Chapter 210 The Princess Summons You, Dare You Disobey Her Orders?
The palace maid immediately realized that Shen Lanxi had misunderstood and hurriedly explained, "Princess Wanhe was a title bestowed by His Majesty upon the Fifteenth Princess more than a year ago."
Before the Shen family's downfall, the fifteenth princess, Zhou Yunyue, was virtually unknown. She must have met her once or twice.
Zhou Yunyue was one of her missions in the Northwest: to escort a princess sent for a political marriage!
Where is she?
Palace maid: "Our princess is in the Imperial Garden!"
Shen Lanxi: "Go back and tell her that I don't have time to see her. If there is anything urgent, you can convey it to me through the eunuch by His Majesty's side."
She turned and left after she finished speaking.
The palace maids were stunned to see Shen Lanxi turn around and leave without even giving the princess any face.
After realizing what was happening, he quickly reached out to stop her.
"Don't go! The princess has summoned you. How dare you disobey her orders?"
Shen Lanxi looked at the palace maid and said with a half-smile, "You only entered the palace in the last two years, right?"
The palace maid wondered how she knew.
"I only entered the palace in the last two years, so what? Does it have anything to do with you disobeying the princess's summons?"
Shen Lanxi chuckled softly; "Back when I was roaming freely in the palace, your princess was probably still stuck in some cold palace. Working in the palace without even bothering to find out who I am beforehand, you might lose your head one day without even knowing how!"
The palace maid turned pale with fright when she heard her say that.
"You..." How dare this person speak ill of the princess? She is the princess!
Seeing Ban Sicao coming from the opposite direction, Shen Lanxi walked up to her and left with her!
"Who was that just now?" Ban Sicao asked curiously.
Shen Lanxi: "Don't overthink it. It's definitely not the person who delivered the letter to me before. She's a maidservant of the Fifteenth Princess, and she asked me to come over."
Ban Sicao paused; "Then aren't you going over?"
She's a princess, after all. Isn't Shen Lanxi afraid of arousing the emperor's suspicion?
"What's a princess? I used to walk around the palace like a king!" Shen Lanxi said arrogantly.
Ban Sicao's eyes widened, and she quickly jogged after him, asking, "Were you always this arrogant?"
Shen Lanxi was speechless again, watching him walk like a duck, slowing down his pace.
"Walk properly, and remember you are a palace maid now, not a man!"
Ban Sicao felt a lump in her throat after hearing this and began to mutter, "Didn't you tell me to walk with small, quick steps?"
"I think you should take some medicine, the kind that makes you mute very naturally after taking it..."
...
"How is it? Has she arrived yet?" Zhou Yunyue saw the palace maid return and quickly ran over to look behind her.
There was no sign of Shen Lanxi outside.
"Shen Lanxi didn't come?"
The palace maid, having failed in her task, lowered her head in fear and said, "She didn't come, and she said some nasty things."
"What did you say?"
The palace maid didn't dare to embellish the story; she simply relayed Shen Lanxi's exact words.
"Princess, she's being too presumptuous! You are a princess, and this is blatant insubordination. Let's tell His Majesty and the Empress; they'll definitely make her regret it!"
Zhou Yunyue slapped the palace maid hard across the face.
At this moment, her beautiful face was contorted with rage.
"I never imagined that even with the Shen family in decline and the Empress Dowager gone, she would still dare to be so arrogant!"
The young palace maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, trembling.
Everyone else says that Princess Fifteen, Shen Yunyue, is innocent and kind, but only those who serve her closely know how ruthless and vicious she can be.
"Princess, spare me! Princess, spare me..."
Zhou Yunyue kicked the palace maid, who felt a sharp pain in her waist but dared not reach out to help, her head pressed tightly to the ground.
"Shen Lanxi, you used to look down on me, but now that the Shen family is in this state, you still look down on me. What are you pretending for!"
"Get up right now and go find out what happened at today's welcome banquet. If you can't find out, you can go stay in the dry well in the Cold Palace!"
After Zhou Yunyue finished speaking in a sinister tone, she noticed the head instructor approaching and immediately urged the palace maids to get up in a low voice, her face returning to a harmless smile.
...
"What have you found out?"
On the way back, Shen Lanxi asked casually.
Ban Sicao shook her head: "I originally wanted to wait and see who drugged you, but I waited for a long time and no one came. Was the person who delivered the letter just fooling you?"
Shen Lanxi smiled sarcastically as she thought about today's performance.
"Because I have other value!"
Ban Sicao raised an eyebrow: "That's ridiculous. Can't you finish your sentence?"
Shen Lanxi rolled her eyes at him: "Even if I explained it all, you still wouldn't understand!"
Ban Sicao said irritably, "I think you're the one who needs to take some medicine!"
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The Shen family's mood today was just like the carriage they rode in on their way to the capital—up and down, filled with anxiety and dizziness.
Madam Shen had been putting on a brave face, but once she got into the carriage on the way back, she immediately leaned against it without any regard for her image.
The others weren't much better off.
That day, it was like hanging himself with a noose around his neck; his head was already inside the noose, and he couldn't kick the stool no matter what he did.
The discomfort was worse than being roasted on a hot coal!
"Mother, what did Her Majesty the Empress mean by what she said today?" Liu asked in a low voice.
Old Madam Shen opened her eyes and glared at her: "If you can't speak, then don't speak. Nobody will think you're mute!"
Liu died unjustly. What did she say wrong?
Don't they think the same way?
With her eyes closed, Old Madam Shen said wearily, "We'll talk about it when we get back to the manor!"
Throughout the journey, Shen Congwen's face remained gloomy; he didn't look at Zhou Xinrou, but at the outside.
Zhou Xinrou was also very tired, so she closed her eyes to rest after getting into the carriage.
"Princess, what about Lanxi?" Shen Congwen asked cautiously.
Zhou Xinrou kept her eyes closed and didn't say anything; it was unclear whether she was asleep.
I got back relatively early today, before the sun had even set. Some things, if I do them now, are already too late. But some things, it's never too late to do them, no matter when.
For example, collecting debts!
After returning home, she put down the rewards and imperial edict. In the past, these things would have been placed in the Shen family ancestral hall, but now no matter where she put them, no one dared to object.
Changing into women's attire, Shen Lanxi, carrying the imperial sword bestowed upon her by His Majesty, walked into the main hall. Her imposing aura caused all the members of the Shen family, who were discussing matters in the main hall, to straighten their backs, with the younger generation instinctively hiding behind their elders.
Even Shen Congwen, upon seeing Shen Lanxi like this, felt his imposing presence diminished by three points.
"This is the main hall of the Shen family. What kind of behavior is it to come here with a sword?" This is the capital city. Does she dare to lay a finger on them?
Let those censors and officials spit on her until they drown her!
Shen Lanxi looked at everyone with a half-smile, her longsword used as a cane, stuck into the ground.
With a snap, it poked a small hole in the floor tile.
The Shen family members tensed up instantly.
"Your family isn't well-off, are you? Do you want some money?"
The Shen family members froze. What did she mean by that?
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