Chapter 220: I simply entered the palace with the old man as his bricklayer.
"In that case, I will buy the raw materials from you from now on."
Ruan Mian was polite for a few moments, then it was time to get down to business: "I wonder when the old gentleman will go to the palace?"
Before she finished, the old man thought of something: "Young lady, are you free now? I was supposed to go to the palace to survey it today. Because the prince is getting married, the roof of the palace needs to be repaired. If you are free, you can go with me."
This was exactly what Ruan Mian wanted.
She was originally dressed in men's clothing today, but because of preparing the glaze, some dirt got on her face.
There was no need to disguise myself to enter the palace. I simply pretended to be the old man's bricklayer and went into the palace with him.
After they arrived, a steward received them and talked with the old man for a while before having several servants take them to different courtyards.
The old man looked at Ruan Mian and asked, "If you are not familiar with this, you can come with me. Today we just need to go to each roof to see which ones need repairs."
Ruan Mian nodded without hesitation: "Don't worry, old sir, I know all of these."
After saying that, he followed a servant to the backyard. When the servant went to get the wooden ladder, Ruan Mian touched the jade bracelet and released the little butterflies.
They had all smelled the scent of the wooden hairpin beforehand, and they believed that as long as Lady Yue was in the palace, there would definitely be traces of her.
Sure enough, as soon as the servant brought the wooden ladder, the little butterflies had already started hovering above her head.
So fast? She had just reached the rooftop. Shocked, she looked in the direction the butterflies were circling, and soon saw a figure being dragged by a man across the yard ahead!
A woman's painful voice could be heard faintly.
Ruan Mian immediately turned around, glancing at the servant, who had disappeared. She deliberately headed towards the front of the roof, which gave her a clearer view. The man was dressed in luxurious attire, a jade crown, a green robe, and a jade belt. It was immediately clear he was of high status.
He punched and kicked the woman lying on the ground without hesitation, with a terrifying look in his eyes. After venting his anger, he pinched the woman's chin and looked at her fiercely.
"If I say you are Ah Yue, then you are it! You disobeyed me and disobeyed me, and this is what will happen to you!"
After saying this, he slapped her again. For some reason, he suddenly became furious and lifted up the stone table next to him. The table, which was off the ground, fell directly on the woman's legs.
"ah……"
The woman let out a scream of extreme pain. Ruan Mian frowned and saw that the leg pressed under the stone bench had been deformed.
I'm afraid it was dislocated.
However, the man was still not satisfied. Just as he was about to take action, a servant behind him bowed respectfully.
"Prince! The prince invites you."
The man then flicked his sleeves and his expression softened.
After a while, he seemed to have changed his expression, helped the woman up with both hands, and said with a look of heartache.
"Ayue, why are you so careless?" He turned around and called to the servant: "Go call the palace doctor!"
The woman stared at him with a look of fear on her face. She was on full alert and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Ruan Mian saw all of this.
That woman must be the master's elder sister, Lady Yue. And this prince, Mu Ren, is even more perverted than in the original book.
The original book only mentioned that he had been spoiled since he was a child and was very disrespectful to everyone.
Now seeing it with his own eyes, Ruan Mian was truly eye-opening!
However, she wanted to meet Lady Yue, but as soon as the prince left, a familiar figure walked into the yard.
The servant who stayed behind saw the woman and hurriedly greeted her: "Greetings, Miss Hui."
Just by looking at the back, Ruan Mian recognized that it was Ruan Jiao.
She lowered her figure, only showing half of her head to look over there. Ruan Jiao stood there without moving, but the maid beside her walked up to Zhang Yue, raised her neck and said coldly.
"Why don't you kneel down and greet Miss Hui when you see her?"
Zhang Yue was covered in wounds and had little strength to begin with. Now her legs were being pressed by the stone table, so she couldn't even kneel down.
Seeing that she didn't react, the maid came forward and slapped her several times!
Zhang Yue's face suddenly turned scarlet.
"How dare you! My daughter will be the Crown Prince's consort in a few days, and you're just a concubine of the Crown Prince. How dare you ignore our daughter now?"
"Shuang'er, don't you see this girl is injured? Don't make things difficult for her."
Ruan Jiao adjusted her shawl, but the maid named Shuang'er seemed to understand the master's implication. Her expression suddenly became fierce, and she stepped forward to lift up the stone table.
However, she had just lifted it up a little when she deliberately slipped her hand, causing the heavy stone table to hit the wound again.
The pain made Yue Niang break out in cold sweat and groan in extreme agony.
Shuang'er pretended not to hear and tried to lift it up again without changing her expression. She did this over and over again. Even the servant beside her seemed unable to bear it any longer.
She wanted to speak, but Shuang'er was one step ahead, pinching her shoulder with her sharp nails. She pretended to care, but her long nails dug into her flesh, causing blood to seep out.
"My daughter cares so much about this lady, but she is so arrogant. She doesn't even take me, a mere concubine, seriously."
After saying this, Shuang'er stepped on her foot again without changing her expression.
The sound of the broken bones was heard very clearly by everyone present, and even Ruan Mian couldn't help but sweat for it.
Just then, there was a noise outside the yard. Ruan Mian saw that it was the old man and a few others who had come nearby. After thinking for a while, he came down from the roof.
At this moment, Shuang'er's angry voice suddenly came from the yard: "Stop."
Ruan Mian didn't look back, but the old man thought she had bumped into someone and hurried forward to explain.
"Miss, this is our bricklayer. He was ordered to come here today to survey the roof of the palace that needs repairs. I didn't mean to offend you."
Hearing this, Shuang'er's expression looked better, but she relied on Ruan Jiao's support behind her and spoke unkindly.
"Do you craftsmen even know the rules? This is the royal palace's courtyard. How can you come in without the prince's permission? Get out of here!"
The old man was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "Miss, we can come here because of the prince..."
"Then why don't you show me the prince's credentials? Our Miss Hui is still here. She hasn't even married the prince yet, and you're just trying to disrupt her?"
This maidservant has taken unreasonable behavior to the extreme.
The old man didn't expect her to be so unruly.
But Miss Hui was the future Crown Prince's consort, so they had no choice but to bow and leave.
However, Ruan Jiao walked out of the courtyard with a smile on her face and said calmly, "Shuang'er, don't be rude. This is the craftsman appointed by the prince himself." "But I heard that the glazed roof of the prince's mansion has not been completed yet. What happened?"
The old man said quickly, "We have been making glazed tiles according to the girl's instructions, which delayed us for some time. Now we have made them and will be able to complete the roof soon."
"Oh? Then may I ask, old sir, are those glazed tiles expensive?"
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