atypical prostitute

Chapter 80 Children's Wisdom

The news that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill was only circulated in a small area in the imperial city. For Li Ci, how to deal with the relationship with the eldest princess was a top priority.

Although he had suspected for a long time that she and himself were not simply using and being used, and sometimes wondered what she was asking for from him, but when he really knew that she was his mother, Li Ci was even more confused.

She treats herself well, not at all like a mother who owes her daughter a debt, but more like...a partner in business.

It's just because this partner has more blood ties than ordinary partners, and occasionally she will show some tenderness other than interest disputes, but when it's time to attack, I don't see how she softens her heart.

What's more, the king of Changsha made it very clear that the eldest princess never intended to recognize her, and Li Ci was also a stubborn character, so he suddenly felt that instead of arguing about this relative with a calm face, it would be better to be reserved and be the wife of the Fu family. A resident of the Princess Palace.

So in the days that followed, Li Ci treated the eldest princess no differently from before. He behaved politely and politely, and he did not condescend to everyone in the eldest princess's mansion because he knew his life experience.

Maybe it was because the paper on the window was pierced, and I felt awkward when we met; maybe it was just that I was seen by Li Ci in the most embarrassing posture, but the eldest princess also began to alienate Li Ci from that day on. Let Yujing accompany you.Yu Jing thought it was the result of her temporary stay in Chu Garden last time, so naturally she couldn't ask for it. She dressed up and waited attentively, and often didn't come back until late at night.

Li Ci saw all these in his eyes, and he spent a lot of time looking at flowers and water, practicing calligraphy and drawing red, playing the piano and painting... more and more flattered.

But Lici didn't want to say goodbye to Yujing, but the maids Danxing and Bilian brought from Fu's house could not see Ruomei and the others sweeping away the sighs of the past. In addition to resentment, there are some minor conflicts from time to time.

Li Ci ignored this, Ding Fengyi and Zhang Fengyi were sharp-eyed, and they were fair in dealing with things.Therefore, even though there were constant skirmishes in the yard, nothing happened.

On the contrary, it was Hongmei who asked to be transferred back to Qiongyuyuan as an errand after Li Ci discovered the secret of her body.Li Ci was naturally reluctant to part with him. Since that life-and-death relationship, she has established a relationship with him beyond a master-servant, and she cannot treat him simply as a servant.

Even if a man and a woman can't kiss each other, he is only a child under ten years old, let alone...

Therefore, he resolutely forbids it, and insists that Hongmei stay in Fengyu Tower, and even excuses that Hongmei saved herself, she is a meritorious person, and orders Zhang Fengyi to transfer him to a single room, and the monthly case has also been raised by two levels.

All the maids were naturally envious, but they also knew that this reward was obtained in exchange for their lives, and they would inevitably speak sourly, but no one really took it to heart.People like Dan Xing and Bi Lian who have followed Lici since they were young feel that Hongmei's rewards are too thin.Originally, they thought that Hongmei was delicate and beautiful, and felt pity in their hearts. Since they learned that "she" was seriously injured to save his wife, they became more and more sympathetic. The work is also grabbed as soon as it sees it, for fear that Hongmei's old injury will recur.

After doing this several times, Hongmei actually became the most vacant person in the entire Jingxiu Garden.

Fortunately, he is of extremely noble background, and he is calm about these favors.

……

……

In a blink of an eye, it was late autumn, King Yuzhang crossed the Yellow River, the battle was getting closer, and people in the capital were in panic.Only the eldest princess's mansion is still full of flowers and red maples.

Li Ci sits on the Canglan Water Pavilion, looking at the white lotus blooming out of season.

"It's really gorgeous and lonely."

She commented softly, the white lotus is huge and luxurious, blooming in the harsh autumn wind, but it looks more and more lonely.Although the entire Princess Palace knew that the white lotus was invincible in all seasons because Mr. Jun imported the hot spring water from the suburbs into the Ningbi Pool, but seeing this unseasonable bloom, Li Ci always felt a little weird.

