Volume 1: The Life of a Palace Maiden Chapter 21
Are you pretending to be stupid? You can’t see it in front of others, and you can only see it behind others.
Zhilan came out of Chuxiu Palace with a hexagonal palace lantern.
I deliberately pinched the wick very darkly, and I could only see the area in front of me, so that I could not alarm the snake.
After taking a shortcut with a familiarity, Zhilan left Chuxiu Palace before Wei Yingluo, and then lie on the only way back to the embroidery workshop.
As soon as she heard the footsteps sound, she blew out the palace lantern in her hand.
It immediately became dark around her. Zhilan hid herself behind a big tree. The shade fell down, like dark clouds and mists lingering around her, wrapping her tightly in a darkness, which was hard to tell the difference between the naked eye.
Soon, the footsteps were approaching, and there were also hiccups.
"Oh no!" The footsteps suddenly stopped.
Zhilan hurriedly held her breath and listened to what she wanted to say.
"What if you take the meatballs back like this? Everyone wants me to share them with them?" But Wei Yingluo said distressedly, "I don't want to share such delicious food with others. It's better... to eat it now!"
Under Zhilan's stunned gaze, she picked up the bowl and swallowed it in big mouthfuls. As a result, she was halfway through her swallowing, and suddenly she vomited out a piece of it along with the portion she had eaten in Chu Xiugong before.
As he vomited, he suddenly squatted on the ground and started crying. Zhilan thought she felt wronged, but she heard her sigh and said, "Why did you vomit it out? Alas, it's wasted, it's wasted..."
This person, this person is really a fool!!
Zhilan couldn't bear to look at her, for fear that if she continued to look, she would dirty her eyes and her ears. She spat lowly, then turned her head back to report her life.
Behind me, the vomiting sound was still intermittent.
Wei Yingluo clenched her throat hard. She knew that the more her vomiting sound, the faster Zhilan would leave.
"Cough, cough cough..." After finally clearing her stomach, Wei Yingluo slowly raised her head. The violent vomiting made crystal tears appear in the corners of her eyes, but there were two balls of fire in her eyes.
Pretend to be stupid.
Concubine Hui's attack came too suddenly. In desperation, she could only come up with this method to deal with it.
Everyone can pretend to be stupid, but it is precisely because everyone can know what they know, which makes it even more difficult. The most difficult point is how to quickly eliminate Concubine Hui's murderous intent.
You should know that this master is as heart-warming as a snake and a scorpion, and even the concubines in the harem can do whatever they want, let alone the humble little palace maid.
So she ate these seven bowls of lotus root powder meatballs just right.
I believe that Concubine Hui, who considers herself a smart person, will not waste her time on her "ium" for a long time.
"Concubine Hui won't come to me for no reason." Wei Yingluo wiped the stains on the corner of her mouth and sneered, "Who told her about the secret?"
That person must be hidden not far from her.
The first thing she suspected was Jinxiu. After all, she was an insider and she led Zhilan to the embroidery workshop to find someone, but she could not provide evidence for a while. In addition to Jinxiu, there were three other people who could not get along with her, and they said bad things about her behind their backs, such as this moment.
After returning from Concubine Hui, three days had passed in a blink of an eye. The palace maids made of the Japanese embroidery workshop and Jinyu were suddenly called to the same place, saying that the eunuch had something to do later and told them to do it.
Once there are too many people, the mouth will become mixed.
I saw the three of them gathered together, using either high or low, which could make the voices around them whisper, and one of them said, "Wei Yingluo came back very late last night--"
"Hasn't my sister Zhilan called her to Chuxiu Palace?"
"Sister Zhilan finished giving the order. Could it be that she would keep her for dinner? You are stupid. After he came out of Chuxiu Palace, he went to have a tryst! Her good looks are a guard in the Forbidden City!"
They said it with their own eyes, as if they had seen it with their own eyes. Half of them believed it as true, and half of them did not believe it, but they also listened with relish. After all, everyone has the heart of gossip, and even if they don't believe it, they can still listen to it.
Everyone looked at each other, and Wei Yingluo couldn't help but clench her fists.
"Eunuch Li is here!"
The little eunuch's singing and shouting temporarily stopped everyone's words.
Wei Yingluo just looked up and then quickly lowered her head.
It’s really good things that don’t go out, but bad things come one after another. She recognized the Eunuch Li who came across from the other side. Isn’t it the eunuch who was with the emperor last time?
However, Eunuch Li did not recognize her. The weather was a little hot today, so there was no need to talk. He just stood in the sun for a while and then his back was full of sweat. Several attentive eunuchs hurriedly moved a chair to the shade of the tree and brought a teacup and fruit plate. Eunuch Li drank two sips of water and ordered: "Who is here?"
"It's the embroidery workshop and Jinyu, which is the new palace maid." The little eunuch next to him fanned him and replied.
Eunuch Li nodded: "It's the same as a few days ago, let's start."
