"You damn girl, you must be having a very comfortable life these days with all the delicious food and drinks!"

As soon as Yinhuan came up to her, Qingzhu reached out and grabbed her ears, but he didn't use much force. Yinhuan squatted down in panic and covered her ears, her eyes rolling around.

Seeing that she was about to cry, Qingzhu curled her lips and said, "Hold it back, don't cry. I'm just playing with you, can't you see?"

As he spoke, Qingzhu put his arm around Yinhuan's shoulder and carried her into the bamboo forest.

"Yinhuan, we are from the same hometown, and my father has done a favor to your family. You know this well. I came here today to ask you for a favor. Please go and speak well of Madam Nine and ask her to transfer me back to the Fourth House."

Yinhuan looked embarrassed. She stared at her toes and tugged at her handkerchief in her hands.

"Sister Qingzhu, your father did lend my family one tael of silver, but last year your father sold me to the palace as a maid, but he took back five taels of silver."

Hearing this, Qingzhu glared and said, "You ungrateful girl, the one tael of silver my father borrowed was life-saving money for your father. You paid back five taels in exchange for your father's life, isn't that a profit?"

Qingzhu stretched out his finger and poked Yinhuan's smooth forehead fiercely, "I don't care. If you can't handle this matter well, I will tell everyone in the village that your family is ungrateful and your father will not be able to hold his head up!"

Yinhuan held back her tears and dared not speak, she could only nod.

Seeing that she agreed, Qingzhu left with satisfaction, leaving Yinhuan hesitating in the bamboo forest for a long time.

At dusk, Su Xuqing was enjoying the cool air in the yard. Her beautiful eyes moved as she watched the clouds and mist rise and fall and the sunset spread across the sky.

Yinhuan squatted down and placed tea and snacks on the stone table next to Su Xuqing, then smiled and said, "Madam, can I massage your shoulders?"

Without waiting for Su Xuqing to answer, the little maid stood behind Su Xuqing and kneaded her gently.

Yinhuan's massage technique was pretty good, the strength of her hands was neither too light nor too heavy. Su Xuqing looked happy, but she only felt the muscles between her shoulders and neck were sore and numb.

After a while, Su Xuqing said softly, "You've been kneading for so long, take a break."

Yinhuan's chubby face shook like a rattle.

"Ma'am, I'm not tired. Let me massage your legs again."

The little maid squatted beside Su Xuqing's legs again and tapped her patiently. During the process, she raised her eyes several times with an expression as if she wanted to say something but hesitated, but in the end she didn't dare to say it.

Su Xuqing naturally noticed her little thought, so she asked gently, "Yinhuan, is there any silver missing?"

"no no."

Yinhuan bit her lip and waved her hands quickly, then lowered her head like a child who had done something wrong and said, "Madam, I want to beg you to let Qingzhu go back to the fourth room to work. She suffered a lot in the washroom. The maid there always beat her, and she already knows she is wrong."

Su Xuqing stared at Yinhuan's eyes and saw that her eyes were wandering and she didn't dare to look at her, so she knew that the little girl was not telling the truth. Su Xuqing guessed that it was probably Qingzhu who asked Yinhuan to come over and plead for mercy.

Su Xuqing is not a saint, and she doesn't care about the affairs between the maids. However, Yinhuan looks so pitiful and she seems to be someone who is easily bullied, which makes her think of her past.

Seeing that Su Xuqing remained silent, Yinhuan was worried that she would be angry, so she quickly said, "Madam, please don't be angry. Just pretend that Yinhuan never said anything, okay?"

Su Xuqing laughed unhappily, then reached out and flicked her head.

"Let her come back, but if she dares to make mistakes again, there will be no place for her in the palace."

Yinhuan was stunned for a moment, and then her little face blossomed.

"Thank you, ma'am! Thank you, ma'am!"

Yinhuan was jumping and jogging all the way, obviously going to tell Qingzhu the good news. Su Xuqing looked at Yinhuan's back and her smile gradually faded.

This girl is too soft-hearted and will suffer in the end.

Not long after, Qingzhu was brought into the yard by Yinhuan. Perhaps because he had learned his lesson, Qingzhu was very humble and well-behaved in front of Su Xuqing.

For several days in a row, Qingzhu worked very hard and did not dare to bully Yinhuan, which made Su Xuqing feel much more at ease.

That afternoon, Shen Xuanheng suggested going to the "Tianyifang" in the city to customize a set of clothes for Su Xuqing. After all, the Huafang Festival was approaching, and she couldn't wear her old clothes.

Su Xuqing thought about it and it made sense, so she went out with Shen Xuanheng.

However, they said they were going to customize clothes. When the carriage passed by the West Lake, Shen Xuanheng suddenly lifted the curtain and asked Su Xuqing if she wanted to go boating on the lake.

The West Lake is shimmering with rippling waves, and talented men and beautiful women meet to cruise on the lake, creating a poetic and picturesque scene.

The girl is always full of poetry. Su Xuqing shyly thought that it was her first time going out with her husband, so she nodded in agreement.

The two men stopped the carriage and came to the lakeside. Shen Xuanheng waved to the idle boatman in the lake, and the old boatman with a bamboo hat quickly rowed the boat over to welcome the two guests on board.

In the West Lake, at the bow of a small boat, with my beloved by my side, they are full of love. It is truly a scene of peaceful and tranquil time.

But everything is impermanent. When life is happy, there will always be things that spoil the mood.

The two had just stepped onto the boat and were speaking sweet words timidly when suddenly another boat came alongside.

"Hey, I was wondering who looked familiar, it turns out to be the sickly guy from the Zhen'an Palace."

Su Xuqing's smiling face suddenly darkened. She glanced sideways and saw a man and a woman standing on the boat. It was the woman who had been acting weird just now.

The woman was dressed in gorgeous clothes, and looked like the daughter of a wealthy family. She had a slim figure, but unfortunately her face was covered with freckles. As for the man, he was dressed in a scholar's robe, with his eyebrows lowered and his eyes lowered, looking like a pretty boy.

When Shen Xuanheng saw the person coming, he immediately laughed and retorted, "I was wondering who was barking so loudly, it turns out it's you, the ugly freak with sesame seeds on your face."

"you!"

The woman was very angry. She had many freckles on her face since she was a child, estimated to be more than thirty. She was called "little pockmarked" since she was a child. When she grew up, she was very concerned about it. Every time she went out, she would apply thick powder on her face to cover it up, so that the powder would fall off when she moved a lot.

So she was teased and called "little snowman."

As for who gave this name, it was naturally our dandy young man, Shen Xuanheng.

Seeing the two of them confronting each other, Su Xuqing reached out and poked Shen Xuanheng's waist, "Who is this person? Does he have a grudge against you?"

Shen Xuanheng whispered and told Su Xuqing the reason. It turned out that two years ago, this pockmarked girl Tang Xue had a special liking for Shen Xuanheng and would run to the Zhennan Palace from time to time.

Unable to bear the harassment, Shen Xuanheng told Tang Xue that he didn't have much time left. But this woman somehow got the hang of it and said she wanted to accompany Shen Xuanheng through the last few years of his life.

Shen Xuanheng was not a person who judged people by their appearance, but Tang Xue was the daughter of the eldest princess. If he teased this princess, I'm afraid the eldest princess would not forgive him.

So Shen Xuanheng played the bad guy and gave Tang Xue a nickname.

An initiative brought a lifetime of trauma, which made the little princess so angry that she left in anger. From then on, she turned from a fan to a hater, and the two of them would argue with each other whenever they met.

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