Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 25

For the prince's question, Ruyi was a little dazed, she couldn't understand why the prince asked this question.

But the answer subconsciously came out of her mouth: "The Crown Princess sent servants to take care of His Highness."

The corner of the prince's mouth twitched slightly, he wanted to laugh but couldn't, the answer was indeed what Ruyi would say.He wanted to wave his hand to let her go down, but suddenly, he couldn't help asking: "Would you like to come?"

Ruyi trembled when she heard the words, lowered her head and knelt on the ground, and did not say those two words for a long while.

Two simple "willing", at this time, Ruyi really can't say it against her heart.It's not that she hasn't lied, but the two of them seem so against her will when they say it out of her mouth, it's more like mocking herself.

There was silence in the room, and finally, the prince seemed to have forgotten his previous question, and his tone returned to his usual gentleness: "You have always been honest and behaved, I'm afraid you don't even dare to pretend to be sick."

"Your Highness..." Ruyi raised her head and looked at the prince in surprise.

But seeing the corner of the prince's mouth smiling, he continued: "Go down, don't come to this room."

Ruyi opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found that there was nothing to say in her mouth.

The prince had already closed his eyes, leaning on the bed, his handsome face was expressionless, and his voice ordered coldly: "Get down!"

Ruyi clenched her fists and subconsciously bit her lower lip.

She knew that if she was sensible, she should retreat, so that she could save her life quietly.She was still comforting herself in her heart, at least she came, even though the prince was not happy with her performance today, at least he didn't mean to blame her.

However, she didn't have the strength to move her body.

She didn't know why, but all of a sudden, she didn't want to leave, even she didn't know where she got the courage to ignore life and death, status and power at this moment, she knelt and moved to the prince's bed, grabbed the prince's hand.

The prince opened his eyes, his face was still expressionless, but his eyes fell on Ruyi's hand that was holding him.

Ruyi retreated a little, but subconsciously, she grabbed the prince's long and slender hand even more tightly with her own hands.

"Your Highness, this servant admits that this servant is afraid of death and is unwilling to come!" Her eyes were red, and there was a slight cry between her words, "However, since this servant is here, I will definitely take good care of Your Highness."

She couldn't speak sweet words, she could only speak out slowly what was in her heart.

The prince looked at Ruyi in a daze, but didn't speak.After a long time, he stretched out his free hand, caressed Ruyi's face full of tears, lowered his eyelids and said in a light tone: "Gu is imprisoned now, maybe one day, he will become everything. No waste prince."

He raised his head and met Ruyi's gaze: "A man like this, are you willing to risk death to stay with him?"

"What do you think you can get out of being alone."

After saying this, the prince withdrew his hand from Ruyi's face, and slowly withdrew his other hand from Ruyi's.

"You go, it doesn't make any sense to stay with Gu, Gu is a useless wreck now, you can't get anything."

Ruyi sensitively felt the prince's alienation and guard, she didn't know what happened at this moment, the prince seemed to be colder than when he drove her away the first time.

However, the prince's words suddenly made Ruyi figure it out,

After she came to ancient times, she has been living cautiously, only thinking about survival, because she thinks death is really terrible.

In her previous life, she was implicated in a series of car accidents and died of serious injuries. The feeling was very painful and terrifying, so when she got a second life, she cherished it very much.The harder she lived in ancient times, the more she wanted to live.

She didn't know why she was like this, and she never noticed her change.I don't know when, she changed herself bit by bit, wanting to integrate herself into this era.Because of the memories of her previous life, she has no sense of belonging to this time and space than anyone else, and she has no sense of security than anyone else.

In the past, she was a very sloppy girl. All relatives and friends thought she was a good girl. In fact, she was lazy and didn't want to think about how to live. Anyway, her parents would arrange a bright road for her. She just had to follow the arrangement of her parents. Just go on the road.But it was different in ancient times. From the moment she was born, she struggled desperately, thinking about how to live so that she could live well.

She raised her head and looked at the prince intently.

This is her first man, but she has always defined the relationship between the two as master and slave, and has never dared to have a romantic relationship between a man and a woman.She didn't dare to resent and anger this man for destroying the path she had set for herself, and she didn't dare to have any admiration for this outstanding man, all she had was awe and fear.

Now, there is no other woman of his here, and it seems that he is no longer the high-ranking prince who controls her life and death.She opened the corner of her mouth, and squeezed out a faint smile on a face full of tears.

"Your Highness, do you know that this servant is a child from a very poor family, and because she is a girl, she is doomed to be ignored from birth. I have never had a bite of my mother's milk, because I have a child who is one year older than me." My elder brother, my parents were afraid that I would share his rations. My third sister went to the village to beg for goat milk and soup made from corn paste to raise me. Therefore, I have been very dependent on my third sister since I was a child. At that time, I followed the third sister all day long and acted as a little tail."

