Consort of a Thousand Faces - Chapter 45

Chapter 45
"Hong Li, there's a saying called 'calamity comes from a loose tongue' . Talk about Prince Hao less in the future . Where is the precise location you were pulling weeds today? Are you still going to pluck them tomorrow?"





Hong Li nodded repeatedly, sighing when she heard the words 'pulling weeds . ' "Yeah . There is still a bunch of it . With how itchy I'm going to get, I don't want to do this kind of work even if I do get the chance to meet . . . "

She immediately shut her mouth, biting back the words, 'Prince Hao . '

"I'll go with you tomorrow after eating breakfast . Wash yourself first . I will be going back to my room to rest . " Su Xi-er turned around the left the room .

Hong Li stood in the room alone . Why does Su Xi-er want to pull weeds with me? She didn't scrub the chamber pots today . Does she not need to scrub the chamber pots tomorrow night too?





However, Hong Li didn't think that her random conjecture was actually correct . Su Xi-er also didn't need to scrub the chamber pots tomorrow because she had something more important to do .

The next day, Su Xi-er had already risen at 6 . 30am .

After freshening up, she went to the place for eating breakfast . After she sat down, palace maids started streaming in one after another .

The thin palace maid who often made caustic remarks about Su Xi-er snorted, "You slacked off last night and didn't go scrub the chamber pots . It was poor Lian Qiao who helped you despite having to get up early this morning . Meanwhile, a certain tactless person hasn't even uttered a single word of thanks . "

Su Xi-er looked at Lian Qiao . "Thank you . I wasn't feeling well last night, resulting in you having to help me do it . I also can't rest today and have to work . "

Lian Qiao immediately waved her hand . "It's fine . You were feeling unwell, so it's only natural that I helped you . Everyone in the Palace Side Quarters is in it together, and should a . s . sist each other . " At the same time, she carried her bowl and sat beside Su Xi-er .

The thin palace maid snorted . Lian Qiao is a coward who desperately latches onto others' thigh to climb up with all her might .

Su Xi-er nodded and didn't comment . Only after she had finished half her meal did she realise that Hong Li hadn't come .

Lian Qiao sensed Su Xi-er's gaze and guessed her thoughts so she immediately notified her, "Hong Li went to wash herself in the middle of the night yesterday and caught a cold . Old Maidservant Liu told her to stay in her room . There will be someone simmering medicine for her . "





In the past, when the Palace Side Quarters were still managed by Old Maidservant Zhao, the wellbeing of the palace maids was a non-factor . Even medicinal herbs had been withheld from them .

Otherwise, no matter how on good terms the old-maidservant-in-charge was with the Imperial Physician Inst . i . tute, she wouldn't have been able to hide so many medicinal herbs .

Some palace maids started to whisper . "If Hong Li is sick, who is going to pluck the gra . s . s in the woods beside the Palace Side Quarters for her?"


As soon as the palace maids who weren't a . s . signed to work in the woods beside the Palace Side Quarters heard that, their eyes shone . Some even began to straighten out their clothes . Maybe I'll be able to meet Prince Hao!

Although Prince Hao had come to the Palace Side Quarters in a fit of rage not long ago, it had been due to Su Xi-er who is tired of living . After she had offended Prince Hao, the other maids viewed the fact that he hadn't taken her to the Beauty Palace after such a long time as a sign of him growing bored of her .

Hence, everyone changed to another conjecture . Prince Hao is only watching a show . Once he's done, he will take Su Xi-er's life!

Su Xi-er didn't even need to guess these palace maids' thoughts but she was lazy to pay attention to them . Unless he has become muddle-headed, Prince Hao is unlikely to appear in the woods beside the Palace Side Quarters in broad daylight .

Su Xi-er only held onto this thought for a moment before she started when she realised something else . Pei Qianhao has never played his cards using common sense . What if he does come?

Just as she was pondering, Old Maidservant Liu walked into the room . Her gaze landed on Su Xi-er as she instructed solemnly, "Su Xi-er, replace Hong Li in pulling the weeds . You will still be scrubbing the chamber pots tonight . "

Su Xi-er rose and bowed . "Yes, Old Maidservant Liu . "

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