Chapter 164 (1/2)

Chapter 8.8 – G.o.ddess of the Harem

When Su Wan opened her eyes the next day, she realized that she had returned to the small room in the Xinzheku, and she was still wrapped in a gifted thick warm blanket.

“Miss Su, have you woken up yet?”

Bai mama’s voice suddenly rang out from outside the room. Because Su Wan’s room was in the innermost part of the Xinzheku compound, and the location was also remote, Bai mama was not afraid of others seeing her coming here.

“Please come in, mama.”

Su Wan folded the blanket and placed it under the coa.r.s.e quilt, and then slowly began to wear her clothes. The slave servants of the Xinzheku wore the lowest-grade cotton clothing, which was very rough on their skin. Fortunately, Bai mama sneakily modified the insides of the clothes earlier. Although Su Wan’s clothes looked the same as others from the outside, soft satin was sewn to line the inside of the clothes. This kind of pulling wool over people’s eyes is very common in the palace, and you don’t need much preparation to deceive others.

Blu: pulling wool over people’s eyes – to fool others

Su Wan hadn’t put on the outer palace robe yet when Bai mama came in with some things to freshen herself with: “Good morning, Miss Su. Did you sleep well last night?”

Facing Su Wan, Bai mama’s posture was very low.

“Thank you for your concern, Bai mama. I slept very well.”

Su Wan replied softly. Bai mama’s gaze swept over Su Wan’s bed and saw the corner of the blanket exposed under the rough quilt. Her eyes changed, and the smile on her face became more eager: “Miss, the Xinzheku is too simple and crude. Allow this old slave to serve you and freshen you up!”

“Alright.”

Seeing Grandma Bai being so generous and sincere, Su Wan nodded naturally.

In the harem, if someone fawns on you, it shows that you are getting along and have some worth. At this time, in the face of other people’s good will, you must not refuse, because no matter what reason you used to refuse the other party, you are likely to be misunderstood as “looking down on them”. This was a taboo in the harem. No one knows who will fall from grace, and no one knows who will have a meteoric rise in the next moment. Deep in the palace, you can only make friends and never make enemies.

In fact, Su Wan has also done many tasks in the imperial palace. She had long understood the ways of living in the harem. She also knows that Bai mama’s treatment towards her was naturally ordered by w.a.n.g Yi. If she didn’t give this opportunity to her then she would probably be ill at ease and unsettled.

Under Bai mama’s service, Su Wan simply washed her face and cleaned her mouth.

After finis.h.i.+ng some work, Bai mama packed her things and looked at Su Wan again with a smile: “Miss Su, what do you want to eat for your morning meal? There is a small kitchen at this old slave’s place. If you don’t dislike it, this old slave will make the morning meal for you.”

“I am not too picky about what I eat, mama. If someone comes here today to inquire about me, do you know what to say?”

Su Wan sat on the wooden bed and looked up at Bai mama. Bai mama was slightly frightened by Su Wan’s gaze. How could a little girl with delicate features have such piercing eyes?

“Old slave knows what to say, Miss, don’t worry!” Bai mama patted her chest and repeatedly a.s.sured Su Wan.

“En, that’s good, and…”

Su Wan narrowed her eyes and whispered again: “If someone comes to plead for me, don’t agree with him if he doesn’t have this amount!”

Watching Su Wan wave her palm, Bai mama couldn’t help gulping: “Five, five hundred?”

She has worked in the Xinzheku for all these years and has never received so much money in one go!

Five hundred silvers is also a huge expense for an ordinary palace maid and Su Wan had been very clear on how Yan Yunuo would send her monthly salary back to her family in her hometown.

The many children in her family were living a difficult life, otherwise they would not have sold her to the Yan fu as a servant girl.

Five hundred silver was definitely an astronomical figure for Yan Yunuo, and G.o.ddess Yan had to come up with the money in order to save Su Wan.

So now the question was — what would she do to borrow five hundred silvers?

Good luck, G.o.ddess Yan. I’m rooting for you~

Just as Su Wan expected, Chen Ji came to the Xinzheku with a smile on his face before the morning ended.

“Isn’t this Chen gonggong? What brings you here?”

Although they were both managers, the Shangfu Bureau belonged to one of the 24 Divisions of the Sixth Bureau and is a department with real authority. Compared with the Xinzheku, which was disliked by everyone, there were definitely as different as the sky and the earth.

So when Bai mama saw Chen Ji, she immediately greeted him with a smile.