books44 Chapter 241 Beauty's Scheme (3)
Chapter 241 Beauty's Scheme (3)
The mother and daughter were laughing and joking, while Du Yunxi and Nie Shen'er knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe, until Lu Zhi compromised with Shi Yi. They were relieved. At least for now, their lives were saved.
"Since you two are following the eldest princess, then serve her well and don't let Anyang down." Lu Zhi did not forget to admonish the two men on behalf of her daughter, and they quickly knelt down and agreed.
Shi Yi brought the two back to his princess's mansion and sent someone to give Yan'er's letter to Lu Yuan. Then he looked at the two and said, "If it was my brother who was riding in the sheep cart today, you two would be in luck."
"It's our great fortune to meet the princess." Nie Shen'er knelt down quickly.
"The princess likes us and brings us back home. I'm afraid we have a better future," Du Yunxi replied after thinking for a while.
"Hahaha, Du Yunxi, you are indeed very smart, but I don't like smart people that much." Shi Yi played with her hair. What she wanted was a loyal person, and intelligence was secondary.
"We two sisters are stupid. We are only loyal to the princess. We don't have any smart minds." Nie Shen'er said humbly, but with a beautiful smile.
"You are truly as beautiful as a flower." Shi Yi lifted Nie Shen'er's chin with his finger. "It would be a pity to let such a beautiful face fade away like this. How about letting this princess give you a chance of good fortune?"
Nie Shen'er was not sure what fate had happened and whether she would still be alive. However, she had just expressed her loyalty to the princess, and to question it the next second would only make the princess abandon her. At this moment, she had no choice but to take a gamble.
"Of course I am grateful!"
"Shen'er!" Du Yunxi's face was full of disapproval.
"Du Yunxi, your face is beautiful enough, so beautiful that I have plans for you." Not knowing what he was thinking of, Shiyi laughed happily. Nie Shen'er looked at Shiyi's face and felt her heart pounding.
After staying in the princess's mansion for a month, Shi Yi brought the two of them into the palace again. This time, the emperor and the empress dowager had a big fight, but the emperor finally had no choice but to compromise. Shi Yi entered the palace just for this matter.
"My queen mother is really crazy. Yan'er is only eleven years old. How could she do this?" The emperor was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"Brother, calm down. You feel sorry for Yan'er, and so do my mother and I. But Yan'er is your queen, your wife now. If you don't give her your royal favor, she will only be laughed at by others."
"Anyang!" The emperor couldn't believe it. Last time she had persuaded him to compromise, and this time she did the same thing. Was power really that important? So important that she could disregard human ethics and lose her humanity?
"Listen to me," Shi Yi drank a sip of tea slowly, "You went to Yan'er's Pepper Room to give her courage. She is so young and living alone in the deep palace. She will be scared. You are her uncle, why not accompany her?"
The emperor understood instantly: "I don't have to consummate the marriage with Yan'er. Yan'er is so young, she will definitely be scared. Sister Lu Yuan is also worried, right?"
"You have to give Yan'er the honor that a queen deserves. She must spend some time in the Pepper Palace every month. Those beauties are talented, but you have to know the limit when pampering them. Don't let them bother Yan'er." Shi Yi said it clearly, and the emperor listened carefully.
"These are the palace maids around me. They will stay in the Pepper Palace to take care of Yan'er. You can touch them when necessary, but just stay away from Yan'er and don't lead her astray." This was the real reason why Shi Yi came to see the emperor. She wanted to send the two of them to the emperor, and also make the emperor feel that she and he were on the same front.
The emperor really agreed: "That's great, let's go see Yan'er. I've been in a bad mood these days and I've taken my anger out on her. I should comfort her."
Yan'er was traumatized when she was young and couldn't speak. Later, when Shiyi took her to play, she gradually started to speak. However, she was still taciturn at other times, and she became even more unwilling to speak after entering the palace.
At this time, the female official beside her was coaxing Yan'er and saying, "Empress, this is your favorite cake. Just tell me the name and I'll give it to you, okay?"
She looked like she was coaxing a child. Yan'er, who felt that she was already eleven and no longer a child, naturally didn't bother to pay attention to her. She let the female official do everything she could without even giving her an eye.
The emperor was amused and sad: "Yan'er, your uncle and aunt are here to see you."
"Aunt!" Yan'er turned around and looked at Shiyi with a happy smile. She rushed over like a small cannonball and was caught steadily by Shiyi.
"Hey, why is our Yan'er getting heavier again? Did she eat some cakes secretly?"
"Aunt~" Yan'er said coquettishly, then looked at the emperor timidly: "Why did my uncle come to see me today?"
"Uncle is here to apologize to Yan'er." Staring at Shiyi, the emperor said, "Uncle shouldn't have been so mean to you a few days ago. It was my fault."
"Yan'er doesn't blame uncle. Uncle just gets angry easily because he is too busy." The well-behaved Yan'er made Liu Ying see his own meanness and felt even more guilty for taking his anger out on others.
"But Yan'er is so bored in the Pepper Palace, and my grandmother is so busy. It would be great if my uncle and aunt could spend more time with me."
"You have been staying in the Pepper Palace and have never gone out?" The emperor couldn't believe that his well-behaved and lovely niece had been kept under house arrest in the Pepper Palace. Has his queen mother really gone crazy to such an extent?
"I don't like going out. They don't like me and I don't like them either," Yan'er said aggrievedly.
"They?" the emperor asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Your Majesty, the Empress might be talking about the beauties in your palace. They often speak disrespectfully to the Empress." Nie Shen'er took the opportunity to speak: "They often say that the Empress is dumb. Even though she is the Empress, she doesn't act like a Queen. She won't complain when she is bullied. She is very easy to fool."