Chapter 35

35. One after another full of nonsense

In the alleyway outside the east wall, the little girl talking to Yun Luan was named Yun Chi, she was also a second-class maid, and she had served in Pei Nianyu's house before.

Because she seldom had the chance to interject, so Lou Yefeng was not very familiar with her voice, so he didn't know who it was for a while, so he had to turn his body sideways, poke his head out a little, read and reply.

Originally, Yun Luan was a reserve member of the shadow guard and possessed martial arts, so Lou Yefeng's snooping, which could not hide his breath with internal force, couldn't hide it from her.

However, Lou Yefeng was very experienced, his eyes flickered for a moment, Yun Luan heard a little bit of movement, and only felt it slightly, turned around and looked but saw no one, so he didn't take it to heart.

Lou Yefeng was eavesdropping, and seeing that Yun Luan didn't notice him, he secretly shook his head: This girl doesn't need training.

That Yun Chi was also young and ignorant, only one year older than Yunluan. When she saw Yun Luan turn around, she never thought that someone would overhear, and she went ahead and said:

"Someone in that building got the favor of the prince for some reason, and asked him to serve the prince personally. Serve him as he pleases, but for some reason, the prince removed most of the sisters from Hanqiu Pavilion..."

Yun Luan remained silent, which is true.

Pei Nianyu didn't like ostentation, and he never had to be surrounded by servants when he went out.And since she was seriously ill for a month ago, she seems to like quietness more than before when she wakes up. There are too many maids in the dormitory. They are all serving in the house, but more than half of them are not allowed to enter the door every day.

Apart from the eunuchs and servants who are in charge of sweeping and all kinds of rough work in the palace, apart from that, the Hanqiu Pavilion is such a large royal residence, the maids who were in charge of serving in the past are only four big maids and eight second-class maids.

And among these eight, Yun Shao is still only in charge of the small kitchen, not on duty in the house, so there are only seven left.

This configuration, that is, the number of maidservants used by the junior boys and girls of a slightly richer family, is not even comparable to the level of the master and wife, not to mention that the prince is the most honorable Prince Yu in the world, and the only brother of the current emperor.

As for now...it's even worse, the only maids left in the room are Jiang Xue, a martial arts expert, and Xia Yao, an older former court lady.The only second-class maids are Yun Luan and one other person.

Those who didn't know thought the prince was some poor scholar.

Yun Luan and Yun Chi thought of going together for a while, but they were silent for a while, and finally Yun Luan asked:

"So... what does this have to do with Commander Lou..."

Yun Chi raised his eyebrows, and his tone suddenly became angry:

"It doesn't matter, the prince told us a month ago that he had a new personal servant, so he drove half of the servant girls in the house to the yard."

"In the past month, my sisters and I have been standing on the porch for a month...it's okay if it's cold, it's nothing, but it's just too idle all day long."

"Until two days ago, the lord didn't even need the maids who were waiting outside the house, so he drove me and other younger sisters to various study rooms to serve... But how long does the lord go to the study in a day? It's not sure yet.Which, isn't it more idle than before!"

After finishing speaking, she showed Yun Luan a dozen gold and silver printing papers in a red sandalwood box in her hand.

It turned out that she was assigned to the Juanqinzhai study room these few days. She was really bored, so she checked the writing and ink utensils in the study room one by one.Met Yun Luan.

Yun Luan said weakly:

"Being free... Isn't it good? There is less work, and the moon silver is taken..."

Yun Chi suddenly sighed heavily:

"Without the opportunity to work by the master's side, when will I be able to be promoted to the first maid? Obviously...before the master fell ill, Aunt Xia Yao personally said that I am diligent in doing things.As for the eldest maid, she is the same as Sister Jiang Xue and the others."

Lou Yefeng behind the door heard this, and suddenly frowned: Why did she want to be the master's maid so wholeheartedly?

Is there any special purpose?

Or... someone else sent it?

What news do you want to hear?Or take something?

