Allure Ugly Concubine

Chapter 9 Xiaobai
As it was getting dark, Lin Zijiang sat alone on a stone bench in the yard, staring at a cluster of white wild flowers in a daze.This place is very bleak by the plane trees all over the courtyard, but this unknown little white flower has added a little vitality to it.Five plump and delicate petals form a round flower disc, exuding a faint fragrance in the night, which makes people feel refreshed.Lin Zijiang reached out and picked a flower, and put it in his hand for a closer look.

At this moment, Hanxiao just came out of the house.

"Princess, the servant has brought the dinner, let's go in and eat."

"I don't want to eat it yet."

Lin Zijiang didn't raise his eyes to look at her, but while playing with the flower, he asked, "What kind of flower is this?"

"It's just an ordinary wild flower, but I haven't seen it in other places. It should be the only place in the entire palace."

Lin Zijiang put the flowers on the stone table, then said to Han with a smile: "If you are hungry, go and eat first."

Hearing the words with a smile, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he said with some fear: "Your servant dare not. That is your food, the princess, how can your servant eat it."

It was only then that Lin Zijiang remembered that they, the ancients, followed the order of superiority and inferiority the most, let alone in the palace?But in this situation, I am not considered a princess at all, and there are only two of them here, so it would be too restrictive to follow these rules.Then he said: "You don't need to be too restrained, anyway, there are only two of us here. And you can also see that I have no status at all in this palace."

Hanxiao was a little surprised when he heard this, and then comforted him: "Although Hanxiao is just a low-level servant in the palace, I don't know what happened between the prince and the princess, but the slave knows that you are always the princess, and I will treat you well when the prince figures it out." your."

"Really?" Lin Zijiang put down her veil, and met her surprised gaze as expected, "Look at me like this, do you think King Yue can still figure it out?"

"Wang... Concubine." She couldn't hide the shocked expression on her face with a smile, although she knew that the prince must be dissatisfied with the princess for arranging the princess in this desolate and remote courtyard.But she never thought that it was because of the princess's face... But she soon realized that her behavior was very inappropriate, and instantly withdrew her surprised expression.

"Actually...the concubine doesn't need to pay too much attention to her appearance. Although the slaves don't understand anything, they can see that there are beautiful women everywhere in the palace. But the prince didn't pay much attention to them, even the beautiful Madam Yuliu. I have never won the love of the prince, so I think that the prince is not a person who judges people by appearance, as long as the princess is virtuous, gentle and virtuous, one day the prince will find that the princess is good." Hanxiao persuaded with affirmation.

"You don't need to comfort me, I know myself, and I don't want to fight for the so-called favor." Lin Zijiang said indifferently.

"But princess, don't you want to be favored by the prince?" She asked with a disbelieving expression.In her opinion, the prince is the best man in the world, and no one wants to be loved by him.

"If you know you can't get it, why bother to force it?" Although Lin Zijiang only met Chu Yue once, she will never forget the look in that person's eyes.Presumably his heart should be as dusty and confinement as his master, or he has already been wounded and riddled with holes.Even if he desperately wanted to break in in the previous life, that person would not leave a gap in his heart.

"The princess has never tried it, so how do you know it's impossible?" Hanxiao was a little excited.

"You don't need to try." Lin Zijiang didn't want to discuss this topic anymore, so he said perfunctorily, "I just heard you say that there are so many beautiful women in the palace, so I can guess that I have no chance... and what you just said Who is that Mrs. Yuliu?"

"Ms. Yuliu is the prince's concubine, but she was born in a brothel." Speaking of this smiling tone, there was obviously a hint of contempt, or jealousy, "I don't know why the prince brought her into the palace."

"Didn't you just say that she is beautiful? Maybe your prince thinks she is beautiful."

"But the prince is not like a person who judges people by their appearance. Although she has entered the palace, the prince usually doesn't want to see her..."

While talking excitedly with a smile, Lin Zijiang suddenly heard a movement in the grass behind him, and immediately turned his eyes to see a black shadow flashing past.

"Princess, what's the matter?" Han Xiao didn't have Lin Zijiang's vigilance, but asked suspiciously when she saw her nervous face.

