Chapter 189 An Evil Monk and an Unruly Mammy
After guessing for a while, Lin ngya failed to figure it out.
“Thank you.”
Night nodded and disappeared out of sight.
The whole night passed, but Lin ngya still didn’t know why Concubine De treated her in such a way.
The next morning, a noise resounded from the yard before she got up.
It sounded like Baishao was rebuking soone. She always acted so mighty.
“Master, are you awake? Can you sleep longer? It’s early now.”
Baiji, who noticed that Lin ngya had awoken, pulled back the curtains and walked inside.
But Lin ngya saw the unnatural smile on her face.
“What’s going on outside?”
Baiji hesitated and then shook her head. But under Lin ngya’s stare, she lowered her head and said in a low voice, “It’s a mammy from the outer courtyard. She offended you with her words. Baisu is irritated. She is quarreling with her.”
“The mammy from the outer courtyard?” Lin ngya’s reward system convinced everyone in the inner and outer courtyard to obey her order and respect her.
“But why today? A mammy from the outer courtyard quarrels with Baishao.”
“Hold up and I’ll have a look.”
Baishao was shrewish, but she wouldn’t cause trouble with others endlessly.
“Master, forget it. It’s our thing. You should not be bothered.”
Baiji imdiately stopped Lin ngya.
Lin ngya turned her eyes and wanted to have a further look.
Noticing that she couldn’t stop Lin ngya, Baiji had to pray that the quarrel would end soon.
“Hmph, see? Demonic air filled Prince Yu’s Mansion. Baishao, you are a girl. You won’t understand. Master, he is popular in the Capital City. I tried my best to invite him here with good intentions. Now, you stood on our way. Is that a little unkind?”
An unfamiliar voice of a mammy was heard as Lin ngya just opened the door.
Faced with that mammy, Baishao resolutely grabbed the door of Liuxin Courtyard with her hands.
“Nonsense! Liuxin Courtyard is a wonderland full of outstanding people and saintly air. How dare you say it’s demonic air! And you old bald Buddhist! Watch your tongue, or I’ll tear your mouth to pieces first!”
No one imagined that Baishao at such a young age could be so skilled at trash talk.
Her scolding overwheld that mammy and that so-called Master so much that they could do nothing with her.
“Miss, if you really act so unkindly, then don’t bla for being rude. Guard, take this girl away!”
That outer mammy flew into a rage out of humiliation. She really started to use her hands.
Lin ngya sneered. She had not seen soone else hit one of her people in the mansion in a long ti.
“Today, anyone who dares to step into Liuxin Courtyard has to leave one of their legs with , and will be thrown out.”
A cold voice mixed with killing intent ca.
Lin ngya’s figure ca into sight among them.
Outside, many servants and maids stood, hustling and bustling.
They ca here not to hunt monsters, but to search her house.
The leader looked very unfamiliar, not the usual servant in the mansion.
Next to her stood a monk with a shaved head in a red gown, particularly showy.
But that monk with an ugly, ferocious look, seed unkind.
Besides that, his sordid eyes cast over their slim waists as he saw the four maids in Liuxin Courtyard. Apparently, he was a lecher.
“Ahem! How rude Baishao is. How could she disturb the princess? It’s my fault. Greetings, Your Highness.”
That mammy imdiately beca well behaved once she saw Lin ngya.
She kept greeting her and shifted the bla onto Baisu.
But, there was no smile on Lin ngya’s face.
She looked cold, even her maids felt frightened.
“Who are you? Don’t you know the rules here?”
As the hostess of Prince Yu’s Mansion, Lin ngya’s appearance succeeded in making those servants fall silent.
But she was just promoted from the outer courtyard. Obviously, she knew little about Lin ngya’s temper.
“Your Highness, I’ve just been promoted from the outer courtyard. I was ordered by Concubine De to co here. Concubine De said that there was sothing dirty in the mansion. So I invited Master here.”
Lin ngya raised her eyebrows slightly and ran her eyes over that monk.
Concubine De practiced abstinence from at and said prayers, but she would not have blind faith.
As a matter of fact, Concubine De just wanted to cover up her real intention by using that.
But now, she ca at soone like such a strange mammy to drive out evil spirits.
Instantly, it made her full of wonder.
“The rule in the inner courtyard is that no one is allowed to enter without Master’s permission. Steward Deng has no right to break that rule, let alone you.” Baiji, who stood in front of Lin ngya, tenderly proclaid.
