When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone into the room through the window, the space next to Shangguan Xu was empty, but there was still lingering heat between the bed.
The attendant Rumo brought the jewelry box over and asked, "Master, which headgear do you plan to wear today?"
Shangguan Xu picked up a gold hairpin with a jewel-carved pattern, which was the same color as the clothes he was wearing today.
He tidied his clothes casually, and it was not until he walked behind the screen that Rumo seemed to wake up from a dream and hurriedly chased after him, "Master, it usually takes at least an hour just to dress up. Now that you have become the servant of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, you should dress up even better. Why are you..." It was as if you had become a different person.
Shangguan Xu sneered, "Why dress up? No matter how beautifully I dress, I can never compare to the naturally beautiful Consort Lian (Xue Wu)."
Rumo asked cautiously, "Master, are you planning to go to Yuehua Palace to teach Servant Lian a lesson?"
Shangguan Xu answered as a matter of course, "What else?"
Rumo was worried. "After all, Noble Servant Lian is favored by the master. It's only the second day since she entered the house, and she openly humiliates him like this. If His Highness knew about this, it would be bad..."
Before Rumo could finish her words, Shangguan Xu slapped her in the face. Shangguan Xu was furious. "How dare you, a lowly servant, lecture me? That bitch Xue Wu pretended to be sick last night to seduce the princess. If I can swallow this anger, I won't be named Shangguan."
Rumo didn't dare show any pain after being beaten. Shangguan Xu was always so arrogant and domineering. He could only follow Shangguan Xu's wishes and admit his fault. "It's all because of my own words. Your Majesty, you dare not give your master face. You deserve to die."
Shangguan Xu snorted coldly, not wanting to pay any attention to Rumo, the talkative servant.
This wasn't the first time Rumo had stepped in to teach him a lesson. It was heart-warming to have such a servant. "Rumo, from now on, when I go out, you don't have to follow me. You will be responsible for the internal affairs of Changqiu Palace."
Rumo is Shangguan Ran's personal attendant, and is responsible for taking care of household affairs, which is something that only second-class attendants should do.
Rumo lowered his head and agreed.
It was certainly an honor to serve as Shangguan Xu's personal attendant, but Shangguan Xu's temper would sooner or later cause trouble. It was not necessarily a bad thing that he was replaced from the position of personal attendant.
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For some reason, the sky suddenly became overcast.
A cold wind blew by, and the plants planted in the Yuehua Palace swayed in the wind.
Ru Yan, another attendant beside Shangguan Xu, kicked open the gate to the inner courtyard and said, "Our Lord, we have come to visit you. I am sorry that you are so arrogant that you didn't even come out to kneel and greet our master."
When the door was kicked open, Xue Wu was not even ten feet away from where Shangguan Xu was. Ru Yan said that he had no respect for his superiors and did not come out to greet Shangguan Xu. This accusation was too far-fetched.
But Shangguan Xu never needed a legitimate reason to bully others. He held his chin high and ordered, "Your Excellency, you have disregarded the palace rules. Your crime is unforgivable. You will be slapped in the face twenty times immediately as an example to others."
Ruyan stepped forward to hit Xue Wu, but his raised hand was blocked by Rumo.
Shangguan Xu was furious. "Rumo, you traitorous bastard, who is your master, me or that bitch Xue Wu? I want to teach Xue Wu a lesson, but you're here to stop me. Don't blame me for disregarding the relationship between master and servant and punishing you as well."
Rumo knelt down and said, "Master, please forgive me. I am not trying to stop you from punishing your Excellency Lian. I just think that a slap in the face is too easy for your Excellency Lian.
I have heard of a kind of punishment before, which involves using silver needles thinner than a hair to pierce the pads of a person's ten fingers. The pain is like having ten fingers piercing the heart.
And the most amazing thing is that when these silver needles, which are as thin as hair, are pulled out, there will be no problems with the fingers of the person being tortured.
Aside from the excruciating pain felt by the victim, the punishment ends as if it had never begun."
Shangguan Xu's expression turned from gloomy to bright.
If he slapped Xue Wu here, Xue Wu's face would definitely swell up like a pig's head. But if he used the punishment of piercing the heart with ten fingers, there would not be any trace of torture on Xue Wu's body. Then who could prove that he had ever bullied Xue Wu?
Shangguan Xu, in a rare act of condescension, went to help Rumo. "I've discovered that you're quite clever. It's a waste of your talent to have you do such trivial things as housekeeping. I've gotten used to having you serve me over the years, and you'll be my personal attendant from now on."
Ru Mo's face was filled with humility. "Thank you so much for your grace, Master."
The charcoal fire in Yuehua Palace was burning brightly, but Xue Wu only felt cold all over, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
The punishment of piercing the heart with ten fingers was proposed by Ru Mo, and the person who carried it out was naturally Ru Mo.
The needle used to prick the finger must be made of silver, but silver is too soft, so the outside of the silver needle must be coated with a special liquid.
Rumo postponed the execution to tomorrow on the grounds that it would take time to make the torture instruments.
Seeing that there was nothing good to watch today, Shangguan Xu yawned in boredom and left without looking back.
Rumo was the last one to leave. Before he stepped out of the door, he turned back and gave Xue Wu a meaningful look.
Xue Wu felt that there seemed to be no malice in Rumo's eyes just now, but it was just such an ambiguous look, and he couldn't understand what Rumo meant.
The attendant Zhu Ye was so anxious that tears were about to fall. "Master, when Her Highness the Crown Princess leaves the court, you must immediately expose Shangguan Cejun's crimes. He is vicious and persecuted you so blatantly. Her Highness will definitely not forgive him."
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