Chapter 2 Chapter 2 "I'll go find Qingyao and apologize right now! ...

At this moment, Li Shuyao truly felt the horror of the heroine in the palace fighting novel.

Her pupils shrank twice before the person in front of her keenly noticed something. Wu Ya no longer paid attention to the wound on her face, but lowered her eyes and looked straight into her eyes, "Sister Shu Yao..."

"Burp." Li Shuyao burped due to extreme nervousness.

The words on Wu Ya's lips stopped, and the dark ink in her dark eyes gradually melted away. The smile on her lips gradually turned into deep helplessness. "Are you full or hungry?"

"Well... I'm hungry." Li Shuyao lowered her head in shame, her cheeks slightly flushed.

Hiding under the quilt, she covered her lower abdomen with her hands and explained in a low voice, "I was too sad yesterday, so I didn't eat. After getting up today, I felt a little embarrassed to see people, so..."

She stopped there.

Wu Ya understood everything in her heart.

To be honest, it was her instigation that led to Li being punished.

So he didn't ask any more questions. After touching Li Shuyao's hair again, he got up and walked outside. Soon he came back with a mahogany tray. On the tray was a bowl of steaming rice porridge, two plates of pickled vegetables and a plate of fragrant scallion pancakes.

She said, "You haven't eaten for a long time, and you don't want to eat anything too greasy, so just use this to fill your stomach for now."

While Uya was out, Li Shuyao quickly calmed down and decided to temporarily forget the plot in the book and treat Uya as a trustworthy good sister.

So she happily threw off the quilt and got out of bed, brushed her waist-length black hair behind her ears, and then took a wooden hairpin to fix it behind her head. She smiled brightly at Wu Yashi and said in a clear and powerful voice, "I understand. Thank you, Sister Lianchu."

"You already call me sister, so why should you be so polite?" Wu Ya made a vague excuse while placing the dishes on the tray on the round table in the room.

Li Shuyao tidied herself up a bit and followed over.

She was really hungry. After sitting down, she didn't bother to be polite with Uya at all. She picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of scallion pancake and put it into her mouth. Her posture was a little impatient, which made Uya opposite her stunned again, and then the smile in her eyes deepened a little.

Wu Ya said nothing, but just watched Li Shuyao eat quietly.

Li Shuyao didn't pay any attention to her. She buried her head and ate with relish. Soon the bowl and the plate were empty, but she was only 70% full.

Li Shuyao put down her chopsticks reluctantly and gave Wu Ya a look that said "I want more".

Wu Ya frowned and shook her head, "I can't eat anymore. Let's talk about it after dinner."

Dinner in the Qing Dynasty was usually around one or two o'clock in the afternoon. Now it is around nine o'clock in the morning. If you count, it is not a few hours away.

Li Shuyao obediently stopped making a fuss and stood up to put the dishes on the tray. When she was about to carry the tray to the small kitchen, Wu Ya raised her hand to stop her, "Let me go. When I was getting the porridge just now, I saw Wen Ya and the others were there too. You'd better stay away."

She didn't say why, she just took the tray from Li Shuyao and turned away.

Only after her back disappeared outside the door did Li Shuyao puff up her cheeks slightly in dissatisfaction, feeling very depressed.

The time she traveled through was not very coincidental, as it was the second day after the original owner broke up with the Guo Luoluo family.

——Ten days ago, she was supposed to guard the storehouse, but the night before she was to start her shift, Guo Luoluo found her and said that her mother had suddenly fallen seriously ill. She had already informed the housekeeper of the reason, and the housekeeper allowed her to leave the palace for two days to visit her, but on the condition that she had to complete her own duties first.

One of these duties was guarding the storehouse. According to the order of duty established by the nanny, Guo Luoluo was originally ranked after Li Shuyao. Therefore, if she continued to follow this order, she would have to wait two more days before leaving the palace. However, if Li Shuyao was willing to switch with her, Guo Luoluo could leave the palace and return home that same night after guarding the storehouse.