"There seems to be a figure flashing past there." Lin Zijiang replied, getting up and walking towards the direction of the voice.

"Shadow?" Han Xiao's face turned blue when he heard this, as if he was a little scared.She wanted to stop it, but she didn't expect that Lin Zijiang had already walked in that direction, so she had to follow behind slowly.

Lin Zijiang walked vigilantly towards the bushes where the voice came from, pushed aside the weeds, and saw a white mass on the ground, and a pair of round eyes that glowed green at night were also staring at her with some fear.

"cat?"

Hearing what Lin Zijiang said, he smiled boldly and looked at the ground. It was indeed a little white cat.Can't help but let out a sigh of relief, "So it's just a cat."

But Lin Zijiang wondered, what she saw just now was definitely not a cat.

"This cat seems to be raised by the former Mrs. Qingxuan. I didn't expect this cat to stay here and refuse to leave after she died for so long." Smiling, he looked at the white cat on the ground and sighed.

"Who is Mrs. Qingxuan?" Lin Zijiang asked curiously.

"Uh...no..." Hanxiao suddenly realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, and hurriedly lowered her head.

"Is she the former owner of Wutong Garden?" Seeing that she refused to say, Lin Zijiang could only guess for himself.

Hearing the words with a smile, he raised his head to look at Lin Zijiang, hesitant to speak.

Lin Zijiang looked at her expression of wanting to speak but tried his best to restrain himself, and said, "Say what you want, anyway, there are only you and me here, otherwise you will be overwhelmed."

Hearing this with a smile, he bit his lower lip, and then said: "That's right, Mrs. Qingxuan is also the prince's concubine. She used to be a female official in the palace, and later the emperor gave her to the prince. But the prince doesn't like her." , but arranged for her to live in this yard and rarely saw her. But she died of a strange disease two months later. Later, Aunt Qin said that her disease was contagious, so people burned her body, even the one she used All the belongings were burned. This Wutong Garden was also abandoned, and later there were rumors in the palace that it was haunted by ghosts, so everyone dared not come here."

So it was so, Lin Zijiang couldn't help raising his eyebrows.It so happens that Mrs. Qingxuan was also gifted by the emperor. It seems that Chu Yue arranged for me to live here with deep meaning. The death of Mrs. Qingxuan must not be so simple.Did Chu Yue want to use her to warn me?If you are not careful, you will end up in the same fate as her.

Lin Zijiang suddenly felt sympathy for Mrs. Qingxuan. Although she didn't know if she was an undercover agent arranged by the emperor to be beside Chu Yue, she was as pitiful as she could not escape the fate of becoming a pawn in the struggle of the powerful.

Seeing Lin Zijiang stunned and silent with a smile, she thought she was frightened by her own words, so she comforted her: "Actually, this is all nonsense, the princess is naturally not afraid of such things."

Lin Zijiang didn't look at her, but just observed the white cat who was looking at them in fear, and said, "But this cat is so loyal, it has been staying here and never wants to leave."

"Yeah, no one has been here before, and it looks so thin." Said with a smile and some sympathy.

"Then let's bring it in and give it something to eat." Lin Zijiang made a gesture to hug the white cat on the ground.

"Princess, do you want to raise him?" Hanxiao was a little surprised.

"Yes."

"But it's unlucky." Hanxiao tried to dissuade him.

"There's nothing auspicious about cats. And didn't you just say that I'm a noble person so I'm not afraid of these things."

Lin Zijiang held the white cat in his arms and patted the cat on its head. The cat was not afraid of her, but licked her hand.

"Seeing how white you are, I'll call you Xiaobai." Lin Zijiang looked at the white cat in his arms and smiled.

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In the middle of the night, Xiao Bai, who had already eaten and drank enough, was sleeping soundly in Lin Zijiang's arms, but Lin Zijiang couldn't fall asleep anyway.Chu Yue arranged her here, which means that he also doubts her like Mrs. Qingxuan, so will her end be like that Mrs. Qingxuan?Also, who was that black shadow she saw before?All these confusions are reminding Lin Zijiang that she is walking on thin ice in the palace.

(End of this chapter)