Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

A pair of fresh lamb intestines was brought to them after they finished their breakfast.

Liu Rusi could tell how fresh the sheep were. They were still hot. She guessed that the sheep intestines were delivered right after the slaughter.

It is better to let the two girls and little Qin Hao go to study and learn to read. Chu Shiyu followed Liu Rusi into the kitchen again. He found that this was a rare opportunity to be alone with Liu Rusi!

Even though yesterday was a little unpleasant at the beginning, we managed to get through it successfully in the end.

Seeing Liu Rusi about to clean the smelly sheep intestines, he began to feel uncomfortable again and stepped forward to take over Liu Rusi's work...

"This is not dangerous, and I can't teach you just by verbal instructions."

Liu Rusi quickly picked up the sheep intestine and began to rinse it with salt water. Now that she had already gotten the hang of it, there was no point in stopping her.

Liu Rusi has repeatedly explored how to make catgut. In an era without synthetic materials, this is the highest quality natural material that can be absorbed by the human body.

At present, the threads she uses for suturing are mainly catgut and silk. Silk is mainly used to sew the outer layer, and catgut is used to sew the inner layer. After all, some wounds are too deep, and you can't just open the wound and remove the threads inside...

Watching Liu Rusi patiently washing the goat intestines over and over again, Chu Shiyu gradually put aside his discomfort and asked casually, "Did you use goat intestines to sew my wounds before?"

Using a smooth bamboo blade to remove the mucus and grease from the sheep intestine, Liu Rusi nodded and said, "The wound on your leg is very deep. The muscles need to be sutured. Ordinary thread is not suitable for sewing inside."

"It seems that the wires inside have not been removed?" Chu Shiyu asked in surprise.

Liu Rusi smiled and answered: "Cat gut can be absorbed by the human body, and it should have been completely absorbed by now."

So at that time I felt that my connection with her was gone, but it wasn't completely severed, right? A part of it remained in my body and became a part of him. Chu Shiyu thought about this and felt happy physically and mentally, with a faint smile on his face.

Liu Rusi caught a glimpse of his inexplicable smile from the corner of her eye. She didn't know what he was thinking, but she couldn't help but think of yesterday's dream...

"If you... like someone, can you write letters to that person for three years but not appear in front of that person?" Liu Rusi asked tentatively.

"impossible."

Chu Shiyu immediately denied it. Did she want him not to show up? Emotionally, he didn't want to be separated from her at all. This was something he had determined long ago.

Moreover, he was thinking that water dripping through a stone can wear it away, and the premise of water dripping through a stone is that water can drip on the stone. If they didn't even meet, how could he wear away the almost unbreakable iron cage in her heart?

Liu Rusi understood and continued to process the sheep intestines. I knew it, Chu Shiyu would just want to show his presence in front of her 24 hours a day! How could he write love letters for three years and she still didn't recognize him? It really was an outrageous dream.

Chu Shiyu was full of doubts. What did she mean? She wanted him to stay away for three years? There was a three-year deadline, not just letting him leave directly... Why?

Her condition has been a little abnormal in the past two days, and she has deliberately resisted him several times. What caused her to be like this?

They had just experienced life and death together a few days ago, which should have brought them closer. She began to resist because she saw the water-boiling point outside the city. She obviously appreciated this practice, but at that time there was guilt in her eyes...

Could it be that she has been moved by him? She just can't let go of her feelings for Qin Lie, so she tries to get rid of the dilemma in her heart by driving him away?

Chu Shiyu's heart began to pound. She should have understood yesterday that it was impossible for him to be driven away. Then what was the purpose of mentioning these three years today?

Did she want to use three years to figure it out? So she wanted him to stay out of her way and not interfere with her thinking?

But this is impossible. If we let her think about it now, she will only choose Qin Lie, and maybe it is a strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Then he will be in vain.

Or, does she want to... remain faithful to Qin Lie for three years?

This is the most likely possibility! She found that she couldn't get rid of him, and it was impossible to stay deadlocked forever, so she set a deadline for herself. Just like Qin Lie had been waiting for her for three years, she also wanted to give a solemn explanation of her feelings for Qin Lie?

