Chang'an Xu's hometown

After her adoptive mother finished eating the cake in her mouth, the princess did not blame her for taking the cake from her hand. Instead, she reached into her skirt pocket, took out her white handkerchief and gently wiped the stain on her adoptive mother's mouth.

He said to her gently, "My name is Du Wuyou, what's your name? Do you want to come with me?

After the foster mother finished eating, she didn't pay attention to the princess's action of wiping her mouth and said nonchalantly: "What's your name? I don't have a name. I am an orphan raised by an old beggar. He calls me a girl, so I should be called a girl.

I don't care about my name. It's great as long as I can eat and have a place to sleep with the old beggar.

After the princess heard what her adoptive mother said, she did not dislike her adoptive mother's ungentlemanly behavior at that time, but said to her gently: "Then can I call you a girl?"

The foster mother shook her head repeatedly after hearing this. She looked alert and glanced at the princess. She said to her fiercely, "No, the girl is a name that only the old beggar who raised her can call her. She can't call her that."

After hearing this, the princess ignored her adoptive mother's fierce tone and said to her gently, "Okay, okay, I won't call you a girl anymore. I will give you a new name, okay?

When the foster mother heard this, she was very confused and glanced at the princess, pointed at herself and said to her: "Name? Give me a name?"

When the princess heard what her adoptive mother said, she nodded her head and said gently: Yes, that's right, I will give you a name. I can't call you girl, so I will give you a name. Otherwise, how should I call you?

The adoptive mother thought for a while and said indifferently: Okay, then you can give me a name.

The princess nodded happily after hearing this. She patted her chest and said to her happily, "Don't worry, I will definitely give you a nice and memorable name."

After that, the princess thought carefully for a while, and suddenly she reached out and nodded her head to her adoptive mother, "I've thought of it. How about calling you Du Qingdai? Isn't this name nice and easy to remember?"

You have the same surname as me and mine is Du, so is your surname. Blue is my favorite color, and Dai is the word I recently learned to write.

Can you please call me Du Qingdai?

After hearing what the princess said, the foster mother said to her: "Du Qingdai, this name is really nice and easy to remember. Okay, then I will call you this."

The princess was very happy to hear what her adoptive mother said. She said to her adoptive mother: "Great, Du Qingdai, this is your name. Do you want to come with me? Come home with me and live with me?"

The foster mother asked, "Go with you? If I go with you, will I not be hungry and have enough to eat every day? Will I have clothes to keep out the cold?

The princess said, "If you follow me, I'm sure you won't be hungry and will have enough food every day. There will be clothes to keep you warm and a big house for you to rest. What do you think, Qingdai, do you want to follow me?"

After the princess finished speaking, she extended her hand to her adoptive mother.

The foster mother said, "If I go with you, I can have enough food every day, warm clothes, and a big house to rest in, so I will go with you."

After she finished speaking, the adoptive mother held the princess's outstretched hand and smiled at her.

But at this moment, the foster mother's stomach began to growl, and she felt embarrassed and her face turned red instantly.

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When the princess heard her adoptive mother's stomach growling, she smiled knowingly and said to her, "Qingdai, are you hungry? It's normal to have a stomach growling when you're hungry. Don't be embarrassed or care about it. You're hungry, right? Let's go eat. Come home with me. I have food at home."

When the adoptive mother heard the princess' words, she looked up at her and nodded.

The foster mother said: “After that, she was taken by the princess to the woods next to the market. At the end of the woods, she could see a small cave. Next to the cave was a wooden button.

The princess brought me here and pressed a wooden button. After pressing it, there was a bang at the back entrance of the cave. The wooden door of the cave opened, and the princess held her adoptive mother's hand and led her into the cave.

The cave was dark and long. The princess said gently to her foster mother, "Qingdai, hold on to me. The cave is dark and the roads are complicated. Don't go the wrong way."

After hearing what the princess said, the foster mother reached out and held the princess's hand tightly, nodded her head gently and replied, "Okay."

Then they walked in the cave for about a cup of tea and finally walked out of the cave.

After walking out of the cave, the princess and her adoptive mother stepped on the ground at the exit of the cave, and they fell down together.

When she fell, the adoptive mother told me that she was very scared and closed her eyes in fear. She said that she regretted going with the princess, and the princess's reaction at that time was very excited.

