Chapter 274
Having lost a large sum of money and no longer being a maid in Guihuayuan, Zhaocai, who received no reward, tried her best to ignore these trivial matters.
Anyway, the money was taken out from the master's account before she left so that she could use it for bribes.
She didn't spend any money anyway.
Anyway, after the task is completed, if the master is in a good mood, he might give her a reward.
What is there to be proud of now?
Zhaocai saluted Ji Shufei, thinking that she would deliberately embarrass her and not let her stand up, but she didn't expect that she would quickly say "no need to be polite"
Ji Yunqing turned and walked to the main hall and sat at the top. Zhaocai followed silently. The master and servant, who once lived in the same courtyard, did not say a word to each other.
The other maids looked at Zhaocai eagerly, watching his every move. Having just received the reward, the maids' enthusiasm for work reached its peak.
Zhaocai couldn't do anything, and she didn't do anything either. She just secretly looked at her former master.
His figure seems to have gained some weight, but his walking posture does not seem to have changed, but this may be something he is hiding intentionally.
Ji Yunqing sat down at the head of the table. Xuancao had already quickly brought the tea. She took a sip and spoke first: "Tell me, what are you doing here?"
Ruirui imitated her mother's actions and sat on the chair on the other side.
The round eyes also looked at Zhaocai.
The child was still young and didn't have much impression of what happened in the past. He just looked at the other person with curiosity.
Zhaocai gritted his teeth and didn't dare to sit down without instructions: "This time, I am following the orders of Master Li..."
Ji Yunqing interrupted her impatiently: "You have already said this, just tell me the purpose directly." He said it several times.
"What the master wants to say should not be known to too many people. Please give me some convenience, Concubine Ji."
Ji Yunqing frowned, seeming very reluctant.
Zhaocai said quickly: "Please give the concubine Ji a favor for the 2,378 taels and thirteen copper coins..."
"..."
Oh, then you really have to give me this face.
All the maids left, leaving only Xuancao, Hongdou, and Nanny An standing beside Ruirui, who had no intention of leaving.
They all looked at the fortune in front of them with caution.
Zhao Cai was still not satisfied: "Concubine, my master told me that I can only tell you."
"you……"
Hong Feng was very angry: "Don't go too far!"
Zhaocai didn't look at her, but only looked at Concubine Ji in front of him.
Eyes full of greed.
When will she be able to sit on it like a master?
Hongdou shouted, "If you have something to say, say it quickly. We have to protect our master." They couldn't let a traitor stay alone with their master.
If it were in the past, she would definitely panic at such words, but now it is different.
Zhaocai was very calm: "Concubine Ji, what do you think?"
Ji Yunqing played with the teacup in his hand, seeming to be very leisurely, and his tone was very indifferent: "Since you don't want to talk, please go back!"
Zhaocai's face changed when he heard this. He didn't expect that Ji Yunqing would not give face to Concubine Li:
"But……"
"It's nothing, go back and tell your master about it."
After Ji Yunqing finished speaking, he stood up and was about to leave.
There is nothing we can do now.
Zhaocai came here with a mission this time, and she spent so much money, she couldn't go back empty-handed.
I could only swallow my anger. I couldn't show the arrogance and domineering behavior that I had intended to show before coming here.
I paid so much money before I even met the person.
"Okay, I say!"
“This is still a good girl.”
Ji Yunqing complimented casually and sat back down.
"Concubine Ji, although our master is in a quiet place like the Buddhist temple, he already knows about your affairs."
At this point, Zhaocai gloated a little: "Knowing that you have fallen out of favor, I'm afraid you will have to stay in this small courtyard for the rest of your life.
Tsk, tsk, how pitiful!"
So what if he is the master?
Isn't it she, the maid, who is the only one who can walk out?
At this moment, she chose to forget that she was able to get out by bribing with silver.
Ji Yunqing lazily held his chin up and said, "Speaking of the point!"
Being interrupted again, Zhaocai was unhappy, but she didn't dare to say it out loud, so she changed the subject:
"Does Concubine know that I am no longer called Zhaocai? Master Li thinks this name is too rustic. Although it doesn't seem so here, it is indeed not presentable.
So I specially changed my name. Now I'm called "Cuihua" and it's the same as the maids of Concubine Li's generation with the character "Cui".
This is to say that the name Ji Yunqing originally came up with was not presentable, and it is also intended to show that she happily accepted the new name as soon as she left.
Ji Yunqing didn't feel offended at all, instead hesitantly asked: "Do you really think Cuihua sounds better than Zhaocai?"
Is it that her taste has fallen behind the times?
She thinks that the name Zhaocai at least... has a better meaning, right?
Look, how much fortune it brings to her!
She had been offered 1,800 taels before, and now 2,300 taels. She thought that she had not chosen the right name, had she?
Lucky: "..."
What's wrong with the name Cuihua?
Without further ado, Ji Yunqing looked up at the sky and said, "Are you here today just to show off your new name? If nothing else, I should go back and rest."
He does not mean that.
Zhaocai thought to himself, normal people wouldn’t rest so early, there must be something wrong with you resting so early!
Her eyes flashed. It seemed that the speculation that Concubine Ji was pregnant was nine out of ten possible.
"Please be patient, Concubine Ji. Our Concubine Li's intention is that we cannot bear to see you lose favor like this and be left alone in your empty room."
She turned to look at Ruirui with a loving look in her eyes: "It also caused the Fourth Young Master to suffer as well. It's pitiful. Our Fourth Young Master has lost weight."
Ji Yunqing rolled his eyes when he heard this. "If you have nothing to say, go back to your master!"
"Don't be anxious, concubine." Seeing that Ji Yunqing was really impatient, Zhaocai finally quickened his pace: "Our master has a way to restore your favor."
"Really? Is she really that kind? Why doesn't she use the method herself?"
Ji Yunqing's face was full of suspicion.
"this is not……"
Zhaocai couldn't explain it clearly, and finally said: "Anyway, there is a way! The master wants the two of you to help each other. She will help you find a way to regain her favor, and you can help her persuade her to regain her favor together."
"Then she's done!" Ji Yunqing always speaks very bluntly: "If I regain favor, I won't help a potential rival!"
Zhaocai: “…” You know what, Concubine Ji’s words are really quite reasonable.
It was difficult to maintain the dialogue between the two parties, and it was all thanks to Zhaocai's difficulty in continuing the conversation and her two thousand three hundred taels of silver.
She finally began to learn to ignore Ji Yunqing's words and continued, "Do you know that next year's spring plowing, His Majesty intends to leave the palace and plow the fields himself? At that time, the prince will definitely bring a few people with him.
Our Master Li doesn't like farming, but you are different, Concubine Ji. You just like these earthy things."
At this point, Zhaocai showed a sarcastic expression, "It's strange, how could a lady like you like this kind of earthy stuff?"
When she first lived in Osmanthus Garden, what she hated most was growing and harvesting vegetables, which made her delicate hands rough.
Ji Yunqing raised his eyelids and said, "If I can go there during the spring ploughing next year, when the emperor is plowing the field himself, I will tell him that you said he was a peasant."