Hearing this, the palace maid slowly raised her head. She looked young, probably only thirteen or fourteen years old.
A slap mark was clearly visible on the face, proving that the owner of this face had just been abused.
"Hey, who hit your little face?" Su Mengyan asked in surprise, "Please talk to this Crown Princess properly."
The palace maids behind looked at each other in confusion.
The young palace maid said that she was originally a palace maid in the laundry department. Some of these people were the same as her, while others were palace maids from other places.
These people often took the opportunity to bully me and often asked me to do work for them. If they were unhappy, they would beat or scold me.
And today, when I passed by the East Palace, I happened to meet them. They said that they had stolen their masters' things.
Of course she refused to admit it. After all, she had never been to her masters' palace, so how could she possibly steal anything?
However, those people did not believe it and said that the master had put it in his clothes and forgot to take it, allowing her to take advantage of the opportunity.
The slap on the face was given by one of the palace maids.
"You really didn't take the master's things?" Su Mengyan asked.
The little palace maid hurriedly shook her head: "Crown Princess, even if I were given ten times the courage, I wouldn't dare to take it!"
It's interesting. Since she has never been to her masters' palace, how could a palace maid from the laundry department pass by the Eastern Palace?
This palace maid is really suspicious.
"In that case, you can look for it along the way. Maybe it fell somewhere." Su Mengyan said to the palace maids behind her.
Several palace maids who were kneeling in a group responded quickly, but one of them who seemed to be their leader looked at the little maid hesitantly.
As if she had something to say, Su Mengyan saw this and said, "Why? Do you have anything else to say?"
The man hurriedly said, "Yes, Crown Princess, let's go find something. What about this little bitch... no, what about this little palace maid?"
Yes, this little palace maid works in the laundry department, so naturally she has to go back.
However, Su Mengyan raised the corner of her mouth. There was obviously something wrong with this little palace maid. Although she didn't know who asked them to perform such a good show here, if she didn't do what they wanted, how could she let the show go to the end smoothly?
"Let her stay here for now and wait until things are over." Su Mengyan said.
The person nodded and said yes, then was about to leave to look for the lost things. No one saw her, but the moment she turned around, a smug smile appeared on her face.
She thought her plan was perfect, but she didn't know that Su Mengyan had seen through it from the very beginning, and now she just wanted to see what they were going to do next.
Watching the young maid disappear into the East Palace, Su Mengyan said to the senior maid beside her: "Go, find someone to go to the laundry department to check on this maid."
The senior palace maid left immediately.
"Oh! My kite." Chu Meng stared blankly at her kite falling into the water. She felt heartbroken but helpless.
What could she do? Get in the water?
"Miss Chu, what happened?" A guard passed by and saw Chu Meng standing by the lotus pond, so he asked.
Chu Meng had not had much contact with other men, so she just pointed at her kite.
The guard took one look and without saying a word, he jumped into the water.
After a while, he came back with the kite.
"Thank you!" Chu Meng took the kite and smiled again. The guard was stunned for a moment.
They all knew that Chu Meng was a cautious person who never said much and was even more silent with men.
Someone of my status actually managed to earn a smile from this girl.
"No, you're welcome." The guard stammered.
When Su Mengyan came in, she saw this scene and was surprised. She knew Chu Meng very well and thought that this would be her life.
I didn't expect to see her talking and laughing with a man. It was simply a weird story.
Thinking of this, Su Mengyan walked towards the two people: "Mengmeng, why are you here?" As she said that, she deliberately glanced at the man who was chatting with Chu Meng.
She wanted to see which guard was so capable that Chu Meng was no longer afraid.
Seeing Su Mengyan, the guard saluted, and Chu Meng blushed: "Sister Yan'er, I, I came out to fly a kite, and the kite fell into the lotus pond. He helped me get it out."
As he said that, he showed the still wet kite to Su Mengyan. Only then did Su Mengyan understand. No wonder the guard was soaked all over.
"Oh, so that's how it is. You should thank me very much." Su Mengzhen deliberately joked: "No wonder I'm still chatting with you here in wet clothes."
At this moment, Chu Meng was shocked to realize that the guard in front of her had not changed his clothes. Her face flushed red. "Yes, I'm sorry, I forgot. Go back and change your clothes!"
The guard wanted to say that he was in good health and it was okay, but then he thought that with the Crown Princess Su Mengyan here, it would not be a good idea for him to stay here for long. He bowed and went back to change his clothes.
At this moment, the head palace maid hurried back and bowed to Su Mengyan. Seeing that they seemed to have something to say, Chu Meng took the initiative to find an excuse and left.
"Your Highness, I've already inquired about this person, and there is indeed such a person in the laundry department." The senior palace maid spoke up and told the news she had found out.
Oh, this time, they knew to find reliable people. If they just casually found some people with unclear identities, it would be too disappointing!
After knowing the identity of the little palace maid, Su Mengyan hesitated. What should she do now?
The little palace maid was quite nimble and after entering the Eastern Palace, she did not feel that she was superior to others just because she was saved by the Crown Princess.
Instead, he is busy helping others.
Either they helped the palace maids sweep the floor, or they helped wipe the tables or something like that.
"Sister, let me help you. See what I can do." The little palace maid started to help again when she had nothing to do.
The maid in question was a second-class maid who usually had nothing to do, so she said, "I don't have anything to do here, you can go and rest!"
The older palace maid saw everything the younger palace maid did and was very satisfied with her actions.
She didn't know that Su Mengyan had some suspicions about this little palace maid.
At dinner, while Su Mengyan was eating the dishes prepared by the senior palace maid, she casually asked, "How is the young palace maid from the laundry department?"
The senior palace maid quickly replied, "Her Majesty, that little palace maid is very nimble and hardworking." She thought that since the Crown Princess asked this question, maybe she wanted to get to know this little palace maid.
In her opinion, since she could save a palace maid, she should basically take her in. After all, one more wouldn't make much.
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