Chu Shiyu looked at Liu Rusi's eyes getting brighter and brighter. If this is the case, it would be great! Qin Lie has been dead for more than a year, so there are less than two years left in the three years of keeping the chastity!

The gaze on her body became more and more intense, and Liu Rusi couldn't help but feel her hair stand on end. She took a look at her clothes inconspicuously. They were normal, and there was no exposure...

Being stared at like this, she felt uncomfortable all over. She endured it for a while, but still couldn't help turning around and asking, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing... I just think you're very pretty."

Although he came to a beautiful guess, the possibility of this guess is still questionable... Chu Shiyu decided not to confirm with Liu Rusi for the time being, just to keep it as a thought for himself.

Although it didn't feel like that, his eyes narrowed after he finished speaking, and Liu Rusi gave the standard response to being praised: "Thank you, you look good too."

This answer was perfunctory, but when Chu Shiyu heard it, he couldn't help but think of their first meeting. She turned his face twice to let others see him and Qin Lie, and then both of them gave him a better answer...

People will judge their own beauty or ugliness based on the reactions and comments of those around them. Therefore, Chu Shiyu is confident about his appearance.

But Liu Rusi seemed to disagree... Maybe their aesthetic tastes were really different, but it was probably because beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

So, if one day she thinks he is more handsome than Qin Lie, does that prove that she has transferred her feelings to him?

"Who do you think is the most handsome man?" As soon as the question was asked, Chu Shiyu was filled with shame. In the past, he would never have thought that he would ask such a jealous question!

Liu Rusi looked up with a puzzled look and said, "I'm not a magic mirror."

"Hmm?" Chu Shiyu looked confused.

So, Liu Rusi continued to make the catgut while telling him the story of Snow White...

"A long time ago, in a certain dynasty there was a small country..."

Liu Rusi had told these fairy tales to little Qin Hao before, but she had replaced the Western elements in them. Now she told them again in an orderly manner, but she habitually used the gentle tone she used when telling her son bedtime stories.

"From then on, the princess and the prince lived happily ever after..." After saying the last sentence of the conventional fairy tale ending, Liu Rusi felt a little dazed.

The best thing about fairy tales is that they always end in the most perfect way. The long lives of the two young protagonists have too many possibilities after the ending... just like the uncertainty of life and death between her and Qin Lie.

Her parents were also the golden couple in the eyes of others at the beginning. However, after their happy marriage, things took a sharp turn for the worse. Their youthful love started with hormones and good looks, but was defeated by having children and family matters...

"This princess is too stupid. She has been hunted once, but she still eats the apple given by a stranger." Chu Shiyu commented.

Liu Rusi couldn't help but laugh. She also felt that many fairy tales were not very reasonable. For example, the prince would actually kiss a dead person he had never seen before. Even if the princess was beautiful, it would not be reasonable.

"This story doesn't make sense. Was the monarch of that small country just there for show? And is the princess really as innocent and kind as in the story? Could she really watch the queen put on red-hot iron shoes and dance to death?" Chu Shiyu raised more in-depth doubts.

Liu Rusi was stunned. She had not thought of this. When she first saw this story, she was trying to accept the pain inflicted on her by her parents. She had no energy to imagine the cruelty in the story.

Liu Rusi was cutting the sheep intestines into thin threads, and Chu Shiyu finally took advantage of her distraction and intervened to snatch the job away!

After asking her about the width she needed, he started straight away. His hands were steady, and the width he determined was extremely precise, which dispelled Liu Rusi's idea of ​​insisting on doing it herself...

While washing the odor off her hands with soap, Liu Rusi continued to chat: "So, she shouldn't take revenge?"

"Of course revenge is needed. However, seeing someone alive, one cannot bear to see him die; hearing his cry, one cannot bear to eat his flesh. Good people are often more compassionate, and even if it is an enemy, few can bear to see him being tortured."

