Qier was a little surprised that Dugu Lianqi would ask such a question.
She thought for a moment before replying in a low voice: "If the prince always thinks about getting something in return from the princess, then the prince may be disappointed. If the prince just wants to be nice to the princess purely, I think it is never too late."
Dugu Lianqi felt that Qier's words made sense.
When he was about to fall asleep, he remembered why Qi Yu let him think by himself.
"I seem to have fallen in love with Mu Yu..." He murmured to himself, closed his eyes, and fell into sleep.
Qier looked at Dugu Lianqi's sleeping face and sighed softly.
Hope everything comes in time.
The prince had been a fool for most of his life, and it was only at this moment that he realized that the princess was different from other women, and I was afraid that it would not be easy to win the princess's heart.
Early the next morning, Dugu Lianqi went to the morning court.
Before returning to the palace, he passed by a restaurant he usually went to. He thought the rice dumplings made with fermented rice were delicious, so he took one back to the palace.
He went to Lingyu Pavilion and handed the still-hot fermented glutinous rice dumplings to Mu Yu: "Try it, this restaurant's signature delicacy tastes good."
"I just had my breakfast and I can't eat anymore." Mu Yu had no desire to move his chopsticks.
"That's it." Dugu Lianqi didn't feel it was a pity.
Tomorrow he can rush to deliver the fermented rice dumplings to Lingyuge before Mu Yu has breakfast, so that Mu Yu can eat the hot dumpling soup as soon as possible.
The next day, after Mu Yu got up and washed up, she was about to have breakfast when she found that the dining table was already filled with a sumptuous breakfast, including a bowl of steaming rice dumplings made with fermented rice.
"This is?" Mu Yu felt that it was very similar to the meal Dugu Lianqi sent yesterday.
"The meal that the prince specially ordered Qier to deliver early in the morning was delivered right when the princess got up. There are also other breakfast meals that the princess likes to eat, which the prince specially ordered to prepare. As for the prince, he still has
Have a morning court in the palace." Dong'er stepped forward and replied.
Mu Yu was a little surprised, but she didn't ask any more questions.
At noon, she found a table full of her favorite meals.
After taking a nap in the afternoon, a tailor came to her door to make new clothes for her and Xiao Yuer.
She has never chosen these things, just because she is a princess and sometimes needs to socialize, so she rushes to make some new clothes.
It is said that Dugu Lianqi specially ordered someone to arrange this for her.
She didn't understand why Dugu Lianqi suddenly arranged such trivial matters for her.
Because she didn't need to use her brain, Dugu Lianqi didn't do anything else that made her disgusted, so she didn't ask any more questions.
As time passed, she found that Dugu Lianqi no longer liked to leave the palace, and spent more time in the palace, often coming to accompany her and her children whenever he was free.
During the Chinese New Year, Dugu Lianqi's concubines would come to pay their respects to her, and they would complain that Dugu Lianqi had not found them to sleep with them for a long time, and everyone was still living as a widow.
But in fact, there are fewer and fewer old faces in the palace.
On the first day of the new year, Li Xiang'er came to Lingyuge to see Mu Yu with a haggard face.
Mu Yu was surprised that Li Xiang'er came to see her.
Yesterday, on New Year's Eve, Li Xiang'er didn't show up. To be precise, she hadn't seen Li Xiang'er show up in front of her for several months.
"I have always wanted to ask you, what method did you use to make the prince obey your orders." When Li Xiang'er opened her mouth, her voice was hoarse and her eyes were empty.
Mu Yu didn't know how to answer.
Specifically, she didn't know why Li Xiang'er made such accusations.
It is true that Dugu Lianqi spent more time with her than before, and she was not as disgusted with Dugu Lianqi as before, but between her and Dugu Lianqi, they were at best respectful to each other.
Furthermore, why should Dugu Lianqi obey her orders?
"I have already retreated again and again, why does the prince still want to send me out of the palace? Is this the result of my forbearance?" Li Xiang'er's eyes finally regained focus, and she suddenly said to Mu Yu: "I don't fight or rob anymore, you
Just do it, don't drive me out of the palace, I can't be kicked out, otherwise I won't be able to see anyone."
"I didn't know about this." Mu Yu felt uncomfortable.
She knows what a woman cares about most in her life.
Although Li Xiang'er sometimes doesn't like her, she knows that Li Xiang'er cares about Dugu Lianqi. Dugu Lianqi suddenly wants to send Li Xiang'er out of the palace, isn't this equivalent to taking Li Xiang'er's life?
"How could you not know? Didn't you realize that all the sisters in the palace were sent away by the prince? The prince did it for you and didn't want the rest of us. Are you pretending to be stupid, or did you not see the sisters in the palace?
Are all of them sent away by the prince?" Li Xianger cried bitterly as she spoke: "I thought I would be better so that the prince would not send me away, but I still can't escape this disaster..."
Mu Yu didn't know what to say.
At this time Qi'er appeared. She went to Li Xiang'er and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, please come over."
The prince did not want the princess to be unhappy on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but Li Xiang'er ran away to Lingyu Pavilion. It was her dereliction of duty and did not take good care of Li Xiang'er.
"I know the prince doesn't like me coming to see the princess, but I'm already here. I also know that from now on I will never have the chance to see the princess, because I will be sent out of the palace today." The light of hope in Li Xiang'er's eyes also
It gradually dimmed.
Mu Yu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end she was speechless.
"Qier, please go out, I want to talk to the princess again." Li Xiang'er's mood gradually calmed down, and she quickly wiped away her tears.
Qier didn't move.
Seeing this, Mu Yu said to Qi'er: "You can go out, I will be fine."
Qi'er was still a little hesitant, but Mu Yu coldly said, "Am I, the princess, still unable to control you?"
Qi'er couldn't stay any longer this time, so she turned around and went out, not daring to go too far for fear that Li Xiang'er would do something impulsive and hurt the princess.
The room became calm again.
Li Xiang'er was the first to start the conversation: "It has been many years since I entered the palace. I don't remember the specific year, but I always entered the palace before you. The prince is the kind of person who will hold you in the palm of his hand and pamper you when he likes you.
It has always been like this. I have also been in glory, and that was when I was most favored. It seemed that as long as there was something good, the prince would give it to me..."
"Of course I know that I am not the only one who is favored by the prince. Later, many new people came in, but I didn't take it to heart. At that time, there was no princess like you. Until one day, you married into the prince's palace.
I have become the mistress of the palace. I don’t pay much attention to you as the princess, because I know that the prince will never stop. He will always like different women and look for different novelties."
