Chapter 498 The Palace Maid Wants to Retire (24)
"Mrs. Shi, if you are free in the future, you can come to the palace often to chat with me and relieve my boredom. I stay in the palace without a daughter by my side, so I can't find anyone to talk to. Now, you used to be a person in the palace, so we should have a lot of topics to talk about..."
The Queen played the emotional card with Wen Shichu. After all, if she wanted to win her over, she had to take it slow and get closer to him first. Once the relationship was good, it would be easy for the feelings to be biased. So why worry that Shi Li would not be influenced by Wen Shichu and lean towards her side? So the Queen took a step-by-step approach and was not in a hurry to reveal her true feelings to Wen Shichu.
When Wen Shichu heard her queen say this, she just smiled politely. What could she talk about with the queen? In the past, the queen was the head of the palace, and the original owner, an ordinary and low-key female official, rarely saw her. The queen might not even remember her name.
Now that Wen Shichu had become Shi Li's wife, the queen immediately felt that she had something in common with her. Wasn't it obvious that she had other intentions? Wen Shichu was not stupid, so no matter how nicely the queen spoke, she did not agree to come to the palace to accompany her often.
When the queen saw her noncommittal look, she felt angry, but she had to endure it as she needed help from others. Seeing that she refused to listen, she had no choice but to let her leave the palace.
Of course, the person who was sent to escort Wen Shichu in the end was Qing Yi, an old friend who had some friendship with the original owner.
"Shichu, are you living well outside the palace?" Qingyi asked Wen Shichu in a low voice as she led him out of Kunning Palace. However, after she finished speaking, she added self-deprecatingly, "I was talking nonsense. You have married General Shi, and your love story has spread into the palace. How can you not be living well?"
Wen Shichu felt a little sour when he heard her words, so he asked her: "Do you regret not leaving the palace?" Qingyi is close to the original owner's age. After all, they lived together when they first entered the palace for training, so she has also reached the age to leave the palace. But she is different from the original owner. Her relatives outside the palace have passed away long ago, so she doesn't want to leave the palace at all. She begged her superiors and wanted to serve until she grows old.
Qing Yi was choked by her words, and after a while she shook her head: "I don't regret it. I know what kind of person I am. I am not suitable to leave the palace to make a living. After leaving the palace, apart from getting married, I can only be a foster nanny. When I get old, I don't know if the children I adopt will be filial or not. If I adopt an ungrateful person, the end will be even worse."
Wen Shichu nodded. What she said was right. Aren't these the options for most retired palace maids? If there were relatives around, it might be even worse. Therefore, the relatives would probably cheat the maids out of the money they had saved for retirement and then sell them off.
"I really didn't expect that you would have such good fortune after leaving the palace..." Qingyi sighed, "Your fate is different from mine. I hope you and General Shi will be well together in the future, grow old together, have a few children, have children and grandchildren around you, and enjoy the happiness of family life, instead of ending up alone like me..."
Wen Shichu asked her, considering that she and the original owner were friends, "If you have the opportunity to leave the palace in the future, are you willing to leave? In fact, after leaving the palace, you don't have to serve the master and live cautiously. You can buy a small house and do some maid work to support yourself. If you are afraid that your children will turn out to be ungrateful, then raise more. It's not possible that all children will be ungrateful, right?"
Qingyi's heart moved after hearing this, but she still shook her head with a wry smile, remembering that the Queen had specially called her over this morning and wanted her to find out information from Shichu. She knew that she was no longer in control of herself.
When Wen Shichu saw this, he did not continue to persuade her, but just said: "If you can't make it in the palace one day, you can send a message to me." Just consider it as accumulating blessings for the original owner, after all, he is an old friend of the original owner.
Qingyi responded gratefully: "Okay, thank you in advance."
The two of them walked out of Kunning Palace very quickly, and Qingyi sent her here. When the two were about to separate, Qingyi suddenly said in an inaudible voice: "You have to be careful of the queen."
After saying that, she left in a hurry without looking back.
Wen Shichu didn't expect that she would actually remind herself, but she already understood the Queen's thoughts without Qingyi reminding her.
In addition to the palace, Wen Shichu saw Shi Li waiting at the palace gate. He was riding a tall horse and was anxiously staring at the palace exit. When he heard Wen Shichu's voice, his beautiful blue eyes suddenly burst into dazzling light like fireworks: "Chu Chu!"
Wen Shichu smiled immediately, her smile shining like the sun breaking through the dark clouds. She happily ignored her status and rushed towards Shi Li: "Shi Li!"
Shi Li had an undisguised smile on his face. The guards at the palace gate were stunned to see him smiling so brightly. Shi Li used to be just as his name suggested, a very violent person with a gloomy and ferocious face all day long. But now, he smiled with a bright and sunny face. Isn't that shocking?
Shi Li didn't care what others thought. He bent down, stretched out his long arms, and suddenly hugged Wen Shichu, who was rushing towards him, and with a little effort, he carried her onto the horse's back in front of him.
Wen Shichu didn't expect him to do this. He exclaimed at first, then excitedly sat in front of Shi Li and rode on the same horse with him.
Shi Li squeezed the horse's belly and the horse raised its hooves and started to run. Shi Li hugged the soft body in front of him tightly, feeling extremely satisfied.
The few servants who were left behind by the two unreliable masters had no choice but to take the carriage back to the general's mansion by themselves.
The couple didn't care about other people's eyes at all. They rode on the same horse openly and galloped on the road in a very ostentatious manner. When they passed the sedan chairs or carriages of the ladies who had left the palace earlier than Wen Shichu, they could still hear their shocked voices:
"Did I see it wrong? Was Shi Li and his wife sitting on the horse that just ran past?"
"A man and a woman riding together? The world is really going downhill and people's hearts are no longer the same as before! A rebellious woman like Madam Shi should be drowned!"
"Are General Shi and his wife crazy? How dare they ride on the same horse in broad daylight?"
"They are two shameless people! How dare they do this?"
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No matter how much criticism there was later, Wen Shichu and Shi Li were completely unaware of it. They were having a lot of fun. Neither of them was a worry-free person, and each was more rebellious than the other, especially Wen Shichu. She had never had any real feelings for this era, and now that Shi Li was going crazy with her, she let herself go even more.
The fact that these two people rode on the same horse together in broad daylight and in public naturally attracted the attention of the censor. So the next day, Shi Li was reported and accused of being arrogant, lawless, and unruly.
(End of this chapter)
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