Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

A few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, the nanny beside Concubine Qin in the palace suddenly came to the Shen family and said that the Sixth Princess Xiao Jinhuan personally chose Shen Jingwan as her study companion.

Let Shen Jingwan get ready and enter the palace on the first day of next month.

On the first day of September in the fourteenth year of Mingde, Shen Chuning and Shen Jingwan boarded the carriage to the palace together.

"Sister, how long do you think it will take to bridge the gap between people?"

"Sister, what you are most proud of is your position as the princess's companion. I heard that you suffered a lot back then. Grandmother took you to the palace and begged the Empress Dowager for this position."

"I'm different. I just sang a simple song at the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, and I was praised by the Empress Dowager and favored by Concubine Qin."

"Noble Concubine Qin is the biological mother of the Third Prince, and now I am the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The previous daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion was married to the Crown Prince. Sister, what do you think..."

Shen Jingwan kept provoking her, and Shen Chuning thought she was being noisy, so she interrupted directly, "Huang Lingyun is the legitimate granddaughter of Prime Minister Huang."

Shen Jingwan pulled at her handkerchief, scratching her fingers with her nails, trying to calm herself down. "Sister, you're just jealous of me. Even An Zhiyao, who was your companion in the study, got the title of Crown Prince's concubine, but you got nothing. Aren't you sad?"

Shen Chuning glanced at her sideways and said, "If your brain is not working well, ask the court doctor to come and see you right away. Don't delay it any longer. You will lose both your dignity and your face."

"you……"

"Miss, we have arrived at the palace gate. It's time to get off the carriage." Birui's voice came from outside the carriage window.

Then Birui opened the door of the carriage. The coachman had already placed a footstool next to the carriage. Birui helped her get out of the carriage.

Shen Jingwan got off the carriage right after him, and followed Shen Chuning with Fuzi.

Shen Chuning stopped and turned around to ask, "I wonder what else Sister Wan wants to do with me?"

"Who said I followed you? You and I are both the princess's study companions, and we are going to the same place. We just happened to walk together." Shen Jingwan argued cunningly.

Shen Chuning smiled. "We're not going in the same direction. I'm going back to Lingfang Pavilion. I wonder where the Sixth Princess arranged for Sister Wan to live. Logically, it should be not far from Concubine Qin's palace. Why didn't Concubine Qin, who has such a fondness for Sister Wan, send someone to pick her up?"

Shen Jingwan stopped and said, "It must be that the nanny beside Concubine Qin was delayed by something. I'll just wait here. Don't let me get lost with the nanny."

Shen Chuning found her behavior very funny. "Do you want me to show you the way to Concubine Qin's palace?"

Shen Jingwan snorted coldly, "No need. Who knows if the road you pointed out is real or fake? You must want to lead me to some forbidden place and then watch me get punished. I won't fall for your trick. Forget it."

After hearing what Shen Jingwan said, Shen Chuning no longer paid any attention to her and walked straight towards Lingfang Pavilion.

Shen Jingwan saw Shen Chuning disappear from sight and kicked Fuzi, "What are you standing there for? Go find someone to ask."

Fuzi staggered, "Miss, didn't you say that the nanny next to Concubine Qin would come back to pick us up?"

Shen Jingwan said angrily: "If you had come earlier, would you have made us wait here for so long?"

"But...but there's no one around here."

"What do you want to eat? Aren't there guards at the palace gate? Ask one to come and lead the way for us."

Shen Jingwan was so angry that she lost her mind. Fuzi was loyal, and it was completely enough for her to be with her colleague Gan Huahu, but after returning to the Shen Mansion, she could increasingly feel the gap between Fuzi and the servants of the Shen Mansion.

But Shen Jingwan felt that she would feel at ease only when her own servant was using it. Fortunately, Fuzi was also learning it little by little.

After a while, Fuzi came back and said, "Miss, the guards at the palace gate said they can't come in and can't lead us."

"Which direction do we go in? We'll go by ourselves."

"Slave...slave didn't ask."

"Go ask!"

After Shen Jingwan finished speaking, Fuzi ran towards the palace gate again.

"Miss...Miss, the guards at the palace gate said that they have never been to the harem and don't know where Concubine Qin's palace is." Fuzi said breathlessly while running.

Shen Jingwan stomped her feet in anger.

"Miss, how about we follow Miss Nine's direction? Miss Nine is going to the harem after all. There must be young palace maids and eunuchs in the harem. We can stop her and ask her then."

"You're smart for once."

After wandering around like this, Shen Jingwan finally found the palace where Concubine Qin lived at almost noon.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass into Concubine Qin's bedroom?" Shen Jingwan was stopped by the eunuch at the door.

"Eunuch, I am the young lady from Prime Minister Shen Huaizhong's mansion. I have just been appointed as the Sixth Princess's study companion. I have come here specially to pay my respects to the Imperial Concubine and the Sixth Princess." Shen Jingwan said.

"You bold lunatic! How dare you impersonate the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion? There is only one daughter, the Ninth, in Prime Minister Shen's Mansion, and she doesn't look like you. You said you were here to be the Sixth Princess's study companion. The Sixth Princess went to the Yuewei Hall early in the morning. How come you, a study companion, are here at almost noon? Come, arrest him!"

As soon as the young eunuch finished speaking, several women who were sweeping the yard put down their brooms and walked over.

Shen Jingwan was frightened when she saw this, and quickly took off the ring on her wrist and put it into the young eunuch's hand, "Eunuch, it's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding. I am really a daughter of the Shen Mansion, but I have been living outside before, and I just came back at the beginning of the year. It was Nanny Chen who was beside Concubine Qin who personally went to the Shen Mansion to announce the companionship, but the palace is too big and I got lost, so I came late."

The young eunuch took the jade bracelet in his hand, felt the texture, then raised his hand to look at the quality in the sun, stretched out two fingers and flicked it. When he heard the crisp sound, he put it away with satisfaction.

"Let's clear up all the misunderstandings."

The old woman who had just walked over picked up the broom and continued sweeping the floor.

"Before your identity is officially confirmed, we cannot let you enter Concubine Qin's bedroom. You can just sit in the courtyard and wait. Nanny Chen, who is with Concubine Qin, will be back soon. You will know when she comes back."

Shen Chuning finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that they were no longer calling for her to be arrested and killed. "As I should, as I should. Thank you very much, eunuch."

After saying that, he took Fuzi and sat under the pavilion in the yard.

Shen Jingwan didn't know how long she had been waiting, she only knew that her stomach had been growling for a cup of tea.

"Didn't I tell you to come early on the first day of the new year? Why are you here just now?"