Madam General, please run slower.

Chunmei was frightened by what happened to Li in the afternoon. She didn't get much rest the whole night. She got up at dawn and stood guard at Li's door. She wanted to go in and take a look but was afraid of disturbing the princess's rest. It was not until she heard the princess calling her that she hurriedly pushed the door and went in.

The bloody image did not appear in her mind, Chunmei breathed a sigh of relief and went forward to help the princess comb her hair.

Li looked through the bronze mirror at the person behind her carefully and earnestly fiddling with her hair, and asked, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

Chunmei paused with her hand holding the comb, and expertly fixed the scattered hair. Then she asked softly, "Does it hurt, Princess?"

I don’t know if she was asking about hair or something else, Li still shook his head.

"Nothing will happen to the princess, right?"

With her serious look, Li gave her an affirmative answer.

Chunmei breathed a sigh of relief, and finally a smile appeared on her face. "I have nothing else to ask."

Chunmei, who grew up with Qu Tangli, would have noticed a slight difference even if she acted like a fool.

Li originally thought that she would ask questions like "Is she still Qu Tangli?" and had also thought of reasons to answer, but this little maid didn't care who she was. She only cared about whether she was in pain and her safety.

That bright smile made Li's heart ache. This strange emotion lingered in her body, making her limbs numb and her throat choked. This was an emotion she had never experienced before. Li, who noticed this, unexpectedly felt a little fear.

With a "bang", Li suddenly stood up and overturned the stool under him.

Chunmei was also startled by this action. She looked at Li who suddenly moved away from her with some confusion, "What's wrong with Princess? Are you feeling unwell?" After she finished speaking, Chunmei nervously wanted to come over to help her.

"Don't! Don't come over here!" This was the first time that Li didn't dare to look someone in the eye. He looked at the golden osmanthus hairpin on the table and said, "Osmanthus, yes, I want to eat osmanthus cake."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Chunmei also noticed that Li was resisting her approach, so she agreed and turned to go to the kitchen, closing the door considerately before leaving.

Staying alone in the room, Li quickly calmed down, and the sudden emotion disappeared completely, as if everything was just an illusion of hers.

For the next period of time, Li and Chunmei felt a little uncomfortable when they were alone.

Chunmei also discovered that the little princess was deliberately avoiding her, so she tried not to be alone with Li and left things to other maids.

The two protagonists of the incident didn't think there was anything wrong, but when the news reached other people's ears, the matter took on a different meaning.

"What? You said that the maid named Chunmei was disliked by the princess because she liked the general?"

Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, and the embroidery needle in her hand fell into the wrong place.

Chunmei: Not only did you spread rumors about me, you also insulted my aesthetics! ヽ(`Д′)?

"I just heard what the cook said." The speaker was Jiang Wan's personal maid, "But Sister Chunmei has indeed been working in the kitchen these days and has not been serving the princess."

"As expected of a maid from the palace, she is quite courageous. If the master and servant really fall out, it would be a great help to me." Jiang Wan looked at the embroidered fan in her hand and lost interest in modifying it. "Let's go to the West Courtyard to pay respects to the princess."

West courtyard.

Li was looking at the clothes Yu Xun had prepared for her in silence. A box of white clothes with matching white headbands looked really cheap, but they didn't look like clothes from the living world at all.

"Master, is that vicious man in a hurry to attend the emperor's funeral?" Tanghulu's puzzled voice sounded in his mind.

"I think you told the truth."

Li couldn't imagine the scene of practicing formations while wearing these clothes. He was a banished immortal in white one second and a bloody evil ghost the next. The maids in the laundry room would definitely faint from crying. This man was deliberately seeking revenge.

Forget it, I'll just take out Qu Tangli's dowry and go out and buy myself some scarlet clothes. Men are just unreliable.

"Madam, I am here to pay my respects to you."

