Chapter 239 - Chapter 239: Chapter 235: Life is Not Easy_1 (1/2)

Chapter 239: Chapter 235: Life is Not Easy_1

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The palace maid bent over to pick up the medical box and said, “I’ll carry it for you. It’s getting late. Please follow me, young doctor. The senior doctor will be taken care of by the eunuchs.”

Left with no choice, Yingbao had to follow this palace maid to the side hall.

The side hall had partitions, but there were no doors or curtains to cover them and there was only a screen obscuring the view from outside.

Now it was already dark, and Yingbao didn’t know what time it was. A palace maid was holding a lamp, lighting the way for her.

Inside the partitioned area, there was a bed and a small table with two chairs.

In the corner of the room, there was a chamber pot just behind the bed, separated by a curtain.

Once Yingbao finished washing up, a palace maid brought her some tea and food.

The meal was straightforward: a bowl of white porridge, two steamed buns and two small dishes of side dishes.

The side dishes were shredded pickled vegetables and a dish of cooked greens.

Yingbao was seriously suspecting that someone was deliberately treating her harshly, so she asked, “What do you guys usually eat?”

A palace maid responded, “I eat the same as you, young doctor.”

“Oh, and what about Yao Yuanzheng and the others?”

“They also eat the same.” The palace maid answered.

Yingbao not willing to drop the topic, asked again, “Then what does the prince eat?”

The palace maid was silent for a moment before saying, “Of course the prince’s meals are different.”

Now Yingbao understood that this was simply the way of the imperial palace, and it wasn’t targeted at any particular person.

She quickly finished her bowl of plain porridge and one bun with the pickled and green vegetables while holding the other bun in her hand she told the two palace maids standing beside her, “I’ve finished eating, clean up quickly.”

Waving the bun in her hand, she added, “I’ll save this to eat when I’m hungry.”

Living here was not easy so she had to cherish every single bun.

The palace maid twitched at the corner of her eyes before collecting the dishes and leaving the space.

Yingbao glanced at the remaining palace maid and suddenly asked, “Do you know why the new palace maid is here?”

The maid answered, “She was admitted by the Empress’s order to serve the prince in the inner temple.”

By the Empress’s order?

Why would the Empress let Chen Tiantian serve the prince intimately?

Something didn’t seem right to Yingbao.

Reflecting on her experiences at the Xiao Residence, Yingbao speculated that someone must have seen Chen Tiantian in advance before sending her into the palace.

Could it be possible that someone was using Chen Tiantian as the prince’s medicine?

Or was it that Chen Tiantian was of noble birth, and the Empress sent her to the prince to protect her son and increase his fortune?

After all, the story described Chen Tiantian as exceptionally lucky and noble, a reincarnated phoenix from the heavens.

It must be so.

Bearing this thought, Yingbao became a little unhappy.

She had been working her heart out to treat the skeleton boy, and in a blink of an eye, Chen Tiantian took all the credit.

Why?

Just because she was the main character in the story, and Yingbao was destined to be her stepping stone?

Ugh! Yingbao didn’t buy it.

Once the two palace maids left, Yingbao laid on the bed, watching as the oil lamp gradually extinguished, and quickly covered her head with a thin blanket.

She quietly entered the cave house, gathering a large handful of Five Tripod Fungus to be crushed in a mortar and pestle, before dividing it into several porcelain bottles for future use.

The melons in the cave had mostly matured, so she picked the ripest ones and placed them in a basket.

The next day, before the palace maids could come, Yingbao made haste to use the chamber pot before dressing and tidying herself up.