Chapter 178: No Reciprocity

When Zhou Huanjiu was leaving the palace, she met a little palace maid who was waiting for her in front of the palace gate.

Haoyue bowed to her and said, "Greetings, my lady."

"His Highness said that you are not good at household affairs and you are not good at confronting others, so you are easily at a disadvantage."

"Your Highness was worried about you, so he sent me to help you."

In fact, Bei Jingchu's original words were: "Jiujiu is stupid. Even if you give her these things, she will still be easily bullied if she is not careful."

But Haoyue couldn't be as straightforward as the princess and said, "The princess said you are too stupid."

How presumptuous.

So she embellished the princess's words.

And she concealed it. She thought that the princess asked her to come because she wanted to hear her recount how Lady Zhou took revenge after she returned to the palace.

Sister Changyan can also accomplish this task, but her eloquence is not as good as hers.

After I come back, I can't tell His Highness about it vividly...

Haoyue stopped thinking.

Your Highness must be doing this to help his friends, not to just eat melons.

Your Highness is the best Highness.

Although Haoyue embellished Bei Jingchu's words, Zhou Huanjiu knew her very well. She knew with her toes that the bad boy must have made up bad things about her behind her back.

After leaving the palace, Mrs. Zhou wanted to go back to the Li family to get something.

The carriage stopped in front of Li's house and the doorman went in to announce it.

Zhou Huanjiu wanted to follow the etiquette and get off the car, but Haoyue advised him, "My Lord, today, we are here to cause trouble."

"You have to be decent and not give them too much face."

"So, we'll get off the bus after they come out."

Zhou Huanjiu retracted his foot.

Seeing that she listened to the advice, Haoyue felt relieved.

Even if she has a hundred ideas, she still has to listen to the advice of the person who makes the decision.

She knew that the county lady would listen to the princess's advice, but she was not sure whether she would listen to her.

Fortunately, this princess is able to listen, so things are much easier to handle.

Haoyue continued, "Wait a minute, when the people come out, you don't have to go down."

"When it's time for you and your wife to appear, this servant will come and help you."

"Because you don't have to argue with these people yourself."

"You are a county lord personally appointed by the imperial court. It is beneath your dignity to engage in a verbal dispute with such a villain."

"If you were to die in person, I would have failed in my duty."

Soon after, a man's shouting voice was heard outside the carriage.

"Sister, why are you back again?"

"Didn't you agree that you wouldn't come back to take advantage of me?"

"Can you please have some shame?"

As he was talking outside, he found that the carriage curtain was still closed, and he became even more angry.

"What are you doing hiding in the carriage?"

“Is this the attitude of a visitor?”

The car curtain opened and an unfamiliar girl leaned out.

Haoyue got off the carriage.

Although she is young, she is very graceful with every step she takes.

After following Bei Jingchu for a long time, I learned some of her bluffing skills.

She stopped.

"Mr. Li, Madam Li."

"Madam was staying temporarily at the Li residence."

"When I left yesterday, I was in a hurry and was unable to take some things with me."

"I'm here to clean up today. I hope Mr. Li can help me."

Seeing that no one helped her get off the car, Li Shanglian guessed that she must be a servant.

He was very dissatisfied: "Who are you? You are just a little maid. How dare you talk to us?"

"This woman has been eating and drinking in my house for five years, using everything from my house. How can she have anything of her own?"

"Let them come to me on their own."

Haoyue smiled and said, "I am indeed a servant, but you two may have misunderstood me."

"I am a sixth-rank attendant of the Taiji Palace and the personal maid of Princess Tianzhen."

"I don't know if I have the qualifications to talk to you two."

The Li couple were shocked and it took them a long time to react.

Then he bowed and said, "Hello, Madam Dianshi."

The two then realized that although the girl's clothes and jewelry were not gorgeous, they were extremely exquisite.

The seemingly plain fabric actually has floating dark patterns.

As you walk, different patterns and colors appear under different light and shadow.

Such exquisitely crafted cloth, but they don't have a single piece in their house, even for making hand-woven silk.

