Chapter 9 What is a Princess?
The next day, Ye Jinshu got up as usual, exercised, and then hoeed the fields. Soon after, he received good news and bad news.

Good news, the person who wrote the storybook has been found, and Xiaohua has brought people to the palace gate.

Bad news, the person who wrote the storybook is a man, and Xiaohua cannot be brought in, so he can only ask someone to take a message to the princess, while he and the man wait outside the palace.

"It turned out to be a man."

The description in the story of "The Rebirth of a Legitimate Daughter" is very delicate, especially the description of the heroine's inner thoughts, which often makes Ye Jinshu empathize with her.

I didn’t expect it was written by a man!

Speaking of the heroine in "Reborn as a Daughter", she is really amazing.

Ye Jinshu insisted on meeting the person who wrote this story, not only because he wanted to tell him in person that rebirth would not change fate, but also because the stupidity of human nature would make people fall into the same trap several times.

More importantly, Ye Jinshu wanted to know how the person who could write such a clever heroine would deal with the same situation as her.

She originally thought that if they could get along well, she would become sisters with this storyteller and work together in farming in the future.

Unexpectedly, this is actually a man!
In summary!
"I'm going to find the Queen."

Ye Jinshu was very confident that if he just let someone in to tell her a story, the queen would agree.

After all, the empress had always doted on her. Even though she had been accused of so many crimes that could not be cleared, she was able to keep her life in the end under the protection of the emperor and empress.

To be honest, Ye Jinshu herself felt that the Emperor and Empress were too indulgent towards her sometimes. But when she came to her senses, she would think that it was a good thing that they indulged her. Deep down, if she were in Ye Ruoyan's situation, she would probably stay like that for the rest of her life.

Ye Jinshu said let’s go, and went straight to Changchun Palace.

By this time, the morning and evening prayers had ended and the queen had finished her breakfast, so it was just the right time to go over.

Ye Jinshu's Anping Palace was not far from the Queen's bedroom, and it could even be said to be right next door.

It’s not far from the emperor’s residence, just next door to the next door.

When Ye Jinshu was first brought into the palace, the emperor and empress were afraid that she would feel insecure, so they deliberately arranged for Ye Jinshu to live closer to them. This made it convenient for Ye Jinshu to go and complain whenever she encountered problems, and it was also convenient for them to keep an eye on Ye Jinshu at any time.

From childhood to adulthood, Ye Jinshu has seen all kinds of harem tricks. After all, wherever the emperor appears, there are tricks.

In the past, many of the methods she used to deal with Ye Ruoyan were learned from the concubines in the harem who wanted to win favor.

She didn't think much of it at first, but now when Ye Jinshu recalled it she actually felt damn embarrassed. It would have been fine if she had learned it, but she couldn't understand it, and she was half-hearted in her studies, and was easily exposed, but she still refused to admit it.

It's not unreasonable that she failed once in her five reincarnations.

As soon as Ye Jinshu reached the gate of Changchun Palace, she saw the Queen's personal maid already waiting at the door, as if she had known she was coming.

"I pay my respects to the princess. The queen has already prepared the princess' favorite cakes in the palace. I will take you there."

Ye Jinshu nodded. He was not surprised that the Queen knew his movements.

In a place like the harem, the queen has eyes and ears everywhere.

Since he lived next door to the Queen, she would know everything that happened.

Ye Jinshu was brought to the Queen, who was sitting in a high place. When she saw Ye Jinshu coming, her eyes and eyebrows were instantly filled with smiles. She raised her hand and said, "Jinshu is here, come and sit next to your aunt."

Ye Jinshu still bowed according to the rules: "Hello, aunt."

"There are no outsiders here, so don't bother with these empty formalities. This is the new pastry that the kitchen has made recently. Try it and see if it suits your taste. If it does, take the cook with you. You haven't been going out for a month, and you always eat bland dishes. Your aunt feels sorry for you when she sees you."

"Hehe, I just want to adapt in advance." Ye Jinshu said as she moved closer to the queen and ate the cakes. Changchun Palace was not unfamiliar to Ye Jinshu. She often ate cakes at the queen's place, and the queen was also very kind to her.

