"No, I...I just miss home."
Chen Tiantian wiped her eyes and stood up: "Mr. Xiao, please don't go. She really didn't bully me. It's just... it's the Queen's order to serve the King of Dai. I'm afraid that the Queen will blame me if she finds out that I didn't obey her order."
Xiao Chengjun frowned even more tightly, thought for a moment, and said, "Come with me."
Chen Tiantian followed Xiao Chengjun silently all the way to the entrance of the main hall.
Then Xiao Chengjun said to the two eunuchs in the palace: "I'm bringing people to visit the King of Dai."
He is the Queen's nephew and the tutor of Prince Dai, and he can come and go in the palace at will.
It would be difficult for the eunuch guarding the gate to stop him from bringing a little palace maid in now.
So, Chen Tiantian followed Xiao Chengjun into the inner hall.
In the inner hall, Dai Wang Murong Xian was lying with his eyes closed. When he heard the eunuch announce that Xiao Chengjun had arrived, he opened his eyes and smiled, "My cousin is here."
Xiao Chengjun hummed, lifted his robe and sat on a chair beside the big bed, and asked, "Brother Xian, are you feeling better?"
Murong Xian nodded: "Much better, Yingbao said she can go out for a walk tomorrow. Ahem, cousin, this time thanks to you and cousin Mo's recommendation, Yingbao's medical skills are indeed superb."
Xiao Chengjun was silent for a moment, then said, "That Yingbao is just a child of a few years old. She doesn't have any medical skills. She just relies on her family's ancestral secret recipe."
Dai Wang smiled and said: "No matter what, she saved me. It's her ability that she has the secret recipe passed down from her ancestors."
The two talked for a while, and then a servant came in with a bowl of meat porridge, "Your Highness, this is the chicken porridge that the imperial kitchen just sent. Please have some."
Murong Xian nodded, and the eunuch beside him quickly helped him sit up, took the bowl of porridge and was about to feed him.
Xiao Chengjun turned to Chen Tiantian who was standing behind him and said, "Why don't you go and serve the King of Dai?"
"Yes." Chen Tiantian walked to the bed, secretly glanced at the skinny King Dai, and immediately lowered her eyes.
The King of Dai waved his hand: "No, you can go out."
Chen Tiantian took a step back and looked at Xiao Chengjun at a loss.
Xiao Chengjun frowned and said to Murong Xian, "Brother Xian, how come you don't even keep a maid in your palace? After all, the eunuchs are not as careful as women. It's better for this little maid to stay in the inner palace to serve, not to mention that it was my aunt's idea."
Murong Xian looked up at Chen Tiantian and said nothing.
He knew that his mother had sent a palace maid, and he said that the maid was blessed with good fortune, so he asked her to stay in the inner palace to serve.
But he could clearly see the maid's reluctance and fear of him.
Seeing that Murong Xian didn't say anything, Xiao Chengjun said again: "Brother Xian, don't listen to Jiang Yingbao's nonsense. What does she know? She just had some disputes with this palace maid and wanted to take revenge on her. Doesn't the master of the Imperial Observatory know more than a few-year-old kid?"
Murong Xian said calmly: "Then let her stay."
After a pause, he continued, "Let her stay with the nanny first to learn some manners."
So, Chen Tiantian was brought to Murong Xian's wet nurse, Rong.
Rong was about thirty-three or thirty-four years old, with a fair and gentle face, and lived in a side hall of the Qingyang Palace.
She sat upright on the Luohan Mountain, put down the embroidery in her hands, looked Chen Tiantian up and down, and asked, "How old are you?"
Chen Tiantian lowered her head and whispered, "I'm ten years old this year."
Rong: "Where are you from? Are your parents still alive?"
"My father has passed away, but my mother is still alive." Chen Tiantian's father actually escaped from his labor camp during the bandit incident and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.
Han Yue Niang thought he was dead and remarried to an old widower named Pei who was almost sixty years old.
