Chapter 266 - Personal Maidservan (2/2)

Yu Xiaocao smiled nonchalantly and said, “I inadvertently found this pearl when I was diving. I’m a very good swimmer now. If I want to get some pearls, I can easily get them whenever I want. This is for my Younger Brother Lin. When he’s a little older, he can shoot it as a pellet.”

Playing with a valuable pearl like it’s a toy? Wouldn’t that be apparently flaunting one’s wealth? Lady Fang still insisted on declining the gift, but Yu Xiaocao forced it into her hands.

Yu Xiaocao pouted and spoke before her godmother could say anything, “Godmother, if you don’t accept it, then you’re not treating me as part of the family!”

“Wife, since our daughter said that, you should just accept it! If you feel sorry about it, then you should prepare more for our daughter’s dowry. At that time, prepare 5 kilometers of dowry, so that that stinky brat, whose current whereabouts are unknown, won’t mistreat our daughter!” Fang Zizhen, who had entered the room without them noticing, had overheard the conversation between the mother and daughter.

Seeing that Lady Fang had carefully put away the pearl, Yu Xiaocao looked at her godfather and unabashedly said, “That’s right! With a general as my father, I want to see who would dare mistreat me!! My godfather’s fists aren’t just for display!!”

Zhu Junyang, who had been ordered by Princess Consort Jing to stay in bed, sneezed two times in succession. He wrinkled his brows and whispered, “It goes without saying that it’s that lass Yu Xiaocao who’s talking behind my back!”

Princess Consort Jing, who was next to him, worriedly had someone add another quilt for him for fear that he would get sick. Although it wasn’t very hot in early summer, it was uncomfortable to be covered by so many quilts. Zhu Junyang quickly used the excuse of ‘sweating would affect the healing of the wounds’ to reject his lady mother’s good intentions.

In the following days, Yu Xiaocao lived in Princess Consort Jing’s temporary residence. Like she was entertaining an esteemed guest, Princess Consort Jing prepared an elegant and exquisite courtyard for her. This courtyard wasn’t far from Zhu Junyang’s courtyard, and was within two minutes away on foot. She also specially sent maidservants and senior servants to serve her. All of the arrangements were not even slightly inferior to that of the noble young ladies in the capital.

However, in addition to decocting the medication and changing his medicine, she also had to serve the young royal prince three meals a day. What exactly was going on? Didn’t she come to be a doctor? How did she ended up becoming the young royal prince’s personal maidservant?

Standing next to the table with chopsticks in her hands, Yu Xiaocao looked at the young royal prince, who was waiting for her to feed him with his mouth wide open as if he was a hungry swallow, and had an urge to flip the table.

“Shrimp crystal steamed bun.” Seeing that he didn’t receive the food he requested after waiting for a long time, the young prince emphasized once again. His eyes swept across the ashen-faced Yu Xiaocao, and he was in a strangely good mood.

Yu Xiaocao glanced at the maidservants who usually served the young royal prince’s daily life and said with displeasure, “Young Royal Prince, I don’t think I’m one of your maidservants? It doesn’t seem to be one of my responsibilities to serve you when you eat, right?”

Zhu Junyang icy gaze swept over the maidservants in the room. The maidservants trembled and went out of the room one after another. He took back his gaze with satisfaction, shook his arms, which were wrapped up like a mummy, in front of Yu Xiaocao, and said, “Now, this prince and you are the only ones in the room. This prince’s arms got injured because I was saving your father. So, it’s not too much to ask you to serve this prince while I eat, is it?”

‘Don’t all gentlemen show kindness without expecting repayment? Young Royal Prince, is it really alright for you to mention that you got injured in order to save my father eight times a day? This is apparently the ungrateful act of taking advantage of a good deed and seeking repayment ah!!’

Yu Xiaocao angrily picked up a crystal steamed bun and tried to choke him to death by stuffing the whole thing into the young royal prince’s mouth.

Zhu Junyang worked hard to chew the food in his mouth and finally swallowed it after chewing for a long time, “Are you trying to kill me! Congee! This prince nearly died from choking!!”

Yu Xiaocao slammed the chopsticks on the table, picked up the bowl of congee, scooped out a spoon of congee, and shoved it into the young prince’s mouth. The congee on the spoon dripped onto the clothes that Zhu Junyang had just changed into in the morning.

“You’re too unprofessional when serving people. You need to practice more!” Zhu Junyang scolded in an irritating manner.

After she finally finished serving this great lord breakfast with much difficulty, he opened his hands and said to his trusted little maidservant, “Just look at how you to fed the congee. It sprinkled everywhere. Had it been someone else, this prince would have flogged her already! Come, help this prince change my clothes!”

Yu Xiaocao couldn’t hold it in any longer and shouted towards the outside, “Who’s on duty outside? Come in and help the young royal prince change his clothes!!”

When the people outside heard this, there was a series of disorderly footsteps, and then it became dead silent. Yu Xiaocao opened the door and rushed outside to take a look. Not even a trace of the people, who should be serving outside, could be seen.

With no other choice, Yu Xiaocao took out a set of clothing that she thought was the ugliest from the wardrobe and helped the young royal prince change into it. Zhu Junyang also didn’t like this attire and had never worn it. When he appeared in front of the princess consort in this dark reddish purple outfit, she couldn’t help but look surprised.