On the street in front of the princess's palace, passers-by can take detours, but those who cannot detour run past with their heads down and quick steps, as if there are evil servants in front of the door and evil dogs inside.
But in fact the door was closed, there were no servants guarding the door, and there were no barking dogs.
However, no one dared to stop in front of the door. Two carriages came from a distance and stopped. Li Lian and Liu Wei were helped out of the car by the maid.
A maid came to the door and called someone's name loudly - obviously, this was not the first time she came here, the porter remembered the name.
The door opened in response, and a boy called his sister with a smile, and then asked the person next to him: "Go and tell the princess, Miss Li, Miss Liu is here."
The person next to him first looked left and right, up and down carefully, and whispered: "Those who can't see have already checked in."
Chen Danzhu entered the mansion as the princess. In addition to the maids and maids on Peach Blossom Mountain, there were ten knight guards following her. This knight guard was originally given to Miss Danzhu by General Iron Mask. General Iron Mask passed away and the emperor did not take it back.
, let these ten brave guards continue to be Miss Danzhu's guards.
These people are so powerful. You can't see them in the house on a daily basis, but many people have come to spy on them openly or secretly. No matter how quietly they come, as soon as they get close, they will be hit by flying stones and wooden sticks, which can even be broken.
His head was bleeding, and his arms and legs were broken in severe cases. After several times, no one dared to approach him again.
If something happened or someone came outside the door, when they went to report it, Princess Danzhu already knew about it.
Although he said this, the concierge went in to report, and Liu Wei and Li Lian also walked in.
Zhu Lin, who was sitting on the roof, looked at this scene with an even more dull expression than before. He also heard the concierge's muttering - it was really stupid. Miss Li Lian and Liu Wei didn't need to report back when they came. How could it be so easy for those who needed to report back?
Close to the gate.
However, no one dares to approach the Princess's Mansion now, whether they have evil intentions or want to make friends, the Princess's Mansion is really deserted in front of the gate.
Will it always be like this from now on? Zhulin looked confused. Can a person who is despised by everyone exist for a long time? Should he persuade Miss Danzhu?
He put his hand on his chest, which was still stuffed with letter paper. In the past, when Miss Danzhu got into trouble, he would file a complaint to the Iron-faced General, although the General would ignore her every time and only reply to say he understood.
There is no iron-faced general anymore, and no one knows the answer.
Only now did he realize that even knowing these three words was extremely reassuring.
Zhu Lin sniffed hard and looked up at the sky. A lone bird flew over his head——
The general is no longer here, and Feng Lin and the others are also gone. They were assigned new tasks by the emperor, and they don’t know where they went.
What to do in the future? The general did not tell him before his death how he should protect Miss Danzhu's life.
Zhu Lin withdrew his gaze and looked outside the palace. He could only beat anyone who bullied Miss Danzhu until the emperor finally came - then he and Miss Danzhu should share the same crime and punishment.
Summer has not passed yet, autumn has not yet arrived, and the young Xiaowei sitting on the high roof looks desolate.
Liu Wei and Li Lian entered the house and heard laughter and shouts from a distance. In the courtyard, Chen Danzhu, wearing a skirt and a small shirt, was watching A Tian and other maids playing Liubo.
Ah Tian's eyes turned red, she rolled up her sleeves and yelled at the maid opposite. The maids around her were also laughing and making fun.
"You are quite at ease." Li Lian smiled.
Chen Danzhu asked Li Lian and Liu Wei's maids to play together, and she took the two of them to sit on the porch.
"Why are you here?" Chen Danzhu asked with a smile, "I remember that at this time last year, there was a lively lotus banquet in the city. You won't be able to go to the banquet because I was involved, right?"
Li Lian and Liu Wei naturally knew about the Gu family's banquet. Seeing that she spoke frankly about it, the two of them no longer avoided the topic.
"These people have really gone too far." Li Lian said, "Don't make yourself angry."
Chen Danzhu smiled: "No, how could I make myself angry? I will only make others angry."
To make others angry, you need to be feared. This was true in the past, but now, alas, the Iron-faced General is no longer around, and the emperor also gave Chen Danzhu a cold shoulder. The Gu family banquet let everyone know that they no longer need to fear Chen Danzhu - Li
Lian sighed inwardly.
Liu Wei's eyes were even redder here.
"What are you doing?" Chen Danzhu held Liu Wei's hand and smiled, "Who dares to bully you now? Your brother Zhang Yao is now a serious official, and he has achieved great success immediately."