Everything in the inner courtyard was under her control. It was apparent that she was the steward there.
Therefore, all the servants in the inner courtyard dared not contradict her.
Besides, Baiji was in charge of their wages.
They depended on that wage to support their families. So offending Baiji ant cutting off their livelihood.
“But, it’s Concubine De’s order. In Prince Yu’s Mansion, is the owner Concubine De or the princess?”
That mammy had backing, and her words were also wily.
Lin ngya looked at her and cracked a faint smile.
“It’s quite new to see soone make trouble in my place.”
“Fine, since it’s Concubine De’s order, I’d better not stop you. But in Liuxin Courtyard, there are lots of rules and people. You’d better obey our rules, otherwise, even Concubine De is unable to save your life,” Lin ngya slowly said, in a cold voice.
Now that Master had said that, the four maids gave way.
That mammy felt imnsely proud. They told her that Princess Yu was hard to deal with. But now, Princess Yu had to do what she wanted her to since Concubine De had ordered it.
“Please don’t worry, Your Highness. I’m not a rude person. I won’t break your rules.”
“Well then, this way.”
Lin ngya turned back into her yard. Every onlooker outside felt confused.
“Is she still the Princess Yu whom we know?”
Lin ngya sat in her room, and Baiji was combing her hair.
She went out too hurriedly just now and had let her black hair fall all over her back casually.
Through the window with water-caltrop patterns, Lin ngya saw that monk pointing here and there, all bluff and bluster.
She picked up a wooden comb and tenderly combed the hair on her shoulders.
“Master, Qinghu says that everything is ready. We’ll just wait and see them lift a rock to drop on their feet.”
Baiji calmly told her, as if she had already prepared herself to see them hit the skids.
“Okay. Have him do it only if no one loses his life. Guard, close the door. No one is allowed to open it without my permission.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
As they just entered the yard, the four maids walked into the main room in Liuxin Courtyard, as if they were in a rage.
That mammy felt pleased and looked around along with that monk.
The maids and those old female servants all lived in wing rooms. Because Lin ngya was rich enough, the decoration in their rooms looked precious.
The four maids’ rooms especially had more delicate decoration than those ladies’ from an ordinary family.
Imdiately, an insatiable greed erged in that mammy’s eyes.
“They are right. Liuxin Courtyard is really the most gorgeous place in Prince Yu’s Mansion.”
Then, she couldn’t help touching that blue-and-white porcelain in Baizhi’s room.
What she was thinking of was all how to take possession of them.
“Why don’t you start from this room, Master?”
That mammy winked at that monk. The latter instantly understood it.
He put his palms together devoutly and fussily claid, “Liuxin Courtyard is yin. It’s too strong here. Guard, move the things in this room to dry out under the sun and absorb yang.”
So strong mammies competed to move those things out of the four maids’ rooms without any hesitation.
Even the brocade quilts were moved out.
In no ti, those things cluttered the yard.
That leading mammy and that monk grinned ear to ear.
If they actually kept those things, they would not worry about their life for a year.
“Amitabha. I’ve examined these things. They are truly contaminated by evil spirits. I’m afraid that absorbing Yang Qi may not be enough.”
That monk did really well in his acting. That mammy understood him imdiately. Then, she asked loudly, “Then, in your view, how should we deal with these things?”
That monk said Amitabha again, and then, he answered, “Why not move them to my place in Buddha’s light to drive out their evil spirits.”
They might beco trash if they were really moved to that monk’s house.
But in the main room, no voice ca, it was calm and quiet.
Therefore, that mammy beca bolder.
“Hey, move them out of here.”
That mammy, in a transport of delight, held a blue-and-white piece of porcelain by herself. She thought to herself that she would have a feast if she sold it in a pawn shop.
But when she was lost in her imagination, that bottle in her embrace suddenly exploded.
“Bang!” It beca just pieces.
Thanks to her quick reaction, that mammy’s face escaped from being cut.
“Ah! My bottle made in the official ware! It’s worth five mace!”
Inside the main room ca Baizhi’s surprised scream.
But it sounded like she gloated.
“It doesn’t matter. They are Concubine De’s people. If they break our things by accident, I believe they will compensate by the cost, won’t they?” Baishao said. Everyone knew that she was making fun of them.
That mammy stood still and stared at her hands in disbelief.
“Why? It looks to be in good condition so why did it explode?”
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