Old man Pei is a sorcerer, commonly known as a fortune teller. He is good at reading the stars and fortune-telling. He is very favored by Xiao Chengjun's father, Xiao Weizhong, the Censor of Luzhou.
The reason why Chen Tiantian was brought to the capital was because her stepfather, Old Man Pei, strongly recommended her to Xiao Weizhong.
Rong nodded and asked the senior palace maid Bao Ping to say, "From now on, this child will be handed over to you to teach."
"Yes." The senior palace maid Bao Ping agreed, but the look she gave Chen Tiantian was obviously unfriendly.
She also came to serve Rong Mama when she was about ten years old. She is already sixteen years old this year. She finally became a second-class palace maid. Unexpectedly, another girl in her teens came, and was sent here by the Queen Mother's order. This made Baoping feel a strong sense of crisis.
Because in two or three generations the king will understand human affairs and will definitely select some palace maids with clean backgrounds and beautiful looks to serve him, and Chen Tiantian is the person who can best compete with her.
Bao Ping brought Chen Tiantian to several palace maids and asked her to work with them and take shifts with them.
Such as cleaning the floor in the hall, wiping the dust off the ornaments, taking care of the branches in the flower pots, washing clothes, etc., and also being on duty at night.
"After you have learned these, you can learn other things."
Bao Ping raised his chin and said, "Now that you are here at grandma's place, you can't move around casually. You must go to the kitchen to get water with two people. If you are found wandering around alone, be careful to get a beating."
Chen Tiantian: …
After going around in circles, I might as well stay in the original palace maid's room. At least I don't have to work during the day and be on duty at night.
Afterwards, they were trapped in the Qingyang Palace for several days and couldn't even reach the threshold of the Qilin Palace. Chen Tiantian became a little anxious.
But she didn't dare go out alone to ask Xiao Chengjun for help, for fear of being punished when she came back.
Let’s talk about Sakura.
She has been very busy these days. She goes out of the palace from time to time to get medicine from the imperial pharmacy, and when she comes back she has to study the pulse case of Prince Dai with the imperial doctors.
This was not a big deal, but every time she went to Qilin Palace, she would always meet Xiao Chengjun and hear his cold words from time to time, which made her very unhappy. At the same time, she wondered why this guy didn't go home and always stayed in the East Palace.
After coming back and asking Chang Xiu, I learned that Xiao Chengjun had been the Dai King's attendant since he was a child, and usually lived in a side hall of the Dai King's Qilin Palace.
His previous mission to leave Beijing to suppress bandits was also arranged by his grandfather.
He originally wanted to gild his grandson's reputation and gain some merit so that he could ask the emperor for an official position. However, this decision almost killed his grandson and caused him to lose his life.
Fortunately, Xiao Chengjun did not die, and was promoted to the seventh rank Zhiguo Xiaowei as he wished, which was one and a half levels lower than his elder brother Xiao Mo's position.
"No wonder." Yingbao listened to Chang Xiu while strolling in the orchard.
Chang Xiu was holding a bamboo basket with several bunches of ripe grapes in it.
"The young masters of the Xiao family all hold official positions. Young doctor, don't argue with them in the future, lest you be accused of insubordination."
Chang Xiu kindly advised: "There are also the young ladies of the Xiao family. They often come to the East Palace to play. If you meet them one day, you must avoid them and don't provoke them."
Yingbao nodded: "Thank you, Sister Chang Xiu, for reminding me."
She is not stupid, why would she provoke others for no reason
However, Xiao Chengjun is so annoying. If I don’t find a way to deal with him, I probably won’t be able to sleep well at night.
Suddenly, she saw a thorn ball under the fruit tree, eating the fruit that had fallen to the ground.
Yingbao's eyes lit up, and she suddenly thought of a way to discipline the person.
He quickly ran over and shouted, "Sister Chang Xiu, come and help me catch it! I want to take it home and raise it."