C93 (2/2)
The woman answered and left. It didn't take long for someone to carry the table in and place it on the big brick bed next to the window.
Thinking of the need to enter the palace to express her gratitude, Jiang Wan only ate a bit of the last few things. After all, in the palace, such as a toilet was not an easy thing to do.
After breakfast, Xiao Rui went back to the inner room to change into his court uniform. He wore a golden silk crown, a red blouse that covered his lower body, and a crown that only the crown prince could wear.
But what made Jiang Wan feel strange was how he, who clearly had a rosy face just now, suddenly turned pale and extremely weak.
Jiang Wan, who was wearing her first rank Life Wife attire sat in the five black painted carriages, but she couldn't help but sneak a peek at Xiao Rui beside her.
”Don't worry, Imperial Concubine Cui will take care of you once we get down there,” Xiao Rui said as she sat in the carriage. She looked at Jiang Wan sideways, ”I've already asked for Feng Jing to take a look at you.”
Jiang Wan answered with an ”Oh”, absent-mindedly, as her hands couldn't help but touch Xiao Rui's face.
However, the moment they touched his face, Xiao Rui quickly dodged.
”What's that?” Jiang Wan was certain that although she only lightly touched it, the sensation coming from her finger told her that it was absolutely not the skin of a normal person.
Xiao Rui helplessly glared at Jiang Wan, but was helpless to do anything to her like a child.
”This is a fake mask …” He patted his face to make sure that the mask he put on hadn't been touched by Jiang Wan.
A mask?
The legendary disguise technique?
Jiang Wan opened her eyes wide and once again turned into a curious baby.
No wonder every time he saw Xiao Rui greeting him, his face would turn white! So there really was a hidden mechanism.
”There are some things I'll tell you when I get back!” Xiao Rui signalled to Jiang Wan to keep quiet, and the carriage they were in also stopped just in time.
The emperor just so happened to have left for the morning assembly, so he invited Xiao Rui over to the study set up for him. Jiang Wan was brought by the servants to Imperial Concubine Cui's palace, the Hall of Clear Sky.
Because Empress Kang Yi had passed away, Imperial Concubine Cui was in charge of matters of all six palaces. She was the most respected woman in the entire imperial harem.
When Jiang Wan left, Imperial Concubine Cui had just woken up to eat breakfast, so she could only obediently wait for the summons in the courtyard outside the hall.
It was just the beginning of the morning, but the scorching sun had already risen, shining its light on Jiang Wan's Seven Zhai crown, causing beads of sweat to form on her temples.
She was also wearing a long, red robe, and it looked more like she was tied up like a shackle, preventing her from moving even a little bit.
The head eunuch, Feng Jing, who was serving Imperial Concubine Cui, glanced over from time to time at Jiang Wan, who was standing in the courtyard.
Imperial Concubine Cui glanced at him, then put down the piece of silver in her hand and calmly said, ”I didn't know you were a person who cared for women.”
Feng Jing groaned in his heart.
Before the great ceremony for the selection, someone took one hundred thousand silver and found him.
He wanted to think of a way to have Imperial Concubine Cui marry a girl called Jiang Wan to the sickly Crown Prince Jin, Xiao Rui.
If he can do it, a hundred thousand taels of silver will go to him.
If he couldn't do it, then the matter of him secretly raising his foster son, Feng An, stealing the woman and accidentally killing her would no longer be an issue.
When Feng Jing heard this, his expression immediately changed.
No matter what, he was still a Chief Eunuch of the Greencloud Hall. How could he be coerced like this?
However, the man advised him that even though he had a bit of glory now, he would still have to rely on his godson in the future.
Since he could protect his foster son and earn 100,000 silver, why not?