The story has always emphasized the beauty and kindness of the princess. How beautiful must she be to make a prince who had never met her kiss a corpse? Chu Shiyu couldn't imagine it, but her kindness seemed unreasonable at the end of the story.

"Moreover, in an occasion like a wedding banquet, the princess should enjoy the pleasure of revenge more, and her feelings for the prince don't seem to be that deep." Chu Shiyu raised a new objection.

Liu Rusi sat down with her hands behind her back and asked casually, "What do you mean?"

Chu Shiyu stopped what he was doing, looked up at her and said, "I will never seek revenge at a wedding banquet. A wedding banquet is supposed to be festive and peaceful, so why would I deliberately create something bloody and wailing that is unlucky and unlucky?"

He really does express his feelings every three sentences... Liu Rusi looked away and changed the subject casually, "Do you have revenge to take too?"

Chu Shiyu retracted his gaze, his expression somewhat cold, and after a long while he said: "I have a grudge, but I am not obsessed with revenge. If the timing is coincidental, I can take revenge."

Some unspeakable secret? Liu Rusi looked at the goat intestine that was gradually turning into silk and didn't ask any more questions. She respected everyone's secrets.

However, after Chu Shiyu secretly glanced at her expression, he spoke softly, "When I was born, my father was still the Prince of Ning, who had long been enfeoffed outside. I already had two elder brothers. My eldest brother, the current Prince Kang, was born to the princess, and was the eldest and legitimate son. My second brother was born to Concubine Zhao, and his family background was also good."

Liu Rusi pretended to listen carefully and thought to herself, this is what you want to say, so I'll just listen reluctantly.

Although he did it on purpose, his expression was still a little cold when he talked about these past events.

"And I am the daughter of a dancer raised in the mansion. A dancer is no different from a slave to a royal family member. I am just the result of my father's admiration for her dancing and his attraction to her..."

"After that, firstly, the previous positions were already occupied, and secondly, my biological mother was of humble origin, so she was only taken as a concubine. And because she was a slave who signed a contract to sell her body, she was a lowly concubine if you look deeper."

Liu Rusi glanced at him from the side and observed his expression. He did not seem to despise his biological mother's background as he said. There was more indifference in his eyes.

Chu Shiyu kept his hands steady while immersed in his memories, and did not seem to notice that Liu Rusi was observing him.

"When my father was still the Prince of Ning, he had already appointed a crown prince. As a prince who was given a fiefdom, he was actually far away from the political center and was usually not considered a competitor for the throne. And my father's fiefdom was even more remote at the time, so the concubines in the palace were relatively harmonious."

"After all, there is only one position of the Crown Prince. After a prince is born, he will be demoted to a county prince. There is nothing to fight for. After there is already a Crown Prince, the concubines of Prince Ning's Mansion don't care much about the heirs, so I was raised by my biological mother before I was three years old."

"No one knows why the late emperor issued a will before his death to allow my father to ascend the throne. Anyway, when the entire palace was hastily moved to the capital, my father had been on the throne for more than a month, and everyone's status had changed dramatically. Ning Wangfei became the queen, and Zhao Concubine and other female relatives became concubines of various kinds."

"Logically speaking, since my biological mother had given birth to a son, she should have been given a concubine title. However, several people who gave birth to imperial daughters were given titles, but she was only listed as a beauty... However, if we only consider her birth, it seems reasonable."

"What's also strange is that my eldest brother should have been made the crown prince, but my father didn't say anything about it. He was just called a prince like all the other sons."

"There is another thing. After entering the palace, everyone discovered that there was a woman who was not from the royal palace. She was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister's mansion and was directly named the virtuous concubine."

"Less than a year after entering the palace, when I was three years old, I was transferred to be raised by Consort Xian..."

Liu Rusi glanced sideways again and saw that his hand movements had stopped, his eyes were empty and seemed a little sad...

She hesitated for a moment, then asked softly, "Are you reluctant to leave your birth mother?"

