Chapter 45: The Scene Outside the Palace

At night, Yun Qin still went to the front hall.

She couldn't let Rong Xin keep watch all night, it was too tiring.

Rong Xin frowned slightly when she saw her coming, but Huipin was very happy, "Yunqin, you are late. The little prince in my belly was making a lot of noise just now, and Rong Xin even touched it!"

"Oh, it's moving again, come and touch it, come quickly!" She waved at Yunqin excitedly, her eyes full of innocence, as if all the threats during the day were just a dream of Yunqin.

Yun Qin's eyes flashed, and she came back to her senses. She walked forward and put her hand on Huibin's belly as she was told. She felt the fetus moving in her belly. Even though she was used to hiding her emotions in front of Huibin, she couldn't help feeling surprised. She was slightly startled, and her eyes widened a little as she looked at her belly.

"Look at her, she's also scared." Huipin pointed at Yunqin and laughed so hard that her body shook.

Yun Qin raised her eyes to look at her. In fact, she felt that Huipin was an even stranger person. She was so wary of her, yet she trusted her so much that she allowed her to touch the baby in her belly.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty." Yun Qin retracted her hand.

Huipin laughed again, "You talk like an old pedant every day. When the prince is born, I won't let you hold him." Then she shook her head, "No, no, I have to let you hold him. You are so beautiful. If he looks at you more, he will also be beautiful!"

Yun Qin listened to her innocent words, and her heart was no longer moved. She just laughed and said a few words in response.

After waiting for a while, Xiao Dezi came to report that the emperor did not come to the harem.

Huipin then yawned listlessly and stretched out her hand for Yunqin to help her. "I should have known not to wait. Help me remove my makeup. I can hardly open my eyes."

"yes."

Yun Qin helped Huipin to bed. After she fell asleep, she did not stay in the palace for long, but lifted the curtain and walked out.

In the season of sudden change from warm to cold, it is warm during the day but very cool at night.

Yun Qin stood in the corridor, gathered her clothes, looked up at the half-moon, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Today she spoke firmly to Rong Xin, but she couldn't help feeling uncertain inside. Since she came to this world, she had never seen the moon from anywhere else, and she didn't know if the moon outside the palace was more beautiful.

If she really left the palace, she might be busy with her livelihood every day and would not have the leisure to look at the moon. I wonder if she would miss the moonlight in the palace then.

"Sister Yunqin."

Yunqin came to her senses and found that it was Xiao Dezi who came over.

"Are you on night duty today too?" Yun Qin smiled at him.

Xiao Dezi suddenly lowered his head, not daring to look at her face bathed in the moonlight. He had heard that there was a laurel goddess on the moon, who probably looked like his sister.

"Sister, are you in a bad mood?" he asked in a low voice.

Yun Qin looked up at the moon again, "Not really, I'm just a little tired, so I'm going to get some cool air to refresh myself."

"I still have to thank you for Zisang." she said again.

Xiao Dezi shook his head, "The Queen gave me a lot of gifts today. If it weren't for your alertness, I wouldn't have been able to achieve this achievement."

"You deserve this." Yun Qin turned her head and looked at him, "Xiao Dezi, do you want to leave the palace?"

"I thought about it before, but not now." Xiao Dezi glanced at her and lowered his head again.

"Why don't you want to?"

"Xiao Dezi has no relatives outside the palace. The friends he can talk to, his master, and... are all in the palace. He doesn't have any thoughts about the outside world." Xiao Dezi answered truthfully.

"How old were you when you entered the palace?" Yun Qin asked again.

Xiao Dezi thought about it and answered, "It seems to be four years old, maybe five years old, I can't remember clearly."

"Then do you remember what it looks like outside the palace?" Yun Qin looked at him.

Seeing her interest, Xiao Dezi tried to recall, "I don't remember it so clearly. I just remember there was a pond in front of my house. There were a lot of frogs in the summer, and it was especially noisy. There were also a lot of lotus flowers. Dad would always pick a lot and put them in my arms, and let me take them back to Mom."

At this point, he couldn't help but chuckle.

Yun Qin's mind also emerged with a scene of a little boy staggering with a large bunch of lotus flowers in his arms and shouting "Mom", and she also smiled softly.

Xiao Dezi continued, "There was a flood that year, and I followed my parents to escape the famine and came to Beijing. There were many people in Beijing, and the streets were wide. The things sold on both sides of the road were things I had never seen before."

"Later, we found Zhou Pengzi, but they still didn't survive and were gone. Someone said that if I sold myself, I could get some money to buy two straw mats, so I went to find a place to buy people, but somehow I ended up in the palace..."

His tone was always calm, but Yun Qin could feel the sadness of his life from his simple words.

"I'm sorry for bringing up your sad memories." She apologized in a low voice.

Xiao Dezi shook his head and said, "I don't feel sad anymore. We have to move forward."

Yun Qin looked at him for a while before nodding, "Yes, one must always look forward. Thank you for telling me what it's like outside the palace..."

"Sister, you don't have to be so polite to me." Xiao Dezi said hurriedly.

Yun Qin smiled, "This means a lot to me." She gathered her clothes and said, "Then I'll go to the palace to guard it. It's still cold, so you should put on more clothes and be careful not to catch a cold."

"Xiao Dezi knows, sister, please go in quickly."

After he watched Yun Qin enter the hall, he stood there staring at the moon for a while before turning around and sitting in the corridor.

The second day.

Yun Qin found Rong Xin and told her what happened yesterday again.

Rong Xin still didn't believe that she really wanted to stay, and refused to give in, still asking her to go back and figure it out.

"I have thought it through clearly. Sister should be able to see that this is my decision." Yun Qin said seriously.

Rong Xin took a deep breath and wanted to explain things to her, but was interrupted by the sudden appearance of the palace maid. The two of them could only pretend to have a quarrel as they did before and parted unhappily.

In the next two days, Yun Qin and Rong Xin did not find an opportunity to discuss the matter again.

Because of this, a huge mistake was made that neither of them dared to look back on in their lifetime.