The more Xiao Ting listened, the more she felt that it was her fault.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were so worried. If I had known, I would have come back earlier."
"It's all right, it's good that you come back, princess."
Steward Mu was talking, and became smiling again, "The princess is back now, let's go home with this old slave!"
"OK."
Xiao Ting responded with a smile, Mu Butler made a gesture of invitation, and she really went out.
Ah Liu was stunned watching from behind, his eyes almost popped out.
I'll go, it's as simple as that, he was still thinking about how to persuade the princess to go back to the palace to have a look, but he was taken away by Butler Mu with a few words.
After he realized it, Xiao Ting and Mu Butler had already walked away talking and laughing, and he hurriedly followed.
"Sister Xiao, where are you going?"
When approaching the gate, a slightly immature voice came.
As soon as Xiao Ting turned her head, she saw Chu Jiyao holding Er Gouzi's hand and walking from not far away.
"Go home."
Xiao Ting answered directly.
"Isn't this my sister's home?"
Er Gouzi let go of Chu Jiyao's hand and ran forward, "Sister Xiao, are you going back to the Ninth Prince's Mansion? You are no longer the Ninth Prince's Concubine, and you can no longer live in someone else's house."
"Ah? That's right." Xiao Ting suddenly slapped her forehead, she came to her senses, turned her head and said to Butler Mu: "Uncle Mu, I am no longer a princess, so I won't go back. Thank you, my lord, for letting Xiao Xin live in this other garden. I will live here in the future!"
She just woke up, her mind is still in a daze, and she won't be able to react for a while.
"It's good for the princess to be happy." Butler Mu didn't change his face at all, and said with a smile as before, "Who is this young master?"
Butler Mu looked him up and down, making sure he had never seen this little bastard who ruined their master's good deeds.
Xiao Ting said indifferently: "His name is Er, Gu Shiyi, he is my younger brother."
Butler Mu nodded with a smile, "I've seen Mr. Gu." If it's not a surname, then it's not from the Xiao family. The one with the surname Gu must inquire carefully when he returns.
But Ah Liu was standing behind them, thinking about another problem, the princess escaped from death once, why can't she change her habit of picking up people back.
First, he picked up a younger brother, and later he brought two maids, which was fine, they were all from his own family, and they knew everything about him.
But later, a spy was picked up, Ning Ning, who almost lost his life, and then another one was picked up. This one looks only about ten years old, so there shouldn't be any problems, right
Ah Liu was still thinking, Er Gouzi started to make trouble.
"Stinky old man, my sister is my stepbrother's, and it has nothing to do with your prince. Don't try to abduct her, I will always watch her."
Er Gouzi didn't appreciate it at all, so he directly attacked him.
Steward Mu was not angry either, and said to Xiao Ting: "My concubine likes this place, so she will stay here with peace of mind. If there is anything missing, let Ah Liu and the others do it. The maids and old servants from the mansion have also been brought here. They have served you before. I think it should be very easy for you to use."
Butler Mu didn't wait for them to refuse, and as soon as he waved, those people rushed in and paid respects neatly.
"Servant, this servant pays homage to the princess and congratulates her on her safe return."
Xiao Ting's face was full of smiles, haha, this way, she saved another sum of expenses. She was thinking just now that such a big garden must require many people to take care of it. She wandered around and didn't see many servants.
This is all right, solved.
I don't know if that girl Hongshao has taken a good look at her baby
After Steward Mu left, Er Gouzi asked angrily: "Sister Xiao, how can you accept his things casually?"
Xiao Ting blinked, expressing her innocence, "It's not what I want to accept, it's what Uncle Mu wants to give to me."
It would be a fool not to take advantage of the advantages, let alone deliver them to your door.
"Then you can't ask for it, your stepbrother will be sad."
Only then did Xiao Ting remember that there was another one here.
She stepped forward happily and asked, "Why do you come here when you are free?"
"I said, I'll come to see you after I finish my work in the palace." Chu Jiyao replied calmly like a spectator from the beginning to the end.
Xiao Ting yawned and said: "But you are too fast, I haven't slept well yet."
"I'll take you back."
Seeing that she was really yawning, Chu Jiyao could only suppress it temporarily even if he had thousands of words to say to her.
While talking, he stretched out his hand to hug her by the waist, and strode forward.
Xiao Ting exclaimed, "What are you doing, is my leg okay?"
Even though she said that, she still leaned on Chu Jiyao's shoulder and fell asleep like this.
Ah Liu's face cramped when he saw it, but he didn't go forward.
Because Steward Mu had instructed them to only watch and listen, and not to meddle in their own business, otherwise it would be too late when the prince came back.
Chu Jiyao was sitting by her bed, staring at her all the time, Xiao Ting didn't know what to do, so she continued to pretend to be asleep, but she pretended to be asleep, and when she woke up, it was already evening.
