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  She coughed slightly, and now it was these two people staring at her... Helplessly, she raised the curved knife, carefully examining it from all sides, even looking closely at the patterns on it, and how the gemstones would shine in the sunlight. Only then did she slowly and carefully insert the knife into its scabbard, observing the scabbard for a while before hiding the curved knife back in her bosom. Having put it away, she had already made up her mind to find a way to make this knife her own.

  Smiling and walking out, thinking about how to make it his own. Perhaps Second Brother's gains were not easy to come by, perhaps it was a representation of him killing many female Zhen Troops...

  As soon as such an idea emerged, she immediately suppressed it. Who cares how easy it is for them to get a knife or a sword? It's not easy for a woman like herself to carry a knife or sword on her body without scaring people to death. The curved dagger was more suitable, small and handy, easy to use and hide in her clothes. From now on, this dagger would be hers. She smiled and returned to the house.

  Back in the house, Hua Die had already brought water and soap, she washed her hands, and immediately rummaged through the needlework basket, preparing to make a knife case. She didn't say anything, and neither Hua Die nor Hua Mei knew what she was doing. It looked like a fan case, summer was approaching, it was normal for the young lady to make a fan case for herself, let alone that people had said that San Gu's needlework was exceptionally good.

  Hua Die and Hua Mei helped her prepare the needle and thread on this side, Cai Yun was supported by Ping Li to come in, came in to pay respects to Chu Ke: "Young lady..." The voice still had a crying tone.

  Chu Xue saw her and smiled, "How's it going? I heard you accidentally scalded yourself? Let me take a look at your hand?"

  Caiyun bit her lip hard and hid her hands, saying lightly: "It's this servant's carelessness, it's not a big deal."

  Chu Ke's eyebrows twitched, and her voice became even more indifferent: "From now on, be more careful when doing things, can't always be like this, right? One moment it's dislocation, the next moment it's scalding, it seems like I'm always getting into some kind of danger. What other young lady's personal maid is like this? What can I say?"

  Caiyun's tears were welling up in her eyes, but she forced herself to hold them back. Hua Mei and Hua Die exchanged a suspicious glance beside her, both of them looking at Caiyun.

  "Go ahead, take a few days off... I don't know if you're here to serve me or to rest..."

  Caiyun Qi's lips turned blue, not a word was said, nor did she make any courtesy, carrying her anger, she turned around and left. Seeing Caiyun, who usually didn't show her emotions, so angry, Chu Kei secretly felt pleased.

  Huā Méi and Huà Dié looked at each other again, then Huā Méi smiled and walked over to Chǔ Qiǎo Qì, saying: "Third Young Lady, don't be angry... what's going on?"

  Chu Ke shook her head and said: "How would I know? She was called to bring me a cup of water, but soon a maid came to report that she had been scalded. The maids on the side of Wu Ye were busy rushing around, quickly calling for someone to find a doctor to take a look. I just came back, but there was no one by my side, and Wu Ye wasn't at ease either, so he found a rough maid to send me..."

  Shaking his head constantly, he pointed outside the window and said: "Say, how many times have you been hurt since you came here? Don't you want to serve on this side? Either this is injured or that is injured, lying in bed sleeping all day. There are not enough people on my side, and she occupies a position without doing anything. Can I do it myself?"

  Hua Mei and Hua Die had just gone to report to the Duchess, because San Gu Niang's visit to Wu Ye took too long. Neither of them expected this turn of events, so they couldn't help but feel anxious again. It turned out that Cai Yun had delayed things, and their previous report hadn't been clear, so they didn't know if the Duchess would investigate further. If she summoned San Gu Niang to ask questions, and then mentioned the delay caused by Cai Yun...

  Hua Mei and Hua Die exchanged a glance, indicating that she would go again. Hua Die nodded hastily, and Hua Mei immediately left.

  Only Huadie was left here, Chu Keqi coughed softly and said: "I'll go get some tea for the young lady."

  Chu Ke shook her head: "Find someone to go to the kitchen and see if there's any soup, I want to drink some soup."

  Huā Dié hastily answered and went out, Chǔ Kǎi Qǐ called Píng Lì who was standing at the door to come in, opening her mouth to say: "Go call Yù Fèng for me to find two fan cover flower patterns"

  Ping Li was taken aback, not knowing when the girl had found out about Yu Feng, but judging from the casual tone of her speech, it seemed that she had known this person for a long time, and might have even looked for her before. Anyway, they were very familiar with each other, perhaps having asked her for embroidery patterns before. Without thinking much, Ping Li hastily agreed to go.

  After a while, Hua Die came in first, carrying a red lacquer tray with a porcelain bowl inside. She placed it on the table for Chu Ke to pick up and take a sip.

  A maid wearing a grass-green apron followed Pingli in, and as soon as she came in, she bowed and smiled: "Miss, the flower patterns you wanted." She said, holding up two embroidered flower pattern charts with both hands.