Lou Yefeng's mind turned subconsciously, and he quickly recounted Yun Chi's life experience—the one he bought seemed to be nothing special except that he was more capable in doing things, just an ordinary little maid.

Lou Yefeng couldn't figure it out, so he had to continue listening.

"Sister Yun Luan, you have no father and no mother, and you once said that you may not be able to marry, so naturally you don't care about the distinction. But I... Sister Jiang Xue and the others have eight taels of silver per month, and I only have four taels now. If I can become a big maid......"

Then her voice seemed to choke, and her tone sank:

"My family... Sister Yun Luan, you also know... my younger brother will take the entrance examination for children in two years. Some time ago, my father invited a new teacher. After paying a large sum of money, the familyIt's tight again."

"I have worked in this mansion for two years, and I have received the grace of the prince. He has treated us very well, and the monthly silver given out is several times more than that of other mansions. Originally, the family was much richer, but my younger brother was studying and had pens, paper and books.Who doesn't want money, my mother sent a letter yesterday, urging me to hurry up and bring money back..."

Yun Luan knew about her family's situation, or in other words, all the familiar maids in Hanqiu Pavilion knew about it.

The maids and servants in King Yu Palace generally get much more than other places. The monthly silver of the second-class maid is four taels, which is almost the monthly money of the young master in other mansions.Therefore, the sisters usually have a lot of savings on hand, and they save some dowry for themselves from time to time.

However, there is only this Yun Chi... There is a younger brother in the family who is going to school, and the monthly silver and bounty must be handed back to the family.In this way, her parents were often dissatisfied, and every time they sent a letter, she asked her to ask for more rewards from above.

Yun Chi was miserable, even though her family sold the death contract directly to the mansion before.Piansheng Pei Nianyu had a generous temperament, and he allowed all the maids, and when he didn't want to do it, or when he wanted to marry, he would return the deeds to them, and each went home without paying for redemption.

Moreover, Pei Nianyu knew that it was not a good thing to have a complex relationship in a big family, so he didn't want any so-called family children, so he made it clear early in the morning that he would not marry the maids, and only let them decide for themselves.

This is of course a very good thing for other maids, but for Yun Chi, since she has reached the age of marriage, the mansion will let her go home sooner or later, so it is not a good thing.

Her parents had always treated her harshly, but she did not dare to break the relationship with her parents.These days, common people's families also have to pay attention to the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. It is easy to break the relationship, but if she becomes an orphan, who would want her?

She still has to leave the house when she gets married.

What's more, after so many years, there is always the grace of nurturing.

In order to have a better home in the future, even though he suffered from it, Yun Chi didn't dare to really turn against his parents.

She only hopes that in the past few years before she gets married, she will work hard in this palace and save enough money for her younger brother to study. Maybe her parents will be happy, and she will be able to give her a better family.gone.

Yun Luan didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only say:

"Is it something we can guess about your lord's work... This... can only be said to be bad luck. Sister, since you have nothing to do in Juanqinzhai, why don't you pack some purses or nets in your free time?People go to the house to sell it, and they can exchange some scattered money..."

"Selling those things doesn't cost as much money as a big maid... It's more than ten times worse..."

Speaking of this, when Yun Chi thought of the promotion he had been looking forward to for a long time, it was so messed up without warning, his tone suddenly changed, and he stomped angrily:

"If it wasn't for that surnamed Lou who took over the personal service, how could the prince assign us to other places to do things. I might have become the prince's maid at this moment..."

"Sister, don't say that..."

Yun Luan is also a half-shadow guard, and Lou Yefeng's prestige is extremely high, even if she has resigned now, how could she bear to be told that about him?

However, Yun Chi didn't know that Yun Luan was one of the shadow guards, and when she entered the mansion, Lou Yefeng's presence was no longer as high as when he was in the palace, most of the time he was invisible, YunchiHe only heard of his name, and basically never met Lou Yefeng himself, so naturally he had no respect for him.

