The Regent Princess has run away again

"Auntie Le...it's time to get up..."

Xue Zhiyu reluctantly opened her eyes a little and looked at the sky.

The sun had not yet risen, and the world outside seemed to have stopped. Everything was gray and hazy, with only a few clear bird calls being heard from time to time.

Xue Zhiyu stretched lazily, ignoring the strange look from her maid, and yawned, "What time is it now?"

"My aunt, it's already past the middle of the Yin hour," the maid said respectfully.

"That's too early."

"It's getting late. First I need to take a shower and then get dressed. It's actually quite late."

Xue Zhiyu rubbed her forehead and wanted to roll her eyes. Didn’t the ancients need to sleep? It’s still too early.

"Auntie Le, I have already prepared the water."

"I know, I know."

.......

I don’t know how long it took, but by the time I finished dressing up, the sky was already gradually getting brighter.

She casually put the sachet that the silver-faced man gave her yesterday into her sleeve pocket, and then followed the maid out.

Before entering the back garden, I could see some bright colors in the pavilion not far away, just like a few butterflies.

Suddenly I remembered that I used to like watching TV series when I had nothing to do. This scene is quite familiar. But when I was really in it, I felt a little excited for some reason, and I raised my leg and slowly walked over.

Several concubines in the pavilion surrounded Concubine Mei who was sitting at the head of the table. Each of them spoke words full of compliments, which made Concubine Mei laugh several times.

"Hahahaha, all of you sisters are lovely. I will be much happier to have you serve me in the future."

"Sister Mei still has to rely on you. Everyone knows that the master dotes on you the most. Even the wife of the first wife is not as good as you."

A woman in light pink clothes sitting next to Aunt Mei said in a charming tone.

"Look at what my sister said. I am already old. How can I be as young and lively as her sisters?"

Although she said so, Aunt Mei couldn't hide the pride in her eyes. She suddenly noticed Xue Zhiyu walking in from the corner of her eye. An idea suddenly came to her mind and she stood up and waved in her direction.

Xue Zhiyu also smiled as a return gesture, greeted everyone, and sat down at the end.

Who knew that after sitting down for a while, Aunt Mei also sat down slowly, but the words she said seemed to explode among the crowd.

"Congratulations, sister Le'er. You may be the one sleeping next to me tonight."

Xue Zhiyu's movement with the teacup froze. She clearly felt that except for Yuan Yingying, the gazes of those around her seemed to want to kill her.

"Sister, you really love to joke around. I'm not as pretty as the sisters here. It's not my turn to wait in the bedroom."

Xue Zhiyu recovered, picked up the teacup, drank a sip of tea, and spoke slowly.

A hint of coldness flashed across Aunt Mei's eyes, which disappeared in an instant, and she returned to her amiable look, "Hahahaha, sister, you are too modest. The master praised you to me yesterday. When you are favored, don't forget me, your sister."

After Aunt Mei finished speaking, the purple-dressed woman sitting on her right said sourly, "Hmph, I wonder what shameful means she used."

"That's right. I see she's wearing something so special today. She must want to be different from us so that she can win the master's favor."

Hearing the other people looking at her with increasingly vicious eyes, Aunt Mei, who was sitting at the head of the table, did not move at all, but stared at Xue Zhiyu without blinking, as if she really wanted to know how she would face this situation.

"My dear sisters, you have misunderstood me. The clothes I am wearing were given to me by sister Mei. I didn't expect that I would cause misunderstanding among you sisters because of a set of clothes. Now it is Le'er's fault," she said and bowed.

After Xue Zhiyu finished speaking, those who had been complaining about her, when they heard that the clothes were not hers but were given to her by Aunt Mei, did not show it on the surface, but they still felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts.

"Oh, that's because I didn't think it through. It was wrong of me to let Sister Le'er suffer this injustice. So, let's do this. I will use the several batches of silk fabrics that the master gave me a few days ago to make a set of clothes for each of my sisters as compensation."

After Aunt Mei finished speaking, she winked at the maid behind her and continued, "I guess all the sisters are hungry. I have asked the maid to prepare some cakes."

As soon as he finished speaking, several maids came up with cakes in their hands and placed them on the stone table.

"This is the new chef the master recently hired. His cooking skills are pretty good."

Xue Zhiyu glanced at the cakes on the table. Although she had eaten different cakes in modern times, these ancient cakes were really exquisite and not inferior to those made by the royal chefs.

Yuan Yingying, who had been silent all the time, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Don't eat it," then turned her head and looked happy again, as if she was seeing these pastries for the first time.

