The real daughter died tragically and was reborn, and the whole family cried and begged for forgiven

accompany?

Li Qingluo looked up at Duan Rongshi.

When I saw his pitiful eyes, I couldn't say no.

He had accompanied her all the way, so how could she bear to leave him alone in the Guifu Palace, lonely and cold?

She touched her chin, a thoughtful look on her face: "It's not impossible..."

Li Qingluo left with Eunuch Hai early the next morning.

She fell into the hot spring last night and naturally got soaked all over.

After Duan Rongshi's repeated requests, he stayed in the bedroom of Guifu Palace.

She slept in the main hall.

Duan Rongshi spent the night on a couch behind a screen.

When they parted, Duan Rongshi stood at the window under the green tree, staring at her quietly without blinking.

Li Qingluo turned his head several times.

It was not until he left the palace that he met up with Ling Fengzi who had come to meet him.

Duke Hai bid farewell to Li Qingluo: "Don't worry, young lady. I will take good care of your Highness."

Li Qingluo knew that this eunuch Hai must be Duan Rongshi's confidant in the palace.

"Then I'll trouble you to take care of it."

Eunuch Hai: "Miss, you are too polite. It is a blessing for me to have the opportunity to serve Your Highness."

"Miss, could you please help me bring some things to my mother?"

Li Qingluo: "Your mother?"

Eunuch Hai: "My mother is Granny Ning who lives in Guiyuan."

Guiyuan! ?

Li Qingluo seemed to understand a lot of things.

She took the small package from Eunuch Hai, which contained a letter from home and some silver.

"I know my mother is happy in Guiyuan, but please tell her to spend her money as she pleases, and don't rush to find me a wife."

"I will never be able to marry a wife in my lifetime."

"But I don't regret it. I can still help His Highness with things. At least I can still live like a human being."

After saying goodbye to Eunuch Hai, Li Qingluo mingled with the crowd of young Taoist priests again.

This time I followed Qingyangzi out of the palace, so it went even smoother than last night.

Sha Qi and Sha Jiu were waiting for her outside the palace.

Seeing her finally come out, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The three of them went to Guiyuan first.

After Li Qingluo found Grandma Ning, he handed the package to her.

When Granny Ning saw her son's letter, she danced with joy.

The others followed her lead and happily put their heads together to read the letter.

Li Qingluo still didn't know how to start talking about Eunuch Hai persuading Granny Ning to be generous with the money.

Granny Ning asked first, "Miss, is he doing well as a clerk in the palace?"

Li Qingluo: "Do you know he works in the palace?"

Granny Ning: "Of course. When he was ten, he was running around on the street and got trampled by a horse. So he decided to go to the palace to help His Highness."

"I haven't seen him in almost six years."

Granny Ning wiped her eyes, and the other mute slaves comforted her with concern.

Li Qingluo asked a question she had long wanted to know: "Did you all live in the palace before?"

Although everyone was frozen and hesitant for a moment, they still answered her.

"Yes. We old ones used to be in the palace."

These old people all had their tongues cut off.

Not born deaf and dumb.

And what about the young mute slaves?

“Actually, we can talk.”

Suddenly, a young mute slave looked at Li Qingluo and spoke.

Li Qingluo was shocked.

"So you're not dumb?"

The young mute slave only said that one sentence and then started signing again.

"Your Highness doesn't allow us to talk in Guiyuan."

"He told us to get used to being dumb so that we can protect ourselves."

Li Qingluo: "Then who are you?"

Mute slave: "We are their descendants. We have lived in this Guiyuan for seventeen years."

Seventeen years!

When Duan Rongshi was six years old, his mother died suddenly in the palace.

He just turned twenty-three this year.

Isn’t it exactly seventeen years?

Li Qingluo: "But I heard that after the Imperial Concubine passed away, His Majesty slaughtered Guifu Palace with blood, leaving no one alive."

"How is this going?"

The mute slaves dared not say any more.

I could only reply in sign language: "The girl is your highness's confidant."

"Young lady, you should ask His Highness yourself about these matters."

After bidding farewell to the mute slaves in Guiyuan, Li Qingluo did not return to General Xiuli's Mansion first, but went to Prince Su's Mansion again.

Zhui Yu and the other three were not at home, but Eunuch Wu was still in Prince Su's Mansion.

Li Qingluo, accompanied by Eunuch Wu, went to see Qin Ling and asked him for something.

Li Qingluo returned home when it was almost dark.

After a night's sleep, I went out again at dawn.

This time, it’s a long journey.

Li Qingluo brought Shaqi and Shajiu to meet Ling Fengzi.

After the three of them disguised themselves as little Taoist priests, they still entered the palace smoothly.

The palace, which was originally heavily guarded, has now been turned into a vegetable market by the Qingsong Temple, where people can come and go as they please, and even the guards guarding the palace gates are helpless.

Li Qingluo went to sit cross-legged outside Zichen Store for an hour, had lunch with other brothers, and was then taken to Guifu Palace.

When Hai Gong opened the door, he saw another unfamiliar young Taoist priest coming in and felt a little dissatisfied.

"What does this mean?"

Qing Yangzi: "This is our junior fellow Taoist priest Luo Yi."

