Seeing that she was about to go out, the palace maid quickly stretched out her hand to stop her, "Master!"
Xie Li raised his eyebrows and said, "What? I can't go? Even if I go to the Sixth Palace of the East and West, that's where the Inner Palace is. Am I, a person from the East Palace, still unable to go to your empress's place?"
The palace maid did not dare to stop her when she said this, so she could only say: "This is not what I meant, it's just that something like that happened before. The Crown Princess was worried about the safety of the palace, so she had strict requirements for moving around.
The slave has not been in the palace for a long time, and many of the rules are not very clear. I am afraid that if the slave fails to do something for a while, the master will be guilty of taboos."
Seeing that she was quite respectful in her words, Xie Li didn't bother to argue with her. He waved his hand and said, "That's all. I'll just walk around and won't run around inside. I won't hurt you."
She said so, so naturally the palace maid didn't dare to stop her.
It's just that from this ear gate, to go to the six east and west palaces of the harem, you first have to pass through a section of the front dynasty.
The palace maid was worried, fearing that Xie Li would not understand the rules and offend the nobleman.
Fortunately, although Xie Li was preoccupied, there was no sign of running over there. He just looked at the people walking around there from time to time.
"Are my father and brother over there?"
The palace maid looked in the direction of Xie Li's finger, then nodded tremblingly and said: "Yes, that's the Liubu Yamen over there, but Wenyuan Pavilion is not there."
After speaking, he was afraid that what he said was not clear, so he added: "But... they don't usually go this way."
Hearing this, Xie Li turned to look at her and sneered slightly, "Do you think I'm going to find my father and brother?"
The palace maid did not dare to answer, but Xie Li smiled and shook her head, "What's the point of me going to them? My family can send me away so cruelly, even if I reach the end of the road, they won't look at me twice.
If you really want them to recognize me, you have to go down, otherwise, in their eyes, I am afraid that they would wish that I did not exist in this world, I..."
Speaking of this, Xie Li's face suddenly changed color and turned pale instantly.
When the palace maid saw that she stopped mid-sentence, she couldn't help but turn to look at her curiously.
Xie Li, however, seemed to have lost his soul and walked forward step by step.
The palace maid didn't know where she was going, but seeing that she didn't show any sign of going forward, she didn't ask any questions and continued to follow her silently.
Just looking at Xie Li's face was really ugly, I couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Really or not?" came a female voice, which seemed to be the maid of the East Palace, coming from the side of the bamboo forest, "Who is the one who lives in our palace?"
"Don't you understand yet?" Another palace maid's voice said, "Although this person still lives in Jiang Liangdi's courtyard, to us in the East Palace, this person is equivalent to no longer existing."
"Ah? What does this mean?"
The tone of the palace maid at the back was somewhat impatient, "How did you survive in the palace for so many years with such a brain? Fortunately, you were only responsible for cleaning in the past, think about it! The Xie family has already said that it was because of the fourth girl.
Unfortunately, she died of a serious illness, and she really valued the Su family's marriage, so she asked the fifth girl of their family to marry in her elder sister's place, and also specially fostered the fifth girl under the name of the eldest wife of their family, and became a legitimate daughter.
, isn’t this just telling everyone openly that that person was abandoned by the Xie family?”
After some explanations from this palace maid, the leading palace maid finally realized what she was doing. She let out a long "Oh" and flattered her: "So that's it. Look at my pig brain. I really can't understand anything. If it weren't for my sister,
Please explain, I may not be able to figure it out clearly in my lifetime, so when we meet that person in the future, do we still need to be so respectful?"
The more mature palace maid said: "Are you still showing off your face? You just know it in your heart. There will be many such things in the future!"
The two of them drifted away as they talked, while Xie Li leaned against the courtyard wall, as if his whole body was pinned, unable to move.
The Xie family is so cruel!
Directly announcing to the outside world that she had died.
As a result, not only was she unable to use the Xie family's momentum to make the prince take her seriously.
He might even be accused of impersonating the fourth girl of the Xie family.
After a long time, her breathing returned to normal, but it became more and more rapid. Her brain seemed to be unable to respond, and her limbs also felt a little numb.
The maid on the side looked at her with complicated eyes.
Even though she was not of high standing in this palace, she could clearly hear what the two maids said just now. After living in the palace for so many years, it was impossible that she could not understand such words.
Xie Li turned around and saw her expression, and immediately became furious.
"Why are you looking at me like this? Are you sure that I can't become the imperial concubine?!"
Her sudden harsh words frightened the maid's legs, and she knelt down.
Xie Li looked at the face of the palace maid in front of her and wanted to take off the hairpin and go forward and give her a couple of hard strokes.
But she had been controlled by the emotion just now and lost her strength, so she just thought about it.
She stared at the palace maid with her eyes. After a while, her breathing slowly calmed down, and then she stood up straight, holding on to the wall. "I think this is not true. You should also have a chance to leave the palace, right?"
The palace maid didn't know what she wanted to do, but she just heard such an important conversation, so it was not an easy thing to do.
In such a deep palace, if you want to save your life, the most important thing is to know as little as possible, and to participate as little as possible.
So she kept saying: "Nubi has no relatives in her family. She received funeral money at that time, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs has erased her status as a slave and cannot leave the palace."
"Really?" Xie Li narrowed his eyes, staring closely at her face.
It seemed that she wanted to judge whether what the maid in front of her said was true or false.
The palace maid didn't dare to move, and her forehead was almost sweating out of fear.
Finally, Xie Li let her eyes go, and then heard her voice coming softly from above, "I'm tired, so I'll just sit here for a while, and you can go and find out who has a day off to leave the palace tomorrow.
"
The palace maid was stunned for a moment, with a somewhat hesitant expression on her face, "Master..."
"If you don't go, I will go and tell the Crown Princess right now that you were just spreading rumors with other people about me."
The palace maid immediately kowtowed and said, "I will go and ask about it now."
After the palace maid left, Xie Li sat down on the stone bench nearby. Her hands and feet were so cold that she couldn't even feel the temperature of the stone bench.
The wind blows here as if it is blowing from a far away place.
At this time, Xie Li only thought of one person's face.
Aunt Huang, her biological mother.
After refusing to marry into the Su family at that time, her biological mother was destined to lose her husband's favor, and the rest of her life would probably be difficult.
If she could live up to her expectations and make a name for herself, maybe my mother could still live a good life.
But now...
Even if she is "dead", what kind of kindness can her biological mother get?
It was only then that Xie Li finally realized that the risk of that decision was too great.
To be precise...she regretted it.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind, "Little girl, what are you doing here alone?"