Jiang Wan also saw the box of white clothes, but unlike Li, who was an outsider who didn't know the value of the clothes, she noticed the embroidery pattern on the collar of the white clothes at first sight. The fine stitches outlined a series of auspicious clouds, which were gorgeous but not obvious. They were definitely made by the best embroiderers. Could it be an embroiderer in the palace?

"What are these?" Jiang Wan was a little jealous. She had been in the mansion for so many years, but she had never received any clothes, let alone a hairpin.

Li noticed her expression. Although he didn't understand why she liked these plain clothes, he felt that since she had come to him on her own initiative, he had to act well to live up to her professionalism.

Li thought a little embarrassedly and covered the corners of her lips with her sleeves. Her face was stained with a little red because of shyness, which made her look particularly delicate and charming. "My clothes are too luxurious and it would be a pity to tear them. I mentioned it to the general, and the result was..."

Li pointed at the box of clothes and said in a tender voice, "Oh, sister, please don't ask any more questions."

This was also thanks to Qu Tangli's naturally sweet voice, which had an intriguing allure when the tone was slightly raised. If it were her neutral low voice from her previous life, these words would have disgusted a lot of people as soon as they were spoken.

Look, the servants in the courtyard were originally confused about why the general sent a box of white clothes, but after hearing these two sentences, they had already compiled a banned book of tens of thousands of words in their minds. How could they not understand? Boudoir fun, it would be impolite to ask again.

Jiang Wan's lightly made-up face had turned pale, and the rouge on her thin lips could not hide her haggardness.

Li waved his hand and asked the servants to carry the box of unsightly clothes back to the house. He turned around and noticed that Jiang Wan's hand holding the handkerchief was shaking with anger, and he knew that his voice was not in vain. "Sister Jiang, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Jiang Wan pinched her thigh and forced a smile, "I plan to hold a chrysanthemum viewing banquet in the flower hall the day after tomorrow, so I thought of inviting the princess."

In the Qianwu Dynasty, guests had to be invited one week in advance for banquets, and at the latest three days before the banquet. No concubine of a good family would notify the mistress of the banquet at the last minute.

Yes, Yu Xun was not a good person, and how good could his concubine be? Li simply equated the two.

"Okay, I'll go. I'm really bored lately." The stage has already been set up, so there is no reason for her not to go.

Hearing that Li accepted the invitation, Jiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief and began to get to the point, "By the way, why haven't I seen the maidservant beside the princess recently?"

Sister, can you be more clear about your purpose?

Li silently complained in his heart, "Sister Jiang is talking about Chunmei?"

"Yes, it's her."

"I'm not used to her serving me recently. Does Sister Jiang need anything from her?"

"I heard that the little maid is very good at making desserts. The chrysanthemum viewing banquet is coming soon, so I shamelessly came to my sister to ask for her."

Li did not rush to respond to her, but picked up the teacup on the table and blew gently, the hot steam of the warm tea faintly concealing the sinisterness in his eyes. This sinisterness was not directed at others, but at himself.

It is undeniable that she actually considered for a moment whether to drag Chunmei into this boring drama. Being soft-hearted is a taboo, it will cost someone's life, it will cost her life.

If you want to live, you can't be soft-hearted. Li muttered to himself silently.

"Okay." Li responded cheerfully, and when Jiang Wan was about to bow and thank him, he interrupted her and said, "But Chunmei is my maidservant no matter what, so Sister Jiang has to return her after borrowing her."

Jiang Wan's heart skipped a beat and she responded softly. After a few words, she hurriedly left under the pretext of planning a banquet. For a moment, she actually felt that the princess knew all her plans.

After Jiang Wan left, Li leaned back in the recliner in boredom again. Since he had to attend the tea-tasting banquet in two days, he decided to give up his practice for the next two days and replenish his body so that he could have a bigger game later.

But if she didn't practice, she would be completely free of work. She had previously thought about living a peaceful life in the countryside after withdrawing from the organization, but she never thought that this peaceful life would be so idle, so idle that it made her panic.