Chapter 21: Lovely Colleagues

  A tender and delicious shrimp meat entered her stomach, Xue Lengyu couldn't help but let out a satisfied burp, she was stunned for a moment, Xiao Feng was also stunned for a moment.

  Xue Leng's face turned red and she quickly covered her mouth, looking at Xiao Feng with some embarrassment.

  "Wait, what's going on here?" Xiao Feng asked in confusion.

  Xue Lengyu sneered: "Uh... I just ate a plate of pastries that Wang Ye gave me, the pastries were quite dry, and I also drank two cups of water. I'm already a bit full."

  "Oh, I see." Xiaofeng's face was filled with regret: "What a pity, such a good thing, and you really don't have the luck to enjoy it."

  Xue Lengyu hastily said: "It's okay, put it here, we'll eat together at noon."

  She's kidding, how could she bear to let Xiaofeng take the things away. Times are different now, with her current status, it's unlikely she'll get to eat such good food again anytime soon.

  Xiao Feng's face was awkward: "Miss."

  Xue Lengyu interrupted: "Just call me Lengyu. You always call me 'young lady' and I don't even know who I am anymore."

  It's really nice to see Xue Lengyu, and Xiao Feng is no longer restrained: "Lengyu, just now Shu Li Daren specifically instructed that you can eat as much as you want, but you can't leave any leftovers. If you can't finish it, you have to take it back."

  Xue Lengyu heard Xiaofeng's words and suddenly thought of something. Her face turned black in an instant, with a head full of dark lines.

  "Leng Yu, what's wrong?" Xiao Feng saw Xue Leng Yu's expression change suddenly and felt a panic: "Are you okay?"

  "I'm fine." Xue Lengyu said through gritted teeth.

  She finally knew what the unpredictable and profound "you will regret it" meant, and she was specially told that the rules of the Wang Fu were to be able to eat but not to take away, originally just to let her watch a table full of delicious food and drinks, drooling but unable to eat.

  A high-ranking official in the imperial court (in Xue Leng's eyes, Shu Li was one of the king's trusted officials, and his position was naturally not low), actually did such a despicable, vicious, shameless and contemptible thing to her, a weak woman. It really is...

  Xue Lengyu slammed her fist on the table, but ended up hurting her hand instead. She let out a cry of pain and quickly withdrew it, using her other hand to rub it. Looking at the dishes on the table again, she felt even more full, and the aroma wafting from them made her feel like even the crispy pancake she had started with was going to overflow.

  Xiao Feng startled Xue Leng Yu: "Leng Yu, are you really okay?"

  "I'm fine." Trying to control her emotions, Xue Lengyu said: "Xiao Feng, I'm full now and can't eat anymore. You'd better take it back."

  "Really?" Xiaofeng asked with some regret: "Leng Yu, you really won't eat any more?"

  Xue Lengyu forced out a smile: "I really won't eat anymore, or you can have it."

  "No, no, no." Xiaofeng hastily waved her hand: "This is what Master Wang rewarded you with, Xiaofeng dare not eat it."

  "Then just take it back." Xue Lengyu weakly waved her hand: "Alas, we are all destined to be servants. Even if there's good food, we don't have the life to enjoy it."

  Xiao Feng didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, but she wasn't as pessimistic as Xue Leng Yu. Seeing that Xue Leng Yu wasn't eating, she smiled: "Then I'll send it back to the kitchen first. Later, when there's nothing going on, I'll talk to you about the Maple Garden."

  "I'll go with you." Xue Lengyu hastily said.

  Now that I've accepted the princess's reward, whether or not I'll sleep with Li Mu is another matter, but for the next year or so, I'm probably stuck in the Quanwang Fu anyway, might as well learn more about it.

  "Alright." Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Just in time, you've just entered the mansion, so you must not have been to the kitchen before. I'll take you there to familiarize yourself with it, so that if Master Wang suddenly wants a midnight snack one day, you won't be unable to find your way."

  Xue Lengyu's face suddenly turned black: "Prince Wang still has the habit of having a midnight snack. What time do you mean by midnight?"

  "It's hard to say." Xiaofeng said: "The king sometimes handles official business in the study, and when he is busy, it can be a whole night. In the past, we maids didn't need to accompany him, and the king naturally had his own servants to serve him. But I heard that you are the king's personal maid, and also because you can read and write, which is why the king wanted you to come here, so I guess that in the future when the king is in the study, he may call you over to serve him."

  Xue Lengyu listened to Xiaofeng's speculation, and didn't know whether to be happy or worried. If Xiaofeng was right, then she wouldn't have to worry about facing the treatment of being dragged to warm someone's bed by someone she didn't like for a short time. But with the constant busy schedule of one station per night, this was also inhumane treatment. This money was indeed hard to earn.

  Xue Lengyu was stunned for a moment, and Xiao Feng had already quickly cleaned up the table of delicious food, saying: "Leng Yu, let's go."

  "En, good." Xue Lengyu came back to her senses and hastily responded to Xiaofeng, following her as she walked out of the courtyard.

  The courtyard was no longer as quiet as it was when Xue Lengyu came, several young servants and maidservants were hurrying back and forth, Xiao Feng familiarly greeted them, Xue Lengyu didn't recognize any of them but still forced a smile and nodded slightly.

  Xue Lengyu nodded and whispered to Xiao Feng: "Are they all from the Wangye's mansion?"

  "Yes." Xiaofeng said: "Compared to other places in the Wangfu, our Maple Garden is actually the best place to go."

  "Oh, what's going on?" Xue Lengyu was amused and listened with interest as Little Frost King's wife sold the melons.

  "It's very simple." Xiaofeng smiled mysteriously: "In the palace, with so many concubines, it's inevitable that they'll be vying with each other. The servants will also inevitably fight among themselves, even sacrificing for their own masters' interests. But we won't do that, the prince isn't a stingy person, you know this better than I do, otherwise he wouldn't have given you so much food when he saw you hadn't eaten breakfast."

  Xiao Feng couldn't have imagined Li Mu's sinister intentions, and Xue Leng Yu also couldn't speak ill of Wang Ye or Shu Li in front of others, so she could only reluctantly nod along.

  Xiao Feng saw Xue Leng Yu agreeing with her opinion, smiled and continued: "In the Maple Garden, only Wang Ye lives, then it's Shu Li Daren. Although Shu Li Daren appears to be a bit cold on the outside, he is actually a very gentle person and is also good to us servants. And our servants in the Maple Garden are directly under the jurisdiction of Shu Li Daren, so other people, including Wang Fei and other concubines, have no right to command us."

  Xiao Feng smiled secretly and whispered in Xue Leng Yu's ear: "Sometimes, they will even come to fawn on us."

  Xue Lengyu was given a thieving expression by Xiao Feng, as if she had stolen something, which made her laugh involuntarily. She also whispered: "Why? Do you want to get news about the king from us?"

  Xiao Feng looked at Xue Lengyu with a childlike and innocent expression, "Of course, with so many concubines in the mansion, it's not certain that they would know if the prince had something going on. But if we get along well, it'll be different."