Chapter 67: The Wedding 2 (2/2)
”Goodbye, your highness”.
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By 10 pm that night.
Su Liya dismissed the maids and sat on the square table. The wooden box from the Empress was placed on the table, her room had been swarmed with maids all day. The number of servants in her Courtyard seemed to have increased when the Empress left.
She suspected that the sudden traffic in her room had a lot to do with the Empress's visit, it was safe to assume that majority of not all the maids were spies pushed in by the major players in the palace. She left the box on the cupboard in her room, carefully keeping an eye on the nosy maids.
The maids waited till night, they gave up when they failed to get a response out of Su Liya. They gladly escaped to their rooms as soon as she released them. Keeping watch of these unwanted servants was exhausting, she let out a breath of relief when they left.
She picked up the wooden box from the cupboard and moved it to the square-shaped table. She decided to check the content of the box, without anyone breathing down her neck. The Empress maid had given her the key together with the box, she had slipped the key into her sleeves when the maids came in.
Su Liya carefully inserted the key into the key how and twisted the key. There was a ”Click” as the box unlocked, the lid slid up. Su Liya pulled the lid higher, an assortment of jewellery was placed at the top of the box.
The jewellery was made from pure gold, she knew it was high-quality gold because she had seen a few of Zhu Fengyin's jewellery. However none was as exquisite as these pieces, it had been unexpected but the empress hasn't spared any expense. There was a hidden compartment at the base, she removed the jewellery to open the compartment.
There were deeds of farmsteads, shops and restaurants all in the capital hidden in the compartment. Su Liya sorted through the deeds carefully, before reading through the account book kept under the deeds. ”The Empress left such a nest egg... Why? This is too generous” she thought as she read through the account book.
It was getting late and Su Liya felt her eyes get tired. She returned the contents of the box into the box, locked the box and placed it back on the cupboard. She initially thought of hiding the box somewhere else but after some thoughts decided against it. ”The best place to hide things was in plain sight” she muttered as she stepped away from the cupboard.
As she walked to the bed, she was startled by the slight movement by the window. Scared, Su Liya gripped a paper holder from the table as a weapon. It wasn't very big but create damage on anyone. She rose it high above her head, prepared to hit whoever it was, only to see Lu Yaozhu step out from the shadow.
Su Liya took a step back, she dropped the paper holder back on the table and holding her chest, inhaled and exhaled quickly. ”Oh my! You scared me!”.
”Sorry, the Emperor has his eyes here. I can't get caught” Lu Yaozhu said apologetically.
”Cool, I don't mind. Thanks okay...”
”How are you?”
”I am good, still trying to get used to everything”
”You must get adjusted quickly, we will be getting married soon. I don't care about your past as far as you don't cause trouble. Our Lu Family only recognized talent or skill”.
”Yes”
”We will be getting married in a few days me, try to pull yourself”.
”Yes”