Mentioning Zhang Yao, Liu Wei hurriedly said: "By the way, brother said that he will not come back to see the Holy Spirit to thank the saint. He will go to the new county seat immediately to survey the water conditions. Let me tell you."
Chen Danzhu nodded: "That's fine, running back and forth is tiring. Remember to write a letter telling him to pay attention to his health and not to overwork himself."
Liu Wei hummed and said, "I understand."
"What's wrong?" Chen Danzhu asked, "So unhappy?"
Liu Wei was about to stop but Li Lian spoke again: "There's nothing that can't be said. It's like this. The Chang family held a lakeside banquet. When Weiwei saw that there was no invitation from you, she argued with Mrs. Chang and got angry.
not going."
"I'm not angry!" Liu Wei said, "I really don't want to go, it's too much -"
Since the banquet last year, the Chang family's ladies and gentlemen have had more contacts with the gentry in the capital, so this year's banquet will be larger. The Chang family will make this lake tour banquet a famous event in the capital. They should also think
When I think about it, the Chang family is here today only because Chen Danzhu came to attend the banquet.
She had a quarrel with her great-aunt, and she did not attend the lake party.
Chen Danzhu laughed after hearing this: "Don't be so angry."
Liu Wei hurriedly said: "However, I told the princess about this. The princess said that she was going to a lake tour and had a banquet, and she would take you with her."
Let’s see who dares to refuse.
Chen Danzhu smiled again and shook his fan gently.
"So today we are here to tell you the news." Liu Wei said, with some expectation, "Danzhu, let's go together."
She didn't care about her great-aunt's face because she really felt that her great-aunt had done something wrong.
Not only this, my aunt actually urged my mother to renew the marriage with Zhang Yao - she was the one who wanted to break off the engagement, and now she is the one who wants to force the marriage. What the hell!
How could she face Zhang Yao?
Chen Danzhu smiled: "Thank you, I understand your intentions, but I don't want to go."
Liu Wei said anxiously: "Danzhu, you don't have to be afraid -"
Chen Danzhu laughed and reached out to pinch her face: "Sister Weiwei, when have I, Chen Danzhu, been afraid? I don't want to go. I just don't want to go, not that I don't dare."
Li Lian, who had been silent for a long time, sighed, picked up a piece of snack and ate it. Miss Danzhu stopped going out of the house not because she was afraid, but because she didn't want to. That's fine. Miss Danzhu is still the same Miss Danzhu.
Miss Danzhu was leaning on the beauty's couch, the fan in her hand swinging, watching Liu Wei and Li Lian talking, watching them eating and drinking——
"These are all the good things I asked for from the palace," she said, "the new snacks from the Royal Dinner."
Although the emperor did not allow her to enter the palace, he did not care about other matters. Therefore, when she asked for something, the officials of the Shaofu Prison did not dare not to give it to her, because Chen Danzhu was accompanied by fierce guards. Would Chen Danzhu see him?
When you get to the emperor, you can see them at will. If you get angry and beat someone, what will they do?
"Also, the same is true for those powerful people from aristocratic families." Chen Danzhu explained to Liu Wei and Li Lian, "Although Your Majesty will not reprimand those powerful people from aristocratic families who are rude to me, I can reprimand myself. If I want to be angry,
If I take people and beat them door to door, Your Majesty will definitely not reprimand me."
She didn't do it, not because she didn't dare, but because she was too lazy to do it.
"Should I beat them or give them face?"
"I didn't want to attend any banquet. The Gu family invited me because of their young lady. This young lady came to Taohuashan to see me and said she was cured. She wanted to thank me, so I gave her face."
Chen Danzhu half covered her face with her fan, looking at Liu Wei and smiling.
"Also, before I went to the Chang family's banquet, it was just for Miss Weiwei."
Liu Wei also laughed at what she said. She recalled the past of the two's acquaintance and said to Li Lian: "Not only that banquet, Miss Danzhu first talked about opening a medicine shop and came to my house to inquire, but it was actually for me."
Chen Danzhu made a surprised gesture behind her fan: "Miss Weiwei, you actually saw it!"
Li Lian laughed.
The sisters chatted and laughed, had lunch, and strolled around the Chen family's garden. This garden was not unfamiliar to them. Everyone had been there during the banquet at Zhou Xuanhou's mansion some time ago.
It really changes a lot in the blink of an eye.
After eating, drinking and having fun, Chen Danzhu sent the two of them out and told Liu Wei: "You decide the banquet at your aunt and grandma's house. If you want to go, you can go. If you don't want to go, don't go. Don't worry about me."
