last night.

Shen Guidi didn't sleep well.

After she fell asleep, He Qingchen held her in his arms.

The two of them were tightly intertwined in a position that made her body extremely tense. In addition, she had many things on her mind, which made her very irritable. She became more and more unable to sleep. It was not until the night watchman had beaten the third watch drum that she fell into a drowsy sleep.

When I woke up in the morning, He Qingchen was no longer by the bed.

Shen Guicui reached out and touched the place where he had lain last night. The quilt and pillow were cold. It was obvious that he had gotten up very early.

She stared at it for a few seconds.

Then he pulled the rope beside the bed, and the bedbell rang crisply. However, it was quiet outside the door and no one came.

She was silent.

He got up from under the quilt and called for someone outside the door: "Someone come..."

No one answered from outside.

If you listen carefully, you can hear someone somewhere in the yard, cracking melon seeds and mumbling softly.

Shen Guidi's face turned cold.

She slowly walked to the door, opened it herself, and swept her eyes towards the corner where the sound was heard.

That is a leisure corner on the northwest side of Fufengyuan.

There is an octagonal pavilion inside. On the side of the pavilion are some stone chairs built along the curve of the pavilion. Under the pavilion is a small ditch that has been hollowed out, and a few red koi are raised in the ditch.

It is a place where you can relax and cool off when it is hot in summer.

At this moment, two maids were sitting on a stone chair, playing with the koi with a plate of snacks in their hands.

Suddenly, their bodies trembled.

A maid named Cai Ke frowned and said to her, "Cai Yue, don't you think it's a little cold today?"

That being said, it seems unlikely.

It's understandable that it's cool at night, but it's almost dawn now and the sun is slowly rising in the west, so why is it getting colder?

The maid named Caiyue stopped playing with the koi and subconsciously looked outside the pavilion, only to meet Shen Guidi, who was standing at the door with an indifferent look on his face.

She stood up suddenly, the plate in her hand fell to the ground, and looked at Shen Guidi in astonishment: "Aunt, the girl is awake?"

Shen Guidi is Lin Huaian's eldest daughter, but she was sent to the countryside since she was young, so not many people know her.

The people in the mansion had always believed that the other illegitimate girl was the eldest daughter of the Lin family, and Lin Qingran was the second daughter. However, after Shen Guidi was brought back to the Lin family, neither Lin Huaian nor Mrs. Lin specifically explained her ranking among the sisters.

He even randomly pointed to a nanny and settled her down.

Therefore, after returning to Beijing for a year, she rarely appeared in public. The servants of the Lin family didn't know what to call her, and they all called her "girl".

When they saw her this time, they subconsciously called her as they did before.

Cai Ke was startled by her action. She glared at Cai Yue and turned sideways to look in the direction Cai Yue was looking while scolding: "Look at you, you are so impetuous. When you serve the prince in the future..."

After seeing clearly who was leaning against the door frame, the rest of her words were choked in her throat.

Shen Guiyi looked them up and down, then looked away indifferently, and called out to a maid sweeping the floor on the other side of the yard, "Hey, the one sweeping the floor, you, come here."

Caiyue and the other person stammered, wanting to explain something.

Seeing that Shen Guidi had no intention of listening, the two of them looked at each other, lowered their heads, and stood obediently, not daring to move.

A little maid who was grunting and sweeping the fallen leaves in the yard heard the sound and looked around panically, thinking she had heard it wrong. In this yard, apart from the two maids who came with the princess' dowry, where else were the other women?

She withdrew her eyes and continued to sweep the floor diligently.

Shen Guidi smiled and said, "The one sweeping the floor."

The little maid looked up in astonishment, looked towards the door, pointed at herself, and asked stupidly, "Princess, are you calling me?"

"Well, come here for a moment."

The maid was startled for a moment, and hurriedly put the broom down at the foot of the wall. She lowered her head, trotted to Shen Guidi, and bowed carefully: "Your servant, pays respect to the princess."

"What's your name?"

"I am the sixth child in my family, so everyone in my family calls me Xiaoliu." The little maid's head drooped lower and lower, as if she was a little disappointed because of her name, but she still had to muster up the courage to mention it.

Shen Guiyi frowned and murmured, "Xiao Liu?"

"Yes."

"Okay. Go get some water for me and help me wash up." Shen Guidi gave an indifferent instruction and turned back to the house.

Xiaoliu stood there in a daze. He caught a glimpse of two people in the pavilion out of the corner of his eye and became even more confused.

The two people in the pavilion are the maids brought by the princess from her mother's home, right?

They all wore brocade skirts and gold hairpins.

The princess didn't ask them to serve because she felt sorry for them and was afraid that they were unfamiliar with the world and might get bumped into something, right?

The princess is so kind to them.

Xiaoliu couldn't help but think more, with envy in his eyes.

Inside the room, Shen Guidi saw that she didn't move, so he urged her calmly, "What are you standing there for? Why don't you go?"

Xiaoliu said "Oh" and ran away quickly.

Caiyue and the other two felt relieved when they saw this. They did not dare to delay and hurried into the house. One of them went to the closet to find the princess's clothes, and the other went to get her dressing box.

Xiaoliu fetched some water and came quickly.

When Shen Guidi's hand touched the water, his movements paused.

Her face looked a little colder. She washed up without saying a word, then sat in front of the dressing table and let Caiyue and the others put on makeup and comb her hair.

"Today, you should wear a flower crown. The prince and the princess will go to the palace in a while."

Cai Yue lowered her eyes, a hint of contempt flashed across them, but she said "yes" respectfully on her face.

Shen Guidi could see her expression through the mirror on the dressing table.

She didn't say anything, but she knew that Caiyue and the other girl were specially chosen by Madam Lin for Lin Qingran as a dowry. They were supposed to be buried alive with the deceased, and she still remembered clearly how they looked like they had lost their parents.

Now they are all dressed up.

Having ambition is not a bad thing. Since they have been included in the dowry, it is only a matter of time before they become the master's concubines. Compared to being an ordinary person's concubine, being a prince's concubine is naturally more promising.

If they only had this ambition, she wouldn't mind fulfilling it.

I just don't know if they are smart enough.

Shen Guidi lowered his eyes and thought.

After Caiyue had tied her hair up, she was about to take the hairpin from the dressing table. However, after seeing the things in the box, her hands paused, and for a moment she didn't know which one to choose.

The dressing table was empty.

There were only a few extremely cheap silver hairpins placed there carelessly, as if silently mocking Shen Guidi, saying that she was a worthless concubine's daughter, and even if she became a princess, she could not get rid of the cheap smell on her body.

Of course Shen Guidi knew whose masterpiece this was.

The dressing box was sent by Mrs. Lin. How could she possibly give her any good jewelry?

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