The Story of Yanxi Palace, Chapter 10: Suppression

   The Story of Yanxi Palace《延禧攻略》Yanxi Gonglue

   The Story of Yanxi Palace, Chapter 10: Suppression

   “Go on.” Wei Yingluo raised her hand and pointed to the door of the room and said, “I'll wait for you here, go on.”

   The door to the room was open, the night breeze whistled in from outside and a group of palace maids who had just been screaming for a complaint were stuck to the floor like fish glue under their feet.

   “Do you really think we wouldn't dare?” Jinxiu said to the palace maids left and right, “Go!”

   But this time no one answered to her.

   The crowd was jealous of Wei Yingluo but more than jealousy, it was scorn.

   After all, just a few hours earlier, a palace maid had been expelled because of her and had left the palace before the sun had set, clutching a blue cloth bundle and crying, never to set foot in the palace gates again for the rest of her life.

   Who wants to follow in her footsteps?

   Wei Yingluo's gaze swept over the faces of the group one by one, sneering in her heart but a group of wallflowers, whichever side the wind is strong, they fall on Jinxiu's side when Jinxiu is strong and fall on her side when they find her difficult.

   With her eyes back on Jinxiu's face, Wei Yingluo said lightly: “Do you think I'm making a name for myself? I was just helping Jixiang, you could have helped her too, all of you could have helped her, only none of you chose to do so, so in the end it was me who got the praise, you only remember that I, Manager Wu, praised me, why don't you reflect on the fact that you didn't do anything?”

   “How can you be justified in helping someone cheat?” Jinxiu sneered back and said, “I was kind enough not to expose you on the spot, you didn't embroider any peonies, Jixiang embroidered a goldfish earlier ...”

   “That's enough!” Wei Yingluo cut her off and said coldly, “I don't care to discuss this with you anymore, remember, I, Wei Yingluo, am a man who will return a foot of respect to you for what you have done to me today. All right, go, all of you, go to Gugu's!

   “You!” Jinxiu was already a little scared in her heart but her mouth was still unforgiving and she said in a stern voice, “Do you really think I wouldn't dare?”

   But then she saw Wei Yingluo laugh and while laughing, she walked towards Jinxiu.

   “You, what do you want to do?” Jinxiu was so frightened by her that she took a few steps back and when her arm was taken by her, she couldn't help but struggle and said, “What are you doing? Where are you taking me?”

   “Take you to see Gugu, ah.” Wei Yingluo smiled like a flower and pulled her towards the door saying, “Any later and I'm afraid Gugu will be asleep.”

   She thought Wei Yingluo was just trying to be brave but she didn't know that she actually dared to do it.

   “Afraid? Aren't you the one who should be afraid?” Wei Yingluo said with a smile, “Remember how that maid was thrown out before? ''Zhuzi hates stupid things that make things worse''--did you forget that just after Manager Wu said it?

   Jinxiu shivered at her words and the sorrowful back of the man clutching a blue cloth bundle, leaving the palace in tears under the setting sun, came back to her again.

   “I didn't do anything wrong, it was all your fault tonight, everyone saw it ...” Jinxiu hurriedly said.

   “And then what?” Wei Yingluo looked at her with pity and said, “You think Gugu is so free to take her time to decide right and wrong for you! We are all living in the same room today but if anything happens, we will all be punished together and maybe even thrown out together, believe it or not?”

   “I, I don't believe ...” Jinxiu said with a weakness of tone.

   “If you don't believe me, then we'll try it now.” Wei Yingluo, however, smiled even more calmly and collectedly and tugged her by the arm to go outside.

   Jinxiu was terrified and subconsciously used her other hand to hug the pillar and refused to leave, the rest of the palace maids looked at each other for a while but also rushed over one by one, hugging their hands, hugging their waists and one hurriedly closed the door behind them and then advised with all sorts of words: “Yingluo, don't do that, it's so late, disturbing Miss  It's so late, disturbing Miss Gugu's rest, do you really want to die?

   “That's right, it's just a matter of a quilt, why bother going to the top?”

   “Hey, it was all Jinxiu's fault, Jinxiu, why don't you apologize to Yingluo and get it over with?”

   They were afraid that if things went as Wei Yingluo had said, they would make a big fuss and make everyone suffer together. Jinxiu's face turned red and white and she finally apologized to Wei Yingluo with a sigh of resentment: “I know I was wrong, Yingluo, let it go, I won't talk about it anymore.”

   “An apology and this didn't happen?” Wei Yingluo laughs, “Do you really think I'm that easy to get rid of?”

   Jinxiu felt so aggrieved that she couldn't hold back the tears in her eyes and screamed, “So, what else do you want, a few slaps? Fine, go ahead ...”