Ruyi wiped her tears and showed a nostalgic smile. At this time, she even ignored her self-proclaimed, and the prince didn't speak, just looked at her.

"The third sister is very kind to me. We can't have enough food for every meal at home. She often gives me some of her own. However, it is still not enough. Every night when I lie in bed, I fall asleep hungry. , Woke up hungry again, even when the poorest people in the village can have enough to eat during the Chinese New Year, I still have to be hungry. At that time, I thought, if only I could have a full meal someday gone."

"Later, when I was three years old, I really ate a full meal, and there were fish and meat..." Obviously speaking of happy things, Ruyi's smile gradually faded, "It's really It was delicious, but I didn't see my third sister at the dinner table, so I wanted to call her to eat, but... the meal was bought by my family who sold my third sister to be a child bride-in-law in a neighboring village. At that time, my third sister was only Only nine years old."

"I heard people say that being a child bride is not a good thing, so I cried and asked my mother to bring the third sister back, but my mother said that the family can't open the pot, and sending the third sister is a blessing. I believe it..."

Ruyi didn't go on, and the tears couldn't help falling down again.At that time, she really believed it. She felt that no life could be worse than staying in this home, but in fact, she was naive. How could someone else's family love a child whose own parents would not love her!
"Isn't your father a Tongsheng?"

The prince frowned, looking at Ruyi's tears, his heart was touched, but he couldn't believe it. He remembered what Ruyi had said to him.

Ruyi wiped away her tears and forced a smile: "The servant's family is actually not poor at all. The grandfather of the servant is a well-known wealthy family in the village. Later, the family was divided. The father of the servant has ten acres of fertile land. If you do well Farming, the whole family feeds their stomachs, and it is not enough to sell girls, but there are three people in the family who need to study."

The corner of Ruyi's mouth curled into a mocking arc, "My father was told by a fortune teller to be Wenqu Xing since he was a child. Before the family was separated, my grandfather and other uncles all supported my father's education. Who knows, when my grandfather passed away, we My father only passed the county and government examinations, and got the name of Tongsheng. The other uncles also had their own homes, so naturally they were not willing to support a hopeless person to continue their studies for free. I don’t have the strength to restrain a chicken, I only know how to read, all the housework falls on my mother, and my mother can’t take care of it, like me, when I was three years old, I sat under the stove to light a fire and helped the family with things.”

"Of course, sons are the most precious in our family. When we are daughters who can't eat enough and have to do heavy work, they can eat meat every now and then, as long as they study. When they go to the academy to study and have no Shuxiu , it was us daughters who came in handy, my third sister was sold to be a child bride in this way. As for me, I was sold into the palace, and I was much luckier than my third sister!"

Of course, this matter is naturally not lucky.Ruyi didn't say anything about the efforts she made to sell into the palace.Speaking of this moment, Ruyi also felt that she had made a slip of the tongue, she seemed unable to control her emotions, and confided all the words hidden in her heart to the prince at once.

She peeked at the prince, but saw that the prince was still expressionless, but he didn't seem impatient. He even glanced at her when she stopped talking.

Ruyi swallowed her saliva and continued, "After entering the palace, I felt like I had fallen into heaven. I could eat my fill every meal and wear warm clothes. I lost my life. Not afraid of Your Highness’s jokes, the slaves have been secretly saving money, secretly learning the craft of making cakes with Aunt Wang, thinking about opening a pastry shop by themselves when they leave the palace.”

"Later, when you entered the East Palace, were you particularly sad?" The prince glanced at Ruyi, and suddenly asked.

Ruyi smiled, nodded, but shook her head again.

"I admit that I am sad, but now I have figured it out. I am not going to go back to that house, but a girl left the palace alone. Even if she has skills and money, she will not be able to live a good life. Don't be afraid of Your Highness's jokes, slave My heart is very small, and my wishes are also very small. I just want to live in peace and security, without fear. When I was in the East Palace, I was clothed in rich clothes and fine food, and my servants only felt anxious. Now that I am here, my servants feel that I am fine, and I only need to focus on taking care of Your Highness. That's good, I won't worry about making a mistake the next moment and being dragged out to blame, and I can still have enough food. A person can never be too greedy, otherwise he will never be satisfied. Now, the slaves understand that even if they are really accidentally infected, It's not a good life, but it's worth dying."

After Ruyi said these words, she felt relieved all over her body.

The crown prince glanced at Ruyi thoughtfully, and said, "Go out!"

"Your Highness..."

Ruyi blinked her eyes, puzzled.She was going to risk it all.

"Go back and change your clothes, and take care of Gu after drinking the medicine." The prince withdrew his gaze, and at the moment Ruyi stood up, he said again: "Now, if you don't want to take care of Gu, you can't do it!"

(End of this chapter)