Because this beauty is not real and natural, it always makes people worry that it will be fleeting, and what they touch when they stretch out their hands is the cold air.

Because of Bai Lianbubai's feeling that life is like a dream, but seeing Hongmei looking at Bailian in a trance, Li Ci couldn't help but want to know what he was thinking, so he ordered all the girls to stand by outside the waterside pavilion, and Hongmei was the only one to serve her.

"What are you thinking?" She walked up to him and asked with concern.

Hongmei smiled and said, "I was thinking about what you were thinking."

He let out a breath, and said wearily: "A lot has happened recently, you inevitably have something on your mind and want to talk to someone."

"How do you think I will choose you?"

"Because we are fellow travelers. You know my secret, and I know yours."

Hongmei smiled slyly and turned around: "Your life experience, including you and me, there are no more than ten people in the world who know about it. And my secret, there are only three or two people who know about it."

He got straight to the point, and Li Ci stopped beating around the bush, and said directly: "If you were me, and suddenly found out that your background was so terrible, what would you do?"

"It will be painful, it will be uncomfortable, but in the end, I will only think about how to get the most out of it."

Hongmei bit her bright red lips, and said, "Don't look at me like that. I was the shadow of my brother since I was a child, and I'm used to looking at people. Now I'm even more of a rootless duckweed, and it's inevitable to calculate when things happen. Besides, I don't feel that How much affection does your mother treat you with?"

"is it?"

Li Ci was silent, she had indeed realized long ago that the eldest princess treated her well, it was weird and tight.

But even if you can see through this layer, it is too difficult to really break free from the shackles of blood relatives.

"Actually, I have always thought that the eldest princess used me as an important pawn. She treats me without the guilt of a mother treating her daughter. She occasionally has a loving side, but most of the time, it is-- "

Li Ci said sadly.

It was the indifference shown by the eldest princess when she sent King Yan out of the city, which convinced her that they were not related by blood.Looking back now, it hurts even more.

If she is really regarded as flesh and blood, how can she be willing to take risks!
If Ye Chuan hadn't come out midway that day, or if Ye Chuan had come a little late, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

There is also the banquet of Princess Changsha, if it is said that she knows nothing about King Changsha's schemes, Li Ci will never believe it.

The eldest princess treats her exactly as Hongmei said, without much affection.

That's why Li Ci repeatedly had the idea that she might be his biological mother, but because of her inadvertently ruthless calculations, she finally extinguished it.

Even if the Changsha King clearly pointed out the truth, Li Ci was unwilling to admit that this powerful figure who even took his feelings into calculations was his biological mother.

But although the eldest princess has a deep plan, she is not enough to threaten Fu Zhu to die.

Thinking of Fu Zhu's dejection on the eve of his departure, Li Ci's lips showed ridicule and hatred, and said, "Do you know who my father is?"

Hongmei shook her head sincerely: "I don't know, but Jun Fengxi must know."

"he?"

stunned.

Although she knew that Jun Fengxi was unfathomable and deeply involved in the political chess game of the court, but she couldn't imagine the scene where this light-hearted person competed with those political predators with red faces and every penny.

Hongmei has been following Jun Fengxi for a long time, so she didn't know what Li Ci was thinking at this time, she curled her lips in disdain, and said: "Don't look at his attitude of being a group of outsiders who don't disturb the dust, he is greedy in his bones. It's scary. Fortunately, his realm is extremely high, and what he is greedy for is not superficial things such as power, gold and silver. Otherwise, with his scheming, how many people can count against him."

"is it?"

Li Ci pondered for a while, and also felt that what Hongmei said was reasonable, so he asked, "You have been with him for a long time, do you know what is the relationship between him and the eldest princess?"

"Worried about him becoming your false father?"

Hongmei said without any scruples, since they both knew each other's identities anyway, they didn't bother to play tricks.

