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"Yaoyao, let's take a bath. We haven't taken a bath since your wounds healed."
Bai Xiaolu got up early in the morning and went to the kitchen to boil water. Seeing this, Bai Yaoyao hurriedly took the black charcoal and started scratching on the ground.
"There isn't much firewood left, so we should save some and not waste it."
Bai Xiaolu glanced at her and pretended not to care, humming, "Yaoyao, do you think you're the only one who wants to take a bath? I want to take a bath too. I haven't taken a bath for more than half a month. Besides, New Year's Day is in a week. I have to take a bath sooner or later. I might as well take a bath now to wash away the disease and filth on Yaoyao's body."
"Besides, it's winter now, and there's a lot of dry firewood to collect in the back mountain. Yaoyao doesn't have to worry about not having enough firewood."
After hearing this, Bai Yaoyao had nothing to refute. The new festival was similar to the Spring Festival in her previous life, there was no difference except the name. In the end, she could only write on the ground that even when picking up firewood, she had to include her words to express her dissatisfaction.
"Don't worry, Yaoyao. I will definitely take you there when the time comes."
After saying that, Bai Xiaolu added a few more pieces of firewood into the stove, and the fire became bigger, continuously burning the cold well water inside. It took a while before hot steam slowly emerged.
"Done, let's have breakfast first, it should be almost done by the time we're done with breakfast."
Bai Xiaolu clapped her hands. Now she finally had some experience. She didn't know how Her Royal Highness the Princess had become so proficient so quickly, since she had never burned firewood before.
After getting the porridge boxes, the two were surprised to find an extra stack of pickle boxes and a stack of salted fish. This made the two very happy as they had not seen meat for a long time. Even the salted fish tasted delicious.
I don’t know who the palace maid who delivered the meal today is. Why was she so kind and even added some meat and didn’t embezzle money privately?
"Ah."
Bai Yaoyao very rigorously cut the food into ten portions with five cuts, and she ate four of them.
The good thing about cold porridge in winter is that it is frozen like tofu and can be easily separated by a few scrapes with chopsticks, then divided into two bowls.
Bai Yaoyao whimpered, indicating that the larger portion was for Lu'er. Seeing this, Bai Xiaolu had no choice but to nod, then took the divided bowls away to add water and heat them up again.
After her deception, the princess watched her more closely, so she had no choice but to eat more.
"Alas, I can only add a little more water so that the princess can eat more and I can eat less vegetables."
Thinking this, Bai Xiaolu returned to the kitchen, added a little more firewood to keep the fire going, put the porridge in the pot to steam, and when she turned around, she saw the princess frowning and looking a little strange.
"Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?"
Could it be that Her Royal Highness the Princess wants to share the food again?
Bai Yaoyao shook her head to indicate that she was fine.
She just felt her body was very sore and swollen all over. She had this feeling after getting up. She thought it was because of what Di Muxi did last night, and it was a problem caused by her sleep quality and sleeping posture. She didn't expect that she still felt uncomfortable all over after getting up and moving around for so long, and the pain was getting worse and worse.
"I'm just hungry."
Bai Yaoyao wrote this on the ground. She guessed that these were probably the hidden injuries left from the last parade. The system's treatment kit only healed the wounds but did not completely cure them. Or perhaps these hidden injuries required an upgraded treatment kit to be completely cured.
There's no point telling Lu'er about this, so I might as well keep it secret.
"Never mind, it doesn't hurt that much, it's just a little uncomfortable."
Bai Yaoyao has always been very adaptable. She forced herself to take a nice bath with Lu'er after finishing her meal.
In order to thoroughly wash off the dirt on my body, I used up more than half of the charcoal and firewood, got several braziers and a large bucket of hot water, left a gap in the doors and windows for ventilation, and took a comfortable hot bath in this winter.
"Lu'er's body is not bad, but there are many marks left from her training."
Bai Yaoyao was thinking as she reached out and gently stroked the girl's body to help scrub her body. Her skin was fair and tender, but there were many fine scars on it.
"Princess, move a little higher up. I can't reach it there."
Bai Xiaolu was very happy lying next to the tub, directing Yaoyao. Bai Yaoyao had no objection and kept rubbing along, adding some hot water from time to time, focusing on some private parts (3,000 words omitted, please use your imagination carefully)
After all the hot water was used up, I used the remaining warm water to rinse several times and washed for half an hour before finally finishing.
The water used for washing was poured away directly. After all, there was a well in Yuzhao Palace, which would not freeze even in winter. Water resources were not precious, but hot water resources were precious.
"Come on, let's go to the backyard and collect firewood."
