Quick Travel: The Long Road to Resurrection

When Qingying was demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace, she traveled light. Apart from some exquisite small cakes, she only brought two large bags of clothes and armor.

However, she did not bring the most important money, not a single cent. In this scene, Qingying looked like she was going on an outing to the cold palace, relaxed and comfortable, with a smile on her face.

Aruo couldn't bear it anymore and reminded Qingying many times that she needed to bring some silver jewelry with her in case of emergency.

Qingying was not going to listen to him at all. She thought that she just needed to be decent and didn't need those vulgar things. She also wanted to let her young man see that she didn't care about status and those material things.

It was enough to bring some clothes and armor to maintain her dignity. Seeing Qingying so insistent, Aruo didn't waste any more words and let her do it herself.

However, Aruo himself exchanged all the rewards he had received over the years for silver notes, which he carefully kept close to his body. He also kept a bag of loose silver so that he could use it when the time came.

If Qingying only cares about looking respectable but has no money to eat, don't blame her for giving up heartlessly.

Not only was Qingying unwilling to take these personal belongings with her, she even advised Aruo and Lianxin not to take them with them, saying that it was very disrespectful to carry silver.

Aruo naturally did not listen to her nonsense, but Lianxin believed it without a doubt and agreed to it repeatedly, and really did not take any silver with her.

On the first day in the cold palace, at noon the servant who delivered food came, opened a small opening, and handed the food in, one portion for each person in the cold palace. Lianxin and Aruo went to get the food, and found that it was all rotten food.

However, something to eat is better than nothing, so I sent it back to Qingying.

Qingying covered her nose with a handkerchief, looked at the leftovers that looked like they had been left for a long time, waved her hand, gave them to Aruo and Lianxin, and told them to go out and eat.

I opened the package of snacks and ate two pieces with tea. The snacks were delicate and small, and there were not many in a package, so I had to eat them sparingly, two pieces a day, and one package could last me a month.

Qingying thought that it was a good thing that she was smart and prepared, and brought a bag of snacks to fill her stomach.

Outside

Aruo frowned as he looked at the rotten rice in front of him, and handed his share to Lianxin.

He walked to the small doorway, took out two taels of silver from his purse, bribed the guards in the cold palace in exchange for some fresh food, and then hid away quietly to eat.

Aruo knew that she couldn't just live off her savings, so she suddenly had an idea. She took out another dime and asked the guard at the gate of the cold palace to help her get some embroidery work from outside the palace.

These embroidery works are divided into small and large pieces. A small handkerchief costs sixty coins each, while a large piece of cloth costs two taels per foot. Screens are more expensive, but they take longer to complete than clothes.

Aruo mainly embroidered handkerchiefs. She embroidered a few handkerchiefs a day, which was enough to pay for her daily meals. Although the price was not high, it was still acceptable for Aruo who was in the cold palace.

Aruo embroidered two handkerchiefs every day, which was enough for a day's food. She hoped that her father would make achievements as soon as possible and ask the emperor to take her out of the cold palace.

One time, Qingying didn't wrap the snacks properly with oil paper, and mice ate a lot of them. She picked out one or two intact pieces, and gave the broken pieces that were gnawed by mice to Lianxin as she was the only one who helped her wash clothes and served her tea and water every day.

Qingying and Lianxin were so hungry that their faces turned pale and they felt anxious every day, but Aruo seemed normal, which made Qingying feel very strange.

Qingying began to pay attention to Aruo's actions. When taking food, she found that Aruo would use some silver coins to exchange for fresh meals every day, but never thought of offering them to her master.

Qingying was very angry and upset. She had been so good to Aruo in the past. She was the most respectable palace maid around her.

"Aruo, you have served me since you were a child. I have always treated you as my own sister and given you respect everywhere. I never expected that you would be so selfish! You just watch me, your master, starving and suffering every day, while you spend money to enjoy fresh meals." Qingying said to Aruo with great disappointment.

Aruo felt aggrieved when he heard Qingying's accusation!

Even after becoming a commoner, she still expected to have servants to serve her. She was miserable as she was implicated by Qingying and sent to the cold palace.

She is not as shameless as Lianxin, who willingly followed Qingying into the cold palace to serve her.

What's more, the food she exchanged for was all earned by her own hands. If it was not stolen or robbed, if she wanted to eat, she could earn it herself!

So Aruo retorted: "Gege, it is precisely because I am your dowry that you have implicated me and sent me to the cold palace. My daily meals are exchanged for embroidery work, and the embroidery work I do every day is only enough to exchange for my meals. If you want to eat, you might as well pay the guards at the door and get some embroidery work to do, so you won't starve."

The two were still arguing when Lianxin suddenly fell to the ground. She was pale and covered in sweat, looking very scary.

Aruo thought that she deserved it and didn't want to suffer any hardship, so she didn't care about them. She still had to do her embroidery work, so she walked away.

Qingying looked at Lianxin's appearance and was afraid that she would pass on her illness to her, so she ran back to the house.

The next day

Lianxin was gone, Qingying was left without anyone to serve her, and when she saw the dim sum in the oil paper package growing black hair, she threw it away.

After being hungry for a whole day, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he found A Ruo, hoping to continue the relationship between master and servant.

Aruo was thinking of her affection for Qingying, but she didn't want her to get something for nothing, so she received two embroidery jobs every day, and they had to wash her clothes, shoes and socks together.

Qingying was quite well behaved at first, but she started to become lazy on the third day.

There were two people in the cold palace that day. Qingying saw Aruohuan finished washing the clothes and hurried forward to make trouble.

Using only her thumb and index finger, she gently picked up the clothes that Aruo had wrung out and hung them on the rope to dry.

Seeing Qingying taking a long time to tear off her clothes, with her fingers curled up with armor on, Aruo couldn't bear to watch, so he stepped forward to pull them off, shook them off clearly, and then tied them with a rope.

Aruo said to Qingying in dissatisfaction: "Gege, who would wear armor while working? Take it off quickly. It's not convenient to work with it on."

Qingying felt that Aruo was born a slave and did not understand the importance of dignity.

Considering that she has served me for many years, I can help her solve her doubts.

"Aruo, even if you are in the cold palace, you have to live a decent life. This dignity is the most important thing."

After hearing these words, Aruo felt overwhelmed. She kept nagging about being respectable every day, but she still had to be respectable when she couldn't even eat. Who was she being respectable for in this cold palace? The most unrespectable person was Qingying.

"Aruo, let's ask Ling Yunche to bring some grass seeds and flower seedlings tomorrow. Planting them can also cultivate one's sentiments, which is also a very respectable and elegant thing."

"I think it would be better to ask him to find some vegetable and fruit seedlings that can be grown and eaten."

Qingying shook her head repeatedly, not wanting to do it at all. She thought that planting flowers and plants could cultivate one's sentiments, and she was not a peasant woman, so there was no reason for her to plant vegetable seedlings.

Aruo is really a slave who only cares about his appetite all day long.

"Aruo, planting those things that are not decent is worse than flowers and plants."