"This person thinks about all these things every day. I really..."
The woman with a sassy voice was almost rude, but finally she managed to endure it a little bit and asked angrily: "Sister, have you suffered any grievances in the palace? I have heard from the informant that His Highness has many ways of doing things, but you..."
"Sister, you and I have been worried about being wronged since we were little. Don't worry, maybe he played too hard a few days ago and tasted the freshness of that little girl Chi Hanqing, but don't worry , According to my understanding of the girl Chi Hanqing, she would rather die than give birth to a prince for His Highness. Since there is no threat, just take your time, there is no need to rush this matter."
"That's the best. Those palace maids usually..."
"The palace maids have nothing to do with us. If I am happy, even if one of the palace maids gives birth to ten children, the status will not be enough. Besides, Tantai and the others are probably more concerned about the affairs of the palace maids than you are. I only wish that your highness would always be like this!" "
Xiao Hongdou didn't react for a while, she just felt that the amount of information was too much, and she was afraid that it was something she shouldn't hear.
She turned around and wanted to walk away quickly, but she didn't pay attention to her step. In her panic, the corner of her clothes got hung on the wooden frame next to her!
"Snapped!"
There was a sound like breaking glass!
There was a crystal box placed on the wooden shelf, with a piece of catechu inside. It had been broken into four or five pieces, and was lying on the wooden floor together with crystal fragments all over the floor.
"who!"
The man's voice came from far away in the building.
"Is there anyone?"
At the same time, the two people in the cabinet also interrupted their conversation in shock.
Xiao Hongdou was anxious. If someone in the room found out, she would probably...
She didn't hesitate, squatted down, picked up the four or five pieces of broken tea cakes, and walked quickly in the direction of the waiter's voice.
"Man! I was choosing tea over there just now, and I accidentally broke this crystal box. How do you think I'll pay for it..."
Xiao Hongdou raised her hand and pointed, and the clerk looked at her up and down: "But there are other things you need..."
"No, no, if other structures collapsed, there wouldn't be such a little movement."
She waved her hand anxiously, forced a smile, and took out her small purse with one free hand: "Look, you can take these tea cakes. I will pay for the crystal box..."
Before she could finish speaking, the waiter's voice rose an octave higher: "You're kidding! All the waiters in our building are masters. If your cake is broken, who are you selling it to?"
Xiao Hongdou was stunned and gritted his teeth: "Then, tell me the number!"
The other party lowered his head to look at the tea cake and sneered: "Okay, the cake you are holding is an 'Iceland' two-pound cake specially picked from a tree that has been around for seventy years. The regular price is twenty gold dollars, which is not much." , do you see?"
Twenty gold dollars!
Xiao Hongdou was stunned.
A hundred coppers are silver, and a hundred silvers are gold.
She received half a year's monthly payment from Yingchun Palace, which added up to about four gold dollars. There was no place to use the money on weekdays, so these less than four gold dollars were the actual monthly payment.
In addition, his father gave him two gold yuan before entering the palace, and apart from spending some money on making the palace maid's clothes, the total savings in Xiao Hongdou's hands now are about more than five gold yuan.
This is already a lot.
Besides, the palace maid uniform must be made. If you don’t have enough money to afford it, just deduct it from the previous month’s monthly payment. In short, you won’t be able to save anything.
Five gold dollars, this was a huge amount of money for Xiao Hongdou, but the tea cake in her arms was not even half a piece.
Not to mention her, even if her father teaches, he can hardly make a living of 20 gold yuan a year, which requires buying rice, noodles, tailoring and medical treatment.
This is just a piece of tea for drinking!
"This tea...I..."
She was anxious, and she could clearly hear the approaching footsteps coming from behind her, getting faster and faster!
Xiao Hongdou said in her heart: "I bought this for my master. I don't have that much money at the moment. I'll wait until I ask my master to pay for it!"
She didn't dare say that she was a palace maid and she was serving the emperor.
The conversation she just heard was related to His Highness, how dare she say it!
If she fails to leave this place and people find out that she is related to His Highness, which will harm His Highness, I am afraid that she will suffer even more.
She had learned in the palace that there were many things that she should not and did not need to know.
It’s rare to be confused!
The waiter shook his head when he heard this. He didn't doubt Xiao Hongdou's words. After all, a little girl like her had a pretty face, but her clothes were not of high quality. It was impossible for her to buy the tea cakes herself. It was indeed like Which master's maid is she?
But if he just lets her go, then when her master changes his mind and doesn't want it anymore, she won't be able to afford the broken tea.
"How much money do you have on you?" He raised his eyebrows.
Xiao Hongdou stamped her feet anxiously and threw her small purse over: "Is the money I have given you enough?"
"One, two...it's only five gold dollars, girl, this is really difficult..."
The clerk also wanted to facilitate this matter. After all, even if he sold a cake of tea, the performance would still be attributed to him.
He rolled his eyes and pointed at Xiaohongdou's chest: "Why don't you leave this at our teahouse and pick it up when the time comes?"
What hangs there is a jade plaque the size of a leaf. The carving on it is quite exquisite, but the material is not very good. It is made of common water-breaking jade material.
"This is my dad..."
Xiao Hongdou swallowed half of her words, gritted her teeth, raised her hand and pulled hard, breaking the lanyard.
"Please be sure to keep it, I will definitely come back to replenish the money!"
After saying this, she ran away, almost rushing out of the teahouse.
The clerk looked at Xiao Hongdou's leaving figure, weighed the purse in his hand, looked at the small jade token again, shook his head, and laughed disdainfully.
"Little girl, if you dare not come back and make up the money..."
Before he could finish talking to himself, a pair of big hands suddenly pressed on his shoulders.
Turning his head, he saw an extremely tall and thin masked man standing behind him - this masked man was so tall and thin that he looked like a dead branch in winter or a mantis in the grass. He was so tall that he could almost touch him. On the top of this floor, he was hunched over and so thin that he seemed to have lost his human form and was skinny and bones.
What’s even more frightening is that he also has an unsheathed long knife on his waist!
"What... happened just now..."
The tall, thin, masked man squeezed out a few hoarse and difficult sounds from his throat. If you didn't listen carefully, it would be difficult to tell the difference between this and the crow of a dying crow.
"S-Sir, just now, a maid came to buy tea and knocked down the crystal cabinet. That's it!"
The boy jumped up and stood up straight.
"Buy...tea..."
An unpleasant murmur came from under the visor of the tall, thin man. He stood there and stared for a long time, then finally turned around and walked back to the compartment where he was originally guarding.
