The fifth prince said slowly, "I've already consulted the imperial physician. With our mother's current health, it won't be difficult for her to have another sister. I'm sure our sister will be as cute, intelligent, and beautiful as Fu'er... In short, she'll be perfect in every way. We just need to talk to our father about this. I'm sure he will agree to let us live away from home."
"After all, my second brother is so shy, he definitely needs to stick to us. My third brother envies others who can run and jump, so he also needs our love and care. Although my fourth brother can see some things now, he is definitely still full of fear and hesitation about the world, so he needs our love and care."
The second prince and others looked at their fifth brother and silently gave him a thumbs up. How insidious!
The Sixth Prince also silently gave his fifth brother a thumbs up. Although he felt that he was much smarter, he was still not as calculating as his fifth brother.
The emperor wants to have a younger sister, but the brothers are clinging to the queen mother. If they ask to stay at the aunt's house at this time, the emperor will definitely agree.
For several days before Wei Fu left the palace, she was forced to write by her junior brother Bingzi in the palace. She cried every day while writing. Everyone from the Queen Mother to the Sixth Prince felt sorry for her and thought she looked very pitiful, but they still held back and did not ask Shen Shubing to stop forcing her to write just because she cried.
The main reason was that the emperor took the time to test her and found that she was five and a half years old, but she knew less than a hundred characters, and could write even fewer. She couldn't even write her own name clearly.
In this situation, no matter how much the emperor wanted to protect her, he couldn't open his mouth.
On the day of moving, Wei Fu was very happy. She was smiling when she woke up in the morning because she was going to move out of the palace and live in the princess's mansion today, so her junior brother Bingzi mercifully let her go.
She laughed heartily toward the sky and went out: "Hahahaha... Today's Fu'er... Without the oppression of Junior Brother Bingzi... Fu'er is a brave man again!"
Tingyu said to Eunuch Li with an aunt's smile: "The little princess is happy, and I think the sky is a little bluer."
Eunuch Li was somewhat unhappy: "The Empress Dowager didn't say that we should follow the little princess out of the palace. Will the Empress Dowager give the little princess another man after she leaves the palace?"
This is what Eunuch Li is most worried about.
He and Tingyu were both the Queen Mother's people. After Wei Fu returned to the palace, the Queen asked whether she should give Wei Fu some people according to the regulations of the princess, but Wei Fu refused.
She felt uncomfortable with a group of people following her wherever she went.
So Tingyu and Eunuch Li have always been by Wei Fu's side, but the Queen Mother did not explicitly tell them to treat Wei Fu as their master in the future.
Although the two were loyal to the Queen Mother, they had already placed Wei Fu at the top of their hearts during the days they had been serving him.
Eunuch Li felt uncomfortable just thinking about not letting them serve Wei Fu at this time.
Logically speaking, at his age, it would be much better for him to follow the Queen Mother than to follow Wei Fu.
The empress dowager is the empress dowager no matter what. No matter who becomes the emperor in the future, as long as the Meng family still rules the country, the empress dowager's honor will not change. It is the safest thing to live with the empress dowager in his old age.
But following Wei Fu would be much riskier, because Wei Fu was still young, and she had not been back in the capital for long. She often sparked heated discussions in the capital and became the center of the topic.
Besides, Wei Fu is still a woman. If her husband's family treats her badly in the future, the lives of those who serve her will definitely become more difficult. They may even die without a burial place. But in his heart, Eunuch Li is still willing to follow Wei Fu.
To put it bluntly, he treated Wei Fu as if she were his own granddaughter.
Tingyu was stunned and asked confusedly, "When the Empress Dowager asked us to serve the little princess, didn't she just give us to the little princess?"
Eunuch Li said, "The Empress Dowager only asked us to take care of the little princess temporarily, but she didn't say that she would assign us to the little princess. Even after our indentures, the Empress Dowager didn't give us to the little princess!"
If they wanted to follow Wei Fu out of the palace and go to the princess's mansion, then the slaves would naturally have to be transferred from the palace to the princess's mansion.
Tingyu hadn't really thought about this matter carefully, but when she heard what Eunuch Li said, her expression became serious for a moment.
Eunuch Li whispered to her, "You'll be twenty-five in a few years. If you stay in the palace, you'll have the chance to leave and return home. Twenty-five isn't too old, so you can find a suitable family to marry. But if you follow the princess... the princess is still young, so many things are uncertain."
Tingyu shook her head and said, "I will not go home." Originally, she thought that after the empress dowager passed away, she would volunteer to guard the imperial tomb.
Even if a woman who was sold into the palace by her family returns, she will only be sold again by her family, but the explanation is more pleasant, as she is getting married.
But who knows what kind of family your family will find for you for money?
Moreover, if she returns home, the money she saved in the palace will no longer belong to her. She earned it with her life, so why should she give it back to her family?
Every time her family sold her, she had repaid the kindness of giving birth to her.
"As for whether we stay in the palace or leave the palace with the little princess, it is not up to us to decide. But I think the empress dowager dotes on the little princess so much that she should give us to the little princess. There are not many people around the princess who can be used, and she has gone out alone to set up her own residence. She must have a lot of things to do and I am afraid she has no time to arrange people for the little princess." Tingyu said.
Eunuch Li thought about it and felt that there was some truth in it. He smiled and said, "You are smart for once, girl."
Wei Fu skipped off to accompany the Queen Mother for breakfast. The Queen Mother called Tingyu and Eunuch Li to her side and said to them, "Little Li, you should live out your days in the palace, but Fu'er is still young, and I'm worried about letting her go. So, please stay with Fu'er for a few more years. When Fu'er is older, if you want to return to the palace, please let me know."
"As for Tingyu, are you willing to leave the palace and serve the young princess?"
Serving Wei Fu was definitely not as respectable as serving the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother followed the principle of voluntariness.
Eunuch Li quickly knelt down and said, "The Queen Mother is in a serious condition. It is my duty to serve the young princess."
Tingyu also knelt down immediately and said, "This servant is willing to leave the palace to serve the young princess."
The Queen Mother said, "Thank you for your hard work."
The two of them kowtowed repeatedly and said they dared not.
After speaking to the two, the Queen Mother hugged Wei Fu again and said reluctantly, "I have asked someone to keep your room for you. You still have to stay in the palace for a few days every month. Don't forget it when you go out to play."
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