Quick Transmigration: The Day I Blew Up My Housemate

1.7 Servant of the Cold Palace (7)

As soon as Feng Mian arrived, she saw the concubine rubbing her temple with the pad of her fingers. She did not look one bit like a concubine eager to receive the emperor's favour.

"You're here." Concubine Zhou acknowledged her arrival without looking at her.

Maids and eunuchs clatter around like cockroaches, trying to get everything ready before the emperor arrives. An incense stick was lit at the centre of the room making the smell of oak wood and jasmine pervasive.

"All of you, retreat!" Concubine Zhou waved her hand.

Once everyone had left, Concubine Zhou gestured for her to come. "Wan Mei, come sit next to bengong."

Feng Mian sat her bottom comfortably on the padded seat, jingling a bit from left to right. She missed her comfortable sofa at home.

Concubine Zhou took off the golden nail guards from one of her hands so she could pinch Feng Mian's chin. She scrutinised the face of the young maid before her for some time.

"You are quite pretty." Although only fourteen, Wan Mei had the visages of a blossoming beauty.

"Un, the DNA of my parents are pretty good." The original host was really not too bad looking.

Concubine Zhou couldn't understand half of the sentence Feng Mian spoke but didn't indulge the conversation.

"Bengong has said that this one will repay you for last month's matter. Today, bengong is not feeling well and is unable to serve the emperor efficiently. How would you... like to serve the emperor tonight, Wan Mei?

System 555 popped out instantly. "Feng Mian, this old leopard is trying to pimp you out! Peh! Want an old cow to graze on daddy's tender grass? Over this daddy's dead body!"

System 555: "Feng Mian, smack this old hag black and blue for me!"

"......"

Feng Mian immediately dropped to her knees. She summoned all of her acting skills to be put to play. And like a showerhead, her eyes began to spray water on cue.

"Niangniang! This servant knows that this one is lacking. But the only wish this servant has ever had is to serve niangniang and the little prince well! Begging niangniang to let this servant stay at your side!"

Feng Mian: "How was that? Do I look like a split image of the beauty Diaochan shedding tears?"

System 555: "You look like Meng Guang."

Concubine Zhou frowned. "It is an honour to serve the emperor. This is a once in a lifetime chance that many ladies would fight for. Your status will also be raised considerably, there is also a chance of promotion. You won't need to serve others anymore."

By this time, Feng Mian was so absorbed in her role that mucus had fallen voluntarily. Concubine Zhou felt as if she was doing something blasphemous as those wide apricot eyes looked up at her.

"Don't say that niangniang! This servant has lived under niangniang's roof for so many years. Niangniang's life-saving grace, this servant will remember until my teeth fall out! Nubi doesn't want status nor wealth, this one just wants to serve niangniang just like the time at the Cold Palace."

"Remember? When niangniang was sick with fever, this servant stripped niangniang naked and stayed awake with you all night to wash down your sweat. When niangniang got injured from falling, this servant looked into the deep forest for medicinal herbs all day. This servant even applied the herbs using this one's saliva. Even that time when the servants didn't deliver a chamber pot to the Cold Palace, it was this servant who dug out a trench in the backyard so niangniang won't have to hold it in."