EBE Chapter 917 Chapter 917
Chapter 917 Chapter 917
Fang Yaer wanted to go to the female relatives to serve, but Rendong, Lanxiang and others were guarding very well, especially Rendong. She took the hot water she brought, said thank you to the young lady, and walked into the house.
"...Does Sister Honeysuckle look down on me too?"
Fang Yaer was standing under the eaves, wearing an apricot-red quilted skirt, looking somewhat pitiful in the cold wind.
But Rendong had served the prince in the past and had never seen such a world of beauty. Fang Yaer's deliberately desolate figure really couldn't impress her.
"Miss, how could you say that? It's true that the prince can't do without you. The young ladies have more and more maids and servants. First, there is no shortage of people to serve. Second, if you neglect the prince, we will be guilty of a great sin."
Fang Yaer bit her lip gently, "I've heard from mother before that Sister Rendong is the smartest. When she was serving the Crown Prince's wife, she was also very likable."
Honeysuckle gently stroked the scar on her face, pretending to be sad, "That was all before I was married. Now that I'm a wife, I can't be called a girl."
After saying that, regardless of Fang Yaer's intention to come forward, Lianhua used the excuse that she was waiting for hot water in the house, and quickly lifted the curtain, "Sister Dong, you should be quicker. In this weather, the hot water will freeze you in a while. How can you wash the hands of the young lady?"
Honeysuckle didn't delay any longer and went inside.
Although Lianhua had never dealt with Fang Yaer, she knew where this woman came from, so she simply smiled politely and asked, "Miss, you should go to that room. It would be bad if the prince was without someone to serve him."
Fang Yaer snorted softly, turned and left.
Dieyi was walking out of the yard carrying some freshly baked ham and stewed bamboo shoots. From a distance, she saw Fang Yaer looking around outside the ladies' room.
When I got closer, Fang Yaer had already left.
She sneered at Lianhua and asked curiously, "The Crown Prince's wife didn't come today. What is she doing outside the house?"
Lianhua lifted the door curtain again and let Dieyi in. She tiptoed to Dieyi's ear and whispered, "Sister, I have to go to the ladies to serve them."
Dieyi frowned, "Serving whom?"
Lianhua snorted and laughed, "I have never chatted with her, but many maids have said that this girl is worthy of being raised by the Princess of Ming County. She started to inquire about our Shaohua Garden within a few days of entering the family."
Dieyi's eyes widened. "She has already climbed up to the prince's high branch, and she still has eyes for our Shaohua Garden?"
At this point, he suppressed the next words of Lotus, "Don't worry, I'll go inside and arrange everything for the ladies, and then I'll come out and talk to you."
The maids were chatting and laughing in their spare time, but Song Guanzhou didn't care at all.
When she returned home at night, Rendong called Dieyi and whispered a few words to her, "In the future, when you are outside, you should tell Lianhua and Hehua not to talk nonsense. If someone hears you, they might take your words out of context and tell the masters about them, which would also cause trouble for the young lady."
After hearing this, Dieyi lowered her head in response.
After a while, she told Ren Dong about it in detail. Ren Dong sneered, "She bet on the wrong horse. When she entered the palace, she found that the prince did not favor her at all. In terms of status, she is not as noble as the prince's wife. In terms of seniority, she is not as good as Aunt Qiao, and she is not even as good as the other two concubines of the prince who did not give birth to children, let alone the quiet and talented Aunt Gao."
Dieyi nodded, "That's right. On weekdays, I often heard that she spent money to find out about our courtyard. She asked the fourth master and the young lady, and the maids and old women in the courtyard--"
"Just be careful. I feel like this girl is unwilling to give in."
With the support of Princess Ming, she originally thought that coming to the mansion would gain the favor of the prince. But after thinking about it, it seemed that the prince took her there to represent the fourth young master and his wife.
Fang Yaer came to her senses and felt bitter.
She was guarding an empty study room. It would have been fine if she had just spent her days in a daze, but she had to report to the Crown Prince's wife's courtyard every day.
After a while, she also had to do the work of the main wife.
Xiao Yinxiu learned that she was good at embroidering insects and birds in southern Yunnan, and pointed out a few auspicious small animal patterns, "Make some intimate clothing for the brothers and sisters."
In a word, it is difficult for her to have free time.
After helping with the work in the main room, she would return to the study and cut cloth, make samples and embroider. From time to time, when there was something going on in the main room, they would call her.
Three or five days later, she went to the kitchen to ask for some charcoal, but was also refused.
The old woman was amiable, "Young lady, you are the prince's servant, your share has already been taken away by the prince's wife."
Fang Yaer was horrified, "You let me take you there a few days ago, but today you said you were with the Crown Prince's wife. You are deliberately making things difficult for me."
The old woman who was in charge of the charcoal fire was cunning and clever. "My dear girl, it's not like that. A few days ago, the eldest young lady's wife and the chief housekeeper came to take inventory. I, an old woman, couldn't match many of the numbers. I was fined two months' salary. It was only with the help of Miss Lanxiang that I was able to count the numbers. It was because of the extra girl that I did this."
"So I'm the only one who crossed the line?"
The old woman smiled apologetically, "For a young lady like you, there are several of them. It is not right to apply for them repeatedly. Why don't you go to Aunt Chu and ask for clarification?"
Because of the trouble, he didn't get any firewood.
When I asked Aunt Chu, Aunt Chu said with a gloomy face, "Young lady, you are just a maid in the prince's room. The prince always lives in the backyard and doesn't go to the study for ten days or half a month. What are you doing with the charcoal?"
Fang Yaer wanted to cry but had no tears. "Aunt, it's getting colder day by day. I want to do embroidery, but I'm too cold to do it."
Aunt Chu disagreed, "You come to the main room during the day. The maids here gather together to warm themselves by the fire and do their work. Aunt Gao and Aunt Qiao live together. Why are you, a maid, putting on airs?"
Fang Yaer was so angry that she started to cry, "Aunt, that was a delicate work I made for my brothers and sisters—"
"Oh! It's just so good when you make it for your brothers and sisters. If you make it for the prince in the future, we old ladies will have to come and fetch you water and serve you."
"Auntie...you are so unreasonable."
Aunt Chu snorted and laughed, "Miss, if you think I'm stupid, why don't you go and ask Madam to remove me, an old man, and let you take charge of the affairs of this room."
"you--"
Fang Yaer covered her mouth and ran away crying.
Aunt Chu stood outside the courtyard gate, coughing in the cold wind. All she could think of was, "If you could come, I would give you up. I've had enough of living in this room."
After winter came, her health became increasingly unwell.
The continuous coughing made her thinner and thinner. Perhaps it was the bleak winter that made her want to die. She had no children, was lonely and helpless, and was not loved by her wife. Otherwise, she would just find a good day and die.