Yun Wanwan glanced at her and nodded slightly. A Kui also took out the invitation from her sleeve and handed it to her.
The maid took the invitation with both hands, glanced down, and when she looked up again, her face was full of smiles. "The Imperial Concubine is waiting for you in the palace. I will take you there right away."
The maid led Yun Wanwan towards the palace of Noble Concubine Yun, instructing her, "Miss, today we have distinguished guests in the palace, so please be careful with your words and don't bring shame to the Yun Mansion."
The palace maid's words were full of disdain for Yun Wanwan, the general's daughter who had just been adopted from the countryside. Even if a pheasant had become a phoenix, she was still a pheasant at heart.
A Kui frowned. The people in Prince An's Mansion had always been taught by Rong Chengxuan that if anyone provoked them, they should retaliate immediately. If something happened, they could just report the name of Prince An's Mansion and no one would dare to make things difficult for them. Now someone was speaking in a sarcastic way to the future mistress of Prince An's Mansion in front of her, and A Kui naturally couldn't tolerate it.
"Our young lady's etiquette is naturally impeccable, so there's no need for you to remind her again. After all, the real thing is much more presentable than the fake one."
After hearing this, the palace maid just smiled and didn't continue talking to Akui.
Ah Kui immediately felt that something was wrong. The people who served Concubine Yun always belittled Yun Wanwan and praised Yun Yaoyao. Now that he said that about Yun Yaoyao, no one talked back to him. This was something he had never seen before.
The palace maid brought Yun Wanwan to a side hall and said, "The Imperial Concubine said that you should wait here for a while. She will be here soon."
Yun Wanwan frowned and asked, "Aren't we going to the main hall? Why are you bringing me to the side hall?"
The palace maid explained to Yun Wanwan, "Young lady, the Imperial Concubine said she had something personal to tell you, so she asked me to bring you to the side hall to wait for her. She will come to see you after she finishes entertaining the guests in the main hall."
"Yeah." Yun Wanwan said she understood and found a place to sit down, intending to wait for Concubine Yun to come.
Ah Kui felt something was amiss. After watching the maid leave, she approached Yun Wanwan and said, "Miss, I feel like there's something strange about that maid just now. For safety's sake, let's go find the prince."
Yun Wanwan poured herself a cup of tea, clearly treating this place as her own. She took a sip before saying, "Since we are here, we must make the best of it. If an enemy comes, we will fight him with our troops; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth."
After saying that, she patted Akui's shoulder and told her to relax and not to believe everything she heard and look at everyone as strange.
The maid who had just left returned shortly after, carrying something. Afraid Yun Wanwan would find it strange, she took the initiative to explain, "Miss, the Imperial Concubine asked me to bring this to you to fill your stomach. She'll be here for a while, so if you're hungry, have a bowl of soup."
Yun Wanwan looked at the dark soup in the maid's hand and immediately frowned, "I'm not hungry yet..."
But the maid clearly didn't understand Yun Wanwan's implication and placed the bowl of unknown soup on the table. "It's okay, young lady. This is good stuff. The Imperial Concubine had someone simmer it for two hours to make this bowl of soup."
Yun Wanwan leaned over and smelled the soup. She didn't want to drink it anymore and even felt a little like vomiting. She stood up and wanted to move to another place farther away from the bowl of soup.
Unexpectedly, the palace maid did not place the bowl of soup in the right place. When Yun Wanwan stood up, her hand accidentally touched the bowl, and it shattered to the ground with a bang.
Yun Wanwan looked at the shattered pieces with a feeling of guilt, "I didn't mean to do that. I've truly wasted the Imperial Concubine's kindness."
The palace maid's reaction was even greater than Yun Wanwan's, the one who broke the bowl. After seeing Yun Wanwan smash the bowl, she suddenly felt as if her strength had been drained away. She collapsed to the ground, muttering, "It's over, it's over... The Queen will blame me..."
Yun Wanwan squatted down. After all, she was the one who broke the bowl. No matter what, she couldn't let this palace maid take the blame for her for nothing. So she comforted her, "Don't worry. I will explain to the Imperial Concubine later that you didn't pour out the soup. I accidentally broke the bowl and that's why I poured it out."
Yun Wanwan thought that this was all she needed to put the maid's mind at ease. Unexpectedly, she burst into tears, shaking her head at Yun Wanwan, muttering, "Not the Imperial Concubine... Not the Imperial Concubine... Not the Imperial Concubine..."
When Empress Lin Qingfang, who was hiding in the inner room, heard this, she was filled with dismay and said, "Is this palace maid's brain made of glue? If she does this, that bitch Yun Wanwan will definitely notice! She's so stupid! If I had known she was like this, I wouldn't have asked her to do this."
Qiufen had given her a suggestion a few days ago, saying that she should find an opportunity to give Yun Wanwan a bowl of sterilizing soup so that she would be unable to have children.
Rong Chengxuan probably doesn't want to marry this infertile woman. It would be better to wait until Yun Wanwan gets married to Rong Chengxuan before finding an imperial physician to diagnose Yun Wanwan.
In this way, Rong Chengxuan had made all his preparations in vain, marrying a barren woman. If it were to be revealed that Yun Wanwan was barren because she drank the sterilizing soup, then with Rong Chengxuan's methods, Yun Wanwan would probably not have a good life in Prince An's mansion.
Qiufen's eyes were fixed on Yun Wanwan's movements. She just thought she saw that bitch Yun Wanwan glance over here. For some reason, Qiufen's heart was in turmoil. She had a feeling that Yun Wanwan already knew it was their doing! If they were to be discovered, wouldn't it be...
Meanwhile, Yun Wanwan quickly grasped the key words the palace maid had mentioned. "You're saying it's not the Imperial Concubine? If it's not the Imperial Concubine, then who is it?"
The palace maid was stunned, a look of panic on her face. She had just accidentally let something slip. What if Yun Wanwan found out...
As she thought this, her eyes subconsciously glanced towards the inner room. Yun Wanwan felt strange and followed the maid's gaze, only to discover that the inner room was completely locked up in broad daylight. Looking at the maid again, she was trembling all over and didn't look alright at all.
Yun Wanwan called A Kui over and said, "A Kui, go check out what's in that room. I feel like something's not right."
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