Chu Shiyu shook his head gently, looking at her with a raised mouth, but the sadness in his auspicious eyes could not be dispelled. He said with a forced smile: "My memory is not as good as Qin Hao's. I don't remember much about things before I was three years old. I even forgot what my biological mother looked like."

Liu Rusi couldn't help but feel sad for him, but how could she comfort him in such a situation? I'm afraid nothing can heal the regrets of childhood...

After a moment of silence, he continued with some melancholy, "Originally, it was all good. It was said that Concubine Xian was born with a cold constitution and it was difficult for her to get pregnant. When she took me in to raise me, she treated me like her own child and taught me with all her heart."

"Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. When I was six years old, Concubine Xian became pregnant. When I was seven, Concubine Xian gave birth to my eighth brother, and then Concubine Xian was promoted to Imperial Concubine. As for me, I was ignored at first, then despised and suppressed..."

Liu Rusi suddenly realized and said softly: "But you said you have a grudge, but you are not obsessed with revenge..."

Chu Shiyu's eyes were cold, and he said calmly: "It is common sense that people love their own children more. She deliberately treated me harshly. It is revenge, but not a great revenge that must be avenged."

There were some things that she didn't know whether she should say or not. After hesitating for a while, Liu Rusi couldn't help but say, "Is it possible that because of her, your biological mother can only be a beauty..."

"I know, and most people know, that I was destined to be sent to Consort Xian as soon as I entered the palace."

His tone became increasingly cold: "When I was nine years old, my biological mother had an affair with the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards and was reported, and then my father gave her wine."

Liu Rusi paused for a moment, then recalled many classic palace fighting scenes, and subconsciously asked, "Was he framed?"

Chu Shiyu was silent for a while, and said helplessly: "I have checked it, and checked it many times... It is true. The deputy commander of the imperial guards was my father's close bodyguard in the Ning Wang Mansion. They had been secretly in contact with each other in the Ning Wang Mansion."

"If it weren't for my eyes, which are almost identical to my father's, I'm afraid even my life experience would be questioned. Despite this, from then on, my situation in the palace..."

Chu Shiyu sighed lightly and said no more.

After hesitating for a while, Liu Rusi said softly, "Maybe she and the guard were originally in love. It's your father...you can't just blame your biological mother."

Chu Shiyu looked at her strangely and asked doubtfully, "But she is already my father's concubine, don't you think...she should keep her chastity?"

Liu Rusi frowned slightly. Were their three views colliding again? However, she didn't mind letting him know her thoughts that were inconsistent with loyalty. She didn't want him to have a good impression of her in the first place, so she might as well speak freely: "Then who... is not good to your biological mother? There is another person who shares the same feelings with you, so why do you want to remain a virgin?"

He almost blurted out a question, why did you stay for Qin Lie, but before he could ask, he realized that Qin Lie treated her very well...

However, looking at it from another perspective, is he good enough to her for her to accept him?

"So... in your opinion, it's your biological mother's fault?" Liu Rusi asked softly. Judging from his attitude, it seemed that he had no affection for his biological mother.

"It's not a question of right or wrong, but she must have done this without considering my situation... Just like I don't remember what she looks like, maybe she has also forgotten that she once gave birth to a child."

Chu Shiyu closed his eyes to hide the expression in his eyes. Before that, he had thought about raising his biological mother's status and then getting rid of the title of imperial concubine...

"There is no resentment, but there is no mother-son love either."

Seeing his somewhat depressed look, Liu Rusi suddenly had an idea. Could it be that Chu Shiyu was obsessed with her because he lacked maternal love and saw how much she cared for little Qin Hao? !

The problem is, she can't possibly fill the void he left behind! How can she not be able to show her motherly love when she's grown up?

This outrageous but somewhat reasonable speculation made Liu Rusi feel very uncomfortable. To hide her inner embarrassment, she half-jokingly changed the subject and said, "According to the previous story, you should be Prince Bai Xue?"

With his pair of phoenix eyes almost widened, Chu Shiyu looked at her in disbelief!

Liu Rusi couldn't help but laugh. Chu Shiyu was really white...