Guo Luoluo's words were so sad and pitiful at the time that "Li Shuyao" naturally responded with gratitude.

But she never expected that her promise would directly bring Guo Luoluo a huge fortune...

When the news that Guo Luoluo was named an official girl spread, all the palace maids in the Forbidden City were immediately envious.

Among them, Uya was closer to "Li Shuyao". She quickly came over and asked her what was going on with a look of surprise.

Li Shuyao recounted the entire story with a touch of sadness. Uya frowned, "Madam Guo Luoluo is ill? Why didn't my mother receive the news?"

After saying this, perhaps realizing that what he said was wrong, he quickly looked at her with an apologetic look, "Sister Shuyao, please forgive me. I don't doubt Qingyao's intentions. I just think this is too much of a coincidence... Or maybe my mother wasn't well-informed and didn't receive the news in time. I'll ask for you when I go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

After she said this, the original owner's face suddenly turned pale and frightening, and her lips trembled for a long time without being able to utter a complete sentence.

Seeing this, Wu Ya hurried forward to hold her arm and whispered to comfort her, "Sister Shuyao, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it." After a pause, she continued, "I just feel sorry for it. After all, if we talk about appearance, you are more beautiful than Qingyao. It's a pity... It's really a pity."

With just a few words of tea, Uya soon aroused the rage in Li Shuyao's heart. For a moment, she lost all her rationality, and only one thought kept turning over and over in her mind: it was Guo Luoluo who stole her good fortune!

After enduring for a few days, she finally couldn't bear it anymore. Yesterday, while taking a break from duty, she rushed to the back room of the Qianqing Palace in anger and had a fierce quarrel with Guo Luoluo. Then she unilaterally announced that the friendship between the two of them was over and they were no longer related.

After scolding others, she still felt very aggrieved. She hid in an empty corner and shed a few tears before returning to her room with her head down and red eyes.

In the room, Aunt Jia, who was in charge of supervising their daily life, was waiting for her with a sullen face.

As soon as he saw her come back, he had her pushed into the yard without saying anything. In front of other palace maids, he mercilessly punished her with ten slaps on the charge of "rebellion". Each slap dealt a heavy blow to the original owner's shaky self-esteem.

Finally, when the crowd of onlookers dispersed, the original owner returned to his room in a mess. He touched his red and stinging cheeks and cried all night. When it was almost dawn, his consciousness suddenly became hazy and Li Shuyao came in a daze.

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It was only when she was sorting out her memories that she discovered that the original owner "Li Shuyao" listened to the instigation of Uya and thought that it was Guo Luoluo who colluded with Nanny Jia Ya to attack her face because she was jealous of her beauty.

Little did she know that as soon as she left yesterday, Uya followed her all the way. After listening to the entire quarrel between the two, she ran back in an instant to complain to Aunt Jia.

When Aunt Jia Ma learned from Wu Ya that she had gone to Guo Luoluo to settle the score, she was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. She wished she could strangle "Li Shuyao" to death on the spot and be done with it.

Probably because after Guo Luoluo gained the emperor's favor, the emperor rarely went to the harem. During this period, he summoned Guo Luoluo to accompany him almost every day. Anyone in the palace could see that she was currently in great favor with the emperor. How could "Li Shuyao" have the courage to challenge the emperor's favorite concubine?

Fortunately, Aunt Jia Ya still remembered how close "Li Shuyao" and Guo Luoluo were in the past. She was worried that the two might just have had a temporary conflict. If she punished Li Shuyao harshly at this time, Guo Luoluo might retaliate in the future...

After much deliberation and considering the advice given by Uya, she finally decided to end the matter with ten slaps in front of all the palace maids.

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On the other side, after delivering the tray, Wu Ya quickly left and returned.

She was thinking about the purpose of her visit to Li Shuyao, so she closed the two doors tightly as soon as she came back.

