon you, they are young and beautiful. You got two beauties for nothing, so you should be happy! Don't you know how many men out there can't even find a wife? If they could marry a wife as beautiful as Concubine Jing or Duan Liang Di, they would be so happy that they would spin in circles. Don't be ungrateful for what you have."
(End of this chapter)
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