She still complained, after all, Pei Nianyu dismissed them with the reason that "it will be enough for Ye Feng to serve me in the future".Yunchi is still young, how could he have imagined that the prince's original intention was to not let others disturb their closeness?So he believed Pei Nianyu's words to be true.

"Who does the prince like to serve, we shouldn't say anything. If that surnamed Lou did his best, I wouldn't complain. I just pack up my things and go to the study to do things."

"But the most irritating thing is that the man surnamed Lou doesn't care about serving the prince at all..."

Lou Yefeng behind the door was stunned for a moment.

In fact, he had heard what Yun Chi said before, and he only thought that she had just blamed her on him because she had no chance of promotion.

After all, he is different from the maid. In his opinion, something bigger than sesame and mung bean may be like the sky is falling for the little maid like Yun Chi.

Lou Yefeng understood very well, so he didn't care about it at all, and he wasn't even interested in listening to it anymore, so he just wanted to laugh it off and go back to his room to continue writing his exercises.Who would have thought that Yun Chi changed the subject and said that he didn't serve him wholeheartedly!

Lou Yefeng was stunned at first, then panicked for some reason, and almost couldn't hold back his breathing.He stopped walking back, stayed where he was and listened more seriously than before, and even hoped in his heart that Yun Chi would go on talking soon.

He really... really wanted to know what he didn't do well.

After all, he knew in his heart that he had changed from a shadow guard to serving his master personally. Although both were doing things for his master, the two were completely different.A shadow guard needs strategy, meticulousness, and vigilance, while taking care of the trivial matters around the master requires patience and ironing.

These maids are all on duty after a long time of teaching by the mothers, but he took up the post directly, so it is foreseeable that many things cannot be handled well.

However, in this month, no one has ever reminded him what he did not do well.

Jiang Xue has a Jianghu mentality and doesn't respect rules, she just cares about what she does well, whether Lou Yefeng is doing well or not has nothing to do with her, not to mention that most of her mind is on practicing martial arts, so she has no time to care about it.

Xia Yao was born as a court lady, she was very strict with the rules, but because of this, Lou Yefeng was the prince's bed partner, after Pei Nianyu showed his love for him, Xia Yao felt that she had no status to correct him, so she just said nothingdo not mention.

The two maidservants with the most authority didn't say anything about Lou Yefeng's doing well, so the people below naturally didn't dare to say a word.

Lou Yefeng hid behind the door, and at this moment he secretly rejoiced that the servant girl had said these things secretly, otherwise he didn't know how long it would have taken him to notice.

"The one surnamed Lou spends half of his day in his own room. I know that Sister Jiang Xue wants to practice martial arts. Aunt Xia Yao has to take care of all the chores in Hanqiu Pavilion. I can't do those small things by myself.Isn't there no one left!"

"I don't know what that surnamed Lou is busy with. He asked the prince to dress himself and arrange the incense himself. That day, the prince wanted to play the piano, but he had to go to the wing room to move the piano case out. It's really unreasonable!"

Yun Luan shook his head:

"Commander Lou is the same as Sister Jiang Xue. He also needs to practice martial arts. It's not his fault."

"What's even more irritating is that the man surnamed Lou can't even understand the master's words. How do you think this can serve the master well?"

Lou Yefeng was surprised again, he and his master have been together for ten years, a life-and-death friendship.In terms of tacit understanding with the master, how can it be more than this maid who has just entered the mansion for two years?She actually said that she couldn't understand what the master said?What does this mean?

"Only four or five days ago, there was heavy snowfall in Capital City, before dawn that morning, Lou Yefeng got up to serve the prince to wash up. I was standing on the porch, and I could hear it clearly."

"It seems that the flowers in the bronze vase on the Duobaoge at the side of the hall withered, so Lou Yefeng asked the prince if he wanted to replace it with the freshly bloomed wintersweet in front of the court. The prince only said that the wintersweet should wait for the snow on itFold it when it is half-melted, it will look good just now, so he doesn't have to worry, this Lou Yefeng is so stupid...to believe it!"

Lou Yefeng: "..."

