Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

The next day, good news and bad news.

The good news is that the Empress Dowager ordered people to go to Chunhui Palace and publicly punish the palace maid who slapped the Seventh Princess yesterday. Although the beating was on the maid's buttocks, it was actually on the faces of the Queen and the Fifth Princess.

Ling Qiqi was quite touched and felt that the Empress Dowager was a reliable backer who really made her proud.

But the bad news was that the emperor issued an edict, ordering Ling Qiqi to go to the Imperial Academy every morning to study with the fifth and sixth princesses who were of the same age as her after she recovered from her injuries.

Ling Qiqi felt that she had to pretend to be injured for a few more days.

That’s right, most of Ling Qiqi’s injuries were fake.

My butt and face only hurt for a while.

The limp is fake and the red face is artificial.

In fact, she was exposed when she was washing her face that night. Yu'er was holding a basin of red soup and was stunned. When she saw Ling Qiqi making faces at her with her shy white and clean little face, she immediately understood.

Ling Qiqi said shamelessly:

"The Fifth Princess did have someone slap me in the face, really. Someone testified to that. I just marked the spot where I was hit because I was afraid that my father wouldn't be able to see clearly from far away. Hehehe..."

"What about the legs?" Yu'er asked unhappily.

"Aren't legs connected to the butt? I fell on my butt twice and they are numb, so my legs are a bit out of control. My left leg and right leg each have their own ideas."

Yu'er and Liu were at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Ling Qiqi quickly said coquettishly:

"I have caused such a big disaster. If I don't do this, will my father, the queen, and the five princesses forgive me?"

"You also know that you are in trouble!" Yu'er mocked her.

"Hehehe...luckily there was no danger. It might even be a blessing in disguise." Ling Qiqi looked like a rogue.

"If the Fifth Princess and the others hadn't happened to go to the Imperial Stables this time, allowing you to get away with it, you would have been severely punished," said Yu'er.

"Then should I thank her? If she hadn't gone, I wouldn't have been exposed and wouldn't have gotten beaten. Tsk~" Ling Qiqi argued.

"You think you're right? Let's see if you dare to run around again in the future." Yu'er said with a slight frown.

"I won't run away, I won't run away. Sister Yu'er and the wet nurse please keep Qi'er a secret." Ling Qiqi begged flatteringly, but what she was actually thinking in her heart was: I have to run away if I have to.

Acting has to be done in full, Ling Qiqi asked Yu'er to invite Senior Brother Jingshan to Deshou Palace to heal her wounds overnight. After Du Jingshan hurried over with a medicine box, he saw the Seventh Princess's sly smile and immediately guessed about 70% of what was going on.

Ling Qiqi didn't explain much and casually invited Brother Jingshan to sit down and have some tea and snacks. Du Jingshan didn't refuse and after the tea and snacks he tested Ling Qiqi on her acupuncture homework. Ling Qiqi didn't dare to resist because she had a weakness that he could exploit.

So from that day on, Du Jingshan would come to De Shou Palace every day to "heal" the Seventh Princess's injuries. However, the "injuries" did not heal, while the Seventh Princess's acupuncture skills improved by leaps and bounds.

Ling Qiqi later reviewed it carefully: "The Imperial Horse Racing Injury Incident" (the Conan anime sound effect should be played here).

I originally wanted to go and see Xiao Ma secretly by myself, but I didn’t expect there were so many like-minded people.

When two men meet on a narrow road, the shameless one wins.

Thanks to her small size, courage, thick skin, sweet words, carefulness and many ideas, she was able to remain calm and escape danger. She felt that her performance was still remarkable.

In terms of controlling various details, such as the (limping) body shape, the (red face) makeup, and the (lying) lines, they were all prepared very thoroughly and the timing was just right.

However, she had really disgusted the Queen and the Fifth Princess this time. She didn't know whether the Fifth Princess would learn her lesson or find an opportunity to retaliate in a more severe way.

The only thing she didn't expect was that weird little boy. Although he pushed her, he also gave false testimony against her conscience, so it was fair. So she should do more good deeds in the future, maybe she will be rewarded someday.

