On this day, a person appeared at the gate of the Seventh Prince's Mansion. This person was disheveled and covered in wounds. She was a woman but her clothes were all torn, and she looked very embarrassed. She knelt on the ground and begged bitterly: "Help me, please help me, I am a girl from a good family, please do me a favor, please save my life, please."
It seemed that this girl hadn't had a good meal for several days, her face was pale, her pleading was mixed with crying, the servant at the gate of the palace saw it impatiently and said: "Go, go, know What kind of place is this? This is the residence of the Seventh Prince, if you dare to shout here, the people passing by on the street can be seen by others, wouldn't it be a joke to the Seventh Prince's residence."
"I beg you, please do me a favor. Saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Help me go in and report, or I'll kneel and die here." The girl lowered her head pitifully.
After a while, many people gathered around the gate of the Seventh Prince's Mansion. They all saw this embarrassed girl kneeling here, and the common people pointed and sympathized with this girl. The only way is to report to the housekeeper.
"Housekeeper, a woman came to the door. Her body was bruised and her clothes were torn. She knelt at the gate of the palace and did not leave. Many people gathered to watch. Go and have a look." The servant hurried to the palace. Said in front of the housekeeper.
"Oh? Is there such a thing? Lead me to take a look." Hearing this, the housekeeper first thought of the facade of the Seventh Prince's Mansion. You can't be pointed at by others. The palace is also considered conscientious.
The steward followed the servants to the gate of the palace, "Come here, let me out, everyone." The servants let the people disperse, and the girl appeared from the crowd, looking weaker than before.
Seeing the servants coming out with an elderly man in their arms, the girl forcibly pulled herself together and said to the butler: "My lord, please do me a favor and give me something to eat. I am willing to work in the house, and I will I can do all kinds of rough work like washing and cooking, and I will repay you as a cow or a horse."
The housekeeper is also an elderly person, seeing the girl's disheveled and emaciated state, he inevitably feels pity for her, and seeing her pitiful, he asked his servants to take her back to the mansion to be a maid. Although the butler brought the poor girl back to the palace, he still had to find out the origin of this woman. You must know that the palace is not an ordinary place, and the employer has to be innocent.
"I'm the housekeeper of the Seventh Prince's Mansion. What's the girl's name, and where did she come from? How did she get into such a mess?" the housekeeper asked the girl warily.
"When I go back to the housekeeper, I escaped from home. I was separated from my parents since I was a child, and I don't remember where my home is, but I remember my own name. My name is Xiaoai." Xiaoai said pitifully.
Only then did the butler feel relieved, and said somewhat sternly: "So that's the case, then you should stay in the palace and do things in the future, and serve the master with all your heart, understand?"
"Thank you for the great kindness of the butler, Xiao Ai will never forget it." Xiao Ai knelt down excitedly and kowtowed to the butler.
It's been a while since she entered the palace. Xiao Ai has been in the palace with the maids and servants. She deliberately gets acquainted with them so that she can find out something for her.
One day, Xiao Ai was washing clothes with a small group of maids. Xiao Ai looked around vigilantly and saw that there was no one around. Thinking that the opportunity had come, she got closer to the small group of maids.
"Hey, do you know what happened to our lord? I haven't seen our lord. I just entered the mansion not long ago and I don't know much about the situation here. Our lord seems to have been ill for a long time, isn't it? Is it?" Xiao Ai asked in a low voice.
"I see that the prince is not very well recently. I haven't seen him come out in the room all the time. No wonder you haven't seen the prince. It may be that he is seriously ill and can't even get out of bed." A little maid was a little puzzled. Said.
"Ah? No way, the prince will be so seriously ill?" "I think it is true. The princess's complexion is not good recently. It is probably because of the prince's illness. This time the prince may be difficult to save." Yan I talked about it in a hurry. After hearing this, Xiao Ai probably had a certainty in her heart, but she still had to make sure.
Xiao Ai asked the servants of the mansion by going to collect the candle oil head, "Do you know the recent situation of our prince? I heard that the prince is not serious?"
A servant said cautiously: "Isn't it, the prince has been bedridden for a long time, it seems that the situation is not good."
Just as Xiao Ai was about to inquire about something more, she heard someone coughing a few times behind her back. Xiao Ai and several other servants turned around and saw that it was the housekeeper.
"Don't work well but gossip behind your back, don't you want to stay in the palace? If you are a slave, you should ask less about your master's affairs. The way to survive is to do more and talk less. Let me hear you gossiping about your master in the future." The root of my tongue, I will definitely punish you severely, have you heard it?" The butler said sternly, his eyes were especially looking at Xiao Ai, this Xiao Ai was taken in by the housekeeper because he looked at her pitifully, but today he let the housekeeper touch her. Gossiping about her will inevitably disappoint the housekeeper, after all, she is the one he recruited.
"Yes, butler, I know I was wrong, and I will never dare again." Xiao Ai said to the butler pretending to be obedient, and several other servants also bowed their heads and said.
The butler put his hands behind his back and said to them disdainfully: "Then hurry up and get busy, the palace has plenty of things waiting for you to do, or else I will find something for you to do."
"Yes, yes, let's go down and get busy." Xiao Ai and the other servants went down to work obediently.
As midnight fell, Xiao Ai saw that the maids in the same room were all in bed, so she thought it was time to go out.
"I feel sick to my stomach. It may take a while to come back if I want to go to the toilet. Go to bed early and don't wait for me." Xiao Ai said hypocritically to the maids in the same room, she was afraid of being noticed.
Xiao Ai wanted to go out on the grounds of going to the toilet, but the maids didn't ask any more questions after hearing this. Xiao Ai walked on the catwalk, she had figured out the layout of the palace in the past few days, and she had an idea of where to go and where there were few people.
Step by step, Xiao Ai secretly ran to the door of Yang Tingjing and Fenghuang's room. At this time, Xiao Ai heard crying in the room, and Xiao Ai raised her vigilance and quietly put her ear to the door to hear what happened. The crying in the room was very soft and choked, intermittent, and it was a woman's voice. Could there be other women in Yang Tingjing's room? Therefore, Xiao Ai guessed that the crying woman was Princess Seven.