Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

"I have been to the Shangshufang, but why is the empress dowager there?" The harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, and concubines are not allowed to go to a place like the Shangshufang.

"One time you went to the study room and happened to catch the palace serving cool desserts. You insisted on competing with the Fourth Princess for the plate of crisp watermelon. Eventually, the two of you couldn't win and you knocked over other people's food boxes, spilling soup all over the floor. Do you remember?"

It seems possible that this is happening.

The main reason was that Xu Yixing was only six or seven years old at that time, and the Fourth Princess was the most playful and domineering. The two of them would always destroy something in the palace. Later, they were punished by their father because they tore up the famous calligraphy and paintings that the emperor had placed in the upper study for the princes to copy.

As for the watermelon-grabbing scene, it's a bit too common and I can't really remember it.

"Just assume I remember it. What does this have to do with the Queen Mother?"

"The food box contained seven bowls of iced drinks. Later, my second brother's Ah Fu licked the drinks on the ground and was poisoned to death."

Ah Fu is the second prince’s little Pekingese. He shakes his head and is very cute. Xu Yixing still remembers him.

"What? Someone wants to kill you guys?" If such a thing really happened, Xu Yixing would not have heard anything about it. This conspiracy to murder seven princes is a crime punishable by the extermination of ten clans!

Lu Anyuan shook his head. If it was poisoning, it wouldn’t be so easy to cover it up.

"It was sugar cane, the fresh fruit presented that year. Because it was difficult to preserve, there were not many when it was delivered to the capital, so my father gave all of it to my grandmother."

"No, she wanted to kill..."

"Listen to me!" Lu Anyuan frowned. Why didn't this girl listen to him?

"The Empress Dowager squeezed the juice out of it and thought it was delicious, so she wanted to give some to us. But sugarcane is too sweet and easily spoils, and the palace maid who squeezed the juice didn't know what she meant and thought it was just the way it was, so she sent it to us without knowing what she was doing."

"Oh...it turned out to be an accident. Doesn't that mean I am your savior, and I also saved the unaware Queen Mother?"

Lu Anyuan did not deny it. In fact, even if Xu Yixing had not knocked over the food box, he would not like to drink sweet drinks. However, the same may not be true for other princes.

"After the matter was investigated, Father was still very angry. Although he did not say it explicitly, you know that the old queen mother was not Father's biological mother. Even though he knew the whole story, Father still had doubts in his heart. It was after that that the queen mother began to stay at home and she became old."

"Well... but you are still lucky. God must have sent me to rescue you!" Xu Yixing was really bragging.

However, Lu Anyuan remembered that he and Xu Yixing first met earlier, before the sugarcane juice incident.

That day was Fourth Brother’s birthday, and also his first birthday while being fostered by Concubine Ying. Father attached great importance to it and held a banquet for Fourth Brother.

Lu Anyuan was only eight years old at the time, an age when people disliked him the most, so he escaped from the banquet early and went about his own business.

What Lu Anyuan did was to take a sharpened wooden stick and look for earthworm nests everywhere, then he would mash the earthworms out and cut them into sections. When he got tired of playing with them, he would step on them and create a pile of earthworm mud.

At that time, his personality was still very twisted and he did not try to hide his cruelty. Even though his brothers and sisters disliked him, he did not care.

He was in a good mood that day, preparing to "dismember" the earthworm, when he saw a little girl in bright clothes walking towards him. However, he had never seen her before and had no impression of who she was.

Maybe it was some noble lady who came to the palace to pay homage?

Lu Anyuan saw that she was alone and no one was following her, and it seemed that she was lost, so he immediately became ill-intentioned and prepared to "treat" this child well.

"Hey, who are you looking for? Are you lost?" Lu Anyuan took the initiative to step forward, but the girl seemed unwilling to be approached. She took a step back with some disgust, staring at the boy who was a head taller than her.

This made Lu Anyuan even angrier. It’s ok that my brother and sister dislike me, but who the hell do you think you are to look at me like that?

But the angrier he got, the more innocent his smile became: "Don't be afraid, I am..." He thought of the archery competition they had yesterday, when his master praised Young Master Sun from the Duke's Mansion, and he was so happy that he was like a big rooster. How annoying!

"I'm from the Duke's Mansion. My name is Sun Ziyou. I often come to the palace. I'm very familiar with it. What about you?"

"Xu Yixing." The little girl still looked alert and gently uttered a name.

"Oh! I know, you are the daughter of General Xu, right! Great, let's go play together, I'll take you!" General Xu is also one of the emperor's favorite ministers. The daughter of the man the emperor likes should naturally die.

"Don't go."

Eh? Why didn't she take the bait? Lu Anyuan was a little anxious, and said in a more flattering way: "It's very close. Look at that palace. I often go there to play. There are many beautiful and gentle sisters there. They are all very nice people."

The place Lu Anyuan pointed to was the cold palace. There were indeed many sisters there, but were they gentle and pretty... It was hard to say. If this dead girl could be brought there, who knows how the people inside would torture her!

"is it?"

"Of course!"

"Well, take me in and let me take a look."

Xu Yixing actually agreed? This damn girl is so easy to fool, hahahaha!

So Lu Anyuan led Xu Yixing and personally opened the small side door of the cold palace for her, saying with a smile: "Go in first, I forgot my things over there, I need to go get them."

So Xu Yixing went in, and Lu Anyuan squatted outside the door, eavesdropping with a crazy look on his face, waiting to hear the child's screams.

I can't let her die. I'll ask someone to save her when the time is right. If anything happens, it will be my grandson's fault, and it won't be my fault.

But after Lu Anyuan listened for a long time, he heard no unusual sounds from inside, which was very strange.

So he pushed the gap a little bit, poked one eye out and looked inside, and he became uneasy after seeing this.

The little girl was chatting with a fierce-looking "grandmother" with a sweet smile. This was Concubine He, the most vicious woman in the previous emperor's reign. She had killed countless concubines and children of the previous emperor. How could she chat with Xu Yixing so kindly?

Even the concubine of the previous dynasty, whom Lu Anyuan feared the most, was standing beside Xu Yixing, whispering something to her.

unfair!

Lu Anyuan clenched his fingers against the door. Why? Why did these women either call him a bastard or take advantage of him when they saw him? Why did they treat her like this?

Some time after his mother's death, the little Lu Anyuan actually thought about finding a new mother, so these equally unpopular concubines in the cold palace became his first choice.

——Not for power or anything, Lu Anyuan just wanted to feel the warmth of his mother.