Chapter 116 Are you deliberately making me dislike you and alienate you?
Chapter 116 Are you deliberately making me dislike you and alienate you?
"Young Prince, would you allow me to take the Majesty's things back to the palace and then wash your boots for you?"
"No!" Prince Mu stretched his legs forward again without any room for negotiation. "Right now, immediately!"
Although I couldn't see the expression on Tuan'er's face clearly, I could tell from her body shape that she hesitated for a moment, turned around, tidied the clothes in her hand, placed them on the clean pillar next to her, and then bent down to get off.
Seeing that Prince Mu showed no intention of retracting his foot, Gu Yingxin immediately shouted, "Mu Li! Stop!"
Startled by the sudden shout, Prince Mu turned around and saw Gu Yingxin rushing towards him. He was then pushed back two steps by her outstretched hand.
She turned around and stood in front of Tuan'er, judging Prince Mu, "You are a man after all, how can you bully the weak!"
"I bully the weak? Gu Yingxin, don't open your mouth and talk nonsense! Be careful or I'll sue you for defamation!"
"Then go ahead and file a complaint! Ask the gentlemen in the Prince's office to judge whether stopping a little maid and forcing her to lick your boots was bullying? Was that abusing your power? Better yet, file a complaint with the Queen Mother and ask her to explain if that's how she taught you."
"It's her! She's the one who made my boots dirty. Shouldn't she clean them for me?"
"Even so, she said she would wash you after she was done, but you still insisted and asked her to lick it clean. Isn't that too much?"
This time, Prince Mu didn't refute, but only hummed softly: "I didn't want her to really lick it."
He was holding his breath and was already feeling depressed. The little palace maid happened to step on his new boots with her careless foot. These were the ones his mother had just given him and he was wearing them for the first time.
That's why she took out her anger on the little palace maid. If she had kept admitting her mistakes, there would have been nothing wrong. However, the little palace maid just apologized and was about to leave, saying that she was from Concubine De's palace and was in a hurry to go back.
Just because Concubine De is anxious, he is not anxious anymore?
Thinking about what those people had said before, he suddenly became angry and said those words.
The matter was at hand, and he couldn't even confront himself, so he could only endure it.
When he saw that the little palace maid was really forced to kneel down, he was about to withdraw his foot, but Gu Yingxin showed up first and gave him a beating.
Now that he was in front of others, he couldn't afford to lose face, so he insisted, "No matter what, she stepped on my boots, so she has to pay for it!"
"Then take it off now and she will wash it for you."
"How can I…"
Before he could even utter the word "escape", Prince Mu's stomach began to rumble in pain, and his back door also felt like something was about to burst out.
"You...what did you do to me?" Pointing at Tuan'er, Prince Mu asked while holding his stomach.
Tuan'er looked at it with an innocent face.
"What can she do to you? You just stand there and you blame her for your stomach discomfort. You are so shameless." Gu Yingxin looked at Prince Mu with disgust.
"It's obviously her... Bu~"
A fart noise.
Prince Mu's face instantly flushed with blood. He covered his stomach with one hand and held the back door with the other. He ran with a strange posture and shouted fiercely: "I will remember you. Just wait for me!"
The words were still lingering in the palace corridor when the young prince disappeared.
"Luckily you ran fast, otherwise we would have been stinking." Gu Yingxin said as she turned around, only to see Tuan'er already picked up her clothes and prepared to leave. "You, man? I helped you, and you just left like that?"
"Thank you, Second Miss." Tuan Erfu continued to walk behind him.
"You are so unreasonable!" Gu Yingxin chased after him and grabbed Tuan'er's arm. "You lied to me last time, and now you are so insincere in saying thank you."
"Didn't the Second Miss just say that the young prince was unreasonable?"
This rhetorical question choked Gu Yingxin to the point where she was speechless.
Mu Li stopped the person because she was right and would not give in; she stopped the person because she felt that the thank you was not enough, which was almost the same.
Can……
"Are you doing this on purpose? On purpose to make me dislike you and alienate you?"
Tuan'er's pupils moved slightly. She didn't expect that this young lady would react so quickly.
She knew that her sister had been promoted to a concubine, so she couldn't let anyone discover her sister's true identity. Gu Yizi knew about it, but the others had to keep it a secret.
Gu Yingxin is Gu Yizi's sister. She had doubts about her before, so she deliberately angered her. After all, this palace is big, but there are only so many places in the harem, and they will always meet each other when coming and going.
She didn't want to have too much contact with Gu Yingxin, which would arouse suspicion and drag down her sister.
"Miss Second, you're overthinking it. I still have to deliver clothes to Her Majesty, so I'll take my leave first." Tuan'er said as she pulled her hand away from Gu Yingxin's hand. Just as she was about to leave, her stomach growled softly.
In the quiet palace road, even if the sound is very small, it can be heard clearly.
Gu Yingxin looked at her closely and found that she was thinner than the last time she saw her. "You haven't eaten yet, have you?"
I have eaten, but it is morning.
Meal times in the palace are fixed at fixed times, and there is nothing to eat after that time.
However, they usually don't have time to eat when they are busy. Female officials of higher status will have someone to keep food warm for them so they can take it at any time. For female officials of lower status, close friends will help bring a portion for them.
Tuan'er had just been transferred from the laundry room to Defei's palace. Although Defei was kind to the palace maids, she was just the lowest-ranking maid. Defei would not take care of her in everything, and she didn't know anyone, so naturally no one brought her food. She was so busy that she forgot about it.
"You're so young, you can't go hungry, or you won't grow tall." Gu Yingxin imitated the maids' tone and preached. She walked to Yueya, who was holding the food box, opened the lid, looked at the cakes inside, and with a bleeding heart, she picked up six pieces, put them in a handkerchief and handed them to Tuan'er. "Eat it."
Tuan'er wanted to refuse, but when she saw the pastries in the handkerchief, even in the dim candlelight, she could recognize that they were made by her sister, and among them was her favorite red date pastry.
Immediately, Tuan'er understood what her sister meant.
Holding back tears, she reached out to take it and carefully wrapped it up. "Thank you, Second Miss. I'll eat it after I finish my work."
"Remember to eat, and rinse your mouth after eating."
Tuan'er nodded seriously, bowed deeply and said goodbye.
After handing Concubine De's clothes to the second-class palace maid and finishing her shift, Tuan'er found a deserted place, took out the handkerchief bag hidden in her arms, took out the red date cake from it and took a bite.
The taste deep in her memory made Tuan'er unable to hold back her tears. She finished eating a piece of food with tears in her eyes, wrapped it up again, stood up, and returned to Concubine De's palace, where she tirelessly shared the work with other palace maids.
Sister, wait for me, it will be soon, very soon.
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