The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

Chang'an has recently resumed its curfew. Seeing that more imperial guards are stationed in the city, a servant holding a lamp advised: "Mr. Cui Silang, you'd better go back. It's getting dark. If you are caught in curfew, they won't care who you are. Even a beating will be too much for you. You haven't eaten all day. Why don't you go back to have dinner and rest for a night? Then send more people to look for you tomorrow morning."

His eyes were slightly red. "How can I still be in the mood to eat? Do you know if they are still starving or freezing?"

Seeing that he was still unwilling to go back, several servants went back to report to the lady, and soon he was carried back.

The moon quietly flashed out from the clouds, and cast a cool breeze while still in the low curtain. The faint light was like a stream, floating on the waterside, passing under the eaves, and flowing into the curtains.

In the Prince Xian's mansion, Li Xi looked out the window at the moonlight, his mouth full and content. The table was full of delicious food, some of which were half eaten, some only touched their chopsticks lightly, and some were still steaming and delicious before they even put down their chopsticks.

She was the only kindhearted person in the room.

Shanluo stood aside, hesitating to sit down.

Li Xi was almost full, but she was still standing there, just like the little maid outside the door, feeling extremely bored. "Why are you standing there and not coming over to eat with me?"

Shan Luo shook his head in panic, "I didn't know you were... a princess..."

If the servants hadn't called her a princess, she wouldn't know how long it would take for her to come to her senses. This wasn't a lady from a noble family; this was a real royal branch and jade leaf.

She raised her eyebrows slightly, "What's wrong with a princess? She's not a cold-blooded animal. Aren't you the same as an ordinary person? To be honest, I'd rather not be a princess. There are no special cases. I can't even marry for my own decision. If I can be demoted to a commoner, it wouldn't be bad to be an old lady all my life." As she said this, she laughed and expressed her admiration for her own ideas.

"My lady...Princess, please stop teasing me." What happened in the past few days was more outrageous than the last. If she hadn't pinched herself hard, she would have thought she was dreaming.

Li Xiying said seriously, finally showing a bit of princess style, "Come just when I told you to. Do you want to starve to death? I still have something to ask you!"

Shanluo took a few steps hesitantly, and finally sat upright opposite Li Xixiu.

She smiled with satisfaction and said, "Eat first. I'll ask you when you're full."

Shan Luo had no choice but to follow suit and eat under Li Xi's gaze. Before, she didn't know she was a princess, so she didn't feel any burden in her heart. But now that she knew, she felt that the difference between her and her was like a chasm, and she felt even more ashamed and dared not look up.

Seeing that she was full, Li Xixiao asked someone to come in and clean the table. The maids came in one after another and cleaned the table. For a while, the sound of dishes and chopsticks clinking and the sound of rags sizzling filled the ears.

After they finished their work and closed the door, the room returned to silence. Li Xi asked, "Shanluo, you didn't explain clearly what happened outside before. Now tell me what happened?"

“What’s going on…” Shan Luo hesitated.

"Don't be evasive with me. In short, you must not hide anything!" Li Xiqi said with a serious expression.

Shan Luo lowered his head timidly, but due to the princess's power, he finally told the truth hesitantly: "It's not that I don't want to explain, but I know it in my heart. I know that my status has been determined since birth, but once fate takes a detour on the road of life, there is no turning back. Now that I know it, I won't have any delusions, so I hope the princess will listen and not tell anyone."

She buried her head lower and lower, her eyes looking at her nose and her nose looking at her heart, making it impossible to see what expression she had.

Li Xixuan didn't understand what she was saying, so she just said, "Just tell me what's high and low, noble and humble, what's delusion, you tell me and I can't make a decision?"

After a long time, she organized her words, but she still spoke haltingly: "Yesterday, Mr. Han came to me and said that his grandfather, Minister Han, had helped me try to get my grandfather's house back from the bad guys."

Li Xiying listened.

Shan Luo continued, "Minister Han wanted to use the father-daughter inheritance relationship to help me get the house back, but when he checked the household registration, he accidentally found out that the owner of the house, my grandfather, did not have a daughter but an adopted daughter."

