Steal my marriage? Turn around and marry the tyrant to take the throne

Chapter 781 The Palace Maid with Her Hands Cut Off

"Yes."

Several nannies responded respectfully, then looked at the eldest princess kindly: "Princess, please come with us."

The eldest princess bit her lip and nodded silently.

Her favorite thing to do in the past was to catch colorful butterflies in the imperial garden and bring them back to show her mother.

My mother would ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to bring a beautiful glass jar and put the butterfly inside for her to admire.

Many times, the eldest princess couldn't bear it and would release all the butterflies after playing with them for a while.

But now...those most ordinary things have become unattainable memories.

Every day, the eldest princess could only look at the portrait that Sister Xiyan had drawn for her and her mother, missing her mother...

She also knew that her mother had done a lot of bad things. That was why Sister Xiyan hated her mother, and Concubine Chen hated her mother. There were many people in the palace who didn't want her mother to live a good life...

But no matter what, she is still her mother...

The eldest princess knew that she had no right to ask others to forgive her mother, but she still missed her mother so much...

She lowered her head with a heavy heart, and walked for a long time accompanied by her nannies, before she reached the Imperial Garden from the Cining Palace.

Suddenly, the eldest princess heard a noise, and several eunuchs said anxiously: "There!"

"Catch her quickly, don't let her run away!"

"If she runs away and offends someone important, we will have more heads than we can chop off!"

"stop!"

"..."

They chased a woman with disheveled hair and ragged clothes.

The woman seemed to have been tortured, and she was mad and running barefoot on the palace road. Her feet were scratched by sharp stones, and blood was flowing, but she seemed to feel no pain.

Soon, the woman ran to the eldest princess.

The nannies protected the eldest princess behind them and shouted at her, "How dare you! Who are you to offend the eldest princess?!"

The woman seemed not to understand what she was saying. She danced with fear on her face: "Don't hit me! Don't hit me!"

"I will never dare to do that again! Don't cut my hand off!"

As the woman raised her arms, the nannies were horrified to find that both of her hands had been chopped off at the wrists, leaving only bare arms...

It looks so scary!

"what!!!"

The eldest princess also saw it, and the scene was too shocking for her. She screamed in shock, and her face turned pale with fear.

At this time, the eunuchs finally caught up and restrained the woman.

The leading nanny came to her senses, frowned and scolded: "Which palace are you from? How did you let this lunatic escape?!"

"What crime should you be punished for scaring the princess?!"

The eunuchs quickly bowed their heads and apologized: "We are servants in the cold palace. Today, we were ordered by the Imperial Concubine Fengchen to clean up the cold palace as usual. We accidentally let her escape."

"Please forgive me, Princess and maids!"

There are countless crazy people in the cold palace, and it is not uncommon to see them missing limbs.

The nanny waved her hand with a gloomy look on her face: "Okay, take the person away!"

"Watch her more closely from now on, and don't let her run out and scare people again!"

The eunuchs nodded repeatedly: "Madam is right!"

"Slave, please resign!"

The eldest princess suddenly took a step forward and said in surprise: "Wait!"

The eunuchs all stopped and looked at her in confusion: "Does the eldest princess have any other instructions?"

The nannies were also puzzled: "Grand Princess, we should have less contact with such an unlucky person."

Because she was restrained, the woman could not move, and the eldest princess finally saw her appearance clearly.

Disbelief was written all over her little face, and she asked in astonishment: "Xiao, Xiaodie? You are the Xiaodie who used to serve my mother, how did you become like this?!"

The woman didn’t understand what she said at all and could only shake her head in fear: “I know I was wrong! Don’t cut my hand! Wuuuuu…”

They let Xiaodie escape today, which was a mistake in the first place. If they scared the princess again, it would be an even greater crime.

The eunuchs apologized and hurried away with Xiaodie.

The nanny who used to serve the eldest princess was dismissed by Empress Dowager Liu long ago after Liu Shiqing fell from power. The nannies who are now with the eldest princess are all arranged by Empress Dowager Liu.

They looked at the eldest princess and asked in confusion: "Eldest Princess, do you know that madman?"

The eldest princess looked at the direction they left and found it hard to accept: "When Xiaodie worked in Yongshou Palace, she was very serious about her work and Cuizhu often praised her. Sometimes when mother is not free, I let Xiaodie accompany me to the imperial garden to catch butterflies."

"But one day, when I woke up from my nap, I had never seen Xiaodie again..."

"Both mother and Cuizhu said that Xiaodie was released from the palace because she had reached the age."

"But I remember hearing Cuizhu say that a palace maid can only leave the palace when she is 25 years old, and Xiaodie is not yet old enough..."

"But they all said that Xiaodie left the palace to get married. Although I was reluctant to let Xiaodie go and didn't understand why she didn't even say goodbye to me before leaving the palace, I still wished her well."

"Xiaodie... Why did Xiaodie lose her hand? She went crazy and was locked up in the cold palace?"

Thinking back to the days when Xiaodie accompanied her to the imperial garden to catch butterflies, and then looking at her current appearance, the eldest princess' eyes became moist with heartache.

Several nannies looked at each other.

Although they didn't know what was going on, after staying in the harem for a long time, it was clear to them.

The palace maid named Xiaodie must have offended someone and was punished. Liu and Cuizhu didn't want the eldest princess to be sad, so they deliberately said that she left the palace and got married.

The nanny didn't want to cause any trouble, so she looked at the eldest princess and said with a smile: "Princess, the Queen Mother asked us to take you out to relax, so don't think about those unlucky people."

"Yes, look at how beautiful the peonies are over there! Would you like to pick a few and bring them back to the Queen Mother? Seeing your filial piety, the Queen Mother will definitely be very happy!"

The eldest princess missed her mother and was wondering why Xiaodie had become like this. How could she have the mood to appreciate the flowers?

At this time, a palace maid holding a scroll slowly walked out from another patch of flowers.

Seeing the eldest princess, she knelt down expressionlessly and said, "This servant greets the eldest princess!"

"Xi Yan?"

The eldest princess was quite happy at first, but when she thought of Chu Xiyan saying that her parents were killed by her mother, she didn't know how to face her...

The eldest princess was silent for a while, then she asked dryly, "Why are you here?"

Chu Xiyan still had no expression on her face: "Replying to the eldest princess, I was ordered by the Royal Concubine Fengchen to paint a portrait of Concubine Hao in Ruyi Pavilion, so that the fifth prince can have a memory of her when he grows up."

"I'm going to pick up the paintings today."