When her adoptive mother opened her eyes after landing, she could only see gray smoke around her. She was very scared. She was afraid of being separated from the princess and being alone in a strange environment, an unfamiliar place.

So, the foster mother opened her mouth and shouted to the people around her: "Du Wuyou, Du Wuyou, where are you, where are you? Don't leave me here alone, I'm scared."

The foster mother spoke for a long time but no one answered her. She was very scared and then suddenly a cold wind blew.

Because my adoptive mother was a little beggar at the time and her clothes were tattered, she was shivering from the cold and hugged herself tightly.

At this moment, the foster mother suddenly felt as if something was attached to her body. She felt her body warm up, so she looked up. It turned out to be the princess. The princess took off her cloak and put it on the foster mother.

The foster mother was very excited to see the princess in front of her, but she was also a little angry.

So she said to the princess, "Why did you come so late? Where have you been? Princess, are you lying to me?"

When the princess heard her adoptive mother's words, she was not angry, but said to her gently and embarrassedly: "Qingdai, this time she ran away secretly without telling her family.

The path she was led to was a secret passage she had found in a book in the palace before, which could lead her directly out of the palace. She wanted to test this path yesterday to see if it could lead her out of the palace. She tested it yesterday and it was indeed possible to leave the palace.

So she also secretly escaped from the palace through this road today.

This time, she was so excited when she was falling that she lost her balance and fell. It seemed that she pressed a button when she fell.

Then, the secret passage was filled with gray smoke. She had never been there before yesterday when she went out of the palace to play. She said: She might have pressed the mechanism.

Then the princess turned to her foster mother and said, "Qingdai, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave you behind. Can you forgive me? I promise I won't lose you again in the future.

Then the Princess held out her hand.

The foster mother thought for a while, then held the princess's hand and said to her, "I trust you again. Don't abandon me again."

The princess looked at her adoptive mother who was holding her hand and nodded her head vigorously. Then, she pulled her adoptive mother hard to pull her up.

Then they carefully avoided the traps. After a while, a wooden ladder appeared in front of them. The princess' eyes lit up when she saw it. She said to her foster mother, "Qingdai, do you see the ladder in front of us? After we climb up the ladder and walk a few steps up, we can reach my house.

Walk up to my house and you can have dinner. There are many delicious foods in the imperial kitchen.

The foster mother said that her legs were so sore that she couldn't walk, but when she heard what the princess had just said, her sore legs regained the strength to walk, and she quickly climbed the stairs past the princess.

When the princess saw her adoptive mother, she quickly climbed the stairs past her. She was not angry at her behavior. Instead, she shook her head and smiled and said, "This girl, you looked so weak just now. But when I told you something delicious, you regained your strength. You are such a foodie."

Then the princess quickened her pace and climbed up the stairs.

After a while, they reached the ladder exit, shook off the dust on their bodies, and continued to move forward.

Arriving at the exit of the ladder, a dilapidated palace appeared in front of them. The princess took her adoptive mother into the palace. The adoptive mother said that she was dragged into the palace by the princess at that time. She was very confused, so she said to the princess: "Du Ruonan, you are not a liar, are you? This is the place you said I can eat and wear warm clothes. I feel that this place is not as good as the wooden house where the old beggar took me. Although that wooden house is very old, it is better than this one.

When the princess heard her adoptive mother's words, she was not angry because of her adoptive mother's suspicion, but said to her gently: "Qingdai, didn't I tell you before? I ran away secretly. Now everyone in the palace should be looking for me. This is the cold palace. It has been abandoned for a long time.

We can sneak around the cold palace and reach my Chaoyang Palace.

I don't want my mother, Luluo, and father to find me. If they find me, they will definitely blame me and slap me on the palm of my hand.

As long as this princess sneaks back to Chaoyang Palace.

They will definitely not be angry with me when they see me coming back. They will not hit my palm.

Besides, the imperial kitchen is very close to my Chaoyang Palace. After Chaoyang Palace, I will send my maid Hongyun to the imperial kitchen to bring some food. I will treat you to a meal and make sure you eat until your belly is full and full.

I'll give you all of them when she brings them back. Okay?