"Although he looks young, his cultivation of Taoism is only slightly inferior to mine."

"The Imperial Master will be performing a ritual at Guifu Palace soon, so I need you to come and stay there first to set up the temple and collect the resentment within."

Eunuch Hai: "You know very well that our prince dislikes strangers approaching. Could it be that the master mage wants this young Taoist priest to go in and die?"

Qing Yangzi curled his lips and smiled: "Don't worry, young eunuch. Your Highness will be reluctant to kill him."

Before Li Qingluo followed the reluctant Eunuch Hai in, she saw a white figure standing at the end of the long street.

"That's Concubine De."

Qing Yangzi murmured something in a low voice, then turned around and left.

Li Qingluo stared at the white figure for a few more seconds.

She has a cool and aloof temperament, just like an orchid, standing alone in the world.

However, when she cast her cold gaze upon him, even Li Qingluo felt a chill.

The door of Guifu Palace was shut again.

Li Qingluo heard Eunuch Hai muttering, "We send all sorts of people to our palace. Taoist Qingyangzi really doesn't care about His Highness at all."

"I'm afraid that one day I'll be able to fully ascend to the throne and sit on equal footing with Your Highness. Then I won't even have Your Highness in my eyes anymore..."

Li Qingluo: "Then what does it take to be considered caring?"

Eunuch Hai was startled.

I just feel that this voice sounds familiar.

Li Qingluo took out two hard steamed buns from the package.

"This is made specially for you by your mother. Come and try it."

Eunuch Hai gasped in shock.

Li Qingluo touched his face and said, "Qin Ling's disguise skills are truly unparalleled in the world."

"Luo'er!"

Duan Rongshi came again when he saw her wearing a Taoist robe and waved to her from the window.

Li Qingluo added, "It's too early to say that."

When she ran towards Duan Rongshi, Eunuch Hai was still holding two steamed buns in his hands, and his soul was shaken away: "Is that a girl?"

He rubbed his eyes vigorously.

I saw last night that even though she was a little Taoist priest, she was still a beautiful lady, wasn't she?

How come he has become a rough and honest-looking man today?

When he saw the little Taoist priest throw himself into His Highness's arms, the scene of the two of them hugging each other tightly made the little Taoist priest feel as if he was struck by lightning.

"My eyes must be damaged."

"This is all fake, it's not real, I'm still dreaming..."

Eunuch Hai passed away as if sleepwalking.

Li Qingluo and Duan Rongshi had already discussed the key to her disguise.

"Your Highness, Qin Ling said that due to the hasty preparation, this face can only last for seven days at most. After seven days, if I come into contact with water, my original appearance will return."

Duan Rongshi didn't mind: "Seven days is enough."

He reached out and pinched her face, finding it funny.

"What are you thinking? Such thick eyebrows and a beard on your chin."

"Are you deliberately not wanting me to eat you?"

Li Qingluo clasped his hands together and said, "Your Highness, please do not disturb my peace of mind!"

"During this period of time, I will abstain from sex!"

Duan Rongshi laughed out loud a few times.

Not far away, Eunuch Hai, who was squatting on the ground with his hands covering his ears, was about to cry: "Your Highness sounds so happy." But he was so sad.

Because he was about to completely split apart...

Last night and today, which one is the real girl?

Does His Highness like men or women?

Night soon fell.

After the two of them had dinner early, they played chess on the low couch by the window.

Li Qingluo's chess skills did not improve much.

She was so busy on weekdays that she spent all her free time practicing swordplay and writing, leaving her with almost no time for chess.

Seeing that she was so careless, Duan Rongshi rarely looked at her with a dark face.

"Then I will punish you. You must play twenty rounds with me these few days."

"Otherwise, don't even think about leaving the palace!"

Twenty games?

Doesn’t that mean we have to play six or seven games every day?

Isn't this going to cost her her life?

Li Qingluo could only bite the bullet and beg for mercy: "Your Highness, please have mercy on me. One round a day is not enough?"

Duan Rongshi was furious: "Li Qingluo, do you know how many people in this world are begging to play a game of chess with me?"

"You don't know what's good for you!"

Li Qingluo: "Who is it?"

Duan Rongshi didn't reply to her.

He just said: "My chess skills were taught to me by my mother."

Li Qingluo froze suddenly.

He rarely mentioned his mother.

Although Li Qingluo was extremely curious, he never dared to ask.

Just like those mute slaves, if he was unwilling to speak voluntarily, she would stop asking.

She picked up the chess piece and said, "Then Your Highness, will you enlighten me?"

"Just don't be like you did last time and complain about my poor chess skills."

Duan Rongshi raised his hand and patted her head gently.

Eunuch Hai knocked on the door and said, "Your Highness, Concubine De has brought you some sweet-scented osmanthus cake."

Duan Rongshi: "Come in."

A plate of exquisite osmanthus cake fell to my hand again.

Duan Rongshi reached out to take it, but Li Qingluo quickly pushed his hand away.

"No!"

"Your Highness. This pastry is a slow-acting poison!"

"Whether you eat it or touch it with your hands, you won't notice it at first, but over time it will turn you into a stupid, foolish person!"