Chapter 35 Goodbye Di Muxi
The area covered by the Yuzhao Palace is not small. For example, the backyard is connected to a small hill. However, because some wild beasts often come down the hill to threaten them, a wall was built there. Bai Yaoyao and others cannot get out, and can only pick up some broken firewood in the small garden behind the wall.
There were still thin snowflakes floating in the sky, twinkling in the sunlight like beautiful falling stars. The branches of the surrounding trees were covered with snow, making them shaky. Large pieces of snow would slide down at the slightest disturbance.
Pure, quiet and beautiful, it makes people feel both cold and warm, lonely and full of vitality.
Bai Yaoyao tried to squat down and pick up a wooden stick, but her weak fingers only lasted a few seconds before slipping down.
"Yaoyao can just help carry the firewood."
Bai Xiaolu noticed this and immediately put the firewood in her hand into the bamboo basket that Yaoyao was carrying: "Yaoyao, don't complain about the hard work."
Bai Yaoyao smiled and shook her head. She felt a little warm in her heart about Lu'er's care for her. She shook her shoulders and obediently explored the way. She found and kicked out the thin firewood hidden in the snow. Lu'er was then responsible for picking them up and throwing them into the bamboo basket she was carrying.
In this very harmonious way, the two girls, one big and one small, walked in the snow, one in front and one behind.
In winter, as long as you shake off the snow on the wood, it is basically dry and very dry, and can be made into top-quality firewood.
"It seems like we're running low on firewood."
After searching for a long time, I only found the amount from the previous few days. In this increasingly cold weather, the consumption is even greater and it can't last long.
As for using an axe to chop down trees, that is possible, but the chopped firewood is wet and needs to be cut into small pieces and then dried before it can be burned as firewood, which is very troublesome.
"Well... I'll sharpen my axe this afternoon and chop down a tree, otherwise it won't be enough."
Bai Xiaolu was scratching the ground with a long wooden stick, muttering: "It would be nice if the sun came out a little bit."
Bai Yaoyao couldn't help but smile after hearing this. In this weather, it would be difficult to dry the firewood even if the sun was out. If they didn't store more firewood in the autumn, they would have to live on charcoal.
"You still have to save some money from now on. For example, forget about taking a shower this winter."
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"These should last until after the New Year."
Bai Xiaolu's face was filled with a hint of worry. Although she could hold out until after the New Year, she had already been there several times during such a long period of time. She probably wouldn't be able to pick up many dry branches if she went there again.
Bai Yaoyao couldn't speak and could only follow Lu'er silently, carrying the wood on her back. For the first time, she wished the bamboo basket could be heavier.
"I have to change Di Muxi's attitude towards me as soon as possible. I don't know what the effect was last night."
Bai Yaoyao was thinking about this when she just returned to the backyard and saw a huge ceremonial guard occupying her small Yuzhao Palace.
This is... the Empress is coming?
"Bai Yaoyao has become like this?"
Di Muxi looked at Princess Qi with complicated eyes. She looked like a country girl. She thought about how radiant she was when she first came here, and how she exuded the pampered and delicate air.
While it is incredibly beautiful, although some aspects are particularly delicate, it does not seem to be annoying.
But now, she has unkempt black hair, dull skin, and although her facial features still have the original stunning brilliance, the spirit is gone.
The pride of Princess Qi was gone, and what remained was only a slightly bent waist that revealed a sense of humility.
The girl's eyes suddenly lit up the moment she saw the empress. She hurried forward and opened her mouth to say something, but when the words came out of her lips a humming sound came out, and then she realized that she had become mute.
"Stand back."
Di Muxi waved his hand to signal everyone around him to leave, and then signaled Bai Yaoyao to follow. The two of them walked into the dormitory like this, with no one else around.
Her visit this time was not on a whim, she just wanted to knock on the side to see if the so-called orchid fragrance was really Bai Yaoyao.
"Looking at your appearance, do you know you are wrong?"
When Di Muxi saw Bai Yaoyao's strange gestures, he remembered that she had been poisoned and turned into a mute.
He had no choice but to ask someone to bring paper and pen to Bai Yaoyao, "You know how to write, right?"
"Mmmmmmm!"
The girl nodded repeatedly, then quickly used her slender hands full of scars to hold the pen and write beautiful small characters on the slightly yellowed long paper.
Di Muxi slowly moved closer, thinking that Bai Yaoyao would have a strange smell on her body, but when she got closer she found that there was no strange smell, and there was even a very faint fragrance that seemed familiar.
Perhaps she had smelled it wrongly. When she tried to concentrate her nose, she could no longer find the scent. Only the smell of cheap charcoal filled the air.
"You say you were wronged?"