Er Gouzi took Xiao Xin's place and lay beside her bed. Seeing her wake up, he immediately jumped up, his eyes shining brightly, "Sister Xiao, you finally woke up. Step-brother has been waiting for you here. Someone came from the palace just now, and his mother called him away."
Xiao Ting rubbed her head, feeling dizzy, "I'm so hungry, do you have anything to eat?"
Thinking of what Chu Jiyao said just now when she was drowsy, she felt weak all over.
That was the conversation between them during the fight outside the palace, before Xie Jingtian died protecting her.
"Do you really want to give me a wish?"
"Of course, this girl will do what she says."
"Well, if you meet again, I want you to marry me and stay with me for the rest of your life."
And what Chu Jiyao proposed was exactly this wish.
Xiao Ting couldn't understand how to come back from the dead properly, such a wonderful reversal of life, why couldn't she see any joy in him.
How about some negatives
marry her? She doesn't know a lot of Chinese characters, and if she can't write well, she can't do martial arts, which is really disadvantageous for him.
Concubine Chen had mentioned this to her a long time ago, and she hoped that her son could find a well-known lady with background and backing as his concubine, which would be helpful to him.
After all, how can a prince's harem be vacant, he must find someone capable to manage it.
Xiao Ting agreed, and she did the same.
Ever since she found out that Xie Jingtian was still alive, she had been thinking about this issue. To be honest, apart from other things, this man is really good.
Treating her is also very good, a person who can give up her life for her, what else can she say
But, they can't, and she doesn't want to.
As Xiao Ting muttered, Er Gouzi ran out, and after a while, a servant girl brought food in, filling the round table.
Xiao Ting invited him to eat together, but Er Gouzi was a little timid. He didn't know Xiao Ting's identity before, so he naturally had no scruples, but even so, his mother always reminded him to treat Xiao Ting well.
But now it is known that he was once the Ninth Princess of the Empire.
In the future, he may marry his step-brother, who is the eldest son of the emperor and may become the new monarch of the empire, so he will not dare to be presumptuous.
"Sister Xiao, I'd better sit and eat."
"Why?" Xiao Ting looked at him puzzled, "Why is this kid so thoughtful? Come here."
Er Gouzi shook his head, "You have a high status, I can't eat with you." As he said that, he was about to take his bowl and chopsticks aside.
Xiao Ting knocked on the top of his head with chopsticks, and then pulled him over to sit down, "There is no honor here, we are all raised by our parents, we are all the same, and you remember, I am your sister, this will never change, you know?"
"Come, come, let me give you a good taste of the food here and see if it is any different from yours? Are you used to eating?"
The two ate very sweetly, and Er Gouzi was a child after all, so he accepted Xiao Ting's statement in a blink of an eye.
Xiao Ting asked how it was, Er Gouzi nodded, "It's delicious, but it's still the best made by mother."
Er Gouzi began to cry as he ate, obviously thinking of his dead mother.
Xiao Ting couldn't see him crying the most, so she raised her sleeves, wiped his face carelessly twice, and said, "You're a boy, you cry all the time, why are you so useless?"
"I didn't cry. I just missed my mother. It would be great if she could come out to see the outside world while alive."
Er Gouzi retorted and refused to admit it.
"People are mortal, so what's there to cry about?" Xiao Ting said indifferently: "Besides, your mother didn't do any evil things before she was alive. Maybe she has been reincarnated and started a new life for her. You should be happy for her. What's there to cry about?"
"Ah? Really, really?" It was the first time Er Gouzi heard someone say that, which was different from what he knew.
"Naturally it is true."
Xiao Ting picked up a piece of fish and was about to put it in his bowl, but she looked at the fishbone, so she put it back silently, before she ate fish, they gave it to her only after the red spoon had prepared the bone.
The last thing she knows is to eat fish, because she doesn't know how to get spines.
So, her chopsticks turned to the front of the braised pork, picked up a piece of fat and thin meat and put it in his bowl, "Then, eat more meat, you are now growing your body, don't be hungry."
Er Gouzi was very happy, and happily started eating rice, "Sister Xiao, you just said that my name is Gu Shiyi. Is this the new name you gave me?"
Xiao Ting nodded, "Yes, didn't you ask me to give you a new name?"
Er Gouzi whispered, "I want you to choose a name, but what does eleven mean?"
He asked his stepbrother, there is no one named Er Gouzi here, he can't let others look down on him, because looking down on him is the person who lost Sister Xiao.
My step-brother said that although Ergouzi's name is easy to pronounce and kind, it doesn't sound very elegant.
He originally wanted his step-brother to help choose the name, but after thinking about it, he decided to let sister Xiao choose it.
"It's nothing interesting. Your mother wants you to live a peaceful life, so I'll give you a more common name."
Eleven, eleven, easy to remember!
(end of this chapter)