Only the royal family, with such great power as the whole country, would be so generous as to give clothes to their servants.

The princess's personal maid was much more distinguished than the daughters of ordinary officials.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Li's voices trembled, and they didn't understand how they were related to Princess Tianzhen.

Haoyue's voice was gentle, with a childish and crisp tone, but it was like a bolt from the blue to the two of them: "My Highness and Madam Zhou were very close friends. I heard that after she left the palace, she took her mother and moved out of the Li family."

"Send me to help."

"Although Madam Zhou has lived in your house for five years, she will pay back all the money she owes you."

"So those things, naturally, were also bought by Madam."

"You two, can you be flexible now?"

They quickly responded: "Of course we can, of course we can."

They even stood on both sides of the door, welcoming guests: "Madam Dian Shi, please come in."

Haoyue turned around and opened the curtain of the carriage, and a maid helped Madam Zhou down first.

She then helped Zhou Huanjiu, who came out last, out of the car.

Zhou Huanjiu tried hard to straighten her face and put on a serious attitude.

She is free and easy when she is with her peers.

I will never lose in an argument or a fight.

But when facing the elders in the family, I am just a child who is at a loss.

In fact, let her be alone today.

She wouldn't suffer any loss either, because yesterday she thought her mother was living with her uncle, and her uncle truly accepted them and treated them as family.

She hadn't reacted yet when she was kicked out.

But now, she has figured it out. The Li family is not her family, not her elders.

A friend in need is a friend indeed. It is actually better to see through it earlier.

Zhou Huanjiu comforted himself in his heart.

She will not be polite and act like a good child and suffer losses.

But what Haoyue said was right. It was not in keeping with her status and it lowered her style for her to go and argue with these two people personally.

She is a little princess personally appointed by His Majesty!

She wants to hold it up!

A day later, the group entered Li's house again.

But back then he came to visit relatives, now he comes to cause trouble.

Haoyue pretended to be innocent and asked, "Your Highness, I heard that Madam Zhou came to visit the Li family yesterday, but you two drove her and her wife out together."

She was just a child, and she acted ignorant, easily fooling the two of them into thinking they were really here to ask questions.

"Your Highness and Madam Zhou are as close as sisters and care about each other very much. Could you two tell me what happened yesterday? I can go back and report to Your Highness."

Li Shanglian and his wife looked at each other and tacitly pushed the matter away.

"Mrs. Bing, this is mutual assistance among people, helping in times of emergency but not in times of poverty."

"Although Ajie and Caomin are siblings, they are both married."

"She had a conflict with her sister's husband, so she came to live with me, and I took her in."

"But I stayed there for five years."

"I have my own family to support, so there is no reason for me to let my married sister continue to depend on me."

They looked at the little kid in front of them. It was a very easy thing to fool a little kid.

However, they did not think that there were many girls in the palace, and the one who was chosen to be the princess's personal maid could not be really an ignorant child.

Haoyue nodded as if he had listened, allowing them to come up with more excuses.

Finally, Mrs. Zhou smiled softly. She squatted down and hugged her daughter, like a rootless duckweed that had found a place to lean on.

With courage and strength.

Her eyes were filled with self-mockery and disappointment, and she said slowly, "Indeed, it's all my fault."

"I regard the Li family as my mother's family, but the Li family regards me as a poor relative."

"Before Zhou Yu was stripped of his title, I helped you a lot."

"I sent money to the Li family despite Zhou Yu's contempt and contempt."

"I had to do a lot of work to get your son into Wenqin Academy."

"I even found a job for you, but you just couldn't stand the hardship and insisted on going home and lying down."

"So, if we settle the money one by one, it will be good."

"Brother, should you spit it all out?"

The benefits he had gained were pointed out one by one, and Li Shanglian's face turned ashen.

How could he be willing to spit out all that? Even if he emptied the entire Li family, he couldn't spit it out.

So I subconsciously retorted: "Before that, my sister gave it to me voluntarily."