He put his hands in front of his abdomen, closed his eyes and lay in the chair to sleep, but he did not really fall asleep, but instead raised his ears high.
"Come on, line up to talk." The little eunuch ordered, "Just say, I tickled the sacred tree!"
What is this?
Palace maids, look at me, and I look at you, but I can’t understand what this sentence means.
"Hurry up, don't waste Eunuch Li's time!" the little eunuch urged dissatisfiedly.
Then a palace maid walked out with a thorn in the air: "I will give it to the sacred tree..."
Before she could finish her words, Eunuch Li, who was lying in the chair, slowly shook her head. The little eunuch kept paying attention to his every move from the corner of her eyes, and immediately said, "Next."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
There were fewer and fewer people in front of him, and more sweat was on Wei Yingluo's face.
"Sister Yingluo, are you very hot?" Jixiang handed a handkerchief and said worriedly, "I borrow the handkerchief from you, you can wipe your sweat."
Wei Yingluo took the veil without saying a word, raised her hand to wipe the sweat, and suddenly shook her body and fell to the ground.
Jixiang was startled and rushed to her and said, "Sister Yingluo, what's wrong with you, Sister Yingluo?"
The noise was too loud, and Eunuch Li slowly opened his eyes: "What happened?"
The little eunuch went over and checked, and came back and said to him: "My father-in-law, it's a little palace maid who is so hot."
Eunuch Li looked up at the sky. Even though there were shades of trees stacked like a cover on the top of his head, there were still a few rays of sunlight falling through the gap between the leaves, hitting people, as hot as boiling water.
"The weather is quite difficult." Eunuch Li raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and ordered, "Take the hot ones back first, and the rest stood under the shade of the tree and continue."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
"I tickled the sacred tree."
"Next."
The conversation became farther and farther away. Wei Yingluo, who was half-carried back by Jixiang, opened her eyes and quickly closed her eyes, breathing a sigh of relief.
Although I don’t know why Eunuch Li was looking for her, fortunately she didn’t show her face that day, and she was wearing ordinary palace maids’ clothes, and the collar and cuffs were not embroidered with special patterns - this is all rights only available to the great palace maids and aunts.
Eunuch Li could only find her in the little palace maid, and could only find her by voice.
Pienfang, embroidery workshop, golden jade work, Ruyi Pavilion... He still has thousands of voices to listen to, but he is afraid that as he listens, he will forget what her voice is.
"This matter is not urgent for the time being." Wei Yingluo thought to herself, "The most urgent task is to deal with the rumors around me. Haha, although rumors stop at the wise, there are mostly stupid people in this world, and there are not many wise people..."
Even Madam Zhang thought the same way.
After the work of the embroidery workshop was completed, she left Wei Yingluo alone, closed the doors and windows, isolated her curious ears, and then asked with a serious look: "Everyone said you are in love with a guard, is it true?"
Wei Yingluo smiled and said, "Madam, has the rumors spread to you?"
"There are such rumors everywhere in the embroidery workshop." Madam Zhang said earnestly, "Although I don't believe it, the three of them become tigers. The rumors are very lethal. You must be extra careful."
The two looked at each other and remained silent. After a while, Wei Yingluo asked softly: "What is the worst case?"
"The worst case is that the rumors are spread to General Manager Wu's ears." Madam Zhang said.
Although we have met before and have been appreciated by the other party, we know people but not the person. Wei Yingluo asked herself that she knew General Manager Wu, which was not as good as the nanny who had been struggling in the harem for more than ten years, so she humbly asked for advice: "My grandma, then look, if the rumor reached General Manager Wu's ears according to the worst case, would he deal with me indiscriminately?"
"That won't be." Madam Zhang thought for a while and shook her head, "That Manager Wu is a practical person. If it falls into his hands, he will probably check it carefully. Unlike other father-in-laws, who can handle people casually in order to calm the incident as soon as possible."
"I understand..." Wei Yingluo thought about something.
If you have grudges, don’t deal with them overnight. If you have enemies, do it early. Do not let the other party be in the dark all the time, so that the other party may give her a knife anytime and anywhere. After coming out of the embroidery workshop, a plan has gradually taken shape in Wei Yingluo’s heart, but there is only one prop...
Suddenly, she stopped and turned her eyes to the corridor opposite.
Several craftsmen were pushing a cart by.
A young craftsman felt something. When he turned his head, he ran into Wei Yingluo and smiled at him. His face suddenly turned red and he remained motionless, and he said nothing, as if he was pointed out by a fairy as a statue. Until he was slapped on the back of his head by his fellow friends, he scolded him, "What are you looking at? You don't want your eyes anymore. That's the woman in the palace. She looks so beautiful. Who knows if she is an empress..."
Several people hurriedly lowered their heads and pushed the cart away in panic.
Because the movement was too big, a lot of white broken soil was sprinkled from the place where the wheels ran over.
A pair of white embroidered shoes walked over slowly, and then a beautiful woman's hand fell down and picked up a handful of broken soil.
Chapter completed!