Chapter 8 Chapter 8 "Why are you hitting people?"...

However, life has never been lenient with Li Shuyao just because she is a poor and innocent little kitten.

In the afternoon, Li Shuyao was brought to Liang Jiugong by Xiaoquanzi.

Liang Jiugong didn't mean to embarrass her. He just looked her up and down and asked in a lukewarm tone, "Li Shuyao, right?"

Li Shuyao nodded cautiously and said softly, "To answer Eunuch Liang, yes."

Liang Jiugong: "Okay, come with us." After saying that, he turned around, leaving Li Shuyao with only his tall back.

Li Shuyao glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and saw him stride away without any courtesy. After being stunned for two moments, she hurriedly trotted after him.

I only remember climbing many white jade steps, walking along a road covered with red carpet, crossing four thresholds, and finally arriving in a room with slightly warm air.

Eunuch Liang turned to look at her: "Do you remember the way?"

Li Shuyao: “?”

Remember the road? Remember which road?

She just remembered to count the steps and door thresholds... and no one told her to remember the way.

Li Shuyao's hands suddenly clenched into fists. She was very flustered and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Didn't you remember?" Liang Jiugong raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion when he saw that she didn't respond.

Li Shuyao thought for a moment, nodded quickly, and said in a trembling voice: "In reply to Eunuch Liang, I am a bit stupid, no, I didn't remember..."

Liang Jiugong: "..."

His expression suddenly became somewhat complicated. After a long moment, he spoke calmly, his voice inexplicably terrifying: "Just walk straight up the steps, enter the main gate of the Palace of Heavenly Purity, turn right into the Imperial Study, walk to the innermost room, pass the outer room, and enter the inner room on the second right. You don't even remember this?"

Could it be that he sent a fool here? Liang Jiugong frowned deeply, already racking his brains over how to train him next.

However, Li Shuyao was so frightened by his words that her heart almost stopped beating. She was stunned for a long time before she broke down his words in her mind and fully understood them. Then she compared them with her vague memories of walking and found that it seemed... that was indeed the case.

Go straight, go up the stairs, enter the door, turn right and walk a little, enter the door again and walk a little, then turn right again, and you will arrive.

It’s a road that even a fool can remember, so what was she thinking just now?

Li Shuyao clenched her fists tighter, then lowered her head a few inches, looking at her toes, and sincerely admitted her mistake, "In reply to Eunuch Liang, I remember what you said. I was too nervous just now and didn't know how to describe it. That's why I said it wrong. Please forgive me, Eunuch."

She stood there, like a primary school student who had made a mistake and was facing the wall to reflect on her mistakes.

Liang Jiugong didn't know what her temperament was like in the past, but he figured that she was always right in judging people and couldn't really send a fool here. After hesitating for a moment, he believed Li Shuyao's words. His frown relaxed a little, and he waved the whisk in his hand and said, "From now on, you will be working in the tea room. Come in."

After saying that, step aside a few steps.

Li Shuyao nodded, walked forward and pushed the door open, and was greeted by a burst of warmth.

This room, approximately 40 square meters in size, was flanked by several rosewood tea stands, each filled with a dazzling array of porcelain vases, tea baskets, and tea sets. In the center sat a rosewood tea table, upon which lay a tea stove, teapot, teacups, tea spoons, tea caddies, and other utensils.

After Li Shuyao entered, the person inside probably heard the noise and quickly came out from behind the tea stand, "What are you doing?"

The person who came was a little palace maid who looked about eighteen or nineteen years old. She was wearing a pink palace maid's outfit, a hairpin with flowers on her head, and three earrings in her ears. Her face was pretty and charming, but her expression was tense, her eyebrows were furrowed, and her lips, which were painted with bright red lipstick, were tightly pursed and pulled down. There was unhappiness written all over her face.

After seeing Li Shuyao's face clearly, her unhappiness, which was only three points, suddenly increased to eight points. Her eyes were full of anger, and she wanted to spit fire. "This is the tea room, a key place. Who allowed you to barge in at will? Don't want your head anymore? Be careful, I will tell Eunuch Liang and..."

"What should we do with her?" Just at this moment, Liang Jiugong also walked in and stood behind Li Shuyao.

Li Shuyao noticed his approach, quickly lowered her head and walked aside, looking extremely obedient.

She felt that she might be destined to be a lowly cannon fodder, and would be unwelcome wherever she went. When she was still in the palace maids' quarters, she had the green tea heroine Uya in front of her and the covetous Nanny Jia Ya behind her.

For some unknown reason, the other palace maids were always distant and perfunctory towards her, but the little angel Qingyao was the best to her.

The second was Wan Liuha Yueshu. Although she was not as good to her as Qingyao, she did send her a bottle of medicine. Two days before she was transferred, Yueshu ran to her crying and said that after she returned that day, she tossed and turned for a long time and felt that what Li Shuyao said made sense. She shouldn't have misunderstood Qingyao without any verification.

She also said that if possible, she would like to ask Li Shuyao for a favor and take her to meet Qingyao next time. She wanted to admit her mistake and apologize to Qingyao in person.