   Dun Dun Dun!

   A few heavy pounds on the door interrupted her.

   “What's all the commotion in the middle of the night?” Fang Gugu's voice came through the door, “Open the door!”

   The palace maids were immediately frightened silly, their eyes all looking at Wei Yingluo, actually unconsciously taking her as the backbone, expecting her to give the crowd an idea.

   “Coming at once!” Wei Yingluo responded, then lowered her voice and said to the palace maids, “What are you waiting for, clean up the bucket and the water stains on the floor, I'll take care of the rest.”

   When they had finished, Wei Yingluo lifted her hand and loosened her bun, looking lazy as if she had just crawled out from under the blanket. She pulled open the door and said: “Gugu, what brings you here at this hour?

   “The noise is so loud that I can hear it from ten miles away, how can you make me sleep?” Fang Gugu came through the door and said with a sweeping gaze on the faces of the palace maids, “Tell me, what is all the noise about at this late hour when you are all awake?”

   “It's nothing.” Wei Yingluo said calmly, “It was me who just accidentally knocked over the teapot and wet the bedding on the bed and the group is helping me figure out what to do.”

   “How can you be so careless?” Fang Gugu frowned and she lectured, “Tomorrow you will take it out to dry yourself, tonight you will turn the bedding over and cover it.

   The palace maids hastily responded, “Yes!”

   With a clang, the door to the room slammed shut again.

   The palace maids inside the door breathed a sigh of relief in unison and after this exhalation, everyone was a bit disinterested and sleepiness followed and many of them crawled straight to their beds.

   Jinxiu, too, had wanted to give Wei Yingluo a hard time but in the end, she had almost given her face to be smacked...

   “Sooner or later, I'll have to show you.” Jinxiu thought to herself, when she suddenly saw a hand reaching out from the side and dragging her bedding away from the bed, she was taken aback and looked back at the other person and said, “Wei Yingluo, what are you doing with my bedding?”

   Wei Yingluo casually tossed a wet bedding to her and then repeated what Fang Gugu had said earlier, “Take it out to dry yourself tomorrow and turn it over tonight.”

   “You think so!” Jinxiu reached for her own bedding and said, “Give me back my quilt! Wait ... Where are you going?”

   Wei Yingluo did not resist at all and when Jinxiu asked for it, she let go and gave the quilt back to her, then went straight to the door and said, “I'll go and find Gugu.”

   The rest of the palace maids immediately disagreed and glared at Jinxiu saying, “Have you had enough?”

   “And you want to get us involved?”

   “Give her give her!”

   Jinxiu could do nothing about it, biting her lips with her teeth, blood almost oozing from her lips, reluctantly handed over the bedding in her hand and said, “Take it!”

   “Put it on the bed for me and make it up.” Wei Yingluo commanded lazily, standing with her arms folded.

   Do you take me for your maid? Jinxiu was so furious with her that her chest rose and fell for a long time before she reluctantly got out of bed, threw the bedding onto Wei Yingluo's bed and then flew back to her own bed, covering her head with the wet quilt, which was shaking slightly and wondering if she was secretly crying inside.

   Wei Yingluo also returned slowly to her bed, sweeping around out of the corner of her eye as a number of people hastily avoided her gaze.

   With Jinxiu as a good example, I believe these people will stop for a while and will not dare to bother her again.

   “Yingluo...” After the candle was extinguished, Jixiang leaned over her and whispered to her, biting her ear, saying, “You're so good.”

   “People are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden, if you want to not be bullied, sometimes you can only be hard hearted.” Wei Yingluo returned lazily.

   Jixiang nodded with seeming understanding, not knowing whether she had taken that in or not.

   After a short while, there was a soft snore in her ear, Wei Yingluo turned her eyes and saw that the little girl had already fallen asleep, she smiled helplessly and gathered the blanket for her, she was such a child, she was restless in her sleep, the blanket was slipping up to her waist, she was not afraid of catching a cold in the night.

   “I envy you.” She touched the other woman's face with a hint of doll fat, like she was touching her carefree self in the past.

   The Embroidery Workshop was too far from the Son of Heaven for her to see him, only the embroidery in her hands had the possibility of seeing him but what was the use of that, she had not come to dedicate herself to her craft, she had come to seek justice for her sister.

   “Don't rush, take your time...” Wei Yingluo said to herself, “First, I must first gather information ... Two kinds of people, those who have been in the palace for a long time and those who are of high rank, both of whom know a lot of things and I have to find a way to get to know both of them ...”

   Stay for a long time, Fang Gugu.

   And the high status ...

   Wei Yingluo saw a wrist entwined with a jadeite rosary emerges before her eyes.

  

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