"so……"

"My grandmother never told me that I was not her biological granddaughter, and I never believed it."

Until Han Langjun told her that her grandmother had invited an old man to go out to worship Buddha and pray to God twelve years ago. The Guanyin Temple was very far away and it took a day to walk back and forth, but on the way there, they found a young child hanging on a tree and a piece of dark jade under the tree.

The grandmother picked it up, thinking it was something that had fallen from the child. The child was in rags, and there were thick ropes stained with blood on his body and feet. It was a desolate place, and the wind was cold. The grandmother thought the child was dead, but the two of them had sympathy, so they finally untied the child from the tree and intended to bury him properly, but they found that he was still hanging on.

The grandmother cried with joy, thinking that her daughter-in-law had not given birth to a child for ten years and had prayed to the gods for years just for this. The old woman next to her also said that if the child survived, he would give birth to a younger brother in her daughter-in-law's belly. The grandmother believed it without a doubt and took the child home to raise.

Fortunately, he recovered within a month and grew up under the care of his grandmother until he is almost fifteen years old now.

"And that little child is me." Shan Luo said as he secretly raised his red eyes to look at Li Xiying, then instantly retracted his gaze like a needle.

Li Xi frowned, "It seems that Minister Han has found the old lady who prayed to the Buddha with your grandmother twelve years ago? He has finally figured out the whole story. Will the house be returned?"

Shan Luo pursed her lips and said, "Yes, that old lady lives in Anyifang and is our neighbor. Minister Han is very observant and has found more than just this..."

Seeing that she was too shy to speak, Li Xiying continued to ask, "Did they find out about your background?"

Shan Luo nodded, "It is said that twelve years ago, the Prime Minister's Mansion held a banquet to celebrate the youngest daughter's third birthday. On the same day, human traffickers targeted the girl and abducted her. She has not been found until now. It is said that the youngest girl wore a gold-inlaid jade on her neck that day, and there was a mole hidden between her left eyebrow."

A picture of a little girl suddenly flashed through Li Xi's mind. Thinking of what Madam Xiang said about Zhi'er having a mole between her eyebrows, she raised her chin and found that her eyes were filled with tears. There was indeed a mole between her left eyebrow.

"Do you have any gold and jade?"

Shan Luo shook his head, "There is only one piece of black jade, which you gave to me on behalf of my grandmother."

"Madam Xiang showed me the portrait. The girl was indeed wearing a pendant on her neck. The pendant had an intricate pattern and a black spot in the middle. It might be the black jade in your hand. Maybe the traffickers didn't understand and took the jade off and the gold away?"

Shan Luo took out the black jade and handed it to Li Xiying to look at. The black jade was dark in color, with a unique luster of crystal jade. It felt cold to the touch. After careful observation, he found a few tiny words on it, "Birthday gift for Cui Zhi."

She raised her eyes again, "Are you Zhi'er?"

Shan Luo remained silent. It was obvious that she had already discovered the small words carved on the black jade, and perhaps had shown them to Han Qi to confirm his identity.

Li Xi was puzzled. "If that's the case, we should just go and meet each other. Why are you avoiding it?"

Shan Luo said with shame: "Madam likes a girl like the princess who is blessed with golden branches and jade leaves, but I... maybe she resolutely forgot me. It's fate. I dare not ask for it, so I just hope that the princess will not tell anyone."

"Do you think Madam Prime Minister doesn't like you or has forgotten you so she doesn't dare to recognize you? You are too silly. This is not what you should think. Whether she likes you or not, you are the one she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy. Why should you belittle yourself? In fact, Madam Prime Minister told me a lot that day. She was just saying that she has been suffering from the torment of losing her daughter for ten years. How great it would be if she could find you one day." Li Xiying conveyed Madam Prime Minister's words in a soft voice.

Shan Luo's eyes trembled, and she sobbed, "Really? But, she obviously likes you so much, and when she saw me, her eyes... were full of indifference."

She replied, "I think you're overthinking it. She's willing to open up to me, even though she trusts and loves me, but if she has a daughter by her side, how could she share her extra emotions with someone else?"