DOOMED TO BE CANNON FODDER -1

CHAPTER 21

A mama knocked on the door of Winter Garden in the middle of the night. She came in to explain that Mistress Lisa should accompany the retinue to Long Hua temple the next morning. Ye-mama was so delighted that she kept giving thanks to Buddha.

Xiao Shi was also happy. Although she felt that Prince Jeon was scary, life would be good for her mistress in the future if she was able to obtain his tender loving care. When that happened, her mistress would also be able to lift her head proudly when she visited her parents’ home.

Unfortunately for Bai Lisa, after she heard about the plans for the morrow, she felt rather faint. The plotline was going seriously awry. She hadn’t done anything special ever since coming to this world, except maybe pursue the supporting male lead. But why was she continually in situations where she had to only interact with the male lead?

As for the supporting male lead, once she recalled how he’d turned her mandarin duck's perfume satchel into rags, her heart turned cold. He likely already believed that she was a frivolous woman. She must explain this matter to him. Otherwise, her only way out would disappear like smoke in a breeze. It would be good to go out this time as well. She would seize this opportunity to clarify the matter with the supporting male lead.

Thoughts running a mile a minute, she tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. She lit the lantern and began to cut out more flowers and leaves to craft another bookmark. Since she had practice from the last attempt, this one was quite well done. She placed it in a book to press it when she was done, she certainly wouldn’t let the other party reduced this to powder again.

By the time she was done, she had expended a great deal of effort, and so easily fell back asleep. But it felt like she had only fallen asleep for an instant when Xiao Shi woke her up again. It turns out that the Prince wanted to leave early. Ye-mama and Xiao Shi had gotten up even earlier and were already done packing. They even made her bathe in hot water before they left to show respect for the Bodhisattva.

They arranged for a small carriage to come once she was ready. When she entered the carriage, someone asked her, “Mistress Lisa, have you brought the Buddhist scriptures that Old Madame wished for you to copy?”

“Ah?” Lisa didn’t understand. When did old madame arrange for her to copy Buddhist scriptures, and when had she had the time to copy them?

Ye-mama immediately said, “It’s already here with me. The copy isn’t complete yet, Mistress will have to continue copying after we reach the Long Hua temple.”

“Hey! Oh!” Lisa nodded hurriedly when Ye-mama glared daggers at her. No one else asked any further questions or made any small talk, so they all sat in the carriage in silence. With three women, the carriage was a bit cramped, but not overly so. Xiao Shi asked curiously when they were all in the carriage, “Mama, what was going on just now?”

Ye-mama smiled and replied, “This is thanks to the prince. He has truly gone to great efforts this time.” When she looked at the clueless appearances of two women sitting across from her, Ye-mama inwardly rolled her eyes. How can they be this stupid? Can this woman be able to seduce the prince?

Resigned, she expounded on her answer, “Three more people are coming from the household besides Mistress Lisa, and they aren’t as well-behaved as you. If they knew that you were brought along because of the prince, would it not cause a disturbance? If anything does happen, the most unlucky one would likely be you.” Bai Lisa trembled from head to toe; women striving for favour were extremely frightful.

Because she’d become ill and bedridden after that servant girl was caned to death, and then gone mad, she hadn’t had much contact with the other three women. However, if there wasn’t any valid reason for her to follow the old madame and the prince to Long Hua temple this time, so she would be public enemy number one when she returned. But what’s all this about Buddhist scriptures?