Li Ci said: "I just don't want to be cheated anymore. I always feel that everyone around me is full of secrets, but I don't know anything."

"If you can say this, it means that you are awake. Do you know who are the people around you?"

Hongmei picked up another piece of sweet cake and bit it carelessly.

It is the age of growing body, but he hides in the inner house, he has to hold the girl's reserve, he almost forgets the feeling of full stomach.Now that Li Ci discovered the secret, he no longer pretended.

Li Ci watched with a smile, but said nothing.

After eating most of the plate of sweet cakes, Hongmei hiccupped and said: "Old man Linghu told me that you are surrounded by old foxes who eat people and don't spit out bones. He asked me to find a way to follow you, because Only with you can I have the opportunity to intervene in the political center of Xie Dynasty."

"It's really just that?"

Li Ci didn't want to believe that someone could risk his life for a show.

Hongmei said: "It was just like this until I really got in touch with you and found that you and I are both victims living under the shadow of the imperial power. The difference is that I knew from the beginning that I was a victim, and because of a mistake, From a victim to a chaser, you are still a chess piece at the mercy of others."

"You pity me?"

"It's not sympathy, but just looking at you, I think of me in the past. Especially when Shangguanqian drew his sword, I also... When the Imperial City of Beiliang was broken, my father wanted to kill me... so that Everyone in the world thinks that my brother is dead, so that the dead can take him out of Beiliang... But I... don't want to be a victim... Human life is equal, the son of a general can live, and the son of an old farmer can live too... No one has it Duty to die for others..."

Hongmei smiled dejectedly, with sarcasm on her lips: "If my brother is still alive, will old man Linghu treat me as a treasure? He knows that I am a useless person, but he has to hold me carefully, and let me replace my brother as the banner of their restoration of the country." .They used me, and I used them...neither of them had any sincerity."

Li Ci trembled when he heard this, how old is this kid, how can he see things so viciously.

On the contrary, it was Hongmei who was embarrassed by her, and said shyly: "...Actually, I...help you for my own sake...I want...to be friends with you."

"friend?"

"Yes, friend. Not only a friend of interest, but also... the sharer of the most important secret. I... If you want to break free from the hand of manipulating fate, what you need most is strength, and you need to help you to be shameless And the old men behind me, they always think that I am still a child, but they don’t know that children are sometimes more cunning than adults. Besides, they are very pedantic, as long as they give a righteous reason, they will be fooled!”

Seeing his old-fashioned and confident appearance, Li Ci suddenly felt pitiful.

I was able to say that my father wanted to kill me nonchalantly, because my heart was hurt to the extreme, and it won't hurt anymore.

he……

But Hongmei saw her pity and asked, "You look hesitant to speak, what are you thinking?"

"Thinking--"

Li Ci had an idea, and said: "You are still young, and you can pretend to be a girl and hang around in the house. But sooner or later—what do you want to do?"

"You know, I will never be a man. In the future... how can there be any future... Fortunately, I look good, and if I change back to men's clothes in the future, I will probably be regarded as a strange woman who likes to wear men's clothes."

Li Ci looked at him, and suddenly remembered the princess of Beiliang in Ye Wurong's legend.

So he asked: "Princess Rose of Beiliang...is that your sister? Is she really born as good as the legend?"

Hongmei snorted, and said: "That stupid woman deserves her death. She ran out without even knowing what her marriage partner looked like! But she was born really well, only slightly worse than me."

Li Ci couldn't help giving him a burst of chestnuts when he saw his "villain" look of success.

"Hey! Tell the truth!"

Hongmei wept pitifully, said plaintively, and asked curiously: "Why don't you look like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child at all. Is life in the back of the Fu family so difficult?"

Hearing this, Li Ci rolled her eyes and said, "I don't see how you look like a ten-year-old child either!"

Hongmei immediately lowered her head and said calmly, "Because—we are all monsters."

　I have a fever, woohoo, 39°, please comfort~~~~
　　
　
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