Mo Jingchen's reply was still gentle and cold:

"Wei Chen doesn't know."

Xiao Yao's cheeks were slightly red because of her shyness, and she whispered,

"I really think that the princess is me. I heard that the mountains in the Western Region are high and the roads are far away. There are often bandits running rampant and it's very dangerous.

Mr. Mo, could you please go to Sanqing Temple and ask for a peace charm for me, and I will take it with me on the way. "

"cannot."

Mo Jingchen's reply was without any hesitation, not even a hint of politeness or excuse, and his tone was cold and heartless.

Xiao Yao blushed completely at such a straightforward rejection, pursed her lips and lowered her head.

Yun Duo was so angry that his voice rose an octave,

"Master Mo, why are you so ungrateful?

Have you forgotten that when you were a child, you were dragged behind a rockery and beaten by several princes, and it was our princess who went to report the letter to His Highness the Ninth Prince ... "

The memory brought Mo Jingchen back to his childhood:

Xiao Ye is obviously two years younger than him and a head shorter, but he pats his chest every day and says he wants to protect himself.

Whenever he had free time, he would pester the guards to learn kung fu, no matter it was cold or hot, he would never stop.

He is the youngest among the princes, but he fights the hardest, regardless of the consequences.

Those princes couldn't defeat him, so they vented their anger on themselves.

That day, he came to save himself with a stick. As a small man, he beat four princes who were taller than him. In the end, the sticks were all broken. Not to mention how brave he was ...

Yun Duo saw that Mo Jingchen had a calm face and said nothing. The more he spoke, the more excited he became.

“If it weren’t for our princess, you might have been beaten to death and maimed.

Where can I continue to read to His Highness the Ninth Prince? Where is the glory of today?

Now, the princess asks you for such a small thing, but you are not willing to help, which is too unkind.

You don’t even know that our princess was retaliated later ... "

When Xiao Yao saw that she had almost finished speaking, she covered Yun Duo's mouth in time.

He raised his eyes and looked at Mo Jingchen with a blush on his face, feeling very embarrassed.

"It's all in the past. It's just a matter of effort. Lord Mo doesn't need to take it to heart."

Mo Jingchen still looked at Xiao Yao indifferently:

"Feel sorry."

Mo Jingchen bowed and saluted, looking gentle and submissive, but his whole body exuded the meaning of "I'm very unfamiliar with you, don't touch me", and then he strode away.

Yun Duo frowned and said with indignation,

"Who are you! Does Mr. Mo still have any conscience?

The princess was pushed into the lotus pond by those people in retaliation and almost died!

The princess just pretends that she has saved a white-eyed wolf before. "

Xiao Yao shook her head helplessly,

"Master Mo is a foreign minister, and it is for my own good to maintain a sense of proportion.

As a princess, I should share the emperor's salary and share his worries. My marriage is also a matter of loyalty to the country and filial piety to my father.

Okay, stop complaining, let’s go play with paper kites and cherish the last time in Tianqi. "

The master and the servant set off the kite laughing and joking.

"Who's frolicking there?"

A stern female voice broke the laughter of the master and servant.

Xiao Yao looked back and saw that it was the queen who had not left Kunning Palace for a long time, passing by with a group of palace maids and eunuchs.

She quickly dropped the spool in her hand and knelt down to greet him.

"I met the Queen Mother on Eleven."

The queen said angrily:

"I have been ill for several months, but you are very happy!"

Xiao Yao was shocked, feeling that a disaster was coming, and said hastily,

"Mother, I don't dare!"

The queen was just worrying about where to vent her anger, and then someone happened to come running into her.

She walked forward a few steps, stepped on Xiao Yao's hand that was pressed to the ground, and pinched her chin with the other hand.

"I dare not. I think you are very brave. What is your intention?"

Xiao Yao endured the pain in her hand and begged for mercy with tears in her eyes.

"Mother, I know I was wrong."

The queen released her chin, crushed her with her feet even harder, and said viciously,

"Since you know your mistake, you will be punished by kneeling here for three hours. As for this little palace maid, send her to the Xinzheku to wash clothes!"

Xiao Yao knew that begging the queen would only annoy her, so she could only shed tears and sob.

"Yes, thank you, mother ... "

The queen loosened her legs, and Xiao Yao's hands were numb from the pain.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and soon after Xiao Yao knelt down, it started to rain.

The spring drizzle was the coldest when it fell on her body. Xiao Yao was so cold that her lips turned purple.

The little maid in Xiao Yao's palace saw that her mistress had not returned for a long time, so she went out to look for her, only to find out that she had been betrayed by the queen.

He quickly went to the princess's mother-in-law, Empress Shun, for help.

It is raining so coldly and it is coming to Guishui on the 11th. If you kneel for three hours, you will definitely suffer from physical problems.

Concubine Shun felt sorry for her daughter, so she went to seek help from the emperor.

I was told that the emperor went to Guanju Palace.

Concubine Shun immediately burst into tears.

Concubine Mo hated the concubine first, and the emperor's heir second. With her stirring up trouble around the emperor, how could the emperor care about the princess?

However, now that we are desperate, we can only treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Shunpin didn't even hold her umbrella, she walked quickly all the way to Guanju Palace and cried and told her everything.

The emperor weighed the queen's reputation as the mother of the country and her brother Xu Yu, a general of the cavalry, who held a large army. The pain of the eleventh princess kneeling in the rain at this moment seemed less important.

"Eleven is so ignorant. The queen is seriously ill, but she actually flies a kite for fun ... "

Concubine Mo interrupted him and said in a coquettish voice,

"Your Majesty, I am the one who is in charge of the affairs of the harem now. Since my power to manage the harem has not been handed back, if the Eleventh Princess makes a mistake now, I should be the one to punish her, right?"

The emperor nodded his approval.

Shunpin looked at Concubine Mo with great gratitude. As long as her daughter was not exposed to the icy rain at this moment, any other punishment would be fine.

When Cui Guo went to pick her up, Xiao Yao was already kneeling so pale that her lips were bloodless and unconscious. It was the little eunuch who carried her back to Guanju Palace.

Concubine Mo immediately saw Xiao Yao's green hand in front of the eunuch and scolded,

"Cuiguo, why are you on duty and you still throw the princess like this?"

Cui Guo guided the topic understandingly,

“Master, when this slave received the princess, she was like this.

Even if I fall, I won't be able to hit the back of my hand, I'm afraid it might be crushed by something. "

"Tsk tsk~"

Concubine Mo looked regretful,

"My hand was crushed. Your Majesty, I was planning to punish the princess to copy the palace rules ten times, but now I can see that she can't copy them either.

If a girl doesn't teach her, it's her mother's fault, why not punish the concubine to copy the palace rules ten times? "

"Yes, I will accept my punishment. Thank you, my dearest concubine."

Concubine Shun quickly knelt down to accept the punishment, fearing that the emperor would stop her a moment later.

Copying the palace rules is not even a punishment to her. For her daughter, it was a kindness to escape the disaster.

Concubine Shun could no longer hate the domineering Concubine Mo.

The next day.

When Xiao Yao woke up, her mother-in-law and Yun Duo were by her side.

Although Yun Duo was only sent to Xinzheku for less than a day, he was already beaten with bruises by the nun in charge.