Part 1 - Yu Nu Jiao / Jade Slave / Enslaved By Love

Chapter 064 Finding Faults

The next day, Xie Yun's errand changed. Cai Tianxi asked her to mop the floor, which was the hardest and most tiring job. Xiuxiu got anxious when she heard it: "Eunuch Cai, is the arrangement wrong?"

Cai Tianxi glanced at them, shook his head and left. Xiuxiu was about to catch up when she was stopped by a little palace maid.

"Eunuch Cai told you to mop the floor. We all heard it. What else do you want to ask?"

"But how can you let Aunt do such a dirty and tiring job?"

The little maid curled her lips: "Others can do it, why can't she?"

"You!"

Xie Yun stopped Xiuxiu who was about to speak: "It's okay. There are all kinds of tasks to do. Let's go."

Xiuxiu was a little anxious: "It's different. You have to kneel down to mop the floor. My knees are swollen after a day. I have to wash the handkerchief. Aunt, you still have injuries on your hands..."

Xie Yun rubbed her head: "It's okay."

Cai Tianxi treated her well for so many days. There was no reason for him to change his mind suddenly, unless someone instructed him to do so.

She lowered her eyes and looked at her hands. Suddenly, she remembered that Yin Ji had asked about the injuries on her hands before, but he probably forgot about it now.

That's all.

She took the wooden basin and started to clean the outer hall. It was really tiring. After cleaning the outer hall, she was out of breath and her knees hurt so much that she had to sit on the ground to rest for a while. Maybe she was too unfamiliar with it. When she finished cleaning the outer hall, it was already noon and lunch time had passed.

It was common for ordinary palace servants to go hungry. The kitchen was not the imperial kitchen, and no food would be left for people. Even if she went there at this time, there would probably be nothing.

She didn't plan to go in vain. She just chose a secluded corner to sit down and rubbed her knees slowly. At this time, Xiuxiu sneaked in with a food box and pulled her to the corner behind the wind: "Aunt, eat quickly, I ran all the way here, it's still hot."

They are now the lowest-ranking palace servants. The meals are usually a vegetarian dish and a plate of pickles, but in the food box Xiuxiu carried, there were two bowls of hot minced meat noodles.

It was obvious that she spent money.

"Aunt, please eat quickly."

Xie Yun was somewhat touched, but there were some things she had never said, so she just nodded and picked up a lot of the minced meat in the bowl and gave it to Xiuxiu.

"Ah, aunt, don't give it to me. This is not the past. If you give it to me, you won't have enough to eat."

Xiuxiu was growing up. She couldn't eat enough according to the palace servants' rations on weekdays. She had to eat more with Xie Yun every time. She probably didn't know this before, but now that Xie Yun was unable to take care of her, she realized it.

Xie Yun rubbed her head: "I'm not hungry, please eat quickly."

Xiuxiu seemed to want to say something, but Xie Yun scolded her with a stern face. Then she shut up aggrievedly and lowered her head to eat noodles.

Xie Yun then went to eat her own food. She didn't feel it when she picked up the sauce for Xiuxiu just now, but now she picked up the noodles and realized that her hands were shaking.

Mopping the floor is indeed a very hard job.

She took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and clenched the chopsticks in her hand, but she didn't expect to use too much force, and the chopsticks fell to the ground with a "snap".

Yin Ji left with a flick of his sleeves. Cai Tianxi looked at the two people in the distance, and then at Yin Ji who was walking farther and farther away. He still caught up with his master: "Your Majesty, I am too careless. Miss Xie Yun has never done this kind of work before. I will change her job later."

Yin Ji paused: "What do you want to change? If she really can't stand it, why should she wait for you to be kind?"

Cai Tianxi knew what he was angry about, but he didn't dare to say anything. He could only respond awkwardly and followed him to the imperial study. But he was impatiently driven away halfway: "I don't need you to serve me, don't come to bother me."

Cai Tianxi thought that this should be a chance for him to persuade Xie Yun, so he didn't bother and turned back to Qianyuan Palace. In just a quarter of an hour, Xie Yun had finished her meal and took the wooden basin to wipe the inner hall.

He laughed guiltily: "Miss Xie Yun, are you working?"

Xie Yun looked up at him and nodded as a greeting: "Does Eunuch Cai have any instructions?"

"No, no, how can I trouble you with anything? I just want to talk to you."

He squatted down beside Xie Yun: "You can see that the life of the palace servants is not easy. Why should we make it difficult for ourselves? He is the emperor. It is not shameful for you to admit your mistakes and be submissive to him. You will be laughed at if you are so stubborn."

Xie Yun grabbed the rag in her hand and suddenly increased the force of wiping the floor: "I remember what the eunuch said. I still have a lot of work to do. Please make way."

Cai Tianxi was a little helpless. He knew Xie Yun's stubbornness when he was locked up in the side hall before. He knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless. He could only sigh and leave. But when he went out, he saw Yin Ji, who was supposed to be in the imperial study, standing outside the door.

"Emperor..."

"Get down."

Cai Tianxi didn't dare to say a word and walked away in disgrace.

Xie Yun didn't notice anything. She wiped it hard for a while, and her hands couldn't hold it anymore. Qianyuan Palace was too big, and the short rest just now didn't relieve her fatigue. Now her hands were still shaking violently.

She had to stop and rest for a while. Seeing that she didn't do anything, her hands were shaking. She sighed helplessly.

Suddenly, a sneer came from her ear: "Is this how you work?"

This voice...

Xie Yun looked over and saw that it was Yin Ji. She didn't know when he returned to Qianyuan Palace.

She subconsciously wanted to hide, but she took a step back before she realized that there was nowhere to hide here. She could only stand up and salute.

But Yin Ji still understood her subconscious reaction just now. His face, which was not good to begin with, became even colder and harder. He did not shout, but let Xie Yun maintain that awkward posture. His eyes swept across her whitened hands, and then he said coldly: "If you can't even mop the floor, I will send you back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to learn the rules again."

Xie Yun pursed her lips. She didn't know how much of Yin Ji's words were threatening and how much was serious, but she knew clearly that servants sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs would not have a good end.

"Your servant did a good job."

Yin Ji snorted without comment. Xie Yun didn't say anything else. She knelt on the ground and wiped it again bit by bit. Suddenly, a hand reached out, touched the ground, picked up a little dust and handed it to her: "Is this what you wiped? Wipe it again."

Xie Yun's body stiffened, and she tightly grasped the rag again, and the dirty water flowed out through her fingers.

Yin Ji narrowed his eyes: "What? Are you not convinced?"

Xie Yun bit her lips tightly until a bloody smell spread in her mouth, and then she forced herself to be calm and said: "I dare not."

She lowered her head to wipe the inner hall again, but the wooden basin was suddenly kicked over. Yin Ji's anger almost condensed into substance, and he said angrily: "Get out, I'm annoyed when I see you."

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