I was a queen in ancient times, no, a maid!

Cheng Yu knew Zhao Shiyan's thoughts very well.

To be honest, if Zhao Shiyan was an ordinary person, just a young master of a merchant family, she would not be so resistant, but he happened to be the prince of a royal palace.

If nothing unexpected happens, Zhao Shiyan will be a prince in the future.

His father is a prince. Even if he is not valued, he is still a prince. What's more, Zhao Shiyan is now working for the emperor and is highly valued. As long as he doesn't do anything wrong and relies on the emperor, his future will definitely not be too bad.

His status was too noble for her, so Cheng Yu didn't dare to imagine her future with him.

Identity, family background, and certain values ​​are all things she cannot avoid.

More importantly, her current lifestyle is pretty good. She earns money with her skills, and when she is tired from working during the day, she can go back to the system's small house to rest at night.

She had just gained a moment of freedom, and she didn't want to sacrifice everything she had now for an unstable married life.

Up to now, Cheng Yu has no idea of ​​giving her body to Zhao Shiyan.

But Zhao Shiyan was so reckless that she was afraid that there would be only two outcomes for her in the future. Either she could outlast Zhao Shiyan and break up with him, get some money, and live the free life she wanted.

Or she could follow Zhao Shiyan and become his mistress.

Cheng Yu didn't want to marry him.

Unless Zhao Shiyan is powerful enough, if she marries him with her status, people will definitely gossip about her.

Another point is that Zhao Shiyan’s stepmother, the successor princess consort of Prince Jing’s Mansion, is not someone who is easy to mess with.

Cheng Yu felt a headache when she thought about the stepmother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship she would have to face in the future.

Just don't think about it.

After stabilizing Zhao Shiyan and sending him away, Cheng Yu returned to his residence.

Zhao Shiyan was in a very depressed mood. He felt that Cheng Yu liked him, otherwise how could she be so affectionate with him. However, he also felt that Cheng Yu did not love him. If she loved him, shouldn't a woman be very dependent on him and need him a lot?

Cheng Yu didn't care about what Zhao Shiyan thought.

The birthday of the old lady of Marquis Zhenyuan was before the Lantern Festival. It happened that Cheng Yu had finished dealing with Marquis Zhenyuan's affairs, so it didn't prevent her from going out to do business on the Lantern Festival.

The night before the Lantern Festival, she brought Xiaotao and Hehua home to make lots of glutinous rice dumplings.

In addition to the black sesame dumplings and peanut dumplings that are sold out individually, we also prepared some fruits.

In addition to selling raw glutinous rice balls, there are also cooked glutinous rice balls that are made into other shapes or colors and sold as pastries.

Lotus went to sell cakes and dumplings.

Taozi is responsible for selling raw dumplings.

Cheng Yu was called to Prince Jing's mansion and was told that her grandmother, Nanny Cheng, had already found the master and told him about her plan to leave the mansion. The Princess Consort did not say anything and, seeing that she was just a night maid, gave her less reward, only five taels of silver and two pieces of plain cloth, nothing else.

But Nanny Cheng was so angry that she almost died.

The reason why Cheng Yu was called was also Cheng Mei's idea. She said that her grandmother was going home to spend her twilight years, so why not call Cheng Yu to come and pick her up in a grand manner.

When Cheng Yu arrived, he looked at his grandmother.

He said patiently, "Grandma, we shouldn't show off our status now. If someone in your family is doing well, and you say outside that you have money and live a good life, won't that make people jealous?"

"We live our own lives, and it's enough for us to know how it feels."

Nanny Cheng seemed comforted by what her granddaughter said.

"I am just too angry about what the step-concubine did. If the original princess was still alive, she would never treat the old people in the palace like this."

"That's the master. It's up to him to decide how much to give. Can we force him to do that?"

Cheng Yu could understand what Nanny Cheng was thinking.

I have worked diligently in the palace all my life, but in the end I am of no value anymore and I am about to retire, but the palace doesn't even give me any rewards. The things they give me as a gift are even less than those given to servants in the outer courtyard.

Nanny Cheng was unhappy.

But she also knew that even if she was unhappy, what could she do? As Yu Jie'er said, he was the master and she was just a nanny.

Nanny Cheng had a lot of things, and Cheng Yu helped her pack them up. She took away all the usable things and threw away the unusable ones. It seemed like Nanny Cheng would steal things from the palace. When they left the palace, the princess consort even specially arranged a maid to watch them pack their things.

Cheng Mei's unfilial grandmother was about to leave the palace, but she didn't even come back once.

The question is, I have to work and don’t have time.

When Cheng Yu was about to leave with her grandmother, the maid checked it again, saying it was a custom in the palace.

The custom of this palace is that people leaving the palace will be checked at the door. They are all servants, so the inspection is just a casual one and no one does a special inspection.

Just when Cheng Yu was about to ask a few more questions, he suddenly heard Ding Xiang's voice coming from outside the door, and her brother Cheng Bin also came.

"Yu'er, grandma, are you okay?"

Madam Cheng asked, "Why are you here?"

Ding Xiang said hurriedly, "The eldest lady and the prince knew that you were leaving, so they asked us to send some things over."

"Who in the room didn't see the prince and the eldest lady's people? What are you still standing here for? Get out of here."

Looking at the maid in charge, Ding Xiang glared at her. The maid hesitated and wanted to argue, but Ding Xiang said sternly, "Is your master more powerful than the prince? Be careful, I will tell the prince to beat you out for causing trouble."

The maid left reluctantly.

Cheng Yu hurried forward, "Sister Dingxiang, thank you. That maid was sent by the Princess Consort, and I don't know who she belongs to."

Ding Xiang smiled and said, "The successor princess is petty, but she won't make things difficult for an old mother. She is afraid of losing her status and face. She thought that it was Zhang Ma, her subordinate, who sent this little maid in the name of the successor princess, and she did it on purpose."

"Don't be afraid. The eldest lady told me to bring some gifts to Madam Cheng."

"When you left the house, the eldest lady didn't give you anything."

Cheng Yu said: "The eldest lady has given me a house, how can you say that you have given me nothing?"

Ding Xiang smiled and said, "Isn't that a reward for taking care of the young lady?"

"The eldest lady gave two hundred taels, and the prince also asked Cheng Bin to bring two hundred taels, and some cloth."

Cheng Yu was busy thanking the elder girl.

Nanny Cheng knelt down in gratitude and shouted towards the distance, "Thank you very much, young lady, and thank you, young master."

Nanny Cheng was still saying that after all, they were all born to the original princess, and were as kind and generous as the previous princess.

Cheng Yu didn't think much about it. He just thought that the eldest girl and the prince were nice to his grandmother, and there must be reasons for that. But it was an indisputable fact that his grandmother had worked in the palace all her life, and these rewards were what his grandmother deserved, but a lot more.

For an ordinary maid to retire from the house, giving her fifty or eighty taels was considered very good.