It is said that the Queen and her mother were close friends during their lifetime. They could talk about anything. Even after the Queen entered the palace, she often asked her mother to come to the palace to talk, commonly known as "playing with her".

Her mother was also a protective person. Whenever she entered the palace and found that her sisters had been wronged, she would either go back and complain and let her husband quarrel with the civil officials in the court to torture the emperor, or she would directly break into the harem and beat up anyone who made the queen unhappy.

After beating her, she would leave excuses, saying that this concubine didn't wash her hair and it smelled bad, or that this concubine had smelly feet and it made her uncomfortable, or that this concubine had bad breath and she didn't like the smell.

Every concubine who had been taught a lesson would be stigmatized by various strange things, but her mother had military merits and an imperial decree, so even if she was punished, she would only be confined to her home, and when it was time to fight, she would still go to the battlefield with her husband.

As time went by, everyone in the palace knew that the queen had a very vicious friend. The emperor could not do anything about her and did not dare to offend the queen easily.

The queen's position became more and more stable.

Before Ye Jinshu's mother died in the war, she wrote a letter by hand entrusting her to the care of the queen.

The nanny in the Queen's palace once secretly told Ye Jinshu that when the Queen first received the letter, she cried for a long time and became sick. She was sick for a month or so until Jinshu entered the palace. She was thinking about fulfilling her sister's last wish, so she managed to hold on.

The letter is now treasured by the queen in a secret compartment, and she takes it out to read from time to time.

However, the Queen never showed the letter to Ye Jinshu.

The Queen said that she didn't want Ye Jinshu to recall those painful memories. She would take on the role of a mother and raise Ye Jinshu well. She wanted Ye Jinshu to have only happy memories in the future.

Just as the Queen said, she raised Ye Jinshu to be happy and she never encountered any setbacks, so much so that in her first life, Ye Jinshu was devastated just by the Crown Prince breaking off her engagement.

The Queen had been watching Ye Jinshu eat the cakes. Seeing how happy she was, her eyes were also filled with smiles: "What are you adapting to? In the palace, your uncle and I will not be able to deprive you of food."

"There's a saying that goes, prevention is better than cure."

Hearing Ye Jinshu's words, the queen's smile grew even brighter: "Is that how you use this word?"

Ye Jinshu knew that continuing the topic would lead to no result. She couldn't possibly tell the Queen that she was getting used to the food on the farm in advance because she would be farming in the future.

After swallowing the cake in her mouth and drinking the tea that the queen handed to her, Ye Jinshu explained her purpose: "Aunt, I recently read a storybook that was very interesting. I wanted to ask the author of this storybook to come to the palace to talk, but he was a man and was stopped outside the palace. Aunt, can you help me ask him to come to the palace to chat with me?"

The Queen listened to Ye Jinshu until he finished speaking before asking, "What kind of story is this?"

"It's a very long and interesting storybook. I'll tell it to my aunt when I've studied it thoroughly."

The queen was pleased with Ye Jinshu's coaxing, and she didn't ask any more questions. She just called her personal maid over and said, "Shuyao, get the palace entry order and go to the palace gate to bring the people in."

"Yes."

Hearing this, Ye Jinshu happily crawled into the Queen's arms: "Yeah! Auntie is the best!"

"You."

Ye Jinshu stayed in Changchun Palace until Shuyao came back to report. Upon hearing the news that the man who wrote the storybook had been taken to Anping Palace, Ye Jinshu said goodbye and rushed out of Changchun Palace.

Watching Ye Jinshu's back as she left, the Queen couldn't help but sigh to the maid next to her: "This girl looks like this today, I'm afraid she was really hurt by Yi'er."

"My lady, is it okay to allow common people to have contact with the princess?"

"If I don't agree, what will she do if she locks me up in the palace for another month? Ye Ruoyan is getting more and more reckless, and she actually pestered Yi'er in front of Anping Palace. If it weren't for her... Forget it, I'll find someone to hide his identity and go over and give her a warning."

"Yes, ma'am."

(End of this chapter)