Xue Zhiyu frowned. If she hadn’t just felt the warmth coming from her ears, she would have thought she was having an illusion.

"Sister Le'er, try this cake. It's one of the chef's specialties. If you don't try it, you're not giving me face."

Aunt Mei said as she picked up a piece with chopsticks and placed it on her plate, smiling but the smile did not reach her eyes.

Xue Zhiyu had no choice but to eat it. At most she still had a chance to save her life. Under Yuan Yingying's slightly worried look, she picked up the chopsticks and took a small bite.

It melts in your mouth and has a really great taste, sweet but not greasy, with a light mixture of floral and fruity aromas.

After taking a few bites, there was no big problem. Xue Zhiyu didn't dare to be relieved so quickly because she knew that some effects would not occur until a long time afterwards.

.............

The group of women gathered together and chatted about the same things, which made Xue Zhiyu, who was already a little sleepy, even sleepier.

"Sister Le'er, you must be tired, so go back and rest for a while."

Aunt Mei spoke very considerately. If Xue Zhiyu didn't know her, she would have almost believed that she was some great good person.

"Okay, then I'll take my leave."

"By the way, I'll have the maid come and call you for dinner tonight."

"Well, thank you sister."

Xue Zhiyu stood up, bowed, turned around and walked out of the pavilion.

Along the way, Xue Zhiyu always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

He returned to the bedroom, asked the maid to leave, opened the space and walked in.

"007!"

Xue Zhiyu shouted to the surroundings, and a figure quickly flew out. He folded his arms around his chest, looked her up and down, and said unhappily, "Auntie, why don't you just take care of yourself? I was just about to catch up on some sleep, but I'm so sleepy," and then he yawned cooperatively.

"Hehe, I just want to ask our extremely smart 007 for help. He will definitely be able to help me."

007 raised his eyebrows, seeming a little surprised at her ability to flatter him, "Tell me, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Zhiyu roughly told the whole story, but 007 became even sleepier.

"Hey, did you listen to me?"

"I thought the sky was falling, but that's all. Just handle it yourself."

Without waiting for Xue Zhiyu to react, 007 waved his sleeves and threw her out of the space, then turned around and went back to sleep.

After being thrown out of the space, Xue Zhiyu cursed silently at the air, and then calmed down.

Since it has come to this, she can't just do nothing. She has to prepare a generous gift. She took something out of her sleeve and started tinkering with it on the table.

..........

When Xue Zhiyu entered the front hall, she saw such a happy scene, and she felt like the superfluous person.

A woman sitting at the round table glanced at her with eyes full of mockery.

I thought Xue Zhiyu would be angry, but who knew that she didn't even look at the woman, and walked straight to the other side and sat down.

Seeing that she didn't do anything rude, the purple-robed woman pretended to be casual and said, "Sister Le'er, I'm sorry just now. I didn't see you come in. I thought it was some ignorant maid. How could you be so tactless."

Xue Zhiyu looked over at her. Just when the purple-clothed woman thought that she would be mad at him, she suddenly asked, "Who are you?"

"You!!! You're going too far!" The purple-clothed woman was so angry that she stood up all of a sudden.

Xue Zhiyu still looked at the person in front of her with a puzzled look on her face. Who is this person? She really has no impression of him, but...

"Sister, this dress was given to me by Sister Mei. I love it. How can you say it looks like something a maid would wear? Isn't this questioning Sister Mei's aesthetic standards?"

After saying that, he looked at Aunt Mei who was sitting near the top with an indignant look, "Sister, you said so, right?"

"That's not what I meant, I..."

"enough!!"

Aunt Mei's expression couldn't be uglier. This useless waste was only causing trouble for her. She secretly glared at the woman in purple.

How could the purple-clothed woman dare to say another word? She sat back in her seat obediently, but the resentment in her eyes did not diminish at all when she looked at Xue Zhiyu.

Aunt Mei then turned around and looked at Xue Zhiyu kindly, "Sister Le'er, please don't be offended. We are all family members. We will all serve the master together in the future. I hope all the sisters will work hard to expand the Sun Mansion."

"Sister, if you don't give birth to a young master for the master, I will have to rely on you in the future."

"That's right, whether my sister can serve the master or not is up to me."

Hearing the flattery from the people around her, Xue Zhiyu simply let it go in one ear and out the other, since it had nothing to do with her anyway.

Just as they were chatting happily, a male voice came over.

"Isn't it disturbing you?"