vrcanaries Chapter 915 1 You must not turn your face to him
Chapter 915 1 You must not turn your face to him
Seeing the eldest princess's sad look, Empress Dowager Liu was very puzzled and frowned, saying, "Yun'er, they are just servants. How can you talk to the Imperial Grandmother like this for a few servants?"
After getting a positive answer, the eldest princess felt even more sad: "But I am also a human being!"
“They have children, too.”
"If their children are like Yun'er and can never see their mother again, it would be really pitiful... wuwuwu..."
Empress Dowager Liu frowned even more tightly, and her tone became more serious: "Yun'er, I think you have been led astray by those servants!"
"They are just worthless creatures, and you are a princess of the royal family, the golden branch and jade leaf of the Great Zhou! How can the two be compared?"
The eldest princess couldn't stop crying and took a few steps back, her face full of sadness and distress.
"If I could choose my birth and parents, I would not choose to be born in the royal family! The nannies, maids, eunuchs, and palace maids around me... They served Yun'er trembling with fear every day, but my mother beat all the wet nurses to death in a rage, causing so many people to lose their mothers. Now the royal grandmother beat them to death in a rage. Although they are palace maids, they are also living lives! Why? Why don't my mother and the royal grandmother treat the palace people as human beings and kill them at will? Why did Yun'er have to be born in a bloody palace? Woo woo woo..."1
Empress Dowager Liu was so angry that veins on her forehead were throbbing: "Yun'er, I think you really can't tell good from bad!"
"Don't you understand who is the one who truly loves you and treats you well?"
"In your heart, some lowly palace maids are more important than the Empress Dowager?!"
The eldest princess was in tears, not knowing how to refute.
She knew that her mother and grandmother were the best people in the world to her, but they really shouldn't kill people casually...
The eldest princess was heartbroken, and couldn't communicate with the Empress Dowager. She really didn't know what to do, so she ran out crying.
"Yun'er!"
Queen Mother Liu frowned fiercely, but she was still worried about the safety of the eldest princess. She looked down at the nanny and maids kneeling on the ground and said coldly, "Hurry up and catch up!"
"Princess, if anything happens, I will ask you for your help!"
The nannies and maids were startled and quickly stood up and chased after him.
As soon as the eldest princess ran out of the Cining Palace, she ran into Li Changde head-on.
Li Changde took several steps back before steadying himself: "Oh my! Your servant pays respect to the Grand Princess."
Seeing the eldest princess running out of the Cining Palace with tears on her face, Li Changde asked in confusion: "Eldest Princess, what happened to you?"
The nannies and maids behind him caught up and explained to Li Changde: "Eunuch Li, the eldest princess learned that the palace servants who served her yesterday were punished by the Queen Mother, so she went to question the Queen Mother, and ran out sadly..."
When they said this, the nannies and maids had very complicated feelings...
They served in the palace and had long been accustomed to having their lives treated as worthless. The eldest princess was the only one among all the masters who treated them as human beings. She was even willing to question the queen mother and quarrel with her for them.
It’s a pity that the eldest princess was only five years old and could do nothing, let alone stop the Empress Dowager and the former Noble Lady Liu from killing people.
It was because they knew that the deaths of so many people were not the eldest princess's intention that they could not blame her.
Li Changde understood, sighed in his heart, looked at the eldest princess and said: "Princess, I am following the order of His Majesty. Please go to the Yangxin Palace immediately."
The eldest princess held back her tears and wanted to say that her father was the one who killed her mother and she did not want to see him.
But thinking back to yesterday, the Empress Dowager killed all of them just because Nanny Jin and the others didn't take good care of her. The eldest princess was really afraid that if she didn't obey, she would implicate more people.
She really didn't know what to do. Her small body trembled slightly. She nodded and followed Li Changde.
Thinking of the eldest princess in the past, she was so lively, cheerful, bright and generous, and the happiest girl in the entire palace.
Seeing how cautious she was now, Li Changde felt sad...
However, court struggles have always been like this.
The eldest princess was able to live without worries in the past because Liu and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion provided her with a roof over her head, and because His Majesty had only one daughter left alive.
The situation in the palace is different now, and the eldest princess should be more sensible. Otherwise, with more and more heirs in the harem, and without the protection of her mother, it is only a matter of time before she is ignored by His Majesty.
A nanny returned to the Cining Palace and reported what had happened there to Empress Dowager Liu.
Another nanny took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears from the eldest princess's face.
On the one hand, they didn't want anything to happen to the eldest princess, and on the other hand, the Queen Mother took her anger out on them.
On the other hand, the eldest princess was indeed pitiful, and her nannies also hoped that she would be favored by His Majesty.
"Princess, when you see His Majesty later, you must not turn your face away from him, understand?"
"No matter what, he is still your father!"
"And His Majesty is not only your father, but also the emperor of the Great Zhou..."
The emperor's majesty cannot be offended! Even if the princess is his biological daughter.
He doesn't bother with the eldest princess now, precisely because they are related by blood. If the eldest princess exhausts His Majesty's compassion for her, the days ahead will be difficult...
Listening to the earnest advice of the nanny and maids, the eldest princess lowered her head with tears welling up in her eyes.
In fact, there are still many people in this world who are kind to her...
But when the eldest princess thought about what her grandmother had done, she felt deeply powerless.
Why was she born into a royal family?
The eldest princess thought to herself that she should be more obedient, so that her grandmother and father would not blame those who served her for her sake.
She really didn't want any more nannies or maids to die because of her...
Soon, they arrived at the Palace of Tranquil Longevity.
The eldest princess followed Li Changde all the way in.
The nannies and maids were waiting outside.
The eldest princess had already lost her mother, so how could she not rely on her father? But her father was the one who ordered her mother's death...
The eldest princess had mixed feelings towards her father, but thinking of what they had just said, she still knelt on the ground and saluted respectfully: "Yun'er greets father!"
Nangong Xuanyu looked down at the eldest princess: "Anything else?"
"How did I teach you before?"
The eldest princess shook her lips, turned around and bowed to Shen Zhinian and Wang Pin: "Greetings, Queen Chen!"
"Greetings, Queen!"
After all, she was his own flesh and blood, so Nangong Xuanyu was reluctant to criticize her too harshly, and said gently, "Get up."
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Note: 1 Quoted from the commentary of “Ghost…Xian’er”.