The foster mother said that when she heard what the princess said, she was very angry and stamped her feet.

She reached out and pushed the princess' shoulder, urging: Hurry, then you lead the way.

She said, "I'm so hungry."

Then the princess took her foster mother and they walked carefully around the cold palace towards the Chaoyang Palace. But at this time they met a maid in a green skirt, sweeping the floor with a broom in her hand.

The maid who was sweeping the floor saw that it was the princess that the emperor and the virtuous concubine had been looking for for a long time, so she shouted:

"The princess is here."

The princess said that when she heard the maid's words, her heart tightened and she thought, "It's over. I'm finished. My father and the others will definitely be here soon."

People who heard her shouting gathered around and surrounded them. Then the virtuous concubine and the emperor came over in a sedan chair, as reported by the servants.

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When the Emperor and Consort Xian stepped down from the sedan chair, they saw the foster mother and the princess with their heads lowered.

The emperor said angrily: "Chaoyang, you are not a child anymore. How could you run away from home and leave behind my secret guards who were sent to protect you? It is very dangerous to leave alone, do you know that?

Then he said to the eunuch beside him: "Go, invite her teacher to me. I will punish her severely. Give her 20 slaps on the palms, not one less, do you understand?

His personal eunuch heard it and glanced at the princess again. He didn't move. The emperor saw that he hadn't left yet and said, "Go, go quickly. Why are you still standing here?"

The virtuous concubine heard what the emperor said. She felt sorry for the princess and felt very uncomfortable. She quickly reached out and grabbed the emperor's sleeve. She knelt down and said to him gently with sobs: "Your Majesty, is 20 too much? Your palm must be swollen after 20 Chaoyangs. But don't people say that the mother feels the pain when she beats her son?

But Chaoyang was too ignorant today. Should he be taught a lesson? 5 of them, okay?

Is that okay? Your Majesty, just treat it as a request from me and please obey me."

The emperor felt sorry for Concubine Xian when he saw her like this. He said to her, "My beloved concubine, please get up quickly. As a mother, you love your child, but don't I love her too? She is my own flesh and blood! How can I not love her?"

I obey you, I obey you, isn't that enough? Get up quickly."

When Concubine Xian heard that the emperor had agreed to her request, she stood up and said to him happily: "Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty is the best."

Then she said to the princess, "Chaoyang, why don't you come over and thank your father."

But the princess did not go forward.

At this moment, the foster mother's stomach started to growl again. The foster mother said that her whole body turned red. She wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Everyone looked at her.

At this time, the emperor and his men discovered that the princess was actually pulling a little beggar with tattered clothes.

Then the princess stepped forward and said to the emperor: "I am responsible for my own actions. Father, I will go with you to be punished. But you must first let the imperial kitchen.

She pointed to her foster mother and told her to prepare food for her, and I said I was inviting him to dinner. This princess never lies. "

If you don't prepare food for her, I won't go.

The emperor saw the princess holding her foster mother. He said to the princess, "Where did you kidnap this child from? What's her name?

The princess said to him: I didn't kidnap her, I picked her up on the road. She is a little beggar and has no name. Her name is Du Qingdai now, which is the name I gave her. She will follow me from now on. I will raise her, and she will have food to eat as long as I have food to eat.

The emperor looked at her with amusement and said, "Chaoyang. Raising a child is not that simple. You are still a child yourself. You have never taken care of a cat or a dog. How can you take care of a child?"

The princess hastily retorted: "I can... I can take care of her by myself. She doesn't need anyone else to take care of her.

After hearing this, the emperor said to the princess, "Okay, that's what you said. You take care of her yourself, and I will send someone to the imperial kitchen to give her food, and you will go and be punished.

We agreed that you are not allowed to regret it.

The princess nodded vigorously when she heard what he said. She said, "I will keep my word. I will take responsibility for my own actions and I will take care of myself if I say I will raise the child. I will take care of the child if I say I will be punished.

Father, just wait and see.

The emperor was very pleased when he heard what the princess said. He said, "Well, I knew my daughter is a good person and she is not a coward. Everyone has their own responsibility."

Since I have agreed to your request, I will do it!

After he finished speaking, he said, "Xiao Shunzi, why don't you go to the imperial kitchen and prepare food for this little girl? Why don't you go quickly?"