All in all, Ling Qiqi felt that she had not lost out this time.

Two slaps on the butt and a slap in the face, it hurt a little, but I can learn to ride a horse openly from now on.

Horse riding is so expensive. One saddle hour of equestrian lessons can easily cost hundreds of dollars. She couldn’t even think about it before, but now there are unlimited free equestrian lessons. It feels so good to do it for free.

When Ling Qiqi thought about riding a horse, she couldn't pretend to be injured anymore.

She was torn between recovering and riding or going on strike to recover from her injury.

Ling Qiqi had read enough, not because she read a lot, but mainly because she didn't like studying. She felt that few people really loved studying, and they were either pretending or forcing themselves to do so.

But it is very tiring to take care of the child even if she is not injured. She cannot go anywhere, so she is repeatedly torn between the physical and mental constraints.

After thinking it over, I decided not to pretend anymore.

It’s just reading. It’s not like you haven’t read it before.

When Du Jingshan came, Ling Qiqi told him about the decision. After listening quietly, he took out several bottles and jars from the medicine box. Then he explained to Ling Qiqi the purpose of each bottle of medicine. There are pain and bleeding, blood circulation and blood stasis, scar removal, and mosquito bite relief. He talked about a lot of things and asked Ling Qiqi if she remembered them all.

Ling Qiqi looked at him blankly, nodded and said:

"Remember, there are instructions on each bottle. But why did you give me these medicines?"

Du Jingshan lowered his head to pack up his medicine box while saying:

“Be prepared.”

Ling Qiqi still stared at him blankly, and suddenly asked after a while:

"You're not an NPC, are you?"

Du Jingshan stopped what he was doing, looked up and asked:

"What did the Emperor approve?"

Ling Qiqi looked at him for a long time and said:

"Nothing was approved. Just pretend I didn't ask."

Du Jingshan had already gotten used to the Seventh Princess's inexplicable behavior, so he stopped asking questions and instead began to advise the Seventh Princess to be careful in everything, not to be reckless, to study hard, and so on.

Ling Qiqi felt that he was just like an old father who was sending his daughter away to study.

The next day, the Seventh Princess's "injury" was finally healed. According to the Seventh Princess, it was all thanks to the careful care of Doctor Du's grandson, Doctor Xiao Du. The Emperor and the Empress Dowager both rewarded Du Jianshan, and the people in the Imperial Medical Bureau also began to look at Du Jianshan differently.

The seventh princess also officially went to the Imperial Academy to study.

She was the last one to enroll. As expected, she saw the fifth and sixth princesses.

The fifth princess ignored her, and the sixth princess ignored her because of the fifth princess. The third princess took the initiative to come over and greet Ling Qiqi, but her politeness made Ling Qiqi very embarrassed, which was more uncomfortable than ignoring her.

The eldest princess and the second princess are six or seven years older than Ling Qiqi. They are almost reaching the age of coming of age and it is not appropriate for them to show up in public, so they no longer come to the Imperial Academy to study.

The fourth princess was frail and sickly, and did not come to the Imperial College to study.

So there were four princesses in total, including Ling Qiqi, but the Imperial Academy was not deserted at all. The Emperor personally appointed several young men and women of similar age from the royal family and important officials to accompany the princesses in their studies, filling up the entire room.

Unexpectedly, she saw that the boy who helped her to give false testimony was also here.

In order to avoid suspicion, neither of them paid any attention to each other.

Ling Qiqi had just arrived and was unfamiliar with the place, so she found a corner seat and sat down.

This location is a perfect Feng Shui location and is not easy to be noticed.

After a while, Master Feng arrived. After the teacher and students exchanged greetings, he began to give a lecture to everyone.

When Ling Qiqi heard it, she found it was all obscure classical Chinese, which was very boring. Sure enough, she fell asleep after a while.

When she woke up, the morning classes were over and everyone was packing up to go home. She asked the third princess about the homework assigned by the tutor, then quickly packed up and hurried to Deokshou Palace.

After a long nap, she was hungry and had to hurry back to Deoksugung Palace for lunch. Besides, she had a public equestrian class in the afternoon and couldn't be late for the first class.