The room Li Shuyao lived in faced north and was already damp and dark. When she closed the door, the light inside suddenly dimmed several degrees. When Li Shuyao came back to her senses, she was immediately startled by the atmosphere in the room and almost thought she was going to log off early.

"One more thing."

Fortunately, Uya spoke at this time.

Li Shuyao calmed down and asked her curiously, "What's the matter?"

Uya sat down beside her, "Madam Jia said that you must be exhausted these days and haven't had enough rest, so..." She paused and didn't continue.

Having read the original novel, Li Shuyao silently added to her mind—that's why she was so confused, giving rise to so many dirty and despicable thoughts, running off to offend the emperor's favorite concubine. To avoid causing greater trouble, it would be better to stay in the room and reflect on her mistakes, so as to avoid the emperor's anger in the future, and implicate everyone in the palace maids' quarters with her...

Although it sounds harsh, it is indeed the truth.

Nanny Jia Ya was not a kind person. She probably wanted to wait and see the reaction of the palace maid Guo Luoluo to see if she really had a grudge against "Li Shuyao". If so, there would be no need for Nanny Jia Ya to take action. The cunning tricks among the palace maids would be enough to make "Li Shuyao" be excluded from now on.

And if the woman in charge of Guo Luoluo was still thinking about "Li Shuyao"...

That's another set of coping strategies.

"Actually, Aunt Jia is worried about you. She said you don't have to go on duty these few days. You should stay home and take good care of the wound on your face. Everything else... can be dealt with after you've recovered."

There is no "more".

Li Shuyao thought sadly in her heart.

In the original novel, after "Li Shuyao" was slapped, her hatred for Guo Luoluo deepened, and Uya was there to "remind" her from time to time.

She had used all of her "paid leave" to maintain her complexion and inquire about the emperor's arrival, hoping to charm the emperor with her "beauty" and, ideally, to make him neglect all the concubines in the harem and favor only her...

The dream was quite beautiful.

Li Shuyao complained silently.

She thought for a moment, raised her head, looked at Wu Ya with a sincere expression, and said, "Okay."

When she answered, her two willow-shaped eyebrows were curved, making her look well-behaved and innocent, just like a child who was ignorant of the world.

For some reason, Uya suddenly felt uncomfortable.

But it was only a fleeting illusion.

She clenched her fingers, a look of worry emerging on her face, "Also, there's Qingyao."

As she spoke, she quietly observed the expression on Li Shuyao's face. Seeing her drooping eyelashes and looking a little depressed from the side, she felt a little pleased and continued, "Actually, Qingyao doesn't have any bad intentions..."

Li Shuyao lowered her head and blinked her eyes.

I thought to myself, it’s finally here, the heroine’s top-notch tea art performance.

She thought of a countermeasure in a moment and decided to use her ultimate move called "sincerity".

After adjusting her expression, she raised her head again, her watery eyes still filled with intimacy and trust towards the person in front of her. She smiled lightly and replied, "I know, whatever my sister says is right!"

"Sister said Qingyao is not bad, then she is not bad!"

Uya was choked by her words and frowned quickly in her heart.

What happened to Li?

She tentatively spoke again: "I thought, maybe she has some unavoidable difficulties?"

"Hardship?" Li Shuyao raised an eyebrow, then suddenly realized, "That's right, it must be like this!"

Then, half-heartedly, he wiped the corners of his tearless eyes and said, "Oh my God, Qingyao is really suffering."

bitter?

Wu Ya couldn't believe what she heard. Her expression was blank for a moment, and her tone became more hesitant. "Then, what happened before..."

Before she finished speaking, Li Shuyao had already stood up with her fists clenched. Her delicate and beautiful fair face was full of righteousness and she said solemnly, "I understand. Thank you for reminding me, sister. I will go to apologize to Qingyao now!"

Wu Ya: "..."