Chapter 279 - The Forbidden Place (1/2)

True enough, a woman came to Xiao Fang's courtyard early in the morning and she was the one who was in charge of Xiao Fang's disguise. A forty years old woman named Auntie Mao.

Xiao Fang only let Han Yi and Han Er inside her room, she let the others do other works. She only needed her trustest people around.

Uncle Qiu decided not to turn her into a servant but stayed as a woman by becoming a maidservant. However, Auntie Mao added a hideous scar on a large part of Xiao Fang's smooth face, making no one would recognize Xiao Fang's real face. Not only that, the scar was scary enough to make people unintentionally trying to evade looking at her face directly.

Xiao Fang was quite satisfied with Auntie Mao's works. Another subordinate of Uncle Qiu explained that there was indeed a maidservant that had the same hideous scar as her and she was shunned by the others, thus, she rarely appeared outside. Uncle Qiu already arranged that maidservant to be hidden, so she wouldn't suddenly appear and ruin their plan to infiltrate the forbidden place.

After that, she went to Uncle Qiu's place. Uncle Qiu almost couldn't recognize his own goddaughter and it proved that Ah Mao hadn't lost her skills despite being stranded in this place along with him.

”Master... with a scar as big as mine, won't it scare that person?” Xiao Fang asked. She had started to get into the role and that person referred to Aunt Yue. She didn't know what she should call Aunt Yue, thus, she could only call her that person for now.

”She's not a small-minded person, so it should be fine,” Uncle Qiu answered leisurely. ”You can call her 'The Sacred One'. This is how the Emperor wants her to be called by us --- just to show Aunt Yue that he respects her talents.” Uncle Qiu said the last part in a sarcastic way because he could see how hypocrite the Emperor was.

”This maidservant... did she ever go along with you?” Xiao Fang asked curiously. If the answer was yes, she needed to know how this maidservant was usually behaving. Fortunately, Uncle Qiu said that she had never followed him there and it meant... she could just be herself.

Xiao Fang knew that she needed to do the mission more seriously, after all, this was for Yao Ling --- her best friend. Yao Ying had brought the news that Yao Ling hadn't woken up yet and it somehow made Xiao Fang become concerned and worried at the same time. The sooner she could ask Aunt Yue, the better.

Uncle Qiu only brought her along and Xiao Fang needed to bring the gifts for Aunt Yue. He didn't come in from the front gate where Yao Ling made the symbols glowing, instead, they went in from a side door --- which very small and this was the door where the maidservants in the forbidden place used to come and go.

The guards who were guarding the forbidden place asked them, ”Da Ren, are you bringing a new maidservant today? You usually bring a few more people... how come there are only the two of you?”

Uncle Qiu merely laughed, ”I don't bring many gifts this time, hence one person is enough to accompany me.”

The guards nodded their head and they didn't really pay attention to Xiao Fang's face, because they were disgusted by her scar. They just thought to themselves, 'Why bring such an ugly maidservant to meet the person inside?'

They were mere ordinary guards, so naturally, they didn't know who was being confined inside the forbidden place. Not only that, Aunt Yue was old and she had never roaming around to the outer courtyard.

The guards let them in and Uncle Qiu quickly led her inside. She whispered to Uncle Qiu, ”Godfather, can I ask her about my future?”