CHAPTER 56 (1): PULLED IT OFF HER
Old Maidservant Li walked right at the front and glanced at Su Xi-er. Afterwards, she bellowed at the Palace Side Quarters’ palace maids partaking their als in the room, “Palace maids transferred over from the Palace Side Quarters, all of you are to return to the Palace Side Quarters after you are done washing the clothes today.”
In an instant, the palace maids who were eating inside the room ca out, their faces filled with delight.
We just need to endure for one more day and we can go back to the Palace Side Quarters. Although there is also a lot of work in the Palace Side Quarters, it’s still much better than washing clothes. At the very least, we don’t have to soak our hands in water all day long in the Palace Side Quarters.
Old Maidservant Li turned to look at Su Xi-er, speaking in a softer and more mild-mannered tone, “The others can go back, but you must stay. The Imperial Household Departnt has just instructed that you will remain in the Laundry Service Bureau to wash clothes.”
When the other palace maids from the Palace Side Quarters heard that, so felt rueful in their hearts, while so began to sympathise with Su Xi-er.
It seems like fate likes to play around with Su Xi-er. At tis causing her to be the object of everyone’s anger, while being extrely pitiable at others. At the sa ti, her success has attracted the jealousy of others, and so even feel as if she deserved any misfortune that fell upon her.
Old Maidservant Li’s voice rang again as she waved her hand at the palace maids from the Palace Side Quarters. “The few of you, co here. Wash clothes with the Laundry Service Bureau maids who have recovered. Su Xi-er, go and simr dicine for the palace maids who haven’t recovered.”
That morning, Eunuch Zhang had told Old Maidservant Li not to casually have Su Xi-er wash clothes in the Laundry Service Bureau. Instead, she would be washing clothes that were specifically sent over.
Old Maidservant Li instantly understood Eunuch Zhang’s words. She will only be in charge of washing valuable clothes.
This task didn’t require her to wash many clothes, but was sothing extrely dangerous in of itself. Ordinary maids from the Laundry Service Bureau treated it as an intractable problem nobody wanted. There were even cases of palace maids being flogged to death because they had damaged expensive clothing when washing them.
Now that Su Xi-er would be replacing them, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
The palace maids complied with Old Maidservant Li’s instructions and obediently walked to a few dozens basins of clothes. They filled them with water, squatted down, and began to wash them earnestly.
On the other hand, Su Xi-er walked towards the room used for simring dicine. She washed the dicinal herbs once, placed them into the gallipot, and added so water before placing it on the stove which coal had already been lit. Afterwards, she held a round hand fan and started fanning.
Simring is generally easier than washing clothes.
Su Xi-er simply held the hand fan, waving it back and forth.
Perhaps she had really not slept well last night. With the sll of dicine assailing her nostrils early in the morning, she beca a little sleepy as ti passed.
It wasn’t long before the round fan in her hands fell to the ground, her eyelids drooping shut as she sat on the small wooden stool.
Golden rays of sunlight stread into the room, settling on her face as it was supported by her right hand. The corners of her lips even curled up slightly, as if she was having a sweet dream.
This gentle appearance was the sight that greeted Pei Qianhao’s eyes as he entered the room.
Subconsciously, he slowed his steps, hardly making any noise. Although he could do as he pleased with his noble status, he was compromising himself so that he wouldn’t disrupt her pleasant dreams.
He eventually stopped in front of her and simply stared, losing sense of the passage of ti.
It was only once the sound of the dicinal extract boiling over broke the serenity of the scene did Su Xi-er stir slightly.
Imdiately, Pei Qianhao took the gallipot down from the stove and placed it on the wooden table at the side.
His gaze slowly moved down from her face, his eyes darkening when they fell on her arms.
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