The nine princesses of the East Palace

Chai Mu led me for a while and came to a mansion.Chai Mu said a few words to the guard doorman, and the doorman let me into the house.

"Your Highness has not had a good rest for many days because of the snow disaster. Princess Nine advises His Highness. In addition, please forward these letters to His Highness. Chai will leave." Chai Mu said, taking out a stack of letters from his arms and handing them to him. Give it to me, bowed to me, and left.

The doorman said that Li Chengyin was in the study, so I went to look for the study, fortunately this mansion is not very big, so I found it by just walking around.

Before I approached, I heard the voice inside: "Master Chen, how are you doing with the matter of letting the rich in Bianzhou City open granaries to release food and help the common people?"

It was Li Chengyin's voice, he seemed to be discussing something with someone, it must not be right for me to go in now.So, I walked away, thinking about coming back later.

I wandered around for a while, and when I came back, the people inside hadn't left yet. As soon as I came over, I heard a bang, followed by the sound of porcelain falling to the ground.

"Your Highness calm down, I will definitely handle this matter properly."

Li Chengyin sneered and said: "Master Chen, don't just say yes, if you want these rich people to bleed, Lord Chen should be the first to bear the brunt of the money. The imperial father's crime has been issued. If your lord responds to the call at this time , leading the people to tide over the difficulties together, I will look at the sake of sympathy for the people, and say a good word for the adults, otherwise, losing an official job is a small matter, and losing your life will not be worth the loss."

I only listened to the end, and I didn't understand what they were talking about, but Mr. Chen seemed to be panicked, and he opened the door after a while, and I glanced at him from the side, only to see that his face was ashen, in such a cold day Sweat was still oozing out of his forehead, which showed that he was extremely terrified.

He walked in such a hurry that he even forgot to open the door, so I walked in lightly.

There was no fire in the room, and it was as cold as outside.Li Chengyin sat in front of the desk, propped his chin with one hand, closed his eyes, seemed to be thinking about something.

I haven't seen him for half a month. He seems to have lost a lot of weight, and even the veins on his hands are faintly visible.

"Mr. Chai, just put your things down, close the door, and don't call me for lunch." It turned out that he thought I was Chai Mu.

I put the things down, but didn't leave, but sat in front of him.

"Li Chengyin..." I whispered his name.

He suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were a little blurred, "Xiaofeng..." He called me, but before I answered, he muttered, "How can I dream in the daytime..."

I reached out and pinched him, "It's me, it's not a dream."

He seemed to be awake, grabbed me tightly, and pulled me into his arms with one tug.His body was cold and there was no warmth, but I felt more at ease, and slowly raised my hand to hook his back.

He hugged me for a long time before letting go, and asked with a straight face, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here for disaster relief." I forced out a smile, "By the way, I'll see you."

He froze for a moment, then said: "I'll send someone to take you back to the palace."

"Go back? I just came out, why do you want to go back? I won't go back." I have worked so hard to get here, and he sent me away without doing anything?I don't agree.

He patted the back of my hand: "Be obedient, it's too cold here, and there's no one to take care of you like in the palace. You won't be able to bear it here."

I patted his hand away and argued: "You can bear it, why can't I? I don't need others to take care of me, I can take care of myself."

Li Chengyin stood up, took a heavy cloak from the shelf beside me, wrapped it around me, and said: "You have been rich and well-clothed since you were a child, you shouldn't have come here to suffer with me."

"But, didn't you grow up in the royal family like me? Why do you think you can suffer, but I can't?"

After hearing this, he rubbed his forehead, as if he had a headache, "This matter is not negotiable."

I was so angry and anxious, I came all the way to see him, but he would send me back without saying a word, my eyes were red with anxiety, "I sneaked out, if you send me back, Your Majesty and Grandma will punish me."

"Sneak away? Who brought you out?" His face changed, and he looked a little scary.

I faltered a bit and said, "No one, I just wanted to see you, and ran out by myself."

He looked at me for a while, and didn't know whether to believe it or not.

I said again: "I rode a horse for four days and nights to get here. I couldn't even find a place to live on the road. It was very difficult to make a fire. My horse almost froze to death..."

He didn't speak, just took my hand suddenly and wanted to go outside.

"I won't go back..." I struggled to get up, and just stood still.

"I didn't say I want you to go back."

I froze for a moment, then raised my head in surprise: "Really? Don't you ask someone to send me away?"

"Yeah." He responded calmly.

I laughed, "That's great, don't worry, I will take good care of you."

"Come on, it doesn't matter who takes care of whom." He snorted disdainfully.

"Well, anyway, when I'm here, you have to eat and go to bed on time, and don't mess around." I raised my voice a few degrees, "Did you hear that?"

He tilted his head and looked at me for a long time. I thought he was going to be angry, but I heard him say: "Yes, I heard it."

"That's more or less."

He led me to the woodshed, as if he wanted to light a fire.But the firewood in the firewood room is pitifully scarce, and all of them are big ones, which can't be lighted without splitting.

He found an axe, took off his coat, and began to chop wood.

He had probably never split wood before, and he could not split a wood for a long time, and the wood always fell before the ax touched it.

I squatted aside and watched him for a long time, and finally couldn't help but said: "Li Chengyin, how about, let me chop."

He ignored me, pursed his lips and remained silent.

After fiddling for a while, he finally split the firewood. He seemed to have found the key, and split the other firewood at once.

He brought a scythe, and it wasn't too much trouble to start a fire. After a quarter of an hour, the flame finally ignited.I felt warmth from a distance away, and I hurried over to dry my hands that were as cold as ice.

I baked my hands for a while, Li Chengyin said: "Take off your shoes, and bake your feet too."

"Ah?" My feet are naturally cold, but I have never realized that I should dry them, probably because Yong Niang and Fang Shangyi have always emphasized to me that women's feet should not be exposed at will.

"hurry up."

"Oh." I took off the boots on my feet two or three times, only to find that the inside was wet.

I dried my feet silently, while Li Chengyin helped me dry my shoes with a calm face.

The stove was too high, I didn’t feel it when drying my hands, and I was exhausted after drying my feet. I had to lift my feet all the time, and my shoes were not dry, so I couldn’t step on the ground.

I looked left and right, looking for something to step on, Li Chengyin stretched out a hand to support my foot.

I froze, turned my head and glanced at him, but he didn't look at me, and continued to bake my shoes with the other hand.

It's stable now, but it's not good for him to support my feet like a prince.If Yong Niang was here, she might be talking about me.

I wanted to take my foot off, but Li Chengyin said: "Move around, don't cry if you burn it."

I had been burned before, and it hurt so hot, but now I was too scared to move.