Chapter 4 (1/2)

The time it was known that the crown prince had passed aas during dinner when the black bands were delivered

Signifying , it was to be worn for seven days

During those times, the meals that hardly had any meat anyways now none She craved the taste of meat then

A lowlyof cereals and soup Soetable dish For the overly skinny Maoht it was lacking

There were obvious things when the ether

If there were those ere born as peasants, there were town girls too Though their nuhters of officials Of course, with their parent as officials, they had better treat and the issue of how the person was raised was another thing Those who could not read or write had no way of beco consorts with rooms

A consort is an occupation

(In the end, it was less?)

Maomao knew about the cause of the crown prince's illness

Consort Rifa and her attendants used the white face powder lavishly It was a high-class item that cannot be obtained by commoners

It was also used by the brothel's high-class prostitutes For those prostitutes who earn a farht, they buy it themselves It could also be received as a present

The prostitutes ruined their body by copiously applying this white powder to their face and neck, and several had died from it

Even though dad had told them to ”stop it”, they continued on with it

Maoht loss and weakness by her father's side

By trying to have both life and beauty, in the end they lost both

That hy she tied a sie on a short stick and placed it at the two consorts' place Alas, she didn't think that they would believe the warning from a lowly maidservant who had no paper, pen and supplies

When the er seen, she heard a rumour about Consort Gyokuyou With the crown prince lost, it appeared that the broken-hearted e princess

She heard nothing about hi to Consort Rifa who lost their child

(How convenient)

After gulping down the soup that had small bits of fish in it, Maomao went to her work station where she was to tidy up the tableware

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”A su, is it?”

Mao a laundry basket stopped at the eunuch's call

It was to come to the Chief Palace Official's room in the middle area

Palace officials are one of the three sections that divide the inner palace, a low ranked court lady so to speak The other tere Inner Officials, the consorts with rooms, and the Eunuchs, ere equivalent to a department of attendants of the inner palace

(What do they want?)

The eunuch also spoke to the maids around her Looks like it wasn't just her

It h people

Maomao left the basket in front of the room and followed after the eunuch

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Of the four gates that connect the inner palace to the outside, the Chief Palace Official's building is close to the main entrance When the emperor visits the inner palace, this is the door that he h

Although she was summoned, it really didn't seehty

While it so of the Inner Palace Chief next door, it was a structure s of the middle-ranked consorts Each handrail was carved, and on the red pillars, lifelike dragons entwined around it

When she was urged inside, she saw that the rooe desk It was tasteless beyond expectations There were about ten roup Their expressions ranged from uneasiness and anticipation, to excitement