Di Muxi came back to his senses and looked at the words written by the girl. It detailed that she accidentally discovered someone mentioned His Majesty, discovered a shocking secret while eavesdropping, and when she was about to come out to ask for help, she was knocked unconscious and her voice was poisoned, and her hand was also injured.
"Is that right?"
Di Muxi looked at the girl's slightly trembling fingers, but she was a little moved as she still held the pen tightly with both hands. After being poisoned and rendered mute, Bai Yaoyao must be eager for a chance to communicate, right?
However, although she felt a little pity for the miserable appearance of her former enemy, there was no way she could reconcile with them.
Even if there were some deviations in the torture and influence at the time, the fact that Bai Yaoyao took away her biological mother's jade pendant is too complicated to be recorded in history, not to mention that Bai Yaoyao was also involved in the main reason.
"Do you like orchids?"
Suddenly, Di Muxi asked this question out of the blue. The girl was stunned for a moment and then shook her head blankly, as if she didn't understand why His Majesty suddenly asked such a question.
[Your Majesty, can you investigate the poisoning case? I am really not the murderer. I was framed.]
The girl continued writing like this, looking very anxious.
Di Muxi didn't care about this matter. Those who should be killed had been killed, and those who should be sentenced had been sentenced. Bai Yaoyao, your voice had been poisoned and made mute. What's the point of turning the page?
"What about where?"
Di Muxi felt that Yaoyao didn't even know about Lanhua, so she couldn't be the one who saved her, and her tone became cold: "Didn't you leave Yuzhao Palace without permission, Lady Bai, there's no way you don't know this, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the girl was so overwhelmed that she stopped where she was and even forgot to write. When she came to her senses, Emperor Muxi had already turned around and left. The girl then reacted and hurriedly wrote down the reason for leaving the palace on a piece of white paper. When she chased out again, His Majesty's guard of honor was no longer there.
"Yaoyao, stop looking, she's gone."
The older Bai Xiaolu saw things more clearly. She vaguely felt that the empress was not very good to Yaoyao. Some things could have been dealt with leniently, but she had to deal with it in a concentrated manner.
"Um……"
The girl hummed, her beautiful eyes staring blankly in the direction of leaving the palace, still holding the letter of explanation in her hand.
Chapter 36 The Dream Continues
"It's true that I can fall asleep easily if I go to bed early."
Di Muxi looked at the incredible scene around him. He was no longer surprised. He was just happy that he had found a way to enter the dream.
"I think we can find the person who saved me, right?"
The scene shows that she should be recuperating in the woodshed for a while after being treated with medicine by Bai Yaoyao. Someone brings her food every day, but no one knows whose instructions it is.
"Strange, I don't seem to remember this part."
Di Muxi didn't care about anything after being a little surprised. As the surrounding environment passed quickly and various wonderful changes occurred, she found some sense of dream. After the surrounding scene returned to normal, she saw Bai Yaoyao, the pink ball, holding a fluffy little skirt in her arms. She was wearing a beautiful princess dress, very cute.
Di Muxi's soul was shaken by shock, and he almost lost his balance and traveled back to the real world.
The reason was the orchid scent coming from the pink ball. Although it was not pure, it had some Chinese medicine flavor in it. Although it was different from the smell that night, she couldn't make a mistake. Even if it had the smell of Chinese medicine, she could already smell that there were orchid ingredients in it.
"How is this possible? Could it be that Bai Yaoyao really saved me, or is this dream just a lie?"
Seeing that Di Muxi was still online, Bai Yaoyao continued the story with her acting skills: "Your name is Mu'er, right? I'm so sorry for accidentally biting you a few days ago."
After saying that, the pink ball came closer and wanted to take a look at the other person's arm to see how the wound with a piece of missing flesh was healing.
Mu'er didn't remember what happened last night at all. She only remembered the fragrance. After smelling the scent on Fentuanzi's body, she just took a few steps back in disgust, not hiding her disgust for the smell of traditional Chinese medicine on Fentuanzi's body.
"you--"
The pink ball pouted in anger and turned away immediately. Several followers who often followed the princess became unhappy and secretly started to organize new bullying.
"I finally remembered."
Di Muxi suddenly realized that in her impression, Bai Yaoyao came to laugh at her on purpose, and was also the murderer who instructed that group of people to bully her.
Now it seems that those people were deliberately trying to please her, which was no different from what happened in the previous dream.
"It's just what happened later..."
Di Muxi's eyes gradually darkened again. The reason why she hated Bai Yaoyao so much was because of what happened afterwards. From then on, she was completely forced to become Bai Yaoyao's little follower and suffered humiliation.
Afterwards, Di Muxi went through the timeline from Mu'er's perspective, during which he remembered some almost forgotten memories hidden deep in his mind, and also found some clues.
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