Chapter 6: Going Too Far

"What happened outside?"

"Sister Yu'er seems to have quarreled with someone."

Princess Ankang stretched her neck and looked outside the gate of Jingyang Palace, and then she stood up to check.

She had been weak and sick since she was a child, and she was out of breath after walking two steps, so she usually sat in a wheelchair and was pushed by Yu'er.

But now in a hurry, Princess Ankang didn't care about anything else and struggled to stand up from the wheelchair.

Princess Ankang stood up halfway with great effort, and Li Xuan suddenly bounced out of her arms and let her sit back down.

"Oh, Xuan!"

Ignoring Ankang's complaints, Li Xuan ran straight to the palace gate without looking back, at a very fast speed.

"Xuan, slow down, wait for me!"

And the poor Princess Ankang could only gather strength again and brew a new round of strength to stand up.

When she stood up and walked to the palace gate again, it was unknown when she would stand up.

Li Xuan did it on purpose. His ears were sharper than Ankang's, and he heard a few words from afar.

He didn't need to think too much, he knew that someone must be looking for trouble again.

Even though they were already trapped in this corner of the cold palace, their lives were still uneasy.

This kind of scene was not suitable for Ankang to see.

Li Xuan took two steps at a time and jumped a long distance, extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the palace gate, and sure enough, he saw Yu'er and the other two strange eunuchs here.

Yu'er was about to cry at this time, with a face full of grievances.

She spread a few pieces of silver in one hand and held a bag of shriveled cloth in the other hand.

"You are so bold and presumptuous. You deduct the monthly allowance of Jingyang Palace. Aren't you afraid that Her Royal Highness the Princess will get into trouble!"

"When the time comes, when His Majesty investigates, who of you can escape responsibility?"

Yu'er stubbornly held back the tears in her eyes and threatened viciously.

But in the face of such a direct threat, the two young eunuchs snorted coldly and replied in a sarcastic tone: "Thank you Miss Yu'er for your concern, but you should worry more about yourself than us."

Hearing this, Li Xuan, who had already stood behind Yu'er, couldn't help but frown.

"The monthly allowance has been deducted again, it's really getting too much!"

All the expenses of everyone in the palace are uniformly distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which includes not only gold and silver represented by salaries, but also many daily necessities, such as rice, flour, grain, oil, silk and cloth for making clothes, charcoal fire in winter, ice, tea, quilts and pillows in summer, etc.

Those who are more favored also have fresh food, fruits and flowers, but these have nothing to do with Jingyang Palace as a cold palace.

Except for the most basic silver and food, Li Xuan has never seen anything else sent to Jingyang Palace.

Not only that, in less than a year since he opened his eyes, the monthly allowance of Jingyang Palace has been deducted several times for various reasons.

One of them even happened when Concubine Xiao was the sickest.

Otherwise, how could the people in Jingyang Palace be reduced to eating porridge every day?

But it was unexpected that even so, there were still people who were not satisfied.

It seems that those people will not give up unless all those who breathe in this cold palace are killed.

Another eunuch also said to Yu'er impatiently: "We are just following orders. The monthly allowance is decided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If you are dissatisfied, you can ask for justice from the eunuchs in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Yu'er is a little palace maid. If she really makes trouble in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how can she get anything good.

This eunuch is deliberately irritating Yu'er.

Yu'er tightly grasped the silver and cloth bag in her hand, and her nails were deeply embedded in her palm.

She knew that she could not do anything to these two eunuchs, but she just couldn't swallow this breath.

Why?

Why do they have to bully them like this?

Why can't a princess have enough food in the palace?

The two eunuchs looked at Yu'er's angry but daring not to speak, sneered with disdain, turned around and prepared to leave.

As a result, Yu'er put the silver in her right hand into her arms, and then stepped forward to pull the two people.

"No, there must be a reason for deducting the monthly allowance, even the eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have to be reasonable!"

Yu'er was also very angry, and a burst of brute force came out of nowhere, making the two eunuchs unable to break free for a while.

After a struggle, the two eunuchs also got really angry.

The two of them were entangled for a long time, but they couldn't break free from a palace maid, which stimulated their fragile self-esteem.

"Let go!"

The two eunuchs pushed Yu'er hard together.

Relying on the advantage of their weight, Yu'er was pushed away hard, lost her balance, and fell backwards.

Yu'er screamed subconsciously, and the back of her head hit the copper nails on the door.

The gates of the palace are all covered with copper nails the size of a sea bowl, neatly arranged in nine rows and nine columns.

These copper nails are used to reinforce the wooden doors and prevent fire, and also for decoration.

But now they have become Yu'er's death warrant.

If this hits the back of her head hard, how can Yu'er survive?

The two eunuchs were vicious.

Li Xuan didn't think much, and used all his strength to push the ground, rushing straight to Yu'er's back.

Then he stepped hard on her back with all his strength to offset the momentum of Yu'er.

Yu'er only felt her body lighten, and a gentle force supported her. The original trajectory of the violent backward movement was paused, and the soft flesh of her buttocks soon came into contact with the hard ground.

"Ouch!"

Yu'er cried out in pain and sat on the ground, her body just stopped just an inch away from the door.

Almost, Yu'er would have had a close contact with the copper nails on the door.

At that time, if she didn't die, she would have broken bones and tendons.

Then there was a strange sound of "pop", which immediately attracted Yu'er and the two eunuchs to see.

A pool of black stains appeared on the vermilion door of Jingyang Palace at some point.

The stains stayed on the door for a moment, and then slid down softly.

Oh, it turned out to be a cat.

"Ah Xuan!?"

Yu'er exclaimed, and quickly picked up the kitten that had slumped on the ground.

She tried to pry Li Xuan twice, but found that the cat couldn't even straighten its neck, and it drooped weakly to the side.

The pink little tongue stuck out, and couldn't be retracted. The eyes kept rolling around, and it was obvious that the collision was really heavy.

Although Li Xuan tried his best to protect Yu'er, he was just a kitten less than one year old, and there was a huge difference in weight between him and Yu'er.

Although he dissipated most of Yu'er's momentum, under the impact of inertia, Li Xuan was still hit hard against the door, and was knocked unconscious.

This was thanks to his cat zodiac, which allowed him to change his own form freely, and he also had the racial talent of "connecting and transforming hair".

If it were a dog, I'm afraid the dog's life would be in danger now.

"Ah Xuan, are you okay? Don't scare me!"

Yu'er hugged Li Xuan and shook him nervously twice.

Obviously, she also understood at this time that it was Li Xuan who took the blame for her.

And Princess Ankang liked Li Xuan so much. If something bad happened to him, how would she explain it?

If even Li Xuan was gone, I'm afraid Princess Ankang would never smile again.