  Chu Ke took a look and saw that the patterns were indeed fan-shaped, one was an old plum branch potted landscape painting, with a curved and winding old plum branch growing in a ceramic pot. The other was a green bamboo painting, simple strokes, depicting a cluster of lush green bamboo forest.

  She secretly smiled in her heart, and surprisingly she found these two pictures in such a short time. Smiling and nodding: "Not bad, just these two."

  Yu Feng smiled and said: "That slave has gone down."

  Chu Ke nodded and said, "Ah, just in time, I'm short of people by my side, so serve me directly."

  Yu Feng turned around, first looking stunned and surprised, then knelt down with gratitude and tears: "Thank you, Third Miss" as if she thought she had been promoted from a second-class maid to a first-class maid.

  Pingli and Huadie were both stunned, but neither of them had the power to speak more, so they just smiled and watched. When Chukui waved her hand for Yufeng to get up, Pingli came over and took Yufeng's hand, smiling and saying: "From now on, we'll be serving the young lady together in the house... by the way, come with me and I'll tell you about the usual things that happen in the house."

  Yu Feng hastily thanked Chu Ke again and then followed him out.

  Three young ladies have always done things as they please, and painting butterflies is no exception. Ping Li called Yu Feng out to ask her a few probing questions, but Yu Feng had thought of an excuse beforehand and told it to her. Ping Li didn't find any flaws in the story, so she could only half warn and half advise her that serving on this side wasn't easy. The princess and the duchess would often ask about things on this side, and they had to be vigilant at all times. Besides, Third Young Lady was a guest, being called into the house to serve didn't mean she had become a top-ranking maid.

  Yu Feng immediately showed surprise and unwillingness, muttering: "That is to say, doing the work of a senior maid, but still receiving the monthly salary of a second-class maid..." Pouting her mouth very unwillingly, she said in a bad tone: "Then I'll go tell the young lady, not going into the house anymore."

  Ping Li looked at her like that, and only then did she believe it. She asked her to come in and serve, but it was just the young lady's whim. Hurriedly, she said: "Whatever you do, don't go tell the young lady what I just mentioned. If you turn around and say you're not willing, isn't that giving the young lady no face?"

  Yu Feng said in a bad mood: "Are you afraid of being implicated? I don't want to talk about it... It's not okay, there's no such thing as losing out like this." She turned her body and was about to enter the house, muttering to herself: "Having stayed at Pinmei Xuan for so long, everyone from top to bottom has been busy running around, and now they still want to find trouble for me."

  She accidentally got Pingli into trouble, and Pingli was so angry that her teeth itched, but she couldn't ask her to go and tell the young lady now that she didn't want to enter the house to serve, or the young lady would certainly know that it was because of her own big mouth, which was why Yufeng was unwilling. She could only anxiously placate: "Alright, alright, I'll go talk to the Crown Prince's consort about how our Pinmei Xuan should also promote a senior maid, this Third Young Lady has been staying for so long."

  "Did the Crown Prince's consort agree?" Yu Feng still didn't believe it.

  "Right, Third Young Miss has been living in our Pinmei Xuan for so long, originally a leisurely place, but it's become the busiest. We're already inferior to those serving as maids by half a level. If we were to take the second-rate maid's monthly salary and serve by her side, that wouldn't be unreasonable either. I'll go talk to her, Young Master's wife will definitely agree."

  Yu Feng reluctantly agreed: "Alright... If the Crown Prince's consort doesn't mention it, sister will go find the Duchess."

  Ping Li cursed in her heart: Greedy for money, on the surface randomly nodded in agreement.

  Yu Feng then entered the house to attend to the young lady.

  Zhu Yuhuan was summoned by the Duchess, but she didn't ask him anything about finding Chu Keqi. Instead, she chatted with him about trivial matters and casually asked about his daily life and studies. During their conversation, the ladies-in-waiting from the mansion would occasionally come in to report on various matters. The Duchess handled each issue openly in front of Zhu Yuhuan, asking questions and making decisions without avoiding him.

  Zhu Yuhuan was well aware that the princess of the junwang was silently warning him, so he could only quietly listen on the side. If she asked anything, he would answer honestly and obediently.

  Accompanied the princess for an hour, the princess finally called him back. Zhu Yuhuan made a somewhat regretful and understanding expression, respectfully saluted the princess and bid farewell to come out.

  He didn't return to his own courtyard, but instead went straight to the guest courtyard. As expected, Zhu Yuxuan also didn't receive any good treatment here. There wasn't even a single servant in the courtyard, and Zhu Yuxuan happened to pick up a teapot, looking like he was going to find some water to drink for himself.

  Zhu Yuhuan looked at him and didn't say a word, they already understood each other. Zhu Yuhuan said: "Come to my place to drink water and have dinner."

  Zhu Yuheng nodded, casually placing the teapot on the windowsill, and followed him to eat. The two walked side by side, Zhu Yuhuan said in a low voice: "Bear with it for two days, I guess Zhu Yuhan must have said something to the Princess of Junwang."

  Zhu Yicheng nodded: "It's nothing."

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