However, before Li Shuyao could find a suitable opportunity, she was transferred to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. She didn't know what was happening with Yueshu...

Li Shuyao fell into her own thoughts.

On the other side, Liang Jiugong was holding a whisk in his hand with a very displeased expression.

The maid was terrified when she saw him approaching in person. Her knees gave way and she fell to her knees, begging for mercy. "Liang, Eunuch Liang, I know I was wrong. I was just worried that someone might have barged in, but I absolutely did not mean to use your name to bully others."

"You are aware, eunuch, that this is, after all, a crucial tea room. If anything were to go wrong and endanger His Majesty's health, I would rather die than refuse..."

The crying startled Li Shuyao. She woke up from her thoughts and blinked curiously, not understanding why she had such a big reaction.

Is Liang Jiugong really that scary?

As soon as this question came to mind, Li Shuyao fell silent.

I felt like I had asked myself a stupid question. If Liang Jiugong wasn't scary, who was the person who was so scared that he was talking nonsense and had read and replied randomly?

After all, he is Eunuch Liang, the chief steward of the Palace of Heavenly Purity, and the immediate superior of these palace servants. How can he not have some deterrent power?

Li Shuyao quickly convinced herself, and quietly raised her head a little bit, with curiosity flashing in her eyes. Her gaze swept over Liang Jiugong's boots for a while, and then glanced at the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground and crying.

The palace maid's pleading continued.

Liang Jiugong felt a little impatient, "Okay, our family didn't say anything to you."

He still remembered this palace maid.

A month ago, she and another palace maid in the tea room, relying on their titles as tea maids, extorted money from several palace servants working outside the palace. After the incident was exposed, they were punished by the palace nanny with being beaten with chopsticks for an hour. [1]

Who would have thought that she still did not change her bad habits? Seeing that Guo Luoluo had won the emperor's favor just because she was guarding the warehouse, she even had the idea of getting close to him. However, she was smarter and not as bold as the other one.

After another palace maid failed in her attempt to seduce the emperor, she was punished to weed in Jingshan, but this one remained in the tea room as her tea-serving maid.

Hearing that Liang Jiugong had no intention of punishing her, the maid secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She then wiped the tears from her face, knelt on the ground, and raised her head pitifully, "May I ask, Eunuch Liang, who is this?"

Liang Jiugong: "Next, she will work with you in the tea room." After a pause, he continued: "Take care of her more, get up."

The maid then stood up, rubbing the handkerchief in her hand, with a flattering smile on her face, and asked Li Shuyao very kindly, "What's your name?"

Li Shuyao raised her head slightly and replied softly, "My name is Li Shuyao. May I ask what your name is?"

The maid replied, "My last name is Song, and my given name is Fuwen. You can just call me Fuwen."

"Fu Wen," Li Shuyao repeated in a low voice. It seemed that she was also from the Han Army Banner.

Then she showed a bright smile, "Then you can just call me Shu Yao."

"Okay, Shu Yao." Song Fuwen also replied with a smile.

Liang Jiugong stood aside, listening calmly as the two of them exchanged names. After a while, he said in a deep voice, "When His Majesty wakes up, he will go to the Cining Palace and then rest in the Chengqian Palace. You only need to prepare the tea he will drink when he wakes up, and then you can turn off the tea stove. There is no need to leave anyone guarding the tea room."

"These past few days, you should worry more about her, Fuwen, and teach her some manners."

"As you command." Song Fuwen bowed as if to follow the trend.

Li Shuyao was watching from the side and quickly bent her knees as well.

Only then did Liang Jiugong leave with satisfaction.

After the big boss left, not only Fu Wen, but even Li Shuyao breathed a sigh of relief, patted their chests, and looked like they had survived a disaster.

Li Shuyao turned around with a smile and was about to ask Fu Wen a few more questions when she saw her "colleague" who had been friendly and kind before, waving a handkerchief to fan herself while glancing at her with the side of his eyes. Then, he snorted in annoyance and walked away with a twist of his waist.

Li Shuyao: "..."

She was shocked again!

Is this a face-changing game?

Li Shuyao stood there in a daze for a moment, but still chased after him, "Fu Wen."

Song Fuwen ignored her completely and walked to the tea rack to continue what he had not finished before. He poured out a few remaining tea leaves from several teapots, put them in his mouth to taste them, and then spat them out "Pooh". He picked up a pen and paper, wrote a few words, and put the pen down again.

Then pour out all the tea leaves in the teapot and fold them into small fist-sized paper bags, just like wrapping Chinese herbal medicine.

Li Shuyao walked over, stretched out a finger as white as satin to poke the paper bags, and asked curiously: "Fu Wen, what are you doing?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her finger was slapped hard with full force.

Song Fuwen had returned to his previous ferocious expression, looking at Li Shuyao with unfriendly eyes, "Don't move!"

Li Shuyao hissed, retracted her fingers, wrapped them in the palm of her other hand, and pinched them carefully twice.

it hurts!

Tears welled up in her eyes quickly. She looked aggrieved, pitiful, helpless, and a little angry. Like a dog trying to show its paws, she glared at Song Fuwen dryly and shouted, "Why are you hitting me?"

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