Chapter 171: The Price of Getting Lost

Pouting, Wen Rou didn't really plan to send him out of the palace, so he immediately turned around and planned to go back.

However......

She just stared at Xiao Jingtang's back, and she didn't pay attention to how the road was going, but now when she saw the staggered palace roads in front of her, she found a serious question.

She's the one who doesn't know the way!

The palace is very large, and there are no people around it at any time, at least now Wen Rou doesn't even see a ghost. The walls of the palace are so high that it feels like a labyrinth inside, and you don't know where it is.

Tried to walk in the direction behind for a while, met a fork in the road, gentle and a little confused, squatted down and thought for a long time, seeing that no one had come, she simply adopted a scientific method: "Where the soldiers will be pointed is the way I want to go, ha!"

chose a direction, and Gentle left without hesitation.

Well, there are always people in the palace, even if you get lost for a while, as long as you insist on going in one direction, you can always find someone, and you can ask when the time comes.

The sky was already bright, and Wen Wen turned right when he met the fork, and he had been turning in the palace road for an hour, so he really had no strength, so he simply leaned against the corner of the wall to rest, and waited for someone to find out.

"The palace maid over there, which palace dares to be lazy here?" Someone rang out, and when she heard it gently, she instantly jumped up and looked at the person with tears streaming down her face.

A fierce grandmother was staring at her, followed by a little palace maid, whose expression was not very friendly.

After a slight pause, he stood gently against the wall: "I...... The slave maid is from the Yushu Palace, and she accidentally got lost, can Mama tell me how to walk back?"

"Yushu Palace?" As soon as she heard the name of this palace, the grandmother's expression became even more ugly: "Lost?"

“...... Oh, yes. ”

"Who are you fooling?" The little palace maid behind snorted coldly: "Yushu Palace is far away from here." No matter how lost you are, you can't get lost here, I think you escaped from the Huanyi Bureau, right?"

Gently shook his head: "I went to the imperial study with Concubine Shu Niangniang to see the emperor in the morning, and then sent Zhuang Yuanlang out of the palace and walked...... I got separated from people and came here. ”

"You?" Mama frowned and sneered: "Everyone knows that Concubine Niangniang is following her to pick green, how can you go to the imperial study with Niangniang?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the palace maid behind him, and the two of them turned left and right, blocking the gentleness in an instant.

This explanation can't be explained, and she can't help but cry and laugh gently: "You escort me back to Shuyu Palace first, and then don't you know everything? If I lie, you will hand me over to Concubine Shuniang to deal with!"

"Concubine Niangniang?" The grandmother smiled: "It is the queen mother who is in charge of this palace, and if you want to dispose of it, you should also send it to Fengwu Palace." But there have been a lot of things in the palace recently, and Niangniang has no time to take care of your little palace maid's affairs, so you should go back to the Huanyi Bureau with us!"

Gentle glaring, stunned, the two of them had already caught her.

"Hey, no, you can't do this!" was dragged away, gentle and a little anxious: "Everyone is from the palace, and I haven't made any mistakes, can't you send me back to the Yuyu Palace to talk about it?"

"Looking for you?" The little palace maid glanced at her: "I look at you like a new person entering the palace, how big is this palace, can you see the edge by yourself?"

Every day someone in the palace dies somewhere, and no one knows about it, and no one pays attention to it. This big palace is not a place where you care about where the palace maids go.

There was a chill in his heart, and Gentleness suddenly reacted and glanced at these two people.

If it was someone from Concubine Shu's side, she would definitely send her back to the Jade Palace without saying a word, wouldn't she be so unlucky, and the person she met happened to be someone from the queen's side, right?

gasped, gently sullen and didn't dare to say anything more, followed the two people through the palace road, and turned around to the door of the courtyard with a "raccoon" plaque.

"Hey, Mama, I'm here to bring you someone. As soon as she pushed Wen Rou in, the grandmother shouted inside: "It just so happens that there are not enough people in winter, so Mama will use her." This girl isn't very honest, don't let her slip away. ”

Stumbling two steps, Wen Rou almost sat on the ground, looked up, this yard is quite big, hundreds of clothes are hung, two wells next to it, a circle of palace maids around the laundry pool, washing clothes.

A grandmother came out of the room and answered, and looked at her gently: "You go and help wash the clothes of the little masters." ”

“...... Be. ”

It's useless to resist, the grandmother has already said that, and this happy grandmother will definitely not believe her and let her go.

Gritting his teeth, he gently rolled up his sleeves and took the clothes-pounding mallet and clothes handed over by the maid next to him, looked left and right, and found a place where there were many people and squatted down to wash.

In the cold winter, the well water is bitterly cold, and the palace maids here have no ruddy color on their faces, and they are doing the work in their hands expressionlessly.

Touching the water, he gasped gently, pinched his clothes with two fingers and stirred them in the water, and then carried them to the clothes pounding table next to him and hammered them indiscriminately.

A group of palace maids paused and looked at her in surprise.

"Eh, isn't that right?" he smiled and said softly and kindly, "I haven't washed my clothes." ”

"Which palace did you drive out?" Someone finally spoke, and said softly and hurriedly: "I am from Yushu Palace, I was not kicked out, I just got lost and was forced to come here." ”

The palace maid who spoke looked at her twice, frowned and muttered, "No wonder, Yushu Palace." ”

Gently raised her eyes, took a closer look at her face, memorized her facial features, and then continued to bow her head and tinker with her clothes.

Huanyi Bureau also has lunch, gentle and hungry, seeing cabbage and tofu also feel fragrant, and eat a bowl. The palace maid next to her couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing: "You really don't look like a palace maid." ”

It was this palace maid who said with a gentle smile: "Originally, I wasn't a palace maid, but the situation forced it." Hey, what do you call this sister?"

"I, call me Rong'er. ”

The people around him finished eating and went to rest, and Wen Rou hurriedly grabbed this Rong'er and asked in a low voice, "Sister Rong'er, do you know why I was stuffed here?"

Rong'er pursed her lips, sighed, looked around, and dragged her to a corner where no one was: "Did you accidentally bump into any secrets?"

Shaking her head gently: "I just bumped into a fierce mother." ”

“...... That's right. With a wry smile, Rong'er said, "No matter what, don't think too much about coming in, you can't get out." ”

Gentle glare: "Why?"

"I've been here for over a year now. Rong'er lowered her eyes: "A year ago, I was also a member of the Yushu Palace. ”