The Self-cultivation of a Salted Fish Concubine

Chapter 200 "She and I are enemies"

Yueyaer laughed: "Sister Xiaoshu will definitely be dissatisfied when she hears this. She will have to prove her skills to the master."

Xiao Shu was able to be directly assigned to Xie Run's room as a second-class maid. One reason was that her father and mother were elders in the mansion, and the other was that she had excellent embroidery skills.

The flowers she embroidered were lifelike, and when viewed from different angles, it looked like the flowers were blooming at different angles.

When she first came to serve Xie Run, she did not show her ability.

As time went by, she produced more and more embroidery works, and everyone admired her very much.

Xie Run even muttered to himself.

In modern times, Xiao Shu could definitely become a master of intangible cultural heritage.

Time flies by while we chat and laugh.

After lunch, Xie Run would practice calligraphy in the study.

She has not slacked off in the past two years and her handwriting has improved greatly.

The last time I wrote a letter home, I received some praise.

Dan Tao placed a cup of tea aside and said, "Master, you said that Concubine Fang was asking for favors in the middle of the night, but she was a little restless?"

Xie Run didn't even frown as he wrote a line of words in one breath, and admired it narcissistically for a while.

After a while, he answered Dan Tao's question: "It's more than just being unable to sit still. I'm afraid she's already starting to get scared."

"In order to marry a new concubine, Prince An's Mansion demoted the favored Concubine Wu to a concubine."

"We're also going to have a new concubine coming to our mansion, and she just made a mistake. The prince even said that if she can't take good care of the child, she will be demoted... How can she not panic?"

Xie Run was an outsider and could calmly analyze whether King Jing was joking or telling the truth.

Fang Yuaner is the person involved and is in the situation, so she is easily affected by her emotions.

Xie Run laughed and said, "It's just that she underestimated the prince!"

King Jing was a man with strong self-esteem and principles.

He looked down on the emperor for not following the rules, so he deliberately filled the two concubine quotas before the emperor gave one to another, in order to disgust the emperor.

King Jing also expressed his disapproval of what King Hou An did, both in words and deeds.

With his personality, even if he was really dissatisfied with Fang Yuan'er and wanted to demote her to a concubine, he would not do it now, but would have to wait until the new concubine came in.

In this way, others would not say that King Jing did something flattering in order to please the emperor.

People who care about their reputation generally don't do things in an ugly way.

Just as he was saying this, a little girl suddenly came in to report.

"Master, the prince suddenly reprimanded Concubine Fang, saying that the servants of Songya Courtyard were unruly and bullying."

"The prince said that Concubine Fang didn't know how to discipline people, and asked her to reflect on her mistakes behind closed doors. He also fined her three months' salary."

Xie Run was a little surprised. "Why did the prince suddenly scold Concubine Fang?"

Xie Run suddenly thought of what Concubine Lu had just said.

The little girl had already said, "It was said that Concubine Fang's maid bullied Concubine Jiang's maid on the road last night. Concubine Jiang was not convinced, so she took the maid to complain to the prince."

Xie Run was stunned for a moment. "Why do I remember Concubine Lu saying that Fang Yuan'er's maid was pushed and dropped the soup bowl?"

Jiang Baobao is still the same Jiang Baobao.

She, a maidservant of a concubine, had a conflict with a maidservant of a side concubine and smashed the other person's soup bowl, and she actually went to complain first?!

What’s even more outrageous is that she won the lawsuit!

King Jing even sent someone to reprimand Fang Yuaner for such a small matter.

As Xie Run was thinking about it, he suddenly laughed.

Dan Tao looked at her in confusion, "Master, what are you laughing at?"

Is there anything funny about this?

Could it be that the master was happy when he heard that Concubine Fang was punished?

Xie Run laughed and shook his head: "I laugh at the prince for being so mean."

"He's looking for an excuse to hit Fang Yuaner at a time like this. I'm afraid he's going to scare her to death."

In fact, King Jing’s thoughts are easy to guess.

He didn't want to change Fang Yuaner's position for the time being.

But Fang Yuaner made a mistake, and he couldn't help but punish her.

I simply found another excuse to scare Fang Yuaner and suppress her arrogance at the same time.

Dan Tao then remembered that they had just said that Concubine Fang was afraid that Prince Jing would imitate Prince An's behavior, and the next moment the prince scolded Concubine Fang.

It seemed as if he was deliberately trying to scare Concubine Fang.

Dan Tao whispered, "Some time ago, Concubine Fang was in high spirits and became a bit arrogant and spoiled, so she dared to drug the young master."

"Even with irrefutable evidence, she turned the tables and blamed you... Now that Your Highness has reprimanded her and quelled her arrogance, we servants feel relieved."

Xie Run paused, then suddenly smiled and said, "Actually... I'm quite happy to hear that."

She is not the prime minister, so she can't really be so conceited.

Xie Run was also very angry when Fang Yuaner questioned her angrily in Chunshan Court that day.

However, King Jing had already punished her, and Xie Run couldn't bear to hold on to it, so she swallowed her anger.

Now that she has the chance to watch Fang Yuaner's play, she is naturally looking forward to it.

Xie Run thought for a moment and said to Dan Tao, "Ask the kitchen to make a bowl of soup. When the snow stops, send someone to deliver it to the prince."

Dan Tao: "Master, what kind of soup do you want to make?"

"I don't know. Let the cook make something."

Delivering soup is not the point; the point is to seek favor from King Jing.

It doesn’t matter if the invitation fails. If King Jing is invited to Chunshan Courtyard, wouldn’t that be a slap in Fang Yuaner’s face?

Since King Jing had already spoken out to punish Fang Yuaner, it was impossible for him not to know why Fang Yuaner's maid went out so late at night.

Dan Tao guessed her master's plan and chuckled, "Concubine Fang sent someone to win his favor, but the maid ended up dropping the soup bowl and getting scolded by the prince."

"If the master succeeds in his request for favor, everyone in the palace will probably know who the prince favors more!"

"I wonder if Concubine Fang will be so angry that she'll throw things around in Songya Courtyard."

Fang Yuaner's habit of throwing things when she's angry has spread throughout Prince Jing's mansion.

Just as she finished speaking, Dan Tao continued, "But doesn't the master always dislike standing out, fearing that he would be made a target?"

"Silly Dantao." Xie Run chuckled softly, "You usually don't stand out, but if you get angry and keep silent, this isn't just pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, this is becoming a pig yourself."

"The prince has already convicted her of giving Tao Tao the drug Polygonum multiflorum. She and I are enemies."

"I specialize in slapping my enemies in the face. People just think I'm angry, not showing off or being arrogant."

"If there really are people who think I'm showing off because of this, I'm afraid they won't let me go no matter how harmless I pretend to be."