For the sake of their brotherly friendship, Wen Mianmian quickly changed the subject, "Alright, I know you haven't eaten. I asked Shancha to bring some food over. You can get some later. You can all eat in the car. Don't starve."
As soon as they entered the palace, they followed the Fourth Master to Chengqian Palace to pay their respects to Emperor Kangxi.
If I don’t fill my stomach now, I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait.
When Yuanyuan heard that her mother had brought food, her eyes lit up instantly, and all the guilt and regret she had just felt disappeared, leaving only happiness.
"Hehe, I know my mother is the best."
When the Lady and the Fourth Master arrived, everyone got on the carriage one after another, while the Fourth Master and Xuanxuan and Chenchen rode horses in front.
Although Honghui also wanted to ride a horse, his body did not allow it in this cold weather. Although his health was a little better than before, he was still a little weak, so he could only follow his brothers in the carriage.
As soon as Yuanyuan got on the carriage, she took the cakes that her mother had just brought and ate them without restraint. She looked like a starving ghost, and the crumbs of the cakes fell on her clothes.
Seeing him like this, Manman said in disgust, "Fifth brother, are you really that hungry? I saw you eat a lot last night, but now you look like you haven't eaten in days."
"Fourth brother, you don't understand. This cake is so delicious. I'm going to pay my respects to the Emperor later with my father. I have to eat more."
Then he stuffed a half-eaten piece of cake directly into his mouth.
The people in the carriage felt helpless when they saw him like this.
When it was almost dawn, the carriage finally arrived at the palace gate.
Wen Mianmian was helped out of the carriage by Nanny Song. Because it had been snowing continuously for the past few days, the road was basically covered with snow. When Wen Mianmian's feet touched the ground, she stepped on a layer of snow that was neither thin nor thick.
Because it snowed before they set out, the place had not been cleared yet. Wen Mianmian was wearing flowerpot bottoms, and when she came down, the snow directly covered the bottom of the flowerpot bottoms.
Nanny Song carefully helped Wen Mianmian to the swept road, and Wen Mianmian felt better.
But there was a wet spot on it after all.
Fortunately, there is a waterproof layer inside, so it didn't get wet.
The Fourth Master also noticed it from not far ahead. He walked up to her with a frown and asked her to wait a moment while she went to her mother's place to change her shoes.
It's so cold and I'm wearing wet shoes. I can't catch a cold.
Wen Mianmian smiled and nodded, "I understand." Fortunately, she had prepared a pair of shoes when she came out, so that she could change them in case they got wet in the snow.
Then he came to Fu Jin and said a few words, then took Honghui, Xuanxuan and others to Chengqian Palace.
Wen Mianmian and her wife took Tiantian and the eldest princess to the Yonghe Palace of Concubine De.
In the Fourth Master's mansion, Lin Yueran's illness finally got much better.
Ever since she came back from kneeling in the snow for half an hour that night, she had developed a high fever. Since she was just a servant, it was impossible for her to call the court doctor to help her.
Xiaohong took care of him all night, using a cool handkerchief to reduce his fever, but his fever would not go down at all. Xiaohong had no choice but to go to the nanny who brought them in before and spent some silver to get some fever-reducing medicine.
It took her several days to recover from the illness, and because of her illness, she didn't do many things during these days. So now that she has recovered, she is going to find the nanny and ask her to find a way to tell that person that she doesn't want to stay here anymore and wants to go out.
But who knew that he would be assigned by eunuch Wang to sweep the snow.
Xiaohong came to help her. Fortunately, it didn't snow today, so they swept the snow in the garden early. Lin Yueran then had time to find the nanny.
When the maid saw her coming, she took her into the house.
As soon as Lin Yueran came in, she felt a warmth coming towards her, and couldn't help thinking that it was really warm in here.
She could only burn a little charcoal at night, and that little charcoal was bought from someone else with her own money.
The amount of carbon distributed every month is not enough and it is choking.
I didn't expect that charcoal would be burning in Nanny Yun's room all day long.
Nanny Yun took the teapot from the small stove, poured her a cup of tea, and placed it in front of her.
"Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?" He poured himself a cup of tea, put it to his lips and took a sip.
Lin Yueran put her hand on the teacup, thinking about how to start the conversation. After all, it was she who agreed to come in, but she couldn't stand it after just a few months.
After a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Madam Yun, I want to leave the house."
When she said this, a hint of unnaturalness appeared on her face. She admitted that she couldn't bear it anymore. She felt that if she stayed here any longer, she might not become the Fourth Master's woman, but instead lose her life here.
She had not imagined that life as a slave would be so hard. Not only did she have to endure the ridicule and sarcasm of others, but she also had to do a lot of hard work. She had never suffered such hardship before when she was in Jiangnan.
A flash of surprise crossed Madam Yun's eyes. She then put down her teacup and asked, "What do you want to do outside the mansion for? Is there anything you need to buy? If so, you can tell me and I'll have the eunuchs who go out shopping bring it back for you."
She didn't know that Lin Yueran's idea of leaving the house was completely different from hers.
Lin Yueran quickly waved her hands, "No, Madam Yun, what I meant is that I want to go out. I don't want to stay in the mansion anymore." She said everything she was thinking in one breath.
Nanny Yun frowned and looked into her eyes, "Why, you agreed to come into the mansion before."
"Besides, this is the Fourth Master's residence, you can't just come in and out as you please."
"Do you know how much effort I put into getting you two in here? Now, you can leave just by saying you want to. Do you think it's that easy?"
If everyone thought it was as easy as she thought, then what would become of the Fourth Master's Mansion?
Lin Yueran became anxious when she heard this. She loosened her hand holding the teacup and instead held the nanny's hand tightly. "Mammy, why not? There are so many people in this house. It doesn't matter if one or two of us are missing. If you want money, I can give it to you. I beg you to get us out again." She really regretted coming in.
Nanny Yun pulled her hand down imperceptibly and said with a stern face, "It's not that easy. Besides, it's not my decision to let someone go. Besides, you still want to be the master's woman. How can you achieve anything if you back down at the slightest difficulty?"
She looked at her with some contempt in her heart. With such a character, she still wanted to become a phoenix. It was just a daydream.
If she wasn't still useful, she wouldn't have bothered with all this nonsense and would have just kicked her out.
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