Liu Wei is no longer the little girl who looked after her aunt and grandmother's family, and she does not need to cut off contact with relatives to strengthen her decision.
Liu Wei is also different from herself. She doesn't have to cause trouble to the point of cutting off contact with her family and relatives.
Liu Wei nodded and said she understood.
"I'll let someone talk to the princess, so you don't have to worry about it," Chen Danzhu said again.
Li Lian and Liu Wei then got in the car and left. When they reached the street, Li Lian lifted the curtain. They looked back and saw Chen Danzhu still standing at the door, seeming to watch them off and in a trance——
"Danzhu, actually it's still different from before." Li Lian said softly.
Liu Wei was nervous and sad: "I knew she was forcing a smile to comfort us."
Li Lian smiled: "That's not the case, she is just a little -" She looked back, "a little lack of energy."
Chen Danzhu was like this in the past. When he got along with the people he liked, he had a somewhat lazy lightness. But at this moment, it seems that a soul has been pulled away and a spirit is missing.
I heard from my father that in order to kill Yao Fu, Chen Danzhu himself was poisoned and had to sacrifice one life for another.
She has been revived now, but it still feels like she died once.
Alas, Chen Danzhu is a girl two years younger than herself. Li Lian put down the car curtain and said to Liu Wei: "Let's stay with her more."
Chen Danzhu asked Zhulin to take A Tian to the palace. He thought that they would be made trouble and delayed for a long time. Unexpectedly, they came back soon and brought a little palace maid with them.
"I happened to meet Xiaoqu at the gate of the palace." A Tian said happily, "He brought me in. I met and talked to the princess for a long time. Miss Liu Wei also told the princess about Miss Li Lian's arrival.
Now, the princess asked the young lady if she wanted to come into the palace and play with her."
The little palace maid said from the side: "The princess asked me to take the young lady inside."
Chen Danzhu was a little distracted. Xiaoqu, if he happened to meet him, it should have been ordered by the third prince.
Since she revealed all her thoughts in the military camp, she has not interacted with the third prince and Zhou Xuan again, and they have not come to see her - maybe they have, and she saw them in a trance when she was ill in prison.
I had just caught a glimpse of it in the palace before.
Although she recognized the other side of the third prince, she was not worried that the third prince would kill her and silence her.
She was sure that neither the third prince nor Zhou Xuan would do this.
Emotionally - Chen Danzhu lowered her gaze and shook her hands gently. Although the heartbeat of holding hands had long since disappeared, and although she told the third prince that day that he had lied to her in everything, she still felt deep in her heart.
You know, some things are not false.
That's all.
Intellectually, she laughed at herself again. They had already seen clearly that she would not report to the emperor.
General Iron Mask is dead, but the third prince and Zhou Xuan are still alive. The emperor's thoughts are hard to fathom, and she is not the kind of person who would sacrifice her life for others, especially her whole family.
Who is a good guy, who is a bad guy, who looks down on whom, just live independently.
After going to the palace, he might meet the third prince. Chen Danzhu shook his head and smiled at the little palace maid: "I won't go. After being ill, I have to take good care of myself. When I am strong, I will go to the palace to follow him."
The princess is worth her weight in gold."
The little palace maid smiled and said goodbye.
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The Chang family's lakeside banquet was not held because of Liu Wei's temper. Although Liu Wei did not live with the Chang family as before, she was still a junior, and it didn't matter whether she came or not.
The banquet held by the Chang family was so large that it seemed that all the dignitaries in the capital went out of town to attend.
The city was full of excitement, and Chen Danzhu, who was sitting in the yard, seemed to be able to hear the sound of cars and horses passing by outside the door.
A Tian pulled a face and looked secretly at the bamboo forest, planning to ask him to seal the road in front of the door and not allow people to pass through, so as not to spoil the young lady's mood.
But before he found a chance to speak, Chen Danzhu had already stood up and called Zhulin to prepare the car.
"It's such a nice day today." She put a fan in front of her eyes and looked up at the sky, "Let's go out and play."
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When Chen Danzhu said he was going out to play, Zhulin didn't believe it at all and frowned.
"What are you worried about?" asked my companion, squatting aside. "Even if Miss Danzhu is going to fight, will we still be afraid? Is it possible that the general is no longer around and we are less courageous?"
Zhulin glared at him: "I'm just trying to figure out how many people to bring."
It's not that the Chang family is afraid of the large number of people, it's that the Chang family has many guests and they can't defeat them if they bring few people with them.