"It took a long time to pick branches for vases. At that time, the night snow had just stopped. The prince was obviously afraid that he would be frozen, so he pushed away the snow branches. But the snow on the wintersweet began to disappear. As soon as the snow water on the branches was pressed, the flowersWhere else can I watch it?"

"It was noon that day, and I was sent to sweep the snow outside the courtyard, but I found out that the prince secretly went to the courtyard to pick flowers and branches while Lou Yefeng went back to rest. But the snow had melted at that time, and the prince was obviously very dissatisfied.It took a long time to choose the right one.”

"At that time, I took a casual look outside the hanging flower door, and saw with my own eyes that when the prince broke the branch, a long ice mark on the branch slipped into the prince's sleeve, and the prince frowned..."

Lou Yefeng no longer knew what mood he was in.

It was the duty of serving the master that he took on his own initiative.

The master was always afraid that he would have nowhere to attack and would appear redundant, so almost all the maids who had been serving him so carefully were sent away.

He is almost the only one left by the master's side, just to show his specialness, so that he doesn't feel that he is useless, and makes him feel that he is important to the master.

This is clearly a painstaking effort of the master.

But he did such a bad job, and so many things were ignored by him.

He thought this servant girl was innocent before, but he didn't expect that it was himself who was innocent.I can't even understand the master's words...

"How can you say that he serves people like this? The prince always looks at him, not wanting him to be tired, so every time he takes all kinds of lies of the prince as truth, and actually goes back to the house to sleep, letThe prince does these trivial things by himself, and he just didn't notice it once!"

Lou Yefeng felt extremely bitter in his heart.The master often said "you don't need to do this because..." or "you don't rush to do this, I have to...", he never thought about whether it was true or not.

The master didn't let him do it, and he didn't want other maids to show their presence by his side, so he had to do it himself...

Trivial matters in just one month passed through his mind one by one, and thinking about it now, they all confirmed this point.

Among these little things, it was entirely the master's earnest concern, which turned into the most tender heart, silently immersed in every detail of his life,

And he didn't notice it.

He is a servant of the emperor, isn't he just asking for trouble for the master!

Lou Yefeng was first grateful for the master's silent gentleness in his heart, and at the same time felt extremely remorseful, why didn't he realize that the master was lying to him?If he hadn't been pointed out behind his back today, he might still be kept in the dark.

Taking advantage of Yun Luan's daze, Yun Chi continued:

"In my opinion, he just didn't focus on his work. Otherwise, why can't he see so much work in front of his eyes? I think he has glued both eyes to the prince..."

After speaking halfway, Lou Yefeng suddenly became nervous.His heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, Xin Dao really couldn't control himself recently, and often secretly looked at the master's back.This won't be... discovered...?

Then Yun Chi's words ruthlessly shattered his illusion:

"Hmph, I think he is interesting to the master. The master pampered him for a while, but he really wants to have real feelings, and he doesn't look at himself. He is just an Israeli..."

Yun Luan frowned, thinking that you gossip about the small shortcomings of the leader of the building, and that's all.It's too much to arrange how he and the master are, so he immediately opened his mouth and said:

"Be careful!"

But before she finished speaking, suddenly a black shadow flashed across the roof nearby, and the sword light came out of its sheath, and went straight to Yun Chi's neck.

Yun Chi was stunned by the sudden attack, screamed and stood still.

And the moment she closed her eyes in fright, she suddenly heard a calm male voice, angrily scolding:

"stop!"

Yun Chi opened his eyes, only to see the sword energy passing by her temples, cutting off a strand of black hair.

And a young black-clothed shadow guard landed on the ground, turned his head to look at the man standing beside the road with a terribly serious face, and saluted respectfully.

The shadow guard's expression was half wronged, half unfair:

"Commander Lou, I just want to scare her."

The author has something to say:

Yun Chi: My lord, I just helped you point out your deep affection to the old building, how do you settle it?

Lao Pei: Five taels of silver a piece, if you speak ill of the old building, ten taels will be deducted.